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

[McMitch]

and tomorrow you will still be OLD.

Correction: I’ll be OLDER.

I think the reason media celebrating anniversaries of multiple decades hits harder now because everything has become so consolidated, with little vying to fill the media niches that we’re left when properties like Pokémon were no longer the little guy.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Didn't AZ disappear into the afterlife or some shit at the end of XY after he as reunited with Floette? This shit is not canon

No. He just fucking leaves to spend time with his 3,000 year old tiny flower pokemon.

AZ was fucking weird and is just more wasted potential.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Its funny to me how Chikorita, who is arguably the worst starter ever made gets in. Got to give little girls a pokemon they can relate to i guess.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Its funny to me how Chikorita, who is arguably the worst starter ever made gets in. Got to give little girls a pokemon they can relate to i guess.

Chikorita was fucking robbed in Gen II. Let it have this.

It was THE Grass type sauropod pokemon before Tropius showed up to also be terrible. Dinosaurs are objectively cool okay?

 

[Registration]

Meanwhile on my gen 5 stuff...

The villain killed pokemon go make himself younger, didn't AZ did this to Floette or similar stuff?


Look, swimsuit with big boobas in a pokémon manga, its been so long....


This scraggy reburst is funny, just imagine the dude going commando with the skin around it.


There was q case of human on human murder in the manga before with the villain, but this ninja dude lost his mother the same daybhe brought the medicine back to his village, but he was hours late and his mother passed away due to sickness.


There are just 3 volumes left but I feel like it will be cut short. The scope of the story seems to be that it could go further.

Also furries could make this live longer if it was released later with a mote international audience rather than just Japan in early 10's.

 

[30+GameOvers]

So far I am seeing more debates over which rival/player character in AZ is sexier over discussion over the actual gameplay on /vp/, lol
BTW Champions looks like it will not be a free game, if that's what you're wondering. You will need to pay for Switch Live or whatever the paid online is called too. It's going to be a mess, I don't see people dedicated enough to the game spending that much money when you can fire up Showdown, make a team and go to town. Normalfags don't care enough to set up a competitive team(not to mention spend enough money to get Pokemon they want from the games that have them) and will likely ignore it.
What was wrong with having in-depth online features in your MAINLINE game, again? DPP had Battle Frontier, Wi-Fi battles and GTS all under one roof, it wasn't dissected between several different games and apps AND you could always double dip with Battle Revolution.

 

[Flopper]

The absolute state of being a pokémon fan that they have to celebrate the existence of a dodge mechanic.

 

[Giant Troonade]

BTW Champions looks like it will not be a free game, if that's what you're wondering. You will need to pay for Switch Live or whatever the paid online is called too. It's going to be a mess, I don't see people dedicated enough to the game spending that much money when you can fire up Showdown, make a team and go to town.

They will definitely try and take Showdown offline over this shitty app. They're out for blood after Palworld and it'll just be worse than Showdown is because there's no way it's going to support anything except VGC slop. Singles stuff will be neglected and all the cool metagames for past gens that Showdown has support for won't exist. The legacy Champions will have when it goes offline in 5-6 years will be being the reason for why a 15+ year old thing people had fun with got shut down for the sake of making a few extra dollaridoos.

 

[Computer God Autism]

Chikorita was fucking robbed in Gen II. Let it have this.

It was THE Grass type sauropod pokemon before Tropius showed up to also be terrible. Dinosaurs are objectively cool okay?

I liked Chikorita more than Bulbasaur, it at least wasn't weighed down by a later poison typing.

 

[30+GameOvers]

They will definitely try and take Showdown offline over this shitty app. They're out for blood after Palworld and it'll just be worse than Showdown is because there's no way it's going to support anything except VGC slop. Singles stuff will be neglected and all the cool metagames for past gens that Showdown has support for won't exist. The legacy Champions will have when it goes offline in 5-6 years will be being the reason for why a 15+ year old thing people had fun with got shut down for the sake of making a few extra dollaridoos.

