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Can you screen your own pokemon from hits that way?

I recently picked the game up but haven't started playing it yet.

I don't think so, I got hit in the back by my own Voltorb's Energy Ball. I'm pretty sure it still hit its target. I don't remember, I lost that fight anyway.

I'll also point out that getting hit by Tri-Attack, which shoots three projectiles, you can get hit by one shot and the other two will still travel to the target. A neat little detail, though would be neater if the damage was reduced by 33%/that shot's status effect wasn't applied.

That'd be a hilarious way to win fights. Naming my pokemon "Mr. President" and then jumping in front of every attack, yelling "GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT", only for my Cyndaquill or something to look at me like "What's this stupid human doing?"

What Pokemon would be best suited for a name like "Mr. President"? Because that is a hilarious concept.

Maybe it's one of those things to kill you at the end of the tutorial, to force you to start a 'real' game?

The tutorial runs at the start of every "real" game; it's to ensure you have the basics - food, water, research, housing, renewable wood - up before you start doing your own thing. Except that it doesn't account for the fact the first drought can come before or immediately after you complete the tasks if you're a bit slow in setting up(and don't skip ahead), and the amount of food and water production, and storage, the game tells you to place are far below what you'd need for your starting beavers to survive the first drought, let alone any kits born during the first cycle.

The second time around, I nearly doubled food production and water storage, and barely survived the first drought without anyone starving to death. Damn near close to a few starvation deaths, though.


EDIT: Screw Avalugg, screw that he has a very small window to send a Pokemon to attack him, and especially screw the fact every time you die and restart the battle from the beginning, items you've used are still gone.

Also, the other nobles are fought by throwing their favorite food at them. Avalugg however utilizes something called "Eternal Ice"(possibly a variant of Never-Melt Ice), which you must retrieve from atop a large mound called "Avalugg's Legacy". Given the shape of the mound, could it be that Avalugg's favorite food actually comes from the corpse of his own kind?

Right as I finished the tutorial section, a drought warning appears. I barely had enough water stored, but the problem was that I no food stored whatsoever, due in part to the fact the tutorial misinforms you how many fields you need, and in part because the drought hit just before harvest. Everyone died of starvation just as the river was coming back.

I applaud Akura for still playing it and dealing with it. 

Eh, I kind of burnt out on it already. Plus, some of the bug reports I'm seeing now, such as ships being yeeted across the universe, has put me off on actually starting the game a little.

Got thrown by an explosion into lava. The game waited until I finished the standing up animation before realizing I was in lava and killed me. Then, after reloading the checkpoint, which was on a platform far above any lava, the game locked me in a state of "on the ground, in lava, therefore dead", keeping me dying immediately upon reloading the checkpoint. This, of course, broke all mission progress, not that the mission is very long.

Started playing Legends: Arceus today.

Still at the beginning where the objective is basically just "go out and research basic stuff; try not to die". Getting mauled to death by a wild Pokemon is actually a thing. Well, not for you, though you can still get mauled. The result is probably the same as whiting out in the main games.

So does that mean Richie Rich could become Batman if you killed his parents to?

*loads pistol* Only one way to find out.