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Joan Acocella on ABT's female principals -- and Misty Copeland
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abatt, on 25 June 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:
Judging from a preliminary search online, I would hazard that you are.
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abatt, on 25 June 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:
According to the Education andTraining section of the ABT website , 15 graduates are in the ABT corps( including 2 apprentices).
Posted 25 June 2012 - 06:33 AM
abatt, on 25 June 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:
You asked if it ranked among the coveted schools talented students would flock to. Judging by the number of people online expressing interest in it or NYCB--"which should I choose?" It seems that talented students are taking it seriously.
I said it was a preliminary search and didn't realize you were asking for stats on placement. It seemed you were asking about appeal to students, whether THEY felt it was a good program and my impression (preliminarily) is that the answer was yes.
A recent article (2012) about the school in Dance Magazine (i think?) notes their high placement rate in recent years.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:19 AM
abatt, on 25 June 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:
Abatt, I've recently (within last 2 yrs) visited many top-flight academies in the world. While very pleasant, the JKO School's year-end performance didn't come close to Vaganova, Moscow (Bolshoi), SAB, POB school, Kirov (DC), La Scala school (Milano), or even the recent Joffrey School performance in NYC. I admired several soloists (Shu, Gabe, Michela) but some of the offerings in the program seemed a tad amateurish, e.g., the two DeMille/Broadway excerpts. Some featured soloists would never make the cut in the schools listed above. JKO has a way to go but is full of promise, IMO. They're not yet at the stage that they can serve as the main 'feeder academy' to ABT. (After all, how many years does it take to develop a top-top ballet academy?)
p.s. La Scala Ballet Academy, by the way, was a huge surprise...as I had erroneously assumed that they've been on a downward trajectory since Enrico Ceccheti (sorry!). They're doing something very right in Milano. My Italian friends feel the same way, too...a very great director there who manages the 'big picture quality' well. I should open a new thread just about them.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:20 AM
At the film house yesterday, her's was the most popular story and her prize got the most effusive audience response. Her JKO scholarships suggests that the school has an openness to a couple of realities --
1) they need to develop many more pre-professional students than a single company could possibly accomodate;
2) classical ballet can be, as it used to be to a limited extent in the 40s as and 50s, a form suitable to a variety of body shapes, sizes, and colors.
Regarding this issue -- and Misty Copeland -- I was delighted to find a long piece in the Spring 2012 issue of BALLET REVIEW -- a long interview with Ms. Copeland (trained at a variety of schools, including San Francisco Ballet), Natalie Wright (trained at PNB), Riolama Lorenzo (trained at Harid and SAB), Nikkia Parish (SAB and Texas Christian University), and Aesha Ashe (SAB).
The long article-with-interviews by Ian Spencer Bell is called "The Caramel Variations." Ballet Review is not online, but if you are able to subscribe, beg, or borrow a copy, you will be well-rewarded.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:02 AM
bart, on 25 June 2012 - 08:20 AM, said:
1) they need to develop many more pre-professional students than a single company could possibly accomodate;
But this is the case at every company-affiliated school. I know most of us here go to whatever 'graduation' performances our local schools present, and I'm willing to bet that the percentage of senior level students who go into the host company is quite small for almost all of them.
At the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, of the 14 level 7 and 8 students who are leaving the school, two are heading for PNBs professional division, three are going to another school and one is joining a small company. Of the 11 professional division students leaving, two are becoming apprentices here -- the rest are going elsewhere. I have a feeling these are not unusual numbers
Without taking anything away from our discussion about ethnicity in ballet, I'd be curious to hear from some regular ABT audience members about Copeland's assertion that the variety of stylistic backgrounds in the company is a strength. With the number of works in the repertory that require a large, unified ensemble (Swan Lake and Bayadere being just two), do you see Copeland's idea played out on stage, or is that primarily true for soloist and small ensemble parts?
Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:08 AM
My fear is that Isabella Boylston or Hee Seo, both whom I admire for many reasons, will get promoted first. I find Maria's dancing more musical and nuanced, and again, she is such a fine actress. Neither Seo or Boylston has the consistency of Riccetto (in my opinion).
