Spent close to an hour trying to find a Pichu. These encounter rates can fuck off.
Apparently each separate patch of grass has its own encounter rate.
Which is fucking brilliant. Obnoxious as hell but brilliant.
Spent close to an hour trying to find a Pichu. These encounter rates can fuck off.
Apparently each separate patch of grass has its own encounter rate.
Which is fucking brilliant. Obnoxious as hell but brilliant.
Watch out Roy. Cause Guzma is here to be our boy.
(Wasn't expecting him to be a Bug-Type trainer, but that is cool I guess.)
Wagomu how did you beat the game so fast? Hell when I see people say that, I think I'm playing way too slow lol
Wagomu how did you beat the game so fast? Hell when I see people say that, I think I'm playing way too slow lol
I got Thanksgiving break and, since I was so burned out from the work I did until then, I just played for these last three days straight lawl.
CRABRAWLER ACTIVATED IT'S Z POWER
Loveless somehow survives
Yeah, Vulpix is really late. You'll be in line after Rin for bred mons, but I'll be on the lookout. If anybody else wants to take up the request, though, it might be faster.
Well no rush. In the mean time I could… evolve your Rockruff for you? Or just promise something for later.
I got Thanksgiving break and, since I was so burned out from the work I did until then, I just played for these last three days straight lawl.
I suppose me being swamped with school and work myself isn't helping things (my Thanksgiving break is next week)
Based on the way I'm playing now….might be 2 weeks, a week and a half to "beat" it? lol
Well no rush. In the mean time I could… evolve your Rockruff for you? Or just promise something for later.
There's nothing early game that I need immediately, so you can send me a trash mon! I've got an egg going, so I'll PM you when it hatches.
I don't know if I have you friended on my 3DS, so be sure to send your info (mine is on my sig).
11 hours of game and just beat Ilima's trial. That was underwhelming, to say the least. If they really want to call those things "trials", I hope the other ones are not so embarrassingly easy.
Team so far is Dartrix, Butterfree, Crabrawler and Cutiefly.
Btw, with a male Butterfree, a male (eventually) Ribombee, a female Crabrawler and an intended female Golisopod in the future, I am suddenly sad I gave up on that female Litten. This could have been "Genderfuck, the Team".
p.s.: Festival Plaza. I don't like it.
We were friends in XY but apparently I deleted you the other day. Probaby because I got scared of your mii. Anyway, we're friends again.
My Friend Code is 3969-4669-8685 if anyone else wants to add me. We should get another of those spreadsheets going this gen.
And the tourneys. Those were fun.
Ok, the Festival Plaza Trade thing is dumb and/or Broken.
My Friend Code is 3969-4669-8685 if anyone else wants to add me. We should get another of those spreadsheets going this gen. .
Definitely. I think I deleted some of my Y trading partners for Smash lol
Although I am pretty I still have the majority of you guys (Rin, Wagomu, Noqanky, etc.)
Ok, the Festival Plaza Trade thing is dumb and/or Broken.
@.access:
p.s.: Festival Plaza. I don't like it.
I'm joining this train of thought.
We were friends in XY but apparently I deleted you the other day. Probaby because I got scared of your mii. Anyway, we're friends again.
My Friend Code is 3969-4669-8685 if anyone else wants to add me. We should get another of those spreadsheets going this gen.
And the tourneys. Those were fun.
It says I already have you registered lawl.
Well your egg's still hatching, so make sure that's all good, and go to the Festival Plaza in the mean time because it takes a few minutes to let you do anything.
When you're there, go to the castle and register me as a VIP since that might help? I have no fucking clue with this thing.
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I'm Baphomet on S/M. Apparently your ingame name shows up? What's yours?
It says I already have you registered lawl.
Well your egg's still hatching, so make sure that's all good, and go to the Festival Plaza in the mean time because it takes a few minutes to let you do anything.
When you're there, go to the castle and register me as a VIP since that might help? I have no fucking clue with this thing.
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I'm Baphomet on S/M. Apparently your ingame name shows up? What's yours?
My ingame name is Rei. I can't register you as VIP until you're online I think. And by online I mean in FP.
What I've figured out so far about festival plaza…
-You can't VIP someone that's not one of the 50 people on the current list. So if you have a local person that gets booted off that list, it'll keep failing even if their trainer is still standing around.
-If someone is online but you can't find their trainer, just go to the lady inside and summon them to the table and you can VIP them there
that's it. Everything else is dumb. So far the only people I've managed to VIP are my roommate and Hinscher (that's someone here, right?)
Honestly Festival Plaza makes me really really miss Join Avenue from White 2. That was so fun.
rides Tauros forever and ever
I don't ever wanna stop :'D
I am glad I avoided spoilers like the devil because I am having a blast so far. Alola Meowth is my spirit Pokemon! I love those cheeky eyes~
I don't feel challenged yet battle wise but I am loving how animated the trainers are!
Has anybody run into a shiny yet? My shiny group peeps keep posting lucky finds and I badly want to finish the game so I can start my hunt.
…Then again I don't wanna get off this Tauros...
Skullbashing people on Tauros is its own reward.
