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Been playing more Shining Pearl and Crystal. Shining Pearl I'm up to 6 badges now so getting there! Last thing I did was some weird Island of Iron thing which seemed optional? It gave me an egg so I guess I'll see what that ends up being. (current guess is a baby Lucario.. Riolo? Something like that)
I was supposed to put Crystal down to get Shining Pearl finished but having too much fun with it :P I'm up to the Elite Four. I tried to fight them but uh... I need to grind levels. I'm 5 levels lower than their weakest Pokemon That stupid Psychic guy was a battle of spamming revives because his Psychic one-shot almost everyone on my team I beat him and almost beat Koga but there didn't seem to be any way to escape or heal or buy more items so I had to reset the progress. Doesn't help that right now my team has a normal ass Eevee in it because I'm trying to both level it and turn it into an Espeon. I really need money though to buy up more items. I'm not sure how exactly I'm going to earn any with most of the trainer fights done Maybe I'll try the battle tower again. It only offered fights at stupid 10 level intervals so my team of like, level 21s were getting their asses kicked by level 30s (which I was forced to fight because I was too high for 20 -_-). But right now everyone's ~level 35-38 so with a bit more grinding I can get them in the high 30s and try level 40 of the tower. (I have to assume that gives me money but who knows...)
Edit: oh, side note.. Is it just me or does anyone find it weird that the BDSP ghost gym is like, entirely children trainers? There are two Ace trainers on the top level but everyone else is like 5. I know Pokemon has children trainers all the time but it's weird to see them not only all in one place, but inside a gym and a GHOST gym at that (I could maybe see a bug gym having a lot of children trainers). Like, there are literal pre-schoolers with Driftloons here... This feels unsafe? Also I mostly noticed because they give absolute garbage money for beating them, so a whole gym of this sucks. But it's just so weird to me. It feels like the other trainers at a gym should be like, I dunno, adults, or at least a mix :P
Well my 6 year old finally beat Sword... And now he's playing my copy of Diamond even though he's finished Pearl. I wonder if I should pick up a good RPG for him to play that's doable for a younger audience.
That's the biggest issue with Generation 2 games. The level curve, and also by extension to a much lesser degree the money curve... is really borked.
I think the way I got around this was to tell Mom to save my money, spend every last dime on heal items/Pokeballs/etc, and then repeatedly ram my party against the E4 without using items since that was one of the fastest ways to get EXP. You lose half your money IIRC when you faint, but that doesn't count what your Mom's holding. And since you get a decent payday from each of the E4 you beat, even the half you keep after fainting is enough to buy a few more healing items. The one Pokemon that this really won't work for is that Eevee, since every time it faints it'll like you less.
The Champion tops out at level 50, so you can probably win with a team at around level 45.
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That's the biggest issue with Generation 2 games. The level curve, and also by extension to a much lesser degree the money curve... is really borked.
I think the way I got around this was to tell Mom to save my money, spend every last dime on heal items/Pokeballs/etc, and then repeatedly ram my party against the E4 without using items since that was one of the fastest ways to get EXP. You lose half your money IIRC when you faint, but that doesn't count what your Mom's holding. And since you get a decent payday from each of the E4 you beat, even the half you keep after fainting is enough to buy a few more healing items. The one Pokemon that this really won't work for is that Eevee, since every time it faints it'll like you less.
The Champion tops out at level 50, so you can probably win with a team at around level 45.
The problem is I want money FOR the Elite Four :P I tried to google money making tips and everyone was like "just fight the elite four with an amulet coin." Yeah, not helpful at this stage of the game :P Honestly I might be fine tho. I just need to grind my team up to ~40ish and I won't need nearly so many items. Tho I do still wanna evolve Espeon and may need to buy more X Speeds to cheese that.
