Pokemon

[fading stratus]

yeah

this is what her team shoulda always been

remove avalugg tho

only slow ice type I'll allow is glastrier

or y'know abom

[pseudo goblet]

Add Mamoswine I dare you 😏

[fading stratus]

mamo is like okay ig

[pseudo goblet]

Huh, takes a tera event to make me train the new frog https://youtu.be/aFYBuQD99Fw?si=8aWNV_SbXZ4Tkm5S

[spice rivet]

https://youtu.be/8dwocAz1A7M?si=ZXC9_460mnHPiNMM

[placid junco]

Yes

[crimson moat]

There's probably like a dozen pokemon you could put on the thumbnail

[placid junco]

yeah but Urshifu is probably the problemiest problem child

[spice rivet]

Ye

Honestly, deleting UnseenFist.mon would be great

[placid junco]

clearly the solution is to make unseen fist give all your contact moves 50% recoil as a downside

[spice rivet]

In other news, we're nearly there for my Complete Original Trainer Living Form Dex!

Also having to replay Swprd/Sheild even with the DLC I think I can confidently say it is EASILY my least liked Pokemon game

... And now I have to do it again 😭

[placid junco]

can't you get a kubfu in SV

[spice rivet]

I already got 1, but I need 3 total. 1 to keep as Kubfu, 2 to become RS and SS

Furfrou Heart Trim - February via Go
RS Urshifu - Sword Playthrough #2
Miraidon/Crown/Boulder - Need to playthrough Violet w/ DLC

Mythicals I need with OT:
Keldeo (Normal) - Sword Playthrough #2
Hoopa x2 - Go only, Have in 1 Go
Zarude - Go only, missed event

[placid junco]

thats unfortunate

[spice rivet]

Eh, its not too bad. Keldeo is the real pain tbh

For Keldeo you have to beat Sword, do the crappy post game to catch Zacian, then you can start the quest for it

[placid junco]

mostly just unfortunate you have to play SWSH a second time
i can barely make myself go back to finish crown tundra

[spice rivet]

Mhmm, big time

But also its hilarious how if you take Kubfu out of your game you basically skip the Isle of Armour stuff lmao

[placid junco]

and i haven't even been able to go back to do the regi or bird stuff yet either because it's just so dull lmao

[spice rivet]

And Mustard is just absolutely pissed about it

I managed to get all the birds in Premiers Balls, so it took a little while

The Regis are dull af

But hey, atleast you can shiny hunt the legendaries in SwSh

Thanks SV 🙃

[placid junco]

i could care less about shiny hunting legendaries anyways

[spice rivet]

But ya, its still good to have a complete file for if/when I want to shiny hunt some legends, especially if all the doomposting around Bank becomes true sooner rather than later

[placid junco]

i should get on transferring stuff but i still haven't even set up home

[spice rivet]

Ya, def get on that soon if ya got the time

[placid junco]

i absolutely do i'm just lazy

[spice rivet]

Also if you pay for a month just to transfer up then stop paying, your mons arent deleted

They just block access till you pay again

Which is pretty convient

[placid junco]

yeah same thing was with bank

[spice rivet]

I also decided to hack one of my 3DS and back up all my saves from Gens 4-7 so I never permanently "lost" my teams from each game

[placid junco]

i do have a spare 3ds i'm gonna try hacking at some point
But i've just been so unmotivated lately

[spice rivet]

Honestly fair enough. The weather doesnt help either atm

[sleek sky]

man continues to post his gaming replays unsolicited
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2040057913-t6u6mg90d165e5z9iiaanmesm5tt0n9pw

[mighty storm]

shiny cat found

https://scontent.fsac1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/421244409_1822652188170492_5586569339587488436_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7c786a&_nc_ohc=ddLONoZ_QrgAX-C1dsg&_nc_ht=scontent.fsac1-2.fna&oh=00_AfCDaFkd6PkVMntwFZdjDDyqKW1tOCk_ZyrjR4iC37bSmQ&oe=65B1C51D

repeat male meowstic

[bleak pine]

Ket

[pseudo goblet]

@mighty storm @bleak pine moth!

[bleak pine]

moth

[pseudo goblet]

Alright Area Zero is being oddly kind to me, two gen 1 shinies in one week

[spice rivet]

Moff

[mighty storm]

Moth 😮

[pseudo goblet]

Oh shit I’m gonna have repeats now whenever I’m gonna shiny hunt Slither Wing huh

Choosing between Net and Dive Ball, think I’m going with Net, Dive ball-ed the shiny Golduck, plus I rarely use Net Ball

Shield Dust and Quiet

I got a Quiet shiny Venomoth, when I’m ev training a Quiet Bellibolt, that I picked out of the three Quiet nature Tadbulb from the 20+ Tadbulb I caught hoping for Modest, wtf lmao

[pseudo goblet]

Got @bleak pine ‘s favorite baby

[bleak pine]

[pseudo goblet]

PFFT this one had Speed Boost?!

Arguably best Tera raid right here

Aight, trained and tested a bit my Blueberry team, plus now I have a GREAT Bellibolt, and the raid Blaziken, rather quickly I might add

Probably have time for DLC now later today

[bleak pine]

Yeah, Speed Boost is cracked

[placid junco]

Hopped on scarlet for the first time since I finished the base game this evening

God looking at it, my team for at least the end of the E4 + champion storyline was so janky

Klawf, Brambleghast, Espathra, Revavroom, Flamigo, and Skeledirge

And then I spent 20 minutes looking for a Sandy shocks that would not spawn

[bleak pine]

Klawf~

[mighty storm]

But was the Klawf a blue fren?

[placid junco]

nah'

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah to me the paradoxes spawn rates feels, depend on time, like, if some of the paradox you want doesn’t spawn but spawn the other, might need a while, then Vice versa

Fine iirc it seems Sandy Shock location is PRETTY specific, but I don’t think I’ve saw Flutter and Moon both at the same time

[bleak pine]

I think Sandy Shocks only shows up in rocky spots in Area Zero

Like the big rocky slope

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah I was there earlier, one Walky magnets showed up

Imo, if one was training in Area Zero, and saw some of the more uncommon Paradox, you may have a bunch already but better might as well just catch it

If you not feeling stop and make a sandwich for type encounter effect

[mighty storm]

the roaring moons are in the 4th lab area since the teal mask, where as Iron valiant was always easily there despite counterparts

doesnt help that roaring moon's typing spawns 2 other mons in the area with sandwich

[bleak pine]

From what I know, you can find Scream Tail pretty much anywhere, but usually in the upper strata. Slither Wing and Brute Bonnet are found only on the upper strata. Great Tusk is in the cave area, alongside Flutter Mane. Roaring Moon is only ever found within the caves with the strange geoglyphs, as well as the 4th lab area.

[pseudo goblet]

Ouch… yeah if I’m doing that im going for dark sandwich, love Shiny Gible, but hate Shiny Garchomp lmao

[pseudo goblet]

I literally call Scream Tail the vermin of Paradoxes

[bleak pine]

I just love the concept

Prehistoric-powered Jigglypuff, with the temperment and barly restrained violence of a wolverine.

Pretty much all of the inhabitants are hostile (save for Flutter Mane, who will just merely be curious about you if you get close), but Scream Tail being very hostile is still funny.

[pseudo goblet]

I just realized, not sure if I should tell Raz that I’ve actively hunt down Girafarig and Farigiraf for sp atk and hp evs lol

[mighty storm]

that gimmighoul coin amount

[pseudo goblet]

I know I know

I been think to train up a Ghouldengo of my own

[mighty storm]

cheese boy

[pseudo goblet]

Still feels like I robbed someone, using a random Slither Wing as GTS offer for someone’s Ghouldengo

Like, even if the guys in Violet, they can just use any of their own set of Paradox for the scarlet ones- and not wasting the 999 coin effort

I COULD train the GTS Ghouldengo, but the OT isn’t mine, and I really should just use the 999 coin I have, it’s the phrase ‘you re not wasting money, just changed them to the form you like’ and I collect new set of coins

[bleak pine]

I know a lot of people call him string cheese but I always see like

Whoever is that stick of Cinnamon, in those Apple Jacks commercials

I dunno why

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/my-little-pony-mlp-apple-jack-oh-yeah-well-gif-13862364190334513206

[bleak pine]

https://tenor.com/view/apple-jacks-cereal-breakfast-apple-jacks-cereal-gif-18369435

Never really liked this cereal, though

Honestly with me, I just don't like really sweet cereal.

