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

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Abella said:
The Lillie’s premium tournament box thing continues the tradition of waifu taxing and ancillary items.
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The prices of TCG products in general are rising due to distributors being dicks, a lot of big box retailers (Target and Walmart) are raising their prices to above-market levels due to distributors boosting their prices to at or slightly above MSRP.
Abella said:
One of the things that bugs me a little is how collectors always seem to get upset over the release of products like the arena battle decks instead of more ways of bundling packs and selling them. They seem to have difficulty grasping that it’s a trading card game.
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I kind of agree with them in regard to some of the Deck-related products, a majority of ‘em are grade A dogshit for both players and collectors.
  • The V/ex Battle Decks are entry-level products that have little-to-no use for players, the Pokémon V or Pokémon ex aren’t particularly good and any Trainers you can get out of them can be gotten from better products or as cheap singles.
  • The Deluxe Battle Decks are a bit better, the featured Pokémon can occasionally be good in rogue decks (Meowscarada ex was doing well in Japan when its Deluxe ex Deck dropped last year) and some Pokémon/Trainers are good but in the long run you’re still better off buying singles.
  • The League Battle Decks are, more often than not, the best way to start when it comes to building a good tournament-viable deck so long as you pay attention to the meta, you may have to change some cards around due to that specific build not being good (The newest League Battle Deck featuring Dragapult ex is still good but there are ~12 cards in it that should be swapped out) or certain cards having been rotated (The Gardevoir ex League Battle deck is good but you need to swap out 11 cards due to them not being SVI-on).
 
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Archeops said:
The prices of TCG products in general are rising due to distributors being dicks, a lot of big box retailers (Target and Walmart) are raising their prices to above-market levels due to distributors boosting their prices to at or slightly above MSRP.
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Yeah, $60 is a lot for 6 packs and a promo Lillie’s clefairy along with a cheap deck box. The bundles are also getting pretty expensive.
Archeops said:
I kind of agree with them in regard to some of the Deck-related products, a majority of ‘em are grade A dogshit for both players and collectors.
  • The V/ex Battle Decks are entry-level products that have little-to-no use for players, the Pokémon V or Pokémon ex aren’t particularly good and any Trainers you can get out of them can be gotten from better products or as cheap singles.
  • The Deluxe Battle Decks are a bit better, the featured Pokémon can occasionally be good in rogue decks (Meowscarada ex was doing well in Japan when its Deluxe ex Deck dropped last year) and some Pokémon/Trainers are good but in the long run you’re still better off buying singles.
  • The League Battle Decks are, more often than not, the best way to start when it comes to building a good tournament-viable deck so long as you pay attention to the meta, you may have to change some cards around due to that specific build not being good (The newest League Battle Deck featuring Dragapult ex is still good but there are ~12 cards in it that should be swapped out) or certain cards having been rotated (The Gardevoir ex League Battle deck is good but you need to swap out 11 cards due to them not being SVI-on).
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The level 1 and 2 decks have always been just for the kids to play, but have a lot to be desired. The league battle decks are mainly what I’m talking about, which are great introductions to the game.
 
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I have to grind out a whole bunch of BP in Gen 4 to prepare for my upcoming Heartgold playthru. I haven't played BF for years as far as Gen 4 goes, what's the fastest way to farm the most amount of points?
 
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30+GameOvers said:
I have to grind out a whole bunch of BP in Gen 4 to prepare for my upcoming Heartgold playthru. I haven't played BF for years as far as Gen 4 goes, what's the fastest way to farm the most amount of points?
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Here's the amount of BP you get from each facility at each milestone.
Battle Tower
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Battle Castle
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Battle Arcade
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Battle Factory
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Battle Hall
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So the Battle Factory gives the most number of points per fight mathematically, and you don't even need to bring your own team. But on the flipside, you're at the mercy of randomness with what teams you get. The Battle Hall gets you the second-most amount of points per fight in the long run, but since each battle is 1v1 you have to go through hundreds of them so probably not very time efficient.

If you have a team capable of sweeping the early Tower fights and easily beating the first fight with Palmer, then doing the first 21 fights of the Tower repeatedly for 26 points each run is probably the most time efficient out of all the options.

The Castle gives the same amount of points as the Tower, so that also works but the gimmick could maybe get the way and make it slower. It goes without saying that the Arcade is the worst option since it gives the least points and is the most RNG dependent facility.
 
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Acrid Alchemist said:
Does anyone have any favorite fan made regional/type shifted/Delta Pokemon?