Edit: It also doesn't help that it feels like gen 2 learnsets are really skewed towards higher levels. I practically had a Typhlosion before I learned another fire move besides Ember. Meanwhile my bellossom refuses to learn another grass move other than Absorb. *sigh* (edit 2: Oh, and apparently won't until Solar Beam at 55 -_- Maybe it's in my best interest to teach her Solar Beam from a TM...) Edit 3: Oh damn.. Espeon can learn Nightmare and Dream Eater? hehehehehe...... (granted I can't get Dream Eater until Kanto but still, that move feels so broken this gen just from seeing it used by Drowzees.. "Oh hey, let me put you to sleep and then take a huge chunk of your health and also heal me, and you can't fight back against this outside of using items or natural wake up")
I just want to say for the record that Michigan is definitely extremely deserving of a spot and also definitely deserves a bye over the team that embarrassed them in the conference tournament, and none of this was ever in doubt, go blue
Lol, just realized that Michigan has the worst overall record of any team in the tourney, INCLUDING Rutgers who have to get through the play-in game
Well my 6 year old finally beat Sword... And now he's playing my copy of Diamond even though he's finished Pearl. I wonder if I should pick up a good RPG for him to play that's doable for a younger audience.
I played a bunch of Zelda lttp when I was 6. It's on the snes online thing for a subscription so you wouldn't even need to buy it. I also played a bunch of the Gameboy dragonwarrior monster 2 games (Tara and cobis), but those would probably be difficult to get a hold of without sub legal methods. I suspect dragon quest 11 would be fine though.
That's the biggest issue with Generation 2 games. The level curve, and also by extension to a much lesser degree the money curve... is really borked.
I think the way I got around this was to tell Mom to save my money, spend every last dime on heal items/Pokeballs/etc, and then repeatedly ram my party against the E4 without using items since that was one of the fastest ways to get EXP. You lose half your money IIRC when you faint, but that doesn't count what your Mom's holding. And since you get a decent payday from each of the E4 you beat, even the half you keep after fainting is enough to buy a few more healing items. The one Pokemon that this really won't work for is that Eevee, since every time it faints it'll like you less.
The Champion tops out at level 50, so you can probably win with a team at around level 45.
The problem is I want money FOR the Elite Four :P I tried to google money making tips and everyone was like "just fight the elite four with an amulet coin." Yeah, not helpful at this stage of the game :P Honestly I might be fine tho. I just need to grind my team up to ~40ish and I won't need nearly so many items. Tho I do still wanna evolve Espeon and may need to buy more X Speeds to cheese that.
Edit: It also doesn't help that it feels like gen 2 learnsets are really skewed towards higher levels. I practically had a Typhlosion before I learned another fire move besides Ember. Meanwhile my bellossom refuses to learn another grass move other than Absorb. *sigh* (edit 2: Oh, and apparently won't until Solar Beam at 55 -_- Maybe it's in my best interest to teach her Solar Beam from a TM...) Edit 3: Oh damn.. Espeon can learn Nightmare and Dream Eater? hehehehehe...... (granted I can't get Dream Eater until Kanto but still, that move feels so broken this gen just from seeing it used by Drowzees.. "Oh hey, let me put you to sleep and then take a huge chunk of your health and also heal me, and you can't fight back against this outside of using items or natural wake up")
I don't understand the bolded comment. Spend all your cash on, say, Hyper Potions, then go into the E4 with ~$0 remaining. Beat the first guy, win ~$4000. Lose to second guy, faint and lose ~$2000. When you wake up at the Pokecenter, you've netted ~$2000. Spend that money, repeat. Just don't use those Hyper Potions you purchased until you're ready to take the fights seriously.
I'm still in the second area.
Just found this hit list of legendaries in the shrouded ruins that I will have to fill out.
Also recently had a time distortion with no Evo items.
Not sure what was up with that.
Just plates.
Anyway, headed to this bog to see if I can find more than one Cherrim.
Starting to wonder if I need to use the move tutor to get some of these moves for Pokedex entries.
Starter Pokemon is still sitting happily above my star level too.
Well my 6 year old finally beat Sword... And now he's playing my copy of Diamond even though he's finished Pearl. I wonder if I should pick up a good RPG for him to play that's doable for a younger audience.
I played a bunch of Zelda lttp when I was 6. It's on the snes online thing for a subscription so you wouldn't even need to buy it. I also played a bunch of the Gameboy dragonwarrior monster 2 games (Tara and cobis), but those would probably be difficult to get a hold of without sub legal methods. I suspect dragon quest 11 would be fine though.
He got to the dark world on LTTP and quit mainly because of his pokemon addiction lol. He's also completed Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 like 4or 5 times (literally starting a new game every time).
I really want him to finish LTTP though haha.
