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I ATTAC

8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Horizon]

I recently caught my first shiny of Scarlet, a Charcadet. Ngl the blue flame eyes look nice and the Flash Fire trait will be fun to use on Team Stars Fire leader. Anyway I caught a tera Florette with the Grass Tera type which will be useful for the water type enemy.

[Telgin]

I caught a shiny makuhita randomly, but it's the only shiny I've seen so far.  Not sure what the odds are in the current games, so that may not be unreasonable.

I also just finished everything up through Area Zero and just entered there.  Haven't lost a battle yet, but I got a little nervous with the last Elite Four battle due to a lack of good counters.

I'm curious to see where the Area Zero stuff is going, and if there's a legendary pokemon at the bottom of it all.  I hope the game hasn't been foreshadowing one, because if it has I've been too dumb to notice.

[Akura]

Shiny chance is a base of 1 in 4096 I think? I'm pretty sure one of your school lessons will tell you the exact chance.

As for the last E4 battle, you mean Geeta? Her team is actually really bad. I only felt her Espathra, which she opens with, was any significant threat. Her last Pokemon, Glimmora, while a bad idea to send out last(its ability means it should be sent first at best), makes sense for her personality: she's attractive, but quite toxic.

[Telgin]

No, I meant Hassel, since funnily enough I'd forgotten about Geeta entirely already.  I had no pokemon to counter dragon types, with just my ampharos that randomly had a fairy type move and nothing with any ice type moves.  I was a little worried his baxcalibur was going to keep trashing my pokemon before they could do more than a small amount of damage since most of my pokemons' moves were resisted by dragon types, but thankfully I had a lycanroc that took it out with rock slide.

Geeta wasn't difficult at all by comparison.  In the end none were really that hard since I had 5-7 levels on them with my pokemon, but it wasn't quite the steamroll I hoped for.  Same with Nemona afterward.

I think Arven was the hardest battle I had overall in the game, since I didn't have quite that much of a level advantage over him at the time.

[Kanil]

My all-grass team fared so poorly at the E4 that I eventually decided eff it, and just cheesed it by feeding all the rare candies I had to my cat and using X attacks.

As for shinies, I spent forever running around looking for Eevees and eventually conceded defeat and asked the internet where they were, went to the spot where one spawns and caught it. Saved, turned it off for the night, and the next day when I loaded in another one had spawned, and it was shiny. That was unexpected.

[Akura]

Funny thought, since they gave us an evolution of Dunsparce, Dundunsparce, this generation, maybe next generation they'll give it another one: Dundundunsparce, and for its evolution mechanic, it will try to evolve but fail unless you try to manually stop it(which according to lore, involves surprising it to interrupt the evolution).


EDIT: Caught my first shiny today, a Greedent. They don't sparkle like they used to, this makes me sad.

Whoever coded the Raid battles did a terrible job. I've seen all kinds of graphics and animation bugs, some of which cause the battle to lag. This is a bad thing because the timer still runs. I've had moves that visibly connect simply do nothing, in fact I've lost battles because of that. That's not counting the various cheat effects the Raid Pokemon gets, not just the things like "all their negative effects are gone", but they also get free moves that they don't actually know. Hilariously, these free moves can be blocked by paralysis. I just recently lost a battle against a Fighting-type Froslass because it decided that instead of the last 10% of its health, it now had 50%. That might have been (somewhat) legitimate, because she did have Draining Kiss, and there was an Umbreon on the field. But still, I don't see how she could have healed that much, judging on how much my main raider, Annihilape, recovers from using Draining Punch. This is all in singleplayer Raids, I can't imagine how bad multiplayer raids are.

Lastly, something positive. Some wild Pokemon are particularly photogenic, and will pose for you.

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~eeee

This is a highly underused feature.

[Horizon]

Am I allowed to gush about Brilliant Diamond or do I have to talk about lizard bikes? Cause I think Global Wonder Trade should be a thing again, got me a Marill with Huge Power.

