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Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Pokémon is GOATed with the sauce

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Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



BrainDance posted:

Which berries are the ev reset berries? So I know to keep an eye out for them.

you can tell from their descriptions but Grepa, Hondew, Kelpsy, Pomeg, Qualot, Tamato

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



eat an Encounter Power Fire sandwich, I found like three of them

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Blaziken386 posted:

they're shiny in the overworld
however there's no audio or visual cue in this game unlike PLA or Lets Go, you just have to pay close attention and know what the shiny color scheme looks like

note that a Pokémon in Let’s Go mode will refuse to attack shinies, so you can also just let ‘em rip

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



HootTheOwl posted:

Ah.
That reminds me, how many vivilion patterns are there in this game? I have them all in home from X/Y and if there's like 30 new ones I'm going to get pissed.

one. but when Home opens this will become: all

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



this guy’s never heard of Tera Blast, smdh

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Breadallelogram posted:

I'm sure this has been covered but if a dual type pokemon has a third type as tera, they could have STAB moves of three different types, right? But defensively they'd just be the single tera type?

Yeah. 1.5x for all three STABs. If the Tera is one of their two types, they get a 2x STAB for that and maintain 1.5 for the other

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Xander B Coolridge posted:

I can't even connect to the drat raids. Every other time I try it just keeps telling me I can't join.

that’s because there are only four slots and they fill up fast

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



big black turnout posted:

How do y'all get random raids? I only get the option to host with a code or do it alone

you’re offline

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



SyntheticPolygon posted:

BW2 is maybe the best Pokémon game tbh.

E: That or SM frankly.

I think it’s B2W2 but HGSS are also really really good

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Augus posted:

gold and silver are mid

thats right.

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



big black turnout posted:

I meant trainer icon apparently and no you can only make your icon anything but you still

I took a pic of a mailbox in Montenevera that pareidolically resembles a duck and it’s insanely badass

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



GiantRockFromSpace posted:

Haha, very funny game. Not only did I not realize the E4 are the types of the Titans since they needed specialists of each type, not only did I get bamboozled by Larry despite having been spoiled, but also turns out the Super Champion is not a Rock type specialist!?

there is a rock-type specialist but she retired to teach math

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Calico Heart posted:

Is it possible/how early can I make a BIG BANYARD themede team and how viable would it be?

Ampharos - sheep
Tauros - bull (potentially miltank for cow)
Golduck - duck
Oinkologne - pig
Rapidash - horse
Diggersby - rabbit

Any I am missing? Mudsdale maybe?

swap Rapidash (not in) for Mudsdale (in) and Diggersby (not in) for Azumarill (in).

go with the fire Tauros and you’ll actually have pretty decent type coverage to boot

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



lead with Amulet Coin Gholdengo and hit ‘em with the Make it Rain

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



they’re like level 65

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



wizard2 posted:

What was the raid build for Koraidon? Is it the one that pops up on Google? Stack HP, Attack, moves Collision Course, Drain Punch, Fire Fang, Screech?

when you’re running a raid you want to hit hard, you want survivability, you want buffs, you want heals, you want debuffs.

if you build like this you can Screech repeatedly and then hit your opponent with Drain Punch, which will do a ton of damage and heal you up simultaneously. Fire Fang for coverage

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



PittTheElder posted:

also I'm way behind but why are Charizard (and it's pre-evos) and Perrserker banned from this? Perrserker is great for raids but seems to be not particularly special, and Charizard hasn't been a top tier competitive 'mon since like Gen 1 I thought?

every season has different rules, and sometimes they even get silly—at the end of SwSh’s life cycle there was a comp season where you were required to have an unevolved Magikarp on your team.

I think this one is just to get people used to using new guys (or old guys in new ways) by only using the non-legendaries and non-paradoxes in the base Paldea Pokédex

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Also I finally found and caught a ditto! But I don’t know any egg power sandwich recipes. Where do I go to learn them?