[pseudo goblet]

Lol, heard of the cereal, first time seeing it

[bleak pine]

You're not missing much, it's just a typical sweet sugary cereal

Though I massively prefer it to say, Captain Crunch

That stuff will tear your mouth to shreads

[pseudo goblet]

That’s really everybody opinion on AppleJacks huh, then again, I only have 2 nickel

[placid junco]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9unratedrandombattle-2040275699

i am good

(i am not but randbats funny)

[fading stratus]

I think unseen fist would be fine if the strike moves didnt exist tbh

like a very strong stab moves that ignores intimidate and target's defense boost is just very strong

[spice rivet]

Or if they couldnt crit through protect.

[pseudo goblet]

@bleak pine @mighty storm @fading stratus I WANNA LIVE THERE!!!!

[bleak pine]

Ayyyy Swinub

[pseudo goblet]

Oh yeah Lechonk evo is the star this episode

how you spell its name?? Oinkolgne ?

[bleak pine]

Something like that

[pseudo goblet]

Okay Im not necessarily 'like' the in-game models, but I like the anime looks, looks cute

Huh, would you look at that, now we have physical confirmation on the anime trios starters gender

Liko’s Sprigatito is female, as said by the cast
Roy’s Fuecoco is derpy boy
Dot’s Quaxly is kinda surprisingly a boy

[fading stratus]

oh is that how dot looks

thought she was edgy tomboy

[pseudo goblet]

minor character dwai

Dot is in the rotom phone, you know, introvert prefer indoors

Also NOOOOOO MAMO!!!!!

Also @bleak pine @mighty storm @fading stratus Uh, apparently on top of being monke, they consider Mankey line to be pigs just from their noses

[fading stratus]

they are monkey pigs

primeape is literally called the "Pig Monkey Pokemon"

[bleak pine]

Yep

[pseudo goblet]

Wait seriously? huh

[pseudo goblet]

also, here, THIS is Dot

[fading stratus]

i know this

that's why i said "edgy tomboy"

[pseudo goblet]

When shes out of the- is costume-youtube-ing a thing???

[fading stratus]

i mean probably?

[pseudo goblet]

now that I think about it, how come they didn't make Dot just a vtuber, thats more tech related- which shes good at, no need for the costume

[bleak pine]

Primeape’s whole thing is being incredibly angry, so seeing one actually be rather happy is just

Nidothing!

[pseudo goblet]

Plus stealing hats

[mighty storm]

yeah they are the pig monkey pokemon

[vagrant steppe]

Good as gold blocks FUCKING TRANSFORM???

[fading stratus]

wtf

REAL?

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah apparently??

Because it "targets Gholdengo"

[fading stratus]

good as gold never ceases to amaze me

[vagrant steppe]

Same

It's such a fucked up ability

How did they ever think it was okay

[fading stratus]

atleast its unaffected by helping hand too

[vagrant steppe]

Wait really?

Wack

[fading stratus]

yeah you can't helping hand or life dew it

[sleek sky]

It also blocks Parting Shot, memory serve me right

as in, it stops the tag out

[kind vortex]

Does it block imposter?

[vagrant steppe]

I have no clue

That's a good question

[vagrant steppe]

According to /r/stunfisk imposter is self targeting so it works

Weird distinction

Wait why does transform target then

[sleek sky]

probably because in doubles you need to choose a transform target

[spice rivet]

https://youtu.be/-BXM1HwuCDc?si=a8z6zZ2A3l_KvjQB

Man, RNG Manips are so cool

[sleek sky]

wake the fuck up samurai
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sleep-moves-are-now-banned-from-sv-ou-sleep-clause-is-now-lifted-from-sv-ou.3734948/

[golden lance]

It's darkrover

(Good)

[crimson moat]

REAL SHIT

[golden lance]

Honestly, the biggest loser from this was yawn

[sleek sky]

need a new fourth move on Torkoal

Wisp feels unsatisfying

Body Press is slashed in on the Smogon sample set
Might run some calcs

max def plus nature Torkoal Body Press isn't a guaranteed OHKO on bulky Kingambit

tough sell

guaranteed 2HKO on Darkrai

[sleek sky]

• Will-o-Wisp
• Body Press
• Clear Smog
• Scorching Sands/Earth Power
• Burning Jealousy
• Solar Beam

my shortlist so far

[bleak pine]

Hrrrm.

Well, 4 moveslot syndrome is really kicking in for me

Money's on Solar Beam, but that's really because it's a powerful sorta attack that Torkoal can often make good use of

[sleek sky]

back above 1400 on the main

team feels pretty good
biggest complaint is no Knock Off despite having three mons that learn it
https://pokepast.es/15020eda112fe897

[random stream]

you definitely want knock off my son

also I would change some of the overlapping water teras to something else that fits defensively

aside from that, lots of quirky mons but looks neat

[bleak pine]

Disarm em!

[vagrant steppe]

Honestly good

Yawn should've lived tho

It was fair

[sleek sky]

without sleep mod yawn becomes cracked with hazards chip

you can keep clicking yawn on every forced switch
and if they choose to take the sleep
you can still use yawn to keep forcing switches

[vagrant steppe]

True, didn't realize sleep clause left for it

[swift jasper]

Why do they have mcd hats lol

[vagrant steppe]

They're out of a job

[placid junco]

I just learned dudunsparce could also be a play on words for redundancy

[vagrant steppe]

No more sleep for them

[mighty storm]

dudunsparce has a cool signature move

[swift jasper]

Ah

[golden lance]

Wait

The ban only applies to sv ou does it not?

[sleek sky]

yes

other metagames may take up the ban

but for now it only applies to SV OU

[golden lance]

All of these are either UU or not in SV at all so like

It doesnt impact them too much

who was even using toescruel in ou anyway?

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/designer_ojisan/status/1749381615804207278?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Idk, Heal Ball feels more fit for Audino

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/startboii1/status/1749122184319000972?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[pseudo goblet]

AHHHHH!!! RANDOM SHINY SNOVER ANDHCJSJ

[bleak pine]

Ooh, nice

[pseudo goblet]

I WAS JUST TRYING TO COLLECT EVERY FLY SPOT ON THE MAP WTH

@mighty storm @fading stratus

[fading stratus]

[pseudo goblet]

And it fucking knows wood hammer, I can’t even False Swipe it

[mighty storm]

Nice

[pseudo goblet]

Gonna try with Pon’s spiky shield to not kill it

And it fucking knows Ingrain…

Fuck it, 109 Premier Ball, surely one of them can catch it

Stressed sigh*

I kept switching pokemon from my boxes best suited this situation, god…

Ran away, Grab my false Swiper, found out wood hammer, ran away, find a random amoonguss for spore but no effect, ran away, then find a random Noctowl for hypnosis that knows moonblast, carefully damage it, caught…

[fading stratus]

sporing a grass type...........

[bleak pine]

Grass types are immune to moves that utilize powder

Includes stuff like Spore, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, etc

Unsure if Poison Powder is resisted though

[pseudo goblet]

I forgot grass quirks okay

[bleak pine]

It’s alright!

