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

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I started emulating Ultra Sun on an old Intel chip just to see if it could do it, then increased it to 150% speed. It dips sometimes but it's not bad.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I started emulating Ultra Sun on an old Intel chip just to see if it could do it, then increased it to 150% speed. It dips sometimes but it's not bad.

Citra is really, really good.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Black & White and Black & White 2 were both terrible games.

This is true.

The last good Pokémon game was Ultra Sun & Moon.

Lmao no. The last good ones were HeartGold and SoulSilver (if we include remakes. Diamond/Pearl/Platinum if we're just talking about the mainline series). It's the last time the franchise had good gameplay, aesthetics, design and the games were made with soul. I feel like after that the original devs of the first 4 generations started leaving after HGSS because the Pokemon design went to shit along with the actual gameplay in quick succession.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Eevee volves into Glaceon wi the Ice Stone and Leafeon wi the Leaf Stone.

That's been a thing in the official games since Generation 8 and should have been a thing since Generation 4. So this change is actually good.

 

[Executive Petrel]

That's been a thing in the official games since Generation 8 and should have been a thing since Generation 4. So this change is actually good.

It's dumbed down like shit, area evolutions were dope and creative. The only drawback is the availabilty.

Why do you get Leafeon right after 2nd Gym in Platinum but Glaceon in the lategame before 7th gym when you get better ice types like weavile, mamoswine and frosslass?

There should be a corridor in Mt. Coronet that leads to a separate area of Route 216 where you could catch low level ice types and evolve your Eevee. Drayanos Renegade Platinum hack offers a solution like this.

Nobody ever uses Glaceon in platinum.

Also as a Vikavolt fanboy it's kinda annoying you can only evolve it lategame. At least they fixed this in Ultra sun.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

HAH, GAY!

 

[Cryogonal2]

HAH, GAY!

I don't think Gengars exactly have a built-in gaydar...

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

It's dumbed down like shit, area evolutions were dope and creative. The only drawback is the availabilty.

Why do you get Leafeon right after 2nd Gym in Platinum but Glaceon in the lategame before 7th gym when you get better ice types like weavile, mamoswine and frosslass?

There should be a corridor in Mt. Coronet that leads to a separate area of Route 216 where you could catch low level ice types and evolve your Eevee. Drayanos Renegade Platinum hack offers a solution like this.

Nobody ever uses Glaceon in platinum.

Also as a Vikavolt fanboy it's kinda annoying you can only evolve it lategame. At least they fixed this in Ultra sun.

While I like how Renegade Platinum made Route 216 accessible earlier in the game allowing for way earlier Ice-Types, area-based evolutions are still fucking gay as shit. Particularly with how it was implemented with Leafeon and Glaceon. Again, these two Pokemon could have easily been stone evolutions, if it weren't for Game Freak's autism at the time.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

It's dumbed down like shit, area evolutions were dope and creative. The only drawback is the availabilty.

Why do you get Leafeon right after 2nd Gym in Platinum but Glaceon in the lategame before 7th gym when you get better ice types like weavile, mamoswine and frosslass?

There should be a corridor in Mt. Coronet that leads to a separate area of Route 216 where you could catch low level ice types and evolve your Eevee. Drayanos Renegade Platinum hack offers a solution like this.

Nobody ever uses Glaceon in platinum.

Also as a Vikavolt fanboy it's kinda annoying you can only evolve it lategame. At least they fixed this in Ultra sun.

"It should be tedious because that's how it was when I was a kid except when it slightly annoys me then it's dumb"

retard

 

[Executive Petrel]

HAH, GAY!

Uncanny

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I don't know why they devoted an entire section of Sinnoh to the Ice type when there's like 4 Ice type evolutionary lines in the entire game. Snorunt again? Awesome.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I don't know why they devoted an entire section of Sinnoh to the Ice type when there's like 4 Ice type evolutionary lines in the entire game. Snorunt again? Awesome.