I can't even imagine Misty being promoted at this point.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:28 AM
DeCoster, on 25 June 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:
My fear is that Isabella Boylston or Hee Seo, both whom I admire for many reasons, will get promoted first. I find Maria's dancing more musical and nuanced, and again, she is such a fine actress. Neither Seo or Boylston has the consistency of Riccetto (in my opinion).
Maria is leaving for a year to be a guest principal at Julio Bocca's company where she guested last year as Medora. IMO, her fate will be sealed when she returns--ie. Kevin will give her a slew of new roles and a promotion based on what she's done with Bocca, or she will be "Flagship Soloist/Junior Principal" #2 for the rest of her career at ABT.
Misty is principal "material" (she has a star quality and ability to connect with the audience as made clear in the Firebird), but she needs a couple 3-acters under her belt to test her mettle and further her acting chops. After this season, Misty, Kristi, and Simone (debatable as she's done Myrtha) will be the soloists who haven't lead an evening length ballet at the Met, so I think once casting goes out next year for the Met we will see clearly McKenzie's plans for her.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:32 AM
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abatt, on 25 June 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:
Well, this would seem to argue for hiring outside of the company for soloist and principal parts, rather than grooming dancers from within (at least in terms of efficiency, if nothing else!) I've watched several dancers move from corps to soloist roles here at PNB (and a few go all the way to principal) and there is indeed a big shift from the "look at us" aesthetic of the corps to the "look at me" requirement for solo parts -- it takes some dancers a chunk of time to make that transition. (without having seen much of Copeland, but just based on the comments here, it sounds like she's in the middle of that learning curve)
I can understand the sense of frustration that some dancers would have in a company that used a large number of guest performers -- it does kind of undermine the "special occasion" aspect of guesting. But for me, the more interesting question is about style in general -- if you have a large number of interchangeable artists in the leading roles of a work, are they bringing their own "production" with them to the performance, or are they working with the artistic director or (if living) a choreographer to participate in a more unified whole? In the case of the POB dancers performing Rubies that you talk about, it sounds like an example of the first option, when you would have rather seen the second.
Perhaps this is not the thread to discuss this topic, but I am always curious about identity questions in dance.
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Birdsall, on 25 June 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:
Ariana Lallone was one of the first really tall women hired at Pacific Northwest Ballet (they now regularly have at least a couple) and she has spoken in several interviews about that process -- when she first came in, she was told by Francia Russell that she would not be performing as regularly as other corps women. It was her (Lallone's) responsibility to keep herself engaged and developing to the point that she could be cast in distinct roles. And to her credit, I don't think I ever remember her trying to dance "shorter" than she is.
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Volbeat @ Leftovers / Light clay Nature - Impish - EVS: 252 HP - 252 Defense - 4 Special defense Ability - Prankster
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This is one of those weird set's I came up with a while ago. It's pretty simple Toxic Stall. Start of with a Substitute only if you predict a Switch, then as the opponent Switches, use Toxic to wear their HP down, slowly but surely. Then if you think there is going to be an Attack, then Sub again. If not, then Roost up. Quick Attack is just a filler move for when your opponent is on really low HP and you can OHKO them.
Volbeat item: Focus Sash Ability: Prankster EV's: 252 Spd 252 HP 6 S.Def Nature: Timid
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GUILDERLAND — Athletes who are rivals on the playing field join together in times of grief.
On Tuesday, three hundred Guilderland students gathered in the gym to show their support for two athletes hospitalized after a car crash and their sympathy for the two athletes who were killed in the crash.
Rather than wearing their school color of red, the Guilderland students wore green for Shenendehowa and blue for Shaker.
Shenendehowa seniors Christopher Stewart and Deanna Rivers were killed in a Northway crash Saturday night when, State Police say, the sport utility vehicle driven by Stewart was rear-ended by a drunk driver.
Stewart was captain of Shen's football team and Rivers was on the varsity softball team. The two injured passengers are also athletes: Bailey Wind, a Shaker gymnast, and Matthew Hardy, a Shen football player.
"I did gymnastics with Bailey when I was little," said Casie Girvin, a Guilderland gymnast who organized Tuesday's Guilderland gathering. Learning of Saturday's accident, she said, "stirred me up a lot."
Girvin worked with two assistant principals at the school, Lisa Patierne and David Brooks, making school announcements. Girvin also used social media, tweeting and posting Facebook messages.
"I thought about 50 people would show up," she said of the gathering behind a huge banner. Instead, several hundred students gathered.
