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Zore posted:What? ORAS has some of the shittiest early selection of any game in the series, especially when we just came off X/Y which is literally objectively the best. Especially since they locked some stuff you used to be able to get early in R/S/E until later! I don't like a lot of choice. It's overwhelming and leads to a lack of unity or logical consistency amongst a regional dex's Pokemon. Regional dexes are best when they have 200 - 300 Pokemon, like RSE and Platinum. HGSS is decent too if you consider it as a whole, with the Elite Four rematch as your true "final challenge" (which seems to be the case in the remakes). It's actually really cool going to a new region and having another 8 gyms to train new team members in. Pokemon postgames are often so short there's no way to have a new Pokemon on your team unless you catch them at a high level or grab the Lucky Egg. quote:So long story short, that was the lowest level I've ever beaten the Gen 1 Pokemon League. Barely had any guys faint, even. My Slowbro ended up the highest level at the end (46), and really could have solo'd the whole thing if I'd let him. But that's boring, so I didn't do that. It was hilarious watching Lance's Dragonite flail ineffectually with Barrier while my Venusaur's Leech Seed and Toxic combo just made his health... disappear. Like, he used a Hyper Potion and his Dragonite was dead the very next turn. Hilarious! The Golden Gael fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Blaze Dragon posted:Too bad the only game that had a chance to do this failed miserably by not giving you a single good source for exp. Gen 2 is a mess. I think HGSS is actually worse for HMs than ORAS, by the by. Backtracking to Johto for any reason basically demands Fly, there's a few places in Kanto that still require Rock Smash and Cut, and you can't get past Dragon's Den without both Surf and Whirlpool (also needed for Whirl Islands on Silver, along with Strength). If you want to do Rock Tunnel you can forget that if you don't have Flash anymore. ORAS at least cut out any need for Flash and was polite enough to give you what amounts to warp portals to plot-relevant locations (thus eliminating the need for Fly)
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My favorite wild caught shiny was a Roselia found while EV grinding. It became my Sweet Scent user because it looks nice, then it learned Energy Ball and Petal Blizzard along with Sleep Powder to both EV grind against hordes but also to not leave me in a precarious position if I were to find a shiny Nosepass (those bastards know Block and Petal Blizzard kills everything). I gave it a Shiny Stone and it's just lovely.
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Aug 22, 2016 05:34
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Have we started fan theorying names yet for these werewolves? Willing to bet lycanthropy will be a part of the names, fitting with the creepy furry vibe the night one has.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:46
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Haven't checked back through the thread if this has been mentioned or not, but Corocoro more or less confirmed Megas returning. A line mentions that Jangmo'o's Soundproof ability shields it from Sylveon and Mega-Gardevoir's Pixilate Hyper Voice.
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Sep 22, 2016 20:09
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Water Shuriken is now Special
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Oct 18, 2016 02:56
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I've heard the frame drops on the original 3DS are buggy as hell
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Oct 18, 2016 03:33
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Tired Moritz posted:I thought snorunt is gen IV No but one of the things it evolves into is
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Oct 18, 2016 15:56
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Thunder Wave now has 90 accuracy, like Toxic
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Oct 18, 2016 16:02
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Blooming Brilliant posted:Wonder if they had any megas planned for Z that got shelved? Most likely they got shifted into ORAS. Sugimori had plans for Mega Flygon but got artist's block. That's actually what happened.
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:What did Blue add, other than updated sprites? Last minute bug fixes? - allowed you to capture previously uncatchable Pokemon (Lickitung and Jynx) - redesigned the final dungeon's map - graphical and glitch improvements - other flavor changes such as Game Corner prizes and in-game trades for more detailed information, check out this article I wrote
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Thinking of Marshadow, what could be the "unique typing"? Assuming existing ones (which would be the most obvious) are off the table, what could it be? Maybe Fairy/Dark, Fairy/Fire, Ghost/Normal, or Ghost/Fighting? Also, what does everyone think about some left field changes to existing Pokemon? I'm hoping for some more stat boosts or hidden ability changes.
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Nov 6, 2016 23:45
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cancerianmoth posted:Any speculation on the stat spreads of the starters? Well, 2 of them seem fairly obvious. I just want to know if owlbaby will be mixed attacker or not. I'm gonna call the ballpark of 80 105 75 90 100 80 similarly the cat should be 85 105 90 90 90 70 and then Primarina as the surprising fast choice at 80 55 55 135 105 100 but by and large we're due for another generation of slow fuckers after the speed blitz of XYORAS. kinda like BW had a lot of strong but slow Pokemon that ingrained themselves
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Nov 7, 2016 01:38
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what does everyone think the anchor's type is gonna be? Water/Ghost seems obvious, as does Water/Steel or Ghost/Steel...but what else, really? Pure Ghost (like Cofagrigus)?
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Decus posted:Steel/Grass. It's not a ghost, just covered in spooky plant-life. I can see this. Give it buffed up Leech Life and it's pretty eerie.
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Nov 7, 2016 02:16
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Reinanigans posted:Only one I care about is Incineroar. He will have: Sorry to burst your bubble but I don't think his Lariat will be as Dark as you're thinking
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Nov 7, 2016 02:39
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It's time to decide on Hidden Abilities I'm gonna say Decidueye will have the obvious choice of Sniper, Incineroar something mildly neat like Limber or Defiant, and Primarina will have something new. alternatively, all three will have something new and cool.
