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#Pokemon
errant carbon
errant carbon
Back to s/v since I'm not allowed to progress further than Gemma on SW/sh 🤣
But I strongly believe I have built the best annihilape for raid purposes
Item is metronome
Has the ability to one shot 7 stars and even if it doesn't now I've made it ghost tera it should still carry through the shield
errant carbon
So I have caught over 60 sinistea and evolved nearly 50 dunspaece and I'm still yet to get a single antique or 3 segment
Afaik 3 segment can't be caught in raids / the wild, you have to evolve it and get that 1/100 chance of it becoming 3 segment
And it's very hard to tell if sinistea is antique or not so I just catch every one I find and look at the Pokédex entry that pops up when it asks for a nickname
One of the mausehold was also a 1/100 chance too but apparently that one is available in raids so I got that one very easily
neon dagger
doenst sinistea require a diff item to evolve?
keen sandal
Chipped Pot for authentic, Cracked Pot for inauthentic
errant carbon
Yeah, but I can't even got 1 antique, let alone 2 to fill both slots in my boxes
errant carbon
Can't remember if rewards were the same last ditto event
But seems people know to use magikarp this time to make it easy and the rewards are actually nice
Getting 3+ ev increase items every run
And it's not just one set item like usual, it can be any of them
From what I can tell you won't get treasure items so can't farm money's but I've been getting ev items, bottle caps, ability capsules
Maybe other stuff is available I only ran it around 5 times
errant carbon
Welp I hit 999 large exp candies
Dumped 73 each into walking wake and iron leaves just to use some up
And tbf I need to build those anyway
Same with the legendaries actually
errant carbon
So I think we all missed a 7 star raid
Although it wasnt really that special
It was a 1 day only thing, on Pokémon day
7 star Pikachu
I'm not sure if it had anything special about it, but I imagine it had a special move or something
Also they seem to be picking up the pace with the raid events, next one is going to be starting Friday, only a week after samurott ended
Gonna be typhlosion with ghost tera
Actually pretty scary consider it's potential move pool
keen sandal
Oh damn. Might have to actually go for this one.
errant carbon
Yeah it's probably one of my faves so far
But it just counters everything so well
Want to use ghost against its ghost tera, nvm is has dark moves
Want to use dark? Nvm it has fighting moves
I've been looking for a strong Mon with ghost / dark moves that typhlosion can't counter and.... The search isn't going well
It's move pool is honestly terrifying
neon dagger
do we know what moves itll have?
krookodile could probably oneshot but if typlosion gets decent move its a goner
well maybe
dunno how much it can do it you spamm bulk up if it has physcial moves
errant carbon
We don't know what move set it will have until it's out
But we do know it'll have more than 4, probably follow the same moves at the start of every battle and we ofc know what moves it could potentially have and make good guesses
neon dagger
they do the funny like with charizard and give it physical moves
errant carbon
potentially
so, neither of typhlosions abiliies are much to worry about
if it has flash fire (likely as its the hidden ability) it then skill swap could be something nice
if it has blaze (unlikely being its normal ability) then its basically irrelevant
neon dagger
flame body would be annoying
errant carbon
its not flame body i mis read lol
blaze and flash fire are the only abilities it can have
neither of this guys defenses are amazing but worth noting its physical def is slightly lower
its quite fast so will probably out speed a lot of mons since speed isnt in many raid builds
hp stat doesnt matter cus its a raid, although i did hear somewhere that its estimated 7star raids have a 30x multiplier to hp
so going off that this raid will have roughly 8000 hp?
neon dagger
hmm krookodile with power trip bulk up hone claws
or i go funny route and try to high roll into it hitting a crit on anger point krookodile
errant carbon
down side to using krookodile... posibilty of typhlosion having fighting moves
typhlosion has some many different types available
it has fire, steel, normal, rock, fighting, flying, ground, dark, psychic, ghost, electric and grass
they are all potential types it can use against us
so using a dark/ghost for stab super effective is pretty much out of the question
i say this cus it has access to focus blast and shadow ball, both high power special moves that counter its only 2 weaknesses
maybe it will have 1 not the other, who knows, but personally i think it will have both of those
if we take a water type in to resist its fire moves... it has solar beam
(and wild charge / thunder punch but i doubt it will have those since theyre physical moves)
neon dagger
they did that with charizard didnt they
so its still possible
alot of its coverage moves are physical btw
errant carbon
they are
i have a feeling i know how the raid will open
typhlosion will start with sunny day before we get to move
and its first attack will be eruption
thats honestly terrifying
i also think its highly likely it will have will o wisp
so even though its def is lower it might be best bringing in special attackers
im honestly struggling to find something good to use for it
im trying to look for a mon that has either dark / ghost special moves and is a type that typh cant hit for super affective damage, and also has access to some set up moves for increasing spatk / decresing spdef
errant carbon
Well the raid is here
Everyone seems to be using annihilape
I beat it 3rd with a team of annihilapes but it was very very close
Ive only used annihilape against it so I don't have much idea about it's full move set
However I was right, it likes to open with sunny day eruption
Trying to do it on Gemmas game now
Proving difficult as she doesn't really have many mons built up
Thought she had more but apparently not
So erm
I just got 2 shinies (at shiny charm odds) in the space of 5 minutes
Neither of which I was going out of my way to get I was just running around
Brings my shiny total up to 8 now
With a play time of... 280 ours
Lmfao
errant carbon
Decided to actually hunt for a shiny
Got gyarados in 6 minutes lol
Kept going for the rest of the sandwich to see if I could get another but I didn't so rip
But hey 3 shinies today
errant carbon
For those who missed it first time round
Iron leaves and walking wake are back
They released an update with a few bug fixes (one of which being a big to do with iron leaves and walking wake not being able to be caught) so they've brought it back to give players who encountered the bug another chance to catch them
I don't think you'll be able to catch a second pair if you got them fine the first time though
errant carbon
someone leaked all returning pokemon with the dlcs
possibly same person who leaked it for lasst gen and ended up being correct
so
cant remember if its all obtainable from dlc areas or if it included stuff we'll be able to transfer w pokemon home
but either way iirc the new total for the dex will be 715
so if i want to do my all forms living dex they need to give me more box space lmao
neon dagger
whats in the 1st part of the dlc btw?
errant carbon
tbh i havent looked into the dlc much in terms of what content were getting but i think new area and a little more story?
