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

[Executive Petrel]

r/pokemon is driving me crazy

 

[negativlad]

Tried doing this for the first time


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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

Alright, I lied.



I’ve also started exploring Emerald Enhanced which has some impressive feats for an Emerald hack. So far, the Achievements, genetic egg manipulation, the buddy system (basically an human follower with their own plot and helpful skills) and open world nature of it are compelling. I don’t know if they fit DexNav in here at some point but if they didn’t, I guess that’s on them.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I think I'm gonna put Revelation Emerald on hold for a little bit. I'm done with the romhack already and I only have legendary Pokemon to catch(which there are a lot more of than in base Emerald), but I am feeling too stretched-thin with all the other vidya I am playing. Dead Rising 3 or Fallout London, for instance and I have a few more I play here and there. I will likely only focus on one from here on out.
I already talked about this, but I heavily recommend the romhack if you're looking for a minimalist, but heavy on the QoL changes mod for Emerald. Playing it made me feel like playing Emerald for the first time all over again, and honestly I don't see myself ever going back unless I want to play a more in-depth romhack that adds Fairy types and new Pokemon, or if I really want to play the original again with it's archaic pre-physical and special split combat. When/if I ever come back to this, I will likely finish Revelations and move over to Fire Red/Leaf Green romhacks, which I am told there is actually more of than RSE ones since that used to be the base for all the best romhacks in the past(and the first Pokemon game many people used to mod).

 

[Coldsteel the Hedgehog]

Damn you for starting a trend, now I have to join.


I surprised myself with how few newer pokemon there are, it's easy to forget with how they use older generations to inflate the encounter tables.

 

[Punished Brent]

Honestly I thought the USUM was the last good game. Why the fuck would I want wild encounters to level with me? Why the fuck do you think you can keep the exact same format in an “open world”? Why the fuck don’t you just use lower res graphics in the over world if the fucking console can’t handle it?

WHERE IS MY GODDAMNED BATTLE TREE?!? How are people even supposed to get into the competitive scene if there is nothing to kinda show them the ropes and allow them to test teams without playing against retards?

I haven’t even finished scarlet and my competitive team has been rotting inside the poke bank for years now. I would rather play randoms with the tranny freaks that run showdown.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[30+GameOvers]

Honestly I thought the USUM was the last good game. Why the fuck would I want wild encounters to level with me? Why the fuck do you think you can keep the exact same format in an “open world”? Why the fuck don’t you just use lower res graphics in the over world if the fucking console can’t handle it?

WHERE IS MY GODDAMNED BATTLE TREE?!? How are people even supposed to get into the competitive scene if there is nothing to kinda show them the ropes and allow them to test teams without playing against retards?

I haven’t even finished scarlet and my competitive team has been rotting inside the poke bank for years now. I would rather play randoms with the tranny freaks that run showdown.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I don't think this is a controversial opinion, USUM pretty much were the last actual Pokemon games. Starting with Sword and Shield(arguably even as far back as Let's Go or Pokemon Go) the rot has set in and we were given nu-Pokemon formula. The final products are just too inferior to what came before them to really be bothered with, I don't care how many new Pokemon or features they add in since I will never play the newer games again. Only exception I will make is if they evolve the formula so much that we can accept not having returning Pokemon or moves, PLA is a good example as it feels like this is the first time they tried to evolve the franchise in any substantial way in years. Knowing TPCi and Gamefreak, they will fuck it up somehow soon anyways.

 

[Registration]

Now with my last update on Azure Platinum. THANK GOD!

Since I've won the E4, a new mission was open: Azure something, where I must retrieve the arceus type plates in order to fight/catch him. These plates are all around the map and you must retrieve every single one. Sometimes they are on the map as itens, but some times they are itens that you must have to fight the owner for (examples are jasmine, steven, wallace, fuego fireworks owner ,brendan, cyrus, saturn and so on)

So after you get all plates you go to rowan and he gives you the azure flute to awaken the arceus.

