Judge Tesla posted:

Why the gently caress am I stuck wearing the school uniform for the entire game, I can change all my accessories but the school outfit is all I'm legally allowed to wear apparently.

Bobulus posted:

I just reached the first town and so far haven't had any egregious bugs. The shadows are janky as all hell, but nothing like is shown in those clips. Playing on OG switch in handheld mode if it makes a difference, and I've been exiting the game between play sessions.

As someone who has been playing pokemon off and on since the OG gameboy, I'm so immune to bad graphics that I've been having a pretty fun time so far. Spent a couple hours doggedly ignoring the quest objectives and just wandering the hills, capturing pokemon and attempting to skyrim my way up hills. It does feel a bit beta-quality, though, so your miles may vary. I found plenty of red item drops and yellow TM drops, but what that purple drop (looks like a sword stuck in the ground?) that I couldn't reach because it was across a divide?

I did want to ask if there's a trick to "auto-battle"? When I google it, I see claims that I just need to throw out my lead-pokemon with ZR and it should run up to pokemon and win/lose quickly and without input from me. My experience has been that I either hit a pokemon dead-on (in which case I start a player-controlled battle), or if I just fire a pokeball at the landscape, my pokemon will follow me but won't attack wild pokemon at all. Do I need to unlock something first?

Calico Heart posted:

Is this gen really lacking in fire types? It seems like if you don't go with Fuecoco, you only have one other new option?

Stux posted:

anyone else thinking this is the best pokemon game ever

BrainDance posted:

Also I'm playing Scarlet I did not know the one titan is a different, future form in Violet. Does that mean the plot to the Area Zero stuff in Violet is different, with the time machine being a time machine that goes forward instead of backwards?

Chamale posted:

I loved the way Pokémon are part of this world, but clearly not the only thing. Children are really into it, but adults have day jobs.

And the ending is amazing. I wonder if it's the same conclusion in Scarlet, or something different.

Spanish Manlove posted:

Are there any new mechanics to ev train or do I do the old school method of just killing 255 of something that gives 1ev each?

Nuclearmonkee posted:

I found the best way to actually complete more 6 stars is to try to keep idiots on the internet alive. For starters, reflect/light screen aren’t cleared by the stat reset thing the enemy does so absolutely do that and keep it up. Use your cheers to heal people. If you aren’t doing that you should be trying to stack -6 debuffs on the enemy for a one shot.

While the enemy has a shield they are immune to status moves but they aren’t immune to secondary effects on moves. Mystical fire + light screen vs special attacker mons makes things way easier.

It’s mostly the nasty physical threats that cause the largest amount of failures, and I’ve got a defensive Armorouge with light clay that has greatly increased my odds of success running:

Lava Plume
Psyshock
Reflect
Clear Smog

Just stay away from 6 star annihilape though. Unless it’s running a really bad Tera type AND you have a good team you will fail every time, regardless of what you bring to keep people alive. You’d need a crew of Hisuian Zoroark or something like that to make it more doable. Annihilape is a beast.

The rewards are very good from 6 stars though and you will end up with the ability patches, xp candy and enormous amounts of cash after a little bit to build competitive mons. There’s enough challenge to keep it interesting once you realize the actual challenge is don’t let your idiot teammates die.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

A very good ghosty boy

Is there a friendship checker in this game? And an ev and Iv checker? Where are they?

Larryb posted:

Yeah, this is probably then best story in a Pokémon game since BW in my opinion.

On another note, when do you get to finally use your ride legendary in battle? After the Titan quest or during/after the final story?

History Comes Inside! posted:

There’s probably some overwrought meta gaming reason to use recoil moves that the people who take games made solely to sell toys and hook further generations of grade schoolers into a trillion dollar multimedia franchise every few years way too seriously could expand on but yeah they all suck.

ROFL Octopus posted:

So since we have a couple more hours of the Eevee event, what are good Tera types for the Eeveelutions? Here’s what I’m thinking

Jolteon - Ice, STAB BoltBeam
Flareon - Normal, can be burned with Flame Orb and use Guts-boosted STAB Facade
Vaporeon - Dragon? Idk on this one, but Dragon resists both of Water’s weaknesses
Espeon - Fairy resists 2/3 of Psychic’s weaknesses so thinking that, anything to keep Espeon in and annoying with Magic Bounce
Umbreon - Poison has good defensive synergy with Dark, plus it goes with Umbreon’s beta type
Leafeon - Fire, for Sun synergy
Glaceon - Water for perfect STAB neutral coverage with Freeze Dry
Sylveon - Fairy seems to be the best? Double STAB with Pixilate Hyper Voice sounds really obnoxious

symbolic posted:

Kart Barfunkel posted:

Is there any reason I need to do all these classes at the school or can I just ignore them?

HopperUK posted:

What did you name it?

Flopsy posted:

I hit the guy up with a team of three Azumarill and he just kept regenerating health non stop.

Flopsy posted:

I think if you wreck his poo poo too fast the game goes "Whoa! we haven't even hit the shield phase yet! Better give him half his loving health back and start over!! "

Pussy Quipped posted:

PSA :
Azumarill is bugged!!! Do not use it!!!
The Huge Power ability does not work correctly with whatever fuckery they have going on in Raids specifically. I tested it in about 5 different raids and can confirm that the jumping heath bar on charizard is actually just healing back half of whatever damage you do, cancelling out your bonus from Huge Power. Occasionally I’ve been able to one shot raid Pokémon before the code can realize what happened, but charizard has too much HP and will always heal back the difference.
Use Flutter Mane instead.

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

The raid monsters have a move that turns off abilities and resets stat boosts and I legit think people are dumb and not reading that pop up and conflating poo poo because I've been carried by other players using BD Azumarill in a lot of 5-6 star raids.

Flopsy posted:

The thing is turning into raid cancer. Huge power + Play rough is literally causing the raid bosses to regenerate health for for godsakes.

Flopsy posted:

Okay then, it's a glitch that makes it look like that's exactly what's happening and it's happened to me four times in a row now.