Pokemon

[hasty anchor]

bird up

[hasty anchor]

We are in business now

[normal cave]

Ultranecrozmium Z is in the game apparently

But you have to jump through so many hoops to get it, that you'll probably never see it unless you know it exists

[hasty anchor]

Oh, really? Huh!

I guess they didn't have another sort of forme-changing item for it

The DNA Splicers are used for fusing most anything so I imagine changing Kyurem's Forme requires a different item, as a similar case

[normal cave]

Yup

Different method

You need to have kyurem in your party, and have zekrom/reshiram captured and registered in the dex, not necesarily in your party.

Same goes for ultra necrozma, but you need an extra hoop

Again, really hard to get if you don't know beforehand

[hasty anchor]

Ahhhh, ok

I feel like if it were to be added, Z-Moves can be an option for an attack once every 10 waves, making it something of an ace in the hole for a difficult battle.

[normal cave]

It is time

[hasty anchor]

Man, hard times must've fell on the Winstrates if they're living out in the middle of nowhere

Ayy, Vito's there too

hey guess who was dumb enough to try using aura sphere on something with the bulletproof ability

honse

Annnnnnd then Floette jumpscare

[normal cave]

Weavile out here 1v6ing after Great Tusk nearly wiped me on its own

https://tenor.com/view/thats-why-hes-the-goat-the-goat-gif-27042841

[hasty anchor]

Kama super good

[polar osprey]

@golden lance the PTCL live devs did a stealth update to the patch notes removing the phrase "within a certain period", confirming purchase limits won't reset, ever.

it's so over

[golden lance]

Awful

[polar osprey]

if they don't fix this the game might actually die no?

new players will be required to grind for a year with barely any rewards until they complete the celebrations

people won't do that they will just leave after they hit the wall that's gonna be the rotation next year

[golden lance]

There's a real chance

People legit hate having to rely on packs in a ccg

[polar osprey]

and the odds for the packs here are awful

and people are gonna exhaust all the bundles around the same time the rotation hits

[hasty anchor]

This Mankey looks like a rambutan.

[polar osprey]

so people that didn't build rotation proof decks or save their resources won't be able to play anything decent for months

people won't want to grind for dogshit for months before they can play with the cards they want

they will just do their dailies until they eventually lose interest in the game

or just straight up quit when they see they have nothing and can't get anything

[normal cave]

Now drag it along in every run

[hasty anchor]

Sidney, that's not how you use Zoroark.

You don't throw it out first

...Actually, wait, I think it's ability just isn't implemented yet

[normal cave]

Illusion is not implemented ye

Both zoros have a dead ability atm

[hasty anchor]

Oh, this happened before this did

the most menacing fairy

[normal cave]

Tbf I'd be scared too if I saw an immortal revenant carrying what is essentially a small nuke

[hasty anchor]

Well, I'd say after ||Atomizing Rayquaza with Light of Ruin||, this was a good run.

[random stream]

@polar osprey when they adding a new pack lil bro

[polar osprey]

10 days

[random stream]

Oh real

[hasty anchor]

Y'know, dex lore on Hydreigon made me wonder what they looked like many years ago

The whole reason for their violent temperment was because people thought they looked evil, and attacked it on sight.

...Which is really sad. I just want to believe they can be cinnamon rolls

They changed Torchic's passive to Defiant

[normal cave]

Defiant is so cracked

Zapdos G has it and holy shit it comes up so many times

[hasty anchor]

Wait, Mankey can learn Overheat, what!?

I actually double-checked this and yes, in Scarlet/Violet it can learn Overheat

[random stream]

@tacit sphinx would it have been too much to give falkner hoot hoot/skarmory
Bugsy ariados, Chuck hitmontop probably?

[hasty anchor]

Feels like Bugsy would have Heracross

Considering how you can find Heracross just holding onto the trees an Azalea Town, it would be fitting, and tip the player off to where you can find one.

Meanwhile Scyther's fine, but you never are exactly told where to find them, since they only show up during the bug-catching contest

[random stream]

Indeed. Was thinking ariados due to the HGSS spinarak gym, but he could have both tbh

Jasmine could have forretress alongside steelix, Morty gets misdreavus ofc

Pryce can have sneasel even though it's poopy in gen 2

[hasty anchor]

...I can't figure out why he has Metapod and Kakuna with him, though. Some of the Gym Trainers have Butterfree and Beedrill, but not him

[pseudo goblet]

We can go with Sun Wukong joke or the anger joke

[hasty anchor]

I love how they kept this man in this game.

It was unfortunately time for Team Rocket to go bye-bye a-go-go

BRING ON THE WALL

I love how things have aligned just-so for this kind of encounter

Alright so one discovery I ended up making was around Hidden Power; in Rogue, if you were to attempt to have something learn Hidden Power, you can see what the type of the move is before teaching it

So there's no blind guesses as to what type the move is

I can't verify yet if it's based on IV's or if it truly is randomized

[tacit sphinx]

Why the fuck would you torture Chikorita players more by giving Falkner a 4x resist

[swift jasper]

Why not

[tacit sphinx]

she doesn’t deserve it

[hasty anchor]

Real issue is really, there's not a whole lot of birds you could give Falkner

It's not just flying types, stuff with him has to be birds

Farfetch'd might be a good pick... I guess?

But that's also definitely way more of a problem than Pidgeotto, since it has an actual attack stat

So really, I think it's just fine as-is

Seeing him just throw out a Pidgeotto is enough of a shock factor, since it's a pretty well-known bird for those who watched the anime.

Also, it really was a good call to not just give Pidgeotto a flying-type attacking move for both GSC and the remakes, since I'm reasonably sure Pidgeotto knowing something like Aerial Ace would be infuriating

[jaunty wren]

truth nuke

mega charizard y > mega charizard x

[outer eagle]

well competitively speaking it's true

[jaunty wren]

design-wise too

I don't like the stubby wings X has

[sonic inlet]

I now have 4 marowaks alongside 5 venusaurs

I'm getting infested over here on two fronts

[hasty anchor]

I'm still in awe at how this is an option. Intimidate can do this too. I did not think beat up would be a move to use too.

[hasty anchor]

That is some really fire artwork

[mighty storm]

Noodles, rats, and leek the pack

[hasty anchor]

Just gonna battle Iris and OH DEAR LORD

-Actually nah, it wasn't too serious, Annihilape defeated it easily.

Definitely will say Battle! Champion (B2W2)? It so peak.

[normal cave]

Yesssss

Goated theme

[hasty anchor]

There we go, got the ribbon for Mankey and Charcadet

[normal cave]

[hasty anchor]

I'll certainly have to keep hatching up some eggs to make good time on a challenge run later. Unfortunately I can't very well use Mankey in either a Gen 1 or Gen 9 challenge, it seems.

But I can try a fighting-type only one, maybe

[hasty anchor]

Guess until then I'll do something that's probably been done to death so many times here before, but why not, let's do it again

[mighty storm]

Ya know what's crazy, in terms of cash in the pokemon world Pyukumuku chucking is more effective of a job then an 8 hour shift paying 16 dollars an hour

As 20k in Poke is equivalent to nearly 200 bucks

[hasty anchor]

I guess it's all the demand for throwing them out

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pyukumuku-sun-moon-gif-8101980

and imagine if you run into a green friend along the way

[hasty anchor]

Tourists really don't like Pyukumuku, so anyone who's willing to put up with throwing them back to the ocean and potentially get some mucus on their hands and maybe get smacked around by their innards would be paid generously

[mighty storm]

and still somehow not the best way to make money (not counting Isle of Armor's infinite money machine)

[outer eagle]

mfs never heard of gloves ig

[normal cave]

Yeah, people forget Pokémon got hands

If you mess with a Pyukumuku wrong you are gonna get socked

[sonic inlet]

That HP stat

[mighty storm]

Pyukumuku wild moveset

Many of these are harmless to humans, but toxic can be an issue if a particularly strong pyukumuku seeks vengeance. But you also have pokemon so just like battle them

[hasty anchor]

Here it is. Again. For the 5th time.

