Pokemon

[errant carbon]

Epic

[keen sandal]

I have 21 of them across three stats. Bloody swimming in the things.

This game very much has me in the "ooh, shiny!" state of mind when I'm running around, and it rewards me for it.

[errant carbon]

Good to know they aren't rare

Lmao

Not a bad thing though

Fuck it I'm going for a decent mareep then running back for a decent magikarp

3 mareeps in, not amazing but it's usable, will catch the rest in the area tho

[keen sandal]

Guys it happened again

I keep finding areas I shouldn’t be in

[errant carbon]

Lmfao

The open world experience

Got probably 15 mareep now 🤣🤣

Caught this about mid way through, gonna settle with it, not too shabby tbf

Don't know why it's rotated like that

Mobile discord ig

[keen sandal]

Holy shit raids are worthwhile

I just got like 10 items plus a second Larvitar out of one

[median nimbus]

I just saw some performance tests on the new pkms and... please tell me the most stable it can out put isn't 20fps docked?

[calm brook]

It's only in busy areas but ya

The towns are very bad

Everything else fine for me

[median nimbus]

L

[keen sandal]

Performance is definitely kinda rough, but the underlying gameplay is great.

[errant carbon]

The performance isn't bothering me all that much tbh just enjoying the game

Trying to get a decent magikarp now

[keen sandal]

yo what

Gallade can learn Sacred Sword now

[calm brook]

wait till you see [redacted]

[median nimbus]

Redacted

[calm brook]

||https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/ironvaliant/||

[median nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/what-scared-scary-run-running-gif-22931055

[keen sandal]

...

want

[median nimbus]

That's uhm... That's a must

[keen sandal]

how is Flower Trick allowed

I know we talked about it the other day (at least, I think we did), but honestly. What the fuck

70 base power, guaranteed hit and guaranteed crit?

[median nimbus]

That's gonna be difficult to play around

And I just see a slightly bigger problem... who can learn it...

[keen sandal]

Yup. High Attack and high Speed.

It's also nearly guaranteed to have STAB; the only way you're not getting that is if you've changed type with Protean or been hit by one of a handful of moves.

[median nimbus]

So umh... cool?
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[errant carbon]

I can see either the move or any mon capable of learning the move being banned in competitive play very quickly lol

Unless there's a good counter / defense to it we don't know about yet

But it's essentially the only reason I went with the grass starter

Like they were all p close but that sealed the deal for me

[keen sandal]

Currently Meowscarada is the only move that can learn it, and really you counter by resisting Grass and breathing on it.

Thing's defensive stats are not great.

Speedy mf and it hits hard, but it can't really take a hit worth a damn.

[errant carbon]

all it'd take is some slight setup and then just sweep with it

[keen sandal]

Trick Room, for instance, pretty much shuts it down.

[errant carbon]

Part of me is sad its HA isn't moxie

[keen sandal]

If it got Moxie it would be unstoppable.

[errant carbon]

But most of me is thankful for not making it the most insane offensive mon ever

[keen sandal]

Also, Grass/Dark is awful defensively.

[errant carbon]

Yeah that's a lot of weaknesses tbf

[keen sandal]

Seven weaknesses. Madness.

[errant carbon]

Jesus didn't realise it was quite that many

Theres no 4x tho right?

[keen sandal]

Bug

[errant carbon]

Oh shit yeah

[keen sandal]

Although in fairness it does also have six resistances. None of those are double, sadly.

[errant carbon]

Very interesting

[keen sandal]

Ignore the "Gen VIII" at the top; I think someone at Bulbapedia just copied the table for, like, Shiftry or something.

[errant carbon]

Not a lot of neutral, seems to be a either you nuke it or you don't lol

Tbh attempting to build it defensively might not be completely awful for competitive play

But you'd be stupid to use it that way

[keen sandal]

Here’s mine’s stats at level 50, though I haven’t paid any attention at all to EVs

[errant carbon]

I mean the defense stats aren't completely shite

Shame about your nature tho

[keen sandal]

No, but when you’ve got that many weaknesses…

[errant carbon]

True

It's a shame it's tera form keeps it grass

Unless it changes when it's evolved?

[keen sandal]

No, it sticks with Grass.

But it can be changed in the late game.

[errant carbon]

Hmm I see

[keen sandal]

I’m not sure how, but you need 50 Tera Shards of a given type and there’s a way to change to that type somewhere

However

[errant carbon]

Then that could make it very very good

Power it up and remove some weaknesses

[keen sandal]

Crit and STAB and Tera bonus…

[errant carbon]

Stab is 1.2x right?

Cus if so I wouldn't mind losing that for a few less weaknesses

[keen sandal]

Even Grass removes some, since it becomes single type. You lose the Fight and Fairy weaknesses, and Bug becomes a single instead of a double

[keen sandal]

1.5x

[errant carbon]

Oh shit nvm then

Yeah mine will be staying as grass

[keen sandal]

It’s essentially a 2.25x multiplier every time you use the move, so it’s 157 base power with no downsides and can’t miss (unless you use Fly or Dig or some such)

[errant carbon]

Stab crit tera with the right EVs and nature should 1 shit everything 🤣

Throw in the held item that boosts grass 🤣

[keen sandal]

I think I’m doing about five times damage to Nemona’s Quaquaval every time I battle her

[errant carbon]

Or metronome or whatever that item is

This could potentially be the first game where I use a starter throughout the entire game Inc post game

Normally my starter goes bye bye after main game

[keen sandal]

…what is wrong with you

I don’t care if it’s not efficient; you can’t be ditching your starter

[errant carbon]

Hehe?

[keen sandal]

Except in specific challenges like Nuzlockes or mono-type runs, I suppose.

[errant carbon]

Imagine a POC of this game

[keen sandal]

Honestly it might be easier

[errant carbon]

Possibly

Do we know how many moms are in this game?

[keen sandal]

You can get to areas with higher level Pokémon to train against earlier in the game

[errant carbon]

True

But that also means more mom's to catch early game

Money could end up be an issue

Not enough balls or some shit

Speaking off I've used so many of my balls trying to get a good mareep and magikarp

Got like 15 mareep and nearly a full box of karps

And I've had to settle with only slightly above average for each

In fact I don't think my Karp is even that good, iirc it's Addy and the yellow graph is like 50% speed but next to nothing on attack 🤣

Oh well, all part of the fun right

[keen sandal]

532 are unavailable entirely; I think there are now 1,007 overall, so ~475 available

If you only include the ones directly available/catchable, Serebii says the Paldea Pokédex has 400 entries

You are unhinged

[calm brook]

Tera stacks with stab additively pretty sure

[errant carbon]

I wish we could see numbers for how much damage at attack does

Not bothered about not seeing opponents remaining / max hp

I just wanna see how much damage my attack does , purely cus I'm curious lol

[safe wave]

for people of lesser intelligence like myself

[errant carbon]

Epic

[neon dagger]

so uhh

i may have gottan an adamant nature koraidon

[median nimbus]

okay, that looks nasty

[neon dagger]

also for ppl who are far enought in the game

||doesnt apperar that the 2nd legendary you get is able to change form||

[median nimbus]

cringe

[neon dagger]

i mean

its good for trading

[median nimbus]

I mean, yeah, but still

[neon dagger]

since you can easily just trade one away for the other versions one

[median nimbus]

true

also, from what I've seen so far
Violet looks like it has won the "design" contest between the 2 versions, or at least in my opinion.

