I somehow managed to catch a shiny G-Max Coalossal without a Master Ball, in a Raid hosted by someone I randomly happened to connect to online. And this was before the current event started, meaning it would presumably have still had the base 3/255 catch rate. Worst part is: I didn't even notice that it was shiny until afterwards.
Pokemon Sword and Shield - Galexit Edition
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If you lived in a Pokemon game as a gym leader or elite four member, what Pokemon type would you specialize as?
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Ok, I have to tell my luck, before sword, my shinny count was almost only random stuff from gts or wonder trade that were for sure hacked, or a trade that ended in one shiny just because they had it.
That has changed, since the chonker rabbit, a shinny diggersby.
I managed to Masuda a darumaka and an applin, and then get two shiny magikarps in the event.
Then I went back to X for HAs in safari and hordes. A shiny cascoon in safari and a shiny geodude in horde (that I managed to catch luckily)
Then I traded a bunch on reddit, like 60+ HA to another collector, and as he had less to give me, for the last 20 mons he gave me a shiny eevee
I got a shiny zigzagoon from gts
A few of the ultra wild ones, 3 of them mine a few more from a cart that I bought online that still had mons in it.
And then yesterday a shiny Dunsparce. But I had saved 5 eggs before, and I knew from people of this community that I can turn that roll into something greater. And now I got a shiny Treecko instead of That dunsparce.
I went from 0 shinnies ever, to 6 legit ones. Well, I had hedged the odds to my side by the shiny charm and matsuda, but still I am happy.
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Only for not promoted raids.
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And only for solo raids.
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That's definitely not true.
Its true for promoted raids and purple beams I believe, I have yet to fail to catch anything from a purple beam started by me.
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Finally caught all G-Max Pokemon now have 4 shiny versions as well. But I'm done with the game until the DLC the version exclusives really burned me out.
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Shiny emolga from a friend safari ^_^
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I was thinking that if we get DLC it would be something like armor and crown instead of axe, spear or lance, since holding both sword and shield would require both hands to hold at the same time so it was unlikely we'd get another hand held weapon
I know the logic sounds a little funky but that's just what I thought
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Like, have you guys played Ni no Kuni? That has collecting, team building and has significantly better story, music and art direction compared to the pokemon series. It's also on Switch right now.
I bought Ni no Kuni basically because of this post of yours.
! This is Mother 3 all over again. Please stop making me play games in which my mom dies immediately. ;_;
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I was thinking that if we get DLC it would be something like armor and crown instead of axe, spear or lance, since holding both sword and shield would require both hands to hold at the same time so it was unlikely we'd get another hand held weapon
I know the logic sounds a little funky but that's just what I thought
If you hold the sword in your mouth it frees up one hand.
There's still hope for Pokemon Gun.Oh, and you could fit a weapon under each armpit so Pokemon Hatchet and Spear can come too.
You could probably tie some maces and nunchucks to each wrist too…
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I'd go with Cape and Greaves or Gauntlet. I know that the armor can be all of that excep the cape but…
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Pokemon War-Horse?
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Here's the promised Pokemon Home info.
https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/
At least you can transfer Pokemon for free, and the Pokemon Bank connectivity will be free for a month.
A bit weird that you can't access the GTS with your Switch though.
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Here's the promised Pokemon Home info.
https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/
At least you can transfer Pokemon for free, and the Pokemon Bank connectivity will be free for a month.
A bit weird that you can't access the GTS with your Switch though.I'm assuming a month starting from Home's release date?
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I'm assuming a month starting from Home's release date?
Yep.
But I just realized that with SWSH not having all the Pokemon, any non SWSH or LGPE Pokemon will be stuck in Home, and without paying you only have 30 slots.
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Here's the promised Pokemon Home info.
https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/
At least you can transfer Pokemon for free, and the Pokemon Bank connectivity will be free for a month.
A bit weird that you can't access the GTS with your Switch though.
My understanding is that the Pokemon Bank app will be free for a month. To transfer from Bank to Home, you still need to pay for a premium account.
30 pokemon without premium is kinda lame. That's like 1 box of pokemon. But at least they have a National Dex.
