Pokemon

[placid junco]

Moss

[harsh path]

[placid junco]

[bleak pine]

Was halfway tempted to put Lugia in place of Salamence, but eh

[random stream]

time to make a card for my current run then

[bleak pine]

I'm a little unsure a Fairy tera type would work for Blaziken, either, but I guess most everyone's lost on what to do as far as Tera types are concerned

[random stream]

For tera it usually depends if you want to use it offensively or defensively
offensive tera usually involves either doubling up on your existing stab, or running a different type with a coverage move designed to handle stuff you normally cant

[bleak pine]

Ahhh

So, I guess if I'm not actively using Tera Blast, something that would patch up the usual weaknesses a Fire/Fighting type would have will work?

[random stream]

Yeah that could work. either fire, fighting, electric (thunder punch funnies but it depends if its legal post home transfer) or a good defensive type

blazikens bulk isnt the best though so you get more mileage w offensive tera

[bleak pine]

Ahh, gotcha

So, probs Fighting all the way

That High Jump Kick/Axe Kick(?) will be hurting for certain

I don't know if Blaziken would ever learn Axe Kick, but I imagine it would given how much footer-based attacks it can get

[random stream]

Here's my current AS Nuzlocke run

[bleak pine]

Oooh, neat

Was really hoping the card maker would have Michael as an option

[pseudo goblet]

Ay Brendan alt from Master EX

Took him like, 2 years? 3 years? To finally get his own alt outfit, while May currently got like 3+ lol

[bleak pine]

That's Gacha for you

[mighty storm]

flareon was done dirty in conquest

[bleak pine]

aaaaaa that furret from Smile

[pseudo goblet]

Wezl

[normal cave]

It's so goofy

:3

[pseudo goblet]

@normal cave heard you like Wezl and loaf

[bleak pine]

Please don't mistake Furret for Baguette

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/addition-to-mycollection-more-collection-gif-14095863

[pseudo goblet]

Pfft

Ayo google, I typed Furret, not Typhosion lmao

For real, it just appear

[normal cave]

Wezl is wezl, google knows what's up

Deleteing Infinite Fusion. Not that the game isn't good, it's TOO good.

I have studies, I can't trust myself with it

Besides, I got really late in the postgame.

[pseudo goblet]

Are you really ready to abandon your Pokémon

[normal cave]

Recycle bin is erasing them as we speak

[pseudo goblet]

[normal cave]

Honestly, one of the better pokemon romhacks/fangames I've played

The fusion mechanic makes teambuilding so fun

Lots to think about there

And there are some nice qol stuff like easy move relearner and egg move tutor and powerful TMs

Game ain't perfect tho. Lots of glitches, Really unfun and clunky puzzles across the game, and some annoying old stuff from FRLG like overworld poison damage

If I had to pay for it, I wouldn't buy it, but for free? Hell yeah.

3rd best romhack imo, after Radical Red and and Volt White 2

[bleak pine]

Hmm, neat

[pseudo goblet]

Bruial, pick a child

[bleak pine]

I tried liking Radical Red, but given how it practically expects you to not only be very proficient in battling but akin to some 4D chess master... ech.

Also very grindy, like, seriously why

[normal cave]

Top one, because furret face. Hard choice tho.

[bleak pine]

At the least it was neat given how it's a very complete hack of the FireRed engine and adds in many neat stuff... for better or worse

[normal cave]

The point of Radical Red is that you are supposed to lose. A lot.

[bleak pine]

Yeah, difficulty's fine. The frustration to get there though...

[normal cave]

The battles are more like puzzles than battles

Each attempt, you learn something new and plan your next move

[bleak pine]

I can indeed respect that. Just, ech, having to grind yourself up to get there is the worst

[normal cave]

The AI is very consistent, so you can reliably predict what it will do based on your previous failed attempts

[bleak pine]

I felt like I mugged like a billion Meowth just to get a single mon's IV's increased to their maximum.

[normal cave]

So it's less being a master strategist and more figuring out the whole battle.one step at a time

Oh yeah the grinding ain't great

[bleak pine]

Well, that is true, but it's still kinda frustrating for me nevertheless.

[normal cave]

Not for everyone

I like roguelikes, and they play out like radical red to a degree

[bleak pine]

Also the writing that's unique to the game sounds like it was made by someone stuck in 2010

[normal cave]

Lose a lot, learn from your mistakes, win once.

I mean

Most romhacks are like that

[bleak pine]

Yeah, I can see the draw in the game, and it's pretty alright. Just, not my cup of tea.

Still doing a bit of writing on my own to see how well I can make it with a fangame myself, so playing a few hacks and other fangames can let me know what works and what I should avoid.

[normal cave]

Infinite Fusion is a little less cringey, and it captures the spirit of pokemon writing pretty well

...when it is not making pop culture references or breaking the fourth wall

[bleak pine]

As much as I'd like to have the difficulty be akin to most mainline games, I'm also aware that most people who end up playing these likely know what an IV is and most certainly might have done some competitive battling before.

So really, goal here is "Difficult, but not to an absurd degree"

[normal cave]

The game has an NPC that can figure out your real name based on stuff on your PC and it completely ruined my day seeing it

[bleak pine]

it can what

[normal cave]

Yeah

[bleak pine]

Ok that's uh, creepy.

[normal cave]

Very

[bleak pine]

You sure you haven't been bugged playing that game?

[normal cave]

No I am not sure.

[bleak pine]

Ahh

...Well, if nobody else is reporting this issue I think it's alright...?

[normal cave]

I turned off my internet when I saw that. It's still off.

No, no, not really.

[bleak pine]

Youch.

Well, that's shocking.

[golden lance]

[bleak pine]

P sure looking that deep into files is a big no-no among any kind of fangame

[normal cave]

I don't know how they did it. Someone more tech savvy than me might know.

Definently a nono

[bleak pine]

Argh, only issue is, I got like three ideas for a fangame and all of them sound nice, but I might only ever got time for one

[normal cave]

The game is really good for a romhack, but... that's just cringe.

And it's not just me. Lets plays I've seen had that happen to them.

[bleak pine]

One's a typical story about a drone for some syndicate regaining their consciousness and memories, and makes a stand against the threat of Shadow Pokemon in a modern setting (So basically, something like 5D's)

Another is just... literally ARC-V But actually tollerable, protagonist gets roped into a conflict between dimensions that utilize various past gimmicks (Such as Mega Evolution, Terastalization, etc.)

And the last is a fantasy setting, seeing the Protagonist go off on an adventure in a reimagining of the Pokemon World in a land where Kings, Wizards and Knights are commonplace.

And so far, I love the third idea, kinda liking the potential for the first but the second one might appeal more to others.

...Maybe.

[normal cave]

Third idea sounds the best, but isn't that Pokemon Crowned?

Idk much abput that gamr

[bleak pine]

Hmmm, haven't heard of it.

But I'll look and see what's going on with that one

[normal cave]

Pokémon Crown is a Medieval RPG set in the vast and magical Region of Guelder.

[bleak pine]

...Aw, it's already been done

[normal cave]

It's pretty new

[bleak pine]

But still, this looks pretty neat

[normal cave]

Yup

Non-turn based combat

[bleak pine]

...Oh? That's cool.

[placid junco]

I’m still gonna stand by the battling being the worst part of PLA

[bleak pine]

But with that in mind I still feel like I got a shot, since I was still gonna use the tried and true turn-based RPG thing the main games have already been doing

[bleak pine]

Yeah, you aren't wrong there. The main gameplay foremost really is capturing.

Battling really takes a back seat for the most part.

[normal cave]

I do like me some non-turn based combat

[placid junco]

I also just
Do not like the PLA battling system

At all

[normal cave]

Also, you can go for something else

[bleak pine]

Hmm, yeah.

