r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/soupandsaladshadows • 1d ago
Funny Prepare Them For Life's Challenges By Busting Their Chops Like A Pro
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u/CommunicationOk5104 1d ago
First time I played Pokémon with my Nephew I accidentally destroyed him. I was actually trying to lose but he only had one high level Pokémon. After our match he put his switch down and said, "I don't want to play anymore." I felt really bad, but there really wasn't much I could do.
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u/Ozmariot 1d ago
I won a game with my niece who is 8 and loves to smack talk. My brother and his wife let her win everything all the time no matter what. She was so confident that she was literally the best at everything and then cried and threw a fit when she lost. My bro told me that it wasn't cool what I did and not very uncley of me. I don't care I love her and she's got a know and be okay with failure because that's part of life. Funny thing is I was trying to let her win.
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u/CRABMAN16 1d ago
Letting children win is the dumbest thing to me. My nieces and nephews only win on actual skill, when they do beat me they are so happy they run around the house. They take loses with grace and wins are a triumph. You are setting a kid up for disappointment if you give them everything all the time.
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u/Tablesafety 1d ago
You shouldn’t flatten them cleanly every time or else they’ll lose confidence and motivation, but you should also never let them win all the time and never go too easy.
Growing up (and even still) i found it disrespectful for someone to go easy on me. If I sucked, I wanted them to be the stone on which I sharpened myself- and Id lose confidence to learn a win I thought I earned was meaningless.
I was a very atypical kid tho
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u/DakotaXIV 1d ago
Exactly. Once I got a little older, I could tell when my dad was sandbagging me. We played a lot of 1 on 1 basketball and still vividly remember the first time I legitimately beat him at 13yo now that I'm over 40. I was a hyper competitive kid and wouldnt have had it any other way
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u/SalvaPot 1d ago
Just handicap yourself against kids, but still beat them most of the time.
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u/Tablesafety 1d ago
The way I teach Pokemon tends to be a 3v3 where the opponent picks my team, and if they’re extremely new I will also let them know my moves and why
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u/AlinaStari 1d ago
Really depends on the kid and their age. Like a little one trying to learn something obviously won't get anything out of just losing repeatedly. But if they're 8 years old and already know how to play whatever game it is and they're trash-talking then you better believe I'm going for the KO lol.
Like my dad taught me how to play chess when I was 4 or 5 years old. He would go super easy, let me take back moves, etc. But then when I was around 7 or 8 I apparently decided I was a better chess player than him and talked some trash. So he sat me down and told me that he's been going easy on me but now that I know how to play and am confident he would never go easy on me again.
I didn't ACTUALLY surpass him in skill/rank until I was about 16 years old, even if I did win every now and then. I don't really have a point here other than I still like chess and got decently good at it even if I never was very competitive... so I think that was probably a pretty good parenting approach for games, I guess.
I think if it's not YOUR kid then it is fair game to play your hardest as long as they know the game/rules enough to be confident. If not then I would definitely handicap myself because I would never want to kill their interest in the game, you know? If the kid isn't trying to seriously compete then it'll be more fun for both of us that way, too. But if they ARE then it's important to learn to appreciate losses at that point. Idk I'm rambling now but I think the moral of my story is "talk shit get hit, kid" or something like that.
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u/LawfulnessDue5449 1d ago
For some games I had friends who were interested in them like Street Fighter or Tetris and they'd want to play me. I'd crush them but then since they were so enthusiastic I'd help them join communities to improve
After a month the tables turned and I was getting crushed
I'd let the kid earn their victory, but help them earn it
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u/beershitz 1d ago
I play my 3 yo kid every week at Pokémon stadium and I always smoke him the first game. Then I let him kill me the second game. Then I play just good enough and give him just enough advice to make the last game a nail biter and then let it come down to the final attacks
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1d ago
Lol my family is ultra competative and huge shit talkers and I was a quiet, sensitive, highly intelligent but not very confident child. They'd beat me mercilessly in everything and roast me while doing so. They'd never play games against me that I was good at so I never knew what winning was like. I tried to get into sports but by the time I grew into my lanky 6'3" frame and built up some athleticism my spirit had already been crushed and I couldn't force myself to be competitive so I'd wash out. I don't think it really started to get better until I joined the Army and even to this day I might be the least competitive dude I know at nearly 40. I'm not a doormat but I could give a shit less about winning anything.
