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Calaveron posted:Are you serious Rufflet takes 54 levels to evolve. Is fucker even as good as say, Dragonite or Tyranitar to justify that? It's just how Unova was balanced. In BW only new Pokemon appeared, so they were free to do the level curve a bit differently. That equivalent to Dragonite evolved at level 64, for reference.
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Russian Remoulade posted:Alright. The spergs I work with talking about natures and IVs kinda scared me off a bit. Neither of those are needed at all for the base game unless you really really want to minmax which you shouldn't, being a game for children and all. It's more for battling online or post-game battle arena content. But short form- natures boost one stat by 10% and lower another by 10% although there's a few that are neutral. You basically don't have to care, but you might find that a pokemon feels too weak or too slow and it turns out they have a nature that lowers those stats. Not the end of the world or anything but if you're not feeling a pokemon maybe try to get one of a different nature. IVs are an individual mon's genetics. They boost each individual stat in a range from 0-31 and are determined on catch/egg hatch. This amount is completely negligible for story play and you should not care. You can't change them, or effect them, or even check them until late on. You can breed for them but that's not a thing you should give a poo poo about at all. There's also EVs, which are... kind of a tailored 'training'? But not really. Beat up fast pokemon, and you get faster. Beat up defensive pokemon, you get more defense, etc.. There's a limited amount of EVs individual pokemon can have in total and per stat but again you should not care for standard play. Some other big changes that I can think of since Red/Blue- dark, steel and fairy types are now a thing, and there were a few changes to other type matchups. You might want to check a chart or something, BUT in Sun/Moon, once you've encountered a pokemon once, future battles will tell you the effectiveness of your moves against it so that will help. Notably steel is immune to poison, fairy fucks up dragon, and dark fucks up psychic. Special is split into special attack and special defense now. The kind of stat moves use is now determined by the move itself, instead of by type. ie. Water attacks used to all be special and I think still mostly are, but there are water type moves that are 'physical' and use the attack stat (ie. waterfall). They have different icons when looking at the move. Physical is a kind of red/yellow explosion looking thing and special is a blue series of circles. Neutral (status/buffs/debuffs) is a grey yinyang. This one can kind of be a big deal,say, if the enemy blissey (high special defense) keeps using calm mind (boosts special defense) then you should not use special attacks on it and should use physical. Or if you look at your pokemon and it has crap special attack and great physical attack then you should load it up with more physical attacks, obviously. Pokemon all have abilities (one or two per species, some have a third found in different/hidden/out of main game ways. Abilities are passive things, that can be super useful (levitate makes you avoid ground moves like you were flying-type) or kind of garbage. Really not a big thing to worry about minmaxing, but some of them can be quite game-changing and you should check out what the abilities of the pokemon you use are/be aware of what enemy pokemon could do. ie. there are some that will completely cancel out attacks of a certain type and often give a stat boost for it, so be aware of that!) TMs are infinite now. As of sun/moon HMs aren't used for exploration so you don't need an HM slave. There are move relearners so you can get old moves back. Uh there's a lot of other changes and probably some big ones I forgot but that's I think the most important, in terms of absolute gameplay. Oh yeah there's weather effects now that do different things. ie. raining boosts water, debuffs fire, activates certain abilities, makes thunder 100% accurate I think... also there are abilities and moves that can activate weather, or it can be part of the overworld (either permanent to the area or temporary events). Mazerunner fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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AlphaKretin posted:It's just how Unova was balanced. In BW only new Pokemon appeared, so they were free to do the level curve a bit differently. That equivalent to Dragonite evolved at level 64, for reference. Which was still several levels above the E4 and the only ones you fight in game are too low level to have evolved legitimately. It was a really loving stupid way of balancing it because it means a lot of cool dudes like Hydreigon, Volcarona, Bisharp, Rufflet, Elecktross etc. are just garbage and hard to raise and evolve at or just prior to the E4 (or after in Volcarona/Hydreigon's case!)
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Nov 22, 2016 06:00
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Krinkle posted:Why does nobody ever join in my missions to identify people who speak three phrases in a foreign language it's the easiest drat one. I don't have to think oh gently caress dark fighter what's it weak to tick tock tick tock or a gargabablsgshanthmonate, fire type, yes no, hurry the gently caress up, bzzzzt mission over. How could you not know it was ground/dragon? It's new and rare and you literally can't even find it until after you beat the game how could you possibly gently caress that up!
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Nov 22, 2016 06:06
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DACK FAYDEN posted:How do you join a mission? I honestly can't figure it out. There will be a red banner that runs across the top of the screen. Tap on that and it'll take you to the mission select screen to join others' missions. Or talk to the girl right outside the castle to host your own with a ticket.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:07
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Axel Serenity posted:There will be a red banner that runs across the top of the screen. Tap on that and it'll take you to the mission select screen to join others' missions.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:08
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Pakled posted:Not really, no. I mean, its evolved form's stats are pretty good, but not as good as a pseudo-legendary which are normally the only kind of pokemon to evolve at that high of a level, and you're gonna be dragging a pretty bad pokemon through basically the entire game before it evolves. Its evolution level sorta made sense in its original appearance where you only caught it around level 35 but putting it in this game at level 11 makes no sense. I'm not evolving my party pokemon until after beating the game as a challenge, so Rufflet has been pretty great for me. For some reason he can learn Rock Tomb???
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Nov 22, 2016 06:08
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Nov 22, 2016 06:09
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Tired Moritz posted:Where is pichu/pikachu? Route 1 in the grass just outside the first town. Pichu is a regular encounter, Pikachu is an SOS.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:10
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I want to trade my ultra beasts for the version exclusives. Is there somewhere in game I can see their "seen data" so I can search them on the gts?
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Nov 22, 2016 06:10
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I found a Pichu inside the first town.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:11
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:I want to trade my ultra beasts for the version exclusives. Is there somewhere in game I can see their "seen data" so I can search them on the gts? You can type their name in. Theres an option at the bottom to search by name.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:11
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Bought the Shadow Claw TM for my Marowak, even though it cost half my money, because it's a good STAB move. "Marowak cannot learn Shadow Claw." ...why, gamefreak. 
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Nov 22, 2016 06:12
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Right, I've been using all my tickets to just host my own and nobody ever joins. Is that usual?
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Nov 22, 2016 06:14
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Blaziken386 posted:Bought the Shadow Claw TM for my Marowak, even though it cost half my money, because it's a good STAB move.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:14
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I love that you can order a Tapu Cocoa. Still going slow. Done the water trial, went back to first island to look for dog bits. Some route long in the future before I can get him though. Oh, and the shop just selling orbs. That made me laugh. E: also got pokerus today
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Blaziken386 posted:Bought the Shadow Claw TM for my Marowak, even though it cost half my money, because it's a good STAB move. Same reason they gave it the best physical ghost move in the game, had it learn it by level up one level before evolution and stuck the move relearner right before the e4. 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Right, I've been using all my tickets to just host my own and nobody ever joins. Is that usual? Probably dumb question, but are you actually online? You gotta tap the wifi icon at the bottom.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:21
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Zore posted:Same reason they gave it the best physical ghost move in the game, had it learn it by level up one level before evolution and stuck the move relearner right before the e4. On a related note, I am now broke, because the fashion in Olivia's city is so good I need all of it. (I really wanted the cute sandals but they were 35,000  )
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Nov 22, 2016 06:21
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So this is pretty cool. My Dartrix's main attack is razor leaf (increased chance of crit) and I've got it holding a scope lens (increased chance of crit) and I've got it at 5 affection in Refresh and now every razor leaf is a crit. I've done it about 20 times since getting a scope lens and every single time has been a crit.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:22
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just did the scanning thing and got a female totodile so that was super nice, also just noticed her tiny floppy arms are the size of her eyes.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:25
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Is there a way to find which Zygarde Cells you're missing? I can't find four of them for the life of me.
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Grouchio posted:1. Pokemon Sun or Moon? 1. Sun. Lion is always cooler than bat 2. Decidueye is cool, but Primarina is a goddamn Sp.Atk monster 3. You shut your mouth this instant  4. You should hype
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Nov 22, 2016 06:30
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Pakled posted:So this is pretty cool. My Dartrix's main attack is razor leaf (increased chance of crit) and I've got it holding a scope lens (increased chance of crit) and I've got it at 5 affection in Refresh and now every razor leaf is a crit. I've done it about 20 times since getting a scope lens and every single time has been a crit. You think that's fun? Later on, it learns Leaf Blade. Spirit Shackle is rad as hell as a signature move but it's incredibly satisfying to cleave my enemies in two with constant criticals.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:31
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What's the best way for making money in this game? I need more fashion.
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endolithic posted:Probably dumb question, but are you actually online? You gotta tap the wifi icon at the bottom. 
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Nov 22, 2016 06:36
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Haifisch posted:It is unless you do a type matchup mission. People love those for some reason. Because those are the best and fastest ways of accumulating FC. Instead of being forced to search for specific NPCs, you can just talk to all of them to rack them up faster. They also give the biggest payout out of all the missions.
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Blaziken386 posted:What's the best way for making money in this game? Hano Beach. There's a guy that, once a day, lets you chuck Pyukumukus off the coast. A handful of minutes out of your day, a free 20,000 PokeDollars.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:42
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Blaziken386 posted:What's the best way for making money in this game? Lol if you haven't been using happy hour amulet coin munchlax/snorlax on every single battle and aren't rolling in cash
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El Burbo posted:Lol if you haven't been using happy hour amulet coin munchlax/snorlax on every single battle and aren't rolling in cash  I had 600k when I finally hit the fourth island. I have named my Snorlax Kingpin because of this
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Grouchio posted:1. Pokemon Sun or Moon? 1. Choose based on the version exclusives and the cover legendary. 2. There's no HMs, you don't need a dedicated flyer if you don't want one. Both starters are great, but there are very few new special attackers, so popplio is a good choice. 3. You're allowed to be wrong.
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Nov 22, 2016 06:53
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Litten is cool and I named it after my cat
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For the record, the version exclusives are 1 monkey each, 1 dragon each, a bunch of random old game filler, and the legendaries/ultra beasts. The game actually gives you extra copies of most of the legendaries and ultra beasts, so I'd imagine there will be a surplus of them on the trading markets soon.
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Clarste posted:For the record, the version exclusives are 1 monkey each, 1 dragon each, a bunch of random old game filler, and the legendaries/ultra beasts. The game actually gives you extra copies of most of the legendaries and ultra beasts, so I'd imagine there will be a surplus of them on the trading markets soon. Also Alolan Vulpix vs Alolan Sandshrew. They count!
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Pakled posted:Not even lying: the performance increase in a New3DS is negligible. The only thing it does noticeably better is it has a much faster startup time. Once you're actually in the game, though, it suffers from basically all the same performance issues as the Old 3DS. Thanks, game reviewers are full of poo poo. Sounds like it'll be similar to Smash Bros, I've got an extra 12 seconds to boot it up.
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Just spent an hour grinding Meowth to L28 to evolve into Persian to show Oak. Then I realize it evolves via happiness gently caress.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:Hano Beach. There's a guy that, once a day, lets you chuck Pyukumukus off the coast. A handful of minutes out of your day, a free 20,000 PokeDollars.  El Burbo posted:Lol if you haven't been using happy hour amulet coin munchlax/snorlax on every single battle and aren't rolling in cash
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extra stout posted:Thanks, game reviewers are full of poo poo. Sounds like it'll be similar to Smash Bros, I've got an extra 12 seconds to boot it up. Next Dartrix complaint: It turns into a sniper owl soon and it doesn't even learn Aerial Ace?!
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Blaziken386 posted:There's a dickhead riding a giant dog who won't let me go to Hano beach. Does the giveaway Munchlax have randomized stats or something? Because my Snorlax has a +attack nature, and between STAB Body Slam (Chip Away before I hit 25) and Brick Break to cover rock and steel types, it wrecks poo poo like nobody's business.
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I got a Jangmo-o on wonder trade and I love this little idiot. He's going to be my dragon bro. e: speaking of trades, tossed a Sandshrew into GTS for a Vulpix and instantly fixed the only problem with going with Moon, so my team's shaping up well.
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