along w some new legendary mons
oh also i got my first dupe shiny, got another mareep. probably give it to gemma
ampharos do be stronk
neon dagger
appearently the 1st part was released a bit ago but idk
errant carbon
appearently the 1st part was released a bit ago but idk
pre orders being available may be what youre thinking of
btw pre order bonus is hisuin zoroark and some new outfits so thats pretty cool
although from what ive heard hisuin zoroark isnt as good as it used to be? idk cus i never used it
calm brook
idk if im gonna buy the dlc
errant carbon
think im buying it for both me and gemma 
only fair tho cus im pretty sure she bought the base game for both of us so
but i want the dlc, new area (im fairly sure) and new mons and new story, even if the story isnt that great ill have plenty of fun collecting all the newly obtainable mons and maybe shiny hunting some of them
also i checked the other day, im nearly at 300 hours played now
only got about 11 shinies or something
i need to get hunting
keen sandal
That's more than I have
errant carbon
i think i sandwich hunted 4(?) of them the rest i ran into by chance
only one of them was before i got the shiny charm and i have a feeling it was a paradox mon
the paradox form of delibird iirc
i then hunted iron valliant, gyarados, dratini and maybe 1 more i cant remember right now
but i spent a lot of my time playing either doing raid or asleep lmao
and ofc a big portion of my time was spent completing my living all forms dex
but yeah, im currently maxed on large candies lmao
im thinking of starting to go through my boxes and getting everything to level 100
EV training them and then finishing with candies to lvl 100
hyper training can like probably not happen lmao
ill just hypertrain what i intend to use or whatever i end up needing for raid events
speaking of the typloshion raid has just ended and i think theyve already announced the next one
errant carbon
yeah those are back, its a "fix" for those who got bugged out of catching them the first time
essentially if people did the raid before updating the game they encountered a "bad egg" which could be caught and is completely useless
but then when they updated and did the actual raid they couldnt catch the mons
so this is a fix to that
but theres also another 7 star going to be happening
keen sandal
I got my Typhlosion in one attempt with a random team and no plan
errant carbon
it seems like theyre sticking with a schedule of no 7 star raids mon-thurs and then having 2 weekends of 7 star raid, announcing the next one as soon as the 2nd weekend ends for it to start the following weekend
ill have a look what the next one is now
errant carbon
I got my Typhlosion in one attempt with a random team and no plan
and yeah, once people learnt the strat it wasnt too bad... (annihilape is performing incredibly well in a lot of raid event recently
i would highly recommend building one for raids, its also so strong it has uses outside of raids without changing the build lol
keen sandal
Oh, there wasn't even an Annihilape for my run
errant carbon
oh?
keen sandal
I brought Tyranitar, there was a Walking Wake and I don't remember the other two
errant carbon
fair enough
tbh i heard tyran was a good choice for it anyway, just didnt see many people using it
keen sandal
Even Sunny Day Eruption didn't really do much to me
errant carbon
sounds like tyranitar
keen sandal
With Typhlosion at full HP and Sunny Day active I think I lost less than a third of my HP per Eruption hit. I fucking love Tyranitar
errant carbon
how have you built it? im guessing bulk not speed?
keen sandal
IIRC I went max Attack and a roughly even split of the two defensive stats, but I might be making that up
Give me a bit and I'll check
errant carbon
ah fair enough
keen sandal
No, full Attack and Defence. No Speed or Sp. Def
errant carbon
fair
ive always preferred speccing hp over the defenses unless one def stat is severely lacking
keen sandal
Which is... kind of a terrifying thought. Imagine how it would've reacted to Eruption with investment in Sp. Def
errant carbon
lmfao
keen sandal
I kinda figure its main weakness is Fighting, and most Fighting moves are physical
errant carbon
mm this is very true
keen sandal
Still got 341 HP anyway. Nothing to scoff at
keen sandal
Plus it has all perfect IVs, with HP Hyper Trained
errant carbon
yeah, i honestly think this hyper training thing is nice
i dont get that many bottle caps to deem it "broken"
and its a nice way to get comp ready pokemon (or for those who dont care about comp like me, raid ready) without grinding eggs for 8 years
mints are nice too, yeah they can be bought, but its just as easy to transfer the nature you want when breeding so
¯_(ツ)_/¯
keen sandal
Yeah, they're locked behind 6-star raids and not guaranteed
Reasonable enough. 91 hours of play time and I have 10 on me, plus a handful I've already used.
I've had maybe 20 drop?
errant carbon
yeah, the mints, hyper training and raids has kinda made breeding not needed to get very good mons
and im not complaining about that
errant carbon
Reasonable enough. 91 hours of play time and I have 10 on me, plus a handful I'v...
tbf thats not bad, i think i have 10-15 on me andi have around 10 fully trained up mons so i estimate ive had roughly 35-40 in total
i am yet to get a single gold cap tho
im convinced they dont actually exist
oh just found it, next 7starraid in gonna be inteleon and its first appearance starts on the 28th, so this friday
keen sandal
Shame there aren’t more of us who play. An Apexus Pokémon tournament could be fun
errant carbon
i reckon theres more than we think that play just not many talk about it or know of this channel
but a mini tournament would deffo be fun
keen sandal
Also
Since you’ve got a PC again
Soul Link Nuzlocke in a Drayano hack when?
Or vanilla game but randomised
errant carbon
youll have to enlighten me on how to randomise, but im absolutely down
i go on holiday at the end of the week
so can start when im back from that?
keen sandal
Sure
errant carbon
will also be first time actually doing one of these runs for myself, i vaguely know what theyre about but youll have to give me a proper run down when we do it lol
afaik its first encounter on each route is your only catch
keen sandal
I’ve started them once or twice with a couple of other people but stuff always came up so we never got very far
errant carbon
if a mon dies it gets to be bye bye
and soul link is if your mon from say route 10dies, mine gets released too?
keen sandal
Standard Nuzlocke rules:
- First Pokémon you encounter in an area is the only thing you can catch; if you knock it out you get nothing for that area (some people play with the dupe clause, which means if your first encounter is something you already have you get to keep trying until you get something new)
- if a Pokémon faints it must be either released or permanently boxed
- all Pokémon must be nicknamed for extra emotional damage when you lose one
Soul Link:
- Pokémon we catch in a given area are “linked”
- if a linked Pokémon faints in my game, you must release/box the corresponding Pokémon in your game, and vice versa
- if one of us knocks out a wild Pokémon, neither of us gets anything for that area
- two Pokémon that are linked must either both be in our respective parties or both be in the PC at the same time; for example, I can’t keep my starter in my party if you want to box yours
keen sandal
There's an extra Soul Link rule for randomised games, which says we can't share types.
keen sandal
Could do
I'm not 100% sure the randomiser tool works with hacked ROMs, but I'll give it a go now and see what happens
errant carbon
tbf randomising drays hacks could be insane, chance for idfk giratina at any given time, and then chance of not being able to use it depending on other person actions lmao
errant carbon
correct me if im wrong but save states can act as multiple "save files" right? make sure one "save file" it stated then delete file in game to restart and save it as a different save state
keen sandal
They should, yeah
errant carbon
sweet
keen sandal
Why?
errant carbon
idk ive just always been paradnoid about saving games, ive lost a lot too many times
ffs in emulators i save in game and save state just to be safe
keen sandal
Oh, I do the same
errant carbon
just wasnt sure if deleting the file tied to the rom would affect the states
i mean i see no reason why it would
it wouldnt make sense if it did lol
keen sandal
It shouldn't, but I don't want to say it 100% wouldn't
errant carbon
ill test it with an unplayed rom at some point
keen sandal
Hm. The randomiser doesn't seem to work with Blaze Black 2 Redux
I'll try a Gen IV hack instead
Yeah, it doesn't work with hacked ROMs. Looks like it's either a Dray hack or a randomised "vanilla" game
Also, here's the randomiser I use: https://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/
keen sandal
I think randomised is better for a sort of "let's shoot the shit here" and a Dray hack is more serious business.
