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I kinda liked how IVs made individual pokemon feel unique and I think going into PVP and just flattening it kinda ruins that. But also hyper training is pretty easy nowadays right? Getting a 31 IV isn't the multiday slog it used to be involving multiple breedings. They just need a way to also make an IV 0.
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Nanigans posted:But please, continue to tell me my personal opinion is wrong. lmao
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Oct 5, 2021 14:28
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Filthy Haiku posted:I love the way garchomp is peeking out from behind her as if to say "You want I should mess 'em up boss?" She's the only one capable of holding that garchomp back Not that she makes a habit of it
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Oct 5, 2021 14:32
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Every other post in this thread for the last two pages has been you rushing to go ',Nuh Uh!' To anyone even mildly going 'Yeah this wasn't good. You really don't have to try to start the argument back up again. Nanigans posted:I love product! It must suck to be a hater of product! And you really don't have to continue it. Both of you can just let it go. Drop this stupid slapfight so everyone else can go back to talking about Pokemon games.
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Oct 5, 2021 14:33
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This is even worse than my derail from a few days ago. Anyway, if you want to get drat near anything you want from GTS, show up with a White Flower Florges. I've gotten quite a few legendaries and shinies over the last few days. Unfortunately I'm running out of usable shiny stones. Might start actually playing SM/USUM again to build up a stock, but will wait and see whether the DP remakes and/or Legends make Florges more accessible.
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Oct 5, 2021 14:34
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galagazombie posted:Why would you care about balls for competitive? They’re all soulless husks anyway, no better than a rental. Even if they’re not an outright clones they’re an abomination of generations of incest at a factory farm who exists solely to cheese the game. Way I see it if you’re not going to use the team you actually had an adventure with and grew attached to what’s even the point? Honestly I don’t see why if they can set levels to 50 for postgame facilities they can’t set IV’s too. The main reason is that I see the main game and competitive as two separate games. The main game is my chill out adventure where I catch and use whatever I feel like without caring much at all about IVs and such, while with competitive it's more like a strategy game like chess. And I like having cool looking balls for my mons for the same reason someone would use a fancy chess set over a basic plastic black and white set. Literally just because it looks nicer to me aesthetically. But 90% of the mons I use for competitive I breed or catch myself, it's just version specific legendaries and similar that I gen for competitive.
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HootTheOwl posted:I kinda liked how IVs made individual pokemon feel unique and I think going into PVP and just flattening it kinda ruins that. Bottle Caps aren’t totally inconsequential to get, but getting something to level 100 to be able to Hyper Train is trivial, yeah. Raising a newly caught mon to be battle ready takes minutes instead of hours/days like before, assuming you caught one with the right Ability (even though that’s not too hard to change) and Nature (also not too bad.) You get so many Exp candies that getting to Level 100 takes like five seconds. Then it’s just a matter of buying Vitamins, even cheaper if you upgrade the dojo, to EV train. Get the TMs/TRs you probably already have for moves. The only fly in the ointment would be if you need Egg moves, but even then, the Egg charm helps a bit there. They’ve made it probably as easy as possible short of just giving you an Editor option. Except for Hidden Abilities. gently caress you and your 200 Dynite Ore Ability Patches, Game Freak!  I’ve taken my in-game team and made them all indistinguishable from what I would use in Pokémon Showdown because of all of the QoL stuff they’ve added.
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Oct 5, 2021 14:47
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Raylax posted:
My girlfriend’s birthday was over the weekend, so I got her a Bandai Model Kit Quick!! of Mew, and it looks really nice. Pokemon look good just sitting around the house.
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HootTheOwl posted:I kinda liked how IVs made individual pokemon feel unique and I think going into PVP and just flattening it kinda ruins that. IVs have three major problems that sabotage the whole system. First is that there is no single total a Pokémon can have. Meaning that there can be a wild range of power between individuals and, outside a very few specific situations, there is no motivation not to want everything maxed. Second is that Pokémon are still bound by their species stats and moves. Even if your Alakazam got the best Attack IVs possible, there would still be no reason to ever give it a physical attack because it will never be good with it. Pokémon just aren’t that customizable individually. You always want to go with their species’ strengths whenever possible. Third, you have no in-game way to tell your IVs specifically. You have to rely on either vague statements from an in-game character or use out of game calculations. Even if you do find out, you usually can’t do anything about them. If your Pokémon has bad IVs for what its species needs, sucks for it. Toss it out and try again. Your Pokémon may be attached to you, but it doesn’t matter because it just happened to born destined to be a loser. This is why I don’t like the system. The idea of making the Pokémon unique individuals sounds fine, but just ends up making born winners to raise and losers not to bother with, which flies in the face of what the series claims to stand for.
