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SO found a random shiny stantler

No outbreak or anything

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Abilities? no

Natures? yes

EVs and IVs? ehhhh, kinda? not really? you give pokemon items to increase their effort level and that increases stats

They removed abilities but kept natures? That's kinda weird, I'd be expecting the opposite.

So... they just merged EVs and IVs to provide a single type of stat mechanic or something like that? So just regular stats that can be increased with items much like candies did in Let's Go? That's neat!

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Abilities? no

Natures? yes

EVs and IVs? ehhhh, kinda? not really? you give pokemon items to increase their effort level and that increases stats

They removed abilities but kept natures? That's kinda weird, I'd be expecting the opposite.

So... they just merged EVs and IVs to provide a single type of stat mechanic or something like that? So just regular stats that can be increased with items much like candies did in Let's Go? That's neat!

the combat in this game is different than other pokemon games. its more like other jrpgs like smt where there is an attack order instead of moves having priority/speed ties/etc that pokemon games have. the pokemon still have abilities for stuff like pokemon home but don't appear in game. ivs are gone and evs are gained from stat boosting items. natures are in the game because it would be boring for pokemon to be just stat sticks

Got a shiny staravia


and a shiny lickitung

So far, I've caught a shiny Rhyhorn and a shiny Piplup.

alpha chimecho and basculin
rest shiny

I hate the unown quest with a passion, and Im only ABCDE in

At least my reward for getting all 28 is being able to shiny hunt them once it is all done.

Finished unowns



btw best pokemon girl

Wonder how long this game was in development for

Grass Kitty is objectively the best starter of the new trio


also fire zodiac debunked?

i love all of the starters so far! there's never really been a set of starters where i've immediately liked all of them. i think their evolutions will make or break them for me, but we dont have them yet unfortunately

yeah design wise grass cat is probs the best looking. But duck has hat

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going with weed cat for sure

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Grass Kitty is objectively the best starter of the new trio


also fire zodiac debunked?

my theory is that fuecoco's final evo loses limbs like serperior to be a big snake

Grass: furry bait
Water:duck with bigger hat
fire: croc but big

My final evo type prediction
fire ghost ?????
water/steel ????
grass/dark (Stealynx)

So I finally managed to beat the final fight in the post game, and as a reward my luck just so happened to get this baby.
The only Hisuian form shiny I wanted before even seeing it, and now I am a proud momma of a shiny foxy boy. He's level 29 so only one level from evolving, but I am not training or evolving him till I can transfer him into Pokemon Scarlet or Violet!
Next to Kitz my Alpha Zoroark for size comparison.

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my prediction for fuecoco's final evo it not only will he lose his limbs like snivy, but it'll also be some kinda quetzalcoatl thing, fits thematically with the region

It's not gonna be a snake, there is folklore that fits the region named coco and he looks like a pepper.
So it's most likely fire/ghost as a joke on "ghost pepper" while being a mythical ghost monster and a crocodile.

remember when people talked about how snap had amazing graphics and how mainline games should look like it?

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now they're gonna have to find something new to complain about

don’t worry, im already typing my 3000 word essay on how windmills going at 5 fps ruins my immersion

Yeah, I'm still waiting for that Snap quality, scale reflections on a Seviper ain't it

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Yeah, I'm still waiting for that Snap quality, scale reflections on a Seviper ain't it

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The fact the lighthouse looks even worse than the stuff on the Seviper screenshot only supports my point
But hey I'll just do the same strategy as gen 8, wait until the spinoffs come out then enjoy pokémon, not gonna grill anyone for wanting to play SV

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The fact the lighthouse looks even worse than the stuff on the Seviper screenshot only supports my point
But hey I'll just do the same strategy as gen 8, wait until the spinoffs come out then enjoy pokémon, not gonna grill anyone for wanting to play SV

BDSP first trailer
VS
Final Product

The graphics remind me of Snap, and Snap had good graphics.

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Despacito but it's your favorite grass kitty

3 new pokemon games so quickly...

