Do you have to do something special to unlock the Charizard raid? I've finished the story and did the pokeportal update news thing, but all the glowing raids I found are 5 star, I think maybe one was 6 star. Now I have no glowing raids or dragon raids available, and no Charizard.
Do you have to do something special to unlock the Charizard raid? I've finished the story and did the pokeportal update news thing, but all the glowing raids I found are 5 star, I think maybe one was 6 star. Now I have no glowing raids or dragon raids available, and no Charizard.
Did you finish the post-game?
You need to re-do all the gym leaders and the tournament. Also a certain number of 4 or 5 star raids to unlock 6 star raids. Once you have 6 stars unlocked, Charizard should be available
Do you have to do something special to unlock the Charizard raid? I've finished the story and did the pokeportal update news thing, but all the glowing raids I found are 5 star, I think maybe one was 6 star. Now I have no glowing raids or dragon raids available, and no Charizard.
Did you finish the post-game?
You need to re-do all the gym leaders and the tournament. Also a certain number of 4 or 5 star raids to unlock 6 star raids. Once you have 6 stars unlocked, Charizard should be available
Thanks, it must be that I need to do more raids first.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
Loving snowscape on Cetitan.
This move is going to open up things a lot for Ice types to wreck some stuff.
These raids sure do suck the fun out of pokemon. 'You must be this level and you must use this pokemon and you must use these moves.'
My friends refuse to let me join their raids unless I join Playstation chat and do everything they say.
Weird ass gatekeeping and for what the most overrated pokemon? It's boring
People maybe over thought Charizard but going into a raid with a plan isn't a bad idea. Gamefreak is still trying to find a sweet spotand it shows
Dynamax raids were boring and slow
Terra raids are probably a little to easy to screw up sometimes it's not even up to you
I will say that Dynamax raids at least worked with GameFreak's shitty netcode. Tera Raids are goddamned mess. Twice while doing the Charizard raids my game got stuck at a heal cheer for a solid minute. One advantage of doing them solo is not only do allies dying not reduce the timer, but you don't have to worry about desyncing either.
I wish people who join my raids and see me Hosting with Iron hands would stop bringing their fucking Azumarill and Iron hands themselves.
Literally bring anything else. Better yet bring something with screech. If you do a single screech i will OHKO the raid boss with my set up.
What you're getting trying to set up belly dance is half your health gone because the way it works so long as i'm not afk i will have it set up first and it will force the boss into a shield phase and remove all of our debuffs.
Azumarill are the worst because nobody is running a shell bell so they just belly drum and die.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
Every Pokemon game has that one Pokemon that annoys you because it appears everywhere...in this one, it's that stupid grasshopper pokemon. They are everywhere and are so annoying!
Yeah, that one, and Golduck for water areas. Why are there so many Golducks?
I have to say that S/V is an...interesting game. It's probably the best Pokemon game they've made in years, but it's also a 7/10 open world RPG with enough slow-down and pop-in to drop it to a 6/10. Game Freak has a good understanding of what players want, but there's just something wrong there where they can't seem to deliver it from a design or technical standpoint. Spoilers for details.
I think my biggest gripe with the game from a design perspective is the map. In BotW, you could easily tell where most of the shrines were because they were invariably relatively evenly spread out and/or near interesting and obvious landmarks. S/V, by contrast, does not communicate potential points of interest that you haven't been to if there isn't a Pokemon Center there. So there's a bunch of stakes and rare Pokemon end up being wild goose chases, and potentially interesting areas have bupkis.
Speaking of rare Pokemon, the rarity of Pokemon is weird as hell. I have seen FAR more wild Dragonites in this game than Slakoffs. How does that make sense?
Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Did the first Herba Mystica mission. Not really a lot to that mechanically, huh? Saw someone earlier saying how Low Kick does huge damage here because it's weight-based, worked like a charm.
me and my friends have discovered you can double up on catching a shiny spawn in union circle. you want to figure out who it spawned for, save, have the other person catch it, then have the person that spawned it reset their game and when they load in it will be literally right in front of them.
there were three of us so what we've been able to tell over a couple of attempts at it; it will be there if the person who spawned it resets. it will not be if either other player resets. As far as we could tell there's not a way to let a 3rd person catch it.
also we discovered this randomly because one of us saved in front of a palafin we were hunting last night then turned the game back on this morning and caught it (that i had caught in the multiplayer last night). Today we actively tested it and got shiny rotoms
Hey I caught Charizard after about 5 or 6 tries. I got a group with Flutter Mane doing damage, two Sylveons screeching and my Azumarill doing Light Screen, Helping Hands and heal cheers.
