Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[Grayback]

I caught a Morelull in Sword to work on completing my Pokédex.
Tried to name it "Lesslull." Can't enter that nickname for some reason. Tried to name it "Equalull." Can't enter that name, either.
Why?
What filter could that possibly be tripping?

Since we're talking about generation 5, why do people think of the elemental monkeys?

Really good idea to offer early-game options for the types that you didn't pick as your starter.
It's a shame that they made the designs so lame and ugly.

I still like the idea, and I don't hate the designs as much as I used to, so I find myself kinda rooting for them now.
I'd really like to see them each get a 3rd-stage evolution to try to "redeem" them. It doesn't have to make them super strong and viable in competitive battles or anything like that. Just make them not look so dumb.

What is the thing that got you in the Pokemon

Cultural osmosis as a little kid. All just stuff from a distance, through glimpses in the news or stories from other kids.
I was too young to have the wherewithal to try to find or get any of it for myself. I couldn't find out how to watch the show, my parents didn't want me to have video games, the cards were always sold out, and how people even got a GameBoy seemed like magic back then. It felt to me like Pokémon was just something for other people.
Then, a boy at church randomly gave me a GameBoy Pocket and his old copy of Yellow when he was moving on to Gen 2. I stuck with that for a while, through Gen 3, fell behind, and started to feel as if Pokémon was just something for other people again.
Then, my uncle (just as randomly) gave me a DS Lite and Diamond, and I was finally, fully hooked.
I wrote way too much when I first tried to answer this.

and your favorite Pokemon overall?

Empoleon. I love penguins, and my sort-of reintroduction to the series in Gen 4 with Piplup left a huge impression on me.

Treeko - Yes absorb sucks, but you should be using bullet seed. Always gamble.

BossManGecko says "always gamba." Beat those Rattata rats, and fuck the riggers at the Celadon Game Corner.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

caught a Morelull in Sword to work on completing my Pokédex.
Tried to name it "Lesslull." Can't enter that nickname for some reason. Tried to name it "Equalull." Can't enter that name, either.
Why?
What filter could that possibly be tripping?

From my searching, it seems to be "lul" because apparently it's Dutch for dick.
(Funny that they go out of their way to add Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian words to the name filter given the games aren't even translated into those languages.)

 

[Metallic Blood]

Thanks for the info. I loved the 1st one when I was a kid, never knew they made a sequel. Just downloaded an English translated rom, should keep me occupied for a decent while when I'm out and about and need to kill a little time on the phone. Especially tomorrow, I have a Dr. appointment and then I need to swing by the DMV afterwards. This should help with the agonizing boredom of waiting around.

Eyyy nice, I will warn you though and say that your early game will be a bit rough compared to the previous game, but once you get the ball rolling, the difficutly will become smooth-sail and fun to traverse. It will be more challenging than the first game though, since you won't exactly be able to solo the entire thing with Electabuzz + Hitmochan (still pretty strong strategy eitherway).

I've never really played the Pokemon TCG, but I've found it funny how blatant it is with the powercreep. Every TCG suffers from powercreep to some extent, but it's usually more subtle with stuff having better effects for less cost or comboing off each other better, or what have you. With Pokemon it's literally just bigger numbers. Old cards literally can't compete because their numbers are like 1/4 of what modern cards have. It's like the opposite of Yu-Gi-Oh! where Konami has managed to keep numbers about the same since the mid-2000s, but card effects have turned into novels that prevent your opponent from playing the game at all.

Besides Energy Removals and being able to play Professor Oak every turn, There's a hilarious old card that somehow got more powerful as the game went on



Literally any attack over 20 damage would straight up get nullified against this fella (would fail if it was Paralyzed, Asleep or Confused though), it's like a more extreme version on how Mimikyu was used in recent years (prevents damage from any EX or V pokemon).

 

[ToroidalBoat]

any attack over 20 damage would straight up get nullified against this fella

That guy is already annoying to deal with in the older GB TCG vidya.

(also that older GB TCG vidya was how I learned to play the TCG BTW)

 

[Abella]

At least with pktcg having a rotating format power creep can come and go unlike poor yugioh.

I used to hate that until seismatoad EX made the game miserable and there were games determined by who could get to mewtwo EX first.

 

[AI generated waifu]

I was randomly looking through pokémon tumblr and came across this bizarre rant post


Why are pokémon fans so autistic?

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I was randomly looking through pokémon tumblr and came across this bizarre rant post
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Why are pokémon fans so autistic?

The post starts out relatively normal and then just... turns into a barely coherent rant. It has some nice worldbuilding ideas though.

 

[Rat Friend]

My favorite of the generation 5 starters is retroactively Samurott and that is largely thanks to its PLA regional form bringing all of its concepts together for me.
The original one always felt a little awkward to me and it felt odd that it never had a secondary typing, but now that it's part dark and has ceaseless edge it's become an absolute menace.

Hisui Samurott is definitely a huge improvement. While I love oshawott and dewott, I never picked them due to me disliking Samurotts design. The Hisui form improved him a lot tho.