They posed with a banner stating, "Guilderland supports Shaker & Shen." Girvin plans to present the banner to Shenendehowa next week.
Another athlete, Gaby Peda,
who helped organize the event, described what it was like to get a bird's eye view of the crowd in the gym on Tuesday. She stood next to Samantha Pitkin who took the photograph.
"I stood on that ladder and it was an amazing moment," she said. "All of those people were there, together, for the same thing."
No urging was needed to get the students to gather. "It wasn't like 'Come to the gym, come to the gym,'" said Peda. "They volunteered to show up."
Peda, the senior class president, plays tennis and is a member of the Red Sea, Guilderland's cheering section at games. "The Red Sea is huge," she said, and, in the wake of the accident, its members wanted to do something.
"You could just see it in people's faces after the weekend," she said. With social media so prominent, she said, you can't get away from bad news. "On twitter, there were 1,000 tweets in under 10 minutes," said Peda. "It's with us every second…Something needed to be done."
Coming together made people feel better, said Peda. "You knew there were 299 people next to you," she said.
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During Wednesday's lunch period at Guilderland High School, students signed the banner as Girvin spoke with The Enterprise about its meaning.
"Sports is a huge thing in high school," she said. "You meet the people you compete against." Guilderland, Shen, and Shaker all play in the same Suburban Council.
"You want to be your best and you want to win," Girvin went on. "These relationships with rivals are friendly. When something happens, you put aside the competitive side of yourself."
She conceded, "We can't heal their wounds. But it may ease a little bit of the pain," she said of presenting the banner.
At the same time that Guilderland students were tweeting each other about wearing green to school on Monday for Shen and blue on Tuesday for Shaker, they were also part of a hashtag campaign to get athletes admired by Matt Hardy and Bailey Wind to call them in the hospital.
"Tim Tebow is a famous football player and he's Matt's ideal; that's what one of Matt's close friends said. The same with Missy and Bailey," she said, referring to Olympic gold medalist swimmer Melissa Franklin.
"Friends and family were saying, 'Please re-tweet,'" said Girvin. "I have family in Syracuse and they were doing it. It was trending worldwide," she said of #TebowCallMatt and #MissyCallBailey.
"Someone tweeted them the numbers and they actually called," said Girvin.
She explained the meaning of such calls. "Think of the number-one person in your life you look up to. You share a connection. Tim Tebow is a celebrity. A lot of people think of a celebrity as untouchable. He gets millions of tweets a day. To know that Tim Tebow reached out to Matt in his time of need is inspiring.
"You realize they are real people, too, and care. It puts famous people at the same level as us, which makes us feel better."
Patierne, an assistant principal at the high school, said that one of the student posts that most struck her was, "Adults always talk about how inappropriate we are with our technology, but just look what we got done."
Patierne, with others from Guilderland, went to the Shenendehowa vigil on Tuesday night. She described the students from all different districts, lining the track, wearing their school colors. "It was so touching. Grown men were crying," said Patierne. "I've heard our students saying it's support that shows community and will help them heal. They're adversaries on the field, but they're pulling together."
Patierne's son, a Schenectady student, attended the vigil with some of his friends, all wearing their school colors. They stopped to eat before the vigil at a Friendly's in Clifton Park and talked with some Shenendehowa parents also going to the vigil. Moved by the boys' conversation, the Shen parents paid for their meal.
"The waitress came up and told the boys, 'They bought your dinner,'" said Patierne. "There are just so many acts of kindness."
Looking out
Despite such comfort — from care shown by famous athletes or strangers and from the solidarity of gathering together — Girvin is still shaken.
"Last night, I was covering a work shift for a Shen student going to the vigil," she said. So Girvin was driving on the Northway towards the Clifton Park gymnastics gym where she works, heading north just as Stewart had on Saturday night.
"I'm passing the Twin Bridges, and goose bumps were coming on my body," she said. The fatal crash took place about a mile north of the Twin Bridges.
"I just passed the point," she went on. "It's a scary thought. You could be a brilliant student, a good athlete, and it doesn't matter. You're not safe from people who make bad choices."
Another hashtag that has been trending among her peers, Girvin said, is #IPledgeToNeverDrinkAndDrive.
