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7, 17, 24, 26, 28?

Ask meme here, since it’s been a little while!

7: do you prefer using top tier units, or favorites regardless of tier?

I lean towards the latter, but it’s a combination! My arena team is Reinhardt, Ike, Brave Ike, and a bonus unit because they’re strong, but I also am more than willing to train up and use characters I like regardless of their viability. I’ve got a fully upgraded Niles for example who I have to say is actually super good, and I’m really proud of him, and I’m working on Henry too!

17: current arena defense team?

I generally use my arena team as an arena defense team. Probably not the best, idea but eh, they get the job done and I usually get at least one successful defense most weeks, so it works for me.

24: name one character you've always wanted to summon but have never been able to

Until recently it was Klein but I finally got him a little while back so now I’d say probably Jaffar or Eldigan. I’ve summoned Jeorge before so he doesn’t really count but the two Jeorges I’ve summoned both had the same awful IVs so I feel like he’s worth mentioning.

26: which color stone would you say you have your best luck on?

Probably blue if I think about it. I’ve rolled a ton of Reinhardts (only 4* though), Olwen, M!Robin was my first 5* summon when I was hoping for him, two Nephenees... Red is close though. Green and colorless are less lucky.

28: which unit(s) would you like to see added in heroes?

There’s a lot so lets go by game!

Akaneia: Cavalier Hardin, Etzel, Bantu, Elice, Arlen, Julian

Gaiden/SoV: Luthier, Kliff

Jugdral: Brigid, Quan, Leif

Elibe: Hugh, Lugh, Chad, Astolfo, Niime, Canas, Erk, Pent, Louise, Harken, Vaida, Wallace, Athos

Magvel: Knoll, Lyon, Duessel, Marisa, Tethys, Ewan, Ross

Tellius: Ranulf, Naesala, Ulki, any of the herons, Rhys, Micaiah, Leonardo, Edward, Fiona, Pelleas, Sephiran, Bastian, Geoffrey

Ylisse: Laurent, Say’ri, Gangrel, Aversa, Cervantes, Nah, Morgan, Miriel, 

Fates: Kaze, Kaden, Rinkah, Reina, Scarlet, Nyx, Benny, Flora, Izana

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Another q: soda, pop, soft drink, or coke? I gotta know

Soda’s most common, but some people in parts of the state actually call it tonic. It’s not very common anymore, but some older people still use the word. My Mom has mentioned calling it tonic growing up before.

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What's a bubbler :o? I'm picturing a soda dispenser but I'm not sure...

It’s a word for a water fountain! It’s so much less clunky to say the one word than water fountain or drinking fountain.

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Finally got to a computer! Can you do all of those pokemon q's? (you can skip whatever you want it's cool) and for the personal q- what's ur favorite comfort food/snack?

Just remembered I never got back to the food part of this ask, so I’ll answer it now. I always have a hard time picking a favorite food, but in general my favorite type of food is seafood. I think I’ll be super stereotypically New England for a second and say clam chowder as favorite comfort food, it’s a really good tasting hearty warm soup, what’s not to like?

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@jackjack-p Oh wow, that’s a lot! I can do that though!

1. What is your favorite pokemon?

Espeon! It was thanks to pokemon Colosseum and XD that I got attached to it, and now I love it a whole lot.

2. Favorite type

I always struggle with this question. I like psychic types a lot but I don’t know if I can call them my favorites. I also really like ice and ground types.

3. Favorite region?

Hoenn! Sapphire was my first pokemon game so I’m biased but I love hoenn’s variety in towns and cities, love the tropical setting, and I still wish we’d get a game with more focus on water routes again (was really hoping Alola would fulfill that wish, was a little disappointed when it didn’t)

4. Favorite gym leader?

By region: Either Erika or Janine Pryce Either Winona or Wallace Gardenia God I love all of the unova gym leaders I don’t even know Wulfric And as a bonus favorite trial captain has got to be either Ilima or Mina

5. Favorite villain team?

Plasmaaaa~

6. Offensive or status moves?

Offensive, usually (I’m experimenting more with status moves recently though)

8. Cute Pokemon or strong Pokemon?

Both! I’ll use anything that I like pretty much.

10. Monotype or multitype teams?

I go out of my way to avoid type overlap as much as I can most of the time, but I can appreciate a good monotype run (and I have one that’s technically been ongoing for years that I’ve never gotten back to finishing with normal types in Omega Ruby)

11. Legendaries or non-legendaries?

For the most part non legendaries, but occasionally I’ll incorporate a legendary on my team just to mix it up, and I have a few favorite legendaries.

12. Mew or Mewtwo?

Mew!

13. Mach bike or Acro bike?

Mach bike, acro bike is more of a utility thing. I appreciate them giving you both in the remakes though

14. Shiny pokemon or regular pokemon?

Depends on the Pokemon. Some shiny forms look amazing, and some… don’t.

15. Jessie or James?

James!

16. Best contest category? (Cute, smart, beautiful, tough, cool)

They’re all good, but I have fond memories of winning the cuteness contest master rank in emerald with my quagsire and getting it painted in the museum.

