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Browsing through Serebii’s dex and man, it sure is cool that they made an electric/fighting Pokémon…and it’s options are Thunder Punch, Wild Charge and the new exclusive signature Electric-type Burn Out. Is especially weird because also just browsing they added stuff like Ground Close Combat and Water Double Edge.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Yeah but it also gets another new move that revives a fainted Pokemon so like can we really complain about this little guy? I’m glad for my adorable new pal’s status as Certified Uber but it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if they just made a physical electric-type Thunderbolt, is all I’m saying. Especially since my other weirdo juggernaut yeti electric pal doesn’t get a super OP looking competitive move.
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Nov 18, 2022 06:03
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Ethiser posted:It makes sense that the balloon Pokémon wouldn’t hold up very well in a storm. Yeah that looks goofy as poo poo but she’s literally a balloon so it’s just flavor if anything. …does the same thing happen with Hoppip and the tumbleweed ghost?
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Nov 19, 2022 17:11
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Vinylshadow posted:...weird, I had no issue snagging a level 75 with a team of 40s That’s how it worked last Gen iirc but they could have tweaked it like how Gen 6 didn’t have dynamic EXP yield like Gen 5/7/8/9 did.
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Nov 20, 2022 03:03
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Electric Phantasm posted:That answer is bullshit, but looking at uh...everything it's for the best they don't try to implement VA. Yeah, there’s ostensibly no reason why they couldn’t do a solid dub but…yeah, worldwide release and shitshow productions don’t exactly go hand in hand with “solid voice acting”. That said it wouldn’t be the worst thing ever to at least do the stuff like the Piers thing.
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Nov 20, 2022 19:38
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HootTheOwl posted:I don't know why this game couldn't come out next year. Pokémon is the biggest franchise on the planet and a relatively small amount of that revenue comes from the games, so the dev cycle is kinda beholden to fueling the Pokémon cash cow with new Pokémon every few years without much in the way of leeway. Or at least, that’s how I understand it! On the other hand, it’s pretty loving bizarre that Gamefreak didn’t just ask for help from say, Monolith Soft since Xenoblade 3 was finished a while before it was officially announced according to leaks.
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Nov 24, 2022 16:24
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:All 3 of the starter signature moves are stupid good. It’s kinda crazy that we went from “surf but mostly worse” and “mostly worse than flamethrower” to “solid damage and also buffs speed/sp attk” and “literally the best physical grass move in the game”. But I guess Pyro Ball is just physical Fire Blast, huh…
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Nov 26, 2022 08:34
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SyntheticPolygon posted:This may be a surprise to you, but even after the introduction of fairies Dragon trainers are still very common. It doesn’t feel like theyre saying that dragon-types are less ubiquitous, more that Dragons as a big “holy poo poo” thing don’t exist narratively anymore. But really they’ve always been underwhelming since, like, how many ducking dragon specialists didn’t just load up on the regional pseudo-legendary’s preevolved form and/or just run a team of half “vaguely dragoney guys” like Lance/Raihan?
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Dec 2, 2022 08:45
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Russad posted:Based entirely on the version exclusive trade codes, seems like Violet sold way more than Scarlet. Every time I tried to trade for the Scarlet Exclusives, it took me a dozen or more attempts. I went to Best Buy to pick up Violet (not really especially attached by the Future Paradoxmons but the secondary version is easier to use for trades) and they were all out, I guess future cyborg bike dragon is the first instance of Gamefreak making a version where the box legendary just wastes the primary version guy, who’s still cool in a vacuum.
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Dec 6, 2022 03:39
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Xander B Coolridge posted:Fly is not a good move It’s pretty good ingame, like no doubt it’s absolutely wretched competitively but just playing the campaign it’s basically your best physical flying option since I think literally just Scyther gets STAB Technician Aerial Ace.
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Dec 6, 2022 06:38
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Electric Phantasm posted:So I just realized Tadbulb evolves via stone do they still do that thing where evolving a pokemon too early means locking them out of moves? Not according to Bulbapedia at least
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Dec 6, 2022 06:45
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Araxxor posted:Which is bizarre as gen 8 went out of its way to stamp out all such cases, but Gen 9 had a few mons that slipped through like that. They probably make an exception for Breloom and Spore because 100% sleep is 100% sleep, I guess they want the kids playing in game to earn that sweet sweet Spore/Focus Punch combo. Edit: also booting this up and it’s probably been said but god loving drat this game just shoves friends (Pokémon) out the wazoo at you, I don’t think any earlygame has been quite this stacked Last Celebration fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Dec 6, 2022 08:05
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Speaking of move remembering, does that extend to TMs too? Like, I use the Thunder Wave TM on Ralts, erase it for some other move because I have an electric type, then change up my team and want it back, does that count as permanently something it can recall? Or I guess same thing for egg moves, it kinda looks like Pawmi can learn Mach Punch from breloom, since as far as I understand the modern egg move system it just has to be something that’s not in their level up moveset that something at picnic time has in their slots, right?
