Like, a server like Pilot NET makes more sense for discussing trans stuff more openly but in a small fangame server it's like
#POKÉMON CENTER
languid lichen
yeah it's just the handling that i'm iffy on, but i'm coming in like
trying to figure out what the fuck is going on
languid lichen
hopefully
pliant violet
Thanks topple
languid lichen
like, these snapshots of what's happening are "i don't know what the fuck is going on, but i feel like this should be discussed in a more private space rather than in a disaster zone general chat"
languid lichen
the more i look, the more it seems like the shitheads are being weeded out and the Weird Mod Vibes are just fatigue
languid lichen
i too want to be able to ethically play and talk about cool pokemon fan projects
pliant violet
Ok topple what’s your number one starter pick in your arsenal
languid lichen
mowtom's been the fucking goat so far
kinda rough scaling in the endgame, stops being able to tap everything it needs to, but that'll probably fix itself once i've got the 25 candies for hadron engine
an electric that decisively beats grounds is super nice
pliant violet
Yeah very understandable
languid lichen
before i got 
about sprigatito not getting good IVs, it was giving me a lot of success too
pliant violet
So if you get rotom it’s only the forms you’ve gotten or all of them?
languid lichen
very consistent midgame because flower trick is fucking bonkers
only the forms you've seen, yeah
pliant violet
before i got <:sadcowboy:572822626456698892> about sprigatito not getting good I...
Flower trick is yeah
languid lichen
i only have access to mowtom, not standard or any of the other appliances
pliant violet
Beat me to it
languid lichen
froakie was on-off, but most of my success with it was after getting battle bond
which i don't think is available from go?
and it was super inconsistent, needing either wide lenses for hydro pump or ice beam/blizzard TMs
it'll be another thing that goes fucking insane with investment, because it gets surging strikes and adaptability
pliant violet
God I wish I could get battle bond
languid lichen
i think for "achievable early mons" you really want to hit the dojo and pick up a pancham, because it gets strong double STAB in learnset
and, importantly, it starts with a fighting move (and gets another one quickly) that isn't low kick
pliant violet
I hate pancham for redundancy
languid lichen
i think its phys statline and early-game (and excellent abilities) make up for that, as long as you're running a fairy or poison
pliant violet
I don’t want to have to run another dark type to evolve it, I want it to be my dark type
languid lichen
because a lot of the darks just don't get great double stab in learnset
pliant violet
This is a rant carried over from actual games
languid lichen
i would say croagunk is insane but it requires EMs or TM luck
pliant violet
I do have a pancham from eggs though
languid lichen
because that fuck gets zero fighting moves in learnset other than low kick
and while low kick is fantastic in like
ubers
in-game the mon weight variance is too much
pliant violet
It loses consistency
languid lichen
but toxicroak is insane if you can find drain punch or CC
(assuming you're not running stacked setup sweepers)
pliant violet
That’s part of my issue with infernape
languid lichen
just because it fucks around with an excellent defensive typeline
languid lichen
yeah frog gets thunderous kick in EMs
and dire claw, but that's not as important bc it naturally gets pjab
i think a fighting is just way too important early
having A Usable Fighting Move
pliant violet
A fighting and some sort of flying coverage
Clears until like rival 2
With no sweat
languid lichen
yeah
i also have The Strongest (Gallade) Ralts lmao
but i just don't think gallade is good here versus gardevoir
it gets vdance and bitter blade, but it takes so long to get going, and i think it's easier to slot another good fighting on your team than another fairy
vs special ralts that gets real STAB moves on both ends pretty fast and ends up being a fairy that kills poisons
imo that's the most important part of role compression in this - being an "x type" that beats one of its broad type counters
and then you just separately have a setup sweeper or two that kill everything with broad 2-3 move coverage
pliant violet
Yeah hell with the way set up works in this you don’t even need a tonne of coverage
You just setup hard for wild fights
And steamroll
Then the team is for trainer bosses
languid lichen
oh yeah, wilds i don't think are even a consideration
(unless you're trying to catch them late-game lmao)
languid lichen
ooh, random farming run hit a new rotom
wispy yarrow
@pliant violet
pliant violet
There’s always one
wispy yarrow
I am a certified rotom hater
languid lichen
Wash is in fact best rotom
it's the historically strongest, but oven has been performing better in recent gens
arctic dagger
Consider though
languid lichen
no, oven cool
arctic dagger
How many times do you think you can miss will o wisp
languid lichen
24
arctic dagger
Damn people usually kill me before I can miss that many times
languid lichen
stall matchups in AAA get weird
azure crane
Heat Rotom is great defensively.
Unfortunately, Overheat is a move I don't like very much.
arctic dagger
I don't mind it since it also has volt switch
It makes a good pivot
I used heat a decent amount in my Reborn playthrough
manic kindle
tl;dr the game got big and they dont want to make it the focal point of their future, want to do other things
snow cobalt
that's fair
arctic dagger
Yeah someone posted this earlier
arctic dagger
tl;dr the game got big and they dont want to make it the focal point of their fu...
Also they didn't like where it ended up in a lot of ways IIRC
Got too gamble-y and addictive
Which like
...Don't make a game with so much RNG and grinding if you don't want that?
IDK people have made pokemon games that skip all the IV and natures nonsense pokerogue has
south laurel
The best rotom
Nah that’s mow
manic kindle
...Don't make a game with so much RNG and grinding if you don't want that?
