Very fair
#POKÉMON CENTER
tardy folio
earnest nacelle
Anyway why does Steven have a Deoxys
tardy folio
I like this one over any other because its very generous and has plenty of content to keep it engaging
tardy folio
Anyway why does Steven have a Deoxys
he found the funny rock i guess? a lot of Sygna Suits dont have much lore
like Cynthia just pulling up with Giratina long before PLA came out
if you think that's weird, Ash is in the game
which is to say they care not about preserving canon
tardy folio
true...
he can throw entire trees like a javelin though
and carry 400 pound Pokémon on his head without issue
if anything he should be there on the field, not his little rat
earnest nacelle
Did I ever tell y'all I was replaying the Gen III games?
tardy folio
Ooh, lemme know how they are
I had Hoenn brainrot (inflicted not by playing the games but observing rhe characters and remembering my time with Omega Ruby)
earnest nacelle
They're really sophisticated for their era and filesize
I got a used LG cartridge online.
Sadly it did not come with hyper-realistic blood.
tardy folio
Ohhh FRLG is neat too
tardy folio
I always think "its weird they did gen 1 remakes so early" and then i remember gen 3 was 15 years later
tardy folio
❤️ Gyarados
Yeeaaahhhh
Was it a guaranteed encounter like Johto's shiny Gyrados or did you find it on your own
earnest nacelle
I got it from the Magikarp salesman
tardy folio
Ah
earnest nacelle
I think a Magikarp that early in the game is a wonderful deal.
tardy folio
That's true
I like that Pokémon that require a lot of patience to train just have very rewarding evolutions
Larvesta and Abra come to mind
And any friendship evo
earnest nacelle
I'm playing it on an old DS so no Alakazam for me
...also, I have no-one to trade with anymore.
tardy folio
rip
I do mostly mean its a pain to get Kadabra with Abra's whole only knowing teleport (iirc)
earnest nacelle
Oh ok
Thank goodness Sturdy doesn't work like in Gen IV onwards here
My precious PP
Also does anyone remember the random talking Gastly in the anime?
tardy folio
How did Sturdy work
tardy folio
Also does anyone remember the random talking Gastly in the anime?
The what
earnest nacelle
It just made you immune to OHKO moves
It didn't work like a Sash
Also I remember how inconsistent James's backstory was in Indigo League haha
He was part of a biker gang! No, he was a rich kid!
earnest nacelle
Anyway the Gastly that could just randomly transform was so weird
arctic dagger
What the fuck is Pokemon Master sex
snow cobalt
pokemon masters ex
fickle thicket
Anyway why does Steven have a Deoxys
skill non-issue
azure crane
https://vxtwitter.com/ericaikok/status/1778934967147319542 https://vxtwitter.com/ericaikok/status/1778935027151118512
near flower
are silvally and type:null considered legendary in your guys' opinions 🤔
pliant violet
About as much as like… victini and celebi are
near flower
so mythicals
pliant violet
Sure if that’s the term people use
snow cobalt
I feel like evolution disqualifies them but do I actually care about that restriction? hmmmmmmm
pliant violet
Ok then the alola box legendaries don’t count
snow cobalt
that's true. revising definition. totally counts.
near flower
they dont feel like a legendary to me personally but i cant explain why exactly i feel that way
and its not that theyre unimpressive since theyve got one of the sickest designs and concepts in pokemon period
pliant violet
That’s also fine it’s all nonsense
near flower
yar
i was just wondering what everyone here felt since i saw that bulba has them listed as legends and like i said that didnt feel 'right' to me
pliant violet
Very fair
I think they fit more as legends than anything else
Oh I know what they fit right alongside
Phione
near flower
phione is also a weird ass legend/mythic pokemon
arctic dagger
They feel like legendaries to me.
Anything that's unique is a legendary as far as I'm concerned
But YMMV
snow cobalt
Twitter
umbral hound
Anything that's unique is a legendary as far as I'm concerned
How are you defining "unique"?
pliant violet
https://twitter.com/serpentspell/status/1357105678884630530
You would never have to “make” a cat do crimes
snow cobalt
giovanni is so egotistical he takes credit for cat crimes
umbral hound
Anything that's unique is a legendary as far as I'm concerned
Because said Diogenes I think this would make Koraidon and Miraidon, the box legends of Scarlet/Violet, not qualify as Legendary Pokemon.
south laurel
Type:Null and Silvally are legendaries because pokedoku says so
fickle thicket
Type:Null and Silvally are legendary because the gen 7 dex says so.
arctic dagger
Because ~~said Diogenes~~ I think this would make Koraidon and Miraidon, the box...
Oh huh that's technically true isn't it, since the doctor has one too instead of having the opposite.
Yeah they're not legendary just paradox.
fickle thicket
Love that they're not even the paradox to anything interesting
arctic dagger
That depends on how you define interesting
Shed Tail is nuts
Are they the only paradox Pokemon that are for a new generation Pokemon though?
The rest are variants on older Pokemon right?
fickle thicket
That depends on how you define interesting
in the sense that cyclizar is just a pretty normal fella. Abundant, even.
manic kindle
yeah Cyclizar is a very normal part of life in Paldea
people ride 'em around everywhere
fickle thicket
past paradox cyclizar except it looks like one of these
pliant violet
slightly off topic but falinks comes out in unite this week and i'm buzzing
snow cobalt
nice!!!!
pliant violet
me and the boys
mellow robin
im extremely hype for them
mellow robin
yeah
draft is moving to all ranks, right?
I did not make it high enough up to do draft
pliant violet
was hoping they'd be a support so i could one to my roster
pliant violet
yeah
draft is moving to all ranks, right?
nah just all levels of master
mellow robin
I just squeezed into master this season so that's fine for me
mellow robin
I've been trying (failing) to win with dodrio
but I like venusaur and blissey a lot
I did decidueye through veteran or so
pliant violet
oh i love the birds except talon
i play Chomp dodrio decidueye and dabble a lil with hoopa
mellow robin
nice
pliant violet
oh and dragapult
mellow robin
hoopa seems really cool but I don't trust my teammates
pliant violet
yeah that's why it's only dabble
i know in like competitive play hoopa is cracked because it does something no other pokemon does
mellow robin
yeah
free rotations seem insane
pliant violet
but that has coordination
mellow robin
for sure
teleporting people back to base is great for healing too but I feel like you need to have your team on point to deal with it
honestly I don't now what else hoopa does, that's the main thing I've noticed them doing
pliant violet
that's the main thing
damage is decent for a support though
oh and the unite is good too
mellow robin
that's the transformation yeah?
