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

[Registration]

Several questions:
- Are there still general surfing encounters?
- Is starting surfing still a break in your movement?

Yeah, there is even a dexnav function that shows what pokemon appear on the area, and there are hidden pokemon that are much rarer, so you can find them too

The starting surfing is the same as the normal game (I did play some hack that was seamless, that was quite cool)

I love the background in Seaglass, so soulful.

Did anyone ever played Azure Platinum here, could share some thoughts about it?

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Regarding Alola, I'll admit I'm a fan of it - tropical aesthetics and Pokemon go together like peanut butter and jelly and its cast of characters is as strong as Gen 1's to an oldhead like I - but would be foolish to deny its flaws like the USUM story retelling as well.

Another thought on kids growing up/the nostalgia reassessment for various gens, I am curious on how a lot of the older starter designs will be seen as kids that, ah, started out with them grow up. Especially since they're redoing models like the Kanto starters to look more on-model, or for example Incineroar's "pop out of pokeball", "standing", and "victory roar" poses have been redone to be a lot less hammy/more serious (by Pokemon standards) in SS/SV than they were in Gen 7. I now see Gen 6 and 7 starters on the level of "humanoid" that Blaziken and Gen 5 starters are - IE "just" standing up at this rate - compared to say, Scorbunny or Quaquaval. Though anyone who remembers my starter talk a hundred pages back know I'm pro-Incineroar and also feel nu-starter designs are actually (and usually) good, just need a lot better posing in terms of animalism and less "personality" (exactly like the new Roar animations).

This kind of goes to my earlier thought on a lot of mons would probably be beloved if they debuted in earlier generations or got "retrofitted" to Gen 1 and 2 watercoloring, posing as Sugimori would draw them, or even sprited a la the hideously/wonderfully ugly Gen 1 and beta Gen 2 sprites. The perfect example I can give is Komala - there's a cut koala pokemon from Gen 2 beta that's EXACTLY like Komala in design! Yet you can tell an official art then would make it feel a lot more natural like a wild animal and a lot less.... cartoony, Nu-pokemon-y, despite they'd be the exact same design as the actual Komala. Or hey, official stock art of existing Pokemon then versus their official art now. Y'know?

 

[Level99Manchild]

Pokemon Go's new season is...already starting to suck (shocker, I know). It's based on the Dynamax and Gigantamax mechanics, and long story short everybody is mixed about it (see the spoiler). We finally got the Galar starters with Hattena, but for some reason only the Kanto staters can use Dynamx with Wooloo and Skwovet (No Gigantamax yet). Oh yea, Niantic decieded to "update" (note: fuck up) raids by making bosses spam more charge moves you can't even see, and they lowered catch rates. Kyorgre and Groudon were nuking people in my raid group, and I lost 3 Pokemon within 3 seconds because of the bugs.

It gets better: remember that Ultra Beast event that was mentioned a few months ago? Well Niantic decided to nerf some of the Ultra Beasts like Kartana and Lunala, so if you invested any time and money on the event, it was all for nothing. October's Community Day Pokemon is a fucking Sewaddle, one the most useless bug Pokmemon. On the bright side, this month gave players a shit load of Stardust from the Ponyta community day and now some Psychic event that just started (Stardust is what you use to level Pokemon with their respective candies).

Spoiler: Dynamax explanation

So you start off with a chain that gives you a Wooloo and Skwovet with Dynamax (You have to get pokemon with Dynamax on them). After you build them up, you go to local power spots to fight Dynamax bosses with a seperate currency that's pretty controversial (Energy). After you beat the boss, you get your rewards, and can place a Pokemon to get you candy that's from the Pokemon you picked. Right now you can only fight the Kantos and Beldum, who just came out a day ago. Players have been mixed about Dynamax, but honestly it's a shitty event.