Honestly at this point there's so many mons that I may end up changing my mind again in like a month or so, but here it is

Also was a little unsure if the team box should be in the context of "If I were an actual person in the world of Pokémon" or "Just a VGC sorta team"

[mighty storm]

The Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Wooper Mass Outbreak event is now live. Runs until December 12th 2024 at 23:59 UTC

[hasty anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/wooper-pokemon-smile-quagsire-gif-20667095

[mighty storm]

shinnycatherine gonna go get the friend

[normal cave]

She broke the system

[normal cave]

Reddit has been crying about Floor 30 Crasher Wake's Gyarados a lot

Just +4 bolt strike it

[hasty anchor]

A lot of areas with a lot of rain get hit with this, especially the sea

There's a real chance you'll run into a Floatzel on the way. They have Swift Swim as an ability so paired with their already high speed they usually will go first, and it's incredibly likely they will know Wave Crash, which combined with their high ATK and rainfall hurts like the dickens.

[normal cave]

Yeah, the early game can be rough without a broken carry

[hasty anchor]

It's probably safer to just go to the grassy area instead of the lake or metropolis if you can help it

[normal cave]

Wondering how I'm going to do a Nebby run, what with it costing 7

[normal cave]

True.

[hasty anchor]

So really, stuff you really don't want to run into is Floatzel (Very painful and there's no way you're getting out without taking a very hard hit), Magnemite (Sturdy and has a chance to use some move that will inflict paralysis), as well as Furfrou

Seriously, Discharge is evil when you aren't planning on blowing every bit of your money just to buy Full Heal. It's usually safer to take them on with another electric-type of your choosing instead of risking it with something else.

Well, this is a nice way to start the daily run

[normal cave]

Tell me about it, I hate getting spammed with paralysis

[normal cave]

https://youtu.be/l41SpY9zVFw?si=fSoH8p_ygm0jruKA @pseudo goblet @polar osprey is this real?

I've been on a break from unite for the returning player event, but 5 licenses seems more worth than waiting for that

[polar osprey]

those events usually last a whole month

yeah it does

you need to login for 5 days for a month

just wait

[normal cave]

Oki, I can wait. I've been away for a few days already.

[hasty anchor]

I didn't mean to hold onto Watchog that long, but it happens!

[normal cave]

V nice

[hasty anchor]

...I don't think very many people like Watchog. I think it's fine, but there's definitely something off about it

Most other rodents do stand on twos from time, but mostly are four-legged, whereas Watchog just is always on twos

Have you seen it run? It's like it's trying to run a track.

[normal cave]

It's a meerkat. Those stand on two legs for watch duty.

[hasty anchor]

Ah yeah, they are based on those

[normal cave]

Well, a mix between meerkat and prairie dog

[hasty anchor]

Pretty clever, considering how Patrat's almost always on the lookout. Which I guess makes them foil to Sentret, since they do the same thing

[normal cave]

Yeah this checks out

Also space speedrun

[hasty anchor]

spaaaaaaaace

[normal cave]

Nice shiny

Aaaand it self destructs

Fake out does not work for some reason

[hasty anchor]

Yeah, I think Shields down protects it from flinching

[normal cave]

But it doesn't even take damage

[hasty anchor]

Wait, really?

Something else must be up, cause at the least it'd do damage

[placid junco]

...

[hasty anchor]

That's super unfortunate, youch

[normal cave]

Okay, what is the justification for fighting team star in this game? Aren't they just a bunch of bullied kids grouping together and rebelling against the school system that enabled their bullies?

[warm sky]

yesn't

but basically

||The director's predecessor ignored the bully problem, so penny formed team star, but team star has kind of gone too far, and straight up hasn't been to any classes, harasses other students to join them, etc, etc. They've become delinquent punks in their own right.||

||Penny wants to dismantle the group she created after she returned back from Galar.||

They're not evil, just misguided and skipping classes.

||Clavel joins because he wants to make right by what the previous school director did, and wants them to actually start to attend classes for that.||

||They're victims turned bullies.||

||But the problem is that we don't get to see much of them actually bullying, since the school is only used for going to class.||

||So there's no major storylines or side quests where we actually get to see team star do bad stuff||

||And instead they're more like pseudo-gyms||

[pseudo goblet]

👀

[normal cave]

Tyty, that clears things up

Also

||Holy shit Archeops has been a beast vs Ivy this run. So far no struggles vs Rayray. I'm even packing Outrage for Mega Ray.||

[hasty anchor]

||When you think about it, Scarlet/Violet is one big anti-bullying PSA||

[hasty anchor]

||Bird up!||

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/my-beloved-big-ounce-valentines-urban-rescue-ranch-uncle-ben-gif-27554576

btw what was the last game Watchog was in?

[pseudo goblet]

XY I think

One of the 5 pokemon line thats still stuck in 3DS

[mighty storm]

you mean USUM?

cuz nat dex

So yeah been a while since the watchog has been in a game, maybe we will get them in PZA

https://tenor.com/view/watchog-pokemon-normal-groundhog-meerkat-gif-26483999

[normal cave]

He died for our sins

[hasty anchor]

Simentaneously hated and loved is what Watchog is

At least it's got it better than Simisear

[hasty anchor]

lookit'im go

I'm really getting tired of this guy trying to buy off my friends

Zigzagoon used Covet!
Opposing Zigzagoon stole Sneasel's Soul Dew!
Sneasel's Pickpocket stole the opposing Zigzagoon's Soul Dew!

???

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/stealing-money-cash-hiding-eavesdropping-thief-gif-15004378

@random stream Cleff sweep

Everyone pulled their weight this run

[hasty anchor]

Really tempting to not just shout "Hadoken!" when I have Blaziken use Aura Sphere

I'm so used to Aura Sphere being this very rare move that very few things can learn, but now it's more common than I expect

Apparently Zangoose can learn Aura Sphere. Wow.

It's not any good at it. But it can!

[mighty storm]

oh yeah got a pack to open

[hasty anchor]

...I forgot if these Team Flare Admins have like, any relevance to the plot

Of X/Y I mean

Like they look unique enough to the point you think they would, but for the life of me I can't remember.

[mighty storm]

I totally didnt just craft a magikarp for the 2 full art gyarados I have
OH HI FULL ART EEVEE

[normal cave]

Yes, barely.

You fight each one like twice

Them looking identical does not help

[hasty anchor]

Even Xerosic gets more relevance!

Gotta say, I love the Forest music

Reminds me of some kinds of tracks in Donkey Kong Country

[normal cave]

Yeah it's really good

I loved the midnight forest theme, but this new one is great

This one and the space theme are both phenomenal

[hasty anchor]

Ayyyy its Katy

[normal cave]

[hasty anchor]

Really, the one upside is Clefable is very easy to set up on

All it does is just try to sock things, but it's still got stubby arms and no real way to do the thing Clefable is known for

This is like the 3rd time I found the Floette

Argh

[normal cave]

Yeah it is surprisingly common

Really strong, but annoyingly common

Its passive is nuts

[hasty anchor]

Well I might as well catch it, but I feel like I might wind up dropping it for something else

I got the Master Ball, but I think I'm still better off waiting

Finds the Mega Braclet on one wave
Immediately finds the Blazikenite on the next
pog

[normal cave]

Ez

Meanwhile

finds mega bracelet and gmax band
none of my team can use them

Oh btw I tried to do a Nebby run

Crashed and burned at Rival 25

[hasty anchor]

Ouch

Yeah Nebby might need some help

I think Meowth's good for that, considering it's got low cost, yet moves running off Technician still hurt

[normal cave]

It's a 7 cost with 0 early game power.

[normal cave]

Yeah Meowth can work.

[hasty anchor]

You can slap stuff out of the gate with Fake out and then go to using other moves!

[normal cave]

I'll go over the 2-3 cost carries

[normal cave]

Feint

Fake out feint so they never get a turn

[hasty anchor]

I was gonna mention Sneasel again, but I remembered it can't learn Fake Out normally.