"Someone your age being killed is a scary thought," Girvin went on. "It makes people realize you have to look out for things. We're all young drivers. If I look out for the people around me — I keep looking in the rearview mirror — it makes me feel safer."


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That's because he knows, just as everyone else knows, that it's his turn to be the Designated Loser just like McInsane, Gore, Dole and so many others before him. Only a really good actor worthy of an Oscar award could act like a winner when he knows he's not...
Oh, I don't know.I wonder about Him claiming that Obama is being negative when he is doing the same. Seems like crying to me.I really wonder a lot about the Ryan pick. He is pretty heavily tied to his budget plan to change Medicare to a voucher program which really is "kill it" and tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the working people. He wants SS privatized too. I see them as negatives and not positives. I thought maybe some from the right would say why they thought he was a good pick. Maybe some are in favor of the give tax cuts to the extreme wealthy and make the working people pay for it and think it is a vote getter. I wonder about the newest ad campaign of "Obama cut 7** billion or million can't remember, from Medicare. Cuts that Obama made that are in the Ryan budget. aside from the cuts do not and cannot reduce benefits. I understand the method, it is cut at a strength. I don't think it is going to work though. We shall see.Long ago, before the primaries I said I thought that the R's would nominate a losing candidate because they like getting what they want from Obama while still demonizing him, which they do. I wonder to myself if Romney is filling that. It seems almost ridiculous that the polls could be so close with the economy as it is. Any other time there has been a bad economy like this it is a loser for the incumbent. Polls for months have shown Obama with a slim lead and has been pretty constant. The reason can't be because people like Obama so much, but dislike the alternative more. In that I don't think it is Romney, but the Republican/Tea party radicalness. Even people that don't pay much attention seem to know how divisiveness the R's have been. My wife said a group of coworker women were talking and said that the anti women things that the R's have done and said means they won't vote for Romney. It surprised me. I didn't think the women's issue was so big anymore. It was not a small group and seemed to be unanimous. Anyway, I guess I was hoping there were some R's wanting Ryan on the ticket and say why.
I wish I could help you with the last sentence DS, but I can't because I am not a huge fan of Ryan. I was hoping Ryan would pick a nice moderate candidate who has a proven history of being able to work with the Democrats, but that would be tough to find. The positive is, he is a million times better than Palin, although I think a dog might be able to put together more intelligent thoughts than her.I think, like you mentioned, Romney will be hurt because of the Tea party and extreme right, simply because of their antics.
In looking at some right wing sites I was seeing things like "he is like the paperboy you want your daughter to date" (no kidding) and "he knows the budget" and "he can make liberals look stupid as they are in a debate" I can't rate a guys looks or the age discrepancy. I can't rate if he knows the budget. He has a proposal and i heavily disagree with that proposal, but that doesn't let me know if he actually does know the budget. I have to give him a maybe. The last at least I said better, without partisan distaste.I am getting that the best, for what I see, is just that he isn't Palin. Please don't take me wrong peoples. I really DO want your opinions, and thanks for yours LGW.
Let's see; Mexico has a lot of oil, and probably more potentially. Canada has lots of oil, and we know lots of potential. We have lots of oil, and we know, lots of potential. VIOLA, maybe North America COULD be independent of Middle Eastern oil by eight years from now. Do you have statistics that say otherwise? Please don't use estimates from the present administration.
Less, you do know that Ron Paul will not be the next President, do you not? Have you read Don Quixote?
Nut uh... he has all the super secret squirrel delegates he needs to take down the establishment AND the convention in Tampa! Just wait!!! JUST YOU FRIGGIN WAIT!!!Wow, I slipped off into some strange dimension there for a minute. Glad I made it back safely!
Well, since i am not asking right or something. Here is what I came up with positive for Ryan. He is not Palin. By that I mean he is known enough that he isn't going to explode. He seems to be competent enough speaker.


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Jan 10th, 2013, 7:42:00 PM | #951 |
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Spinda evo, fight/normal. Abusing Contrary since gen 6
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Jan 10th, 2013, 7:44:51 PM | #952 |
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In The House Bathing My Cyndaquils
Just to abuse super power.
