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

[Archeops]

I'm almost done with BDSP's Pokédex in HOME. I just have to do some evolving in PLA/SV, breeding the Lucario line in BD, catch Mesprit, and somehow get a BDSP-origin Palkia.

I also realized that, since I have access to PKSM and regular Pokémon Bank on my CFW-running 3DS, I could fill the missing gaps in my over HOME Pokédex with ease. I guess my only concern is if the injected event Pokémon will pass HOME's hack checks.

EDIT: I mixed up two different Pokémon storage-related homebrew apps and replaced the one I thought I had with the one I've already installed.

TPC is losing its stronghold , with the TCG losing nearly half of its December revenue. If we're supposed to believe Sensor Tower, Pokemon Go did even worse in January with a total of $37m. Go Tour should boost Go's numbers with the new fusion and some returning legendaries, but we'll see. They really fucked up last month.

I have a feeling that's in large part due to TPCi actually shipping out less product to distributors that month over previous years, products containing Surging Sparks packs were (and still are) notoriously hard to get. As to why that's the case I suspect that TPCi was more interested in buffering Prismatic Evolutions' release in January and even that was such a clusterfuck that their official TCG-centric Twitter account had to post a statement about how they're gonna print more products but this is something they've said in the past and failed to actually commit to.

Kek, this page hits different after the teraleak
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I know that the reporter is meant to look like a Pansage but he bears a passing resemblance to that one extremely perverted student from My Hero Acadamia that would creep on his classmates.

 

[Registration]

More bursts:

 

[Twin Addler]

I'm on this autistic on and off journey to complete the ingame dex in each generation and eventually move them all up to Home so I can stare at a complete Home Dex in my phone. I finished Blue on the 3DS and now I'm moving to Crystal.

I'm making things easier for myself by allowing less than legal methods for unobtainable events and transfers to fill in the dex. I won't need to catch the 151 Kanto Pokemon in Crystal, I'll just catch the 100 Johto Pokemon, transfer my 151 Kanto Pokemon and suddenly complete Gen 2 National Dex. When I get to Gen IV I won't need to grind for the 1% Honey Encounter Munchlax and Heracross, I'll just use the Heracross from Colosseum and breed a Snorlax from Gen III.

Gen III looks like it'll be the hardest gen since it can't transfer from previous gens. But after that things should presumably bw easier since it'll just be more of I catching the new pokemon of each gen and transferring the returning ones in.

I guess my only concern is if the injected event Pokémon will pass HOME's hack checks.

Yeah they will. I've got a bunch of event wondercard injected and dns exploit pokemon that went through Home just fine. This Mew I got in Blue came from projectpokemon's file of the legit VC Mew event and it went through fine.



I've played every Switch Pokemon game but the only game I actually bought was Violet which is why Paldea's the only decent looking one. But one day I'll get to stare at an almost completed screen almost because fuck the Go Dex

 

[Gabilan]

Happy Birthday to our favorite Giygas doppelgänger. Still my favorite legendary. Not on the box, not in the story, just a destroyed building and some notes. You, the 10 year old child, need to put together the story yourself.

 

[Executive Petrel]

Happy Birthday to our favorite Giygas doppelgänger. Still my favorite legendary. Not on the box, not in the story, just a destroyed building and some notes. You, the 10 year old child, need to put together the story yourself.

Wem wem this pokeball plus contains wem

 

[俺たちファームズでノッテる]

If we talking about underrated Pokemon, then i must say i also love my boy Torterra. Such a cool and memorable design.

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The Turtwig line was imo the best grass type line starter there ever was. Plus Torterra is such a badass Pokemon. I hope it gets some love soon with ZA. I would love a new form or mega for it.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

The Turtwig line was imo the best grass type line starter there ever was. Plus Torterra is such a badass Pokemon.

Gen 4 was my least favorite gen, but this was the first starter i went with when I played DPP. Eventually Empoleon grew on me more, but I still like Torterra. It's just that 4x ice weakness that's a bit of a turn-off. I had enough of that with the dragons the last 3 gens before that.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Gen 4 was my least favorite gen, but this was the first starter i went with when I played DPP. Eventually Empoleon grew on me more, but I still like Torterra. It's just that 4x ice weakness that's a bit of a turn-off. I had enough of that with the dragons the last 3 gens before that.

Does Sinnoh have an Ice type gym, now that I think about it?

 

[Acrid Alchemist]

Does Sinnoh have an Ice type gym, now that I think about it?

Yeah Candice in Snowpoint City. Sinnoh was actually very kind to Ice types and she uses all either new Ice mons or their prevos. Her rematch in Platinum is all Gen 4 Ice Types with Weavile, Mamoswine, Abomasnow, Froslass and Glaceon.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Speaking of Ice types...

