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

[Squawking Macaw]

That was intentional. If it helps, I'm not a lesbian. I'm just stealing a /vp/ joke because I have nothing better to do lol.

Oh ok, well played lol.

>X but it has longer wings
>X but it looks scarier
>X but it has LOOOOOONG legs
>X but it has a different color now
>X but with more stuff on it
>X but it looks retarded now
>Let's bring back Battle Bond Greninja but pretend he's a Mega now
Froslass and the other two XY starters are alright, everything else is shit
Are there people genuinely excited for this?

They brought Mega Evolution back but made the new Megas look like Gigantamax.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Just wait until you realize that it doesn't even use those wings. It still flies with the tiny ones on its back.

The wings were flapping in the part of the trailer I skipped to, are you saying its idle battle animation they're entirely motionless?

 

[Anonitolia]

The wings were flapping in the part of the trailer I skipped to, are you saying its idle battle animation they're entirely motionless?

Yes. The head-wings aren't flapping, and they seem to act more like extra arms than anything else. Spreading out or smacking air. It only flies with its back wings. Look at its animations here:

The battle idle leaves them completely motionless. The head-wings only move when attacking or initially mega-evolving. Otherwise, they're completely motionless and it's just the tiny ones on the back keeping it afloat.

 

[30+GameOvers]

They brought Mega Evolution back but made the new Megas look like Gigantamax.

Knowing Gamefreak, they did start out life as Gigantomax Pokemon, but then somebody slapped these retards around and told them they need Mega Pokemon since the game takes place in Kalos. Now they are Mega Pokemon, nothing about their design is actually changed aside from making them smaller.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Yes, kind of. The head-wings aren't flapping, they're just moving like extra arms (except they're not hitting anything). Spreading out or smacking things. It only flies with its back wings. Look at its animations here:

Only flapping with the back ones.

I don't think there's enough footage to make that determination. Being bigger wings I wouldn't be surprised if in its idle animation the big wings flap just less often.

 

[30+GameOvers]

/vp/ having a real one

Comparing this abomination to Digimon is an insult if you ask me

 

[Anonitolia]

holy shit lol did anyone notice that you need to pay currency to change moves, abilities, and natures in Champions? You also can't edit IVs, like at all, only redistribute EVs with some weird and clunky EV-like system that only works on a scale from 1-32.


EDIT: It's not a premium currency, apparently.


Adding a few more details from the official site here...

UNITE-like license screen here:


Here's how the licenses work:

TL;DR: once a day, you can use any one species for free. Once. If you want to use it any longer, or (likely) bring over any HOME companions you have, you've got to pay points.

You cannot change anything about your Pokémon until it has been permanently purchased. Seems like you just get stuck with some shitty default kit.


Only Singles and Doubles are being featured in the game (to nobody's surprise). Lol, lmao, etc.
Also, there are three modes: ranked, casual, and private.


Here's a HOME connectivity graph that's been conveniently excluded from the English site.

You still can't bring anything not in Champions into Champions from HOME, but you also can't bring anything you got from Champions into HOME itself.

Champions is not getting a Switch 2 version. It's only for smartphones and the Switch 1. It's also being developed by ILCA under the name The Pokémon Works.

 

[30+GameOvers]

holy shit lol did anyone notice that you need to pay currency to change moves, abilities, and natures in Champions? You also can't edit IVs, like at all, only redistribute EVs with some weird and clunky EV-like system that only works on a scale from 1-32.
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EDIT: It's not a premium currency, apparently.
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Adding a few more details from the official site here...

UNITE-like license screen here:
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The site makes no mention of it, but you have to pay currency to "permanently acquire licenses" for various different Pokémon that are included in the game.

Like I said, it's just an inferior Stadium clone with mobile game monetization and modern online play rot. Either way, inferior to just firing up Showdown.
I bet you 100% they will add premium currency down the line, they just need to boil this frog a bit first.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

The fine folks in the comments section aren't taking these news any better than we are:



There is no hype surrounding ZA. Nobody is talking about it, and after one of the longest news droughts of any game, the only thing Game Freak cares to reveal is a Dragonite with wings on its head. They aren't even trying to market this game.
I know that at the end of the day this is a Pokemon game, but if things keep going this way I honestly believe it will bomb.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Comparing this abomination to Digimon is an insult if you ask me

Meanwhile in Digimon:

This is Pokefan cope. Digimon fans are currently gearing up for what's looking to be a feast of spectacle in Digimon Story Time Stranger and have had a slew of decent games recently if the Digimon Thread is anything to go by.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Anon designs a better Mega for Dragonite in 5 minutes

@Catgirl Tyranid Not only am I seeing the same comparisons between Digimon and Pokemon on /vp/ right now, but there is general asshurt that "digimon is too edgy" lmfao
Also, that niggers in france is normal, even tho people complained about them in XY as well. Imagine starting Pokemon with XY and just accepting that making half the NPCs in the game brown for no reason is normal.
"No black NPCs in BDSP"
Who wants to tell him?


