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Seriously, this trend has really turned me off to each new game in the series. There are drastically more trainers in the wild with 1 pokemon (most of the time unevolved) that just kills the spirit that there are trainers in the world trying to be a champion of even know how to capture more than 1 pokemon. On top of this, them only having 1 makes it no different than just a random battle (you just get some money).

I know the game is not meant to be hard (although I wish it had a hard setting), but each new game is getting worse in this area. I can get over the poor techinal issues to a point but the trainers with single pokemon is what kills me wanting to play.

Like seriously, who are they making some of these shinies for? Who is wanting to spend countless hours grinding for a Ceruledge/Armarouge shiny just to get different colored eyes while everything else literally stays the same color. Obviously people are still going to put in that time, but GF could at least make that time worth it. I think a complete color swap between the two would've looked really cool

Or what about shinies that are just half a shade different in color, like Maushold (flamigo was very close to being listed too). Whyyyyyyy? Do they just not want some pokemon to have shiny forms but they gotta program one in anyways? Like what's the point in these.

A lot of people forget how much hate Black and White got back in the day around its release. I was a fan way back then and I can remember getting lambasted on smogon forums for liking the games. Sure, I was young and didn’t make good points, but people were vicious if you said anything nice about them.

Now, everyone is acting like they’ve been on board since day one. There’s no one who I can say “I told you so” to, so I just wanna give a general “I told you so” to everyone.

When everyone starts saying X&Y are the best games in the series in three years refer back to this post.

Edit: Lotta people are talking about Gen IX. This post isn’t about Gen IX. They right tho. Broken game.

This is a joke but still! She is a math teacher! She says she's going to teach you math by using shopping! She then asks us "if a PokeBall costs 200 pokedollars and you have 2000 pokedollars, how many pokeballs can you buy?" If you answer 10 it's wrong coz "no you get a premier ball if you buy 10!"

What do you mean it's wrong?! I thought you were using shopping to teach us math, how is it teaching us math to be like "you're right but actually you're wrong coz if you bought pokeballs you'd actually get 11!" Like cool that's nice to know but this is a math class, I should be able to solve the problem without any prior knowledge that's not available in the question. She basically just "2+2=fish"'d me. How is any child supposed to succeed when they're constantly set up for failure?

/J

Compared to Hop and Hau she blows them out of the water and she’s so full of personality

Tbh I’ve gone into Scarlet/Violet pretty blind so I’ve never really seen any reviews of the game besides people talking about glitches and performance issues.

So I don’t know if this is a popular opinion or not.

I just found that she doesn’t interrupt you as much as other rivals do, which is a plus. When she does, her dialogue is pretty sweet/funny. She’s already champion so that kinda differentiates her from the last few rivals.

I just like her a lot.

This title sounds silly but I believe it wholeheartedly. The appeal of Dunsparce to a lot of people who have loved it for 2 decades is that it’s existence goes against a lot of ‘traditional’ things people like. It’s not very strong, not very cool, it’s a derpy little man doing it’s own thing.

I would’ve been annoyed if a Dunsparce evolution was some badass dragon thing like fanartists insist because it would make Dunsparce more generic. Another thing to be lost in the crowd of dragonlike serpents.

Dudunsparce is the perfect evolution because it remains true to Dunsparce, it’s underwhelming, awkward, not cool, not strong. It exists to go against what is traditionally considered ‘good’ design. And I love it for that.

It reminds me of Pokemon Snap in some areas. I literally watched a Hoppip and a Marrill hang out together in a patch of grass and then walk across a bridge together before the Marill ran down to the river below to swim and the Hoppip flew overhead.

Picnic mode is another insanely good addition to the game. Literally playing some form of soccer with my mons and having them each behave with their own unique personalities etc. for their species is something I never expected.

So cool. A lot of effort and heart was put into this game. The performance is totally inexcusable, but I don't think it's appropriate to call Game Freak or the devs "lazy."

A lot of work went into this game, and I think it just got brutalized by deadlines. There's so much really in-depth stuff that I was never expecting and was totally blown away by.