[normal cave]

The other two seem... heavy for a pokemon game

[bleak pine]

Eh, that much is true

If it's any relief, I'm not gonna do stupidly grimdark... anything with such fangames

[normal cave]

Dealing with more mature plots does work, but it's hard to pull off in pokemon

[bleak pine]

Nobody needs to be reminded of what Reborn tried doing

Yeah, heavier plots just are one thing I feel just can't exactly 'work' with such a game

[normal cave]

Something lighthearted

...

Is there a scifi romhack?

[golden lance]

probably

[bleak pine]

Like, I'm not saying that a darker approach is impossible; games like Colosseum and XD have proven such things can be done, but at the same time, there is a limit.

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/incineroar-pokemon-fire-fang-pokemon-pokemon-move-gif-23569609

[golden lance]

hi zane

good timing

[pseudo goblet]

?

[bleak pine]

ohhh god four-legged Incineroar

[golden lance]

how out of place would it be for a fan game to have a plot that's literally 1:1 ryuki?

[bleak pine]

that just looks so odd

[normal cave]

https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10430493

Yesn't

It's scifi, but not pokemon

[pseudo goblet]

Each gym leader ||die|| after you beat em? Lol

[normal cave]

Still room to explore the pokemon solar system alola style

[golden lance]

nah, you just have multiples rivals that get disqualified as you beat them in a battle royale

[pseudo goblet]

Back to this for a bit, this is just how gorilla run iirc

[normal cave]

Yep

https://tenor.com/view/gorilla-running-gif-5602427

[pseudo goblet]

Hmm, battling the wild Pokémon would fit with Ryuki’s mirror monster gimmick

Even Contracts

[normal cave]

Honestly, actual pokemon with spaceships sounds like fun

[pseudo goblet]

Oh great… now I’m reminded of Destream driver by saying Contract 😂

[normal cave]

The solar system has been terraformed and pokemon now roam wild on the planets, and kids now go through the system challenge or something

[pseudo goblet]

Z move as Ryuki’s final vent maybe?

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtu.be/FsqiR7SMX4A

Okay the fucking fact that discord gif finder only has like 2 Ryuki Kick is a crime

Pretty sure none of them came from the tv show itself

[pseudo goblet]

@golden lance imagine playing the Ryuki Pokémon game and see this in game lmao

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/kaiijumon_/status/1621532087537876995?s=46&t=wCUYwhkATdR11WAo-c1-sg

Kaii @ Ryme’s Microphone (@Kaiijumon_)

I dislike shiny Tandemaus and Maushold very strongly so I made some mock-ups (All creds to @MrDjWalnut for the Peeps palette idea haha)

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Twitter · Feb 3, 2023, 3:32 PM

[outer eagle]

Lost a mon to Guzma in Po Town, now down to only 4 team members.
Really not looking forward to the entire Aether Foundation stretch of USUM.
You have to fight like 7 almost consecutive boss fights there for no reason.

[normal cave]

Nuzlocking USUM

No fucking fear

[outer eagle]

I have a guaranteed cheese for Ultra Necrozma no matter the randomization

So that part of the game is honestly non-threatening

[normal cave]

Owo

Zorua?

[outer eagle]

No

It’s a randomizer

[normal cave]

Oh

[outer eagle]

There’s an NPC on the final Island

That gives you Sash

[normal cave]

Ah

[outer eagle]

So i just grab Sash and use a mon with Toxic/Endaevor

[normal cave]

Is the boss randomized?

[outer eagle]

Yes

That’s why i usually have multiple layers

[normal cave]

What if it's a gengar?

You can't endeavour or toxic it

[outer eagle]

Then Burn or Paralysis

[normal cave]

Ah

[outer eagle]

I just need to give it either a status to make it lose health

Or make it slow enough that my entire team can deal with it

[normal cave]

And then what, you just lose mons until it dies?

[outer eagle]

Hey, sacrifices must be made

And in a randomizer

There’s a high chance you’ll stumble upon a focus sash store

So You can give your entire team sash if you need to

Another way is Ghost Curse

But it’s a bit harder to come across

But is guaranteed

[random stream]

About to do wally fight a bit underleveled

uhh smile

[outer eagle]

Oh dw

Knowing Oras AI

[random stream]

TIL azu learns superpower on level up, kinda insane

[outer eagle]

I did not know that

[random stream]

huh he really shouldve been given roserade

[outer eagle]

now, onto the real challenge

[random stream]

huhh, mega banette outsped megallade
gen 6 mega speed mechanics right? and that ive some speed evs

[outer eagle]

gen 6 Speed mechanic yes

and Gallade could have been going for a low priority move

or it had a Minus Speed Nature

it could be a lot of things

[random stream]

forgot Magneton had sturdy and yama got beaned by toxic damage

guess I'll do 5 mon E4 + a sack

[outer eagle]

Ren it's the literal last stage

Just grind up a mon

Anything

[random stream]

there is nothing good in my box

Lemme see

I want something for cradily probably

[outer eagle]

Jam an Ice type or something

Go to Shoal Cave and grab a Spheal i guess

[random stream]

yoo im doing the ice beam sidequest rn
I can catch spiritomb

gonna try and toxic cheese the cradily

[outer eagle]

Toxic cheese strats is really good on bulky mons

[outer eagle]

How are you doing on the recovery moves part?

[random stream]

Smile

[outer eagle]

Cuz you can do Rest Talk if you need

Chesto Rest sorry

[random stream]

Wheres rest again?

[outer eagle]

Lilycove

[random stream]

Rest nasty toxic dark pulse sounds fine

[outer eagle]

[random stream]

turns out rest guy also gives you sleep talk

So I could if I wanted to do rest talk cm

[outer eagle]

hey it's up to you

the payoff is big but the investment is big as well

[jagged linden]

what's everyones favorite theme in S/V?

I think mine is the Ace Trainer Tournament theme

close second being ||Vs AI Sada/Turo||

[random stream]

Sidney done, made a mistake and forgot about aqua jet on sharpedo oof

was smooth otherwise

Phoebe was smooth, Mega Banette + Azu

[outer eagle]

just don't fall for Sheer Cold cheese

[mighty storm]

oh I think I know what future virizion's name is gonna be

Iron Blade

like a blade of grass, but also a literal blade

[random stream]

Dodged the sheer cold. The other mons were haxy though, lots of crits
so I had to rest a lot more

[outer eagle]

very nice

[random stream]

Drake was clean too, I used damp rock rain dance tenta to set up weather

then Mega pert 5-0d

The final battle and it's 5 v 6

[jagged linden]

oh shit this Omega Ruby?

[outer eagle]

5v6 is doable if you utilize your Spiritomb cheese well

and Mega-Swampert ofc

just need to aggressively sack

[random stream]

Alpha Sapphire

[random stream]

we did it but it got super bloody because of bad sleep talk spiritomb rng

Swampert was the only one left standing but I'll take it

God bless HP EVs so much

I lived giga impact after 3 layers of spikes

at like 18 hp

[jagged linden]

damn, I owned both versions but I played Omega Ruby to completion

based

[random stream]

Oo nice

[jagged linden]

before my 3ds broke because ???

I literally tore it apart and the wifi chip was completely missing and bricked the unit

[random stream]

[jagged linden]

to this day still no clue how that happened

[random stream]

first time hearing about something like that

[jagged linden]

I still have my Alpha Sapphire cart in my desk drawer I think

but too expensive to get a new 3ds

and no computer for emulation

[random stream]

If I didnt lose swellow to a blunder earlier
I think half the team wouldve been alive still, since she would take the fall later in the steven fight

[jagged linden]

I remember there was that one preferable you could plug into a pc to legally emulate a 3ds game? like it was basically a 3ds cart port but with a usb plug

you still needed a physical cart to run anything

[random stream]

interesting

[outer eagle]

hey Swellow isn't exactly renowned for its bulk

i'm more surprised it wasn't dead earlier

[random stream]

Pilot strategy baby

[outer eagle]

now i need to grind up my Togepi...
...to level 40...

