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

Tardar the Barbarian said:
Posting an honest question here.

In both versions of the Battle Frontier, which facilities annoyed you the most?
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Emerald: Most of the facilities are fairly difficult in this one, IMO, but I'm personally going with the Battle Pike. As much as I Love Lucy (lol), the Battle Pike always felt like an exercise in frustration. Maybe I just had terrible luck, but I never seemed to get anything good every time I tried. I'm assuming that's why they made Lucy fairly easy to beat (Seviper in both rounds? Really?).

PlHGSS: I found these facilities much easier than Gen 3's (though it may be because I was using stronger Pokemon, idk.) I actually got all the gold prints in Platinum. I'll probably just say the Battle Tower, due to that facility being a classic staple of Pokemon's "RNG" (read: Here comes a trainer with a team that perfectly counters yours! What are the odds?!") screwing you over.
 
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CrippleThreat said:
If middle school me could breed for a 5IV [Mega] Houndoom and a whole competitive team, before I got traded a 6IV Ditto, you definitely got it, man.
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You don't even need a 6IV Ditto. Well in the cases of genderless Pokemon you'll need Dittos, but otherwise, just breed 6IV male pokemon of various different egg groups and you're good to go. For example, here's a list of Pokemon acquirable in Sword and Shield that can cover every egg group:

Grookey
Field/Grass

Chewtle
Monster/Water 1

Snorunt
Fairy/Mineral

Ralts
Human-Like/Amorphous

Magikarp
Water 2/Dragon

Skorupi
Bug/Water 3

Rookidee
Flying
 
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Jeff Boomhauer said:
Emerald: Most of the facilities are fairly difficult in this one, IMO, but I'm personally going with the Battle Pike. As much as I Love Lucy (lol), the Battle Pike always felt like an exercise in frustration. Maybe I just had terrible luck, but I never seemed to get anything good every time I tried. I'm assuming that's why they made Lucy fairly easy to beat (Seviper in both rounds? Really?).

PlHGSS: I found these facilities much easier than Gen 3's (though it may be because I was using stronger Pokemon, idk.) I actually got all the gold prints in Platinum. I'll probably just say the Battle Tower, due to that facility being a classic staple of Pokemon's "RNG" (read: Here comes a trainer with a team that perfectly counters yours! What are the odds?!") screwing you over.
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For me, it was the Battle Hall and the Battle Tower (both versions).

Seriously, what are the odds that the AI has a team that not only perfectly counters yours, but has just the right items (Focus Sash), and secondary effects being more potent than they usually are, or the critical hit ratio is abnormally high? It isn't even about having the "perfect strategy" when an inopportune critical nails not one, not two, but all three of your team.

No matter how perfect you build a team or what strategy you use, the algorithmic AI can and will break through it every once in a while.
 
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Jordi El Nino Polla said:
How do I win the slot machines in the Celadon City Game Corner? Please help or I will ban you.
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On emulator, speed-up button/toggle speed up, and mash the buttons to start/stop.

If pair it with autofire, sit back and watch the grind. You'll hit so many jackpots, I give it an hour or so until you reach max coins.
 
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CrippleThreat said:
On emulator, speed-up button/toggle speed up, and mash the buttons to start/stop.

If pair it with autofire, sit back and watch the grind. You'll hit so many jackpots, I give it an hour or so until you reach max coins.
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You can button mash at the highest speed, or you could slow the emulator down and have real good kinetic vision.

Or, you reach 9999 coins and save state it as a reservoir for getting TMs and pokemon at any given time that you can trade into your "main game". That's what I do. :smug:

You have better luck in DPP/HGSS with the coin game by using Drastic because you can use save states that you can load in case you pick wrong.
 
Tardar the Barbarian said:
Posting an honest question here.

In both versions of the Battle Frontier, which facilities annoyed you the most?
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Easy answer to both: The Battle Tower. It's the most boring and standard option, and has zero variety to how battles are fought other than what the opponent uses.

To avoid the easy answer and talk about the actually interesting facilities:

In Emerald, the Battle Palace. Having the AI take control of your own Pokemon to do the battle takes a lot of the fun out of it for me, I'd much rather have a funny gimmick to play around with in the facility like the hint and guess system of the next room in the Battle Pike.

In Platinum, I don't have much experience with the Frontier, but with what little experience I have probably the Battle Arcade. Having an essentially random chance to start a battle with a status condition is ass.
 
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Wingnut said:
Easy answer to both: The Battle Tower. It's the most boring and standard option, and has zero variety to how battles are fought other than what the opponent uses.

