Pokémon Sun/Moon - Nov 18, 2016

[Leashedragon]

New Grimer, don't care.

Jangmo'o evolution might be interesting.

Type: Null evolution... most interesting.

I'm kind of kicking myself in the ass for not preordering sooner. Steel box on amazon sold out. I was holding out for bonuses that never happened. Had to order them seperate through gamestop as they were sold out of the dual one with 100 pokeball bonus.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Shiny 6IV Deoxys from WT :/

[Gredival]

I mean I know fakes feel bad but shit, better than the Magikarps I'm getting.

GTS bait at least.

[Seravi Edalborez]

For extra salt I'm pretty sure I threw up a Zigzagoon or something for it too. When I'm bored I just keep WTing garbage until I get something interesting (4IV+ breedjects, HAs, etc).

I'm hoping (probably in vain) that SM GTS might add just a touch more filtering on what you can ask for. Like specifying nature would be kind of nice.

e: Shiny 2IV lv100 Adamant Leafeon with a free Weakness Policy. I'm ok with this.

[Rooney]

I would be happy with the ability to search for who wants something I have. i.e. I have a leafeon, what can I get for it?

[Kaslo]

[Zealot]

Anyone happen to have a Gligar with its HA?

[Leashedragon]

Curious question:

Anyone else have a need to use Pokemon only available in the current game on play through?

Sorry, my wording might be poor on that. Basically what I mean is that when playing through ORAS I only used mon I could catch in ORAS. I traded for a Noibat... but it felt wrong to use, so I banked it.

I plan to use Sun/Moon only mons come release to "beat" the game.

[Chronosphere]

iirc, Poke Bank isn't going to update until Jan 2017 (two months after the release) so unless I'm missing something you wouldn't be able to transfer any Pokemon over anyway.

[Gredival]

Curious question:

Anyone else have a need to use Pokemon only available in the current game on play through?

Sorry, my wording might be poor on that. Basically what I mean is that when playing through ORAS I only used mon I could catch in ORAS. I traded for a Noibat... but it felt wrong to use, so I banked it.

I plan to use Sun/Moon only mons come release to "beat" the game.

I don't really feel like there's much of a challenge in the story playthrough so I don't really care. On X, I literally beat the game with just my Charizard. He was in the lead position and never left; he reached level 90 by the time I hit the Elite 4.

I wouldn't feel bad about grinding through a game with a traded level 100 Pokemon, I simply don't because it requires maxing their affection in Amie to get them to listen or getting all the badges (at which point it wouldn't even matter)

[Seravi Edalborez]

Curious question:

Anyone else have a need to use Pokemon only available in the current game on play through?

Sorry, my wording might be poor on that. Basically what I mean is that when playing through ORAS I only used mon I could catch in ORAS. I traded for a Noibat... but it felt wrong to use, so I banked it.

I plan to use Sun/Moon only mons come release to "beat" the game.

Normally I do, but ORAS I started WTing stuff very early and ended up with things like a Fletchling, Sharpedo, and Manectric (served as my main Mega until Blazikenite). Then I started fucking about near the end breeding Speed Boost Torchics for no real reason and lost track of having an actual "team" beyond my starter Blaziken, Linoone, and Exploud. So my E4 trip was just those, the WT Talonflame, and 2 level ~70 supports from White that I didn't end up needing. A lot of my "ingame heroes" are actually from WT, including a Mawile I used for softening Rayquaza as well.

I'd say the main reason I hadn't done this in previous games is that... Bank and WT are right there. In Gen4 or 5 I'd have to do some boring trading to make this work. XY was new enough that I didn't try WT that much. ORAS I just wanted to have some fun reliving Gen3 or something so I didn't feel obligated to hold to old standards. The only real surprise I had was on Steven because I didn't realize that "Mega once per battle" meant I couldn't revive and re-Mega so I had to revive-spam a few turns.

