POKEYMANS thread

[Koumei]

I have yet to face Wulfric, because as usual I spent way too much time trying to catch the 1% _____ or whatever. A side-effect is that MR BURNS is level 95 and giggling to himself, scratching at the ground in preparation to charge up and burninate something.

I imagine this gym is going to be a train wreck in my favour.

I hope additional Dusk/Dawn/Sun/Shiny/Moon stones can be bought later on, even if it's with Battle Points.

Incidentally, where do you get the TMV rail pass?

Edit: so I turned my phone into a wireless hotspot thing and connected via that. Updated 3DS, then updated the game, and then tried activating the internet thing. BAM! Hundreds of people showed up at the bottom of the screen, largely from Japan and Korea. And so many trades. I even uploaded KADABRA! to GTS (seeking: Kadabra (Any)), so I could fill another trade and then withdraw it to make it evolve - because everyone else seeking Kadabra wanted a Legendary or one of the three as-yet-unreleased ones. But because I was the only person putting a Kadabra up for just "another kadabra", someone quickly traded. This is awesome.

And yes, there are three unreleased ones where we know the name and the typing: Diancie (Fairy/Rock), Volcanion (Fire/Water!!!), Hoopa (Psychic/Ghost).

[Shrapnel]

Incidentally, where do you get the TMV rail pass?

You get it post-game. The prof. gives it to you after calling you on the Poke-Gear Holo-Caster. The train takes you to Kiloude City, where there's a Battle Tower type thing. There's also a chick there who will give you a unique dress if you show her a "feminine" outfit.

[Darth Rabbitt]

Just beat the game:

[*]Victory Road is annoying.
[*]Elite Four are pushovers: Fire, Water, Dragon, Steel. Each has 4 Pokemon, none of which even hit the 65 mark.
[*]The Champion is also a pushover; she has 5 Pokemon, including a Mega Gardevoir that you have some way of countering at this point. None are above 68.
[*]You get a parade for winning.
[*]Unfortunately, annoying companions get equal billing to you in the parade, despite not doing anything.
[*]Elitist douchebags in Paris don't give a shit that you are Champion and have a parade in your honor, they still don't think you're stylish unless you've done the unlock condition that no one on the internet actually knows what it is, but apparently involves traveling through more Parisian alleyways than a French hooker.

[Shrapnel]

Just beat the game:

[*]Victory Road is annoying.

True. Very very true.

[*]Elite Four are pushovers: Fire, Water, Dragon, Steel. Each has 4 Pokemon, none of which even hit the 65 mark.
[*]The Champion is also a pushover; she has 5 Pokemon, including a Mega Gardevoir that you have some way of countering at this point. None are above 68.

Also very true. I really hate the Fire Elite Four member. Such a bitch. Post-game it's revealed she was a part of Team Flare. She's also a newscaster. Thus, she's a criminal who holds a really high position in the Pokémon League and is a popular and influential member of the media institution.

That is never a good thing.

[*]You get a parade for winning.

You finally get recognition for saving the world. Finally.

[*]Unfortunately, annoying companions get equal billing to you in the parade, despite not doing anything.

Actually, the player gets higher billing, the companions just stand there. Like Chewie not getting a medal, except that they aren't awesome like Chewie, and they do get a medal. But the principal is the same, I assure you.

[*]Elitist douchebags in Paris don't give a shit that you are Champion and have a parade in your honor, they still don't think you're stylish unless you've done the unlock condition that no one on the internet actually knows what it is, but apparently involves traveling through more Parisian alleyways than a French hooker.

http://www.serebii.net/xy/lumiosestyle.shtml

Natch.

[Koumei]

Yeah, I am stylish enough to be allowed into Coutere la Fromage Frottage*. Also the Stone-seller sold me Blastoisinite at like 100K, and everything else in the city is dirt cheap because I'm a genius in Franceso stylish. And I unlocked extra hairstyles.

Also very true. I really hate the Fire Elite Four member. Such a bitch. Post-game it's revealed she was a part of Team Flare. She's also a newscaster. Thus, she's a criminal who holds a really high position in the Pokémon League and is a popular and influential member of the media institution.

So she's Piers Morgan?

Also, I now have the Blaziken with Blazikenite, thanks to magical internet. But I still say fuck them with a rake. Also if the three DLC legendaries** are the only ones? That's actually refreshing, because that means the smallest Legendary Bloat since 2G (which brought us 3 in-game with zero DLC ones, though Celebi should really be considered a 2Gen pokemon for the world setting and the Pokedex and being cool enough to be associated with GSCHGSS rather than shitty RSE). A grand total of six new Legendaries (3 downloadable, I know). In the base game, there are more 1Gen Legendaries than new ones!

*I may have just exhausted all French I know other than "You're an ass-bite, pardon my French".

**So the method of discovery was fucking hilarious. If you go onto the GTS trade, you can choose from a list of all Pokemon you've encountered, or you can type the name of a Pokemon (in case you think someone will trade you a Victini or Mew, or rather in case you want a Meowth because someone else has Pokebank and you don't). Now if you type in, say, Koffing, or KOFFING, or kOFfing, then it takes a moment, registers the search, corrects any capitalisation to Koffing, and the search shows up to other people. If you search for BATMAN, it takes longer to search the database, does not correct the capitalisation to Batman, and the search doesn't show up to others.

No you should not brute-force it with every combination of characters. But if you suspect a specific name is indeed a new pokemon hidden in the game, you can use that to check. And Nintendo did the usual trademark package thing, including those three names, and people saw that, then ran a GTS search on those names.

I swear, that's more effort than some spy agencies go to.

[Darth Rabbitt]

Actually, the player gets higher billing, the companions just stand there. Like Chewie not getting a medal, except that they aren't awesome like Chewie, and they do get a medal. But the principal is the same, I assure you.

Chewie copiloted the ship that shot down Darth Vader and aided in the rescue of Leia, while the annoying companion characters did literally nothing other than be annoying. If anyone's the Chewie in this equation, it's you (the player) for getting the same reward that the useless people get.

http://www.serebii.net/xy/lumiosestyle.shtml

OK, so it's merely vague now, not inconsistent. More frustrating is that I've done shitloads of those things and I don't even have a price reduction on the Mega Stones. "Hey kids, fuck saving the world, hotel workers are the in thing!"

That's actually refreshing, because that means the smallest Legendary Bloat since 2G (which brought us 3 in-game with zero DLC ones, though Celebi should really be considered a 2Gen pokemon for the world setting and the Pokedex and being cool enough to be associated with GSCHGSS rather than shitty RSE). A grand total of six new Legendaries (3 downloadable, I know). In the base game, there are more 1Gen Legendaries than new ones!

Minor nitpick: Gen II had 5-in game legendaries: Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Ho-oh and Lugia. But your point still stands.

I swear, that's more effort than some spy agencies go to.

Oh Nintendo, you so crazy.

[Koumei]

Some of the companions even admit to being useless. The dancing freak knows he's a chump, BiancaGirls Just Wanna Have Fun girl admits she's just doing all this for the lulz (and states that she's useless in the Team Flare raid - incidentally I assume everyone else also went "Yeah we COULD go enter the base, but wait, I need to pose for a photo in front of the doomsday device!") and so on. Even the "I WANT TO FILL MY POKEDEX" guy usually just challenges you to pokedex comparisons because he knows you'd steamroll him. The only one who thinks he's up there is Cherenwhatshisname.

So if the characters themselves know it, why can't everyone else? Or is it their consolation prize?

OK, so it's merely vague now, not inconsistent. More frustrating is that I've done shitloads of those things and I don't even have a price reduction on the Mega Stones. "Hey kids, fuck saving the world, hotel workers are the in thing!"

Just make sure you go do it all, even by checklist: buy a berry juice, blend your own berry juice, get a haircut, get your poodle groomed, there are three separate restaurants (*, ** and ***) which are annoying but whatever, dine at all of them, ride the goat, take a taxi anywhere, buy a pokeball from the ball store, buy a herb from the Chinese Medicine store, buy a water stone or something, make a stupid video, go to every fucking cafe in Paris (there are 800, remember), maybe master all of the rollerblading tricks as well, get a tour from the newspaper place, do each Hotel job once... every little thing might add up. It's fucking stupid, but yeah, it's worth it I guess.

