The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in the end of both Napoleon's career and the First French Empire and is often considered one of history's most important battles.
On 1 March 1815, Napoleon returned from exile to regain control of his empire, beginning the period of the Hundred Days. The great powers of Europe responded immediately by branding him an outlaw and declaring war. The decisive Battle of Waterloo was fought between the towns of Mont-Saint-Jean and Waterloo in modern Belgium, then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Napoleon's objective was to crush the Anglo-allied army of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, before it could be reinforced by a nearby Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon nearly succeeded in his goal when his men captured the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte and stood poised to break through the allied center. However, the timely arrival of several Prussian corps and a failed charge by the French Imperial Guard dashed Napoleon's hopes of victory. Four days after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he would die six years later.
The Battle of Waterloo has often been regarded as one of the most decisive battles in history; it brought an end to the Napoleonic period and ushered in a new political era known as the Concert of Europe. Additionally, Waterloo marked an end to nearly 23 years of constant warfare that had devastated continental Europe since the Battle of Valmy in September 1792. After Waterloo, Europe enjoyed decades of relative peace, as the great powers did not fight another major war until the Crimean War (1853-1856). Still, the importance of the Battle of Waterloo is sometimes overstated; historians have argued that the odds against Napoleon were impossibly high, and had he not been defeated at Waterloo, he likely would have met his end on some other battlefield shortly thereafter
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Played a lot of Pokerogue the past few days and my verdict is this: It succeeds as a Pokemon game but fails as a Roguelike. It so heavily relies on the starter system that at the beginning of each run, you pretty much already know what your "build" is gonna be. It heavily disincentivizes releasing your starters mid-run which kills the variety that Roguelikes are built upon. The more you progress, the more you get to basically just handpick your entire team, which is so antithetical to the genre I don't even know where to start.
Instead, its main draw is the "catch 'em all" aspect and the infinite joy of watching numbers go up, making it honestly more comparable to Cookie Clicker than to Hades or Slay the Spire. Sure, you get to pick from random rewards at the end of each battle which makes it look like a Roguelike, but those items do not define your run at all. Your run is defined by the Pokemon on your team, by their moves and their abilities. And you can pick those in the starter screen.
I think Pokerogue will suffer a lot in the long run because of this. As people complete their collections, the replay value will plummet because the variety is just not there.
That’s a well thought take. As a side note: I suck at the game, any early teams you’d recommend?
Primarina and Skeledirge are excellent starters. For the early game, generally just dont save money, spend it on potions as much as you need to
Thanks, I was being frugal so that’s probably part of it.
Me seeing this as a person who intuited skeledirge and spam potion: a person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.
I found that fast hard hitting mons are pretty good for classic mode, my normal team included meowscarada and a fast fire type, also its good to bring a mon that snowballs easily like one with a mega evolution, or one that get strong fast like mudkip
Thanks! I’ll try a comp like that and see if it helps.
Yea, for endless mode the only really good strategy is metal burst strat, i heard they were going to add more modes im tbe future but who nows
Well, yeah. Endless mode will always eventually require cheese to progress, that's almost inherent to its nature. When the enemy has 500 "deal 2,5% more damage" and "take 2,5% less damage" tokens, any "fair" Pokemon strategies are not viable anymore and there is no way around that. Endless mode is always gonna be an unbalanced clown show and they shouldn't bother balancing it.
The game doesn't need more modes, it needs to make Classic mode good. It needs to move far, far, far away from the starter system and make changes that add variety to the game. Pokemon is not a balanced game, but Pokerogue basically goes out of its way to ruin any existing semblance of balance.
The pacing of Classic mode sucks. Runs are way too long and the level cap being 200 throws the balance way out of whack. By level 50, 99% of Pokemon have reached their final evolution and learned most of their available moves, you hit this at around wave 70. This not only means that for over half of your run, your team stays pretty much the same, it also means that Pokemon that are powerful early and weak later (such as Butterfree or Bibarel that are much stronger than most mons you'll have between levels 10-20 but fall off really hard) are completely redundant. In Firered/Leafgreen, the Elite 4 are around lvl 50-60, which means that your Dragonair will not become a Dragonite (lvl 55) until you've reached the very end of the game. In Pokerogue, it reaches its peak in the first 1/3rd of the game. So why bother with anything but the lategame behemoths?
This is further exacerbated by the egg moves. There's a reason your Charmander starts with Ember and not with Flamethrower, there's balancing going on here. But Pokerogue just gives your Pokemon full movesets starting from level 1, making your runs even more static and disincentivizing switching your team up even more. This also makes it so your late game scaling mons like your Dratinis are punished even less in the early game, because having low stats doesn't matter when you have Core Enforcer as a STAB move while your enemy has Tackle.
The egg moves and of course the pAsSiVeS make this even worse by being exclusive to your fucking starters, meaning any Pokemon you encounter throughout the run will be strictly worse than the Pokemon you start with which makes me want to bash my head against a wall. So not only are you even further disincentivized from switching out any mons you start with, you are also disincentivized from starting with any early game-focused Pokemon because all that matters is the late game and you don't get rewarded for winning the early game harder.
A Pokemon roguelike could allow you to use so many different Pokemon. You could use a Pidgey and a Butterfree early when they're at their relative strongest, switch them out for a Tauros and a Weezing mid game and late game you can get the heavy hitters like Dragonite and Zapdos or whatever. But Pokerogue seemingly goes out of its way at every opportunity to make your runs as static and predictable as possible. You can start with a Latios with a full moveset and all that changes throughout your run is the lvl counter going up. There's a reason that Hades doesn't let you handpick all of your freaking boons at the start of a run.
Pokerogue is fun because you can catch 'em all and because it's fun to watch a number go up, but it might be the worst Roguelike I have ever played. The wasted potential is incredible and the problems are so fundamental that I have very little hope they will ever be fixed. Terastalization could have been a great way to add variety by changing your Pokemon's types for individual runs, but because the developers are literally allergic to variety they have limited Tera shards to lasting 10 battles at a time, which is completely baffling because terastalization doesn't have a time limit in the main series (unlike Gigantamaxing, which lasts only 3 turns in the main series but is permanent in Pokerogue???). The main draw of Roguelikes is going in with little equipment and making the best of whatever the game throws at you. Pokerogue literally lets you handpick your equipment. It's not a Pokemon Roguelike, it's just a glorified Battle Tower.