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Cats are cool and good so Sprigatito and Litten are at the top. Turtles are also fantastic so Squirtle and Turtwig round out the top 4. Unova got the worst starter trio. e: Im having way more fun than I expected trying to figure out a support or niche role for uncommon pokemon. Current project is Skuntank. I hope aftermath works on raids. 
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Diet Poison posted:Well I beat the owl. I only ever try these solo now because Gamefreak is just so fuckin' bad at online, and I got super lucky by getting both Tauros and Staraptor as partners at the same time. Online isn't that bad for this game (especially compared to Gen 8). It's just these 7 star raids are actually challenging and beyond the ken of 75% of the playerbase.
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Mar 19, 2023 03:00
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I mean most of the people who are in online raids are literal children who never really appreciate stuff like non-damaging status moves since they already got through the entire game just spamming attacking moves, including lower star raids so 5, 6 and 7 star raids must be the same right?
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Mar 19, 2023 03:04
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OTOH, I just had a raid where I somehow ended up controlling one of the other player's Pokemon, and God only knows what they saw. We did not win, as you might imagine.
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Mar 19, 2023 03:20
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I can't get mad when I join a raid with my Bellibolt and all three Miraidon immediately electro drift. it's so obviously kids who've seen others be successful with Miraidon taking out Decidueye with one Drift but don't fully understand why, and we're definitely going to wipe because I’m out of cheers and they're all out of PP for their best move
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Mar 19, 2023 03:42
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Sprigatito would be so much better if its evolutions weren't bipedal 
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Mar 19, 2023 03:53
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:Sprigatito would be so much better if its evolutions weren't bipedal Aww no I love Zorro Cat
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Mar 19, 2023 04:27
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AlternateNu posted:Online isn't that bad for this game (especially compared to Gen 8). It's just these 7 star raids are actually challenging and beyond the ken of 75% of the playerbase. I mean it's more that the 7 star raids assume a level of coordination going in that just isn't possible with the (lack of) matchmaking. You have to set your pokemon and role before matching and there's no reliable way to read the battle and adjust well with how slow/laggy the information from the battle is reported to you. So you basically read and strategize on your own and hope you randomly match into people who also are doing the same and have roles that complement yours, and hope everybody mashes their rotations and it works out. If you're unlucky you match into people who don't fit with your gameplan, or who are just trying to Play The Game and don't know about the meta discussions on forums/reddit. Or literal children who are just having fun.
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Mar 19, 2023 04:37
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Furnaceface posted:Unova got the worst starter trio. It's all subjective but I was the least satisfied with Galar's starter trio. Cinderace and Inteleon are 'okay' but none of them really hit the mark for me, whereas with every other region I liked at least one of the starters.
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Mar 19, 2023 04:41
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HA Rillaboom is good. I named mine Bonky Kong. 
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Furnaceface posted:Cats are cool and good so Sprigatito and Litten are at the top. Turtles are also fantastic so Squirtle and Turtwig round out the top 4. From now on anyone dissing Snivy gets a sixer Okay not really but I love him so much. Where is my boy Gamefreak! You gave me owl, now give me sideeye snake!
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Mar 19, 2023 05:07
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wizard2 posted:HA Rillaboom is good. I named mine Bonky Kong. oh my god 
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I just named mine Ringo. I mean it fits because Ringo means "Apple" in Japanese and Ringo Starr.
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Mar 19, 2023 05:09
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I've softened on gen 5 starters thanks to gen 8. Also Hisui Samurott was a minor change but a significant improvement over Samurott
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Mar 19, 2023 05:10
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Just some thoughts Tera is a really awesome mechanic The system around changing teras is stunningly terrible
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Mar 19, 2023 05:43
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Metapod posted:Just some thoughts It should be free at least to change between your pokemon's native typing. But I'd like it to be free always, don't see why not.