That's one thing that does bug me a little bit, the usual egg moves aren't exactly available.

Makes me wonder if there could be some item or event that can teach some of the usual mainline egg move learnsets or somesuch

[spice rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g43VpFsvsI

[normal cave]

Hmmm, archen is 3 cost

[hasty anchor]

Aw jeez I'm about to get mugged by a pheasant

Well I caught it but I already got Floette, so... into the pile it goes I guess

Ok, one thing that's been bugging me: I don't think I've ever seen Thunder Fang get off the flinch chance or the chance to paralyze

I'm starting to think it's been-

Oh wait, right, Sheer Force.

[normal cave]

Floor 15 Wonder Trade

[hasty anchor]

Ho-yessssssss

[normal cave]

Team at floor 30, this might be the run

[hasty anchor]

Jeez, a level 15 Tsareena?

[normal cave]

KFC VS LEGENDARY KFC

[hasty anchor]

It's finger-licking good

[spice rivet]

*Popeyes vs KFC

[normal cave]

And a floor 20 lopunny

[hasty anchor]

The chicken has a kick to it

Well this would be an epic confrontation but I just hucked the Master Ball at it

No way I'm letting this get away!

I'm just letting the music run for now

Battle! Ho-Oh is fire

[normal cave]

Btw, do you need to lower its health for a master ball?

Because for other balls you do

[hasty anchor]

Nope

Far as I know, unlike any other boss encounters, the Master Ball always works

[normal cave]

HOLY SHIT WORTH

Lowering their HP is the worst

[hasty anchor]

It's just, my luck with these is terrible and I almost never found something to throw at until now

[normal cave]

Ho-oh is a huge find

[hasty anchor]

And then we threw Lysandre into a volcano.

Not really he's fine

Kinda expected him to have that ridiculous gadget-thing by round 2

[hasty anchor]

Stop throwing this stuff at me game, we're over capacity

[normal cave]

Welp, I got outsped and swept by Zinzilon's cryogonal

Insane luck, but nebby simply did not evolve on time

[hasty anchor]

I got curious and checked Cyrogonal's speed stat

How does a living Snowflake have 105 base speed

[normal cave]

Tbf he also had like

A NUTS gen 5 sandstorm core

[hasty anchor]

Also it's in yet another weird spot like Glalie in that people believe these things are just dead mountaineers who sorta reincarnated into these things

[normal cave]

Krookodile, Gigalith with sand stream, AND Ferrothorn

And my only superefective move was double kick on lopunny.

Which just got worn down by sandstorm/iron barbs.

[hasty anchor]

You'll always be number one to me Lance.

But I gotta curb-stomp you now. Nothing personal.

Surprisingly very few dragon types, all in all

Well, I say "dragon", but really, most anything of his that is a dragon type was Terastalized into some other type (Which I think was Dragalgae and Kingdra)

||Putting this image alongside the results, just cause I liked the picture. It's a crunchalicious beatdown||

So, here's one idea I had: Winning Rogue with everyone else's favorites

Mostly as a challenge, I would have to like, pick 6 mons of people's favorites here, and attempt to use them to win

So for example, I'd have to have stuff like, going off what I think everyone else has as a favorite, Treecko (Zane), Shellos (Summer), Gastly (Yami), Cleffa (Ren), Chikorite (Raz), and Slowpoke (Ducky)

Just as an example

[fading stratus]

You can use any of these in order for me
Bisharp (NOT Kingambit)
Ribombee
Milotic
Drapion
Heliolisk

[hasty anchor]

-Ooh, ok

[fading stratus]

I'm saying Not gambit because gambit looks ugly

bisharp is where its at

[hasty anchor]

I could do a list of 6 for any one, or use 1 for 6 people

That may be fair!

[fading stratus]

just ask people to make a list of 6 and choose 1 from each of the 6

[hasty anchor]

Just the only caveat is, they all have to be possible to use all 6 of them in the starter selection

[fading stratus]

to make it easy for you

[normal cave]

For me it's Sneasel/Sentret/Mienfoo

[hasty anchor]

So it might take some grinding

Righto!

[normal cave]

Sneasel can probs win it for ya

[hasty anchor]

I guess for me it'd be like, Torchic/Wooper/Mankey

[normal cave]

I need to reduce Nebby's cost by 1

So I can run it with Zapdos

Meowth is phenomenal early, but it falls off really hard really fast

Or reduce Sneasel's cost by 1, that works too

[hasty anchor]

Oh yeah, one more caveat I felt would spice it up: Under no circumstances can you drop that starter or catch new stuff to replace them with. Nor can you give them up or turn them to something else via events.

We don't ditch our friends!

[fading stratus]

if you want a 6th for this there's dnite

[hasty anchor]

Ooh, ok

[fading stratus]

just choose whichever is easy for you

[hasty anchor]

I think Pawniard is fine!

[fading stratus]

and most fun

[hasty anchor]

...Actually, slight spoilers: ||I still gotta unlock the Evolite||

||Apparently you can unlock it if you end up winning classic with something that has yet to evolve. So, in all honesty I very well might have to make it with Bisharp if I attempt this||

[fading stratus]

these are top 20 of zane's fav mons

choose one idk

he likes sceptile the most tho

[pseudo goblet]

Wait what’s happening

Oh yeah go ahead

I encourage you do this

[hasty anchor]

Sure! But before I can I'll have to train up a lot of these favorites

Just to reduce the costs to something more reasonable

[pseudo goblet]

Smh Rogue doesnt have neat shiny variation for Gen 3 starters

Huh, Rogue was nice enough to change the horrible shiny

Wait… does that mean…

[hasty anchor]

Admittedly it would be a mite hard to notice those eyes

[fading stratus]

yes it does mean pokerogue exists
sadly

[pseudo goblet]

HELL YEAH!

[pseudo goblet]

I was referring to Gold

[normal cave]

Carry unlocked

Scraggy+diglett doing amazing as usual

But now scrags can take the backseat and let solgaleo click sunsteel strike

Protean+Moxie scraggy with bullet punch is hella scary tho

[normal cave]

Both are shiny, so the +5 luck helps get the flute

Anyways I need sleep

[hasty anchor]

Meanwhile, on the grind for the big challenge...

OH GOD I'M NOT READY YET

I can't believe that worked. That would have been a TPK.

[warm sky]

Yeah it's basically "the school system failed team star, so it's up to Clive and you to set them straight." ||Also the previous director does show up as a minor NPC, he highly regrets his actions and willingly stepped down, and became the piano teacher for one of the team star members.||

Honestly all the admins are likable, though my fav is prob Eri.

[pseudo goblet]

just realized there me and bruial kinda lol

[tidal roost]

Ok will admit SV ost would go bonkers if gamefreak created them during gen 5

https://youtu.be/VsrI2PkACaI?si=Mj8pT4ussWrtsRHK

[normal cave]

[tidal roost]

we cracked the code

https://github.com/kuroppoi/entralinked/wiki/Setup

keeping best Gen alive

https://tenor.com/view/honest-word-its-honest-work-it-aint-much-it-aint-much-but-its-honest-work-gif-13763573

[random stream]

[normal cave]

Ran into the GTS but my team is too stacked

Item trade time ig, but it's worth looking at the trades for a rare starter

Nothing good.

Wonder guard with protean passive and bullet punch/shadow sneak. I guess I just win now?

[random stream]

guess so

[sterile verge]

What's this

[viral ingot]

Moltres!!

Just one more to go!

[normal cave]

[outer eagle]

For some reason i'm suddenly reminded of the existence of Mr.Bonding

[pseudo goblet]

Watch me go get zard pack and not get Moltres, breaking the pattern

Yup, baby goat tho

[normal cave]

[tidal roost]

Edited spritesheet we made from BW2

[mighty storm]

pack this morning wasnt anything, but got my first copy of the promo bulba

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress-2-tf2-memes-tf2-engineer-ugly-you're-ugly-gif-5324056779543459571

It do get revival blessing tho

[hasty anchor]

whaaaaat have I made

Ended up fusing Treecko and Gastly on my attempt to grind up, and this was the result.