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Jan 10th, 2013, 7:47:30 PM | #953 | |
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poison, ground, normal, fighting x 0 - that's pretty hot. Fire x 2, Ghost, Water, Dark x 1... but these are all special attackers anyways. For all intents and purposes, this would be a Shedinja that gets 2 or 3 hit KOed by a lot. w/o levitate, there's some chance Earthquake could OHKO him after stealthrocks, with good stat allocatiom, but he'd be a lot less interesting IMO. Still, 4 immunities > 3 seems like it's carve it's own niche and wouldn't need base 600 stats to do anything. Edit: We really do need a Contrary abuser besides Spinda and Snivylutions. Edit 2: Also, I think we need a few variations of Flame Charge; such an excellently designed move.
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Jan 10th, 2013, 7:53:09 PM | #955 |
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In The House Bathing My Cyndaquils
Special Fire type priority
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:07:50 PM | #956 |
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:08:58 PM | #957 |
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Currently fighting dragons.
Went onto deviant art, and holy crap, artists are pushing out those evos as quickly as freaking possible. Here's some of the more amazing evo's I've seen for the starters:
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:10:25 PM | #958 | |
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For the record, I doubt Gamefreak cares about our metagame and isn't there a forum already dedicated to metagame discussion in GenVI? |
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:13:22 PM | #959 |
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Seems like a lot of people are going for the Porcupine/Armadillo looks for Chespin. I like that. I'm kinda hoping Fennekin doesn't end up looking too much like Ninetales. And man, those Froakie final evos are awesome!
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:22:44 PM | #960 | |
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Other than Battle Armor, I could also see it run Cursed Body, or Pressure. As a second ability, Weak Armor could provide a different play style, though I don't think we have yet seen a Pokemon that could actually make the ability useful. As for stats I would rather it have good HP, and Def, decent Att and S. Def, and abyssmal S. Atk, and Spd. So maybe something like 100/85/100/50/85/45. I'm not good at coming up with stat spreads though, so I could be way off here. |
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:23:03 PM | #961 |
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If froakies evolutions are half as good as some of these i will be so happy. I mean toad sage lok is just amazing and original. All i can ask for after that would be cool typing preferably water fighting or water electric. Please no water ice or pure water as they are both lame.
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:25:18 PM | #962 |
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I hope they play up the hedgehog theme and don't just go with spiky mammal theme
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:25:50 PM | #963 |
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Attack, Deoxys! ATTACK!
Here's to Chespin's hat becoming a crown... another regal grass type!
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:36:00 PM | #964 |
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I hope not. I would like it to become more like headgear, like Aggron. But a crown would make it to much like Serperior or Slowking.
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:45:53 PM | #965 |
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In The House Bathing My Cyndaquils
Fire typing in itself needs some massive boosts or GF needs to change stealth rock to a rock type future sight. I hate that move, and it's the one reason why DPPt is on my hit list
But anyway. I want Froakie's evo's to have some MASSIVE STACHE going on. I want a bulky Mr. Miyagi. What I also feel would be very innovative is if Gen 6 starters had Gender Differences
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:49:01 PM | #966 | |
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does this look like the face of mercy
Also, I love Froakie and hope the clouds don't play much into the final evolution. If that happens, it'll start looking like Thundurus 2.0. The general consensus seems to be that tons will be choosing Fennekin, with some choosing Froakie for being adorkable and some choosing Chespin for being cute. Is that the right mindset? (Froakie for the win, by the way)
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Jan 10th, 2013, 8:56:28 PM | #967 | |
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Loving the New Starters!
Can't wait for Pokemon X and Y to come out! Avatar spirite done by me. |
Jan 10th, 2013, 8:56:28 PM | #968 |
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With all this entry hazard talk, cool idea:
Move: TRAPDOOR Lays a trap that, to the next non-levitate pokemon to switch in, that pokemon will take damage. It is dark type and is removed after it take effect. Possible addition: it could dissappear if the pokemon it is set under faints before a new one is sent out, so as to give them reason to stay in. |
Jan 10th, 2013, 9:01:34 PM | #969 | |
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I actually want an ability that "plays" Ember when the pokemon comes into play. Not really priority, but does almost the same thing...
