other-pokemon-games

[unkempt egret]

game almost did a troll but chose wisley there rofl (shame she ended up with Impish so I'm gonna have to mint her down the line)

[north vessel]

dayum nice

Continuing the trend of blue colored mons having pink/purple shinies huh

Specially those from the gameboy era

[unkempt egret]

yea the GB/GBA had a lot of blue -> pink/purple shinies (and amusingly Swalot doing the reverse)

[north vessel]

lol

I just remembered btw

When I wasn't even 9 and was playing Pokemon pearl, when fighting the Cranidos in the Rock Gym, which I recall being either the first or the last mon that guy had,

as Mold Breaker activated, and the message popped in the textbox, I was always afraid(in my many retries of the fight) about its effect

Cause it looked like it was using a move BEFORE it was even our turns

when it's actually cranidos' ability

[unkempt egret]

last, but yea

also yea DP did add that, also that is funny considering most mons aren't even thinking of their abilities at that point in the game

[brisk hedge]

That Cranidos does insane damage that early in the game

[unkempt egret]

does, base 125 attack with pursuit is nasty

[brisk hedge]

Forget pursuit, 70 base power headbutt is insane

[frank lily]

Clodsire also has Water Absorb

[verbal tundra]

oh

didnt know that

either way, preferred wooper

[north vessel]

Yeah it's crazy how I lost even with Piplup

though I barely understood anything I read so

ssssssshhh

[sweet crypt]

Kill them for exp

[north vessel]

Funky looking mohawk right there

[north vessel]

how did you know I was holding a sword

but no

[sweet crypt]

I'd probably catch G-Darm if this is a multiplayer server

Because typically having a stupidly broken Pokemon to murder people with is good

If there's nobody to PVP with though, probably doesn't matter

[north vessel]

why his face so small

[sweet crypt]

I should ask this chat for their opinions on random Pokemon for fun

What do y'all think of Revavroom?

[terse pollen]

It's alright

It's grown on me

And Poison/Steel is a cool type combo

[north vessel]

I like it way more in its Team Star form ngl

face could be cooler

But overall it's good, better than others in this last gen lol

[supple basalt]

I wish we could get the Starmobile forms

[verbal tundra]

Decided to mess around with Hex Maniac Advance. Kinda fun ngl

[wild ore]

Cobblemon mentioned🔥🔥

[broken temple]

Bruh

[north vessel]

I'm old????????????

[north vessel]

yessir, trying out the new stuff, kinda great but it's sad my talonflame couldn't carry me

[unkempt egret]

ngl the best use I'm getting out of Hex Maniac atm is just TM editing since being able to do it per-TM instead of per-pokemon like the older editors had is SO GOOD

[verbal tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/deltarune-gerson-boom-gerson-i'm-old-im-old-gif-13265713427338879500

[unkempt egret]

a small use but good lorde is it saving me so much time with it

[sweet crypt]

I was taking too long trying to find an onomatopoeia for Gerson's laugh

Would you type it like

"Blyarg hyarg hyarg"

Or something

Is that close enough

[verbal tundra]

I personally use Byargh Byargh Byargh

But for this human old man, I just used Gyah Ha Ha since thats what Toby used

[wild ore]

Yea it sucks💔

[supple basalt]

Hi Xerneas

[terse pollen]

Hey what level is that Xerneas

[supple basalt]

[terse pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/bosnov-67-bosnov-67-67-meme-gif-16727368109953357722

[supple basalt]

I'm confused af

[terse pollen]

those who know

[broken temple]

😭

the brainrot

[rich tundra]

FROGZILLA REAL?

[brazen chasm]

spoob

[cloud quartz]

I hope gen 10 is turn based again.

[rich tundra]

I mean the legends series are spinoffs so I mean yeah they probably will be

[sweet crypt]

(They're mainline games but yeah the non turn-based combat is exclusive to them in the mainline games)

[rich tundra]

theyre like.... mainline spinoffs. i cant explain it nvm

[supple basalt]

And that's really only ZA. Arceus still has turn based combat

[sweet crypt]

True

That said L:A turns are WACK

[supple basalt]

I think of them as AUs

[rich tundra]

but theyre in the same universe

[supple basalt]

Flashbacks of getting ganged up on by three shinx with my poor oshawott

[sweet crypt]

I love getting combod by 3 moves in a row!

[supple basalt]

Arceus forbid you have a slow pokemon because opponents can then hit you more than one turn in a row!

[sweet crypt]

Ngl the fire starter theory has been flimsy since Gen 2

Cyndaquil isn't based on rats

And even if you want to use what the pokedex calls it

1: Blastoise is called a shellfish

2: Rats aren't mice. They're just closely related.

[unkempt egret]

?

[verbal tundra]

I whitewashed Ditto

[unkempt egret]

the only thing I'm gonna say about that since it feels like another case of "calling out people that aren't here" is that rattata's learned flame wheel as an egg move since gen... two so there's the real fire rat/mouse here lol

[sweet crypt]

The different type so that you can proceed to wall Annihilape if it's behind a substitute to block your Imposter/Transform 🔥

[sweet crypt]

Real

Oh also, Fennekin isn't a dog

It's a fox

And of course, Skeledirge puts the end to the theory (unless you're delusional)

[unkempt egret]

people wanted to say "close enough" because they just wanted something to validate their idea that things were connected (when in reality, they aren't)

well

[verbal tundra]

oh, this is a vanilla fire red rom, there is no annihilape lol

[sweet crypt]

Then add it

[unkempt egret]

the real connection is between the gens themselves but only starting from gen 6 onwards

[sweet crypt]

(Real)

[verbal tundra]

nah lazy

LEL

[unkempt egret]

since gen 6 had RPG classes, gen 7 had... uuuh, gen 8 had "your kid" and gen 9 had... ok maybe that was just gens 6 and 8 that had a starter theme lol

I don't wanna say "job" for gen 9 because that's basically the same as gen 8 but just less involved

actually speaking of the zodiac what were we counting as the snake again

[sweet crypt]

Skeledirge 💀

[unkempt egret]

bless you bulbapedia for having a "list of pokemon by shape" page rofl

[sweet crypt]

That's what people say

But of course, it's stupid

[unkempt egret]

the icon for just "head + legs" I cant

[sweet crypt]

Even more so than Cyndaquil as a rat or Fennekin as a dog

[unkempt egret]

https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/bc/Body07.png

[sweet crypt]

Goober shape

[unkempt egret]

was gonna make a bit about a starter trio of just serpentine bodies but primarina isn't counted for that

then again this one has some odd ones that do count for that like most slugs, mimikyu, and palossand

(prim's counted as "pokemon with fins" which fair enough)

[sweet crypt]

I'd say it's more so based on performing arts, if we want to be more exact

[unkempt egret]

I can see that now that you mention it yea since we have magician, singer, and dancer which are all performing arts

[terse pollen]

Definitely master ball worthy

[verbal tundra]

you know the grass patch before Pewter?

I made him spawn there

he is like the only pokemon that spawns there

he is pretty much Magnemite's evolution now

[terse pollen]

wait im goated

[lavish dune]

https://tenor.com/view/aneurysm-hhhhomeboyyyy-kings-dark-tidings-saga-by-kel-kade-reaperleviathan-head-explode-gif-11477089642801859131

[dark prism]

[Weird gurgling] [slowed down fart]

[lavish dune]

https://tenor.com/view/you-are-correct-sir-hades-hercules-thats-right-gif-17484286

[upbeat notch]

Congratulations, you caught: Actually just latias

[lavish dune]

yeah i did notice thats basically latias' t1 shiny lol

[upbeat notch]

+spdef and -spa basically just means it's latias too lmao

[karmic ferry]

Core Enforcer??