Some of these color schemes I don't think work too terribly well, all in all.

Admittedly the one as seen in Infinite Fusion's dex looks pretty alright, not too terribly cursed

[normal cave]

Lore accurate gecko colors

[hasty anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/natalie-nat-gecko-dance-gif-5295781576522682691

[pseudo goblet]

Okay, Flamethrower and Aura Sphere, somehow believable when I read it, when I saw Core Enforcer? what

[hasty anchor]

I think I practically just made Roselia, cause the combination made Treecko into a Grass/Poison type

And yeah, Egg Moves are absurd

This is just one example of weird stuff

[pseudo goblet]

Oh its Grass Poison, I thought it was Ghost

[hasty anchor]

If I made Gastly the primary fusion target it would be a Ghost/Grass type instead

I figured Grass/Poison works a fair better, but I could be wrong

[pseudo goblet]

Sceptile with Black Sludge

[hasty anchor]

Well, I don't think the Black Sludge is something you can get, but Leftovers are always a good item to have

[normal cave]

Roserade but fast

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/sceptile-roserade-ludicolo-pokemon-dance-gif-19549216

[hasty anchor]

hah, just like that one game you all know

[pseudo goblet]

Which is?

[hasty anchor]

Oh, Mystery Dungeon: Explorers

[pseudo goblet]

Ahh, No wonder Idgi lol

[hasty anchor]

Ended up evolving the Haunter part of Grovyle and this was the name result.

what

[pseudo goblet]

https://x.com/dietranch/status/1865142870245507416?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

joy 🌙 (@dietranch) on X

Twitter · Dec 6, 2024, 9:14 PM

[hasty anchor]

Spheal~

[flat wing]

Holy fuck, finally got a max IV HP and def skarm, also has a pretty high sp def too.

Time to start raging at emerald battle frontier again when he's all ev'd up

[hasty anchor]

Battling Oleana
Her Garbodor someknow knows Frustration, and smacks Weavile with it
Panic
It does like 5 damage

I dunno if I should use or for this

[hasty anchor]

Well, this is pretty nice

[normal cave]

[normal cave]

Both

[hasty anchor]

It is really heartwarming how her friend is a Garbodor.

oh my goodness it is so pink

[normal cave]

We love pink shinies here

[hasty anchor]

Ended up having an "Anime" moment against the Expert Breeder

Zweilous ended up evolving after KO-ing Clefable and just wrecked the rest of their team

[normal cave]

That's some pokemon anime moment yeah

Nebby finally got the win

All it took was an unkillable protean priority machine on its side.

[hasty anchor]

Nebby~

Pew!

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/nebby-cosmog-gif-20157449

Pokerogue buffed Cosmog to let it evolve much earlier. And it STILL takes too long to evolve.

You need a 3- cost carry

And then hope Nebby evolves before it falls off

[hasty anchor]

Doing way better than i think I would be with these two

[normal cave]

They seem like a fine combo

Both hit like a truck, but they are hella fragile

Also obligatory garchomp getting nuked

[hasty anchor]

It really is just "destroy them first" with these two. Hoping to find the Dynamax Band soon

Fitting that the Dynamax Band would turn up right as I defeat Chairman Rose

[normal cave]

Doggo doggo doggo

[hasty anchor]

Wait, that's a shiny?

Kinda hard to tell!

[normal cave]

Mobile does not display tier 2 and higher shinies properly

Also, that ability

Used an event to give it its hidden ability

[hasty anchor]

Nice one!

[flat wing]

3 of these fucks now

Every single time HP ev training

Full odds

[void herald]

whismur my beloved

he's such a scrunkly oomfie

[normal cave]

https://youtu.be/0LLHO6N8CsE?si=wJ-eZ7q4MLGCFP4x

@pseudo goblet

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/whismur-pokemon-hoenn-gif-7400600

Evolve him to loudness

[normal cave]

Oh hey look some HP EVs

[mighty storm]

Also 3 of them means you can have one for each stage of the line

❤️

[normal cave]

True, he could start a living shiny dex

[flat wing]

[normal cave]

...tho idt that's possible

[flat wing]

It's always HP training, never any other stat

[outer eagle]

HP is arguably the most useful and universal stat you could EV train in realistically

[flat wing]

True, I mean ev'ing skarm now, so it's a given, just need to do sp def

Then I pull my hair out at the frontier again

[hasty anchor]

||The run involved near-every battle mechanic used!||

||And I won with Pikachu!||

||Eviolite acquired||

[normal cave]

Congrats!

This thing is fucking immortal

Beast boost is a hell of a drug

[hasty anchor]

It was balanced caust Stakataka was about as mobile as an actual brick tower

Now put it on Golisopod who has like a million moves that strike first

[normal cave]

First impression and jet punch

I also have sticky web on this

And bug/steel means only 1 weakness

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/_0bon_/status/1853810919920570701/photo/1

おぼん (@_0bon_) on X

Twitter · Nov 5, 2024, 2:45 PM

[normal cave]

Sit nodl

[hasty anchor]

Why does Azurill just constantly look like it's having the worst time?

It's like constantly concerned about something it looks like

[outer eagle]

life would be suffering if you're an azurill too

[hasty anchor]

ok but consider the following

https://tenor.com/view/azurill-excited-gif-21962575

Meanwhile the official artwork is like, it's so worried about everything

[hasty anchor]

I have no clue why these Zigzagoon keep trying to use Covet against Sneasel

They steal something, and then Sneasel proves that its the better thief by stealing it back

[normal cave]

Average baby expression ig

[hasty anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-koopa-gif-9854026

[pseudo goblet]

[pseudo goblet]

[hasty anchor]

Just left the music running while battling Mela

Team Star has such bangin' tracks

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-mmmm-monkey-turtle-kung-fu-panda-gif-17129341

This is a trainer battle

[hasty anchor]

Well, what do we have here?

Apparently, they were aware of Shuckle being very underwhelming so they loaded this thing up with stuff like Gastro Acid, Stealth Rock and Salt Cure

Not that it matters to Annihilape who can just face-tank all the salt in its eyes

[hasty anchor]

Apparently one random event has you battling Mira? I'm guessing there's similar events with other such trainers in Diamond/Pearl, like Cheryl, Riley, etc.

Also, yeah sure, try taking me on with your own Hydreigon when I already ended up buffing it up well enough to steamroll the rest of your psychic-types

[mighty storm]

back from locals, time to crack a pack

3 out of 5 related to sleep, odd

(Counting Nidoqueen cuz she sleeping)

[pseudo goblet]

What about the Spore demon himself lol

[mighty storm]

TRUE

[hasty anchor]

HEY

-Alright so as it turns out, there's a downside to having a ridiculous amount of berries

Fortunately stomping the Greedent into the ground gave every party member a very nifty prize

And at the end of it all, I gotta battle Leon.

Sorry, but I gotta beat you down just to ||torment Finn again||. No hard feelings.

On the subject of Leon, once again gonna bring up that music slaps.

Specifically, Battle! Champion, the Sword/Shield rendition. I especially love how it incorporates the Hall of Fame jingle from the past titles in it.

[normal cave]

It do be good

@pseudo goblet

Also, ty for telling me how to unlock eviolite, I just got it too. Did a full shiny run with a rellor.