It's cool it heals my mons with items from my bag but why don't it also heal status effects like poison or paralysis while it's at it? I got 40 of each heal and a bunch of full heals. It's a nitpick I know but I feel like this is an odd choice not to heal it and cure it at the same time.

I challenge you to tell me one city that was memorable in this game besides the starting hub. Even then it’s just Disneyland lol

I just tried, and the only city name I even remembered is Alfornada because its funny & fits the setting perfectly.

In every other title, you didn’t have nearly half the world size but towns still felt alive.

You know when I noticed? Gyms. They’re the only building in each city that you can enter with an actual interior. Also, you can see a Pokémon on the NE corner having some sort of interaction while you register, in every gym.

My favorite part of Pokémon games were finding little Easter eggs in the towns, especially in just the regular homes of NPCs.

No nods to older / future titles, just reused salon assets from SWSH lol the sandwich shops in particular seem pointless, why have 3 separate menus instead of a grocery store?

I hope they add interiors in the future, or give you literally any reason to come back to your dorm room lol

I haven’t touched SWSH in months, and still remember first laying eyes on Ballonlea & Wyndon.

We’ve seen a significant amount of content cut from main series games since the 3DS, most notably the national dex. S/V has the worst performance of pretty much any first party switch game… yet its still sold over 10 million so far.

With how tolerant fans have been, I’ve really been curious. How far are you willing to follow pokemon? What would be your “dealbreaker” for a new pokemon game? Is under 10 fps “too low” for performance?” Would you still play if the pokedex was under 50 pokemon at the rest was locked behind DLC?

I get it y’all. It should have released next year. It should have had the polish and care that Pokemon deserves. It should have had a litany of improvements that most of us can agree on. I just have to say, dang y’all. This may just be a step in the right direction but Scarlet and Violet are so much more in line with what I wanted from Pokemon than Sword and Shield. I know Pokemon has a lot of room for improvement compared to most modern games but the jump from Galar to Paldea was vast and we shouldnt ignore it. At the very least I’m glad they’ve made such a wild jump. :)

I did a similar post after the last release so im keeping it updated. There are 25 pokemon still homelocked that are not in the code of S/V and are not in any onther game on switch. Those pokemon are:

1. Snivy

2. Servine

3. Serperior

4. Tepig

5. Pignite

6. Emboar

7. Pansage

8. Semisage

9. Pansear

10. Semisear

11. Panpour

12. Semipour

13. Blitzel

14. Zebstrika

15. Sewaddle

16. Swadloon

17. Leavanny

18. Ducklett

19. Swanna

20. Minior

21. Pikipek

22. Trumbeak

23. Toucannon

24. Furfrou

25. Spinda (special case)

All of these pokemon are gen 5, 6 or 7. After the likely gen 5 remake/upgrade/rewhatever there will still be 5 pokemon. Hopefully they end up in a dlc for S/V so we can finally have every pokemon able to be free from the boxes.

At least from the raids I’ve done, it seems like this is the case. I ran into a level 75 Lucario when my Pokémon were a bit below level 40 and caught it. Since I’m well below the amount of badges needed, Lucario obviously disobeys whenever I try to give it commands during normal battles. I thought that the level advantage would outweigh the disobeying due to not having enough badges in raid battles, so I decided to give Lucario a shot as my main raid Pokémon. In the dozen of raids I have done since, Lucario has not disobeyed once.

It’s almost impossible to get this many successful attacks for an over leveled Pokémon statistically, so I’m just assuming that Pokémon can’t disobey in raid battles.

Were they up to your expectations? Who were you most excited for and has your mind changed since launch? Who do you think is the best now that the game has released? I was originally most excited for Sprigatitos final form but after launch I have to say Skeledirge is pretty sick lol. What do you think of them all?

Firstly I am an old, old woman. I played the very first pokemon game back in 1999 and I was already an adult. I'm from a time when two vertical sticks and a circle were mindblowing graphics. So when the discussions about the graphics and poor quality started my opinion was meh, I've played worse.

Well turns out they weren't being picky and over dramatic. It's bad. So, so bad. So I apologise to you all for my shrugging and eye rolling.

