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[Pokemon] Sword and Shield: Out now. Mark your spoilers!
PaperLuigi44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siKH3r5AINgPokemon Sword and Shield are out November 15th for the Nintendo Switch. Set in the Galar region, which is based on the UK, you'll pick from either Grookey the chimp, Scorbunny the bunny, or Sobble the water lizard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmhw84MPtmcThread, who is your favourite Gym Leader? I would have to say HGSS Blaine. Not only is he stylish, but he didn't let a volcanic eruption stop him from his duties.
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Cyrus is my favorite team leader because he so clearly belongs in a different video game.
Follow a type theme? Naah
Stay in the gym so trainers can get their earth badge? PASS
Go on a grand adventure and be amazingly hard to find or get in contact with? Yeah!
I know there's the theory that gym leaders tailor their difficulty based on how many badges their challengers have, but I bet Blue goes all out every time and occasionally smashes some kid who only has a starter and three rattata
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Favorite evil team leader is currently RR Giovanni because I love alternate universe hopping bullshit
Or N if you count him
please...... this discussion doesn't have to get political
Really works with the organized crime theme if the government corruption extends beyond just Giovanni
Or like
Since the Let’s Go trailer revealed that Fuschia is going to be more old-timey Japanese in aesthetic, go all in on Koga as the leader of a ninja clan, make them their own villainous faction
Feature the Shadow Triad, maybe they were trained by Koga before they started serving Ghetsis
That would be really cool but I've forgotten
I feel like the pokemon league probably doesn't inspect his gym very often
They would, but it's such a hassle to have to bring a pokemon with Cut every time they want to get into the gym that they tend not to bother.
lt. surge was also a punk who could not handle one severely underleveled geodude with dig
They should have.
Edit - Also this should be in the OP:
talking up your psychic powers only to be wrong a lot is, same, and also i respect how she looked at the original saffron city gym's lack of nonsense puzzles and was like "hmm, no"
also espeon is great
They couldn't even fit the full Kanto trainer battle theme in the game.
They have made up for it, by making the Kanto Champion Battle theme the permanent World Championship theme and remixing it for every game since Black/White.
Kanto: Blue/Giovanni
Johto: Whitney
Hoenn: Winona
Sinnoh: Crasher Wake
Unova: Lenora
Kalos: Clemont
Alola: This one is too difficult. Can I say all of them?
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My tentative plan is to shunt Riolu toward the SpAtk side of things, then aim for a Poliwrath, Medicham and Toxicroak for the rest of my main goon squad, with a Hawlucha for my main rotational piece. And before you ask, YES, I will be naming Poliwrath CROSSFIT!
Ooh, hey, great name!
I love how jasmines trainers do the ! thing, and walk up to you, and then thank you for helping jasmine rather than battling you.
Also that she was 100% willing to just blow off being a gym leader in order to help that ampharos. "League business can wait pokemon need me!" - jasmine probably
(Also steel types are dope and she uses steel types and that's a massive plus)
Flannery is up there too. Her intro bit in ORAS was pretty great. Every other gym leader is super confident and Flannery just flubs all her lines instead.
Speaking of ORAS i've been chugging through my Alpha Sapphire run. I got up to kyogre and tried to catch it a few times and then got frustrated and put the game down for a bit.
Who decided to make the legendary have aqua ring? Why does origin pulse seem to crit me 50% of the time and never miss despite its 85% accuracy? Why wont this dumb whale just stay in the net ball!
I've been told you can just murder it and come back and catch it later but at this point i'm just refusing to accept defeat.
At least it doesn't surprise you with Double-Edge to murder itself like in the originals.
I must have gotten lucky, I dont remember it being this hard to catch in Sapphire. Actually, did it have a higher catch rate in Sapphire? Maybe that's what happened. Or I just got really lucky and dont remember it.
EDIT: i'd be less frustrated if I could just skip the longass intro to the fight.
EDIT2: Caught it. Time to throw it into the PC forevermore. Sorry kyogre, I already have a water pokemon.
As for Gym Leaders, I'd also have to give props to Lenora - cool design, cool job and I have a lot of respect for her strategy.
So it did have a higher catch rate. Case closed, ORAS is ruined, pack it up boys and girls.
In all seriousness I looked it up and my balls had something like 8-10% per throw because it kept healing. It took like 30 balls. Fuck you kyogre.
I trounced the elite 4 pretty quickly. It's kinda funny how blaziken is good for 3 of the 5 members of the elite 4. (That's a weird sentence to type btw)
The credits were nice and pretty, I liked that they showed the pokemon you were using for that particular gym battle, its neat.
Also holy shit the rival battle. As soon as it started I was really curious as to whether or not they had secretly healed my pokemon during the credits. If they hadn't then that would have been the biggest dick move. Not even Blue managed to ambush you after the end-credits!
The delta episode was interesting. I put the whole thing on pause to go catch a bunch of dragon pokemon that were now available and fill my team with them instead of an actually good composition. That was sort of working against me for a while until zinnia decided to fight me and woops she's a dragon trainer too. I'm sure Rayquaza can just solo that battle, but it was nice to rotate through the whole roster while still getting to super effective the enemy team.
I have to say, I was really not feeling some of the design decisions towards the start of ORAS, but the game really picked up after Mauville.
Today's update: I have completed camphrier town and the terrible parfum palace sidequest. This is my 3rd time playing X and oddly enough it's kind of making me more excited about the Let's Go games. Mainly because I'm really really hoping they push the insane amount of unskippable cutscenes and tutorializing into those games, so the 2019 ones can maybe avoid that. This game and SuMo as well just grind to a halt every five seconds, feels like.
Anyway i caught a croagunk and named her GRAPPLE!
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
I also didnt remember what team I was trying to use (Im the kinda person who likes to plan it all out in advance). Thankfully im also the sort of person who jots things down into notepad files, and I found my old one. My favorite note here is "Mudbray: Early game. - Scratch that, mudbray is dope, bring to endgame." God only knows what happened to require that note addition, but hey who am I to argue with my past self.
Also on the list "Dhelmise - Ghost anchors are cool." "Vikavolt - its a bug with a railgun for a face!" "Kommo-o - He's a dragon who punches people, heck yes."
Past me had a lot of good points really.
I like Valerie
I liked her look and gym in X but by the time I faced her I knew ghosts and poison ruin fairy pokemon
Stamina is really, really good.
I had to go look that up. I think I remember what happened now. I caught a mudbray because I really wanted a ground type pokemon, and then right afterwards there's a rival battle? And im pretty sure I sent out mudbray to see what it could do and it just wrecked his pokemon because it ended up with a bajillion defense and his pokemon couldnt hurt it.
It's not the Mew, it's a brand new pokemon and it has something to do with the Go connectivity.