I dumped a bunch of Delibird Parcels in the item printer/material sink gacha since they are worth 36% each and I had a ton left from the Christmas raids. It seems like a more interesting Cram-O-Matic with the variety in it at least. 16 pulls was not enough to make it better yet.
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SPOILERS! Indigo Disk Discussion
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The new lock on technology is pretty neat but now I'm paranoid of scanning every Pokemon for marks and I'm running tight on space as is.
I really like the photo filters, but the touch-ups after the fact are pretty laggy.
I thought this guy was one of the zombies but he was just a chuuni who gives you an emote.
Skeledirge @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 248 HP / 236 Def / 24 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Slack Off
- Torch Song
- Scorching Sands
- Alluring Voice
He already terrorized Zacian, now it's Koraidon's turn to get completely shut down by him.
Really excited for OU too, now that he basically has WoW and Earth Power in one move, Garg, Cinderace, Moth and especially Heatran will have to respect him immediately.
My post-Teal Mask ”limbo” team just lost against a Plusle and a Minun 7-1 (I revived one of my pokemon to KO Plusle that died the same turn to Minun so I didn’t even get to see her final pokemon)
I am speechless
I am speechless
Yeah, best usage of Plusle and Minum ever. Discharge so they get boosted, actual stats...
Colosseum soured me on doubles tho, but that's mostly because of the forced species selection and glacial pace compared with the Stadiums and the handheld games. Lesse if 20 years later things sail smoothly.
Colosseum soured me on doubles tho, but that's mostly because of the forced species selection and glacial pace compared with the Stadiums and the handheld games. Lesse if 20 years later things sail smoothly.
I feel you brother, I almost got dicked by them myself
I knew that the DLC was going to be doubles focused and the battles had some kind of strategy, and when I saw Plusle + Minun I thought they'd just try to showcase the Plus + Minus combo..
I was not expecting the Lightning Rod cheese. Nor was my (accidental) double electric lead.
Oh and Plusle also has Grass Knot, as my Mamoswine found out in my silly thought that I could swap it in...
From the looks of it, when you activate Minior's Shields Down in tera raids, in battle it will appear in its black/shiny form, but the actual colour you get is revealed (a) on the mini sprite when the ability activates and (b) when you KO it and are prompted to catch it.
So if you thought "Holy shit, a shiny Minior!" don't be fooled.
So if you thought "Holy shit, a shiny Minior!" don't be fooled.
I'll answer here because it's not really a leak. It's another mechanic immensely sped up by playing multiplayer because the bonus group quests drop 500-600 BP each. They only appear after clearing one of the normal 10x bonus quests but progress is shared within the group.
EDIT: You can also only have 30 points or 3 10-point missions queued up at once before they stop adding to your bar.
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Alrighty well not reading any posts here since I actually haven’t done much - but decided to explore the entire Savannah and Coastal before proceeding with Lacey.
Was absolutely ecstatic when I was told I’d managed to track down every trainer in each area - honestly way too happy for such an accomplishment.
On a sad note I found a shiny Minior by accident - it exploded after a Quick Ball and about 5 Ultra Balls (outside not in a cave). Of course the next Minior I found - straight in the Quick Ball.
I’m really enjoying this double battle theme of Indigo so far. I never played Doubles in the facilities, never played Colosseum or XD and never played VGC. Its really causing me to experience the game in a new way, and I love it :)
Was absolutely ecstatic when I was told I’d managed to track down every trainer in each area - honestly way too happy for such an accomplishment.
On a sad note I found a shiny Minior by accident - it exploded after a Quick Ball and about 5 Ultra Balls (outside not in a cave). Of course the next Minior I found - straight in the Quick Ball.
I’m really enjoying this double battle theme of Indigo so far. I never played Doubles in the facilities, never played Colosseum or XD and never played VGC. Its really causing me to experience the game in a new way, and I love it :)
Oh yeah, speaking of battle themes, do we have any particularly good bangers?
