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Pokémon Sword and Shield |OT| God Save The Vespiquen
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Brought my Toxapex /w Haze and managed to (barely) do it with a random online.
Almost lost because of a few Hydro Pump misses on his part. Randoms, please, use 100% accuracy moves for shields.
What's with the raid matchmaking today? All other times before, I'd find lots to join and have people join mine. Now, it's like a ghost town.
My god, even with a shiny charm and the Masuda method I am up to over 11 hours in a row or hatching Scorbunny eggs without a shiny. What the fuck.
Lol I'm up to 6 days of hatching eggs without a shiny.
That's rough. I hatched over 490 eggs since my last shiny (also Masuda + charm). Technically still under odds, but... feels bad man.
As much as people hated on Dexit (I personally didn't really care, B/W was my favorite gen cause it had no old pokemon at first), I will say bringing the dex down to 400 made compiling a living dex finally seem manageable enough to accomplish for me, so I think I'm gonna go for it. Probably gonna stick to the 400 until home though, have too many of the "foreign pokemon" already on bank to bother re-collecting them.
Wait, it's called Vespiquen and not Vespiqueen?
These past 12 or 13 years have been a lie...
These past 12 or 13 years have been a lie...
Yesterday, I decided enough was enough and started using the time glitch.
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I'm never going back.
No more looking around for Pokémon that won't show up (Rotom is mine!), no more hoping, days after days after days, for the HA Raid I'm hoping for (HA Trevenant is mine!), no more buying expensive items to EV train (hello Pokémon University!).
It may well not be the way developpers intended the game to be played, but now, maybe, I can hope having a competitive team in-game sometime before 2022.
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I'm never going back.
No more looking around for Pokémon that won't show up (Rotom is mine!), no more hoping, days after days after days, for the HA Raid I'm hoping for (HA Trevenant is mine!), no more buying expensive items to EV train (hello Pokémon University!).
It may well not be the way developpers intended the game to be played, but now, maybe, I can hope having a competitive team in-game sometime before 2022.
Does Eviolite work on the special Eevee and Pikachu you can obtain? Those can't evolve, right?
Ugh, I ran into this too. Our second try against a HA Shuckle I had to bring my Umbreon with Guard Swap to take it down while my partner did all the damage.
I 🖤 my Umbreon. And Don't Fuckle with Shuckle.
They just did it to pokemon-ify the name, Vespa turned to Vespi and queen to quen.
I would say 99% of surprise trade is breedjects, since you get so many extras when trying to breed for competitive. Hopefully you get a close to end stage breedject that is almost there but not quite finished, but often you get early breedjects that have like 2-3 IVs and a decent nature but thats it.
Just unlocked the IV Judge. Wow. I was running such trash. But I knew that already. These 5 star raids are really good though. Practically perfect right out the gate. I had such a weak Ditto though. If only any of the random ones that pop up were joinable.
Man Raid exploits ruined this game for me. the fact that gamefreak still haven't fixed those exploits and bugs shows how much they care
I'm kind of curious if we've learn who designed what Pokémon in this game. So far, I only know that Yusuke Ohmura did the cover legendaries, Hitoshi Ariga did Corviknight and Yusuke Kozaki did not design Greedent (though he does like the design). Looking at Saya Tsuruta's twitter page, her pinned tweet says that she designed none of the Pokémon revealed by the game's launch too.
Holy moley at the difficulty spike with the Champion battle.
Guess I'm gonna do some Raids and grab a few XP candies...
Guess I'm gonna do some Raids and grab a few XP candies...
Why is the only way of getting sweets in the battle cafe? What an awful idea. Same goes for the "special" pokeballs. Literal trash-tier game design. Been a week without anything I need. And no I don't want to exploit the calendar. Why should I have to do that anyways? Maybe they should come up with a better way to do this.........
I bought quick balls in the first wild area near the steps. Went back and the guy is selling repeat balls. Do the merchants move to different locations?
I have just had a Sucker Punch fail while targeting a Pokémon that later attacked, how does it happen
Okay it seems like there is a very situational glitch that makes Sucker Punch fail
I'm undecided as to how I feel about the fixed pokemon per raid den and fixed TRs per pokemon fought based on # of stars. On one hand, it makes it pretty easy to farm TRs and actually possible to farm HA pokemon, but both are only reasonable to farm using the date swap method also because of these locked spawns.
The raid system sucks in general, there really needs to be a cheap way using watts to re-roll a den (mimic date swap functionality but put it ingame) and either a way to "learn" what dens have what pokemon ingame or just randomize them throughout the area. I hate systems in games that are only clear using outside resources.