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u/trixie_one 1d ago
Yep, that sounds about right about how you've got to strike a balance. My dad destroyed me every single time we played pool, and it got to the point where I just lost interest playing him at pool. Which was unideal as he eventually brought a pool table himself that didn't get anywhere near as much use as he was expecting.
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u/TricellCEO 1d ago
You shouldn’t flatten them cleanly every time or else they’ll lose confidence and motivation, but you should also never let them win all the time and never go too easy.
Option C: either help them improve and/or do cooperative modes/games to boost their skill so they can stand on their own.
Teach a man to fish and all that...
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u/Pinglenook 1d ago
I'm a fan of openly setting yourself up with a handicap when playing against a child. Because playing when there's no chance to win isn't fun, but this way they still don't think they're invincible.
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u/TwinObilisk 1d ago
Agreed. When I was a kid, my parents never let me win. One of these games was Boggle, which Mom won 90% of the time, and Dad won maybe 10% of the time. This meant the one time I won that game I proudly kept the score sheet and stuck it up on my bedroom wall, where I left it for nearly a decade. (I won with the word "tots", and had to remind Mom that it was a real word, as in "tater tots")
The more you need to overcome, the more satisfying and memorable the win.
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u/PringlesDuckFace 1d ago
There are lots of games that give children legitimate opportunities to win, usually starting with things like Yahtzee or Uno that rely more on luck than skill. Or games like Pictionary where you have teams and at least some of the children can win alongside an adult.
Otherwise you just need to make sure they're having fun as you destroy them. Like obviously I'm going to crush them at basketball because I'm literally twice the height. But it can still be fun during the activity.
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u/CRABMAN16 1d ago
Uno is a weird one, because my family has no chill in Uno. I wonder if anyone else's family plays like this.
Games are in sets of 3-5, and we use total score. Numbered cards are their value, skips/reverses/draws are 25, wilds are 50. Lowest total score wins. Draw 2s and Draw 4s stack but Draw 2s only stack on twos, same with 4s. You must draw until you can play.
The granddaddy rule that really ups the difficulty and skill though is what we call "jumping in". If you have the exact same card as the top card in play, you can immediately skip everyone's turns and play that card as long as you get it down before the person takes their turn. The effect is two-fold, one it allows for speed and card awareness rewards, two it heavily punishes slow play. No more waiting for cousin moe to fork over a card, skip that man. I suggest anyone that plays uno often to try out jumping in, it is amazing.
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u/Jenny_Show 1d ago
100%. Giving yourself a handicap to make it a bit easier on them so they don't get discouraged from trying is one thing but just letting them win teaches a bad lesson.
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u/CRABMAN16 1d ago
Agreed, my nephew thought he was Sonic, so I had to immediately challenge him to a race. Obviously, an adult can outrun a child by a mile. I destroyed him and was running backwards in front of him. He got the message, he is in fact, not Sonic.
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u/droppedpackethero 1d ago
My oldest and I have a tradition where she can stay up late on non-school nights and play checkers or chess with me if she wants. We make a pot of herbal tea and put on some soft music and play a civilized game or two.
She's never gotten close to winning. But she gets to stay up with Dad while her little siblings got to bed, and she's actually getting a lot better at the games.
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u/AnyDayGal 1d ago
That sounds amazing. She'll look back on this so fondly.
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u/droppedpackethero 1d ago
My proudest moment was when she beat her little brother and immediately offered her hand to him. I've never told her to do it. I just always do it after I win and she developed the habit on her own. She's a good kiddo.
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u/AI_moderated_failure 1d ago
You have to strike a balance with their personality. I let my daughter win occasionally so she stays motivated to keep trying. If she never won at all I wouldn't get to play with her. Her brother doesn't ever let her win and it puts her off playing at all with him, as whenever he is bored he gets antagonistic in his games so even co-operative games become destructive.
