Pokemon | Apexus Deft | Page 6

errant carbon Nov 19, 2023, 7:22 PM

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I know Gemma wants at least 2 on her account. 1 to stay as eevee and I think she wants a sylveon too

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A lad at works wants 1 if I get any extra too 🤣

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But yeah I plan on farming it until next event (which will probably only be until the weekend)

timber swan Nov 19, 2023, 8:10 PM

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You’re amazing ❤️

keen sandal Nov 19, 2023, 8:12 PM

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if you love him so much why don't you marry him?

errant carbon Nov 19, 2023, 9:41 PM

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Sounds good to me

timber swan Nov 19, 2023, 10:03 PM

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Alright

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Will do

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Hammi we are e-married now

keen sandal Nov 19, 2023, 10:13 PM

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I think you need a mod to officiate

timber swan Nov 19, 2023, 10:48 PM

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@formal grotto

formal grotto Nov 19, 2023, 10:49 PM

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what

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I do not have the permit to officiate nor am I religious

timber swan Nov 19, 2023, 10:49 PM

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Too bad

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Do it anyways

keen sandal Nov 19, 2023, 10:51 PM

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I mean, he specifically said "e-married"
Nothing here is legally binding

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~~also marriage these days is more of a tax thing than a religious thing anyway~~

formal grotto Nov 19, 2023, 10:53 PM

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keen sandal ~~also marriage these days is more of a tax thing than a religious thing anyway~...

It just is

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I digress

errant carbon Nov 20, 2023, 7:09 PM

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Well, next event already announced, hisuin 7* samurott raid starting this Friday

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I don't normally do them til the weekend anyway

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So I've got from now til Friday night to farm more eevees

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This is providing I don't accidentally go online and update what the games events are

errant carbon Nov 21, 2023, 7:43 PM

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Camera doesn't do it justice but got another random shiny while eevee hunting

keen sandal Nov 21, 2023, 7:47 PM

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bruh

keen sandal Nov 23, 2023, 5:56 PM

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This hack maker is trolling me

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Shedinja just after the first trial on Melemele Island

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Had a fucking Focus Sash, so took no damage on turn 1, then used Phantom Force so I couldn't hit it on turn 2

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 10:28 AM

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🤣🤣

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Part of my is praying shedinja comes to sv with the next dlc

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But I think shedinja with whatever type you want in tera type is gonna break stuff 🤣

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 12:11 PM

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Tera Electric with an Air Balloon

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Immune to all damaging moves

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 3:54 PM

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Yeah

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It's similar to when I gave spiritomb winder guards in a rom before fairy was introduced

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I can't type, mobile is hard

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 3:55 PM

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Although doing some shenanigans to get Wonder Guard onto a pure Electric-type that holds an Air Balloon is actually better, because it'll still have regular amounts of HP

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 3:55 PM

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Also, apparently the vast majority of battles in sv dlc 2 are gonna be double battles and it sounds like trainers are gonna be using common competitive strata

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 3:55 PM

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The 1 HP is a hardcoded property of Shedinja itself, not Wonder Guard

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Wait how can you put wonder guard on something not shedinja

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Actually, there's a really interesting battle in Radical Red where you pick 3 really low level Pokémon to fight a dude with 6 level 100 Shedinja. Fun little puzzle

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 3:57 PM

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Reminds me of the incredibly niche strat to beat red in hgss with a full team of lvl 1 pokemon

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It takes a very long time. Essentially shedinja with perish song

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The other 5 mons all just have focus sash

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And protect

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By the time red is actually able to KO one of your pokemon, that same turn perish songs procs and 1 hits the pokemon

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And swapping out shedinja stops perish song knocking itself out

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 4:01 PM

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errant carbon Wait how can you put wonder guard on something not shedinja

Get a Shedinja in RSE and transfer to FRLG, where it can learn Mimic from a move tutor

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Get it to Mimic the move Entrainment, which changes the target's Ability to match the user's

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 4:03 PM

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And catching that let's it keep that ability ??

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 4:03 PM

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No, you'd have to do this in a double battle. Entrainment only lasts until the target is switched out

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 4:03 PM

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Ohhhhh

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I'm w you now

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I'm gonna place bets that is banned in official competitive

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🤣

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 4:06 PM

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Alternatively, get Mimic the same way and have it gain Reflect Type (changes user's type to match the target's) instead, which it then uses against a pure Electric-type or a Poison/Dark-type while holding an Air Balloon

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Of course, doing it that way means you're still limited by Shedinja's 1 HP, which means weather, poison or burn damage will kill it in one turn

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 10:27 PM

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Is there any way to reliably self inflict paralysis?

