Thread 58097853

Hey you. I know you're playing a Pokemon game. Come in here and blog about it, tell me what you're doing. I wanna hear it.

>>58097853 (OP)
Only one I'm playing is a Pokerole campaign. Tomorrow's going to be us training our pokemon to help some of the party who's behind in rank catch up and keep our pokemon at the higher ranks we have now.

I'm pressing A+B+START+SELECT over and over to get a gen 2 Lugia that's got different colored pixels.
I am ready to watch Worlds next weekend.

im playing pokemon sleep

im sleeping :D

i will be the very eepiest like no one ever was

>>58097853 (OP)
Catching some Snacksworth legendaries in Violet. Not really having much fun with it but I was pretty burnt out of SV after the DLCs so I never got around to do it before now.

I'm playing an incredibly scuffed playthrough of HeartGold. I caught an Onix and Slowpoke I plan on adding to my team as Steelix and Slowking, but can't be bothered to train them to match my starter. So I had the bright idea to trade them to Platinum, where I could send up cloned Pokemon from Emerald holding rare candies and TMs, and then train them and send them back. But then I realized I wanted more TMs to complete my TM collection in Platinum anyway, and figured if I'm sending up mons I might as well send up 20 star pieces to trade for shards for the move tutors too, but my Emerald didn't have any star pieces and I couldn't find any at the listed locations, so I found one in FireRed and traded it to Emerald to clone, then prepared to send them all up.

But when I tried setting my time forwards and syncing with FireRed to bypass the limit on Emerald I got hit with the 24 hour limit, so I waited a day and tried again. Except it didn't work, so I looked more into it and apparently I have to resync the time with Emerald before it'll work again, so I had to wait another day.

In the meantime I grinded out about 2 million Poke in Route 212 to pay for the TMs I wanted from the Veilstone Game Corner and the Resort Area furniture, got called out by Dawn as a TM collector, then learned I need to grind out the Elite Four ten times, play one round in every Battle Frontier facility, and win a silver print to buy the last missing furniture. I'll do that later.

So now I'm just at work with my Togepi from HeartGold in my Pokewalker. So many plans, cockblocked by time.

>>58097853 (OP)
I've been doing various stuff across R, B & Y cartridges to prepare my first team for Stadium pika cup, using a lucky strong hitmonlee from Gym Leader Castle. I'll need to do another playthrough to get the last TM but I'll put that off until I'm in the right mood.

>>58097853 (OP)
I'm grinding the League Club Room stuff in SV but I'm starting to lose interest in it.

I was playing Pokemon Clover on an emulator on my phone, but then I got stuck because I suck at pokemon, so now I'm playing Crystal instead. I chose Totodile as my starter.

>>58097853 (OP)
What about you, OP?

>>58097956
Best to have s lobby to do it, it's way faster.

Grinding online Chien-Pao raids and waiting for my own raid to reset in about 43 minutes.

Finished the first part of Alpha Sapphire for the first time as I mostly skipped the 3DS pokemon games. I really enjoyed it, far more than I thought I would. Now there's something about a meteor and a girl stealing mega stones so we'll see what that's about I guess. Swampert, Breloom, Skarmory, Probopass (popped into the entrance to new mauville with a rare candy as soon as i got surf), Mightyena, and Linoon were all good team members who I picked up early and never dropped. Gonna catch the Regis in Premier balls because they deserve style.
Also blasted through VC Crystal for Celebi which was fun. Kadabra with elemental punches did most of the heavy lifting since I was in a rush. Cool dude, gonna transfer him up so he can mega evolve in ZA.
Gonna dust off the GameCube and do Colosseum next, it'd be neat to bring up purified pokemon to modern games.

>>58098212
>Gonna catch the Regis in Premier balls because they deserve style.
Not sure if you’re playing blind or not but don’t waste time trying to figure out Regigigas’ puzzle on your own. You’re not going to get it and it will only make you mad if you waste a lot of time on it before eventually caving in and looking it up.

>>58098252
Is that the one where you have to have a pokemon holding a snowball? If so, how was anyone even supposed to figure it out?

>>58098271
Yeah
but that’s the part of the puzzle that actually makes a little sense

>>58098109
It's actually this >>58097919, I just didn't want to post a giant wall of autism in the OP and scare people away. I'm kind of debating when to evolve my team members, because I can evolve Togetic, Onix, and Slowpoke right now. Might wait until after Morty just so I can get some more time with the first stages.

>>58098286
Just looked it up and it's so much worse than I remembered. Requiring a nickname is the real kicker.

>>58097853 (OP)
Gonna try to get shiny Arceus in time for that Master Rank ribbon. I need to grind all those Leppa Berries and Luxury Balls back from scratch on the Switch 2, not risking the system transfer. Update data on my og Switch kept corrupting, every reset lowered the chance of successfully launching the game.