I fully support post gen evos, they can bring some much needed life into a past Pokemon. Baby Pokemon, on the other hand, I never got: They got no competitive potential, are weaker than all the other Pokemon when playing single player, don't even get the benefit of being good with Eviolite since there is always another evo in that line that can use it as well, and only gain a few niche moves in their baby form while being a pain in the ass to evolve(Friendship). There were going to be much more baby Pokemon than in the final Gen 2 releases as well, if the Spaceworld leak is anything to go off of, and what's there already feels like it's unnecessary. Baby Pokemon introduced after Gen 2 are even more confusing, who asked for the likes of Munchlax or...umm, Azurill? Had to look that one up just about now because that's how forgettable it is.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Baby Pokemon, on the other hand, I never got: They got no competitive potential, are weaker than all the other Pokemon when playing single player, don't even get the benefit of being good with Eviolite since there is always another evo in that line that can use it as well, and only gain a few niche moves in their baby form while being a pain in the ass to evolve(Friendship). There were going to be much more baby Pokemon than in the final Gen 2 releases as well, if the Spaceworld leak is anything to go off of, and what's there already feels like it's unnecessary. Baby Pokemon introduced after Gen 2 are even more confusing, who asked for the likes of Munchlax or...umm, Azurill? Had to look that one up just about now because that's how forgettable it is.

Adding to this, the vast majority of them require one parent to be holding a specific kind of incense.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Adding to this, the vast majority of them require one parent to be holding a specific kind of incense.

I was thinking about this today and came to the conclusion that Baby Pokemon are born premature and the Incense is detrimental to the health of the Pokemon.

That aside, you have to remember the point of Pokemon's game design (back then anyways) wasn't just RPG mechanics, but a glorified bug catching game. You can't take Pokemon that were designed to make you engage with the game's breeding system and stack them up against their evolutions competitively. No one is going out of their way to breed Pokemon in the middle of a playthrough because by the time that would pay off powerscale wise you could have beaten the gave several times over.

Breeding is post game content and (before the internet spilled the game's spaghetti's code everywhere) showing off to your friend's on the playground the awesome BABY SNORLAX you got that everyone's missing that ONLY YOU know how to obtain in your friend group is where the engagement is. They're Easter Eggs for the completionists and playground braggarts.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Here is a de-woked version of Pokémon Black and White 3 Genesis.

Differences:

• The classic 'Are you a boy, or are you a girl?' message is back, but with slightly different grammar.
• All sapphism is gone. Instead, I look more into Mom's cooking, while the neighbour Lampshades how players always go back home after they become the Champion.
• Essentially everything should be decapitalised. (I only bothered because I found odd how a modern hack still uses BOLD INFLATION. I was not planning on decapitalising that much, but a ROM Hack that does not have BOLD INFLATION in the maps, calls and common text but everywher else would look weird. I also decapitalised som easy odds and ends. By the time I finishe decapitalising the names, I felt: 'I wen this far; I should go all the way.')
• Spelling errors and gramatical inconsistencies should be fixed.
• Saving is way faster because all artificial saving delays are gone.
• The game should not crash after the Pokémon Centre nurse tells you about Pokérus. (Source: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10679763#post10679763)

Notes:

• The protagonists are still BROWN. Though @30+GameOvers mentioned how the United States is whiter compared to Europe, African-Americans are still a sizeable minority. Moreover, since the BROWN player is a new character instead of a colourwashed existing character and since there were already a few BROWN characters in the original Generation V (the Hoopsters, the Dancers, and Marshal), I found no harm in leaving the protagonists alone.
• There is actually anothe reason why the protagonists are binary: you can fight a few hidden trainers, but who those trainers are depend on the gender of the player character.

Here is the source if you wan to look over stuff, too.

 

[Archeops]

I decided to bite the bullet and update my Wild Area news to the new Eevee Mass Outbreaks and 7-Star Eevee raid since the timeline for that and the free Dragapult ends in less than a day. I’m gonna miss the Halloween spawns but at three Shiny Mimikyu I think I’m good. Also, being unable to use False Swipe on Ghost-type Pokémon hurts. I could’ve gotten a HA Hisuian Decidueye from Bank and made it my go-to Shiny hunter but I’m lazy.

That said the 7-Star Eevee raid it painfully easy to solo. Just get an Iron Hands, give it the standard raid EV/IV spread and move set, cram a shit-ton of EX candies into it until it’s Lv. 100, and you’re good to go for the most part. The one change I’d consider making is swapping out your 3rd attacking move for Electric Terrain (keeping Drain Punch, Belly Drum, and Thunder Punch) and swap Booster Energy for Clear Amulet (because Eevee loves to spam Charm and Baby-Doll Eyes). Oh, and don’t forget to use Heal Cheers if you need to.