I generally prefer playing co-op games as a result because there's certain competitive games I mop the floor with others in and certain ones you'd think i was still checking the button labels.
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u/coriolis7 1d ago
In the intro phase, I let the kids win. Enough for them to enjoy it. As they get better I make it harder on them. Eventually I end up placing artificial rules on myself as a handicap so I can still play maximum effort, but the kids still have a chance of beating me and knowing I didn’t just throw the game.
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u/TheThiefEmpress 1d ago
My kid is an only child, and I decided when she was still a baby I would not be letting her win everything.
My husband was an extreme only child. No siblings, but then all his cousins were way older, or way younger than him, and he was the only grandchild and nephew who was child age for a very long time. Boy was spoilt.
Everyone let him win everything, every time.
Until moi.
I broke that man's spirit, I tell you hwat. Had to be done. He was a terribly sore loser, and I was having none of that tanty. To his credit, he is a graceful loser now.
So when we had a kid, also an extreme only child, I made sure to never let it start. We played games all the time, and my method was to let the cards fall where they may. And most games we'd play multiple times in a row. So when it came time to be done playing, I'd end it on a game that she won. So she'd come away from the whole activity with a positive feeling, but still know how to lose, and that she isn't inherently entitled to win.
Kids need to lose. They need to experience disappointment and sadness. As kids. When the stakes are low, and their attitude can be steered in a good direction.
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u/CocaColaZeroEnjoyer 1d ago
I feel like many parents forget that kids are meant to function in society. How can somebody thrive in a society if they don’t know how to handle even minor inconveniences?
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u/muchandquick 1d ago
Lol, you broke out the Snake and Ladders and taught your man life isn't fair. Good.
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u/Mahlegos 1d ago
and not very uncley of me.
I don’t know, as someone who grew up with multiple uncles and is now an uncle myself, I think it was very “uncley” of you.
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u/Senior_Ability_4001 1d ago
Parents fault for coddling her and not teaching her to lose gracefully.
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u/KittyKathy 1d ago
My dad would always play with a handicap with me but if I started talking smack he would play for real and obviously win super quick. I learned that lesson quick lol
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u/Independent-Trust260 1d ago
You had to step in the dad role for a sec cause your brother is living in the uncle role
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u/ArmedParaiba 1d ago
Sounds pretty uncley to me. Our job is to fill in the gaps the parents leave. For you that's teaching life lessons. For me that is teaching how to torture their parents with more efficiency.
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u/FakingItSucessfully 1d ago
yeah no I am the mean aunt for sure. I am going to crush them with prejudice and then the day they finally are good enough to beat me I will shed a tear of pride. Circle of life.
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u/imunfair 1d ago
She was so confident that she was literally the best at everything and then cried and threw a fit when she lost. My bro told me that it wasn't cool what I did and not very uncley of me.
As an older cousin, this approach is perfectly fine as long as you don't make them feel bad about losing. My younger cousins became ultra-competitive and always saw it as an achievement when they beat me at games, because they knew I wasn't giving it to them.
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u/RJSmithay 1d ago
The way I have always played any game with my nieces and nephews was treating them with respect. I don't hold back just because they are young. After every game I am always extremely encouraging to them, pointing out moments in the game where I noticed their skill improving. The youngest ones do get upset, but I tell them it is ok to be upset but not let it overwhelm them. Learn from what happened and the next game may go differently. So far none of them have given up any games haha so I hope I am doing it right.
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u/sephone_north 9h ago
I believe that I will let them win once or twice, generally after I beat them in the beginning, so they keep interest and want to keep playing.
It’s the same strategy I use when playing with kittens.
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u/lennykrevits 1d ago
I did the same thing trying to get my little brother into pokemon, except he was just a sore loser.
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u/TerpinSaxt 1d ago
I almost did this with my daughter once, but managed to let her win
"Dad, why do you keep using thunder wave?? That's not doing anything anymore"
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u/Frequent_Dig1934 1d ago
Well, skill issue on his end. Tell him to git gud. Specifically try telling him how to git gud and invite him to a rematch after some coaching, he'll feel better after getting an actual win.