I forgot how wacky Pokérogue can get with its movesets sometimes

[lavish dune]

cool taranza pfp, good choice

[karmic ferry]

oh thank you! it's his Air Riders icon :3

[lavish dune]

i 100% triple deluxe and robobot, i think return to dreamland too. those games kick ass

[karmic ferry]

Triple Deluxe was technically what got me into the franchise (through Youtube videos, my actual first game was Robobot)

and of course I love bugs so Taranza was destined to be a fav of mine from the start

[lavish dune]

i think i 100% return twice actually, on the wii then the switch, such a good game

[karmic ferry]

I also understand why he simps for Sectonia for so long. if evil why so pretty

[lavish dune]

https://tenor.com/view/suffer-bug-moment-gif-26322911

[karmic ferry]

I LOVE THAT GIF

https://tenor.com/view/meme-fact-bug-cool-stare-gif-19103863

[lavish dune]

https://tenor.com/view/toy-car-barbie-drag-slide-fast-car-gif-13203880

does regirock ever get a rate up?

[coarse viper]

Galarian Articuno my beloved

[broken temple]

torture

i bet that pokecenter smells

[verbal tundra]

so does the mart

[balmy frost]

game name pls

[verbal tundra]

Pokemon Lazarus

Banana

[sweet crypt]

Unironically probably better than Tropius

(In battle)

[verbal tundra]

I gave it the ability, levitate

lmao

[smoky gyro]

Lmao

[broken temple]

is that a banana

[verbal tundra]

yes

I replaced Tropius with a banana

that is grass/poison and has the ability levitate

[broken temple]

i am lost for words

i cant wait to catch a banana in my pokemon fire red limited edit TM

[smoky gyro]

This is kinda funny

[north vessel]

i think the creator might like deltarune

[sweet crypt]

Spamtong

[verbal tundra]

yeah I added that in lol

[noble zealot]

I need to do similar things.

I remember fooling around in Gen III Suite as a teenager and making a hack that gave the Hoenn starters (or at least Treecko) branched evos

There was the normal line, but then there was Treecko > Tropius > Rayquaza

[smoky gyro]

Ah yes, fair and balanced

[verbal tundra]

wild

[broken temple]

is this like a zoo
thing
or more of a human enslavement thing

[verbal tundra]

both I guess?

the intention is to make them uninteractable

Im just cutting out some trainers lol

[sweet crypt]

I dont have any spriting ability but I do have funny ideas for stats and abilities

I may actually try to create them some day

It'd be funny

There's resources to add moves and abilities from newer generations

[broken temple]

thats some psycho shit

ngl

[brisk hedge]

Blue learned the shadow clone jutsu

[verbal tundra]

wait til you see Surge City

[mortal stirrup]

i think map in gen 10 is based in Indonesia

[sweet crypt]

Gen 10 isn't even out yet

[broken temple]

gen 10 will be fully in a virtual world simulating the current landscape
the main villians will be AI trying to take over the world
just to be topical

i work at nintendo

[sweet crypt]

Real

[brisk hedge]

Gen 9 already gave us an AI villain (well, sort of)

[balmy frost]

tysm

[verbal tundra]

Surge City

[broken temple]

at this point you can make a shitpost romhack

[verbal tundra]

yeah I think I might just do that lol

[broken temple]

im sure theres a market for that

just include actual gameplay inbetween of the shitposts

[sweet crypt]

There definitely is, I've seen multiple shitpost hacks before

[broken temple]

i only remember the offensive one

from way back then

[verbal tundra]

I dont think gameplay wise, much change other than the pokemons some trainers carry and the wild encounters

[sweet crypt]

Would Too Many Types count as a shitpost hack

[broken temple]

ye thats fair

[broken temple]

id say its more a gimicky game then a shitpost

[sweet crypt]

Idk though there's types like Gun, Sans and Silly + Little + Guys

[verbal tundra]

I would say its a shitpost

but its pretty good ngl

[sweet crypt]

My only problem with it is that I'm too used to knowing what move to click

And now there's like 50 new type matchups to remember

It's part of why I don't like stuff like Sound, Light or Cosmic types

Though for the former 2, it also disrupts a lot of existing moves

For the Cosmic Type though there's only like 1 non-signature move that'd be cosmic type

And that's a status move

So who gives a shit really

[verbal tundra]

honestly when it comes to the too many types, I just dont bother lol

and choose what I like

too many types 2 was easier with sans around

[unkempt egret]

TMT2 feels like a lot more of a shitpost (affectionate) than the first TMT was from what I've seen lol

also my nuz brain more just "uuuh" at the idea of basically everything having x4 if not x8 weaknesses lol

good idea, just not my cup of tea

[sweet crypt]

23 hours and 57 minutes to 2026 for me

[verbal tundra]

is it 31st Dec for you already

[verbal tundra]

I mean honestly true

[sweet crypt]

Yup

[verbal tundra]

oh nice me too

[unkempt egret]

I'm still in the 30th lol

[terse pollen]

whats the future like

[noble zealot]

It's only noon on the 30th here 😭

[verbal tundra]

Dark

And cold

[terse pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/we-all-bus-infinity-war-gif-21386170

[void lynx]

Someone has a gulpin in pokemon scarlet ?

[lavish dune]

man i selected regirock what the hell

[rugged comet]

Looks like you just got back from hoenn

[vital bramble]

Got a really stupid idea cooking
Ursaluna already uses Tera ghost sometimes to avoid fighting types and fake out
What if you gave a whimsicott fling and a flame orb? You could activate guts and a weakness policy in one go
Alternatively, if you're squeamish about a whims without a defensive item, you could give it to sneasler so it can activate unburden with it

[sweet crypt]

How many Weaviles does it take to hunt a Mamoswine?

Based on the Pokedex entry, I'd imagine that in a 1 on 1, Mamoswine never loses

But would 2 suffice?

The Kamaitachi hunt in groups of 3, so maybe 3 is enough

Or would there need to be 4?

[ember flower]

Oh, I thought this was going to be a joke.

[sweet crypt]

I'm feeling the answer is 3

Mainly because that way it's based off the inspiration

Also what is this fucking quote from the Shield dex entry

"It looks strong, and that's exactly what it is"

💀

[coarse estuary]

so i wanna play xd for the first time ever. would it be better to do the og first before playing a hack like xg or is the og so bad that a hack is the only good way to play it?

[sweet crypt]

Considering how all the praise I've heard for XD, you'll probably be fine playing the OG

[smoky gyro]

Cloyster moment lmao

[full marsh]

What game is this one?

[verbal tundra]

oh this is just me messin around with the fire red rom using the hex maniac advance lol

[verbal tundra]

haha what

[broken temple]

is this a cult thing

[verbal tundra]

more like a species thing

also I think may have broke Lt Surge

like the main one

cuz when I set his battle to one of the npcs in the gym, it makes him think I already beated him

I already reticified this by changing to a random npc but he still think I already got the badge lol(even after I updated it and delete and try again)

should have saved before I battled the surges

bleh, I will just use a cheatcode to get the badge or something, maybe fix this in the future

[void lynx]

Someone has a gulpin in pokemon scarlet ?

[sweet crypt]

Doing the Mono Grass Random Run

Not only do I have no way to beat Mega Ray but the rival has a Fire starter

Chat

Am I cooked?

