Pokémon [Hype Thread] 01 December 2019 |
- [Hype Thread] 01 December 2019
- I Made a custom Mega Gallade shiny
- Bring back mega evolutions
- Did You Know Eternatus is The LARGEST Normal Pokemon in the Series? Probably Not.
- It’d be cool to see a rival that starts out like Hau or Hop, but they increasing grow to despise you.
- I redeemed myself for a mistake nearly 20 years old.
- Would rather wait longer for a better game
- I wish carkol evolved into a train though
- Caption this! - Math Sonia meme
- Anyone else feels like the pokemon camp is worthless since you can't pet your mons?
- I mixed up the fossils. It was a mistake and I am ashamed...
- You shouldn't be able to miss against Dynamaxed pokemon
- Just noticed that the floor in the wild area station contains gen1 pokemon that can gigantamax
- With all the negativity, I'd like to at least give credit where credit is due for Pokemon Sword & Shield - The Gym Leaders (and the gym battle themes)
- Game Freak seems to hate the versatility of their own franchise
- A random trainer battle on route 8 was far more strategic and challenging than any gym in this game, and that's weird.
- Replaying Platinum and came across this line of dialogue
- Why is the raid stamp system so awful
- After about 7 years and over 400 hours of gameplay, i've finally beaten Pokémon Black 2.
- Level 1 Team Beats Uber Legendary Team
- I got a wonder-traded Torchic from Mexico..
- A Weapon to Surpass Genesect
- I think the Day care Toxel should’ve been Gigantimax.
- One feature I wish never got removed
| [Hype Thread] 01 December 2019 Posted: 01 Dec 2019 05:08 AM PST Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON! This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads--please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments! This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed -- please report them if you see them :D This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post a screenshot of your accomplishment in the comments below, accompanied by some indication (username on a piece of paper in the photo, for example) that it's yours. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear. Only one prestige flair can be assigned at once, and prestige flairs will overwrite other event flair awarded on this subreddit—pick carefully! Flair is currently available for:
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| I Made a custom Mega Gallade shiny Posted: 01 Dec 2019 03:21 AM PST |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 04:31 AM PST I really loved them so much. When I saw the dynamax thing... It's not the same, Pokemon just get bigger and change attacks. Mega evolutions brought new tactics and made underrated Pokémon to have a chance in competitive, as well as bringing new designs that were super cool. RIP Mega Mawile, Mega Bannete, Mega Beedrill... Edit: I now those have been culled as well but I really liked the concept of megas :( [link] [comments] |
| Did You Know Eternatus is The LARGEST Normal Pokemon in the Series? Probably Not. Posted: 01 Dec 2019 05:37 AM PST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvbvb0fMiY GameFreak did not bother to scale the Pokemon properly during battles. That's why you get a midget Wailord and Tyranitar during battles. As a note, this is also the generations where size is the new gimmick. What were they thinking xD? As a note Pokemon Colosseum, Gale of Darkness, Battle Revolution, and Let's Go had proper scaling. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 04:39 PM PST It'd definitely make for a more interesting rival and probably the most interesting little bit of story we'd see from Pokémon since BW and B2W2. They'd start off friendly with the rival and would be pretty chill losing to the player or getting behind in the gyms. By the end of gym 2, they'd start to be less fiends and more annoyed because you're doing everything better than they are. By gym 5, your rival dreads whenever they see your face. But somehow, your rival finds it in them to become the champion and they are boastful of how they are finally the one who's ahead in your little rivalry only for you to beat them in one last battle. And of course their theme is going to change throughout the story to something that sounds like a typical rival battle to more of a evil team leader boss theme. [link] [comments] |
| I redeemed myself for a mistake nearly 20 years old. Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:09 PM PST When I was a young stupid kid I came across a Vulpix in Pokémon Gold that had some weird graphical bug when I saw it. I already caught one so I dropped it and moved on. Years later when I was less dumb I came to realize, to my horror, I had fainted a shiny Vulpix. I have never seen another shiny Pokémon since then. Today, I entered the Wild Area. I see a Purrloin, and see square shinies come off of it. Me and my friend look up the colorization to be sure I wasn't seeing things. One pound, and a poke ball, and I got it. I corrected the mistake of my youthful folly. Never leaving my party. [link] [comments] |