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u/Cotillion512 1d ago
My nephews beat me in Mario party and started talking trash, so I told them to switch to Smash Bros. Shut them up real quick, extremely satisfying
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u/thomsenite256 1d ago
Whether or not he liked it you gave him some important life experience in a relatively low stakes way.
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u/PantheraAuroris 1d ago
Yeah, that was me as a kid. Still is me as an adult. I'm just so embarrassed to get my ass kicked in front of people. I don't do competitive stuff anymore.
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u/markik95 1d ago
The thing in Pokémon is, if you have a solid team with a good moveset it's kinda hard to lose against a noob. You'd basically have to constantly use the worst possible move and even then it might do a little damage.
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u/Flippanties 1d ago
Family friend has a 12 year old and whenever she visits I play video games with her. She's better than me at Gang Beasts and has mostly caught up to me at Mario Kart, but there's a rhythm game we take turns playing and whilst she's not bad at it, I am waaaaay more practised at it, so despite only having maybe slightly above average skill at it, I'll be full comboing fairly difficult tracks whilst she barely gets S rank on the easier ones and I could tell it was frustrating her. We ended up just stop playing it because she wasn't coming over often enough to have the chance to improve whilst I was getting even more practise.
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u/No_Location_8199 1d ago
I would tell my child "skill issue" and then explain how EVs work.
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u/ABigPairOfCrocs 1d ago
"Uh oh, looks like you didn't spend a couple hours breeding perfect IVs, idiot"
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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm an outsider for the Pokémon fandom and I'm reading IVs like intravenous...
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u/bytor_2112 1d ago
The short version is that IVs (individual values) are the underlying number values your Pokemon is 'born' with, and EVs (effort values) are the number values you can pump up through training (idk if that's one of the things they changed recently). Casual Pokemon fans will have little reason to fully understand or even know that these exist, and in earlier games they were not displayed to players at all.
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u/MountainYogi94 1d ago
They still aren't numerically displayed in modern games, you only get qualitative labels for the range of values ranging from no good, decent, ok, pretty good, very good, fantastic, best. "Best" is the only truly competitively viable value and it's a 1/32 chance at random.
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u/droppedpackethero 1d ago
"EV training! You're sucking the fun out.
EV training! You're too old for this.
Exploiting the game 'cause you don't have a life!
Beating up kids makes you feel like a man
EV training! Yeah, Pokémon isn't about fun, it's about math!"
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u/PringlesDuckFace 1d ago
IVs are what you use to measure how well your eugenics program is working. EVs are what you use to measure how well your training montages are working.
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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 1d ago edited 1d ago
Breeding? Just move them to scarlet violet, give em mochi, and move them back. The future is now
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u/WaterproofRoboVacuum 1d ago
you don't have multiple foreign language 6IV Dittos? 😏
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u/PringlesDuckFace 1d ago
That poor Japanese blob is getting used like a tenga egg by the other pokemon.
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u/TehMispelelelelr 1d ago
Not gonna lie, as someone whose entire pokemon experience was playing Red, Shield, and collecting cards as a kid, getting a glimpse into some of my friends' competitive pokemon games was the funniest shit imaginable. WDYM you're predicting their moves. WDYM you're not just overlevelling, getting a single pokemon with a type advantage for the trainer you're about to fight, and just spamming a move with enough accuracy to reliably one-shot all their pokemon.
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u/think_long 1d ago
“The Pokémon are weak.”
“The Pokémon are weak? The fucking Pokémon are weak? You're weak! I've been in this business 15 years...”
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u/SatisfactionActive86 1d ago
You can laugh a little bit, children look to parents for help with emotional regulation and trying to be a little humorous about it signals to calm down as it isn’t that big of a deal.
However, if it doesn’t work, be kind. A developing brain can really suck sometimes. The kid will often recognize the next day they overreacted, but in the moment their brain decided it was the end of the world and they had to just ride it out.
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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 1d ago
Kids can be different too, the oldest never had a moment of absurdity if you want to call it that. Though the youngest sometimes does (twice sofar I know). She gets upset over something so extremely she doesn't know what to do other than repeat and cry. All can do is grab her, hold her and try to resolve whatever she is worried about (both times it happened in a nintendo game she was playing).
Though it reminds me as a small kid when I got an Atari, my mum said a couple years ago she hated it. Because regular we would get stuck and mum had to fix it. That's parenting.
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u/PantheraAuroris 1d ago
As a kid, my parents tried to laugh when I screwed up at a game, and it just felt like they weren't taking how bad I felt seriously.
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u/Greedy_Ad2198 1d ago
Yeah you really gotta find the balance between showing your kids which problems are not worth their emotional energy and taking their emotions seriously...
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u/msndrstdmstrmnd 12h ago
I remember being a (slightly older) kid and knowing that logically I shouldn’t cry, like if I lost at a game, id be fighting the crying feeling so hard but sometimes it still came
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u/megapizzapocalypse 4h ago
You have to keep the perspective that if all is going well, something that seems trivial to you might legitimately be one of the worst thing to ever happen to them. They're not supposed to have the sense of perspective of an adult
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u/Felfonz 1d ago
I remember my family forced me to play against my nephew, but i wasn't allowed my normal team i was using in firered. Not because i was actually good, but im 9 years older.
So i had to go through my boxes and pick stuff that was around his team level. Stuff i just caught or leveled up for pokedex entries.
So it was a play through team of my nephew vs my ragtag pick of mostly under leveled mons. He was cackling and winning, surprisingly i was putting up a bigger challenge then i had expected with my team. But still losing very clearly.
Thing is, i had no intention of giving him a free win for a fake confidence boost if it was forced by my mother and aunt. So i sneaked in a high level zapdos, that wrecked his team lead, Blastoise and the rest that was still standing.
Oh the look on his face when he went from winning and thinking he was some god and then seeing his team getting wrecked. Pure horror when he released he couldn't do anything against this zapdos.
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u/BlitzAceSamy 1d ago
Lol this comment is giving me PTSD of me knocking out all of my opponent's mons bar the last one and he reveals it to be Choice Scarf Adaptability Basculegion who spams Last Respects to win
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u/venReddit 1d ago
shouldve given him the magikarp sweep.
i cant imagine that kids face with all its hacked legendaries. it mustve been brutal to get recked by a pimpkarp.
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u/williamtheraven 1d ago
Teaching your kids a proper pokemon team comp is one of the duties of parenthood
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u/Jimbobsama 1d ago
Time to learn about the time honored tradition of grinding levels. They've made it a lot easier in recent Gens but still kid - fight the wild pokemon
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u/TheDonnARK 1d ago
Yep just go find and farm one hit KO Pokemon. It's really all you can do, because some trainers have surprisingly tough Pokemon if you're not prepared/are offtype.
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u/Riceburner17 1d ago
Got to the final boss for Team Star in Violet last night and got crushed since their Pokémon were like 8 levels higher than mine. Oh lawd did I do some grinding after that.
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u/Hopesick_2231 1d ago
First time I ever played a JRPG around age 10, I skipped a lot of the battles because I wanted to hurry up and advance the plot. This quickly became a problem when I faced bosses who would wipe the floor with my party because they were all under leveled. Anyway I mostly play shooter games nowadays
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u/aure0lin 1d ago
This makes me appreciate having the Mario & Luigi RPG games as my first jprgs because you could skip every non-boss encounter and still conceivably beat the game.
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u/Hopesick_2231 1d ago
Oh I eventually beat it. It just took me a few years and I had to come up with a new cheese strat for pretty much every boss
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u/OmniAegis 1d ago
I am SO GLAD I am not alone in this playstyle when I was a kid.
Now I feel compelled to do everything so I can curb stomp whoever is at the end.
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u/workieworkwork 1d ago
I went from NES Mario to JRPGs and I did not understand that they were using the word level differently. Like what do you mean I am on level 5? I just started. And now 7? How did that happen?
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u/BravinatorLX2 1d ago
this is also for people who wanna claim pokemon is too easy.
its a childrens rpg game. it is hard enough for the actual target audience.
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u/Congelateur-Sama 1d ago
Pokemon has always been easy because any threat can be passed using hundreds of different ways. You just don't know them when you are a kid because you're learning, so it is adapted.