[neon dagger]

in what way?

[median nimbus]

uh... violet exclusive mons are cooler, i...mo...

[neon dagger]

||crater ones?||

[median nimbus]

just overall, I mean

[neon dagger]

not that many exclusives tbh

i wonder if last area looks diffrent

but man wheres ||roaring moon||

[median nimbus]

maybe there's a smaller difference, along with ||the different filter on each version||

[neon dagger]

school uniforms i think

[errant carbon]

Wait so is 510 not max for EVs anymore?

Or were we all wrong about that being the EV graph

[neon dagger]

?

[errant carbon]

That blue graph

If thats showing EVs

You def have more than 510

[neon dagger]

idk but that ones is built diff a bit

has "Best" in 3 stats

[errant carbon]

Press L on stats screen, yellow graph will show, I have a feeling its for IVs

[neon dagger]

idk

[errant carbon]

1 gym 1 titan down

[keen sandal]

Eight gyms, all Titans and four Team Star bases down

Also got my Tyranitar and caught a level 75 Lucario

[median nimbus]

damn, are you speedrunning the game rhy?

[calm brook]

That thing mant posted has the IVs listed under each stat so I don't have a damn clue what the yellow graph is

Mant beat the game so looks like it unlocks that way like last two games

Also that is probably still just 510 evs but idk

[errant carbon]

Hmm maybe

But damn you lot are speeding through this shit

[calm brook]

Mant moment

Has never smelled a flower

[errant carbon]

[calm brook]

I'm still at like 4 objs complete after 14-15 hours

[errant carbon]

Meanwhile I nearly got whiped by a wald tera scyther

[calm brook]

I got rolled by a tera flamigo

Mostly bc 5 of my mons are just there for levelling to get evo for dex entry

[keen sandal]

Not really, it’s just laughably easy

[neon dagger]

finally

roarig moon aquiered

[neon dagger]

what version do you have btw?

[keen sandal]

Scarlet

[neon dagger]

i think i just see an umbreon in the back of a fight

[keen sandal]

I've seen one or two of those.

[neon dagger]

eeveelutions?

[keen sandal]

Umbreon specifically, but I've caught a Vaporeon as well.

[neon dagger]

how far are you with the story?

[keen sandal]

^

[neon dagger]

where tf did you find a lvl 75 lucario

[keen sandal]

Little underlevelled for ||the fight with Arven after beating the fifth Titan|| and I haven't checked out the League yet.

[keen sandal]

Cave somewhere. I've forgotten the name. It was one of the wild Tera Pokémon you sometimes see.

[neon dagger]

what lvl is your team then?

[keen sandal]

55-58

[neon dagger]

id say get 5 more lvls for e4

sus

5 star galagladi raid

thats should be like lvl 75 with being 60 when catched

how tf do you even beat this thing

[median nimbus]

uh... hitting it harder than it can hit you, maybe?

[neon dagger]

u should get an award for your stupidity

[median nimbus]

thank you

[calm brook]

you two are an interesting combo

[median nimbus]

sometimes it's hard to look this stupid

[neon dagger]

you make it look quite easy

you seem to be a natural at it

[calm brook]

EU fight 🍿

[median nimbus]

that's what it has being surrounded by them ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[median nimbus]

either way

[median nimbus]

what were you referring to that?

[neon dagger]

gallade in 5 star raid

also had a 5 star gengar raid

gnger used confuse ray hypnosis spite and had cursed body

[median nimbus]

ah, mb
didn't you have any advantage type?

[neon dagger]

well you see

still shit dmg

[median nimbus]

fair

[neon dagger]

adamant max dmg koraidon

no dmg

the shield is even more bs

[median nimbus]

maybe next time you can prepare some multi hit attacks to try and burn the shield down faster

[neon dagger]

eh

dragon genger electric gallade

[median nimbus]

lmao

[neon dagger]

but i also just got a gogoat with sap sipper and water tera

which lets it have only have a weakness to electric

[median nimbus]

yeah, that's gonna be annoying

[keen sandal]

Yeah, but only if you Terastallize it, and why tf you'd waste your one use on a Gogoat is beyond me.

[calm brook]

i mean it's bulky enough to be viable against special attackers

would be good in doubles actually

doesn't have a ton of setup options but enough use cases to make it worth

basically niche but good

[neon dagger]

also theres one mon i saw whose name i cant remember that spread spikes if its hit

toxic spikes in that case

[neon dagger]

||2nd roaring moon aquiered||

[median nimbus]

[neon dagger]

now i need someone for trading

the catch rate is rough

[calm brook]

find trading server

[neon dagger]

reddit

ill get the other mons first before i go trading

[calm brook]

dont use reddit tf

there are discord servers

very good

https://discord.gg/pokemonswordshield

i use this one

highly recommend

[neon dagger]

What

[median nimbus]

I have a lot questions, yeebus

[calm brook]

iono was not as cringe as the trailer

but there are some wacky lines

[median nimbus]

oh, don't worry, I've read some lines in spanish

I hate it

it is as cringe as you could think

[errant carbon]

Cleared my first star base thing and am completed the quest to challenge a new gym

But then I had to go to work

Big sad

[errant carbon]

Just got a shiny Eevee in pogo lol

[calm brook]

nice

evo to umbreon

best shiny eeveelution

[errant carbon]

I'm assuming they work the same way

Evolve it at night for umbreon

Or is pogo just random like it suggests

[peak crest]

Just hatched a shiny clefa. I love her

[median nimbus]

nice

[errant carbon]

5 mil stardust

o.o

i thought i had a decent amount at 35k

i have been playing like 2 weeks tho

my starter was chosen in 2016 tho

but never caught anything so theres a 6 year gap from when i chose my starter to when i caught my first mon

[errant carbon]

just had my gyarados 1 shot a raid battle

[median nimbus]

[errant carbon]

2nd gym down

[errant carbon]

and the gym im now at is 7 levels higher and his ace mon just sweeped me

[keen sandal]

Damn. Wish I'd paid attention to stats earlier in the game.

