Pokémon Sun/Moon - Nov 18, 2016

[Zealot]

I don't know, I think a ghost inhabiting a sandcastle is less ridiculous than vanilla ice cream that just is alive.

[Guitarman]

A derpface crab, a sandcastle come to life, and a red panda cub with a tag coming out of its butthole that turns into a 2 year old's drawing come to life. These designs are baaaaaaaaaad.

[Kirin]

It's magic. Gamefreak aint got to explain shit.

Design wise, it is better than magical floating keys. Functionality wise, Klefki was the shit.

[Robertfb]

It's magic. Gamefreak aint got to explain shit.

Design wise, it is better than magical floating keys. Functionality wise, Klefki was the shit.

I'm still disappointed we didn't get any ability/move that involved "Lockpicking" with Klefki

Edit: or better yet, a move called "Jingle Keys"!

[Zealot]

It's not a derpface crab! It's got a black eye! I think it's adorable.

[Rooney]

Surprised the crab isn't water/fighting. Would have been a first for that combo I think?

[Galkaeater]

Poliwrath & Keldeo

Also I think its ment to be based on the coconut crab which is terrestrial and actually drowns in water

[Omniyoji]

Ghost sandcastle is fine. Stuffed animal with tag on butt is ridiculous tho.

[Eleven19]

Ghost sandcastle is fine. Stuffed animal with tag on butt is ridiculous tho.

lol I agree that one doesn't make any sense but then again...

Side note, I'm naming mine Alexander. Called it.

[Serra]

Official art:

Palossand loves the vitality of Pokémon and drags small Pokémon into its body so it can steal their life force. Its sandy vortex swallows them up in a heartbeat! Pokémon dragged into Palossand leave traces of their ill will behind. It’s thought that this negative energy may be the starting point of new Sandygast...

[Draylo]

The comments on that video are cancer... The sand castle looks kinda dumb but the butt tag reminds me of oshawotts problem lol

[Vaspinne]

Official art:

I love how the game can be so childish and kiddy at times, and then you get the most ridiculous and morbid pokedex entries for pokemon lol

[Silenka]

I don't know, I think a ghost inhabiting a sandcastle is less ridiculous than vanilla ice cream that just is alive.

Hear, hear. B&W had the WORST crop of new pokemon. Despite the (frankly terrifying if that lore is to be believed) sandcastle and the bear that hugs you to death because it's a stuffed animal and that's all it knows how to do, the Alola Pokemon are...wait, I actually like those two quite a lot after reading their lore... *shrug* Alola still looking like best Pokemon gen since 1st.

[Katlan]

I haven't had as much time to play X as I've wants to and I keep getting side tracked with catching everything I come across. But what's the ideal setup in the end? Since there are a ton of Pokemon I'd like to use but don't have the party space. Is it best to just eventually settle on 6 or also have a few extra on the side ?

[Taim Meich]

I usually plan ahead of time which is going to be my final party, taking in consideration looks, a good spread of types for defense and availability of attack types for offense, and decent availability (won't include in my team anything that appears too late), and then make teams of 6 that include those to be in my final team plus others that fill the void in the mean time and HM slaves. That alone gives my ingame teams decent variety.

[Silenka]

I haven't had as much time to play X as I've wants to and I keep getting side tracked with catching everything I come across. But what's the ideal setup in the end? Since there are a ton of Pokemon I'd like to use but don't have the party space. Is it best to just eventually settle on 6 or also have a few extra on the side ?

Honestly it's mostly about level. If you have a lot of pokemon you want to use try to settle on your 6 favorites, or a few favorites and a few you already have leveled up pretty high due to HM use or whatever. Try to load them up with a variety of attack moves from different elements using TMs so you have a good smattering of stuff that will be useful against pokemon of other elements. Blasting through the storyline is easy and nothing like setting up for endgame so it really doesn't matter very much what you pick as your final party as long as they're really high level and span a decent range of types/moves so you can exploit "super effective" attacks against the elite 4.

