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Saagonsa posted:It's pretty embarrassing to read. Much like your posts!!! Real talk - there's nothing that is even remotely close to raging out by discussing a strat and calling out the conditions that cause it to fail.
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Framboise posted:Managed the Cinderace solo with Slowbro. I think the 7 star raids are designed to have specialized mons and strategies. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, myself, as long as somebody does the leg work for me to solo everything. Online raids are just too frustrating for me
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hotdog feet posted:I think the 7 star raids are designed to have specialized mons and strategies. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, myself, as long as somebody does the leg work for me to solo everything. Online raids are just too frustrating for me They make you loving work for those specialty mons no doubt. I kinda feel bad for the younger kids playing the game because I'm not sure they have real sense of strategy except they want the cool bunny. It's oddly an event that caters to people who have at least some involvement in competitive.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:17
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At least there are plenty of bunnies in surprise trade now, so the kids can have those. How I got mine!
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Jan 1, 2023 23:28
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HopperUK posted:At least there are plenty of bunnies in surprise trade now, so the kids can have those. How I got mine! True nuff'. Best thing about raids is the flood of inevitable breedjects afterwards.
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Jan 1, 2023 23:30
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I quite want a shiny so I'm gonna try to breed some good ones to send out.
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Flopsy posted:They make you loving work for those specialty mons no doubt. I kinda feel bad for the younger kids playing the game because I'm not sure they have real sense of strategy except they want the cool bunny. It's oddly an event that caters to people who have at least some involvement in competitive. They took away battle facilities. 7 star raids are our only taste of high level pve.
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BitBasher posted:I would like some help. In all my time playing pokemon I've been the guy that's all the attack all the time. I want to change that. Can you all post some solid raid builds for me to chase? Here are a few rough archetypes you can aim for: Bulky Setup Iron Hands Max ATK and HP, Punching Glove - Belly Drum - Drain Punch - Thunder Punch - Close Combat Use Belly Drum turn one, use Drain Punch turn two and get all your health back. Don't go up against Psychic, Fairy, or Earth-type pokemon regardless of their tera type. You can do a similar build with Azumarill, or anybody that learns Swords Dance or Nasty Plot. Debuffer Grimmsnarl Max HP and either Def/SpDef, Leftovers - Reflect / Light Screen - Chilling Water / Spirit Break - Taunt - Fake Tears Build one for each defensive type. Use your screen on turn one (a great move as it lasts through raid boss buff-clearing), then start alternating between your attack-debuffing move and your defense-debuffing move. There are like a million variants here because there are so many niche defensive moves like Safeguard or Clear Smog, but Grimmsnarl is a good flexible all-rounder. Raid Soloist Gholdengo Max HP and SpAtk, Leftovers - Nasty Plot - Metal Sound - Steel Beam / Hex - Recover / Thunder Wave Spend six turns setting up (or seven with Thunder Wave), then one-shot the boss with your attack move. Folks have been using a similar-ish Slowbro build to beat the Cinderace raids, with Iron Defense/Calm Mind/Stored Power. A few other general raiding tips: - At the max level raids, EV training and being level 100 are really important. - Don't forget to use your cheers, especially if you're playing support. - When determining your type matchup, ignore the tera type. Try to pick somebody that is defensively good against the raid's base types, not the tera type. - The boss clears buffs and debuffs, but they're still incredibly important because they have 25x their normal amount of health. You can't use status-only moves once the shield is up, but you can apply debuffs with moves that also do damage, which is why moves like Chilling Water and Spirit Break are so clutch. - Save up your Tera transform until the boss has its shield up and you've got enough health/buffs to not immediately die. It's a HUGE buff against the defensive shield. - Unlike in pvp, debuffing the boss is way stronger than buffing yourself, since the boss attacks and is attacked 4x as often as you attack or are attacked. Moves that can burn, paralyze, or reduce accuracy also own. - Again unlike pvp, speed is almost entirely irrelevant, as you're pretty much guaranteed to take at least half a dozen hits on a harder boss, whether you're faster or not. The only time I've found speed REALLY mattered was against pokemon like Breloom that would put me to sleep before I could use Safeguard.