I still remember it like yesterday when someone leaked the final starter designs on /vp/ and we just didn't wanted to believe Samurott was real. I'm still a bit bummed he looks like a floaty.

 

[AI generated waifu]

The post starts out relatively normal and then just... turns into a barely coherent rant. It has some nice worldbuilding ideas though.

I find it so odd how mati the dude gets over people playing around with their made up self insert ocs and enjoying the wish fulfillment these games bring. Pokémon being realistic to the point of the OP's world building rules sucks out pretty much all the fun.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I still remember it like yesterday when someone leaked the final starter designs on /vp/ and we just didn't wanted to believe Samurott was real. I'm still a bit bummed he looks like a floaty.

I had a bigger problem with Oshawott, to be honest. The final form looks fine, but baby form just looks retarded, especially when you have Smugleaf or a cute piglet to choose from. My brother, when he saw it at the time called it a "gay clown", I have no clue why but it cracked me up.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I find it so odd how mati the dude gets over people playing around with their made up self insert ocs and enjoying the wish fulfillment these games bring. Pokémon being realistic to the point of the OP's world building rules sucks out pretty much all the fun.

All you wish fulfilling autists screeching about needing a mew on your team when I just want to hand feed some Pidgeys at the park.

Random thought, why has there never been a Humming Bird pokemon?

 

[AI generated waifu]

All you wish fulfilling autists screeching about needing a mew on your team when I just want to hand feed some Pidgeys at the park.

Random thought, why has there never been a Humming Bird pokemon?

Pikipek (a woodpecker, but it's small, so who knows?) Or cutiefly (more of a bug, but still)

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Pikipek (a woodpecker, but it's small, so who knows?) Or cutiefly (more of a bug, but still)

Cutiefly is what came to mind, but its much more bee than anything else.

Problem is I'm not sure how you'd do a (good) Hummingbird pokemon. I looked up some fanart and it's all way more shit than I would have expected. I wonder if it just doesn't translate like other animals. Too small to work with, no good features to exaggerate or add to?

 

[anliteralidiot]

Too small to work with, no good features to exaggerate or add to?

Make it all futuristic, so you can lean in to how it flies? Like use those videos of their wings matching the shutter speed on a camera, so they look like they're hovering.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I'm still a bit bummed he looks like a floaty.

You've perfectly put into words why Samurott looks so weird. That and it's as if it were designed with only one pose in mind, it doesn't look like it can move its legs.

Random thought, why has there never been a Humming Bird pokemon?

It's weird how we never got a peacock Pokemon, there was one planned for gen 3 but it was scrapped.

No, the gay duck doesn't count.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Speaking of Cutiefly(or rather Rimbombee), this is one of the few Pokemon I had trouble using. Has anyone had good competitive experience with it? For me, it's just too weak and doesn't do much of anything, especially with Gen 7's massive power creep. I hate it when a Pokemon is useless in competitive, especially one just introduced, but for the life of me I can't think of a way to make it useful. Sadly, same goes for one of my all time favorites Granbull, who just can't cut it in that environment either, had to get another good Fairy type when I still played online.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

You've perfectly put into words why Samurott looks so weird. That and it's as if it were designed with only one pose in mind, it doesn't look like it can move its legs.


It's weird how we never got a peacock Pokemon, there was one planned for gen 3 but it was scrapped.

No, the gay duck doesn't count.

I'm sorry dude. I agree it's shit, but the tail is a peacock's.

Speaking of Cutiefly(or rather Rimbombee), this is one of the few Pokemon I had trouble using. Has anyone had good competitive experience with it? For me, it's just too weak and doesn't do much of anything, especially with Gen 7's massive power creep. I hate it when a Pokemon is useless in competitive, especially one just introduced, but for the life of me I can't think of a way to make it useful. Sadly, same goes for one of my all time favorites Granbull, who just can't cut it in that environment either, had to get another good Fairy type when I still played online.

Doesn't it have a fairy type move that you can use to heal allies or attack enemies? Or was that a romhack hallucination? Pointless in singles but surely there's a use case in VGC.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Doesn't it have a fairy type move that you can use to heal allies or attack enemies? Or was that a romhack hallucination? Pointless in singles but surely there's a use case in VGC.

I tried using it in doubles, but it just can't kill anything that is weak to either of it's STAB moves. It can't take much punishment either, and if I want to heal allies, I got Heal Bell on my Granbull, unless it's a move that heals HP and even that is a bad niche since it essentially sacrifices a valuable partner slot so that one or two other Pokemon can fight longer. A good Heal Bell mon can stand on it's own when it is not using support.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

You've perfectly put into words why Samurott looks so weird. That and it's as if it were designed with only one pose in mind, it doesn't look like it can move its legs.

(Don't worry Samurott, I still love you even with your goofy legs that don't work.)

 

[Dysnomia]

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(Don't worry Samurott, I still love you even if your goofy legs that don't work.)

I picked Oshawott and I liked Dewott but was kind of disappointed with Samurott. And yes it was the legs. They are just so weird. I liken it to a table ornament. They look like they are made as something inanimate that doesn't move.