>>58098323
Togetic won't evolve until you get rock climb if you don't trade the stone over, so you'll probably want to do that one sooner. Personally I evolved it immediately because I wanted it as tanky as possible so I could do metronome shenanigans for my entire playthrough.

>>58097853 (OP)
Just grinding Chien-Pao raids. Love getting all those Herbas and Protein.

>>58097906
I did those earlier today as well. Some hints are seriously bullshit. But I needed stuff to dump EXP candy into because I was capped from the raids, and I already got all snacks last year or so.

>>58098390
Yeah I have all the snacks ready to go as well, just need to track the legendaries down. Got the snacks during ID’s initial launch and actually had tons of fun grinding Union Circle with /vp/ for the multiplayer exclusive ones.

>>58097853 (OP)
Just jumping between a few games until the new Kirby expansion

>>58097853 (OP)
I went hunting for a shiny glaceon since there was an outbreak in SV to gift to my wife. Found one with an uncommon mark. Afterwards I ended up running into. Shiny Bisharp and Venomoth entirely by random. Was cool.

>>58098350
That's good to know, thanks. I'll have to hunt for that third stone, I already used two for the dex. I should also really get some Pickup users in the different level ranges for those elusive items.

>>58097853 (OP)
Sure no one actually cares but I’m doing a bunch to mask the growing apathy towards life
>Picked up Polished Crystal and enjoying it more than any Johto experience I’ve ever had
>Replaying ORAS to get Deoxys for my living Dex
>Doing LA’s post game to get eventually start a shiny hunt for Arceus in BDSP
>Also eventually want a maxed Trainer Card in BDSP
>Want to replay B2W2 casually after doing a lot of challenge runs like Nuzlockes and Monotypes
>Finish a UM Nuzlocke I started earlier this year (on the third island) mainly to get the version exclusive UBs
>Complete the Home dexes for the respective Shiny Mythicals (just finished SVs’ for pic related)
>Want to start shiny hunting in Dynamax Adventures

>>58097853 (OP)
Went back to UM to shiny hunt legends after I decided that Dynamax Adventures were a waste of time for most of them. Just got Kyurem at 122 resets and now I’m going for Giratina.

>>58097853 (OP)
Just got shiny Mouse

>>58097853 (OP)
Sauce on the art? Looks sick.

>>58099385
https://x.com/gaga_kuzuko/status/441996182848417793

I set a goal of completing 33 romhacks this year and I’m on #15, enjoying Emerald Seaglass at the moment. It’s very pretty, and Sunflora is busted.

Also three friends and I are starting a B2W2 run together soon, with the goal of raising competitive teams to battle together. I’m gonna kick their butts with my bro Whimsicott. Not sure who else I’ll use yet.

>>58099463
Thank you!

>>58097853 (OP)
I am re-trying Pokemon Clover to beat it, bounced off it before but if the music and some humorous beats are worth it, I'll stick to it.

My bigger issue is I want to play with some legendaries I haven't used before, but fewer romhacks/fangames actually HAVE newer generations in general. You could say "won't you be overpowered with legends" which is what I thought until I played Gaia with a Ho-oh, Rayquaza, shaymin, virizion and bad early moves with overlapping weaknesses showed me way otherwise.

>>58099177
It's probably easier to get that in Go than in SV.

jirachi sexo

>>58097853 (OP)
i died on set 5 in the gen 4 factory again

>>58099543
i've made it to set 6 in emerald so many times and still haven't beat that shit. i think you need 7 sets in gen 4 for the gold too

>>58097853 (OP)
I'm playing Alpha Sapphire I haven't finished with Blaziken. I got my 3rd gym badge and I just caught a Roselia and a Ralts. I'm trying to get to Dewport and get a Magikarp to Gyarados and an Aron to evolve.

>>58099585
get a shiny magikarp with chain fishing

>>58099480
Does seaglass have the battle frontier? Very important question for me to bother since oras cucked out with it

>>58097853 (OP)
I have no Idea how I beat the Elite Four, let alone Cynthia with this team. Electabuzz and Graveler aren't even Fully Evolved.

I haven't played in forever so I decided to buy scarlet since I've got an itch to play when they announced ZA

I just learned that the previous title had an item (link cable) that lets you evolve trade only pokemon. which would have been great since I liked gengar but they removed it in scarlet.

now I'm on my 3rd gym and figuring out how I should go about trying to trade my scyther to evolve it into scizor

It's been chill all in all, having fun

>>58099710
you can trade with me if you want

>>58097853 (OP)
Pokemon All In romhack
it's painful my luck is TERRIBLE

>>58099685
What’s the levels

>>58099539
Hunting it in Scarlet gave me colorblindness for an hour.

>>58099710
An NPC will trade you a Haunter, which will evolve to Gengar in Iono's city (on the Artazon side of the big circular walkway going into the city).

>>58099801
They were all below level 60. I think Staraptor was the highest?

