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

[Radical Cadre]

Is it possible to catch a normal Ponyta in Shield? It's just my luck that my favorite Pokemon ends up being game-exclusive and then on top of that it looks like a rainbow puked it up. I'm not putting that gay shit in my party.

 

[Disc]

Sunny Cherrim isn’t that great, it’s still not very fast and doesn’t get a Special Attack boost. What’s so special about Wormadam? The various cloaks are cool but they don’t accomplish much, it’s still mostly a generic Bug-type and its Abilities barely do anything.

It used to be Luvdisc, now it’s Blipbug. Blipbug is hideous and encapsulates everything wrong with Gen 8 character design. Calyrex is also really dumb-looking.

blipbug's a tragedy, but i do like where that evo line goes.

Is it possible to catch a normal Ponyta in Shield? It's just my luck that my favorite Pokemon ends up being game-exclusive and then on top of that it looks like a rainbow puked it up. I'm not putting that gay shit in my party.

I'm pretty sure you can trade most regional variants in galar for their originals.

 

[Dunsparce]

Is it possible to catch a normal Ponyta in Shield? It's just my luck that my favorite Pokemon ends up being game-exclusive and then on top of that it looks like a rainbow puked it up. I'm not putting that gay shit in my party.

If you have access to the Isle of Armor, there is an NPC that will trade you the original forms of various Pokemon if you trade her their Galarian forms(and Alolan Exeggutor and Marowak if you trade them their original forms). What Pokemon they offer depends on where you trade with her at on the Isle.

Otherwise it requires Importing from Pokemon Bank, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, or Pokemon GO into Pokemon Home or just trading with someone that has one already can get you one.

 

[Radical Cadre]

If you have access to the Isle of Armor, there is an NPC that will trade you the original forms of various Pokemon if you trade her their Galarian forms(and Alolan Exeggutor and Marowak if you trade them their original forms). What Pokemon they offer depends on where you trade with her at on the Isle.

Otherwise it requires Importing from Pokemon Bank, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, or Pokemon GO into Pokemon Home or just trading with someone that has one already can get you one.

Cool that is good to know. I just got back into the game. When I beat the Elite Four or whatever I stopped. I am curious though. I started the Isle of Armor DLC this afternoon and have already beaten the main quest? I think?? It seemed pretty short. And now I'm in the process of gathering watts to buy a software license for a computer what the fuck is this?!

 

[Rotollo 2]

If you have access to the Isle of Armor, there is an NPC that will trade you the original forms of various Pokemon if you trade her their Galarian forms(and Alolan Exeggutor and Marowak if you trade them their original forms). What Pokemon they offer depends on where you trade with her at on the Isle.

Otherwise it requires Importing from Pokemon Bank, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, or Pokemon GO into Pokemon Home or just trading with someone that has one already can get you one.

Does the Everstone trick still work or did they remove that after Pokémon like meowth got 2 regional forms?

 

[Dunsparce]

Does the Everstone trick still work or did they remove that after Pokémon like meowth got 2 regional forms?

Yes, it does. Having more than 2 different forms doesn't change it mechanically, it just means that if you breed a Kantonian Meowth/Persian or Alolan Meowth/Persian, its Eggs with hatch into a Galarian Meowth, unless you put an everstone on them in which case it will be the same regional form as the everstone-wearing parent,

A Galar-native Kantonian Weezing can only be obtained via the ingame trader, Galar-native Alolan Raichu can only be obtained via the Diglett sidequest, and Galar-native Alolan Exeggutor and Alolan Marowak can be obtained via both of those methods.

Also, like how All Pikachu, Cubone, and Exeggcute will evolve into their Alolan forms in the Gen VII games(outside of Ultra Space in Ultra Sun/Moon), regardless of what game they came from, the same thing happens with Koffing and Mime Jr. In Gen VIII, so they can only evolve into their Galarian evolutions. You can still breed Kantonian Mr. Mime by using Everstone, though, since breeding Mime Jr. requires the Mr. Mime parent to have Odd Incense attached to it.