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I don't understand the bolded comment. Spend all your cash on, say, Hyper Potions, then go into the E4 with ~$0 remaining. Beat the first guy, win ~$4000. Lose to second guy, faint and lose ~$2000. When you wake up at the Pokecenter, you've netted ~$2000. Spend that money, repeat. Just don't use those Hyper Potions you purchased until you're ready to take the fights seriously.
Is that how it works? I didn't think I'd get to keep any of that. In any case, I just took money from Mom in the end. It was enough to buy some extra stuff and also get Eevee evolved to Espeon (I probably overkilled this with X Speeds and vitamins but Eevee was level 35 and Espeon learned Psybeam at 36, so I kinda needed Eevee to evolve next level up...).
But yeah, beat them last night :P It's amazing how ~4 levels (~39-40, still lower than most of their pokemon but not like, 8 levels lower...) and the addition of an Espeon turned those fights from hard into kind of a joke (except Lance who, fuck you and your THREE Dragonites...). My Espeon had Bite (from Eevee) and Shadow Ball (from TM), so she absolutely wrecked the first three bosses almost single handedly. Two super effectives against psychic type (while also being psychic so she wasn't weak to any of his moves like my other dark types), then Psybeam for Poison and Fighting. Really, Psychic kind of destroys two of those trainers. The last one was Dark which should have been a problem but literally half of her pokemon weren't dark type and the ones that were had dual types so like, Houndoom got a big splash of water to his face, etc.
Lance was a bitch and nearly killed me with his damn OP Dragonites. Still, Espeon MVP and Psybeam did quite a bit of damage despite not being super effective. There was a lot of hypnotizing and stalling as I revived pokemon but I did it in the end :P
P.S. - FUCK Battle Tower. What a god damn bullshit thing. After I got everyone in 39-40 range I tried to do level 40 of it. But every pokemon there had bullshit moves, leftovers, etc. Oh, you were gonna use that grass type against the ground type? Yeah, he has Ice Beam. Shit like that. It's like every pokemon had coverage for all of their weaknesses and were IV trained and shit. Screw that. Not worth it.
Also, I went looking for the Nightmare TM, couldn't find it. I was so pissed at myself thinking I had sold it because I wanted to do a Nightmare/Dream Eater combo on Espeon later. As I was heading to do the Elite Four, I checked my PC... no, I just deposited it in there -_- So phew, I still have it. Though now I kinda like my Espeon's moveset so I dunno. I taught her Shadow Ball and Iron Tail.
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Man, I forgot how weird gen 2 Kanto is. You start in the middle and can't even go from Cerulean City to Pewter City because the road is a one way... so apparently I need to go all the way through Cinnabar Island and swim up to Palette Town just to get to that side of the map? At least I got the stupid train unlocked now so it's easy to travel between Johto and Kanto. Oh also I realized I had somehow set my time wrong (maybe I chose the wrong DST option at the start?) and apparently resetting your clock in that game is super weird and complicated? Like, I had to enter the equivalent of the Konami code and then go to a website so I could gen a password using my name, current money and trainer ID. I'm not exactly sure how anyone was meant to figure this out back when the game first released (I mean, the internet was garbage back then)... I can only assume this was like a "you call up Nintendo Help Line and they tell you the password" thing. On the plus side, I kept me from missing Wesley while I was rushing there at 11:58pm and having to fight literally every trainer and their 20 magikarps because apparently I never visited that side of the lake of rage -_- I thought I just barely made it only to look at my in-game time and see it was still only ~11pm.
Also I caught Palkia in Shining Pearl, so yay, getting close to done (well, before end game). My Gamefly free trial ends on April 1st and I am still debating if I just pay for a month so I can get Darkrai :P (it's like literally available when I'd need to send the game back.... uggg...)
P.S. - Fuck you npc girl in shining pearl that traded me a Haunter holding an everstone. You are the worst.
Yeah Gen 2 used to be my favorite, but I think it was mostly nostalgia. Having Kanto in the games was just so cool as a kid, but it's not really done very well. Kanto is mostly pretty... empty in the Gen 2 games.
I recall reading that including Kanto wasn't even originally planned, but after Satoru Iwata saved the game's development they decided to try cramming it into all the space he freed up.