0 weaknesses, 3 immunity, 1 resistance, and base 485 with 35 in speed. 3 immunities, 8 resistances, and 2 weaknesses IS really good, I agree. :) But I suspect it's going to have weak special defenses, meaning that it will, more or less, like Metagross fall to special attackers. Giving it levitate makes is so much better. But I think that allows for it to have moderate stats and still be heavily played; it'd rely upon it's great typing - period. You give it a decent movepool and decent stats everywhere, and it's solid. The great typing of Ghost/Steel might be able to stand w/o Levitate, but Heatran sets a pretty solid OU standard: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Heatran base stats of 600, lots of resistances, 2 immunities. I think base 450-500 stats with 4 immunities and 1 weakness is fair. As for moves, I think we need a steel-type slash. Shadow Claw might work, too, depending on how creepy it looks?
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Jan 10th, 2013, 9:02:23 PM | #970 | |
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I honestlyt hink Fennekin's way overhyped. He's cute, but he seems very... plain. The ear hair's not helping. Honeslty, while chespin is my second fav starter ever (topped by torchic) and froakie comes out around number 13~14 (with first being 18, not 1. Did my chart weird.), fennekin falls to about fourth from last, topping turtwig and chimchar (yes, I didn't like chimchar), but not much else. |
Jan 10th, 2013, 9:07:29 PM | #971 |
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The main reason I don't see new types coming is not because it would be silly. No, freak'n flying type is silly. Wind? NO. Air? NO. Flying? YEAH MY POKEMON SHOOT FLYING. Bug? Really? Let's be serious, if you are going to call wood/nature grass, then insects are grass types. Why make the distinction? All right then, I think it's time to change hlaf the Normal types to mammal type. And what IS fighting even? Don't all pokemon fight? Is fighting a THING? Can you get me some of that in a bottle? FIGHTING IN A CAN. KEEP BULLIES AT BAY. No, light and even sound/sonics are really not even slightly ridiculous considering everything that is all ready in Pokemon.
The main reason I don't see it happening is that they've had sooooo many chances and still just haven't done it yet. What makes now better than any previous generation? If anything, black and white would have been the generation to introduce a counterpart for dark. In fact, for a time I was convinced that Reshiram was definitely going to be light type, and Zekrom dark. |
Jan 10th, 2013, 9:07:43 PM | #972 | |
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does this look like the face of mercy
I like Chespin, but he's not one of my favorites, Turtwig and Oshawott are. I think Fennekin appeals to a group of people looking for a starter that isn't adorable based on derpiness, rather based on it actually being cute.
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Jan 10th, 2013, 9:08:15 PM | #973 | |
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In The House Bathing My Cyndaquils
Big Head and Microscopic neck. Meh. The only cute starters imo are Squirtle, Piplup, Cyndaquil, Chimchar, Chikorita, and Snivy ( Female snivy in anime is too adorable)
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Jan 10th, 2013, 9:35:38 PM | #975 |
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your mom sucked at e3
So... while we don't have any solid confirmation of anything that wasn't plainly shown in the vid, we do know quite a bit about the console X and Y will be on. Instead of speculating about "what if"s that don't have much (read "a n y") basis, why not speculate about something that we actually do have a basis for?
Iwata made sure to stress that these new entries would use the 3DS's features to their full extent. What new ways could X and Y easily and realistically use the 3DS's unique features? What can the 3DS do for pokemon that the DS series couldn't? Stereoscopic 3D is a given (hurrrrrrrr). And I'm SEEEEERRRRRIOUSLY looking forward to that. But what other, possibly less obvious ways could the Pokemon team make use of the 3DS for this new evolution of the Pokemon franchise? I think it would be fun to have a special box, much like the battle box, in which you could put one, or many, pokemon that you want to trade with strangers using Street Pass. No worries about needing this exact type/level/nature/species of pokemon for that exact type/level/nature/species of pokemon. Just Street Pass and swap. It would be neat to toss out a bunch of RNGs and see what other people are willing to trade away. It also seems like something simple, from a technical standpoint, for them to set up, and would be in line with their goal of interconnectivity and sharing and playing with friends and strangers. Any other ideas?
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1783...After leading his troops to victory in the Revolutionary War, General George Washington bids an emotional farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern. More then two centuries later, the tavern still stands on Pearl and Broad streets in downtown Manhattan and has been designated a national landmark.


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Ecko Red
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$6.99 $28.00
The Mix Fabric Clrblck Crop Top by Ecko Red features:
- US sizing
- Embroidered design on front with rhinestone embellishments
- V-neck keyhole front
- Crop top length
Model is wearing size S
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