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Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


100 degrees Calcium posted:

This thread is my only exposure to the press conference and I cannot tell which posts are serious and which are jokes.

Is the sleep thing real


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL2PicT9Kng

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100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



Masters could really gently caress me up. Fate GO ruined my savings and free time for months.

Ulio
Feb 17, 2011


I do want to live in an Orwellian future where The Pokemon Company controls all aspects of life.

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll
The Pokémon Company only does marketing and legal

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
I mean, it's just gonna be a sleep-monitoring app...

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
Can Rotom learn Dream Eater?

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll
Yes she can, via TM85

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
We are all hosed then. Game Freak gonna have access to all our thoughts.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Dias posted:

We are all hosed then. Game Freak gonna have access to all our thoughts.

Game Freak, reading my thoughts: "This one guy REALLY wants Pokemon Snap 2"

Blaze Dragon
Aug 28, 2013
LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

Macaluso posted:

Game Freak, reading my thoughts: "This one guy REALLY wants Pokemon Snap 2"

Immediately followed by "How can we make a freemium game out of this?"

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Blaze Dragon posted:

Immediately followed by "How can we make a freemium game out of this?"

I don't really need the temptation to buy digital rolls of film or camera upgrades but... I will do it. I will make that sacrifice, Game Freak.

hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014



What I want in MY dreams are official Pokemon brand scrubs.

Other professions are getting official work shirts, why not me. :(

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCrcMeVZHs

Oyster
Nov 11, 2005

I GOT FLAT FEET JUST LIKE MY HERO MEGAMAN
Total Clam
Catching the beasts in 2nd gen is going to be my undoing. Caught Suicune right off the bat after releasing them, but now I have a living dex of everything available in Gold (haven't traded for Silver exclusives yet) and I have yet to even encounter Entei or Raikou. Warg. Like, does Max Repel or the Bike reduce chance of encountering them? I wouldn't think so, but also Moon Balls catch things that evolve via Burn Heal, maybe they do. The only thing in my party is a level 29 Noctowl.

Oyster fucked around with this message at 19:13 on May 29, 2019

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

Macaluso posted:

Game Freak, reading my thoughts: "This one guy REALLY wants Pokemon Snap 2"

Pokemon'S nap

Crosspeice
Aug 9, 2013

Oyster posted:

Catching the beasts in 2nd gen is going to be my undoing. Caught Suicune right off the bat after releasing them, but now I have a living dex of everything available in Gold (haven't traded for Silver exclusives yet) and I have yet to even encounter Entei or Raikou. Warg. Like, does Max Repel or the Bike reduce chance of encountering them? I wouldn't think so, but also Moon Balls catch things that evolve via Burn Heal, maybe they do. The only thing in my party is a level 29 Noctowl.

The Repel trick works just fine for them, so since the levels of Johto Pokemon are so low, you should be fine. The only problem is they both know Roar, and Fast Balls don't work on them due to a glitch, so clone the Master Balls to save a headache.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

It's nice to finally see some Porygon representation

I hope this means they're planning on bringing it back into the limelight and let the False Prophet Rotom rest

Oyster
Nov 11, 2005

I GOT FLAT FEET JUST LIKE MY HERO MEGAMAN
Total Clam

Crosspeice posted:

The Repel trick works just fine for them, so since the levels of Johto Pokemon are so low, you should be fine. The only problem is they both know Roar, and Fast Balls don't work on them due to a glitch, so clone the Master Balls to save a headache.

I've got master balls at the ready, just need to encounter the dumb things. First was using the fly-to-mahogany-check-left-grass-then-fly-back method, now using the patch just south of Ecruteak and going back and forth with the transition just above it. Might switch to the Ruins gate method if I don't encounter one by the end of today. Augh.

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll

Vinylshadow posted:

It's nice to finally see some Porygon representation

I hope this means they're planning on bringing it back into the limelight and let the False Prophet Rotom rest

They’re foreshadowing Porygon3

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009



less laughter posted:

They’re foreshadowing Porygon3

Don't get our hopes up :pray:

Alxprit
Feb 7, 2015

<click> <click> What is it with this dancing?! Bouncing around like fools... I would have thought my own kind at least would understand the seriousness of our Adventurer's Guild!

Oyster posted:

Catching the beasts in 2nd gen is going to be my undoing. Caught Suicune right off the bat after releasing them, but now I have a living dex of everything available in Gold (haven't traded for Silver exclusives yet) and I have yet to even encounter Entei or Raikou. Warg. Like, does Max Repel or the Bike reduce chance of encountering them? I wouldn't think so, but also Moon Balls catch things that evolve via Burn Heal, maybe they do. The only thing in my party is a level 29 Noctowl.