>>58099177
gee bill

>>58097853 (OP)
I pass this team around to shield, shining pearl, legends Arceus and violet. They learned all their tutor moves from legends Arceus. If pokemon home works proper, I'll send them to legends ZA. I'm still speculating what returning pokemon and moves will be on legends ZA. I've lost to Volo, Cynthia and Nemona once even though I had a team of level 100's. I had to spam lots of revives and full restores.

>>58100962
Why is your image so fucking crunchy?

>>58097853 (OP)
Finished a Scarlet playthrough a while ago, decided to dip my toes in casual doubles while I have all the resources and dont have to grind anything.
Made a team based around prankster sableye with skill swap.
Swapping prankster onto a toedscruel for priority spore, swapping intimidate off an overquill to double it and give oq priority destiny bond, resetting the weather by swapping onto koraidon. It's a pretty gimmicky but reasonably fun.
Getting tired of matching up against teams overflowing with legendaries though.

>>58100140
that's pretty much on par with the league probably spammed some items too

>>58099717
I appreciate it bro but I don't have nintendo online, I'm deciding whether to get it or not

>>58100127
yo thank you!

>>58101158
Regulation I and J(soon) are what's currently being played buddy. Double restricted means you should probably make a team with them and try your priority spore as support.
It's not a very good gimmick in the first place, but you could make it to Great Ball tier if you pilot it well.

>>58101348
I'm definitely taking my fair share of games with it so far. Some teams just have 0 answer for priority spore, I've caught more than a few legendaries with priority destiny bond and skill swapping into oq as it switches in for double activation intimidate is good. Sableye has helping hand so it still does stuff even without prankster.
Koraidon and Terrapagos are the muscle on the team and the only really terrible common matchup I get is zamazenta who I cant slow down with intimidates. Need to get a hard read with terra fire koraidon to kill them or destiny bond.
Any other skill swap gimmick ideas i could squeze in? I have a farigiraf for for trick room but I barely ever bring it.

I finished Heartgold some time ago. Complete dex, all medals, black trainer card. I even beat the entirety of Battle Revolution with it.
I started one year ago together with my brother (he's on Soulsilver) and we wanted to batlte each other at certain landmarks in the story. We wanted to fight each other after finishing the story with all our pokes at Level 55 but it seems he stopped caring.
It might unironically be time to stop doing things with him altogether, if I'm always the only active one in our relationship.

>>58101385
There's the classic strat of skill swapping Truant away from Slaking, or skill swapping Contrary from Malamar onto Regigigas.

>>58101420
I'd like to eventually get black trainer cards on all my playthroughs. But that's like, very low on my priorities.

>>58102001
It's not worth it. I had to use save states for the 100 wins in battle tower because quick claw sheer cold ruined too many runs.

>>58097853 (OP)
I'm unlikely to play another pokemon game until both gen 10 and a switch 2 emulator are out
though between now and then I will likely masturbate to pokemon and pokegirls and pokegirls turning into pokemon a hundred times

>>58102086
I'll look for busted mons myself and pray for the best.

>>58097919
Okay there, everything's been transferred. I think I'm gonna hold out on Slowking until after level 39 so Slowpoke can learn Slack Off, which means after Clair, and get Steelix after Morty.

>>58102116
But not pokemon turning into pokegirls?

my girlfriend started playing my B2W2 on her DS, and that made me dig up my gameboy advance because i have all 5 gen 3 pokemon games for gameboy advance.

the battery is dead in RSE so i've lost access to events based on time like berry growing and the shoal cave but everything else works.

i mentioned to her i want my B2W2 since i never actually played it, but i offered her LeafGreen and told her i'd play FireRed to completion if she finishes LeafGreen and then we can trade and battle. i actually have 2 gameboy advances, but we don't have 2 DS systems. i was considering buying another 3DS though i'm not sure i can justify spending 200+ dollars on it atm.

Just got a shiny female Lively mark Sligoo

I finished the main campaign of Gale of Darkness today. Glad to have gotten around to the Orre duology since they ended up being some of my favorite games in the franchise.

>>58103497
I've got XD001 as the Lugia in my living dex in Platinum at the moment and the Ho-Oh from Colosseum as the Ho-Oh there. For some reason XD001 correctly displays "A distant land" as its met location while Ho-Oh just says "Hoenn".

>>58097853 (OP)
I'm playing Shield and the DLC for the first time since I resisted playing it due to Dexit and being stubborn. I have a group of mates who hold small tournaments and drink, sometimes doing Battle Tree or Towers together. We're bummed that Gen VIII has no co-op play but we're still transitioning to the Galar games because Bank is not far away from being removed and we don't want to leave all our good soldiers behind.

Long story short; I'm training competitive pokemon in Galar for a lock out style round robin tournament, held regularly between my friends and I.

>>58097853 (OP)
I bought a Retroid Pocket 5 and I'm playing through Luminescent Platinum on it

>>58102789
And it turns out I need even more rare candies. Hoo boy, I always underestimate how many I need.