They can be challenging even without Nuzlocke and Soul Link rules applied
errant carbon
yeah figures lol
keen sandal
I once got Tyranitar as a starter in a randomised game
errant carbon
lmao the prof should have said "congrats you just won the game, now go have some fun bullying gym leaders and eating trainer battles for breakfast"
keen sandal
I kinda wanna play through Insurgence again... the Elite 4 in that game is genuinely hard as shit
As in
I got curbstomped by the first member I fought and ended up having to look up their teams and spend a chunk of time figuring out how to counter all of them with one team
errant carbon
now thats the kinda hack id wanna play
i heard emerald kaizo was also a very hard one
keen sandal
It's not actually a hack. It's a fan game that runs in its own program
errant carbon
oh wow
keen sandal
Got every Pokémon up to Gen VI, but visuals of Gen IV-ish, plus a full day-night cycle, a second smaller region, darker story...
errant carbon
goddamn
keen sandal
Maybe Gen III visuals, actually. Can't decide
Certainly plays like a Gen III game, with just the one screen and no equivalent of the touch screen
errant carbon
tbh ive never disliked it much
i actually find having the "touch screen" in emulation nice, and the two screens doesnt feel much different than just using a ds
keen sandal
Also includes Mega Evolution, custom Megas, "body armour" for a handful of Pokémon that boosts defensive stats but takes up the held item slot (so no Mega Evolving or other item-based strategies) and some custom regional forms
Built-in difficulty settings, which makes trainers weaker on Easy and enforces a level cap on Hard, among other things. Also, the Elite 4 scales to your strongest Pokémon's level even on Normal, so you can't overlevel
Oh fuck. On Hard you have to use Set battle style and can't use items when fighting the E4
keen sandal
Yeah, I should probably do the same. Think I'll have a snack first, though
errant carbon
ive been snacking all night
choclate croissant, cookie and some grapes to balance it out
anyway yes, night gamers
keen sandal
So. I don't remember when I last played Pokémon Insurgence, so I'm starting a new game on Hard. These are the rules:
https://p-insurgence.com/
Here's the game, if anyone's interested: I would highly recommend it
keen sandal
Oh, it has another top-tier feature I'd entirely forgotten/didn't know about: You can view a Pokémon's EVs and IVs directly in its summary from the very start of the game.
errant carbon
well godamn
keen sandal
@errant carbon gib thoughts
These are the EVs and IVs of my starter Charmander in Insurgence (EVs are all 0 on the left, obviously, with IVs on the right)
Clearly very good. However, nature is Calm rather than the ideal Modest. Still decent, since Attack is hindered, but not what I want. Keeping in mind that I'm playing on Hard and even Normal difficulty was a challenge... what do you reckon?
errant carbon
<@345183356603858945> gib thoughts
bit late.. life threw another curve ball my way..
but as for the mon, it looks very good, the def spdef and hp stats may make up for the lack of modest but who knows. ive never tried any of these super hard hack / fan games so hard for me to judge
but tbh if you can build a team that covers charizards weaknesses then i dont see why it wouldnt be good
keen sandal
It was like my 15th attempt at a good one so I gave up and kept it
errant carbon
fair enough, better luck than i have w starters lol
errant carbon
@keen sandal am now home so am free to do our nuzlocke runs whenever youre ready
keen sandal
I would, but I picked up a throat infection yesterday and can no talk
errant carbon
big yikes, hope youre better soon bro
keen sandal
I'm better than I was this morning, at least
errant carbon
well thats a start haha
keen sandal
this is why i dont go to southern england
keen sandal
What is it this time?
errant carbon
is that its name
errant carbon
yeah that one
keen sandal
Speaking of which, I still need to get an Iron Leaves
Got Walking Wake, but not Iron Leaves yet
errant carbon
think you still got plenty of time
keen sandal
Yeah, it's another week or so
errant carbon
which game is the one you dont have from? i can have a look see if either me or gemma have a raid of it
keen sandal
Violet
errant carbon
aight thats gemma lemme go find her switch lol
nvm its me
im dumb
always get confused who has which game, she got me the game before i had a switch so my game is on her switch and her game is on mine
confuses the crap outa me
lmao
keen sandal
They're pretty much always available in the search. I just keep getting dodgy teammates
errant carbon
ah lol
well i do have one, am i right in thinking we gotta join the same session for me to be able to launch it w you?
keen sandal
Uh... no idea
errant carbon
lol
well i have a link code for it cus i chose search for others while offline lol
code is 8206
keen sandal
If you're offline I won't be able to join
errant carbon
fuck
keen sandal
People will only be able to connect locally
keen sandal
Haven't got anything terribly well-suited, but I'll be there in a sec
errant carbon
its all good, i think annihalape should be ably to solo it
will have to make a new code tho, my 3 minute timer ran out lol
keen sandal
No worries
errant carbon
lemme know when youre ready, ill make it then
keen sandal
Go ahead
errant carbon
QY771N
keen sandal
Is that for a raid directly or Union Circle?
errant carbon
raid
errant carbon
no worries
also if you didnt get it, check to see if you still have an inteleon raid on your map
sometimes they will stay if theyve already spawned
we can give that a go if you have it
keen sandal
What type is it?
errant carbon
ah okay, yeah i dont have one either rip
at some point ill go through and breed all the raid mons so i can give the peeps here the ones theyve missed
keen sandal
@errant carbon infection is clearing up, so lemme know when you’re good for Soul Link
errant carbon
could start sunday if youd like?
keen sandal
Should be able to, ye
We doing a vanilla game randomised or a Dray hack as-is?