mellow robin
basically makes you a mage for a little bit
pliant violet
and lets the team come to you from wherever
in low ranks a good carry decides games
in high ranks it's supports and tanks
mellow robin
yeah
I have been enjoying blissey heals honestly
you can kinda get 'stuck' for a while at level 3 if the lane goes bad but the burst and sustained heal is really good once you get softboiled
pliant violet
yeah and if you've got a lightning bike to support how can you lose
maximise the potential of the monsters
mellow robin
The one time I got a mewtwo partner to lane with it frankly felt like bullying
arctic dagger
slightly off topic but falinks comes out in unite this week and i'm buzzing
Silly Little Guys
fickle thicket
dwarfs
pliant violet
my good friends
i like the mechanical angle they took with it with moves making them take different formations and some stuff detaching them from the unit
manic kindle
Falinks my lil friends
pliant violet
yes
olive kayak
Silly Little Guys
I found the other Too Many Types enjoyer 😛
and yeah I love the idea of Falinks in a moba, it's a good concept for a character and while idk whether Unite is gonna hold it down since it's Unite, I'm honestly impressed
meanwhile I'm over here nuzlocking Too Many Types and I somehow survived until Wally, let's see if I can close this out
pliant violet
i actually think unite's interpretations of pokemon into a moba format is what it does best
basically every release feels like what i think the pokemon should
it passes the vibe check
olive kayak
yeah I can't really disagree on that
pliant violet
the balance can be wonky and the competitive mode frustrates me
olive kayak
Our org passed on it after they canceled PC like 2 weeks after the launch announcement, I don't even know if they planned to do a PC release or they just derped and said so by accident
pliant violet
but the designs do good
olive kayak
and yeah competitive unite uh...I have been warned about that
Apparently it has a MASSIVE cheater problem
pliant violet
oh it's more the matchmaking and afks
olive kayak
probably because you'd have to invest in heuristics to handle anticheat, you'd probably have to license from either Blizzard or Microsoft if you wanna catch up and anyone from TPCI or Nintendo is PNG over there
cos good luck getting the typical rootkit anticheats past google and apple, that sounds like a thousand years jail 😛
also huh, a lot of afks?
That's rough. Matchmaking I can understand, since the game has a pretty low pop
pliant violet
in like ranked
olive kayak
it's kinda like heroes of the storm now where you probably can't fill a bracket with one rank
pliant violet
game is actually surprisingly populated
olive kayak
like, there are probably 20 active diamond players on NA so you get grandmasters in diamond lobbies all the time
ah, okay so it's not that? Why such bad mm then?
pliant violet
great question
olive kayak
lemme see if I can get unite on my traffic dashboard and get a pop estimate
huh, that's actually really high
pliant violet
ye
olive kayak
jesus that has more players than league
tbf league kinda rolled over and died in the past 2 years
pliant violet
mobile and switch
olive kayak
yep
pliant violet
good formats for the game length
olive kayak
weirdly league's mobile offering is totally dead
international is going to end of life this year, China will stay up
pliant violet
shorter games are a big plus at least for me personally
olive kayak
ya
that's why heroes of the storm caught so well for us
especially in pubs, not getting held hostage for an hour is a fucking plus
pliant violet
ten mins means i can play some in between shit at training
olive kayak
oho I see what's going on with the traffic shaping
it's nowhere near as populated as that, they're masking traffic data
pokemon go is showing up as pokemon unite traffic
pliant violet
i was gonna say i didn't think it was that high
olive kayak
which is weird that's gotta be a licensing thing
it's not
70k PCU on NA is fake news, it's around 9k
pliant violet
i'm not in NA
olive kayak
it's still populated but not like, league populated, more like heroes of the storm / world of tanks
pliant violet
Aus so i play in oce which groups me with japan
olive kayak
I honestly didn't think it would even still be UP this year so I'd say it's doing well
oooh, yeah I bet like half the player base is in japan
mobile mobas are usually big in oh right it's banned in china 😛
so I guess the VPNing players from china are on your servers
pliant violet
but yeah for any of my complaints about the game the way they choose to translate the pokemon is really well done
olive kayak
but yeah, that's cool that it's still running, idk what they're doing with it but they're certainly doing better character designs than league
it's still my reference moba cos I just finally bailed on it this year
pliant violet
i dunno about designs as such
olive kayak
Vanguard was the last straw, I don't need a national security incident on my record 😛
pliant violet
since they're taking established designs
it's more in "how do we make this viable in a moba and keep the vibe"
olive kayak
well, they're translating them from a pokemon design into a moba character; the character's abilities and game flow are extremely important
pliant violet
which is a different skillset
olive kayak
and they got the feel really right here with Falinks
pliant violet
at least imo
olive kayak
Yeah, but mechanical design is honestly one of the bigger failings in mobas and what really pushes players out
pliant violet
wouldn't know this is the only moba i've played
pliant violet
it's good filler
olive kayak
Huh, it looks like they do have first party PC support now with gameloop, though I HAVE seen gameloop fail several security audits so I should probably get up to date info on that first
Tencent is notorious for executive level security breaches so if it's not completely airtight, a hacker could probably push a patch through it and completely hose you
(they have already had 3 this year)
oh it's literally gamebuddy with a new brand, yeah avoid
gamebuddy is still classified as an active threat
it's been cryptojacked like 30 times
Oh, also apparently while it is officially promoted by the company with the development and distribution license, gameloop is considered cheating and will get you banned.
_> :sus:
so don't do that, unite spiral over for now XD
olive kayak
oh no jolteon why
olive kayak
Well, buckle up. Final stretch of my Too Many Types nuzlocke this week
We got to the elite 4.
Also the crobat I trained up specifically as a wally counter got fed into a 4x super effective move by a misclick <_< rip
I need a break from nuzlocking after this, maybe play some showdown ro something to remember what the real type chart looks like. My head is full of bees.
south laurel
Also the crobat I trained up specifically as a wally counter got fed into a 4x s...
Have you heard the tale of Old Yeller
olive kayak
Far as I know the only other two people who attempted this with the same rules lost to Phoebe so this MIGHT be world first
though frankly not due to skill, due to cheese and nobody else wanting to attempt this mess
earnest nacelle
...how'd you get a Mew in a Gen 5 game in 2024?
The Dream World has been offline for years.
red rampart
Romhack I assume
red rampart
In other news, amoongus is now a trans icon
https://vxtwitter.com/TheKingVillager/status/1780152571774079378
trail bridge
HELL YEAH
red rampart
(Long story short Wolfe just won a regional with his amoongus putting in a lot of work in the finals against a guy that turned out to be a transphobe)
red rampart
Note:
earnest nacelle
I remember Wolfe also took a strong stance against antisemitic comments. So yeah, he's cool.
pliant violet
even better
trail bridge
POG
it makes me happy one of the best comp pokemon players in the world is a good person
earnest nacelle
Wow Wolfe beat a Chien-Pao with Amoonguss
trail bridge
sabretooth tigers are not fun guys to be around
no wonder he beat the cat with an amoonguss
olive kayak
...how'd you get a Mew in a Gen 5 game in 2024?