[Guitarman]

Hear, hear. B&W had the WORST crop of new pokemon. Despite the (frankly terrifying if that lore is to be believed) sandcastle and the bear that hugs you to death because it's a stuffed animal and that's all it knows how to do, the Alola Pokemon are...wait, I actually like those two quite a lot after reading their lore... *shrug* Alola still looking like best Pokemon gen since 1st.

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/th...7Tyrantrum.png


This has been one of my favorite designs since first gen. By far.

I haven't had as much time to play X as I've wants to and I keep getting side tracked with catching everything I come across. But what's the ideal setup in the end? Since there are a ton of Pokemon I'd like to use but don't have the party space. Is it best to just eventually settle on 6 or also have a few extra on the side ?

Pretty much what others have said. But i settled on Charizard/Gengar/Scizor/Greninja/Lucario/Tyrantrum and wrecked face.

[Moss]

Honestly it's mostly about level. If you have a lot of pokemon you want to use try to settle on your 6 favorites, or a few favorites and a few you already have leveled up pretty high due to HM use or whatever. Try to load them up with a variety of attack moves from different elements using TMs so you have a good smattering of stuff that will be useful against pokemon of other elements. Blasting through the storyline is easy and nothing like setting up for endgame so it really doesn't matter very much what you pick as your final party as long as they're really high level and span a decent range of types/moves so you can exploit "super effective" attacks against the elite 4.

I would modify this to say you don't need everything to be at a really high level as long as you have a nice spread of types. grinding for levels is the last thing you need to do in these games

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/th...7Tyrantrum.png


This has been one of my favorite designs since first gen. By far.

Pretty much what others have said. But i settled on Charizard/Gengar/Scizor/Greninja/Lucario/Tyrantrum and wrecked face.

I was almost annoyed the game just gifts you an OP Lucario and didn't use it

[Seravi Edalborez]

Typically my ingame teams leading up to E4 have 4 guys that I put effort into (starter, stuff that covers at least Fighting and Water, something with Sleep for QoL capturing), a HM slave, and 1 whatever. I don't perfectly recall my Y team but I want to say it was Chesnaught / (event)Blaziken / Aegislash / Talonflame / (slave) / Blastoise. It's super redundant (Blaziken overlaps over both Talonflame and Chesnaught), but for ingame it's honestly fine and Mega Blaziken just stomped everything anyways. For people playing XY nowadays you could just use the Mega Lucario you're given.

With EXP share I never found myself grinding ever. I typically had one guy 5-10 levels above the rest who would soften everything up if not outright kill it. Talonflame is a goddamn MVP the likes of which have not been seen since D/P Staraptor honestly. It's hard for me to pick a favorite (since we're just counting ingame first Talonflame, not a Gale Wings one).

[Gredival]

I haven't had as much time to play X as I've wants to and I keep getting side tracked with catching everything I come across. But what's the ideal setup in the end? Since there are a ton of Pokemon I'd like to use but don't have the party space. Is it best to just eventually settle on 6 or also have a few extra on the side ?

I mean it depends on what you want to do.

Just beating the game requires almost no special team construction. You should be able to keep your team leveled to the point they can facestomp in spite of any suboptimal builds, movesets, or match-ups. I ran through X facecrushing literally EVERYTHING in my way with ONLY my Charizard.

Most competitive play caps your Pokemon to Level 50 to make it easier to raise a variety of different teams without grinding them to 100, but that's not even very hard to do with Elite 4 challenges + lucky eggs + XP O-Power. The bigger thing is Pokemon restrictions.

The built-in online battling ladder (Battle Spot) has restrictions on the type of Pokemon you can use (pretty much excludes most of the high quality legendary/mythics). Different leagues have completely different restrictions; the Nintendo VCG circuit permits certain mythics and legendaries while Smogon battling restricts you to certain levels of viability depending on what level you want to play in (ubers vs. overused vs. underused vs. rarely used). There's also different battle types where different Pokemon/strategies are important (singles vs. doubles vs. triples).

So in addition to breeding high quality Pokemon, you need to have a team constructed to the rules and format of the type of battling you want to do. There are no rules when you are just randomly challenging passserby and friends online, so if you don't care about any of that pick whatever you want to play with.