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

[Executive Petrel]

we've had a Hatsune Miku Pokemon in Gen 5 for example.

Which one? Farfetched was Gen 1 afaik

 

[NerdShamer]

That is the n00b strategy that children used.

Well, that usually explains the forced hints in...An lot of games? Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?

Black & White took it a step furthur and had the first gym be the "we explain to literal retards how type matchups work" gym. Aside from the questions and floor """puzzles""", depending on your starter, you wound up facing the type you had a disadvantage against.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Well, that usually explains the forced hints in...An lot of games? Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?

Nigga, i couldn't even read English back then and i still beat the game.

I guess watching the anime and talking with other kids on the play ground also helped.

 

[NerdShamer]

Black & White took it a step furthur and had the first gym be the "we explain to literal retards how type matchups work" gym. Aside from the questions and floor """puzzles""", depending on your starter, you wound up facing the type you had a disadvantage against.

Yeah, that might have been an waste of a gym, imo. Especially with how short it was

Nigga, i couldn't even read English back then and i still beat the game

Yeah, but it takes an special kind of retard to consistently lose in this series. But the anime kind of had their own set of rules, though Like the fight against that Onix

 

[30+GameOvers]

People forget that every game is someone's first Pokemon experience and they need the basics explained to them as well. This is a thing in other RPGs as well.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Well, that usually explains the forced hints in...An lot of games? Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?

'Nah! My starter is good enough! I do not need to make a real team!'

 

[Coldsteel the Hedgehog]

I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.

 

[Disc]

I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.

I always say (somewhat provocatively) that the best designed battle in the entire pokemon series is Hop's first battle in sword and shield. The first battle after you get your starter.

Because it looks like they just gave him a wooloo to compensate for having the starter weak to yours, but actually that entire battle is designed to make you seem disadvantaged but come out on top - the wooloo gives just enough EXP to get your pokemon to level up, which teaches it a super-effective move for his actual starter. In that one battle it covers type advantage, levelling up and learning new moves, plants the idea in the player's head they can catch more pokemon OR beat through multiple if theirs are stronger, and does it all while making it look like you're in a disadvantageous position while actually giving you the exact tools to dismantle it as you need them.

 

[Dysnomia]

I'm not sure i've ever heard a more insanely stupid assertion in my life. Singing does not always equal fucking Hatsune Miku, and Meloetta has absolutely zero similarities.

To me she always seemed Vocaloid inspired. But not specifically Miku. Although she just might be inspired by idols in general.

 

[NerdShamer]

'Nah! My starter is good enough! I do not need to make a real team!'

<Laughs in Elite Four>

 

[30+GameOvers]

<Laughs in Elite Four>

You can easily cheese Elite Four with just one Pokemon, at least in Gen 1. JRose(I linked him last page) shows that time and time again, it all depends on which Pokemon you're using. These don't even have to be starters, he's soloed E4 with single stage shitmons(altho some of these were very high level to compensate for poor performance).

 

[NerdShamer]

You can easily cheese Elite Four with just one Pokemon

I kind of did in Gen 3 out of necessity. It was surprisingly fun, in a way. But at the time, I wasn't really trying to do it with the exact minimum

 

[anliteralidiot]

To me she always seemed Vocaloid inspired. But not specifically Miku. Although she just might be inspired by idols in general.

She's the mythical for the America region, so she's likely inspired by American pop stars. As for her colors, what if they were just reusing the color scheme from that one cut mon?

Green "hair" for the ears, the pale face, the darker body with th brighter midsection... It's even got big M ears, so what if this just morphed into Meloetta (instead of Victini)?
Also Bulbapedia has this, and it's an interesting tidbit:

The guitarist who teaches Meloetta Relic Song in the Generation V games mentions that it lost its red shoes at the same time that sorrow darkened the world and it lost the song it had danced to. This may be a reference to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Red Shoes.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Well, that usually explains the forced hints in...An lot of games? Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?

Yes, they still do. Nearby routes are also full of answers as well.

 

[Abella]

So apparently Japanese packs of the rocket set have been circulating and people are asking $200+ for them. That’s more than twice what even battle partners and terastal festival were going for in the west. I feel like this is a good enough sign to dip out from collecting on top of the one LGS that has POP deciding to not bother since people are pestering them for the POP packs and prize support without actually having to play.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.

It really was a cool little design even if the water monkey was clearly best with early access to scald.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.

Weren't the Cooler monkeys beginner's trap because their awful stats?

 

[AnotherPleb]

Weren't the Cooler monkeys beginner's trap because their awful stats?

If you could hold tight on using the water stone until level 22 Panpour learned Scald and that handled a lot of the game.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Weren't the Cooler monkeys beginner's trap because their awful stats?

They have similar stats to starter Pokemon but lack the second evo. That means that they're fine for the base game, but absolute garbage in competitive, which most people don't bother with. Shame, as I actually like their designs(their beta designs even more).