Dae asks: Aqua Or Magma

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It’s Generation III appreciation week! I had some cool ideas to for this Dae asks, but apparently I already did them all. That’s what you get when the series is long-running. So therefore we will do something different today.

Are you for Team AQUA or Team MAGMA? Shout your preference in the comments, and don’t forget to tell us why! Being neutral is not an option, and Rayquaza is locked in my basement (I have a very large basement), so you can’t count on him.

Hopefully news will ramp up soon. I’m predicting we’ll see some spin-off talk before the end of June. And remember my ‘news very soon’ comment? Early April Fools guys! 😀 I’m sorry, you can continue your ‘ban dae pls’ petition.

Lots of love,
~Daedardus~

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950 thoughts on “Dae asks: Aqua Or Magma”

  14. Hmmm if I had to Choose….uh Magma Duhhhh
    But it’s weird I’d have to play Sapphire to support Magma, although I played Sapphire first and like the version exclusives better compared to Ruby’s

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  26. Magma because you can make more land, but you can’t actually make more water. It’s called the water cycle and team aqua apparently doesn’t know how science works.

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  35. Sooooooo 1. Dae stole MY question. I asked this first. 2. Why would we ban Dae? 3. I actually LOVE both teams equally, and I love the idea of Team Aero, so therefore, we need to raid Dae’s house. My bby Rayquaza calls for me! ;~;

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  56. Can I have some suggestions for Mythical based Grass and Fire starters? I may reject some because of their Typings.

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  59. So what’s everyone favorite Hoenn Starter (used to be) Signature move
    Leaf Blade
    Blaze Kick
    Muddy Water

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  63. TEAM MAGMA! Team Aqua’s plan is to flood the earth with rain, but rain comes from the ocean, so technically they aren’t flooding anything, just putting the water back where they got it!

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  68. Magma, less water for all! (Pretty sure I’ve expressed my anti Hoenn w/water views)
    Plus red’s more my colour so…

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  71. Strange request, but would anyone mind giving their lazy, fat, boxed legendaries some exercise, in an Uber battle XD?

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      • I really think They should have a Battle to the Death Between Danny and Jon that is also a music video where they do Challenges Created by the others… Including Physicist Ninja Brian, Barry, Ross and Suzy, Maybe Ross’s Wife Holly can do one too… and make it the Ultimate Game Grumps VS. the Ultimate battle for Supreme Not-so-Grump-Thourity!

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  81. So i miss Stone edge…fair enough. Then I miss toxic ok. The other guys gets a crit on me and i proceed to miss the next 2 stone edges…

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  82. Hi, I am CoolGlaceon and I have exclusive information about Pokemon Z. They will be introducing a new type, yep, you guessed it, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt type. This will change one abilities effect. “Levitate” will now change all normal moves to the new Joseph Gordon-Levitt type. This is real, trust me.

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  84. Why Team Aqua of course…being the water type enthusiast that i am but i would really rather be a pacifist and not try to flood the world but if it had to be either land or sea i would rather have the water.

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  95. Team Aqua because Pokemon Sapphire was my first game out of gen 3 and being able to dive was one of my favorite features, it made me like the sea more though the land is cool too xD #ThePiratesLifeForMe

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  100. Team Magma. They’re costumes are so much cooler (to me) than the pirates that are team aqua. Although being team aqua in the Hoenn region would have more of an advantage because the fire types in Hoenn are just far too few.

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  106. I am actually looking forward to going back to school. As arduous and increasingly difficult as it is becoming, it makes the wait for the Smash Bros. Direct / Kirby: Triple Deluxe / Mario Kart 8 / E3 that much easier to bear.

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  112. Does anyone have a male Nuzleaf or Vulpix with Extrasensory that I could borrow for breeding? Preferably Modest but it’s ok if it’s not 🙂

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  119. I hope more Pokemon GBA games come on the Virtual Console in May and beyond.
    (Off-Topic Translation: Who’s excited for Kirby: Triple Deluxe?)

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  122. Team Aero For emerald remake:
    Archy, after realizing his mistakes, settled down and had a son.
    But Archy’s son was like his before-self, in the term that he enjoyed doing evil.
    One day Archy kicks his son out of the house, sending him to Kalos where he could fix his evil ways.
    While over there, he met a young woman, Malva. The two hit it off. ( You don’t find out it’s malva until later)
    And they had one thing in common.
    They hated everything.
    They get married and go back to hoenn.
    While there, they meet someone, someone who says he can help achieve their need to do something evil. He says there’s a legendary so powerful It can completely ruin all of Hoenn using it’s magnificent powers of destruction.
    But first they’ll need two pokemon. But these pokemon are now hidden away even further, The path to them is a giant puzzzle, in which you have to master sunlight and rain to do so. They then take on a form no one has ever seen before. But Malva and Archie’s son do, since all of their time in Kalos.

