Pokémon General Thread

Razor Claw is the same. Can only be found on a Pokemon with a 5% encounter rate, and has a 5% chance of holding one. At least SOS battles make it easier.

edited 10th Dec '16 1:39:07 PM by KuroBaraHime

I would say that the Metal Coat thing is easier, since you can use Magnet Pull to make your life easier on who to encounter.

Razor Claw... yeah, that took patience.

Goddammit, Schezo... || *insert incredibly thirsty copypasta about Dr. Ratio*

Compoundeyes makes it a 50% chance.

Secret Signature

Guess I'll have to find a butterfree then as it's the only mon I know of in the Alola dex that has that ability.

Warrior to the very end! My tumblr, dood!

Razor Fang is the worst of the bunch, being only found on wild Bruxish- A 'mon that's on the rare side.

I'm really hoping we'll see the first proper expansion via patching when the Bank update rolls around- At the very least it could add BP shops for the missing Mega Stones and the remaining evolution items.

I sure said that!

I'd make it so that whiting out doesn't reset story progress. Lose to a Gym Leader/other NPCs? They acknowledge that you lost and ask you if you think you're ready this time. Gym Leaders and team Admins/Leaders get unique dialogue in these cases while random NPCs get slightly less unique dialogue.

Anyone know why Smogon has the alolan mons in its list but not the alolan forms?

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

Sun and Moon does that for the most part. All the Trial Captains will acknowledge that you've failed their trial, you almost never have to beat Hau, and there're probably other cases.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:04:32 PM by Hashil

Wow really? I only loss to Hapu and Gladion in the main story, but now I wonder what they would have said I not reset.

What list are you talking about?

Also, Lando-I joined Aegislash in Ubers today.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:18:31 PM by Karxrida

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/pokemon/

They have all the Gen VII pokes, but not the Alolan forms.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

The SM Strategy Dex is still a WIP.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

Is there any way to help out?

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

Not really. All of the analyses for OU have been reserved or are finished, and UU won't start writing theirs for a while.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

Actually, the no HM thing seems to be Alola only; one of the NPCs you talk to at some point actually expresses shock that HMs don't exist in Alola, and gives you one of the old HM moves in the form of a TM. Which might mean that any revisit to a previous region is going to bring HMs back, since it's canon that they still exist, not just in Alola.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

Yeah, but all the Alolan movepools are empty.

Well fuck.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

Remember Mega Evolutions being speculated to be in Kalos only?

That lasted all of until the next game.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:31:44 PM by Hashil

On top of that people have hated HM's for years. Like Hashil said if they kept TM's as renewable odds are good for HM's being gone going forward.

x2

That's different though? There was no actual basis for Mega Evolutions being unique to Kalos while there is basis for Ride Pokemon being Alola only.

If a Sinnoh remake does happen I can see them re-implementing HMs for it. Which would suck because Sinnoh is probably the posterchild for why HMs are bad.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

I mean, we have someone in-game flat out saying that they're surprised that HMs don't exist in Alola, meaning that they do exist where they came from. They might be removed from future regions, but any revisits to regions from Gen 1 through 6 is going to have them back.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:38:37 PM by Ssj3Gojira

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

There was basis for Megas being Kalos only. It supposedly originated in Kalos and I'm pretty confident there was someone there who says they're mostly found there.

As far as Ride Pokemon being exclusive to Alola, I could easily see a similar feature being implemented elsewhere with the hand wave that visitors from Alola introduced the concept. We already even had prototypical forms of it in X and Y with the Skiddo, Gogoat, and other Pokemon you could hop on for brief parts of the game, and the concept of riding Pokemon is something that's pretty universal to the franchise anyway.

I really doubt it, given how unpopular they are. We've had standbys scrapped before, like, for example, the Game Corner.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:41:04 PM by Hashil

I mean, I never really got the impression that they were unpopular; hell, I kind of liked them in their own little ways.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

x3

Just because they were said to originate in Kalos and are mostly found there doesn't mean they're unique to Kalos though. The keyword to keep in mind is mostly. It's been awhile since I touched Moon but I'm pretty sure Ride Pokemon are explicitly stated to be an Alola only thing ingame.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:52:33 PM by Chariot

NPCs tend to talk about newly implemented features as if they're new in-universe only for the first game (pair) that feature is introduced in. No one said a word about the Fairy type being newly discovered after XY, not even in ORAS. This series retcons itself constantly, making Ride Pokemon the default from here on wouldn't be a stretch.

edited 10th Dec '16 3:56:08 PM by Pulse

I sure said that!