Comments on Chapter 33: Thunderyu

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CuriousJolteon
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

Perish Song is another problematic move. I think Curse or poison would honestly be fine if you just say the legendaries have tons of HP - like a boss battle where you have status effects chipping away at the boss and it does help but it's still ultimately the attack damage that is doing the bulk of the work.

In the Pokemon games, legendaries have pretty normal amounts of HP, but you're already presenting them as bosses that need 6-30 Pokemon to take them down, so of course status moves would not automatically win.

It'd make the battles more interesting honestly if they spent more time doing literally anything except their most damaging moves. For example, why can't they use stat-boosting moves just before some of these fights? You could get a lot of mileage out of exploring movesets more in these fights.

Reply: Yeah, as I mentioned in the commentary, the problem there is mainly May explicitly acting like Spirit pulling off Curse is just going to solve all their problems and be a foolproof way to beat Thunderyu in the equivalent of four turns like in the games, when I should have just made it not be able to do that. When May does canonize the idea that all they'd need to do is pull off Curse and stall a bit, that's when I get awkwardness where they have to just somehow forget about this possibility except just when they're too late to pull it off.

[06/03/2024 21:13:25]

Latias
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

This is really good

[01/08/2016 05:16:56]

awesome sauce
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

awesome

[05/29/2013 05:37:53]

ShinyCharizard
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

Chaos… AWESOME!!!
this is almost like a darker version of the Pokemon Adventures manga

[06/27/2012 00:03:25]

mamma
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

Góður kafli. Ég las bardagann nákvæmlega, því ég skynjaði mikilvægi hans. Og May var sem sagt ekki nógu góð við pokemonana sína í síðasta kafla. Ég las hann ekki nógu vel til að skilja það, en jæja.

[08/25/2010 23:41:57]

SilverLatios47
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

This is such an epic battle, the RBY Champion music should be playing in the background!

[06/14/2009 03:13:31]

Giratar
Story: The Quest for the Legends (ILCOE)
Chapter: Chapter 33: Thunderyu

This sounds a lot like the games, where you can catch legendaries, too. This chapter was brilliant. =D

[05/06/2009 23:38:36]

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