>>58102789
What's the plan for togekiss?

>>58097853 (OP)
I was going to have a “similar strength” setting randomized nuzlocke of the original Blue version for a slight challenge and change of pace, but I rolled an Ekans on route 1 and started with a Nidoran… the game’s been a complete snooze for several gyms now because the stupid snake is unstoppable and the rest of my team is just as (if not more) competent. Poliwag, Nidoran M, Pidgey, Charmander, Ekans, Clefairy. Meanwhile the trainers got really shafted in the randomizer, so all the Viridian Forest trainers got Kakunas that couldn’t attack and Brock’s gym was filled with Rattatas. Yay, challenge.

Probably just going to play through Conquest again instead lol.

>>58099799
This sounds horribly sadistic and fun, is there someplace I can download it without going for pre-patched ROMs? I don’t trust those.

Alternatively, am I just being paranoid? I’m looking at PokeHarbor right now and it just reeks of some third-world scam site to me, I have no clue it’s worth bothering with.

>>58104790
I need to somehow get another shiny stone. HGSS's shiny stones are all post-National Pokedex, so I'll need to procure one from Platinum that I haven't used yet. Then I'll hold out until level 28 so Togetic can learn Wish first.

>>58104801
How is Conquest?

>>58105215
I’m not the best person to ask since I love it irrationally, but it’s my favorite spin-off by far. It has a very interesting mix of alternate history fanfiction and unique gameplay that drew me in, and enough challenge to be engaging while being easy enough to beat so long as you pay attention and use your brain. The postgame is enormous, even if the way you get there is a little controversial, and I’ve 100%’d it (with GameStop events included) twice over now.

>>58105319
Well cool. It always seemed like the weirdest spinoff to me, so hearing that it's fun is good to know.

>>58104870
anon ... .gba files cannot hurt you! that being said, click on the "discord" button, on the discord you can download the patch file.

>>58105750
But I don't want to use Discord.

>>58103535
>Kabu
Based. Wish I had friends like that. All of mine are slowly falling out of interest with the franchise while I’m having the opposite experience despite my criticisms of the brand. Used to have weekly meetups where we played through the games together back in high school.

>>58097853 (OP)
Just got max trainer card in Black 2, on cartridge of course. It was a fun journey, took me about 180 hours ingame (my file shows a lot more because I forgot sleep mode doesn't work the way it would with a 3DS game, mine actually shows closer to 220 hours, oops). The main body of the playthrough was great, I used a different team for mainstory and postgame, tried a lot of mons I'd never used before. Definitely found a newfound appreciation for BW2, I always liked it but the forced Pokestar Studios tutorial always killed my drive during playthroughs, I really got into this playthrough and made it my definitive Gen 5 file by the end of it. Some thoughts on the stars/trainer card rank criteria in this one:
-Beat Elite Four: Free Space
-Finish Pokedex: Way easier than I thought it'd be, considering it's 649 before taking out the non-required mythicals. I have Diamond/HGSS/BW1 and BW2 carts to work with so between mass transferring spares I had and evolving, breeding and catching the rest, while it still took a lot of time I'd say it only measured up to 1/3rd of all the time I spent. The DNS exploit to keep access to GTS in Gen 4+5 was a godsend, there were a few mons I just don't have access to on those files (multiple Gen 4 starters since I don't wanna newgame my 600hour childhood Diamond file, Glameow of all things, and the genies for the same reason).
-Pokestar Studios: Despite what I said, I fell in love with this mode while going through all the movies. Messed around with most of them and would find a few of the strange-endings on my own, it was a blast. It's a shame the cracks of GF being retards showed so early, the 15~ minute forced tutorial around it is such a gay roadblock, even if it's not that much time in reality + you could buttonmash/ignore text to make it go faster.
1/2

>>58106311
2/2:
-PWT/World Championship: Ton of fun, I'm not gonna act like I took the time to fully EV train or IV breed up a perfect team, but my core of Excadrill/TTar/Hydreigon/Amoonguss ran shop. Once in a while I'd run into a rotation that'd really fuck my shit up (usually a Water and Grass team in the same rotation) but I just powered through and it all worked out. Way more forgiving than other facilities in return for a bit more difficulty in the individual battles. Worth mentioning I did the game on challenge mode but that's something of a meme if you're familiar with BW2.
-Get both Entree levels to 30+: This shit was actually really annoying, I finished the Pokedex before resolving to get Entree done. Again, hourwise it wasn't that bad, but if I wanted to hit the double point bonus every time to get it done asap, it was a ton of rapid-button pressing on two 3DS simultaneously, I broke it down into 30min intervals at max, felt like I was accelerating my odds of carpal tunnel by playing it efficiently. It's a really random thing to make worthy of a trainer star considering how the game never pushes you to check out Entralink, but I'll just be thankful it wasn't a Battle Subway star.