I don't think Pokerogue would lose anything to just give everything set IVs and neutral-or-any natures
arctic dagger
I agree
I completed the game once and then stopped
Because the grinding got boring to me
south laurel
I think the best roguelites have less grind and more ability to say, “I will do this interesting thing this run”
obtuse ravine
yeeee
south laurel
And have maybe 40%-60% odds of being able to do it successfully
obtuse ravine
and when something gets going you get a Very Devious smile on your face
south laurel
But if the runs are longer the chance should be higher
Thought: what if instead of chunking a set percentage of HP, Stealth Rock damage was reduced by defensive stats
(And increased by offense? I dunno)
(This is a very vague idea and would probably need actual working math)
red rampart
Oh yeah I should probably finish up indigo disk
obtuse ravine
what is the indigo disk
red rampart
Second half of the SV dlc
red rampart
Physical item that leads you to the location where you fight terapagos
Though it only comes up in like the last third of the dlc
Well Kieran is like halfway back to normal so that's nice
(Terrible handheld quality warning) damn she do be stimming
Yay stellar tera shards, which are useful for like one pokemon ever
Shame the game doesn't let you catch any of the naturally tera stellar pokemon in this section
arctic dagger
Uhh... Superior I know
Were you thinking of someone else?
Oh I saw a Stellar Excadrill once I think
red rampart
I mean the ones that need to be defeated for story progression
arctic dagger
I was talking about pokemon stellar tera shards are useful for
Those are the ones you use to change pokemon tera types to stellar right?
red rampart
Yeh
arctic dagger
Yeh
red rampart
I was thinking of chien pao, it is literally the only pokemon I've seen that actually runs tera stellar in comp vgc
arctic dagger
Oh yeah I have no idea about vgc
But Superior is the singles powerhouse for Stellar
Sees OU play
Because Contrary + Stellar Tera Blast actually increases your atk/spa
XD
So it can Leaf Storm vs anything that grass can deal with and tera type to do usually neutral damage but hella boosted vs anything grass can't
red rampart
👀
obtuse ravine
tree..
red rampart
Creature…
How has Briar gone through all of this without noticing any of the drama
Kieran: is obsessed with strength and absurdly jealous of the protagonist to the point of using a master ball to catch terapagos because it seemingly liked the protag
Briar: wow a master ball, you came well prepared for this expedition!
This gal just has a one track mind huh
Ooh terapagos has a boss healthbar 👀
Terapagos is adorable 🥺
...it just broke a master ball 
Oh hey this is basically a tera raid except it starts with its shield up, neat
Well that was a cool boss fight
red rampart
Miraidon will be able to fly now!
Oh sick
red rampart
Why does teal mask have a pair of real estate developers and why do they give you over a million dollars worth of stuff
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitterati
And why does all of their dialogue make me want to punt them off a cliff
red rampart
Why does teal mask have a pair of real estate developers and why do they give yo...
Oh it's because they put this in the dlc that you can only get by donating one million
pliant violet
drip
red rampart
...I just realized I still haven't done the academy tournament thing
Or rechallenged any of the gym leaders
I think I was supposed to do that about twenty levels ago
Oh hey there's apparently an item that can give something its hidden ability, neat
manic kindle
The tourney is fun and good for levels when youre bored of chansey
red rampart
I think what I'll do it get a team that's roughly on level with the gym leaders (which given I can farm tera raids for exp candies shouldn't take too long) and then just use my normal team for the ace tournament since it scales after you've caught terapagos
languid lichen
god i hope Legends gives us new megas
near flower
food... water.... mega feraligatr........
arctic dagger
I mean they showed the mega symbol in the trailer
So it seems really unlikely they don't
languid lichen
i'm keeping my hopes up and expectations in the fucking abyss
i mostly want megas for more starters and then like
gen 5 mons
i can't imagine that if they do more mevos they skip on the gen 6s, but i want to see the gen 4 trio too
and like, liepard
really want to see a mega liepard and golurk
umbral hound
does anyone have a clear image of the mega symbol, ideally transparent? I want to show off something neat with it.
Also, I appreciate greatly how Lacey gushes about cute pokemon, by which she means every pokemon.
near flower
really want to see a mega liepard and golurk
mega golurk would be super badass
umbral hound
Thank you. That's tricky to work with, but... you know that signature shape in the middle? imagine flipping it 180 degrees horizontally and stacking it on top of that. Uhhh gimme a second to see if I can do something Clever (I probably can't).
near flower
it looks like DNA helix right?
languid lichen
Thank you. That's tricky to work with, but... you know that signature shape in ...
if this is what you wanted to work with
missing the proper gradient, but eh
umbral hound
Yeah, I managed to cludge together (a messier version of) that using GIMP but thank you for finding/creating that.
languid lichen
just digging around a bit
umbral hound
Now! Time to see if I can complete a Basic Task.
pliant violet
it's just a helix yeah
umbral hound
yeah you stack a bunch of them together and it's DNA complete with the "rungs".
pliant violet
good news pocket monsters evolve
umbral hound
but my attempt to demonstrate that graphically is not cool.