The problem is that today's pokemon games intentionally take handholding really far. You don't even have to think much by yourself.
In older games, you could play through the whole thing with only your starter... with a lot of die and retry and overleveling. Recent games still allow you to do that but will automatically level up the rest of your team so you don't even get the downside of training only one.
I wonder how this kid is playing to have a "too weak" team, but he will get over it by either overleveling or actually figure out a way to get better.
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u/BravinatorLX2 23h ago
see, i say its literally the same.
using only your starter was the general tactic among like 30 other kids i knew and it had a lot less deaths and retries than trying to make a real team. and a lot less grind than trying to bring in a new pokemon later.
recent games still have your team underleveled and the starter being the only one that pulls its weight if you do that. the numbers look a little higher, but its all the same. if the other guy beats your starter, the rest of your team takes one, rarely two hits, just enough to revive the starter, just like always.
what forced exp share does is cut down on the grind once you reach a point where you lose. which doesnt make the game easier or harder, just less of a time waster.
add to that only getting like 30 and 40 bp tm moves for most of the early game, where gen one gave you dig, bubble beam, thunderbolt and ice beam pretty early on.
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u/JackOLoser 1d ago
I take it easy on my son when he wants to play Smash Ultimate, but... 1, I've been playing Smash since 1999, and 2, I can't help if he keeps walking off. I even try to bail him out by jumping off with him and giving a shove back towards the stage. He's not discouraged, but he does give up after a few tries. But he'll get there. Sometimes near the end of a play session, he'll ask me to play for real, because he finds it fun to get demolished every once in a while.
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u/whoyouyesyou 1d ago
While we’re talking about not laughing at our kids, once my oldest got his head stuck in a box when he was about 3. It was only a thin cardboard box from a cheap kettle, I sat and laughed at him for a few seconds while he screamed, before pulling it off him.
Laughter for me, lesson for him.
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u/Darthplagueis13 1d ago
What's the general parenting guideline on backseat gaming?
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u/BonzBonzOnlyBonz 1d ago
If your kids can handle it then do it. Especially if it is a knowledge gap, like Fire beats Grass. If it is truly a skill gap, no amount of "Just shoot them in the head" will ever fix it and just frustrate them.
Same with "Just time the combos." But sitting rhem down and explaining the combos and helping them can be a positive. But repeatedly explaining it can be frustrating if they know what to do and just cant physically do it.
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u/MrMastodon 1d ago
Listen kid, to catch them is a real test but to train them...well that's your cause.
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u/Dorcustitanus 1d ago
"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites. I like your style. You understand what's important. Go on—the Champion is waiting."
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u/Technical-Win-7972 1d ago
"It's one thing to enjoy leisurely battles, but real battles can be a sever trial. Truly strong trainers must be prepared to choose Pokemon that can win rather than their favorite Pokemon." -some random gentleman in ORAS
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u/droppedpackethero 1d ago edited 1d ago
The day my kid's love for Pokemon broke was the same day my ability to hold back broke. And that sorta sucks.
She'd gone into fight Zapdos in Let's go Eevee with a comically under-leveled team of four fire Pokemon (w two ponytas) and two water pokemon. No rock type attacks. No ice type attacks. No status affecting attacks. And she got rolled. She hadn't saved in an hour and didn't want to lose her progress but the Zapdos was gone if she didn't reload.
I'd been gently dropping hints about team diversity and tactics for her entire gameplay, and she'd completely ignored me. So when she came to me crying, saying the game was "impossible", I sort of snapped a little bit.
She hasn't picked it back up since. Be careful how you talk to your kids!
(before anyone asks, no she doesn't want to use her Eevee. She doesn't want it getting "hurt." She's a sweet kiddo)
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u/Tigglebee 1d ago
Maybe they’ve made the games harder? I remember playing the first few and it’s basically not a challenge at all. Or it could be harder for younger kids, I was already in middle school when gen 1 came out.
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u/Apex_Konchu 1d ago edited 1d ago
Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is specifically designed to be very easy, even moreso than Pokémon games usually are. For example, the starter Pikachu/Eevee is much stronger than a normal Pikachu or Eevee, with greatly inflated stats and an expanded movepool.
