Lions017 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 8:12 PM, jetsfan4life51 said: Decided to actually do research on movesets and items, not the most balanced team but I like how it's shaping up. Annihilape is destryoing everyone with Leftovers, Bulk Up, Drain Punch and Rage Punch. Skeledirge Torch Song, Sing, Shadow Ball? I forgot the Ghost move Baxcalibur Dragon Dance, Glaive Rush, Icicle Crash, Earthquake Ceruledge Assault Vest, Bitter Blade, Swords Dance, Ghost attack then I have Kingambit for Supreme Overlord, Retaliate, Iron Head, Kowtow Cleave Houndstone Leftovers Kingambit and Houndstone get attack boosts for every fallen. Even if I revive a guy who faints again they get a bigger boost. So when I'm down and out, they can clean up. Only negative is speed with Kingambit. I like that team. Lots of new cool Pokemon this gen. I've been rolling with Skeledirge (Fire/Ghost), Baxcalibur (Dragon/Ice), Leafeon (Grass), Dachsbun (Fairy), Clodsire (Ground/Poison), and Hawlucha (Fighting/Flying). A few of them aren't necessarily the best Pokemon, but they're favorites of mine and were good enough for the single player. I do need to get some better Pokemon trained up for the raids. Almost done with the Pokedex. I have just the two tough ones (Gholdengo, Palafin) to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOUCAN Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) First person to respond to this decides if I get Scarlet or Violet edit got Violet Edited January 11, 2023 by JoshstraDaymus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 10:38 AM, JoshstraDaymus said: First person to respond to this decides if I get Scarlet or Violet edit got Violet Both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan4life51 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 The Elite 4 was too easy. My Annihilape took out the first two teams with Bulk Up, Drain Punch and Rage Fist, and I'm not over leveled. The champ I made a wrong move which cost me two pokes and then I got lucky enduring a hit with my Houndstone then his Last Respects wiped out the remaining guy. But if I went and replayed I would have crushed it. Original Elite 4, Lance, Red/Gary were always such a huge challenge. I think looking up movesets for all my pokes gave me a huge advantage for one hit KOs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lions017 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 22 minutes ago, jetsfan4life51 said: The Elite 4 was too easy. My Annihilape took out the first two teams with Bulk Up, Drain Punch and Rage Fist, and I'm not over leveled. The champ I made a wrong move which cost me two pokes and then I got lucky enduring a hit with my Houndstone then his Last Respects wiped out the remaining guy. But if I went and replayed I would have crushed it. Original Elite 4, Lance, Red/Gary were always such a huge challenge. I think looking up movesets for all my pokes gave me a huge advantage for one hit KOs. Well...yeah. If you're like me, when you were a kid you didn't really do stuff like that, which makes everything harder. I think I had a strategy guide for Red/Blue, so I knew where to go, but I was just concerned with having Pokemon that I thought looked cool. The games were a little tougher back then for sure, but I think in general people misremember the games as being super challenging. A lot of it was just due to people being kids, and a lot of the quality of life features that we have now (shared EXP, accessing boxes anywhere, etc.) make things easier now too. I know a lot of kids probably didn't spend time grinding their Pokemon with random encounters, for example. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 2 hours ago, jetsfan4life51 said: The Elite 4 was too easy. My Annihilape took out the first two teams with Bulk Up, Drain Punch and Rage Fist, and I'm not over leveled. The champ I made a wrong move which cost me two pokes and then I got lucky enduring a hit with my Houndstone then his Last Respects wiped out the remaining guy. But if I went and replayed I would have crushed it. Original Elite 4, Lance, Red/Gary were always such a huge challenge. I think looking up movesets for all my pokes gave me a huge advantage for one hit KOs. To be fair, Annihilape is kinda broken. Those 6* raids aren't supposed to be soloable, but he's one of them that can solo the raids by themselves. You train him up enough, he should be able to run through the entire game by himself. When you have an Attack BST of 115 and Rage Fist maxes out at 350 BP, there's not much surviving it. To put into comparison, Annihilape (with max EVs in ATK plus Adamant nature plus Life Orb) would have an 18.8% chance of an OHKO against Avalugg (with a max EVs in DEF and HP plus a Lax nature) who has the highest defense in the game. Annihilape is absolutely broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Lions017 said: Well...yeah. If you're like me, when you were a kid you didn't really do stuff like that, which makes everything harder. I think I had a strategy guide for Red/Blue, so I knew where to go, but I was just concerned with having Pokemon that I thought looked cool. The games were a little tougher back then for sure, but I think in general people misremember the games as being super challenging. A lot of it was just due to people being kids, and a lot of the quality of life features that we have now (shared EXP, accessing boxes anywhere, etc.) make things easier now too. I know a lot of kids probably didn't spend time grinding their Pokemon with random encounters, for example. I mean, I wouldn't say the original E4 was very difficult. Lorelei has Slowbro and Lapras as difficult ones, but as long as you brought an Electric type you were fine. Water and Psychic knocked out Bruno without any difficulty. Agatha was a joke as long as you brought a Psychic type. Lance wasn't difficult as long as you had Ice Beam. Blue was challenging only because he used different types, but as long as you weren't relying on only one it wasn't that difficult. EDIT: The original games were very grindy. The shared EXP made it less so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Anyone with Scarlet wanna help me shiny hunt the Scarlet paradoxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSteelers56 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 I haven't played a poke game since Y. Before that I was pretty much a Gen 1-2 kind of guy. I have access to a Switch and I am thinking of dipping my toes back into the pokemon water. Are the new ones worth it for a player like me? I've never hunted shinies and most everything else introduced in the later gens. Could an old geezer like me figure the new ones out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 8 hours ago, MOSteelers56 said: I haven't played a poke game since Y. Before that I was pretty much a Gen 1-2 kind of guy. I have access to a Switch and I am thinking of dipping my toes back into the pokemon water. Are the new ones worth it for a player like me? I've never hunted shinies and most everything else introduced in the later gens. Could an old geezer like me figure the new ones out? Yes. It's an Open World game, so you're not stuck to a straight-line path. Just a heads up, they're a bit glitchy. Not necessarily in an unplayable way, but it definitely feels like an unfinished game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naptownskinsfan Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 4:19 PM, MOSteelers56 said: I haven't played a poke game since Y. Before that I was pretty much a Gen 1-2 kind of guy. I have access to a Switch and I am thinking of dipping my toes back into the pokemon water. Are the new ones worth it for a player like me? I've never hunted shinies and most everything else introduced in the later gens. Could an old geezer like me figure the new ones out? I’m trying the Yellow Pikachu remake right now, wasn’t sure I was ready for all of the expanded stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSteelers56 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 hours ago, naptownskinsfan said: I’m trying the Yellow Pikachu remake right now, wasn’t sure I was ready for all of the expanded stuff. I like to replay Heart Gold on my old 3DS every now and again. I loved Yellow when I was younger. It was my favorite of the originals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOUCAN Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Just had an in game shiny encounter. Only my second ever (minus Red Gyarados back in the day). It was Toxtricity 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 19 hours ago, JoshstraDaymus said: Just had an in game shiny encounter. Only my second ever (minus Red Gyarados back in the day). It was Toxtricity That's a really good looking shiny too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ty21 Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 10:38 AM, JoshstraDaymus said: First person to respond to this decides if I get Scarlet or Violet edit got Violet Wish I’d seen this sooner so I’d known what I stood to gain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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