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

[ToroidalBoat]

In fact, there are many moves that can only be taught in FRLG instead of RSE so I will have to keep this in mind.

And then movesets in ORAS are an improvement over X&Y ones.

 

[30+GameOvers]

And then movesets in ORAS are an improvement over X&Y ones.

I think the counterbalance here is that Emerald has tutor moves, something that would become a standard for third versions from this point on, so you need to own both FRLG and Emerald to get access to all the movesets. In my case, I also have the Gamecube romhacks which allow exclusive moves you can never teach a Pokemon officially, as well as those moves that would only be accessible years down the line(for example, Sacred Fire on an Entei as Sacred Fire does exist in Gen 3 but was only officially learned by it in Gen 6). I definitely cannot complain about moveset variety anymore in Gen 3, hopefully when I move on to Gen 4 romhacks this trend will only continue.

 

[Executive Petrel]

This was a thing in original FRLG
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This is very offensive and problematic.
As a redditor, I despise this as it trivializes the struggles of women and queer people.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Something I just noticed in FRR: When looking over the Pokemon caught there in Trigger's PC, some of them have "No Ability" instead of what they are supposed to have. In FRR everything is fine, when transferred into Trigger's PC and every other 3rd gen game, however, the effected Pokemon indeed have the cut "No Ability" ability(originally not every Pokemon was supposed to have an ability, this feature is still hardcoded into every Gen 3 game but never used). I tested GC games and Revelations Emerald, same thing when the effected Pokemon was transferred there. Doing some independent research into the matter I think the reason why this happens is because some Pokemon have a bad personality value given to them by the game. This leads to them being given no ability instead of what they are supposed to have, which I didn't even think possible. There is a simple solution and that is to simply use PkHex to assign them their default nature and override original Pokemon data, but I dunno if a Pokemon with this faulty personality is still bankable. So far, effected Pokemon include: all starters(tried several saves), Kantonian Pokemon, new Gen 2/3 Pokemon. This seems to happen at random, several of the same Pokemon caught give different results, only starters seem to have a 100% chance for a personality mismatch based on my tests. Pokemon transferred from other games or hatched from an egg seem uneffected by this so this likely stems from how this romhack(or FRLG in general) handles assigning personality values to the Pokemon you are given or catch in the wild.

BTW another observation I have is that despite FRR's main draw being a larger Pokemon encounter pool, you don't necessarily get ALL the Pokemon you would normally have in the given area. For example, Mt Moon lacks Zubat and Paras but has plenty new Pokemon like Togepi, Larvitar and Shuckle(with the normally unobtainable Berry Juice item) on top of the usual Cleafairy and Geodude. I also encountered the first new Legendary area, as Mt Moon is also where you can find wild roaming Regice. The new area is blocked off by a pool of water, so I need to wait until I get Surf at least in order to get there.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

This is very offensive and problematic.
As a redditor, I despise this as it trivializes the struggles of women and queer people.

Lol I didn't even see it until I read your post. Good eye.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I hope Noivern, Chandelure, Ceruledge, and Zoroark all get megas.

 

[Executive Petrel]

I hope Charizard finally gets some love in form of Mega Charizard Z with 1000 base total.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I hope Charizard finally gets some love in form of Mega Charizard Z with 1000 base total.

I've genuinely seen some pretty sick green and black fan designs that have Zygarde-esque hexagons on them as well.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Saw this idea on reddit. Quite cool concept
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I will protect baby Regice with my life.

 

[Archeops]

Completing the main SWSH Pokedex has hit a bit of a snag, I need to complete the Gothitelle and Reuniclus lines but their version exclusives (Gothitelle in Sword, Reuniclus in Shield) and they have a low encounter rate under one weather condition in one location in the base game with two locations more are added in the DLC . I think I'll just trade them from my Japanese Sword file where I still have the full Galar Pokédex (but not all Galar-native, IIRC I transferred any returning from Bank to fill the gaps) stored away and breed 'em in Shield.

That said it's not all bad news, I found a spare set of the base game's Legendaries in Sword so that's one less headache to deal with.

I hope Noivern, Chandelure, Ceruledge, and Zoroark all get megas.

Noivern definitely deserves one, Chandelure feels like it might be another Gengar situation if it's not handled correctly, Ceruledge feels too "new" to get one, and Zoroark has two things going against the possibility of it getting a Mega (Illusion being its main gimmick and getting a regional variant in the last Legends game).

 

[Executive Petrel]

Spiritomb and Eelektross need a mega desperately they are powercrept to death.

Spiritomb could be a mighty tombstone with high defensive power and an ability that weakens fairy type moves,
HP 75 ATK 92 def 158 spa 92 spDef158 sp 10

and Eelektross a massive, lovecraft inspired deep sea beast. Slow, but with huge offensive and solid defensive stats.
HP100 ATK 155 def 100 spa125 spd100 sp 35

 

[Anonitolia]

Okay, I have to share this outrageously stupid "leak".


The kid actually stuck around to answer questions for a bit and seemed to be having fun with it, but I can't get over this fucking image. It's so hilariously awful. I need to share the stupid fucking analysis I made of it or I'm going to die. Sorry about the aesthetics, my drawing tablet is still dead so I had to make this shit in MSPaint. It crunched everything to the point of being unrecognizable and I decided to double down on how bad it looked for fun.



This is so hilariously awful. It is so horribly unbalanced in favor of every single negative aspect of Mega Evolution (pandering to fan favorites and already-powerful Pokémon, using the mechanic to spotlight old Pokémon to the point of overshadowing the new, KANTOOOOOOOOOO, etc.) that I can truly believe it's real and I almost want to be. It is so fucking stupid that it would be hilarious.