That currency? It's some energy you collect from visiting power spots and walking every 2 kms (You also fight Pokemon in Power Spots), but you can only collect up to 800 energy points; however, you can go over 800 points with your hard-earned wage slave bucks, goyim. Once you hit the 800 cap, you better open up your wallet if you want to get the most out of Dynamax. It gets better because after you beat the boss, you're given the option to get more rewards and premium balls with pokecoins. Oh yea, the harder the boss the more energy you need to even do a fight (tier 1 bosses cost 250 energy, tier 3 is 400. Have fun, f2p faggots). You can't really farm Dynamx Pokemon after beating them because it takes over a two or three days for another fight to pop up. By the way, you get little to nothing from these Dynamax fights including the 3 star fights that take fucking forever because the bosses are tanky af. It's cool knowing your Pokemon can farm candy for you for 1 or 2 days, but if you're not in a populated area you ain't getting shit.

So what can you do with your new Dynamax Hundo Charizard? Well...nothing out of Dynamax fights. You can't use Dynamax or Gigantamax in raids or even Pvp, so it's nothing more than a shitty side game that's supposed to look like easier to do than raids. Getting people for anything above a 3 star is going to be a nightmare. As of now, we only have Dynamax Skwovet, Wooloo, Kantos, and Beldum (I don't know why they didn't give it to the Galar starters), and like I said you have to rebuild a new Pokemon from scratch if you want Dynamax/Gigantamax on them. People aren't going to be happy if they need to rebuild another Venasaur or Charizard just to have Gigantamax on it. Some players found it funny how certain power sports where you collect energy were in old abandoned locations. This could have been fun, but once again Niantic fucked up.

 

[negativlad]

Did anyone ever played Azure Platinum here, could share some thoughts about it?

It’s still getting patched, due to all the crashes and bugs. Not terribly different from Renegade Platinum except for all the incorporations from the anime. Supposedly there will be another version with the difficulty settings made adjustable rather than strictly enforced. I’d give it a few months.

 

[Registration]

It’s still getting patched, due to all the crashes and bugs. Not terribly different from Renegade Platinum except for all the incorporations from the anime. Supposedly there will be another version with the difficulty settings made adjustable rather than strictly enforced. I’d give it a few months.

Found just one so far.

But lets see this bit:

Then.

Me neither, fucking retarded chimp, no fuck off and die.

Also, I didn't remember how much they improved the Pokemon Contests from third gen to fourth Gen, I had a blast competing in one of them, it is quite cool to see such improvement.

 

[Registration]

Just started the pokemon Special black and white and what the fuck is this team that just started lol

 

[Nick Gars]

Pokemon Go's new season is...already starting to suck (shocker, I know).

Between this and the stupid ass lawsuit, I'm really starting to reach the "fuck Pokemon" phase. SV were embarssments, and as good as Arceus is, Palworld does it much better imo while also being early access. They may be slightly different sub-genres, but ultimately Palworld is what Arceus SHOULD of been. Pokemon Sleep is also fucking cancer and even a year after release nothing has improved (bringing this up because its apparently such a revolutionary idea that Nintendo went on to patent it, and its a perfect example of how complacent them and GF are).

I didn't play GO for like the first 6 years (I do have a day one account though) because when it first came out, there was absolutely nothing to do and gyms and stops were so sparse you had to drive to all of them. Now after about 2 years of consistent play, I'm pretty much at the end game (minus account level, you gotta no life like mad to hit 50 in less than several years), got several 4k's, mega's, ect. I'm set for all raids, then this shit comes in and invalidates all of that.

All with a new system specifically tailored to data collection (where Niantic makes their real money) that wants more money to particpate more than 5 minutes a day. For Pokemon that can only be used in those specific encounters AND NOTHING ELSE. But this same pay to play logic doesn't apply to remote passes, where even if I'm willing to pay, you only let me do 5 a day... because you can't also make money off my data... Greedy double dipping bullshit. Every single time Niantic seems ready to take one step forward, they do a somersault backwards at mach 8 into a fucking wall.

I'm aware Nintendo fucked them in a lot of ways early on, but we're 8 fucking years into the game at this point. This level of incompetence is inexcusable.

 

[Registration]

I am playing the pokemon azure platinum, this hack is weird.

It adds stuff from the anime that is quite cool like new characters and that tourney before elite 4 and anime original characters at the same time.