Additionally my best mon for Eternatus is Tera Sunflora

[sweet crypt]

Man everything has a SE coverage/STAB for Iron Leaves

I guess that's what I signed up for when I decided a Grass/Psychic type would be my main carry

[verbal tundra]

yeah you are cooked

with fire

[sweet crypt]

Bro a Chandelure with Torch Song just tried to murder my ass wtf

Pokerogue does NOT want me to win

[sweet crypt]

Cooked

(His Pikachu got the Focus Band proc twice)

(1% btw)

How did Iron Leaves just solo Incineroar, Hydreigon, Mega Rayquaza, Staraptor and Vikavolt (well and Alakazam but who cares about that last bozo)

I didn't even use Tera

[sweet crypt]

Alright

So I have HEAVILY underestimated Iron Leaves

It literally carried the entire run

Wait I'm only 5 runs away from beating every Type and Generation in Pokerogue while randomising my Pokemon

[verbal tundra]

wild

I tried Pokerogue once

died not very long after

[verbal tundra]

this look like it came from Pokemon My Ass lmao

I played that when I was young

[noble zealot]

I think I played up to Pewter on that one

[verbal tundra]

damn

I recall this romhack was the one where the protagonist keeps slapping the rival's ass

[verbal tundra]

cannibalism

[brisk hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/tinkaton-pokemon-pokemon-tinkaton-rock-smash-sandstorm-gif-12707734229970797812

[lavish dune]

oh hell yeah

baller IVs from a rando egg

[unkempt egret]

I would ask what the rare egg move is here but I'm willing a high guess that it's ||Salt Cure||

[lavish dune]

it always is for rocks

[unkempt egret]

imagine if the other trapping moves worked like salt cure where instead of trapping they persist after the user is gone

[lavish dune]

but the only moves for him i know are ||stone axe and Body Press||

im just trying for a shiny ngl, sandstream passive is more annoying than helpful in most cases and rock's t2 is so pretty

[terse pollen]

And two sickass moves? Awesome

[honest sorrel]

Finally got this bad boy after 5 hours

[unkempt egret]

feesh

[terse pollen]

fih

[delicate hollow]

Was Sword and Shield the first in the series where wild Pokemon levels can be as high as 60?
What if DLC were accessible early ie before 2nd or 3rd gym badge will wild encounters levels scale or remain the same?

I'm also gonna include the recent entry as well (SV) as you will find mostly level 60+ wild Pokemon including starter first stage mons

[broken temple]

techincally you can find a level 100 magikarp in gen 5

[verbal tundra]

Ragebaiting Oak

[delicate hollow]

Yeah there's the infamous level 100 magikarp but I was thinking of common/rare encounters where levels range from 1 to 100

If u wanted gyarados at level 100 catch a level 99 magikarp and level it up with a rare candy
Then teach it powerful moves from a move tutor

[lavish dune]

pog

[unkempt egret]

same thing for gen 4 as well in the resort area I think? tempted to say there are some other wild mons above level 60 before gen 8 but mostly in either postgame or (in XY's case) lategame?

for wilds at all I think the highest non-100 level is a level 86 tera lampent in gen 9's Kitikami?

[lavish dune]

i can never tell if vivillion is shinyt

[lavish dune]

neat!

[sweet crypt]

Hey chat I'm in 2026

[sweet crypt]

I can't remember what it is, it's either that or Shore Up

And both are honestly strong enough to be Rare Egg Moves

[terse pollen]

whats the future like

[sweet crypt]

Idk kinda the same as 2025

[terse pollen]

wow

[noble zealot]

...Wait, that's illegal

[terse pollen]

What game is this

[wild ore]

Pokemon

[terse pollen]

holy crap

[noble zealot]

I just screwed around with FireRed in Hex Maniac Advance

[terse pollen]

Oh cool

[tawdry pendant]

Any good gen 7 rom hacks?

[terse pollen]

Photonic Sun & Prismatic Moon are good ones

Increased difficulty, more pokemon, and other cool stuff

I recommend it

[tawdry pendant]

Ok thank tou

[tawdry pendant]

Can you help me download it? Ive been trying this entire time and its starting to piss me off

[terse pollen]

What are you having trouble with?

[tawdry pendant]

The instructions given from the creator is confusing me and idk what to do

[terse pollen]

Are you confused about how you apply the Rom to a regular game?

[tawdry pendant]

To patch it

I cant find the file im supposed to use to patch them

[terse pollen]

Oh yeah it's hard to find in that forum post

[tawdry pendant]

I have the original ultramoon.3ds file

[terse pollen]

Find this area in the forum post and click on the blue "here"

It should open up a google drive where you can get the patch file

It took me way too long to find it when I downloaded it for the first time

[tawdry pendant]

I tried that

But the instructions in the google drive confused the hell out of me

[terse pollen]

What are you going to play this on

[tawdry pendant]

My laptop

[terse pollen]

Do you have Citra?

[tawdry pendant]

Using citra

Yeah

[terse pollen]

I see

[tawdry pendant]

If its easier i can use something else this is just the first emulator i thought of

[terse pollen]

There's only a guide for citra on the google doc so I think using it is the best choice

[tawdry pendant]

Oh alr

[terse pollen]

So you downloaded the ultra sun file, then did you download the patch file?

[tawdry pendant]

I have the rebalenced file

[terse pollen]

Right

After you unzip it, look inside for the "Luma" Folder

[tawdry pendant]

I see it

[terse pollen]

Open it, inside should be a folder named “00040000001B5000” or “00040000001B5100” depending on your version of the game

[tawdry pendant]

I got b5100

[terse pollen]

Great, open it

[tawdry pendant]

Ok i have 2 files

[terse pollen]

Fantastic

Leave that open for later

[tawdry pendant]

Ok

[terse pollen]

Now open Citra and look for your Ultra Sun file on it

Is it there on the main menu of Citra

[tawdry pendant]

No

[terse pollen]

Ok, you need to set up a folder with the Ultra Sun file in it and then make it the Citra game folder

You do that by double clicking and selecting the file like it says on the menu

[tawdry pendant]

So i double click and what do i do now?

[terse pollen]

Did it open up a place where you can select folders

[terse pollen]

Yes, so select the folder with the Ultra Sun file in it

That will be the folder that Citra will use to find games you downloaded

[tawdry pendant]

Could the folder be any folder?

[terse pollen]

Yes

I would make a seperate folder for the games just for organization

[tawdry pendant]

I created a new folder and put the ultramoon file in but it doesnt show up on citra

But shows up in the same folder when i open my normal files

[terse pollen]

That's weird, did you select that file for Citra?

[tawdry pendant]

Wdym

[terse pollen]

Can you show me what your Citra menu looks like right now

[tawdry pendant]

Thats the folder with the moon file

[terse pollen]

But what does the Citra Menu look like? Does it say you selected a folder or does it say you still need one

[tawdry pendant]

Wait it showed nothing but i hit select folder and it shows the pokemon ultra moon

But it says it has bad compatibility

[terse pollen]

There we go

Bad compatibility?

[terse pollen]

I googled it, it might have something to do with your system specs

But it also might not be a problem

[tawdry pendant]

It is a pretty bad laptop so probably the reason

But what should i do now?

[terse pollen]

Ok now you right click on the ultra sun icon in Citra and click "Open Mod Location"

[tawdry pendant]

Done

[terse pollen]

Now copy the "romfs" and "code.ips" files from the earlier b5100 folder and paste them there

[tawdry pendant]

Can i move it do i have to actually copy them

[terse pollen]

You can move them, just left click on one, then right click and select "copy"

Then right click in the mod location folder and click "paste"

[terse pollen]

I think you moved the entire folder instead of just the files

You shouldn't be moving the b5100 folder there, just the files inside of it

[tawdry pendant]

If i press delete on these will it delete on the one i copied it from?