(I couldn't get the randomiser to work with hacks)
errant carbon
cant remember if we actually decided but i reckon a dray hack first and if we do another we'll do it on vanilla randomised
keen sandal
Sure. Any preference on which hack?
errant carbon
not too fussed, the only dray hacks ive actually put time into are the gen 5 hacks
keen sandal
Blaze Black 2 Redux, then?
errant carbon
sounds good to me
keen sandal
We'll skip the "no shared types" rule, though, since it won't be randomised
errant carbon
alrighty
keen sandal
In the early game especially it would be a nightmare to work with
errant carbon
yeah tbf
errant carbon
got chestnaught
seemed like it was going to be quite hard when i was doing it with randoms
but when i did it w just me and gemma it actually went very smooth and we got it first try
we both used annihilape
4 screeches to bring it down to lowest def (it boosts its def as soon as the raid starts) and for whatever reason the only move it used on us was wood hammer or whatever its called so it was constantly chipping itself down with tiny recoil damage but it wasnt really noticeable
we used 3-4 bulk ups and refreshed that every time it nullified our stats
first few attacking moves were we always used drain punch to regen health lost during setup and for the super effective stab
after that we spammed rage fist cus wed taken enough hits for that to be doing more damage the drain punch
then just used drain punch whenever we got to about half health
the strat we did made it quite a long raid but since neither of us fainted once we still had about half the time left by the time we finished
keen sandal
@errant carbon I’m out getting drunk tonight, so I don’t know why I’m asking now, but when Soul Link?
timber swan
SOUL LINK?!
keen sandal
ye
Hammi said he wants to try it
But in a Drayano hack
Which are like the regular games but genuinely challenging
timber swan
I have played the,
errant carbon
<@345183356603858945> I’m out getting drunk tonight, so I don’t know why I’m ask...
can start whenever you like, things are a lot easier to do now im working more normal hours haha
errant carbon
if youve still got time before going out, sure
keen sandal
I'm not going out
Sorry, didn't see your reply until now
Unless you meant time before you go out
errant carbon
<@345183356603858945> I’m out getting drunk tonight, so I don’t know why I’m ask...
oh this was 2 days ago i thought that message was from today im stupid
but no, im free all night so if you wanna start the run tonight im down
errant carbon
lmao im just killing time doing side quests in dragon quest so nothing pressing
wanna hop in a public vc or duos so we dont get distrubed?
or no vc at all, up to you lmao
keen sandal
I kinda figured we could go public and stream our respective viewpoints so people can watch our descent into madness
keen sandal
Aight. I shall meet you in the Tower VC
My PC has decided to do a funny and I must restart. Back in a minute
errant carbon
lol no worries
i also seem to be struggling to delete my save
it is up+select+b right
errant carbon
errant carbon
errant carbon
yeahhh
keen sandal
It's not even randomised. Regular game of Blaze Black 2 Redux
keen sandal
Hey, at least I lost to the rival instead of the first fucking generic NPC in the game
timber swan
I’ve been doing a hardcore nuzlocke in blaze black 2 and honestly just forgot to do the 8th gym
errant carbon
we were gonna end up going into the first gym w only starter + seedot
timber swan
I’ve been procrastinating
keen sandal
Yeah, we both had a Seedot, Hammi killed his first route encounter and I killed my Floccesy Ranch enc
timber swan
Oof negative attack
keen sandal
Contrary tho
errant carbon
at least i got hidden ability again....
keen sandal
Also we're both streaming in Tower VC if you want to witness our descent into madness
timber swan
I’m at work
errant carbon
well at least one of us is set for the run
heres to hoping my first encounter is something good
errant carbon
errant carbon
Have any 7 star raids happened since the bugs?
I haven't seen anything about them
If I've missed some ima be bog sad
Okay my timing is fucking fantastic
Chesnaught got cancelled a month ago due to bugs
Literally this weekend it's back
Chesnaught round 2, one month later
But this means I haven't. Issued any. And 7 star raids are finally back
Also I think pokemon home is up and running ?
neon dagger
should be
errant carbon
Yeah, they made it compatible w s/v ab 2 weeks ago
I'm guessing not every single month is compatible w sv tho
Otherwise I could trade my "legit" event mewtwo with max ivs to a 3ds game, put it into poke bank, move to poke home and then to sv
I say "legit" cus technically cheat it in, did the DNS code thing with gen 5 and got it through mystery gift
keen sandal
I'm guessing not every single month is compatible w sv tho
No, they’re pretty committed to the stupidity they introduced with SwSh. Only something like 400 or so are allowed in SV
errant carbon
That's still a pretty large amount
Bring the total to what, 800?
Oh wait nvm I think I just read there's only something like 75 mons that aren't already in sv that we can transfer in
Looks like most are legendary/ mythical and starters
neon dagger
well it would be the next in line
errant carbon
Also mixing bw1 and bw2 won't work, different starting locations (in bw2 route 1 becomes full of like level 50s+, and story clashes, bw2 is set quite a bit after bw1, cheren and Bianca are older and have different roles, team plasma story is drastically different and some points in bw2 you speak to npcs about the character you played in bw1
AFAIK gen 5 is the only gen they had a "second part" to so part of me wouldn't be surprised if they don't remake gen 5 for that reason
neon dagger
hehe remake both
errant carbon
Yeah but are they really gonna release 4 games at once
I mean I fucking hope they do
Gen 5 best gen Imo
I suppose they could do a staggered release
Release bw1 remakes then like 6 months later release bw2
Idk
Either way, I hope they do remake them but I also wouldn't be surprised if they don't
errant carbon
Wdym
Also
I think it is gonna be possible for me to transfer my mewtwo to sv
But got to go through like 3 apps
Black -> Poke transporter -> poke bank -> poke home -> sv
Let's see it I can figure this shit out
keen sandal
I thought they shut that down?
errant carbon
Idk
I'm giving it a go
I was reading up on the whole home thing and transporter and bank were mentioned in an article about scarlet and violet so
keen sandal
Fair enough
errant carbon
But worst case scenario I have lost this non legit mewtwo to the void
errant carbon
There we go mewtwo is now in poke bank
keen sandal
noice
errant carbon
Now to get it to pokemon home
errant carbon
Bruh really
keen sandal
wow
errant carbon
That's only cus I want to transfer from bank
I think just doing switch games would be free?