[random stream]

Swampert continues to be the goat

But azumarill and banette were also v excellent this nuzlocke

[outer eagle]

best hoenn starter for a reason

[random stream]

Tentacruel did alright, but he was mostly supporting pert

liquid ooze clutched the heck out of cradily tho

if Yama didnt die I had a safer sydney + phoebe + glacia

and a better plan into steven

Spiritomb was probably the best last minute addition I could ask for though

We're gonna be playing a soulsilver rando nuzlocke next

Just wanted to finish this 2 year old nuzlocke I forgot to complete

[random stream]

Uhh is the may fight optional?

[outer eagle]

your run your rules

i think just cause Hoenn's E4 is ordered

and not non-sequential

it's fine to not count May

in XY i always count AZ as mandatory

[random stream]

Nevermind I think I can actually do it

[outer eagle]

Ren boutta 1v6

[random stream]

rain dance pert 1v6s yeah

[outer eagle]

can you kill Mega-Sceptile tho

[random stream]

Ice beam should

[outer eagle]

debatable but let's see

[random stream]

ironically if she didnt mega I lost

but the ai is programmed to

[outer eagle]

[random stream]

I gave oras some slight flak since it didnt have the emerald gym leader teams

but I had a great time regardless. Might be biased though since hoenn is my favorite

It does have the (slightly) harder e4 and way harder champion

[jagged linden]

I have nostalgia glasses for Oras tbh

I have good memories of getting Hoopa and all that

[outer eagle]

one thing i'll give ORAS

is that if you really wanted to

you can overload yourself with encounters

for me that's kinda good and bad cuz choice paralysis

[sleek sky]

my nostalgia game is Plat

[swift jasper]

Either emerald or bw for me

[obsidian juniper]

Same

[swift jasper]

I always felt gen 4 is too slow for my liking

I always end up speeding it up in an emulator

[normal cave]

Congrats man

[silver vigil]

@warm sky your son acquired

[warm sky]

Baby

Treat him right

Or else

[placid junco]

I might try a nuzlocke of sun sometime

[outer eagle]

Nanu really exploded on me...twice
Once with Explosion Ursaring
And the other with Self-Destruct Swellow

[harsh path]

“Swellow deez nuts lol!” -Nanu

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/celebi30979685/status/1621726333813526529?s=46&t=rpdpgrMM2dAjzxGFpY29mw

Serebii (@celebi30979685)

テツノドクガ #pokemon #ポケットモンスター #ポケモン #テツノドクガ #ポケモンSV https://t.co/K5hbPGzsJ2

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Twitter · Feb 4, 2023, 4:24 AM

[lucid moth]

we stan lando-t

[mighty storm]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoJnzI5XkAAdwah?format=png&name=900x900

I know its most likely fake, but I want primal furret 😦

especially if it really is caveman furret but

[normal cave]

Snakelike furret called feral stripes

Please

[mighty storm]

primal noodle

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-furret-walking-cute-gif-15272739

[placid junco]

https://twitter.com/webberwithoneb/status/1622024514690494464?s=61&t=LEwy1TRuGwoqv3ishTtVmg

weber (@webberwithoneb)

fake pokemon. theyre ghost/poison (?)

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Twitter · Feb 5, 2023, 12:09 AM

[bleak pine]

Veldt

goddammit if I have to chase down Gau again...

[mighty storm]

gau?

[sleek sky]

https://twitter.com/PokemonGems/status/1621879000573382659

Pokemon Gems (@PokemonGems)

he is very helpful

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Twitter · Feb 4, 2023, 2:31 PM

[bleak pine]

Character in Final Fantasy VI. Wild Child that lives with monsters who migrate to the Veldt, which is a landmass that monsters of all sorts that you battled can be found at.

[maiden flax]

You know how we can tell this is fake?
Them going "oh these paradox forms for some reason have drizzle and grassy surge despite the whole thing with paradox pokemon having quark drive and protosynthesis"

[bleak pine]

Yeah, this is 100% false unless they somehow are doing that

[maiden flax]

Psychic grass also reeks of fake cause if they are going for any type it would like be a mixture of rock, grass or steel in a similar way that iron valiant is fighting/fairy

Whats more its very rare we actually get leaks on actual names of pokemon

I cant even remember the last time we got a name leak now that im thinking about it

Even the big sword and shield one we only got descriptions of some of the upcoming mons rather than any concrete name

[mighty storm]

tbf, these are legend paradoxes

[sleek sky]

I was trawling some old reactions to people playing through the game
apparently there were leaks/speculations that the Paradox Pokemon aren't actually from the past/future

[maiden flax]

Yes

[sleek sky]

but manifestations of the professor's desires

[maiden flax]

There are also theories about those now

[sleek sky]

and Arven has a conversation that supports that

[mighty storm]

why is psychic/grass odd?

[maiden flax]

Due to how the journals and magazines
Long before the invention of the time machine
Show the pokemon from the "time machine"

[maiden flax]

Due to how they have done the "combination" paradoxes so far, with the likes of iron valiant, where it combines 2 types of the existing mons that isnt shared by each other

[mighty storm]

You mean the originally grass mon, with the psyblade move

[bleak pine]

Honestly, I just ignore any and all 'leaks' I tend to see

If it's real, eh. If it's fake, eh.

[mighty storm]

we dont have any psychic iron mons right?

[maiden flax]

Yes
The thing here is that
Looking at the one image of the paradox we have
We can see its not just virizion
Its terakion and coballion too

[bleak pine]

Not like I'm gonna try looking for 'leaks' in the first place

[lyric pollen]

I would love a mega altaria replacement

my fave mon

[maiden flax]

Its similar how leaks called iron valiant a gallade paradox despite it being both gallade and gardevoir

Thus the typing fairy fighting
Combining gardevoir's fairy and gallades fights

[mighty storm]

remember, we dont have the ultimate psychic type. And we know justice paradox is getting psyblade

[maiden flax]

Similarly what we have of the suicune's paradox shows it being entei and raikou as well

[bleak pine]

It's funny, I think those tabloids made mention of it being a scientist's attempt at creating the 'perfect' Psychic-type.

...And yet it has none of those types.

Of course these are, y'know, tabloids, so they most certainly aren't the whole truth either

[golden lance]

Replaying base fire red for the first time in 10 years

[maiden flax]

I mean
Like a quarter of the paradox pokemon are fighting type I dont think they really are aiming for type diversity with the paradox mons

[bleak pine]

Enjoy not being able to evolve Golbat

[mighty storm]

Meanwhile Im sure this is fake because Khu is hinting at Suiteikou being water||/dragon||

[golden lance]

Currently at silph co

[maiden flax]

Interesting...

[golden lance]

I miss having mon variety

[mighty storm]

what you gonna evolve eevee baby into?

[golden lance]

Instead of just "oh, there's 1 good water type in the game"

[golden lance]

Nothing, i'm playing this game solely so i can trade stuff to emerald (actual good game)

[mighty storm]

ah

[maiden flax]

Fighting, ground, dark and ghost are all cracked this game

[golden lance]

Why do i need to do a post game sidequest to trade with hoenn, anyway?

Ngl

Playing frlg again makes me appreciate later gens

Because you can actually build a good team with mons you like

Instead of "run lapras because no reason not to"

"Run nidoking/queen because no reason not to"

"Run snorlax because no reason not to"

Etc etc

[mighty storm]

I wish we had megas back so we could potentially get a mega lokix

[golden lance]

Only of instead of a megastone we get a clunky piece of plastic that attaches to its waist

[mighty storm]

Also I have a feeling in the anime there is going to be a palafin with a running gag of going off screen to become hero form.

