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Is this the thread to talk about pokemon romhacks too or is there a separate thread for that? The last actual pokemon game I played was base Moon but I've been watching a bunch of vanilla hardcore nuzlocke monotype challenge runs on youtube and that got me started on a regular monotype (I'm not crazy enough to do hardcore or nuzlocke rulesets) run in Radical Red. Started off with poison because it's my favourite type and just beat the first gym, along with catching every poison type I could get my hands on. Annoyingly I also found a 1% encounter rate Axew once but couldn't catch it because, well, not poison.
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Sep 25, 2023 01:59
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Jay Rust posted:Which vanilla hardcore nuzlocke monotype challenge runs would you recommend? I mostly just watch FlygonHG's vids on youtube, he's pretty knowledgable (or at least he is to my layman eyes) and I think he's decently entertaining without being obnoxious.
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Sep 25, 2023 03:30
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Diet Poison posted:What up Poison Pal. If this were a better world I'd be able to buy the poison-type tracksuit from SwSh and wear it around and everyone would know I had the best taste in Pokemon. Hell yeah, even Poison type Hatsune Miku rules. https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1704797678658347510?t=mqu6wrHgLU6xd9tCR4MJ7w&s=19 I'd say Bug and Steel are my second and third favourite types overall.
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Sep 25, 2023 03:38
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Jay Rust posted:Watched one video, he pronounces arcanine “ar-cah-nee-neh” 😬 At least he pronounced Magnemite the right way.
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Sep 25, 2023 05:48
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Scholtz posted:https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1706247380469690651 Hachi machi now that's a Miku.
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Sep 25, 2023 11:34
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Endorph posted:What types are left? Steel, Fighting, and Dragon? Those 3 are the ones left yeah. I look forward to them blindsiding me because I thought Dark Miku was definitely going to be more emo goth.
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Sep 26, 2023 07:45
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I found Bugsy in Radical Red and I got him down to like 1% on his final pokemon before he knocked me out. Scizor is a pain in the rear end when you don't have fire moves! Anyway Steel-type Miku. Not what I was expecting but very cool anyway. https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1706609619869581343
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Sep 26, 2023 11:25
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Sabrina kicked my rear end a few times on my Radical Red Poison monotype run, especially when she pulled a Flame Orb Guts Ursaluna and Mega Gardevoir out of her hat along with a Trick Room setup. Luckily I figured out that Revavroom learned a 120 bp Steel move that I could use to 1-shot Gardevoir. Ursaluna though... That thing savaged 5 out of my 6 team members lol, ty Toxapex for holding the line.
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Sep 28, 2023 15:29
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TY to whoever decided to give Drapion Wicked Blow in RadRed so that mine which has Sniper could just easily sweep all of Morty's scary Ghost team even though Dark-reducing berries.
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Sep 29, 2023 05:19
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I'm glad that Sheer Force Life Orb Nidoking still holds up after all these years because he just swept a random Rival battle that they added to RadRed that I wasn't prepared for at all.
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Oct 1, 2023 12:46
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Scuba Trooper posted:Radical Red rules but I'm stuck on Lt. Surge Other than using Defog to get rid of the electric terrain and pivoting using Ground types I can't really give much advice lol, all I remember is that for the first fight I came out with 5 fainted mons.
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Oct 2, 2023 00:46
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Beating a gym battle in a difficulty-focused romhack with only 4 mons used makes me feel pretty smart even though it's on easy mode
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Oct 6, 2023 18:49
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Who would win, this bullshit Giovanni romhack team: Or these 3 lads (+ Lance):  I do kinda wish this romhack had some kind of fight rematch feature, the gym leader after this gave me a lot more trouble and I beat them in a super sloppy way and I kinda want to see if I could do the fight cleaner without having to just replay the entire game again.
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Oct 7, 2023 12:22
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Lorak posted:Theoretically, reloading from a savestate would allow you to rematch, but I know that's probably not what you're looking for. Yeah I could do that but it would be nice if it was just a feature that I could use to redo any boss fight or whatever without having to keep a savestate somewhere in my pocket. Future Video GamesUK posted:Oo is 'Naja' just the pokemon name in another language or did you name her that? I always call female arboks 'Nagaina' after the cobra in the Jungle Book. Nah I just named her after the genus that most cobras belong to, Naja. I was a biology nerd as a kid so it's an old habit if I can't think of anything better. I considering naming all my mons this run after various toxins because it's a Poison monotype challenge run but there's no handy wikipedia list of toxins that I could find annoyingly. Arbok in RadRed is pretty ridiculous with their added /Dark type and Strong Jaw as a hidden ability, along with a small stat boost. Expert Belt + Strong Jaw STAB Crunch pastes anything weak to Dark really. Ibblebibble fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 13:13
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Procrastine posted:What does "Soul Robbery" do? quote:Soul Robbery (New signature move for Mewtwo) - 100 BP, 5 PP, 100% acc Special Psychic-type move that has the Spectral Thief effect (steals target’s stat boosts before attacking) Didn't end up actually doing anything that fight except for chunking half of Lance's Mega Salamence's HP. ApplesandOranges posted:I mean it's Giovanni, you could at least even give him some Poison types as a former lead of Team Rocket (the Nidos are still strong enough to be a threat while being thematic). He does have his classic Nidoking the first two times you fight him but he decides to get a full bullshit team in Cerulean Cave. Ibblebibble fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 18:09
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galagazombie posted:He runs the Ground type gym he should have a ground type team. You should see Koga's lineup.  They repurposed dynamax forms as megas if you're wondering. That Sniper + Wicked Blow Drapion is pretty funny because I also use that combo on my own Drapion, so I just swapped to Battle Armour and hard-countered it. Takes a Drapion to beat a Drapion.
