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The real bloat in Pokemon isn't the large number of items or legacy features which are cool and are part of what made Pokemon successful. It's dumb nonsense features in every game that no one cares about. Like poke finder. Pokefinder is stupid and any time spent developing it was totally wasted. Another big problem with Pokemon is that side quests and things rarely have a reward that's worth anything.
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less laughter posted:
What the gently caress
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Jan 6, 2018 23:06
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Next you'll be telling me Simipour's eyes aren't actually closed.
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Ogmius815 posted:The real bloat in Pokemon isn't the large number of items or legacy features which are cool and are part of what made Pokemon successful. It's dumb nonsense features in every game that no one cares about. Like poke finder. Pokefinder is stupid and any time spent developing it was totally wasted. Another big problem with Pokemon is that side quests and things rarely have a reward that's worth anything. Game Freak has gone on record and said that they don't make a real distinction between experiments that are failures and ones that were successful. They generally wipe the slate clean unless the feature is really well received and actually improves the QoL (and even then they don't always).
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Jan 6, 2018 23:32
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Tbh I don't even care as long as they don't bring back HMs.
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Jan 6, 2018 23:39
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Okay, this can't be real. There's no way I've missed something like this...right?
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Mymla posted:Tbh I don't even care as long as they don't bring back HMs. There will be a boycott if Gen 8 brings back HMs.
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Jan 6, 2018 23:40
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Preposterous, only the kind people of Alola want to live in a country navigable by non-trainers.
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Jan 6, 2018 23:46
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Blaze Dragon posted:Okay, this can't be real. There's no way I've missed something like this...right?  
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Jan 6, 2018 23:53
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They've always been there. I'm sorry.
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Jan 7, 2018 00:14
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Even the Pokedex makes note that it uses the hair on its arms in attacks, but its understandable as it doesn't learn any moves that would show this off.
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Jan 7, 2018 00:21
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Wait, is it really a thing that people never noticed Miensho’s whip robe thingies aren’t it’s actual paws?
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Jan 7, 2018 02:13
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I thought they were really long sleeves, like Chinese water sleeves, and not... Extremely long and fleshy arm hair.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:59
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Squats posted:I thought they were really long sleeves, like Chinese water sleeves, and not... Extremely long and fleshy arm hair. I bet you think Scraggy/Scrafty are actually wearing baggy pants, don't you?
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Jan 7, 2018 03:07
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Ok. I just hit the Ultra Necrozoma fight. That was....something. Super dickery on GF's part. I just happened to have a Marrowak with Perish Song bred on it, but there was straight nothing else I could do against it.
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Jan 7, 2018 16:39
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Anyone around able to do a small pile of trade evolutions for me? I've gotten up to just before the Elite Four, and I wanted to fill out some of my Dex prior to moving on. Omni 0533-5330-9950
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OmniBeer posted:Anyone around able to do a small pile of trade evolutions for me? I've gotten up to just before the Elite Four, and I wanted to fill out some of my Dex prior to moving on. Sure. 2234-7230-6265, IGN's Kurieg. Send me a PM once you're ready.
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Jan 7, 2018 17:45
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AlternateNu posted:Ok. I just hit the Ultra Necrozoma fight. That was....something. Super dickery on GF's part. I just happened to have a Marrowak with Perish Song bred on it, but there was straight nothing else I could do against it. Yeah that fight was some straight up fangame nonsense.
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People who struggled with the Necrozma fight baffle me, since I was almost level 65 by the time I got to Poni Island - and that with skipping a lot of trainer battles and running from almost half the wild pokemon fights The way they were hyping it up and saying how hard it was made me think its Ultra Aura boosted its stats by two or three stages, but nah, it was only +1 to everything Totem Kommo-o gave me more trouble than Ultra Necrozma did
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Jan 7, 2018 19:13
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Toxic on a Lopunny of all things kinda cheesed that fight for me. My good bird friend could sit back and relax.
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Vinylshadow posted:People who struggled with the Necrozma fight baffle me, since I was almost level 65 by the time I got to Poni Island - and that with skipping a lot of trainer battles and running from almost half the wild pokemon fights And you played with the EXP Share on at all times, I imagine, because being level 65 at that point is not normal without heavy grinding.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:08
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having the EXP share on is normal actually
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Blaze Dragon posted:And you played with the EXP Share on at all times, I imagine, because being level 65 at that point is not normal without heavy grinding. I was still sitting around level 54-57 at that point and I never turned it off. 65 seems high.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:40
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If they were traded. that can give an EXP boost.
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Jade Mage posted:I was still sitting around level 54-57 at that point and I never turned it off. 65 seems high. yeah same.maybe he had a lucky egg? thats all i can think of besides trading boosts
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Jan 7, 2018 20:48
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You can also get a 20% boost from getting 2 stars in Pokemon refresh.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:59
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sharrrk posted:yeah same.maybe he had a lucky egg? thats all i can think of besides trading boosts rare candies
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Jan 7, 2018 21:05
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thats cheating. using rare candies is cheating, and furthermore, its illegal
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Jan 7, 2018 21:22
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Super No Vacancy posted:having the EXP share on is normal actually I always turn it off because it feels like cheating. A pokemon should have to work for its experience points.
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Jan 7, 2018 21:37
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pokemon dont have bootstraps u mark
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Using rare candies and exp share obviously isn't wrong in anyway if you want to do that, and it's pretty fair to complain that the developers hosed up the level curve to make the game too easy at the end (although they've certainly done worse before), but unless you're a true Pokemon newbie my sympathy is blunted because obviously you should have known to turn off exp share and not grind too much.
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I had a couple of traded Pokemon and the Refresh boosts, but I still lost to Necrozma on my first go. It outsped everyone except for Raichu and could deal super effective hits against most of my party. I only beat it with the help of Nuzzle. I turned off EXP share pretty early, once my freshly hatched eggs had caught up to the level of my starter.
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sharrrk posted:yeah same.maybe he had a lucky egg? thats all i can think of besides trading boosts Exp. Share and Refresh Boost only, actually I also switched pokémon a lot more than in previous generations, which meant both pokémon were getting 100% of the experience from the battle
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Super No Vacancy posted:having the EXP share on is normal actually more proof that normies are insanely fail.
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I had trading and affection boosts but really the thing that broke the fight for me was a fairy-type specialty. It was just a matter of taking the hits, not dishing them out.
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AlternateNu posted:Ok. I just hit the Ultra Necrozoma fight. That was....something. Super dickery on GF's part. I just happened to have a Marrowak with Perish Song bred on it, but there was straight nothing else I could do against it. I soft reset until a quick claw proc so that I could use thunder wave to actually be able to hit it. Also Thunderwave missed 3 times during this soft resetting.
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Save for my starter, I had all poison types so one-winged necrozma was a nightmare until I remembered Toxic exists. Type gimmicks are the one true way to play pokemon.
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Oh poo poo, there's a surfing Pikachu in this game? loving baller! Aloan Raichu Timid @ ??? Psychic Surf Thunderbolt ??? Recommendations?
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AlternateNu posted:Oh poo poo, there's a surfing Pikachu in this game? loving baller! Nuzzle. It saved my rear end on a few occassions during the story.
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AlternateNu posted:Oh poo poo, there's a surfing Pikachu in this game? loving baller! Signal Beam for coverage, Nuzzle if you want a way to paralyze opponents. Shame that it’s locked out of Nasty Plot
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