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Mar 19, 2023 05:45
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At the very least it shouldn't cost 50 shards; getting 10 alone is a chore - maybe 25 at most? Fingers crossed the DLC comes with a faster way to either get shards or change types outright
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Mar 19, 2023 06:00
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Every seven-star raid so far has been soloable with some luck. However, an uncoordinated party is a liability. The shard rewards make for a much slower grind than anything else in the game. On top of that, their attempts to make tera raids go faster than max raids appear to be the source of many bugs.
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Bongo Bill posted:Every seven-star raid so far has been soloable with some luck. However, an uncoordinated party is a liability. The shard rewards make for a much slower grind than anything else in the game. On top of that, their attempts to make tera raids go faster than max raids appear to be the source of many bugs. I don't think there are actually very many bugs, it's just that the ones that there are are particularly irritating. Even so, I think I find the atmosphere of chaos in tera raids more fun than max raids, which in retrospect were pretty slow and plodding.
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HopperUK posted:It should be free at least to change between your pokemon's native typing. But I'd like it to be free always, don't see why not.
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Mar 19, 2023 13:37
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Coaaab posted:Once paid, I'd also like to freely switch between every tera type the individual pokemon ever had Yeah! Like how changing moves is so easy and good now. Surprise trade: random grass-tera Gumshoos holding a Master Ball. Thanks, kind stranger.
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Well, I can confirm Miraidon can solo the Decidueye raid with just Metal Soundx2, Charge and Drift. Maybr you need a bit of damage from IA but that's a fine thing, even after like 20~% Decidueye didn't cleanse debuffs for me or shield (I'm guessing it was 19% from IA).
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you got Internal Affairs to help you raid?
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HopperUK posted:From now on anyone dissing Snivy gets a sixer Dark tera type Serperior? All the ones released so far have had tera types that could have been a main type for them. Maybe... Dragon Sceptile Flying Blaziken Ice Empoleon Fighting Samurott Dark Emboar Fighting Incineroar Dark Intelleon Edit: Finally got my owl! Second try with Dedenne in a party with 3 Miraidon. Dedenne used Charm, then Nuzzle, then Charm again and then it was over before Decidueye even got a shield up. Nessa fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 19, 2023 |
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Been taking a bit of a break from the game the last couple of weeks, but joined in today to make sure I got my owl. brought my Armarouge and we pretty much got entirely carried by a couple of Miraidon. only had time to reflect + taunt before they murdered it
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I was today years old when I found out that deerling/sawsbuck forms aren't fixed in the new games, but rather take on the appearance relevant to the location when the game is loaded in.
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https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1637605717401116673 Much like other games, these Blissey are EXP/Tera Shard pinatas.
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Are they gonna come in all tera flavors, or at least reward random shards?
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gently caress yeah it's my GIRL sweet angel! e: someone sent me a medicham called 'Go Die' this is why i have trust issues! ee: oh wait it has the ghost tera type, okay that's good HopperUK fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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indigi posted:Are they gonna come in all tera flavors, or at least reward random shards? It'll probably be a bunch of shards of the Tera type of that Blissey.
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I've played some pokes in the past but for some reason I got the idea that I want to play Pokemon Crystal and try to complete the pokedex. However, I don't have other copies of the gen 1 and 2 games, nor do I have friends. I do have an Everdrive though (as a backup to the actual Crystal cart I'm using) and I could get a compatible save, and that way I could trade over anything that can't be caught normally in the normal game. Is there a 'legit' save that has everything? Or some kind of online resource where I could grab one? I want to get everything legitimately that I can, within the game, then just fill in the blanks by trading from a pre-made save, basically. This is all pre-Gen 3 so I feel no shame in doing this, since these couldn't be brought online anyway. Any suggestions? Googling this stuff leads to a nightmare of confusing sites
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Chinook posted:I've played some pokes in the past but for some reason I got the idea that I want to play Pokemon Crystal and try to complete the pokedex. However, I don't have other copies of the gen 1 and 2 games, nor do I have friends. I do have an Everdrive though (as a backup to the actual Crystal cart I'm using) and I could get a compatible save, and that way I could trade over anything that can't be caught normally in the normal game. You can get the other games on the 3DS virtual console for like, one more week, but you can't get those onto your Crystal cart in any way as far as I know. Maybe someone has a clever idea! Surprise trade this morning - nothing too spectacular but I did get a Pikachu named 'Ash'.