Idk
Either way 1 month is like 2.50
So fuck it
I'll work out what else I can transfer from my event mons in gen 5 to sv and get those over too, have a load of legends, some shiny so
2.50 for a laugh lmao
keen sandal
Fair enough
errant carbon
Yep mewtwo is currently on it'd way to pokemom home
Apparently it can take a little time so
But once I got everything set up that didn't seem like too much hassle to move from gen 5 all the way to gen 9
Just a shame that moving from any game prior to switch requires the premium shit
keen sandal
Not really surprising, though
errant carbon
Nah tbf it mean they have to keep pokemon transfer and pokemon bank servers up
So I suppose in a way pokemon hoke premium is helping fund that
And the cheapest plan (yearly) equates to £1.20 a month so its not even that bad
Not sure what else premium offers but
keen sandal
Think you get more box space in Home
errant carbon
Oh yeah I think I did read that free version of home only let's you have 1 box of mons
It is time
Well time to get this bad boi trained up
Then take it into raids 🤣
keen sandal
trained up
Weird way of spelling "force-fed candy" but ok
errant carbon
Isn't mewtwos whole creation based on it being like genetically engineered to by hyper strong
This is just normal for it
keen sandal
Fair point
keen sandal
Oof
Works for Mega Mewtwo X, I guess. Shame they've confined Mega Evolution to the dustbin of history
keen sandal
Still. At least they didn't continue with Dynamax. That mechanic sucked
errant carbon
I've only played a bit of sword and shield, not a massive fan of it tbh
I think it's a cool concept but poorly executed
keen sandal
Three turns of big and you can only use it in like a dozen battles
errant carbon
I was gonna say I think I've only ever had the option to do it in gyms and raids
And even then only the raid host can do it I'm p sure
keen sandal
Those are the only places, plus the Pokémon League
errant carbon
Damn
keen sandal
And even then only the raid host can do it I'm p sure
Uh... I think it can technically be used by anyone, but only one player
errant carbon
Ah I see
keen sandal
Latency probably leads to the host usually getting it, though
errant carbon
Yeah
I like the tera system a lot more
No mega hp buffs
And the type change can make for some interesting plays
Ofc it's not really needed in the main game with the right team planning but
keen sandal
None of those mechanics are. The games have to be easy enough for literal children
errant carbon
Lol
I think it's why I was so obsessed with tera raids
Especially the 6 and 7 stars
keen sandal
That's why I like ROM hacks and other fan games
errant carbon
Actually took a bit of skill and planning to get through them
keen sandal
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of raids. The latency just makes them not fun for me
errant carbon
I mean yeah fair enough
keen sandal
I seem to spend an awfully long time completely unable to interact with the game in any way every time I join one
errant carbon
I have had a few occasions of doing fuck all for 2 minutes while everyone else caught up
Yeah
Tbf I need to actually play through some rom hacks
I don't think I've ever properly played through one
I've always done some dumb challenge and just not really progressed
keen sandal
Do literally anything Drayano
errant carbon
I think it's cus I played hacks of the games I knew so didn't see the point in going through a story I already knew, forgetting I'd actually be facing. A challenge this time
keen sandal
Renegade Platinum, Sacred Gold/Storm Silver, Blaze Black and Volt White, Blaze Black 2 and Volt White 2... though for BB2/VW2 I'd actually recommend the Redux version instead. Expanded postgame story and Fairy type added
Radical Red is also a genuine challenge. That shit is hard
Then if you veer away from ROM hacks and into full-on fan games, Insurgence is really fucking good and has several built-in challenge modes you can do
errant carbon
Yeah I'll have to set aside some time to go through them
I do wanna work through most if not all the ones in that Google folder thing you sent me
But I also am still building my collection of physical games and have shit loads of those I need to play through
keen sandal
Think a few of those might just be the clean ROMs, but ye
errant carbon
Bought 3 more today
I am financially responsible I promise
I'm also going to 2 more gigs before the end of the year
keen sandal
Hey, better than me. Last week I upgraded my Apple Watch for no real reason
errant carbon
Lmfao
keen sandal
I mean, my old one was doing some weird things sometimes, but it still worked and the battery was fine
think i may have just wanted a five guys and going to the one apple store in NI provides an excuse because they're in the same shopping centre
errant carbon
Weird way to justify a five guys but I respect it
keen sandal
No, in fairness the main reason for my trip up there was to try to get the old watch looked at
errant carbon
Ahhh fair
keen sandal
That was just a dumb joke, but I did get a Five Guys while I was up there
errant carbon
Also unrelated, obvs I want 252 spatk evs but what else do I want, is speed really necessary since I don't do online battles?
keen sandal
It's expensive but I just can't get enough of it
errant carbon
Oh I fully understand that, we get 5 guys a fair bit
keen sandal
Also unrelated, obvs I want 252 spatk evs but what else do I want, is speed real...
Not massively, no
errant carbon
There's one a 5 mins drive from us
It has equal def and spdef stats so I might split the remaining evs into 50% hp, 25% in both defenses
keen sandal
When I was in Berlin I booked myself into a hostel that was directly next to an U-Bahn stop. Two stops further along that line was a Five Guys. If it weren't so expensive I genuinely might have been there every night
errant carbon
I can tell you now I would've been there every night 🤣
But yeah fuck it splitting hp and defs it is
I can always change my mind later
keen sandal
Recently a new one opened that's a little more convenient for me. Still like a 25-minute drive, but it's just the outskirts of Belfast (and on the same side of it as me) rather than right in the middle of the city
errant carbon
I'm quite lucky, I'm near quite a popular retail park, cusbits popular it has a few less common food chains
Taco Bell, five guys, tgi Fridays, and a popeyes is currently being build across the road from it
errant carbon
Correct me if I'm wrong but mewtwo can't learn any stat boosting moves can it?
keen sandal
fuck if I know
errant carbon
To pokemon db I go
Ooh it gets life dew
That's gonna be mad in raids
Constant team wide heals
errant carbon
Yeah
Oh I think it gets calm mind
Only by tm tho
There we go, made a very quick move set
Kind of a mixed support and dps Mon for raids
Future sight, calm mind, psychic terrain (boosts psychic moves power) and life dew for team heals
Actually wait future sight doesn't benefit from stab so I wonder if I still benefits from psychic terrain
And having future sight as only attacking move is stupid since I'll only be able to deal damage once every 3 turns
Yeah okay thats getting changed lol
I got too excited by 120 base power
Psystrike it is
Gonna go test it on the 7 star raid 🤣
Already ran into someone doing the same as me, showed a mewtwo and arceus in the pre battle screen 🤣
Realised was a bad Mon to test against, already bulky and constantly boosting its def
Still doing some somewhat good damage tho
But will continue to test tomorrow. Bed time for me now lol
errant carbon
@keen sandal wanna do some more soul link attempts if youre free?
keen sandal
Not right this second, but perhaps in a bit
errant carbon
aight lemme know
keen sandal
Actually... I'm all social interaction-ed out and really just wanna turn my brain off and binge some shows. Perhaps the weekend?
errant carbon
yeah man sure
errant carbon
i just need to stop getting incredibly lucky but unlucky encounter pools
cus my issue was i couldnt really grind levels cus every other encounter was something stupid like fucking arceus
errant carbon
Sure thing
Fuck we could attempt a fucking 3 man soul link of we all feel crazy enough
Also new raid event in s/v
Not 7 star though
But until start of next month there's gimmighoul raid event
Up to 5 stars, random tera type
Doesn't sound that special right
Well for the first time in this generation, it has the chance to be shiny
Apart from the odds are fucking horrible
Literally worse than regular shiny odds
1/4103 (I think) from a fucking raid
Pain and suffering
Best part is, both gimmighoul and gholdengo shiny forms barely change the appearance
But this raid is the only way to get them shiny sooooo
Best believe I'm gonna grind it
I'm also enjoying my maxed out mewtwo in these raids, I did more damage using a neutral psystrike then someone did using a supereffective move 🤣
keen sandal
3-man Soul Link
Hammi are you high?