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Oct 8, 2023 00:54
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The really funny thing is that the romhack decides that Giovanni's been played out after 3 fights in the game center/Silph Co/Cerulean Cave so his gym is taken over by Clair from Johto of all people. She gave me a lot more trouble than Gio, and she had 4 Dragon types on her team so she's more on-theme at the very least.
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Oct 8, 2023 04:36
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RadRed also lets you change pokeballs without being racist.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:25
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I was around for XY but skipped ORAS because broke university student, which is a shame because Megas are probably my favourite generation gimmick and I would have liked to have messed around with them more in Hoenn.
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Oct 12, 2023 11:29
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X/Y being 10 years old now also means that it's been 10 years since no new eeveelutions. Wonder what the next one we get will be.
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Oct 16, 2023 15:40
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I'm in Tokyo ATM and stipped by the Pokemon Center in Shibuya and was sorely disappointed by the lack of Nidoking plushies, or any of the Nido line at all. I did manage to pick up one of Torterra though, my personal favourite 3rd stage starter.
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Oct 19, 2023 09:33
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:The one in Ikebukuro should be bigger, that's the one I went. There weren't the recent sitting plushies and some mons were missing ofc, but I nabbed myself a Chesnaught plushie, a Dragonite sitting, and a fluffy Mew for my bestie. Good idea, I've got spare time tomorrow afternoon so I'll check it out.
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Oct 19, 2023 13:22
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Lux Anima posted:I looked up the nidoran lines on the pokemoncenter site and (based on the order in the shop where SOLD OUT items are pushed to the back of their category, in chronological order to when they ran out) all their nido-plushies look like they have been sold out for a year+ since they were last given a plushie run Yeah I did notice that they were sold out online but there's a small part of me hoping that the main physical store has a few set aside or something  Even if the Nidos aren't in stock it'll be cool to go check out the place anyway.
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Oct 20, 2023 00:26
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It is to my complete and utter devastation to report that the Ikebukuro shop did not have Nidoking or Garbodor (my second choice) plushes in stock, so I made do with Venasaur instead. I did notice from some online searching that those two are in stock in the UK though, and my brother lives in London so I might just ask him to get them for me.
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Oct 20, 2023 06:31
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Future Video GamesUK posted:Let me know if he can't do it for some reason! Oh it's fine, I've got plenty of friends in London thanks to uni, but thanks for the offer! I'm probably going to wait until later in the year to even decide to get them anyway to plan out finances better, no rush.
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Oct 20, 2023 10:40
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I've been playing Radical Red before my current holiday (left it off at just before the E4) and I was having a lot of fun with a mono-Poison team. It's a rebalance/difficulty romhack with minimal story changes so it is rather difficult even on Easy Mode but there is a ton of documentation on every change in the romhack online which I found helps a lot. The rebalance pass breathes a ton of life into neglected mons like Arbok which has been having the time of her life on my team, and it's got a ton of QOL features as well like a time changer, dexnav etc etc. Also minimal story changes means minimal edgelord original story that plagues a lot of fangames.
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Oct 21, 2023 07:55
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shimmy shimmy posted:Just looked up Radical Red and it's even got Gen 9 pokemon? Awesome. Will figure out what kind of monotype run to do and give that a go, thanks! Enjoy, there's a link to the main google drive that has all the documentation on their main Pokecommunity forums post that also includes a set of documents dedicated to monotype challenge runs and where you can pick up valid mons for your type. You don't have to do a monotype run at all, mind, I just wanted to not be super overwhelmed with all the mon choices.
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Oct 21, 2023 08:47
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Treecko posted:
Oh hey, that's me! I'll send you an email but I do live in Asia so I dunno how much postage will cost in the end. Hopefully it's reasonable.
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Nov 2, 2023 07:27
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I usually have my starter around the whole game. We're buddies, I mean, c'mon.
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Nov 7, 2023 09:36
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DisposableHero posted:Just got back from a trip to Japan. Among the many things we did was go to the Pokemon Center DX in Tokyo. I figured sharing our haul here was relevant. I was pleased to see plusses of my two favorite pokemon (Nidoking and Metagross. The backpack is an eevee design and came in a gashapon. drat, gratz on managing to find a Nidoking plush! I already posted about my Nidoking hunting woes in the thread before, I wish I had known about Pokemon Center DX when I was there.
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Nov 20, 2023 03:06
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Back on Radical Red, got to the Indigo Plateau. I look forward to seeing what stupid romhack bullshit gets pulled out for the E4.
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Dec 17, 2023 13:46
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 I did it, I cleared Pokemon Radical Red with a mono-poison team, whoo! My emulator screenshot function crapped out during the post-E4 celebrations so this screenshot will have to do instead. They were 88 during the E4 + champion fights, I bumped them up to 100 to prove that the E4 level cap is gone lol TY Sneasler for soloing 4.5 of the champion's mons (the .5 was her taking Pheromosa down to focus sash, I let Pheromosa live because it just U-Turned and those were free Swords Dance turns).
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Dec 20, 2023 11:12
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Which monotype run should I do in a romhack now that I've completed a mono Poison run, Bug, Ice or Normal? I'm leaning towards Bug the most but the other two types are also pretty cool IMO (har har).
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Dec 24, 2023 15:32
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Talonflame and Toucannon made it into my E4 teams for both their debut games, they ruled.
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Apr 18, 2024 04:21
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Hooplah posted:doing a search of the forums pulls up almost no one talking about it, so here's a PSA i guess How viable is a monotype challenge run? That's my favourite type (harhar) of gimmick run.
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May 10, 2024 04:04
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Tried a few runs of Pokerogue and honestly I don't think I like the pokemon battle system enough to really get into it lol Nice to see that monotype challenge support is coming soon at least, might just wait until then.
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May 11, 2024 06:22
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