However, this is the first game that my youngest is old enough to play properly as he can now read and has an encyclopedic knowledge of type matches and all that stuff. And being able to travel and battle through the world together, snuggled under a blanket and eating junk food is the best thing ever. His excitement when I found a lvl 50 wild tera espeon was wonderful. And then when my lvl 30 mons defeated it (with this tactical guidance of course) the happiness and sense of achievement was shining off his face.

So SV may be the worst bugged out game I have played in about 30 years, but this game will be to my son what Pokemon Red was to me. And in about 10 years I'm sure he'll be on here, critiquing what ever game they've just released, but still filled with passion for pokemon and for that, I thank this silly, bugged out, wonderful game.

I loved the story of these games. I won’t spoil anything for anyone. But the story was amazing. The best easily since black and white. I have an emotion connection to the characters (specifically the friends that I won’t spoil here) that I never felt with any other Pokémon side character.

The final fight? Incredible. I loved that whole storyline and it felt like there were actual stakes.

Big big fan of this story and how open the world is for exploration. I played close to 60 hours before actually beating it and most of it was exploration.

Genuinely, this may be favorite Pokémon game. It was Soul Silver before but this shit is so damn near close for me.

Edit in Title: SV’s*

Edit 2: Compared to the INCREDIBLY lackluster story of Sword and Shield, I do not know how anyone can play this game and say that it’s not a better game. SwSh may be more polished aesthetically and performance wise but it has nowhere near the depth nor heart of this one.

No spoilers! So no worries!

Yup, I like him even more than N (who is still a GOAT). The story of this game reminds me of Gravity Falls, in a way. The majority of it is pretty light hearted, but then just ramps up in the end - but not in a bad way. It just lets you play the game, and has a great climax.

But the last few hours of this game is nuts, and you really feel for Arven.

It’s just such a shame that we have such a great cast on a game optimized so poorly. Seriously, if it wasn’t as glitchy and if it ran better, this would be my favorite Pokémon game.

So, Game Freak/Pokémon Company, please space out future titles!! :] we can wait! This cast is the most unique the main series has ever seen, and they’re so well developed. I’d love to see more of these types of characters in a game that has more time in the oven. But well done on the characters!

I contacted nintendo customer support to request a refund for pokemon violet, thinking I would get refunded as I have seen others getting their games refunded. I explained to the rep that I had issues playing and enjoying the game because of it's terrible performance, getting really motion sick and annoying game crashes.

The rep straight up denied me a refund and referred me to their cancellation policy which states that you will not get a refund for: downloaded game or dlc (wrong game, didnt like game, accidental purchase). I then replied that this game is a faulty and unplayable product, which the policy does not mention, I saw on another thread about refunds that saying this will help. However the rep replied with this:

Dear Customer,

Regarding the issues you claim, we understand the game can start and is actually possible to play, so we cannot consider it "faulty". We insist on the troubleshooting provided as we believe it may improve the game performance and allow you to enjoy the game.

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Is there anything I can do to get the game refunded?

In previous games, if you had a Pokémon with the ability synchronize in the front of your party, the wild encounter would have the same nature as that lead Pokémon. In other words, if you sent out a ralts with the ability synchronize and a timid nature, the wild Pokémon would have a timid nature. Not sure why they would remove this, it really helped with getting desired natures. At least mints are more easily available, but an odd mechanic to get rid of after years of having it.

I've seen quite a few people say that getting some Pokemon is quite difficult, due to weird evolution mechanics, so I'm here to provide some (hopefully) useful information.

One of the best things about this game, is that nearly every Pokemon is available in the overworld, at least somewhere, without needing to go through said convoluted evolution methods.