It's weird to have a Pokemon game where you have to think in terms of MMO parties, like having a primary damage dealer, 2 debuffs and a healer in the party
I wanted to catch Charizard solo, and it turned out unlocking the raid was way harder than beating it. Clearing the 5 star raids took me a bunch of attempts, and a bunch of failures. Then Fluttermane took Charizard down with full health and half the time limit left.
If anyone else wants to solo it:
Fluttermane, hyper training to max IVs, fill it with carbos and calcium, give it a stealth cloak. Calm mind 3 times, draining kiss to refill health when you need it, moonblast when your health is fine.
Got a Charcadet outbreak and pulled 2 shiny out of it. (Would have been three but i accidently went into picnic mode when i tried to save a despawned it)
Hey I caught Charizard after about 5 or 6 tries. I got a group with Flutter Mane doing damage, two Sylveons screeching and my Azumarill doing Light Screen, Helping Hands and heal cheers.
It's weird to have a Pokemon game where you have to think in terms of MMO parties, like having a primary damage dealer, 2 debuffs and a healer in the party
I'll note that the official competitive format (doubles) has a number of these dynamics, albeit in miniature. Screens, spreading debuffs, speed and turn order control, and so on have far more utility with two monsters on the field.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
If you're doing the event Mimikyu and Flogres i believe they don't drop Mystica so i have been avoiding them.
I did some. I didnt see that so ill stick to the other colors I guess heh.
Also if anyone wants to trade a set of violet paradoxes for my scarlet ones and a trade back of the extra bikemon I would appreciate it. Online areas have dried up for trading with all the duping, easier end game breeding, etc.
Got the game and was pleases to discover 1) Paldean Wooper can be found very early on and 2) there are tons of bugs and fairies for Paldean Wooper to steamroll. Also very pleased to learn that this Poison/Ground pokemon has Water Absorb.
BTW I haven't even gotten to the school yet but I want Great Tusk as soon as possible because it looks friggin rad. What's the fastest way to beeline to having a Dire Donphan?
BTW I haven't even gotten to the school yet but I want Great Tusk as soon as possible because it looks friggin rad. What's the fastest way to beeline to having a Dire Donphan?
I've got some bad news
final area of the game, accessible after beating all 3 story branches
BTW I haven't even gotten to the school yet but I want Great Tusk as soon as possible because it looks friggin rad. What's the fastest way to beeline to having a Dire Donphan?
I've got some bad news
final area of the game, accessible after beating all 3 story branches
Not actually true. This particular one can be caught earlier, in the desert, after a certain badge.
BTW I haven't even gotten to the school yet but I want Great Tusk as soon as possible because it looks friggin rad. What's the fastest way to beeline to having a Dire Donphan?
I've got some bad news
final area of the game, accessible after beating all 3 story branches
Not actually true. This particular one can be caught earlier, in the desert, after a certain badge.
Oh, I thought that was also unlocked once you hit area zero, didn't realize the checkpoint was earlier.
BTW I haven't even gotten to the school yet but I want Great Tusk as soon as possible because it looks friggin rad. What's the fastest way to beeline to having a Dire Donphan?
I've got some bad news
final area of the game, accessible after beating all 3 story branches
Not actually true. This particular one can be caught earlier, in the desert, after a certain badge.
Oh, I thought that was also unlocked once you hit area zero, didn't realize the checkpoint was earlier.
Yeah you can functionally catch each Titan like immediately after their initial defeat. I caught the stork five minutes after I killed 'im.
If you're doing the event Mimikyu and Flogres i believe they don't drop Mystica so i have been avoiding them.
I did some. I didnt see that so ill stick to the other colors I guess heh.
Also if anyone wants to trade a set of violet paradoxes for my scarlet ones and a trade back of the extra bikemon I would appreciate it. Online areas have dried up for trading with all the duping, easier end game breeding, etc.
@Jubal77 I'd love to swap for the Scarlet paradoxes, I'm on now if you want
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
Fun tidbit: if you poison a wild tera pokemon, it'll kill them without breaking their crystal form so...yeah, don't do that.
If you're doing the event Mimikyu and Flogres i believe they don't drop Mystica so i have been avoiding them.
I did some. I didnt see that so ill stick to the other colors I guess heh.
Also if anyone wants to trade a set of violet paradoxes for my scarlet ones and a trade back of the extra bikemon I would appreciate it. Online areas have dried up for trading with all the duping, easier end game breeding, etc.
Jubal77 I'd love to swap for the Scarlet paradoxes, I'm on now if you want
Thank you so much Chall! That is my shiny charm gotten!