[terse pollen]

No

Nevermind I misunderstood you're doing fine

I'm sorry I got confused

[tawdry pendant]

Huh

So i can repaste the same files?

[terse pollen]

Yeah just do what you did earlier I got confused and thought you moved the b5100 folder but you didn't

I have to go, I'll be back in a little bit so hold tight okay?

[tawdry pendant]

Oh ok theyre back

Alr take your time

[terse pollen]

Sorry I'm back

This is the next part

It's pretty self explanatory

[tawdry pendant]

Wait by “navigate to your copy of the title update that means to go to the romfs and code.ips files?

[terse pollen]

I don't think so, no

[tawdry pendant]

Idk what to do when i hit install cia

[terse pollen]

What do you see when you hit install cia

[tawdry pendant]

It takes me to the folder thats supposed to have the ultra moon file in it

[terse pollen]

I don't really remember, but you should try using romfs or code.ips files

[tawdry pendant]

Wait i moved them how do i get to them

[terse pollen]

I looked a little further and you have to download the 1.2 update seperately

[tawdry pendant]

How do i do that?

[terse pollen]

When you installed the rom of the game, did it say what version it was?

If it said version 1.2 it might already be updated

[tawdry pendant]

No i dont think so

How would i check?

[terse pollen]

Find the website you got the rom from

[tawdry pendant]

Ultra moon or the one for prismatic moon

[terse pollen]

Ultra Moon

[tawdry pendant]

I honestly don’t remember

Where i got it

Im pretty sure it was from citra

Citras says version 1.0

Do i need to download version 1.2?

[terse pollen]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure how to help from here on out, but I do know there's some communities on Discord that would help you more

I'm sorry it took me a long time to respond and that I also can't help you much

[tawdry pendant]

Can you show me the discord servers that could help me

[terse pollen]

Check out the Pokecommunity Discord, they should be able to help you. And if they can't then they probably can tell you who can

[lavish dune]

mushrom

any splices to be made?

[supple basalt]

Much pink

[supple basalt]

Eggos

[past cairn]

Oh god

[past cairn]

Takes one step and hears the sound of 50 eggs simultaneously hatching

Loudest crack ever

Shatters windows

[supple basalt]

Pfft

[smoky gyro]

I wonder

Can you baton pass defense curl?

Like specifically the x2 rollout damage part

[daring juniper]

The Hex Maniacs do get a bit Battle-Towery at night.

Gen 1 expanded dex hex maniac team ideas.
Names, from left to right, top to bottom.

• The 6 senses
• Creeps
• Grief
• Therapy
• Smoke & Mirrors
• Chilling Wind
• Paralyzed with fear

[past cairn]

Nope

[inland crane]

had my first full showdown battle

[north vessel]

Starting this base for real

[noble zealot]

I wish Apricorn seeds had a higher drop rate.

I can pick several trees clean and still get nothing.

[north vessel]

yeah it's so ass

It's gotta be less than 10% per apricorn

tried to decorate from the start but it's not my thing

[north vessel]

only bad thing I didn't like is how all mons from the same species seem to share the very same Ride stats

caught some gogoats to see which one would be faster but no

There's a difference between wyrdeer and gogoat for example though, but rip

[lavish dune]

ATTA BOY

[sweet crypt]

It's so funny to me that MissingNo's an absolute fraud

Like bottom 3 glitchmons of all time in terms of stats

And the top tiers tend to look something like this

Eternamax Eternatus still low diffs though

Bro's best Ground STAB is Bone Club 💀

[north vessel]

ok i'm either bad at math, unlikely, or this is outdated lol

wasn't too far off though

[lavish dune]

counter regirock and guerilla tactics darmanitan ftw

[sturdy herald]

if anyone here knows a way to do a randomizer on pokemon black 2 let me know. I've got pokemon black 2 running on DeSmuME and dont know how to randomize it

[main rune]

This would go into the file sharing rule

[terse pollen]

But it's just a method to mod files, it doesn't give you any files or tell you how to get them

[main rune]

It's one of those better safe than sorry things. Github is quite literally a file/project sharing platform and we can't go through and check every single link

[terse pollen]

Fair enough

My bad then

[main rune]

All good. No harm done

[sweet crypt]

We love Gorilla Tactics

[proven abyss]

Anyone else here?

[verbal tundra]

Changed the Celadon Gym Perv lol

self aware grunt

[lavish dune]

https://tenor.com/view/celebrate-dance-conga-morgan-freeman-happy-dance-gif-19144508

[broken temple]

wha....

[coarse estuary]

w safety dance

[simple oxide]

This is stretching the definition of "pokemon game" but uhhh
Shiny chololate

[unkempt egret]

nice nice

[livid hare]

was there a johto version of the pif or did the jump to hoen

i started when the hoen game was being announced

[split yoke]

Woo! Got a shiny!
But I honestly kinda like the original colors more.

[unkempt egret]

I was gonna say the og colors make me think of diancie there

[split yoke]

Yeah

And now, I got... pale blue and green

[unkempt egret]

I do like that shade of teal for what it's worth but

...no pun intended lol

[split yoke]

Have to say, I love that Vanguard put in a quest journal. I was about to need to restart.

[unkempt egret]

nice nice

[verbal tundra]

I was listening to the song when I was thinking of what to replace in the sign lol. So many of the pokemon signs are just tips and tricks which seems boring

[verbal tundra]

Now eat it >:)

[simple oxide]

No it's going next to my mew oreo to be forgotten

[vague pebble]

Anyone playing pokemon Recordkeepers?

[supple basalt]

No clue what that is

[coarse estuary]

i think i found the perfect xy hack for me its not to hard like the difficulty hacks but its a step up from vanilla and rebalances the trainers

[smoky gyro]

Why did my anger shell not proc

[supple basalt]

[inland crane]

Base game had Johto already

And Sevii Islands too

[supple basalt]

Hoenn is the sequel and is currently a WIP

[sweet crypt]

Oh hey it's Pokemon Vanguard

[broken temple]

brainrot fire red

[north vessel]

nice view

[inland crane]

anyways dedenne ily please keep outspeeding legendary dragons

[sweet crypt]

Is this OU or something?

[inland crane]

monotype 😭

[sweet crypt]

I see

I've heard that Electric is one of the weaker types in Monotype

Seeing you use Mono Electric, what do you think about it?

[inland crane]

idk im new

but isnt that bad i guess since there isnt much anti-electric types

[sweet crypt]

I can't imagine Electric enjoys the Dragon MU

I know you're using Deddene but I'm pretty sure Archaludon and H-Goodra are like, the 2 best Dragons on Mono Dragon

But I mean in low ladder people probably aren't running the meta

[sweet crypt]

Anyways random Electric Monotype run in Pokerogue is complete

Tapu Koko carried

[coarse estuary]

time to start my nuzlocke of xy rebirth. excited to see how it goes

[plain ravine]

And? Hows it going

[coarse estuary]

not been able to play much yet but rn im getting the last 2 encounters and getting candies in before going to see the first new trainer in gym 1.

[delicate hollow]

Is there many rom hacks where we can do egglocke challenge runs?
I know what an egglocke is but this involves "hacking" or gen-ing an egg of random first stage mons but as it is a nuzlocke variant we can produce as many eggs as the PC storage system allows

[gleaming frost]

67 lol 677 🤣

[delicate hollow]

What?