I kind of technically succeeded I guess?
snow cobalt
technical success!!!!
red rampart
Why did the indigo disk introduce so many trade evos
Like you can technically get all of them through 5/6 star tera raids, but that is entirely dependent on those specific raids spawning
I just want to get a porygon 2 without having to pay for nintendo switch online, is that too much to ask 
obtuse ravine
red rampart
(On an entirely unrelated note, I love your frequent use of madeleine emotes danny)
obtuse ravine
aww ty 
she's the closest i have to a Literally Me character because she's very human :)) i think her story was really easy for me to relate to or emphathize with
also she's a cute little silly goober
eager vine
clord member spotted
obtuse ravine
hello hello
but yems I'm happy to hear you like the emotes rose
they're very expressive
obtuse ravine
known107
pliant violet
Yep can be any of the champs
Of the two times I’ve fought champs it’s been hop and diantha both with the kalos elite four
languid lichen
damn, mray is fucking me
pliant violet
Yeah it’ll do that
languid lichen
hm
wish my poor weed cat had triple axel
desperately wish i had its EMs
it did eat three mray bars with PR though
and my fucking floaty fall crobat has been a flinch machine this entire run
languid lichen
same
pliant violet
Have you taken out the rest of the team?
languid lichen
yeah, that was the last mon
washtom took fucking lives
solo'd 3/4 of the alola e4, one-shot blaziken through protection, killed her bird, another mon, baited her goodra into a fighting, and outsped mray to kill
time to figure out how the fuck to do final boss
pliant violet
Do you have a good psychic or ground type
pliant violet
Best of luck
languid lichen
if i had a reviver seed left (weed cat used it to take out an mray bar) i could put it on turtonator
to try and shell smash my way to a kill
but uhhh
man, wish i'd picked up a steel somewhere
maybe a tinkaton
unfortunately this liepard i caught on the run has been dead weight other than +1 luck
languid lichen
ayy, i also lucked out and found the one paradox i'd hatched an egg for
so my run's unused master ball went there
pliant violet
Oh interesting
languid lichen
list i saw was iron valiant, great tusk, slither wing, iron hands
and uhhh
don't actually remember the others
pliant violet
Good variety
languid lichen
oh right
flutter mane
which i was reminded of because 199 is another flutter mane
wow, what a fucking asshole
stupid bastard game
pliant violet
Oh btw you can’t even throw a ball at the final boss
So if you had a second master ball no dice
languid lichen
yeah, whole area bars balls
unless you've already caught one of the paradoxes
in which case that one's unlocked
languid lichen
and then you have to catch everything else in the game to unlock the final boss
goat bird
got it's so fucking ugly
bb -> live the hit + poison -> bb
might actually be able to do it
pliant violet
The second phase is the easier part
languid lichen
oh wait, you only need to do three bars to get to p2?
pliant violet
Ye
languid lichen
lmao it doesn't even oneshot this stupid dog
okay it does have flamethrower
||cross poison/dmax cannon/sludge bomb/flamethrower||
still doesn't ohko meowscarada though
pliant violet
Thats not a tonne of coverage hmm
languid lichen
shoutouts to the dennis theme
Mister Rogers in a bloodstained fucking sweater.
oh wow, that's a lot of egg vouchers
pliant violet
Good job
languid lichen
and a manaphy egg out of em, nice
the haul
and hadron engine on rotom get
maybe this is a herald of good times, and you'll hit a win too
languid lichen
yeah, i got the four from the E4, one from a rogue ball, a couple from gym leaders i forgot to pop, and then apparently you get one for every new ribbon (read: beating classic with a given mon for the first time)
and then the geeta ticket and the beat-the-game ticket
south laurel
So apparently there's some weird transphobia drama about Pokerogue's devs that extends into certain game mechanics (making some split evos gendered, adding gender to genderless mons like the magneton line, that kind of stuff). Just thought I'd give people a heads-up.
In better news
Twitter
pliant violet
So apparently there's some weird transphobia drama about Pokerogue's devs that e...
That’s what we were talking about the other day
south laurel
Oh okay
pliant violet
That dev has stood down
south laurel
I've heard there was also some weird "don't say gay" stuff going on on the official discord and that there's currently a civil war among the mods
I'm not keeping up with it myself but I see my friends talking about it
pliant violet
Yes well @languid lichen was keeping some eye on it
south laurel
Gotcha
languid lichen
yeah, I kind of popped in coincidentally during the powder keg's explosion and was trying to figure out anything concrete
but it looked, from the points I was popping in and out, that there was a Chud Eruption and the staff have been trying to sort that out
the server's on total lockdown atm I think
fickle thicket
precious shot of Dot in OP3
fickle thicket
GREAT episode gotdamn
red rampart
Oh hey now that I've played violet I can actually fill out the gen 8 and 9 rows of this
red rampart
It's from here! https://cajunavenger.github.io/
manic kindle
arctic dagger
Sharpedo: If God touches it 8 times, it dies because of how sharp its skin is.
Humans: GIVE IT GOOD HUGS
languid lichen
look, sustained contact still only counts as one
pokeworld humans are basically just eevees
normal types that sometimes mutate/adapt/develop other single-type affinities
south laurel
arctic dagger
Why
snow cobalt
I don't think that's true
languid lichen
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/954887182353584208/1241505620797034618/...
south laurel
Danke
soft isleBOT
Thanks, we hate it!
honest cairn
Humans: GIVE IT GOOD HUGS
maybe this is one of the sleek ones that goes fast instead
soft isleBOT
clodsire with human legs
obtuse ravine
he is very fast
languid lichen
yeah
i think mons can just have their HA
eggs can definitely have the HA, i got rufflet's through one
and there's an item that...triples? the chance of wilds getting HAs
honest cairn
like once you catch multiples you can choose the ability when you pick as a starter?
i just got some crazy shit in these eggs,,, kings shield tachyon cutter piplup, shiny venonat with earth power
fuckin lets go eevee moves, wtf i love gacha now
arctic dagger
like once you catch multiples you can choose the ability when you pick as a star...