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I wonder if expanding the characteristicsand marks into a secondary stat boost would be a fine trade for reducing IVs to just 0 and 31. You get your pokemon instance-individuality, your flexibility in choosing whether Lucario is physical or Special, and a more likely time of having good mons (should you not roll the Oops! All Zeros) instead of an iv spread of 10s and 20s Abundant Atrophy fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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Oct 5, 2021 17:21
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The flaw with “But it’s so easy to fix your Pokémon now” is that only applies to SwSh. That doesn’t help me with the Battle Frontier or the PWT.
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Oct 5, 2021 18:20
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Geostomp posted:IVs have three major problems that sabotage the whole system. First is that there is no single total a Pokémon can have. Meaning that there can be a wild range of power between individuals and, outside a very few specific situations, there is no motivation not to want everything maxed.
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Oct 5, 2021 18:41
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I wish they’d implement the Hard Mode from B2W2 again, but make it available from the start and better than the half-assed option they made there.
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Oct 5, 2021 18:56
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Any of you goons owns LG Pikachu? I need three of the version exclusives from there in my LG Eevee game (Grimer, Mankey, Oddish). I'll help you with whatever else ails you in return.
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1) I would argue that since, as you yourself said, the most important IV value is max there is a defined stat total (or more narrow stat range than you think) for each Pokemon. 2) Yes, good. That's the point of building a Pokemon team. You consider each Pokemon as a team member, not as an individual. If each Pokemon could surpass their base stats that would simplify team building even more. 3) Max IVs only truly matter for high end optional gameplay. You do not need to fuss with it if all you want to do is complete the story and collect them all. Max IVs only have that value when at lvl 100, so at much lower levels (like, say, the main campaign) the stat variance is much smaller.
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Oct 5, 2021 19:22
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Geostomp posted:IVs have three major problems that sabotage the whole system. First is that there is no single total a Pokémon can have. Meaning that there can be a wild range of power between individuals and, outside a very few specific situations, there is no motivation not to want everything maxed. 1) Isn't that self defeating? If everyone is going to be maxed out that is then a single total a pokemon will have? 2) If there's no difference then who cares? 3) There is now, after you beat the game (or earlier, I don't remember) you get the ability to judge pokemon and it lets you see their IV and EV spreads. Also hyper training means you can just turn a 0/0/0/0/0/0 pokemon into a 6IV highest potential. This point just isn't true anymore in the current generation.
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I have actively resisted learning anything about IVs and I'll be goddamned if I stop now
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Nanigans posted:I wish they’d implement the Hard Mode from B2W2 again, but make it available from the start and better than the half-assed option they made there. the only downside is that ghetsis is no longer a massive cheater with an underleveled hydreigon, but it's a small price to pay
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Oct 5, 2021 19:45
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God I loved hard mode in BW2. Yeah, do that again. Don't lock it behind the world's stupidest unlock system either
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Oct 5, 2021 19:49
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Blaziken386 posted:Hard Mode kicks rear end and it's the main reason I got both B2 and W2 My old man brain is on a roll. I remembered Challenge Mode just having higher levels, but looks like they also added better AI, more Pokémon on the Gym Leaders’ teams and even hold items. That’s basically perfect. I feel like the people who grew up playing Pokémon are making the games now. Maybe Masuda will allow them to implement this now that the average Pokémon player age is at least late teens/early 20s. We can handle Challenge Mode.
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Oct 5, 2021 19:50
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HootTheOwl posted:1) Isn't that self defeating? If everyone is going to be maxed out that is then a single total a pokemon will have? IVs are not like that because they can all be maxed, so there's(normally) no opportunity cost, which is a lot less interesting.
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I do find it hilarious that the speedrun for Hard Mode is faster, easier and safer than the speedrun of normal B2/W2. And that the easy mode one is the longest and most difficult.
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Saoshyant posted:Any of you goons owns LG Pikachu? I need three of the version exclusives from there in my LG Eevee game (Grimer, Mankey, Oddish). I'll help you with whatever else ails you in return. I have it, and -I think- I have those. I haven't played for a few years. But I can help if you still need them.
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Oct 5, 2021 22:50
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Okay, what the hell? How do I get Pokémon Bank to recognize the Furfrou haircuts from Ultra Sun? They keep reverting to the normal cut every time. For the record, my Pokédex in Bank does have the different forms registered, so it's doubly bizarre. I want to transfer them from Bank to Home.