The raid system sucks in general, there really needs to be a cheap way using watts to re-roll a den (mimic date swap functionality but put it ingame) and either a way to "learn" what dens have what pokemon ingame or just randomize them throughout the area. I hate systems in games that are only clear using outside resources.
Hey all
I need help completing my Pokedex. I need:
Lunatone
Throh
Croagunk
Spritzee
Sableye
Touch trading is fine for the non-evolutionary lines. I can offer Sword exclusives, a Japanese ditto, gmax snorlax and some other rare mons for your troubles.
I need help completing my Pokedex. I need:
Lunatone
Throh
Croagunk
Spritzee
Sableye
Touch trading is fine for the non-evolutionary lines. I can offer Sword exclusives, a Japanese ditto, gmax snorlax and some other rare mons for your troubles.
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I am up to 13 hours of hatching without a shiny for this stupid Scorbunny. I have a Raboot and Ditto. I've been reluctant to change anything, but is there any way that it not being a Scorbunny is having a negative effect on my chances?
God, the endgame plotline is getting so stupid. I'm trying hard not to let it leave a bad taste after the whole game.
"Leon is late for dinner and he never breaks a promise, so certainly a very evil plot is going on! And if Chairman Rose is with him, of course he is suddenly evil! Oleana told me to wait for the meeting to end and up to this point I have always done what she told me without question, but not this time, because she's now EVIL. No, this time I will pursue an NPC through town and beat him in three inocuous battles with the help of my friends who are also fighting for justice so I can get in the tower and find out urgently WHY IS LEON LATE FOR DINNER. This is it guy, this is the endgame, all my journey has led me here."
Well, after almost 72 hours and 220 catched Pokémon i finally beat the champion and finished the game.
I have to say i liked it. A LOT. Love the clean graphics, the colors, the environment wich feels a lot like Kalos and the battles. Game Freak went nuts with particles, beams, things flying everywhere. The new animations (Yes, THE NEW ANIMATIONS) are all pretty good, i'm particularly in love with Cinderace's Pyro Ball animation, but there's a lot out there that are basically amazing.
Same goes to the soundtrack, amazing right until the end (Well, get that poor excuse for a wolf's howling out of my Pokémon game please), the gym and champion theme became instant classics the moment i listened them - i'm in fact listening the Gym leader theme as i write - but those aren't the only ones. Dynamax battles, the diverse cities, the rival battles... are all great.
Found the gameplay particularly fun and engaging. The gameplay loop works particularly well during the main story: Go to city, explore/beat the gym leader, watch a bit of story, go to the wild area to get some new catchable Pokémon. It becomes a necessity in the second half of the game, but that has been already talked to death i pressume. The online Dynamax raids are particularly addictive once they kick in (stopped having issues connecting shortly after release, dunno what happened there) and some days i spent a couple of hours just doing raids.
Oh yeah, hats off to the Pokémon camp, wich seems to be the definitive form of Amie and, well, works amazingly, having your pokémon there interacting with their companions and yourself, entering other people's camps, cooking curry to save some valuable potions and revives... It's very enjoyable.
Now the story, well, i'm not one to judge games for their story when it's not the main pillar of the game, but this game is a new breed of terribad
Now, on to complete the Pokédex and start training and shiny hunting
Oh yeah, a last comment about difficulty, i actually struggled to get through some parts and even the champion defeated me twice and forced me to switch some Pokémon from my team. I think that the game makes the assumption that you're going to change your team a lot, catching new pokémon you'll want to add (Maybe that's why the distribution is so good). Well, in my case that's what i did and i actually reached the final part of the game underleveled, with Leon and his Charizard destroying me at the very end (the first time i didn't even reach that pesky non dragon)
That charizard having a grass attack and destroying my Gigamax Drednaw actually got a few claps out of me. Well played Game Freak, well fucking played.
As a final note, i ended with a box full of Pokémon i ended up using through the game, my original idea was two or three parallel teams.
I have to say i liked it. A LOT. Love the clean graphics, the colors, the environment wich feels a lot like Kalos and the battles. Game Freak went nuts with particles, beams, things flying everywhere. The new animations (Yes, THE NEW ANIMATIONS) are all pretty good, i'm particularly in love with Cinderace's Pyro Ball animation, but there's a lot out there that are basically amazing.
Same goes to the soundtrack, amazing right until the end (Well, get that poor excuse for a wolf's howling out of my Pokémon game please), the gym and champion theme became instant classics the moment i listened them - i'm in fact listening the Gym leader theme as i write - but those aren't the only ones. Dynamax battles, the diverse cities, the rival battles... are all great.
