/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10765264
Pokemon comes to mind, specifically Voltorb/Electrode if you have a good enough party afterwards

>>10765264
Smash Bros

>>10765269
is it really the case?
why not choose a better pokémon that can actually fight?

Yoshimitsu's sudoku since there's a chance your enemy has low enough health that they'll die, you live

>>10765264
I kept losing to one of the Sinspawn bosses until I used this

>>10765269
I doubt that trade is worth it except in very rare cases

>>10765269
definitely not pokemon
there are so many moves that do the same damage as self destruct but don't force you to kill yourself
your team's moves would have to suck major ass if self destruction is a decent strategy for you, and at that point losing a pokemon could cost you way too much
also fainting lowers your pokemon's friendship, every time you use self destruction moves in those games your pokemon loses friendship
having low friendship affects some evolutions, return, and getting some items requires high friendship
unless you have frustration, losing friendship is a bad idea
but people that use frustration and actively try to increase it's power are monsters

>>10765342
TOPPEST BLOODY KEK

>>10765424
What makes Electrode a good self-destruct user is how it's one of the fastest pokemon in gen 1-2. Once it's down to very low health you can just outspeed your opponent and blow up for massive damage.

>>10765269
>>10765447
It was somewhat common in the pvp scene. Most of RBY OU teams would have either Gengar or Exeggutor, which would explode rather early, after spammong status moves. Golem too had a good explosion, basically killing everything that wasn't Gengar or another Golem/Rhydon.
Never heard of an explosion strategy in-game though.

>>10765264
DQ9.
Kerplunk (Farewell) kills you but revives all party members and Kamikazee (Sacrifice) which kills you but either kills all enemies or reduce their HP to single digits.
Kerplunk save my butt more than once fighting max level classic bosses, Kamikazee is kind of worthless because it only works with common enemies and doesn't work with metal slimes and their derivatives.

>>10765264
It's very fun to play Pokemon with one real Pokemon and 5 Self-Destruct Gravelers

>>10765264
On puzzle maps it depends, but it's viable against fort walls on battle maps.

>>10765264
in smash bros i'll eat someone as kirby then leap off the edge of the stage

>When you're 1 up and the next one wins you the match
https://youtu.be/wwNYVSTBso8?t=651
The move is called Honeybee

>>10765459
damn

>>10765424
the reason is electrode is one of the fastest pokemon in the game. If you don't like the pokemon your opponent starts with, you can blow it up. This can level the playing field sometimes. Also, you blow him up when his health is low. It's not a bad deal

>>10765264
This g*me is trash. The classic mode is a downgrade from standard Battleship.

>>10765264
ut99/ut2004

>>10765459
Calm down poojeet bong, it's just a gameboy cartridge.

No shinobi mentioned, lots of Nintendo mentioned. Many weak gamers.

>>10765434
There's a harakiri move in Toshinden too, done by the secret character Sho. However, contrarily to Yoshimitsu's, Sho's move is some sort of "curse", that also damages the opponent while Sho is impaling himself.
It's mostly useless, except if your enemy is playing keep away games at full screen distance and almost dead.

>>10765264
There is, it's called real life

>>10765264
Homeworld and Cataclysm.

Gen 3 cb Explosion metagross 1hko everything that isn't immune

Starcon2 also, the Shofixti had a suicide move.

>>10765447
But what exploding does is remove the exploded from the battle before the exp is given out, so say you start with a wimpy level 1 and immediately swap to an explody mon who finishes the enemy off with a bang, then all the exp goes to the weak one without getting divided.

Khimari's is especially bad because it completely locks his party slot, so you can't even just throw him out to do a bunch of damage at the start and then go back to your regular party.

>>10765264
Competitive Pokémon in the pre-gen 5 days. Explosion and Self-Destruct were stupidly broken.

>>10765264
Brood War.
Sending in literally any expendable unit to rush in on tanks in siege mode, or air dropping units on top of tanks so that their splash damage hurts their own units.
Casting Irriadiate on your own science vessel to destroy literally every Zerg unit.
Using infested terrans to suicide bomb everything (usually only feasible in UMS maps)

>>10766676
In that type of game, where your units are often expendable to begin with, them being able to explode for additional damage is all upside.
In a Final Fantasy style game, giving up a character permanatly to do a single shitty attack is beyond terrible. Not to mention the added injury of not even then earning XP.

>>10765264
why is khimari so hot

>>10766685
Hey, OP said any game. He should have specified RPGs

>>10765264
WoW Wrath of the Lich King arenas.

Death Knights used to have “raise ally”, that would raise a fallen ally as a ghoul that they’d control.
At launch this ghoul was fucking busted. Arenas being a 2v2 or 3v3 format (mostly), losing a player means you lose 99% of the time. Just being able to bring back a player albeit in a gimped form would be broken as it is, but the ghoul was actually strong. It had a suicide self destruction ability that did retard damage.

The best part is, if it was just you as a ghoul and your opponent left, you would win if you killed them with the kamikaze.