errant carbon
Maybe
However I think we should take a minute to appreciate how scared the ghimmighoul must be right now
The giratina was shiny too lmao
neon dagger
mhh giratina
errant carbon
Getting the rest of the event pokemom I have in gen 5 transferred over to pokemon sv tonight, that are compatible in sv anyway
It's not actually that many which is unfortunate
Iirc I'll end up with mewtwo, dialga, palkia, giratina and meloetta in sv
There are lots more that are compatible, quite a big chunk of legend / mythicals tbf
But once I own all the old ds / 3ds titles I'm gonna play through them and get every compatible Mon into sv
I might also create a living dex within pokemom home since I'll be able to do the full 1000 and something
But that'll require me to keep paying the subscription yo have enough box space so unsure on that one
But yeah when I own all titles I'll buy another month of the subscription so I can make from bank to home and get all the cool old stuff into sv
keen sandal
IIRC if your subscription runs out and you have Pokémon in the paid boxes, they'll still be there and you can retrieve them, you just won't be able to store any new ones anywhere except the two or three free boxes
errant carbon
Ah right that's nice, I was under the impression mons stayed in the boxes but couldn't be accessed if the subscription ran out
errant carbon
Yeah
Well, I now have my mewtwo, meloetta, shiny giratina, shiny palkia and shiny dialga in sv
keen sandal
Noice
errant carbon
Well either this is a mega well times coincidence or me transferring mons triggered it, but one of the auction people In Porto marinada just sold all 6 of the items specifically for giratina palkia and dialga
All the form change items and power boosting items
I'm gonna assume it was triggered my me having them in game
Got them for 5-7 k each so not bad tbh
calm brook
man trying to use kricketot
errant carbon
timber swan
man trying to use kricketot <:kekw:687910843836399617>
I had to use bide for levels 4-10 and I won’t joke I wiped 10 different times
My saving grace is a wormadam
Yeah. That’s right. Wormadam
errant carbon
errant carbon
new mystery gift event active
there is a small chance im wrong but i think its a shiny arcanine
so uh
go get your free shiny doggo bois
pokemon sv ofc
timber swan
I’ll do it thank
errant carbon
errant carbon
Realised I never shared the code for the gift
I was correct it is a shiny arcanine, it comes w an item and set moveset. I belive used by the person who won the last EU competition
Code is: PAULEU1CW1N
Comes at level 50, the only downside is it says the original trainer is Paul
But hey, free shiny is free shiny
timber swan
I’ll do it tonight I forgorted
errant carbon
lel
theres a few other active mystery gift codes atm but all fairly useless for people in the endgame
the active vodes give stuff like pokeballs, rare candies and nuggets
errant carbon
Lmfao fair enough
In other news I just got 2 different shinies from 1 sandwich
Got an espartha outbreak so I used psychic sandwich
Got espartha and meditite
So not including the totally legit shiny legends I transferred over, I now have 16 shinies in sv
errant carbon
Got a 3rd shiny last night
Finally got a shiny marill
Saw an outbreak for one
Went to see what else spawned to see if a sandwich was worth it
Got to the location
3rd one I saw was shiny 🤣
errant carbon
Also next 7 star raid is finally coming
Follows the same time scales
Starts this Friday
Last all weekend, then again next week
It's delphox w fairy tera type
Which... actually looks quite scary
Fast af and it has the options to counter both steel and poison so probably not gonna be able to use stab super effective moves
I'm gonna go on a big investigate later and see if I can come up with anything that seems like it would work well for this raid
Only gonna look at stuff obtainable in sv tho, no home transfers
errant carbon
Think ceruledge with a steel tera type and flash fire ability might be one of the better options
My only issue is that is that delphox has the possibility to have moves that will still be super effective before tera
And ceruledge isn't the bulkiest of mons
Although 100 base spdef is good
I suppose speccing into spdef and accepting you won't outspeed delphox is an option
It's strong physical attacker which is what we need
Although it's strongest steel move is only 80 power
So might have to hope delphox tries fire type moves on it to boost fire power
Oh wait bitter blade heals doesn't it
80 base but stab so nice
Have a moveset to boost spdef just in case
errant carbon
Alright I'm currently thinking a good option to take in (in terms of damage dealing)
Ceruledge with 252 atk and 252 spdef
Bitter blade, light screen, swords dance
Not sure on 4th move and not gonna commit to an item until we know how the magician ability works in raids
I think a good support Mon will be something that can both reduce defense and spatk
keen sandal
cries in Scarlet only having Armarouge and never getting lucky with raids
errant carbon
I can get you one if you want, or can trade over a random Mon holding the item if you want it to have your OT
keen sandal
Yeah, my sister is supposed to be getting me the item but I doubt that's going to happen
Probably get one off you at some point
errant carbon
Yeah it no hassle, I have shit loads of sinistea chips from STILL trying to get my 2 antique forms (even just 1 at this point would be nice)
errant carbon
If you have access to them it seems that arceus and heatran are also incredibly good in this raid
But I have access to neither currently
So gonna build my ceruledge later and try the raid out
I think I need to start a box of pokemon build for raids and replace those slots in my living dex boxes
Cus a lot of times raid build are different to how I'd normally build a Mon so
Also as we know I have a month of the pokemon hoke subscription so that I could move stuff over from pre switch games
But it also ups your storage to either 3k or 6k mons (I have a feeling its 200 boxes so 6k)
But in the future I may get the subscription again and keep it up. Its quite cheap in the grand scheme of things especially if you pay the yearly one
But only when I have the time and energy to start what I want to start
I have a living all forms dex (nearly) in SV
Well I was thinking. I could start a living all forms national dex in pokemon home
Every single 1k+ pokemon and all there forms
In one place
And when that's complete
Start a shiny version 🤣
But that won't be anytime soon
Will probably start that kind of thing when I have every single pokemon game
Which I'm actually making good progress towards
Keep finding actually quite good deals on old pokemon games
Picked up omega Ruby and alpha sapphire for about £30 total
And for whatever reason the gen 5 games (especially w/w2) go for silly prices, like £80 each sometimes
Think I picked up a copy of w2 for around 50
Which sounds a lot but compared to what some people pay is kinda cheap
Anyway I'll stop fucking rambling now
keen sandal
And for whatever reason the gen 5 games (especially w/w2) go for silly prices, l...
