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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (2 children)

try surviving razor leaves or a hydro pump irl

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better odds of surviving until hospitalisation than eating a Flamethrower or Fire Blast

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Razor leaf is like having hundreds of knives thrown at you simultaneously. Hydro pump you basically die almost instantly. There’s a reason water jet can be used to cut metals.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The water jets they use to cut metal only work because the stream is so narrow. Hydro pump is more like getting hit with multiple full-blast fire hoses at once

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blastoise Pokedex entry reads as follows: "The rocket cannons on its shell fire jets of water capable of punching holes through thick steel."

and the entry of Mega Blastoise: "The cannon on its back is as powerful as a tank gun. Its tough legs and back enable it to withstand the recoil from firing the cannon."

I'm pretty sure thats enough force to kill someone instantly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

enough force to kill someone

It's never enough to kill you. A water jet comparable in power to a tank shell hits you in the face, you're maybe gonna faint at worst. A literal God brings down the fury of heavens upon you, and you're just knocked out cold with a bruise that the local ER can heal free of charge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you think a water jet strong enough to cut steel is going to do against flesh and bone?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This explains it in great detail

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except it's saying the opposite? That comic is making fun of the game because no matter how deasly the attack is the pokemon on the receiving end will only faint.

[–] insomniac 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was the joke he was making the first time and you didn’t get it so he slapped you over the face with it and you’re still not getting it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Would do you well to actually look at the name of the commenter sometime to not insult the wrong person, yea? And I'm pretty sure you don't actually understand the comic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

BUDDY

My guy, he didn't get the name wrong. The comment was meant for you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

No dude. Read it properly.

[–] Lepsea 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Found this article about this Turtles with cannons: an analysis of the dynamics of a Blastoise’s Hydro Pump

I don't know if it's right but interesting nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

A firehose for comparison is usually minimum 200psi. Close up would hurt really badly but the chances of dying aren't great. At 20ft away you'll just get really wet. Their numbers aren't wrong but the analysis of what the numbers mean is probably pessimistic for the Charizard.

[–] CaptainEffort 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, water has never killed anyone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Water is actually the safest place to drown

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pick Charmander, it eventually becomes Charizard which is

big lizardy looking thing has large wings breathes fire

and also

is not Dragon type cannot learn Fly

Gen 1 was great but it often didn’t make a lot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

He could learn Fly in the Yellow edition then you could transfer it to red/blue.

But yeah, Gen 1 had all kinds of issues.

[–] PissinSelfNdriveway 2 points 11 months ago

Mean while rhydon is like fuck it ,let's swim there

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Played only once, was Blastoise, no regerts

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I played several times.

My favourite move set was bulbasaur.

[–] PissinSelfNdriveway 1 points 11 months ago

I'll cook that stupid flower frog.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Anon doesn't know about Gen 1 Leech Seed abuse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The OG Pokemon was so unbalanced and had such a huge bias in favor of Grass types that I legitimately don't understand why anybody would pick the other two unless they were doing a challenge run.

And fire types SUCK SO BAD. They can't kill anything. They don't even do that much damage to the grass types who just Leech Seed them all to death.

[–] azulavoir 1 points 8 months ago

I think this is completely intentional design. Picking charmander was literally intended to be the OG challenge run