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

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Well Worlds 2024 is going well, one player was caught cheating and was disqualified and a player that managed to get Top 4 in the TCG's Masters division was disqualified after making an "obscene" gesture after winning his match. Was he making a jerk-off gesture or a dice roll gesture? That's up to you to decide.

Now we have Iron Thorns ex and Miradon ex as Masters' current semifinalists. I'm really fucking happy to see both decks do this well (with a special mention to Iron Thorns ex, that one is considered a joke deck to most people). As to who will do well it's 50/50 at this point, Miraidon ex has a lot of strong attackers and decent Energy acceleration but Iron Thorns ex is nasty match-up for any deck that's heavily reliant on Rule Box Pokémon with Abilities.
 
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Archeops said:
Well Worlds 2024 is going well, one player was caught cheating and was disqualified and a player that managed to get Top 4 in the TCG's Masters division was disqualified after making an "obscene" gesture after winning his match. Was he making a jerk-off gesture or a dice roll gesture? That's up to you to decide.
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Didn't Jonathan Evans (?) pulled out the middle finger during Worlds 2016 in VGC? IIRC, that moment was edited out of the VOD that incident happened in, and he didn't get DQed for it. Maybe it was a recent rules change that led to that DQ for that action. (?)
 
Celebrate Nite said:
It should also go back to what made pokemon successful to begin with.... the feeling of being a kid training monsters that you personally like, going on adventures and training them the way YOU want to and giving them the moves that YOU think would be cool to give it. That feeling of "this is not just your team, but your best friends that you've made many memories with".

It should also include:
  • No HMs
  • trainer rematches
  • hard mode that is NOT tied to Nuzlocke bullshit
  • absolutely NO hidden stats (IV's)
  • at least one new type to make everything more balanced so that the other lesser used types can shine.
  • Online battles for that extra replayability
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I've wanted hardmode for so long in Pokémon. Its a crime that Gamefreak has yet to actually implement one, and even if they did they would still fuck it up.
I agree with everything BUT the no IVs. I'm fine with them, but the grind is absolutely aids. It also shouldn't be a pain to know what IVs they have either, and should be transparent.

I've been replaying Pokémon Emerald lately and the and the one thing I appreciate is how quick dialogue is compared to the more modern games, which scenes are a slog and unskippable (I have yet to play any of the Switch games). My only two gripes is the retarded AI (sadly like this in all games) and the overuse of certain Pokémon with the various Trainers. Otherwise I'm having fun. Breeding is such a chore this gen however.

Also, is there a ROM hack yet for Omega Ruby/Sapphire that makes it harder? The actual game was an absolutely shitty remake and it still pisses me off. Or better yet, is there one for Emerald that makes it harder and implements the Gen 4 physical/special attack split?

Edit: Thanks for the recommendations for Radical Red and Pokemon Elite Redux earlier in the thread. Will check them out, but I'm looking for something a bit more "vanilla".

Also
Sprites >>> 3D models
 
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Imablissy’s competative Pokemon is pay2win series is getting silley now. Yes, it costs you the price if the game and the DLC to olay. No shit. Lol.
I_Lurk_Here said:
I have too many ideas. I've always wanted a Pokémon game with rubber banding so legendaries are hard to control but shitmons can be buffed if you use and care for them enough.
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In fairness that’s kind of what EV and IVs and Badges needed to control Pokemon did.

I doubt it’s ever going to become more complex than that when Pokemon seems to be trying to get away from all of that complexity and autism with stuff like Bottle Caps, Mints and ways to control EVs
Mister Uno said:
I've wanted hardmode for so long in Pokémon. Its a crime that Gamefreak has yet to actually implement one, and even if they did they would still fuck it up.
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They did. And they did.

Fuck the bloody Key System. Fuck it to hell.
 
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Fucking hell, Iron Thorns ex Control won Masters TCG Division. I wasn't expecting that but I'm glad it happened. Roaring Moon go first in Juniors division and Regidrago VSTAR got first in the Seniors division.
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I have some bad news for you
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I know that they didn't show anything for the opening ceremony, but the closing ceremony's been confirmed to have some news.
 
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Archeops said:
Ishihara mentioned that they'd be sharing "special" news for future Pokémon games at the closing ceremony on Friday.
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Oh, huh, I guess that's what I get for not being interested enough in competitive to watch the championships.
I hope he didn't just mean mobile shit since that's all we've gotten so far and the only news has related to TCG Pocket as of now. Then again, that doesn't specify Z-A either. Maybe he's officially announcing that slowdown thing.
Eh, probably not. I really do wonder what on earth could warrant something that vague and noncommittal of a statement though. Kinda makes the atmosphere more ominous given Gamefreak's track record.
 
The 2024 World Championship matches have just concluded, and here are our winners:

UNITE:

FENNEL (Japan)

GO:

Yekai0904 (Hong Kong)

TCG:

Juniors: Sakuya Ota (Japan)
Seniors: Evan Pavelski (USA)
Masters: Fernando Cifuentes (Chile)

VGC:

Juniors: Kevin Han (USA)
Seniors: Ray Yamanaka (Japan)
Masters: Luca Ceribelli (Italy)

Congrats to all of the winners!

So that TCG DQ did end up making a difference in the end. And it looks like that training from Arash did pay off for Luca!
 
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Thiletonomics said:
So that TCG DQ did end up making a difference in the end.
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Apparently I was wrong about that, he conceded the match when the judges explained to Robb that he could continue playing with an investigation taking place during the rest of the tournament or he could drop the match and end the investigation right there. I've also heard he was warned for similar behavior in a prior round.

EDIT: The Closing Ceremony's begin. GO stuff was revealed out of the gate with Morpeko is coming soon (with Hangry Mode intact) and Dynamax/Gigantamax was teased.

EDIT 2: Armorouge (Attacker), Darkrai (Speedster), and Psyduck (Support) are coming to UNITE.

EDIT 3: A Pokémon TCG Pocket trailer was shown off, the game has a October 30th release date. Sadly no gameplay was shown off.

EDIT 4: Owner's Pokémon are coming back to the TCG as exs and regular Pokémon.

EDIT 5: Worlds 2025 will be in Anaheim again and San Francisco for 2026.

EDIT 6: And that's it, no Z-A news doesn't fill me with a sense of confidence.
 
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The Ultimate Ramotith said:
I am surprised that a Latino actually managed to be a winner, since the Pokémon scene is, from what I know, no that prominent in Latin America.
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From what I've heard it's not that prominent due to a lot of issues with the staffing and the locations, the staff are known to favor their local players and bigger tournaments like International Championships tend to be hosted in Brazil.
 
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Oh, and since Worlds will be held on the West Coast for the next two years I'll probably attend them as a spectator. That also means I'll be closer to any potential drama that could unfold.
Howling Janny Dog said:
I was expecting to be disappointed by something along the lines of an Arceus rehash, but has the evil sorcery of France birthed something so horrendous that they can't even share any details?
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I think The Pokémon Company pulled a reverse Nintendo with PL:Z-A's initial announcement back in February, they announced the game before they had any actual in-game material ready to show to public. The fact that they still don't have any in-game footage to show at this point is honestly kind of worrying. Part of me hopes that we'll get some info between now and the end of the year but I have a feeling that getting news on Pokémon Day 2025 seems more likely.
 
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