Not all multiples, you basically need to get one with the hidden ability and then they can later
But yeah the more you catch of any given Pokemon the more you unlock about it
honest cairn
thats what i meant at least, cool. so you can also change nature i assume, basically averaging the best aspects of all the versions of the mon you find ?
honest cairn
sick
languid lichen
yeah every "piece" of anything you've ever gotten is unlocked
you can choose which version (standard/shiny/variant shinies), have the best of each IV, any nature you've caught, any ability (including HA) you've seen, and all EMs you've unlocked
pliant violet
decided to revert to my eevee chimchar max luck start
using a shiny palpitoad
got an extra exp all and extra green exp charm before first boss
languid lichen
which one's that?
honest cairn
it makes every move hit twice, the second time at lower power i think?
honest cairn
two hits of 82 percent hmmm
red rampart
Being Larry is suffering
honest cairn
i put it on my lombre hope it works well
languid lichen
decided to revert to my eevee chimchar max luck start
i wish i could get a shiny for a mon i want to use :(
well, i got a purrloin but liepard sucks
honest cairn
ive never gotten a shiny before in any game : (
technically i just pulled one but my brother found the egg so its not really mine spiritually
but i imagine its much easier in rogue
got swords dance and nothing learns it on my team 😿
red rampart
technically i just pulled one but my brother found the egg so its not really min...
iirc an egg's shininess is determined partially by trainer ID, so it kinda is still yours
obtuse ravine
LOL
what a selection
ah it saves ur cookies or something, so i can come back to it
arctic dagger
ive never gotten a shiny before in any game : (
My first shiny was a psyduck, lmao.
I tried to use it and then just was like "Nahhhh"
arctic dagger
got swords dance and nothing learns it on my team 😿
Wuh? That shouldn't happen.
It's only supposed to give you TM drops you can use
honest cairn
well, it technically does but im not giving it to lombre lol
arctic dagger
Oh well, ok fine.
Yes it will give you useless shit drops
Like Ice punch for gengar or something
honest cairn
nothing can utilize effectively it is a better sentence
obtuse ravine
WHAT IS THIS
arctic dagger
Mega sableeye
honest cairn
the best
arctic dagger
Mega Sableye is one of my favorite megas
Because it's actually a decision to mega evolve or not
Going from Prankster to Magic Bounce is sometimes bad
XD
And sometimes incredible!
And the enemy has to try to decide which one you're gonna be
So they'll often swap out from Sableye from a terrain setup
And you nail the one coming in with a status effect and didn't even mega evolve
😄
In formats the opponent didn't know what item you were taking
It was super funny
Because you could jsut run Focus Sash or something
But the opponent has to act like you'll be Mega Sableye potentially
obtuse ravine
that's pretty cool
pliant violet
the fact you don't get a candy when evolving a pokemon is a bummer
pliant violet
Because it's actually a decision to mega evolve or not
it's also a pokemon that can benefit from a stat bump
it and mawile are megas i really like
for the reason of they're not super good without them
arctic dagger
Yeh
Although TBH I think history has said just
I'd rather they were just evos for the most part
It was cool to see like
The lesser power pokemon get cool toys
But like Gardevoir, Blaziken, etc
THey didn''t need megas
Lmao
pliant violet
ye
arctic dagger
TBH I think they shoulda been mostly evos like Chansey -> Blissey where the stats don't change much at all
Or alternate final evos
Or something
For the most part
Like Heracross having Skill Link is cool, but it coulda just been another Ability
Didn't need a huge stat boost
Pinsir on the other hand going Flying/Bug with Aerilate was a really cool shift in what the pokemon actually needed to do
So it probably needed to be an evo
Same with Kangaskan
But like, Mega Gengar should never have existed
But like Mega Scizor should even more have never existed
It didn't even change abilities
It's Technician both ways
What's the point
Moar Stats Good
Omega Ruby/Sapphire has most of my favorite megas
They seemed to have figured out them actually doing something DIFFERENT was important
Mega Slowbro going from Regenerator to Shell Armor and way more stats is actually a tradeoff, you might want to keep Sharpedo in normal form for a turn or two maybe to get some Speed Boost procs depending, etc
Mega Beedrill deserved better than still being sub-500 stats even in its mega lmao
red rampart
Eh, it's stats while mega evolved are very well distributed even with a low stat total
arctic dagger
Sure, nad it was also still one of the worst megas
If it had Huge Power like Mega Mawile that'd be fine, something that cheated its stats
But it had Adaptability, which is... Good
languid lichen
damn, not a manaphy
red rampart
Sure, nad it was also still one of the worst megas
It somehow managed to get into UU so 🤷♀️
languid lichen
beedrill?
it wasn't one of the worst megas lmfao
it was incredibly good
because it was 150 atk 145 spe with an extremely powerful u-turn
red rampart
150 attack, 145 speed, and adaptability go a long way
languid lichen
yeah
pjab hit like a truck
and its monstrous u-turn was incredible in the gen 6-7 UU meta full of darks (and fairies that were scared of pjab)
red rampart
It's funny how in order to make mega beedrill work they had to take away 30 points in special attack
It's not the only mega to lose stats after evolving but it is the funniest one
languid lichen
i think mega diancie is one of my favorites from a design standpoint
arctic dagger
I mean, I agree it was like, UU usable, but it was still one of the worst I think? Like there's a lot of megas and not that high of a % were worse than it.
languid lichen
it was not, no
red rampart
There are a lot of NU and RU megas
languid lichen
it was very good in its tier
arctic dagger
Offhand I count about ten megas I think are maybe worse than it, which puts it in the bottom 25% of megas?