I also forgot to report on the next Pokémon TCG set coming out in Late January.

Spoiler: The details

The next set is called Paldean Fates. Like the previous “Fates” sets before it, Paldean Fates will focus on Shiny Pokémon.

Here’s the set breakdown…

• More than 240 cards.
• More than 130 Shiny Pokemon, including shiny Pikachu, shiny Ceruledge, shiny Tinkaton, shiny Dondozo, and shiny Tatsugiri.
• 11 Shiny Pokémon ex, including Tera Charizard ex, Tera Forretress ex, and Tera Espathra ex.
• Seven Pokémon ex and three Tera Pokémon ex, including Great Tusk ex, Iron Treads ex, and Espathra ex.
• Three illustration rare cards featuring Shiny Pokémon and eight special illustration rare cards featuring Shiny Pokémon ex or Supporter cards.
• Six hyper rare cards of select Pokémon ex, featuring a new and unique raised foil effect.
• A handful of full-art Supporter cards.

The only real stand-out piece of information here is the “new and unique” raised foil effect for Hyper Rare cards, previous Hyper Rare Cards have had the same etched holo effect that some full-art cards have had. Two of the three Special Illustration Rare cards were previously leaked (Mew ex and Dark Tera Type Charizard ex) so the third one has yet to be seen.

Oh, and here are some card scans. These Mimikyu promos are from the Elite Trainer Box with the stamped promo being exclusive to Pokemon Center’s ETBs.

Here are the Great Tusk ex and Iron Treads ex cards mentioned in the set breakdown, they’re new cards using the Past/Future mechanic introduced in Paradox Rift rather than being simple reprints of Great Tusk/Iron Treads ex cards found in SV base set.

And here are examples of the Shiny Pokémon found in the set, like past “Fates” sets the Shiny Rule Box Pokémon are on a basic background with Shiny “star” effect surrounding the Pokémon and reuses the pose found on the Pokemon ex’s previously-existing Full-Art print, are holographic, and feature etching on the card…

…while the non-Rule Box Pokémon follow the same structure barring the reused art, new 2D art is used instead.

Baby Pokemon, on the other hand, I never got: They got no competitive potential, are weaker than all the other Pokemon when playing single player, don't even get the benefit of being good with Eviolite since there is always another evo in that line that can use it as well, and only gain a few niche moves in their baby form while being a pain in the ass to evolve(Friendship). There were going to be much more baby Pokemon than in the final Gen 2 releases as well, if the Spaceworld leak is anything to go off of, and what's there already feels like it's unnecessary. Baby Pokemon introduced after Gen 2 are even more confusing, who asked for the likes of Munchlax or...umm, Azurill? Had to look that one up just about now because that's how forgettable it is.

Some Baby Pokémon, specifically those that required Incense pre-SV, had different Egg Moves compared to their base forms. The best example I know of is Azurill, which could learn Fake Tears via breeding but Marill could not.

Adding to this, the vast majority of them require one parent to be holding a specific kind of incense.

Thankfully that appears to be something that’ll be a thing of the past, Incense isn’t present in Scarlet & Violet.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Some Baby Pokémon, specifically those that required Incense pre-SV, had different Egg Moves compared to their base forms. The best example I know of is Azurill, which could learn Fake Tears via breeding but Marill could not.

FWIW I caught a Pichu in Platinum's Trophy Garden recently that knows Nasty Plot - a move a Pikachu of the same level (~1 wouldn't have known. Not that useful since it requires Raichu to eat an attack. Still, it's another example.

 

[vomitusdeux]

FWIW I caught a Pichu in Platinum's Trophy Garden recently that knows Nasty Plot - a move a Pikachu of the same level (~1 wouldn't have known. Not that useful since it requires Raichu to eat an attack. Still, it's another example.

I ran a nasty plot raichu back in gen 6. It was decent, other mons could do it better, but I love raichu so much that I just wanted to run it.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

Here is a de-woked version of Pokémon Black and White 3 Genesis.

I'm happy you actually went ahead and did this. BROWN

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I was thinking about this today and came to the conclusion that Baby Pokemon are born premature and the Incense is detrimental to the health of the Pokemon.

Pokémon are literally marsupials.