The argument I am seeing here is that there is a bunch of Pokemon MMOs that are still around, some of them monetized, and they aren't doing jack. Even if Showdown gets shut down, people will just move on to something else. I doubt this format of online battling itself will die.

I finally caught Articuno in FRR. I've met several but they just take too many Pokeballs to catch, I am all out. Now I am in a predicament, as I just met and KOed a random Suicune in the same cave. May appears in this hack to give out hints as to which legendary Pokemon is around. In Seafoam, the hint is "Where frost and water meet", so that would imply Suicune and Articuno. Pokedex shows "Area Unknown", however, and originally the three dogs are roaming, meaning if you KOed them that' that, they're gone. Worse yet, a source is telling me that there is Regirock here not Suicune, altho I haven't met one and it doesn't make much sense with the hint. Anyone here experienced with FRLG romhacking? Any way to open that sucker up and see what the encounter table per area is directly? Normally I would go for a guide, but I guess this hack is too simple and obscure to have one.

 

[starborn427614]

Not a fan of the starter selection and the wilds of Legends Areceus are simply more interesting than a city, but other than that it seems fine. The changes to battling along with the return of free catching and Megas is welcome.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

They will definitely try and take Showdown offline over this shitty app. They're out for blood after Palworld and it'll just be worse than Showdown is because there's no way it's going to support anything except VGC slop. Singles stuff will be neglected and all the cool metagames for past gens that Showdown has support for won't exist. The legacy Champions will have when it goes offline in 5-6 years will be being the reason for why a 15+ year old thing people had fun with got shut down for the sake of making a few extra dollaridoos.

Nah. Showdown has made no secret that it is on good terms with TPC.

You will need to pay for Switch Live or whatever the paid online is called too.

Somehow I don’t think needing to pay for a thing that majority of people that own a Switch or play Pokemon already pay for will be a problem.

Bet it will be very Stadium. In that you can remt Pokemon however if you pay for Online and/or Home you can use your own.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Chikorita, who is arguably the worst starter ever made

Meganium is really not that bad. it got better later generations with a better movepool thanks to better selection of TMs, but if you don't want to relegate it as a defensive screens setter then you can have an offensive set like a physical Earthquake/PetalBlizzard/[insert normal-type attack here] set. Or a sunny day set with HiddenPower/Tera Fire, Solar Beam, and Synthesis.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

EDIT: some more info from the Z-A website:
new map of Lumiose with terrible resolution, this is ripped directly from the site and yet zooming in is still all blurry lol. Almost every single person is brown, so it's very accurate to modern Paris

>takes place in a past age of urban redevelopment
>full of brown NPCs
>present-day X & Y has little to no actual brown people living in Lumiose

What did Game Freak mean by this?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Somehow I don’t think needing to pay for a thing that majority of people that own a Switch or play Pokemon already pay for will be a problem.

Are we doing this tired argument again?
Point is that the base content without online play will probably be shit and lacking, therefore forcing users to pay a monthly subscription to play + cost of games + HOME subscription...that is assuming the game has ANY offline content at all.
Then you have Showdown, that is free and requires no Pokemon games to be owned to create your own team.

 

[ShitLurker]

Where the fuck is mega Empoleon gamefreak?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Well, here is the image we've been waiting for all day

Today is the day that Nikki Minaj's ass was proven to be real

I finally caught Articuno in FRR. I've met several but they just take too many Pokeballs to catch, I am all out. Now I am in a predicament, as I just met and KOed a random Suicune in the same cave. May appears in this hack to give out hints as to which legendary Pokemon is around. In Seafoam, the hint is "Where frost and water meet", so that would imply Suicune and Articuno. Pokedex shows "Area Unknown", however, and originally the three dogs are roaming, meaning if you KOed them that' that, they're gone. Worse yet, a source is telling me that there is Regirock here not Suicune, altho I haven't met one and it doesn't make much sense with the hint. Anyone here experienced with FRLG romhacking? Any way to open that sucker up and see what the encounter table per area is directly? Normally I would go for a guide, but I guess this hack is too simple and obscure to have one.

