#i miss tera :(

[front-facing-pokemon]

Yes, Honedge!

Something i'd like to point out about its face:

It doesn't have a goofy face, the holes in the scabbard just make it look that way. In reality, it just has a single eye.

With that in mind, could you please do a version without the scabbard?

iiii figured this was common knowledge enough to not warrant an additional form, but alright:

some of the guard disappeared but it's okay. i never even saw that part of the scabbard as a face—the blue eye is very obviously an eye. i don't know if anyone actually thought that was its face. however, i do find it interesting that even after removing the scabbard textures, it still has textures for that "face" remaining:

which implies it's a face more than anything i've seen of the matter before this point

anyway there's so many asks in the box right now so let's just go through all of them:

in order from oldest to newest, here we go:

this is true. most of the models are shiny, unless they have a "colladamax" variant

ahh it's fine. i considered it might have been a request but i also doubted it considering pangoro was literally next so i assumed you were just excited. me complaining about requests was unrelated—another ask i got around the same time

well then maybe it's not a bad thing. you certainly phrased it like one, it seems, but that might just be unfortunate connotations with the way you said it? glad we could clear up the confusion i guess

we do need more snakes, but i also like the bipedal pokémon, as a furry. back when everyone was begging sprigatito not to stand up, i saw through their thinly-veiled furry hate and was begging sprigatito to go against the grain and stand up anyway. and then they did and now meowscarada is one of my favorite pokémon. get fucked, normies (i am sorry for saying this)

↑ i didn't know this until i looked it up! this is interesting. stuff like the male version learning misty terrain but the female version learning more type coverage. this is very strange but i like it. only girls can use magical leaf and charge beam sorry boys

thank you! i can explain it. it is because pokémon are getting very close and staring at you as for the inspiration for this blog, it was mostly snivy. i remember one day thinking that snivy's big nose would make it look very silly from the front, and being like "damn. someone should compile a list of what every pokémon looks like from the front. damn. that would make a good tumblr blog bc some of those would be really funny. damn. i should do that" and then i did. but that was back in 2020—pretty soon after i ended up starting college which didn't allot me a lot of time for updating this blog, and although i kept swearing i'd go back, somewhat soon after that i went through a breakup and just wanted to take a while for myself. a bit after that, tumblr user sewatari reblogged one of the posts on this blog again (the weedle post, i believe?) and singlehandedly revived this blog by reminding me that they still cared about it. and that's fucking awesome?? tbh?? so thank them for this blog's continued existence. if you scroll waaaayyyy back far enough in the archive, you'll probably see that miniature saga. the images back from the first gen and onwards were a little bit icky as i got grips on how to actually go about this blog and manipulate the models in the right way to get them to work, which is why i can never really recommend folks scroll all the way back in the blog, but it's a look back into my own personal history, i suppose

apologies for breaking the magic, although i don't think anyone keeps up with the "i am a pokémon taking real live pictures of other pokémon with the camera right in their face" lore because no one pays attention to the backgrounds of the images (which used to change much more than they do now, but that's just because no one ever noticed or pointed them out. the background is not the focus of the image—it's the pokémon itself; thus, why look at the background? staging the pokémon in a setting used to be important to me, but now i don't worry about it and cycle between the same few backgrounds) or the asks, really. it's the commentary in the tags everyone comes here for, of course

she's a fully-grown woman with a house

then you'll love the top of this post

they probably wouldn't think it looks like anything because they aren't familiar with what honedge looks like so they would just picture nothing in their head. or they would just make up what they Think honedge might look like based on its name, or something, and then imagine that front-facing

i don't know which one of these is the real one. but we have some discrepancy here. also apparently this is a wider-spread belief than i thought

OKAY. i think that's all of them. if you read all the way here to the end, that's. powerful. for those of you who stuck around this long, i'm live right now with a test stream having some breakfast and playing pokémon. come join in, if you're bored this morning!

edit: it's over but i'll probably do it again some time, more likely at a more reasonable hour next time. considering the idea of doing a fully voiced pmd series—perhaps that'll be the next stream. or i'll leave another test one for it. who knows!

[thirstyvampyr]

ah yes that sexual tension between tanks and healers

[feunnec]

"all games now are copies of older games"

and yet there's no tera copycat.....

[fostersffff]

[zeddythehisuiangoodra]

Shout out to the person with the Ribombee who helped me catch my Iron Leaves.

That really made my day, and not just because of Iron Leaves.

