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Reinanigans posted:Ditto doesn't show up until Island 3, though, so females are still needed for early bred starters.  <- my teammabels big day posted:Does Alolan Marowak still get Thick Club as an item?
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I haven't been following the thread too closely because I simultaneously want to avoid spoilers, but I'm too thirsty for knowledge to stay away entirely - I saw someone say that you don't need to breed for IVs anymore - and something about it being part of hyper training @ level 100. How exactly does this work? Does Hyper Training just let you max out IVs as you please? Is there an easy way to do EVs? What does the path to a perfect mon look like now? Breeding for nature and egg moves more or less unchanged?
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Oxyclean posted:I haven't been following the thread too closely because I simultaneously want to avoid spoilers, but I'm too thirsty for knowledge to stay away entirely - I saw someone say that you don't need to breed for IVs anymore - and something about it being part of hyper training @ level 100. So Hyper training doesn't actually increase IVs, it won't affect hidden power type for instance or what the pokemon passes down when breeding, it just sets the pokemon's stats to be equivalent to having a 31 IV in one stat (bronze bottlecap) or all (silver bottlecap) stats. EVs have a new minigame attached. Super training and hordes are gone so its not as easy to start EV training, but once you get the new systems rolling its pretty fast. The biggest things you need are natures and egg moves now, yeah. Also makes Hidden power way less of a pain in the rear end and really easy to get. Just breed random eggs for nature until you get one with the correct hidden power type and then Hyper Train it.
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Oxyclean posted:How exactly does this work? Does Hyper Training just let you max out IVs as you please? Is there an easy way to do EVs? What does the path to a perfect mon look like now? Breeding for nature and egg moves more or less unchanged? 1. Yes, it does, you just can't do it for a pokemon unless they're level 100. You use a "bottlecap" to simulate it having 31IVs, it does not actually change the base IV for breeding purposes. 2. Power <x> now gives 8 EVs instead of 4, you can chain support calls in wild battles in lieu of hordes this gen. Breeding for nature and egg moves, and if the build calls for it, you'll have to breed for a 0IV in Attack/Speed as required.
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Why does Famitsu even do reviews anymore? Honest question.
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Bogart posted:Why does Famitsu even do reviews anymore? Honest question. Because japan doesn't have a massive ~"games journalism"~ scene, so it's legit still a place where casual hobbyists go to read impressions about video games.
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:My primary complaint with this gen is that is has a lot of non-standard, sort of obtuse evolutions. Crabrawler is one of the first pokes you can catch but you can't evolve it until the final island. He's level 45 and still in his first form for me, and my charjabuss(?) is in the same situation This is good because Crabrawler is objectively superior to his evo. I might just slap an eviolite on him.
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Zore posted:EVs have a new minigame attached. Super training and hordes are gone so its not as easy to start EV training, but once you get the new systems rolling its pretty fast. Well, whatever. I'll probably handle most of my breeding back in ORAS, due to the move tutors it has. Unless, of course, they have a postgame area similar to the Battle Resort in SuMo. Though, speaking of wild pokemon encounters: please tell me they kept some of the general improvements they implemented in ORAS - some wild pokemon having egg moves, being able to scan for a specific pokemon that you've already caught before, etc.
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Blaziken386 posted:Aw, no more hordes? Darn. No, DexNAV is gone. There's a new system where a pokemon can 'call for help' from something else in the same species in the local encounter table. The called pokemon get more and more likely to have higher IVs and Hidden Abilities. There can only be two in a battle with you at a time but as you knock one out, the other can continue calling for help. It also lets you do stupid stuff like catch level 10 Salamence on the first island.
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Emalde posted:1. Yes, it does, you just can't do it for a pokemon unless they're level 100. You use a "bottlecap" to simulate it having 31IVs, it does not actually change the base IV for breeding purposes. Also in some cases Hidden Power. and now that you can mostly ignore IVs, unless you specifically want a zero, that's a lot more doable. Even then, as long as you want at most one zero, that's still easy. (Hyper training does not change Hidden Power because it doesn't actually change the IVs IIUC).
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Zore posted:No, DexNAV is gone. 
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Oxyclean posted:Is there at least some way to track if you've caught all the pokemon in an area? Nope. You can fill up island pokedexes but that's for whole islands, not just one area.
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Why did Game Freak never fix the obvious venomoth/butterfree mixup? I mean it's too late now, but still. Have they ever at least admitted the mistake?
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Walrus Pete posted:Why did Game Freak never fix the obvious venomoth/butterfree mixup? Similarly, they never corrected Azurill's typing either
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Zore posted:No, DexNAV is gone. That and character customization have probably been my favorite new features.
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Walrus Pete posted:Why did Game Freak never fix the obvious venomoth/butterfree mixup? I mean it's too late now, but still. Have they ever at least admitted the mistake? No, and I'm not sure if that was a mistake. We'll probably never know for sure.
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Or how about Psyduck and Golduck having their names switched
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less laughter posted:Similarly, they never corrected Azurill's typing either Azurill is Normal because it's a baby water mouse that isn't very good at using water yet. Makes perfect sense.
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Arcland posted:That and character customization have probably been my favorite new features. At least the latter's in, right?
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Supremezero posted:At least the latter's in, right? That's what others have said. I was dissapointed they didn't shoehorn it into ORAS. Especially since the beauty contests are a big part of the game anyway.
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Last Celebration posted:Azurill is Normal because it's a baby water mouse that isn't very good at using water yet. Makes perfect sense.  
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The bigger issue with Azurill wasquote:because Azurill's gender ratio does not match that of its evolved forms and its evolution is not dependent on gender, being female 75% of the time while Marill and Azumarill are female only 50% of the time, female Azurill has a 1/3 chance of evolving into a male Marill (depending on its personality value). Which was finally fixed in Gen VI Also Nidorina and Nidoqueen still can't breed because...?
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Speaking of Azurill, what happened to it in Gen V? It used to be a happy little critter.
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Zore posted:The bigger issue with Azurill was They're voluntary incel
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Pakled posted:Or how about Psyduck and Golduck having their names switched 
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Dr. Fetus posted:Speaking of Azurill, what happened to it in Gen V? its gen V sprites actually look the most like its Sugimori art
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Dr. Fetus posted:Speaking of Azurill, what happened to it in Gen V? it's sad because the gen v wiggle stretchy sprites are bad
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Golduck has the same name is Japanese, where gold is associated with psychic power (such as the Marsh Badge being the Gold Badge and the Gold Gummi being favoured by Psychic types). So I'm guessing its name was to say that it had mastered it power from Koduck (ko meaning child), even though it's not really gold.
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Zore posted:No, DexNAV is gone. WHY!!!???? Edit: seriously, just, what the gently caress!? God DAMNIT Gamefreak!
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Zore posted:The bigger issue with Azurill was They've gone through menopause.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:WHY!!!???? i literally do not understand why anyone expected differently. remember the cell phone? trainer refights? gym leader refights? chaining? hordes? swarms? the dream world? hell gen VI removed E4 refighting. Every time you fight they have the same team they always had! Something the series has ditched back in Gen 1.
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Every new Pokemon game takes away a popular feature from the last one. It sucks, but as much money and talent is poured into these games, they don't have infinite resources and given the choice between recreating an old feature and adding a new feature it's probably better for the health of the series to add the new feature.
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Last Celebration posted:Azurill is Normal because it's a baby water mouse that isn't very good at using water yet. Makes perfect sense. I genuinely didn't realise Azurill was Normal/Fairy nowadays. I thought they had just swapped Normal out for Fairy in Gen 6.
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In all the strategy discussion I see elsewhere everyone is saying Trick Room is only 5 turns and no one mentions the item that extends terrain durations. Wasnt that supposed to affect TR now?
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Countblanc posted:In all the strategy discussion I see elsewhere everyone is saying Trick Room is only 5 turns and no one mentions the item that extends terrain durations. Wasnt that supposed to affect TR now? It does.
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Yo is Growlithe in this game or what? This will determine whether I take the owl or firecat in the beginning.
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I am a scrub who doesn't understand how terrain works, doesn't Trick Room being terrain mean that the Tapu pokemon will cancel out trick room on switch in?
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Soul Glo posted:Yo is Growlithe in this game or what? Yes, Growlithe is available pretty early on. At least in Moon, I dunno about Sun.
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Pakled posted:Yes, Growlithe is available pretty early on. Owl it is, thanks e: It's not a version exclusive, is it?
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