The reason is probably that they're the best games
errant carbon
yeah, i find white is more expensive than black most of the time too
both w and w2 are more expensive than their black counterparts most of the times ive had a look at buying more games
i do need to sit down and work out what i do and dont have now
also for some reason gemmas switch is saying she no longer has the nintendo online thing so uh cant do the raid until shes home to sort that lol
but i organised all of my built up mons (i think) into their own seperate box, which i had already started just for some reason stopped, and repalaced them with new mons for the living dex
gonna get a ceruledge built up in a little while
errant carbon
Get me and Gemma delphox just doing it with us 2 and ai fillers
Cut it a little close cus we did it without building Gemma something specifically for the raid
But made it work
Ceruledge is indeed incredibly valuable in this raid
Only with steel typing and iron head which is can learn via tms
It actually has good survivability with swords dance bitter blade
Also I did a little research into what delphox actually did in raid, I got rid of light screen and used clear smog cus I wanna say half way into the raid it buffs itself a decent amount
So clear smog instantly gets rid of that
But yeah my strat was swords dance turn 1.
Bitter blade turn 2.
Swords dance turn 3 and 4
Bitter blade spam until i can terastalize
Then spam iron head and Bitter blade when I need heals
I got Gemma to screech turn 1 2 and 3
Use a couple defense boost cheers
Then after shield breaks, back to screeching
We did it twice, both times we were very close to running out of time
But it's deffo a strat that's works lol
errant carbon
Last day for delphox if anyone doesn't have it but wants it
errant carbon
Apparently there was some "leaks" suggesting game freak are working on a game set in unova (gen5)
Ofc just leaks so no confirmation. And also AFAIK all that was said is that its set in unova
Likely that if true its a remake, but people are trying to say they're making bw3 or a legends unova game
Oh and next 7 star raid has been announced
It's rillaboom with... normal ... tera type
Very interesting
I'll look into it later but I'm gonna assume it's gonna be incredibly bulky, especially with only 1 weakness
I'm placing bets it does a lot of setup around increasing defs or reducing our atks
errant carbon
Well, it has the potential to have a lot of set up moves and possibly self healing moves
But I think best bet is gonna be trusty old annihilape
errant carbon
For anyone that doesn't have charizard in game yet, you can get one right now
Mystery gift : darktera0006
As you'd imagine it comes with dark tera type
Comes level 50. Has a decent move set.
Not sure if nature and ivs are random or not
And the OT is you which is nice
But yeah it's technically from the anime show. Latest episode had a trainer use a dark tera charizard
errant carbon
New mystery gift
Shiny Grimsarl, one used in some championship winning team last year
Comes level 50, ev trained, with an item, OT is the player who used it in the champs, competitive moveset and a special mark
errant carbon
Rillaboom raid is here, it's gonna be a tough one
Normal tera type so only weakness is fighting
Yeah it has acrobatics
Start of the battle ig boosts it's stats and it's shield procs very early
errant carbon
Only just manged to beat it, iron hands mvp
errant carbon
Been playing through pokemon sword a bit more, just caught zacian. Can't wait to transfer it to sv
errant carbon
Love how when catching eternatus literally no one's cared
Like nothing was said about me now owning the pokemon who caused the darkest day and was about to do it again
And then just being given type null like its nothing
Although I'm p sure silvally isn't actually that great. Sure it's a nice mini arceus but
errant carbon
Little bit late to this but mewtwo raid event confirmed, psychic tera. Actually terrifying
Raid events leading up to the mewtwo raid too, farming tera shards, exp candies and ev items
Also mew mystery gift. Lvl5 random tera type
And lots of big announcements for the dlc which I can't be arsed to go into lmao
errant carbon
Anyone played recently ?
Mewtwo raid is fucking mega hard
keen sandal
I...
I think I've just encountered my first legitimate full-odds shiny
Annoyingly it's in the fangame Insurgence, not an official game, but I checked and it does use standard ORAS shiny odds. Shiny Gastly right outside the starting town
errant carbon
Fuckin noice
keen sandal
Update
A wild Totodile wiped my team because RNGesus decided a full-odds shiny was enough good luck for one day and I could not catch it
errant carbon
massive yikes
peak crest
Halloween advent calendar at Aldi is 👌🏻
keen sandal
The EVs (obviously all 0) and IVs two Magikarp I have caught so far. Sometimes I'm torn about which one to use when I have several of the same Pokémon, but I don't think there's a question this time
errant carbon
did you know
in gen 3 the nature and ivs of your starter is dependant on how many frames go by on the selection screen
each frame has a different roll of nature and ivs
speedrunners learn the table (probably datamined(?))
at 184 frames you get a mudkip with 31spatk 21 spdef and 30 speed
theres is a frame where you can get perfect nature and all 31 ivs but i think it fell somewhere in the tens of thousands of frames lmao
errant carbon
First Cyndaquil I found
also that is beautiful
speaking of cyndaquil
next 7 star raid in sv is hisuin typlhosian
keen sandal
Reminds me of a video I saw about an AI playing Red, and it learned if it walks a very specific path it’ll be guaranteed to catch the first Rattata it encounters because of how Gen I RNG worked
errant carbon
We love rng manipulation
I'm gonna try to beat hgss Red battle with 1 pokemon tonight
Or well
Start training that pokemon I'm gonna try beat him with
keen sandal
Which Pokémon?
keen sandal
...I've just noticed I have way too many special attackers on my Insurgence team
Delta Charizard (a creation unique to this game; Ghost/Dragon type and different moveset but same stats as regular Charizard), Alakazam, Delta Gardevoir, Gengar and Typhlosion
Only physical attacker I have currently is Gigalith
errant carbon
Eh if it works it works lol
errant carbon
Which Pokémon?
Hariyama
Adamant, best ivs I can get
252 hp
128 def and sdef
Guts ability with flame orb item
Belly drum, thunder punch, ice punch and drain punch
keen sandal
Are you going to name it Saitama?
errant carbon
Is that a pun or reference, either way I don't get it 🤣
But yeah that set up gives it ridiculous damage without atk evs and it has a super effective move against everything but reds pikachu
The only issues I'll have are the pikachu
If it does too much damage and I can get belly drum off the attempt is as good as dead
Or if it paralysis me turn 1 before flame orb procs the runs is probably also dead
keen sandal
Is that a pun or reference, either way I don't get it 🤣
One Punch Man reference
errant carbon
Ahh right, never watched it
keen sandal
You're missing out
errant carbon
But am I overlooking anything with my proposed strat or does it look good on paper ?