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Cus if so then you could make it so only weather would kill a electric tera shedinja

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Also I've barely hunted any more eevees, gonna do a few hours tonight and tomorrow then I need to update my games events to do new 7 star raid

keen sandal Nov 24, 2023, 11:18 PM

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Uh... not to my knowledge

errant carbon Nov 24, 2023, 11:28 PM

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Didn't think so but I'm awful at remembering shit lmao

errant carbon Nov 27, 2023, 8:25 PM

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current 7 star raid is kinda easy ngl

keen sandal Nov 27, 2023, 8:25 PM

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What is it?

errant carbon Nov 27, 2023, 8:25 PM

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hisuin samurott, water tera

keen sandal Nov 27, 2023, 8:26 PM

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Ah

errant carbon Nov 27, 2023, 8:26 PM

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hisuian

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?

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idk how its spelt lol

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i am however really looking forwards to the new dlc, releases on the 14th

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lot of cool returning mons, some of which we havent seen in a while or dont see very often

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and currently 4 brand new mons

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wait no, 5, just we dont know what one will be

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i am kinda hoping they add more than 5 new mons tho, preferably new legends / mythicals like the sw/sh dlc added

keen sandal Nov 27, 2023, 8:32 PM

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Hisuian

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Awkward one

errant carbon Nov 27, 2023, 8:32 PM

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ah

keen sandal Nov 29, 2023, 3:34 PM

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Downloaded Elite Redux and immediately got this unit of a Torchic:

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Infiltrator bypasses Reflect, Light Screen, Aurora Veil, Safeguard, Mist and Substitute

keen sandal Nov 29, 2023, 3:50 PM

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Oh, and if you think having 4 abilities is OP, Brendan's Mudkip had Waterfall in the first battle, so...

errant carbon Nov 29, 2023, 4:39 PM

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Jesus christ

errant carbon Dec 6, 2023, 9:14 PM

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@keen sandal i dont suppose you have any action replay codes for sacred gold/storm silver do you?
only ones i really want is the one to view evs and ivs

keen sandal Dec 6, 2023, 9:16 PM

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I can give you any of these:

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Unfortunately I don't remember the trigger for EVs and IVs

errant carbon Dec 6, 2023, 9:17 PM

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i remember in the gen5 hacks it was l or r

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uh could you shoot over,
text, quick screen, all animation cuts, and ev/iv please and thanks :)

keen sandal Dec 6, 2023, 9:21 PM

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EVs and IVs: 520899C4 F99CF7E6 120899CC 000021A3 120899D8 000021A4 120899E4 000021A5 120899F0 000021A6 120899FC 000021A8 12089A08 000021A9 12089A14 000021A7 D2000000 00000000 94000130 FDFF0000 120899CC 0000210D 120899D8 0000210D 120899E4 0000210E 120899F0 0000210F 120899FC 00002111 12089A08 00002112 12089A14 00002110 D2000000 00000000 94000130 FEFF0000 120899CC 00002146 120899D8 00002146 120899E4 00002147 120899F0 00002148 120899FC 0000214A 12089A08 0000214B 12089A14 00002149 D2000000 00000000

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Quick screen change: ```1200FA78 00002200
1200FA9C 00002200

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Skip Pokémon Centre animation: ```1206325E 0000E000
1206327A 0000E000
9224BDCC 00002000
1224BDCC 00002001
D2000000 00000000

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Skip HM animation: ```12043768 0000E00B

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Instant text: ```12002346 00002100
120202EE 00001C0C
120202F0 00004818
1202031E 0000BD10
02020320 E7E53C2D
1202032E 0000D0DF
1202033A 0000E7F1

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Gauge bar animation cut (that's EXP and health bars, IIRC): ```12265A80 00001C20
12265A8E 00001C20
12081750 00001C21

errant carbon Dec 6, 2023, 9:24 PM

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absolute mad lad, cheers :)

keen sandal Dec 6, 2023, 9:26 PM

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Did I forget any?

