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

[Dunsparce]

You could say that about anything though, like gender and race, but they allow for those changes. It isn't a big deal, just seems a bit odd to keep older characters only to spinoffs.

There was a brief period where they had teenagers as protagonists.

In Gen V the PCs are canonically 14 (though the ones from the first pair were designed as 16 year olds)
In X and Y The player character is at least 17, because a character who is stated to upon her introduction to be 16 mentioned how the PC is older than her in the Japanese version of the game.

But with with ORAS onwards, they went back to being kids again,

 

[Gar For Archer]

I used to always struggle with the old physical types because they're not always as obvious as "fire burn grass." Why does Bug resist Ground? Why does Steel resist Dragon? Why does Ground resist Rock? Why is Ghost effective against Ghost but Fighting is neutral to Fighting? Why would a 10 year old remember any of this shit?

…and now throw in double types, plus the fact that the game text doesn’t differ between 2x and 4x super-effective, plus the fact that there’s nothing actually indicating what types the opposing Pokémon even is, plus the fact that many Pokémon designs do not obviously telegraph what type they are just by looking at them…

No 10 year old is gonna be able to back-calculate the type effectiveness chart just by playing the game, the game’s just easy enough that they can still beat it even without worrying about that shit.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

There was a brief period where they had teenagers as protagonists.

In Gen V the PCs are canonically 14 (though the ones from the first pair were designed as 16 year olds)
In X and Y The player character is at least 17, because a character who is stated to upon her introduction to be 16 mentioned how the PC is older than her in the Japanese version of the game.

But with with ORAS onwards, they went back to being kids again,

That's strange, I played those games but didn't notice, I guess it'd probably be hard to tell with sprites though.

…and now throw in double types, plus the fact that the game text doesn’t differ between 2x and 4x super-effective, plus the fact that there’s nothing actually indicating what types the opposing Pokémon even is, plus the fact that many Pokémon designs do not obviously telegraph what type they are just by looking at them…

No 10 year old is gonna be able to back-calculate the type effectiveness chart just by playing the game, the game’s just easy enough that they can still beat it even without worrying about that shit.

Retard detected lmao

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

There was a brief period where they had teenagers as protagonists.

In Gen V the PCs are canonically 14 (though the ones from the first pair were designed as 16 year olds)
In X and Y The player character is at least 17, because a character who is stated to upon her introduction to be 16 mentioned how the PC is older than her in the Japanese version of the game.

But with with ORAS onwards, they went back to being kids again,

The X Y protagonist is around 17???? I guess with the chibi artstyle used in the Overworld I assumed he was 10 like the others

 

[AnotherPleb]

Yeah I was kind of wondering about that too tbh.

I think making protagonists this bland will ultimately backfire on them because of how much harder it is for the memers and coomer fan artists to have interest in them. Regardless of the people who draw them aged up or not, fan art and content of the protagonists is something that usually drives the hype train, and I've seen almost no one who is excited for these games make any content or memes about these bland blank slates.

Even last Gen for example, all the memes with Gloria being Scottish helped get the fans excited for Galar despite looking like a bland lazy game. Or with Gen 7 with people calling the girl Chicken Chan.

We'll have to see what the rivals look like - Marnie had a massive coomer fanbase too.

Unpopular opinion, but I think BW had the best story out of all the games, and the implications and connections between Ghetsis, N, Zoroark and the whole underwater ruins were very interesting. As well as the whole two kings mythology.

It's not that much of an unpopular opinion now, but the bad initial reception forced Gamefreak's hand a lot. It really didn't help that the starters in gen 5 were all mediocre at best after a generation that had Infernape as the clear best starter.

Dragons being weak against Fairy is probably just for balance reasons without any real logic behind it. People had been complaining that Dragon was OP forever.

The thing is, Dragons were OP. Banded Outrage meant that you had to pack a steel type, and there's a reason Mega Garchomp got a speed drop. Not to mention DragMag - get a Magneton to trap and kill the steel type, then let your dragon type clean up.

That's how I remember it too, except for rust (Ground) and fists (Fighting) and fire (C'mon now).

The only reason I remember Poison being effective against Fairy is because Poison was underrated pre-Eternatus, probably thanks to every non-Levitating Poison type folding to every OP Psychic type and Earthquake spammer since Gen 1.