[fading stratus]

next you'll tell me you have forgotten that toxic never misses if used by a poison type

[pseudo goblet]

One I remember most was ghost always gets to runaway lol

[bleak pine]

Yep; Ghost types are unaffected by the Shadow Tag ability

[fading stratus]

ghost aren't affected by shadow tag yeah

[bleak pine]

I dunno if this also applies to Arena Trap, but in Arena Trap’s case, Flying types are unaffected by that ability

A lot of types have weird interactions that aren’t immediately evident

[fading stratus]

ghosts and levitate mons too yeah

[pseudo goblet]

Alright, hopefully that’s every fly spot around the biomes, that just leave the central plaza, which- Carmine gonna whoop my ass if I don’t get there

[bleak pine]

Like, Dark Types. If a mon has the Prankster ability tries to use a status move against it, then the move will default to having a priority of 0

I think

I dunno if it’s that or the move fails completely

[fading stratus]

dark types are unaffected by prankster moves

[bleak pine]

Ahh

[fading stratus]

that's why tera dark amoongus was really common back in the day

[bleak pine]

Ahhh

[fading stratus]

to protect from prankster torn taunt

fun fact btw
nature power is a status move so it gets priority of +1 regardless of the move turning into moonblast, thunderbolt etc

[bleak pine]

Oh that’s cool

And you can turn it into like, Body Slam, plus whatever moves can change on the terrain

Dunno if the default for building floors is Body Slam

I might be confusing it for Secret Power

[fading stratus]

nature power doesn't turn into body slam

[pseudo goblet]

Just realized I have 7 shinies in SV now, without me really using sandwiches

[fading stratus]

its swift in buildings

[bleak pine]

Ahh

Less helpful for Swift

[pseudo goblet]

Litwick, Milcery, Skunky, Makuhita, Golduck, Venomoth, now Snover

[fading stratus]

then summer flexes with her shiny collection

[bleak pine]

Yeah, Shiny stuff is easier to find in SV

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah lmao

[bleak pine]

You’re bound to find one if you keep on the lookout!

[pseudo goblet]

I don’t get to shiny hunt as much

[bleak pine]

Really wished Terrain Pulse was more widespread

I know Arboliva learns it

But nothing else

[fading stratus]

what else should get it? pinkurchin?

[pseudo goblet]

Does every biome have 3-4 fly spot or did I missed one with Canyon and Coastal

[bleak pine]

Mostly just whatever could learn it in Sword/Shield

[bleak pine]

It’s the classrooms, rest stops and the stadiums

[pseudo goblet]

I don’t think I can see any noticeable buildings other than bridges now

‘Sweet, Sweet, Synchronization’ subtle

Alright, Carmine battle, Amulet Coin ready, so is Ogrepon once I get to switch from Glimmora

GEE, IT SURE WOULDVE BEEN GREAT TO HAVE THIS EARLIER HUH

Did he just invite me on a ‘date’ because I play as a girl???

[warm sky]

No

[pseudo goblet]

Mmm, dragon boy likes it that way huh

Okay, cute detail have the table ‘decor’ with the Elite Four members stuff

… I barely met this guy but I’m feeling related to Drayton lol

Subtle

Also, wow Kieran creepy, I like it

[kind vortex]

https://vxtwitter.com/Thunderblunder7/status/1749501343583109448

someone gotta be trolling

[mighty storm]

I do have a lot of shinies

like my last 2 male meowstics

[young river]

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sleep-moves-are-now-banned-from-sv-ou-sleep-clause-is-now-lifted-from-sv-ou.3734948/

[fading stratus]

they actually banned sleep

[maiden flax]

Yes

[kind vortex]

as of last night, ye

[random stream]

Clefable, also funny team from the opponent

[fading stratus]

thwackey?

tf

[bleak pine]

Ayyy Vigoroth

[golden lance]

Aight

Just finished the teal mask storyline

[golden lance]

Hmm

The next major fight is against the fairy team star leader

Literally all my team members are weak to fairy

[pseudo goblet]

Said team members are?

[golden lance]

Vullaby, gurdurr, noibat, gabite, mienfoo, and sligoo

[pseudo goblet]

Jfc

[golden lance]

TIL gurdurr evolves by trading

Shit

[sleek sky]

I can hop on and do a quickie if you want

@golden lance

[golden lance]

I am not running the game on a nintendo switch

[sleek sky]

Ahh

[golden lance]

Thx for the offer tho

[placid junco]

that team looks prime for getting swept by the starmobile yeah

Also damn I forgot how big of a level jump it is from the poison to fairy type star bases

[harsh path]

I understand more and more the joke of Gen 9 and time being a flat circle with gen 5

As based Sleep Ban is

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus @mighty storm @bleak pine question, how far am I into Indigo disk? Iirc I offline when counter allow me to battle in league

[fading stratus]

basically all you have to do now is fight the e4 (after passing each of their tests ofc) then fight the champion then area zero storyline will start

[pseudo goblet]

Oh the turtle one yes? Not peach

Kinda odd seeing people talk about Ogrepon and- Pecharunt was it? But not Terapagos much

[fading stratus]

yeah turtl one

[mighty storm]

yeah fight the E4, beat up Kieran, then you can start area zero to get turtle fren

[fading stratus]

I'll say this again
kieran is a bitch

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/terapagos-pokemon-pokemon-terapagos-gif-5336530138260992109

[fading stratus]

wonder if wheezing affects turtl's ability actually

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokemon-horizons-pokeani-anipoke-terapagos-gif-5491529637229236199

[pseudo goblet]

Blame the Momotaro I’m guessing lol

[fading stratus]

kieran was never affected by peachrunt

[pseudo goblet]

Well then, boy need more than just a therapy

[fading stratus]

dude's just a bitch

and a sore loser

[pseudo goblet]

Nothing special from todays outbreaks except Scizor

Btw how do I check BP mission?

THEY GIVE THESE OUT JUST LIKE THAT?!?

[mighty storm]

same way to check sandwich effects

[pseudo goblet]

And how to do that as well?

I only been using timers for my sandwiches

[mighty storm]

pressing right on the control pad

[pseudo goblet]

Oh the notices thing? That’s what this was use for?

[mighty storm]

yeah

[pseudo goblet]

Also saw BBQ mission now, thanks

[mighty storm]

yw

[pseudo goblet]

I’m just running around the terarium looking out for shinies, maybe I’m feeling cocky

Guessing I’m starting with Crispin first

Shit I forgot I need BP for this, enough for Crispin tho

[fading stratus]

dragon e4 doesn't need cp

the dude will pay it for you

[pseudo goblet]

Part of me still wondering if Crispin is a boy or girl

[fading stratus]

crispin's trial is weird

[pseudo goblet]

Okay it doesn’t help Crispin shaking violently with a pan when I’m already worried Crispin gonna whack me hard with it

[fading stratus]

lol

he just makes bad fire puns

[warm sky]

Boy, it's really obvious

[spice rivet]

Crispin be like

[pseudo goblet]

LITERALLY MY THOUGHT THANK YOU!!!

[pseudo goblet]

I mean, can’t help it when he’s cute looking

[spice rivet]

He really likes Rapunzel

[pseudo goblet]

Omg

[fading stratus]

lmao

[pseudo goblet]

Jalapeño guy says he’s tough, while his Bellossom and Torkoal got one shot by Mystical fire and Power gem lol

[spice rivet]

Ok last one I swear

[pseudo goblet]

And now he sen out Pokémon with pretty much same typing, same outcome I’m guessing

Eeyup 😂😂😂

[pseudo goblet]

Idk, so far his friends puns feels worse

Think I got every ingredient

Alright, fighting time, get your bucks ready mate, the chef pays this time

Ofc he has a ||Oven|| for a pokemon 😂

||his Talonflame helped boost Flutter Mane with Sunny Day 😅||

@fading stratus Jet Punch actually came in handy for his bird

[fading stratus]

jet punch is vroken you just refuse to use priority for some reason

priority spam is one of the reasons farigiraf is very good in doubles rn

[spice rivet]

I loved Wolfeys team, and with how much ESpeed Pao is running around, I really want to try Farigiraf out.

