Pokemon Sun/Moon/Ultra versions (contains spoilers)

This is my absolute favourite method to hatch eggs.

is this a jojo reference

oh and rip in pieces to whoever actively uses that fence to hatch eggs, i hope you have the cash or homemade methods to replace that busted Circle Pad that got obliterated by it

edited 24th Feb '17 7:16:18 AM by Stolen_Moment

Circle Pad. Thankfully you can also use Poke Pelago's hot springs to hatch them en masse when you're sleeping or on break. If you do use the fence, try not to move the circle pad so roughly.

can i call jinx if i edited it in first?

yeah thank goodness for the hot springs, much faster than my 'run up and down the street in the city down the breeding center' strat.

i always feel a little bad when i hatch like 20 of something and forget to pull them out of the hotspring for a few days though

edited 24th Feb '17 7:23:38 AM by Stolen_Moment

that's why you rotate slowly

what, and ruin the whole 'look the trainer is spinning around in a box all whacky while the breeder watches xddDDdDdDdDDDD' meme?

though that's some advice anyone needs to know, saw a few threads back then about players warning other players about how overdoing the spin really did snap their circle pad off.

there's something equally amusing as the tauros very slowly turning while trying to jet forward at max speed

... I still don't get how people seem to just throttle their Circle Pads, to be honest.

Then again, one of my first 3DS games was Kid Icarus Uprising, which definitely taught me how to handle the thing without hurting it.

Is there a known glitch where Abra doesn't learn Confusion when leveling up to Kadabra? In Moon I had no trouble with it, but in Sun my Kadabra is now level 18 and without a single offensive move. I thought maybe it would learn it at 17, or 18, but nothing.

Did you get the patch for Moon but forget to get it for Sun, too?

Seems likely, I haven't updated anything since I got sun since I got it while traveling.

Oh please. my circle pad is broken for a whooping 2 years (cause my cousin did it)... I do have the spare circle pad part, it's just that I stripped 3 of the screws...

I don't even think that's a glitch really; it's just a new mechanic where if a Pokemon evolves and has a learnable Egg Move, it will learn that when it evolves. Kadabra just get screwed over because of the Confusion thing as well, but other Pokemon learn Egg Moves via evolving as well.

Anyone think the trials were the blandest thing in this game? the Totems were an amazing step up from Gym Leaders, but the trials felt like half baked gym puzzles who were only saved by comic relief or funny moments.

It has nothing to do with Egg Moves. It's a new thing called an "evolution move", where the Pokemon always learns that move when it evolves, no matter what level it evolves at. Most of the time if a Pokemon evolves and it has both an Evolution Move and a move it learns at that level, the Pokemon will learn both. But if the move it would learn at that level is also a Lv. 1 move in its move list, the level up move gets skipped.

This is such an edge case that there's mainly only one Pokemon it affects, Kadabra. Kadabra automatically learns Kinesis at evolution, no matter what level, and it learns Confusion at Lv. 16, when it normally evolves. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but Confusion is also considered a Lv. 1 move (which you can see at the Move Relearner), so the glitch occurs and Confusion is skipped over.

This glitch was fixed in the 1.1 update.

edited 24th Feb '17 9:01:21 PM by KuroBaraHime

I love Evolution Moves.

Now if only Shadow Bone was one of them.

x4

More or less. While they were different from Gyms I'd say that Mallow and Acerola's were the only trials that were actually interesting and even then not much more than the others since with few exceptions they were pretty much the same trail of explore until you're attacked by a specific Pokemon, do this three times, and then fight the Totem Pokemon. Mallow and Acerola's were only interesting because of the locations they were done in/the circumstances behind them and even those weren't exactly unique to the franchise. I enjoyed them while I was playing them but I wouldn't want to redo them. I do feel like if we ever revisited Alola that they could improve on the concept though.

edited 24th Feb '17 10:34:59 PM by Chariot

The Trials themselves were definitely duds but given this was their first shot at the idea and Gamefreak is pretty shitty at game design and trying new things in general I give it a pass.

The Totem mons were also mostly fine.

Kiawe's Trail is comedy gold, and I will not hear a thing against it.

The trials were an interesting change of pace, but they weren't such a huge improvement or significant difference over gyms that I'd complain about going back to gyms.

x2

Kiawe's trial was a massive disappointment for all the hype it got in the comedy department and Mallow's trial was funnier in its last few moments than Kiawe's trial was throughout its entirety.

edited 24th Feb '17 10:49:28 PM by Chariot

Kiawe's trial was easy but amusing.

Idk the trials were a nice change up. Hoping if they ever come back that they're a bit more challenging and intricate. Also giving more opponents more pokemon, enough of this 3 mons nonsense.

I thought Mallow's was the least interesting except for the Lurantis reveal. Cooking-related shenanigans are just way too omnipresent to be funny anymore.

The trials were bland in terms of the puzzle element, but I didn't personally get the feeling they were aiming to be interesting puzzles so much as just build-up for the Totem Pokémon and characterisation for the Trial Captains (or Team Skull in the case of Ilima's trial). In any case I thought they were inoffensive at worst.