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

I definitely went with the SOLO Slowbro for Cinderace. It worked extremely well once you got down what partners you need from the AI. As long as you have an Intimidator or Drifblim (burn), Cinderace shouldn't be able to do enough damage without a crit to KO you. Fuck Slack Off, it's worthless if you have an Intimidator and every time I ever tried to use it, the shield would pop before I could drop the orbital cannon. Arboliva  can get you through without an Intimidator thanks to terrain, but the extra second of animation every turn cuts it  really close. If it survives with a sliver after the first Stored Power, just hit it again, it doesn't debuff until it's 2nd turn after the shield. Did like 25 to load up on candies, protein and patches, because I'm really gonna need them...

Finally finished getting a fully evolved shiny of every Rock type. Combined with 1 of every Fairy, my cat team, and a handful of others I caught while going about the venture, I should have more then enough options to work with for making unexpected and niche combos.

There's very few rock types in the game, and with a sandwich they all spawn in abundance in their respective areas so there's not much to note. The only particular species of note is Dusk Lycanroc (all 3 forms have different stats and abilities so I count them separately). I would not recommend trying to catch one, just hatch one. You either have to hunt Shiny Rockruff and pray it has Own Tempo (good luck), or hunt Lycanroc... Dusk form can appear in the overworld and you can use a sandwich, but they only spawn at dusk... Which lasts a whopping 4 minutes. You will have to close the game, roll back your clock 5-7 minutes, reload, remake the sandwich, and then repeat every single time you are unsuccessful. It's not worth it. The only other note is Violet players will have to Masuda Stonjouner and Tyranitar.

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I still have a lot of work to do though. Every single Pokemon in BB needs to be made battle ready. First row of BB2 is my cat team. Everything else is an extra I found along the way or a raidmon but are only in BB2 for the screenshot. Kyle isn't shiny, and I'm not about to hatch a shiny Charizard anytime soon. At this point it's time to let all these extra herbs I have collect dust for a while and for my basket to remain empty.
 
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I definitely went with the SOLO Slowbro for Cinderace. It worked extremely well once you got down what partners you need from the AI. As long as you have an Intimidator or Drifblim (burn), Cinderace shouldn't be able to do enough damage without a crit to KO you. Fuck Slack Off, it's worthless if you have an Intimidator and every time I ever tried to use it, the shield would pop before I could drop the orbital cannon. Arboliva  can get you through without an Intimidator thanks to terrain, but the extra second of animation every turn cuts it  really close. If it survives with a sliver after the first Stored Power, just hit it again, it doesn't debuff until it's 2nd turn after the shield. Did like 25 to load up on candies, protein and patches, because I'm really gonna need them...

Finally finished getting a fully evolved shiny of every Rock type. Combined with 1 of every Fairy, my cat team, and a handful of others I caught while going about the venture, I should have more then enough options to work with for making unexpected and niche combos.

There's very few rock types in the game, and with a sandwich they all spawn in abundance in their respective areas so there's not much to note. The only particular species of note is Dusk Lycanroc (all 3 forms have different stats and abilities so I count them separately). I would not recommend trying to catch one, just hatch one. You either have to hunt Shiny Rockruff and pray it has Own Tempo (good luck), or hunt Lycanroc... Dusk form can appear in the overworld and you can use a sandwich, but they only spawn at dusk... Which lasts a whopping 4 minutes. You will have to close the game, roll back your clock 5-7 minutes, reload, remake the sandwich, and then repeat every single time you are unsuccessful. It's not worth it. The only other note is Violet players will have to Masuda Stonjouner and Tyranitar.

I still have a lot of work to do though. Every single Pokemon in BB needs to be made battle ready. First row of BB2 is my cat team. Everything else is an extra I found along the way or a raidmon but are only in BB2 for the screenshot. Kyle isn't shiny, and I'm not about to hatch a shiny Charizard anytime soon. At this point it's time to let all these extra herbs I have collect dust for a while and for my basket to remain empty.
well, i caught a shiny rolycoly today. *sigh*
 
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A lot of the metal Pokemon look great in this game simply because the light reflects off of their bodies. Magnemite and Magneton stand out as excellent examples. Their bodies look like polished steel whereas in previous games, they were just grey. You'll even notice the light reflecting off the spikes on Lucario's paws.
I don't think it happened for all Steel-types, but I remember in the spin-off games like Gale of Darkness something similar happened if you used 'mons like Aron in areas with lava.

It wasn't as vibrant, but they did suddenly get a slight metallic sheen to them. It's subtle, but if you look closely, it's there.
 
I definitely went with the SOLO Slowbro for Cinderace. It worked extremely well once you got down what partners you need from the AI. As long as you have an Intimidator or Drifblim (burn), Cinderace shouldn't be able to do enough damage without a crit to KO you. Fuck Slack Off, it's worthless if you have an Intimidator and every time I ever tried to use it, the shield would pop before I could drop the orbital cannon. Arboliva  can get you through without an Intimidator thanks to terrain, but the extra second of animation every turn cuts it  really close. If it survives with a sliver after the first Stored Power, just hit it again, it doesn't debuff until it's 2nd turn after the shield. Did like 25 to load up on candies, protein and patches, because I'm really gonna need them...

Finally finished getting a fully evolved shiny of every Rock type. Combined with 1 of every Fairy, my cat team, and a handful of others I caught while going about the venture, I should have more then enough options to work with for making unexpected and niche combos.