But for gameplay... They make some weird changes:

The battles are changed, status effects are basically reduced to 5pp, so there isn't grinding. You cant use itens in battle, you have this option to heal you team from every place you want, so it is almost like you are speedrunning. Reutilizable tms

Because of these changes, every battle becomes a matter of speed and power, if you KO your enemy faster you are better, I had slower pokémon multiple times so I was losing even with a lvl 5 higher pokemon because of the speed. Fighting weaville is a pain in the ass, so I had to catch my own and change my rampardos for it.

And of course all battles have the level changed but it isn't like a drayano hack where you have to grind and pierce together your strategy. It feels really off. It is almost like you are speedrunning the game.

Also I didn't remember the giratina puzzle being that hard when I beat it as a kid, I had to look out for the ball on the right since I couldn't figure out the path to it lol.

I will attempt the league now, I don't remember shit except Cynthia and that fire dude

This is my current team, yeah, I have fallen to gardevoir brainrot because she is my only special attacker that learns my elemental tms, unlike the other ones.

 

[Danann]

Pokemon Sleep is also fucking cancer and even a year after release nothing has improved (bringing this up because its apparently such a revolutionary idea that Nintendo went on to patent it, and its a perfect example of how complacent them and GF are).

What the fuck did they do that's so shit about this...its a fucking sleeping aid app!

 

[Nick Gars]

What the fuck did they do that's so shit about this...its a fucking sleeping aid app!

Pretty much nothing. Yes, you read that right. It still randomly crashes mid-sleep session, they claim they shortened all the animations and improved load times... yet even with "skip animations" on, there is no noticible difference. It still takes a 5 minute slog just to grab all the daily shit and make a meal, when a "get ready for bed" button that does all of it in one click isn't hard to implement. God forbid you don't sit all the way through the research check in the morning up until the "daily reward" screen, because if you closed the game even a fucking frame before that, the next time you boot it up, you're sitting through that fucking check again.

But of course all the monetization options work perfectly fine, and yes, they unironically expect rather large sums of money for mats and candies during events, on top of a MONTHLY FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION thats damn near mandatory if you want to evolve anything that isn't a fucking Pikachu in less than several months. These events are also a joke as theres been a total of 3 major events, in an entire year, and they've all revolved around the legendary dogs and forking over a bunch of money for the chance to get one that doesn't suck ass. All about 4 months apart at that. They have "good sleep week" 'events' in between, but all these really do is give you more sleep points for a couple days, and if you pay for the subscription (I don't) its damn near irrelevant because you almost always have more points than you can spend anyway because all the shop items have a MONTHLY buy limit. A year in, still no Home support. Wether they intended to add it or not, its senseless NOT TO imo, and would give a decent reason for people to even bother with Sleep. As it stands currently, theres zero reason for anyone to actually play it. All you're doing is giving yourself an extra chore before bed and when you wake up.

Literally the only thing I can give Sleep is they're decently generous with the "free" premium currency. It's not enough to buy the largest packs, but you can get some every month or two because you will end up with enough gems one way or another.

TL;DR they added a very small handful of pokemon in a year (like less than 30, closer to 15), usually with a price tag and fixed nothing that makes it a miserable chore to keep up with.

 

[Danann]

I'd expected the app made by people working for the largest franchise on Earth to be extremely empty but I wouldn't thought it'd be that bad.
The Pokemon Company would've made an app that asked to donate all of your money to them with one simple button press and it would still be a massive success (and fully legal apparently) because it has a Pikachu on it.

 

[Registration]

I am playing the pokemon azure platinum, this hack is weird.

It adds stuff from the anime that is quite cool like new characters and that tourney before elite 4 and anime original characters at the same time.

But for gameplay... They make some weird changes:

The battles are changed, status effects are basically reduced to 5pp, so there isn't grinding. You cant use itens in battle, you have this option to heal you team from every place you want, so it is almost like you are speedrunning. Reutilizable tms

Because of these changes, every battle becomes a matter of speed and power, if you KO your enemy faster you are better, I had slower pokémon multiple times so I was losing even with a lvl 5 higher pokemon because of the speed. Fighting weaville is a pain in the ass, so I had to catch my own and change my rampardos for it.

