As Fred said, the duration was nerfed to permanent while in play and five turns upon switching out. If you have an issue with Rain teams sweeping you in the five turns after a Politoed has switched out, then perhaps the fault is with your team and not the weather.

Generally speaking, losing to another team comes down to two reasons: either the opponent played better than you and out predicted you (or utilized some very good switching), or your team is generally weak to a specific type of Pokemon. (The third option being that the teams aren't balanced at all, but that's why we're here: to make sure that third option isn't an option at all.)

If you have, say, five Pokemon with a weakness to Water, then in general anyone playing a Water based team is going to do well against you without trying overly much. So, what you would end up doing, is trading a few Pokemon out to cover up that weakness. Or substituting in a Pokemon that practically counters a Water team. (RE: Toxicroak.)

Now, I'm not saying that Weather doesn't give a huge advantage to the user. But, when you think about how well a Weather team does outside of their Weather, I think it's perfectly justified that they get boosts to put them on par with other teams. Not to mention, as Fred stated, we had already nerfed the general boosts they get.

TL;DR, Duration is fine. However, we are still tweaking the numbers on the boosts. And that is what our balance testers are for. (You guys are awesome.)

Sweet can't wait, I wish I could help in some way, if there is something I can do just ask, I'm a writer and I know a few artist I can them to help if you are still looking.

Then, sir, I will kindly redirect you to our application boards.

So, I take it everyone is excited? Because, I wet myself a lil' and I was there for the meeting.

I personally enjoyed Haunt, Gengar, Typhlosion, and Magmar the most. However, as Frenchfry said, quite a few looked like "failed experiments" and I just couldn't enjoy them. It's true that I do enjoy some of the more morbid aspects of art, but these did not draw me in.

They were more akin to messes similar in shape and color to the original Pokemon that I just couldn't relate with. Almost like seeing a horror movie for the first time wherein the villain is so far misconstrued from the main stream view of one that he ceases being scary and instead turns into a droll curiosity.

Verbose rant aside, I did enjoy those and, as I said, I really enjoyed his take on Fire Pokemon.

Actually, we don't like the Black and White graphics either so we've decided to make the game a text-based adventure game.

"You are in Pallet Town. to your North is Route 1. Professor Oak's Lab is to the South.
Which direction would you like to go?"

Can we do this? I would enjoy this.

It was the butler in the living room with the candlestick.

agreed with Pidgey, for the most part. I tried it out shortly after it was released for play. (Not sure how much it's changed since then.) But it was definitely clunky. Not too pretty, either. And the combat felt either hyper paced and frantic in the damage scale, or really slow and like nothing was getting accomplished.

Closed or Locked?

-- That's what I'd say if this wasn't in the spam forum.

Lock-...

Ah, almost had me there! Umbreon, personally. Zoroark is too... New? Mainstream? Popular? None of the above. Powerful? Commonplace? Varied? Also none of the above. I just don't like how he looks.

I think that is most of the appeal to individuals. I've loved Umbreon since way back when (Sweet Maker, I feel old saying that.) in the GSC era when he first came out.

MY TURN FOR DAH COMPARISONS: Leafeon and Glaceon.

Second request from Raikt
http://p1cture.it/images/71979gd29cefd71f1f5c.png

Pure brilliance. I'm going to print it out and frame it on my wall.