[sweet crypt]

Oh my god who let a 7 year old into this server

[smoky gyro]

How did he outspeed me

Doesnt unaware ignore speed boosts

[sweet crypt]

I mean I think you can see for yourself what the answer to that is

[smoky gyro]

Why the heck does it not

That is so confusing

[sweet crypt]

Got Lunala early in the Pokerogue run

For once I have good RNG

Anyways Lunala swept the entire rest of the run

[north vessel]

W

[cedar dragon]

im playing pokémon renegade platinum qnd i can't defeat the oreburgh gym the cranidos is kicking my ass how do i bit

i have riolu 17 and fire starter 15 idk the name

anyone pls help

[peak kite]

I caught @past cairn

[cedar dragon]

anyone knows?

[split yoke]

Shiny Vanguard Charmeleon. Yay.

No. I still prefer the carbink colors.

[terse pollen]

What is that from

[split yoke]

Pokemon Vanguard

Like this Riolu!

[terse pollen]

Awesome

[simple quartz]

Is that Fighting/Fairy

[terse pollen]

Looks like Fighting/Psychic

[sweet crypt]

Fighting/Psychic

[simple quartz]

Wow what a downgrade

[brisk hedge]

#pokemon-winds-waves

[hard plume]

https://bsky.app/profile/serebii.bsky.social/post/3mbn2gdqu4s2g
THEY RETURN

Serebii.net (@serebii.bsky.social)

Serebii Update: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet has announced a series of 7 Star Raid Battles returning starting on January 9th at 00:00 UTC.
All evolved Starter Pokémon will return in raids weekly

Details @ www.serebii.net

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[terse pollen]

slavery

[smoky gyro]

Is physical sceptile that good

With sharpness

But its nerfed to 20%

[sweet crypt]

It wouldn't be that good even if Sharpness wasn't nerfed to 20%

It's mf Sceptile

[smoky gyro]

Why did they give one of the best sprites to one of the worst mons-

Fml

[inland crane]

Give me a fraud and give me a lot of potions, I may conquer a gym after that.

[coarse estuary]

i alway found it funny how in xy you can skip the pokecenter tutorial by just never going into the gym 1 town pokecenter

[coarse estuary]

Wanna do a new casual playthrough, should I do bw1 or rby

[unkempt egret]

up to you but my vote is for rby, why not

[brisk hedge]

BW1. Because it’s not absolute trash

[coarse estuary]

Well so far bw1 has 2 votes rby has 3 whatever one gets to 5 first is what I'll do

[unkempt egret]

aight

as a side note I'm not super comitted to RBY so if BW gets four I'm willing to change to bump it up to 5 lol

[supple basalt]

I vote bw1 just because with all the movement updates

Going back to a time before running shoes even

Is awful

.

[unkempt egret]

BW be schmoovin even beyond the overworld movement yea

[coarse estuary]

Ok 4 bw1 3rby

[unkempt egret]

rofl I dunno why but that and XY reminded me that HP depletion speed in XY sometimes depended on what move you were using?

I remember that some moves (bulldoze specifically) made HP deplete far faster than it normally would in terms of animation

[supple basalt]

It depends on how much HP the pokemon has in relation to the move used against it

It's still like that in gen 9

[unkempt egret]

maybe, hmm

[coarse estuary]

Ok bw1 won. Time to craft up a silly Gen 5 team

Might try to use a cottonee or a foongus as my grass type if I don't decide on my fave Gen 5 starter

[unkempt egret]

good choices

[sweet crypt]

BW1 if you want a coherent game, RBY if you want the funny glitches

Oh wait I was taking too long

Uhh

Shit

[brisk hedge]

There’s also the fact that both games without running shoes are worse then there remakes in every possible way

[supple basalt]

Yeah but I usually give rby some slack since they're on the gbc and frlg are on the gba

[unkempt egret]

FRLG does have the running boots but not until post-brock from what I recall

[inland crane]

Which is like a couple minutes assuming you didn't have a team of Charmander, Pikachu and Weedle

[unkempt egret]

yea if you're not doing a nuzlocke that's not much time at all (especially since I recall FRLG retains yellow's change of adding Mankey to the pre-brock routes)

[coarse estuary]

Always get a chuckle out of any time I see someone with an under leveled Mon click a super effective move then wonder why it won't ohko

[smoky gyro]

...

Fuck me I guess

[coarse estuary]

since my friends wanna be jerks to me and just hit me with the its a casual run use what you want, would you folks on discord be more willing to give suggestions on what mons to have on my casual bw1 team. i already decided on emboar and leipard.

[broken temple]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokémon-joltik-spider-out-the-door-gif-8249704754465931908

[unkempt egret]

hmmm how about cofagrigus? could be fun to try

[coarse estuary]

maybe but dark and ghost are pretty similar matchups wise

[unkempt egret]

riiight yea you got liepard

how about carracosta then? since I usually see archen revived instead

[sweet crypt]

Ferrothorn, because I want to see how it being a primarily defensive mon affects its usage in your run (since typically I don't find myself needing defensive Pokemon in casual runs)

[sweet crypt]

Just got the world's most broken Roaring Moon in my Mono Dark run

[sweet crypt]

And that's Fairy defeated as well

Tapu Lele is a wee bit broken

But tbf I did have to use a weird strat for Eternatus since Lele wouldn't be able to beat it itself

Well

Consistently, that is

Definitely could defeat Eternatus by itself but not 100% of the time

And if a strat doesn't have a 100% chance of working I'm not gonna use it

What now though?

I sure as hell am not gonna attempt Random Nuzlocke

Heck I'm not willing to attempt either of the Fresh Start runs with random

Since they both involve catching a bunch of stuff

And with the rules I set in place for Random, I'm not allowed to add anything onto my team

And if I remove that rule it's just not different enough

Since like I mentioned, the run heavily relies around catching other Pokemon

So at worst the early game is slightly harder

[quasi linden]

There's a pokemon fangame which has a mode where it fills your PC with random eggs, but I can't remember what it is. I don't think it's Infinite Fusion because I couldn't find it, but I thought I'd ask here just incase

[nova marlin]

its Rayray

[coarse estuary]

probs thinking of the egglocke mode of insurgence

[quasi linden]

THIS WAS IT! Thank you!

[coarse estuary]

any time

[tame gyro]

Anyone free to lend a hand with a small project? I just need a single question answered.

[coarse estuary]

decided emolga will be the 3rd memeber of my latest white casual team

[proud rose]

do yalll prefer open areas or smaller routes

[sweet crypt]

I feel like this is more so a #playthrough-talk thing than a #other-pokemon-games thing

[supple basalt]

Oh I was in the wrong channel mb

[verbal tundra]

I just put this randomly with no context lol, this design did always give me the typical Singaporean Uncle vibe

[verbal tundra]

LOL, I just figured how to change the starters

[verbal tundra]

ok someone suggested adding Berdly to the romhack and making him a flying type lol

[delicate hollow]

How's this for a rom hack
A completely new and original "fan made (or it could be a custom built)" region featuring all of the original 1025 Pokemon
Brand new and original characters made for the region
A brand new place after finishing the game where you battle all of the original/official characters from the OG series like from the Kanto gym leaders/rivals/evil team leader (Giovanni)/Elite 4 and champion (in this case it's Blue) all the way to the Paldea league etc and I'm not naming everyone as it takes a long time to type the list and think of this as Black 2 and White 2 PWT (Pokemon World Tournament) but you battle in a large arena and you will also battle against this regions own main gym leaders rivals antagonist leader and Elite 4 + champion etc.