Man, I forgot how weird gen 2 Kanto is. You start in the middle and can't even go from Cerulean City to Pewter City because the road is a one way... so apparently I need to go all the way through Cinnabar Island and swim up to Palette Town just to get to that side of the map? At least I got the stupid train unlocked now so it's easy to travel between Johto and Kanto. Oh also I realized I had somehow set my time wrong (maybe I chose the wrong DST option at the start?) and apparently resetting your clock in that game is super weird and complicated? Like, I had to enter the equivalent of the Konami code and then go to a website so I could gen a password using my name, current money and trainer ID. I'm not exactly sure how anyone was meant to figure this out back when the game first released (I mean, the internet was garbage back then)... I can only assume this was like a "you call up Nintendo Help Line and they tell you the password" thing. On the plus side, I kept me from missing Wesley while I was rushing there at 11:58pm and having to fight literally every trainer and their 20 magikarps because apparently I never visited that side of the lake of rage -_- I thought I just barely made it only to look at my in-game time and see it was still only ~11pm.
Also I caught Palkia in Shining Pearl, so yay, getting close to done (well, before end game). My Gamefly free trial ends on April 1st and I am still debating if I just pay for a month so I can get Darkrai :P (it's like literally available when I'd need to send the game back.... uggg...)
P.S. - Fuck you npc girl in shining pearl that traded me a Haunter holding an everstone. You are the worst.
You don't have to go through Cinnabar... in fact, I think that way is blocked. Go through Diglett Tunnel! But you'll have to wake up that Snorlax first....
I just want to say for the record that Michigan is definitely extremely deserving of a spot and also definitely deserves a bye over the team that embarrassed them in the conference tournament, and none of this was ever in doubt, go blue
Man, I forgot how weird gen 2 Kanto is. You start in the middle and can't even go from Cerulean City to Pewter City because the road is a one way... so apparently I need to go all the way through Cinnabar Island and swim up to Palette Town just to get to that side of the map? At least I got the stupid train unlocked now so it's easy to travel between Johto and Kanto. Oh also I realized I had somehow set my time wrong (maybe I chose the wrong DST option at the start?) and apparently resetting your clock in that game is super weird and complicated? Like, I had to enter the equivalent of the Konami code and then go to a website so I could gen a password using my name, current money and trainer ID. I'm not exactly sure how anyone was meant to figure this out back when the game first released (I mean, the internet was garbage back then)... I can only assume this was like a "you call up Nintendo Help Line and they tell you the password" thing. On the plus side, I kept me from missing Wesley while I was rushing there at 11:58pm and having to fight literally every trainer and their 20 magikarps because apparently I never visited that side of the lake of rage -_- I thought I just barely made it only to look at my in-game time and see it was still only ~11pm.
Also I caught Palkia in Shining Pearl, so yay, getting close to done (well, before end game). My Gamefly free trial ends on April 1st and I am still debating if I just pay for a month so I can get Darkrai :P (it's like literally available when I'd need to send the game back.... uggg...)
P.S. - Fuck you npc girl in shining pearl that traded me a Haunter holding an everstone. You are the worst.
You don't have to go through Cinnabar... in fact, I think that way is blocked. Go through Diglett Tunnel! But you'll have to wake up that Snorlax first....
Oh really? I sorta forgot they were talking about that. It's still very weird to me that it's blocked off. (But Snorlax was like literally the next thing I had to do so I probably would have figured it out).
P.S. - Fuck you npc girl in shining pearl that traded me a Haunter holding an everstone. You are the worst.
IIRC that is standard whenever an NPC offers you a trade evo.
I don't think so. I recall one gen (gen 1?) there's actually an NPC that gives you an evo trade (I feel like it was a Machoke -> Machamp). The girl even trolls with a "Wow did it change form after I traded it? Haha, no, I gave it an everstone so it wouldn't" bullshit.
I mean, overall it's fine, I wasn't gonna use Gengar or anything and I probably *could* get one by trading with a friend if I really cared (and I have a bazillion in Home too). But like, Gengar is one of my favorites so it was kind of a massive FU from that NPC. It's just like a letdown :P
P.S. - Also Jesus Christ Luxray needs to hurry up and learn some actual moves. How TF is Spark still my best electrical move at level 50? Where is Thunder Fang? (edit: Wow, his learnset is garbage... Wild Charge at 90?! Doesn't even learn Thunder Fang in this game. There's gotta be a TM somewhere... or any fangs.. ice fang would be nice...)