10/10 would play again, thank you for reading my blog. For anyone curious the teams were:
Main story: Excadrill, Emolga, Jellicent, Roserade, Heracross, Darmanitan
Postgame: Metagross, Rotom-Heat, Seismitoad, Hydreigon, Toxicroak and HA Amoonguss.
Bonus PWT member: Tyranitar so I could build around sand. Amoonguss Excadrill ended up being MVPs letting me get to 3x Swords Dance in the sand via Rage Powders to Rock Slide Wallace down, a single hit would've dealt with 'drill, felt amazing.

Man it's fucking stupid that Leafeon can learn both Leaf Blade, X-Scissor, and Swords Dance, but can't learn Cut. I fucking hate HMs so god damn much.

>>58097853 (OP)
Languishing in my personal purgatory AKA Platinum Battle Frontier. I have the gold prints in Tower and Factory, currently working on Arcade. Rolling with Magnezone, Gyarados, and recently swapped out Infernape to test Weavile since I was tired of losing to one specific Alakazam. Just lost my streak to another speedy Psychic in Starmie, which landed its Hydro Pump + critical hit on 'Zone to one-shot it. Weavile should've theoretically handled it, but I hit the enemy-team-level-up tile and it must've been Timid since it outsped and also Pump'd Weavile for another one-shot (no crit). That one I bred for perfect Attack and Speed but is clearly lacking in HP and/or Sp. Def, still think I lost a damage roll there. And of course, it hit a raw Thunder to KO Gyarados and kill my streak. I like the Electric/Flying synergy with Zone and Gyarados, but might need to try Jolteon instead just to never lose to Surf/Pump crits by virtue of being faster than all of the shitty Waters. Also need to get much better at hitting the right tiles in the later rounds.

>>58097853 (OP)
Working on my white 2 living dex. Just finished grinding some rare candies off the nimbasa breeders so that'll help with some of the conditional evos.

im grinding my pokemon as much as i can in pokemon Pearl to be as close to competitive as i can. when i get a box of 30, i stop and move on to another game

>>58107022
Congrats on the Factory gold print

>>58106311
do i need everything from the DS era to get the black trainer card in B2W2 or do i just need B2 and W2?

>>58097853 (OP)
Replaying Pokémon Gold atm, maybe this time I'll try to complete the pokedex since I've never done that in any game.

>>58097853 (OP)
Playing the epilogue of SV's DLC

>>58107710
I still don't know if I should love it or hate it. Let us know what you think when you're done

Playing through gen 4 and 5 on a modded DS
wifi trading is great i love trading with randos
i can't wait until pretendo gets their shit together so i can trade on gen 6 and 7 after i get a 3ds

>>58107576
You're gonna need more games than just BW2 because the black/white trainer card requires national dex completion.

>>58107576
As long as you can access wifi and use GTS for trades, you can shortcut a lot. Otherwise you're gonna theoretically need HGSS, D/P (Platinum should be entirely optional) and B1/W1. If you're starting completely fresh you'll be annoyed by: Gen 1 starters (one per HGSS file after getting all 16 badges), Gen 3 starters (same deal), Tornadus/Thunderus/Landorus (1 per BW1 file and gotta have the former two together to make Lando spawn), Kyogre/Groudon/Rayquaza (one of each former in HGSS and gotta have them together for Ray a la the Landorus thing). An unassisted BW2 copy actually has a pretty absurd amount of Pokemon for the time, between everything in the post game you can get something like 446/649 solo.

>>58107443
Lol I do that too. I have dozens of Pokemon I rng manipped and ev trained in emerald, platinum, black2, etc that just collect dust in the box.

>>58107444
Thank you, gentle roller of trips. It only cost a few hundred hours and a part of my soul. I hope I can manage the remainder of the Frontier in a reasonable time. I'll probably try a more casual playthrough after I do, I've only played B2 out of gen 5 and have a copy of White in my drawer. Will inevitably try something like this >>58106311, maybe I'll get that done before 2030.

>>58108771
The hgss rayquaza is doubly obnoxious because you need a kyogre and groudon caught in hgss specifically. You cant just transfer one up from rse in order to have both in your party.

I'm playing a dumb little hack called Pokemon Outlaw. I swore off this fuck's hacks after the 'sequel' hack to this, CAWPS, fucking dropped the ball so damn hard on the ending
But here I am.
I've got a Ninetales, Primeape, Feraligatr, Alakazam, and Electabuzz for a team, not sure on what to put for my last mon. Thinking a flying type of some sort...

>>58110024
Why do the starters go nuts while in the tower?

Why the fuck is the RageCandyBar a key item in HGSS? You can mass buy lava cookies for cheap full heals in DPPt, but here you just have to rely on stinky actual full heals.

>>58097853 (OP)
i'm actually playing terraria with /vm/ instead

Team Rocket's Lake of Rage shakedown sucks.

>>58108421
Same. I need the gen 6+7 mythicals and want to simulate the giveaways.

>>58099685
Staraptor probably carried.

