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

Did you close and restart the game to reset the memory leak at all? I've been doing that every few hours, may have something to do with it.
yeah, I wasn't aware that I actually had to close it, I misunderstood and thought that just putting my Switch to sleep would be enough.

Anyway. does anyone know why my Tropius is disobeying me despite the fact that he didn't come from a trade and is at a lower level than all my other Pokemon? I noticed that he has the "somewhat stubborn" characteristic, is that why? Because Bulbapedia doesn't say anything about those characteristics affecting anything other than IVs
 
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Anyway. does anyone know why my Tropius is disobeying me despite the fact that he didn't come from a trade and is at a lower level than all my other Pokemon? I noticed that he has the "somewhat stubborn" characteristic, is that why? Because Bulbapedia doesn't say anything about those characteristics affecting anything other than IVs
Pokemon obedience seems to work differently in this game. Instead of all Pokemon you personally catch obeying you, all Pokemon you catch will obey you so long as they were caught or obtained below or at the max level set based on the gym badges you have. For example, if you don't have any gym badges, I believe Pokemon you catch up to level 20 will obey you. If you catch a Starly at level 17, it will obey your commands. If you raise it to level 21 or higher, it will still obey you because you obtained it under level 20. If you then catch a level 22 Gible, it won't obey you till your first badge when that threshold is increased to 25.

If you're planning on doing the Pokemon League last but still want to work certain Pokemon in your team, it's best to catch a Ditto or male and female of what you want to use and just breed and hatch an egg. All hatched Pokemon are obtained at level 1 and thus will be loyal to you.

I caught an Adamant Tinkatink at like level 11 and I've been using just that Pokemon's line to sweep through the game. Did you know there are a shit ton of exp and rare candies strewn about the map? I was able to fully ev train it, and between some manual training and candy usage, I was able to raise it to level 68 before knocking out a single team Star Base, Titan or Gym badge.

As of now, I've completed both the Titan and Team Star storylines, the Ice, Ghost, Normal and Water Gyms. I'm definitely doing everything out of order.

Edit: I obtained German Ditto from a user I met in a Youtube stream of the game. I'm doing about 20 Masuda Quaxly eggs for a chance at one of them being a shiny so if anyone wants one for the Pokedex entry, hit me up. Hatched Fuecoco and Sprigatito or Scarlet exclusives would be much appreciated.
 
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Characteristics have never affected anything about a Pokemon, besideds it's IVs
Also, stop using Tropius. It's a shitmon
@Ilikeoreos don't listen to this elitist, he knows nothing about having an appreciation for shitmons

a lot of my favorite pokeymans are shitmon, but idc, i'll raise the greatest shitmon to ever shit
 
yeah, but once PER BATTLE? not maybe once per switch-in?
When I saw that I had to do a double take. Once per match completely destroys the utility of the ability, especially with Terastalizing being a thing. It's was definitely an OP and nearly broken ability, but as you said, once per switch-in would of been a reasonable nerf. From one of, if not THE best ability in the game, to one that's almost entirely worthless, just by adding a few words.

It's always Hit and Miss with you GF, you never choose the middle ground. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they nerfed it THIS hard to put more focus on Tera forms than for balance sake, since Protean is pretty much a Tera 3.0 in it's original state. Still isn't fair to essentially nuke the ability from orbit like that.
 
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Has anyone else noticed the trannies?
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The lack of characters designed by Ken Sugimori this time around is really weird. The characters not looking like Pokemon characters really takes some getting used to. Little things bug me, like changing how names are (selectively) displayed. Fuckhead the Janny, for instance. But, Pokemon Trainer and Hitchhiker still come before the name. The school setting is just diet Persona, right down to classes and tests. I can get why JRPGs that don't sell gangbusters took a page out of that formula, but Pokemon really didn't have to. Stakes feel pretty low overall here too. The villain teams just kinda get lamer and lamer and stop being real threats after Team Flare for some reason. Badges beimng required to make all Pokemon obey and not just traded ones is kinda lame. Makes me feel kinda pressed to get the Gyms out of the way so I can level up without worry.

Overall though, I'm liking the game a lot more than I expected to. Exploration and movement is pretty fun. There's a good amount of variety of Pokemon. I like the attempt at non-linearity. They should've made gyms/Titans/Team Star scale in level to you to really go all in on that., but it's nice to be able to just fuck off and go wherever. Terastalizing, while retarded looking, is actually a pretty fun mechanic. Not quite as cool as Mega Evolutions were, but being able to potentially change types adds a lot to shake things up. The music is pretty good, but most of the games have good music. Aside from that Toby Fox one. Can't say I'm a fan of his musical stylings.

Pretty good overall. Should have had another couple months in the oven for some bug fixes and whatever. I'd say a solid 6/10, could definitely have skewed higher if the game didn't crash on me a couple of times.
 
The lack of characters designed by Ken Sugimori this time around is really weird. The characters not looking like Pokemon characters really takes some getting used to. Little things bug me, like changing how names are (selectively) displayed. Fuckhead the Janny, for instance. But, Pokemon Trainer and Hitchhiker still come before the name. The school setting is just diet Persona, right down to classes and tests. I can get why JRPGs that don't sell gangbusters took a page out of that formula, but Pokemon really didn't have to. Stakes feel pretty low overall here too. The villain teams just kinda get lamer and lamer and stop being real threats after Team Flare for some reason. Badges beimng required to make all Pokemon obey and not just traded ones is kinda lame. Makes me feel kinda pressed to get the Gyms out of the way so I can level up without worry.

While watching some livestreams of S/V, I did notice that there seems to be a lack of trainer classes in this game. Are Youngsters, Lasses, and Swimmers even still a thing in the game?
 
While watching some livestreams of S/V, I did notice that there seems to be a lack of trainer classes in this game. Are Youngsters, Lasses, and Swimmers even still a thing in the game?
Youngers and Lasses kinda got rolled into Students. And there are less classes, but ones like Student have a pretty wide variety of models. And ones like Backpacker have different hair colors all the time in this one.
 
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After the Finn-style sandwich-eating became widely spread, many people wished that Pokémon go back to sprites.
I concluded that would require a full-on demake.

Apparently, I was no the only one. Redbregade05 is making one:
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I then thought about doing demakes of the other 3D games, but some already had the same idea.
Someone already converted th entire Sword & Shield games, including DLC places, to a playable 2D ROM: https://whackahack.com/juegos/pokemon-espada-y-escudo-gba/
Someon else is converting X and Y: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/ynxqq5/pokémon_xy_gba_demake_new_screenshots_06th/
This is really cool. I'll play that ROM when it's ready.

Has anyone else noticed the trannies?
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This shit NPC dialogue is why I stopped played SwSh. The localization team needs a good smacking because they're not funny in the slightest. Translate properly or GTFO.
 
This shit NPC dialogue is why I stopped played SwSh. The localization team needs a good smacking because they're not funny in the slightest. Translate properly or GTFO.
you actually read the dialogue? lol fuck that shit, i know the dialogue has been bad in a lot of the more recent games, so i just kinda skim over it to make sure nothing important is being said, although usually anything important is highlighted because this is a game for children.
 
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Speak for yourself. I love every single one of them. Granted all of the future ones being robots is a tired concept.
The primal pokemon designs are cool and a nice novel concept. The future ones however are fucking boring and lazy. Also, the naming scheme is the single fucking worst thing they could have gone with. "Iron treads" MOTHERFUCKING WHO? THE FUCK IS AN IRON TREADS
 
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