errant carbon Dec 6, 2023, 9:26 PM

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think thats all of them

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yeah it is

keen sandal Dec 6, 2023, 9:26 PM

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Also, yeah, from looking at the EV and IV one, I think you hold L when opening the summary screen from the PC box to show them instead of the regular stat page, then do the same thing but hold R to go back to normal

errant carbon Dec 6, 2023, 9:27 PM

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alright sweet, ill have a play around w it

errant carbon Dec 7, 2023, 8:45 AM

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Think I'm just gonna do a normal playthrough of sg for now

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Will do funny business afterwards

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Been a long time since I played through hgss

errant carbon Dec 8, 2023, 4:04 AM

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Just a heads up

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You can get darkrai in scarlet/ violet rn

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Mystery gift

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And shiny lucario

errant carbon Dec 8, 2023, 7:56 AM

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Code for darkrai is
Newm00n1sc0ming

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Code for lucario is
Sh1nybuddy

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I believe both are available intol the 21st

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Also available until the 21st is the current raid event

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Dialga and palkia

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Only 5 stars and can only be caught once ofc

errant carbon Dec 9, 2023, 1:30 PM

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also when the new dlc drops there will be another new mystery gift

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it looks like its just going to be a "get via internet" rather than needing a code

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but uh, its for a master ball lol

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but yeah, thatll drop on the 14th with the dlc

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which is actually looking very promising

errant carbon Dec 9, 2023, 3:24 PM

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also @keen sandal would you mind chucking elite redux into that foler of roms you shared w me, kinda wanna check it out at some point

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when you get chance ofc, no rush

keen sandal Dec 9, 2023, 3:31 PM

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Done

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(I wasn't terribly busy and would definitely have forgotten if I didn't do it right away)

errant carbon Dec 9, 2023, 3:37 PM

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lmao fair enough, cheers pal

keen sandal Dec 9, 2023, 3:49 PM

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Go here for documentation: https://ydarissep.github.io/Elite-Redux-Pokedex/?table=speciesTable&

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Though it appears to mostly be focused on Pokémon changes and is sparse on other details

errant carbon Dec 9, 2023, 3:55 PM

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tempted to go through it blind lmao

keen sandal Dec 9, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Yeah, I haven't looked too much at it

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Also I randomised the innates (extra abilities) for my playthrough so I wouldn't get too much info from the docs anyway

errant carbon Dec 9, 2023, 7:20 PM

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i randomised most things, i think i left moves and types the same, other than that its all random

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my torchic isnt quite as good as yours kekw

errant carbon Dec 12, 2023, 8:00 PM

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i genuinley cant touch dawns mudkip kekw

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i got a shelgon with an ability that raises its highest stat on entry, ive pumped evs to make attack the highest stat, so i go in with +1 atk using thunder fang and it barely does anything

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god damn

keen sandal Dec 12, 2023, 10:12 PM

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Elite Redux?

errant carbon Dec 12, 2023, 10:52 PM

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yeah

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her mudkip was insane

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waterfall AND blizzard

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right so thats why my physical attacker was doing nothing kekw

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that would also explain why i was having better luck with a special attacker

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my randomsiser had nice rng to begin with, by the second route i had access to an ultra beast, a legend and a mythical

keen sandal Dec 13, 2023, 2:40 AM

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noice

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Also, you may have noticed already, but you can freely set your own EVs and IVs from a Pokémon’s summary screen and change them as often as you like

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 5:57 PM

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yeah ive been messing around with that stuff a lot

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if dawn has those moves in the first ever trainer battle, i decided i can use the portable move tutor too lmao

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part of me wants to get to a point where wild pokemon are high enough level to come with all 4 ablites and find a route with several good mons and just grind until i get some nutty ability combos

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notably something incredibly tanky and something incredibly offensive

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abilites like wonder guard paired with some other defensive stuff could make for a nasty tank since wonder guard itself doesnt reduce hp to 1

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although i really think they should have changed the ability to reduce hp to 1 lol

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 7:36 PM

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i think i have a combination to make a nearly invincible pokemon...
it seems color change always changes to a type that is resititant to what the oppenent is about to use
so that with wonder guard and whatever the ability is that makes me immune to weather damage might be as close as i can get to completely immune

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throw in something like leftovers to heal through entry hazards or status hazards if i somehow get one

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 7:53 PM

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or perhaps color change is just changing the type to the type of moved used againt it?