 

[raider of the lost wifi]

Whats your least favorite pokemon?.

Spoiler: I hate snover

i fucking hate snover with every ounce of my being. I want to publicly execute snover. Every time i see snover my vision goes completely red and i go into a blind rage, murdering every snover in sight. I wish i could curb stomp snover's stupid ugly fucking skull into a puddle of red goop. I want to face a whole team of snover towards a brick wall and gun them down like the undesirables they are. Snover should have never existed

Most of the original Gen V and VI designs

Kyurem needed another redesign with its stubby T-Rex arms and ugly stubby half-wing bullshit. Takes the worst parts of the GEN V title legendaries and emphasizes them and even has the cringe edginess of being too edgy for pupils like every other legendary in some way.

Tyrantrum is more of a proper T-rex and legendary, despite only being a rare pokemon, than Kyurem.

 

[Valstrax]

Most of the original Gen V and VI designs

Kyurem needed another redesign with its stubby T-Rex arms and ugly stubby half-wing bullshit.

Tyrantrum is more of a proper T-rex and legendary, despite only being a rare pokemon, than Kyurem.

I think the point of Kyurem is that it's supposed to look like shit so you'll fuse it with Zekrom or Reshiram.

 

[raider of the lost wifi]

I think the point of Kyurem is that it's supposed to look like shit so you'll fuse it with Zekrom or Reshiram.

I was specificially talking about when you fuse it with Zekrom or Reshiram. Looks like they stuffed a failed abortion of the two into it. With the Smoke looking differently sized wings regardless of form.

They had several other chimera designs like Hydreigon, that looked similar to godzilla monsters and did the chimera thing better.

 

[Dunsparce]

I was specificially talking about when you fuse it with Zekrom or Reshiram. Looks like they stuffed a failed abortion of the two into it. With the Smoke looking differently sized wings regardless of form.

They had several other chimera designs like Hydreigon, that looked similar to godzilla monsters and did the chimera thing better.

Hydreigon is more of a Hydra. Type: Null and Silvally are actual examples of Chimera-based Pokemon

 

[Some Badger]

Am I the only one who dislikes Lucario... not out of association with furries, either? That Pokémon is exceptionally popular, but I always found Lucario ddly ugly in my point of view. Bogleech managed to explain my feelings (even those regarding Riolu):

I am guilty of liking Lucario on aesthetic alone as many casual fans do, but I also appreciate that Lucario is fairly viable competitively as a glass cannon. In addition to having good speed, it also has high physical and special attack, with an ever-expanding movepool to complement those bases. Its Steel dual typing was handy to force Dark type switches in Gens 4-5, while in gen 6 and onward gives it STAB against Fairies, which with a few exceptions all have brittle physical defense.

Lucario was also one of the few megas whose ability made it so broken that Smogon relegated it to ubers and it stayed there. I prefer inner focus to adaptability though.

I also apologize for the mild sperging. Steel is my favorite type and I like my goofy-looking bipedal fight dog. He's a good boy.

 

[Disc]

I am guilty of liking Lucario on aesthetic alone as many casual fans do, but I also appreciate that Lucario is fairly viable competitively as a glass cannon. In addition to having good speed, it also has high physical and special attack, with an ever-expanding movepool to complement those bases. Its Steel dual typing was handy to force Dark type switches in Gens 4-5, while in gen 6 and onward gives it STAB against Fairies, which with a few exceptions all have brittle physical defense.

Lucario was also one of the few megas whose ability made it so broken that Smogon relegated it to ubers and it stayed there. I prefer inner focus to adaptability though.

I also apologize for the mild sperging. Steel is my favorite type and I like my goofy-looking bipedal fight dog. He's a good boy.

Lucario was set up for success, what with having an unusual typing, good stats that make it easy to work with, a striking design and a movie tie-in. People tend to like what's good.