[golden lance]

Anyway i have reached a point where hyper fang raticate carried me the whole game and now the rest of my team is incapable of doing damage

Btw

Why are the level up moves so bad in this game?

Like, your mons might as well only have 1-2 moves if you don't use tms

Y'know, the limited resource you only get 1 copy of each per savefile

Also ngl, i won waaaay more fights that i should simply because the ai spammed debuffs the whole time instead of doing damage

[maiden flax]

That sounds real funny and 100% something they would do

[bleak pine]

LEvel up moves are very sparse in earlier games

There's a lot of cases in which a mon only learns like, 5 or so moves leveling up

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/yQRFxblYfj8?feature=share

Round boi

[mighty storm]

Bonus points if it's a main character's pokemon and they go "if only Palafin was a bit stronger. Then we could win this" and then just be like this when Palafin finally does it "on screen" (cut away to the character's reacting to the transformation and never show it transform on screen )

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

Palafin was that heroic pokemon the whole time!?

[normal cave]

They go half the show with a recurring palafin

And it just clark kents on them

[random stream]

the ladder dream is dead now, was a good run just chilling in low 1800s for now

[normal cave]

Top 30 is still very impressive

[random stream]

Yeah

[golden lance]

@random stream i am about to commit a hate crime

[random stream]

better have ingrain

[normal cave]

What game this

[golden lance]

i had to 100% colosseum for this team

emerald

[normal cave]

[golden lance]

i manually bred each of them, btw

was honestly pretty fun

[normal cave]

Go reap the fruits of your labour

[normal cave]

It is a beautiful team

[golden lance]

Here's the rest of the team, btw

[normal cave]

So you baton pass buffs onto medicham and heal up with vapy?

[golden lance]

Pretty much

[random stream]

Yeah it's full chain

[golden lance]

Ingrain is to prevent roar/whrilwind

[random stream]

I think ninjask should be on protect

but this is fine

[normal cave]

Protect guarantees a speed boost

[golden lance]

So does sub outside of the very specific ninjask mirror

[random stream]

If celebi is on calm mind I think you should give vapo surf

over wish so youve a plan b

[golden lance]

Probably

[random stream]

Yeah aside from that looks good

[golden lance]

Oh yea btw

Items are 6 leftovers

[normal cave]

[golden lance]

Why the surprise?

Adv has exactly 4 good items

[normal cave]

How do you get 6 leftovers

[golden lance]

I duplicated my fire red save file

[normal cave]

Ah

[golden lance]

Ninjask: Jolly, 252 HP, 148 Def, 108 SpD
Vaporeon: Bold, 252 HP, 228 Def, 28 SpD
Scizor: Impish, 252 HP, 48 Def, 208 SpD
Celebi: Bold, 252 HP, 64 Def, 192 SpD
Smeargle: Jolly, 68 HP, 188 SpD, 252 Spe
Medichan: Adamant, 240 HP, 252 Atk, 16 Spe

thoughts?

[lyric pollen]

Can I really get away with 4 water weak mon if I run a gastrodon next to them

Tune in and find out

[golden lance]

inb4 you get nuked by someone on tera grass

[outer eagle]

He da real MVP.
Almost soloed both Guzma and Lusamine.

[fading stratus]

Nuzlocke? Or just Randomiser

[outer eagle]

both

Randomizer Nuzlocke

[random stream]

Oh you allow WG? wild

[outer eagle]

i mean

i had to deal with my fair share of WG mons

so naturally i'd allow it myself

at least Zoroark isn't that amazing of a WG user

it's frail asf so a stray super effective hit might kill

[random stream]

Gotcha, I just ban it for myself and disable early wg for opponents

goth berri wanted soul silver, so we're doing that now
hardcore rando nuzlocke

[outer eagle]

soulsilver isn't a bad game to do that

altho

is the benchmark the E4 or Red?

[random stream]

we'll see

[normal cave]

Gl ren

Go kick lugia's face in

[outer eagle]

HGSS is also one of the more...liberal games in terms of early-game encounters

You get like 9 encounters or so b4 gym 1

12 if you do the Primo puzzles

[pseudo goblet]

Apparently there’s a lot of fanart for this loaf, not complaining

Now I feel happy that SV has Mareep line lol, Ampharos is so cute

[jagged linden]

Ampharous is based yeah

[random stream]

I swear this wasnt rigged

[swift jasper]

cheater

[warm sky]

JUDGE

[swift jasper]

just

lol

run solarbeam at least

[swift jasper]

be my legacy

[random stream]

Yeah gonna try and get solarbeam and a fire move

[warm sky]

I'd run you

[random stream]

Rip the catching tutorial

[placid junco]

https://twitter.com/camillecailloux/status/1621999023799377920?s=61&t=_zZSNAuX2EjBMQ1xtb-ZiA

☁️FlyingRotten☁️ (@CamilleCailloux)

The visit
#pokemon

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Twitter · Feb 4, 2023, 10:27 PM

[pseudo goblet]

Love how the comments being pretty wholesome

[normal cave]

The best part of any randomized run is Wally one-shotting the catching tutorial and then going "I did it... It's... MY POKEMON!"

[outer eagle]

according to what i've heard
Even in the base RSE games Wally has a chance to just knock his tutorial Ralts out

[placid junco]

https://twitter.com/go_lurk/status/1622268828368633857?s=61&t=_zZSNAuX2EjBMQ1xtb-ZiA

golurk (@go_lurk)

some paradox pokemon for me as a weekend treat

Twitter · Feb 5, 2023, 4:20 PM

[sand forge]

Good design, but technopath is a very clunky word

[normal cave]

meaty claws

They fucking had to, didn't they

Also why is Golurk so fast

[sand forge]

He's boostin

[placid junco]

Sunkern can finally have revenge on all the people calling it the weakest Pokémon ever

[mighty storm]

that primal orbeetle is cool

[normal cave]

That's orbeetle?!

Now I see it

It's a cool design, but orbeetle gets lost in it

Went from insect psychic to an ankylosaurus while barely retaining any sign of its origin

[mighty storm]

iron saucer: is just gigantamax orbeetle

[flat sedge]

i wish golurk got more love from the pokemon company

[sand forge]

give us primal Golurk and make it Rock/Ghost

[pseudo goblet]

Oh cool, Kuro and Shortcake both evolve at the same time

Finally, now I just need to know where that Armarouge item is

[pseudo goblet]

WOOHOO, Kilowattrel got right before Iono gym

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-dance-cat-dance-gif-20491618

[maiden flax]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9paldeadexdraft-673218 god this game was painful
it was so, so very close

[maiden flax]

lmao

[pseudo goblet]

Huh, clear smog proven to be useful for me first time

Flash fire + clear smog vs Fire Starmobile revaroom actually not too bad

Still gonna need Naclstack to deal the last few hit

Mela: it’s not like I gave this FLAME CHARGE TM to YOU

Also Mela: I gave it to your Naclstack

Girl you either not know what a block of rocks is like or you re just planning on cooking my lil’ salt here

[flat sedge]

me and the boys dominating every gen of ou

[pseudo goblet]

Ay, the game finally let me have the cool kids experiences, would’ve freak out if idk this would happen lol

[normal cave]

[jagged linden]

I never ran into that one actually

[silver vigil]

got my ass served on a platter by colress

time to make a competent team

[outer eagle]

Rushing Poni Island: done
Prepping for Ultra Necrozma for next day

[mighty storm]

https://twitter.com/AceTrainerLiam/status/1622057566544211969

Liam (@AceTrainerLiam)

I was just trying to hatch a female lol

#PokemonScarletViolet #NintendoSwitch

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Twitter · Feb 5, 2023, 2:20 AM

shiny

[mighty storm]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randombattle-1792891833

some randbat fun

[random stream]