EXCEPT NOT SO FAST, OUR BETTER RIVAL PAUL IS THERE AND I died again since I was moving with my hms slaves that terrible and my team wasn't prepared. After another ohko fight, I've won. He says that I should not embarass myself in front of arceus like a true dick he is.a

He is lvl 100. And since the hack rom creator is a retarded guy, arceus learns perish song, a move that kills him. So it is another azelf explosion situation but not as bad, however it was harder to catch as I tried for 20 minutes he always killed himself, so I ended up using the master ball.

I go back to rowan and he tells me: good job, now go meet professor oak and follow cynthia to this place on an island. If you go to professor oak, you will find shaymin and I caught it quite essily.

In this place that is almost like the Silver Mountain in Johto. Cynthia tells me about the legendary trainer Diamond that won the league last year and after that he vanished, people believe that he left for johto but she thinks she is still there. She tells me to look for him and to come back to try the elite 4 again since they are training and have new teams (even more bullshit I suppose.

There I found the male protagonist a la red in GSC. Except for one problem: the male protagonist is working as assistant for Rowan and he is always in front of his lab. He has participation in the story and talks with us. They even state that he won the league last time. So I am not even sure if it is the same character (i named him Lucas) but they have the same appearance.

I save the game before the fight just to scout his team, and go into the fight: he had arceus, dialga and mesprit and other three that I dont know. My palkia KO three of these pokemons and we traded the rest until it was my abomasnow as hm slave and empoleon, mu starter. I surf his ass and win.

The credits roll and I appear as the league winner again even when It was a sol battle. He vanishes from the point without saying anything just like Red.

And that is it. I won't try the E4 again since it is all bullshit and fuck the battle frontier (I fought against the 5 of them to get some tms and they used legendaries and so on)

This hack is weird. I loved all the story additions like paul being added from the anime, the new story bits and so on, the league with the anime characters was nice.

But everything related to gamplay was fucking awful. There is no grinding in the game because you can buy rare candies for 1 coin, you can heal anywhere, you can access move tutors, pc, move deleters from anywhere and so on. But the battles are devoid of fought: get speedy and powerful pokemon and you are alright. I always thought empoleon was amazing in normal platinum but here he was ass. Always being killed by electric or fire blasts and being outspeed by anyone else. The pokémon that I liked the most was the staraptor, my speedy bird and gardevoir who could be the only one in my team that could learn fire/electric/grass moves since most of the normal team couldn't use the tms I had. Metagross was really good too. Initially I used a rampardos but since he fell off hard. He had great attack but all his good attack moves were special attack tms and his speed and defense were shit.


There is a good game here, a better Platinum, but all the gameplay decisions are so fucking cancer that it made me rage like no other hackrom ever did.

And since I reread the platinum story... Man it is kinda ass isn't it? Which is funny, since the pokemon special manga, the DPPt is my favorite arc and is full of soul.


These pokemons are the ones who helped me in the game, (the rest is on my team)
-gardevoir, torterra, metagross, staraptor, empoleon
- rampardos early game
-weaville at the league
-abomasnow and dewgong as hm slaves
-giratina at the league and post game
-palkia, dialga and sceptile at post game

The end.

 

[McMitch]

I wanted to participate. I only filled cells in which I actually had an opinion. I avoided repeats within the element part of the grid.
I also realized that I had the same misconception about Hippowdon that many kids had regarding Slugma, I never encountered it in any major capacity in the generation it debuted, and just assumed it debuted in the following generation.


edit: I'm going to add retroactively that I think the Fairy type may be my favorite type. It is perfect in its representation of the type matchup chart. I just wish it had more, better Pokemon (fuckin' Grimsnarl was such a waste of potential).

 

[Coldsteel the Hedgehog]

I wanted to participate. I only filled cells in which I actually had an opinion. I avoided repeats within the element part of the grid.
I also realized that I had the same misconception about Hippowdon that many kids had regarding Slugma, I never encountered it in any major capacity in the generation it debuted, and just assumed it debuted in the following generation.
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Fellow based Empoleon enjoyer.

These charts are really fun to see, it highlights just how true that line about "every pokemon is someone's favorite" really is.

 

[Registration]

Alright, I lied.

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I’ve also started exploring Emerald Enhanced which has some impressive feats for an Emerald hack. So far, the Achievements, genetic egg manipulation, the buddy system (basically an human follower with their own plot and helpful skills) and open world nature of it are compelling. I don’t know if they fit DexNav in here at some point but if they didn’t, I guess that’s on them.