    So blah blah blah new team “Aero” blah blah blah having to receive the 7 broken pieces of jade orb blah blah blah kyogr and groudon mega stones retrieved by Aero blah blah blah final battle with Archy’s son. But Archy’s son isn’t the one with the final peice of Jade orb, needed to unlock a whole new form of rayquaza.
    It
    was MAXIEEEEEEEE
    AHHHHDIGBDIFOHGDFIGHIdofhgnifhbgifhbghihl

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  140. Don’t paralyze my chansey.
    Why:
    You can’t put it to sleep after
    I’ll just spam soft boiled and facade (which gets STAB AND gets paralyze boost)
    And u gon die

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  147. Time for a complete team revamp. Taking a break from MM’ing and making sure I have the most legit team that stops those common OU pokes (Talon, Mamo, Greninja, Scizor, yes I mean you 4).

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  148. This week I have two goals
    Collect Poke for a team and
    Wait for it…..
    Wait. For. It……..-pause for dramatic effect

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  153. I want to share this, zero is just a bad player not regarding skill. His respect for luck and the other player is terrible
    Please refresh

    I hope zero you learn from this and respect me more since I thought we was friends, clearly not

    Sorry about being off topic, I just wanted people to see what is going on…

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        • scald is the best thing in life, why he didnt toxic milotic or use a pokemon with aromatherapy/heal bell, is his fault he wasnt prepared

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          • he should have use a status on milotic even though marvel scale would activate that way milotic couldnt stall

          • No it still would, since the last three was physical+ I had recover w/ leftovers, trying to stop it is futile. It must be slain there and then

          • ohh cool, but not let people like that stop playing SMART:) remember the best offense is a good defense

          • last gen was sweeprs this gen is all about bulk with new toys like AV with competitive milotic can be OU this gen

          • It’s stayed the same 🙁 I keep checking, also Omastar got moved up this gen despite the combo I’m using being available in gen 5…

          • Yeah, I use aromatisse and a few custom sets like my goodra and klefki which aren’t commonly seen despite being OU

          • aromatisse is the queen of doubles after that ability hope she get a mega cause i dislike her design lol

          • I like it and I aromatherapy for the team, wish for healing other members or switching into a attack draining kiss for healing and skill swap to really annoy gliscor users

          • Also my team is terrible…
            I taunted things as they was trying to set up with crobat and tried to sweep with lord helix but he got mega drained by volcarona (I didn’t expect it) and my scizor managed to kill a few things with pursuit+superpower

      • I didn’t do much ;-; I just won because of a fluke.
        Im a ragequit-able opponent it seems 🙁 people rage when they fight me

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        • Not your fault, you’re not only too good for their strategies, but you’re too good for their human character. 😉

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          • But my team is pretty bad XD or that I don’t use them well often but when I do ^ that happens

  157. And now I must kiss my free time goodbye, ’cause I got my final term of Freshman year to focus on! Woot woot!
    *P.S- Smash Bros. Direct is on Tuesday. I’m sure you knew that already.
    SEE YA SPRING BREAK.

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  158. As said in my tweet, Aqua, because water types are the only types I like as much as steel, and the grunt outfits are as sexy as Archie. Argh! Gimme dat booty! They’re f-ing pirates! ^_^

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  159. Heeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy guys
    About to go to bed so just wanted to say goodbye
    And my Spring Break starts on the 11th XD
    Late break I know
    April is rough for me:
    Writing exam this week
    Testing all after Spring Break

    Then HUGE presentation in May
    Can’t wait for summer LEL
    soooo bai all 😀

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    • But some want to watch it burn? Land expand it? Uggghh. Why doe Team Flare have to exist? Why can’t Team Magma use Ground Type Pokémon?

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  161. I know we just had an article about this, but:

    If I could change something about Ruby and Sapphire, it would be TO MAKE TEAM MAGMA BE MORE MAGMAEY!!!! You know…they just use Golbat and Mighteyena!!! What? No Camerupt? No Torkoal? No MAGMAR??? GF had to give us Team Flare as a SUBSTITUTE!!!

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  163. Always Team Aqua. I love the water and was born on an island. I just love the water so much haha. And I loved all the water routes in Sapphire and Ruby.