| Would rather wait longer for a better game Posted: 30 Nov 2019 11:27 PM PST It's not like I hated Pokémon Sw/Sh but after beating Leon I am disappointed at the lack of post game. I am also disappointed in the simplistic nature of the story line in which you only act as the hero once. Every other time it's Leon doing the work and you carrying on with you gym challenge which leaves me to believe that the devs were either to lazy to add this content in. Or simply didn't have enough time to add these types of things in. I don't know about everyone else but I would rather wait 6 more months for a game with more content then what has been delivered and I wanted to know what everyone else thought about this. [link] [comments] |
| I wish carkol evolved into a train though Posted: 01 Dec 2019 03:51 AM PST That would be badass. Because then we would have to take on a very posh conductor. Which means we could also take on his other similarly themed Pokemon that make up a train operating crew. A swanna that supplies water, a darumaka that sustains the flame, a machoke to probably check the passenger's tickets and a hatterene which serves the passenger's refreshments. Which would mean we could make a murder at the galar express subplot. Just my two cents really. [link] [comments] |
| Caption this! - Math Sonia meme Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:57 AM PST |
| Anyone else feels like the pokemon camp is worthless since you can't pet your mons? Posted: 30 Nov 2019 11:50 PM PST I remember my first Y playthrough and I wish I could get a stat of how many hours I spent petting pokemon because I'm positive it would have been a lot. It was simply put one of the best feature in the game for me, it's the one thing you've always wanted to do since you were a kid. Just pet your pokemon. The mon amie customization and mini games left a lot to be desired but it didnt really matter because the main feature was just too good. And even the updated sun moon version with refresh was great. Camp just feels... pointless to me. Dont get me wrong it has some freshness value and I do love seeing the cute randomized interactions, but it feels so devoid of anything to actually interact with the mons. The call feature is clunky and the toy thing is monotonous. The ball is ok but most mons bug out and to catch the ball but then turn in the complete opposite direction and run away. The animations are cute but only on certain mons and generally inconsistent. Just the other day I had Indeedee, Jellicent and Centiskorch in the camp. Indeedee has very cute animations and is very endearing to play with as you would expect from her design, jellicent straight up does nothing and has no animations, and centiskorch has really good animations for when he's crawling to you or raising up to talk to you which is cute, but then he turns around with his body stretched out and rotating on a central axis and it just kills the immersion. Anyone else feels this way? I just noticed I have no interest in spending time in camp nearly as much as I did with mon amie, or refresh after a battle. Also I think the pet feature probably cant come back because the switch screen isnt made for constant touching [link] [comments] |
| I mixed up the fossils. It was a mistake and I am ashamed... Posted: 01 Dec 2019 03:45 AM PST https://i.redd.it/5xvz6w5h80241.png - Dracoarcto https://i.redd.it/1ueaylzqd0241.png - Zoltvish https://i.redd.it/atymtj0lxl141.png - Drarctozolish [link] [comments] |
| You shouldn't be able to miss against Dynamaxed pokemon Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:14 PM PST At the very minimum you should get a flat accuracy increase. They're like 10 times the size it only makes sense considering it's like trying to hit the broad side of a barn. I've been in plenty of scenarios battling where my opponent has set up with their dynamaxed mon and my only opportunity to KO it has crumbled because my move missed. It's just not fun. [link] [comments] |
| Just noticed that the floor in the wild area station contains gen1 pokemon that can gigantamax Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:27 PM PST image taken from ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWacv7bjQTw&t=111s ) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 08:21 PM PST This isn't about telling people to stop criticizing the game or anything. I have my own complaints with the game, but I thought that the game handled its music and Gym Leaders extremely well (for me, anyways) The music is pretty self explanatory. The Gym leader theme is just a freaking blast to listen to. I don't think I've heard as catchy of a tune from Pokemon for quite some time. Next, I know people are not happy with the lack of Elite 4s, but I really liked how they