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

Woke Capitalism said:
What game are you playing? They do the same thing in normal dens where they focus on status moves instead of dealing damage.
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It depends on the pokemon, the AI is better with some than others. For status focused mons Xatu has actually been consistently helpful when I see it. They seem to have a different pool to choose from than the regular raids so it might even be the same AI, just with tools they sometimes know how to use.
 
Dynamax Adventures don't have shields on the opposing Pokemon, so status goes a lot further in adventures. The NPCs also pick from the same pool of Pokemon you pick from, so they have much better Pokemon in general. Beating the final legendary can be tough, but I almost always get there solo.

Still say they should have let you use your league cards, both NPC's and friends', to summon them for AI help instead of having the pathetic list of randos. At least they should've given all AI partners Focus Sashes and not just the baby Pokemon. That's part of why Magikarp is such a good partner.
 
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SnowBall said:
The npcs are the worst. Ironically the girl with the Magicarp is the most useful one. The others are either frail or spam non damaging moves, which is bad in a battle with damage checks. It feels like single players are getting punished for not going online.

I do notice that if your Pokemon is dyna/gigamaxed and has a super effective move and hits the enemy while a shield is up it will take 2 bars off instead of one.
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It doesn't matter if it's super-effective or not - max moves take two bars from the shields, while regular moves take one.
 
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To anyone interested:
If you transfer a Pokemon from Pokemon Go to Pokemon Home you get a free GMax Melmetal as a mystery gift in Home.
You have to be level 33 or higher in Go to be able to transfer though.

 
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Wingnut said:
To anyone interested:
If you transfer a Pokemon from Pokemon Go to Pokemon Home you get a free GMax Melmetal as a mystery gift in Home.
You have to be level 33 or higher in Go to be able to transfer though.

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It finished rolling out today, so all players can now transfer.
 
Also of note, you get a box that spawns Meltan for an hour after transferring your first Pokemon. Obviously, they aren't as rare as some other mythicals, but it could be worthwhile to do from a trading perspective.
 
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I was wondering how'd I'd get a Meltan for completionists sake.

Decided to pick up Colosseum again recently due to a combination of watching a Smeargle challenge of it and deciding to start an autistic quest to legitimately get as many ribbons on a single Pokemon as possible. You have to start with a Shadow Pokemon in Colosseum or XD because they get a special ribbon on purification, plus I want the Mt Battle 100 ribbon to flex with in SwSh.

As a kid I lamented how slow it was to purify Pokemon. I'm not even half done with Pyrite town and Crocanaw's meter is empty and Quagsire lost a quarter of his in one battle. I'm thinking I was a dumb kid.
 
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Jean Lafitte 1812 said:
As a kid I lamented how slow it was to purify Pokemon. I'm not even half done with Pyrite town and Crocanaw's meter is empty and Quagsire lost a quarter of his in one battle. I'm thinking I was a dumb kid.
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During my recent replay of XD I thought the same but I guess perception of time changes when you get older
 
Pulpanator said:
Two questions:

1. Anyone hopeful of a gen 4 remake?
2. Anyone hopeful that it won't be hot garbage?

Gen 4 is the only thing keeping me interested in pokemon at this point.
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Personally I don't find a gen 4 remake necessary. Gen 3 was the last one that seemed particularly antiquated because it was before the physical-special split, but I don't think gen 4 is all that antiquated at this point. The only real QoL improvement it's missing is the infinite tms which is something you can just plan around.
 
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Vapewizard said:
Personally I don't find a gen 4 remake necessary.
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Gamefreak seems to be past making games because of necessity. A Gen 4 remake would practically be a money printer considering how many gen 4 spergs like myself are out there.
 
Pulpanator said:
1. Anyone hopeful of a gen 4 remake?
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Considering this just went up somewhere in japan
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I would say Gen 4 has enough of a ground swell to happen

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2. Anyone hopeful that it won't be hot garbage?
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If its literally made for 2021 with the coof fucking with it's development, oh its gonna be dogshit possibly worse than usual
 
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Pulpanator said:
Gamefreak seems to be past making games because of necessity. A Gen 4 remake would practically be a money printer considering how many gen 4 spergs like myself are out there.
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Guess so. It'd be nice for the people who want it but I certainly wouldn't buy a switch for it and I imagine
rotollo said:
If its literally made for 2021 with the coof fucking with it's development, oh its gonna be dogshit possibly worse than usual
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will be accurate.
 
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Pulpanator said:
1. Anyone hopeful of a gen 4 remake?
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I'm hopeful despite what happened with the recent entry. Especially since the last remake was pretty good (ORAS, not Let's Go if you consider it a remake).
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2. Anyone hopeful that it won't be hot garbage?
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Depends, what with the Coofinator still being treated like a big deal and all.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
I'm hopeful despite what happened with the recent entry. Especially since the last remake was pretty good (ORAS, not Let's Go if you consider it a remake).

Depends, what with the Coofinator still being treated like a big deal and all.
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ORAS was good, but I'm not optimistic. USUM, Let's Go, and SwSh were all.... ok, I guess. That's the best I can say. They're missing the care and polish that I would expect out of a flagship title with the kinds of budgets they have. And still, mediocre games print a ton of money for GF. They have no financial incentive to spend the time and money that they need to put out a finished, polished release. Why bother when they can publish a clearly unfinished title that the market will gobble up? I'm also a gen4 nostalgia fag, but I have no intention of buying a lazy remake that they took out of the oven before it was done.
 
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