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idfk

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if thats the case, im not safe from dragon or ghost but other than that, happy days

keen sandal Dec 13, 2023, 7:55 PM

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It's supposed to change type to the move it was hit by, but ER changes it so it activates before the hit. I can't find any info on how the new type is decided, though

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 9:17 PM

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from what i can tell its changing it to the type its about to get hit by

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 9:50 PM

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got zekrom available before gym 1, gonna try get one with a good combo of abilities

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thats uh

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thats something

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https://tenor.com/view/damage-thats-a-lot-of-damage-jon-tron-gif-13054497

Tenor

that's a lot of damage

▶ Play video

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thunder fang has to be considered a biting move right

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cus if so

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holy shit this thing is going to like one shot everything

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apart from ground mons

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kekw

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yep thunder fang hits twice, this is epic

keen sandal Dec 13, 2023, 10:19 PM

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This fucking hack, man

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I really need to get back into it

errant carbon Dec 13, 2023, 10:24 PM

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damage seems kinda low for what should be quadruple damage

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but maybe im just expecting too much from a level 18

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tbh cant remember what difficulty im on so its possible everything just has cracked stats

keen sandal Dec 13, 2023, 10:39 PM

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Yeah, the level is used directly in the formula as well as the base power and relevant stats

errant carbon Dec 14, 2023, 1:03 PM

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Fair enough, I do hope those abilities stack 🤣

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However bo Morris elite reduced

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Redux

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It's sv dlc part 2 day

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And Gemma is out all night

errant carbon Dec 14, 2023, 3:56 PM

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I'm looking forward to a night of dlc grinding, anyone played it yet?

keen sandal Dec 14, 2023, 4:03 PM

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Haven't even played the first

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Though I did find out what the new Tera type is. Seems interesting

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||It's called Stellar, and it boosts the first move of each type you use. For instance, you would get a boost to the first Grass move you use, but not any future Grass moves. If you then use a Dark move, that also gets boosted. It doesn't change your defensive properties, so you get the same weaknesses and resistances as normal. Stellar Tera Blast is super-effective against all Terastallised opponents regardless of type||

errant carbon Dec 14, 2023, 7:15 PM

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That's actually really cool

errant carbon Dec 14, 2023, 11:07 PM

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so it seems that catchable non event pokemon is now up to a total of 669 (nice) in scarlet / violet

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actually no its more than that

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cus some of the older raid event mons are now part of the new pokedex so my math is slightly off

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i think its 682?

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either way, over half the national dex is obtainable just in gen 9 now

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its using gen 5 style music

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:o

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this is epic

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the map seems pretty damn big too

errant carbon Dec 21, 2023, 12:07 AM

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24 hours until current outbreak event ends

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I got all 3 shiny litwick

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I currently have 3 shiny milcery

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I was never going to get all the milcery I wanted tho, I want 63 to have 1 milcery and every form of alcreamie as shiny

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And I need 4 more shiny flabebe to have a shiny for every stage of every form

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I got the right colour outbreaks I need so it's just a case of can I get 4 shiny flowers after work

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Any spare time I have will be used to try get a couple more milcery

errant carbon Dec 21, 2023, 10:04 PM

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It's over

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It's done

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I'm just gonna leave it at 3 shiny milcery

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15 shiny flabebe has drained all my shiny hunting energy

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I'll get the other 61 shiny millers I need at another time

timber swan Jan 8, 2024, 12:56 AM

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I AM BEYOND ANGY

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I redid Blaze Black 2 for the fun of it, hardcore nuzlocke per usual

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Burgh has leftovers on Vespiqueen. Cool, easy free second leftovers. Use Liepard to steal it with theif. Awesome, I am now happy. Battle ends and it gave back the leftovers to him. I am now sad and quitting for the night

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I lost 4 mons in the battle because I did the liepard thief strat. Now knowing it doesn't work at all, I allowed myself a restart and only lost 2 mons this time around

errant carbon Jan 8, 2024, 12:41 PM

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I didn't think theif ever let you keep items stolen in trainer battles

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Deffo annoying it doesn't but kinda sorta makes sense ig

keen sandal Jan 8, 2024, 1:06 PM

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Yeah, that’s never been a thing, AFAIK

timber swan Jan 8, 2024, 6:40 PM

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It's been a thing in main story game