Too Many Types is a romhack of a very special kind of weirdness. There is more than just the availability of Mew going on, and the game uses pokemon and mechanics up to gen 8. Oh, and uh, the type chart. >_>
It uses a type chart. There is in fact one of those.
manic kindle
Wolfey is a really cool competitor / content creator, he's a great example of how you get more people into a game
arctic dagger
Too Many Types has... A bit over 65 types IIRC?
south laurel
snrrrk
languid lichen
olive kayak
Yeah I have nothing bad to say about Wolfey which is surprising given all my history in the community.
earnest nacelle
Too Many Types is a romhack of a very special kind of weirdness. There is more t...
Okie
earnest nacelle
IDGI
Oh...Swords Dance.
People use Swords Dance on Zacian-Crowned?
That's like giving Mewtwo Nasty Plot.
iron lake
Hey
sometimes you just want to Win More
south laurel
manic kindle
Swords Dance allows Zacian to guarantee wallbreaker ko's
olive kayak
I'm not even sure I can say any serious formats ever allowed Zacian-C, VGC21 and 22 were the second and third worst VGC formats ever, I think only the Landorus format was worse.
arctic dagger
Is he AG? I thought he was in Uber for little but
olive kayak
He's AG, and I think was there since 2021
olive kayak
Derp I was looking at SS ubers. I forgot SV existed again.
arctic dagger
They pulled a bunch of anything goes characters into Ubers recently
Darkrai for instance
olive kayak
Looks like it was a shakeup due to stratification due to a very low player base
Gen 9 AG had more players than Ubers
arctic dagger
All the paradox Pokemon are to blame imo
olive kayak
for sure, gen 9 has been a mess
Smogon has not been handling gen 9 well at all, I point to Flutter Mane.
arctic dagger
This many legendary tier Pokemon is just not healthy
Imo
Especially since they're almost all offensive
olive kayak
I honestly think after Lunar Future and Pokemon Perfect disbanded, Smogon got considerably worse just because there wasn't any overall debate about usage vs analytical tiering anymore.
You didn't REALLY see it until gen 8 but even gen 7 felt it. Gen 7 just was barely a metagame, it was gen 6 plus the tapus and everything else fun got banned
Lunar Future might be coming back tho
arctic dagger
Shrug some of that too, but I also just think that balance is a bit off. So many Pokemon being strong with the same abilities makes it feel pretty stale imo
olive kayak
Oh, absolutely what TPCi did doesn't HELP
but in the old days all that stuff would have just gotten bulldozed into ubers 😛
or I guess now AG since Ubers is now a managed tier
arctic dagger
Like if one paradox Pokemon is strong it makes all the rest more viable since you're already setting up for them
olive kayak
yup
arctic dagger
It was the problem with the tapus and fields too imo
olive kayak
Oh for sure.
arctic dagger
You just end up with very linear strategies
olive kayak
I can almost guarantee if LF did analysis on the Tapus they'd all have either gone to format 1 or AG
LF formats were basically "AG", "Ubers with a more restrictive ban list than Smogon", "the bottom half of OU", and then the lower LF formats more or less matched Smogons
with a few notables like banning Ninetales from gen 5 UU
which smogon eventually did
arctic dagger
That was the Gen it got drought right?
olive kayak
Mhm. 😛
I still remember demolishing UU for free points with crap like Solar Power Tropius
I don't remember how it managed to sweep stuff with 72 special attack, I'll be honest, but it did stuff. Huh, Ninetales made it all the way to smogon OU for reals.
I guess gen 5 is still being developed
sweet
Idk, I've been out of Showdown for a while. I fell out of pokemon entirely for a bit, now I'm more back on the nuzlocking and challenge running side but I'm starting to feel the interest come back in doing some showdown shenanz
manic kindle
Yeah, even gen1 is still moving
arctic dagger
I refuse to acknowledge generations before 3 personally
manic kindle
I love them all and gen1 has very fun things going on
olive kayak
I'll be honest I only follow Gen1 because of Big Yellow 😛
Their content is just SO good.
soft isleBOT
Big Yellow’s stuff is great
olive kayak
I used to really like gen 3 UU
TBH just because I could use so many of my fav mons, ninetales/gardevoir/vaporeon core was a good time
red rampart
earnest nacelle
Reminds me of the "Ferrothorn is homophobic" joke
earnest nacelle
😰
trail bridge
Twitter
pliant violet
tectonic is supposed to be good
olive kayak
Renegade Platinum is a great hack, and next on my hardcore nuzlocke list. Really looking forward to it.
manic kindle
Since others have recommended Renegade, I'll throw my hat into the ring for both Pokemon VGC Platinum
It is intended for difficulty/nuzlocke stuff, but its a nice twist on the region and formula by making everything a doubles battle.
south laurel
It is intended for difficulty/nuzlocke stuff, but its a nice twist on the region...
Oh interesting
That might be worth checking out
Out of curiosity how do starters work?
round perch
snow cobalt
hey Rhypherior needed an item too
fickle thicket
love how they picked a held item trade instead of a normal one
pliant violet
hey at least those modern evos you can do on your own
red rampart
Did Ampharos need a stone?
It’s a normal level up one yeah
pliant violet
not a fan of trade evos
arctic dagger
Big anti-fan of trade evos
pliant violet
🤝
snow cobalt
and it has to be on top of the statue of liberty on a THURSDAY evening get your facts right smh
south laurel
Big anti-fan of trade evos
Everybody is tbh
round perch
I do want more weird ways to Evo that you might need to talk about with other fans.
At least during the first month.
near flower
i remember when scarvio launched and a lot of people couldnt figure out how to get palafin
eager vine
no
manic kindle
Palafin requiring people to have friends in the 2020s smh
fickle thicket
fickle thicket
i remember when scarvio launched and a lot of people couldnt figure out how to g...
the sheer amount of times people suggested beating up scovillain lmao
woven geyser
yes good this is perfect
azure crane
He is one of the creatures of all time.
red rampart
You could probably use clodsire as a bed tbh
umbral hound
yeah, but given its typing and the fact it can poke its ribs out its back, you probably shouldn't.
languid lichen
I trust him.
wispy yarrow
I'm thinking of starting up Radical Red again
I got stopped at misty last time
that damn greninja
woven geyser
https://vxtwitter.com/d91ny/status/1783054900353782090
incredible
red rampart
soft isleBOT
red rampart
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1115790083828756581/1233073775335964742/G...
Where’s this from? 👀
south laurel
Lemme ask, you’re right I should’ve sourced
Friend found it on Bulbapedia, lemme see if I can do better
earnest nacelle
Salamans
pliant violet
Wait, are Eeveelutions cats, or dogs, or what?
yes
red rampart
south laurel
But is it a mollusk
pliant violet
falinks in unite is very fun
south laurel
Friend found it on Bulbapedia, lemme see if I can do better
It was a design for a Pokémon mercy blanket
So, official art
soft isleBOT
That’s so cute! Oh my gosh!!
south laurel
Thought you’d like it :)
soft isleBOT
Thank you!! 
arctic dagger
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1115790083828756581/1233465261768572969/4...