Minor nitpick: Gen II had 5-in game legendaries: Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Ho-oh and Lugia. But your point still stands.

Hilariously, I forgot about the two legendaries actually on the fucking cover, and only remembered the cats/dogs.

Incidentally, regarding legendaries, alternate forms, stupid evolution methods and such... anyone else feel that they're just fucking up future games every time they do it? Every game now has a collection of meteors somewhere just in case you port your Deoxys over. Every game has a collection of machinery somewhere for Rotom. Every game insists on giving you the DPPl orbs for those three legendaries, and the fucking Plates, just in case you port them over. Now they also have people who tutor the form-changing moves to Keldeo and Meloetta, and you can get a Shaymin-changing item. Every game needs a magnetic zone for certain evolutions, and the cold and mossy rocks for Eevee.

When they scrapped the added stats of Cool, Cute, Beauty, Smart, Tough, they had to change Feebas' evolution method. When they release Pokemon Sweet, Pokemon Spicy, and Pokemon Salty, they will have to either keep the Pokemon Amie or work in some other method to get Sylveon. If a future handheld system doesn't detect when turned upside down, well that's going to be a problem for the squid!

It just adds so much clutter to the game for such little benefit.

[Shrapnel]

I recently finished doing the Looker Bureau side quests. They were kinda fun, and I got like over $100,000* dollars in a course of a few minutes from all the various battles that are involved.

The Looker is a great character.

*I was using the Amulet Coin, so that also helps.

[Koumei]

So now I too am French Pokemon Champion. Which title belt comes next?

[Darth Rabbitt]

I recently finished doing the Looker Bureau side quests. They were kinda fun,

I just finished them, and I must say that the Looker side quests are much more entertaining than the main game's story.

So now I too am French Pokemon Champion. Which title belt comes next?

The Parisian Snobs Popularity Championship (if you don't already have max popularity in Paris.)

[Koumei]

Oh no, I more meant "Which part of the world will pokemon Brown/Grey/Purple be set in? I want THEIR title too!"

Though they've covered the entirety of Asia that Japan likes (that is, Japan). Four times. They've covered the only part of Europe Japan likes (FranceParis). They've covered the entire rest of the world as far as they are aware (USA). That might literally be it. Future games might go back to Japan, or expand on America, unless they want to set something in the Senkaku islands in a deliberate attempt to bait China.

Anyway, I've started on the Looker missions (having gone and grabbed every single Megalite in X, aside from Garchompite, which will be tonight). I agree that it's much better than the main plot. Also, those gangsters are clearly English, they're not even pretending otherwise. It's France, but with British criminals and landmarks!

[Koumei]

For Friend Safari and all, here's my Friendcode: 0447-6433-6878

[Darth Rabbitt]

Fun fact: Bitchzilla and the Champion have new dialogue if you rematch them, but no one else does. Also, none of their teams change.

Making money in XY seems to be harder than in B2W2, which is odd since there's far more to spend it on (Mega Stones, clothes, restaurants, transportation, other gimmicky shit)

[vagrant]

Added, Koumei. And Darth, the fastest way to get max style in Lumoise is to buy 100 or so premier balls from the Poke Ball Boutique. Not all at once - you need to buy each ball individually, but you can seriously spam A. Took me like 3 minutes. For money, I battle at either the 3-star restaurant or the 2-star restaurant. At max style, the 3-star place can net you 150~k for a 90k investment, which isn't bad.

[Koumei]

The only times I'm low on cash is when I overdo it in clothes shopping. Easy thing to do is equip the amulet coin and go slap nobility around. Indeed, if you plan ahead and spend 100K at the beginning of the day on issuing a Gold Invitation, you'll get loads of money.

Having spent too much time using Blizzard and Twister in the wild, I've managed to get rare-ish berries, and am mass-farming them to get stuff like Salac berries. Mainly so I can farm *those* into the special rare ones.