There's very few rock types in the game, and with a sandwich they all spawn in abundance in their respective areas so there's not much to note. The only particular species of note is Dusk Lycanroc (all 3 forms have different stats and abilities so I count them separately). I would not recommend trying to catch one, just hatch one. You either have to hunt Shiny Rockruff and pray it has Own Tempo (good luck), or hunt Lycanroc... Dusk form can appear in the overworld and you can use a sandwich, but they only spawn at dusk... Which lasts a whopping 4 minutes. You will have to close the game, roll back your clock 5-7 minutes, reload, remake the sandwich, and then repeat every single time you are unsuccessful. It's not worth it. The only other note is Violet players will have to Masuda Stonjouner and Tyranitar.

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I still have a lot of work to do though. Every single Pokemon in BB needs to be made battle ready. First row of BB2 is my cat team. Everything else is an extra I found along the way or a raidmon but are only in BB2 for the screenshot. Kyle isn't shiny, and I'm not about to hatch a shiny Charizard anytime soon. At this point it's time to let all these extra herbs I have collect dust for a while and for my basket to remain empty.
Couldn't you just hunt a normal shiny rockruff, give it an ability patch, and evolve that?
 
Couldn't you just hunt a normal shiny rockruff, give it an ability patch, and evolve that?

Own Tempo Rockruff is considered to be it's own version, since normal Rockruff's HA is Steadfast, so unfortunately no.

This. If you look at an OT Rockruff's status screen, it doesn't have a Pokedex number much like the GMeowth, Quagsire, Charizard and Cinderace line. In the code it's an entirely separate species and evolution line all together. This can even cause a glitch/oversight for people where they have "everything" listed in the Dex, but because they have an OT Rockruff registered as "caught" and not a normal one, they won't be able to get their shiny charm till they figure out it's the issue.
 
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Which are your favorite Gen 9 Pokemon (including paradox forms)?
Mine are Sprigatito, Maushold and Tinkaton.
In my opinion, SVs roster of new pokemon is the weakest since Gen 6 but it offers some really creative Designs too.
 
Which are your favorite Gen 9 Pokemon (including paradox forms)?
Mine are Sprigatito, Maushold and Tinkaton.
In my opinion, SVs roster of new pokemon is the weakest since Gen 6 but it offers some really creative Designs too.
Tatsugiri, Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Clodsire, Flamigo, Greavard, Gholdengo, Toedscruel, Cetitan, Brute Bonnet, Sandy Shocks, Miraidon, and Slither Wing are my favorites, with Slither Wing at the top of the list.
 
I guess that's why it's wearing a mask :story: Fair enough. During D/P's prerelease days people called it Roselade so I just always assumed that's what it was supposed to be.
Even without the masquerade thing (TIL!) I'd still disagree with your lade/rade take because of the implied laziness
Roselia
Roselade

That's a difference of 2 or 3 letters, fucking hell, GF is lazy enough as it is
 
My terrible takes on the name aside, is it me or is Roselia actually pretty solid, at least outside of "competitive" play? I'm playing through OR right now, trying to use pkmn I don't normally play, and Roselia has been a pleasant surprise. Giga Drain and access to Venoshock through TM so any Fairy types have their day ruined. Plus, unlike e.g. Swampert, it isn't hamstrung by moves that use the "wrong" attack stat. Overall a really solid addition to my team, and I haven't even evolved it to Roserade yet.

I always used to look past it as fodder for Swellow or Gardevoir, but it's definitely going to be on my "Torchic" playthoughs from now on.
 
My terrible takes on the name aside, is it me or is Roselia actually pretty solid, at least outside of "competitive" play? I'm playing through OR right now, trying to use pkmn I don't normally play, and Roselia has been a pleasant surprise. Giga Drain and access to Venoshock through TM so any Fairy types have their day ruined. Plus, unlike e.g. Swampert, it isn't hamstrung by moves that use the "wrong" attack stat. Overall a really solid addition to my team, and I haven't even evolved it to Roserade yet.

I always used to look past it as fodder for Swellow or Gardevoir, but it's definitely going to be on my "Torchic" playthoughs from now on.

You can beat oras even with a deaf and dumb magikarp. Nevertheless, Roselia is decent, it's been created as a pokemon with no evolution after all.
Everybody uses Breloom, this fungus is way overrated. Props for using Roselia.
 
My terrible takes on the name aside, is it me or is Roselia actually pretty solid, at least outside of "competitive" play? I'm playing through OR right now, trying to use pkmn I don't normally play, and Roselia has been a pleasant surprise. Giga Drain and access to Venoshock through TM so any Fairy types have their day ruined. Plus, unlike e.g. Swampert, it isn't hamstrung by moves that use the "wrong" attack stat. Overall a really solid addition to my team, and I haven't even evolved it to Roserade yet.

I always used to look past it as fodder for Swellow or Gardevoir, but it's definitely going to be on my "Torchic" playthoughs from now on.
For a Pokemon with a 400 bst, it's got stats in the right places for what it wants to do. A quarter of it's entire bst is Special Attack.
 
You can beat oras even with a deaf and dumb magikarp. Nevertheless, Roselia is decent, it's been created as a pokemon with no evolution after all.
Everybody uses Breloom, this fungus is way overrated. Props for using Roselia.
Oras was better than Emerald in every way and im still mad sinnoh didnt get that kind of respect towards it with that epic rayquaza vs deoxys episode in the post game. A section that even got an anime segment in Evolutions where Brendan gets to walk on a giant satelite far above the planet and watch rayquaza defeat the alien.

Forgot how cool Deoxys was and how rotom’s “item catalog” key item in BDSP is just what Deoxys needs so developers dont need to add meteorites or in game events for it to change form.
 
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