To me that's one of the worst.
You might use the term differently?
It's worth noting I played OU mostly, so like, "Not OU viable" was my general thought for "One of the worst megas is anything I can't use in the tier really"
I felt like it got outclassed by every other bug mega
pliant violet
it's also worth considering the value of how much a mega improved it
arctic dagger
True!
It's one of my favorite megas.
TBH
Because it was on a pokemon that deserved it
pliant violet
i'm a known mega hater
pliant violet
but only cause they fucked up distribution
red rampart
Tera is such a cool mechanic tbh
pliant violet
no that's them
arctic dagger
Ok cool
red rampart
And it's also significantly less overwhelming than the other three
pliant violet
Z are my least favourite
arctic dagger
Dynas and Z moves just slanted things SO offense focused
I didn't like it
You at least could do some defensive megas
pliant violet
Z are also just a nuke
red rampart
Dynas could deal damage through protect right?
pliant violet
so can Z
manic kindle
Twitter
arctic dagger
XD
Yeah
THat's WAY cuter
I think I might have actually used it
That said, Galarian Zigzagoon is also a huge upgrade visually
Actually interesting
red rampart
so can Z
Oh right I forgot about that
Thank god they learned from those mistakes and made sure that nothing could go through protect in the future 🙂
pliant violet
i feel like the early birds have been getting worse but early bugs and mammals kicking it outta the park
also newest pika clone second best
after mimikyu
red rampart
I just realized that I have no idea what paldea's regional bird is
languid lichen
wattrel
it's pretty good, i think
and corviknight is very good
i appreciate that it's finally a bird that starts pure flying
languid lichen
unfeazant isn't even new
arctic dagger
Last regional bird I really loved was talonflame I think
languid lichen
and it's better than noctowl, imo
manic kindle
I love route 1 bugs
red rampart
Oh right this thing
manic kindle
Route 1 Bugs My Beloveds
arctic dagger
Murdoc about to roll up with a team of nothing but caterpillars
red rampart
Route 1 Bugs My Beloveds
ngl I've considered doing a mono bug run in violet once I'm done with my first playthrough
pliant violet
mono bug is fun
languid lichen
only really a fan of lokix and slither wing
red rampart
Vespiquen 😌
languid lichen
rabsca is take it or leave it, and spidops sucks
manic kindle
red rampart
What does spidops even do anyway
manic kindle
SPIDOPS IS MY BOY
arctic dagger
What does spidops even do anyway
Theoretically it has sticky web and some defensive tools
But it's just bad
pliant violet
lokix is good
manic kindle
Nymble so cute
red rampart
Oh yeah, lokix is a kamen rider reference right?
arctic dagger
Oh yeah, lokix is a kamen rider reference right?
I think so
pliant violet
there's only been one gen since snom tbf
pliant violet
Oh yeah, lokix is a kamen rider reference right?
absolutely is
arctic dagger
Ok but
Snom is peak
All of Pokemon
Just building up to Snom
It's a pity Frosmoth is so bad lmao
manic kindle
Frosmoth so pretty
pliant violet
bug ice is a typing of all time
arctic dagger
Two 4x weaknesses
So sad
Only 3 resists
Frosmoth is both slow and not defensive.
It has one of the coolest defensive abilities in the game IMO
But just
No stats to use it
XD
manic kindle
Just get gud and hit those quiver dances
red rampart
ngl I've considered doing a mono bug run in violet once I'm done with my first p...
Huh, looks like the only bug in Paldea that resists fire is volcarona and surskit but no
Thank god for terastalization
snow cobalt
Oh yeah, lokix is a kamen rider reference right?
Almost certainly
manic kindle
Ive just stopped caring if a pokemon is Good since i can make any of them work in game
arctic dagger
I mostly only play pokemon games through romhacks and comp these days
XD
I play the new ones when they come out but
It's a small fraction of my total pokemon playtime
languid lichen
ooh
out of an epic egg
still no other shiny eggs, even with the triple shiny weekend
red rampart
I think what I'll do it get a team that's roughly on level with the gym leaders ...
So two things I've learned about the ace tournament: one it doesn't actually scale for the first tournament, and two Dendra has a team of entirely fighting types with no status or special moves whatsoever
languid lichen
should've all been choice banded
red rampart
Weirdly enough, none of the trainers in the ace tournament use held items
Actually I can't remember a single paldea trainer that actually uses held items at all 🤔
languid lichen
wack
I thought they'd been making trainers more competitively viable recently
at least in like the endgame and DLCs
red rampart
Oh they do
But for some reason it mostly applies to the trainers from blueberry academy 🤷♀️
Anyway with that done I should be able to do the mochi mayhem thing, which I'm sure is something that's not at all silly and deserves to be taken seriously
pliant violet
So two things I've learned about the ace tournament: one it doesn't actually sca...
the boys
red rampart
I don’t think you want to know the answer
...oh god the protagonist never mentioned anything about Kieran to their friends, amazing
Okay maybe not mentioning him to Nemona was for his own safety
pliant violet
<:LesbianBrick:688151977808625838>
isn't this about the players mum
red rampart
Yeh
red rampart
Anyway with that done I *should* be able to do the mochi mayhem thing, which I'm...
