Elspeth for the Win

  Long hailed as the least-chosen starter Pokemon from the first-generation games of Red and Blue, Bulbasaur and its evolutions have become an increasingly effective mon in both the adventure and in competitive play. While Venusaur is typically who you will find as either an all-out attacker on Sunny Day/Drought teams or as a specially defensive wall, what about the baby form in Bulbasaur? There are a couple of advantages to un-evolved Bulbasaur, in fact. One of those advantages is that by Generation VIII (Sword & Shield), Bulbasaur learns all of its moves by level 36, including its best overall special move in Solar Beam. That ’ s compared to level 50 for Ivysaur and level 58 for Venusaur. If you don ’ t feel like leveling your mon past level 50 to learn Solar Beam, just keep it un-evolved as Bulbasaur until level 36 at which point it won ’ t learn any additional moves. It ’ s notable that Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur all learn the same moves, just that they are learne...

    Looking for the best Fantasy Baseball blogs and website? I’ve compiled a list of the best I’ve found from scouring the internet. This list is completely separate from my other list of “real-life” baseball blogs.   With the proliferation of sports betting and its confluence with fantasy sports, I’ve seen a huge jump in interest in these kinds of blogs. While I myself don’t dabble much with fantasy baseball anymore, I certainly keep up with the best of the fantasy sports content out there. After all, insights from these websites can still be key to writing well-researched articles on baseball.   While it seems fantasy baseball blogs are fairly well-maintained compared to typical baseball blogs, I find that these resources like this consistently fail to be updated on a regular basis. That will not be so with this list, which I will peruse every baseball season. I’ll update broken links or remove inactive sites. If you have any fantasy baseball related si...

    Often considered one of the worst designs by fans not only from Pokemon Sun and Moon, but the entire franchise in general, Bruxish returns in Scarlet and Violet. But, despite its hideous appearance (which resembles a piranha on acid according to my wife) Bruxish is actually a good mid-tier competitive Pokemon! Being from the generation I never played competitively, Gen 7, I ’ m not that familiar with Bruxish. So, much of what I ’ m talking about here is coming from Smogon University among other competitive Pokemon resources.   What is quite obvious about Bruxish is that it has two very good stats among its other mediocre ones. 68 HP, 70 DEF, and 70 Special DEF are quite below average. 70 Special ATK isn ’ t too good, either. But, the two other stats, ATK and Speed, are very good. Bruxish has an above average 105 ATK and a decent 92 Speed stat. It also has a good move pool and an ability to complement it.   Bruxish has several abilities, none of them act...

  By 2023, one YouTuber named Paraspectre has become known for his Pokemon Trading Card Game challenges on Game Boy Color and his Pokemon video game retrospectives, But, his channel started with a 007 James Bond games retrospective series. While the video game retrospective series never gained much traction on YouTube, it ’ s a great, underrated look at James Bond 007 video games.   Paraspectre ’ s channel name is a mash-up of Parasect (one of his favorite Pokemon) and Spectre (a fictional organization in the original James Bond novel series by Ian Fleming). So, it makes sense that his channel started with James Bond games. Even if you ’ re not the biggest Bond fan, if you like video game history as much as I do, this whole series is worth bingeing.   Of course, he talks in depth about the Nintendo 64 classic Goldeneye 007 . But, there ’ s so many more games in the Bond series I never even knew existed. As licensed games go, their quality is very mixed.  ...

  When Alex Cimo created the YuGiOh Progression Series with his co-host Gage, he couldn't know how it would change the trading card game he so loves.   Cimoooooooo (yes, with eight O ’ s) has been a YouTube content creator for YuGiOh since 2014, when Alex Cimo announced in his second ever video that he was going to be the Next Greatest Yugituber! OK that great YugiTuber statement was part of a YuGiOh competition. He mentions his enthusiasm and critical eye when it comes to cardboard that would be the two things that would leave a lasting impact on the YugiTubing community. It took a few years, but believe it or not, he actualized that statement, thanks to his innovation of the Progression Series!   Along with his co-host Gage, the YugiTuber better known as Nyhmnim , Alex came up with the idea to start from the very beginning of YuGiOh and build decks from opening just a virtual box of Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon. These virtual packs are opened on my favori...

    With major American sports as popular as ever, thanks to the proliferation of sports betting and daily fantasy sports leagues, there’s more of a hunger for sports related content than ever. But, there’s another major related interest, and that’s sports cards! Unfortunately, because of the major trading card boom of the pandemic, many websites came and went. Therefore, many lists of the best sports card websites and blogs quickly became out of date. Never fear, as we’re on top of the best sports card resources. Here’s our current list of the best sports card websites. These include hobby blogs, historical websites, and sports card collecting resources. Let us know if you'd like to add to this list or have any concerns with inactive or dead links. While we do our best to keep this resource up to date as possible, your support is always appreciated!     BaseballCardPedia – This is the baseball card encyclopedia anyone can edit, still being updated with ...