[pseudo goblet]

Almost lost, thank god for max potion and revive

[fading stratus]

not only wolfey we had 3/4 teams with farigiraf in top 4

[pseudo goblet]

I forgot to play WaterPon 😅😂😅😂

[spice rivet]

Tru

[pseudo goblet]

WOOO 25k money, Amulet Coin so worth

[fading stratus]

wolfey's team was neat yeah
that farigiraf actually doing damage was a surprise

[fading stratus]

Its been so long since I've used items in battle I'd forgotten you could use em lmao

[pseudo goblet]

Ikr

Also the hell is Temper Flare?

[fading stratus]

temper flare is fire type stomping tantrum

[pseudo goblet]

Oh, fire version of Stomping tan- yeah

Are they really naming these- stronger-after-miss moves with angy names lol

[mighty storm]

@pseudo goblet you should go for drayton next

[pseudo goblet]

To save BP?

Took a rest infront of steel E4 lol

[mighty storm]

sure lets go with that 🙂

[placid junco]

I wonder if we’re gonna get a treasures of ruin movie

[mighty storm]

SHINY CHIMKEN

@pseudo goblet @fading stratus

https://scontent.fsac1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/420862955_1824477854654592_3835761023534603029_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7c786a&_nc_ohc=UGiQnH1nq6UAX-BE2c1&_nc_ht=scontent.fsac1-2.fna&oh=00_AfDA4NAl8V6dKxQ2Rt5RiqP227bkB1T_j5qHG-mIlDxcPg&oe=65B4F112

1 ball, quick ball, caught

9 minutes, 15 seconds left on clock

[mighty storm]

also got 2 marked mons (non shiny) a snowy mark chimchar and sleepy scorbunny

[bleak pine]

[mighty storm]

Anyone want the chimchar?

or scorbunny

[jaunty wren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3r8ILtNjw

fuck

[vagrant steppe]

Honestly the sleep ban was super correct

Sleep is ridiculously unfun to play around

Oh I was winning but you landed your 50% accurate sleep move? Guess I lose

[sand forge]

So ban that move?

[vagrant steppe]

The argument was "if we ban 1 sleep move, people will just switch to the next"

So the end result is that sleep as a whole has to get banned

[outer eagle]

the extra cherry on top, is that your sleep turn count is another huge layer of rng

waking up immediately turn 2 vs waking up on turn 4

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah, huge difference and you have no way of knowing which it's gonna be

[sleek sky]

A lot of the discussion revolved around Darkrai because it was the boogeyman
But Hypno Iron Valiant, Sleep Powder H-Lilligant, and Spore Red Card Amoongus were all brought up as well

[crimson moat]

Yeah Darkrai was the biggest abuser because it both slept and swept. Iron Valiant was on that list too, but didn’t automatically have sleep in its moveset

[vagrant steppe]

And you can't just ban one abuser or ban one specific set

They also wanted "cartridge replication" which the sleep clause isn't able to do

[crimson moat]

The big reason for gen 9’s ban on sleep is that a Pokémon being out a whole turn means a lot more now.

The big reason for Gen 5’s sleep was that the sleep mechanic, for that generation only, was much worse

It’s funny that sleep got banned again like gen 5, but know that gen 5’s sleep ban was over a much more toxic issue

(Sleep turn count resetting)

Freeze hax isn’t getting the same treatment on account that it lands a lot less

[vagrant steppe]

The most consistent freezes are like 10%

Still feels like shit to lose a game to a freeze

But 50% is massively more likely to happen over 10%

[sleek sky]

And there's no cartridge accurate way to ban freeze moves without gutting normal ice type moves

[crimson moat]

Realistically, mimicking the Drowsy and Frostbite mechanics would be the best path forward, but players have no control over that

[sleek sky]

Maybe Gen 10
Maybe

[vagrant steppe]

Banning freeze removes ice beam, freeze dry, and triple axel

And that completely cripples ice types

[outer eagle]

thankfully Effect Spore isn't a common ability at least

[crimson moat]

Maybe Gen 10 will make an EV system that gets rid of IVs too

Maybe

[vagrant steppe]

I do think replacing freeze with frostbite is correct

But gamefreak doesn't make the correct decision

[sleek sky]

Frostbite is special burn, right?

[outer eagle]

well they replaced hail with snowstorm

[vagrant steppe]

They make a new random one every gen

[vagrant steppe]

Yup

[outer eagle]

so that's just the next logical step

[vagrant steppe]

It's logical but when have they ever been logical?

[sleek sky]

Torkoal losing Yawn as a phasing move does hurt it

It has other options for the fourth moveslot, but none as strong as Yawn, I think

[vagrant steppe]

Torkoal struggles to have 4 worthwhile slots ngl

[crimson moat]

Give them credit, they removed HMs

… but ILca didn’t

[vagrant steppe]

Like you can maybe use rapid spin ig

[crimson moat]

Even some of the logical changes they made they reverted later on

I get that they want to drag out a gameplay loop, but the situation around TMs sucked

[vagrant steppe]

Remember the downgrade from PSS to friend plaza?

Insane QoL leap backwards

[crimson moat]

And battle facilities getting phased out over time

… and character customization

And there’s also a video overviewing uniteractable landmarks getting worse from gens 6 to 8

[sleek sky]

Torkoal standard set was Lava Plume, Stealth Rocks, Rapid Spin, plus one

Usually Yawn. Some people went for Wisp or Body Press

There's some other options like Clear Smog or Scorching Sands
But none as good as Yawn
Being able to tank a setup sweeper hit and force it out with Yawn was huge
And synergized with getting rocks up

[vagrant steppe]

????

[kind vortex]

the anti-bird tech lol

[vagrant steppe]

Lmao true

[sleek sky]

man Ice is a good defensive type now

we live in an upside-down world

[vagrant steppe]

Dude how are you at 1400 on the ladder

[sleek sky]

tbh elo can be heavily affected by the timeslot you play in
affects who you face

I face some absolute clowns on ladder at 2 AM in 1200-1300s

[vagrant steppe]

Love it

He spent the rest of the game arguing it didn't in Gen 4 btw

[sleek sky]

I am the clown in 1200-1300

[pseudo goblet]

[mighty storm]

https://i.imgur.com/M0DGWcp.png

so the evolutions is like just darker (but with blaziken getting a white head dingle)

which reminds me of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkxrIKKzzBA&ab_channel=CircleToonsHD

[kind vortex]

tbf he's correct, ghost doesn't resist fighting

pretty sure gholdengo doesn't want to take a close combat from a scrappy mon : ^)

[vagrant steppe]

Oh right, ghost is immune whoops

[pseudo goblet]

[mighty storm]

Starmeleon though

[placid junco]

I could do the final battle of legends arceus rn if I wanted to but tbh not feeling it yet

Definitely not because the battle system is my least favorite part of the game

[pseudo goblet]

I really should change my strat having Glimmora and Flutter Mane at start to- idk Glimmora and Palafin when facing the E4

Especially since next one is steel

Tho I’ll admit, Dazzling gleam often gets crit one-shot on Crispin’s trial and battle was so funny lol

Wait Steel immune to poison and strong against rock… Glimmora is basically useless here

Good thing I have a Quaquaval or Iron Moth ready

[obsidian juniper]

https://x.com/travsaus/status/1749882538737225778?s=20

陈🌦 (@travsaus) on X

lmfao

Twitter · Jan 23, 2024, 7:51 PM

[pseudo goblet]

Btw @fading stratus Crispin Magmortar’s berry on Palafin Wave crash is such a big brain move

saved by Hands fighting tera Drain punch at the end

[spice rivet]

Fuck closed team sheet. That is all

Getting so sick of every random Timmy running Covert Cloak on the most random mons

[sleek sky]

you cannot fight fate

[vagrant steppe]

What were they cooking on randbats?

[sleek sky]

It's a subseed set with two attacks

what's the item?