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Hrist posted:The turns probably just got disoriented. And it's showing them in a row like that to catch up. I think it can happen if it gets hit by a huge amount of it's HP all at once, and has to wait until its next action. Kinda like when it'll remove status from the party, remove negatives from itself, barrier, and then do like, 2 turns to attack right after. It's just how raids are sometimes, unfortunately. In my experience this was happening most noticeably when it was using Air Cutter, because it effectively slows the game to a crawl. If it uses Air Cutter on all four of you, then you're going to have to read 16 messages about how it wasn't very effective, which prevents you from doing any kind of input, so your turn just gets skipped. If it just uses it once, maybe it pushes you far enough back that by the time you HAVE input your next move, it's queued up two.
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HopperUK posted:You can get the other games on the 3DS virtual console for like, one more week, but you can't get those onto your Crystal cart in any way as far as I know. Maybe someone has a clever idea! you can actually do the reverse and back up your gen 1/2 cartridge save onto Virtual Console, but I don’t know off the top of my head how to do it. tutorials are plentiful online though! with that said, the Virtual Console has local-only trading, which could plausibly lead to a fun adventure where you put the call out irl for someone with the stuff you need, but I digress. I’m certain there is a way to do what you’re asking—and that there are completed saves out there somewhere—but I wouldn’t know where to find ‘em
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My favorite part of the 7 star raids is people copying the builds of their favorite YouTubers but fundamentally not understanding the mechanics of the raid battles. So you'll have people joining with their miraidons and bellibolts but immediately triggering the boss's shield and getting wiped by a +2 brave bird spirit shackle Like I appreciate you doing your homework but you also tricked me into thinking you know what you're doing. At least if someone tries to join with a kilowattrel I know not to join at all
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Chinook posted:I've played some pokes in the past but for some reason I got the idea that I want to play Pokemon Crystal and try to complete the pokedex. However, I don't have other copies of the gen 1 and 2 games, nor do I have friends. I do have an Everdrive though (as a backup to the actual Crystal cart I'm using) and I could get a compatible save, and that way I could trade over anything that can't be caught normally in the normal game. You'd pretty much need two GB/GBC/GBA systems and a link cable to trade with one cartridge being an Everdrive using a completed save. As a side note, if you wanted to do this legit, you'd need either Blue and Gold or Silver and one of Red or Yellow in addition to Crystal, and you'd have to make multiple runs in the Gen 1 game to get both of the fossils, and then a third run to get the final starter. How did people ever complete a Pokedex back then?
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pyrotek posted:You'd pretty much need two GB/GBC/GBA systems and a link cable to trade with one cartridge being an Everdrive using a completed save. With Difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdOB5V7UCw This person completed a whole Living Dex in Gen 2 and it was a much bigger trip than everyone anticipated. They also did Gen 1, which was rather easy as it was only two games, so even if there were some difficulties, you just had to play the game a few times. Now they're attempting to make a Gen 3 one and it seems like it'll be a loooooooong endavour.
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Terapagos would've been a much better 1000th Pokémon than the loving ugly rear end sub-Olympic-mascot Gholdengo
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Kikas posted:This person completed a whole Living Dex in Gen 2 and it was a much bigger trip than everyone anticipated. They also did Gen 1, which was rather easy as it was only two games, so even if there were some difficulties, you just had to play the game a few times. Now they're attempting to make a Gen 3 one and it seems like it'll be a loooooooong endavour. Isn’t Gen 3 going to need you to go through the GameCube games multiple times (completing the 100-streak Battle Tower each time) in order to get things like the Gen 2 starters and legendaries?
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Zaroff posted:Isn’t Gen 3 going to need you to go through the GameCube games multiple times (completing the 100-streak Battle Tower each time) in order to get things like the Gen 2 starters and legendaries? Yes, also the whole e-reader riffraff. Reminder, it only got worse.
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