Pokémon General Thread

I was doing that and, wouldn't you know it, by the time I had eaten all three of my Pecha Berries, I got poised.

So I had to play sentry and somehow be able to recognize Pokemon by their footprints. And I know very little about Pokemon.

Somehow, I actually managed it on my first try and got an adequate. Don't know how that happened.

Fortunately, the answers tend to be pretty obvious, especially if you wait a bit on the selection screen (though it's not entirely recommended since you're also graded based on time).

Also, IIRC, once you get to the point where you can do it anytime, you can actually farm Reviver Seeds and other goodies from it depending on your performance.

edited 23rd Nov '14 5:06:32 PM by Demonfly

I like how these RS remakes highlight just how dumb Team Aqua was. Now they're just water hipsters.

Meanwhile, Team Magma actually has a point. I feel bad that I have to stop them.

I should also note that getting a score of exactly 0 gets you a rather... humorous reaction from both Loudred and Chatot.

So the next dungeon is filled to the brim with Water-type Pokemon and I'm a Fire-type. Oh goodie, this isn't going to end well.

As a matter of fact, it didn't. I got wrecked by... something. Then I learned about the whole "Send out for a rescue!" thing which is completely worthless to me.

What game is this?

Explorers of Sky.

I noticed that the dojo opened up so I guess I'll check that place out and see about using it to level grind a bit. It won't help too much about type disadvantage but that should help somewhat.

STORE YOUR ITEMS BFOR YOU ENTR

I know. The game warned me about that.

Wrecked by... "something"?

A Pokemon that you don't recognize/remember? Or did you spend too long on one floor? If you dwadle around for thousands of turns eventually you get booted out.

I don't remember what K.O'd me. I only half pay attention to the names of the Pokemon I'm fighting.

So will Eevette (I don't know why I'm so proud of that name but, if I ever play another Pokemon game, I'm only going to catch female Eevees and they're all getting that name) be able to evolve into any of her Eeveelutions (ignoring the Fairy-type from Gen VI)?

Yep, though you won't get to evolve yourself or your partner until after clearing the postgame story.

Just a warning, once you evolve yourself or your partner, they'll no longer have any unique facial sprites in dialogue, or a sleeping animation when beginning a day. Though at that point there's not much left for them to say or do anyway. I stopped using them and appointed a Drapion as my team leader at that point.

On that note, Skorupi/Drapion is an absolute beast in this game. It gets a really good IQ skill set that helps boost crit rate, among other things, which also pairs well with its Sniper ability and access to high-crit moves. And its only weakness, Ground, can be completely neutralized with Drapion's special scarf. If you see a Skorupi later, definitely consider making it a team member.

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:15:11 PM by Anomalocaris20

Wooooow.

Well, there's no point in me planning that out, then.

EDIT: :O I just lost all of my items except my Sky Blue Bow. Damn, this game is unforgiving.

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:18:47 PM by Zelenal

You should have seen Rescue Team. Dungeons that required you to quicksave in advance just to prevent you from Save Scumming.

...Speaking of which, assuming you don't know this already, always save prior to dungeon runs.

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:47:46 PM by Demonfly

Naturally. "Save early, save often" is a motto I had driven into my skull many years ago. So much so that not being able to do that bugs me to no end.

I also just discovered that "Don't get hit first" is the perfect Tactic to have your partners on if you want to die a painful death. A Shroomish put me to sleep and then stunned me while I was asleep before killing me while Eevette just stood and watched. Thanks a lot, Eevette. You're a great help.

Just keep them on the regular following command unless you need them to stay still (Wait there) or run away (Go the other way). The other tactics are useless and should be avoided.

But if I don't at least switch to "Attack enemies" (or whatever) whenever I start fighting, she'll just stand there unless the enemy is right next to her. I usually keep her on "Follow me!" unless I need her to move to attack an enemy.

Also, I got to Level 15, learned Fury Swipes, used it on a Shroomish and all four attacks missed then it killed me with Mega Drain. I swear, I really hate Shroomish right now.

edited 23rd Nov '14 9:12:39 PM by Zelenal

But they're so cute and mushroomy

Right, just so you know, multi-hit moves like that have very low accuracy, to compensate for the fact that they're almost as powerful as regular attacks.

But they're the devil incarnate! Seriously, why is Mega Drain doing twenty-two damage to me?! I'm a freaking Fire-type! That means it would be doing forty-four damage normally!

But they're cute. I have one in Omega Ruby and she's my second strongest pokemon right now.

You wanna know what else is cute? Eevee. You wanna know what else isn't the devil incarnate? Eevee.

Seriously, I've died at least four times in this freaking maze and all four times have been to a Shroomish using the powers of bullshit to rape me.

edited 23rd Nov '14 9:23:31 PM by Zelenal

Yeah but I dunno where to get one of those yet.

Shroomish is definitely the cute.