[Iduno]

Whoever coded the Raid battles did a terrible job. I've seen all kinds of graphics and animation bugs, some of which cause the battle to lag. This is a bad thing because the timer still runs. I've had moves that visibly connect simply do nothing, in fact I've lost battles because of that. That's not counting the various cheat effects the Raid Pokemon gets, not just the things like "all their negative effects are gone", but they also get free moves that they don't actually know. Hilariously, these free moves can be blocked by paralysis. I just recently lost a battle against a Fighting-type Froslass because it decided that instead of the last 10% of its health, it now had 50%. That might have been (somewhat) legitimate, because she did have Draining Kiss, and there was an Umbreon on the field. But still, I don't see how she could have healed that much, judging on how much my main raider, Annihilape, recovers from using Draining Punch. This is all in singleplayer Raids, I can't imagine how bad multiplayer raids are.

Yeah, the workers were in a real bad place, with bad work conditions, but enough people bought the game that they made record profits. Expect future games to get worse, because people will buy it.

[Telgin]

It's a shame because overall I found Scarlet to be very fun and generally a huge improvement over Sword and Shield.  Of course, just not having characters named Swordward and Shielbert come out of nowhere at the 11th hour would have been a huge improvement.  To say nothing of the plot being largely incomprehensible anyway, and while the games were at least not buggy, they felt bare and incomplete.

The bugs in Scarlet and Violet's single player are usually just distracting, like when a shadow pops in or out, but the crashes are kind of unforgivable.  This is the only Switch game I've ever had crash, and it's done it several times.

I don't get why the game has so, so many graphical bugs when multiplayer is involved though.  I haven't tried it myself, but after watching some streams it's pretty apparent that the game just does not know how to synchronize something between clients.  I can't even guess what's going wrong with the things like arms bending backward.  Normally for something like this, you'd have a player character animation system driven by state data that just blends animations together, and since it never seems to break in single player I have to assume it's got something to do with trying to replicate individual bone data instead of just state data and losing some of it.  Or maybe it's trying to drive animation data locally and trying to replicate it from the other client and conflicting... I don't know.  It must be some insane design under the hood that is probably very hard to fix.

[None]

Am I allowed to gush about Brilliant Diamond or do I have to talk about lizard bikes? Cause I think Global Wonder Trade should be a thing again, got me a Marill with Huge Power.

Gush away! I'll be along to post thoughts about the Pokemon Sacred Gold romhack at some point here, I'm sure. Currently those thoughts are 'This Geodude is OP as fuck' and 'Muncher is an excellent name for Houndour'.

Also, fuckin' Geodude, man! Why is it good? The first two gyms are bird and bug and it's just rock throw time, baby! Slow? No! Rock Polish! Rocks fall, everyone dies! The Boulder has arms and is actually a boulder and is about to rock your world!

We'll see if I can still sneak a Super Lucky Honchcrow into my team (Murkrow won't keep up against Bugsy for now, dark type weakness) or if there's a bug that'll keep up, and/or if Geodude can continue to pull the team like a champ or if I'll sunset it to a life of ease and accolades. Not gonna lie, I'm going to be very slightly irate if it ends up as a Golem into my lategame team, but only because my expectations for it were defied and a pokemon I'd never willingly choose into my roster ends up as a cornerstone (heh) for it.

Oh, and I think I still have a box full of high-IV Adaptability Skrelps to hand out, but I dunno if ORAS wonder trade can end up on the switch titles.

[Horizon]

Am I allowed to gush about Brilliant Diamond or do I have to talk about lizard bikes? Cause I think Global Wonder Trade should be a thing again, got me a Marill with Huge Power.

Also, fuckin' Geodude, man! Why is it good? The first two gyms are bird and bug and it's just rock throw time, baby! Slow? No! Rock Polish! Rocks fall, everyone dies! The Boulder has arms and is actually a boulder and is about to rock your world!

[Telgin]

Finished catching the legendaries of Scarlet last night.