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As the blissy with a rare candy in DPP was something people did with thief

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It was a trainer in the backlot garden

errant carbon Jan 8, 2024, 11:54 PM

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Huh interesting

keen sandal Jan 9, 2024, 12:11 AM

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In II, III and IV you could keep items you stole from trainers; in Gen V they changed it to not keep

errant carbon Jan 9, 2024, 12:21 AM

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Does it let you keep trainer items in bdsp ?

timber swan Jan 9, 2024, 3:39 AM

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I blame everyone else but myself

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Angy

keen sandal Feb 6, 2024, 5:48 PM

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Hey @errant carbon

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Remember when Brendan/May's Mudkip in Elite Redux was damn near unstoppable?

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Well, I lost my save file (all 20 minutes of it), and got this when I restarted:

errant carbon Feb 6, 2024, 8:52 PM

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That's pretty nuts

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Also how you got all innates at lvl 5 ?

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Mine were level locked when I played lol

keen sandal Feb 7, 2024, 12:00 AM

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What difficulty did you set?

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The hardest one says "innates must be unlocked" while the other two don't, so I'm assuming you went hardest and I didn't

errant carbon Feb 7, 2024, 6:59 AM

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Oh, maybe I did

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Can't remember 🤣

errant carbon Feb 13, 2024, 8:23 PM

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if i start streaming i might stream that rom hack lmao

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nothing crazy, just a normal run at first

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ill start doing dumb challanges if i get some viewerbase

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i do wanna stream mainline games, partly to show off my stacked sv save, but also cus it would probably get more interest than niche rom hacks. but i dont wanna spend anymore money right now so capture cards and that sorta shit will have to wait

errant carbon Mar 3, 2024, 7:52 PM

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soooo

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opinions on this legends z thing

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personally a little dissapointed we didnt get something gen 5 related

keen sandal Mar 3, 2024, 8:45 PM

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Hey, the official Pokémon Twitter account did recently tease something Gen V-related, so don't lose hope

errant carbon Mar 3, 2024, 8:54 PM

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wait

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did gen 4 remakes drop at the same time as legend arceus?

keen sandal Mar 3, 2024, 8:58 PM

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Announced at the same time and released ~3 months earlier

errant carbon Mar 3, 2024, 9:48 PM

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hmm

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i can still hope for now then

keen sandal Mar 3, 2024, 11:15 PM

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they're not gonna release two videos of Reshiram and Zekrom zooming across the sky for no reason

errant carbon Mar 4, 2024, 12:34 PM

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Lmao you right

brittle parcel Mar 5, 2024, 2:50 AM

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What are you hoping gets megas in Za? I'm hoping for

Gen 1: Electavire, Rhyperior, or Porygon- Z

Gen 2: Meganium

Gen 3: Regi trio, mainly regirock

Gen 4: Staraptor

Gen 5: Hydrigon

errant carbon Mar 5, 2024, 1:03 PM

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I've not actually played through x and y yet so can't comment lol

errant carbon Mar 15, 2024, 7:13 PM

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Picked up another poster in the same style

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There was a larger selection this time, but I only want ones like the starter trio, I want one for each gen

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I got pikachu cus well.... its fucking pikachu

keen sandal Jun 1, 2024, 1:14 PM

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holy shit

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In B2W2 there's a drum line that only plays while you're moving

errant carbon Jun 1, 2024, 10:13 PM

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indeed there is

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smallant watcher by any chance?

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cus thats how i found out XD

keen sandal Jun 1, 2024, 10:16 PM

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ye

errant carbon Jun 1, 2024, 10:26 PM

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goated pokemon content creator

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im gonna start playing infinite fusions soon

keen sandal Jun 26, 2024, 3:12 PM

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so I bought the Scarlet DLC a few weeks ago and put in exactly one ~45-minute session

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at this point I think I'm going to just save it for when I go to Korea because I'll need something to do on the flight

errant carbon Jun 26, 2024, 11:56 PM

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i mean fair enough

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i do reccomend playing it at some point, story is, imo, worth it

keen sandal Jun 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

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yeah, I keep meaning to, but I always forget

errant carbon Jun 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

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thats fair

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i havent touched sv in months

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i think i ended up at roughly 700 hours

keen sandal Jun 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

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fucking hell

errant carbon Jun 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

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best part?