Trainer teams if you're the kind of person interested in that sort of stuff ( I am that person).
Neutralizing Gas doesn't block all abilities, so, while most of these abilities are form-changing ones, it's entirely possible that Protosysthesis and Quark Drive will still be activated.
This post was in response to the 3.0.0 patch notes specifically mentioning this was a new bugfix/mechanics change.
Oh? What does she say?
Just a little "Aw, Ogerpon? You must have really missed me, right?" quip in the battle, it's cute.
Blazed through the main story overnight, so spoilers ahead.
For a DLC pack that wears the Area Zero association on its sleeve and is designed to reach a climax in a super-secret hidden section of the place… this kinda sucked in terms of being a resolution to the Area Zero mysteries?
Like, what did we really learn here? Going down the list:
1. Terapagos is responsible for the Terastal phenomenon. Cool. We’ve known that for months.
2. There’s an even deeper part of Area Zero where Terapagos dwells. Alright, but what’s so special about this deeper part?
3. It’s where you can find Stellar-type Pokémon. Neato, but that doesn’t really tie into any of the questions that the base game had set up.
4. So, what’s the correlation between the “Imagined Pokémon” / hybrid sketches in the Scarlet / Violet Book, and the new Paradox trios? Answer:
5. Okay, well what about the big symbol etched onto the ground of the cave where you find Roaring Moon / Iron Valiant? And what about the mysterious metal plate? Heath seemed to think those things held some kind of significance, so what was up with those? Answer:
6. Alright… in that case, what about the “phantom memory” that Heath mentioned experiencing, where he blacked out and woke up with a note written in his own handwriting that he couldn’t remember writing? We actually do get an answer to that… somewhat. If you take Terapagos to the Crystal Pool, you activate a scene in which Terapagos’s power summons Prof. Sada / Turo - the real one, at a point in time before they had completed their work on the time machine - to the pool. It’s enough to assume that what happened with Heath was probably this same phenomenon, as well as the rumors about people communicating with “dead” spirits near the pool (they were people from other points in time). However, there’s a complication here… the note that Heath woke up with was written in his handwriting, which seems to suggest that he may have interacted with a future version of himself. Which of course just replaces the existing question with a new one: When did Heath travel to the Crystal Pool to experience the other “side” of this event? And why? What was the significance of the note?
7. Also, on the subject of that meeting with the real Sada / Turo, it seems that we are entangled in an ontological paradox, as through the dialogue choices, it is possible to give the Professor the inspiration for the name “Koraidon / Miraidon,” as well as the idea to contruct an AI duplicate of themselves. That’s all fine; I figured that a game with a time machine and things called Paradox Pokémon probably couldn’t resist throwing in the old bootstrap loop somewhere… but there’s a problem. We can infer that this is supposed to be a self-contained ontological time loop, because one of the Professor’s notes found on the desk at the entrance of the Area Zero underdepths describes this meeting from their point of view, and mentions that they received a white book from us. And when the scene plays out on our end, that does happen… but in exchange for Briar’s white book, the Professor gives us their copy of the Scarlet / Violet Book. The same copy of the Scarlet / Violet Book that Arven picked up in their lab and was carrying throughout the main storyline, which we used in order to shut down the time machine. But if the Professor gave us that book at a point in time before they had completed the time machine, it wouldn’t have been around for Arven to find.
8. Speaking of Paradox Pokémon, where donthey come from? Answer: The Professor in the Crystal Pool scene seems to suggest that they are extracted from alternate timelines, rather than the timeline that the Professor / we are in. Which to be honest, of all the theories I’d seen people propose for the existence of Paradox Pokémon, I feel like this is the least-interesting option they could have gone with, because it makes Paradox Pokémon little different from Ultra Beasts — those are also bizarre quasi-Pokémon that originate from parallel realities.