This is a Larvitar I caught several gyms in:

Had Normal for its Tera Type so I kinda just stuck with the first one I'd caught earlier. It has notably worse stats.

If I level it up to where my Tyranitar is now, even without EVs it would be the same or better in every stat except Attack. Include EVs, though, and it would blow this one out of the water.

Ok, I think wild Tera Pokémon might be guaranteed to have better-than-average IVs, Literally all mine have at least one perfect.

[calm brook]

oh

[errant carbon]

Fuck wish I'd checked the stats on my scyther now

It was a wild tera that nearly sweeped my whole team

But I've been using it so have no idea what it's EVs are at

After the comment about wild tera I caught a tera from a raid

Perhaps just coincidence

Not good stas but that's perfect in 1 stat

But could be coincidence so I'm gonna go catch a few more

[keen sandal]

All mine have had at least one perfect, but most of them have more.

[errant carbon]

Hmmm

In other news I've now done 3 gyms 2 titan and 1 star base

Making good progress

[keen sandal]

I've entirely finished the story.

[errant carbon]

Damn nice

Just realised the new moms probably won't be on that site will they

[keen sandal]

Nope.

[errant carbon]

Is sandygast new to this gen?

No it can't be I've seen it before this game came out

Nvm then

What

The

Fawk

[keen sandal]

What?

[errant carbon]

Rip the nature tho

Can't wait to reset my scythers EVs to check 🤣

[keen sandal]

Damn.

I got a Sunflora with three perfect IVs (I've forgotten which three). Sadly it's a fucking Sunflora.

What a waste.

[errant carbon]

Just caught a tera cyclizar, wish I could check it

Got a shit nature though, relaxed

[calm brook]

Is there any point grinding tera mons except shards from raids

Bc you can change tera type in postgame and just breed a good mon

[errant carbon]

Uhm ig the only really reason to grind them in lategame would be for raid items, unless there's easier ways to get them too

[keen sandal]

I mean, it takes a lot of shards to change Tera type.

[errant carbon]

Im deffo in an area I shouldn't be in yet cus this is 15 levels higher than me

However

I just caught this

I'm so sad that nature isn't some better

[calm brook]

Have to grind raids either way

[errant carbon]

Cus that's kinda cracked

[calm brook]

f

Isnt sylv a special attacker or am i high

I dont use it

[errant carbon]

It is

But mid 20s is still good

[calm brook]

You can get mints early

I have a few

[errant carbon]

Can get what?

[calm brook]

Changes nature

[errant carbon]

How do I get those

[calm brook]

Well, overrides it

Idk I got from item on ground

[keen sandal]

Specifically, mints change stats to look like the new nature, but have no effect on which flavours the Pokémon likes (important for those berries that cause confusion if the Pokémon hates the taste)

And yeah, just look for the sparkles. I'm fairly sure those are where all mine came from as well. I doubt they were regular Poké Ball items.

[errant carbon]

Meaning I could still get a " modest " sylveon ? :)))

[keen sandal]

You could indeed.

[errant carbon]

It's been such a long time since I used an eeveelution

This one would be very nice to use if it were modest

Also have we worked out what these graphs are yet ?

[keen sandal]

IVs

Then there's another one showing EVs.

[calm brook]

IVs are displayed with text once you beat the game

idk what the yellow graph is

okay yellow is EVs

idk what the difference between the two parts of the yellow is but basically the graphs is EVs/max and it has a lil icon next to the stat once you max it out

also there is a guy who you can do super training with (maxes an iv)
you need bottle caps which come from a battle thingy at the academies in late game and also the auction but that probably sucks for getting them

[keen sandal]

The transparent darker yellow is IVs; I don't know why it's available from the start of the game when Judge is postgame only. The solid bright yellow is EVs, and turns blue when you hit 510 total.

Actually, maybe not.

The darker yellow lines up with the Judge function for some of my Pokémon but not others.

[calm brook]

yeah thats whats confusing me

cant find any info on it online

[keen sandal]

Unrelated: I accidentally made four Sprigatito eggs. Possibly 5.

[errant carbon]

I've spent far too long looking at them all trying to figure it out and can't come up with any explanation

[keen sandal]

I was trying to get one to give to my sister (she picked Fuecoco), and went to the bathroom after starting a picnic. I came back to four eggs.

[errant carbon]

Jesus Christ

[keen sandal]

Admittedly I did make a sandwich to get Egg Power if i used the phrase "egg power" on a different server i would never hear the end of it, but even so. Four eggs in under two minutes.

[calm brook]

i am experiencing the epic graphics of the lake area

and by epic graphics i mean bad water textures at 4 fps

[errant carbon]

Without spoilers am I high enough level to pull this out yet?

[keen sandal]

Ye

[errant carbon]

Epic

[keen sandal]

To be clear, I would tell you to go for it even if I knew you weren't, for comedy purposes, but in this case you genuinely are fine.

[errant carbon]

Good to know

Also ignore the bonsly on my team

I'm trying to work out what I want my 6th be lol

Apart from 3 of my mons being part flying

Hm shit

How have I only just realised lol

Oh I pulled that out and nothing happened 🤣

Epic

[calm brook]

yeah interacting with those doesnt do anything

[errant carbon]

Guessing it changes something elsewhere or later on?

[calm brook]

it is probably what you think it is
that is all

glowy relic

take guess

[errant carbon]

Those symbols with chains on them ?

Ik I saw a purple one in the first area

Off I go lmao

[keen sandal]

||If that was the only stake you've found nothing will be different from when you first saw it.||

^ Not a spoiler, really, but will save you some time if you read it.

[calm brook]

tera vaporeon
water tera

[errant carbon]

Ah rip read this after I'd already got to the thing

Rip

I have a vague memory of seeing another one a while back

Stake that is

Tbf I have seen a second door too

[calm brook]

there are many

[errant carbon]

I thought that might be the case

[calm brook]

the options for mons specifically for catching wild mons kinda suck in s/v

need a gallade then transfer mean look as egg move

p sure only mon that has both mean look and false swipe

has thunder wave also at least

[keen sandal]

Do you even need Mean Look? There's no roaming Pokémon and almost nothing that flees.

[calm brook]

I mean I'd prefer it

But only like 3 evo lines that even get mean look

False swipe I mean

Other option is axew line but no status effects

i found the tera lucario

[errant carbon]

That could be a lot worse

Little bit of a rip on speed but arcanine has p high base speed anyway

[calm brook]

the team star story was surprisingly good

[median nimbus]

Oh hey, shocker

[keen sandal]

I've just realised if I Terastallize and hit something with a double weakness to Grass with Flower Trick, it takes twelve times the base damage.

That's just silly.

[median nimbus]

12 times

[keen sandal]

Yup.

