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I'd always assumed that both pokeballs and computers in the pokemon universe were sorta like a simulated environment for the pokemon, hence why they didn't get all stir crazy.

Semi off-topic but related to quoted spoiler

I only play in-game stuff, but I noticed in the in-game Battle Royal Slower, higher-hp Pokemon have a sort-of advantage, just give them any priority move they can learn and let the others whittle themselves down then tag the lowest-hp with your priority and you get the KO point.
---Or so in the in-game AI used against me to pretty much 2-turn all three of my pokemon.

This could explain why this generation if full of slower, more-hp pokemon, as that proved to be an effective strategy when i used it in the in-game Royal too.

I realize In-game is totally different than Competitive Meta, but...my point is this:
Gamefreak may've wanted to focus more on the Royal's gameplay when making sure stats and etc were set, which would explain the higher-hp and lower-speed focus this gen.

Quote from: RekkaAtsuma on December 15, 2016, 07:03:52 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on December 15, 2016, 05:30:20 pm

At least these rocks let you perform really corny dance moves super powerful attacks in battle.

Hey, the Fire type one is actually not that corny as you motion the Billow of a flame then cast it forth in a gout of energy to fill Your Pokemon's energy to the maximum so they can unless a Fiery inferno of utter DESTRUCTION AND INCERNATION upon their unfortunate Foe!
The water one, Um Katara and Aang Water bending lessons much?
The grass one is simple but pretty lackluster, however the EXPLODING RADIANT FLOWER OF EPICNESS is well, Epic

the rest...yeah...corny.

Just because you two reminded me that I saw this floating around a little while ago.

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That's the ghost pose though...which yeah is corny but awesome sound effect. (would be more relevant if Decid's Move was Grass-type...lol)
But seriously I love attacks that use Flowers which explode into blasts of immense Radiation thus Bloom Doom is Epic!

Quote from: RekkaAtsuma on December 15, 2016, 07:03:52 pm

Quote from: Nighthawk on December 15, 2016, 05:30:20 pm

At least these rocks let you perform really corny dance moves super powerful attacks in battle.

Hey, the Fire type one is actually not that corny as you motion the Billow of a flame then cast it forth in a gout of energy to fill Your Pokemon's energy to the maximum so they can unless a Fiery inferno of utter DESTRUCTION AND INCERNATION upon their unfortunate Foe!
The water one, Um Katara and Aang Water bending lessons much?
The grass one is simple but pretty lackluster, however the EXPLODING RADIANT FLOWER OF EPICNESS is well, Epic

the rest...yeah...corny.

Especialy the fighting one.

That Punch-punch-punch pose for Fighting-Z Move isn't actually a "pose" as it is more of an actual Martial Arts technique/Exercise. I've done it before, though nowhere near that fast, and pro tip: the shoulders should not move while doing it and in Pokemon, they don't. Well done Nintendo!
The form was executed well, but the expression, or lack of one, is the corny part.

Heh I felt about the same when I got Charizard fly.  Feels weird being able to fly from one location to another so relatively early in the game.

Not the first time this has happened: Veilstone Badge Allows fly in DPPt, and that's the Thrid Badge in Diamond and Pearl, yeah you walk more, but actual levels in game and time spent playing is roughly equal, big word: Roughly

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If its core stays exposed, it will soon die off. It's possible that it may survive if it's put into a Poké Ball quickly enough.

Confirmed: Knocking out wild Pokemon is very likely fatal.

((inb4 trollypolly repsonse))
Putting this in spoiler tag as response could be semi-spoilery...

God help my eardrums.

Shiinotic...
By Existence: SHIINOTIC'S CRY HURTS MY BRAIN!
So I feel Ya!

Maybe I'm just misremembering but weren't you almost guaranteed to get a 1 poke with a HA in horde battles?

Though yea, now that I think about it, outside those horde battle pokes they were actually a pita.  Looking up ha rates for sos battles though it looks like pokes with hidden abilities don't even begin to show up til your 20th chain.  That seems a bit excessive to me. 10th maybe?  That's still a good half hour grind unless you have something with intimidate, skill swap, and false swipe on the same poke.  It's like I'm pokemon Chara creating a pile of dead dratinis behind my lapras.  Waiting for the next one to just say DETERMINATION. Gain marvel scale and crawl (slither?) into a pokeball.

Actually I can confirm Hordes didn't have a super-high HA rate...I still don't have my nest-ball-caught Sheer Force Nido-family members and I put 4 hours into finding them. Sweet Scent plus Skill swap and all.
EDIT: Cannot confirm accuracy of info here, but According to Some people online. Hordes are like 1/2 or 1/3 chance of the pokemon having it based on their available abilities, so if the pokemon has only one normal ability it's 50% if they have 2 normal abilties it 33.3% and My own experience does support this...Nido-family has 3 overall abilities...so Yeah, it can be a high chance, or a basic chance, based on the sought-after pokemon.

So yeah while available via Hordes and F-safari, Safari was far easier and Hordes were only certain Pokemon.
And yeah Seeking my HA Stufful took me about 45 chain links and 1.5 hours after finding the Stufful, about 45 minutes to find the stufful, only to get...Unnerve on Bewear....BLEH. And 44 KO'd Stuffals
---Remember You're not "Killin'" em, just making them pass-out. Otherwise they'd have far more graves in those graveyards, lol.