[vagrant steppe]

Leftovers

[sleek sky]

Makes sense

Focus Blast is really the only weird thing here

And uh
anti-steel coverage, I guess

[vagrant steppe]

Weird on sceptile

[random stream]

weird set but not too nonsensical

[spice rivet]

I am so confused. Why Avalanche and Fissure of all moves

Also get Clear Smogged nerd

[bleak pine]

Clear Smog is nice

[spice rivet]

Not this team, but im pretty sure ive Clear Smogged my on stat drops atleast more than once

And on an unrelated note

The implication that Klara is trying to... Make her assets bigger but completely messed up is hysterical. Like gurl thats Instagram 101

[placid junco]

Klara is both entirely narcissistic and nearly just as incompetent

[spice rivet]

Im kinda surprised that got passed the brand managers at GF lmao

Also, nearly done the 2nd playthrough of Sword, and god. I am not looking forward to Swordbert and Sheildbert or whatever

Absolutely awful characters for an awful post game

But I have to do it before I can access Keldeo 🙃

[placid junco]

For all I’m concerned crown tundra is the real postgame

Mainly because I don’t like isle of armor

and SWSH postgame is like 45 minutes

[crimson moat]

SwSh postgame is also something that easily could have been in the story

[placid junco]

you know whats really fun

doing random battles and your opponent gets Urshifu rapid AND cresselia

[golden lance]

Have you tried "wanting it" more?

[bleak pine]

It's hillarious how obviously photoshopped it is

[placid junco]

and then my next opponent swept half my team with shell smash polteageist

[bleak pine]

I don't hold much love for those two idiots, as much as I like Sword/Shield

But they aren't the worst, at the very least

[placid junco]

tonight not my night for randoms i guess

[bleak pine]

Youch

Keldeo being a thing you can encounter in Sword/Shield is still just amazing

[placid junco]

and then after the polteageist went down they had a fuckin
dual screens parting shot impidimp final evo followed up by greedent

fucking hell

this is why i play unrated

[bleak pine]

Yeah, Grimmsnarl is a real jerk

[placid junco]

bulky setup sweepers are honestly just overpowered in randoms

and of course when I get to be a bulky setup sweeper my opponent just does it better

because fucking hell

oh so when I get randomly assigned Veluza it does fuck all but when my opponent gets it, it does 75% to a whishcash with oblivious

at least i broke my loss streak with Ribombee

[maiden flax]

Oh avalanche on dondozo has been getting popular due to all the dragons running around

I'm assuming this is unaware and not commander dozo right?

[spice rivet]

Nope, Commander. I clear smogged it the previous turn after it missed fissure

[sleek sky]

Commander is on Tatsugiri

[maiden flax]

Ah
Okay that is weird

[sleek sky]

Dondozo can be Unaware or... something else

[spice rivet]

Oblivious

[maiden flax]

Oh right I forgot

[sleek sky]

or Water Veil

[spice rivet]

It was Unaware though since Intimidate was working

[maiden flax]

Normally when people do commander sets it's more aggressive, just pure defensive dozo would use avalanche

[spice rivet]

Ya thats why I was absolutely bamboozled

The 4 they brought were
Heatran and Booster SpAtk Flutter in front, Dozo Giri in the back

[fading stratus]

avalanche and fissure is decent in cursedozo

we literally had curse dozo with fissure top 16 worlds

[maiden flax]

Did it also have a commander tatsugiri?

[spice rivet]

I was unaware(hah) of that

[fading stratus]

it was solo dozo

[maiden flax]

That's the reason for confusion

Cause this was with commander tatsugiri

[fading stratus]

I mean you sure it was commander tatsu and not storm drain tatsu\

[maiden flax]

It was in their mouth in the clip

[fading stratus]

then avalanche is weird ig

i can understand fissure still

but idea behind avalanche is probably that it hits flying mons that are immune to fissure

[golden lance]

People run storm drain tatsu?

[maiden flax]

Honestly fissure on dozo with commander is more weird to me

[fading stratus]

its funny in bo1 ladder with closed team sheet

because noone expects that

and its decent against fair bit of meta

[golden lance]

Huh

[fading stratus]

basically you play storm drain tatsu and dozo in team and everyone will be expecting commander

in tournamnets tho you have open team sheets so there's no reason to play it

like this team from a while ago

[maiden flax]

The reason why I find fissure weirder for commander dozo is that with the stat boosts dozo would prefer to play aggressively and on shot a lot of things without relying on fissure RNG
Avalanche makes more sense to me due to still being a 120 BP (since it's negative prio) ice move in a dragon heavy meta

[fading stratus]

+2 defenses and bulking up and lefties still means you live a lot of hits

[golden lance]

3 mons without protect as god intended

[fading stratus]

protect is vroken

[fading stratus]

also I'll admit I thought avalanche was like gyro ball

[random stream]

any closed team sheets fans in chat

[fading stratus]

closed team sheet is so bad

[random stream]

How come all the gens before this had them kidge (I might be lying)

[fading stratus]

ots is one of the best thing to happen to pokemon

[golden lance]

It's funny how open team sheets have to be done in paper because they didnt code it in game

[fading stratus]

prev gens not having ots had some funny techs

[golden lance]

I just remembered day 1 online gen 9

[random stream]

magmar

[golden lance]

Where the rng seed was set

And fake out sheer cold would always hit

[random stream]

wugtrio

[fading stratus]

magmar has a regs day 2

no shot this team is from september 2023

this is legit series A team

[fading stratus]

because eviolite follow me kinda neat and it learns fake out i think

that team looks like this but worse

[placid junco]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9unratedrandombattle-2042701772

lmao

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/nnnnnnnnmoo/status/1749771249189036388?t=A9VhklFCltgJfPyGMtJOwA&s=19

みむら (@nnnnnnnnmoo) on X

※年齢操作

Twitter · Jan 23, 2024, 12:29 PM

[short heath]

Can anyone half literate in code help me out

[fading stratus]

what is the code about btw

[short heath]

https://github.com/Kobazco/DraftEmerald/blob/Draft/Draft/INSTALL.md

Mr Alpharad Youtube Alpharad ran this which I find to be pretty interesting. The problem is that the code creator literally doesn't know how to get the prerequisites on a mac. It looks like it needs libpng-dev to install png.h, but I have no idea how to get that

Getting it to build on Windows seems much more streamlined

[fading stratus]

I've never ever touched a mac

so I probably won't be able to help

[short heath]

I was wondering if an esteemed Windows user could build it and send the compiled .gba

[fading stratus]

what's this even about btw

oh draft nuzlocke race

[short heath]

Ye

[fading stratus]

scope lens focus energy moment

[pseudo goblet]

@waxen moat @waxen moat Do it

[waxen moat]

I'M NOT FUCKING POSTING IT HERE

I THOUGHT ABOUT IT

[pseudo goblet]

COWARD 😂 😂 😂

||Why you no use the emote you put hours in making||

[fading stratus]

lmao

oh yeah btw yozzoy you said you wanted to try the wolfe team

do you have the team btw

if you don't i have the rental

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/P45tZCfx_QY?si=q4esrIPimSckJ8Hm

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/theterence94/status/1749919474730336597?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[fading stratus]

now we have balking bake

[maiden flax]

If it's apple stuff I say I absolutely cannot help you lol

[short heath]

I'm seeing if anyone on non-mac systems can help in building this for me

And then just send the file

[maiden flax]

Oh that's what you meant

[placid junco]

Quick question

Is there like, post-volo content in legends arceus?

[bleak pine]

Yep, a free update added in massive mass outbreaks, as well as ways to make use of them in the form of some special kinda berry

Also, endless battles, if memory serves. I know you don't like the battle system though, so that may not be too enjoyable.