[median nimbus]

who the F did ever think flower trick was fine?

[keen sandal]

Four times from the double weakness, doubled by Terastal STAB (if your Tera type matches your original type, STAB is double instead of 1.5x) to eight times, then another 1.5x from the guaranteed crit.

[median nimbus]

welp, now the question is

[keen sandal]

Oh, and it can't miss unless you're in the first turn of Fly, Dig, etc. and doesn't affect the user in any way.

[median nimbus]

what the hell can you nuke with that?

[keen sandal]

No stat reduction, no recoil...

[keen sandal]

Anything that doesn't have Sturdy or a Focus Sash, really.

[median nimbus]

0_o

[keen sandal]

Basically if you see a Meowscarada, hope it has its Hidden Ability (Protean) and changes away from Grass before it uses Flower Trick.

Oh, but if it has its regular ability and happens to be below 50% HP, it gets a 50% boost to its Attack stat, which effectively brings the damage up to 18x. Also, since it always crits, lowering its Attack or raising your Defence won't help you.

(It's not actually an extra 1.5x multiplier on the final damage, because of how the calculation works, but in effect it works out similarly)

[calm brook]

ya idk if crit comes after tera but it is after effectiveness and stab so

probably still full 1.5x

[keen sandal]

It is. Formula works out base damage based on stats and base power of the move, then all bonuses/maluses from type effectiveness, STAB, weather, crit, etc. are multiplied together.

Hold up. I'm now wondering what would happen to the STAB if a Pokémon with Adaptability has a Tera type matching one of its original types.

[calm brook]

i literally cant beat a certain character with my team rn bc of flower trick

[keen sandal]

Can you find something with Battle Armour or Shell Armour?

[calm brook]

maybe
problem is i just dont have a team

[keen sandal]

Fair.

[calm brook]

i have gotten all 18 badges with just my starter

[keen sandal]

Lucky Chant should also work, but I'm not sure if it's available at all.

[calm brook]

guess time for dex grinding

125 mons left to catch

probs going to touch trade some

pretty sure liquidation is just better than quaqua's signature move

btw you get apriballs at higher levels of dex completion rewards

[errant carbon]

Uhm

I caught a thing

Need me a mint to make it "modest"

[keen sandal]

Very nice.

[median nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/umm-confused-blinking-okay-white-guy-blinking-gif-7513882

[errant carbon]

Kinda upset hp is so low but you know what I think the rest of the stats might be able to justify it

Not sure tho

[keen sandal]

I mean, Arcanine is a speedy boi

It'll be able to do a lot of damage before ever getting hit.

[errant carbon]

Wait no

That's the wrong picture

What

Phone

Hello

[median nimbus]

u good?

Ay

[errant carbon]

Hold up

That's what I wanted to share

[median nimbus]

okay, I'm holding up, and it's only making me edit the previous msg

[keen sandal]

what the fuck

[errant carbon]

That's something more to talk about

There we go

[keen sandal]

From a raid, I presume?

[errant carbon]

That's what I need the mint to make "modest"

Almost, roaming tera

That's the one I wish had a bit more up 🤣

But either way that thing is fucking cracked as shit

Tbf I could go garde or gallade either when is set up as soon as I get the right mint lmao

But I prefer garde

Now exp is shared do EVs just go to ones that took part in the battle still?

[keen sandal]

They unfortunately go to everything.

At least, they did in SwSh, so I'm assuming it's the same here.

[median nimbus]

cring

[keen sandal]

Unrelated: I do quite like Terastal as a concept, but I just wish it didn't give the fucking crowns. They look so dumb.

[errant carbon]

True

[median nimbus]

I've read/seen that it also lengthens all of the animations with no way to shorten/skip them

[keen sandal]

It does that as well, yeah.

But I think it's only with moves matching the Tera type, not all moves.

[errant carbon]

Also quick q the nature mints, do they give a permanent change to stats ? Or is just like a battle item ?

[keen sandal]

Permanent change. You use it out of battle.

[errant carbon]

Epic

[neon dagger]

hmm

[keen sandal]

...I just checked my playtime. I am not proud of what I saw.

[neon dagger]

?

[keen sandal]

39 hours.

[calm brook]

good stats on bad mons

[neon dagger]

unfortunately

i should do some more raids but 5 star ones need a bit

and not doing it with bots

[keen sandal]

I'm inn a 5-star one with the AI now. It's...

Not going well.

[neon dagger]

ive had one where i spent 7 rounds asleep

and got only 4 attacks

and the shield is just brutal

[keen sandal]

Although it's a Slaking, so he does have a fuck of a lot of health.

[neon dagger]

couldnt even break through with my 2nd koraidon

[errant carbon]

Fast asf

[median nimbus]

is that the correct ss?

[errant carbon]

Yes 🤣

[median nimbus]

just making sure

[errant carbon]

But yeah my highest is lvl39, just managed to catch that lvl55 dragonite with mega speed lmao

Hasn't got much else going for it but it's certainly fast lmao

[median nimbus]

speedy Gonzales, as I would call it

[keen sandal]

5-star raid gave me an Abomasnow with four perfect IVs.

the Tyranitar and Garchomp I could make with this...

[keen sandal]

Not bad at all

Not the best, but it is the first one I caught.

And considering it can't be bred, I don't really know that I can hope for much better, other than maybe Attack being one of the good stats instead of Sp. Def.

[calm brook]

yeah idk how paradox farming gonna be

also i heard they are already nerfing boostr

[keen sandal]

Little bit spoilery, but I'm addressing your first point: ||very easy. After the story in the crater, you get to go back in whenever you want and Paradox Pokémon are fucking everywhere.||

[calm brook]

i mean yeah but thats just regular encounters

so ig mint and bottle cap time

[keen sandal]

I just got an almost-perfect Weavile out of a raid.

Literally all it needs is to swap its Atk and Sp Atk IVs and it would be god-tier.

[errant carbon]

I finished all the titans

I did the false dragon when my team was all in mid 30s lol

Now. Working through the gyms, onto my 6th

I know for a fact I haven't done them in the intended order but it's fine lmao

[keen sandal]

Eh, I'm not sure I did either.

[errant carbon]

I did 2 or 3 and then went back to the school and went the other exit and did a gym that lvl 16 lol

[errant carbon]

Well 1 gym left

Just electric

Just used a load of the exp candy things I had on a gible I caught a while back

Now got a lvl 44 gabite ready to go sweep this last gym lol

Oh shit this is only mid 20s

Not sure how I've left this til last lmao

[keen sandal]

I just hatched an Adamant Sprigatito.