Actually finding the beasts in the wild randomly is kind of a crapshoot. I know because I tried to go for them all completely legit. Here's my anecdotal experience with it.

At the time I didn't have an ideal catcherer for the beasts, but eventually I trained one up in the form of... I think a Jumpluff. I chose Jumpluff because it's very fast and had Sleep Powder. Gen 2 roamers work different from any other generation in that their running away is an action that they can be stopped from doing if they're incapacitated. Putting them to Sleep will keep them from running. Jumpluff can be faster than any of them except maybe Raikou, so it should be able to get its powder off, though it only has a 75% chance of sticking so it's not foolproof.

From there the strat is to get your catcher to level 39, and then spend your repels looking for the buffoons. It doesn't really matter what route you do it on, but I prefer something central like the areas between Goldenrod and Ecruteak. Now the problem here is that their encounterability is calculated individually compared to the rest of the route. This means that you are not guaranteed to find it after like 20 steps or so like most random wild encounters. I know this because after finding one and later tracking it with the Pokedex, I could run around in that same area for multiple spendings of repels without running into it. In addition, there's some arbitrary moment when they will leave the route if you don't encounter it, so you have to still be checking for it. That means if you don't have it yet in the Pokedex you're kind of blind to knowing if you'll get it or not.

Thus what I would recommend is just trying a route for a while, maybe the length of two repels, then Fly to completely reset their positions and enter the route again. It's not foolproof but maybe eventually you'll run into one. From there, put the beast to sleep and slowly whittle down its HP - while it's asleep it won't try to run away, even on the turn it wakes up it will instead do a normal attack rather than run, as if it were Mean Looked, so you'll have another chance to get it to sleep. You won't get any better catch rates than with Ultra Balls, and it'll still be miniscule, but that's the best I can offer in terms of advice. Good luck.

Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go
I don't know why I bother catching legendaries, I never end up using them

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Farecoal posted:

I don't know why I bother catching legendaries, I never end up using them

Gotta catch em all

Rudoku
Jun 15, 2003

Damn I need a drink...


less laughter posted:

They’re foreshadowing Porygon3

They'll name the 4th Porygon Porygon One.

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll
PorygOne

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog
Porygons are just the previous incarnations of Neo.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

so porygon 3 is john wick

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

it doesn't look anything like a porygon

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

it looks like a porygon z, that is

Oyster
Nov 11, 2005

I GOT FLAT FEET JUST LIKE MY HERO MEGAMAN
Total Clam

Alxprit posted:

Now the problem here is that their encounterability is calculated individually compared to the rest of the route. This means that you are not guaranteed to find it after like 20 steps or so like most random wild encounters. I know this because after finding one and later tracking it with the Pokedex, I could run around in that same area for multiple spendings of repels without running into it. In addition, there's some arbitrary moment when they will leave the route if you don't encounter it, so you have to still be checking for it. That means if you don't have it yet in the Pokedex you're kind of blind to knowing if you'll get it or not.

Thus what I would recommend is just trying a route for a while, maybe the length of two repels, then Fly to completely reset their positions and enter the route again.

This has been my problem. Welp.

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011
Porywan. It finally becomes a dog.

Ada
Apr 22, 2014

Practice proper gun's safety.
with advancements of in-universe 3d graphics Porygon can finally look like how its original creators intended, a sexy cat girl

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll

Ada posted:

with advancements of in-universe 3d graphics Porygon can finally look like how its original creators intended, a sexy cat girl

Purrygon

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Farecoal posted:

I don't know why I bother catching legendaries, I never end up using them

they should give you a baby legendary on route one and it only evolves at certain plot points

Shneak
Mar 6, 2015

A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

battle against fan favourite champions like... the girl from White 2

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

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

Shneak posted:

battle against fan favourite champions like... the girl from White 2

Hey now. Brock is also there with his amazing Onix. That's a whole two non-Champions with snake Pokemon.

Pentaro
May 5, 2013


Shneak posted:

battle against fan favourite champions like... the girl from White 2

This but unironically.

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Shneak posted:

battle against fan favourite champions like... the girl from White 2

Yes exactly

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.
https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1133858982144008192

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MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
I dunno about Masters. I straight up look at people who play gachas with a bit of contempt for that aspect of their lives. It's all just disgusting casino poo poo streamed to your phones and with the promise of jpgs instead of money. It rubs me the wrong way whenever I see people excited for it.

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