I played emerald enhanced this year and it is my favorite hack of Emerald so far. I loved the new map additions and I wonder why more people don't do this, the vanilla maps are só empty sometimes. The only things that I disliked are the romance quests since those are cringe and how I couldn't buy a house even after getting 2 million yen.

After reading this post I even opened the game again to see how it was. (Gained 20k yen from the bank lol)

These are all my pokémon that I leveled up go lvl 125 in this game. As you can see thwre is lots of contents

Then after a long time I went to the E4 for a refresher and their enemy team are very goos and not shit made like azure platinum, they use their itens, their full restores, their megas but what I found the coolest is that since I am the champion now, someone must challenge me in a fight. In this case it was Clay from Unova



I've won using a mostly the mega groudon and the jellyfish that I leveled up to 125 by doing the league and my lvl 110 volcanion and toucan lvl 90 as backup. The rest are just lvl 60.



This is the best version of emerald that I ever played, such an improvement all around and fun to play. It is harder than normal, but not drayano level of hard, still very fun.


Enjoy the game man

I wanted to participate. I only filled cells in which I actually had an opinion. I avoided repeats within the element part of the grid.
I also realized that I had the same misconception about Hippowdon that many kids had regarding Slugma, I never encountered it in any major capacity in the generation it debuted, and just assumed it debuted in the following generation.
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By doing this chart I realized that I like strong looking pokemon, cutesy pokemon and normal animals usually doesn't impress me. And I have a soft spot for object pokemon like magneton ever since I was a kid.

Even in the pikachu clone section, I put Raichu because I liked him in one of my firered playthroughs.

Nowadays people love fuecoco, but I feel neutral about him but I really like his final evolution

 

[Anonitolia]

oooh, are we reposting the favorite charts?



These are a bit outdated, from January, but I'm too tired to make newer ones right now. I did both versions (filling up every square vs only filling in mon I genuinely loved) and more back then anyways. I'm just reposting to jump on the bandwagon.

 

[Robert Cummings]

Muk's shiny sprite should be white.

 

[McMitch]

Fellow based Empoleon enjoyer.

L'Emperuer rises above his contemporaries.

These charts are really fun to see, it highlights just how true that line about "every pokemon is someone's favorite" really is.

I've definitely got a few that are still controversial *coughcoughVanniluxeGarbodorcoughcough*

By doing this chart I realized that I like strong looking pokemon, cutesy pokemon and normal animals usually doesn't impress me. And I have a soft spot for object pokemon like magneton ever since I was a kid.

The Nidos, Kangaskhan, Rhyhorn; and to a lesser extent Gengar, Blastoise, and Exeggutor; have a style in Gen I that I can only describe as occupying a perfect cube when rendered in 3D space. You can see this carry over to later Pokemon such as Feraligatr, Donfan, Aggron, Torterra, Guzzlord, and Duraludon. Most of mine are big cool 'mons because I used the final stage as a representation of the whole line barring the select few where I thought an earlier stage was the peak in design. Rowlett gets a special mention because I like it solely from its animation in Gen VII where it turns its head around to look at you in battle.

Volcarona edged out as my favorite of the lot, which is surprising to me because I've adored Ampharos since Gen II came out (and liked it even more when I got older and actually read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

 

[Coldsteel the Hedgehog]

L'Emperuer rises above his contemporaries.


I've definitely got a few that are still controversial *coughcoughVanniluxeGarbodorcoughcough*


The Nidos, Kangaskhan, Rhyhorn; and to a lesser extent Gengar, Blastoise, and Exeggutor; have a style in Gen I that I can only describe as occupying a perfect cube when rendered in 3D space. You can see this carry over to later Pokemon such as Feraligatr, Donfan, Aggron, Torterra, Guzzlord, and Duraludon. Most of mine are big cool 'mons because I used the final stage as a representation of the whole line barring the select few where I thought an earlier stage was the peak in design. Rowlett gets a special mention because I like it solely from its animation in Gen VII where it turns its head around to look at you in battle.