[errant carbon]

Niiice

I realised we could get exact iv numbers on the new mons

Just put the stats through the calculator with a Mon that has the same base stat for the stat you want to check

Very long winded but

Also random thought but I'm excited to see speedruns of this game

Could be quite interesting considering it's open world

Makes it a lot easier to avoid encounters

[calm brook]

will be some funny bike shenanigans i imagine

[keen sandal]

There's also a bug where having a second controller and pressing forward on both sticks doubles the speed of your character.

[calm brook]

also that

[errant carbon]

[keen sandal]

Any of you pick Quaxly, btw, and have a spare egg/hatched baby?

[errant carbon]

Nah, chose sprig and haven't even tried breeding yet

[keen sandal]

It's IVs aren't what I want, but I could give her an Everstone and breed her with the Abomasnow I got in a raid earlier...

[errant carbon]

He's already got it planned out
Mad lad

When do I start getting harder raids btw?

Majority of mine are 1/2 star

[keen sandal]

Poor girl's only just been born and I'm thinking about breeding for better ones.

[errant carbon]

I had one 3 star but that's it

[keen sandal]

It's as you "progress through the game", but I'm not sure on specifics. Might be based on total badges?

[errant carbon]

Hmm possible, I have 13 badges total tho

[keen sandal]

Dunno

[errant carbon]

Could possibly be related to the stat bases then

I only done 1 of those so far lol

Star*

Holy shit a level 23 just survived a STAB super effective bulldoze from a level 44 gabite

What sorcery is this

[keen sandal]

Jesus

What Pokémon was it?

[errant carbon]

Belibolt

[keen sandal]

That is very surprising.

[errant carbon]

Anyway all gyms are now done

[calm brook]

pog

im gonna see if i can complete dex before e4

dont think any legends are locked to postgame

and even if

[keen sandal]

All right. Got my Quaxly from that server Persp linked a day or two ago

[calm brook]

just gonna trade

[keen sandal]

Immediately forgot he was in my party, caught a wild Tera Pokémon at level 45 and had him jump from 1 to 19 in an instant.

[errant carbon]

Well I think I'm gonna go train that kirlia up

Like properly train, EVs and all

[keen sandal]

I'll be getting a Fuecoco soon-ish. Not sure exactly when.

Noice

[calm brook]

oh you can just buy mints? damn

[errant carbon]

Didn't realise I had so much money and LP tbh

[keen sandal]

I didn't realise you could buy them either. I'm now less excited about the Adamant Sprigatito I hatched.

[errant carbon]

Yeah, I'm not sure if there any other of these stores but there's a chansey department store in montenevera that sales every mint for 20k each

I only recently found it tbf

[keen sandal]

You get them from raids as well.

[errant carbon]

Next tournament thing they hold is gonna be interesting since it's so easy to get perfect mons in this game

[keen sandal]

Not sure what difficulty they start appearing at, but they definitely drop from 5-star.

[errant carbon]

Interesting

I'm honestly just gonna dump all my exp and ev items into my kirlia

Can always grind for more

[keen sandal]

Yeah, it seems easy enough to get stuff that used to be rare.

Hell, I had about four Ethers and a Max Ether before I reached the first Pokémon Centre.

[errant carbon]

I've been holding onto it all but just seems like it's not worth keeping now

I am anticipating a nerf to the drop rates of these "rare" items though

It does seem a tad silly

[keen sandal]

As long as they don't touch raid loot pools I don't care.

It's a good way to encourage online play.

[errant carbon]

Oh you just buy ev items for 10k too lol

[keen sandal]

Eh, that's always been a thing.

[errant carbon]

Oh yeah I like the loot pools but the rates seem too good

[keen sandal]

Little cheaper than previously, but not new.

[errant carbon]

Yeah

I'm assuming all the EV increase items are the same, still 10 per item ?

[keen sandal]

Think so

[errant carbon]

Let's hope so 🤣

[keen sandal]

120,000 EXP worth of candy from that raid

[errant carbon]

Fucking hell

[keen sandal]

9 L and an XL

[errant carbon]

So when we gonna go for a living Dex of all perfect nature and iv level 100 mons ?

[keen sandal]

Sadly that's next to impossible, unless you Hyper Train.

[errant carbon]

Won't stop me trying

[keen sandal]

But that doesn't actually change the IVs; it just changes the stat to what it would be if the IV were perfect. For breeding it'll still be considered the original value.

[errant carbon]

Lmfao

[keen sandal]

Hammi the odds of getting a perfect IV wild Pokémon are worse than one in a billion

[errant carbon]

Allright I'll settle for 5/6 perfect ivs

I got it with my kirlia didn't I

[keen sandal]

5's all you need anyway. It's very unlikely you'll ever want max Atk and Sp. Atk.

[errant carbon]

Yeah

Shame my now gardevoir has 31 in atk and not hp

If I could swap it hp and atk it would be literally perfect

[keen sandal]

Shame about the Attack.

[errant carbon]

Fuck man that sucks

Think Id cry

Does it even get many good spec attacks?

[keen sandal]

Dragon Pulse. That's... about it.

And Tera Blast, but it would use the Attack stat and become physical if this Haxorus used it.

Or probably any Haxorus; its base Attack is nearly 2.5x its base Sp. Atk.

[errant carbon]

Yeah lol

How much EVs do the feathers give? And do they cap at 100 like vitamins?

Sounds like they only give 1 but haven't read anything about it being capped

[keen sandal]

1 each, but they don't cap.

[errant carbon]

Alright nice

[keen sandal]

Also vitamins aren't capped anymore.

They changed it in Gen VIII

[errant carbon]

:o

[calm brook]

wait which store is that btw

[keen sandal]

I actually didn't know that until I just googled it either

[calm brook]

yeah vitamins no cap

[errant carbon]

It's the chansey department store in montenevera

[calm brook]

oh ig i missed that

[errant carbon]

This building

[calm brook]

back to levelling mons for dex

[errant carbon]

I ran through the iv calc again to get pinpoint accurate ivs now my garde is levelled up

Not quite 5 perfect stats

But 4 are lmfao

[keen sandal]

Am I currently making a spreadsheet for breeding?

...yes, yes i am

[errant carbon]

Ooh here we go first 4 star raid

Magneton

Let's pray it's got cracked stats when I catch it lmao

Bruh I might even lose this

Fml

Do they disappear if you lose?

[keen sandal]

If you get it, it should have 3, maybe four perfect IVs.

