Dae asks: Aqua Or Magma

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”

  1. 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

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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