Pokémon General Thread

Can they outspeed it?

No, but if they survive and pull off a Perish Song, Ultra Necrozma is pretty much toasted after 3 turns.

Not a chance, but a Focus sash will work fine. You can also grind them into the upper fifties/low sixties so they can survive 1 hit, and keep resetting if Necrozma crits.

edited 24th Apr '18 8:55:17 PM by ViperMagnum357

Oh yeah, Tier Borderlines have received name changes. For instance, BL is now UUBL, BL2 is now RUBL, and so forth.

x7: Its ability is pretty damn terrifying for the battle against it though, considering how much coverage it has.

Another possibility is one that works on all the Totems. Grab an Inkay early on and use Topsy Turvy. Suddenly it has -1 to all stats.

What moves does Necrozma have when you fight it?

Photon Geyser, Dragon Pulse, Smart Strike, Power Gem. So Psychic, Dragon, Steel, and Rock.

But it doesn't get Dragon Pulse and Smart Strike by level-up?

it's technically a boss battle (since you can't catch it) so it can have moves it doesn't learn by level up.

But how did it get those moves?

Did it go down to the mart and buy a couple of TMs?

Eh, it's the computer.

Wait, shouldn't any random steel type resist all/most of that?

Yep.

Any bulky Steel type walls it pretty easily.

I used Metagross in my UM run-was level 61, so it was not that bad. Still had to restart after back-to-back crits the first time, though.

Froakie

I would complain about "needing that specific Pokemon/type" to counter a difficult lategame boss but I also used Water-types with Ice moves to streamroll Lance in Gen II for one.

edited 25th Apr '18 10:39:02 PM by MayIncon

In Nintendo's fiscal reports, Pokemon Switch is still expected as a "2018 or later" game.

Unless the pre-release period is uncharacteristically short, I'm starting to doubt it's coming this year.

I can wait, I still got at least 10 boxes worth of breeding projects to finish.

Without context I'd be very alarmed at what you're breeding with so many boxes!

Oh, I have 9 boxes of breeding projects left, and 6 more of other breeding projects that I MIGHT do.

I went to the shops to get Ultra Sun earlier, saw a bunch of UM's in the things before finally spotting the word Sun. Grabbed it and took it to the counter before noticing it was actually Sun, not US. Couldn't find any US's, so I just bought it.

I decided that, since I didn't have a female Popplio in Moon, I'd soft reset til I got a female (or a shiny, if that somehow happened before a female).

I didn't need to reset. Female Popplio first try. Slightly annoying since I'd saved at 0:17 and because I got distracted by youtube and left the game open during the cutscene, by the time I'd nicknamed her the savefile was at 1:17, so I was hoping to have to reset :/

Also, after I got her, I saved and reset the game to try and get this month's Mystery Gift for S/US (I think it was Entei? I got Raikou in Moon) but when I click "Get over Internet" it keeps saying that the gift isn't there. Am I too late for April's event? Or do I just need to get further into the game?

Pretty sure they aren't given away via Mystery Gift, but a serial code?

The Australian event just ended yesterday, and it was Mystery Gift.

Heh, nice avatar.