I'm missing like 7 mythicals, all of them happened to be distributed during times where I take a 2-3 year break.
Genesect
Volcanion
Hoopa
Marshadow
Zeraora
Meltan
Zarude

>>58111353
Meltan's pretty easy to get. Just transport anything from Go to Home to get one, then you can spawn and catch Meltan for 30 minutes once every three days. Make sure to get a Melmetal there too before transferring both over to Home.

Not playing anything yet today, but I wanna go through Hoenn again. Having some trouble deciding if I want to go with Recharged Emerald or Seaglass.

>>58111364
I don't have Pokemon Go, haven't even looked into it.

>>58111377
Here's a guide. You can only get it through Go, so if you don't have a phone capable of it then use Bluestacks to emulate it on your PC.

>>58103497
Nice. I used Jolteon and Walrein too.

>>58103497
I played Colosseum, how would you rate XD in comparison?

>>58111436
If you liked Colosseum because of the battles you'll probably like XD too. The gameplay is a lot more refined at the expense of the novelty of playing as an anti-hero. I personally rate it higher than Colosseum since I could see myself replaying vanilla XD compared to vanilla Colosseum.

>>58111384
Jesus man that is a lot

>>58112616
Not really. It's just "Download Go, login with your Nintendo Account, transfer a Pokemon to Home to get the Meltan cube to spawn Meltan, use it and catch Meltans." You can do it within 5 minutes of starting the game.

>>58111436
nta but XD made a lot of improvements. having more than 1 shadow move is by itself a massive improvement and makes using shadow pokemon interesting instead of a chore.

People would call my post bait, but okay.
Basically I'm kinda struggling to find an official Pokemon game that I like, I feel like they've all been timewasters.
Growing up I would've been a Gen 4/5 kid, but I thought i was too good for it lol, so only got into the series by chance when my mom found a loose Pokemon X cart on the floor at her job. I played it and later ORAS and Sun/Moon, but while I found those to be real slow and plodding (and never picked up Gen8-onwards), I dunno, I feel like in X I'm able to just get into the gameplay much faster. Yah it's got too many tutorials and its piss easy, but I guess the text is faster to skip? Idk. But of course it's held back by its lack of content. Gen7 especially feels like it takes control away from me for way longer.

I went back to try Heartgold by recommendation, and it was okay, but everything was too slow. Even saving was slow. It was really boring, so I eventually moved onto other games, which makes me sad to say.

I've been playing Prism lately, it's my first unofficial game and I've been having a really good time with that. I feel it's all been moving at a good pace, for me. Maybe I should try the Shin Gen1 and Perfect Crystal hacks later(?)

Would I enjoy the Gen 3, 5, or Gamecube games, or would they also be too slow for my standards? Or, are there any optimization hacks for Gen 4 that speed up the games a bit? I play my DS games on real hardware, but I do have a flashcart...

>>58113617
Scarlet Violet streamlined the tutorial stuff tremendously snd you get into the game quickly with no hard directives as to how you accomplish things.
I enjoyed a lot after gen 6, 7, and 8 were horrible slogs.

>>58113617
Platinum is a lot faster than Diamond and Pearl, and even HGSS in my experience. Everything is snappy in Platinum.

I've been making a "who's that pokemon" game as a way to learn web stuff. It's going ok and I've actually started to learn the pokemon past gen iv from it

>>58113617
You’re either profoundly retarded or baiting, yes.

>>58097853 (OP)
White.
Been playing the games again, highlighting innuendo and it’s such a wonderful hilarious new journey.

I Finished Moon and began White.
Present team as I chip this game down while traveling the road for my work.

Didn’t get the elemental monkey for the first gym or used a pre Elesa desert-mon so I’m proud of this run so far.
Though I did do the petlil trade for cottonee.
Audino is the only pokemon I knew I wanted on this run for sure. She can dual screen now while other team members stat up or something.

I have also decided to use gym leader TMs in all my runs somehow.
I need someone I can give retaliate to.
Heading to celestial tower.

>Fucked out of my perfect spread because I forgot the ability, which is wrong
Damn chirality.

>>58097853 (OP)
was working my way through White 2 just to see how it contrasts to Black 2 which I played a few months ago, put it on the shelf for the moment just because I've lost interest in trying to progress with the team comp I have
Claydol fuckin' sucks man, slow as shit with no real offensive utility and very little durability in spite of the defensive stats I put into him because I could see going in that he wasn't going to do shit beyond tanking a few hits during swapouts. I wanted psychic type coverage from something but hated all the other psychic types in gen V and figured I'd try something slow for once instead of just running 6 sweepers like usual.
I'm literally about to walk into the E4 and I'm certain I have the stats to blow through everyone first try in spite of a dead weight mon but it's the principle of it that's killed my interest in the run.

