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

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I was looking at the current list of confirmed Pokemon for ZA. It's interesting that outside of the obligatory Pikachu/Eevee/Magikarp lines, the Barboach line not only appears consistently in every mainline+mainline affiliated spin-off games since Dexit, but they're also in the default regional Dex for Galar AND Paldea. This is a feat that not even Masuda's favorite Psyduck line could not accomplish (it only appears on the Isle of Armor DLC in Gen 8 ). 13DAD274-7823-416A-87C5-4132F8F8C5DC.jpeg
 
@Executive Petrel I don't know or care enough about the newer games to defend them but some of the things you're complaining about make no sense.

Animal cruelty references
When you make a game about critters fighting each other and get accused of digital cockfighting, it's only natural that you'd reference it. Team Rocket in gen I even had whips.

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Lyssandre being literally hitler, orange man bad muh rich people nazis

The fairy type being a role model for trans people, allowing grooming communities centered around them to form.
X and Y came out in 2013 for fuck's sake. Neither Drumpf nor trannies were in the public consciousness at the time.

Environment/climate change concepts and dex entries like icecue and galarian corsola
Yet both times when there were environment concepts in the story itself, in Sapphire and SwSh, it was the antagonists trying to fix the environment and making things worse.

character customization > more appealing to women > more suggestible than men, if they feel in good hands > more vulnerable to left politics > woke
I've read this several times and I still don't understand. are you saying that character customization in games is inherently woke?

The cops being incompetent, letting Team Skull take over a town but don't dare to not pay your taxes
We're talking about a franchise where children routinely beat organized crime gangs with no police force to be seen. This has been pointed out as early as Gen I.

DeviantArt fetish bait everywhere (furry, fat, muscle girl, twink, femboy and so on)
To be fair, in the earlier gens you had Pokemon like Machoke, Hitmonchan and the original coomerbait Gardevoir.

Handholding/dumbing down everything as wokists have less brain cells than pygmies
I don't disagree, but let's not pretend Pokemon was ever hard in the first place. It's always been baby's first RPG.
 
Yeah, and we're probably getting all the Kalos Pokemon too judging from how Arceus was done. I don't think the same can be said for every Mega Evolving Pokemon though.
If we don’t get all the Kalos Pokemon I’ll be annoyed.

I assume we’ll get all the Megas that were in Kalos originally + some new Kalos ones and Zygarde.

If they wanted to they could do Events or DLC to get the ORAS ones but I doubt it.
 
There weren't that many Kalos Pokémon, if they fail to add all of them they'll be setting a new standard in laziness.
Only 72, and that's including the 3 mysticals.

Speaking of which, they may appear like the Sinnoh mysticals in Arceus in this game too. That would explain why they're all usable in this gen yet GF never gave them out. Though tbh I do want to catch them in games where I can actually use Luxury balls.
 
Speaking of which, they may appear like the Sinnoh mysticals in Arceus in this game too. That would explain why they're all usable in this gen yet GF never gave them out.
Likely. People have - assuming what they think the ZA Starters will be - noticed that they had ZA planned for a long time. And since that’s the case, keeping the mythicals for ZA makes absolute sense.
Though tbh I do want to catch them in games where I can actually use Luxury balls.
We don’t know whether there will be those ball are not.

The game is clearly about building Lumiouse. And there was a luxary ball shop in the city.
 
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We don’t know whether there will be those ball are not.

The game is clearly about building Lumiouse. And there was a luxary ball shop in the city.
Canonically speaking, Pokeballs as we know them from the mainline games weren't mass-produced until Sylph Company came into the picture. Until then, people either used balls made from Apricorns (as seen in Arceus), or just didn't bother and tamed them on their own (also seen in Arceus and continued up until at least when Drayden was still young). So while I do hope it isn't the case, I believe the Apricorn balls (and to an extent the Strange Ball) will reappear in ZA.
 
Canonically speaking, Pokeballs as we know them from the mainline games weren't mass-produced until Sylph Company came into the picture. Until then, people either used balls made from Apricorns (as seen in Arceus), or just didn't bother and tamed them on their own (also seen in Arceus and continued up until at least when Drayden was still young). So while I do hope it isn't the case, I believe the Apricorn balls (and to an extent the Strange Ball) will reappear in ZA.
And Oak made the Pokedex. Except for all the other professors that also did at seemingly the same time. I don’t think the canon really matters for the minor things.

That being said. Absolutely Appricorns will be back. Allows them to keep the crafting system.

For Luxery Balls ypu’ll probably have to build an artisan-shop first and then get them to craft you different balls

Also we are likely getting at least a Charizard Z if not also an A.
 
Was thinking Psychic for Misdreavious. As for Raichu I was considering Petal Dance?
will tech Misdreavious that soon. just finished Erikas Gym (my eight Badge). Battle tutor for some reason wont teach you moves your pokemon can learn but wont learn from it (like i cant teach Piloswine Ancient power for some reason).

as for teaching Raichu Petal Dance, i will look into that but i think its another move Battle tutor has but no one can learn it.
 
will tech Misdreavious that soon. just finished Erikas Gym (my eight Badge). Battle tutor for some reason wont teach you moves your pokemon can learn but wont learn from it (like i cant teach Piloswine Ancient power for some reason).

as for teaching Raichu Petal Dance, i will look into that but i think its another move Battle tutor has but no one can learn it.
Psychic is still in Saffron City, and Petal Dance is either a battle tutor or an event tutor. I personally would use the Raichus coverage more but other than that the movesets are fine.

Edit: Bonemerang is a fun battle tutor moves for Houndoom as well that could work out better than Iron Tail against rock types that aren't named Aerodactyl.
 
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I was looking at the current list of confirmed Pokemon for ZA. It's interesting that outside of the obligatory Pikachu/Eevee/Magikarp lines, the Barboach line not only appears consistently in every mainline+mainline affiliated spin-off games since Dexit, but they're also in the default regional Dex for Galar AND Paldea. This is a feat that not even Masuda's favorite Psyduck line could not accomplish (it only appears on the Isle of Armor DLC in Gen 8 ).View attachment 5774179
Probably because Whiscash is the most powerful Pokemon, he ate a master ball and walked away.

I do hope he gets a mega or new evolution though, there's a lot of potential for design with him and he's seemingly one of those forgotten mons despite being a series staple at this point.
 
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