17. Best starter set? (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, etc.)

Probably either Johto or Hoenn. There’s not one region where I don’t like one starter less than the other two, but my least favorites in those two regions are by the least compared to the others.

18. Best Elite Four?

Aesthetically Kalos wins easily, I love all of their designs, but I think the Sun and Moon Elite 4 are the best as characters. Unova deserves honorable mention as another favorite,

19. Best Professor?

Either Birch or Sycamore. I like Birch as a professor who goes out and does field work, and I love Sycamore just for how obviously smitten with Lysandre he is.

20. Best storyline?

Black and White, no contest. Gen 5 is the ultimate pokemon story. Sun and Moon made a strong attempt and are another favorite, but missed some of the magic gen 5 had, and then USUM butchered a lot of what good they did have going.

21. Best Rival?

Silver, an antagonistic rival with a well written story and a logical background explaining why he’s the way he is, and character growth over the course of the game.

22. Do you nickname your Pokemon?

All the ones that I’m using, definitely! Oddly, the one exception is PMD, I guess since they just call each other by species name anyways it feels weird for me to name any pokemon except the player character there.

24. How long have you been playing Pokemon?

Pretty sure pokemon were some of, if not the first, videogames that I ever played, so uh, a long time.

25. Do you collect cards or other Pokemon merch besides the games?

Not really tbh, not to say that I wouldn’t ever be interested in merch of my favorite pokemon, but I’ve never really seeked it out.

26. Do you tend to win battles?

In single player yeah, 50/50 in casual multiplayer, I’ve never tried playing competitively.

27. Do you watch the anime?

I used to as a kid. I tried to check out the darkrai movie at one point a little while back because the one before was the last one I saw before I pretty much stopped watching the anime and movies, but I didn’t end up watching the whole thing and I haven’t watched any since then.

28. Switch or DS?

Switch, the mainline games aren’t out yet for me to compare, but I like the switch a lot as a system and I’m just a little too old to have much DS nostalgia. GBA nostalgia on the other hand...

29. Are you an avid Daycare user?

Yep! I’ve seen some posts on here ragging on people who spend all their time breeding for IVs or whatever as not enjoying the game the right way before, and it kind of hurt a little because that’s one of my favorite post game activities. It’s relaxing zoning out and hatching eggs going for whatever your goal is, and super satisfying when you finally get what you’re looking for. And then you can wondertrade the rest and give other people pokemon they may appreciate and get cool new stuff yourself!

30. What are your expectations for the next main series game?

I don’t even know, a return to a more normal gym system I guess, but maybe tweaked compared to the old gyms->elite four formula, some new possibly gimmicky game mechanic in the vein of mega evolution and Z moves, 50/50 chance HMs return because gamefreak loves turning back the clock on innovation, hopefully a larger region to account for the Switch’s extra power. A region that’s absolutely dripping character and personality, as the last few consistently have, maybe some connection to Kalos? You can’t have Britain and France regions and just not do anything with that after all.

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Subs are cool bc vic mignona ain't there

Yeah, I’ve heard about him. Didn’t realize he was Edward until recently though, watched the first two episodes dubbed before I knew. Might check out the subs for the ones i’ve seen and move forward with those instead now that I know.

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1, 2, 29?

Sorry I took a while to get to this, I was going to answer this after work yesterday but then I just… didn’t

Fire Emblem Heroes Ask Meme

1. Who is your favorite unit?

I considered just saying Canas but actually I don’t like what they did with his stats and weapon so I can’t answer him if I’m taking the unit side into account. Maybe Leif? I don’t know much about him as a character but I love his character design and how he plays in the game. I have mine built with fury and the fortress defense seal and he’s pretty amazing. Hits 41 spd and def, with a respectable enough 48 atk that’s improved to 55 by that crazy light brand buff if anyone has below 36 res, and if they do have that res chances are their def isn’t high enough to matter. Super fun unit to use.

2. Do you have any +10s? If so, who?

Unfortunately not, I tend to prefer upgrading new units to 5* over supermerging characters I have at 5* already. That said, I have a few characters I want to merge over time including Raven and Eirika, and if they ever give us the means to do it definitely Canas. My highest merged characters are Raven and masked Marth, both at +3, and I have a lot more at +2 and +1.

29. What’s your favorite Level 40 Conversation?

I don’t really have one to be honest, there’s a lot of them and I’ve never really read one and thought this one is my favorite. That said though, I went back through so I’d have something to say here, and I have to say the original Ike’s is really good. It’s hard hitting and doesn’t really pander to the player like a lot of them make a point to do.

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Oh! And 67!

and I just realized I forgot to answer this in the initial ask!

67. Do you have a happy gaming-related childhood memory you want to share?

One that came to mind when I kept going on about Pokemon Sapphire earlier is when I found out the starter pokemon evolve a second time. Now it’s such a given, but at the time I was so amazed when my Grovyle started evolving again, I never saw it coming.

Oh, editing this to add another! It’s not directly gaming related but it’s tangentially related to the topic. When I was young I had a close relationship with one of my Aunts. I would regularly visit her house and spend the night, and every time we’d go to blockbuster to rent a movie to watch and I’d get the same movie, the first pokemon movie. I’m sure it must have driven her crazy that I never got anything else but that’s a really nice memory looking back.