Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

I found a Shiny Delibird when playing Pokémon Moon.
I mmediately threw a Quick Ball and caug the Delibird.

 

[Twatette]

My first non-red Gyarados shiny was a random Ducklett in White.
Managed to somehow find a shiny Sentret in the Safari Zone in SS too. She broke out of the first ball but didn't run away, so my anxious ass got so stupidly nervous that I threw another ball and immediately looked away from the screen. Looked back about a minute later to be greeted to the "give a nickname?" screen.
Pretty sure they're both currently sitting in a box in Black 2.

 

[Disc]

I was ten-ish years old and walking through the Rusturf tunnel when I came across a pink and green Whismur. I caught it, somewhat surprised and confused, and walked back to the Verdanturf Pokemon center, which I THINK I previously skipped.

There, I was informed that my pokemon had some kind of disease, and I didn't really understand what they were discussing - only that I most of my pokemon had been hit with some status effect called PKRS. I considered these two pieces of information, and did the only logical thing:

Reset my game and start again.

Years later, I have another fun story.

In SwSh, I resolved to earn a shiny the hard way. Specifically, I wanted to get a shiny silver Corviknight.

I also wanted to complete my dex, so in lieu of getting my shiny corviknight, I joined some server to do all the trade-based dex entires. While I was doing that, I naturally traded a Gurdurr I'd caught to evolve it into a conkeldurr.
When I got it back, though, I realised something was... off. It had red parts where it normally had purple. It was... a shiny conkeldurr.
thank god the other guy was decent enough to let me keep it. I traded it off for a French ditto named Metatron and soon got my intended shiny.

 

[Fialovy]

There, I was informed that my pokemon had some kind of disease, and I didn't really understand what they were discussing - only that I most of my pokemon had been hit with some status effect called PKRS. I considered these two pieces of information, and did the only logical thing:

That reminds me of my Pokerus story!

When I was informed my Pokemon had Pokerus as a kid I literally cried because I thought my Pokemon would die. I was so glad that they were okay. Usually when you hear of viruses, you think it is a bad thing.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

That reminds me of my Pokerus story!

When I was informed my Pokemon had Pokerus as a kid I literally cried because I thought my Pokemon would die. I was so glad that they were okay. Usually when you hear of viruses, you think it is a bad thing.

I was ten-ish years old and walking through the Rusturf tunnel when I came across a pink and green Whismur. I caught it, somewhat surprised and confused, and walked back to the Verdanturf Pokemon center, which I THINK I previously skipped.

There, I was informed that my pokemon had some kind of disease, and I didn't really understand what they were discussing - only that I most of my pokemon had been hit with some status effect called PKRS. I considered these two pieces of information, and did the only logical thing:

Reset my game and start again.

Speaking of Pokerus, that has to be one of the most obscure pokemon features to have ever been implemented.

Not only are your pokemon as likely to get it as digging up a gold coin in your backyard but, since the games give you little to no information on what it does, most players are left confused as to why their entire team now has it and are suddenly cured of it with seemingly no changes.

Is Pokerus even a thing in the recent titles?

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Is Pokerus even a thing in the recent titles?

Yeah it’s still a thing. Somehow I’ve gotten it in Sapphire and Shield.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

I was ten-ish years old and walking through the Rusturf tunnel when I came across a pink and green Whismur. I caught it, somewhat surprised and confused, and walked back to the Verdanturf Pokemon center, which I THINK I previously skipped.

There, I was informed that my pokemon had some kind of disease, and I didn't really understand what they were discussing - only that I most of my pokemon had been hit with some status effect called PKRS. I considered these two pieces of information, and did the only logical thing:

Reset my game and start again.

Lol, dude, don't worry. It's so pants on head obscure to any players that you literally have to look it up online or ask someone older. Never got Pokerus save for my Black 2 game, but that's only recently. Legit, though? I wouldn't have reset my game. I'd just ignore it and keep playing.

Still, back then, I had no idea what any of the EV and IV mumbo jumbo was until I looked it up and studied all I could. I used to breed and EV train like crazy for my emerald play.

That was until I discovered Pokegen. Time consuming breeding and training is a thing of the past when you can literally hack the game and give your team perfect everything.



Speaking of which. I recently built a team composed of manga Red's team for the Diamond Battle Tower. From the Adventures manga, specifically. To anyone here who's at least tried it, they're... actually really well rounded when you know what you're doing. Granted, rather than use the exact same moves they use in canon, I used their Smogon tiers for Gen IV to at least give them competitive advantage.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

The Pokémon franchise is full of insane fantards that freak the fuck out if they catch a whiff of you saying something reasonable like, "I grew out of it." "I prefer Digimon over Pokémon" or "I hate Serena's anime portrayal"

It's like you cannot outgrow it and must suck Gamefreak's cock eternally and like it, wart and all with their mobile gacha games.