The other remakes didn't do this BTW, Sinnoh babies coping as always.

 

[Registration]

Looks like romhackings fans won...

 

[Halloween23]

I don't understand why Nintendo is so protective of their other IPs but let the Pokemon company shovel out the biggest piles of dogshit slop imaginable.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I don't understand why Nintendo is so protective of their other IPs but let the Pokemon company shovel out the biggest piles of dogshit slop imaginable.

It prints money regardless of quality and the three company ownership of the Pokemon IP that's set up keeps them from being able to exert that level of oversight.

Pokemon is normie audience friendly and firmly entrenched. There is no reason to mess with the golden goose especially when you'd have to wade through a sea of corporate red tape to maybe make the wrong decision.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I don't understand why Nintendo is so protective of their other IPs but let the Pokemon company shovel out the biggest piles of dogshit slop imaginable.

Because Pokemon is the biggest media franchise in the world. Not a video game franchise, not a Japanese brand, the best entertainment franchise in the world. Bigger than Disney, bigger than Star Wars. They quite literally don't need to do anything but sit back and let them print money. Quality doesn't matter, it will always make money, Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet proved that once and for all.

Edit: More content from /vp/

Champions isn't even getting a Switch 2 release and it's made by a B studio, you can tell it's gonna flop. The only question now is if Nintendo or TPCi will use this as an excuse to finally DMCA Showdown.
One of the Team Flare admins, you probably don't remember her because nobody else does, is now running Sycamore's institute. No, she did not go to prison even tho she helped out Lysandre's genocidal plan and she even has the Team Flare logo on her gamer chair as a final insult

"I asked the main character to investigate"
Was this shit written by an AI?

...and now we have a returning character straight up be misgendered. This is either AI or a shitty translator, either way says a lot about the current state of the franchise. This is machine translated Japanese text but it's still funny
Here is the mega for black guy's scrafty

That's right, it is an "urban youth" in klan robes, or a balaclava like the one a robber or a terrorist would wear. Real classy.
BTW his name is based off "virgin" in certain languages. Buck status?
oh and nobody likes Mega Dragonite even outside of 4chan either

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Here is the mega for black guy's scrafty

That's right, it is an "urban youth" in klan robes, or a balaclava like the one a robber or a terrorist would wear. Real classy.
BTW his name is based off "virgin" in certain languages. Buck status?

They gave the black guy a Scrafty as his ace? What are his other Pokemon, Jynx, Blaziken and Rillaboom?

And yet another of Khu's leaked Megas has been confirmed, can't wait for Starmie Longlegs and Druddigatr.

 

[30+GameOvers]

kek

So, I'm just finding out after 12 years that Malva was supposed to be a Team Flare admin, on top of being an Elite Four member. These characters are so forgettable that I can barely recall their names, let alone who they were. Still, this does raise a good question: How are these people still free despite being the closest thing we have to Pokemon nazis so far? I guess Kalos is a corrupt shithole, hence why Lysandre wanted to cleanse it in the first place.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

kek
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So, I'm just finding out after 12 years that Malva was supposed to be a Team Flare admin, on top of being an Elite Four member. These characters are so forgettable that I can barely recall their names, let alone who they were. Still, this does raise a good question: How are these people still free despite being the closest thing we have to Pokemon nazis so far? I guess Kalos is a corrupt shithole, hence why Lysandre wanted to cleanse it in the first place.

Reading up, she's also the one who is on the Holocaster, (I just now realized how close that is to Holocaust and now I can't unsee it), the propaganda arm of Team Flare. I never realized we'd seen her before, I just assumed when I got to the Elite Four she was a random Team Flare admin I'd never seen before who for some reason wasn't present when all the plot went down and was salty, but resigned about its defeat.

She is the only Elite Four member I remember from X & Y, but I didn't even realize we were supposed to know who she before we fought her. What shitty characters.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

But why would you put wings on its head!? THIS SO DUMB!

Holy shit, that's what it really looks like!?

This series is so fucked

 

[Shaneequa]

Found this guy on tiktok, he's pretty talented.