[autumniimoon]

[goldensunset]

idc how much i have to do this weekend. i am CATCHING that samurott

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

five star tera raid battle: "heh heh maybe if you beat me I might give you your coveted herba mystica"

me, seven attempts in, shaking, crying, throwing up, screaming loud enough for the neighbours to be concerned, throwing furniture, heart full of hate, pain and agony, absolutely losing it, the corviknight has negated all stat changes for the third turn in a row: "I HATE TERA RAIDS I HATE SHINY HUNTING I HATE YOU I HATE YOUR BULLSHIT YOUR HERBA MYSTICA IS A LIE YOUR BALANCING IS A DICE OF ZEROS YOUR TIMER RUNS ON LEAKY HOURGLASSES YOU'RE NOT HARD YOU'RE JUST MADDENING I'M DONE WITH YOU I'M DONE WITH THIS FUCK YOU AND THE CRYSTALS YOU RODE IN ON"

only after seven battles did I realise the loot doesn't reroll if you restart the game. i'm giving up for the night.

on that note does anyone want a corviknight? It has four perfect IVs the only caveat is that I named it "hate"

[vaugarde]

so the classes are basically just tutorials and its so funny how the math teacher like can’t even talk about math in a way that explains the gameplay

[terashards]

I'm not even against the idea of having a limited number of Pokémon in each game, however, it does suck knowing that numerous spots are going to be taken in every single game for the fandom & dev's favourite special little boys

I could go entire Generations without seeing Eevee and its posse again, but I guess nobody else can, so.

[thirstyvampyr]

[delicatetaysversion]

everything is so sad i need to go to sleep

[goosetrainer]

Mari's Tera Raid Guide # 10 (if we count the palkia/dialga one) - Blaziken

Woohoo happy 10th guide! GUESS WHAT

BELLIBOLT AGAIN do you hate me yet

REDUCE

REUSE

RECYCLE

Bellibolt lv.100

Tera type: Electric

Ability: Electromorphosis

Item: Magnet

Nature: Modest (/Quiet)

IVs: all max except attack and speed

EVs: 252 sp.atk., the rest freely spread between HP, defense, special defense (252 defense more useful for this raid, 126-126 HP-defense second best)

Moveset:

-Parabolic Charge (egg move)

-Acid Spray (TM)

-Reflect (TM)

Usage:

I'm gonna copy-paste this Bellibolt very often, lol.

Unfortunately Blaziken has a scripted Swords Dance and Bulk Up. Earthquake and Low Kick can hit Bellibolt quite hard, making an Intimidate NPC (Arcanine, Staraptor, or Tauros) mandatory. (If you can find two, that's probably overkill. Go for it!)

You can survive easier if you throw a Reflect at the start of the battle, but it wears off after five turns and it might be difficult to renew. That's why we need something to Intimidate that chicken continuosly c: so that we can forget about defenses at some point.

You can alternate Acid Spray and Parabolic Charge, trying to stay alive as you work your way through Blaziken's life bar (remember that you will most certainly act slower, so keep that in mind when calculating when to use Parabolic Charge to attack+heal); or, the strategy I prefer, use 3 Acid Sprays in a row at the start of the battle, let Bellibolt faint, and when it comes back to life terastallize and start using Parabolic Charge like it's your last day on earth (no need to reapply Acid Spray after the reset, as long as the shield is down you should win in 4 more moves even at neutral sp.def.) (I like it because when Blaziken is at -6 sp.def. and Bellibolt is terastallized you can destroy the shield in ONE Parabolic Charge. However, you have to land all Acid Sprays before Blaziken does his single own stat modifications reset at 70% of his HP left, meaning that you can't use Parabolic Charge too soon or you'll end up triggering it. One KO is inevitable here. Also, in theory, specially offensive NPCs that can deal enough damage could trigger that scripted action too soon and ruin everything, but I haven't seen it - if it happens to you, try changing NPCs, favoring ones that have less special moves or are more defensive).

All in all a very quick battle once you've found the right setup. I won with a lot of time left

TL;DR: Drop a Reflect every 5 turns. Other than that, Acid Spray x3, die, come back, terastallize, Parabolic Charge spam. OR alternate Acid Spray (when you're at full or almost full HP) and Parabolic Charge (when you risk going under 50% HP in the next turn) according to situation.

Pros:

-come on I'm tired of repeating Bellibolt's pros every single time lol

Cons:

-NPC dependent

[transgalvantula]

soon i'm gonna have my first session back in monster of the week since tera died and i need you all to know i'm playing Just Straight Up A Normal Dog and i'm very excited

[wasabipig]

how do i make my ffxiv character sexy she just looks like a typical anime girl rn

[liberty-spiked]

i have to stop thinking that everyone who plays mmorpgs has that toxic LoL-mindset. in maple story just now someone passed me, said hi, i replied obv and they just said they're passing and that i should have fun qwq