[hasty anchor]

||Ok, so get this||

||I ended up buffing Weavile's own Attack stat so much and using Screech to lower Eternatus' own defense that when I picked Triple Axel, the first hit caused Eternatus to go to its second phase||

||...But Weavile wasn't done attacking, and the next two hits just ended up KOing Eternamax Eternatus.||

||And I didn't have to send out a second mons to help out.||

[normal cave]

Beautiful

[hasty anchor]

Just prime "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" material

[pseudo goblet]

Hello top 3 worst Mega lmao

[kind vortex]

?

in what world is m beedrill top 3 worst mega

[pseudo goblet]

THATS IT, IMMA USE SOME HOURGLASS TILL I HIT SOMETHING, OR SO HELP ME

Okay that works, very next pack lmao

[pseudo goblet]

https://youtu.be/fRS6wm6EEL4?si=9cYIUgxyh2g8ofLQ

This one we re in

[hasty anchor]

I'll just come out and say it

Mega Blaziken is not a good Mega Evolution

...Which is really weird to say, I know, but I meant this like, game-wise. It's just Blaziken but with a good few stat increases to its name, and... that's about it. It works, true, since you really can't top Speed Boost, but that's what Blaziken was already doing

Design is nice though. Especially love how there supposively is a masked hero(?) in the anime whose outfit is based on it

But at least the Mega Evolution has it better than others since it still builds up on the base form in a meaningful fashion. You can't say the same about some of them, like say, Garchomp.

[kind vortex]

1. wolfey's evaluating in vgc context, while rogue ain't vgc (doubles at best)
2. even in vgc i'd not necessarily agree that beedrill is top 3 worst; a ton of megas are outright bad in vgc when stuff like mega kang and mega mence rule the roost, much less mega ray in restricted format, and beedrill has adaptability boosted u-turn in case it needs to switch, or adaptability boosted poison jab to nuke a fairy

off the top of my head, i straight up would never consider m audino or m ampharos in vgc, and i'm sure i could find other examples with a minute or so of thought, where at least beedrill sounds reasonably fun to play and has some meaningful potential applications

[hasty anchor]

A few others I'd say are "bad" in some sense are ones that belong to some other mons that just before then were practically never considered a top spot for a VGC team. Mawile's one case, cause, really, if you were to participate in a battle and you see someone has Mawile, you 100% know they're gonna Mega Evolve it. Same goes for Kangaskhan, Beedrill, or Ampharos. And a lot of them are very cool designs, don't get me wrong. But it feels like the whole thing was, nobody really cared until they did Mega Evolve.

Oh yeah Audino

I like the idea of Audino having a Mega Evolution and the design and theme was nice.

Still wasn't enough to help it.

[kind vortex]

mawile isn't bad in any sense

it's 100% telegraphed but still an enormous threat

[hasty anchor]

Yeah, like, no denying Mawile rips things apart.

It's just, predictable? I guess the word is.

[kind vortex]

and has enough coverage to ruin a lot of potential counterplay if it's not properly dealt with

[hasty anchor]

Plus it just instills some dread that Mawile just is never going to gain an evoution proper... though given that not even 1 mainline game later, Duraludon can evolve into Archaludon, that josses that theory a little bit.

[kind vortex]

evolvable mons were never excluded from potential g-max; they did give the fanservice mons like pikachu/meowth/eevee g-max forms

i grant it feels a little weird to give duraludon an evolution a gen later instead of in gen 8, but i don't think it's necessarily unprecedented

[hasty anchor]

I guess I am just not too big a fan of Mega Evolution in general, since only a small fraction of the known Pokémon today can undergo it. And the further you get from Kanto, the more sparse it gets.

[kind vortex]

however, no evolvable mon has a mega

so giving mawile a regular evolution would be its own precedent setter

[hasty anchor]

Only question remains

[kind vortex]

(would be kinda funny)

[hasty anchor]

Would it be a logical evolution like Wyrdeer, or a dumb joke like Dudunsparse?

I'd be alright with either

[maiden flax]

The game has unlocks now?

[pseudo goblet]

Why not just put three whole tomato lmao

[warm sky]

||https://twitter.com/CentroLeaks/status/1865476981774520676?t=uedNFt1sJuyexIWM_bTQRg&s=19|| unite China only leak

[pseudo goblet]

Finally, Shiny Tinkatink, took 2 sandwich

20 minutes left, Hoping I get 1-2 more baby

Also doing a little Ultra Wormhole during that, was considering to start Another UB hunt before remembering my over odds Kartana ptsd lol

Apparently Exeggutor can’t substitute for the Trevenant Trick and Skill Swap method, gonna have get it before I start Legendary hunt

[pseudo goblet]

5 minutes(sandwich) later lmao

Small and marked too

YES!!! I BET RIGHT WITH LOVE BALL! SHE DOES HAVE THE EVENT BOOST MARK!!!

[maiden flax]

Decided to log in after a while and beat a mono water challenge

[pseudo goblet]

And Third Baby pretty quick after Sandwich ended, for event without shiny boost, Tinkatink is so quick for me

[pseudo goblet]

Reminder that we are told ZA news release next year

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/ke_mo_suke/status/1865382523515371717?t=JEyrkYVS6-VKn3GXWSqvow&s=19

https://twitter.com/ke_mo_suke/status/1865743612455305669?t=uXsblenGMcLGB-W8fpXbkg&s=19

けもすけ (@ke_mo_suke) on X

1番お気に入りのオオタチイラスト！

Twitter · Dec 7, 2024, 1:07 PM

けもすけ (@ke_mo_suke) on X

24000フォロワーさんになりました！！
いつもありがとう！！ฅ(*`꒳´=*)✨

Twitter · Dec 8, 2024, 1:01 PM

[normal cave]

Hell yeah

[rocky glen]

Furret wanna square up

[hasty anchor]

Ay nice!

And yeah, there are unlockables

[short heath]

I would beat Furret in a boxing match

And it would be very easy

[tacit sphinx]

Did I ever show you guys the Pokemon card I think is the funniest

“Drew like a dark fucked up version of Forretress haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality.”

[warm sky]

Speaking of bugs

https://vxtwitter.com/mean_to_you/status/1854163315540562270?t=wuyoe1ETwaUe_XGJWioMlQ&s=19

@pseudo goblet do you like this bug?

[normal cave]

Lost a mono fairy run to snow cloak mamo :/

I did learn that serene grace togekiss with multi lens is nasty

And I think I unlocked floette's passive? Not sure.

[normal cave]

Oop, nevermind. Reopened pokerogue and it put me back in the run.

[normal cave]

I just used my master ball on a legendary 10 floors ago

[tacit sphinx]

https://youtu.be/pXdGk0dzIso?si=fblknCRCL8bumGFS

[normal cave]

He never misses

[hasty anchor]

They really made the box art for these games more menacing than the game itself usually is

Gives the impression that Genger is some incredibly malevolent entity, but he's actually just a git

[normal cave]

He tries to get you killed

[hasty anchor]

Well, to be fair, yes

Who names their team "Team Meanies"?

[normal cave]

Like, gengar and skuntank both try to get others to kill you

[hasty anchor]

Speaking of Mystery Dungeon, I definitely need to try out DX, and maybe see if I can find Super Mystery Dungeon

About the few games I have played were Blue Rescue Team, and only a little bit of Explorers of Darkness

||Gengar is actually very well-written in spite of how open he is about him and his team just being a bunch of jerks. He goes from using some prophecy's meaning to try and get you exiled and nearly killed, to breaching the afterlife just to rescue your soul. Now that's character development.||

[normal cave]

Sky (and to an extent time/darkness) are peak

[normal cave]

||They do make you hate him up until the end.||

I need to take the stinky because I don't think I can beat garb. I have no ground moves and my team is all weak to gunk shot (or stomping tantrum for mawile)

[pseudo goblet]

Yes and Hello again Venipede

[warm sky]

ah you already posted this one oops

https://twitter.com/_0bon_/status/1858913459322417301/photo/1

おぼん (@_0bon_) on X

寿司食ってる夢をみてるマグマラシ

Twitter · Nov 19, 2024, 4:41 PM

@pseudo goblet @normal cave hold on have this

[normal cave]

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

THESE ARE TWO OF MY FAVES CUDDLING

[pseudo goblet]

Wait I did?

[normal cave]

I'm still melting from how cute this is

[void herald]

he assembles an angry mob to try to murder you

[hasty anchor]

It's definitely a surprising moment when that does happen

You spend a good majority of the plot getting to know everyone, and in spite of all that, the string of natural disasters affecting the world meant that any solution, even one that would result in the player character's exile, would be something they would be willing to take.