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i havent finished dlc part 2 pokedex

keen sandal Jun 27, 2024, 12:01 AM

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~~i mean the way you play that isnt surprising~~

errant carbon Jun 27, 2024, 12:01 AM

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worst part? 3 boxes of shines
half a box of which i gave to gemma / friends

keen sandal Jun 27, 2024, 12:01 AM

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damn

errant carbon Jun 27, 2024, 12:01 AM

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keen sandal ~~i mean the way you play that isnt surprising~~

whatever do you mean.... kekw

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i believe i have done the vast majority of important post game content

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the only substantial stuff i havent done is to do with legends / mythics available in post game part 2 dlc

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i finished a living all forms dex of main game dex, and a living dex of part 1 dex

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and probably have at least a full box of level 100, fully trained mons

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~~you know what i think i understand what you mean now~~

errant carbon Jun 27, 2024, 12:04 AM

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errant carbon and probably have at least a full box of level 100, fully trained mons

~~i still have 850+ rare candies and i think 500+ of the exp candies (with 999 of M and L)~~

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fuck i need a life

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on that note

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goodnight

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😭

errant carbon Jul 25, 2024, 11:46 AM

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i caught a Ferrari i mean ferrorua

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on the first route theres a fusion that is part regi

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and a fusion that is part ninjask

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ima try get btoh of those before doing anything in the game for the lols

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ah fuck im dumb its shedinja that has the funny ability

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whoops

keen sandal Aug 18, 2024, 2:53 PM

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RNGesus was surprisingly kind to me in Insurgence yesterday

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(numbers on the right are IVs; left is EVs)

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one of the only places you can find Deino is the Safari Zone, in an area far from the entrance—so you have to use a good chunk of your steps just to get there—with a 5% encounter rate, and it likes to flee

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caught this lil beauty on my third Safar Zone run

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it took me like 14 games last time I played through Insurgence to get one and it wasn't nearly as good as this one

keen sandal Aug 18, 2024, 3:38 PM

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and I have now turned her into a monster in preparation for the Psychic/Ghost gym (Insurgence gym leaders have two specialist types instead of just one)

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obviously she won't be holding the Lucky Egg when it's time for proper battles, but I wanted to level up faster

errant carbon Aug 18, 2024, 3:40 PM

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dayum thats noice

keen sandal Aug 18, 2024, 3:42 PM

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probably want to level a little more, though

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level cap for the gym is 68

errant carbon Aug 18, 2024, 3:42 PM

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yeah couple more levels would be big help

keen sandal Aug 18, 2024, 3:42 PM

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I'm a little low right now

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I've optimised everyone's EVs, but that doesn't help when a higher-level opponent outspeeds and OHKOs you

keen sandal Aug 18, 2024, 4:43 PM

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well, shit

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Hydreigon only learns Dark Pulse by TM, but I can't get the TM until much later

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my only other option is to breed a new one with a parent who knows the move, but I really can't be bothered doing that

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and it doesn't get any other special Dark-type moves

errant carbon Aug 18, 2024, 5:12 PM

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ph really?

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wow thats shitty

keen sandal Aug 19, 2024, 4:41 PM

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bit of a shame

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it does have Dragon Pulse for the Dragon STAB, but half the reason I caught and trained it at this point was for the Psychic/Ghost gym and I had to just use Crunch with the much lower physical Attack instead of the monstrous Sp. Attack

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still beat the gym first try, though

errant carbon Aug 19, 2024, 8:15 PM

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Fair enough

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Hydreigon one of my fave mons tbh

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Also been messing around with inf fusion some more

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Absol has some awesome fusions

keen sandal Aug 19, 2024, 8:28 PM

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I accidentally made a big brain play

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One of the villains, the second time you fight him, uses Mega Rayquaza

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Turns out it holds a Choice Scarf and I didn't realise

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so it locked itself into Extreme Speed, which only has 5 PP

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so with just a handful of Revives I held out long enough to make it Struggle and then took it out with my Gardevoir

errant carbon Aug 19, 2024, 9:49 PM

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huge brain

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you love to see it

keen sandal Aug 20, 2024, 12:22 AM

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I have reached the Insurgence Pokémon League