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@Bond:
My understanding is that the Pokemon Bank app will be free for a month. To transfer from Bank to Home, you still need to pay for a premium account.
Oh, well that sucks. Sorry I misunderstood.
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Yeah, Bond an Avant is right. We'll get Bank/Transport for free for one month again, but only the paid version of Home connects with Bank, so you'll still need to pay for it.
Overall, it is not as bad as expected. Even though limited, the free version allows for all the trade functions so we won't have to pay to have access to GTS (only to upgrade the amount of pokémon we can have in it, but even the free version already allows more than the GTS allowed in previous generations). The only features exclusive to the paid version are the IV judge, the Bank connectivity and hosting trade rooms (you can still join them in the free version).
What I am curious about is that the Home website doesn't mention the Switch Online anywhere, not even when talking about the Switch connectivity. Does it mean Home doesn't require Switch Online to transfer things to SwSh? If it is so, the fear of having to pay twice to transfer things (paying for both Home and Switch Online) was unfounded and we might actually be able to do it without paying for any of them at all. If that's how it is, great, I dropped Sword almost as soon as the post-game chapter ended, but having the ability to actually finish the dex without paying extra might bring me back to it.
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Seems nice, I’d wait for the pricing for the final judgment, but after heavy use of bank, gts, and the judge function, looks way better, and having to get home to procede a trade set up on reddit, or being able to snipe things on gts, or do giveaways easily seems fun.
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16$ the year? I already have a living dex, so I’ll probably pay, but... I hope it comes free with the Nintendo online subscription.
I could surrender to common sense and transfer only those in the galar dex for now with the free month, but it is the price of a fancy meal for the year.
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Since there's such a stark difference between unpaid and paid storage, what happens if your membership lapses? Does everything above thirty get deleted or just rendered inaccessible until you resubscribe?
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This is probably a dumb question, but can't one just not transfer whatever Pokemon are SW/SH uncompatible to home? Keep them in whatever game one already caught them, and transfer the ones you can? Or does it not work like that`
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@Daz:
This is probably a dumb question, but can't one just not transfer whatever Pokemon are SW/SH uncompatible to home? Keep them in whatever game one already caught them, and transfer the ones you can? Or does it not work like that`
Yes you can just transfer what you want not everything.
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What exactly is the theme for this generation’s Starters?
Lately the starters have some sort of them behind theme, for example generation six has each starter represent one of the three major RPG classes Chesnaught is a fighter/warrior, Delphox is a mage and Greninja is a theif
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What exactly is the theme for this generation’s Starters?
Lately the starters have some sort of them behind theme, for example generation six has each starter represent one of the three major RPG classes Chesnaught is a fighter/warrior, Delphox is a mage and Greninja is a theif
It's just British. Inteleon=Spy=Bond. Rillaboom=Drums=Beatles. Cinderace=Soccer
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Home's trading room sounds cool, but the "mystery" aspect of what pokemon you're trading for baffles me. I get thats what wonder trade is for, but if I've set up a room to trade with friends I kinda want to know what Im trading for.
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It's just British. Inteleon=Spy=Bond. Rillaboom=Drums=Beatles. Cinderace=Soccer
Good to know, thanks!
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Home's trading room sounds cool, but the "mystery" aspect of what pokemon you're trading for baffles me. I get thats what wonder trade is for, but if I've set up a room to trade with friends I kinda want to know what Im trading for.
That's the weirdest thing for me too. I don't know who the trading room is built for.
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Anyone know how to go about getting the other two starters?
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Anyone know how to go about getting the other two starters?
I'll go ahead and make you some eggs right now, if you'd like. My friend code is 4824-5506-2894. Which ones do you need?
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Well just in case you do get on, I'll be up for another 2 hours and went ahead and made some eggs.
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I'll go ahead and make you some eggs right now, if you'd like. My friend code is 4824-5506-2894. Which ones do you need?
Thank you so much! I need grookey and Sobble, thank you again
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Thank you so much! I need grookey and Sobble, thank you again
No problem. I'm in a max raid right now, but it'll only take a minute. My In game name is Andrex and I'll just use code 8981.
