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Nodosaur posted:I don't suppose you have a Duraludon in a Heavy Ball? Hmm....no unfortunately. Do you want a shiny or just a duraludon in heavy ball because I can catch and breed you one if you want. Also I can give you list of the available shinies have if that would help?
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Flopsy posted:Hmm....no unfortunately. Do you want a shiny or just a duraludon in heavy ball because I can catch and breed you one if you want. I just want a Duraludon in a Heavy Ball. I stupidly lost my one Heavy Ball because I didn't save before trying to catch a G-Max one.
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I did the same with a Snorlax because I stupidly saw all the different ways of getting another heavy ball and didn't think it was a big deal. Meanwhile the Cram-o-matic has NEVER given me anything good from apricorns and Mr Pokeball has never given me anything but god drat wishing pieces for winning the tournament. Give us more Pokeballs, you dinks, and the ability to change them even after a Pokemon is caught. Even if it's just "standard Pokeball but purple" etc, I'd be all over that.
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Diet Poison posted:I did the same with a Snorlax because I stupidly saw all the different ways of getting another heavy ball and didn't think it was a big deal. Meanwhile the Cram-o-matic has NEVER given me anything good from apricorns and Mr Pokeball has never given me anything but god drat wishing pieces for winning the tournament. You just described my last and most fervent wish for this series. As it stands I'm gathering up 999 of each apricorn to improve my chances. Yes it's taking me weeks.
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Diet Poison posted:Mr Pokeball has never given me anything but god drat wishing pieces for winning the tournament. Ball Guy always gives you a Wishing Piece for your first tournament win of each day, and then a random item from the round things table for each subsequent victory until midnight.
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I've been making Dracovish using a turbo controller in batches of 100 for the last two days. Probably made 2800-3000 so far. Still no shiny. 
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RatHat posted:Which gens? The shiny rate was doubled at one point. I only had the foreign ditto part from X, and tried again in OR. And then Moon and Ultra Moon I had the charm too, so I got serious and tried hundreds of eggs in each with no results. And finally in Sword it worked. And yeah, I figured it would be solely because they took the standard rate down from ~8,000 to ~4,000 or something. Either way, I'm happy to finally have some kind of pay off for the effort. Even if they just hand them away now.
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AlternateNu posted:I've been making Dracovish using a turbo controller in batches of 100 for the last two days. Probably made 2800-3000 so far. Still no shiny. I thought Dracovish couldn't breed
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Bongo Bill posted:Ball Guy always gives you a Wishing Piece for your first tournament win of each day, and then a random item from the round things table for each subsequent victory until midnight. Oh well thanks for explaining that... if the tournament wasn't so gently caress-boring I might have figured that out on my own but GameFreak gonna GameFreak. I can't see myself ever bothering with it again unless a patch fixes it so all Pokemon are set to Lv 50 or 100.
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Nodosaur posted:I thought Dracovish couldn't breed It can't You get a pile of fossils, make a bunch of them, see if any are shiny, and if they aren't you reset and try again.
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Kurieg posted:It can't ah. Makes sense.
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Ugh, I really want a HA Dracozolt. Wonder when they will do like a raid or mystery gift to get one...
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Mesadoram posted:Ugh, I really want a HA Dracozolt. Wonder when they will do like a raid or mystery gift to get one... Ostensibly you'll be able to use the HA ability capsule in Crown Tundra to get it. I've done the fossil redeeming now to get shiny Arctozolt and Dracovish, and am working on redeeming the other two. I think I was fairly lucky, probably between 1600 and 2000 redemptions for each. Shiny charm/Masuda doesn't work on them, which sucks.
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Flopsy posted:You just described my last and most fervent wish for this series. As it stands I'm gathering up 999 of each apricorn to improve my chances. Yes it's taking me weeks. On a related note I want a way to catch fossil mons in the wild so I can get them in stuff besides a standard ball. You don't even have to remove the part where you make them from fossils you find. Just have whoever you give the fossils to add them to something like the Pal Park or Entree Forest instead of just handing them to you. You can even make it a Jurassic Park joke.