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It is very difficult

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I haven’t actually attempted yet, but I remember last time I played this game I actually had to look up all their teams in advance and plan in detail what I would do

errant carbon Aug 20, 2024, 5:31 PM

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Gamer

keen sandal Aug 20, 2024, 6:51 PM

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all I remember is that one of the Elite Four got completely neutered just by using Taunt on the first turn

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she opens with a Smeargle that only has setup moves and Baton Pass, and holds a Focus Sash so you can't OHKO it

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her whole battle is based around her team getting stat boosts in various ways (Smeargle's Moody ability, setup moves, etc.) and passing them around with Baton Pass

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open with Taunt and she can't start that loop

errant carbon Aug 21, 2024, 2:48 PM

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That's brilliant

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But also terrifying if you go in not knowing that

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Smeargle set up can be devastating

keen sandal Aug 21, 2024, 4:41 PM

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beat them again last night

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another E4 member uses Stealth Rock and Whirlwind to constantly deal chip damage

errant carbon Aug 21, 2024, 5:18 PM

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Fucking rude

keen sandal Aug 21, 2024, 5:23 PM

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ikr

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and look at the Champion:

errant carbon Aug 21, 2024, 6:31 PM

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That's just not okay

keen sandal Aug 21, 2024, 8:30 PM

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I didn’t look closely at the team before the battle

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I knew it was Shadow Mewtwo, so I sent in my Delta Gardevoir with Dazzling Gleam for the super-effective hit

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Delta Gardevoir is Ice-type

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You can guess how that went

errant carbon Aug 22, 2024, 6:05 AM

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Ah yeh

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I assume flame thrower went brrr

keen sandal Aug 22, 2024, 12:46 PM

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Yeah

peak crest Aug 22, 2024, 4:58 PM

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This should be illegal

errant carbon Aug 22, 2024, 5:37 PM

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Ouch

errant carbon Dec 22, 2024, 3:08 PM

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:wicked:

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And then

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Going to hunt haxourus (think I spelt that right) tonight

keen sandal Mar 20, 2025, 1:33 AM

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why the fuck is this fight so hard

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4th gym in the ROM hack Pokémon Unbound

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dude's fucking cracked

errant carbon Mar 20, 2025, 3:45 PM

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That mega lopunny is not okay

keen sandal Mar 21, 2025, 3:51 PM

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so far I've figured out how to beat the Bewear with things that are currently available to me. haven't even started looking at the rest

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Inverse battle, so type matchups are reversed

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which means nothing resists his Normal attacks, and they're only weak to Ghost, but Ghost is also weak to Normal

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current plan is to lead with my Haunter, use Hypnosis to put it to sleep, then Hex for double damage and guaranteed OHKO if I EV train enough

keen sandal Mar 22, 2025, 12:22 AM

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update

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weirdly it's the Heliolisk causing the most problems

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abused the AI slightly and was able to OHKO the Mega Lopunny

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but I don't have a good way to deal with Heliolisk other than Hypnosis+Hex from Gengar, but we're speed tied and I keep losing the coin toss

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ok I won

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turns out he couldn't really do anything to my Gardevoir so all it took was a couple of Calm Minds

errant carbon Mar 22, 2025, 10:12 AM

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Lmao the old tactics always win in the end

keen sandal Mar 23, 2025, 2:27 AM

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holy fuck the next boss fight is insane

errant carbon Mar 23, 2025, 11:52 AM

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What you up against kekw

keen sandal Mar 23, 2025, 6:50 PM

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also I'm pretty sure the AI cheats

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like

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knows if a sleeping Pokémon will wake up early before it selects its move

errant carbon Mar 26, 2025, 3:46 PM

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thats just rude

keen sandal Mar 26, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Yeah, it’s consistently switching out on turn 2 of sleep, and if it doesn’t switch it wakes and attacks

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Every time

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I have yet to see it attempt to attack on turn 2 but still be stuck sleeping

errant carbon Mar 27, 2025, 2:54 PM

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Smart ai is brilliant

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Cheat ai ... no so much

keen sandal Mar 28, 2025, 9:57 PM

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it could be coincidence and seeming to happen more often than it "should" because using save states doesn't necessarily refresh the RNG the same way that exiting and reloading does, but even accounting for that it seems statistically odd

errant carbon Mar 30, 2025, 7:52 PM

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Yeah true

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I'm going to return to streaming soon, be waiting to get my health sorted. I'm thinking of doing dumbass pokemon challenges

keen sandal Mar 31, 2025, 2:11 AM

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Speaking of streaming, a friend on another server thinks I should try being a V-tuber

errant carbon Mar 31, 2025, 8:15 PM

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Don't knock it till you try it

keen sandal Apr 1, 2025, 6:55 PM

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NPC in Unbound just gave me this Chimchar:

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couldn't really ask for better

keen sandal Apr 1, 2025, 11:58 PM

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6th gym leader has an illegal team

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this is bullshit

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and when I say "illegal" I mean he has a Pokémon with a move it's not able to learn until like 15 levels higher, with no way of teaching it other than level-up

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it also has a bullshit modifier where your speed stat doesn't matter because everyone's speed is set according to weight, so heavier Pokémon move first

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so somehow a Mudsdale is outspeeding my fully EV-trained Gyarados with 2 Dragon Dances

errant carbon Apr 2, 2025, 7:21 AM

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Thats fucked up 🤣

keen sandal Apr 2, 2025, 4:01 PM

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Turns out I need 6 Dragon Dances to outspeed

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The Mudsdale’s base effective speed in this battle is 920

errant carbon Apr 4, 2025, 2:38 PM

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Excuse me

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920

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Wtf

keen sandal Apr 7, 2025, 12:46 AM

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yeah

keen sandal Apr 24, 2025, 5:50 PM

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ok I beat him

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I haven't attempted the next gym yet, but I've reached it and been informed what the gimmick is

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it's a "Camomons" battle. Pokémon types change to match the types of their first two moves

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luckily the game does tell you every time someone switches in what type combo it behaves as

errant carbon Apr 25, 2025, 8:09 PM

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Certainly an interesting mechanic

keen sandal Apr 27, 2025, 2:31 PM

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wtf

errant carbon Apr 28, 2025, 3:42 PM

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yeah thats not okay

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that toxapex is just .. well toxic

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at least the gyara doesnt have moxie

keen sandal Apr 29, 2025, 8:55 PM

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Poison/Dark with physical bulk is just evil

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there are not a lot of good special Ground moves and that's the only weakness of that type combo

errant carbon Apr 30, 2025, 3:57 PM

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yeahhh and even w a special ground move, the thing is probably still a bitch to deal with

keen sandal May 1, 2025, 3:54 PM

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can't even poison the bastard because of its type

errant carbon May 2, 2025, 11:42 AM

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burn the bitch and make it hail

keen sandal May 2, 2025, 7:00 PM

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can't

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permanent heavy rain

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only counter is Primal Groudon or Mega Rayquaza, both of which are (understandably) locked to the postgame

errant carbon May 4, 2025, 9:32 PM

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Wowwwww the more I hear the more fucking toxic that fight gets

keen sandal May 5, 2025, 3:46 PM

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it's just because I'm playing on Expert

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Unbound has built-in difficulty modes, and unlike when Game Freak tried that in B2W2, it actually affects gameplay

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it's not just higher-level Pokémon that inexplicably have the same stats as their regular levels (which GF actually did)

errant carbon May 6, 2025, 4:12 PM

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kekw ah yes challenge mode that was actually easier cus same fights butmore exp

keen sandal May 6, 2025, 6:43 PM

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ah Game Freak

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truly one of the studios of all time

errant carbon May 6, 2025, 7:25 PM

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something something small indie something something

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kekw

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arent we due some gen 5 remakes now

keen sandal May 6, 2025, 8:40 PM

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well, it took seven years for the last set of remakes

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so maybe in like 2028

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also, after BDSP, are we sure we want more remakes?

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especially considering they'll probably only do BW and not B2W2?

errant carbon May 6, 2025, 9:07 PM

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mmm idk

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b3w3 instead then

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kekw

errant carbon May 7, 2025, 9:29 AM

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They must be doing something gen 5 related, apparently there new gen 5 tcg being released

errant carbon Oct 17, 2025, 2:13 PM

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well, i preordered legends ZA
never played legends arceus (even though i have it) so this game play is new to me

honestly
i dont hate it
almost refreshing to have that same pokemon look but a new play style

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only a couple hours in, and wont give any spoilers. but despite it being quite different to what im used to, im thoroughly enjoying it

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also already got the dlc and i bought a bundle when pre ordering so i got figures of charizard x and y and also pins of the started of ZA

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