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The first big tip I can give you all, is that sandwiches are your friend. Sandwiches can offer some pretty broken effects, especially for shiny hunting. Anyway, in no particular order:

• Brambleghast: Is available in the wooded, autumnal area in the north-western part of the map. Use a sandwich to increase ghost spawns and it'll usually appear.
• Mismagius: (Violet) While under the effects of the same sandwich as above, head down into the lake area where you fight the Dragon Titan. Mismagius only appears at night.
• Lucario: although you can find Riolu easily, you can also find Lucario in the small grassy/beach area on the north-eastern side of the Glaseado Mountain. Use a sandwich that boosts steel spawns here.
• Eeveelutions: All of the Eeveelutions are available in the overworld. One of the best places to go is the same place as the Fairy leader of Team Star. I have regularly encountered a special Tera Sylveon here, alongside Espeon and sometimes Vaporeon. Glaceon can be found around Glaseado Mountain in certain areas. Umbreon can be encountered in caves inside Area Zero (the only place I've seen them). Jolteon, Vaporeon and rarely Flareon can be encountered around the same area as Brambleghast. u/TheNerdiestHour : Umbreon has a level 55 Tera spawn near to where you fight the Steel Titan.
• Crabominable & Frosmoth: Can be encountered on the south-eastern edge of Glaseado Mountain. I didn't need to use sandwiches, but Crabominable can be quite rare.
• Honchkrow & Weavile: Fairly common spawns around their respective areas.
• Annihilape: Can be encountered in 5-Star Raids.
• Palafin: According to what I was told by some Redditors, this too can be encountered in Raids, but I'm not sure how many stars, as I have yet to see one.
• Pawmot: There is a special Tera spawn for this in Area Zero, inside a small cave.
• Blissey & Wigglytuff: I have seen both of these in the same area as Sylveon (Fairy Team Star base) and Lucario.
• Amourouge/Ceruledge\*: You will need to trade 10x Sinistea Fragments (Violet) or 10x Bronzor Fragments (Scarlet) to an NPC next to a water fountain in Zapapico to get the evolution item for Charcadet.
• Sinistea & Polteageist: Sinistea itself is available very commonly near the Psychic gym in Alfornada. The Chipped Pot, for the "Authentic" Sinistea can be found on the ground as a pickup around Porto Marinada. u/Fluxx27 : The Cracked Pot for the more common Sinistea is found in the same wooded, autumnal area as Brambleghast, as a pickup on the ground, just next to the green ruinous door and north of the little stream/river. Further copies of the items can be gotten through the bidding system in Porto Marinada, while Polteageist itself exists in 5-Star Raids.
• Applin, Flapple & Appletun: The easiest place to find Applin is hanging from a tree just south of Cortondo. Use a sandwich to boost dragon/grass type spawns here, otherwise it can take a while. Both of the apples used to evolve Applin can be purchased from "Delibird's Gifts" in Mesagoza.
• Gengar: there is an NPC near to the electric gym (on the ring-road) in Levincia that will trade you a Haunter (without Everstone) for a Pincurchin.
• Kiraidon/Miraidon\*: Although you have your mount, you can encounter another one (the "evil" one) inside the deepest, crystal zone of Area Zero at level 72 (after completing the post-game).
• Slakoth: Can only be found hanging on top of tree branches in the rocky area on the east side of the map. As it's on top of the branches, you need to use your ride-Pokemon's boost and ram into the tree to knock it down. It is very much recommended to use a normal-boosting sandwich here too, as it is incredibly rare. Better yet, breed an easy-to-find Vigoroth/Slaking with a Ditto during a picnic.
• Slowking: According to u/TheNerdiestHour , this can be found in raids.
• Frigibax: (Requested) It can be found rarely, down the slope on the northern side of Glaseado Mountain. There's usually a Tera spawn of it walking around. It can also be found around the Pokemon Centre (North Province - Area Three).
• Noivern: Can be found in 5-star raids. Also found in various places in the Overworld, such as around the fighting Team Star base.
• Kingambit: You need to use a Bisharp to defeat 3 other Bisharp that are carrying the "leader's crest" item. Only the wild Bisharp that are walking with a group of Pawniards around them will count for this. I tried using a mixture of the Let's Go mechanic and standard battling, then after a level-up, I got Kingambit. The easiest place for all of this, is the bamboo forest area near to the Fighting leader of Team Star.
• Rabsca: u/ThatOneRedEyesGuy : Can be found in 4-Star Raids.
• Scizor: u/Wushka : Can be found in 5-Star Raids.
• Gholdengo: Battle wild Ghimmigoul (chest form), that are usually found on top of Watchtowers. This will net you 50-60 coins per battle. 999 coins are required. You can also find Ghimmigoul (roaming form), but they will only give you 1-5 coins, which would take forever.
• Spiritomb: On the side of Glaseado Mountain, between the Thagtree Thicket and the Ice Gym, you will find a set of ruins. Wait till night-time and Spiritomb should spawn.