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    • I keep forgetting to validate my email on Mt. Moon, so I’ll answer here and remember to validate it and post there when I get back home later…

      Well actually I’ve never replayed older gens. The reason could be I play the hell out of each gen as it came out and then get burned out…

      Gen 3/Sapphire: First game. Always picked Swampert. Got all the Regi’s, Lati’s. Got ALL the contest ribbons on my Milotic, highest rank in all categories. Game was lost. Didn’t play Emerald or FRLG.
      Gen 4/Pearl: Infernape. All the legends possible without events. Tore apart the Battle Tower. Got ALL the contest ribbons and daily ribbons on (another) Milotic, highest rank in all categories. Game was sold. Didn’t play Platinum or HGSS.
      Gen 5/White 1: All the starters sucked, but settled on Emboar. Got all the legends possible. Got all items possible in Pokemon Musical (I love me my contests y’know.) First taste of competitive battling. Hacked me some competitive movesets. Trashed the Battle Subway. Didn’t play B2W2. Moved on to simulators afterwards. Game’s still with me, will be sold once DS Wifi is dead in May.
      Gen 6/Both X&Y: Delphox. Got all birds and available legends. Wrecked the Battle Maison. Lamented the lack of contests. Caught ’em all for the first time. Play simulators occasionally. Read competitive battling articles on Smogon and Nugget Bridge periodically. Feeling the burnout again.

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  167. Sapphire was my only Gen 3 game, so I got “attached” to Aqua without a chance to battle Magma. Right now though, let me compare the two teams:

    1. Outcome of their plans:
    a. Magma – There will be more land, drought that will kill a lot of people due to famine eventually.
    b. Aqua – There will be less land, flood that will kill a lot of people within days.
    WINNER – Aqua, immediately more devastating.
    2. Clothes:
    a. Magma – Look like dogs. I hate red.
    b. Aqua – Look like prates. I don’t dislike blue.
    WINNER – Aqua due to color bias.
    3. Goals:
    a. Magma – More land for land Pokemon.
    b. Aqua – More water for water Pokemon.
    WINNER – Tie. Both goals are lame-o. Ok, both teams do crimes to achieve those. Now where’s the world domination? World resetting? Releasing all Pokemon except the evil team’s own? Nuking an entire region from a safe bunker? Cutting off slowpoke tails? 🙂
    4. Grunt and Admin Pokemon:
    WINNER – Tie. Both teams use the same generic common “evil team” Pokemon with disregard for their team’s theme. Unless you love Sharpedo in Aqua, which I really don’t fancy much.
    5. Legendary Pokemon
    a. Magma – Groudon
    b. Aqua – Kyogre
    WINNER – Aqua. Who cares about Groudon in Ubers anyway. And Water type > Ground type. And you absolutely cannot switch Groudon into Kyogre. This is Scarf Kyogre BTW. Let’s just say that Surf is being used because Water Spout or Ice Beam is all too painful for Groudon.
    “252 SpA Kyogre Surf vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Groudon in Sun: 176-210 (43.5 – 51.9%) — guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery”

    Meanwhile, Groudon has no super-effective moves to beat up Kyogre.

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      • Oh yeah, Solarbeam. As it’s on the special side… not even +Sp Attack nature mixed Groudon can match its normally effective Adamant Earthquake…

        252+ SpA Groudon Solar Beam vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Kyogre: 180-212 (52.6 – 61.9%) — guaranteed 2HKO

        252+ Atk Groudon Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Kyogre: 219-258 (64 – 75.4%) — guaranteed 2HKO

        Sadly, Groudon is the loser in most cases, whether in type, moves list, ability and usage. The only thing great about Groudon is that it’s a Physical attacker in a tier full of Special attackers.

        Choice Band Groudon for victory!

        252+ Atk Choice Band Groudon Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Kyogre: 327-385 (95.6 – 112.5%) — 75% chance to OHKO

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  171. I was never for ether team really. The only thing that I liked about Team Aqua was the color of there costumes and the whole pirate theme, and the only thing that I liked bout Team Magma’s costumes was the fact that the hoods looked like they had cat ears on them to me, and I liked the black and red theme. That’s about it. (Although I tend to have an extreme disliking PERIOUD toward any villain. There are only a few villains that I actually kinda like.)

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  180. FUCK STARTERS I GOTS AWW THESE POKYMANAS IN THE BAG OF MY TWUNK OF MY GLACIER DUNRT OVEN FLEWWSDXX HANNNNNNNN!!!!

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