[1255] Yuna’s Immortal Stalemate Game I
└ posted on Monday, 22 March 2021, by Novil
- Logan Hunter: A fair sportswoman would resign instead of wandering aimlessly across the board with her king.
- Yuna: I love to go a-wandering,
From here to there and back.
And as I go, I love to sing,
May time run out for black!
- Logan Hunter: Well, here’s my second queen! What do you say now?! Hmm? Hmm?
- Yuna: And it was in this position that Yuna could fully concentrate on catching Dreepy again.
- Logan Hunter: ?!!
- Referee: You set Yuna stalemate.
- Logan Hunter: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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@ DTIBA:
Didn’t know defeating her was optional, but yeah. Peonia basically hints at it. The entire point of the battle is to stall for time.
Crown Tundra is *hilariously* game-breaking, and all Nintendo had to do to stop it from being so exploitable was make losing to Peony just like losing to any other trainer or Dynamax Adventures have a minimum level requirement/use the player’s team. I was actually legit surprised when Calyrex’s final battle was locked behind beating the Champion, as, by the time I got to that point (I basically just did a few adventures and used the legends I caught to test to see if what I’d heard was true, then shoved them in a box and went about my playthrough without the broken Lv. 70 legendaries before my starter had even hit the mid-teens, then came back once my team was in the mid-70’s/early 80’s to actually do the Calyrex stuff and work on the clues.), I’d already gotten my main team to or near Lv 100. This with just the candies I’d
And yes, first thing I did once all the clues were finished was go back and pay Peony back for the curb stomp. At that point, my main team had four or five Pokémon on it (including my Cinderace and a Blaziken I sent over from OR as a Torchic) that had at least one type that was super-effective vs Steel, and a couple more 100’s, so…
@ Gilly:
That doesn’t change the fact that physically, a chess set usually only contains one black queen piece. To have two on the board, the second queen needs to be represented by something else.
Although a chess tournament sounds kind of like a place where there just might be more than one set of pieces around…
Thanks guys, that explains everything. I like the idea of Logan losing so badly that fractions have to be involved in chess. @ Michael:
@ …:
I know what the rest of the gaming world says, but they’re wrong and have been since that fad started. Broken means “Does Not Function”, not “Is Powerful”. Just because one side can defeat the other is not a reason to keep claiming that a game or a game’s monster is broken. Everything is, in fact, working smoothly, and your work is paying off.
And it took me 2 days of reading the comments to realize that the tune of Yuna’s song is the most famous Pokemon song.
@ Vicious Sand:
Having fully obedient level 70 pokemon, and potentially level 100 pokemon, before you’ve even gotten your first badge, is not and has never been part of a functioning-as-intended pokemon experience. Hence “broken”.
As for the “work”, you only have to defeat one pokemon (as in KO), then toss just about any pokeball at it, to get a pokemon you are not actually supposed to have access to so soon in the game. Crown Tundra is a DLC, one which can be accessed ridiculously early in the game, and the main game is not balanced for the pokemon you can get there. Dynamax Adventures is a Rent-A-Pokemon meets Safari Zone meets dungeon crawling activity in said DLC which allows you to catch pokemon far higher level than you’re supposed to be able to until the mid-game, by defeating them with pokemon of identical level *that they give you*. There is pretty much no work involved. Even if you don’t make it to the end, if you caught even one pokemon, you get to keep a pokemon, and the catch rate is *absurdly* boosted (my Heatran is in a basic pokeball, which is the second worst ball type, and you get *one* throw per battle. I caught her on the first attempt.).
Sword and Shield, for context, has a system in place everywhere *except* Dynamax Adventures which prevents you from even *attempting* to catch pokemon above a certain level, which changes as you earn more badges. So no, you are *not* supposed to be able to get level 70 pokemon until you have your fifth badge. Crown Tundra can be accessed before you have your *first*. You aren’t meant to be able to catch any pokemon higher than level 20 at that point.
Lastly, “broken”, in the context of the gaming world, means that a character, weapon, power, or feature is so far outside the game’s balance that it is ridiculously unfair. The word is used because being so unbalanced is typically *not* intended by the devs. It’s not just that one side can defeat the other. It’s that it only goes one way, in a manner that is not what the devs intended, or in a way that ruins enjoyment of the game. In other words, the game no longer performs its intended function. In other words, it’s broken.
@ Vicious Sand:
Know what you are talking about before condescendingly correcting someone.
I’m concerned by the fact that this is titled “…Stalemate Game *I*”
@ Sothis:
Tournament sets ordinarily contain a spare queen.
Now, if you need a *third* queen, then whether you’re allowed to use an upside-down rook or have to stop the clock and scrounge a queen up from somewhere depends on the rules you are using. Under FIDE rules, an upside-down rook is a rook. Under USCF rules, it’s a queen unless otherwise stated.
@ Michael:
OH! right! thnx ^^@ Michael: