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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
I really have no idea what the point of that thing is. Become a monotype pokemon that can only headbutt in various flavors?

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Cipher Pol 9
Oct 9, 2006


I just met Gladion and at least until I meet my boy Guzma, MAYBE, he's immediately the best character in the series. What a loving precious dork.

A Spider Covets
May 4, 2009


Breeding a ton of female saladits (sp?) was a great idea, I get pretty much anything for them. Haven't tried for a legendary yet, but everything else worked!

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Why do people want female salandits again?

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

Vespiquen situation. Rare and only evolve if.

E: Mareanie is apparently another good GTS offer, since it's only obtainable through SOS on an uncommon fishing encounter.

Araxxor
Oct 20, 2012

My disdain for you all knows no bounds.

Clarste posted:

Why do people want female salandits again?

Only the females evolve, and they have a 1/8 chance of being female.

EclecticTastes
Sep 17, 2012

"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Clarste posted:

I really have no idea what the point of that thing is. Become a monotype pokemon that can only headbutt in various flavors?

Silvally also has some rather varied type coverage in his movepool and TMs, as well as the ability to be taught Draco Meteor. It doesn't look like the most competitive Pokemon, but it could work if you need one type on offense and a completely different one on defense.

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Did anyone else completely lose it at *minor spoilers for after beating Mallow*the Slowpoke reaction shots at Memorial Hill? I just couldn't stop laughing. I kept thinking they wouldn't do it again and it kept getting me "Lo-low?!"

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

Clarste posted:

I really have no idea what the point of that thing is. Become a monotype pokemon that can only headbutt in various flavors?

a bulky fairy pivot with parting shot and swords dance is cool

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

type:null could have also been cool if porygon-2 didn't outclass it so completely and utterly at the same job

ROFL Octopus
Jun 20, 2014

LET ME EXPLAIN

Ruggington posted:

a bulky fairy pivot with parting shot and swords dance is cool

The thing is, you REALLY need to use Z-Parting Shot to maximize its usefulness and it can't be fairy with that.

that ivy guy
May 20, 2015

A Spider Covets posted:

Breeding a ton of female saladits (sp?) was a great idea, I get pretty much anything for them. Haven't tried for a legendary yet, but everything else worked!

ah, perhaps I should not be releasing these on my hunt for a Timid one...

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

How does weather work in this? Daily? Or can you reset an area by exiting and entering?

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

ROFL Octopus posted:

It's hosed up, I wanted our ghetto arceus to be good but that looks like a pipe dream at this point. The memory discs don't even give a corresponding type boost. :(

That's a shame. I know it's supposed to be just an inferior copy of Arceus, but I would have loved our little abomination of science to be a little better.

Lacermonia
May 15, 2002

Tatum Girlparts posted:

...Does Togedemaru really have ZERO steel moves in its list? That's a massive bummer, I love that round lil bitch but I'd like to have both steel and electric in the same mon.

It can learn Gyro Ball but that's it

EclecticTastes
Sep 17, 2012

"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."
Do we ever learn anything more about the guy who gives us Sharpedo Jet? This game is full of places, characters, and ideas that show up for all of five seconds and are never heard from again, or are shuffled off to the post-game to still be pretty darn cryptic. It's obvious they're planning the "third version" to be more like B/W 2 (or else Gen 8 is going to revisit Alola somehow), though not necessarily split into two versions. Considering how little we know about much of the cast and how many hints were dropped relating to people's pasts without actually explaining a drat thing, they could just as easily make a prequel rather than a sequel, or hell, Game Freak's crazy enough to do both somehow.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

EclecticTastes posted:

Do we ever learn anything more about the guy who gives us Sharpedo Jet?

I assumed he was a cameo from another game that I didn't recognize.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



my initial impression of stufful/bewear was really negative but I must have been insane then because stufful is cute as hell and also really good

Dr. Fetus posted:

Only the females evolve, and they have a 1/8 chance of being female.

I must have crazy luck because I've only ever run into one male salandit ever

Mr. Baps
Apr 16, 2008

Yo ho?

EclecticTastes posted:

Do we ever learn anything more about the guy who gives us Sharpedo Jet?

Clarste posted:

I assumed he was a cameo from another game that I didn't recognize.

He was one of the Elite 4 in Unova. I only recognized him because of his dumb name, he looks completely different.

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012



mfw someone hasnt played gen 5

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


All that time you have Lapras when you could have had Sharpedo Jet instead though.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Ruggington posted:



mfw someone hasnt played gen 5

I played Gen 5, I just completely forgot about this forgettable guy who I can only assume my team stomped all over without a second thought.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

All that time you have Lapras when you could have had Sharpedo Jet instead though.