No, you get to try again

[errant carbon]

Thank fric

Going a little better this time but still not great lol

Yeah boutta lose again rip

When I catch this I'm hoping it's high IVs are hp spec atk and both def

Speed isn't really important since magnezone is slow as shit lol

You know what I'll take that lol

Rip on the hp but it's cool

[keen sandal]

Can’t wait until I unlock 6-star

[errant carbon]

Sounds... Hard

Bruh I just got back to back never melt ice from shiny spots on the ground

[errant carbon]

Lol this thread has skyrocketed in terms of total messages

[neon dagger]

6 star raids should be lvl 90 mons

That you have to fight

[errant carbon]

Level 90 Jesus Christ

[neon dagger]

75 when you catch them

Each star should be 15 lvls

[errant carbon]

Makes sense

[errant carbon]

Making good progress on my gardevoir

250 spec atk and 100 speed EVs now

Up to level 65 too

[median nimbus]

yeebus

[errant carbon]

Oh sweet they don't even let you go above 252 now

Just used feathers for the last 2

I had 10 feathers but it wouldn't let me use more than 2

Normally it went to 255

That's actually quite nice

[keen sandal]

I’ve now acquired this little guy:

And that only took one try.

[median nimbus]

yeebus

that's... those are some nice stats

[keen sandal]

Yup.

[calm brook]

what are they putting in the water sheesh

did you even have a good iv parent or

[median nimbus]

maybe they left the kitten for a bit too much underground with some nice fertilizer

[keen sandal]

Oh, yeah, the father was this Abomasnow I got from a five-star raid:

These are my current potential fathers for breeding:

The Ditto kinda sucks, but it's the only one I've got. There may also be others; I haven't checked everything in my boxes.

I also have quite a few with three perfect IVs (from three- and four-star raids and wild Tera Pokémon), but I'm only looking at ones with minimum 4.

[errant carbon]

Now that is a nice sprigatito

I may try breed a good one for my team in the future, for now I'll stick with my starter one

I have 3 mons in mind for my team, need to decide on the rest

So far I'm at gardevoir, magnezone and meowscarade (? Probably spelt it wrong)

Part of me wants gyarados but at the same time I use him almost every game I play

Although the same can be said about magnezone

Mmmm

Suggestions? :)

[keen sandal]

Hard to go wrong with Garchomp.

Although you should mess around with some of the new ones. Don't fall into my trap of most of the team being old Pokémon.

If you can trade with someone for an Armarouge, that thing fucks.

[errant carbon]

Yeah I'm trying not to just use all old mons but it's hard 🤣

[keen sandal]

I can't find any five-star raids

[keen sandal]

Update: as you might expect, 6-star raids give 5 IV Pokémon.

[median nimbus]

are they okay?

[keen sandal]

In fairness, you fight the Pokémon at level 90 and they have increased HP.

[median nimbus]

Rhy, we play D2, you know that grinding to get a better +1 shinny thing is our daily basis

[keen sandal]

Also, they can periodically nullify your stat increases and their own stat reductions and status effects, as well as putting up a shield that massively reduces incoming damage.

Oh, I know. I'm more saying that these fights are difficult and that 5 IV Pokémon are not just handed out.

I dread to think what the 7-stars are gonna be like.

[median nimbus]

perfect 10 outa 10 pkmns?

[keen sandal]

Well, we'll find out next week. There's a Charizard event happening.

7-star Charizard raid with Dragon Tera type.

[calm brook]

odd

[keen sandal]

?

It'd be weirder if it were any other species, really. They're fucking obsessed with Charizard.

[neon dagger]

hmm

breeding maybe?

[keen sandal]

It's not bad.

[neon dagger]

and i found a focus blast raichu

with fighting tera

ayo

[calm brook]

focus blast kinda shit

[neon dagger]

dont think it gets aurasphere

[keen sandal]

Raichu overall is kinda shit.

[calm brook]

unfortunately

squishy hybrid attacker

[neon dagger]

how am i going to catch something with memento and explosion

i am also seeing a dragonite walking around

0 attack ivs bruh

[keen sandal]

Oof

[neon dagger]

yeah that one is quite a nice one

[calm brook]

why are you sad about 0 attack ivs lol

it is vaporeon

like that's as good a vaporeon as ur gonna get without breeding

there really arent many good water special attackers this gen are there

iron bundle would be good except the move selection is shit

i skimmed the dex but vaporeon probs best water sp attacker
need something with tera shenanigans ideally for water

[keen sandal]

This is annoying. The 5 IV Dragalge I got from the 6-star raid earlier is female. I'm trying to pass on its IVs to a male offspring so I can use it for breeding and it's not going well.

[calm brook]

why's that a problem

[keen sandal]

Because if you breed a female you only get that species.

So I can get a load of Skrelp with good genes, but Skrelp and Dragalge aren't great.

[calm brook]

cant you just breed a male one and use that to breed with the female

destiny knot only 20k at mesagoza delibird presents

[keen sandal]

Already picked one up.

[neon dagger]

hmm

5 star tinkaton

[calm brook]

ya so just evo the male skrelp and give destiny knot to the female ez

[neon dagger]

that one was about a dragonite i found

[calm brook]

ah makes sense now

[keen sandal]

How does that help me? I've already got good IV fathers to breed it with; I'm getting unlucky with the offspring's stats.

[calm brook]

oh so ur just getting rng'd

[keen sandal]

Of the 12 parent IVs, I have nine perfect ones. It keeps picking the imperfect.

[calm brook]

yeah i thought it had something to do with the mons you were using based on what you said which is why i was confused

[keen sandal]

The best one of my first group only had 4 perfect.

Fair enough

[neon dagger]

how much bulk ups into tinkaton shuld i do?

[keen sandal]

Still. Gives me surprise trade fodder and I'm putting good, if not incredible, IVs out there.

[neon dagger]

+4 rn

that will be something

[keen sandal]

I mean, it depends what you're doing.

[neon dagger]

my max atk adamant koraidon with collission course

lets see

50% of a 5 star one

wtf is this shield

a 1/3rd of the shield

[keen sandal]

5-star shields don't fuck around.

I've struggled with them as well.

Ayy

[neon dagger]

legit 150% hp shield

[calm brook]

yeah you just roll the ones you have until you get the 5 ivs you want
idk exact odds since depends on what is max iv'd but destiny knot pulls 5 ivs and can be from either parent so worst case is like 1/64 or 1/128 which is time consuming but reasonable

[keen sandal]

My Skrelp got traded for a Violet exclusive that I didn't have.

[neon dagger]

yeah i got a terra attack rn

[calm brook]

i should get back to doing actual work but dex

[neon dagger]

i wish i would be able to check ivs

[calm brook]

just beat the game

[neon dagger]

oh yeah it has that thing in boxes

pog ability capsule

[keen sandal]

Noice

[calm brook]

[neon dagger]

2 gentle mints unfortunate

4iv

max spd max spdef max def max sp atk

[keen sandal]

5-stars seem to always give 4 IVs.

[neon dagger]

i wonnder

how many the 7 star one will give

[keen sandal]

We shall find out next week.