For those of you who did the trades, Name Rater is in Heahea city's tourist bureau, so go nuts.
That wasn't overly complicated! >_> Thanks, Wags!
FP is still dumb.
Well, I think it's a mess when I can never be sure whether or not the requests I'm sending work. With Rin, we kept sending each other requests for like 5 minutes at least without receiving any from the other.
My Friend Code is 3969-4669-8685 if anyone else wants to add me.
Done! Mine is in the signature (game name: Babs Jr.)
Found my first shiny!
A Magikarp :/
You have no idea… well maybe you do. But you have no idea how satisfying it was to get Tauros and start stampeding around the first island. It's like this brief catharsis of of pure freedom after cutscene hell. and I have a feeling this is going to be the trend on every other island. Maybe I'll be wrong.
Anyway. Off to the second island.
Fuck the Ghost Totem Trial. Fuck it in every way possible.
Damn some of you are fast. I only just got to the second island. Then again, I've got work . . .
Buried like 6 screens deep, instead of instantly accessible like it used to be.
You have to go to the stupid festival plaza thing, then hit the trade button. Link trade, GTS and wonder trade will all be in there.
You're on your own for figuring out how to actually make link trade work though. You have to find a person in your lobby and identify them somehow, or add someone from your friend list to your VIP room so you can easily find them… but that is a nonsense process I don't understand at all? I eventually managed it but it was a huge pain that I still don't undetstand. You maybe have to talk to them several times, or they have to be online, or sacrifice a virgin or some other nebulous requirement.
Oh for fuck's sake. Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to add you guys.
If there's one thing I think we can all agree on, it's that Festival Plaza sucks. Although I will say that having the Lottery available at a tap is handy.
My Meowth evolved….
goes in a corner and mourns for the cuteness and elegance lost in the overblown cheeks of Alolan Persian
rides Tauros forever and ever
I don't ever wanna stop :'D
…Then again I don't wanna get off this Tauros...
Have you gotten ride Stoutland and SNIFF EVERYTHING?! :D
Added you back, timeco!
Random thoughts:
-SOS battle thing is pretty cool. Managed to catch a lvl 13 Gyarados lol
-Astonish is my new favorite animation by far. So adorable
-I switched my time around to evolve my Rockruff and I might just keep it this way
-Riding Lapras<3
-Shiny Rockruff/Lycanrock are BLUE?!! I neeeeeeeed one!!!!!
Damn some of you are fast. I only just got to the second island. Then again, I've got work . . .
Me too. I only just arrived at the second island.
Anyway, SOS battles are pretty annoying for me so far, especially when you're trying to catch a Pokemon.
Oh, and I just learned of this, but I'm so glad they finally got rid of HMs!
Also, TFS doing Pokemon Moon for anyone interested
Caught a cheerleading bird and donkey and I'm starting to enjoy the game a little better. Love these two Pokemon so far! Boxed my Magnamite since I realised I'm getting alot of electric types. Wierd. This is the first game in the series where I'm actively using electric types(they were always my least favorite besides the spider line from Gen 5))
Also. I REALLY don't want to have to wait until I arrive on what? Till the 4th island to evolve my bus bug into Vikavolt(preferably female if possible… with a nickname). Anyone could offer me one between the level 20-30? Not sure what I could give in return... I'm only on the 2nd island.
SHINY FEMALE MUDBRAY freaks out
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Have you gotten ride Stoutland and SNIFF EVERYTHING?! :D
Omg yes. It's so friggin adorable I can't even XD
Just started a little while ago started with Litten everyone else I knew was going with Rowlet (First Fire Starter I ever picked went with Bulbasaur, Totodile, Mudkip, Turtwig, Oshawatt and Chespin) So it should be fun but now I have no idea what other pokemon to get to go with Litten
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Got a late start on it too got it at the Midnight release then got super busy and swamped over the weekend and couldn't play it until tonight
Current Team
Bumbo the Dartrix
Bort the Grubbin
Burpo the Grimer
Bruce the Cutiefly
BopYaInDaBap the Crabrawler
Chungus
just got to the second island and
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I'm digging the fashion
I am envious of your naming skills Ruin.
I agree that the fashion in this game is the bomb! I want a couple of these shirts in my rl wardrobe too! O:
I NOW HAVE 26 MIMIKYU!!!!
Wags, who has already maxed out his Cool levels, was EVEN MORE cool enough to actually get me a Female one, Apparently I got lucky with the eggs… ALSO apparently, the very next thing I encountered on my playthrough was the breeding place.... and I had a male Misdreavus....
About an hour or so, and ~30 Mimmikyu Later I now have female Mimikyu with a Brave nature for myself, and a Mimikyu with a Jolly nature for Jessica..... and seemingly endless GTS and Wonder Trade fodder.
So . . . . . the nursery I encounter on the second island DOES hold pokemon and breeds eggs . . . . but they don't level up while they're there. DAMMIT.
SHINY FEMALE MUDBRAY freaks out
Goddammit why does everyone else get nice shinies!? Out of all the pokemon games I've played I've only gotten like 3 shiny 'mons.