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Dec 6, 2022 16:38
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Avalerion posted:It can also TM hyper voice. But yes not sure what normal does for it thematically. Tbh this is like every Normal/Not Flying type except Girifirig and Hisuan Zoroa/Zeroark, like what the gently caress makes Heliopitile Normal and not Fire/Electric since it’s a living solar power generator?
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Dec 8, 2022 18:40
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Carlosologist posted:I wonder if they'll ever make items that allow you to evolve Pokemon into their regional forms. Like, we can't get an electric Malasada to evolve Pikachu into Alolan Raichu? I hope they come up with something like that for the DLC Honestly that would be kinda neat, along with just including regional variants of stuff like G-Meowth and A-Grimer as rarer spawns, especially since it’s canon that Alola Grimer is the dominant strain of the species.
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Dec 11, 2022 07:44
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Blaziken386 posted:really, truly wish that Lets Go battles would give EVs to pokemon Oh drat lol, I had assumed they did because otherwise what’s the loving point over making [insert TM here] something you keep crafting instead of just doing twenty LG fights for the materials and have it be one and done. Also still earlygame but I jumped to the other side of this river I saw on the way to bug gym and now I’m overleveled even after cycling out like half my team for new guys? Oh well, it’s more palatable if it’s because the game shoved a bunch of greatest hits guys like Goomy and Rilou in my face. What level do you have to be for the zones where Ditto live to not just get horribly slaughtered when trying to flee non-ditto fights? I kinda wanna start breeding starters/version exclusives…
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Dec 12, 2022 07:00
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So just to make sure, for the guys whose evo is the “walk 1000 steps in Lets Go mode” is that all at once? Or cumulative? I’d assume cumulative but it’s already kind of a bad evo method to begin with since my Pawmo is the fastest member of the squad and is still struggling to keep up when I’m on foot.
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Dec 13, 2022 14:27
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Thanks all, god what a bad gimmick. Ran up the stairs like six times just in case and I have a new karate defibrillator marmot.
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Dec 13, 2022 14:55
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Heliotropical posted:Encounters with the Titans cannot be run away from for some reason. Had to sit there and watch Iron Treads OHKO every single one of my pokemon before i was able to carry on. I'm guessing this has to do with the way the encounters are setup so running away would break them, but still pretty annoying when I found out I couldn't run away and I got that I shouldn't be here yet. This still makes like no sense because I can run from trainers who turn out to be like 15+ levels higher than the wildlife and have it treated as a wipe where I go back to the Pokecenter, and they already have to account for the contingency that you’ll wipe to titans anyway.
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Dec 14, 2022 02:38
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Fire croc is great, just the dopiest little guy. I think the only one I regretted evolving more is Chespin since Quilladin is kind of a dope (even if he has an absurdly bloated TM pool which makes up for it) but at least Skeldirge is a cool as hell design.
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Dec 14, 2022 14:04
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So I got a foreign ditto, if I wanna start breeding starters all I need is to make a party of only Starter Line/Ditto, find some food with Egg Power, and keep the game idle in picnic mode? Also since picnics are how “egg” moves get passed on now, do I just have whatever guy has a comparable move/egg group in the team with the target?
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Dec 18, 2022 13:34
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1st Stage Midboss posted:By default, egg moves will only pass to hatched Pokemon like they always have. If you have a Pokemon holding a Mirror Herb with empty move slots, it'll learn egg moves from any other Pokemon in the party that know them, regardless of species/gender/egg group/etc. Ah, that makes sense. Is there a move deleter, or is that just a function of the Remember Moves option I missed?
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Dec 18, 2022 13:55
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Xelkelvos posted:Just popping in to say that gently caress evolving Pawmo to Pawmot and all of the other Lets Go mechanic pokemon. I think I've tried almost all combinations of having it walk a bunch of steps and then leveling and it doesn't work. It’s a bad mechanic, someone gave me the helpful advice of walking up and down the academy steps like five times and popping a EXP candy (I did an extra few to be safe) but you have to make sure to do it all in one go and also if they get recalled because they walked too slow that resets the count. It’s a good thing Pawmot’s such a cutie tbh.
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I skipped Sw/Sw but gotta be honest, these are some real winners and I actually really like Rillaboom/Intellion
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Funky Valentine posted:Honchkrow's hat is pretty blazin'. The cowards at NOA screwed over Honchcrow by not going with the proposed “Crowleone”, it definitely would have made him more memorable.
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Dec 20, 2022 08:36
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Flopsy posted:Comparing this gens sprites to last gens it's almost absurd how good some of them look now. Like Persian looks outstanding and yet its stats are still utter stinkburgers. Why must you torment me Gamefreak? Persian is eternally cursed to be balanced around Gen 1 where 70 base attack still wasn’t great but it was more in line with the status quo and it’s stupid high speed translated to more damage since your ratio was based on your base speed. Also I guess cursed because Gamefreak doesn’t like it, even Butterfree got a special attack boost like ten years ago.