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Dr. Stab posted:They took away battle facilities. 7 star raids are our only taste of high level pve. yeah but tying the ability to acquire special/favorite Pokémon to it is corny
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Framboise posted:Managed the Cinderace solo with Slowbro. What's the solo strat that you used?
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here are a few rough archetypes you can aim for: This is good, thank you. I need to fully train my Grimmsnarl and Gholdengo. Potato Salad posted:What's the solo strat that you used? As mentioned previously, Iron Defense x3, Nasty Plot x3, Attack Cheer, Stored Power. Have your Bro leveled to 100, max EVs in Sp Atk / Defense (or HP, but I think Def is slightly better). I think this is all you need to solo. I've been doing it for a few days now and plan to stay offline until I max out level candies and such and keep grinding. It takes about 4 minutes to kill one if the shield doesn't pop. Really no risk if the shield does pop thanks to Iron Defense.
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Potato Salad posted:What's the solo strat that you used? Modest Slowbro, ability doesn't really matter Max SpA and Def EVs Hyper trained in all stats except Atk Life Orb -Iron Defense -Nasty Plot -Stored Power -Slack Off Max out def with 3 Iron Defenses, then SpA with 3 Nasty Plot. Use the "Go All Out!" cheer and then Stored Power should OHKO and bypass the shield phase. It took me a couple tries though. I had a nice round with AI Tauros and Arcanine for the double Intimidate and then Arcanine burned it, which helped quite a bit.
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The biggest problem I found with Slowbro solos is you absolutely need an Intimidator for consistency. Otherwise because the Defense Cheer only takes effect on your turn you eat a +1 Acrobatics that will lead to your death eventually, because wasting a turb healing will let Cinderace put up the shield.
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TheDK posted:As mentioned previously, Iron Defense x3, Nasty Plot x3, Attack Cheer, Stored Power. Have your Bro leveled to 100, max EVs in Sp Atk / Defense (or HP, but I think Def is slightly better). I just recorded my last fight for reference - it may still be processing on YT but this is a standard fight with the 'Bro build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOH0sXMlBNE e: If anyone still needs a Cinderace I can try to host them via link code as long as you don't die a bunch. PM me or hit me on discord at TheDK#8833. All you need to do is not attack or die, so bring something that can heal itself or buff me. TheDK fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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Decided to try and get in a last Cinderace raid or two and came across a fair few other Armarouge users who do not at all understand that it is a support mon in this raid and should not at all be attacking (other than with Acid Spray) unless it's a last ditch, all-hands attempt to crawl over the line! Almost like there are loads of children playing or something. :-)
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Beat Victory Road. I actually lost once to Geeta and was very surprised when I got to skip the Elite Four to get to the rematch immediately. Then I met up with the best Pokémon rival and had a battle that ended with my Clodsire versus her Quaquaval, which absorbed Aqua Step and tanked Ice Spinner to win with two Earthquakes. I was pretty happy with this outcome because I'd long since grown attached to Clodsire after having used his Paldaean Wooper form to mow down fairies and such at the start of the game. Now onto the mysterious Area Zero. I'm honestly kind of excited to finally see what's the deal with this place.
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Hexmage-SA posted:Beat Victory Road. I actually lost once to Geeta and was very surprised when I got to skip the Elite Four to get to the rematch immediately. Then I met up with the best Pokémon rival and had a battle that ended with my Clodsire versus her Quaquaval, which absorbed Aqua Step and tanked Ice Spinner to win with two Earthquakes. I was pretty happy with this outcome because I'd long since grown attached to Clodsire after having used his Paldaean Wooper form to mow down fairies and such at the start of the game. Congrats it's hands down the best part of the game.
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Clodsire was really an unsung hero of my playthrough, too. Yawn, massive tankability, and great typing. Plus, after getting the IV judge, it looks like the one I caught at the beginning of the game just happen to have 30 IV in attack and the best spread of any of my core team. Plus, his sprite looks like an inflatable balloon. Rock on, you crazy diamond!
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Surprise trade gave me a charmander with five 'Best' IV values, but he's in a regular pokeball and the other charmander I've got is in a beast ball. Fashion or stats?!