Rip intimidate golbat. The deo a was using phys moves so I was confident

[random stream]

My team is looking sick @outer eagle

Simple gliscor spiritomb w handy typing
Evire isnt the best but hopefully the rando redeems him
drought clefable, blastoise w charge beam and nice special moves

[outer eagle]

Blastoise, Gliscor and Spiritomb are nice yeah

[outer eagle]

EVire should be at least useful during the early game

[random stream]

Clefable is broken kid

[outer eagle]

damn Quiet nature succs

[random stream]

I'm using gen 8 stats too so she gets the extra SpA

I added items to all trainers, enemy bosses get two extra pokes
Usuals get one extra

and some levels to them so we'll see how it goes

[random stream]

he learned buff knock off when everyone has items

so hecc yea

[pseudo goblet]

Less than 2 month before the farewell party now boys and girls

https://youtu.be/F9rUW55Ps_I

[random stream]

@outer eagle this nuzlocke might be too easy or is it just early hgss being a pushover with levels? even with buffed levels

I'll ramp up the levels later

[outer eagle]

early HGSS is pretty average in terms of levels

but that also depends on your own mon's leveling rate

and also, the easiness mostly comes from just how many encounters you are given b4 the first gym

you get 9 normally and 12 if you include the Primo passwords

[random stream]

3 level 10s and a level 15

[random stream]

I buffed the levels, falk has 3 level 12s and a level 18 now

Ill prolly go in with level 15s

[tacit sphinx]

Is this…
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lose%3F_(Vending_S3)

[random stream]

Rip. assist into bonemarang

[random stream]

Deathless falkner

Zapdos got to +4 spa but speed drops into rock wrecker clutched

[outer eagle]

Recharging moves are fine early game cuz beginning level bulk is lower, but late game i wouldn't use those

[random stream]

been using a different team, currently back to top 41

funnily enough specially attacking lead meowscarada might be the best set for it despite the 81 spa

[random stream]

Okay this new team is awesome

[warm sky]

What's the team like

[random stream]

https://pokepast.es/668e20c865cb0f0e slightly modified version of the current team of the week

[warm sky]

Neat

[bleak pine]

The coolest thing the TCG has done is still XY evolutions

[crimson moat]

Shit set

[bleak pine]

Well, it was cool, but statistically speaking nobody cared about anything else there but the very rare cards

I must've riffled through so many of those things. They're in just about everyone's box of common cards

It was just a set for nostalgia value primarily.

I care because I love shit

Yeah, that's alright!

I wanna see the worst card game design ever

Remember BREAK?

Yeah, those cards.

The majority of them really didn't do much in spite of being a successor of sorts to Level X

Most mons that would evolve from them already had servicable attacks and abilities, and the majority of BREAK's attacks and abilities aren't exactly flattering

About the only ones that saw a good bit of use to my knowledge was Raticate BREAK

...Cause it's attack was really just Super Fang, which lets you place damage counters on a mon until it's HP was 10.

Even design-wise they weren't exactly eye-catching, just, spray paint stuff gold was the design philosophy there

[crimson moat]

XY evolutions wasn’t even that big of a collector’s pack initially because the card quality was notably bad by Pokémon standards

It really only spiked as a collector set because of Logan Paul

[bleak pine]

It took some wrestler who makes bad decisions that you probably know opening a bunch of cards for there to be some kind of boom in its popularity

...Which really only meant that the rares in that set are just a pain to find, whereas you're gonna be having every card shop's common box clogged up with these others that nobody wanted.

[twin shard]

Did people really just forget about greninja break

[crimson moat]

And yeah break is notably bad. Most of them sucked functionally despite trying to be an upgrade of Lv X

[bleak pine]

And forget about finding any sealed products for this

[crimson moat]

The good breaks are Greninja and Zoroark yeah

[bleak pine]

Oh, right, those two

More baffilingly, I can't understand why they had to make the cards go sideways

I can imagine it would've been very easy to tell if someone had that card in their hands, since they'd have to turn it to even read the text to make sure they knew what they thought it did

[crimson moat]

Trevenant and Yanmega Break were break cards for already existing good cards too

[twin shard]

Just learn to read down to up

Trevenant break was great for the turn 1 lock deck that required the use of forest of giant plants

[bleak pine]

The upgrade isn't really that impressive: Just a little bit more HP and nothing else really changes, save for the additional attack or ability. They do only allow one prize card to be taken upon KO though... if that's any consolation

[tacit sphinx]

Speaking of

I’m playing the Pokemon TCG game on Game Boy rn

I’m running a dogshit deck saved by having four Hitmonchan in it

Remember when 1 energy for 20 was considered gamebreaking lmao

[bleak pine]

Yeah, that's how most cavemen decks tend to be

In the end it just boils down to "hit thing really hard"

[tacit sphinx]

tbh this deck’s got at least like

the theory of a good deck

[bleak pine]

Honestly, I'd love for there to be like

[tacit sphinx]

Lots of accelerants (Kangaskhan, Bill, Call for Friends Krabby) and Fossils

[bleak pine]

I guess a take on the TCG in the vein of what Konami did for their World Championship series of games

[tacit sphinx]

Idea being you open haymakers or accelerants and turbo out Aerodactyl

[bleak pine]

Sounds cool

[tacit sphinx]

A lot of opponents in the TCG GB game don’t have good Basics

Aerodactyl’s Poke Power prevents evolution

[twin shard]

Didn’t some of the pros go back to that format and figure out stall was the actual broken one?

[tacit sphinx]

Probably

I think the actual best deck in the game is either uhhhh

Zapdos turbo

Rain Dance Blastoise

or Energy Trans Venusaur

Zapdos turbo is such a meme I love it

But like it’s a meme that works

Basic with 90, no weakness, resistance to Hitmonchan

No idea if this actually worked in real life but

A genuine meta strat in the game boy game is just

Only running 4 Zapdos

A shitload of energy and trainers

And just stalling to Thunderbolt and kill anything except a Chansey

Because you just keep mulliganning until you get Zapdos

[twin shard]

Oh right chansey stall was the deck they found

[tacit sphinx]

Yeah base Chansey is great

Scrunch + 120 HP = it will never die

lmao “120 HP”

[bleak pine]

This card really ended up influencing a lot of what chansey is in the TCG

Big HP and for some reason, an attack that most mons would kill to have, but it comes at such a steep cost for the pink egg-thing itself

[tacit sphinx]

God I love this song.

https://youtu.be/TlhyUGOx_oE

[bleak pine]

It does slap.

[bleak pine]

Too slow tbh

[bleak pine]

To have the old attacks be easier to see

[pseudo goblet]

@maiden flax I’m thinking on trying Scizor or Buzzwole, both all rounder, got any tip?