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Dec 21, 2022 08:31
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Larryb posted:Huh, I made a bunch of Ham Sandwiches for Chansey grinding and never knew about that feature (probably because my team was at full health at the time). That’s convenient It’s a very useful feature if you end up in a new area and just go hog wild capturing and the last pokecenter is a ways away. Probably why it’s in the game tbh.
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Dec 21, 2022 17:22
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Super No Vacancy posted:fishious rend Such a good name. Also I skipped out on Sw/Sh and PLA but I kinda get the impression that S/V hews pretty close to the latter since I’ve spent most of the game catching Pokémon and also cycling the overleveled ones to level/evolve even more. I’d rather be able to just turn EXP Share off but trainers mostly exist so you can go “huh, that little man’s in the game? Better haul rear end to find him!”.
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Dec 25, 2022 18:28
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Lol, I knew it was coming and still got caught completely off guard when I was browsing the dex for Sandile and found out my Tandemaus evolved by seeing the entry for Maushold and wondering for a second if I had just caught it or wonder traded and forgot.
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Diet Poison posted:Is Hotbanana a meme or something? I usually go with Bananasaurus. Iirc it was a hacked trophius, it’s a decent HM slave by default but also it’s hacked to have Flame Body for egg breeding.
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Rich Uncle Chet posted:Sandwhich power is absolutely absurd. I've managed to collect every single shiny paradox mon plus plenty of others through this. Gen 9 proved that the older mons who got shafted for years and years can eventually get evos that are cooler than the original so I’m not counting out Squakabilly yet.
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Dec 28, 2022 08:27
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Regional variant Mimikyu is such a no brainer the only question of how it gets implemented. Like, is there a grass/fairy fire/fairy water/fairy based on the region’s starters? Is that region the one that sees the light and accepts Marril as the superior Pikachu? Or do we just get eeveelotion ones?
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Flopsy posted:The marketing bragging about how awesome it was that it got Counter still bothers me. Like it's not exactly a defensive wall either. Counter makes sense lore-wise, but also it’s kinda weird that its entire thing is that it baits attacks to retaliate with its giant rock spike but is just more tanky than Midday Forme instead of being an actual tank. Also weird that it’s not Rock/Dark all things considered.
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Honestly I’m pretty cool with Cyclizar being a thing going forward and just tricking it out like the NPCs do. You can even keep the mobility upgrades by having it be a regional variant that mutates in response to stimuli.
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Oh man, I forgot about Revaroom somehow, nevermind there should just be a varoom that you just trick out with mods.
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Terastilzation kinda made the elite four/champion underwhelming, sorta wish trainers wouldn’t just mash that button when it makes stuff weaker, like fairy/steel is so cracked as a defensive typing that terrastalizing to mono-steel makes things easier. Also Geeta is one of the more dubious champions like ever, your Glimmora’s supposed to be a lead, lady. Regardless, enjoyed the “main story” (still have to do Area Zero) a lot. Just being able to haul off an explore when/wherever and constantly stumble on new guys due to the nature of having freaking 400 guys in the dex was great. Wish turning the exp share off was an option, I had a team of like twenty pokes I kept in rotation but it only does so much even if I’d probably leave it on most of the time. Also, Arven’s theme goes way harder than I expected.
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Just got to Area Zero, after hearing about how openly hostile it is ingame it’s loving surreal to actually get in and have it give off these endgame Adventures of Mana vibes with the OST it has. Also, don’t really appreciate hearing about how wild the endgame gets narratively and then seeing untagged spoilers about it since this game isn’t that old yet, kinda rude imo. 
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Jan 6, 2023 02:30
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:they used the best music/fire pun for Skeledirge’s signature move (Torch Song) so I had to settle for naming Fuecoco “Singe” Holy hell, I didn’t know “torch song” was an actual term, that’s great.
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wizard2 posted:they say every Pokemon is somebodys fav bc Pokemon has something for everybody but Im actually a real big fan of the birds that are just regular birds, Noctowl, Toucannon, Pidgeot, Swellow Toucannon is lowkey a great design, it’s just an angry toucan (which is great by itself) but when you use one you realize it’s also a literal cannon with a squishy tail it uses to steady itself and it’s beak even does the video game thing of going through a mega man buster charge cycle.
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Resdfru posted:I'm close to the end of Scarlet and Clive is kicking my rear end. I'm a horrible pokemoner and it's probably cause I haven't even looked at any items. His final poke is a Quaqaval and the dumb little dance it does as it's murdering all my pokemon makes me so mad Huge Power Azumarill resists both its stabs, is bulky, powerful, and they’re just swimming around that lake you fight the False Dragon titan iirc. Marill family is just clutch as heck ingame in general, not sure who thought it needed a fairy typing on top of Huge Power.
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