[normal cave]

Nah they wanted you dead not exiled. They sent Alakazam to hunt your ass.

Gengar convinced everyone you knew and loved, except your partner, to turn on you and try to kill you. That's evil.

Okay your partner and Kanga iirc.

[hasty anchor]

Well, them wanting to kill you resulted in exile and being on the run, yeah

...Not even a moment in on Endless and I'm already getting this.

I guess we're shiny hunting now

[normal cave]

EZ

Not much to do on Endless but shiny hunt/legendary hunt.

[hasty anchor]

Well, good thing I got it!

Also noticed that the game is pretty generous with friendship evolutions. Last time I took Azurill with me, it took no time to evolve into Marill

https://tenor.com/view/marill-pokemon-dance-pokemon-amie-happy-gif-27528025

Well, some of them. Last time I tried using Snom it took forever to evolve. Or maybe I just didn't use it in battle enough.

[normal cave]

You need to use them in battle and give them rare candies. That is also how you farm candies.

[hasty anchor]

Ayyy, there's one

[normal cave]

That's a good one

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-magicarp-magicarpjump-gif-12943461

[mighty storm]

my pack pulls werent so good today

[normal cave]

Fuck this lady. I tried every option and she is just guaranteed to crit turn 1.

Just a "lose a mon" event 90% of the time. The 10% you do win does feel good tho.

BRUH AZU IS AT 255 FRIENDSHIP DAFUQ YOU MEAN LOOKING DOWN

If I had aqua jet on it it'd be an easy win

[maiden flax]

Started with carvanha, froakie and Mudkip cause I like them
Do you know what carvanha's rare move is?
It says surging strikes on the wiki but it also says surging strikes for swampert when it's actually aqua step

I'm going to guess fishous mostly cause that would benefit both strong jaw and speed boost when relevant

[maiden flax]

Oh is this a mono fairy run?

[normal cave]

Was

Yes

Didn't go very well tho

[hasty anchor]

Oh yeah, I think they changed egg moves around last patch

I remember Sneasel having Storm Throw, but it got replaced with Darkest Lariat

...Which is a funny sort of thing, since I think Storm Throw, in JP is "Mountain Storm", which is a Judo technique

[normal cave]

Replaced the life of judo with the life of a luchador

[hasty anchor]

Some Egg moves give pretty funny mental images

Deino has Fickle Beam, which I imagine means Hydreigon typically has to get it's other two heads to cooperate long enough to deal massive damage

Nevermind the fact they are pretty much without thought, save for whatever Hydreigon wants them to do already, so they practically are just weird-looking hands

[placid junco]

Playing tcglive and against charizard gholdengho for some reason?

eh, their playing charizard anyways , don't exactly need a full deck of cards to play

[hasty anchor]

Spoink~

You ever notice how the Huge Power ability seemingly is only ever an ability mons that look like rabbits have?

Yeah Mega Mawile can have it, but that's sides the point

I know he says this cause you have to throw down with him at the Cold Storage, but I like to think he is just that terrified of Annihilape.

[maiden flax]

mega mawile can be argued as a rabbit having 2 long "ears"

[hasty anchor]

Ah, true enough

[pseudo goblet]

Hmm

[hasty anchor]

Azumarill hitting the weights

[hasty anchor]

Oooh

[mighty storm]

was gonna say medicham but medicham has pure power

[pseudo goblet]

Now I wonder if Rogue follows this concept and not just see which mon needs the ability lol

[mighty storm]

which is huge power but different name

[mighty storm]

https://youtu.be/JA7bDONsVIM?t=9

[pseudo goblet]

For once, shes fine with target Espeon being a boy lol

[mighty storm]

that shiny is pretty hard to spot

[pseudo goblet]

Watch her get the one Spinda pattern that no one ever had

[mighty storm]

"Eevee is just a baby" - Chef Catherine

https://tenor.com/view/blazedpx-pokemon-eevee-gif-23902862

facts

[hasty anchor]

I love Annihilape so much, everyone. So glad Mankey's made it in the world.

[pseudo goblet]

I wanna say she always say phrase like that but Im not one to talk here lmao

[mighty storm]

Yup I know

[mighty storm]

17:41 best part of the vod so far

Ok I kinda wanna shiny hunt a fidough

omg its a jumbo!

[pseudo goblet]

Timbit

[pseudo goblet]

Its not even the video itself

[mighty storm]

"A shiny fell off a cliff?"
I remember when a cyclizar shiny I couldnt get back fell off a cliff

[mighty storm]

Also the disappearing Jolteon, and the Pawmi that got stuck on the ceiling

[pseudo goblet]

Shiny Hunting is not a healthy hobby

[mighty storm]

I can't wait for PZA to return the gorgeous shiny sound

[pseudo goblet]

Don’t bet all in on that

Who knows

I also hope shinys can’t despawn lol

[hasty anchor]

Really tempted to do like, a cat-only run now that I think I can make it just fine with Sprigatito

Will it cat?

[maiden flax]

They gave hooh Phoenix's Q from Dota!?

[warm sky]

Yes I double checked lol you did post it before Zane

https://twitter.com/seissnd/status/1855619152943120729?t=JYlEf6MvxIiZX23I-3x7ww&s=19

ellie (@seissnd) on X

🌊🌌

Twitter · Nov 10, 2024, 2:30 PM

[pseudo goblet]

Even better when past me said this

[pseudo goblet]

Also I think thats the new Unite holowear for Lapras

[pseudo goblet]

https://x.com/pokemonszn/status/1865883116474179854?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

pokémon artworks ✨ (@pokemonszn) on X

Twitter · Dec 8, 2024, 10:16 PM

fr thought for a sec Dialga was drawn like an Unicorn with sword as the horn

Turns out the ‘sword/horn’ was the head and the ‘head’ was cannon neck

[tacit sphinx]

@placid junco https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/328891467487510528/1315432603167359056/image0.jpg?ex=67580c54&is=6756bad4&hm=011b0acc39cd4c4f569db0e3bce4899a646adbe824c4156d5b83d7682c9e0f86&

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/Tsuku_neee/status/1866121876856259007?t=6gVgJ_eGqKcAoK-OnkCGYQ&s=19 @normal cave

つくね (@Tsuku_neee) on X

💜🩷🩵

Twitter · Dec 9, 2024, 2:05 PM

[sonic inlet]

@summer carbon Are you playing pocket rn

[summer carbon]

No

[sonic inlet]

Might have been you who just cooked me with venusaur

Ok nvm then

Someone else with the same name

[summer carbon]

Nah I play pikachu when I do

[sonic inlet]

Noted

[mighty storm]

||Tera leak guy said thats one of the only things we're getting for PZA leaks because they found a shiny stunfisk||

also this morning pack got the caterpie and dewgong

well that was an opening (they conceded after)

[swift jasper]

Fat pikachu

[normal cave]

Cute!!!

[mighty storm]

on the hunt for the shiny baked bun

https://tenor.com/view/fidough-pokemon-paldea-scarlet-violet-puppy-gif-27192566

[normal cave]

The last member of the loyal trio I needed (I also have pecharunt I think)

Also, obligatory

https://tenor.com/view/cat-jam-cat-jam-head-bounce-kitty-gif-17946989

They were COOKING with this theme

[mighty storm]

Did 2 sandwiches, still no bun doggo

[normal cave]

See, there is your problem

You are eating sandwiches

And the bun dog is bread

They can smell the blood of their brethren

Try sandwichless

A breadless sandwich, aka a salad, would be ideal

[tacit sphinx]

Why does the tera theme actually just ruin the SV gym theme

[normal cave]

Because crowd go "oaoaaaoaoooaoaoooooaoaoooooaoooaoaoaoooaoaoa"

They had the crowd sound asset from gen 8 and wanted to reuse it. Doesn't matter that it makes no sense in context.