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Hrist posted:I tried with max odds for a few gens with no results. And then in Sword max odds gave me a shiny egg after 20 minutes. It'll happen quicker than you think this gen. You weren't kidding. After a couple days of trying for Cubone, I got one last night. Then I tried 2 other Pokemon and got shiny versions of both last night.
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Bongo Bill posted:Is it still bad? depends. quality of life improvements are there for sure, and the game's story cutscenes and presentation is just as charming as before. theres virtually no more co-op content, and theres not much to do between easy story content and difficult end-game content. also its still a gacha so if your luck is bad you dont get who you want so if gacha is bad in your book the game is bad
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galagazombie posted:On a related note I want a way to catch fossil mons in the wild so I can get them in stuff besides a standard ball. You don't even have to remove the part where you make them from fossils you find. Just have whoever you give the fossils to add them to something like the Pal Park or Entree Forest instead of just handing them to you. You can even make it a Jurassic Park joke. Oh poo poo son, same. it's pretty blatant they cut that idea from Sun and Moon too which absolutely sucks. Flopsy fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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AlternateNu posted:I've been making Dracovish using a turbo controller in batches of 100 for the last two days. Probably made 2800-3000 so far. Still no shiny. Add another 1000 to the pile and still no shiny. I'm beginning to think this gen doesn't want me to get shinies without blatantly cheating.
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Sep 9, 2020 15:57
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 This fandom is full of assholes.
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Nodosaur posted:
Imagine being this much of a massive oval office to go out your way to harass this poor woman. Over what? loving Ash Ketchum, fucksakes....
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all fandoms are full of assholes maybe just ignore them instead of spreading their bullshit
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Can anyone help me do a quick trade to evolve my Feebas? I can trade something else back for it if you need something to fill out your dex. edit: dm me if anyone is interested Hrist fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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The mechanics of encore have been changed apparently, and frustratingly. The way encore previously worked The turn you receive the encore: If the pokemon has not moved yet, they are encored into whatever move they use that turn. If the pokemon using encore is faster, the target is encored into the move they used on the previous turn. If the pokemon using encore is slower, the target is encored into the move they use on that turn (before the encore.) The turn encore ends, if encore is used again: REGARDLESS OF SPEED, THE ENCORE APPLIES TO THE NEW MOVE THE TARGET SELECTED ON THAT TURN. Meaning you can always select a new move on the turn the encore ends. So in gen8 you can be indefinitely encored into a move by a faster pokemon (which is beyond annoying if they also have shadow tag.) Also running out of PP during encore ends the encore now, whereas encore used to cause the pokemon to struggle until the encore ended. Battle tower never ceases to annoy. Looking at you bright powder Unfezant with attract featherdance roost.  Does encore + torment still make a pokemon struggle?
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Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, I'm pretty sure Encore has worked that way for longer than just SwSh, or I wouldn't have memories of grip claw infestation/encore/swords dance/baton pass Ledian in my head for some reason
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I'm glad they improved how encore worked.
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Today another bunch of leaks. Most notably is the cancelled Pokemon Picross for Gameboy Color/Super Gameboy (would have been a black cartridge) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-vdi3A_vE They only put Generation I Pokemon and locations in the game, so no weird woopers.
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I guess I just need to figure out how to abuse that really annoying encore change. I didn't do much in Gen6/7 beyond finish the game. Feels like a different game in how badly my once viable Curse/Yawn spamming umbreon is doing in battle tower singles. I wonder how a toxic orb breloom or gliscor would fair at walling. Does toxic not turn into regular poison anymore if you switch out? If I use an ability capsule, can I change a hidden ability to a regular ability? Hate how every gigantamax sandaconda I catch is always going to have the hidden ability (sand veil) instead of sand spit or shed skin which are actually useful.
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Sanctum posted:The mechanics of encore have been changed apparently, and frustratingly. The way encore previously worked I can't parse this post. You end your first paragraph with "the way encore previously worked", which suggests that the two paragraphs that follow constitute a description of how encore worked in previous generations. But then the 4th paragraph begins in a conclusory tone with what appears to be a description of the consequences of a purported change in gen 8. The wording there only makes sense if you'd described how encore works in gen 8 in addition to having described how it worked in earlier generations, which as far as I can tell, you didn't. Bulbapedia is a bit unclear on whether it changed in gen 8. They don't have a heading for gen 8, only for gen 7, yet there is a paragraph under the gen 7 heading clarifying how it works in relation to dynamax pokemon, which is nonsense because dynamax wasn't in gen 7.