[maiden flax]

i dont play all rounders so i got nothing

[pseudo goblet]

Ic, thanks anyway

Guess I’m picking the mosquito, sending people flying looks fun

[bleak pine]

Yeah Jwittz did a vid on it

A budget stall deck beat the most expensive Haymaker

Lickitung was good too

[pseudo goblet]

Feels rather weird using a Pokémon that doesn’t need to evolve

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/oshiruko_s2/status/1622143018777313280?s=46&t=eB9rHSbAGCfhMtyX6TiwsA

おしるこ🪴 (@oshiruko_s2)

寒い朝

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Twitter · Feb 5, 2023, 8:00 AM

[pseudo goblet]

Um, Snom?? You look pretty ‘melty’ there

[obsidian juniper]

https://twitter.com/Finchinator2/status/1622623196112424961?s=20&t=EMgz30L8y45tI2ss2WLT0g

Finchinator (@Finchinator2)

lmao

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Twitter · Feb 6, 2023, 3:48 PM

[mighty storm]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoS5HkHWcAM1ryo?format=jpg&name=small

[bleak pine]

happ birf

[pseudo goblet]

Hello~ Armarouge

Charcadet just weren’t able to do much, this should help

Okay I’m love Orthworm now

That dork face

[mighty storm]

orthworm is good against ground types

[bleak pine]

It's

BIG
SCARY
and PINK

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/orthworm-pokemon-orthworm-pokemon-gif-27304052

[mighty storm]

https://images.gamebanana.com/img/ss/mods/63aaea533b534.jpg

What shiny tauros should've been

(Would link to original, but it's a mod)

[placid junco]

Wo-Chien is such a perfect pokemon for a villain character tbh
it weakens everything around it physically, making it perfect for making villanous speeches atop while the heroes are drained of their strength and forced to their knees by it's mere presence

[mighty storm]

https://preview.redd.it/we-have-live-wo-chien-reaction-but-lets-give-our-man-chi-yu-v0-xzyvol85rmda1.jpeg?width=897&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0957a4ac22191fc78284e2bd060c7ff315770538

[kind vortex]

took a bit of a hiatus from sv but i guess i'll jump back into it a bit

just prepping for greninja rerun for now

[bleak pine]

Yeeep, same here

Deciding what I want to bring along

[kind vortex]

i'm working on a slowbro for now

[bleak pine]

Ahhh

Wow, Slowbro really is just the king of raiding, ain't it

[kind vortex]

depends on what you're against

like it looked pretty solid against cinderace and looks pretty solid against greninja

but i wouldn't take it against a dark tera type, for example

[jagged linden]

dipping my toes into the Pokemon metagame has been fun ngl

still don't really know what is up and what is down yet and I've been getting burnt out mega quick but I'm still making progress

[sharp kernel]

@polar osprey https://youtu.be/5LAygrPAM6w

Iron hands, brute bonnet, roaring moon lmao

[kind vortex]

which one?

[jagged linden]

S/V

[kind vortex]

ou, uu, ru, nu, doubles, vgc?

[jagged linden]

probably gonna do doubles but not fully decided

I've basically just been EV training a bunch of random pokemon and seeing what works and what doesn't

[kind vortex]

do you use showdown at all?

[jagged linden]

nah

not because I don't like it

but because its a bet between me and boyfriend to build comp teams on cart and we'll duke it out eventually

[sharp kernel]

That video I just posted baku, is a good educational video into what goes into vgc decision making

[kind vortex]

i'm asking because you can use showdown to test your builds first, before committing to them on cart

[sharp kernel]

I would save it for later if you ever want to study comp

[kind vortex]

both you and your boyfriend can use it to test

that way if you decide you need to tweak your build, you don't have to use up in-game resources

[jagged linden]

so in a way

its kinda like using Duelingbook or EDO to test decks before you buy them, basically?

that makes sense

[kind vortex]

pretty much, yes

[sharp kernel]

Yeah

[jagged linden]

honestly been having a lot of fun just learning HOW to train on cart

its not as bad or tedious as I expected

[sharp kernel]

I think what you’ll find in doubles is, the majority of Pokémon can be viable, if you build a team around them

But that requires knowledge of what makes a team good in doubles

[flat sedge]

yeah db/edo is a good comparison

[jagged linden]

granted, I assume there's a lot of QOL features that weren't in previous games

[flat sedge]

for what showdown basically is

[kind vortex]

absolutely

[sharp kernel]

Also yeah, ev/in training this Gen is stupid easy

[kind vortex]

although that's less a gen 8-9 thing, but much more visible if you go back farther

[mighty storm]

I still need to finish the dex in SV

[jagged linden]

I traded with a friend to get all the ver exclusive entires but I'm too lazy to catch/evo the rest

[sharp kernel]

I’m actually about to nuzlocke the game. Due to moving and all the time it takes to plan this stuff out, my vgc dream is over for at least this year

[jagged linden]

one team that I think may be funny to make is a all bird team

[random stream]

Top 19 now

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1793954403-fcrgyfpiyain32pw5nbndzhtc8ik3dxpw

[outer eagle]

A

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/tyako_089/status/1622590236764299267?t=gaTxPyHmYFhK7v0yukRCCQ&s=19

🍵 (@tyako_089)

https://t.co/0uzwmQwc4X

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Twitter · Feb 6, 2023, 1:37 PM

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/apiorid/status/1622148389621350400?s=46&t=wrgKp7gKeVBNNbiewRiovg

akn坊 (@APiorid)

長いこと帰らなかったから　お母さんがすごく心配したらしい

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Twitter · Feb 5, 2023, 8:21 AM

[random stream]

She grows stronger

[outer eagle]

yo lv 17 Clef

[tacit sphinx]

@twin shard so guess what’s happening to me at this exact moment

[lyric pollen]

I think i'm going to settle on this for the OCIC VGC thing

might tweak my spreads or movesets a bit, but at this point I think its important to get used to a team

[fading stratus]

Wouldn't you play tera fairy gastro

Because it walls dondozo

[warm sky]

https://i.redd.it/5eoy05bd4sga1.jpg

Jesus that's a lot

[outer eagle]

why are you fighting a level 25...with a level 19

[fading stratus]

Because he probably forgot about the rival battle or something

Or he just didn't want to grind

[obsidian juniper]

To test his abilities

[outer eagle]

It would be strange tbh

It’s a nuzlocke and Whitney would have outleveled him

Much less the area after Whitney

[random stream]

Bugsy done, one death unfort

Gliscor died to rainy weather ball, I didnt know tang had it

made the last mon magnezone from bugsy brutal too

[sharp kernel]

I like it, scream tail is really rising as a top 3 paradox mon in the meta

[golden lance]

Chat

I have murdered a child

[lyric pollen]

Fire gastro walls bundle, which im more worried about

And yeah scream tail plays its role so well

Fast disable is so nasty

[fading stratus]

What do bundles even carry?
Freeze dry icy wind hydro pump protect?

[lyric pollen]

Yeah, sometimes taunt

Sometimes flip turn

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/akilvers/status/1621455755533586436?s=46&t=KqadrV8fpq65kAYZJyXtkQ

🧢🏆 Annet 🏆🧢 (@Akilvers)

SQUIRTLE THE POWER RANGERS 💥
#anipoke #アニポケ #めざポケ #Pokemon

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Twitter · Feb 3, 2023, 10:29 AM

For everybody who hasn’t catch up with the anime

Also YES that is Ash’s squirtle returning

[pseudo goblet]

@daring pine Ash’s squirtle is pretty much DonMomotaro with that sunglass

[daring pine]

Yeah I saw that

[latent sleet]

he remembered that his squirtle existed

[long stone]

till triggers me that its armor is plastic yellow, instead of something metallic like the bronze or gold. its not like the game can't render those... if anything its good at that.

[pseudo goblet]

Shiny pineco’s evo?

Saw that yeah

Totally can see an Armorouge leading a army of Falinks

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/hc_pkmn/status/1623249885603704832?s=46&t=KqadrV8fpq65kAYZJyXtkQ

もなか (@hc_pkmn)

ゴミ箱に突っ込むのが好きなニャオハ🐾
#ニャオハの日

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Twitter · Feb 8, 2023, 9:18 AM

https://twitter.com/nekunne_pksn/status/1622611143557799936?s=46&t=KqadrV8fpq65kAYZJyXtkQ

ねくんね@ポケモン垢 (@nekunne_pksn)

コレクレーからパピモッチが飛び出してくるだけの動画
#ポケモンSV

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Twitter · Feb 6, 2023, 3:00 PM

What were they doing in there

[random stream]

she grows stronger

lefties and 50% healing move acquired

[outer eagle]

Oh good

Neutral nature

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/lliliililillil/status/1623154659933159424?t=LbcghMdR-bVXtUkXtGUaFA&s=19

ْ (@lliliililillil)

kiss

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Twitter · Feb 8, 2023, 3:00 AM

[mighty storm]

Baby!