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u/Totoques22 19h ago
Yeah well they can’t evolve so that’s expected
They took notes from yellow edition where you’re forced to use a pikachu by that can’t evolve and is really mediocre at best for the whole game
The thing that make them truly Op is the unique attacks but the ton of stats sure help
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u/SuccessfulPepper118 1d ago
Honestly, I'd argue the opposite, the games have gotten much much easier these days
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u/crewserbattle 1d ago
Yea Gen1 isn't "hard" so much as it's a glitchy mess and there are a bunch of mechanics that just straight up don't work or do the opposite of what they claim (Focus energy actually lowers your crit rate, rage lowers your attack, etc), but that also goes in your favor when Lances Dragonite just spams agility against your Beedrill because it's a psychic move.
Gen 2s level scaling was just kinda fucked, but otherwise it was fine. I never played gen 3 and later as a kid so I can't speak to them
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u/BonzBonzOnlyBonz 1d ago
The newer ones are easier. You have the XP Share and it gives XP to everyone and doesnt reduce like the old games that had it.
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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago
Sounds like a case of bad parenting, your child has weak pokemon, train your kid better.
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u/ShotenDesu 1d ago
But what if your kid was born with three 0 IV's. Can't use a bottle cap till level 18!
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u/Afrojones66 1d ago
Did Ash Ketchum’s mom train him? No. This 10 year old took care of business. Kids need to get good.
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u/DimitrisKas 1d ago
Ash Ketchum took 7 regions to win one tournament. Maybe hands on parenting is needed for this
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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago
That's cause Prof Oak was taking care of Ashs mom! She threw the kid out of the house for certain science related reasons... Not the best parent there either.
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u/IThinkItsAverage 1d ago
I never needed a parent to help with pokemon… I had older siblings to help me!
They also didn’t help me, in fact they mostly just made it worse on purpose.
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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago
Good ole siblings. Trade me your Mewtwo it's the worst one, I'll give you a sweet Zubat, trust your older sibling!
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u/No_Problem5759 1d ago
My daughter is extremely untrusting. Been that way since birth. She'd never let me do that let alone her sibling.
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u/issacoin 1d ago
kids crying cuz i just whipped her ass in pokémon, how much clearer can i be
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u/avepaltaketchu 1d ago
kid crying because I whooped her level 100 rare candy spammed Charizard with my labouriously EV levelled level 80 Hitmonlee
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u/arcanis321 13h ago
Kid trainer, Gotta catch em all!
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u/Ralexcraft 19h ago
Football fans are about the same about their grown up pokemon members of their favorite team.
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u/KRAy_Z_n1nja 10h ago
Won my fantasy game this week 154.26 to 154.1, twas insane. Thanks to my Pokemans I pulled it off this week.
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u/SinclairSummerset 1d ago
Pretending like she didn't do the same shit as a kid.
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u/Elon_is_musky 1d ago
Still funny to see as an adult though. Even now I think of the times I was emotionally overwhelmed over something that I now see as stupid & it’s kind of funny 🤷🏽♀️
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u/EnvironmentalBell807 1d ago
It’s actually funnier realizing you’re looking at yourself as a child, also brings about some appreciation for what your own parents went through with your BS. At least speaking for myself here, share quite some giggles with my mom about it every now and then
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u/Doneifundone 1d ago
How is that pretending ? I did stupid bs as a kid that I a 100% laugh at myself for now, and would at any other kid. Why do reddit users love to imagine stuff about other people or misread entire personality traits onto innocuous posts, is it just projection ?
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u/TreemanTheGuy 1d ago
The Best part of being a parent to little kids it seeing what it's like to be a little kid again
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u/MalaysiaTeacher 1d ago
Never laugh at a child's problems. It may be the last time they tell you one.
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u/Expensive_King_4849 1d ago
My daughter found my old Pokémon Yellow and just would not leave Pallet Town but would call me over to look at what she was doing.
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u/thomsenite256 1d ago
I love when my friends share random stuff their young kids do like this. I think its fine to laugh at them later but not when they are in the room.
