My biggest concern is the challenge and post game.

I know every shit eater says this but I still miss emerald/b2w2

“nO coMMunIcAtIoN pArTnEr fOunD”

please i just wanna do some raids w/ other people

I'm glad I skipped out on this trash. Just gonna wait until Gamefreak gets their act together and makes an actually good game that truly feels at home on the new hardware like they should.

I thought you were set on getting it anyway.

On the topic though I still can't pull myself through Ultra moon for what a bore it is. I'm probably gonna just emulate some older titles at this point.

meanwhile, as a supporter of this garbage:



here's the team i'm rolling with coming into the endgame

as much as i like galar's new additions, i did kinda just wind up using legacy mons for the entire playthrough, mainly because rain is an insanely fun strategy to build a team around, and i've been desperately trying to make it work again since gen 6 when the weather wars died, but galar hasn't really offered much in the way of rain support as far as i've been able to tell

- i'd prefer to be using a politoed right now, but pelipper is literally the only rain setter available in galar, and i suppose he's objectively better than politoed anyway. i just think it's a boring pokemon design-wise

- raichu synergizes well with pelipper with its 100% accurate thunders and ability to use surf, although she's gonna have to get replaced as soon as i'm able to grind out a lightning rod pikachu in max raid battles (which has been a miserable experience)

- toxicroak is my favorite member; he's very powerful and has fantastic residual recovery with black sludge + dry skin, which also makes him immune to opposing water-type moves (so raichu can spam surf in doubles with no repercussions). sucker punch was nerfed, however, which makes me very sad

- ferrothorn is ferrothorn

- ninjask is only here for baton pass shenanigans; toxicroak is his best friend

- crawdaunt is only here because before buying the game, i used a random number generator to determine a single pokemon that i HAD to include in my team, but otherwise, he's probably the first thing getting replaced once i beat the game

all the galar pokemon i was interested in using don't really have any synergy with rain whatsoever, which is a shame (except for barraskewda, but i don't know if having a barraskewda over a rapid spinner or spinblocker would be intelligent)

have yall beaten the game yet? i still havent, i spend a lot of time fooling around in the wild area

i dont have a picture, but my team consists of inteleon, boltund, thievul, centiskorch, alcreamie, and sandaconda

the latter 3 cant gigantmax, which i think is REALLY stupid that only some pokemon of a species can gmax

i know it's not the best team ever but i wanted to go in this game blind, rather than know my team beforehand, which i usually do

Quote from: alphy on November 30, 2019, 01:55:27 PM

have yall beaten the game yet? i still havent, i spend a lot of time fooling around in the wild area

i dont have a picture, but my team consists of inteleon, boltund, thievul, centiskorch, alcreamie, and sandaconda

the latter 3 cant gigantmax, which i think is REALLY stupid that only some pokemon of a species can gmax

i know it's not the best team ever but i wanted to go in this game blind, rather than know my team beforehand, which i usually do

intelleon? i'm not sure what your name is in-game, but i may have joined a couple of your max raids (my in-game name is J)

yea, the water starter. i swear it only had 1 L though

uhh my in-game name is noumi lol, im playing as a girl dont judge

yup, that gigantmax scenario is literally me. at first, i thought EVERY pokemon of the species gigantmaxed, then i thought it just had to do with its dynamax level. once i give it enough candy and max it out, then surely id be able to gigantmax it

nope

i didnt want to replace them, cuz like you said, i had already formed that bond with those pokemon

also i hope it was okay for me to join in your raid

i wish the matchmaking system wasnt so jank, so we coulda gotten more teammates

So the game isnt even bad and pokemon fans are just cry babies, who'd've thunk.
As always it's one step forward one step back, but it's a solid competitor in the series.

Not too impressed with any of the new pokemon. A few select gems and a lot of ugly ones.

Also Leon is an asshole.

It's perfect for the Switch because you switch the console off within five minutes of playing

Going for a full bug team since theres lots of cool new buggy boys in this game, but I also hate rocks now.

Quote from: Onion on December 04, 2019, 03:17:53 PM

Going for a full bug team since theres lots of cool new buggy boys in this game, but I also hate rocks now.

i wonder if the heavy duty boots item is viable

been thinking of running it on my ninjask as soon as my team is competitive ready

I was wondering the same thing. sounds like a good use for it. still wont save charizard though

getting tired of one-shotting so many opponents

People who like Pokemon, like MLP.

Prove me false.

i hate MLP

trying to get all the version exclusives will be a pain in the butt, since theres no gts

i have every line at this point, so i can help you with those

not right now but yeah