Idk they're fine in Arceus, and I don't have my copy of ZA yet, but SV didn't really have them, did it? It had some leftover bits of LA moves, but it didn't really need sneaking like LA did.
One of the blueberry quests in rotation was starting a battle in sneak. It was a coin flip whether you'd succeed regardless of what you did, and certain mons, (seemingly the rounder models), couldn't be snuck up on period
In ZA in battle zones you want to sneak so you can get a free pre emptive attack, but also if the enemy sees you first they can sometimes just stun your pokemon to make it eat an attack. If you aren't sneaking they'll see you in about 0.2 seconds when they suddenly turn without a tell toward you, in sneak mode it's more like 0.25 seconds, so the strategy is to hide behind something like a tree, try to angle yourself so you can "see" their pokemon to lock on and have it go attack.
Shouldn't really judge a game for its playtime, but 17 hours doesn't sounds that impressive.
I replayed sword this week just to kill time before this game, and my full time for base + DLC was roughly 17. That number feels pretty low for a new game with new mechanics IMO
I can't be bothered looking at saves in my pokemon games even if I still had them.
oh, I always just threw my pokemon at pokemon that were facing away, and it worked. I think they can't move while the throwing animation happens, so they wouldn't turn around and ruin it.
I just avoided round or small mons for it, the 30K+ BP grind is exhausting
I don't think that's the case, a lot of the staple TMs like EQ and the like are locked pretty far into the pokedex completion. Maybe they're just spamming level up moves or something
I don't know what the actual percentages work out to be, but I haven't noticed, if that's worth anything. People complained a lot about that with SV, but I always found myself gravitating to the non-city areas anyhow
Only a couple buildings have an interior, everything else like shops are menus, the pokecenter is just a corner with no walls and also serves as the pokemart.
Well first off, "Nature" is せいかく which literally translates to Personality. And a lot of the Nature names are different, or could have been translated with a different word to focus on a different connotation, since a lot of them use Japanese words that we don't don't necessarily have a succinct equivalent to in English.
| Hardy | がんばりや | Hard-Worker |
| Lonely | さみしがり | Clingy (easily gets lonely) |
| Brave | ゆうかん | Brave / Heroic |
| Adamant | いじっぱり | Stubborn / Adamant |
| Naughty | やんちゃ | Childish / Trouble-Maker |
| Bold | ずぶとい | Bold / Stoic |
| Docile | すなお | Honest / Obedient |
| Relaxed | のんき | Laid Back |
| Impish | わんぱく | Rowdy |
| Lax | のうてんき | Casual / Easy-Going (head in the clouds) |
| Timid | おくびょう | Cowardly |
| Hasty | せっかち | Hasty |
| Serious | まじめ | Serious / Earnest (acting without pretense) |
| Jolly | ようき | Lively / Cheerful (friendly & outgoing) |
| Naive | むじゃき | Innocent (like a child) |
| Modest | ひかえめ | Reserved / Cautious (keeps their cards close) |
| Mild | おっとり | Calm / Reserved (no big emotions or actions) |
| Quiet | れいせい | Calm / Cool-Headed (not swayed by emotion) |
| Bashful | てれや | Shy / Bashful |
| Rash | うっかりや | Rash / Clumsy (prone to making mistakes) |
| Calm | おだやか | Calm / Quiet / Relaxed |
| Gentle | おとなしい | Mature / Calm (not wanting to make a scene) |
| Sassy | なまいき | Arrogant / Cheeky / Insolent (acting more confident than is appropriate for your age or skill level) |
| Careful | しんちょう | Careful / Cautious |
| Quirky | きまぐれ | Fickle / Whimsical (acts as they feel in the moment) |
but you get the first stage of the EXP one almost immediately. No idea what the actual increase rates are.
In SV, the exp charm was basically a passive lucky egg, and the glimmer charm gave you more than double, so I'd assume the plushies scale up to that value
Not going to watch this video, but the base game is 70 dollars and the DLC, which is the post game, is 30 dollars. This isn't even a main line pokemon game because there's no breeding and it has the PLA "action" style battling, and pokemon don't have their abilities active, so yes it's very overpriced for no new pokemon and a bunch of very ugly new megas.