You can't fish from the shark.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


So?


The Shark is cool as gently caress. Fishing is balls.

Forsythia
Jan 28, 2007

You want bad advice?

Anything is okay if you don't get caught!

... I hope this helps!
I'm surprised at how many people bang their heads against a wall trying to catch things like Sableye or Feebas.

The GTS bypasses all that nonsense. If you have a compatible internet connection there's no reason not to use it. Just deposit something remotely valuable (version exclusives, starters, late game exclusives, etc) and someone else will have caught that annoyingly rare Pokémon for you.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

So?


The Shark is cool as gently caress. Fishing is balls.

True. I was just trying to figure out why the Lapras exists in the first place and that was the conclusion I came to.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


What I would do is take the fishing rod, delete it, pretend it never existed, and just install Shark Racing with water pokemon rewards.


Feel free to use this idea, Game Freak.

blizzardvizard
Sep 12, 2012

Shhh... don't wake up the sleeping lion :3:

Walrus Pete posted:

He was one of the Elite 4 in Unova. I only recognized him because of his dumb name, he looks completely different.

I saw Grimsley on a leaked image and didn't actually realize it's him. I'd thought he's like, the Ghost-type captain or something.

also why is he wearing white full-length kimono to a beach

EclecticTastes
Sep 17, 2012

"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Clarste posted:

I played Gen 5, I just completely forgot about this forgettable guy who I can only assume my team stomped all over without a second thought.

He was the Dark-type specialist and I completely forgot who he was until just now. The Unova E4 is easily the least memorable in the franchise, likely because they're basically an afterthought, your first bout with them is deliberately made easier as prelude to N's Castle, and your "official" battles with them are all technically post-game. And yeah, I didn't recognize him at all in his new getup. Gen V is basically the Team Skull Berry Thieves except for a whole game.

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

Mallow is a weird name

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

Vegetable posted:

Mallow is a weird name

That's a hosed up thing to say about the crown prince of Nimbus Land.

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

EclecticTastes posted:

Team Skull Berry Thieves

Who?

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe

*switches them around*

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Deified Data posted:

*switches them around*

Hmm, still not ringing a bell. :confused:

Obligatum VII
May 5, 2014

Haunting you until no 8 arrives.
Kommo-o seems interesting. It seems like it could run a lot of different sets with the stats it has. You've got dragon dance, of course, but also some sort of non-dancing mixed set could work too (cause draco meteor off that decent Sp. Atk could be pretty brutal to any physical walls who think they might be able to stop it). Getting both flash cannon and poison jab means that it has options against potential fairy switch-ins, would be the obvious counter choice.

The speed is a problem of course, but it has a lot of resists and good defensive stats.

I'm honestly not sure which of its abilities is best. Immunity to spore is of course really nice to have, but there are a lot of common moves that get no-selled by bulletproof and allow a safe switch-in, so I'm inclined to favor that one. Soundproof mainly just clowns on Primarina.

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!
Bulletproof makes him wall common Aegislash sets so there's that

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

First Pokemon I met on Route 4 was an Eevee and first thing it called was an Umbreon. :c00l:

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Vegetable posted:

First Pokemon I met on Route 4 was an Eevee and first thing it called was an Umbreon. :c00l:

vegetable two days from now posted:

guys why did it evolve into an espeon what's the nighttime cutoff gently caress

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

blizzardvizard posted:

I saw Grimsley on a leaked image and didn't actually realize it's him. I'd thought he's like, the Ghost-type captain or something.

also why is he wearing white full-length kimono to a beach

This isn't brought up except in a sidequest, but apparently Captains are supposed to retire at 20 and get a real job. Being a pokemon master is more of a part-time thing in Alola, mostly to keep the teenagers out of trouble.

Dehry
Aug 21, 2009

Grimey Drawer

Clarste posted:

This isn't brought up except in a sidequest, but apparently Captains are supposed to retire at 20 and get a real job. Being a pokemon master is more of a part-time thing in Alola, mostly to keep the teenagers out of trouble.

I remember when people were saying the male Veteran was a gym leader in pre-release images.

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Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Krinkle posted:

He returned an english ditto for my english ditto when I said "I want to expand my pokedex with other languages" as my request. Cool.
e: and twice. Twice now. Nobody wants to send me a german ditto.

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!

Tchuss, guten tag, danke. Done. Another 15 for the home team. Nobody else wants in on this? Nobody? Weird.

germans don't have the game until tomorrow you dumb rear end!!!

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