[golden lance]

Complete the dex, fight arceus, shiny hunt

[placid junco]

Gotcha

I guess no reason to really delay fighting him then aside from leveling the team up

[bleak pine]

You got this

Even as wonky as the battle system is, ||Volo is, uh, surprisingly easy to take on||

||About the only real whammy is Hisuian Arcanine, given it's where you expect Milotic to be||

||And of course, our resident punished ghost dragon||

[spice rivet]

I have yet to, so if you can send that over itd be appreciated

[placid junco]

man i love it when my opponent goes like 8 turns in a row without getting full paralysis so they can get a bunch of calm minds set up

comfey is honestly a beast

[spice rivet]

And done until I want to Shiny hunt in Dynamax Adventures (I won't)

Only missing 4 mons in my entire OT Living Dex. Granted I can get a genned Zarude Dada if I really cared, and for the gen 9 stuff Ill wait to borrow a friends Switch and play Violet with the DLC

Though Ill guess there may also eventually be raids for them

It feels like we're about due for Shiny Koraidon/Miraidon distribution

[sleek sky]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2043257750-sk0a020ufqxbsmohofw5kfnf8lkmznapw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2043260585-lc9x4x4146l0z1tae45rhmwlhef6qprpw

we are gaming a little too much

[sleek sky]

okay wait we may have something here
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2043271293-9jm9x3bk4inpnysxwsf7d1rmkjaoecrpw

[fading stratus]

Don't have the img with me rn but code should be BL2V6K

[vagrant steppe]

Oh fuck me

[golden lance]

Gen 4 OU staple

[vagrant steppe]

Actually lost me the game

Just did not expect that

And freeze is fair

[random stream]

holy

I started a new platinum randolocke

[bleak pine]

Oh, cool!

[golden lance]

Randomized movesets too or?

If not rip that registeel

[random stream]

Randomized movesets yeah

this youngster is balling. Armaldo mamoswine pupitar

[pseudo goblet]

Mamo best one

[random stream]

Almost lost to the oreburgh gate superboss

registeel tanked two eqs to dragon claw it to low health, swapped to sucker punch kecleon and she read to switch to karate chop me think this would've been a wipe if she crit

[maiden flax]

Quiz: according to the Pokedex
What is regidrago's colour?

[warm sky]

Red?

[maiden flax]

Nope

[warm sky]

Fuck if I know then, because I doubt it'll be logical

[maiden flax]

you know its arms/shell?

its supposed to be dark green and thus the pokedex has it as... green

[warm sky]

GREEN?

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/regidrago-regieleki-regirock-registeel-regice-gif-25856039

[maiden flax]

green

[pseudo goblet]

I do see the green, prior to this I only see black lol

[random stream]

First death. Rip, explosion Flareon in oreburgh mine

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus @mighty storm @bleak pine https://youtube.com/shorts/d6LsZzO6TY0?si=6NUxgkL-5ndc4uQz

This thing true? I’m expecting this is false

[fading stratus]

I think you can get master ball from the gacha machine but idk about guranteed

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/fagldH23oj0?si=nq74yxvIxgv1MNiQ

The first one gets me

[outer eagle]

Slowpoke’s sprite looks funny now that i think about it

[pseudo goblet]

how so

[outer eagle]

how it slams its arms reminds me of children

[mighty storm]

says satire

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/0Vhb08ElzHw?si=7HbJkerhhwwfJ9vn

Bro really wanted that ‘first met in Area Zero’ text

[spice rivet]

First Lando Raid lmao lfg

[placid junco]

Oh joy of fucking joys were in Pokémon Day “”””””Leak”””””” season

[vagrant steppe]

Gen 10 is gonna be truly open world and you can ride the pokemon and there's cars and the unova remakes and they're unreal hd on the switch 2 and you can go to every region

[placid junco]

The one leak I saw on Twitter was fuckin

||Gen 10 Australia region, switch 2 enhanced releases of SV, gold/silver remakes with crystal stuff done by Ilca, and a bunch of Latin America stuff||

It was honestly hilarious

[vagrant steppe]

Why would you want more Ilca content?

[placid junco]

shrug just the 4chan “leak” that was posted to Twitter

[spice rivet]

https://youtu.be/281hoj9iUjc?si=ExoKY78XUcSDyU3F

Btw, the best mon to use for stealing the item your duping is Delphox.

Just give it Scratch, max out the PP which becomes 56 and give it the Magician ability.

[spice rivet]

Just had this happen to me lmao

[pseudo goblet]

You might wanna check on Palkia in your universe lmao

[fading stratus]

4 chan is the last place i trust for leaks nowadays

remember munkidori with shadow tag?

or Ungabungus

[pseudo goblet]

DAMN IT POKÉMON STOP RECOMMENDING PEOPLE TO USE OP POKÉMON

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-just-stop-please-stop-stop-it-meme-gif-26307878

[pseudo goblet]

Oh right Gyarados is in Unite now for rich people

Fish doesn’t have as grand introduction as the others tho, sad

[latent sleet]

yeah gyarados is useless for 1/4 of the game

[placid junco]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9unratedrandombattle-2044680194 poor opponent got offensive galarian slowking

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/nintendeal/status/1750594178655097331?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

O- kay- why’s Malaysia Arbok of all things?

We literally have Vileplume here

[short heath]

It's based on how many times the mon was searched in google

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah, and that weird

[sleek sky]

It's proportional to how often a pokemon is searched globally

Like
For Chi-Yu and Canada
It's probably not the most searched pokemon in Canada
But it has the biggest gap between how often it's searched in Canada versus searched globally

[bleak pine]

Little afraid to ask about Gardevoir in some spots.

I imagine Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao's searches can be chalked up to VGC stuff

Pikachu and Charizard's searches are generally just, being popular of course.

[crimson moat]

Something Something joke asking about what pokemon Norway searched the most

[obsidian juniper]

https://x.com/vicwingly/status/1750722316995330350?s=20

victoria 🔜 vancouver vgc (@vicwingly) on X

applying learning outcomes from years of cognitive behavioral therapy to reframe how my brain understands probability and risk management when playing turn based fighting games

Twitter · Jan 26, 2024, 3:28 AM

[crimson moat]

But how much impact to the game does the 75% mixup do overall

They mark the risk analysis here, but not the reward

[twin shard]

Depends on the game but lots of times, the end of the round

In dbfz, death of a character(s)

Similar reward, maybe even more

[long stone]

https://youtu.be/omYD6NuosNo?si=qzgW7OUNW8SJMfTJ

https://youtu.be/Y533kXPchgA?si=8T3OX4H6UStJ-hic

[spice rivet]

[mighty storm]

going to give pokemon reborn a try

[bleak pine]

Oh, oh dear Summer

Please, please reconsider

Unless it's out of morbid curiosity about what it does (And even then that's a mite too far), I believe nobody ought to suffer through it

[kind vortex]

reborn's final update cycle toned down a bunch of the needless edge, although there's definitely some stuff still there

that aside, game's fine if you're looking for more of a challenge than usual

just probably don't take the story too seriously

[golden lance]

https://youtu.be/MNCNiaakesA?si=UOhd1n35fxyg1wgi

JROSE GOT A SPONSORSHIP FOR PERSONA 3 RELOAD

HOLY SHIT

[mighty storm]

my starter for this well journey

we will get through this edgy game together

I was gonna pick a water type, but I saw the first gym leader mention she's electric sooooo fire chicken it is

I did use a couple passwords, but not too much

[bleak pine]

Torchic~

[kind vortex]

if you aren't against it, reset for speed boost

idr if there's a pw for ability capsules or not but speed boost torchic will make things quite a bit easier on you

[mighty storm]

oh right I have something to do soon, I'll play more later. Gave Buddy an ada-mint and saved for now. Gonna keep blaze since I got good IV rolls (25 attack, 31 speed)

[kind vortex]

also you have options against the gym leaders, but overly relying on the water starter might have given you trouble, yes

first leader is electric, second is grass

[mighty storm]

and yes I did the shiny charm password, cuz I heard the shinies are edited in this fangame

[kind vortex]

yes, reborn et.al use custom shinies

also their base rates are like 1/100 or something

you'll definitely notice a difference as you play

[mighty storm]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon-reborn/images/4/43/Reborn_Mon_Shiny.png/revision/latest?cb=20220608130635

rainbow samurott 💖

actually I may restart just for a shiny starter, since the odds are so good and all.

