Oh, so the older pokemon are in the newer games (Sun/Moon, X/Y) as well? That's not how I understood it, but that's good.
Yeah there's a decent chunk of older Pokes from all the older generations in Sun/Moon, though some are a bit different looking and have new features, like Rattata has a mustache and is Dark type instead of Normal
Slight correction: It's Normal/Dark.
I got lucky and caught a Crabrawler right before the first Trial. Since I have Moon, everything was Rattata/Raticate. Kinda steamrolled it.
Vulpix and Pikachu are starting to become the load for me as i progress on the third island Eviolite can only do so much but they need that tasty Evolution stat boost which is denied to them by the asinine fact that you're punished for stone evolutioning pokemon early
Completed my Alolan living dex! One copy of every new Pokemon and Alolan form. Once I can transfer my gen 6 Pokemon over, I'll be very close to a complete living dex.
I thought I'd need a second copy of the game to get some of the rare ones, but it's surprising what people will trade them away for on the GTS if you keep refreshing. I got a Cosmog for a Riolu, a Type:Null for a Turtonator and a Lunala for a Cranidos.
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Completed my Alolan living dex! One copy of every new Pokemon and Alolan form. Once I can transfer my gen 6 Pokemon over, I'll be very close to a complete living dex.
I thought I'd need a second copy of the game to get some of the rare ones, but it's surprising what people will trade them away for on the GTS if you keep refreshing. I got a Cosmog for a Riolu, a Type:Null for a Turtonator and a Lunala for a Cranidos.
Wow, already? I can't even get someone in GTS to trade my vulpix for a sandshrew
Completed my Alolan living dex! One copy of every new Pokemon and Alolan form. Once I can transfer my gen 6 Pokemon over, I'll be very close to a complete living dex.
I thought I'd need a second copy of the game to get some of the rare ones, but it's surprising what people will trade them away for on the GTS if you keep refreshing. I got a Cosmog for a Riolu, a Type:Null for a Turtonator and a Lunala for a Cranidos.
Wow, already? I can't even get someone in GTS to trade my vulpix for a sandshrew
Depositing Pokemon seems to be bugged - at least it is for me. You gotta search for stuff, and keep refreshing till reasonable trades pop up.
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Oh, so the older pokemon are in the newer games (Sun/Moon, X/Y) as well? That's not how I understood it, but that's good.
Yeah there's a decent chunk of older Pokes from all the older generations in Sun/Moon, though some are a bit different looking and have new features, like Rattata has a mustache and is Dark type instead of Normal
Slight correction: It's Normal/Dark.
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I'm bummed I missed out on all the mythical pokémon except for December. Every time I heard about it, it was always ORAS and I didn't realise XY were supported as well.
Also turns out I'm subbed to the US thingy instead of EU, so the codes for the legendary birds they sent out don't work for me either.
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I'm bummed I missed out on all the mythical pokémon except for December. Every time I heard about it, it was always ORAS and I didn't realise XY were supported as well.
Also turns out I'm subbed to the US thingy instead of EU, so the codes for the legendary birds they sent out don't work for me either.
I'm bummed I missed out on all the mythical pokémon except for December. Every time I heard about it, it was always ORAS and I didn't realise XY were supported as well.
Also turns out I'm subbed to the US thingy instead of EU, so the codes for the legendary birds they sent out don't work for me either.
It's not all of them, but I have spare copies of Hoopa, Victini, Darkrai, Jirachi and Celebi I can give you.
Alolan dex is 300/301 right now as I wait for 6pm* so I can evolve this Espeon and complete my first regional dex ever. Don't know why I bothered this time around, honestly, but it does feel good.
*Sadly I returned the Solgaleo I borrowed and can't hop dimensions right now.
I guess it's on them if they accept the trade but I don't consider those trades to be fair. For example a UB that I got 4 copies of, in exchange for someone's only Type:Null or whatever.
I guess it's on them if they accept the trade but I don't consider those trades to be fair. For example a UB that I got 4 copies of, in exchange for someone's only Type:Null or whatever.
I mean typically in future gens they give you access to old cover legends and one ofs. So you can always have a semi living dex for a bit
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I guess it's on them if they accept the trade but I don't consider those trades to be fair. For example a UB that I got 4 copies of, in exchange for someone's only Type:Null or whatever.
Maybe that guy thinks he's ripping you off, getting a version-exclusive UB in exchange for something everyone gets given for free.