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I'm out of the max raid with the code going. I also have a third pokemon for you if you like.
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I believe that the room trade thing could be useful for community events or content creators or such. Other than that is just wonder trade with extra steps.
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SwSh sold +16 million copies in 2019, making it the highest selling Pokémon game in its launch period.
I was hoping the numbers would decline a lot after the opening week as a means to make GF think "you know, what? Maybe we should try to raise the bar for once instead of always aiming a bit lower than last time", but at the same time I was SO annoyed by all the reddit whining last year that I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I read that… I suppose I am a petty guy.
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Both, yeah.
And again, there is the fact that if they should read this data with the plus of the switch general instal base and bite sized rpg game sessions bonus, that they probably didn’t go all out because they don’t do that in first game on a console because they just don’t have the know how, and that doing “just the same, but more” requires a ton of polish, thing that by the sheer scale of the franchise they can’t do in one go, and a bunch of extra details that I’m not privy to.
Offload the bumping up of existing mons to another company or studio, and the models’ loading pipeline, so that the next time they limit the , as they always do as no game have you ever been able to get them all alone, for it to be only for competitive purposes, and not main game/collections/casual play.With the main team only in charge of approving the animations, the new mons and the actual game, having jumped the initial hurdle of the HD jump, and that they can offload features, like what home promises to be doing, sidestepping the need of a Nintendo online subscription, I think that things would improve enough.
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And just as expected you can't transfer items.
Also it's quite annoying how many features are not available on the switch.Surprisingly you're not allowed to transfer regular Slowpoke yet.
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My main gripe so far is that all of the Hyper Trained IVs were reset when I transferred my mons from gen 7. Is the same thing going to happen yet again moving forward to new games? Pretty annoying.
Edit: For that matter, now I'm paranoid that the effects of the nature mints will also end up ignored as they don't actually change a mon's nature.
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Serebii claims that it was fixed, can you check your mons to confirm it?
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Everything I have in Home still shows original IVs. I already transferred a bunch into Sword though and they're probably screwed forever.
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Capped mons have to keep their original stats somewhere for breeding purposes, my guess was that home was ignoring the caped bit, but sword shouldn’t be able to do that.
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Not sure what you're getting at. I'm talking about mons that I was importing from Gen 7. I think as soon as they imported to Home from Bank, all the hyper trained stat data was completely lost. It doesn't show in Home, and it doesn't show after transferring to Sword. I think it's permanently gone. I had to spend about 25 extra bottle caps (and one gold) to redo most of my shinies, and that's just the ones that are currently compatible with Sw/Sh. It will be a LOT more if/when the rest are compatible, whether for this gen or future.
But again, I have the fear that moving from Sw/Sh to Home and then to future gens, it will be the same. And I'm not bold enough to try transferring out of Sword and into Home to check if that part of it works. I've wasted enough resources already.
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That’s awful man, so shitty with game freak.
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So there's a fourth mythical coming. It will be fully revealed on pokemon day (2/27):
I didn't like any of the other three, but based on the silhouette alone this one looks promising.
EDIT: Oh, boy, I just downloaded Home and I gave a loud laugh at Grand Oak's grand dream. Should we tell him? I suppose the guy never left Galar.
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That is actually the first mythical of this gen.
The Wolves, Eternatus and the two incoming for the DLC are legendaries. I wonder if the kid from the movies is actually the Pokemon and it can somehow transform, that or we get a Tarzan scenario with this monkey like Pokemon raising the kid, the kid has similar clothing to the Pokemon appearance.
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Which other new Galar forms can we expect, other than Slowpoke.
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That is actually the first mythical of this gen.
The Wolves, Eternatus and the two incoming for the DLC are legendaries.
I always called all of those Legendaries.
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Which other new Galar forms can we expect, other than Slowpoke.
The DLC trailer shows what is all but confirmed to be Galarian Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres.
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I mean, other forms that weren't shown yet. Coz I don't think Slowpoke and the bird legendaries are going to be the only ones.
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Is it just me or does that silhouette just look like a Gigantamax form for Incineroar? Even the tail is identical.