@unreal seal
unreal seal
olive kayak
❤️
azure crane
south laurel
Love it
round perch
Twitter
red rampart
@woven geyser
azure crane
eepy clod
woven geyser
blessed
earnest nacelle
Yup Rika is popular.
round perch
Twitter
arctic dagger
Is this custom or real?
languid lichen
custom
arctic dagger
Ah, kk
I'd make it a physical attacker only
We need more physical eevees
Flareon and Leafeon are the only ones atm IIRC, and both are kinda among the worst eeveelutions
I'd do.... 110/130/95/60/65/65 maybe?
Bulky physical attacker
Probably give it Marvel Scale or Multiscale over Rough Skin IMO, those are more specifically dragon-type abilities
languid lichen
ehhh
arctic dagger
Although I guess there are no only dragon type abilities
languid lichen
they aren't really
arctic dagger
So Rough Skin is good enough
languid lichen
the only FE marvel scale is on is milotic
and multiscale is on both dnite and lugia
arctic dagger
Yeah, Dragonair/Dratini gets both
languid lichen
which is lizardy but not a dragon
languid lichen
yeah not multi
arctic dagger
Why I think it'd be cool to have it on something else
languid lichen
the noodles get shed skin
arctic dagger
I meant both get it
Not get both
What is Dragon Skin?
I'd consider giving it a dragon version of pixilate
That'd be sick
Dragon Type Body Slam
languid lichen
i have no idea, that's part of that goober's thing
arctic dagger
Anyway I kinda like Marvel Scale because it turns it into a potential Rest user
arctic dagger
I'd do.... 110/130/95/60/65/65 maybe?
This statline would be
More likely to just do Curse/Wish though I think
wispy yarrow
did I hear someone say in this channel once upon a time that wolfeyvgc was a scumbag? anyone gotm ore details or am I like, making that up somehow
soft isleBOT
What. Everything we’ve ever heard about him is that he’s great
arctic dagger
Yeah haven't heard that
manic kindle
yeah he BEAT a scumbag
south laurel
Wolfey is specifically a mensch
And is the entire reason for the trans rights Amoongus meme
soft isleBOT
I’m sorry what?
gkathellar (he/him) ↩️
soft isleBOT
Oh thank gods, we didn’t know the context here and reflexively thought it was some nazi shit. Thanks for the explanation
south laurel
I’m sorry what?
I'm a New Yorker, I use Yiddish sometimes :D
I did not know he was Jewish I was just complimenting the guy
earnest nacelle
Oh ok
It's particularly notable because Smogon was kind of edgelordy during its early days.
As is reflected in the name itself.
(The German name for the poison gas Pokemon.)
Yeah...the Internet at the time was like that.
But the community has improved
olive kayak
yeah
Smogon is still uh...yeah there's a reason we founded Lunar Future.
idk what they're like now
I haven't been among them in a good 8 years, but looking at some of the gen 9 council decisions it feels like everyone with a clue retired
olive kayak
We were a group that was intended to build a better competitive format using proper interaction analysis and looking at more holistic metagames
we were trying to be something that competes with smogon, splintering out of them with a few of the gen 4 OU council that rebelled at the first "we're not banning garchomp" riot
(we were right on that one lmao)
that ended up not going super well mostly due to visibility and smogon just smearing ANYONE that competes with their leadership
but we did end up getting a very serious VGC team together and damn near winning worlds out of nowhere
Clef and I got 2nd in the US and 4th in Canada respectively which was pretty damn good and we had a pretty solid showing at worlds even without me, who got too many death threats and couldn't travel
I wonder what ever happened to her
oh hey she just qualified for worlds again this year 😄
welp I know who to cheer for
I'm washed up, and honestly none of the rest of us were ever that good
I still remember trying to play 3 cities in one day
that is the first only and last time I am going to drive 100mph for pokemon
though hilariously I was barely going faster than traffic. >_>
I think that just gets me the gold medal in the stupidity olympics tho
olive kayak
hey I didn't only make good decisions back then lol
wispy yarrow
traffic is a hell of a thing
iron lake
traffic is a hell
wispy yarrow
very true
olive kayak
very hell
fickle thicket
they should make a stone type
snow cobalt
also a flame type
snow cobalt
Dai Sato worked on Pokemon Horizons?
rad
olive kayak
lol for the type people: Too Many Types exists for a reason, enter the gates of hell and come out appreciating the simpler type chart lol
iron lake
we're pretty sure they were doing a bit
if you're also doing a bit then we apologize for the correction
manic kindle
soft isleBOT
gods has it really been 19 years?
olive kayak
yeah
snow cobalt
Officer Jennies imo
pliant violet
Officers jennies
south laurel
VGC wouldn't have been any better :P
torpid pivot
Also just unexciting picks v-v
manic kindle
https://vxtwitter.com/no_dupes/status/1786018492082192741
Date material some folk are just lame
south laurel
I did the whole big chart thing and it turned out my fave is Celesteela
Which I think is pretty cool
fickle thicket
reminds me of this comic that I just can't for the life of me find again, where the girl says she's a virgin and the guy leaves saying he only plays OU
south laurel
I don’t get it
olive kayak
LOL
near flower
blacephalon is a fun looking pokemon/UB
it's cute in it's own way too
manic kindle
silly clown
blacephalon is fun cuz he's just a Shin Megami Tensei guy stuck in silly alola
near flower
huh now that you say that... it wouldnt look too out of place in an SMT game
save that its more on the pastel end color wise
manic kindle
it reminds me of Dubhe from Devil Survivor 2, mostly
umbral hound
Every single Ultra Beast is just... excellent, but especially the Funny Dudes (Blacephalon and Xurkitree).
manic kindle
Xurkitree has my favorite naming cleverness of the UBs
soft isleBOT
red rampart
Finally got my hands on pokemon violet 🥳
Time to start playing i- what do you mean 4 hours of updates
red rampart
...and now it's just randomly decided it'll only take 24 minutes
red rampart
It may or may not have taken me half an hour to get through character creation
Unrelated, what are "helping functions" and why would they activate when I fall off a cliff
soft isleBOT
falling off of a cliff is often lethal
cerulean dune
It may or may not have taken me half an hour to get through character creation
U...
Seems to give a prompt asking if you want to recall if you fell a long distance,
red rampart
On a related note, I appreciate that progression is locked behind someone telling you not to go near a cliff edge and then doing exactly that
Or at least I assume it’s locked behind that because that’s what I did immediately
On an unrelated note, pawmi is the most adorable thing ever and I need 12 of them
snow cobalt
callback to the originals....