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I really like how the legendary pokemon work in this game.  You encounter the dark stakes all over the place, and possibly even the shrines, probably well before you know what they're for.  Then you can open a shrine at any point in the game, in theory, if you locate all of the stakes.  It also gives you a reason to attend the history class in game, since it tells you about them and where the shrines are.

Unfortunately, I skipped class because I frankly didn't want to spend time in a classroom in a game when there hadn't been any evident point to it until then, so I had to resort to looking up the stake locations.  I assume the history class gives you the lore of the pokemon too, but the pokedex entries were enough for me.  I really liked the lore of them and how sinister they were.  The music when encountering them is also creepy and unsettling, and an earworm on top.

Lastly, I'm glad the game gives you second chances if you screw up the battle.  I assume this has been a thing in previous generations I didn't play, but in generation 1 if you accidentally KOed a legendary you just couldn't catch it.  Cue a mild panic when I discovered that my level 72 lucario could accidentally one-shot a level 60 legendary that just debuffed its attack, because said legendary was dark type and I got a critical hit on aura sphere..

The only real frustration I had with the process was how hard the stakes were to locate.  In about 50 hours of game time I'd only found about half of them before resorting to Google.  I don't know for sure that the terrible draw distance was a culprit in not spotting some of them since some that I missed were in plain sight, but some were also really well hidden.

[Horizon]

Ugh I'm gonna have to buy Sword if I wanna port over Dialga. D:<

[Akura]

Found that the birthday event in S/V wasn't that great. It's just a cake on the Pokemon Center advertisement board for a few seconds.

Ugh I'm gonna have to buy Sword if I wanna port over Dialga. D:<

Shouldn't that be Brilliant Diamond though? Or even Legends? I don't see why you'd need to filter it through a different game.


EDIT: Caught a Palafin in a raid. That's one that would otherwise require... socialization to acquire. In fact, I think it's the only Pokemon added this generation that requires multiplayer features to evolve, version exclusives notwithstanding.

[SQman]

I'm currently playing a fan game called Pokemon Reborn. It's on the edgy side, but not like shock value for the sake of shock value, and besides, it's really well made.

The game has a few gimmicks:
1. Pokemon above certain level won't listen without badges regardless of whether they were traded or not. Levels can be reduced using Common Candy that can be bought cheaply in the candy store.

2. Terrain effects. Many places have special effects that affect pokemon and their moves. Mountain terrain amplifies flying moves, while caverns reduce damage from wind-based moves greatly. Some effects can be changed in specific ways; for example forest terrain becomes burning terrain if a pokemon uses a strong fire move.

I'm not nuzlocking, but I still only catch the first pokemon in each area for the thrill of it. I'm at the first leader right now.
The leader uses poison types in a double battle at max level 45. She leads with Toxpex that hits hard with sludge wave, and Nidoqueen that sets up sneaky pebbles. The issue is that the terrain effect causes stealth rock to hit every turn.

My team consists of Charizard, Luxray, Dugtrio, Seaking, Bronzong, and Klinklank. I've tried many times with many different strategies, but I couldn't win. There is ine more way to increase my chances - EV training.
Charizard genocided Unowns to increase both attack stats, Seaking fought Duskulls to increase special defense, Luxray got speed and attack from Voltorbs, Togedemaru and Meowths. The others are waiting for their turn. Dugtrio will probably be trained in attack, Bronzong in defenses (with its meager sp attack, the only way to make it useful is hypnosis), and I don't know about Klinklank.
The majority of those pokemon were unboxed for this battle, and leveled with exp candy. EV training should make a huge difference. Too bad their IVs range from bad to atrocious.

I'll start with Seaking and Luxray. My Seaking, I believe, outspeeds Nidoqueen, so it will hit with horn drill to prevent setting sneaky pebbles. Luxray is supposed to remove Toxapex. After that I have no idea what will happen. I'm worried about the leader's Drapion. Dugtrio can hit it fast and hard, but it's the only pokemon on my team that can hit with a super effective move.

Whatever happens, I will persevere.