Please Game Freak, ditch that bump sound already, it's uncanny for the 3D games
Found the gameplay particularly fun and engaging. The gameplay loop works particularly well during the main story: Go to city, explore/beat the gym leader, watch a bit of story, go to the wild area to get some new catchable Pokémon. It becomes a necessity in the second half of the game, but that has been already talked to death i pressume. The online Dynamax raids are particularly addictive once they kick in (stopped having issues connecting shortly after release, dunno what happened there) and some days i spent a couple of hours just doing raids.
Oh yeah, hats off to the Pokémon camp, wich seems to be the definitive form of Amie and, well, works amazingly, having your pokémon there interacting with their companions and yourself, entering other people's camps, cooking curry to save some valuable potions and revives... It's very enjoyable.
Now the story, well, i'm not one to judge games for their story when it's not the main pillar of the game, but this game is a new breed of terribad
I loved the simple premise of "Here's the champion, here's your rival, go beat the gym challenge and become the champion yourself. Oh yeah, you know that red light? It makes Pokémon to become giant and it's part of the challenge too" in fact i wanted it to be like that, with a bit of myths and legends here and there, but once you beat the Fairy gym everything goes to shit, not because the story itself is bad, but because how it develops, with Bede going from imposing rival to instant comic relief to going completely absent, the team yell being completely irrelevant, and the Dark night plot developing in the space of what, 1 hour?
Man, that felt bad.
Oh well, there's some good details here and there. Hop is a pretty good character with actual character development that made me feel respect for him (Also they don't ditch him once it's obvious he can't beat you, he sticks until the Eternatus battle and takes part on it, Marnie feels like a good ocassional sidekick, and they managed to make Rose and Oleana actually menacing (They would have been particularly good villains with actual plot development)
Particularly infuriating is when the dynamax light outbreak happens and the story COCKBLOCKS you. That actually pissed me off because it would have been a great event
Man, that felt bad.
Oh well, there's some good details here and there. Hop is a pretty good character with actual character development that made me feel respect for him (Also they don't ditch him once it's obvious he can't beat you, he sticks until the Eternatus battle and takes part on it, Marnie feels like a good ocassional sidekick, and they managed to make Rose and Oleana actually menacing (They would have been particularly good villains with actual plot development)
Particularly infuriating is when the dynamax light outbreak happens and the story COCKBLOCKS you. That actually pissed me off because it would have been a great event
Now, on to complete the Pokédex and start training and shiny hunting
Oh yeah, a last comment about difficulty, i actually struggled to get through some parts and even the champion defeated me twice and forced me to switch some Pokémon from my team. I think that the game makes the assumption that you're going to change your team a lot, catching new pokémon you'll want to add (Maybe that's why the distribution is so good). Well, in my case that's what i did and i actually reached the final part of the game underleveled, with Leon and his Charizard destroying me at the very end (the first time i didn't even reach that pesky non dragon)
That charizard having a grass attack and destroying my Gigamax Drednaw actually got a few claps out of me. Well played Game Freak, well fucking played.
As a final note, i ended with a box full of Pokémon i ended up using through the game, my original idea was two or three parallel teams.
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The part that made me guffaw was when the meeting was... exactly what it was supposed to be, and you went out for dinner with Leon like nothing happened.
I can probably help you out with at least a few of those. Lemme know what you still need and I'll go catch em again later for ya.
I haven't tried online trainer battles yet, but just curious, are they pretty much all perfect IV meta Pokemon squads at this point?
I just wanna battle my goofy, imperfect team against someone else's imperfect team. The thought of breeding and grinding out perfect Pokemon seems not so fun to me.
I just wanna battle my goofy, imperfect team against someone else's imperfect team. The thought of breeding and grinding out perfect Pokemon seems not so fun to me.
After playing plenty of 6v6 battles, I think I understand why ranked is 3v3. A time limit is needed and people scam using the time limit, so that is kind of trash.
I still didn't finish main story since I'm enjoying just finding the team I want to make first. It's been a long time since I played Pokémon so much honestly.
I added my friend code, please add me! I have both versions but I am just working on Sword now.
I added my friend code, please add me! I have both versions but I am just working on Sword now.
I have a 6 IV Water Absorb Frillish and a 5 IV (all except atk) one as well if anyone wants one
trying to breed for a shiny and if its a female ill be so mad lol
trying to breed for a shiny and if its a female ill be so mad lol
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