[vagrant steppe]

The crowd works great in Gen 8

But the gyms being random fields is lame as hell in Gen 9

[normal cave]

Yeah a crowd in gen 8 made SENSE

[mighty storm]

PUPPY LOCATED

@pseudo goblet

in the rain to

Also she be a girl ❤️

omg rainy (sodden) mark XD

https://tenor.com/view/elissa-slater-spit-take-laughing-meme-bb15-spitting-water-gif-25228287

gonna pause as to not waste the sandwhich but yeah @normal cave soggy bun doggo has been found

[normal cave]

You gotta warm and dry her up

Put her in the oven

[mighty storm]

used rest of sandwich, didnt find anything else but yeah another hunt done

[pseudo goblet]

[maiden flax]

beat mono bug

btw this was the mono water run

[pseudo goblet]

Mean butterfly the knows art of demigod

[maiden flax]

frosmoth was the one which killed eternatus btw

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/muscular-pokémon-frosmoth-gif-23739717

[hasty anchor]

Real cool! Nice work!

Question right quick: Are you still allowed to use Tera Shards even in a monotype run?

[pseudo goblet]

If Team Sky BS his way to use a Tera Flying Mightyena surely you can lol

[hasty anchor]

Ooh

Ok, so I guess they do affect it. Hmm!

Well, guess that'll be helpful advice

Lots of stuff hatched

[mighty storm]

https://tenor.com/view/the-best-michael-groth-mandjtv-mandjtv-plays-youre-the-best-gif-26913238

The best flying mightyena

[normal cave]

That's a good haul

[hasty anchor]

Wuh-Oh

[normal cave]

Beeg

[hasty anchor]

Plains usually is very calm but you can run into stuff like this

Honestly the most threatening thing out there isn't Snorlax, but Lopunny

[normal cave]

Adaptability do hit hard

[hasty anchor]

Ok Magician is cracked

Floragato has it as a passive, and I just yoinked the Wide Lens out of Erika's Weepinbell

Now it's Triple Axel is much less likely to miss

[normal cave]

It is

Magician klefki is almost carried only by magician

[hasty anchor]

Apparently Fennekin has it as a Hidden Ability too, so that's a definite contender for starter stuff

Pickpocket would be too, but the user kinda has to get hit close-up first, and most things that learn Pickpocket really aren't suited for staying in the fray for long

[normal cave]

Dude

Magician multi lens

Just deplete their entire item stock in one move

[hasty anchor]

Yes

Triple Axel already can hit three times

I dunno if Sprigatito can learn Fury Swipes or something similar though.

Maybe Bullet Seed, but that's a gamble to take

...Wait, Beat Up, maybe?

Actually, no turns out Sprigatito can't learn it

Ayyy, the Pokéball pattern vivi

[normal cave]

Then multi lens won't increase that number

[hasty anchor]

oh no, Finn's now using Blaziken against me

Why would you do this

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/eevee-terminalmontage-charizard-blaziken-aplastar-gif-2187908150481426068

[mighty storm]

1 hour and 5 minutes till next pack

[mighty storm]

BIG PULL

[pseudo goblet]

I pulled like 9 pack last night and its all stuff I already got

[normal cave]

[mighty storm]

first zapdos ex I've ever got also

[normal cave]

I am now completely done with Mewtwo packs

[hasty anchor]

Really feels like Mankey just breaks the game in half.

[pseudo goblet]

How many Mewtwo you got

[normal cave]

3

[pseudo goblet]

Dips of on of your spare, name your price

[normal cave]

That's how I feel with maushold/dugtrio

[normal cave]

Honestly I'd gladly give you it

[pseudo goblet]

Nope, fair trade only

I do have a spare Marowak from last night

[normal cave]

Then we'll see once trades are available

That's gonna take a while

[pseudo goblet]

January aint it 💀

Think Im good to go hunting J-Wooper, unless there some rare normal outbreak

I am in no rush hunting horrible shiny that is Blissey so pass

https://tenor.com/view/wooper-walking-walking-together-march-shiny-gif-25866737

[mighty storm]

gonna also aim for the event mark on the shiny?

[pseudo goblet]

Doubt I’d get lucky like I got with Tinkatink, worst outcome might just be like my Beldum dread lmao

Oh thats what the mark look like

[pseudo goblet]

https://vxtwitter.com/dtiertl/status/1866323252764877111?s=46&t=q-1AmjVFLGCcEVWLfARPPw

[hasty anchor]

Apparently, Flutter Mane is one of the few paradox stuff that won't immediately try to throw hands with you

Which is an interesting fact

[tacit sphinx]

Why does Wugtrio exist

[hasty anchor]

It's an exploration of a concept of convergent evolution

As for why it's a thing in general, well, I don't know.

Guessing the art team for the day explored the concept of "mons that look like other mons, but is way different", so instead of a mole it's some variety of eel.

[tacit sphinx]

But

I meant more why is it the way it is

Why the fuck does it have an ability that activates when it’s hit

[hasty anchor]

Oh, Gooey. I guess it's just covered in mucus, much like Goomy.

[pseudo goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/cramorant-sacabambaspis-eat-gulp-missile-gulping-gif-10596954250460259725

Ability that activate when hit

[hasty anchor]

Like yeah, it doesn't make sense to have something that swift have an ability like that, but for all intents and purposes, Alolan Diglett had a similar ability too

[tacit sphinx]

A-Dug is at least Steel and has higher defences

[maiden flax]

Yes as long as the original type they were was bug
But I didn't do tera that bug run

[hasty anchor]

Ahh, cool

[tacit sphinx]

I was gonna do a bug monotype of Scarlet you know

[hasty anchor]

Ooh

[tacit sphinx]

But then I realised my first mon would be Tarountula

[hasty anchor]

Well, either that or Scatterbug

Considering how Scarlet/Violet is structured, you may need a map. Serebii's got a pretty nice one.

Oh man, just remembered what you could find early on

https://tenor.com/view/surskit-pokemon-pokémon-chilling-skating-gif-12684485799795462430

A

[pseudo goblet]

Bug run

[pseudo goblet]

Honestly a lot of the stronger bugs prefer the west side of Paldea

Scyther, Larvesta

Heracross

[void herald]

man i just realized

they're never gonna put breloom in a game ever again huh

[pseudo goblet]

What makes you say that???

[void herald]

the shooter guy used it as his mascot

he had a picture of it in his manifesto

[pseudo goblet]

Oh those things yall been posting, fine let me see whats happening

[pseudo goblet]

Okay but not sure I get it still

[void herald]

he had it in his twitter header and stuff

[pseudo goblet]

And?

Ohhhhhhhh…

Shit

[warm sky]

https://fxtwitter.com/DTierTL/status/1866323252764877111?t=Q7DvQw2XUra6b5ZGNojDzA&s=19

[fading stratus]

Where's the fav mon run symph

Wow yami reposting

I was scrolling and saw Zane post the same thing this morning

[warm sky]

Oh lol

Mb

Have this

https://twitter.com/MoggyOh/status/1845063521198829873?t=1iRdR1nepZJQY0R8pzCLtw&s=19

Moggy VGC ➡️ Gear 4 Grillman (@MoggyOh) on X

Do you have the GUTS to face a burned Ursaluna?

#Playpokemon

Twitter · Oct 12, 2024, 11:26 AM

[fading stratus]

LMAO

flying rubber ducky activated trick room

I don't like regular ursa tho

[pseudo goblet]

I was still thinking what to say too lol

[short heath]

Man today is either a really good or really bad day to be a breloom fan

[maiden flax]

Why is that?

[short heath]

CEO Shooter man had a breloom in his social media banner

[warm sky]

https://twitter.com/maple926/status/1866072085292015718?t=OEOTg1jAkLGsM6KUOXeO5w&s=19

かな@九尾キツネの冬スタンプ出ました (@maple926) on X

マフラーでぬくぬく狐

Twitter · Dec 9, 2024, 10:47 AM

[tacit sphinx]

@swift jasper so btw why did you call gen 2 shit

[normal cave]

[swift jasper]

it lacks pokemon imo and i don't like how it piggy backs on kanto

i just don't like it

[tacit sphinx]

I respect your right to hold an incorrect point of view

[swift jasper]

i really hate things like houndoom being late af and stuff like misdreavus and sneasel being locked to post game

[tacit sphinx]

Sneasel isn’t post game in Crystal tho

[normal cave]

Isn't it still really late?