Here are some of my favorites

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Late and gay, but here's a few of my favorites.
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I generally begrudge most fan designs because 99% of them miss the point of either their inspirations or the Pokémon in question, and the vast majority are just slop posted to some social media site to garner clicks instead of an actual product of thoughtful passion like most of the older Pokémon designs, but I think the ones I posted are pretty neat. I especially like the Ralts line for both its lore and execution (it's a shame that the comic it was made for has lingered in hiatus hell for years now), and I could probably make an entire post of just Yamask/Cofagrigus variants. Seriously, it strikes a perfect balance between having a good, intuitive concept and one that's extremely easy to exploit for creativity's sake. It's perfect for fan designs, and I'm really glad a lot of people have jumped on it. See also: Rotom, Mimikyu, Slowpoke's evolutions, Drifloon, Applin (to a lesser extent since the design specifically refers to an apple maggot, but it still works with other fruits just fine thanks to its mimic aspect)...
 
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Retarded Weeb said:
So the Battle Factory gives the most number of points per fight mathematically, and you don't even need to bring your own team. But on the flipside, you're at the mercy of randomness with what teams you get. The Battle Hall gets you the second-most amount of points per fight in the long run, but since each battle is 1v1 you have to go through hundreds of them so probably not very time efficient.
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I tried doing Battle Factory in Gen 3, but the truth is that the teams there just suck ass. I have no clue if Pokemon there are so bad on purpose or whoever was in charge of them didn't know how their own mechanics worked, but I was stuck with something quite literally useless more often than I could count and just got screwed over. Revelation Emerald helped a little with Physical/Special split but not much, it helped more with lowering cost of BP items and tutor moves to more reasonable numbers so there is less grinding involved. I just went to Battle Tower after a while since at least that gave me reliable success, Battle Pike was good too if I could get lucky since you can theoretically clear that one super easily if RNG favors you.

As for Gen 4, I don't remember if rentals suck quite as much ass, but I think I will give it a shot. I played Battle Tower and other facilities for a little bit it it all started to came back to me. I remember there is an exploit in BT(at least in DP) where if you retire from the game at a proper round, you fight an unused version of Palmer that gives you more BP for some reason, or something like that. Not sure if that's present in HGSS or Platinum, but I did try Battle Hall as well. Pretty decent way to earn BP but very boring, still if you have a reliable and flexible Pokemon it's not a bad place to grind. I used Kingdra with Surf/Toxic/Rain Dance Swift Swim/Ice Beam for maximum amount of targets I can take down and only one weakness, Dragons.

Arcade and Castle are too reliant on gimmicks and RNG, shame they got rid of the Dome and Dojo since I liked those from Gen 3. I think I will stick with Battle Factory unless I get bored of that or the rentals piss me off, problem is I don't want to waste even more time building a proper competitive team just to grind Tutor moves for my imported Pokemon for the Heartgold Romhack playthru. That just adds an additional layer of time I need to spend, so I will have to make due with what I have.
 
SHINY GIMMIGHOUL

so anyway i caught one during the gimmighoul raid event in scarlet. IIRC it's not possible to catch a shiny gimmighoul in normal gameplay, so that's cool. debating if I finally wanna spend those 999 coins to evolve it, or if I should try for another shiny, or if I should just evolve a regular gimmighoul. i don't have gholdengo in my dex so it's gonna have to happen eventually.
 
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Since when did pocketmon cards have grey borders?

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(used to how the TCG was in the '90s with yellow)
 
Kid Named Rocket said:
You fags were so busy bitching about "le modern state of le pokeymans..." and other stupid shit, that no one even remembered that Pokémon Emerald turned 20 years old a few days ago (in the US, that is)
Wish a happy birthday to unrivaled Hoenn kino!
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This would hit harder if I hadn't almost completely passed over the advanced generation. Which in retrospect was like grades 5-10.
 
Kid Named Rocket said:
You fags were so busy bitching about "le modern state of le pokeymans..." and other stupid shit, that no one even remembered that Pokémon Emerald turned 20 years old a few days ago (in the US, that is)
Wish a happy birthday to unrivaled Hoenn kino!
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It doesn't feel 20 years old since it aged incredibly well. It helps that unlike GSC or RBY, there is still a reason to play it since ORAS was so underwhelming.
 
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anliteralidiot said:
No Zangoose. Game bad.
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Reminds me of one of my few shinies I picked up.

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Edit: That reminds me, I really hope they keep the little ping sound effect from seeing a shiny that they had in PLA. I would have completely missed this Luxray if that sounds wasn't there and I know I missed a few shinies in SV because of that sound not being there.

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Its really bad for the houndoom line. Dark blue compared to black is so subtle you can barely tell if you're not focused on it.

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