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u/Arthurlmnz 1d ago
Isn't this a great chance to teach your child about patience, strategy and critical thinking though?
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u/jpterodactyl 1d ago
I don't find it that hard to hold back laughter when my kid is sad or frustrated about something. I find it really hard to not laugh when they do something that should not get positive feedback, but it's really funny.
Like, I went for a walk with my son on a nearby path. And he randomly yelled "no, my walk!!! go away!" to a jogger.
It was really funny. It also has a lot of elements that need to be corrected, and that's hard if I undermine myself by giving positive attention.
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u/whomad1215 1d ago
this is why the Lego videogames are great
you can die, but there's no "gg noob get rekt" moments
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u/Ranku_Abadeer 1d ago
As the youngest of 6 kids, I can confidently say that, getting your ass handed to you in multiplayer games is an essential part of growing up.
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u/shifty_coder 1d ago
If they’re fighting Gym Leader Whitney, I understand the tears. Her Miltank’s rollout is some unfair bullshit.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WEIRD_PET 1d ago
My nephew came home from Kindergarten and called his sister an asshole. My sister said she and my BIL about exploded trying not to laugh while they told him off.
She also admitted that my niece was indeed being an asshole.
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u/tbdzrfesna 1d ago
My kid told me he had a great idea: he could sell some of his clothes to buy a skin in fortnite.
I laughed him out of the living room. He'd rather go shirtless than not have this skin. We had a long talk that night...
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u/EkobasherX4Z 1d ago
Ive got my 7 year old playing it atm and he made it to the electric gym but couldn't beat Watson, I pulled up the type chart and he looked at me like I showed him the periodic table.
After 10 minutes I look at his pokemon and told him to either use onyx or geodude. He keeps using laprus and swallow though 😑
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u/CyberChudzilla 1d ago
Sometimes you gotta tell your children to git gud. Life doesn't give you everything on a platter. You have to TRAIN your virtual monsters. You have to LOVE your virtual monsters so they'll tank a crit.
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u/SL33PYSL0THIE 1d ago
I remember when my son had a banana toy from a happy meal, we went shopping and he dropped it and a seagull grabbed it, he was screaming crying, me and some nice strangers were chasing this damn seagull to get the toy, thankfully we did get it back but my god it was hard not to laugh at this massive seagull with a banana toy in it's beak during this😂😂😂
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u/1stEmissaryElenwen 1d ago
Do zoomers really not grind on Route 1 at the beginning of every playthrough?
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u/96nairra 1d ago
Kids these days are weak, id like to seem them fight Cynthia in pokemon diamond with no prior knowledge about pokemon
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u/No_Expression5744 1d ago
Now that I think about it, I think playing pokemon actually helped with growing up. It literally teaches you that patience and persistence pays off.
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u/Odd_Jeweler5668 1d ago
I get weekly requests for strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries, but never a lum berry. It's only a matter of time before I'm in the same boat as this parent.
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u/hieronymous-cowherd 1d ago
She brings the funny. Here's a screenshot without the vague post formatting /img/4xu8ro01n2nb1.jpg
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u/cameronpark89 1d ago
lmao my son used to play like this even when i told him what to do. he was really playing like ash. i gave up.
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u/the_dreadful_turtle 1d ago
That reminds me of the time I cried as a chili cause I played nintendogs on my ds and didnt have any money to buy food for my dog. I was convinced he was going to die, just because I spend all the money on toys for him. My annoyed mom showed me that you can sell things and I was happy again lol
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u/melancholic-scribe 12h ago
I’m not a parent but I’m the oldest of seven kids and helped raise my younger siblings. I remember how they would sob and scream if they didn’t get their favorite color plates at breakfast because the plates were in the dishwasher. I was a depressed teen struggling in high school and it took everything I had not to laugh at them.
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u/jayeddy99 1d ago
There was a meme of a mom talking to her kid and the kid saying they want to transition . The mom was like “I love you for whoever you wanna be” and the kid was like “I want my name to be Robert” and the mom was trying not to laugh at how dumb she thought the name was. I thought it was kinda sweet lol
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