("don't go into the tall grass" but you gotta to start the game)
snow cobalt
On an *un*related note, pawmi is the most adorable thing ever and I need 12 of t...
REAL
wispy yarrow
Pawmi is PRETTY great.
red rampart
Even if it did knock out half my team with the power of having a lightbulb on its head
wispy yarrow
I should really finish Scarlet/Violet
red rampart
On an *un*related note, pawmi is the most adorable thing ever and I need 12 of t...
How does it only get more adorable!?
eager vine
It may or may not have taken me half an hour to get through character creation
U...
that's how u KNOW it's good
pliant violet
How does it only get *more* adorable!?
if you need a hand evolving it lemme know
i know final form is a pita
manic kindle
Shiny Pawmi is even cuter
pliant violet
pawmi? no pawyu
red rampart
if you need a hand evolving it lemme know
It looks like you just need to run around with it on let’s go mode
red rampart
That’s the dolphin yeah
red rampart
The protag of this game is pretty short aren’t they
fickle thicket
young
red rampart
Game is pretty fun so far (I say despite not having even done the first gym)
Though the always on exp share has me constantly afraid of overleveling 
fickle thicket
There's actually a rising order throughout all three objective lines (gyms, titans, teams) that you can follow if you follow the most unnatural route through paldea.
snow cobalt
little brother is showing me Pokemon Horizons
It's pretty great tbh
red rampart
There's actually a rising order throughout all three objective lines (gyms, tita...
I saw yeah, it's a bit odd
eager vine
pawmi? no pawyu
twins, basil!
fickle thicket
little brother is showing me Pokemon Horizons
It's pretty great tbh
it is! though it gets it start a bit slow. kind of stop-start on-and-off but it seems to properly be getting going now
manic kindle
The paldea order makes sense if you think about how npcs give advice
soft isleBOT
playing a Pokemon Crystal romhack and we got our female starter without soft-resetting 😌 really good IV spread too - 15 hp, 7 atk, 15 def, 15 spe, 11 spc
the cap for IVs in gen 2 is 15 iwrc
snow cobalt
niiiiiice
manic kindle
Hell yeah
red rampart
...huh, only just noticed you can't change to set battle style anymore
I guess it isn't a big deal since you can just not switch out your pokemon, but having to press "no" every time a pokemon is KOed is annoying
red rampart
Will say, the first two gyms haven't really been terribly interesting so far 😔
I also kinda miss the random gym trainers, would be nice to have those in addition to the gym test things
The titan pokemon seem cool though
red rampart
Will say, the first two gyms haven't really been terribly interesting so far 😔 ...
🤞 it gets at least somewhat more difficult
manic kindle
Have you done any of the Star Bases
Imo thats where they hit you with some real wild battles
red rampart
👀
Will say that aside from those few things I’m enjoying the game so far, though I’m not entirely sure what all the restaurants and sandwiches are for
pliant violet
Fucking with spawn rates
wispy yarrow
yeah, they're for spawning/training
near flower
thinking about this lately
if you were a gym leader what type would you have and what sort of theming would you go for
alternatively i know theres probably a few fangames out there where the gyms arent typed and instead utilize other gimmicks (like revolving around sound based attacks for example)
im torn between being a water leader with a surf rock/trop rock theme so i can have fave pokemon (feraligatr) as an ace, or a rock type trainer who focuses on fossil pokemon to honor kid me's dino obsession
pliant violet
Poison type gym leader with a speakeasy/underground bar type deal
near flower
that sound super cool!
wispy yarrow
damn you reggie taking my theme
nah I'd just also be Poison, probably with like
a nature habitat type deal
pliant violet
I’ve spoken about it here before
wispy yarrow
wild Arboks and Sevipers, Galarian Slowbros/Slowkings, etc
soft isleBOT
Dark types are my favorite, though I have no idea what the theme would be like. Maybe a forest at night? Yeah that sounds right
soft isleBOT
manic kindle
thinking about this lately
if you were a gym leader what type would you have and...
Water type gym themed on an educational river ride, you gotta learn about the importance of river health and bugs and such and then beat up my little guys
south laurel
thinking about this lately
if you were a gym leader what type would you have and...
I gotta be steel-type so I can have Celesteela as my ace
manic kindle
I always wanted to be a very early gym to teach the players an important mechanic
languid lichen
gotta be a frontier brain or champ or somethin to pick up a legend
specially if you're running two
manic kindle
Gym set in the Ultra Megapolis so you can freely use Celesteela
fickle thicket
Or be a battle chatelaine and use 3 to 6
manic kindle
or we can break the rules cuz we're cool >:)
south laurel
Gym set in the Ultra Megapolis so you can freely use Celesteela
I can't believe you reminded me that USUM exist how could you do that
south laurel
(I don't like USUM very much but I am not actually annoyed I am doing a bit)
Ohey Hisuian Goodra is cool
Fixes the big problem with Goodra
snow cobalt
Was the problem that it was not a snail
pliant violet
it's a slug
south laurel
The problem was that it had 70 defense
So while it was an incredible special wall, it had a big gap in its defenses
pliant violet
i forget that it's a pseudo
south laurel
Hisuian Goodra gets 40 more points of defense and also steel typing resistances
pliant violet
earns a fighting weakness tho
red rampart
Imo thats where they hit you with some real wild battles
That was a very weird (but fun!) fight
Also I’m not entirely sure how I got it but for some reason I found the tm for pollen puff right before the first gym and it seems to be very good for murdering everything
Which makes sense given it’s 90 base power but I feel like I probably wasn’t supposed to get it so early
manic kindle
Puff that pollen
red rampart
Will say, the first two gyms haven't really been terribly interesting so far 😔 ...
Iono's gym test is what now
red rampart
Yeh
pliant violet
lemme know when you fight my guy
red rampart
Iono's gym test is what now
I should probably start actually paying attention to the gym leader descriptions 🤔
manic kindle
the paldea gym flavor is very good
fickle thicket
uneven gen, gym leader design phase upswing
though with gen 9 I am almost completely missing type connection in the e4's designs, and I don't feel like that's on purpose.
cerulean dune
Iono really captures "obnoxious streamer"
manic kindle
Shes my fave vtuber
umbral hound
It's sort of fun how the game makes it really explicitly clear that, no, being a gym leader is not really a feasible full-time job. Sure, gym leaders in other games also had other jobs and stuff they did, but this really puts it front and center: every single gym leader has another job. With one exception, and he's a notable exception.