>>58097853 (OP)
I am not. I am actually looking for one to play.
I want a romhack to do Nuzlocke on. But I want a well-made one. And hopefully one where I can play with Unown and Luvdisc early. I might just pick Crystal Clear again and play with Unown.

>>58113627
Glad for you, though none of the Switch games are appealing to me, sorry.
>>58113641
Eh really? Well I guess I'll try my hand at it some time, then.

>>58114974
Yeah, it's weird how much slower the menus are for HGSS. More cumbersome too, I've been moving Pokemon around with my stylus instead of through depositing and withdrawing cause it's so much slower that way.

>>58114697
Can't you just give yourself those two at the start in any romhack? Even when I replay the base games, I'll trade over an egg or two so I can use something I haven't before.

>>58114697
>filename
Agreed. Mega Man Legends and Tekken 3 are probably the best looking PS1 games.

I started Super Mystery Dungeon again today

It's bad

>>58115997
It's amazing to think the series is so good but half the games in the series are trash.

>>58115997
I found a copy of Explorers of Sky at my local game store a few months ago, it's one of the most enjoyable games I ever played. It's funny looking through my 3DS play records where I've clocked 90+ hours into it and very clearly never touched Super/Gates beyond their main story/some postgame. Like >>58116461 said, PMD games fall off HARD after Gen 4.

First time replaying BW1 since probably like 10+ years ago. My feelings on it haven't changed; it's still a solid game but not one I'd say is among my favorites in the franchise.
It very much soured my opinion on Cheren though.I know he's supposed to be aimless in his whole "i must get stronger" arc but it doesn't change the fact that it's lame.

i've been playing through a romhack of explorers of sky, i beat darkrai recently so i'm just currently running through dungeons with a secret slab, collecting all the legendaries, and doing sevem treasures dungeons when i get their missions. also trying to find a metal coat but mystifying forest shops just refuse to show up.

Been playing a lot of picross at work. 100% the main game and currently trying to beat the par times for the safari zone puzzles.

Other than that, replaying colosseum and just testing shit to see what happens if you do something wrong or unexpected. Some neat ones so far: lying about Wes's past with Snagem gets you caught in the lie but continues the conversation rather than requiring you to say yes, failing to snag makuhita gets you a disappointed but hopeful dialogue from Rui, and trying to cut Venus off by entering the far side of the subway plays out the same as chasing her through the near side except she's outside the other door to match where you exited.

>>58097853 (OP)
I started a new save file of Violet. I'm trying to avoid fucking around too much and mostly just go from objective to objective while fighting every trainer I see on my way. It's actually pretty tough this way, I'm slightly underleveled. Really just shows that getting EXP for catching mons is the main problem with getting overleveled, not the EXP share itself.
I love SVs story. While the Team Star shit has a stupid conclusion with all the nonsense about the former director, I have newfound fondness for that storyline because the admins themselves are all really fun characters.

I think the way Gamefreak incorporated the box legends into HGSS is really half-baked. Neither one is particularly relevant to the main game, and you're forced to go deal with your box's legend after you beat Clair, Ethan/Lyra won't let you venture to Route 27 until you do. And even despite that you need both the Rainbow Wing and the Clear Bell (plus the Kimono Girls' dance) to summon Ho-Oh, and the Silver Wing and the new Tidal Bell (and their dance) to summon Lugia.

But like, why? The Clear Bell was an artifact relating to Suicune, not Ho-Oh, and here Suicune instead chases you through Kanto until fighting you near Bill's House on the Cerulean Cape, not at the Tin Tower. Plus the other Wing will still summon the other box legend without needing all those extra steps. It just feels like a forced way to involve Ho-Oh and Lugia instead of anything more sensible, like say Team Rocket's wacko radio broadcasts from the Goldenrod Radio Tower both awoke and angered the box legend and it attacked the Radio Tower after you defeat Archer, and all those extra steps are meant to calm the agitated Pokemon down.

Though really I think Crystal did it best. You get the Clear Bell, letting Suicune know you're finally worthy of battling it, and only after catching all three legendary beasts do the monks at the Tin Tower acknowledge you as worthy and hand over the Rainbow Wing, letting you catch Ho-Oh on top of the tower.

Well, whatever I guess.

>>58116633
I wish that the scenes the characters mentioned were actually shown, even if only in flashback sequences. Starfall Street has a lot of tell-not-show, which isn't really a good way of storytelling. But what's funny about that is the flashback scenes with the admins takes place out in the overworld with a forced camera and filters applied, so if you're in a Union Circle other players can jump into the flashback cutscene too if they know where it's taking place.

>>58116638
No, it was a way to force Lugia's greater involvement in the plot. Game Freak didn't design Lugia, but were forced to adapt it to their game in Gen 2. That was their effort at legitimising the thing (its only other availability was in non-canon Gen 3 spin offs or severely limited distribution events for the core games), by actually treating it as the other half of the box legend pair, instead of being shoved in a corner of the region map and largely ignored.