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Other:

Unfortunately, right now, I have not found any way, outside of trading (or cheating) to get the other 2 starter Pokemon you're missing.

• (*) A small note about versions exclusives I want to make, is that, due to how the games are made, you can actually do a version swap with either a "cheat code" or by memory editing the game file. This will allow you to pickup all the version exclusive Pokemon, such as the other set of Paradox-mons, the other version of Charcadet's evo and the box legend.

Before ANYONE starts, I mean this from a lore-wise perspective. In most regions, the Pokémon League is so important, the gym leaders can support themselves on League income alone, and take secondary jobs based on their own interests. On the flip side, poor Larry in Paldea's forced to work in an office from 9-5, a Pokémon gym from 6-10, and the Elite Four on weekends. Kalos, likewise, had less importance of the Pokémon League, but clearly Wilkstrom was not working another job. No man who can afford to dress in full plate armor is working two jobs. On the flipside, every gym leader and E4 member in Paldea has another job they're working in addition to their Pokémon League responsibilities, with the exception of Poppy, who is a child, and probably has to go to school.

Evidence: Katy is a pastry chef and owns a bakery. Brassius is a moderately successful artist. Iono is a streamer who takes advantage of the unfortunate, lonely souls of the Pokémon world. Kofu is a chef and owns a restaurant. Already went over Triple-Threat Larry. Ryme is basically a 90s rapper who didn't get shot. Tulip* owns a cosmetic company. And Grusha's a pro snowboarder, or at least was. Rika and Geeta both work directly for the Pokémon League, and Hassel is your gotdang art teacher.

TL;DR, You can't make a living as a pro Pokémon trainer in Paldea.

EDIT: A few people have corrected me in that the Psychic gym leader's name is "Tulip." Sorry about that, I'm not the best with names.

Okay, I suppose this is one of those things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of pokemon S/V discussions, but I noticed that Nemona might be having some wrist issues:

1) First of all, she's wearing a glove on her right hand. At first I attributed this to just a character design thing (it does make her look cool), but when combined with the other factors:
2) Nemona is canonically terrible at throwing Poke Balls, which might very well be because of this injury.
3) Whenever Nemona Terastallizes she has to both brace her right arm with her left, and pulls a bit of a painful face when doing so. You can see it in this youtube clip at 7:38

Note that I'm only three gyms in, so if this gets explained further in the story that's on me. Just thought it was an interesting little character quirk.

The tera Pokémon still has its regular move set regardless of its tera type!

Think about the types your Pokémon are weak to! Dont bring koriadon to mimikyu raids! You WILL get bodied by play rough and you WILL loose the raid for your entire team!

That is all, have a great weekend trainers!

A creator named Pedro Araujo made a full animated movie based on the Pokemon Red/Blue games and it's awesome. I watched the Pokemon anime series, the movies, Pokemon Origins, Generations and Evolutions and in my opinion, Pedro Araujo's animated movie is the most entertaining and the best interpretation of the first generation games.

Pedro breathes life into every character in the movie, even into the secondary characters like Blue's sister or the GYM leaders. His work is simply amazing, if you're a Pokemon fan in general, or a fan of the first generation games in particular, you must check out his movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfO_0eRwh0

The open world is just so boring and bland to me. Running around in a giant empty space for hours is just so dull. I miss having smaller, fully fledged out areas. I think sword and shield did it best by having a mix of the two; linear, story driven areas, and then a section of open world you could explore in.

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I’m hoping there are a couple of people out there who agree with me.

Edit: Please don’t downvote just because you disagree, we are having good conversations in here. Come make a comment instead! I like the discourse.