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Hammerite posted:I can't parse this post. You end your first paragraph with "the way encore previously worked", which suggests that the two paragraphs that follow constitute a description of how encore worked in previous generations. But then the 4th paragraph begins in a conclusory tone with what appears to be a description of the consequences of a purported change in gen 8. The wording there only makes sense if you'd described how encore works in gen 8 in addition to having described how it worked in earlier generations, which as far as I can tell, you didn't.
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Sanctum posted:I was describing how encore worked in Gen5 and then followed that by describing how those mechanics differ from the encore mechanics in the current gen. Namely that the current gen allows you to be 'encored' into the same move continuously until you run out of moves if you are slower than the pokemon using encore every 4 turns. That's new to me. Used to be you could always select a new move on the turn that encore expired even if you were slower than the pokemon using encore. If I understand correctly, the word "so" that begins your 4th paragraph was meant to be interpreted as meaning something like "however", "alas", or "behold"? I think that in such a context the only viable interpretation of "so" is that it means "thus". Which makes your post impossible to follow as I remarked previously.
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Smogon's got descriptions for each generation.
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I know in Gen 7 Encore could lock someone into a move until they switched. Basically it works as a pseudo-psuedo-Haze and is much more versatile. I guess in Gen 5 you couldn't use it to punish set-up.
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I’ve got a Pokémon itch, my son who is 11 says all the youtubers are mean to sword and shield. Should I buy the game?
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funmanguy posted:I’ve got a Pokémon itch, my son who is 11 says all the youtubers are mean to sword and shield. Should I buy the game? You get more out of playing a game that's current, even if there are things about it that earlier games did better.
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Bongo Bill posted:You get more out of playing a game that's current, even if there are things about it that earlier games did better. unless you don't care about that stuff, in which case you can just play whichever one you want swsh is definitely more about the online aspect than previous games and if you play it years later it won't be quite the same, but if you're not super into pokemon then you should just play the one you're most interested in.
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funmanguy posted:I’ve got a Pokémon itch, my son who is 11 says all the youtubers are mean to sword and shield. Should I buy the game? they've got a bunch of problems and the campaign kind of falls apart towards the end but if you haven't played a Pokemon game in ages you'll probably really enjoy it. it can be fun and has a lot of cute little friends in it and there are some nice, twee touches to the whole PokéUK thing
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The hard part about recommending Pokemon titles to people is that they're spread across so many systems across so many years, and unlike pretty much any other big franchise they don't get ported. Gen 3, 4, and 5, which are the ones most consider the best and thus recommend, are all only playable across multiple decades old machines and can cost up to a $100 dollars a copy. Even Gen 1 and 2, which are the only entries to ever get ports, are only on a no longer supported system whose Eshop might be taken down at any moment.
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funmanguy posted:I’ve got a Pokémon itch, my son who is 11 says all the youtubers are mean to sword and shield. Should I buy the game? YouTubers survive on clicks and faux-outrage. I loved Sword and you should definitely play it. If you don't feel like spending the full $60, you can probably pick up a copy for $40-50 on SA-Mart or Facebook Marketplace.
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funmanguy posted:I’ve got a Pokémon itch, my son who is 11 says all the youtubers are mean to sword and shield. Should I buy the game? notthegoatseguy posted:YouTubers survive on clicks and faux-outrage. I loved Sword and you should definitely play it. I hated Sword. Hated everything about it: graphics/animation, game design itself, most of the new Pokemon, the lack of story and proper plotting, the culling of the dex, and even the music (usually a high point) is just there. But I hate all of those aspects because I play every single game in this stupid series and I know how much better it could have been if those directing it gave a poo poo. I'd hope those in charge would be replaced by more promising talent, but the game sold so much that this will not be happening any time soon. Anyway, all of that to say this: For anyone just coming back from not playing in a decade or more? They will likely enjoy it, maybe even love it. There's a bunch of high points and for those who haven't played in a while, all the QoL adjustments made in the last generations will surprise. So, yeah, check it out.
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