To avoid the easy answer and talk about the actually interesting facilities:

In Emerald, the Battle Palace. Having the AI take control of your own Pokemon to do the battle takes a lot of the fun out of it for me, I'd much rather have a funny gimmick to play around with in the facility like the hint and guess system of the next room in the Battle Pike.

In Platinum, I don't have much experience with the Frontier, but with what little experience I have probably the Battle Arcade. Having an essentially random chance to start a battle with a status condition is ass.
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Yeah, the Battle Tower can get generic and boring after a while. However, to me, it makes for good training and practice. Especially if I find myself playing with someone competitively.

Slightly disagree with you on the Battle Arcade, but yeah, getting statuses is a bitch. Unless you're really good or you have a retarded amount of luck, you're gonna be in for a wild ride. I actually find the roulette fun, especially if I end up screwing my opponent with a status or nicking a quarter health (which is more of a bitch if it happens to you).

The facility that I find more annoying by comparison is indeed the Battle Palace. It's fun the first time, but really, it's just the AI using your Pokémon attacks, and depending on your team's nature or we were stupid enough to have two phase moves, makes for some good time wasting lol
 
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Tardar the Barbarian said:
Posting an honest question here.

In both versions of the Battle Frontier, which facilities annoyed you the most?
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I'm only going off of the Gen. IV version of the Battle Frontier here, but the Battle Factory, definitely.

"Oh, here, use our crappy Pokémon against random NPCs who just so happen to have exactly what they need to counter them."

The Battle Arcade's the easiest facility by far. If they'd made it genuinely random as to which event you got for each battle, it could've been something. As it is, you just need to time things well, and you can basically just pick whatever status condition you want to inflict upon your opponents each round.
 
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CrippleThreat said:
If middle school me could breed for a 5IV [Mega] Houndoom and a whole competitive team, before I got traded a 6IV Ditto, you definitely got it, man.
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Thank you, fellow Breeder.
Tardar the Barbarian said:
Posting an honest question here.

In both versions of the Battle Frontier, which facilities annoyed you the most?
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Emerald: Battle Palace

Gen IV: Battle Factory
Focken Kiwi said:
You don't even need a 6IV Ditto. Well in the cases of genderless Pokemon you'll need Dittos, but otherwise, just breed 6IV male pokemon of various different egg groups and you're good to go. For example, here's a list of Pokemon acquirable in Sword and Shield that can cover every egg group:

Grookey
Field/Grass

Chewtle
Monster/Water 1

Snorunt
Fairy/Mineral

Ralts
Human-Like/Amorphous

Magikarp
Water 2/Dragon

Skorupi
Bug/Water 3

Rookidee
Flying
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I have turbo autism, and want specific Pokémon for specific Egg moves and Egg move combinations. Regardless, thanks for this list.
 
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Oranguru said:
I have turbo autism, and want specific Pokémon for specific Egg moves and Egg move combinations. Regardless, thanks for this list.
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Pro tip: Females now pass down egg moves. This has been the case since Pokemon X and Y.

Get your egg moves and nature on a female, hand it an everstone, then hand one of those 6iv males a destiny knot. Swap out for higher IV females as needed because unlike the real world, CWC, video game Pokemon incest is ok.
 
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Madre Muerte said:
Why did Pokemon games until recently not have autosave?
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PK Shitstorm said:
Tradition, overworked staff too busy making new gimmicks instead of updating the blueprint to modern standards
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Part of it probably also had to do with their mentality of not wanting to overwrite saves. Like when you start a new game and try to save, it asks if you're sure you want to overwrite the old one. If you had autosaving, that prompt couldn't exist. Though Pokemon games should've just had three save files anyway, like every other RPG, then overwriting wouldn't have been much of a problem.
 
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Oranguru said:
Soft-resetting would be difficult, if not impossible, if the games had autosave.
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That makes sense up to X/Y where all unique event pokemon respawn after beating the elite 4, past that soft resetting is moot, specially since IV and shiny breeding took off in gen 5 so shiny starters and competitive pokemon no longer require soft resets, on top of that with the addition of super training soft resetting for competitive event pokemon that couldn't breed is also outdated, about every use soft resetting had has been rolled out by updates so by this gen autosaving was introduced without issues
 
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Oranguru said:
Gen IV: Battle Factory
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Wysteria said:
I'm only going off of the Gen. IV version of the Battle Frontier here, but the Battle Factory, definitely.
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I'm actually fine with the Battle Factory. In fact, I actually enjoy using rental Pokémon since it let's me practice with a different team other than mine, and I get to steal them with the teleport cheat in Emerald :smug:
 
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