I'm really disappointed with Mega-Gyarados on multiple levels:
1. Typing. Water/Flying gives you 4x damage from Lightning (and OH NOES STEALTH ROCK WEAKNESS WE ARE ALL DOOMED), sure, but Water/Dark means Earthquakes hit you and Fighting is Super-Effective. Not to mention Fairy. Should have made it Water/Dragon if they wanted a Fairy weakness.
2. Mold-Breaker? Really? Yay, you earthquake levitators and you can OHKO Sturdymon, and are Intimidate-proof. I guess you also beat Water-Absorb and Dry Skin. I would have gone with Rocky Jaw, and made sure it had access to Crunch, Thunder Fang etc. Sure, you probably want at least 2 out of the following [Waterfall, Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Stone Edge]. But you could still do very well with a Rocky-Jaw STAB Crunch or a Rocky-Jaw Ice Fang.
3. Back on the Typing, it has basically no STAB moves for Dark. It gets Bite. Not Crunch, no, just shitty Bite. If it were Water/Dragon you'd at least have Dragon Tail (and probably Outrage when Z gives us Move Tutors again).
4. It looks like a prawn/shrimp/seafood thing, the kind that people deep-fry and then bite the ends off, leaving the tails on a plate. I dunno, I don't eat seafood.

Mega-Charizard, Mega-Aerodactyl, Mega-Ampharos and Mega-Medicham have all come out to play, and I am very pleased with all. I want to properly EV-train the others first.

[Maxus]

Mega.

Aerodactyl.

FUCK I NEED A 2DS

[vagrant]

Anyone want a protean froakie? I've been breeding em and they're clogging up my box.

[Koumei]

Mega.

Aerodactyl.

FUCK I NEED A 2DS

It's bigger and rockier and spikier. Imagine if it were a Dire Aerodactyl in D&D. It gets a mild boost to defences, and a better boost to Speed and Attack, and its ability is Tough Claws (boosts the damage of physical contact moves).

Mega-Banette looks pretty rad, and along with a nice Attack stat (physical-based ghost!), gets Prankster as its ability for Priority Thunder Wave/Swagger/Confuse Ray/Toxic/Will-O-Wisp/Torment/Taunt.

[Koumei]

So someone actually did manage to hack the game and has released pictures of Hoopla, Volcanion and the other one. Also, Mega-Lati@s (their mega versions look almost identical, from the screenshots).

Anyway, Whismur is terrifying. Its roggenrollaasshole is showing. Seriously.

[Shrapnel]

Mega.

Aerodactyl.

FUCK I NEED A 2DS

Why? A 3DSXl is a far better machine to play the game on.

[Koumei]

It's cheaper. The fact that it does away with 3D is nice, but the fact is, the 3DS lets you switch that off (and keep it switched off for all eternity). The fact that it's one big tablet-sized thing is stupid (but hingeless does mean it will probably last longer). But cheaper.

[Maxus]

Koumei understands.

[Prak]

If the 2DS were still hinged, I'd be all over it. I don't care about 3D (seriously, if you're an illustrator with an eye for perspective, 3D is only good to you for gimmicks), but the big tablet thing looks more like a shitty arcade cabinet mod than a DS.

[Shrapnel]

Here's my friend code, for the Friend Safari and whatnot: 0018-1378-0465

Speaking of posting Friend Codes on message boards, I (and presumably everyone else in the world who owns a DS) got a rather interesting notification from Nintendo:

Nintendo has learned that some consumers, including minors, have been exchanging their friend codes on Internet bulletin boards and then using Swapnote (known as Nintendo Letter Box is other regions) to exchange offensive material. Nintendo has been investigating ways of preventing this and determined it is best to stop the SpotPass feature of Swapnote because it allows direct exchange of photos and actively misused.

Hm.

[Koumei]

Cool, I'll add you when I get home. And yeah, they've disabled a feature I don't use, presumably because people have been sending pictures of penises to children.

For the record, my Safari is Rock type (Dwebble, Barbaracle and something else). I also have stuff I can trade, like Char____s, Eevees, Hidden Ability 6-Gen-Psychic-Cat (both genders, which makes a difference for this one), and so on. Also Zorua and Zoroark. Can breed up some Hidden Ability Krabby, Purrloin and similar as well.