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/rhaftoze/status/1622941659762941952?s=46&t=QbnVTHH3Q1yVlH6IvLScsA

TO ZE (@RhafToze)

Kamen Rider Grou
Contract monster Groudon
Grouvisor with Groudon deck

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Twitter · Feb 7, 2023, 12:53 PM

[pseudo goblet]

She’s stuck

[mighty storm]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FodPjm0WIAI4oPE?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FodPjmzWIAAMZHJ?format=jpg&name=small

[outer eagle]

ice turtle

so Avalugg?

[mighty storm]

that's the generic terastalization symbol

I'm just thinking about the possibility the third legend is actually a turtle

https://preview.redd.it/new-pokémon-sketch-of-third-legendary-pokémon-v0-5snfpy241cz91.jpg?auto=webp&s=9e472eb5cdb286436e22512a00c3b297c16fd89f

[pseudo goblet]

MAN I’m glad I nature-pick Nacli early, salt boi do good in every battle

Also, wise move I did, not bringing Clodsire to Larry and his Facade spamming Staraptor

[pseudo goblet]

Christ… if only I knew Nemona was gonna use a Quaquaval to fight me right after gym, would’ve gone and evolve Florigato first

[warm sky]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/860234475991859250/1072932156856356874/y2mate.com_-_high_effort_wooper_animation_animation_wooper_pokemon_1080p.mov

[long stone]

i'm psure it's both on an Ouroboros + The Hermetic Egg ( Alchemy.stuff)

they aren't new to that anyway, sun and moon was full of it

now if this is based on The Hermetic Egg, this would mean it must have another from based on the Philosopher's Stone, since that's the end product that comes from the egg.

[bleak pine]

Was he good?

[crimson moat]

He was a meme

You played 4 of him and at least 50 dark energy.

He wasn't competitively even close

[bleak pine]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[crimson moat]

For the Ultra Beast GX specifically:

Nihelego GX wasn't good competitively, but showed up in status condition decks or could troll with Malamar
Buzzwole GX was the focal point of one of the best early SM decks, Buzzroc
Kartana GX was a tech for its special energy denial and 1 prize wincon
Phermosa GX was crap
The first Celesteela GX was crap
The second Celesteela GX was extremely niche a tech
Xurkitree GX was anti-meta
Dawn Wing GX was a common pivot tech thanks to Float Stone, and was featured in Malamar decks early on
Dusk Mane GX was very little competitive and had very few good results
Stakataka GX was a tech for Dusk Mane and Naganadel decks
The first Naganadel GX (Stinger GX) was its own wincon strategy either on Beast Raid being efficient or on Stinger GX allowing really powerful stall builds.
The second Naganadel GX was a tech in Mewtwo Tag Team
**Blacephalon GX **was one of the best decks before Tag Teams dropped.

The ones bolded were the best of them

Phermosa/Buzzwole Tag Team was an attacking option in Rillaboom decks
Naganadel/Guzzlord Tag Team was not remarkable at all in Standard, but is really good in Expanded thanks to Double Dragon Energy

[bleak pine]

So they were not the best?

[crimson moat]

The ones bolded were good, and Nagalord Tag Team is good in expanded

Guzzlord was laughable

[bleak pine]

Poor Guzz and his tyrannical hole

5 energy 180 tho

250 would have been too much?

[crimson moat]

250 would have at least put it on the board

The problem is the turn charge you needed to power it up

A similar deck, Ho-oh GX, was competitive using this same idea

Ho-oh GX had the benefits of:

Coming out earlier than Guzzlord before the meta got dominated by aggro control decks
Having a Supporter attach all the energy (Kiawe), without excavating so you didn't have to play a really garbage balance of cards
Had other pokemon in the deck that could actually support it
Hit harder than Guzzlord after cards like Choice Band and Volcanion EX
Resisted Fighting rather than how Guzzlord is weak to fighting, which mattered a lot with Buzzroc being one of the best decks and Zoroark being one of the best decks that was weak to Fighting itself
and could play actual draw support

And, had a secondary attacker (Salazzle GX) that meant you only needed to power up 1-2 Ho-oh a game, whereas Guzzlord has to power up 3

TLDR; Eat Sloppily is a really shit attack that warped the entire concept of what the deck could do. Ho-oh did the same thing with Kiawe and ran a much better deck as a result of not needing to rely on topdecks to attach energy.

[mighty storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X52hQKZGek&ab_channel=CyberWorld9000

Never coming

rip sleep

[golden lance]

I miss blace gx

[crimson moat]

If only Lost Thunder format didn't have Marshadow

[spice rivet]

So tired of trash Trick Room team in Bo1

[bleak pine]

Oh god I just remembered why Meowscarada looked so familiar

Alright, any of you ever played Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards? Or Reshef of Destruction?

Apparently, there's a game-only card that the green kitty looks very similar to, named Leopard Girl.

And I swear, I thought I seen some similar design somewhere else, and it clicked and I wish it hadn't

[flat sedge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYH_lu5R3H0

this has been on my mind lately

[spice rivet]

Jfc Trick room is absolutely cancer

[bleak pine]

Eeyep

I probably angered so many people just disrespecting them with that and Greedent

[outer eagle]

Ultra Necrozma (or should i say, Ultra Silvally) done
MVP of the strat:

[bleak pine]

What was even the point of it

[sand forge]

Sleep tracking

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/mikripkm/status/1623518493256871936?t=Rh-Rw1QnxHrVx0r6tuV2xg&s=19

미크리pkm (@mikripkm)

https://t.co/RezYYJiRgK

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[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/ikiro_pkmn/status/1623312753862791172?s=46&t=3S4Es2SjYVfzKgcxHdYSOA

たかさおじさん (@ikiro_pkmn)

馴染んでる #ポケモンSV #NintendoSwitch

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They look scary, idk y

https://twitter.com/avhycch3x80kcue/status/1623660660709294080?s=46&t=3S4Es2SjYVfzKgcxHdYSOA

フキダシコットン『1日1枚‼』 (@avHYCcH3x80KCUE)

ゲーム内にもアイテム実装してほしいかわいさ
#ポケモン #Pokémon #イラスト

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Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 12:30 PM

@maiden flax @random stream

LETS!!!! FUCKING! GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Umbreon got invited to Smas- I mean Unite!!!!

[random stream]

Oh wow!

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtu.be/3tBIc-zKPC0

DEFENDER EEVEE FINALLY

Wait we re getting Chandelure too?? Huh

And Lapras??? What’s going on here

Goodra?!

[long stone]

https://twitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1623690299246510083?s=19

Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks)

New leak:

Gen 9-style sprites for removed Pokémon, including megas, eternal Floette and other “scrapped” forms have leaked.

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Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 2:28 PM

[random stream]

[placid junco]

I’m not gonna get my hopes up, probably just Pokémon home stuff

[silver vigil]

I hope they’re all implemented on showdown

For consistency sake

[pseudo goblet]

Other Scrapped like shadow lugia I assume?

[mighty storm]

playing the game by sleeping

[void herald]

i'd imagine the point was probably to encourage people to get better sleep

[spice rivet]

Added Gardevoir solely as an answer to Trick Room. Its been p. good so far.

[latent sleet]

trick room gard

now thats new

[spice rivet]

Also had a redemption where I matched up against a TR player I faced earlier in the night and shreked them

[latent sleet]

nice

[spice rivet]

Actually its to use Imprison so your opponent cant use TR

And Tera Ghost to get around Fake out users

My hate is hyper specific lmao

[latent sleet]

and does it work

[spice rivet]

So far, yes

[sand forge]

Which ironically has caused a new medical condition

Called Orthosomnia

[vagrant steppe]

Most likely this, yeah

That way home has consistent sprites

[mighty storm]

Leak season back

[pseudo goblet]

Dlc?