basically had the Gym Leaders go all out against you during the finals. Hell, Nessa even tells us that the Gym matches are just tests for new trainers, and that Gym leaders don't go all out till the finals. I really like this idea since it always felt weird that some random upstart of a trainer could take on absolute pros from the beginning and wreck them. It makes much more sense that gym challneges are actually just tests tailored to beginners. By the time you reached the league, the whole "special trainer" makes more sense since you as a character had time to build up experience. Best part about it all is that all the Gym Leaders towards the end have moves and even some Pokemon to cover their usual single type disadvantages. Finally, the league battle theme for them is just freaking awesome. [link] [comments] |
| Game Freak seems to hate the versatility of their own franchise Posted: 30 Nov 2019 05:51 PM PST It seems like Game Freak wants to force its ideas of playstyle onto everyone now and discard anything that's not in their mind. Pokémon used to be so versatile for the many ways it could be played, from casual story players, over online players and collectors, breeders, up to competitive battlers and shiny hunters. Now, they're starting to remove features for each of those groups. The story is getting less involved. The online features are declining. The collectable Pokédex is shrinking. Game Freak seems to hate soft-reset hunting now, too.Starters are shiny locked in addition to legendaries and Mystery Gifts, fine, they always explain it by saying it would be weird if the cutscene Pokémon looks different from the one you actually get, I kinda can get behind that, at least you can breed a shiny starter. But even if you just want to get a different nature, the soft-resetting in SwoSh is terrible. There is no L+R+Plus+Minus or something, like in previous games. You have to go to the Homescreen, close the game, wait for the Switch to clear it out of RAM, start it back up and load all the assets, and then try again. (And then you have to sit through a cutscene like in X/Y/SuMo before you can check the nature.) Mystert GiftsIn games up to B/W, there were Mystery Gift items that could be used to unlock unique places, cutscenes and battles for getting rare items or event Pokémon. With Gen 4, they started just handing you Pokémon by the Mystery Gift delivery guy instead, making this the default model for all events with X/Y. Now, they're taking it a step further again. Mystery Gifts are not even delivered by a delivery guy. They just straight up go into your party or Box, no Wonder Card, no text explanation, no dialog. Just a contextless "here is a Gigantamax Meowth, have fun". This also has a different repercussion: As the Mystery Gift is downloaded and immediately delivered, there is
u/kelanatr confirmed that the game auto-saves after receiving a Mystery Gift, even with auto-save turned off. I get it that there are candies and Mints and Bottle Caps and whatnot to change nature and IVs afterwards, but what if you want a 0 Speed Mystery Gift Pokémon? Or you just want to do it the old-fashioned way? (Edit: Or a specific gender?) I think it's great from GF that they include more and more QoL improvements for building competitive Pokémon, but the trend for them seems to have become to remove options. They force you to use what they think is the correct play style. For me, Pokémon always was one of the most versatile games, for all the different ways you could play it.I don't understand why they try to remove this bit by bit. The forced Exp. Share is a prime example that this is purely by choice, not coincidental, as programming in an Exp. Share toggle is absolutely trivial if they wanted to. The many ways to play Pokémon is one of the main reasons why it's so successful in all age groups. Just look at all the Pokétubers and Twitch streamers doing so many different things with the same Pokémon game, fueling marketing and fun for these games. I'm so sad to see this go. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:18 PM PST I'm referring to Colleagues Alison and Jordan. They use a sand team. Their lead is a Sand Rush Excadrill and a Sand Stream Hippowdon. Excadrill will use dig and Hippowdon will use yawn, essentially forcing you to let something go to sleep in order to get any damage off on Excadrill. If you have a flying type, Excadrill starts spamming rock slide - combined with sand rush, it's very likely to outspeed and grab some flinches. If that isn't enough, if you faint Hippowdon first, the next mon on that side will be Purserrker, which boosts Excadrill's metal claws to a pretty nasty level (and the sandstorm is likely still up, so Excadrill is fast). Even if both of the two end up going down together, that leaves Purrserker and Lucario up together - another pretty good combination. This is the closest thing a fight has had to strategy so far (I am 6 badges in).