Caught this cutie while I was doing the massive mass outbreak sidequest, evolve or nah?


this brings my PLA shiny count to 7 (6 if you dont count the freebie rapidash)

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i just wanna say im shocked that legends is actually good let alone how good it is, everything before release pointed to it being a disaster tbh. I bought it like last week and I like this **** better than botw, it’s genuinely so good maybe the best pokemon game imho (like, nothing is going to top hgss in terms of how much was put in that game and it’s good but it also has a lot of **** design decisions pla is like… actually good design)

Yeah pla is really different from theain games and I think that's why people like it a lot. I'm not a graphics guy but for this game where the main appeal is seeing pokemon in the wild graphics don't really matter too much.

i have my gripes with the game (water is terrible for catching stuff, the story is real bad, we’re 4 mainline games in on the switch and we still have zero good shiny hunting methods) but damn, it does a lot right, especially that one fight near the end, you know the one

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i have my gripes with the game (water is terrible for catching stuff, the story is real bad, we’re 4 mainline games in on the switch and we still have zero good shiny hunting methods) but damn, it does a lot right, especially that one fight near the end, you know the one

Honestly shiny hunting in this game prepatch was too ez. Story in open world games is hard to do right but the way the game handle open world was basically areas and story bits in between. And the story was not that rememberable. Yeah water is so bad lmao

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i have my gripes with the game (water is terrible for catching stuff, the story is real bad, we’re 4 mainline games in on the switch and we still have zero good shiny hunting methods) but damn, it does a lot right, especially that one fight near the end, you know the one

zero good shiny hunting methods?

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i have my gripes with the game (water is terrible for catching stuff, the story is real bad, we’re 4 mainline games in on the switch and we still have zero good shiny hunting methods) but damn, it does a lot right, especially that one fight near the end, you know the one

zero good shiny hunting methods?

lets go
-catch combos require you to use lgpe catching mechanics where you can fail a shiny just because your perfect ultra ball throw decided not to work (or the mon attacked the ball without warning)

swsh
-stupid amount of shiny locks for dumb reasons
-raid dens are either just full odds but longer or so exploited to the point where its not even hunting anymore
-masuda works but gets boring fast
-the method in this game is knocking out 500 of the same mon then looking for a 3% chance of a brilliant for a stupid low chance of finding a shiny
-dynamax adventures either require friends who are very willing to help you get this shiny even if they already have it or playing by yourself (and relying on the godawful ai). admittedly this and masuda qre the closest things we’ve gotten to decent
-shiny charm doesn’t work on regis or max raids so that kinda sucks

bdsp
-the shiny charm is broken
-find 40 diglett underground for a +1 boost for 4 minutes? terrible
-masuda method somehow feels worse in this game thanks to the awful movement (and i think it’s slower too? i’ll need to check)

pla
-stupid amount of shiny locks for dumb reasons
-new method is entirely dependant on what mons feel like showing up today
-want to increase the odds for this mon? complete these arbitrary tasks

oh and soft resetting was removed on all these games. not that you would use it much in pla but it would save time in bdsp and maybe lgpe’s legendaries

i’m sure full odds hunters would enjoy some of these but since i mostly hunt with methods… yeah

Got Parasect and Basculin today to add to the collection.


Edit
Shiny baby eevee (low level) found
evolution shall be delayed for in gen 9 (come on gamefreak, give us a new eeveelution!)

will edit with a screenshot of all my legends shinies later
caught a second shiny zorua and more

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will edit with a screenshot of all my legends shinies later
caught a second shiny zorua and more

How difficult or demanding is to actually catch a shiny Zorua? I want a female one for my main team.

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will edit with a screenshot of all my legends shinies later
caught a second shiny zorua and more

How difficult or demanding is to actually catch a shiny Zorua? I want a female one for my main team.

well zorua is about as difficult to hunt as every other mon in the game thanks to outbreaks, meaning not very difficult if you have good rng. unfortunately, zorua has a 7:1 gender ratio, so good luck getting a female

Alright fully updated list of each shiny I have in PLA including dupes and the free ponyta (Rapidash cuz I used it on my team)

Me standing next to my newly obtained Alpha Shiny Cyndaquil (My FIRST alpha shiny) and a new outfit I bought to celebrate this successful hunt.

Look at him! He's so FAT I love him.


Edit
Did one last quick outbreak for the night

So not only did I get my first alpha shiny, but now I have a perfect shellos.
West sea is best sea
level 27 so she's relatively low level (I like it when shinies are low level cuz you can transfer them to a new file and use them on a playthrough)
She is also female like me.
Literally is my top favorite pokemon (well evolves into Gastrodon which is the top favorite, Shellos is still high up their though)

5/18
Pokemon Home update for compatibility with PLA, BDSP, and SwSh.

Time to replay SP with a team entirely built with shinies.

nice, only took 6 months

ok, 5 months and 29 days, if my math is right

i know there were a lot of problems with bdsp but still

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News coming tomorrow