There's no guarantee that these are all Megas, obviously, but given the framing I'm tempted to believe that's what the leaker was going for. It wouldn't make sense for this to be about returning Hisuian mon since there's only two of those (Kleavor and, if you want to take a shot in the dark, H-Goodra), a lot of the picks actually make sense when you look at them in terms of merchandise (Piplup, Scorbunny, and Snivy heavily push merch sales as base forms but their evolutions aren't that popular, so a regional form would be a good excuse to sell more of them), fan approval (every single new mega seems factory-made to pander to fans with scant exceptions, ESPECIALLY the Alolan mons), and general marketing (starter + legendary megas seem best for that when not looking at fan favorites) that I am fully ready to laugh my ass off when, on Pokémon Day, this is the shit we get to see.

Guy also mentioned near the end of the thread that he made a "leak" that gave away all of gen 10's dex. That's what made me equally certain that this is just a kid having fun in his free time, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was fake either, but if nothing else the guy knows how to entertain. If anyone knows what gen 10 leak he's referring to, please send it my way because I'm sure it'll be just as perfectly terrible and I'd love to see it.

 

[Punished Magician]

All the archive sites I used years ago seem to be dead ;-;

arch.b4k.dev has /vp/, it's just arch.b4k.co but they had to change the TLD after a host dropped them. (CSAM attack where the posts are left up on 4chan just long enough to be archived, then self-deleted before mods get involved, then reported en masse to the archive's host)
archive.palanq.win and archived.moe (I think) also have /vp/ archived, but don't use that last one—it's currently down and also easily the worst archive; it has the most boards but relies on external hosting from other archives for some things, has search disabled on many of them, and has an overall neutered search that's missing features like quotation marks to find exact matches.

While I'm at it, here are all the archive sites I currently use, with varying selections of boards that I'm too lazy to list:

https://arch.b4k.dev/

https://archived.moe/ (largest selection, worst features)
https://old.sage.moe/
https://desuarchive.org/
https://warosu.org/
https://archiveofsins.com/ (useless, mostly porn boards)

4plebs.org

4plebs archives 4chan boards /adv/, /f/, /hr/, /o/, /pol/, [s4s], /sp/, /tg/, /trv/, /tv/ and /x/

4plebs.org

https://archive.palanq.win/

Anyways, that base premise is pretty wonky—had me for a bit with the "zygarde is supposed to protect the balance so he sends you back to find out what made things balanced in the first place and what's changed since then" since it sounds like a neat pretext for the adventure, but it makes less sense the more you think about it. I wonder why people bother putting effort into these things for a literal 5 minutes of half-hearted fame, but I see him claiming to also be responsible for another leak so maybe he's trying to craft as much of a wide-spanning "leaker" persona as he can for attention before the next trailer pokes a hole in whatever he came up with, instead of leaving it to just 1 thread.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

At least one of my picks, Chandelure was on that list, best objectmon in my opinion.

 

[Culex]

Are you talking about PLA? I've never heard of a bug like this before in any game.

Yup, probably haven’t heard of it because you can’t get a shiny Giratina in PLA without cheating.

 

[The handsome tard]

This was a thing in original FRLG
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Ahhh, there is something truly classical about this style of web comic. It had an immateur vibe but it had passion.

This is very offensive and problematic.
As a redditor, I despise this as it trivializes the struggles of women and queer people.

Usually people back then knew to respond to cringe like that with

"And as someone that doesnt care, I dont care."

Man, how have we fallen...

I will protect baby Regice with my life.

He looks like he is all like

"Dont make me run, Im full of ice cream"

 

[anliteralidiot]

Yup, probably haven’t heard of it because you can’t get a shiny Giratina in PLA without cheating.

using Pokemon home isn't cheating lol
I got mine in 2013

 

[Anonitolia]

-post-

thank you! updated the thread link in the original post with an archive

yeah, I still think this is probably just some kid looking to get attention, but damn is he good at predicting the absolute worst-case/funniest scenario. I do genuinely hope it's real just because it would be so insanely fucking stupid that I'd never be able to take the future of the series seriously again

 

[Lurker]

can i just get mega evolutions for ninetales (both forms) and drifblim and dusknoir and aromatisse (because fuck you) and uh...

it would be nice if they turned the gigantamax forms into mega evolutions. i hated gigantamax and all the other bullshit that wasn't mega evolutions, but it would be a shame if those forms are left in limbo.

also i finally got through the indigo plate dlc's main story, thank christ. i just wanted to be able to FLY.

 

[Archeops]

Well my complaints about the in-game weather seemed to have been answered, I managed to get fog in the Dusty Bowl and I've completed the Reuniclus line. The Gothitelle line is going to be a pain but I'll figure that one out. I also managed to find a Shiny Pokémon during this hunt in the form of a female Gurdurr on Route 8.

also i finally got through the indigo plate dlc's main story, thank christ. i just wanted to be able to FLY.

Here's a little tidbit about the flight ability: There's a spot in the Area Zero Underdepths that's only accessible with it. Said room contains an uncatchable Stellar Tera Type Garchomp and when you beat it a pathway leading to a "treasure" room containing a bunch of Tera Shards, a couple of TMs, and a Premier Ball is unlocked.

Oh, and some truly funky glitches can be triggered with the flight ability. I managed to somehow glitch out the entire Kitakami map and replace it with a a featureless void for a few seconds by flying.