Yep, very serious. Pay no attention to the people doing the chicken dance
red rampart
On one hand rude, on the other hand yeah thats accurate
red rampart
She's been here for like 5 hours and she spent half of it mind controlled, how the hell did Nemona catch and train a kommo-o in that time
snow cobalt
She's Just That Good
snow cobalt
nah she used the old evolution method: making a feebas absolutely beautiful
red rampart
Also stealth rock is really annoying
Also I love how Pechrunt’s shell makes it look completely do we with everything
Almost like it’s going “yeah I have no idea why these people are chanting ‘mochi’ or doing the chicken dance either”
pliant violet
I would be too
red rampart
Ogerpon is angry at this thing, fun
...it has gotten three nasty plots up, at least it doesn't have any priority moves
pliant violet
When the plot is nasty
red rampart
And despite that ogerpon still would've tanked a shadowball if it weren't for her being poisoned
Also pecharunt is the most pathetic looking pokemon I've ever seen
pliant violet
Idk Pokémon has some real wet rats
red rampart
But like, more pathetic than this?
snow cobalt
red rampart
Okay true
I feel like having a pecharunt in my party is a health and safety hazard, but it's probably fine if I just leave it in a box for all eternity
red rampart
That would just end up with one of them dead
Which admittedly she already killed the loyal three so she might as well kill their leader too
pliant violet
Well pecharunt only became their leader when it bought them back right?
red rampart
I think it's supposed to be where they got their toxic chains from
gdi Carmine
Okay I think that's all of the story stuff with Violet done, so that's nice
Probably my favorite pokemon games so far (especially if we include the dlc), but that might just be because it was brand new to me
pliant violet
Carmine and nemona cannot be allowed to be unsupervised together
spring hedge
oh shit a pokéthread
red rampart
pliant violet
Oh shit
red rampart
I am definitely not planning to do a second playthrough immediately, absolutely not
Though if I do I'm not sure if I'd do a monotype/challenge run of some sort or just play it normally again but with a different set of pokemon
...I wonder how you'd do a nuzlocke in this game 🤔
olive kayak
well, we've done it. Hearthome gauntlet down in renegade platinum, still deathless. \o/
Saturn feels like a victory lap
some VERY weirdness happened with Fantina, we almost wiped, the sacrifice I attempted to make to prevent the wipe was refused by the pokemon gods and we somehow got out unscathed lol
the gengar is normally easy to pp stall but uh, dummy drifblim passed it -4 special attack and now it's AI is a disaster >_>
I learned a LOT there
umbral hound
fun fact: pokemon released an official lil video about the history of Pecharunt explaining why having it in your party is okay, actually.
snow cobalt
😭
pliant violet
i guess so?
red rampart
Penny why
manic kindle
Too busy writing fanfic
red rampart
And bingeing anime
red rampart
Looking at the version exclusives of SV and their dlc and this seems a bit unbalanced
south laurel
Folks
Is Durant ... good?
Why the fuck is Durant good?
It has Hustle and Hone Claws and decent stab moves and good physical stats and speed and a very strong typing
What the fuck my world is imploding
I always just assumed it was bad
My psyche is collapsing
The fucking ant pokemon that heatmor eats is good
cerulean dune
Durant shows up really late in Gen 5 but was really funny to have, vaporizes when hit by SpA fire attacks.
south laurel
Sure it's not like ... top tier or anything
But it's solid
You could put it on an in-game team and have a great time
arctic dagger
Is Durant ... good?
Ehhhh. It's ok.
Yeah
That's true.
I mean it's bug/steel
With ok stats
Can only be so bad
south laurel
Also for some reason it can get First Impression as an Egg Move wut
arctic dagger
Is this pokerogue?
If so people get all kinds of silly things they don't normally as egg moves
cerulean dune
That sounds incredibly rude combined with Durant's stats and Hustle
arctic dagger
They removed a lot of moves in 9
From pokemon
Which was mostly for the best
IMO
south laurel
Ehhhhhh
Anyway First Impression isn't gone in 9
There are still things that learn it
Including Slither Wing
https://limitlessvgc.com/pokemon/durant/results/?time=all&type=all®ion=all&format=all Had a decent showing in VGC back in 2020
red rampart
Ah, not in 9 tho
I don't think it's actually in gen 9
south laurel
Oh huh, it gets Stomping Tantrum
A move that doubles its power if it missed or was prevented from going the previous turn
So you combine that with Hustle
Ground Type 150 base power off of Hustle and a decent attack is uh
Nothing to sneeze at
languid lichen
you never want tantrum to be 150
because it means your Durant didn't kill something last turn
fickle thicket
It's from here! https://cajunavenger.github.io/
scammed out of 17 arceus and silvally forms
red rampart
Tapu Fini in disguise
languid lichen
guess i've hit the point where bosses start to show up as normal encounters
but also xerneas + eternal floette is a surprising boss
red rampart
There are apparently heels in this game
They are admittedly kinda pathetic heels
Kind wish there were any skirts/dresses in this game ngl
iron lake
skirts/dresses as a customization option makes any game like 20% more playable
obtuse ravine
true 😩
manic kindle
I do miss the XY variety in lower body coverage
obtuse ravine
yeah it seems to have a lot, swsh too (many cool things in dlc tho 
)
languid lichen
this motherfucker is never evolvinmg
pliant violet
He does not love you
languid lichen
yeah i just used it for a pickup mon since it was one of the daily pokerus
obtuse ravine
jeez
might restart this one too, but not now cuz i do have X still, and I'm cutting down my jame time
languid lichen
da boys
god the wave 500 fight is fuuuucked
having to deal with ||an eternatus every 250 waves is fucking brutal||
i can see what guides meant with like
"you want to get a night shade mon because scaling gets absurd"
languid lichen
oh nice, my first custom shiny
languid lichen
I'm on 3 shiny charms at about 550-600 in an endless
pliant violet
That’ll do it
languid lichen
and I believe it was a 3x shiny weekend, to boot
pliant violet
Oh it was?