[bleak pine]

Yeah, there's plenty of shiny reworks

Some of them are alright, some of them, a little less ideal

[mighty storm]

looking through the shinies, the shellos and gastrodons look so pretty

[mighty storm]

I SR'd for an oshawott, meet Wotter.

8 evs physical attack

could be worst, I'll take it

has shell armor at least

[fading stratus]

just make it a special attacker

regular samurott has higher SpA anyway

[mighty storm]

oh wait really? Huh though it was a physical attacker

[fading stratus]

hisuian is

but regular has atk and spA swapped with hisuian

[mighty storm]

oh yeah, regular one has 8 more spatk, sweet

10 spAtk damn.

[fading stratus]

still better than 8

[mighty storm]

true

[golden lance]

https://youtu.be/3iv4EGqZ9GU?si=iJ3U16e_i5IYnskS

[fading stratus]

lol

[pseudo goblet]

One of the best pokemon this gen

Grass doing pretty well this gen I think, unless I missed some mon, the only weird one is the tumbleweed

[bleak pine]

Ogerpon's just great

[fading stratus]

ogerpon is good not because its grass

[bleak pine]

Love the ogre

[fading stratus]

grass ogerpon is one of the worst pons

[bleak pine]

Thing to keep in mind is, the respective masks you can have it equip actually increase its stats

Like, it's ATK stat goes up by, I think around 1.2x if a mask is equipped

[fading stratus]

(it doesn't increase stat it increase the power of moves you use by 1.2x)

[bleak pine]

The standard forme doesn't get that benefit without a mask equipped, though you can still give it another held item

Ah, right

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokemon-teal-mask-teal-mask-dlc-pokemon-dlc-ogerpon-gif-18190853017296523044

[fading stratus]

regular is just bad

tho defiant is vroken

[pseudo goblet]

Also yeah I prefer Fire Pon but doesn’t change grass is default lmao

[spice rivet]

Remember how I said I wasnt going to do Dynamax adventures? I lied lmaooooooo

I found these two just in 2 hours of starting to grind DAs

[golden lance]

[spice rivet]

Also went on a bit of a tear recently, pretty happy with my rank, though I know ingame ladder isnt a real mark of skill.

[bleak pine]

Ayyy nice

[fading stratus]

eh its fine

master ball tier is still kinda high

[pseudo goblet]

God, Palworld look so good, help

[mighty storm]

https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1750934132568322194

Pokémon (@Pokemon) on X

Ogerpon’s attributes, including its Ability and type, will change depending on which mask it puts on.

Which of Ogerpon’s four forms is your favorite?

#PokemonScarletViolet ❤️💜

Twitter · Jan 26, 2024, 5:30 PM

the comment section 💀

[long stone]

i want more Attributes

[bleak pine]

I just know better than to read the comments section of their twitter posts at this point

[mighty storm]

trust me, its not what you expect

[bleak pine]

...Oh, yeah, they likely moved well past the whole national 'dex thing, and likely are on something else

...I still like the Cornerstone Mask

Lookit that grin

[mighty storm]

Most of the posts is just this

"Reason behind global warming", hearthflame mask is just that strong

[bleak pine]

Blue Check
yeah that checks out

[sleek sky]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2044983484

[mighty storm]

https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1751288966421119402

Pokémon (@Pokemon) on X

Terapagos inhabited the Paldea region in a bygone era and was thought to have gone extinct due to seismic shifts about 2 million years ago, but Terapagos protected itself by changing the energy in its body into hard crystals and entering hibernation.

#PokemonScarletViolet ❤️💜

Twitter · Jan 27, 2024, 5:00 PM

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/oshiruko_s2/status/1751395687164715076?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Spheal too cute

I wanna squish

[bleak pine]

https://tenor.com/view/orb-spheal-pondering-my-orb-pokemon-pondering-gif-24206579

Me when someone mentions Spheal

[spice rivet]

Got Shiny Peter Griffin from the Fortnite Battle Pass

[fading stratus]

Ogerpon is the reason for global warming confirmed

[bleak pine]

https://tenor.com/view/greedent-ardilla-gorda-pokemon-unite-gif-23908854

[fading stratus]

greedent is just fat

[placid junco]

Yes that’s why it’s primary offensive move is counter

[fading stratus]

you mean body slam

[bleak pine]

https://tenor.com/view/scott-steiner-fat-tna-impact-rude-gif-13797010

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/anipoke-pokemon-gif-23760861

Funny how they didnt make its evo method is just FEED lmao

missed opportunity if you ask me

https://vxtwitter.com/glacytale_/status/1751384814341456095?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[mighty storm]

my favorite pokemon squirrel

https://tenor.com/view/curry-shiny-skwovet-rongourmand-eylime-gif-22498314

[bleak pine]

Squirrels~

[maiden flax]

https://twitter.com/avHYCcH3x80KCUE/status/1751221055061147772?t=iGxw9rbtNOedTf2kVXBwXw&s=19

フキダシコットン『1日1枚‼』 (@avHYCcH3x80KCUE) on X

雲を突き抜ける超高層ネズミざん
#ポケモン #Pokémon #DLC番外編 #ポケモンSV #イラスト

Twitter · Jan 27, 2024, 12:30 PM

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/tiger_subaru/status/1751218552357732619?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[pseudo goblet]

Somewhere in Sinnoh, in an old village

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus doing… Amarys the name? Amarys trial now

Fly

[fading stratus]

yes its amarys

[pseudo goblet]

Idk why, but this is funny to me

[fading stratus]

this has been a meme for a while now

[pseudo goblet]

I- cleared the trial MUCH quicker than I was with Crispin

Heck, first try even

[fading stratus]

you can change the flying control in menu btw

[pseudo goblet]

So I can freely fly outside of trial or no, after I finish battling her

FirePon will actually be useful this time

[fading stratus]

you can later on

but that's for you to find out

[pseudo goblet]

ALOLAN DUGTRIO?!? SHIT

Ogrepon and Hands as front

Fake out on it

Jesus she good

||Reuniclus???||

HAH, her ||Metagross||’s zen headbutt missed

Quiz?

… is it just me or the trials getting easier and easier as I go

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus OH SHIT, one shot Lacey’s ||fairy Tera Excadrill with Metagross tera boost Heavy slam, didn’t know she was gonna do fairy|| 😅

Got her ||Slowbro|| down before Metagross die to burn and Palafin not doing much

Gonna need some plan against dragon types now, cause my teams only way to damage them is Dazzling gleam at the moment

They re all so blue

Fuck, im screwed with Drayton’s trial

[placid junco]

[mighty storm]

Btw (spoilers to a pokemon day reveal?) ||According to ridderman Khu, there is an "M-related" pokemon not seen yet. And from the datamines we got everything datamined thus far EXCEPT the terastal forms of the raidons and 2 items. ||

[vagrant steppe]

I think Khu is just lying again

[mighty storm]

referring back to this riddle

||7: loyal 3, sinistcha line, dipplin, and ogerpon (Ursaluna is a form so not counting towards seven)
8: Archaludon, Hydrapple, gouging fire, raging bolt, iron boulder, iron crown, terapagos, pecharunt
what's the plus 1?||

what does he know

@pseudo goblet

[vagrant steppe]

Yeah I think he's making up shit

He's been way less accurate this gen than prior

[mighty storm]

My theory on ||the m-related mon: Since it wouldn't make sense to release a single paradox mon (of either category), what if it's a paradox mon of both? Like a Keldeo fused with ho-oh, alicorn style. It could have beautiful wings and robotic features, a design where if you look at it you could argue it's either way. And in the movie (m-related) it's lore is some mad-scientist guy used keldeo and ho-oh DNA along with machinery to try and create a powerful pokemon.||

[inland gyro]

i'm thinking of doing a 100% pokedex for some older games, is gen 3 not recommended due to needing them all whilst you need more items to trade with them unlike wireless?

also do people just ignore mythicals when doing stuff like this due to no legit methods now without finding old cartridges from others or having side games which yeah that's getting expensive?