Hey nooby just buy a compote du fils meal for 2800 from the fanciest restaurant in Medali, you get egg power 2 for 0 ingredients and you’ll make that money back in a battle

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



PittTheElder posted:

Can I get peeps to shout out their favorite water pokemon (that aren't Clodsire) from this game? None of them have been grabbing me and I really need the coverage in my team :v:

Tauros ftw

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



PittTheElder posted:

oh yea, that sounded cool too but can't catch one in Scarlet it seems. If anyone wants to trade for a Fire Tauros hit me up with a pm

I don’t have PMs but if anyone who does has a Water Tauros they pass their breed down

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Muscle Tracer posted:

Its one and only ability is levitate...

yeah came to say this.

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Flopsy posted:

They're laying and stuffing em' in the basket each time you blink.

this is canon. it comes up in the in-game biology class and Jacq—the guy who programmed the Pokédex and knows a ton about how they work zoologically—says his “best guess is they sneak them into the basket when we’re not looking”

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Grandito posted:

Are there any kind of in-game hints for finding all the cursed stakes? I'm trying to do it without using a guide and it's pretty tough.

Do they just expect you to wander around randomly until you find them?

someone on Reddit made a cool image that blocks off big areas and lists the numbers of stakes in each—it’s not a total spoiler, but it gives you a starting place to look. I can find it if you like

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonSca...utm_name=iossmf

the four color-coded sections are each set, the number is the number of stakes in that particular section

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Blaziken386 posted:

(im hopeful this means that when pokemon are transferable from PLA, Alphas will keep their "XXXL and then some" appearance. Because the alternative is that they get squashed down to "normal" max parameters and get a title like "the Once Really Large" and thats just sad)

Lol it’s funny you say this because barring some kind of patch, datamining has revealed importing an alpha Pokémon does exactly that: you get the biggest size possible in SV and a special mark. The title is “the Former Alpha” though

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



No it doesn’t. Source: Played it

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Yinlock posted:

Yeah the notable unnatural pauses in between doing anything stands out even if it's in reality faster than it used to be and the constant stuttering just makes everything feel sluggish.

It might be worse coming off of Arceus, which definitely had issues but streamlined the hell out of everything.

ohhh. okay yeah this is accurate

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Stux posted:

i just ran around w my pokemon out as i played due to having a normal brain

I did this as well.

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



I think the DLC will serve as a sequel in some respects; they’ve built a bunch of hooks into the base game, it sold really well, and there are a handful of tiny things you can do in postgame (like hang out in your buddies’ dorm rooms) that are just begging to be expanded upon

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Which game was it that after you finished you could go back to the previous game’s region and do more gyms etc? I can’t remember if that was HGSS or RSE

GSC, and consequently HGSS

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



gen 5 was when they started getting serious about consistency in localization and I believe when they started doing simultaneous releases, so it makes sense from then on you’d see localized names that were derived together—English often uses the Spanish localization in SV, for example, regardless of whichever came first—and a more concerted effort to make all the localized names hang together

in fact, global communication was a major theme of gen 5 so you can see why that’s when it started; there’s the big in-game UN where you can gradually fill out a map based on which irl nations your trade partners were from, GTS, Pokémon Global Link, and a handful of other gestures toward that

Pokémon kicks rear end

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Pokémon only go from level 1 to level 100. how do you make a hypothetical all-regions game work for a broad playerbase when each region has to account for a maximum of 11.1 levels?

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Sparkly is current event, yeah

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Hammerite posted:

there's a battle status message that occasionally shows up in tera raids where it just says the name of the raid boss and nothing else. does anyone know what that message signifies or is supposed to say

Could be any of them afaik, most likely it’s tossing the shield up or removing negative effects from itself though

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Violet_Sky posted:

Didn't they base a hiker NPC on him?

they didn’t base anything on him he’s a random unfunny guy from Anglophone Internet

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



CuddleCryptid posted:

Huh, I must have caught more pokemon than I thought, I'm on box 7 now and thought I was running out of room. Good to hear!

You just get more without any in-game fanfare; it doubles twice so you end with 32

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



oh poo poo next 7-star raid is for Fighting Tera Cinderace

edit: beaten by mere seconds

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



you can, they’re uncommon in early-game areas

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Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



indigi posted:

How do you get Alolan Raichu

Cery carefully :twisted:

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