I'm thinking... if this were a GBA rom hack that would be a very large game file so maybe a PC fan game is the best place to create the game?
I hope this comes true though and it will take more than a year to build everything with all the tilesets and the map layout to look perfect such as the towns, cities, routes or areas/zones if we wanna go "open world" exploration etc.

[verbal tundra]

I think if you really wanna do this

probably best to make a fangame

Idk if a romhack can contain that much

also there is a fangame where you play as Ash Ketchum and journey from Kanto to Galar

[rich tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/imostergolfra-gif-25274972

[thorn token]

What game is that ?

[verbal tundra]

Pokemon Ashfire if I recall

[sly anvil]

Vivillion sprite I made (with help) for Moemon Project

and a mega abomasnow

[spice pilot]

I am playing Pokemon Sword version and I am commenting while selling a Rare Bone at PokeMart. I said, "A BONE? I cannot make a stew out of a bone!" I was smiling while saying that stuff and I started laughing afterwards.

Because that is silly! How can you make a stew out of a bone? 😄

[upbeat root]

Question about Moemon, is it a fangame or a Rom?

[unkempt egret]

Rom

[sly anvil]

We have fangame spriteswaps too for reborn and reju

[upbeat root]

Thank

[sly anvil]

and im working on a couple fangame spriteswaps myself

[unkempt egret]

also with Rare Bones in gen 8 all I can think of is saving them since with the DLC four rare bones makes you a wishing stone which is a key component of The Den Loop

[spice pilot]

ah

[unkempt egret]

if you don't have DLC they're good selling tho

[spice pilot]

never thought of that

yeah

I may have made a big mistake, though, selling them withought thinking about the rewards

[sly anvil]

current moemon romhacks are red/blue, emerald, heartgold/soulsilver, black/white, black2/white2 and some others i dont remember them all

and fangames are reborn and rejuvenation

[unkempt egret]

yea it's basically raid in Isle of Armor (or crown tundra but IoA is preferred) -> digging sister on IoA -> digging brothers in maingame -> bone conversion -> isle of armor raiding

but once you get into one part of it (usually on the digging sister hitting a streak) then it's easy to get back into the chain

[upbeat root]

Huh, that's pretty cool! Might try sometime.

[unkempt egret]

also on moemon, also gonna point out FRLG as well as one you'll be able to use it with

[sly anvil]

ye we have frlg vanilla spriteswaps

does it count as self promo to say that the links are all in our Moemon Project discord and on our tumblr i dont want to break the rules

so many people have asked about a moemon infinite fusion but we do not have the power for fusions

[verbal tundra]

made a title screen for my romhack

[thorn token]

Does Ashfire have a Discord? Not seeing one online

[verbal tundra]

Im not sure

Sorry

Only heard of it on youtube

[coarse estuary]

ok grinding up my simipour so it matches the rest of the team then going to do the story and burgh. after that i can go get emola and my team will have as much as it can until i can beat clay

[coarse estuary]

probs bc you have the names backwards its fireash not ashfire

[verbal tundra]

oops got the name wrong

my bad

[coarse estuary]

all good just stating that might be why a discord cant be found

[verbal tundra]

I gave Liquor Magician the wrong name

probably why they were searching with that name

[thorn token]

All good, Google corrected it and it took me going to page 2 but I found a Reddit post with it linked, joined, and got the game downloaded straight from their Reddit

[verbal tundra]

hope you enjoyed it!!! heard its a long game

[thorn token]

Yeah it looks like they do a similar thing to unlock the Debug Mode but they have 905 Pokémon lmao. Boy this is going to be a long journey!

[verbal tundra]

Have fun!!!

[broken temple]

this is a hall of fame

fo sure

[verbal tundra]

added the Freddy line

and added these two

[broken temple]

you are pretty much playing with legos with pokemon

💀

[smoky gyro]

I only just realized garbodors name has odor in it

Ive always wondered why its not garbordor

[broken temple]

and trubbish has rubbish in it

[smoky gyro]

I am smart, dont worry

[verbal tundra]

yes

also Im done making this romhack, Im gonna chill now

[meager jetty]

Hello people I need help to evolve my scyther to scizor in pokemon scarlet, any person help me, sorry for my bad english XD

[inland crane]

No use eviolithe scyther

[unkempt egret]

I can help when I get back home in about 3 hours

[coarse estuary]

thinking of doing a looplocke. should i do it in usum or oras?

[unkempt egret]

hmmmm, I'm feeling mean today so how about USUM?

[coarse estuary]

usum is only mean if i am running a really hard ruleset.

[supple basalt]

USUM is one of the more difficult games to nuzlocke because of Ultra Necrozma, but you get a lot of encounters pretty fast

ORAS is easier than USUM

If you really wanna be a glutton for punishment, nuzlocke Platinum >:)

[sweet crypt]

I think the general consensus is that USUM are the hardest mainline games to nuzlocke, no?

[supple basalt]

I think Platinum is overall the more difficult game but USUM is very high on the difficulty list. I also don't know where BDSP and Legends Arceus are on that list

Legends sounds difficult to nuzlocke because trainers can gang up on you

[sweet crypt]

I was trying to route for USUM once and holy shit every single totem is a nightmare to route for

[supple basalt]

Oh yeah 100%

[sweet crypt]

Also your ruleset for the early game really decides how fucked you are

They should rename Pinwheel clause to Alola Route 1 Clause is all I'm gonna say on this matter

[supple basalt]

With mainline pokemon games in the chance I do a nuzlocke, this is my general ruleset

• One pokemon per area
• Multiple Area Clause
• Death is upon us
• Nickname
• Dupes Clause
• Dragon Rage Clause (for randomizers)
• Shiny Clause
• Static Clause (Gifts and statics count as separate encounters)

[sweet crypt]

Tbf I'm sure people do actually call them seperate things even though the clause in concept is the same

[supple basalt]

Multiple areas listed on the screen when you switch to that area ARE on the same route, so I count them as separate encounters Is this route 1 clause? XD

[sweet crypt]

Basically Pinwheel Forest and Alola Route 1 are so big people consider them as multiple areas

Every area up to and including Trainer School counts as Route 1 according to the game

[supple basalt]

I mean yeah you even see the name of the area on the screen when you pass into it

Even though it's all route 1

So yeah I'll put "Route 1 clause" in my list

[sweet crypt]

So yeah basically people said "Man this shit's ass we're gonna consider this as multiple areas so that the early game isn't miserable"

To oversimply things

Tbh in my routing I was less worried about Necrozma than Araquanid since I figured I'd be able to get enough Steel types to just toxic stall it for a worst case scenario

Or y'know simply pray to RNGesus to get a Zorua

That said Unec can usually 2-3 shot even on a Resist

Which is scary as fuck

[supple basalt]

I need to play ultra moon again. I downloaded Citra, played Alpha Sapphire for a day and then was like meh don't feel like it

[sweet crypt]

I remember seeing someone say Bisharp does very well into Necrozma since it resists/is immune to all of Necrozma's moves

It doesn't

As in it doesn't do well

Dragon Pulse is a 2HKO, OHKO with a crit

[supple basalt]

Bisharp has terrible stats

[sweet crypt]

They're actually pretty good

Just that a weakness of Bisharp is its special bulk

Which isn't great vs an omniboosted Pokemon with a level advantage and y'know

167 SpA

[coarse estuary]

lol route 1 clause is just renamed pinwheel clause

[supple basalt]

Oh does Pinwheel forest have multiple areas (with area names on screen)

Stuff like Kanto's route 2 wouldn't be counted separately because both sides of Viridian forest say Route 2 on screen