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Nanigans posted:Okay, what the hell? From what I understand, you can only get the haircuts into Home from Go.
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Nanigans posted:Okay, what the hell? Home was updated to recognize the Furfrou haircuts. Bank never was.
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Hrist posted:I have it, and -I think- I have those. I haven't played for a few years. But I can help if you still need them. Thanks. I posted the above after I had already tried unsuccessfully on our Discord and even reddit's pokemon trading one. But a couple of hours ago, shenks from our Discord replied to the message there and helped out, so I'm all done (finally).
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MorningMoon posted:Home was updated to recognize the Furfrou haircuts. This sucks. Yeah, I have all the forms registered in Home, but they're not actually there. Which is useless for trading purposes. Anyone mind trading me a Spectrier/Glastrier, Zarude and Regidrago/Regileki and back? I just need them for the 'dex entries.
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Nanigans posted:The only fly in the ointment would be if you need Egg moves, but even then, the Egg charm helps a bit there. They’ve made it probably as easy as possible short of just giving you an Editor option. Except for Hidden Abilities. gently caress you and your 200 Dynite Ore Ability Patches, Game Freak! I guess getting egg moves onto a species in the first place can still be tricky, but with horizontal transfer you can now get any combination of egg moves with little more trouble than any individual one
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Nanigans posted:I expect more cute monsters and cool battle mechanics and cool clothes and fun characters. I got that with SwSh. Doesn’t make me a blind follower. What bothers y’all is inconsequential to me. I don’t care about draw distance or online play. Then you wouldn't need to respond to other people's valid and legitimate complaints.
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Oxyclean posted:Yeah, I really wish they'd take a bit of liberties with the remakes to refresh and improve things, its what made HGSS such a treat. Like, they straight up added new areas and features like the new version of the Safari Zone you get access to halfway through Johto that lets you get access to a bunch of pokes much earlier then in G/S, IIRC. And even for some of the things they wanted to keep similar, like the music, where they added the option in postgame to allow people to swap between certain tracks. They really hit the best of both worlds. Other than fixing the level curve I suppose, but that's hard to gently caress with given the nature of the routes. All Johto routes are really short in length, so you can only fit so many trainers on it, and only get so much exp as a result. I think the longest routes between towns are probably Violet -> Azalea, Mahogany -> Blackthorn, and I suppose the water route between Olivine -> Cianwood just because of the lighthouse + water route. And none of those routes ever feel like Pewter to Ceruealn, or going through Rock Tunnel or idk. A lot of that is my issue with the X/Y and later games, the length between locations is short and there's nothing to any of the cities. I mean, Pokemon is one of the few RPGs where all the cities and towns are really shallow to begin with. (I remember as a kid wondering what the gently caress would ever happen with the Machop in Vermillion, and then that doesn't even get resolved in GS, LGFR, or HGSS.) But goddamn, after BW it feels like it gets more shallow and optional areas get more restricted and whatever. Whatever. None of this matters.
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They updated the Pokemon Home mobile app, to fix a bug... pity they haven't fixed it hanging all the time. Those newsletters with the Zarude and Celebi are supposed to go out today. Haven't got mine yet.
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Hammerite posted:They updated the Pokemon Home mobile app, to fix a bug... Which one? There's like 85 of the lil guys 
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Hammerite posted:Those newsletters with the Zarude and Celebi are supposed to go out today. Haven't got mine yet. None of them have been sent out yet. It'll probably be the afternoon in Eastern time zone before they go out. Interns need their morning do nothing time before they click the auto generate buttons.
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Next episode of Pokemon Evolutions is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TNqOlTY0M
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Oct 7, 2021 15:23
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I liked the Generations one covering him better, but goddamn that lineart is spectacular. Big lol at the battle.
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MorningMoon posted:I liked the Generations one covering him better, but goddamn that lineart is spectacular. Big lol at the battle. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve watched the Generations shorts. Are they good?
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Larryb posted:Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve watched the Generations shorts. Are they good? I'm one of the grumpiest people online you'll see about them, but like a little under half of them are great. The one about Lysandre is about him seething on the inside as he keeps up the charismatic CEO persona. They're short enough that you should just give 'em a go.
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MorningMoon posted:I'm one of the grumpiest people online you'll see about them, but like a little under half of them are great. The one about Lysandre is about him seething on the inside as he keeps up the charismatic CEO persona. They're short enough that you should just give 'em a go. So they’re roughly the same length as the average Twilight Wings and Evolutions episode then?
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