And of course all battles have the level changed but it isn't like a drayano hack where you have to grind and pierce together your strategy. It feels really off. It is almost like you are speedrunning the game.

Also I didn't remember the giratina puzzle being that hard when I beat it as a kid, I had to look out for the ball on the right since I couldn't figure out the path to it lol.

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I will attempt the league now, I don't remember shit except Cynthia and that fire dude

This is my current team, yeah, I have fallen to gardevoir brainrot because she is my only special attacker that learns my elemental tms, unlike the other ones.

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Back here, man fuck this game.

This image as you can see is the team that I was going to use in the E4, so I use my TMs and prepare to enter.

I can't, I have to go inside the Victory road and find Rowan. So I have to bring all the HM slaves back in the team and even add hm moves to my pokemon to go there.

Inside I found that Black haired girl so there I have to fight her full team of six with HM slaves to be allowed to keep going. I lose the first time since I didnt expected it. I go back here and win against her. Now I must bring her back to the cave entrance.

Guess what? I have counted. 21 trainers inside with lvl 95+ full six pokemon each (to not count the double battles)

So I beat them all and finally found Rowan.

Guess the fuck what? He wants to battle me. His full team is all lvl 99 with all starters, and other beasts of strenght. And as I said before: this hack is all about OHKO and speed. There is no strategy, neither me or him use healing or any itens. It is a matter of high power attack and speed.

You dont put this bullshit before the E4 since I just beat the tourney, a gauntlet of 21 fights (and that is because I was using the heal function, if someone wasn't using it, he would spend more time going back into the pokecenter than anything.

Also, if you want to do this shit, REMOVE THE FUCKING HMS. I CANT HAVE A COMPETITIVE TEAM WITH 2 OR LESS POKÉMONS THAT ARE HM SLAVES. Also, all the battle itens, healing itens that were given in the overworld map are not usable in battle. So it forces you to heal using the pc function or grind the fuck out of the game.

This is my team BEFORE ENTERING THE LEAGUE.

I beat the black haired woman + 21 trainers + Rowan and all wild pokemon. I bet all of them are lvl 100.

This is clearly not a drayano hack where the team are thought out to be consistent, this is just a one shot competition and see which type is stronger. I am not sure if I will even play the post game (I know I can fight steven from emerald since he is on the iron island)

Fuck this hack

 

[Registration]

This game is such a fucking bullshit it hurts. I spent 40 minutes in the fire dude fight, since the dev is a retarded that in a point where no matter with pokemon I used, he would OHKO with a big power fire move. And guess what? He would use focus sash on his pokemon, an item that is nowhere to be seen in the game, unlike those one billion super potions in the map.

So after savescumming and testing all possibilities (DS emulation doesn't allow new possibilities, so if you miss an attack, that is it, you will never get another result. So after testing it all I ended gaving up and came back. i took out my torterra and put out a giratina since the pokemon that would fuck me up were a fire rotom/drif/arcanine with fire blast and extreme speed and my only pokemon who could outspeed was staraptor and weaville (staraptor would beat his infernape and lose health enought to be taken care by others.

With giratina I could use it against rotom and the baloon, leaving others to be sacrificed by arcanine sweeping my team.

Eventually I beat him and the next fight with lucian was quite easy, except his nigger alakazam outspeeding anyone.

Cynthia was easier than expected and took me 2 tries but fuck the fire dude and the retarded dev. Such a bullshit game that I am not even sure I want to play more.

This was my team after changing the giratina/torterra: all lvl 100 as expected.

Fuck this hack.

 

[Registration]

Tried doing this for the first time




For the later gens tried to choose the ones that I found cool, also never tried to repeat the same pokemon.

My gen 3 bias is too strong.

Also here if you want to do it.

Ultimate Favorite Pokemon Picker

Find your favorite Pokemon of each generation, each type, and of all time.

cajunavenger.github.io

 

[negativlad]

I’m probably not filling in 200 squares but rest assured: my favorite little guy is Sableye.