Got three of my beloved Pokémon to level 100! Prismet the Primarina, Bouncee the Tsareena and Serrano the Midday Lycanroc are getting some R&R at Poké Pelago while I continue grinding at the Pokémon League.
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
VGC is double battles, where a lot of these 'troll' strategies lose their bite.
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
VGC is double battles, where a lot of these 'troll' strategies lose their bite.
ah, that makes sense. was this the driving force behind double battles?
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
If you're able to interrupt him from setting up on you it's not as scary. Also something with haze (to clear stat changes) or taunt to keep the muk from being able to use set up moves.
It's still super annoying, but you'd probably be getting into a similar situation if you let anyone get up a stat boost or two. Hazers/taunters are fairly common selections for just this reason. And of course the never miss attacks work. If it's really bad (Haven't gotten onto ladder yet) try packing a HA A-Ninetales with blizzard, her HA sets up hail (chips the muk) and blizzard auto hits at bp 110 in hail.
Edit: I now have HA a-vulpix, a-sandshrew and mareanie if anyone's looking for them. Just shoot me a pm and I can breed one up. The vulpixes also come with encore and freeze dry egg moves. I'll take any pf the sun exclusives except vulpix (or junk if you don't have any ☺️).
I think the thing that keeps double battles going in spite of evasion is that one pokemon can switch in to use Haze while the other keeps the pain going. You don't have to waste a whole turn using Haze or switching in for a never-miss.
is doubles the less "broken" format or does it have its own trouble? i started breeding up pokemon i personally like and will probably stick with them but i may look into some of these other formats and what is meta there
Doubles is the official format because it's faster, and there's some moves and abilities that don't work in singles but nothing that doesn't work in doubles.
one thing that seems kinda lame about the official format is that the "strictly better" pokemon seem to be allowed. i dunno how much this stifles things, and the best <whatever> always shows up most frequently in competitive settings, but it seems different in pokemon where a lot of the allure is getting attached to specific monsters
As best I could tell from watching VGC16 live the format has the net effect of making most single-battle "wall" type stall and tank strategies non-viable. With doubles and a very limited set of viable pokemon (if you aren't running a perfect primal just go home now) it went to a very different sort of bluffing-game-tactical-outmaneuvering-thing rather than a feel out an opening in the team comp and then try to exploit it with your cleverly-setup hidden power or surprise special attack machamp or setting up a sweep or whatever.
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
If you're able to interrupt him from setting up on you it's not as scary. Also something with haze (to clear stat changes) or taunt to keep the muk from being able to use set up moves.
It's still super annoying, but you'd probably be getting into a similar situation if you let anyone get up a stat boost or two. Hazers/taunters are fairly common selections for just this reason. And of course the never miss attacks work. If it's really bad (Haven't gotten onto ladder yet) try packing a HA A-Ninetales with blizzard, her HA sets up hail (chips the muk) and blizzard auto hits at bp 110 in hail.
Edit: I now have HA a-vulpix, a-sandshrew and mareanie if anyone's looking for them. Just shoot me a pm and I can breed one up. The vulpixes also come with encore and freeze dry egg moves. I'll take any pf the sun exclusives except vulpix (or junk if you don't have any ☺️).
Blizzard isn't an auto-hit in the snow. I've missed after my ninetails had her accuracy reduced by muddy water. I think hail just boosts blizzard's accuracy across the 100% mark.
Ofcouse this could have just been the battle tree cheating...
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
If you're able to interrupt him from setting up on you it's not as scary. Also something with haze (to clear stat changes) or taunt to keep the muk from being able to use set up moves.
It's still super annoying, but you'd probably be getting into a similar situation if you let anyone get up a stat boost or two. Hazers/taunters are fairly common selections for just this reason. And of course the never miss attacks work. If it's really bad (Haven't gotten onto ladder yet) try packing a HA A-Ninetales with blizzard, her HA sets up hail (chips the muk) and blizzard auto hits at bp 110 in hail.
Edit: I now have HA a-vulpix, a-sandshrew and mareanie if anyone's looking for them. Just shoot me a pm and I can breed one up. The vulpixes also come with encore and freeze dry egg moves. I'll take any pf the sun exclusives except vulpix (or junk if you don't have any ☺️).
Blizzard isn't an auto-hit in the snow. I've missed after my ninetails had her accuracy reduced by muddy water. I think hail just boosts blizzard's accuracy across the 100% mark.