Poison types being super effective are more based on man killing nature, but poison types needed something. They didn't get much as Poison really isn't that good, but checking fairy types is nice.

 

[El Conserje]

Seeing all of you discuss about Pokémon types for 3 pages long reminded me why this game has the most autistic fanbase out there. Please, never change.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Seeing all of you discuss about Pokémon types for 3 pages long reminded me why this game has the most autistic fanbase out there. Please, never change.

Nah, Sonic's fanbase is still the undefeated champion of that title.

Besides, this is an mechanic that's a part of the game. Of course we'd be discussing it.

 

[What the shit]

Technically speaking I can be any Pokemon type because I have so many weapons that are Pokémon types.

 

[Sundae]

Ghost type is best type.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Ghost type is best type.

Only because the ghost gym has the best town music:

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Only because the ghost gym has the best town music:

And because it has top tier designs:

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Ghost type is best type.

I see a kiwi with a good taste in pokemon types. Now only if Game freak will give us a god damn ghost type eevee.

 

[Archeops]

It was recently announced that TPCi is going to reveal some Scarlet and Violet-era TCG cards at Worlds this year and we’re more than likely going to see said era’s newest Ultra-Rare gimmick cards if past reveals are any indication. I really hope that we get some balance to the game at some point with this new era but since this is Creatures, Inc. were talking about here I doubt it’ll happen any time soon.

I see a kiwi with a good taste in pokemon types. Now only if Game freak will give us a god damn ghost type eevee.

I don’t see Eevee getting a Ghost-type evolution at all due to Eeveelutions being based on the way Gens 1-3 handled physical and special moves, all of the types that Eevee evolves into were Special-aligned (Fire, Water, Electric, Psychic, Dark, Grass, and Ice). Dragon is absent for unknown reasons while Fairy is an outlier until you realize that, when you add it to the Special-aligned types, it causes the amount of Physical and Special types to balance out.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

It was recently announced that TPCi is going to reveal some Scarlet and Violet-era TCG cards at Worlds this year and we’re more than likely going to see said era’s newest Ultra-Rare gimmick cards if past reveals are any indication. I really hope that we get some balance to the game at some point with this new era but since this is Creatures, Inc. were talking about here I doubt it’ll happen any time soon.

I don’t see Eevee getting a Ghost-type evolution at all due to Eeveelutions being based on the way Gens 1-3 handled physical and special moves, all of the types that Eevee evolves into were Special-aligned (Fire, Water, Electric, Psychic, Dark, Grass, and Ice). Dragon is absent for unknown reasons while Fairy is an outlier until you realize that, when you add it to the Special-aligned types, it causes the amount of Physical and Special types to balance out.

Yeah but counterpoint (un)funny jokes about killing the eevee to make it ghost type.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Yeah but counterpoint (un)funny jokes about killing the eevee to make it ghost type.

I think that'd be an interesting evolution method; let it get knocked out in combat at night, then walk around long enough without reviving it to trigger the evolution.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I think that'd be an interesting evolution method; let it get knocked out in combat at night, then walk around long enough without reviving it to trigger the evolution.

That would give fainting some pretty dark implications.

Would that mean that the Eevee would have come in contact with some spiritual energy due to having a near-death experience?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

For a Ghost-type Eeveelution evolution trigger, they should go the Galarian Yamask route and have an Eevee take a certain amount of damage without fainting or something similar to that. Or make a special Ghost-type move to teach it and then level up. I dunno.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That would give fainting some pretty dark implications.

Would that mean that the Eevee would have come in contact with some spiritual energy due to having a near-death experience?

Pretty much. It sounds kinda dark when it's spelled out like that, but the Pokedex entries get pretty wild so I think it could pass.

 

[negativlad]

Just give it a Dusk Stone, Jesus Christ what is wrong with you? "To evolve Eevee to Spookeon you have to fill your party with dead eeveelutions and take them to El Pueblo Lavendero and release them all." Why do you hate Eevee??

 

[Focken Kiwi]

Just give it a Dusk Stone, Jesus Christ what is wrong with you? "To evolve Eevee to Spookeon you have to fill your party with dead eeveelutions and take them to El Pueblo Lavendero and release them all." Why do you hate Eevee??

That or a Reaper Cloth.