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I was supposed to put Crystal down to get Shining Pearl finished but having too much fun with it :P I'm up to the Elite Four. I tried to fight them but uh... I need to grind levels. I'm 5 levels lower than their weakest Pokemon
Edit: oh, side note.. Is it just me or does anyone find it weird that the BDSP ghost gym is like, entirely children trainers? There are two Ace trainers on the top level but everyone else is like 5. I know Pokemon has children trainers all the time but it's weird to see them not only all in one place, but inside a gym and a GHOST gym at that (I could maybe see a bug gym having a lot of children trainers). Like, there are literal pre-schoolers with Driftloons here... This feels unsafe? Also I mostly noticed because they give absolute garbage money for beating them, so a whole gym of this sucks. But it's just so weird to me. It feels like the other trainers at a gym should be like, I dunno, adults, or at least a mix :P
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I’m too impatient to get the answer I figure Ohio State will eat shit and Loyola would win even without a Stache Phylactery
I think the way I got around this was to tell Mom to save my money, spend every last dime on heal items/Pokeballs/etc, and then repeatedly ram my party against the E4 without using items since that was one of the fastest ways to get EXP. You lose half your money IIRC when you faint, but that doesn't count what your Mom's holding. And since you get a decent payday from each of the E4 you beat, even the half you keep after fainting is enough to buy a few more healing items. The one Pokemon that this really won't work for is that Eevee, since every time it faints it'll like you less.
The Champion tops out at level 50, so you can probably win with a team at around level 45.
Yes, that was great. "Are you failing this quiz on purpose?" Yes, yes I am small child
The problem is I want money FOR the Elite Four :P I tried to google money making tips and everyone was like "just fight the elite four with an amulet coin." Yeah, not helpful at this stage of the game :P Honestly I might be fine tho. I just need to grind my team up to ~40ish and I won't need nearly so many items. Tho I do still wanna evolve Espeon and may need to buy more X Speeds to cheese that.
Edit: It also doesn't help that it feels like gen 2 learnsets are really skewed towards higher levels. I practically had a Typhlosion before I learned another fire move besides Ember. Meanwhile my bellossom refuses to learn another grass move other than Absorb. *sigh* (edit 2: Oh, and apparently won't until Solar Beam at 55 -_- Maybe it's in my best interest to teach her Solar Beam from a TM...) Edit 3: Oh damn.. Espeon can learn Nightmare and Dream Eater? hehehehehe...... (granted I can't get Dream Eater until Kanto but still, that move feels so broken this gen just from seeing it used by Drowzees.. "Oh hey, let me put you to sleep and then take a huge chunk of your health and also heal me, and you can't fight back against this outside of using items or natural wake up")
Lol, just realized that Michigan has the worst overall record of any team in the tourney, INCLUDING Rutgers who have to get through the play-in game
I have to say, it's pretty dumb that the Galarian birds don't learn any moves from their old type
In the cinematics they show Zapdos with sparks flying all the time when it runs and its signature move is called Thunderous Kick
It learns Blaze Kick but not Wild Charge? Just weird
And Moltres is literally on fire and its move is called Fiery Wrath
I played a bunch of Zelda lttp when I was 6. It's on the snes online thing for a subscription so you wouldn't even need to buy it. I also played a bunch of the Gameboy dragonwarrior monster 2 games (Tara and cobis), but those would probably be difficult to get a hold of without sub legal methods. I suspect dragon quest 11 would be fine though.
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I don't understand the bolded comment. Spend all your cash on, say, Hyper Potions, then go into the E4 with ~$0 remaining. Beat the first guy, win ~$4000. Lose to second guy, faint and lose ~$2000. When you wake up at the Pokecenter, you've netted ~$2000. Spend that money, repeat. Just don't use those Hyper Potions you purchased until you're ready to take the fights seriously.
Just found this hit list of legendaries in the shrouded ruins that I will have to fill out.
Also recently had a time distortion with no Evo items.
Not sure what was up with that.
Just plates.
Anyway, headed to this bog to see if I can find more than one Cherrim.