For easy viewing
keen sandal
Nothing I can think of
errant carbon
Basically the only thing I haven't checked is the stats of his pokemom to see if anything outspeeds me and could hit hard
There's not many of his moves that will be supereffective on me
But with how tanky this thing will be I shouldn't really have to worry
Especially with a 1 hit full heal from drain punch
keen sandal
So I had forgotten this from my first playthough of Insurgence
But one of the early bosses leads with a Skarmory with double entry hazards
Mfer uses Stealth Rock on turn 1 and Spikes on turn 2
errant carbon
That's disgusting
keen sandal
ikr
keen sandal
I think I used up all my IV luck on that absolute unit of a Cyndaquil I showed earlier
Been trying to get a good Riolu and I can’t even get any that are decent, never mind good
wintry tapir
You guys playing unbound?
keen sandal
I've played some of it
errant carbon
I'm just playing official games, haven't played a romantic hack or fan game in a little while now
I do however almost have a complete collection of physical pokemon games
Pretty much all I'm missing are the game boy games
Which I will start collecting soon
I have every main line title except let's go eevee
And I have probably half the other titles like the mystery dungeon games
I don't have either versions of snap or detective pikachu
But my collection is growing in size
I am to have it complete quite soon
errant carbon
I got all of those + pokemom X (hasn't arrived yet) for £220
Bare in mind a lot of those go for 40+ each
Looking at you hgss and white
calm brook
nice
errant carbon
9 (mostly) old pokemon games for that price I'd an absolute steal
Got heart gold for 22 quid. I already have heargold so I'm just gonna re sell it and make profit on it lmao
keen sandal
bruh
Tried a Gen VI random battle on Showdown
man gets two fucking legendaries and I get a Furret
keen sandal
Motherfucker
This time half my team is weak to Ghost and Dark. Gives me an opponent who leads with a Sableye with Prankster
errant carbon
Yikes 😭🤣
keen sandal
Bruh
Some highlights from tonight
A Jirachi used Iron Head four times. I flinched three of those
A Victreebel used Poison Jab on my Decidueye. It got a crit and poisoned me, which has worse than 1/50 odds of happening
Over half my battles made me open with type disadvantage; the ones that didn’t were just neutral
Fucking hell does RNG hate me
I’d forgive RNGesus for all of his transgressions if he just gave me a EuroMillions win
errant carbon
Tbh
Ik main line official games are made to be easier
Cus they're aimer a kids
But even new content is so trivially easy
Even the dlc that's level scaled
I just brute force everything
If I wasn't attempting this fucking master dex thing I'd try to get into competitive battling
Oh also
You like candy?
(Yes 69pp up was on purpose)
errant carbon
Yep so those pokemom games i bought
Hgss and dpp
All fake
3ds games are fine
Didn't think to check cus the seller had amazing reviews
Vinted are doing fuck all to get me a refund
Messaged the seller not that that is going to get me anywhere
So resorted to filing a report with my bank
If they don't do anything I'll be going to authorities cus it's a decent chunk of money
And well
It's literally fraud
keen sandal
Oof
errant carbon
I should've known
They were a lot cheaper than they normally go for
None of them had saves on then
Just assumed the seller deleted the saves when he "tested" the games
None of them came in cases
I'm so fucking stupid
keen sandal
ah well
keen sandal
Apexus random battle tournament on Showdown when?
errant carbon
Idk but I'm 100% down for that
keen sandal
All right
Which game should I nuzlocke for my first serious attempt?
(if anyone says EK or RR I'll shoot you)
keen sandal
I mean, it would definitely be easier than the two I said not to suggest
keen sandal
Did I ever tell you about Radical Red? Some random trainers on Route 12 were harder than literally anything across every official game ever made
Not even a boss
Actually harder than most gyms in the hack, apart from Sabrina
Radical Red Sabrina is hell
errant carbon
Lmao yeah rr is ridiculous
keen sandal
Lorelei, the first E4 member, has two possible teams
One of them contains Primal Kyogre
Guess which one I had to fight on all my attempts?
errant carbon
That's disgusting
errant carbon
So eevee event in sv currently
Not having much luck shiny hunting
I got 2 ans Gemma got 1 so far
keen sandal
Which game should I nuzlocke for my first serious attempt?
Part of me is tempted to be dumb and do a Nuzlocke attempt in Penumbra Moon, the Ultra Moon hack I downloaded recently
I have almost no memory of USUM, so no real idea of which fights to look out for, and not much familiarity with the Gen VII sandbox in general
Fuck it. Randomised Emerald Nuzlocke
We starting with Meraxes the Dragonair. Other started options were Castform or Golduck
timber swan
So eevee event in sv currently
Wait wait
Inform me more about this
What’s going on
I will play it again for eevee
keen sandal
Sit-rep
Team Aqua Grunt in Petalburg Woods had a Mewtwo
My Plusle, named Bitch (I was annoyed about getting such a shit encounter) paralysed it with Thunder Wave after surviving a Confusion with 1 HP. Malachite the Pupitar took over, and between Bite causing flinch and paralysis not letting Mewtwo move it was unable to attack
RNG has never been that kind to me
timber swan
You got lucky as fuck
keen sandal
Yup
Particularly as Bite is special in Gen III, Pupitar doesn't have great Sp. Atk. and Mewtwo's stats are cracked all around
The worst part is my Pupitar has both Screech and Leer but knows no physical moves
timber swan
Man I need to do more randomized nuzlocks, I keep getting lazy
keen sandal
While you're here, got a nickname suggestion for a Bulbasaur?
timber swan
How many characters do I get to play with?
keen sandal
10
keen sandal
Done
All right
This is the team going into Roxanne
I have no idea what she's going to hit me with; vanilla level caps are preserved but the actual Pokémon are entirely random
I remember trying a randomised Nuzlocke once and she had a Suicune. Not sure if this will be similar
keen sandal
Update: Roxanne had Suicune, Magnemite and Slaking. Brawly had Piloswine, Granbull and Magnemite
This seed seems to love giving Magnemite to gym leaders
timber swan
Mm magnemite
keen sandal
Needless to say, Brawly was much less scary
errant carbon
I will play it again for eevee
Current event (ending in 12 hours) (or just connect to Internet to get event then don't connect to Internet again and it will stay)
Basically, 7 star eevee raid, not too special
But there's also mass outbreaks for eevee literally everywhere. Like 10 outbreaks for eevee on the map at the same time
If you farm outbreaks properly you can get shiny odds down to roughly 1/500
errant carbon
I currently have 3 shiny eevees in the past 2 days, Gemma has 1
I plan on keeping the event in my game as long as possible (basically until the next event) and I'm gonna keep hunting them
I aim to have a full set of shiny eeveelutions + eevee
Any extras I'll give to Gemma
errant carbon
Just got my 4th shiny eevee 😎
I did also get a random shiny charm odds yungoos that spawned just outside the eevee outbreak
Ofc both yungoos and eevee are normal but I didn't have the normal shiny power sandwich active so it was just very lucky 🤣
But I'm 6 pokemon away from having a full box of shinies now 🤣
errant carbon
Ye man, if I get more than I need I'll happily hand them out