Pokémon General Thread

Yeah most of his battles after that are won fair and square.

And I repeat the Battle Frontier is cheap as fuck especially the old man's facility, that's nearly luck based.

Edited by Fedetropes on Jun 29th 2020 at 3:07:09 PM

Every pokemon ever (as of January) Tier list maker

It's missing Kanto Raticate, 0/19.

It's missing Kanto Raticate. 19.5/19

Hey, don't diss the ratt.

What's the consensus on Alolan Raticate VS Normal Raticate, from a quality standpoint? For me, I personally prefer the Alolan version.

This guy talks about how certain Pokemon feel like they belong in other regions due to their inspiration and other stuff (like Empoleon, The Musketeer trio and Serperior being from Kalos, Greninja and Samurott being from Jotho, Sawk, Troh and Genensect being from Kanto, Koffing, Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee being from Unova, Snorut being from Sinnoh, Bellosom being from Allow, Lapras being from Galar) and many more I can't be hassled to mention RN.

Wild Area News has shifted to an event full of Rock and Steel types. It's currently bugged to give you an item that doesn't exist (yet?), though, so you might want to hold off on updating your Wild Area News until they fix it. EDIT: It's been fixed.

Edited by AgentKirin on Jun 29th 2020 at 7:41:06 AM

Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee don't belong in Unova anymore than they do in Kanto. I agree with the Muskadeers feeling more Kalosian, same with snivy's line.

OO Oh at that tier list. I'm going to try to do it.

EDIT: got up to gen 4. I'll do the rest tomorrow. I realize out of the 1st 4 gens, it has the highest percentage of pokemon I feel positively about.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Jun 30th 2020 at 4:01:41 AM

Is there a reliable way of farming heart Scales in HGSS.

Look under rocks

I know that but isn't it random? I meant in a way it doesn't take an eternity to do.

Edited by Fedetropes on Jun 30th 2020 at 6:11:21 AM

You can get them at the Pokéathalon, but only on Sundays and Wednesdays. Apparently.

If you get lucky with swarms (which you can find out about on Professor Oak's radio channel), you can find a swarm of Luvdisc while surfing on Route 27 (to the east of New Bark Town), and they hold heart scales 50% of the time.

I'm replaying SS currently and I gotta say, Kanto postgame is kinda...boring? Sure Kanto looks nice and it's fun revisiting a region, but the wild pokemon are leveled so low as to be near pointless and there's hardly any challenge due to the level gaps, at least until Blue. The lack of any real story doesn't help either. I feel like had the wild pokemon been leveled sensibly(cause there's zero reason we should be getting lvl 5 spearow postgame) and the leaders/trainers more of a challenge with a subplot involving Mewtwo or something it would be a lot better.

Oh and diversify the trainers' pokemon. Some of the routes have trainers where nearly every one has a koffing or fearow or something like that. It gets really stale.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Jul 2nd 2020 at 2:21:54 AM

Kanto is mostly fondly-regarded for being such a surprise at the time and how it was nice to revisit a familiar place and see how it had changed.

In retrospect, as far as its actual quality goes, a lot of it is very compressed yeah.

It's actually an improvement on the originals - they've added back the Kanto Legendaries as well as a lot of areas that were either cut or greatly reduced in size, and gave the trainers a much needed increase in levels.

I can excuse gen 2 Kanto, but gen 4 Kanto didn't go far enough in fixing its flaws, though it at least fixed some. It certainly looks pretty, better than Johto even.

Guess "fun" stuff awaits me when I reach Kanto in HG

Kanto is slightly better in the remakes since they actually scaled the level curve to post-Elite 4 levels.

I never understood why everyone was so fucking weak in the original.

Mareanie:

at the time they hadn't introduced the "Gym Leaders hold back" things introduced later IG and it made sense at the time Gym Leaders where weaker than the Elite Four and Champion.

I think they mean the wild Pokemon/regular trainers in Gen 2 Kanto. IIRC they scaled to the same level as Gen 1 Kanto so wild Pokemon around Pallet Town were level 3 and stuff.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 2nd 2020 at 4:25:35 AM

While Sonia is on the front of the video, it's not about her, it's actually about the two kids from the first episode, with Allister making a small, but plot important appearance.

I made it to 23 win streak in restricted challenge. My team was Durant, Excadrill, and Aegislash.