languid lichen
but not sure if it's still going on, I have no way to tell
yeah there was an announcement on the server
pliant violet
Time is fake
languid lichen
but there are no patch notes and I don't know when it ended
languid lichen
woooo
i had to resort to savescumming
and my run is fucked
because all my mons are dead and magician stole like all the items
but i got it babeeee
took some very fucking specific sequencing
pliant violet
You caught a shiny hoopa?
languid lichen
of munchlax swapping + king's shielding + tanking hits to get extremely low hp for very specific rng
yeah
pliant violet
Ring ring there’s a champion
pliant violet
Oof
languid lichen
but a fucking gale wings kilowattrel just
fucked the team up too hard
and i couldn't figure out a sequence to save em
so i had to burn it to pass through that boss
and right after
i managed to roll into another
lmao hi
pliant violet
Run ain’t dead yet
unreal seal
snow cobalt
oooooh
pliant violet
in pokerogue not a real game
obtuse ravine
😭
red rampart
I guess I should also post this here
https://fixupx.com/aoyame18/status/1792108562455695461
honest cairn
havent played much of rogue but finally had my first hard boss battle
huge power azumarill and an adaptability protean greninja
welll, hard-ish ig
found the linking cord 😭
obtuse ravine
honest cairn
relic gold 2 games in a row lets GOGOOOOOO
ive finally got a pretty good game almost at 100, how high do runs usually go
honest cairn
peat block >_<
my current team
this is my second run but ive heard the next ivy fight is nasty
38k in the bank all fully evolved mons im feeling positive
the mega rayquaza 20 minutes later
tm toxic 😭
ill stop livetweeting but damn
languid lichen
ayy, booted the run back up and i've found The Boy
the boy acquired
god i really love the honedge line's shiny
honest cairn
its so sick
obtuse ravine
oooh
languid lichen
also lmao kartana has two golden punches
and is generating 16k per hit
didn't realize until i got these at like 710 that golden punch just counts raw damage dealt
not like
damage dealt to health
although huh, maybe there's an overkill threshold
because killing sturdy donphans only generates like 2k on the second hit
languid lichen
probably about to wipe to the 750 boss
the 250s are rough
actually i forgot kartana is just built different
and stacking focus sashes is broken
thank you +1 berries, you are also busted
red rampart
...yeah that sounds about right for sinnoh
manic kindle
red rampart
Oh god
snow cobalt
What did they mean by this
red rampart
I just want to get a porygon 2 without having to pay for nintendo switch online,...
Huh, apparently I can just use the gts on the pokemon home app instead. Neat
red rampart
I could get most of my dex filled out by just trading a bunch of paradox mons couldn't I 🤔
languid lichen
i just got two washtoms in a row lmao
obtuse ravine
hello trainers 😌
started sword again, might hold off on going into it until i beat X tho
my friend also decided to make a new save when he saw me playing it
we both started making cute fits >:3
i have one in mind but I'll wear my current one for a while first, it's just the starting parka with black pants and a white top or smth
obtuse ravine
and is generating 16k per hit
MONEYYYYY
wispy yarrow
Started a playthrough of Pokemon Crystal Legacy
Gonna go for a complete pokedex
all the QOL is so fucking nice
honest cairn
megas are permeant in pokerogue 
are you supposed to get the entire paldea elite four members after one another without any party heals? or am i just unlucky as hell (maybe im just broke)
honest cairn
no heals before the fight , 6 dragons each with like 5 berries and focus bands
ive explored all permutations, its so over
snow cobalt
fickle thicket
binacle in the water supply
fickle thicket
anyway I opened this channel to announce that I got a perfect score in opinions. John Gamefreak himself called me up to congratulate me on being so correct all the time.
fickle thicket
what's dis
only the best ultra beast
funfact I've got a box full of these in sun
obtuse ravine
so swole
fickle thicket
an entire box
just for a lark I bred an eevee (despite the fact that you can catch them in that game) and put it on the GTS for a buzzwole and it worked
and it kept working
and now I've got a box of em
fickle thicket
i've done gen 1-3
3 and 7 are definitely the highlight gens to me
red rampart
Gen 5, 7, and 9 my beloveds
obtuse ravine
i like 2 and 5 
2 cuz hgss was my first 😌
and then 5 was really nice
as a world
fickle thicket
7>3>6>4>5>9>2>1>8 I'd say
purely pokémon design-wise
fickle thicket
sm
obtuse ravine
?