[coarse estuary]

the clause is named that because both the outside and inside of pinwheel forest have the same name but all the encounters are different

[supple basalt]

I don't remember Pinwheel Forest that much

I only consider things different area if the text on screen says so lol

Each area of Alola's route 1 has a different name when you go to it on screen

[sweet crypt]

How does Ultra Necrozma work with a level cap anyways

[coarse estuary]

yeah usually how that clause works is if 2 areas have the same name (ie route 1 in alola) but different encounters then you are allowed to count it as a seperate location and get an encounter there

[supple basalt]

Though I did recently discover Mt Moon's different floors all count for separate encounters XD

[sweet crypt]

Do you just use the level cap of the next boss

[coarse estuary]

you beat it while staying below the mina trial cap of 55

[sweet crypt]

Because I mean Unec's level cap is the same as the Champion's isn't it

[supple basalt]

So more like Multiple Area Clause

[coarse estuary]

pretty much

[sweet crypt]

In fact

Totem Ribombee is also a bit weird with level caps

At least based off what I'm referring to

[coarse estuary]

well yeah its also weird since the ribombe cap is 55 but the hapu cap is 54

[sweet crypt]

Because it's level 55 and Hapu who is supposedly fought after is level 54

Also why does it have a fucking double omniboost

[supple basalt]

I think all totem pokemon are a bit weird.

Who's the harder bosses?

A.Raticate or Gumshoos
Araquanid or Wishiwashi
A.Marowak or Salazzle

I don't remember what other totem battles have splits between the version

[coarse estuary]

you are remembering wrong. the only totem that has a version split is totem 1. the other 2 you mention are ones that were changed in the ultra verisons

[supple basalt]

Oh I was thinking of sun and moon

Then

First game then

🙃

[coarse estuary]

yeah wishi salaz and vika are totems in sun moon but are replaced with araqua, maro and toged in usum

[supple basalt]

Which is annoying. Steel type is annoying

[coarse estuary]

well toged is annoying if you dont get a bulky ground type or anything that can use a ground move

[supple basalt]

Ultra games have Dusk Lycanroc so they're better by default

[unkempt egret]

late but ultra necro does have some cheese strats but USUM's general formula hits most of SM's rough points while adding some of its own

[supple basalt]

First G7 games didn't have Dusk lol

[coarse estuary]

it was for sure hardest totem in my no dealing direct damage run

[woeful mantle]

[unkempt egret]

enemy EVs make gen 7 unconditionally harder than any other gen imo (besides BDSP which also has em)

[sweet crypt]

I sure do wonder why the Steel type gives trouble to an indirect damage run

[supple basalt]

(BDSP doesn't exist we ignore it)

[sweet crypt]

(... Wait, actually, I kinda do, can't you just Toxic it with Salazzle or something?)

[unkempt egret]

BDSP is kinda like ORAS actually

[coarse estuary]

the steel type wasnt the problem. the problem was it outsped my team and either flinched it or parad it

[unkempt egret]

in that most of it isn't too bad until the endgame starts kicking nuclear footballs around

[sweet crypt]

Oh

So the problem was RNG

Y'know what that makes sense

RNG is a bitch

[coarse estuary]

if you wanna know bout the steel type being hard ask molayne since it took me 1 hour to kill 1 of his mons

[supple basalt]

The difference between BDSP and USUM with its difficulty is the game isn't relatively easy in comparison to the Elite 4. The base game actually MATCHES the difficulty of the E4

BDSP is an easy game until you hit the E4 with competitively built high IV teams. It's out of nowhere

[unkempt egret]

I think the main location I count as separate that most don't is Mt. Pyre's indoors and outdoors

yea I was thinking of ORAS doing that, USUM actually cools down a little bit for its E4 compared to necro and (to an extent) ribombee

[supple basalt]

ORAS kinda does that but I think the difficulty curve is more evened out than BDSP

[unkempt egret]

yea ORAS was more steven going "hey catch this mega metagross lol"

then again it's probably more fair of a fight if you don't have megas banned like my runs do lol

[coarse estuary]

i do wish though oras fixed the megas issue that xy had where you faught 2 total before the post game

[unkempt egret]

(save for the ones below 560 BST like banette, audino, ||and now chimecho|| )

[supple basalt]

Lol yeah

I don't remember which Mega I used against Steven though I'm 90% sure I murdered his mega metagross with crit hax Absol

[unkempt egret]

yea it wasn't really until legends ZA that you fought a lot of em in maingame

[supple basalt]

I never mega Absol because Super Luck and Scope Lens are vital to his moveset XD

[sweet crypt]

Iirc when I was playing Omega Ruby I had absolutely 0 honour and rolled up with Groudon to pulverise Steven's as

Playing fair? Pfft

[unkempt egret]

we respect the sniper build

[coarse estuary]

which its like bruh why make megas the game gimic if you are not going to have more than 2 fights in the main story have one. like bro its so bad. at least for the other gimics after xy there are more than 2 trainers the entire game that use em

[sweet crypt]

I probably should play ORAS again except not just instantly murder shit with Pdon

[unkempt egret]

yea the other 3 games all use theirs a lot more with most of the boss fights

[sweet crypt]

At the same time though murdering shit with Pdon is fun

[supple basalt]

My first run of BDSP Cynthia almost made me ragequit because like all pokemon games, I went in blind. I usually don't abuse affection but when Manaphy lived on one HP so I wouldn't feel sad and got that Ice Beam off

ON MY FIFTH TRY

I was very happy X_X

[unkempt egret]

while megas were basically just for PvP with some single player teases

[supple basalt]

I did two more runs about half a year ago and beat them no problem

[sweet crypt]

Managed to beat BDSP Cynthia first try iirc

[unkempt egret]

also nice nice, I think I just X item abused on mantine in the april fools run I did last year

[sweet crypt]

But I'm pretty sure I lost to Lucian beforehand

So 2 tries for the E4

[coarse estuary]

not really a mechanic ber say but i did like how for bw1 the game has 1 required use of an hm the entire game and any future use is just oh you wanna use it here later to explore more and visit some extra areas you saw when going through here the first time. wish more games did that idea

[supple basalt]

One of my runs I just

Used a lot of Glaceon. Started with an Eevee by transferring it in and when I reached level 20 with it, I decided to make that its evolution level and transferred it out of BDSP and into S/V where I could evolve it with an ice stone

On the other run I had like two intimidate mons on my team

Luxray and something else

:')

[sweet crypt]

Tbh my biggest issue with Cynthia is still that the game barely gives you any Ice types with good STAB

Yeah I sure do want to use fucking Ice Fang on my Mamoswine

[supple basalt]

So true

[sweet crypt]

The craziest shit is that they do get Icicle Crash this game!

[supple basalt]

I mean almost every special water type and a few physicals get ice moves

[sweet crypt]

Do you want to know how?

[supple basalt]

But still ice stab would be nice

[sweet crypt]

You need to USE SKETCH ON A FUCKING CLOYSTER WITH SMEARGLE

[supple basalt]

[sweet crypt]

Who approved of this

[supple basalt]

I actually don't mind using smeargle for egg moves. That's how I got Alolan Vulpix's eggie moves

[sweet crypt]

OK but wouldn't it be better if you like

Didn't need to fucking sketch shit

[supple basalt]

Yeah that would be nice tbh

At least I got the HA a lot easier

[sweet crypt]

Especially since Cloyster is, I kid you not

[supple basalt]

All pokemon transferred out of their GBC counterparts in the 3DS port have their HA

[sweet crypt]

THE ONLY POKEMON IN BDSP THAT GETS ICICLE CRASH NATURALLY

[supple basalt]

Mamoswine doesn't get it naturally?