 

[Disc]

The Pokémon franchise is full of insane fantards that freak the fuck out if they catch a whiff of you saying something reasonable like, "I grew out of it." "I prefer Digimon over Pokémon" or "I hate Serena's anime portrayal"

It's like you cannot outgrow it and must suck Gamefreak's cock eternally and like it, wart and all with their mobile gacha games.

who the fuck was still watching the anime in the X/Y arc, that's what I want to know

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

who the fuck was still watching the anime in the X/Y arc, that's what I want to know

I barely watched it (4 episodes) then dropped it.

My guess are again, hardcore fans and Serena-wafuists/defenders that think any negative opinion on her makes you a toxic POS.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

who the fuck was still watching the anime in the X/Y arc, that's what I want to know

i only watched the final battle with Alain because they said it was decent.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

The Pokémon franchise is full of insane fantards that freak the fuck out if they catch a whiff of you saying something reasonable like, "I grew out of it." "I prefer Digimon over Pokémon" or "I hate Serena's anime portrayal"

It's like you cannot outgrow it and must suck Gamefreak's cock eternally and like it, wart and all with their mobile gacha games.

who the fuck was still watching the anime in the X/Y arc, that's what I want to know

Ash became even stupider and childish when SM rolled around, and if anyone can even believe it, got slightly more toddler brained in Journeys.

He was arguably more mature in XY.

This kid, for nearly 25 years, ladies and gentlemen. Then again, many of their staple franchises never age, like Doraemon, Sazae-san, and Crayon Shin-chan. Just like in the west when you take into account other kids shows like Arthur, Madeline.

The only exception would be shows like Hey Arnold!, where the characters do gradually age and change.

Rugrats literally went for more than 10 seasons before cancelation, and the babies barely aged during that run.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Ash became even stupider and childish when SM rolled around, and if anyone can even believe it, got slightly more toddler brained in Journeys.

He was arguably more mature in XY.

This kid, for nearly 25 years, ladies and gentlemen. Then again, many of their staple franchises never age, like Doraemon, Sazae-san, and Crayon Shin-chan. Just like in the west when you take into account other kids shows like Arthur, Madeline.

The only exception would be shows like Hey Arnold!, where the characters do gradually age and change.

Rugrats literally went for more than 10 seasons before cancelation, and the babies barely aged during that run.

Ironically, initially the creators were gonna show Ash as an old man looking fondly at his Adventures in the early Pokémon movies. But of course, too drastic.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The Pokémon franchise is full of insane fantards that freak the fuck out if they catch a whiff of you saying something reasonable like, "I grew out of it." "I prefer Digimon over Pokémon" or "I hate Serena's anime portrayal"

It's like you cannot outgrow it and must suck Gamefreak's cock eternally and like it, wart and all with their mobile gacha games.

I honestly dropped Pokemon entirely around X and Y, now the DS games were of varying quality and I did like Platinum and Soul Silver. But I decided to challenge myself and bring every pokemon (and I mean every pokemon at the time) from the GBA games to the DS games to the 3ds. I marathoned installments and used the awful capped safari zone transfer and online features for trading until I had every monster from each generation. Some I had to wait to get in future games due to them not appearing in earlier titles. I used the dream world frequently and even got a Kangaskahn from the pokewalker thing. I even did the gamestop special events to fill in my ranks.

But after then transporting everything to Y it became abundantly clear that they were phoning shit in. There's so many better RPGs out there than Pokemon and they were just coasting on the popularity and not making any major quality of life changes.

I have not gotten a Pokemon game since then. If Nintendo can put out Xenoblade and yet somehow Pokemon is the bigger franchise but vastly inferior when it comes to game mechanics it shows that they're not even trying. It's like World of Warcraft, it's sheer momentum and arbitary things like Nostalgia that keeps it going, they're not trying to improve the series or make it better.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

I honestly dropped Pokemon entirely around X and Y, now the DS games were of varying quality and I did like Platinum and Soul Silver. But I decided to challenge myself and bring every pokemon (and I mean every pokemon at the time) from the GBA games to the DS games to the 3ds. I marathoned installments and used the awful capped safari zone transfer and online features for trading until I had every monster from each generation. Some I had to wait to get in future games due to them not appearing in earlier titles. I used the dream world frequently and even got a Kangaskahn from the pokewalker thing. I even did the gamestop special events to fill in my ranks.