On the one hand, I’d like to think that there could be a Daybreak-esque free update that will also include more material to resolve some of this loose ends and problems, but on the other hand, I find it frustrating that I might have to wait yet more several months for this story to actually finish, when it seemed like that was something this wave of DLC was supposed to do.
Like, what did we really learn here? Going down the list:
1. Terapagos is responsible for the Terastal phenomenon. Cool. We’ve known that for months.
2. There’s an even deeper part of Area Zero where Terapagos dwells. Alright, but what’s so special about this deeper part?
3. It’s where you can find Stellar-type Pokémon. Neato, but that doesn’t really tie into any of the questions that the base game had set up.
4. So, what’s the correlation between the “Imagined Pokémon” / hybrid sketches in the Scarlet / Violet Book, and the new Paradox trios? Answer:
5. Okay, well what about the big symbol etched onto the ground of the cave where you find Roaring Moon / Iron Valiant? And what about the mysterious metal plate? Heath seemed to think those things held some kind of significance, so what was up with those? Answer:
6. Alright… in that case, what about the “phantom memory” that Heath mentioned experiencing, where he blacked out and woke up with a note written in his own handwriting that he couldn’t remember writing? We actually do get an answer to that… somewhat. If you take Terapagos to the Crystal Pool, you activate a scene in which Terapagos’s power summons Prof. Sada / Turo - the real one, at a point in time before they had completed their work on the time machine - to the pool. It’s enough to assume that what happened with Heath was probably this same phenomenon, as well as the rumors about people communicating with “dead” spirits near the pool (they were people from other points in time). However, there’s a complication here… the note that Heath woke up with was written in his handwriting, which seems to suggest that he may have interacted with a future version of himself. Which of course just replaces the existing question with a new one: When did Heath travel to the Crystal Pool to experience the other “side” of this event? And why? What was the significance of the note?
7. Also, on the subject of that meeting with the real Sada / Turo, it seems that we are entangled in an ontological paradox, as through the dialogue choices, it is possible to give the Professor the inspiration for the name “Koraidon / Miraidon,” as well as the idea to contruct an AI duplicate of themselves. That’s all fine; I figured that a game with a time machine and things called Paradox Pokémon probably couldn’t resist throwing in the old bootstrap loop somewhere… but there’s a problem. We can infer that this is supposed to be a self-contained ontological time loop, because one of the Professor’s notes found on the desk at the entrance of the Area Zero underdepths describes this meeting from their point of view, and mentions that they received a white book from us. And when the scene plays out on our end, that does happen… but in exchange for Briar’s white book, the Professor gives us their copy of the Scarlet / Violet Book. The same copy of the Scarlet / Violet Book that Arven picked up in their lab and was carrying throughout the main storyline, which we used in order to shut down the time machine. But if the Professor gave us that book at a point in time before they had completed the time machine, it wouldn’t have been around for Arven to find.
8. Speaking of Paradox Pokémon, where donthey come from? Answer: The Professor in the Crystal Pool scene seems to suggest that they are extracted from alternate timelines, rather than the timeline that the Professor / we are in. Which to be honest, of all the theories I’d seen people propose for the existence of Paradox Pokémon, I feel like this is the least-interesting option they could have gone with, because it makes Paradox Pokémon little different from Ultra Beasts — those are also bizarre quasi-Pokémon that originate from parallel realities.
On the one hand, I’d like to think that there could be a Daybreak-esque free update that will also include more material to resolve some of this loose ends and problems, but on the other hand, I find it frustrating that I might have to wait yet more several months for this story to actually finish, when it seemed like that was something this wave of DLC was supposed to do.
The Music Club smart speaker basically has all the SV area music plus some special selections after buying everything else.
The first album has the Terarium music, then you get the provinces, towns, bigger cities/landmarks, and Kitakami.
The first album has the Terarium music, then you get the provinces, towns, bigger cities/landmarks, and Kitakami.