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HopperUK posted:Surprise trade gave me a charmander with five 'Best' IV values, but he's in a regular pokeball and the other charmander I've got is in a beast ball. Fashion or stats?! Fashion; bottle caps can get you the stats.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:Fashion; bottle caps can get you the stats. It's kinda what my heart is telling me anyway.
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Hexmage-SA posted:Beat Victory Road. I actually lost once to Geeta and was very surprised when I got to skip the Elite Four to get to the rematch immediately. Then I met up with the best Pokémon rival and had a battle that ended with my Clodsire versus her Quaquaval, which absorbed Aqua Step and tanked Ice Spinner to win with two Earthquakes. I was pretty happy with this outcome because I'd long since grown attached to Clodsire after having used his Paldaean Wooper form to mow down fairies and such at the start of the game.
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HopperUK posted:It's kinda what my heart is telling me anyway. Worse comes to worse you can breed em' down the line. If you need a 6 IV ditto I have a spare in Sw/Sh.
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Flopsy posted:Worse comes to worse you can breed em' down the line. If you need a 6 IV ditto I have a spare in Sw/Sh. Aw thanks! I'll bear it in mind
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Random shiny Cubchoo!  I've beaten my personal record for most wild shinies found in a single core Pokemon game! (The record was 1, which I set last week.)
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DizzyBum posted:Random shiny Cubchoo! Keep it unevolved! Shiny beartic is not all that IMO. Congrats:)
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holy smokes I got four herbas mystica from a 6* Blissey and I didn’t even have a sandwich up. I'll have to keep an eye out for that in the future
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The capricious ways of Wonder Trade have bestowed upon me a Japanese Ditto, so hey that saves me waiting until April to retrieve my japanese blue blob boy.
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Funky Valentine posted:The capricious ways of Wonder Trade have bestowed upon me a Japanese Ditto, so hey that saves me waiting until April to retrieve my japanese blue blob boy. Oh hey mines french. 
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indigi posted:General support Grimmsnarl@Light Clay. SpD/D/HP, reflect, light screen, chilling water, spirit break Thanks!
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Is there a way to see what current sandwich buffs you have active?
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Mesadoram posted:Is there a way to see what current sandwich buffs you have active? Right on the D-pad
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Having played Violet quite a bit now, I have to say that Gen IX is quickly becoming one of my favorite gens. Both in terms of the Pokémon and in terms of the story and gameplay. Also, Area Zero is probably one of my favorite Pokémon locations. Folt The Bolt fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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RatHat posted:Right on the D-pad Got my Cinderace, but I am never doing that one again. It took a couple of tries, and the pubbies are not getting this fight  .
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What’s the fastest way to get to 100? Is it killing chanseys at the snow place?
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:What’s the fastest way to get to 100? Is it killing chanseys at the snow place? Exp candy all day every day.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:What’s the fastest way to get to 100? Is it killing chanseys at the snow place? Candies for sure. The 5- and 6-star raids will give you plenty of L and XL with some Rare Candies sprinkled in. Just use them to take any mon to about 90ish and then rare candy them the rest of the way.
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My Arctibax evolved into Baxcalibur, and I want to shake the hand of whatever madman decided to make a Pokémon not just inspired by Godzilla, but also designed around an attack that parodies the flying Godzilla scene in Godzilla vs Hedorah. It's so specific it's bizarre. It's a whole Pokémon designed around one scene in one Godzilla movie to make the silliest thing Godzilla ever did even more ridiculous. loving madness. The designer probably thought it was silly that Godzilla could fly but still thought the concept of Godzilla rocketing his spines into a monster was cool, so he tried to brainstorm ideas to make it work on the ground and came up with "what if he was sliding on ice?," which is why Baxcalibur is an Ice-Type. I'm naming mine Banno (or some variation of that) after the director of Godzilla vs Hedorah.
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Hexmage-SA posted:My Arctibax evolved into Baxcalibur, and I want to shake the hand of whatever madman decided to make a Pokémon not just inspired by Godzilla, but also designed around an attack that parodies the flying Godzilla scene in Godzilla vs Hedorah. It's so specific it's bizarre. It's a whole Pokémon designed around one scene in one Godzilla movie to make the silliest thing Godzilla ever did even more ridiculous. loving madness. Im glad Im seeing more people appreciating this bc yeah it is so oddly specific it cant possibly be an accident lmao
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