 

[Freelance Police]

Pretty much nothing. Yes, you read that right. It still randomly crashes mid-sleep session, they claim they shortened all the animations and improved load times... yet even with "skip animations" on, there is no noticible difference. It still takes a 5 minute slog just to grab all the daily shit and make a meal, when a "get ready for bed" button that does all of it in one click isn't hard to implement. God forbid you don't sit all the way through the research check in the morning up until the "daily reward" screen, because if you closed the game even a fucking frame before that, the next time you boot it up, you're sitting through that fucking check again.

But of course all the monetization options work perfectly fine, and yes, they unironically expect rather large sums of money for mats and candies during events, on top of a MONTHLY FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION thats damn near mandatory if you want to evolve anything that isn't a fucking Pikachu in less than several months. These events are also a joke as theres been a total of 3 major events, in an entire year, and they've all revolved around the legendary dogs and forking over a bunch of money for the chance to get one that doesn't suck ass. All about 4 months apart at that. They have "good sleep week" 'events' in between, but all these really do is give you more sleep points for a couple days, and if you pay for the subscription (I don't) its damn near irrelevant because you almost always have more points than you can spend anyway because all the shop items have a MONTHLY buy limit. A year in, still no Home support. Wether they intended to add it or not, its senseless NOT TO imo, and would give a decent reason for people to even bother with Sleep. As it stands currently, theres zero reason for anyone to actually play it. All you're doing is giving yourself an extra chore before bed and when you wake up.

Why would you humor the idea of Pokemon Sleep in the first place? As much as I hate what the Pokemon brand has become, if you're playing a shitty predatory mobile game where the main gameplay element is literally putting the player to fucking sleep then I can't help but feel like the retards buying into this slop are getting exactly what they deserve.

 

[Caesar]

Between this and the stupid ass lawsuit, I'm really starting to reach the "fuck Pokemon" phase.

Luckily by the time they shit the next one out, I'll probably be able to emulate the Switch2 anyway.

I disagree S&V were that bad though. Technically for sure, graphically in the overworld at least, yeah I'd agree. But story wise and dex wise, I'd say it's the best in generations. Flow wise, other than Team Star, it was way way better than Alola and Galar (man Alola would be so great if they added a fuckin' skip option).

Graphics wise though I do think the pokemon themselves actually look pretty decent, and most of the indoor spaces look... Alright.

Mechanically it had flaws but I think it was mostly a step in the right direction (outside some bits - why no set battle option now? I always use it, but why is EXP share not optional now? So easy to implement).

I wish they'd work on how long text can take at the end of a battle turn though. The animations can be pretty bad but at least they're somewhat visually interesting. It's so annoying to watch the animations happen, then wait for the text boxes to pop up and appear and disappear though. There's so many battle mechanics you can line up now aswell it can get so ridiculous.

 

[Registration]

Back to clown world with Pokémon Azure Platinum: apparently I still cant fight Steven, even when all pokemon are lvl 100....

Ok I guess, so I decided to see what is going on on the lakes. See id I can capture Azelf.

And he is there, big and blue head and all. But instead of lvl 50, now he is lvl 80! This hack creator loves us so much that he buffs the legendary for us.

Guess what move Azelf learns at lvl 76.

guess the fucking move

If you like israel criminal ways you are correct.

Fucking explosion, on a wild legendary.

This fucking hack creator must be a joker.

 

[Executive Petrel]

Volcarona one of the only gen 5s I love, it's great. Dunno about that hack though but his catch rate suuuuucks. It's worse than some legends in catch-rate.

The jews wanted to rename volcarona and corviknight during covid.

Also, you can't name a Pokémon COVID-19

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/n9oiid/today_i_learned_that_pok%C3%A9mon_does_not_allow_you/

 

[Caesar]

The jews wanted to rename volcarona and corviknight during covid.

Also, you can't name a Pokémon COVID-19

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/n9oiid/today_i_learned_that_pok%C3%A9mon_does_not_allow_you/

"Rightfully so"

"Why did you even try"

FFS some people are such retards. I understand not letting you call it CorviCunt and going online against kids, but the fact you can't even swear in single player names anymore is fucking dumb.

Ironically given you quoted my post about Volcarona, this single player censor started in gen 5.