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PokéMonday Night Combat

PokéMonday Night Combat - Road to Master Rank 02

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Resident Pokémon professor Jan Ochoa shows us the ins and outs of competitive Pokémon battling!

Jul. 27 2021

Cast: Jan

Posted by: Jan

In This Episode:

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That Zapdos snipe was clutch!

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In Ranked multiple times I've seen enemy Charizard and Eldegoss players just charging low level and feeding on the bottom lane. It's always those 2 types and it's in too many matches to be coincidental... Anyone else?

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Never did I expect to look forward to a daily series involving a MOBA and a Pokemon.

But here we are.

If this was an anime, Jan's calm "leave me alone" at 39:20 would've been a more dramatic "Leave... ME... ALOOOOOONNNEEE!!!!!" and he would've unleashed some hidden power to kill everyone after all hope was lost. Because I thought he was doomed there.

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cramarant or whatever its name is seems really bad idk what you are seeing that keeps you using him

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Not into Pokemon, not into MOBA's, but I love this

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Seeing that Geng-Gengar work his magic, this at a high level once top tier strats are found will be wild since the pace of combat is so damn fast.

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Is this going to come to PC or staying Switch Only? (game length seems good for moba compared to Dota/ league).

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@rosur: It's planned for Nintendo Switch and a smartphone version coming in September.

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@zeeman155: I haven't seen that in particular, but I would guess it's more a function of Charizard being a fan favorite, so it's popular with beginners. It's also pretty weak and ineffective at lower levels. And then Eldegoss is a support so it's either trying to stick close to Charizard, and walking into the meat grinder with it, or the beginners don't realize how squishy it is and try to take on whoever. I doubt it's bots. It's just kids who love Pokemon but have never played a moba.

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Pikachu is the only Pokémon that has a voice and gets to say his name. Give all the other Pokémon their voice too!

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I like these.

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@zeeman155: I've seen many more than just Charizards and Eldegoss doing it. I think it's people who have played one character since starting their account and are just playing ranked because it's required for some rewards. It probably falls off in later ranks, seeing as I've lost all the games where people are charging in to give early feeds.

It actually takes quite a few hours behind a moba to realise that you are supposed to hang back where it's safe until your lanemate is alive and with you.

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You're gonna end up making me play MOBAs again, curse you!