Was there a reason why Hail had to be replaced with Snow? Like was it really THAT much of a nuisance in battles? What makes Sandstorm O.K. and not Hail?

 

[Anonitolia]

Speaking of Ice types...

Was there a reason why Hail had to be replaced with Snow? Like was it really THAT much of a nuisance in battles? What makes Sandstorm O.K. and not Hail?

Ice is a shit type and having its weather condition do damage probably hurt it further. I'm well aware of its extreme standout members like Weavile and Chien-Pao, but the vast majority of Ice type mon are not geared towards the type's strengths and are subsequently very hard to use. They probably wanted to give those guys a leg up, especially with Hisuian Avalugg entering the scene at the same time (and being even more unusable than its original form), and ended up just overshadowing them further by boosting the good ice types that much more.

 

[Strangolapreti]

I finished Blue on the 3DS

I 100% Blue on a cartridge.
Extremely easy and fun task thanks to the ditto glitch.

Ice is a shit type and having its weather condition do damage probably hurt it further. I'm

A lot of problems of ice type comes from its many weakness and I fucking hate it because I do really like most ice type mons.
I think the tcg did gave ice types better spotlight, but its not really that helpful, everyone get to shine in tcg.

 

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

Speaking of Ice types...

Was there a reason why Hail had to be replaced with Snow? Like was it really THAT much of a nuisance in battles? What makes Sandstorm O.K. and not Hail?

Maybe they wanted to give Ice a weather thats more unique than just being a sandstorm clone?
I wish they gave snow a bit more secondary effects but the 50% defense increase for Ice types is huge and can even make something like Weavile way more durable than you'd expect it to be.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Speaking of Ice types...

Was there a reason why Hail had to be replaced with Snow? Like was it really THAT much of a nuisance in battles? What makes Sandstorm O.K. and not Hail?

The effects should have been combined so it makes Hail viable
Honestly, I'm surprised we haven't seen more weather effects by this point. There is so many new strategies you could come up with if you just added a few. They tried doing that briefly in Gen 6 and 7 with "Field" terrains, but nobody even knew they existed until Gen 7 came around and only because Tapus have them on by default once they switch.

 

[AnotherPleb]

The effects should have been combined so it makes Hail viable
Honestly, I'm surprised we haven't seen more weather effects by this point. There is so many new strategies you could come up with if you just added a few. They tried doing that briefly in Gen 6 and 7 with "Field" terrains, but nobody even knew they existed until Gen 7 came around and only because Tapus have them on by default once they switch.

Megas sucked all the air out of the room in gen 6 to be fair. No terrain extender or auto setter hurt a ton too, but I can see them worrying about making another Trick Room.

 

[Computer God Autism]

Megas sucked all the air out of the room in gen 6 to be fair. No terrain extender or auto setter hurt a ton too, but I can see them worrying about making another Trick Room.

Gen 6 and Megas were what sealed Pokemon's current trajectory, imo. Gamefreak had tried to refine the combat in Unova with a bunch of new Pokemon in a closed ecosystem and new battle modes that everyone forgot about despite the first gym using them, and Conquest was a decent attempt to port Pokemon into an srpg format where terrain and weather actually matters. Gen V as a whole sold poorly relative to Gen 4 and 6, mainly because of timing, and BW in particular were not received with the overwhelming praise they got retroactively so Gamefreak wrote the whole experiment off as a failure and instead devoted themselves to making any further changes to combat gimmick based. Oh, Dragons are horribly overpowered? Ice types too fragile? Just make a new type that's even more overpowered and hand it out willy nilly. Old Pokemon falling behind? Sure, they can get a Mega Evolution... but we'll give all our Genwun favorites *two* to draw back that vital crowd of people who stopped caring about Pokemon with the turn of the millennia. Expand terrain and terrain effects? Best we can do is further break any semblance of balance by making PokeAmie affect battles since we took out everything not related to battling too. Don't worry we'll abandon that in a gen too.

 

[Midnight Cooking]

Speaking of Ice types...

Was there a reason why Hail had to be replaced with Snow? Like was it really THAT much of a nuisance in battles? What makes Sandstorm O.K. and not Hail?

Sand has 3 types immune to it. Running Hail meant stacking ice-types, and I'm sure you can figure out why that's not a great idea.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Running Hail meant stacking ice-types

Magic Guard, Overcoat, and Safety Goggles are a thing, with the latter having all Pokemon being able to use it.

So you don't HAVE to use all ice types, it's just that it seems to be more convenient for people to do so.

 

[Anonitolia]

Maybe they wanted to give Ice a weather thats more unique than just being a sandstorm clone?

I'm not sure that argument really works when all they did was change it into a slightly worse Rain clone instead.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Pure autism is wholesome.