fickle thicket
me
manic kindle
Being a gym leader is like an honor yeah
olive kayak
Yeah it really makes me feel even more connected to Norman, yknow? ^^;
manic kindle
Idk i love em all
fickle thicket
paldea's champion is still the funniest thing to me
manic kindle
Its fun
fickle thicket
I'll spoil it for the person literally playing through the game right now, but ||having an anchor in the middle and a setter at the end|| will never not be funny
red rampart
Iono's gym test is what now
I am not convinced Iono's hair ornaments aren't literally just magnemites she painted pink and blue
Also christ she literally gets a donation in the middle of the fight intro
fickle thicket
Iono's the magneton, the girl is just an advanced puppet
red rampart
Well that was a fun gym
pliant violet
I'll spoil it for the person literally playing through the game right now, but |...
they fixed that in one of the patches
you doing things in any order rose?
red rampart
I'm doing them in order based on level
fickle thicket
they fixed that in one of the patches
word?
pliant violet
ok you found one of the maps for that
fickle thicket
less funny but cool actually
red rampart
ok you found one of the maps for that
Yeh, someone posted one on here but I forget who
pliant violet
less funny but cool actually
oh nvm it's only for the dlc appearance
fickle thicket
victory! it's still funny!
red rampart
…oh you can actually take classes at the academy. Huh. I feel like I should have figured that out sooner
pliant violet
it's not really explained but yes
pliant violet
i like it less than galar but still think it's pretty decent
i think the nature of it's "go anywhere do anything" gameplay hurts it a bit
my top three are sinnoh alola and galar
galar did a tremendous job to me making me feel like it was my first pokemon experience all over again
manic kindle
Yeah thats also my top 3
pliant violet
except swap one for paldea
arctic dagger
For me it's... Hoenn, Sinnoh, Paldea probably?
soft isleBOT
we're ride or die gen 2 fans so we're all Johto all the way, though Hoenn is probably our second favorite
after that we found the regions more or less forgettable until SuMo which we liked quite a lot
arctic dagger
I know people liked gen5 a lot
soft isleBOT
we haven't finished S/V but we've really liked what we've seen of Paldea so far
arctic dagger
But I found it one of my least favorites
pliant violet
yeah tohu
soft isleBOT
Kanto was Fine, like we respect it a lot for being the OG but we didn't find it flavorful enough
pliant violet
there and johto are my probable bottom 2 and even then they're not that bad
arctic dagger
For me gen5 kinda just... Felt less like Pokemon to me I think?
soft isleBOT
we're fond of Unova but that's because we wrote a ton of fanfic set in it, not so much for its own merits in the games
manic kindle
Unova feels like a growing region with big (american) cities which i appreciate a lot
and i like its routing the most
pliant violet
i liked galar's loop routing even if it was simple
manic kindle
I enjoyed how early Galar locks you to the "beginner trainer" area in both mechanics and story?
like, until you deal with Kabu, you're stuck in the shallow end of the pool for your own good, which is cool the game even acknowledges it
soft isleBOT
Galar was one of the few regions we very much disliked, but mostly because we felt like it didn't go far enough with what it was trying to do? Like, Paldea feels like the fulfillment of what Galar was trying to be
soft isleBOT
strong agree
pliant violet
i felt paldea was just too unguided
soft isleBOT
will say the newer regions have some of the best characters and writing in the franchise
soft isleBOT
SwSh and SuMo have the most memorable supporting characters in the franchise for us
arctic dagger
Paldea needed to be more linear IMO
soft isleBOT
and S/V is no slouch in that regard
arctic dagger
It tried to be too open world
pliant violet
will say the newer regions have some of the best characters and writing in the f...
i like when the rivals feel like someone i want to compete with not want to thump
arctic dagger
Pokemon is best IMO when it's a fairly set story.
pliant violet
hop and hau for example
arctic dagger
Thump?
pliant violet
hit
arctic dagger
Ah ok yeah.
soft isleBOT
yeah like, let our rivals be our friends too
pliant violet
i don't like the asshole rivals
soft isleBOT
we have Opinions on Silver specifically but in general yeah we don't like the asshole rival trope
arctic dagger
Yeah I hated Silver for that reason actually.
manic kindle
I hear that about Paldea, but I had a pretty good time as long as I followed what the NPCs said/directed, I felt the in-game hits and pokemon leveling kept you on a good path
soft isleBOT
the only thing we don't like about Hop is how he'd bring up type matchups literally every time we battled him lol
other than that Hop was great
pliant violet
he actually changed his team up
manic kindle
Barry is my fave rival for being a huge airhead
soft isleBOT
"ach you've been studying your type matchups" Hop we have been playing this franchise since before you were born
pliant violet
he actually changed his team up
he'd lose and then use different pokemon it was good
manic kindle
i like that during Hop's dark era he didnt have his bestie woolie but got him back after he got his confidence
living in your bro's shadow is rough
pliant violet
he can join raihan
the gym leaders in galar being more full time leaders worked so well with the themeing
soft isleBOT
we liked the X/Y friend group too, they were really fun
manic kindle
i wanna do a ttrpg campaign set in Galar's minor leagues
cuz that sounded so cool to me
pliant violet
and it spread out the interactions
manic kindle
like there can only be 8 Major League Gyms but it implies theres a Minor League Circuit
pliant violet
add in sina and dexio too
pliant violet
like there can only be 8 Major League Gyms but it implies theres a Minor League ...
we know two minor league leaders
clara and avery from the dlc
pliant violet
that's toxic
manic kindle
her angry finger always kills me
she's got so much barely repressed anger LOL
Avery is great for the same reasons; so much pressure on him cuz hes a "bad psychic" that it makes him a weirdo
snow cobalt
worm? worm?
red rampart
The titan battle was probably just him playing around 😌
near flower
worm :)
soft isleBOT
Oh, worm
manic kindle
just a goofy guy
red rampart
Why is there a level 65 garchomp in the same cave I can find a level 24 yungoos
...and a level 50 gimmighoul
red rampart
Yeh
I also keep finding ominous stakes that disintegrate when I interact with them but I'm sure it's fine 🙂
pliant violet
oh yeah they're fine
manic kindle
thats very normal its okay youre not cursed
pliant violet
goldfish time
manic kindle
nice comment reggie, unfortunately, +252 Choice Specs Modest Sp. Atk Heat Wave
pliant violet
🥺
red rampart
lemme know when you fight my guy
Larry's gym test is currently being attempted
pliant violet
goooooooooooooooo
red rampart
...by any chance is the food I'm ordering supposed to be for Larry?
red rampart
Why is this ice cream place selling grilled riceballs 😵💫
Also ooh this place lets you change tera type (presumably after beating Larry) 👀
Finally, I can have a vespiquen with an actually good defensive typing 😌
Di- did the eating area of this restaurant just turn upside down to make an arena? What happened to everyone that was eating there?
Exceptional Everyman
God the triumphant music while Larry is just very obviously extremely not into doing this right now is great
I think this is the first gym leader I've run into where their ace pokemon is already the type it's terastalizing into
...does his team have any way of triggering staraptor's facade on it's own?
"This is for you, though hopefully a child like you has no need to put on it's namesake"
You found Facade!