>>58116648
Yeah, the whole "we were totally bullied bro I tell you just trust me bro it totally happened we just can't show you and everyone else forgot about it" stuff makes the story so much weaker. And they don't even tell you HOW they were bullied, just kinda "they were mean to us".

I mean you also don't see Arven as a child being neglected, but it's definitely super believable from the way he acts, and the fact that his parent straight up died makes it have an impact even though the things that happened to him are just implied from things he told you.
And I didn't know the stuff about union cicle, kek. What a weird feature.

>>58116679
Yeah but what I'm saying is that even despite that both legendaries are STILL shoved in a corner of the region map and largely ignored. You're just arbitrarily forced after Blackthorn to go fight one for no real reason. It's just weird that this is how Gamefreak decided to include them in the remakes' plot when both the Hoenn and Sinnoh games did a way better job of including their box legends, so it's not like they were unfamiliar with how to do it right.

>>58116539
Based sigilyph enjoyer.

>>58117910
>editing out your OT
ok dave

>>58118095
I'm not your schizo.

>>58118195
ok, Cryogonal.
>>58116638
HGSS forcing an encounter w/ the box legend was pretty cringe. GSC told you their legends from NPCs and it's up to you if you want to pursue them.

>>58118207
I'm okay with this.

>>58110059
I ended up using a giftmon Skarmory, for the record!
One of the mvps

>>58097853 (OP)
About to start B2W2 for the first time. Can’t decide between Snivy and Tepig since I’ve used both in one of the originals. Might go Snivy since I’ll be using Tepig in ZA.

There, christ. Took three times to clear. First time Lance's Charizard walled me, between Shadow Claw, Fire Fang, and Air Slash I was either 2HKO'd or flinchlocked into oblivion. Second time I accidentally let Karen's Houndoom set up and it swept me. Then I got annoyed and transferred over a Trick Room TM to teach to Slowking (my original intention all along), and went at it again. Houndoom and Charizard folded, and between tanking Outrages with Steelix and a faster Ice Punch with Feraligatr Lance finally went down.

Time for Kanto, which is really just prep for the Red battle. At least I don't have to rely on Platinum anymore for rare candy transfers, now I can just do that here without limit.

>>58119257
I usually box my Unova starter, it's the first gen where I don't much care for them.

>>58119383
>all those shinies
cool. Reminds me, I wish the Shiny Charm was a thing they'd let you give w/ the Key System in BW2. It feels like a joke getting the shiny odds amplifier after doing hours of breeding/catching to finish out the dex, why can't I have this in a full playthrough.

>>58119561
Yeah it's kind of a sick joke that you're only given the shiny charm after you're done hunting for Pokemon to begin with. I guess it's to give you something to do to keep you interested in the game after you've beaten it, and an incentive to actually complete the National Pokedex.

Just about to take on the elite four in platinum. Things started off a bit slow, mostly because I had to do two friendship based evolutions, but now I'm quite satisfied with how my team turned out. My personal autistic headcannons: Staraptor always flies ahead to scout, Floatzel is extremely lazy, Espeon has a massive crush on Luxray

Something about the most recent update to the Azahar emulator has made all the 3DS-generation games completely playable without (most of) the annoying freezes that used to plague them so I've finally begun playing through Y and Moon, haven't really done anything yet in either but I picked Fennekin and Rowlet as my respective starters.
Went with just Moon rather than Ultra because I've heard it has a better story even though USUM apparently adds a bunch of new content and objective improvements to the rest of the game. Might give USun a shot later to compare.

>>58120256
Was there a giveaway Eevee in Platinum? I thought the only way to get one was the Trophy Garden after natdex.

>>58120703
yes, Bebe gives you one in Hearthome

>>58120256
>My personal autistic headcannons: Staraptor always flies ahead to scout, Floatzel is extremely lazy, Espeon has a massive crush on Luxray
that's cute. i used to ship my weavile and lucario when i first played platinum

>>58119383
>Head south from Lavender Town to reach Fuschia City
>Go through routes 12, 13, 14, and 15
>Fight every trainer along the way
>All 38 of them
>My team by the time I reach Fuschia:

>>58120870
Holy fuck what is up with the Celadon Gym here? That was fucking awful, who thought that gym layout was a good idea?

>>58120718
And that's how sneasler was made

I recently got the pikachu edition of N64 along with both stadium games and 2 controllers, each with a transfer pak. I find stadium's interactivity with the mainline games amazing so i've been playing Stadium 2 due to being really into Gen 2 in general. Little Cup is such bullshit though and i wish i could clear it already but i always get owned by a single move missing or a confusion self-hit. Bit of a pain i have to do it again on Round 2 if i wanna unlock faster GB tower for the Gen 2 games. Despite growing up with a PS1 i still find playing Crystal through GB Tower very comfy and soul soothing. Im open to Little Cup suggestions, so far Diglet and Dratini were beasts but i need something that is fast enough and also be able to deal with those pesky water and ice moves.