If you're doing the event Mimikyu and Flogres i believe they don't drop Mystica so i have been avoiding them.
I did some. I didnt see that so ill stick to the other colors I guess heh.
Also if anyone wants to trade a set of violet paradoxes for my scarlet ones and a trade back of the extra bikemon I would appreciate it. Online areas have dried up for trading with all the duping, easier end game breeding, etc.
Jubal77 I'd love to swap for the Scarlet paradoxes, I'm on now if you want
Thank you so much Chall! That is my shiny charm gotten!
does anyone know why it might be that i am able to join other people's pokemon raids but opening up mine has no one joining? It's been doing this since yesterday. I am 1) online, 2) selecting the Let anyone join option
I AM able to join other people's raids so it's not just like an "online no work" thing
Is Iron Hands just the one Belly Drum then Drain Punch man win? Maybe I’ll build that.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but built the same as guides I’m just not seeing the big one-shots from either my Perrserker or Gholdengo. I did all the mint, bottlecapping, EV training etc. Maybe I’m just having bad luck with the NPC helpers?
The gholdengo solo was more volatile yeah. I have had much more stability with the Iron Hands and Azumaril. I havent bothered with the Perrserker cause it is yolo.
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Did you finish the post-game?
Should have planned this
Thanks, it must be that I need to do more raids first.
This move is going to open up things a lot for Ice types to wreck some stuff.
I will say that Dynamax raids at least worked with GameFreak's shitty netcode. Tera Raids are goddamned mess. Twice while doing the Charizard raids my game got stuck at a heal cheer for a solid minute. One advantage of doing them solo is not only do allies dying not reduce the timer, but you don't have to worry about desyncing either.
Steam: pazython
Literally bring anything else. Better yet bring something with screech. If you do a single screech i will OHKO the raid boss with my set up.
What you're getting trying to set up belly dance is half your health gone because the way it works so long as i'm not afk i will have it set up first and it will force the boss into a shield phase and remove all of our debuffs.
Azumarill are the worst because nobody is running a shell bell so they just belly drum and die.
Yeah, that one, and Golduck for water areas. Why are there so many Golducks?
I have to say that S/V is an...interesting game. It's probably the best Pokemon game they've made in years, but it's also a 7/10 open world RPG with enough slow-down and pop-in to drop it to a 6/10. Game Freak has a good understanding of what players want, but there's just something wrong there where they can't seem to deliver it from a design or technical standpoint. Spoilers for details.
Speaking of rare Pokemon, the rarity of Pokemon is weird as hell. I have seen FAR more wild Dragonites in this game than Slakoffs. How does that make sense?
Steam: pazython
As for the pokemon you mentioned
Slakoth is only found in trees I think. Look up in trees or hit them with your bike in areas it's supposed to be found
On to the Grass gym.
there were three of us so what we've been able to tell over a couple of attempts at it; it will be there if the person who spawned it resets. it will not be if either other player resets. As far as we could tell there's not a way to let a 3rd person catch it.
also we discovered this randomly because one of us saved in front of a palafin we were hunting last night then turned the game back on this morning and caught it (that i had caught in the multiplayer last night). Today we actively tested it and got shiny rotoms
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
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It's weird to have a Pokemon game where you have to think in terms of MMO parties, like having a primary damage dealer, 2 debuffs and a healer in the party
If anyone else wants to solo it:
So uh.. Ceruledge's shiny is kind of a scam.
I'll note that the official competitive format (doubles) has a number of these dynamics, albeit in miniature. Screens, spreading debuffs, speed and turn order control, and so on have far more utility with two monsters on the field.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
I did some. I didnt see that so ill stick to the other colors I guess heh.
Also if anyone wants to trade a set of violet paradoxes for my scarlet ones and a trade back of the extra bikemon I would appreciate it. Online areas have dried up for trading with all the duping, easier end game breeding, etc.
I've got some bad news
Not actually true. This particular one can be caught earlier, in the desert, after a certain badge.
Oh, I thought that was also unlocked once you hit area zero, didn't realize the checkpoint was earlier.
@Jubal77 I'd love to swap for the Scarlet paradoxes, I'm on now if you want
Thank you so much Chall! That is my shiny charm gotten!
And thanks to you for completing mine!
I AM able to join other people's raids so it's not just like an "online no work" thing
Edit: Got my Iron Hands done. So fun. Much solo.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but built the same as guides I’m just not seeing the big one-shots from either my Perrserker or Gholdengo. I did all the mint, bottlecapping, EV training etc. Maybe I’m just having bad luck with the NPC helpers?
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera