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

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To me she always seemed Vocaloid inspired. But not specifically Miku. Although she just might be inspired by idols in general.
She's the mythical for the America region, so she's likely inspired by American pop stars. As for her colors, what if they were just reusing the color scheme from that one cut mon?
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Green "hair" for the ears, the pale face, the darker body with th brighter midsection... It's even got big M ears, so what if this just morphed into Meloetta (instead of Victini)?
Also Bulbapedia has this, and it's an interesting tidbit:
The guitarist who teaches Meloetta Relic Song in the Generation V games mentions that it lost its red shoes at the same time that sorrow darkened the world and it lost the song it had danced to. This may be a reference to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Red Shoes.
 
Well, that usually explains the forced hints in...An lot of games? Seriously, didn't they have that guy at the beginning of each Gym who drops a very blatant hint about which type that you should use, back then?
Yes, they still do. Nearby routes are also full of answers as well.
 
So apparently Japanese packs of the rocket set have been circulating and people are asking $200+ for them. That’s more than twice what even battle partners and terastal festival were going for in the west. I feel like this is a good enough sign to dip out from collecting on top of the one LGS that has POP deciding to not bother since people are pestering them for the POP packs and prize support without actually having to play.
 
I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.
It really was a cool little design even if the water monkey was clearly best with early access to scald.
 
I don't mind the early game help, I have enough theory of mind to realize that as much as I'm an adult who enjoys the games that they are aimed towards children who might be new to the series. I like when they have fun with it, though -- B/W's first gym having three leaders who pick the type strong against your starter to encourage you to use the free monkey always sticks out to me.
Weren't the Cooler monkeys beginner's trap because their awful stats?
 
Yeah, but it takes an special kind of retard to consistently lose in this series. But the anime kind of had their own set of rules, though Like the fight against that Onix
Pikachu didn't shock the Onix, he set off the fire sprinkers which ONLY Brock seemed to have installed in his gym. The Cerulean gym I understand, but come on now, why the fuck didn't the Celedon gym?

Ash, like most of his early gym battles, fucking cheated. At least he didn't rely on Team Rocket to fuck things up for him the first time around.

In Ash's battle against Brock, Pikachu defeated Onix using an electric-type move, likely due to the move Soak existing in the games, which can make a Pokémon vulnerable to electric attacks.

Additionally, in the anime, Brock's Onix was defeated by Steelix's Crunch move when it was revealed that Onix was wearing a disguise.
Fucking lmao.
 
To be fair, Ash withdrew his challenge under the circumstances. IIRC Brock gave him the Boulder badge anyway.
So what you're saying is that Brock is the reason Ash was so shit in Kanto?

It wasn't until Brock was out of the party in the Orange Islands that he started seeing actual success so that tracks.
 
Weren't the Cooler monkeys beginner's trap because their awful stats?
I love those dumb monkeys (except Simisage that evo was ugly) but their stats and movepool were both shit on top of being stone evos so they don't learn new moves when they level up when you evolve them. In addition to being the obvious gym solution their design may in part be because of Gamefreak's belief that early pokemon should be more replaceable, similar to earlier gen bugs having low level evolutions but being fairly bad after early game objectively speaking. This came after your rivals told you to catch Patrats and Lilipups for the hell of it too, no one was gonna use all of those early 'mons if it's their first playthough may've been the idea. Probably why they gave you the evo stone in Castellia: so you'd evolve it then swap it out because it stopped learning new moves and it gets outclassed by other pokemon you could be catching.
 
I love those dumb monkeys (except Simisage that evo was ugly) but their stats and movepool were both shit on top of being stone evos so they don't learn new moves when they level up when you evolve them. In addition to being the obvious gym solution their design may in part be because of Gamefreak's belief that early pokemon should be more replaceable, similar to earlier gen bugs having low level evolutions but being fairly bad after early game objectively speaking. This came after your rivals told you to catch Patrats and Lilipups for the hell of it too, no one was gonna use all of those early 'mons if it's their first playthough may've been the idea. Probably why they gave you the evo stone in Castellia: so you'd evolve it then swap it out because it stopped learning new moves and it gets outclassed by other pokemon you could be catching.
I took mine all the way thru to the end of the game as my premier, overleveled water Pokemon, then was disappointed it did jack shit in online battles and competitive. I hate the philosophy that some Pokemon are just straight up meant to be useless just because they're found early on, I much prefer something like Magikarp where it's a pain in the ass to raise or Feebas that is a pain in the ass to even find, but when evolved both kick some serious ass.
 
Pikachu didn't shock the Onix, he set off the fire sprinkers which ONLY Brock seemed to have installed in his gym. The Cerulean gym I understand, but come on now, why the fuck didn't the Celedon gym?

Ash, like most of his early gym battles, fucking cheated. At least he didn't rely on Team Rocket to fuck things up for him the first time around.

Fucking lmao.
Yeah, but it also raises the question of what would happen during a battle in the rain. Since that's almost the same thing as being drenched by a fire sprinkler (ok, it isn't, but after an certain point you'll still be wet)
At least he didn't rely on Team Rocket to fuck things up for him the first time around
Honestly, this is what saved the anime: Team Rocket mindlessly fucking around with freezing a volcano and finding out what happens next
 
Yeah, but it also raises the question of what would happen during a battle in the rain. Since that's almost the same thing as being drenched by a fire sprinkler (ok, it isn't, but after an certain point you'll still be wet)
Rain doesn't do any damage, Onix would be fine. Could actually help in limited circumstances if Onix is fighting a fire type.

Honestly, this is what saved the anime: Team Rocket mindlessly fucking around with freezing a volcano and finding out what happens next
Team Rocket is why Pokemon is a Saturday morning cartoon, not just an anime.
 
Look who's back with another nothingburger of a "discourse".
The only pain that "Lugia's assigned gender" caused was to Lugia's designer, who pitched a fit about it and nobody gave a shit since.
 
They have similar stats to starter Pokemon but lack the second evo. That means that they're fine for the base game, but absolute garbage in competitive, which most people don't bother with. Shame, as I actually like their designs(their beta designs even more).
I mean...

/vp/'s Showderp thread managed to 6-0 a somewhat-competent team with Nasty Plot Simisear.
So apparently Japanese packs of the rocket set have been circulating and people are asking $200+ for them. That’s more than twice what even battle partners and terastal festival were going for in the west. I feel like this is a good enough sign to dip out from collecting on top of the one LGS that has POP deciding to not bother since people are pestering them for the POP packs and prize support without actually having to play.
I haven't seen anything regarding Japanese packs being circulated but I have seen pre-order prices for the boxes going around that price, the problem is that neither Creatures Inc. or TPCi can keep up with the demand for the game nor does the latter feel any need to curb the usage of bots from its site.

That said English packs of Destined Rivals (our equivalent to Japan's TR set and Heat Wave Arena) have been leaking, there's even a pic of one of the set's Illustration Rares.
 
/vp/'s Showderp thread managed to 6-0 a somewhat-competent team with Nasty Plot Simisear.
You can make almost anything work if you put enough autists together. That's the fun of Pokemon, or at least it was back when every Pokemon and move was available. I've had competitive success with surprising Pokemon that I can guarantee aren't available anymore in the newer games or their sets are no longer available.
 
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