Larry is not okay
snow cobalt
wow i love Larry now
trail bridge
Larry is fun
red rampart
In post gym battle news, how does Nemona not have a pawmot yet
red rampart
Oh hey I have a tinkaton now
I just realized like half of my team is immune to sandstorm 🤔
Time to find a good way of setting it other than orthworm
red rampart
…oh right that unlocked more classes, I should go do those
Okay so Brassius and Hassel are definitely gay right?
manic kindle
they have a lot of good fanart
trail bridge
Okay so Brassius and Hassel are definitely gay right?
I mean.
(Scar/Vio spoilers)
eager vine
Okay so Brassius and Hassel are definitely gay right?
i read it as more of a teacher/pupil relationship
fickle thicket
Why is this ice cream place selling grilled riceballs 😵💫
rice cream place
red rampart
Time to find a good way of setting it ~~other than orthworm~~
Okay I've found a slight issue with making a weather team, overworld weather can't be changed by moves or abilities
Anyway, ghost gym time
Why is this guy wearing a tanktop in the middle of a blizzard
Ooh double battle 👀
It sounds like there's a rap battle happening on stage
wat
Well that was a good gym, love how most of her pokemon were built with the double battle gimmick in mind
Light screen mimikyu and hyper voice/discharge toxtricity
I just went through a gym without being ambushed by Nemona, that feels wrong
manic kindle
DJ Dog ruled
umbral hound
I find it hilarious how everyone loves larry.
umbral hound
Oh Toxtricity has Hyper Voice rather than Boomburst? That's... surprisingly kind.
south laurel
I find it hilarious how everyone loves larry.
Hi-Larry-ous?
red rampart
Wait I can just buy a choice scarf from the delibird place?
umbral hound
they made obtaining comp stuff way easier
unfortunately choice scarf skeledirge kind of sweeps.
obtuse ravine
ugh i wish text boxes and hp changes and stuff would move faster/in tandem
arctic dagger
Yeah if you want to build a comp team it's easier than ever, but like, the story still expects you to uh
Not
obtuse ravine
whoa the 3ds bottom screen is impacted by rain
maybe all weather types i haven't checked
that's a nice detail
red rampart
What game are you playing?
obtuse ravine
X
i'm not that good 😅 forgotten a lot
2 10% hp pokemon (1 poisoned) not getting caught then dying to leech seed
pain
umbral hound
...I am once more attempting to justify to myself the idea of running Sableye. It's a bad idea, and I know it, especially in the higher-powered Regulation G format. But sometimes higher-powered formats let in weird cheesy stuff. I think it'd be genuinely somewhat runnable if it had any terrain move, or Snow Warning, for the specific niche of overwriting weather/terrain which was set by an ability.
It can also do weird niche stuff with priority Quash, or technically Trick but it kind of needs a focus sash... it could maybe do something very cheesy with Pain Split if your opponent hits it once and doesn't have priority, and its low base HP will work for it (although it still probably won't live a move even at full, and the health it's stealing matters much less in a rocket tag format).
It's not as good at prankster taunt as other stuff because it's slower than most other prankster mons and so won't be able to taunt them, but it's also immune to their taunts (and prankster t-wave), and also immune to ESpeed and Fake Out, and so that + focus sash means you're all but guaranteed to get at least one move off.
If it had snowscape, it could reliably overwrite sun or rain from abilities; it does get sunny day and rain dance, but for either of those you can probably just get away with a slower drizzle/drought mon. If it had a terrain move, it could overwrite Miraidon, with priority, without needing to switch in a indeedee or rillaboom.
manic kindle
i'm not that good 😅 forgotten a lot
You get to learn again, isnt that beautiful?
olive kayak
It can also do weird niche stuff with priority Quash, or *technically* Trick but...
singles or doubles format? Priority pain split tends to be pretty fun, and as much as weather abilities are cool, prankster weather can also be fun because you can guarantee both being slower to win the weather war, and being faster later, at the cost of a turn.
Clef and I both being famous for "random ass sunny day liepard" in gen 5 vgc at one point 😛
why does this have sun? why is your landorus dead?
umbral hound
VGC in particular, since that's what I was randomly thinking about instead of a balanced format. And, yes, prankster weather is nice... but Sableye only has sun and rain, i.e. the two weathers that are already running around en masse. As opposed to something rarer that more reliably disrupts the opponent.
olive kayak
(landorus-T had like, 90% usage in that format, cheesing ttar+lando/terakion was great)
good ol "what do you mean it dies to mega manectric fire blast"
that stuff is both the reason we got places and the reason I retired, because nothing was ever consistent
the best you could do is either be one dimensional or risk a match on an 85% roll
obtuse ravine
You get to learn again, isnt that beautiful?
mmmmayhaps
umbral hound
Open team sheets also means that "surprise factor" is much, much less of a thing.
olive kayak
Ya, that's part of why we didn't do things like run ninetales, which is super telegraphed
and why I love prankster in general
manic kindle
I love open team sheets
umbral hound
Open teamsheets is a good thing, yeah. And sableye, as mentioned, has the niche of being extremely hard to prevent from using a move. Your options are basically eitherusing something that stops all priority moves, or doubling it with priority moves which it isn't immune to (meaning aqua jet or grassy glide, in practice). (Or I guess Water Shuriken technically also works... or scrappy fake out...)
I really wish it got any terrain move.
obtuse ravine
I might need to keep a type matchup chart open
actually it might be more fun without
red rampart
Why is there an even gimmighoul with 0 ivs in everything that isn't speed
snow cobalt
maybe it's a rare hidden power idk
red rampart
I mean I guess it gives easy access to a 0 attack iv gholdengo 🤔
red rampart
maybe it's a rare hidden power idk
Nah, hidden power doesn't exist anymore
soft isleBOT
hidden power got removed in this gen
Stepnix ↩️
snow cobalt
Huhhhhh
red rampart
Along with pursuit iirc?
I assume getting rid of hidden power was because getting the right one was a pain in the ass
pliant violet
The killer of nuzlockes
red rampart
Why is there an even gimmighoul with 0 ivs in everything that isn't speed
On an related note, why did they make getting 999 gimmighoul coins such a pain in the ass 
pliant violet
Great question
red rampart
I feel bad for anyone that has to do this more than once
red rampart
Here's hoping 🤞
pliant violet
What’s your team
red rampart
A lot of things
Currently Ceruledge, dudunsparce, tinkaton, hatterene, vespiquen, and a gholdengo (as it turns out the best way of getting 999 coins is going into areas 10 levels higher than you and gunning it for the towers)
manic kindle
the good news is IVs and EVs and Natures can all just be fixed now
red rampart
But also sandaconda, orthworm, bronzong, houndstone, arboliva, pawmot, mismagius, garganacl, and skeledirge (who has admittedly been replaced by ceruldege)
And maybe a weavile since my character has had the smug cat smile since the start of the game and getting a pokemon to match that sounds funny
Also I appreciate the game letting you make your character do :3 at all times, it's very funny
Just maximum gremlin energy
red rampart
the good news is IVs and EVs and Natures can all just be fixed now
Yeh the only issue is that you can't set ivs to 0 which sucks for trick room teams and special attackers
pliant violet
Ceruledge is so good
red rampart
Ceruledge fucks
It's also cooler than skeledirge while having the same typing so that was an easy replacement
pliant violet
I like skeledirge a lot too
red rampart
10/10 dex picture
snow cobalt
Ceruledge is so good
it has a pretty prominent part in Horizons. it's so cool
red rampart
What the heck is emotional spectrum practice
red rampart
What the heck is emotional spectrum practice
Doing it has explained nothing
red rampart
Doing it has explained *nothing*
What do you mean “second half!?”