[sweet crypt]

Nope

Egg move

[supple basalt]

Wow

[sweet crypt]

Same with Weavile

[supple basalt]

That's dumb

Physical ice types really do have it rough

[sweet crypt]

Also you need to relearn the move with the move relearner

Iirc

[supple basalt]

Wait it's not born with the egg move?

[sweet crypt]

No as in, Cloyster needs to relearn it

[supple basalt]

Oh

[sweet crypt]

Also I think you need a Super Rod for Shellder

[supple basalt]

Oh so you basically have to find a double battle and sketch your own Cloyster

=_=

[sweet crypt]

I could try to check if any trainer has an Icicle Crash user

And if you could maybe bait it to use Icicle Crash to KO a Pokemon

And then send in Smeargle to sketch

Well considering Candice doesn't have it on her Mamoswine or Weavile in postgame

And that nobody uses a Cloyster

I think that's a resounding no

If the Ice gym leader in the postgame doesn't have Icicle Crash on her Pokemon, who would?

[coarse estuary]

well yall have fun ima go start my looplocke before i loose motivaiton

[sweet crypt]

Good luck

[supple basalt]

In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP), no standard in-game trainers (Gym Leaders, Elite Four, or trainers on routes) have Pokémon that naturally use the move Icicle Crash in their main battle

🙃

[coarse estuary]

lol i was talking in another sever bout the dumb level caps in insurgence and bro i was talking to had no idea i was talking bout insurgence so they were floored when i mentioned if someone was to nuzlocke the game they would be at level 35 for gym 2 and almost 90 for gym 8

[sweet crypt]

kitty run

[terse pollen]

car

[coarse estuary]

because im curious i was wondering how many people here know what a nuzlocke is and actively dislike anyone who plays one

[sweet crypt]

Well that was easy

[unkempt egret]

meanwhile I'm like blinking eyes* but less in the context of a nuzlocke and more just "insurgence moment I guess?"

(I dunno what the levels are actually like though)

[sweet crypt]

Do you think dogs would do as well as cats?

I mean they do have Zacian

[unkempt egret]

also I do nuzlockes on my own but I generally don't assume anyone's playing a nuz unless they specify, though I usually run vanilla rules (well, vanilla + no healing/set mode) unless I'm in the mood for somethin spicier

also dogs you probably have yourself covered between Zacian and Arcanine (both forms)

the problem though is that zacian's a 7-9 cost so can probably only fit one of those two

or another dog like fidough

[sweet crypt]

Unless I use an NFE, I cannot have a Pickup user

What a shame

Wow the dogs kinda have nothing for Chairman Rose

Mainly that god damn Gmax Copperajah

I mean I guess I could use Zamazenta actually

But like apart from it, what are some dogs?

Arcanine?

Hits it for SE but gets hit for SE in return

Same for Okidogi

Dachsbun and Granbull just lose for free

Tbf not many cats can handle it either

Or Pokemon in general

This Copperajah is a menace I swear

[sweet crypt]

Tbh idk if I'll do the dog run

I'm a lot more partial to cats and routing a dog run is proving to be mildly problematic

[frank lily]

Found this creature on Tuesday

[coarse viper]

adamant Regi with no slow start and can hit ghosts now xD

gott lead with it in my next run

[coarse estuary]

while having some brain farts and forgetting today is friday and thus i wouldnt be able to get my island scan mon in hauoli city to be scatterbug i decided to just plot progress to be able to catch my next legal encounter of cutiefly. whlie looking for the cutiefly i ended up running into this fella so its a free encounter along with the hopeful cutiefly encounter (since poision gives me the also option of catching ekans.) this gives me some more mons i can now catch since ilima crit killed my wingull

[coarse viper]

Yooo infinite fusion reference?

Splicers xD

[coarse estuary]

the splicers are just as much a pif reference as the sky battle quest in za is a team sky reference

[coarse viper]

You must be fun at parties

[unkempt egret]

I think the achievement for winning with a fused mon is literally called "Infinite Fusions at Home" lol

[coarse estuary]

well it seems my only loop for trial one is my 2 poison chosen loop since its not worth to use my water loop

[potent vapor]

Pokemon fire ash

Fanmade game apparently has every pokemon regeon, mega evos, z moves, gigantimax, forces u to have pikachu off the bat but pikachu stays on your shoulder

And its electric moves are overpowered

THERES TEAM ROCKET HELPP

[thorn token]

I just started playing tbis a couple days ago after someone in this chat told me about it. It's a great game so far

[coarse estuary]

i remember i played it back when it stopped at alola. great game

[potent vapor]

Just figured out how to get an exp share, do u know where to get rock smash? Or am i js not that far yet

[thorn token]

I'm not that far yet. I know the xp share isn't until after Kanto and I'm still on gym 3 of Kanto. But I remember reading this game doesn't have HMs, so I'm not sure how you get Rock Smash yet. You can check the guide that come with the game

[potent vapor]

Ohhh ok ok

[potent vapor]

Rock smash is gonna be in saffron city

[wheat mantle]

is rollout better then selfdestruct in pokemon emerald

time to spend a year waiting for someone to awnser 🙂

[thorn token]

Yes

[wheat mantle]

im sorry if i am being to catues but why?

[thorn token]

Cautious, and the reason is because Self Destruct is ass lol. At least you can use accuracy held items for Rollout

[wheat mantle]

ok

thanks

[wheat mantle]

btw how u think of this loadout?

[thorn token]

Seems decent

[wheat mantle]

btw is it good or bad that i am doing a rock type only run

as the first run ever

of pokemon

[sweet crypt]

Depends on context

Are you planning on using accuracy boosting items?

[wheat mantle]

what is that?

[sweet crypt]

If not, there is 0 world where Rollout is better

Self Destruct does kill your own Pokemon, but it'll likely kill the opponent's too due to its 400 BP

[wheat mantle]

well fu

[sweet crypt]

Sure, it says 200 BP, but in actuality, Self Destruct halves the opponent's defence

Because yeah that's just a thing it and Explosion did before Gen 5

It isn't important in casual runs since Pokemon is an easy game

But once you start applying different levels of challenge to a run, it becomes more and more important

[wheat mantle]

is there any way to get back that move?

[sweet crypt]

The funniest thing is even in a Nuzlocke, where Self Destruct will permanently kill your own Pokemon, it is still a good move to eliminate extremely major threats

Better to lose a Pokemon to take out a major threat than to lose your whole team

[sweet crypt]

Fallarbor Town, though it isn't too necessary to relearn, especially if you're playing casually

[wheat mantle]

the what town

[sweet crypt]

You will need Heart Scales, which can be found held by wild Luvdisc

[wheat mantle]

i am NEW to pokemon

[sweet crypt]

You'll probably know when you find it since the game will literally tell you

[wheat mantle]

fair

[sweet crypt]

Realistically in a casual run though, you have 0 reason to ever click either Rollout or a self KO move

So it isn't too major of a loss

[potent vapor]

Unluckiest trainer battle

[wheat mantle]

so when i can i should switch from rollout?

[sweet crypt]

You have 2 options with Rollout

Either you get X Accuracies to try to make it work

Or you replace it

I must say though, now that I'm looking at Graveler's movepool

My guy has 0 good Rock moves by level up

[wheat mantle]

so i should keep rollout

[sweet crypt]

I dunno lmao this is not much to work with

[wheat mantle]

i mean fair