Volcarona edged out as my favorite of the lot, which is surprising to me because I've adored Ampharos since Gen II came out (and liked it even more when I got older and actually read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

Trubbish and Garbodor are unironically some of my favorite pokemon in the entire franchise, I'm obsessed with those stupid little trash creatures. Trubbish gives me cute aggression.

There's definitely an appeal to pokemon who feel like they were perfectly suited to fitting in their canvases, it's also why I like Dialga and Wo Chien. Something about it really is just so satisfying from a proportional standpoint, I dunno. I tend to be drawn to smaller/cuter pokemon myself so a lot of mine are first stages with exceptions for really good realized final stages, kind of in reverse. I think I'm usually drawn to more animal-esque designs and 'mons that seem like they'd look satisfying to watch walk around. My best guess is it's a holdover from the PMD games being my first in the franchise?

Volcarona and Ampharos are good favorite picks, though. Honestly, picking just one is really hard when there's so many reasons to like a pokemon--my favorite design is different from my favorite to play with which is different from my favorite to play as which itself is different from my favorite conceptually. Not to mention all the pokemon I love just because they're dumb as hell, like toadscruel and alolan exeggutor.

 

[Robert Cummings]

Trubbish and Garbodor are unironically some of my favorite pokemon in the entire franchise, I'm obsessed with those stupid little trash creatures. Trubbish gives me cute aggression.

Those Pokemon are garbage

 

[Registration]

@Coldsteel the Hedgehog

I really like object pokemon because it blends the point of origin of the monster. Magnetone is something that is clearly anthropocenic in origin, the same with the garbage pokemon or grimer. I never liked the idea of it being treated as animals and critters. In my personal headcanon pokémon are spiritual beings that can have biological forms and can attach to objects to change their form. I like the idea of regional variants but not the name/concept of it being regional but more of a setting like if a slugma is accostumed to colder climate, it would just evolve/mutate swiftly to another version. This mutating factor should be something unique to each species of pokemon (for example insects should have more variations in their larval form than mammals, the same for steel monsters)

I really believe pokemon should have a degression mechanic like specialization like deoxys have. We see glimpses of it like eevee or wurmple but for overall pokemon it would be nice.

I even imagined some mechanics ans new evolutions on my fan made game idea that would be basically what if team aqua plan was a success and the effects it would have on hoenn as a region, population and pokemon new mutation. (Recent water variants would be prey to older water pokemon that with a new easy food source would evolve further like a new third evolution to wailmer or corphish)

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

I seem to have absurd luck with finding shiny Pokemon. I was using the Synchro Machine to gather material to farm some Ability Patched when I encounter a shiny Rhyhorn and a shiny Rhydon within a minute of each other. However, my player character is too far away so I'm not able to catch them. That's all right because I already have at least two shiny Rhyperiors and a shiny Rhydon so I don't really want them.

 

[Caesar]

Honestly I thought the USUM was the last good game.

I love everything about USUM, except playing it. The alola variations were fun and had good designs, I prefer having 8 gyms but the trials were a nice change of pace, it looked decent for the 3DS (think they could have made it use the 3D screen on the N3DS if they really tried though), the characters weren't too bad, it didn't feel like it had little going for it besides a new type (fairy) and OP move (geomancy) like X&Y (I'm not huge on megas, They're alright but a bit of a waste of an item IMO, but I know that's not a common opinion), Lunala is one of my favorite legendaries....

...but for fucks sake, after what everybody said about the handholding and flow interruptions of SuMo, they didn't do ANYTHING to fix it. Not even let you skip the rehashed dialogue from SuMo and make you sit through the new USUM stuff.

I loved playing through them twice but man, I just can't bring myself to do it again, especially the opening. That run up through the first island, the school and up to the first trial are so painful to get through.

Alola could probably be my second fave gen and even close to first if not for that.

Edit oh tbf Z-Moves are boring as heck.

 

[MoffAlbert]

I did it. I learned from this that I don't really like any of the regional bird forms or gen VII-IX Pokémon too much.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I loved playing through them twice but man, I just can't bring myself to do it again, especially the opening. That run up through the first island, the school and up to the first trial are so painful to get through.

That opening literally broke me in the original sun and moon. I didn't make it past it, I just assumed the entire game was going to be that bum-fucked retarded and gave up and it was the last Pokemon mainline game I ever bought.