Ofcouse this could have just been the battle tree cheating...
Oh my bad. I thought I read that it bypasses the accuracy check in hail on bulbapedia. I want to test this now as it may have changed. Or battle tree hax.
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I got lucky and caught a Crabrawler right before the first Trial. Since I have Moon, everything was Rattata/Raticate. Kinda steamrolled it.
Oh, and Grubbin.
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I thought I'd need a second copy of the game to get some of the rare ones, but it's surprising what people will trade them away for on the GTS if you keep refreshing. I got a Cosmog for a Riolu, a Type:Null for a Turtonator and a Lunala for a Cranidos.
Wow, already? I can't even get someone in GTS to trade my vulpix for a sandshrew
Depositing Pokemon seems to be bugged - at least it is for me. You gotta search for stuff, and keep refreshing till reasonable trades pop up.
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Also turns out I'm subbed to the US thingy instead of EU, so the codes for the legendary birds they sent out don't work for me either.
That's rough.
At least you'll get them going forward!
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It's not all of them, but I have spare copies of Hoopa, Victini, Darkrai, Jirachi and Celebi I can give you.
*Sadly I returned the Solgaleo I borrowed and can't hop dimensions right now.
Scamming on GTS isn't really even an option, because I'd like to have them all in my name, ideally.
Lunala only works when it is day in my natural game, at which point I don't need to hop dimensions.
I mean typically in future gens they give you access to old cover legends and one ofs. So you can always have a semi living dex for a bit
Maybe that guy thinks he's ripping you off, getting a version-exclusive UB in exchange for something everyone gets given for free.
Minimize Muk.... Concede.
Well that was fun! Is everyone playing minimize muk or grass field topo regen groups?
And I'm doing it AGAIN.
Even considering most of the troublesome pokémon are already waiting in the Bank.
alolan muk seemed pretty strong to me, but then again i dunno wtf im doing. not sure what else goes with the minimize team.
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It's less about Muk's strength and more about cheap tactics that make it really hard to compete. Anything messing with accuracy/evasion in any pokemon game is very annoying. Elitists tend to ban minimize/sand attack etc., and it's one thing I kinda agree with the elitists about. The only counter to it is running at least one never-miss move, which is boring to have to include on every team.
A common troll Muk has Minimize so it never gets hit, Toxic to badly poison the enemy and wait them out, Screech to greatly lower their defense, and Swagger to greatly raise their attack and confuse them so they hit their own weak selves really hard, and can never hit Muk, all while being poisoned.
is this setup legal for normal competitive play (aka official stuff not smogon)? is the answer there just simply the 100% accuracy stuff or how is it dealt with in those situations?
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VGC is double battles, where a lot of these 'troll' strategies lose their bite.
ah, that makes sense. was this the driving force behind double battles?
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If you're able to interrupt him from setting up on you it's not as scary. Also something with haze (to clear stat changes) or taunt to keep the muk from being able to use set up moves.
It's still super annoying, but you'd probably be getting into a similar situation if you let anyone get up a stat boost or two. Hazers/taunters are fairly common selections for just this reason. And of course the never miss attacks work. If it's really bad (Haven't gotten onto ladder yet) try packing a HA A-Ninetales with blizzard, her HA sets up hail (chips the muk) and blizzard auto hits at bp 110 in hail.
Edit: I now have HA a-vulpix, a-sandshrew and mareanie if anyone's looking for them. Just shoot me a pm and I can breed one up. The vulpixes also come with encore and freeze dry egg moves. I'll take any pf the sun exclusives except vulpix (or junk if you don't have any ☺️).
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You get more synergy play going
Though I think it's weird that official tournaments have married themselves to the format completely
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They just wanted to showcase their fancy primal forms
In VGC17 you'll be limited to pokes from the alolan dex, and the high BST legendaries like Solgaleo, Lunala and Magearna will be banned
So the only legendaries are the Tapus and the UBs.
Also, no Megas allowed
VGC17 will be very different from VGC16
Blizzard isn't an auto-hit in the snow. I've missed after my ninetails had her accuracy reduced by muddy water. I think hail just boosts blizzard's accuracy across the 100% mark.
Ofcouse this could have just been the battle tree cheating...
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Oh my bad. I thought I read that it bypasses the accuracy check in hail on bulbapedia. I want to test this now as it may have changed. Or battle tree hax.