There's no battle plan or hidden tech in any of the gyms so far. None of them use any held items or off-type mons. Their abilities and moves don't seem to synergize. It seems the bulk of the strategies thus far are to send out Pokemon one at a time and go for damage. Each Pokemon usually has a coverage move, but without things like focus sash, choice scarf, assault vest, etc, they rarely get a chance to use those coverage moves effectively. All of this could be fixed by just giving gym leader Pokemon some kind of cohesive strategy. Gordie's team should have had a Sand Stream Gigalith holding a smooth rock as its lead. That alone would make it a harder fight and given us some idea that Gordie actually earned his spot as a gym leader. Add a sturdy Pokemon with self-destruct/explosion to remove a team's designated grass/water type and suddenly you have yourself a threatening rock team. For some of the others:
I don't want these gyms to be annoyingly hard, I just want them to be as challenging, cohesive, and strategic as a random route trainer's team. They're gym leaders! Edit: seeing a lot of "It's a kids game though!" I'll just post my response here: "kids" range from 5 to 13 and have wildly different abilities. Also, kids frequently play shooters and online games where they face human opponents. Also, games like Ocarina of Time, Battletoads, Contra, etc. were all kids games. Why did kids suddenly become braindead? Those all existed when strategy guides were paperbacked and not easily accessed, yet we all grew up beating them just fine. (The answer is kids aren't dumb, the argument is patronizing.) Finally: you know what else is "a kids game?" Pokemon Sword. The game I am playing. The game with that sand team doubles match that can't be bypassed. The doubles match that all the kids playing SwSh would have to beat. They seem to have handled it okay. [link] [comments] |
| Replaying Platinum and came across this line of dialogue Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:04 AM PST I know Game Freak didn't intend to foreshadow a Sword and Shield feature with this line; this post isn't meant to express that. Just thought this was slightly amusing, lol. Kinda reminiscent of the Devon researcher in Gen 3 that referred to the Dream World in Black and White. [link] [comments] |
| Why is the raid stamp system so awful Posted: 01 Dec 2019 06:29 AM PST It would also be nice if stamps refreshed on their own and didn't make me spam surprise trade and spam the filters for a CHANCE at the ability to hit refresh, then pray for the chance that it refreshes and shows me raids,then PRAY that the raid isn't old and/or hasn't been cancelled immediately causing communication errors and leaving a "dead entry" in my stamp list that I can't join I feel like a PlayStation 2 game from 15 years ago with the rare online play component has better systems for joining and finding matches than this 2019 game... Does anyone know of any better system than spamming a cycle of wonder trade > look at filters > close y comm > open and look at filters > close, wait a few seconds, open again > cancel trade > repeat until you can miraculously hit x to refresh > repeat until you finally see battles > hope they haven't been cancelled/filled > repeat if so It's so tedious [link] [comments] |
| After about 7 years and over 400 hours of gameplay, i've finally beaten Pokémon Black 2. Posted: 01 Dec 2019 10:42 AM PST |
| Level 1 Team Beats Uber Legendary Team Posted: 01 Dec 2019 09:56 AM PST Took me a while to figure out a full level 1 team that could reliably beat legendary Uber teams without using multiple focus sashes and finally pulled it off. Here's proof [link] [comments] |
| I got a wonder-traded Torchic from Mexico.. Posted: 01 Dec 2019 06:15 AM PST |
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| I think the Day care Toxel should’ve been Gigantimax. Posted: 30 Nov 2019 02:48 PM PST It would've been the perfect Pokémon for the player character to have as their "signature" Gigantimax Pokémon, I mean to my knowledge, almost all of the other Gigamax Pokémon are someone's signature (excluding the event ones and the bugs from what I know.) so why not have ours be Toxtricity? Granted some may deem that "op", but to be fair, Kabu has a Gigantimax Centiskorch and he's only the third gym, it's not the end of the world. Plus, I'm just not a fan of Giga Toxtricity being event only, imo that just encourages people to hack it in. [link] [comments] |
| One feature I wish never got removed Posted: 30 Nov 2019 07:13 PM PST With Diamond/Pearl/Platinum remakes likely, it got me thinking about some of the features they had in those games. The one feature that I really wish they would bring back for every game is battling every trainer to 'see' every single pokemon in the Pokedex (excl. Legends and Mythics). You shouldn't have to go elsewhere to work out which pokemon you haven't seen yet, to then find out where you need to go to catch them. On that note, there are far too few trainers in Sword and Shield. [link] [comments] |
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