Just got a modest Eevee. Well that's tempting but I'm going to box it.
Now that I think about it, I've gotten some great natures so far.
So . . . . . the nursery I encounter on the second island DOES hold pokemon and breeds eggs . . . . but they don't level up while they're there. DAMMIT.
Goddammit why does everyone else get nice shinies!? Out of all the pokemon games I've played I've only gotten like 3 shiny 'mons.
If it helps I had one. A Krabby all the way back in gold.
I tougth that the electric trial was a blast.
Also I feel like sos battles happen a lot less often if you arent power leveled, I mean when I was hunting for the dex on island one they kept happening but I haven't seen one succeed, even with little tries on island 3.
Also, while an annoying mechanic, it has its rewards.
It gives you EXP, but when trying to capture a pokemon, it is VERY annoying.
When you are dexing, yes.
Spent about an hour searching for a female Salandit before realising I probably won't even use it. Then right when I was giving up she finally appeared.
Soooo . . . . I can ride a Lapras. Does that mean I never have to bother with Surf again?
Spent about an hour searching for a female Salandit before realising I probably won't even use it. Then right when I was giving up she finally appeared.
Isn't that always the case?
Seems like it. Maybe I can pretend to give up looking for this bear…
New favorite thing: Lapras Donuts!
Ride pokemon substitutes HMS and the item finder, surf is the one useful hm though.
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Egg group wise the only new combination was bug-fairy from combed/rimbombee. They aren't designing with that in mind I guess.
Finished the game today. I'm going around catching everything now, but I have until January for it to matter, so there's no rush anymore.
I had my main team picked before release, and I found that two Pokemon were problems. I had no idea where to find Dhelmise, and Sandshrew was Moon exclusive.
I resolved both of those soon after the end, and have trained them up to my main team's level.
Decidueye, Mudsdale, Sandslash, Dhelmise, Toucannon and Pallosand. Too many ghost types.
My Meowth evolved….
goes in a corner and mourns for the cuteness and elegance lost in the overblown cheeks of Alolan Persian
Ahahahahahahahaha XD When I showed Zeph what caused my pout last night, he started talking like Garfield Persian too so that's extra funny now
….My poor poor handsome Meowth... :cwy:
Passed the second trial.
! It was pretty fun. People said that Totem Wishwashi would be a pain and I can see how -> Helping Hand + Aqua Ring + calling for help. GG if you didn't pick Rowlet.
! I was a little annoyed at the handholding.
Lana: okay next pond
me: goes like 2 inches out of the way to try to fight a trainer
Lana: no this way
Ignoring Rotem and the flagpole, I opted to explore the volcano for a bit….I found a Cubone, and was about to catch it whennnnnnn holy shit it calls a Kangaskhan. My heart nearly stopped, I LOVE Kangaskhan.
Also I'm probably gonna end up using more than six mons again, but I'm turning exp share on and off. Slowpoke I'm still iffy on because its special attack is garbage, but Munchlax is a monster brawler, so she's definitely saying. There's no stopping the true OG though - my Grimer.
I NOW HAVE 26 MIMIKYU!!!!
c-can you breed me one?
Got through the second trial, finally discovering NEW things that I wasn't spoiled on its so exciting! A berry plant thing, a mantis plant that looks super cute, a water spider, new mushroom thing that I assume like all mushrooms, learns spore in its mid 30's but evolves around 20, a fish that turns into a bigger fish… Gotta use alll the things! What does it evolve into it, what does it learn, does its typing change? Squeeee.
Still haven't come across a ton of things I knew in advance I wanted though like Wimpod, electric steel hedgehog, sea cucumber... and of course Sandshrew but I figure that would have to be in an icy area.
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Goddammit why does everyone else get nice shinies!? Out of all the pokemon games I've played I've only gotten like 3 shiny 'mons.
Because once every two years you suddenly get a ton of people playing a new game and reporting on it all at once so it throws off the perception curve.
I've only found a few shinies in the wild myself, but two of the ones I got I found on the same day within like an hour of each other. It's just random odds.
The SOS battles increase the Shiny rate
After playing around with it for a bit, I really do like the SoS mechanics. Atleast in theory. It kinda gets in the way of hunting, but it's cool when you see things like Cubone randomly calling Kangaskhan, Eevee calling Espeon, or Magikarp calling Gyarados. It adds a bit more dimension to habitat, although it's tedious as hell to control.
Also… The little bit of freedom the second island gives is nice, although it's still mostly gated. Caught a Cubone and figured I'd swap it out for Hariyama.. who was kinda just there for damage. Looking forward to playing with her Alola version. Traded a Lilup for this plant bud pokemon I didn't like in the trailers, but then in evolved into Steenee... who looks like some crossbreed thing in the Ralts line. I may or may not swap her out for another grass type since my team is starting to look too much like a cast for an elegant Pokemon Contest(alongside Brionne and Oricorio), and I'd like some variety.
Also randomly got a Rowlett in Wonder Trade... Though I'm never going to use it since I commited to my choice of Popillo. I never used WT before, and I honestly feel kinda bad sending trash on there and possibly getting something good. But hey, it's the rules.