Considering Bank won't be available for awhile in SM and WT won't get anything interesting in the first few days, probably going to be a raw playthrough.

[Kincard]

I'm pretty much the opposite extreme of Gredival. My story playthrough will be very straightforward run to the finish line with minimal grinding and use of things like Amie, which I spend more time screwing with after I beat the E4. I use a team of Pokemon introduced that generation (So I didn't use any Gen 1-5 Pokemon in my XY run despite Kalos crawling with them). I also didn't turn on the EXP Share in XY or ORAS until after the E4, heh.

Pokemon games are only challenging when you self-impose various rules.

[Silenka]

The bank will be unavailable for use with Sun and Moon until January, so that gives a couple months to play relatively other-pokemon-free unless you're dead-set on wonder trading. Nintendo has expressed their intent to ideally have everyone play through S/M with only the pokemon you can catch in S/M the first time around, so that's the way I'll be doing it. There's going to be so much new stuff to catch and learn about anyway, I don't have any desire to import pokemon from other gens.

I don't expect the game to be challenging because it's a pokemon game, but neither do I place artificial restrictions on my play. I just take it for what it is, a family game, and something easygoing to play.

For my last x/y playthrough I did enjoy building/breeding a specific team of a mix of x/y and oras mons to blow through the game with, I pretty much just picked based on "what I want to use" and ended up with Furret, Volcarona, Sylveon, Gourgeist, Goodra and Empoleon. It was good fun.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I do agree that EXP share makes the games way too easy but I leave it on because I tend to skip unnecessary trainers and I'd rather not do the switching dance for simple EXP gain. I'm all about the postgame so while I enjoy the first playthrough experience I'm also not all that interested in extending it.

edit: english trailer for the corocoro stuff is out, plus a couple new guys.



what the fuck a bishoujo fruit/plant

Queenly Majesty is seemingly auto-Quick Guard (blocks priority moves).

JP trailer also if you're into that. Shows more menus and stuff.

[Kaslo]

JP Trailer proves Olivia is best gril

[Kirin]

Queenly Majesty is way overpowered for competitive play to be active all the time. It has to be when at 100% HP or over 50% HP. Could also be only active during the day or with sunlight.

[Seravi Edalborez]

It could just be for the ability holder and not actually Quick Guard for the whole team. Alternately Tsareena could have awful stats/movepool like a lot of Grass types. Though I think it would be pretty funny if it was fast and (somehow) able to outspeed and OHKO Talonflame while switching into Brave Bird.

The JP trailer also shows Mega Kang got a slight nerf. Parental Bond's bonus hit is more like 25% damage now.

Also forgot Bruxish has that Dazzling ability which also blocks priority moves. So it or Queenly Majesty might behave differently from each other.

Finally, as if the comparison wasn't blatant enough it's been pointed out that Silvally's ability makes sense in both languages and makes it extremely obvious in-universe what it's referencing.
AR System
RKS System
ARceus's current english pronounciation is like Arr-Key/Kay-Us.

[Zealot]

When I saw what it did I immediately thought "RKS" System was pretty clever.

[Katlan]

So anybody have a reject/good ditto they would be willing to part with? And if you breed a female with a ditto, does the ditto transfer over the female move sets as egg moves? I want to start to get into breeding a little but trying to avoid starting from ground 0 on breeding to get some IVs.

Speaking of IV's, how does breeding into IVs work anyways... Just keep rolling the dice until you get something good?

[Zealot]

A lot goes into breeding. My strategy has just been using a Ditto with the best IVs possible (I managed to luck into a perfect one awhile back) and a Destiny Knot with whatever you're trying to breed. If you're lucky, it won't take long to get one that has better IVs than the initial parent, so you switch that one in and keep going. The better the IVs are on both parents (especially with a Destiny Knot) the better your odds of getting one with a good or perfect spread. If the non-Ditto Pokémon has one specific IV you're after and you don't care about Nature, you can also give it a specific power item to lock in that one IV for the egg.