[tacit sphinx]

Not really?

Ice Cave is like, midpoint

If you count Kanto as “second half” and not “postgame”

If you just look at Johto I’ll agree

[swift jasper]

if

[golden lance]

@polar osprey how does this look?

[pseudo goblet]

No Eels?

[golden lance]

Idt eel is good

[normal cave]

Yeah when I played crystal I just beat johto and put the game down never to touch it again

[golden lance]

Oh yea btw i got a pika ex core offscreen lmao

[tacit sphinx]

Also Unova’s distribution is dogshit so

[tacit sphinx]

…but why

kanto is fun

[swift jasper]

disagree?

[normal cave]

'cause kid

[swift jasper]

unova is mostly fine

[normal cave]

I didn't know kanto was in the game

[swift jasper]

all i hate about unova is tm distribution

[normal cave]

I just went "huh, that was easy" and put it aside

[tacit sphinx]

lmao

[tacit sphinx]

Unova would be fine if it weren’t for a few mons being absolutely omni-fucking-present

Like Basculin

[pseudo goblet]

Holy shit, Pancham, stop call the adults to help you, I mean sure if they have HA but jeez

[normal cave]

Hgss at least made me want to play the postgame. Crystal didn't.

[swift jasper]

i don't see how you don't have a problem with rattata and shit with johto

[tacit sphinx]

Less mons

[swift jasper]

[pseudo goblet]

I need something to help me get HA Phanthump, Im hunting Pancham for Scrappy

[tacit sphinx]

Unova made an entirely new dex and decided to fill every river with one fish

[normal cave]

So having less variety is better?

[tacit sphinx]

More like samey routes makes more sense

[normal cave]

I... what?

I hated alola because it all felt like samey routes

[tacit sphinx]

Foolish, if there is a smaller pool of mons to choose from, it makes sense for some routes to overlap more

[pseudo goblet]

Dude said this while Im playing Ultra

[tacit sphinx]

Besides which, Johto has enough unique routes for it not to bother me

[normal cave]

Does it? It all felt samey

[tacit sphinx]

Oh yeah also Johto doesn’t have a feature that no longer works

Dream World

[swift jasper]

yeah, so if your problem is that, why is basculin the issue, when it's the only fish in gen 5 iirc?

[normal cave]

Crystal has features?

[tacit sphinx]

Why are there not more fish

[golden lance]

Kid named ilex shrine:

[tacit sphinx]

Ilex Shrine works in rerelease

[swift jasper]

idk raz you just sound biased

[golden lance]

The one you cant buy anymore

[swift jasper]

cause the points you're making on gen 5 apply to gen 2

[pseudo goblet]

Kinda her shtick no?

[normal cave]

Yeah. Ily raz, but these takes are hot garbage.

[golden lance]

In my humble opinion

Everyone here is wrong, peak pokemon was in hoenn

[swift jasper]

i like hoenn

[tacit sphinx]

I’m sorry that unlike y’all I’m not distracted by N on the ferris wheel enough to think Gen 5 is peak

[swift jasper]

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/hoenn-trumpets-pokemon-groudon-kyogre-gif-17232445

[tacit sphinx]

Gen 5 has stuff I like but I think overall it’s very unmemorable

[normal cave]

I liked hoenn

[pseudo goblet]

Hoenn best starter trio

[normal cave]

I... really don't feel that way about it?

[tacit sphinx]

I think it has really uninteresting mons, an ugly art style, and I don’t like the warbly synth in the soundtrack

[tacit sphinx]

I think

[normal cave]

Gen 5 stuck with me the most

[normal cave]

Hoenn legit has no bad starters

I like all of them

[tacit sphinx]

The best Hoenn starters aren’t in Hoenn

Kid named Umbreon and Espeon:

[pseudo goblet]

other gen has 1 starter I feel iffy about

[normal cave]

This

[pseudo goblet]

at least 1 I mean

[golden lance]

Idk

I think gens 1, 4, and 7 are all pretty solid

In terms of starters

[tacit sphinx]

I should clarify that by “ugly” I mean 1. I think the Pokemon look generally not great and 2. I hate the motion tweening on the sprites

[pseudo goblet]

Ehhh Squirtle vibe aint it for me

[normal cave]

Gen 1 has squirtle, gen 4 is also good, gen 7 also all good.

[golden lance]

Squirtle is the best kanto starter wdym?

[tacit sphinx]

Nowadays the trend for starters is making the first one cute and then ruining it

[fading stratus]

blastoise is ugly

[tacit sphinx]

Like Sobble

[pseudo goblet]

Bulbasaur best boi

must pat

[normal cave]

If anything intelleon is an upgrade. The middle one is ass tho.

[golden lance]

Also may be a hot take

[pseudo goblet]

holy shit just what is this ratio, 4 Pancham and 14 Pangoro, Im technically hunting for Pancham here

[golden lance]

But i'm not fond of any of the gen 9 final starters

[tacit sphinx]

bruh if i said “i like pokemon” people in this chat would call it a rubbish take and disagree with me i s2g

[normal cave]

No, not at all

You've just had takes that I coincidentally disagree with up until now

[tacit sphinx]

Okay let me think

Gen 9’s best mon is Farigiraf for design

[pseudo goblet]

cough gen 2 mon

[normal cave]

Farigiraf is good, but I prefer chien-pao and tatsugiri

[tacit sphinx]

I would like Farigiraf regardless because it’s a giraffe and they are cool

But okay

[golden lance]

Chi yu my beloved

[tacit sphinx]

Best looking Gen 9 mon unconnected to past mons is Revavroom imo

[normal cave]

https://tenor.com/view/competitive-pokemon-pokemon-chi-yu-zacian-gif-11975217553074508895

[tacit sphinx]

I just think Revavroom looks funny

[normal cave]

It looks funny

It's a silly little guy

But it's like garb/vanilluxe

The item mon

I do like item mons, but reva doesn't give me much beyond that

[tacit sphinx]

What other takes do I have

The best written rival is Silver and the second best is Hop

[pseudo goblet]

unrelated but I forgot Grafaiai exist until now holy

[normal cave]

Hmmmm... those do be good rivals

Good take

[tacit sphinx]

but my drawing was so good when we did it

[pseudo goblet]

rematch sometime later future?

[tacit sphinx]

Uhh other takes

[normal cave]

Yeah, idk, silver is what I want from a rival, and hop is a great story

[tacit sphinx]

Contests were fucking great and they shouldn’t have been scrapped

[pseudo goblet]

this btw

[tacit sphinx]

The Safari Zone is actually fun

[tacit sphinx]

The franchise’s recent love of multiverse stuff is annoying and I don’t like it

[normal cave]

See, you have takes I agree with. You just coincidentally shared the ones I don't.

[normal cave]

Yeah it was fun to have it all in one universe

One timeline goes hard

[tacit sphinx]

I also do not give a single fuck about Ingo

[pseudo goblet]

oh the shit AZ pulled

[normal cave]

Ingot?

[pseudo goblet]

oh Ingo lmao

[tacit sphinx]

The guy who looks like a muppet from Black/White

[normal cave]

Ingo is my boy

[tacit sphinx]

All of a sudden everyone is like “oh my god I loved Ingo so much in BW and it’s so sad to see him separated from his bro”

and I’m like

who the fuck is this

[normal cave]

Nah, they made me want to try the battle subway

[tacit sphinx]

I don’t like them because they look like Muppets

[normal cave]

I rarely ever cared about those facilities, but the battle against them alongside rosa was fun

[golden lance]

My favorite rival is honestly hugh

[normal cave]

It stuck with me