Well at least gholdengo enjoyed itself
snow cobalt
What the heck is emotional spectrum practice
isn't that called masking
red rampart
I mean I wouldn’t say it was entirely unlike trying to teach someone how to emote
red rampart
I hate tulip fr
Christ it’s like I’m fighting someone from team flare
Unrelated, I’ve noticed a slight issue with tinkaton: their hammer is so big that it blocks out the opponent’s attack animations 😆
(Also, gigaton hammer is the solution to everything)
Aww, an adorable child who’s on the elite four (also Rika is here)
red rampart
No Hassel’s the art teacher/elite four member
umbral hound
Yeah, gigaton hammer is very strong. Thankfully they only gave it to Tinkaton; it'd be ridiculous if they, say, gave it to a pokemon who could use it off of a base 135 stat, and it also hit neutral against all but two types and the user had STAB against those types.
pliant violet
No Hassel’s the art teacher/elite four member
yes he's baby
umbral hound
Yeah, gigaton hammer is *very* strong. Thankfully they only gave it to Tinkaton...
never mind! I was wrong; it's not 160 base power, only 140.
red rampart
I know Rika is ground, Larry is flying, and Poppy is steel, dunno about Hassel though
red rampart
~~never mind! I was wrong; it's not 160 base power, only 140.~~
The game’s telling me it’s 160 base power so 🤷♀️
red rampart
I know Rika is ground, Larry is flying, and Poppy is steel, dunno about Hassel t...
…wait how many steel types am I running
Four, I have four steel types I’m regularly using
umbral hound
Slight spoilers indirectly for a mon from Teal Mask: ||I was vagueposting about Ursaluna-Bloodmoon, who has a move (Blood Moon) which cannot be used consecutively, is only resisted by two types which Ursaluna-Bloodmoon has supereffective STAB againt, and which comes off of a base 135 Special Attack. But I was sarcastically stating that this was balanced and not the same, as Blood Moon has 140 base power as opposed to Gigaton Hammer's 160.||
red rampart
||Oh yeah bloodmoon, I forgot about him||
umbral hound
||(The implicit joke being that coming off of 60 points higher on an attacking stat more than makes up for the 20 point decrease in base power, especially given the quality of the pokemon's other moves.)||
red rampart
||FWIW I am thoroughly spoiled on the dlcs (story wise anyway) and of all the new pokemon||
umbral hound
That's fair, and I was being overly cautious about spoilers.
I just remember people saying "boy, Gigaton Hammer would be unbalanced if they gave it to something with good attacking stats" and then they gave it to something with good attacking stats (which you also want to have 0 speed IVs on, which is extra-hard to farm for because it's guaranteed to have 3 maxed IVs even separate from all the other rolls) and I genuinely did not realize that other version was technically not quite as strong.
red rampart
…oh hey, can you have separate save files for scarlet/violet by using different switch profiles?
red rampart
Sick
red rampart
Wait you can get cowboy hats from the dlc?
snow cobalt
niiiiice
arctic dagger
Four, I have four steel types I’m regularly using <:sweating:503656172234997831>
I mean it is the best type in the game, potentially alongside fairy
Me, the poison type trainer in this game LMAO
Clodsire, revavroom...
My beloved
Glimmora
And then with dlcs I picked up pecha
Oh and iron moth
God my team was weak to ground lmao
south laurel
Celesteela is my ace :D
arctic dagger
Esp because my sixth Pokemon was garganacl lmao
obtuse ravine
Get a clawitzer
o7
manic kindle
i love stuff like that
obtuse ravine
LOL
pliant violet
luckily clauncher is X exclusive and i am playing X
i must've known
obtuse ravine
o7
manic kindle
reggie, knower of things
pliant violet
mega launcher is just the sickest ability
obtuse ravine
woag... heal pulse
i did not know about this ability
reggie what's ur favorite pokemon
pliant violet
good choice one of my favourite starters
olive kayak
What the heck is emotional spectrum practice
Uh, the pokemon/green lantern crossover?
Don't mind me my nose is full of bees
snow cobalt
awwwwww
arctic dagger
I didn't like cyndaquil a ton until it got the hisuian form which I think is just so cool
My favorite Pokemon has historically been magneton/magnezone
azure crane
Mine is Dunsparce, and I'm so happy it got an evolution that somehow managed to improve upon perfection.
red rampart
It’s just dunsparce but more
And it is perfect 😌
obtuse ravine
oh wow hisuian typhlosion looks really cool, i should check out legends arceus sometime maybe
languid lichen
it's a good game
olive kayak
My favourite pokemon is and will always be Vaporeon. I have seen the copypasta, ascended beyond it, become one with the copypasta.
I have existed long before and shall persist long after.
red rampart
Also I’ve defeated Grusha, kind of an anticlimactic final gym tbh
Though him being pretty af makes up for it a bit
pliant violet
if it's not a hundred percent it's zero
languid lichen
me missing six ceaseless edges in a row
red rampart
That edge has ceased
pliant violet
what's your fave gym rose
obtuse ravine
4 way mixups
pliant violet
i'm so glad we all love larry
obtuse ravine
☹️
red rampart
I’m not sure what order to place the others in other than Tulip’s gym having a special spot as the most “what the fuck” gym
red rampart
Definitely Ryme’s, I think it’s the only one where most of my team fainted
red rampart
ngl the gyms were mostly easy but that might have been due to me regularly accidentally using a perfect counter to them
pliant violet
no i found them mostly easy as well
red rampart
I’m surprised how much I like this game despite finding it pretty easy so far
obtuse ravine
red rampart
There are a lot of good ones but of the ones I’ve run into so far it’s definitely tinkaton yes
I haven’t done the dlc yet so I haven’t actually interacted with ogerpon yet so she might end up being my favorite
olive kayak
also yeah anything that isn't 100% might as well by dynamicpunch lol
manic kindle
The gyms were a little more challenging for me but I was using an entirely different team each gym since I've found thats a fun way to get to use new Pokemon in a new region/game