 

[Valstrax]

I am guilty of liking Lucario on aesthetic alone as many casual fans do, but I also appreciate that Lucario is fairly viable competitively as a glass cannon. In addition to having good speed, it also has high physical and special attack, with an ever-expanding movepool to complement those bases. Its Steel dual typing was handy to force Dark type switches in Gens 4-5, while in gen 6 and onward gives it STAB against Fairies, which with a few exceptions all have brittle physical defense.

Lucario was also one of the few megas whose ability made it so broken that Smogon relegated it to ubers and it stayed there. I prefer inner focus to adaptability though.

I also apologize for the mild sperging. Steel is my favorite type and I like my goofy-looking bipedal fight dog. He's a good boy.

I wholeheartedly admit to always having Lucario as a permanent party member whenever I replay Pokemon X or Y.

 

[Some Badger]

Lucario was set up for success, what with having an unusual typing, good stats that make it easy to work with, a striking design and a movie tie-in. People tend to like what's good.

Admittedly, I thought Lucario was the coolest mon ever when I first saw him in this newsletter about the 8th movie back in 2005/6, so I guess whatever marketing tricks TPC used to get Lucario's foot in the door of the fandom's collective unconscious worked on my dumb kid brain too.

I wholeheartedly admit to always having Lucario as a permanent party member whenever I replay Pokemon X or Y.

Riolu was the first Pokemon I added to my party in X & Y, and he evolved pretty fast while on the way to that Versailles expy after the first gym. I didn't expect to get Lucario for free after the third gym since I went into Y blind, but I appreciate GF for sneaking Rolu in early. I like for the firsy Pokemon I catch on my playthroughs to be something that wouldn't drop off halfway through the game.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Admittedly, I thought Lucario was the coolest mon ever when I first saw him in this newsletter about the 8th movie back in 2005/6, so I guess whatever marketing tricks TPC used to get Lucario's foot in the door of the fandom's collective unconscious worked on my dumb kid brain too.

Did not hey try those same tactics with Zoroark, though?

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Did not hey try those same tactics with Zoroark, though?

They did, to moderate success. Absolutely not the same as Lucario, though. It'd probably have been more memorable if, as other users. mentioned, it weren't a pain in the ass to obtain in its initial generation.

 

[CrippleThreat]

They did, to moderate success. Absolutely not the same as Lucario, though. It'd probably have been more memorable if, as other users. mentioned, it weren't a pain in the ass to obtain in its initial generation.

Or, if Illusion just worked by disguising Zoroark as a random mon in your team. But, battle preps still fuck it over anyway.

 

[Disc]

Did not hey try those same tactics with Zoroark, though?

They did... which is why Zoroark got second place in Unova for the 2020 poll. The only one more popular than Zo was Chandelure, who appeared in Pokken.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Or, if Illusion just worked by disguising Zoroark as a random mon in your team. But, battle preps still fuck it over anyway.

Battle prep didn't really fuck him over like that. Sure, your opponent knows you have one in your team, but they don't know what pokemon you disguised him as unless they were willing to risk hitting a ghost or poison type-disgused Zoroark with a close combat or moonblast. Battle prep, imo, only fucked him over if you didn't utilize team formation and type-match ups.

If the form he took was random then Zoroark would be left wide open to any attack that it doesn't resist. The ability is fine the way it is as it gives the player control over which form it would take.

Edit: words

 

[Some Badger]

Battle prep didn't really fuck him over like that. Sure, your opponent knows you have one in your team, but they don't what pokemon you disguised him as unless they were will to risk hitting a ghost or poison type-disgused Zoroark with a close combat or moonblast. Battle prep, imo, only fucked him over if you didn't utilize team formation and type-match ups.

If the form he took was random then Zoroark would be left wide open to any attack that it doesn't resist. The ability is fine the way it is as it gives the player control over which form it would take.

I can attest to this. Running Zoroark can be rewarding if you're creative about it. I've been able to run a Zoro on a handful of teams since Gen 6 without battle prep compromising my strategy. I still get the drop on Showdown players all the time outside of the NU tier, especially if my last selected mon is something known to be slow/bulky.