[neon dagger]

guess ill get my koraidon to lvl 100 then

[keen sandal]

5-star Armarouge here. Tyranitar should be a good choice if I can match with people.

With Fire Tera, which is just lovely.

Probably gonna resist or be immune to most of its attacks.

[neon dagger]

for the charizard?

[keen sandal]

No, everything I just said was about a raid I'm queuing for now.

But if you meant when I said "find out next week", yeah. The Charizard event starts on the 1st of December.

[neon dagger]

tinkaton into that one maybe

probably has air fire and dragon attacks

with dragon tera

[keen sandal]

All right, we've got two Tyranitar and a Garganacl. This Armarouge is about to get fucked.

[neon dagger]

441 attack sure is interesting isnt it?

[keen sandal]

idk man i think you need more

[neon dagger]

i think ive aquiered some valuables to sell

starting at 132462 and lets see how high it goes

and ended up at 422687

also how useful are tera shards btw?

[keen sandal]

50 of the same type can change a Pokémon's Tera type to that type, apparently, but I don't know where you go to do it.

I have 13 more Skrelp to hatch, which will bring me to 19 total. Hopefully one of them has 5 IVs and is male.

[neon dagger]

not even from a raid

[keen sandal]

Cool. I got what I was looking for.

Now I have twelve Skrelp to Surprise Trade.

Unless any of you want some 3 or 4 IV Pokémon in the Water 1 and Dragon egg groups.

[neon dagger]

sadge almost 5 iv tsareena

[calm brook]

after 2 hours of trying to evo rellor i have given up

so many steps

every method of levelling

nothing

[neon dagger]

had the same problem with the tumbleweed one

just doesnt want to evolve

[timber swan]

I can’t fuckin get rockruff to evolve into day lycanroc no matter what

Angy

[neon dagger]

just catch them

[calm brook]

day lycanroc are ez to find in wild

[neon dagger]

both are ez to find

[timber swan]

I haven’t found any yet

Plus I’ve been EV training

[neon dagger]

good or trash?

[timber swan]

You’d want speed to be higher, it’s Ight for now

[neon dagger]

breeding material

[timber swan]

True

[neon dagger]

so do i use my iron valiant for catching with false swipe or to sweep?

[neon dagger]

try to not sue 100 balls on a single mon challange

also actually fin ditto challange

[keen sandal]

Guys

Guys it happened

[neon dagger]

damn 6 star raid

havent even seen one

[keen sandal]

Oh, it didn't appear in my game. I just happened to look in Poké Portal and it was there.

For reference, if/when any of you get a Ditto raid, it'll transform into the host's Pokémon. If you're the host, pull out like a Happiny with no attacks.

[neon dagger]

so uh

i used flare blith on a raid mon

it got oneshot but so did my koraidon

from recoil only

[keen sandal]

Good lord.

[neon dagger]

it was full hp

[keen sandal]

I now have a Larvitar with all IVs perfect except HP, which is somewhere between 16 and 25.

Gonna go for a few more, though, and see if I can get that perfect instead of Sp. Atk.

[neon dagger]

pog another adamant mint

[keen sandal]

Speaking of, I'm going to end up using one of those, most likely.

I doubt RNGesus will be that kind to me immediately after showing me a 6-star Ditto.

[neon dagger]

almost time to do some evs on my koraidon

but i dont think it will get much better then my kyurem

but idk

its at 341 rn

kyurem at 441

[keen sandal]

Something weird is happening.

If you've done any breeding at all, you'll know when eggs hatch, they appear on the ground and the camera pans around.

For some reason, some of the eggs I'm hatching are opening an entirely new screen and hatching over a pink background that then turns orange at the end.

[calm brook]

it's just the game not using the world background p sure
same happens with evolutions

[median nimbus]

I've heard about the camera being... interesting. So the game having a stroke and failing to load the background wouldn't surprise me

[calm brook]

no it just uses a generic background like almost every other pokemon game has previously

the evolving/hatching in the world is new but you get weird angles sometimes so it is probably just avoiding a camera shot form in a wall

[errant carbon]

Snorunt in da fucking wall

[timber swan]

Mmmm sammich

[keen sandal]

Ok, it turns out Perrserker is the most cracked Pokémon imaginable for raids if you get a team of four

It’s basically the equivalent of Outbreak Perfected back when Zero Hour was first introduced

[calm brook]

interesting

does speed matter for raids

what move are you using on perrserker
assuming its ha stacks or somethin funny

also i imagine anything steel resistant shuts it down

i havent done any classes yet but will do that tomorrow

[safe wave]

I look at this chat and my brain melts from the numbers

I wish i understood this eevee and ivy thing

[median nimbus]

Same '-_-

[errant carbon]

It took me a hot minute to learn about it all back in the day

[keen sandal]

The HA stacks, so you use Screech to drop the raid Pokémon’s defence by two stages and then just Iron Head

[neon dagger]

Or you run a mon with sword dance

[keen sandal]

That is nowhere near as good.

[neon dagger]

Well depends what your teammates do

[keen sandal]

Perrserker’s hidden ability boosts Steel-type moves for itself and allies. In raids, this stacks.

You get the boost four times if everyone has Perrserker with the HA.

[neon dagger]

Sus

But i mean if you have 4 ppl

Ok but

Why not both

If you have 4 perrserker

Everyone uses leer once and swords dance once into iron head

[errant carbon]

Has tauros has a stat change ??

[neon dagger]

There appear to be some stat changes that werent known

[keen sandal]

If you have four people, you do the following:
Turn 1: one player uses Taunt to block status moves and everyone else uses Screech. This drop the target’s defence to minimum.
Turn 2: everyone does the cheer that boosts Attack. This triples Attack
Turn 3+: spam Iron Head

The base damage, before the HA bonus, or STAB, or type matchups, or held item boosts, is 12x greater than without setup.

HA will double it, STAB gives another 50%, you can use a Metal Coat for another 20%… and these boosts are all multiplicative

(This assumes all four players are using Perrserker with its HA, to be clear)

[errant carbon]

Bruh toxitricity has different colours without being shiny ?

Mad shit

[median nimbus]

uh? new versions of Toxitricity?
I know there was the blue and yellow one

low and high amp

[errant carbon]

Low and high amp? 🤣

Okily dokily xo

[median nimbus]

trying to recall the proper names, gimme a sec

I only read it on spanish, so

[errant carbon]

Ohhh I see lmao

[median nimbus]

the yellow is called amped, and the blue one is low key, apparently

[errant carbon]

Oh I see

[median nimbus]

I knew it was a music reference, but I couldn't quite guess it

in spanish they are high pitched and low pitched, repectively

[errant carbon]

Look at game Devs trying to be clever and funny

So me and Gemma impulse bought a second switch

[keen sandal]

So I had a think about the numbers for the Perrserker strat when I was in the shower.