[vagrant steppe]

@placid junco jirachi is MEGA BULLSHIT in randbats

Serene Grace flinch memes lmao

[inland gyro]

also so i heard that home will be going down this year, essentially for gens 6/7 does that make 100% form hunting almost impossible?

[placid junco]

Home is not going down

Neither is bank

Just every other 3DS/Wii U online service

[placid junco]

Also no because both gens still have in-built shiny hunting

[inland gyro]

oh think i got it wrong with that but so will 3DS pokemon titles no longer exchange properly between them online?

also by forms... vivillon

that creature

[placid junco]

The GTS will no longer function yes

But local wireless between 2 devices will still work

And Pokémon bank will still work

[inland gyro]

oh ok gotcha nice

i take it they expected people to still use those a lot?

[placid junco]

At the current moment the only 3ds/wii u online service that will remain online is bank

More or less yeah

That and it’s kind of series tradition to be able to bring Pokémon even from Gen 1 games all the way up into the modern era

[inland gyro]

nice thanks yeah this is granted prob way in future i'll be doing that pokedex next lel

[inland gyro]

its gen 1 remakes/gen 3 beyond you can since i think gen 2 originals weren't made backwards compatible?

also yeah do a lot of people to get the mythicals for 100% pokedex do the wifi exploit or just skip?

[placid junco]

yep

But i love how much of a "fuck it we ball" pokemon Bruxish is in randbats

like you just click an unresisted attack and if it lands it usually does 40% if not more

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9unratedrandombattle-2046450236-x36wpj8hzim1fzisij2gl1cmv0gf121pw

i did not deserve this win in the slightest

[placid junco]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9unratedrandombattle-2046463690 Klawf > Cinderace confirmed

[bleak pine]

CRAB

[sleek sky]

Electro Shot boosting your SpA even if it does no damage is pretty crazy
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2046604027-56gynq74sm49ofcrgjc338whtxxjgh6pw

[pseudo goblet]

@fading stratus https://vxtwitter.com/absolutelypm/status/1751861218653213032?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

https://vxtwitter.com/absolutelypm/status/1751844328639750315?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

Oooh precious boy

[random stream]

Good stuff

[fading stratus]

big fat squirrel

[pseudo goblet]

Oh I didn’t even notice the Greedent, ops

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/115573501

[pseudo goblet]

Was Cynthia’s Gastrodon always the West sea version??

I know that’s the case with Journeys

https://tenor.com/view/トリトドン-gastrodon-gif-26222567

[fading stratus]

it was, yes

she never had the blue one

afaik

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/vpandav/status/1751833577577435356?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[swift jasper]

She'd be unbeatable if she had the blue one

They had to nerf her

[fading stratus]

you mean she'd be more beatable

so they gave her pink to make her stronger

[swift jasper]

I'm banning you

[fading stratus]

mod aboose

[spice rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/live/wItjAAMh5LU?si=9dgjFSfNLvGQs4BG

This guys is doing a complete shiny living dex in gen 3, he has a ton of guides to for RNG abuse and arbitrary code execution

[random stream]

Yeah you kind of need to ACE your way through gen 3

decamark

[spice rivet]

Also, Im currently trying to RNG manip a Shiny Ray in HG but man, I am ass at timing inputs with Eon Timer

Not sure if being on a modded 3DS is helping either, so I may dig out one of my DS Lites and try that

[fading stratus]

btw yozzoy did you see
same team won liverpool

[spice rivet]

Lmao I didnt

Who was piloting it?

[fading stratus]

antonio sanchez i think

really good player

tho this was his first regs win

[spice rivet]

Noice

[fading stratus]

I think dude top 16'd his first ever regs back in i wanna say 2020

[spice rivet]

I wonder if the EVs are all the same too

[fading stratus]

it should be because all the teras and moves were same

but they played it more with the balance core unlike wolfey who brought farigiraf a lot of times

I only saw them brought farigiraf twice and they lost one of the two games

they played with double fakeout/pivot paired with double setup almost every game

[spice rivet]

Ah

[fading stratus]

calm mind flutter was vroken from what i saw

[spice rivet]

Def gotta watch the vod later

[fading stratus]

yeah you should

both the t4 game against edu and the finals were good

[warm sky]

Nah, as another mod I think Solar's in the right

[fading stratus]

corrupt mods

[golden lance]

Mods were bought by big sinnoh

[vagrant steppe]

As a former mod I'm defending pink gastrodon

It's the cooler one

[warm sky]

This is why you're a former mod

[vagrant steppe]

Rude

[placid junco]

https://x.com/ripplerain/status/1751776126526210121?s=61&t=cBZvUrdAQBg9SBrQp2_2KA

Rippol⛈️ (@ripplerain) on X

what in the coolest poképrotag
#PokemonScarletViolet #pokespe #ruinousquartet

Twitter · Jan 29, 2024, 1:15 AM

[spice rivet]

The RNG manip is way easier on a DS compared to 3DS. DS is way more consistent

[sleek sky]

why does Roaring Moon have base 119 Speed

[inland gyro]

will say i'm not doing shiny but yeah gen 3 i'm prob avoiding just because of all the side items

also so regarding people saying that bank will likely close down, do i mostly just need to catch and exchange over to bank then home the pokemon currently not on switch games?

[spice rivet]

P much

[kind vortex]

because top end paradox mons were designed to be Fair and Balanced

[vagrant steppe]

Yup

The paradoxes are not problematic

[crimson moat]

There is no war in Area Zero

[vagrant steppe]

Turns out super centralized stats with basically beast boost upfront is kinda nutty

Although they were smart enough to make it impossible for the amoongus one to have a speed boost

[inland gyro]

so april is where most services go down, is it likely soon after for bank?

[spice rivet]

We dont know

I already did all my transferring so Im good u less I decide to shiny hunt in an older gen. But even then RBY, GSC and hopefully RSE should make their way to NSO/be sold individually on Switch/Switch 2 eventually.

With Pokemon day coming up, I wont be surprised if they announce it then

[inland gyro]

my interest atm is just that i decided to start gen 4 100% at some point

followed by gen 5

i'm not spending a fortune on gen 3 lel

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/tontaro_/status/1752089378334376126?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[pseudo goblet]

Is that from HGSS???

Rayquaza from Johto???

[spice rivet]

Ye

Embedded Tower "quest"

SS gets Kyogre, HG gets Groudon. If you traded theopposite one and have both in your party then you can get the Jade Orb from Oak the Ray spawns there

You cant do it with transferred mons from Gen 3, only the Kyogre/Groudon specificly from a gen 4 game

[placid junco]

it's a "quest" because you can't do it until after you beat red

[bleak pine]

There's a lot of crap in HGSS like that

Seriously, it's so backloaded

[spice rivet]

Ya, like honestly tempted to start a new file and shiny hunt a bunch of stuff

[spice rivet]

I forgot this part, for some reason I thought the flag for it clears once you beat all the Kanto gyms

[placid junco]

Nah the weather trio quest doesn’t trigger until you see the second set of credits play

Just like Steven giving you a hoenn starter

[sleek sky]

I am having a little too much fun
who knew playing a competent team felt so good
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2047234404-u806uhe7suzep6h37c9bi0hzewgrndxpw

[flat wing]

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/ultimate_etoile/status/1752078761061962069?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[fading stratus]

peachrunt stinker tho

[pseudo goblet]

I had to check on its gender, hoping it’s also all female like Pon

Also now I found out it’s ||ghost|| poison

[fading stratus]

its gender is unknown

[pseudo goblet]

Yeah