Starting to wonder if I need to use the move tutor to get some of these moves for Pokedex entries.
Starter Pokemon is still sitting happily above my star level too.
He got to the dark world on LTTP and quit mainly because of his pokemon addiction lol. He's also completed Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 like 4or 5 times (literally starting a new game every time).
I really want him to finish LTTP though haha.
Is that how it works? I didn't think I'd get to keep any of that. In any case, I just took money from Mom in the end. It was enough to buy some extra stuff and also get Eevee evolved to Espeon (I probably overkilled this with X Speeds and vitamins but Eevee was level 35 and Espeon learned Psybeam at 36, so I kinda needed Eevee to evolve next level up...).
But yeah, beat them last night :P It's amazing how ~4 levels (~39-40, still lower than most of their pokemon but not like, 8 levels lower...) and the addition of an Espeon turned those fights from hard into kind of a joke (except Lance who, fuck you and your THREE Dragonites...). My Espeon had Bite (from Eevee) and Shadow Ball (from TM), so she absolutely wrecked the first three bosses almost single handedly. Two super effectives against psychic type (while also being psychic so she wasn't weak to any of his moves like my other dark types), then Psybeam for Poison and Fighting. Really, Psychic kind of destroys two of those trainers. The last one was Dark which should have been a problem but literally half of her pokemon weren't dark type and the ones that were had dual types so like, Houndoom got a big splash of water to his face, etc.
Lance was a bitch and nearly killed me with his damn OP Dragonites. Still, Espeon MVP and Psybeam did quite a bit of damage despite not being super effective. There was a lot of hypnotizing and stalling as I revived pokemon but I did it in the end :P
P.S. - FUCK Battle Tower. What a god damn bullshit thing. After I got everyone in 39-40 range I tried to do level 40 of it. But every pokemon there had bullshit moves, leftovers, etc. Oh, you were gonna use that grass type against the ground type? Yeah, he has Ice Beam. Shit like that. It's like every pokemon had coverage for all of their weaknesses and were IV trained and shit. Screw that. Not worth it.
Also, I went looking for the Nightmare TM, couldn't find it. I was so pissed at myself thinking I had sold it because I wanted to do a Nightmare/Dream Eater combo on Espeon later. As I was heading to do the Elite Four, I checked my PC... no, I just deposited it in there -_- So phew, I still have it. Though now I kinda like my Espeon's moveset so I dunno. I taught her Shadow Ball and Iron Tail.
e: Bracket is in: Bracket Prime '22
I tempered my expectations for Michigan and only have them winning in the opening round so that should help that I have not picked them to win it all.
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Also I caught Palkia in Shining Pearl, so yay, getting close to done (well, before end game). My Gamefly free trial ends on April 1st and I am still debating if I just pay for a month so I can get Darkrai :P (it's like literally available when I'd need to send the game back.... uggg...)
P.S. - Fuck you npc girl in shining pearl that traded me a Haunter holding an everstone. You are the worst.
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You don't have to go through Cinnabar... in fact, I think that way is blocked. Go through Diglett Tunnel! But you'll have to wake up that Snorlax first....
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IIRC that is standard whenever an NPC offers you a trade evo.
Oh really? I sorta forgot they were talking about that. It's still very weird to me that it's blocked off. (But Snorlax was like literally the next thing I had to do so I probably would have figured it out).
I don't think so. I recall one gen (gen 1?) there's actually an NPC that gives you an evo trade (I feel like it was a Machoke -> Machamp). The girl even trolls with a "Wow did it change form after I traded it? Haha, no, I gave it an everstone so it wouldn't" bullshit.
I mean, overall it's fine, I wasn't gonna use Gengar or anything and I probably *could* get one by trading with a friend if I really cared (and I have a bazillion in Home too). But like, Gengar is one of my favorites so it was kind of a massive FU from that NPC. It's just like a letdown :P
P.S. - Also Jesus Christ Luxray needs to hurry up and learn some actual moves. How TF is Spark still my best electrical move at level 50? Where is Thunder Fang? (edit: Wow, his learnset is garbage... Wild Charge at 90?! Doesn't even learn Thunder Fang in this game. There's gotta be a TM somewhere... or any fangs.. ice fang would be nice...)
Edit: so much for that.
Probably not a good thing for them