[errant carbon]

Got a good deal though, got the switch and the other version of Pokémon and another copy of mario kart for not much more than the switch costs normally which is epic

But the reason we bought it? She wants to play Pokémon w me 🤣

[median nimbus]

inb4 Hammy gets his ass handed on pkmn by Gemma

[keen sandal]

With correct setup, the worst-case scenario where the target is resistant to Steel still gives you a 21.6x multiplier to base damage.

Best case, where it’s weak to Steel?

You’ve got yourself an 86.4x multiplier.

[errant carbon]

So this is what rhyf thinks about in the shower

[median nimbus]

thanks, but no thanks

[errant carbon]

With my insane gardevoir? No chance

[keen sandal]

(Roughly, anyway; these are slightly off because of how stats affect the damage calculation. They’re close enough, though)

[errant carbon]

I've also got a magneton to train up that will be equally as insane

[keen sandal]

Are you remotely surprised?

[errant carbon]

Not in the slightest

[keen sandal]

I’m nothing if not consistent.

[median nimbus]

is: "I prefer to not respond" a valid answer?

[errant carbon]

No sorry

In other news I have over a full box of mons I caught from raids or wild tera

And that's just the ones I put in a set box after we realised they come with guaranteed high stats

I should probably stop catching every single raid mon tho tbh

[median nimbus]

maybe start not catching them unless they are from x tier above

[keen sandal]

Yeah, I’m only catching 5-star and up, and even then I was only really doing it when they were in an egg group I didn’t have anything from

Although now that I have my 5 IV Ditto, I don’t really need to bother with that.

[median nimbus]

correct me if I'm wrong, can you get 6 perfect IVs?

[errant carbon]

Yeah

Although there are incredibly few scenarios you would need perfect IVS in every stat

Also fury cutter is quite nice for raids

In a 4 star raid and I'm using lvl 45 scyther. It's super effective but by the 3rd fury cutter it did pretty much half it's hp

[calm brook]

if you want an explanation we can do it super quick
or just read the serebii pages
https://www.serebii.net/games/evs.shtml
https://www.serebii.net/games/ivs.shtml
tl;dr EVs are gained by battling and have a cap of 252 per stat and 510 total; every mon gives a specific type and number of EVs when you defeat it (all pokemon in your party get them in s/v) and vitamins also increase them
IVs are inherent to a mon and can be checked in the summary screen in graph form, with text indicators after beating the game, or using online calculators; IVs can also be maxed with a thing called hyper training with a certain npc and require bottle caps, which can be bought at some shops and the auction house in s/v
at level 100, the difference between a max iv max ev stat and one that has minimum ivs and no evs can be over 100 points of that stat, but it varies obviously

[errant carbon]

Like lucky said, for people of lesser intelligence

[calm brook]

i swear it's not complicated

just gotta know where stat is displayed and how to change it

[errant carbon]

Nah once you get your head round it it's actually quite simple

[calm brook]

back to dex grind

should hit 350-360 today then have to go trade

[errant carbon]

Hardest part is searching what mom's to hunt for the right EVs

Jesus Christ

[keen sandal]

Gonna add on to this with some specifics:
At level 100, EVs give 1 extra stat point for every 4 EVs your Pokémon has earned in that stat. IVs range from 0-31 and at level 100 add the number directly onto the stat.
For example, a Tyranitar with 0 EVs and 0 IVs at level 100 would have an Attack stat of 273. If it gained 252 Attack EVs, its Attack would be boosted by 252/4=63, giving it 336 Attack total.
A different Tyranitar with 31 Attack IVs and no EVs would have 273+31=304 Attack at level 100, or 304+(252/4)=367 Attack.

You do get benefits of EVs and IVs before level 100, but they scale with level until maxing at 100.

[errant carbon]

In today's episode of going places the game probably doesn't want me: on top of the Pokémon league building despite not actually doing anything to do with the league yet

[keen sandal]

Also kinda relevant is natures; you may already know this, but each nature boosts one stat by 10% and reduces one by 10%. Five natures (Hardy, Docile, Bashful, Quirky and Serious) don't do anything, because technically they boost and reduce the same stat, which cancels out. Natures are randomly picked from a list of 25.

In other news, I have way too many Galarian Meowth eggs with good stats if anyone wants one.

I just cannot figure out the timing for breeding. If I do it normally it takes forever; if I use Egg Power to speed it up I end up swimming in eggs almost immediately.

[errant carbon]

I don't know how breeding works at all let alone going for good stats lmao

[keen sandal]

Have a picnic. Any two compatible Pokémon in your party have a chance of shagging. Check the picnic basket periodically and you'll find eggs.

[errant carbon]

Epic

[keen sandal]

As far as compatibility and passing on stats and natures and such, it's identical to older games. If you want to ensure a specific match, put nothing except those two Pokémon in your party.

[errant carbon]

Ah right fair enough

Is there any way to get more than 16 boxes or is that the max

[keen sandal]

Usually you get more when each box has at least one Pokémon in it, but I don't know what the max is.

[errant carbon]

Ohh ok

[keen sandal]

Apparently 32 is the max.

[errant carbon]

Oh damn

That's a lot of mons

[keen sandal]

960

[errant carbon]

Yep

That's enough for every Mon in the game twice right?

The dex is ab 450?

[keen sandal]

The dex doesn't include everything you can have.

[errant carbon]

Oh?

[keen sandal]

It goes to 400, but there are a few dozen more transfer-only Pokémon.

[calm brook]

^

[keen sandal]

Mostly legendaries, starters and some PLA evolutions.

[calm brook]

yeah i went to evo basculin only to realize you cant

[errant carbon]

Lmfao

[neon dagger]

Rhyf ill take a meowth

In 1 1/2 hrs

[keen sandal]

This is the best one I’ve currently hatched, if you want it:

But I also have more eggs that haven't hatched yet. I can see if anything better pops out, but you won't get a perfect Attack one.

[errant carbon]

Soo all the raids I'm getting now are 4 star but I'm just not in a position to do them quickly and reliably

Huge sad

[keen sandal]

If you have Switch Online drop a link code and I can help out.

My main team is just a smidge under level 80.

[errant carbon]

My garde is nearly done though, p sure once it's fully trained it'll stomp these 4 stars

I got work soon, but I'd be down to farm raids tomorrow if you want ?

[keen sandal]

I'm really just farming 5 and 6 stars at this point, but once you're able to tackle those I'd be down

[errant carbon]

I'll be able to tackle the right types with this bad boi

Move set will probably need tweeking lmao

Time to go whup arvens ass outside the lighthouse then go to work

[calm brook]

wait i just realized the dex apriball rewards were one each not ten