fickle thicket
yeah
fickle thicket
just banger after banger and also drampa
fickle thicket
they got the fuckin uhhh GHOST STARTER they got the LION and BAT they got the TAPUS they got the REAL PIKACHU they got the CO-OP APES they got the PALM TREE they got the DRAGON MADE OF LIGHT they got the MF ULTRA BEASTS
red rampart
Sun gets turtonator in brush mountain, moon gets drampa right before the elite four 😩
fickle thicket
pokemon designer meeting 2014 "hey what if we just went haywire, what if we just went apeshit" and then they drew the coolest set of legendaries(?) in the entire series
red rampart
Naganadel 😌
red rampart
https://tenor.com/view/drampa-pokemon-thinking-confused-gif-22448973
Also damn this is a good gif, I should start using it
obtuse ravine
it is very cool
it is lol, same with the buzzwole
i should grab this without the caption
even though it is a very good caption
fickle thicket
leaf blower....
J&J covid vaccin needle actually
literally the only thing gen 7 is missing is fossils
I am 200% certain they would've slapped your ass clean off
earnest nacelle
Ah yes Normal STAB
obtuse ravine
oh wait
i just sent away shadow sneak
which is the only STAB move i had on honedge
fickle thicket
honedge protip (but also a spoiler I guess?): ||keep that dusk stone in your pocket until your doublade knows swords dance and sacred sword||
obtuse ravine
obtuse ravine
sword and shield has honedge at least
would be really funny if it didn't
but it's in the north
aww mystery gifts are all expired :(
iron lake
https://fixupx.com/lozyrosie/status/1792786049795756358
traingener.....
snow cobalt
train gender 🚄
manic kindle
a quickachu look
manic kindle
thank you <3
obtuse ravine
hop should stop yapping whenever i hit a type advantage and start doing it himself
it's cool how pokerogue trainers will swap
pliant violet
they changed some egg moves
south laurel
only the best ultra beast
fickle thicket
me omw to buzzwole (the best ultra beast)
trail bridge
obtuse ravine
:o
south laurel
Celesteela is best beast
obtuse ravine
it's cool how pokerogue trainers will swap
oop just saw a trainer in X do it, i guess they do it when they have no moves that can do damage
but otherwise they usually just eat the type disadvantage
fighting gym
honedge + 3x swords dance + aerial ace
pliant violet
+L+ratio
fickle thicket
anyway I opened this channel to announce that I got a perfect score in opinions....
it only just occurred to me that the bottom section has a "favorite gigantamax" field but not a "favorite mega" field.
must be because they already know the favorite mega will end up in the favorite gimmick form field.
honest cairn
is there any way to know when an ivy battle is about to happen in pokerogue?? becuase i just lost a run because i had 3 mons killed by a dusknoir that wouldnt go into a ball, and then it put me directly into her fight, is there always the same amount of fights on a stage
languid lichen
yes, rival is at 8, 25, 55, 95, 1...45?, and 190 or 195, idr which
will check
think 195
that would fit the pattern of +10 each time
honest cairn
this was 130 so idk
but yeah, i would have been able to win but her boss healthbar rayquaza gets arbitrary speed boost 😭 i hate/love this game
pliant violet
It’s not arbitrary peep the items in the top right
honest cairn
i understand the berries and such but i was under the impression that enemies with boss healthbars also just get stat boosts at those lined damage thresholds
and i know i also have tons of items so i think its fine im mostly salty
i should have just thrown a damn rogue ball at the dusknoir
obtuse ravine
mfw i only get 2 shakes after mashing A like a maniac
wow i feel like catch chances are much lower in sword, this stufful is maybe 10-15% and nada
ok perfect it used endure
I'm noticing the same thing as my first playthrough where I'm getting a bit overleveled
probably due to being able to get level 18s from raid battles when my team was around 12, but even not using those pokemon I soared through the first gym
...not really a fair assessment tho since milo had 2 pokemon and i had raboot
i can just grab lower level stuff to keep it spicy
i changed my hair! it looks pretty nice now 😌
manic kindle
I really enjoyed making a fresh team (sans starter) each gym in Sword
Fit the vibes of my main pokemon oc
red rampart
CW: flashy
Pokemon violet is not having a good day
honest cairn
Pokerogue has also not had a good day, ddos I think
obtuse ravine
where is dreepy going
languid lichen
Hell
honest cairn
either the login for pokerogue isnt working or i forgot my password and lost all my shit 😭
because the server is finally back up it seems but im logged out
languid lichen
seems down
pliant violet
is pokerogue loading endlessly for anyone else?
pliant violet
bummer ty
wispy yarrow
Crystal Legacy is so incredibly fun
Just the adjustments to moves alone have made it so much more fun
azure crane
The reason PokeRogue is being DDOSed is apparently because the developers and moderators were being transphobic on the official Discord.
languid lichen
i'd thought so
languid lichen
ooh
pliant violet
I had one as a boss once and I had to kill it
languid lichen
rip
near flower
you know what i really wish theyd bring back? actually having to grow berries
i know bdsp had them but that game is soooo ugly imo
xy did some crazy ass shit with some whacky crossbreeding mechanics and i want to see more of that. i know pokecom/gamefreak are really weird about making 'complicated' things these days but idgaf! i wanna be pokemon gregor mendel
if theres a fangame out there with a focus on berry mechanics please lemme see
manic kindle
love the mental image of a bunch of pokemon monks growing beans
obtuse ravine
pokemon stardew valley