[vagrant steppe]

Nah it's probably just these for the sake of home

[mighty storm]

yep dlc

[vagrant steppe]

The dlc could add everything but home used the old sprites

It's WAY more likely these exist to unify the sprites in home

[vagrant steppe]

Most likely home, summer is jumping to conclusions

[mighty storm]

they straight up posted ||mega charizard and eternal floette||, how is this a home leak?

[vagrant steppe]

You can select the forms in home

Eternal Flower Floette is treated as a different pokemon with the same Pokedex number

It's very likely just to unify the sprites in home

[mighty storm]

also this

[vagrant steppe]

They could end up being the dlc sure, but it's most likely not

Also reminder that eternal flower Floette was never released

So unless the dlc is adding it, that doesn't make sense

[mighty storm]

the name is what really is throwing me off

[vagrant steppe]

Also notably, there's not a sprite for Ash Greninja

Which is consistent to the battle Bond change

[pseudo goblet]

Just btw the Chinese there doesn’t really make sense

[mighty storm]

??

[pseudo goblet]

||breaking down the words are

Similar word to ‘necessary’, More and Thousand||

God this is why I did not continue Chinese class after high school…

[pseudo goblet]

The monkey is officially dead

[mighty storm]

hold up,|| thousand||?

https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/thumb/f/f2/Pokedex_Image_Glimmora_SV.png/356px-Pokedex_Image_Glimmora_SV.png

[pseudo goblet]

Finally! Now I can remove Metal claw and Flash cannon from it

[mighty storm]

75 physical attack base

also low key wishing this would get a paradox mon

[pseudo goblet]

Huh, it was indeed 75, creepy

[mighty storm]

this is supposed to bully corviknight, the steel tank

[pseudo goblet]

I mean, if a rock falls down from space can destroy a building, so can giant hammer traumatizing an armoured bird lol

[mighty storm]

Valkyrie my Corviknight is not scared of a smol hammer girl

[pseudo goblet]

Holding up Armorouge*

Crap, Armorouge is taller than in-game me lol

JUST HOW MANY DOGS HAVE DIED ON THIS SNOW MOUNTAIN?!? JESUS

[pseudo goblet]

Oh wow, 105 sp def, guess I was right thinking it’s pretty bulky

Other reason it being steel type

Random thought, if there was a Halloween festival holding at Montenevera, that would look awesome

This town just looks perfect for that atmosphere

[mighty storm]

But yeah I do think ||Gretta as bad of a champion she is, is related to our DLC||

[placid junco]

I admit I’ll be a little mad if the fucking ||Geeta is actually a Pokémon|| theory is true

[mighty storm]

Would explain the whole ||Glimorra ambush in Area Zero||

[bleak pine]

Ended up finding something out about the Great Crater

The area of mountains that seperates it from the rest of the world does have wild pokemon.

You just find a bunch of Magnezone flying around itl.

Which makes me guess that the Great Crater apparently must have a lot of magnetic activity, akin to Mt. Coronet

Also, friggin' Garchomp flies everywhere around it

Apparently the only times in some games you can actually see it fly around.

...And it still can't use Fly.

But yeah, there's your spot for grinding if you want a bunch of Magnemite Screws or Gible Scales

[pseudo goblet]

Regional form Garchomp becoming ground flying/dragon flying

[bleak pine]

Nah

Honestly, I really want a 600 Stat beatstick in later games to not be yet another friggin' dragon.

Whatever happened to cool stuff like Tyranitar and Metagross?

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/mikripkm/status/1623518493256871936?s=46&t=Ykul2yx1rcE3qVhUhvxIlg

미크리pkm (@mikripkm)

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[bleak pine]

aaaaaaaaaaaa

[jagged linden]

that hairstyle of hers has to be fake

why does it look so much like Glimora fr

either way she gave me bad vibes the whole game

kinda expecting her to be a surprise twist villain in a dlc

[placid junco]

it's not like it isn't the first time We've seen a champion designed like their ace

alder and volcarona come to mind

[maiden flax]

Niceee

[jagged linden]

honestly the weirdest thing about Greta IS that Glimora is her ace

the way her team is setup and what order she sends them out in makes almost 0 sense

aside from Espertha as a anti setup lead

if Glimora was second the ability would have mattered more and then Kingambit could have been last

[placid junco]

Glimmora being her ace honestly feels like it was deliberately done to annoy people lmao

[mighty storm]

plot twist, she was going easy on us

[placid junco]

given she has a pokemon designed to be a lead as her ace

I'd hope so

[mighty storm]

Who would hit harder, a literal hydra

https://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/large/hydreigon.jpg

Or one flower fren

https://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/large/glimmora.jpg

Hydreigon: 105 physical atk, 125 special attack
Glimorra: 55 physical atk, 130 special attack

[bleak pine]

Glimorra just looks like friend

Lookit them smol eyes

[flat sedge]

glimmora looks like a space entity

[sand forge]

Geeta's team should've been 6 Glim, all with different builds

[vagrant steppe]

Wow I just realized typholsion has access to all of... 4 different types in his special moves

Fire stuff, Solar Beam, Focus Blast, and Extrasensory

[placid junco]

Going into the final lake trial in PLA and idk what I wanna do with my team

Currently it’s Overquill, Purugly, Mantine, Decidueye, Avalugg, and Carnivine (shiny alpha)

Also realizing my shiny carnivine might have been a static alpha…

[vagrant steppe]

He was, but he's not guaranteed shiny

So that's still p cool

[placid junco]

Yeah

That makes me feel a bit better
I did get a non static alpha sneasel I’m considering using

Purugly is the main “I might switch this” slot on the team

[vagrant steppe]

The only static shiny in PLA is the ponyta

[placid junco]

Sneasel and lickilicky (and maybe electabuzz) are my main considerations for stuff I wanna add to the tram

Team*

[vagrant steppe]

Sneasel

[placid junco]

I don’t want too many ground weak mons though haha

[vagrant steppe]

Sneasel also helps the most in the final fights

[placid junco]

Yeah I guess I can always use Purugly in another playthrough or something

I’ll use it in a playthrough of something eventually

[bleak pine]

Can't go wrong with a wezl

All three of them

[placid junco]

Alright I guess I have the main story done

That final balm flinging battle was…
Anti climactic

[placid junco]

Is there a static alpha heracross in obsidian fieldlands?

[placid junco]

Ah man… my alpha mantine is a guaranteed alpha too

[random stream]

[bleak pine]

Eyyy Combusken

[pseudo goblet]

So y’all remember that fusion thing right

[placid junco]

Found a shiny I barrel

[sharp kernel]

https://youtu.be/4bsvBBgRC1o

[outer eagle]

It’s funny that Giratina, one of the fattest legendaries around, uses an item called “Greasiest Orb” to become more offensive.

[harsh path]

Grisious Orb is just a ball of butter

[pseudo goblet]

https://twitter.com/elchicoeevee/status/1623711241310019586?s=46&t=mfyZtJ6PIecxSOIqUP4rdg

Eevee (@ElChicoEevee)

btw the "SV" Sprites that got "leaked" apparently comes from HOME.

HD: https://t.co/5KpF1a7VNB

Source: @/mv_oripoke (Since i dont know when he will answer I decided to share it meanwhile so people dont get missleaded thinking its an actual file from a future update or idk : P)

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Twitter · Feb 9, 2023, 3:51 PM

Dang, no 99+ different flavor Alcremie I guess

[placid junco]

Good

[random stream]

agreed with copper

[placid junco]

Riko/Liko concept art

[pseudo goblet]

Weird thing to say, the hair looks like a bird to me

https://tenor.com/view/parrot-bird-gif-14744419

[placid junco]

Found an alpha bergmite
Idk if it’s static or not since it was so close to the alpha mamoswine

[pseudo goblet]

Mamo