Crimson_Echidna
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I probably would have liked the Gen V starters more if they actually had good movepools and stats.
I feel like Gen II had the same problems. Relatively decent designs, but crap battling wise.
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Pokemon Sun/Moon new info - Starter evolutions, Demo, Ash-Greninja
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I probably would have liked the Gen V starters more if they actually had good movepools and stats.
I feel like Gen II had the same problems. Relatively decent designs, but crap battling wise.
GiantBreadbug
Member
Yeah, I don't dislike Greninja really at all. I'm not utterly in love with it but I quite like the design. But the Bond thing just kind of really shallowly pumps it up for the anime and now it's in the game because it's popular with kids.
Mostly I'm just not super impressed with it. Usually Pokémon walks the line well with the obligatory humanoid "cool" designs, and Greninja is no exception. But the Bond mechanic is just pure "oh this Pokémon is so special wow look how special it is" for the sake of using it as a selling point. And it's just not that cool.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Uh, the anime made the thing even more popular. What are you talking about?
PadWarrior
Member
Game freak please also give us
Shota/Sawyers Sceptile and Alains Charizard.
Shota/Sawyers Sceptile and Alains Charizard.
D
Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
I meant in terms of how I perceive it. Being Ash's #1 jobber really hurts Greninja's credit with me.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
I meant in terms of how I perceive it. Being Ash's #1 jobber really hurts Greninja's credit with me.
Ash being the victim of Charizard-pandering ain't his fault. lol
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
Don't think it was Charizard pandering. Ash's Charizard jobbed all the time. Ash just sucks.
Dusk Soldier
Member
I could definitely see rental teams being disallowed in rating or at least championship formats.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Ash's loss wasn't a case of Charizard pandering so much as the anime's unwillingness to commit to Ash winning a canonical championship.
Nah breh, Alain was the better trainer. Literally undefeated.
Honestly Brionne is growing on me and I look forward to using her on my Moon team.
Oh yeah I forgot all about that, just another example of how Gen 6 just came and went.
Pfft who cares what Pokétubers thinks? They make nonsense video with vague clickbait title and nonsense theory videos.
Honestly I always suspected that Popplio would have a feminine look as we had a feminine looking grass and fire starters so Water starter due to have one.
Oh yeah I forgot all about that, just another example of how Gen 6 just came and went.
Pfft who cares what Pokétubers thinks? They make nonsense video with vague clickbait title and nonsense theory videos.
Honestly I always suspected that Popplio would have a feminine look as we had a feminine looking grass and fire starters so Water starter due to have one.
Already Torn
Banned
Would be funny if you could use QR code generators to make rental teams of Bank only Pokemon before Bank releases
itd be nice
Dragoshi1
Member
Didn't Zard X lose against the Primals?
I think he got impaled or something.
Either way, excited and hyped as hell for this demo, I hope we can also customize our trainer, if only a little. I hope it isn't as short as ORAS's demo either.
I don't think the QR codes will contain the team information so that custom QR generators could be created, as sweet that sounds.
I'm sure the way they'll work is you'll register a team, the team will be uploaded to a server, then a QR will be created referencing where the team is stored in the server, and when you read the QR the system will have to go online to retrieve the team data from the server.
I suppose you can still do server-spoofing to get around that but it's a more complex setup than if the QR codes contained the team data itself.
I'm sure the way they'll work is you'll register a team, the team will be uploaded to a server, then a QR will be created referencing where the team is stored in the server, and when you read the QR the system will have to go online to retrieve the team data from the server.
I suppose you can still do server-spoofing to get around that but it's a more complex setup than if the QR codes contained the team data itself.
Yeah he got hit by Groudon's Precipice Blades attack but still had the strength to fight, so Sou Da is right Alain never lost a single battle.
They're not unique.
Not75Drops
Member
Nah he lost against that Blastoise near the start.
GiantBreadbug
Member
No, people don't know how to reading comprehension with a lot of these reveals.
I don't know that we've received confirmation that Super Training is in or out (maybe we have), but there is NO indication in the trailer that the Join Avenue successor has replaced it at all. You could get EVs there in BW2 as well.
Same with Triples, and Megas in online. Megas will most certainly be legal after they open up online modes to more than the Alola dex.
Already Torn
Banned
Wait, I thought the thing they showed in the trailer raised Ivs, not EVs. Is that wrong?
GiantBreadbug
Member
The Festival Plaza thing is just straight up Join Avenue (as far as I can tell).
In the trailer it showed using the bounce house to increase Pikachu's base stats (EVs). There was a similar building in Join Avenue.
Permanently A
Junior Member
I have a general question - when doing stuff like IV/EV training, how do you know what is best suited for each Pokemon? Like do you look at its base stats and just pump up whatever the highest one is?
yeah ok thats what i thought
Cutie
GiantBreadbug
Member
I really love this line. I'll be picking them for my second playthrough :V
Brionne brought me around on Popplio, though I'm still going Rowlet.
Its cute.
Anyway, glad to see the middle-evos, and I, like many others I imagine, will be naming my Rowlet Takumi because...well, he reminds me of a certain pineapple archer.
And not surprised to see megas back. I chuckled whenever I saw people theorize them not coming back. Of course they were.
Its cute.
Anyway, glad to see the middle-evos, and I, like many others I imagine, will be naming my Rowlet Takumi because...well, he reminds me of a certain pineapple archer.
And not surprised to see megas back. I chuckled whenever I saw people theorize them not coming back. Of course they were.
FearlessBelgian
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PadWarrior
Member
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Mallow
Already Torn
Banned
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Did we see a different way to raise IVs earlier, or am I imagining that?
PhazonBlazer
Member
Would be cool if the Popplio's final evo is Water/Fairy and Litten's is Fire/Dark. But of course we'll probably end up getting pure Water and Fire/Fighting.
Starwolf_UK
Member
IVs there is no reason not to want max HP, Def and Sp.Def. Atk/Sp.A generally Pokemon choose one or other (mixed attackers are rare but sometimes it gives options otherwise unavailable) and Speed is max or 0 (for trick room). Hidden power is a headache for IVs (I'm hoping this changed for Sun/Moon) and I find it kind of cheesy with how much coverage it can give.
Now EVs a spread of 252/252/6 based on role is basic thinking. Something like Garchomp will put 252 into speed, 252 into attack then 6 in HP for example while Venusaur would probably want 252 in HP instead of speed. Higher level play you find very specific spreads used for certain situations (e.g. surviving a hit that would otherwise KO or something not traditionally known for speed being given enough speed to outspeed something).
There are berries that reduce EVs so if mistakes are made they can be undone.
AdmiralSnackbar
Member
It's all situational, thats part of the strategy. If a Pokemon has high attack and low defense do you buff attack because it's defense is worthless, or do you put all your points in defense so it can take more than one hit?
This means Pokemon of the same species can play differently based on thier move sets and stat manipulation.
I don't think they're crazy enough to repeat the mistake they made for samurott and emboar. Such a shame the samurai wasn't the one with part fighting...
Irishonion
Member
Can't wait.