I've confirmed that Suicune is supposed to be there btw. Regirock is in Diglett's Tunnel, and is my next target once I catch Suicune. So glad that the roaming dogs don't show up, not only are they weak as sin thanks to an IV bug but they also disappear forever if you either KO them or one of them uses Roar. Legendaries so far are level 50 where as the highest level of a normal encounter in Seafoam Islands is about 32, meaning that a lv33 with Repels can easily hunt for unlimited amount of legendaries. Like I said, the only real limiter is the amount of balls I am wasting, often times having to grind trainers around the area to buy more. Thankfully, I got an Amulet Coin just now so grinding will be much easier.

 

[McMitch]

I liked Chikorita more than Bulbasaur, it at least wasn't weighed down by a later poison typing.

All three stages of Bulbasaur are Grass/Poison.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Where the fuck is mega Empoleon gamefreak?

I really don’t understand how they completely missed the chance.

Have it Mega and shrink as a result.

Max Napeleon energy

 

[Anonitolia]

>takes place in a past age of urban redevelopment

I have unfortunate news for you


I fucked up, it's almost certainly set in the present-day or near future.

Why did you use a beta Arceus screenshot?
The catch chance reticle is in the final, with green being a good chance, yellow iffy, red unable.

I couldn't find any other screenshots specifically showing the reticle and I was in a rush. Would've searched for longer but I had like 3 minutes.

anyways, I'm a lot angrier over this than I was on announcement lol. It took about five minutes of analyzing trailer footage and thinking about what I was expecting to continue being confused while also being infuriatingly disappointed. This is another retarded subversion of expectations that is ALMOST CERTAINLY worse than what basically everyone expected, which was the following:

• 1800s setting involving a pokemon parallel to Haussman’s renovation of Paris and Legends Arceus's Meiji Restoration
• emphasis on town-building elements that were slightly present in PLA to this end; you are some kind of higher-up who's helping plan the city, go out into the less developed parts of the city and find materials for your buildings (because video game)
• pokemon all over the city in catacombs, in rivers, on the street-- could make living there outright dangerous, hence the need for redevelopment
• Snivy/Torchic/Piplup trio due to extremely obvious thematic connections:
• Snivy: literally designed to represent a French character from a French light novel set in a similar time period, also has Fleur de Lis everywhere on its design and was prominently featured in several parts of Kalos (the region being tackled)
• Torchic: evolves into a rooster (the national animal of the damn nation) and was also given a lot of spotlight in the original games, being the only Hoenn starter to get a mega before ORAS as well as distributed as a pre-order bonus and having a prominent role in the anime
• Piplup: LITERALLY NAPOLEON and sells gangbusters in merch so it'd be a great money-maker
• I know some people expected Scorbunny due to an annual calendar highlighting Scorbunny over Torchic and some soccer association being French, but frankly I never thought it had much of a chance due to being very new.
• Zygarde is involved in the plot because you're actively disrupting the balance between nature and humanity, and the plot could work around that

From what I understand this was the basic consensus from the word "go", and I would have rather played something like this a thousand times over whatever Z-A is supposed to be doing. The more I think about it the less I like it, to the point where it's kind of made me just stop caring about the franchise lol. It's clear that the series I actually liked was dead from the dex cut (more arguably since ORAS) and Ohmori's going to run this sucker into the ground until there's nothing left, so I may as well not bother with anything new and just focus on the old if I'm ever gonna think about this franchise again. Legends Arceus was clearly just a fluke, and Z-A absolutely reeks of Team A intervening and making everything lame and gay, so unless Gen 10 is by some miracle helmed by Team B and actually turns out to be palatable I'll probably start making a genuine effort to just move on from this shit lol.