But after then transporting everything to Y it became abundantly clear that they were phoning shit in. There's so many better RPGs out there than Pokemon and they were just coasting on the popularity and not making any major quality of life changes.

I have not gotten a Pokemon game since then. If Nintendo can put out Xenoblade and yet somehow Pokemon is the bigger franchise but vastly inferior when it comes to game mechanics it shows that they're not even trying. It's like World of Warcraft, it's sheer momentum and arbitary things like Nostalgia that keeps it going, they're not trying to improve the series or make it better.

Hell, YouTubers were roasting the shit out of the initial low frame rate, copy-pasted trees and glitches and it was meant for the public.

I haven't played any of the games since the early 2000's (Pokémon Colosseum), and I gave up wanting to play. I will occasionally see PokeTubers and gameplays

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Not only are your pokemon as likely to get it as digging up a gold coin in your backyard but, since the games give you little to no information on what it does, most players are left confused as to why their entire team now has it and are suddenly cured of it with seemingly no changes.

Ehhh, no, it's a .6% chance to get it during any battle. As long as you're autistic enough to play for long enough to roll a few shinies, you'll get it once. All it does is double EV growth; and the Power items still give +5 points per battle making them significantly better. It's a cool boost though.

Old but gold

This started the shiny debate, my story is that I once found a shiny Graveler in Diamond. I don't think over ever caught a shiny again. If you know me, you know I am an autist who only catches psudeos and decent BST mons for the sole purpose of destroying anything that moves. I forget to bring quick balls.

My guess are again, hardcore fans and Serena-wafuists/defenders that think any negative opinion on her makes you a toxic POS.

Why not just say "Beach Cynthia is Ass" or just spout VGC bullshit logic they tell others? They get pissed.

People hate anime profile pics, but you seem like a decent one, @Cheerlead-in-Chief.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

who the fuck was still watching the anime in the X/Y arc, that's what I want to know

X/Y was more of a zoomer thing, which is why the fanbase became insufferable around that time (particularly in the shipping community, ugh) even though the reactions to the Kalos League was bloody hilarious. I did try to check out the Sun and Moon anime because I figured "I'll watch it subbed", but I only saw the first two episodes and the new art-style just weirded me out.

I'm trying to watch D/P now that I have the DVDs, but something about it doesn't sit right with me despite folks saying it's a good series, and I can't be arsed to watch episodes. It's not the dub, even though it's a rough dub, so it might be the pacing. Much like with Johto, it takes Ash like 17 fucking episodes to get to the first gym, but the difference is there's no snappy 4KIDS script to distract me from the pacing. Also this animation, like lol, why is everyone so fucking short in this series? I legit thought Viz fucked with the ratio on the DVDs, but nah, they actually look like this.

The 2000s were an awkward time for anime to transition to digital, I swear.

 

[Fialovy]

It's like you cannot outgrow it and must suck Gamefreak's cock eternally and like it, wart and all with their mobile gacha games.

Although I still play pokemon and pay attention to it, I don't play nearly as much as I used to as a kid. It was partly becoming an adult and also the fanbase that kind of turned me off from it, specifically the Smogonites and competitive people sucking the fun out of it for me and stopped me from being as engaged.

You are right though, the Pokemon fanbase is like a spectrum of autism, you have the competitive players, the furries, the shippers, the lore spergs, the waifufags etc. the list goes on there is different types of autism in different areas of the franchise.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

X/Y was more of a zoomer thing, which is why the fanbase became insufferable around that time (particularly in the shipping community, ugh) even though the reactions to the Kalos League was bloody hilarious. I did try to check out the Sun and Moon anime because I figured "I'll watch it subbed", but I only saw the first two episodes and the new art-style just weirded me out.

I'm trying to watch D/P now that I have the DVDs, but something about it doesn't sit right with me despite folks saying it's a good series, and I can't be arsed to watch episodes. It's not the dub, even though it's a rough dub, so it might be the pacing. Much like with Johto, it takes Ash like 17 fucking episodes to get to the first gym, but the difference is there's no snappy 4KIDS script to distract me from the pacing. Also this animation, like lol, why is everyone so fucking short in this series? I legit thought Viz fucked with the ratio on the DVDs, but nah, they actually look like this.

The 2000s were an awkward time for anime to transition to digital, I swear.

Oh man! I haven't watched the anime since the Orange Islands episodes. The anime just felt half-assed compared to the games. As the player I could possibly become a Pokemon Master and capture all the Pokemon in the game.

 

[NerdShamer]

The anime just felt half-assed compared to the games.

It's always been like that and it still is.