I don't know why his normal Charizard is faster than its Gmax form
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Pokémon Sword and Shield |OT| God Save The Vespiquen
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Rillaboom definitely feels like hard mode. He has rarely provided me any kind of advantage. In fact, he was one of my least used Pokemon. His only purpose in this fight is to kill Seismitoad. Unfortunately, I've got nothing good against his Aeigslash except Boltund's crunch and his Haxorus and Dragapult are faster than my Frosmoth and Rapidash.
are Max Raids with the big purple beam the only ones that give you the chance of a HA pokemon, or do all of them give a chance?
All give a chance, I believe purple might give a higher chance?
Be sure to use a Gardevoir with Trace first to check if it's got the Hidden Ability or not.
If you feel like your dynamax mons are going down too quick it could be because their dynamax level is zero. Idk how obvious this is but I went the whole game forgetting about it haha
Theoretically Rillaboom is good for ground coverage since it gets Earthquake, but Sandaconda gets Earthquake+Iron Head and Inteleon gets Ice Beam + Snipe Shot which together will be far more useful than Rilla.
Nice guide. I never thought of Silvally. I've personally run into 5 star raids that have level 70 Pokemon. I also personally never had any trouble soloing raids with a level 100 Zacian myself. I think it's definitely a good Pokemon to use early on at least.
Same here, thousands spent with no bottle caps.
I'd say this is one of the harder champion fights. Leon has a great team and they're pretty high leveled. I think X/Y was way easier personally. This game actually seems better balanced for the experience share.
Yep, check the wild area vendors daily.
Yeah, from the wild area. I spent a lot of time just catching things from dens and buying TRs from the watt vendors before endgame.
Another gen another disappointing set of new fighting pokemon added, at least in terms of in-game team pokemon during the main story. Dual type is just inherently so much more interesting to me, as are evolving pokemon vs non-evolving, so falinks and grapploct are missed opportunities for me. Falinks would've been cooler as bug/fighting (yes I know they aren't linked, nothing to stop them being like 5 bugs working together) and grapploct as water/fighting. No idea the competitive implications that would've had I guess, but I would've preferred it since fighting has been my favorite type for in-game teams since scrafty in B/W and early lucario in B2/W2.
I didn't think Leon was particularly hard, but I wouldn't say he was the easiest either. He was definitely a difficulty spike though as the entire rest of the game was insanely easy to me personally. Even easier than X/Y (Leon might've been harder than X/Y champ, can't remember specifically). I couldn't tell you if it was better exp share balanced than older games though, since I always turned it off in past games, but the fact that it was permanent was a huge reason why this game felt so easy. By keeping a party of balanced types together, at all times I had the perfect tool for literally any situation, I can't think of a single gym where I didn't one shot every one of their pokes, same for all trainer battles if I bothered to swap to super effective. Used to be that I had to actually train a pokemon of a certain type to have it available to use if needed, but not in this game, just there by default. But I've complained enough about the weird decision to make exp share unable to be turned off, so I won't go further into this rabbit hole hah.
I will say that I was often right at the level of wild pokemon in an area, or 1 below them (weirdly trainers seemed to have lower level pokemon than the highest wild pokemon in an area), but I also literally didn't grind a single second during my playthrough since it never seemed necessary. Didn't spend much time in the wild area yet either, didn't grab me initially shall see how fun it is for endgame stuff. So in that sense, the game seemed decently balanced for exp share level wise if you never did any extra grinding, was a bit impressed at how close levels stayed to mine.
Played more of the game;
So all that's left is for me to sum up how I feel about the game as whole and honestly folks....I liked the game, yeah it wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it from start to end and honestly after my disappointment with X and Y and gen 7. It was actually nice to finally have a Pokémon game that finished on a positive note.
What I liked;
What I didn't like;
It will be interesting what the next Pokémon game will be, assuming that the Sinnoh remake is not next, as unlike X and Y. Game Freak pretty much tied up the story neatly and didn't really leave much of a loose thread, so I struggle to think how "Ultra" Sword and Shield would work. Which is why I don't think that Sword and Shield will get a third version. I just think that we are just getting the Sinnoh remake and then just moving onto a new Generation.
Woo, that was quite a lengthy final post. So I will see ya folks later, I am signing off Era for a long while, I might come back for Breath of the Wild 2 or maybe when the next mainline Pokémon game is released.
But in case I don't see you again take care and have a fantastic day,
Mr-Joker.
Part of the difficulty with Pokémon largely depends on your team and your play style. For me Leon was tough as out of my 6 Pokémon only two were equipped to deal with his Charizard plus I was trying to set it up so that each one of my Pokémon fought each of Leon's Pokémon with my Charizard facing off against his.
- I headed to Spikemuth and battled Marine,
- I then headed to Wydon and checked out the battle tower, it was alright but a bit boring to be honest,
- I then took on the Cup challenge again and won,
- I popped back to Postwick to see Sonia and Hop,
So all that's left is for me to sum up how I feel about the game as whole and honestly folks....I liked the game, yeah it wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it from start to end and honestly after my disappointment with X and Y and gen 7. It was actually nice to finally have a Pokémon game that finished on a positive note.
What I liked;
- I loved the new Pokémon, they were really creative,
- I love the new Galarian forms,
- I loved the little touches they added in making the trainer expressive but also applying them to the characters,
- I loved loved Leon, the first south Asian champion in a region that is based on the UK, plus he had a Charizard, He easily shoots right up there next to Cynthia. plus he actually is strong, so it's not just all talk,
- I loved the glorious return of gym challenges, they were so sorely missed,
- I loved the new gym leaders and they unlike X and Y, they weren't just one and done. They actually stuck around during the story and interacted outside the gyms, not quite on the same levels as Black and White,
- I loved the new locations,
- The music was also pretty decent,
- I loved the QoL improvements, like giving Charizard Air Slash upon evolving, accessing the PC whenever I wanted, getting the rod from the start, accessing the fricking move relearner in Pokémon Centre,
- The game was actually pretty challenging at times, the Dynamaxing gym leader did give my team some troubles and Leon was no push over in battle,
- Between me, Rose, Hop, Nessa, Raihan and Hop this game was just a South Asian fest and I really enjoyed it...though I do wish that they didn't give Rose an elephant for his Pokémon,
- Hop was a really interesting rival and comparison to is just false and just folks being racist and lazy as Hop is personalty wise is much closer to Barry from Gen 4 as both idealized their family member who were strong and both hit road block and had to questioned their strength. The only different is that Hop realised a new goal in life which was to help Pokémon and begin his training to become a professor.
What I didn't like;
- I still maintain that Rose should have not been the villain and that Sordward & Shielbert should have been the villain in an attempt to slander the two legendary Pokémon as false heroes and prop Eternatus as the true hero to save Galar from the Darkest day, but actually realising that it was actually the cause of the event,
- Routes are too short, basic and had so few trainers,
- Caves were basic to explore which made the addition of the escape rope pointless as it wasn't needed.
- I don't feel that the wild area was worth it honestly, it's just a giant empty area littered with Pokémon. I also found it pointless to run into strong Pokémon as the player is blocked from catching them....for some reasons and it's unlikely that the player would be able to fight them at such a low level. I do not want the wild area to return as Pokémon should not be pandering to the Breath of the Wild crowds as it just does not fit the series. It would be wise to expand the regular routes.
- Town, city and village took a massive hit as you can't really explore them.
- I also wasn't a fan of the crowd chanting noise during the battle music, especially for Leon's battle theme as the crowd just overwhelmed the music,
- I also found the whole changing into the uniform for the gym challenge to be pointless, it added nothing and I didn't understand why I had to wear it,
- Either Bede or Marine should have been cut from the game as it was pointless to have both characters,
- While Sword and Shield does a much better job of integrating the legendary Pokémon into the game's stories, their lore just doesn't feel organic as it's told to you via Sonia and Eternatus just pops out of nowhere. Still though if Sword and Shield does not get a third version Eternatus at least get a better treatment than Zygarde in X and Y,
- While I liked the Galarian formes I wasn't a fan how how some of the new evolution were handled like why did Sirfetch'd had to be an evolution for Farfetch'd or why wasn't Perrserker and Runerigus just split evolution. Like why did Galarain Yamask and Meowth had to exist,
- I wasn't a fan of the absent of the soft reset,
- No Gen 2 pandering to celebrate Gold and Silver 20th anniversary,
- I fricking hated Team Yell, they were a waste of space add no value to the story,
- Piss poor options when it came to skin tone, I am medium brown and it did not exist in the game so I had to default to light brown and at time in the game I just came across looking like a slightly tanned white person,
- The sheer lack of Scotland in the game the Galar region was just basically England,
- Didn't like that there's just only one route music,
- I hated the return of breakable TMs in the form of TRs, really not looking forward to grinding for them. I also hate how they rotate daily if you're trying to buy them.
- Despite existing for three generation, Sword and Shield did not change my views in regards to fairy type. I don't find them useful on my team and they just hold the team back. Galarian Rapidash will be the last the fairy type I will use and then after than I won't be using them on my team ever again.
- It would have been nice to turn the exp share off.
It will be interesting what the next Pokémon game will be, assuming that the Sinnoh remake is not next, as unlike X and Y. Game Freak pretty much tied up the story neatly and didn't really leave much of a loose thread, so I struggle to think how "Ultra" Sword and Shield would work. Which is why I don't think that Sword and Shield will get a third version. I just think that we are just getting the Sinnoh remake and then just moving onto a new Generation.
Woo, that was quite a lengthy final post. So I will see ya folks later, I am signing off Era for a long while, I might come back for Breath of the Wild 2 or maybe when the next mainline Pokémon game is released.
But in case I don't see you again take care and have a fantastic day,
Mr-Joker.
Part of the difficulty with Pokémon largely depends on your team and your play style. For me Leon was tough as out of my 6 Pokémon only two were equipped to deal with his Charizard plus I was trying to set it up so that each one of my Pokémon fought each of Leon's Pokémon with my Charizard facing off against his.
Anybody have a Swirlix, Mawile and / or a Deino they could trade me? Last few pokes I need to complete my dex. Please pm me. Thanks.
Just beat Leon with only two dead Pokémon. Guess I just needed to use hold some more items and adjust my strategy. Now I'm not sure what to do. I know there's that short post game story but what about after that? I guess farm for a good Ditto to start breeding? How is everyone approaching EV training? Old fashioned way or buying vitamins? To buy vitamins I guess I'll have to grind to level 100 and farm the rematches before I can breed.
After learning that apparently Heal Order was cut, I think I fully understand the thread title. I thought it was only a "god save the queen" reference.
Does anyone else have this issue with this game only where the Joycons attached in handheld mode just occasionally stop responding? I can still hit Home and everything else works just fine, the game just stops reading inputs until I disconnect and reconnect the Joycons. I have never had this happen with any other game.
Does anyone else have this issue with this game only where the Joycons attached in handheld mode just occasionally stop responding? I can still hit Home and everything else works just fine, the game just stops reading inputs until I disconnect and reconnect the Joycons. I have never had this happen with any other game.
I'm EV training by buying vitamins. If you have Gmax Meowth, you can farm money in very little time.
So I'm sitting down and starting the game proper and I'm greeted by a Wooloo(?) trying to tackle my fence and it's stinking cute lol. Any more cute Pokemon like this in the game?
I managed to get into the top 500 for Battle Stadium Singles! It's been a tough road, and I'm not quite sure I'll reach my goal of being in the top 100 this season, but I got until the end of this month so I'll try! I just gotta modify my team to fit the metagame better.
Here's the proof btw:
Here's the proof btw:
You know, these max raid battles kinda don't work when you can't matchmake with a single person after 3 min of waiting and you get these npcs that die so quick that you can't win despite being 4x super effective against the opponent...
NPC pokemon literally die in a single hit and don't dynamax despite it being "their turn" how is this implemented this way?
NPC pokemon literally die in a single hit and don't dynamax despite it being "their turn" how is this implemented this way?
Yeah this is the method I was gonna use. Just gotta get everyone to max level.
Damn dude congrats. It'll be a while till I have a team that's ready for competitive but I just know I'm gonna get wrecked lol.I managed to get into the top 500 for Battle Stadium Singles! It's been a tough road, and I'm not quite sure I'll reach my goal of being in the top 100 this season, but I got until the end of this month so I'll try! I just gotta modify my team to fit the metagame better.
Here's the proof btw:
I'm still building a team right now but I remember almost getting wrecked by a Substitute + Minimize Thundurus in previous games in the battle tower.
Master Ball is the ugliest PokeBall.
I almost feel guilty for forcing Zacian to reside in that gaudy piece of crap.
I almost feel guilty for forcing Zacian to reside in that gaudy piece of crap.
You need a level 100 Pokemon to reliably solo. The AI scale to 70% of your level and they are shit so they need to be at 70, or close to it, to not die all the time.
I wonder how the teams of casual older people look? I also wonder how many sales go to older casual players and if they actually made new games that only have new Pokemon going forward if that would only make sales slowly decline with each entry.
Do they have some sort of data that supports them needing to use generation one as a pillar for regional forms and gimmicks?
I was thinking about it because my wife is like the text book casual but plays them with me to have fun and with the last few generations I notice that she may get one or two newer Pokemon from generations 2 and up, or ones that are noticeably strong in some way, for story mode, but her team is always mainly dominated by generation 1 monsters by the end of the game with the newer ones boxed. Not always the same monsters everytime but ones she's familiar with. Actually I think she always ends up with Raichu even though thats not even her favorite Pokemon.
Do they have some sort of data that supports them needing to use generation one as a pillar for regional forms and gimmicks?
I was thinking about it because my wife is like the text book casual but plays them with me to have fun and with the last few generations I notice that she may get one or two newer Pokemon from generations 2 and up, or ones that are noticeably strong in some way, for story mode, but her team is always mainly dominated by generation 1 monsters by the end of the game with the newer ones boxed. Not always the same monsters everytime but ones she's familiar with. Actually I think she always ends up with Raichu even though thats not even her favorite Pokemon.
Spent like 8 hours yesterday surprise trading for ID numbers. I now have 97 of 100 ID's ending with ID 00-99. This means I can now farm PP Ups from the Loto. In case the raids exploit is fixed I'm doing it as crazy while I can, lol.
I prefer the trade exploit for Loto abuse tbh, feels faster to me.
EDIT: That'e just changing time in a trade instead of going to a den tho
How do you get Pokerus to spread? I thought you just needed to put the Pokemon in your party and battle with them but that doesn't seem to be doing anything.
edit: Ok so apparently your pokemon has to say "Pokerus" in a pink rectangle in it's summary for it to be able to spread.
If it only has the pink face icon it means it caught Pokerus but can no longer spread it.
edit: Ok so apparently your pokemon has to say "Pokerus" in a pink rectangle in it's summary for it to be able to spread.
If it only has the pink face icon it means it caught Pokerus but can no longer spread it.
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Some really good advice here, hope it helps some people out
One tip if you like cute pokemon: do not let Wooloo evolve lol.
There is some cute stuff yeah.
You know I am very amused how during the campaign I was having issues catching pokemon seemingly taking longer than before, and then in Post Game it's now really easy to capture pokemon just be throwing a quick ball instantly at it, followed by always catching raid pokemon if I can solo it with the AI.
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