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Nov 7, 2016 04:17
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Gengar has Cursed Body now, lmao thanks for the nerf Game Freak edit: Gigalith with Sand Stream, Vanilluxe with Snow Warning The Golden Gael fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 16:50
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Zore posted:Wait, where are you getting this? it was on 4chan, the thread seems to have been deleted now though so take it with a grain of salt
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Reinanigans posted:RIP OU Gengar. You were the only holdout from Gen 1 that made it to OU every generation, but alas, Gen 7 was not to be, it seems. for all we know Cursed Body could have been bumped to 100% chance of disable on contact
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Nov 7, 2016 17:27
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Oricorio has a lovely movepool. Like, super lame.
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Nov 8, 2016 17:29
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Reinanigans posted:I peeked a little and saw that Hau never gets more than 4 Pokémon on his team. This is really disappointing after the loser squad from XY. They should have taken a page from Wally/Barry/Silver/Blue instead. I guess Gladion kind of takes his place. Is Lillie not a trainer whatsoever? I know Kukui ends up being champion and gets the unused starter. We're perfectly lined up for an episode on Cresselia (Moon) or Arceus (Type: Null)
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Nov 14, 2016 19:52
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In Canada here, I'm making GBS threads my pants over the lack of Amazon shipping my product too. I called them yesterday and they said it was due to leave yesterday and be here before 8PM tomorrow. If it's going to come that late though I may as well just go to the store and buy it.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:14
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Crumbletron posted:Same for my friend and I. Both of us have Prime accounts. Next time I'll just get it from the eShop and eat the $10 Prime discount. Exactly why I did it. It was cheaper to order and have it delivered to my door than go halfway across town to Walmart.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:26
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Dehry posted:Contacting Amazon customer support might get an extra credit on your bill for missing the ship date. It very well might, and I'll definitely do it, but it's a bit besides the point. Like I know it's really not that big of a deal but it leaves me in a weird limbo where I don't want to go out and buy the opposite version because the game may or may not come later in the day.
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Nov 17, 2016 19:44
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It's shipped now for me, but the Canada Post tracking number...is not in their tracking system.
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Nov 17, 2016 20:11
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Crumbletron posted:On the east coast it usually takes until 4:30 for it to be tracked Didn't know that - thanks! It's coming from Mississauga, which is like two or three hours from me. Hopefully it'll come to my door by like 12.
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Nov 17, 2016 20:35
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I've had to gently caress around with my 3DS to fix the wifi card every few months since before ORAS came out. I'm too cheap to buy a new one, but I'm not risking losing all my games because of that.
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Nov 17, 2016 20:53
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Avalerion posted:Be glad you are not in EU, not even getting this till Wednesday here. Hate to break it to you but Serebii's already updated Also, Serebii's updated so there's a convenient and clean way to check everything new out
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Nov 17, 2016 22:44
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How is Island Scan meant to work? Marill's running around in the bay you fight Wishiwashi at, but I don't see a silhouette or anything. Is it just added to the encounter table til I find it?
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Nov 19, 2016 16:24
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Anyone know how long you're booted from trading if you're interrupted? My game gave me an error as I was going to trade for a Litten on GTS and now I can't get back on.
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Nov 21, 2016 05:01
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The Golden Gael posted:Anyone know how long you're booted from trading if you're interrupted? My game gave me an error as I was going to trade for a Litten on GTS and now I can't get back on. This is still going on by the way, it's been 8 hours. I think fixing my clock for DST finally may have been part of the cause.
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Decus posted:The trainer stuff is neat, but not worth the loss of frames, triples or rotations in my opinion. You're straight up wrong if you think Guzma squatting behind his Ariados with a poo poo eating grin isn't worth breaking the console.
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EclecticTastes posted:He was the Dark-type specialist and I completely forgot who he was until just now. The Unova E4 is easily the least memorable in the franchise, likely because they're basically an afterthought, your first bout with them is deliberately made easier as prelude to N's Castle, and your "official" battles with them are all technically post-game. God no. The XY Elite Four was horrible - Malva was the only one who was at all interesting, the other three have about the same characterization as the Gen I Elite Four before remakes and the anime fleshed them out. The Unova one was at least cool because you meet Marshall beforehand, Caitlin was a surprise cameo from P/HGSS, and the book girl always said something new when you fought her. Grimsley I remember for his gambler persona. I couldn't tell you poo poo about the Kalos one on the other hand - I basically remember Malva because she was Team Flare, and the knight guy only because he's super goony and talks very chivalrously. He's one step removed from calling my in-game character "m'lady".
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Crosspeice posted:Can't believe you'd forget Siebold, the pissed off water chef with the nasty Clawitzer, Drasna the sweet old dragon lady and Wikstrom, the guy who speaks like he's from the 15th century. And if he did say "m'lady", it would be 100% sincere and very cool and respectful.
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Nov 22, 2016 22:41
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Has anyone caught all the Tapus that can do a dex trade? I'm trying to complete the Pokedex, but I want to soft reset for those guys which'll make it take longer.
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Nov 25, 2016 22:51
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Scholtz posted:If any of you (or anyone else!) didn't get one from tyb, I'm awake and will be available for the next 10-12 hours, haha. Will you be so kind as to trade me a Beast Ball Beldum? My name is Joey and my FC is 1977-0303-4337
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Nov 27, 2016 03:56
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Scholtz posted:I have to head to work, but I can be back on in an hour (11:15ish EST) and I'll trade you all then. Bear, if there's any way I could get one of each of those, I'd appreciate it! I'll probably be able to trade you one of these Beast Ball Gibbles.
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Nov 27, 2016 04:26
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Do regular Ditto no longer have a guaranteed perfect 3 stats? Yeah gently caress it, if anyone's able to hook me up with some kind of "superditto" that's blue and Japanese or something I'd be really really grateful!
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Dizz posted:
Any chance you still have one? I'll trade you a fine Jolly Marill with Aqua Jet, 1977-0303-4337!
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