Pokemon Sun and Moon are out! Alola, MoTK!

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Woo, vulpix city up ins.

Thanks again!

[commandercool]

Daaang, Mimikyu is rare as fuck. Took me like 45 minutes to find one.

[ふねん1]

Haven't gotten to play much over the past couple days because of work and other things, so not much has changed since my last update. Tomorrow's a traveling day for me though, so I'll get some chances to get back in the swing of things. Just finished up Malie City tonight and am about to go to Route 10 for the next trial.

Daaang, Mimikyu is rare as fuck. Took me like 45 minutes to find one.

That's nothin'. I've spent hours trying to fish up Chinchou and Staryu on Akala Island, to no avail. Am I just getting really unlucky or something?

[MatsuriSakuragi]

I read that Bagon has a 1% drop rate on Route 3. Since I'm making a point of catching everything possible in an area before continuing, this is gonna be a pain. I wish there was some way to skip all of the battle start animations. They get longer and longer with every generation. Makes grinding and hunting super tedious.

[Phasm]

Tomorow the game comes out and i was hoping you guys could tell me if Wishywashi is good or not  :3

EDIT: Also what do you guys think of the difficulty because i'm worried it will be too easy  :ohdear:

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

EDIT: Also what do you guys think of the difficulty because i'm worried it will be too easy  :ohdear:

From what I've heard so far... like you in Europe so no game yet.

The call for support thing, that was shown with the totem-mon in the demo can cause serious trouble.
Also pleanty of reports of X/Y/Z wrecked me (you definitely need to balance your team out, possibly quite early on) and comments the AI had wised up a lot.

Also pokemon that learn moves on evolution were bugged, for cases where they would learn a move that level. (e.g. abra->kadabra)

[The Greatest Dog]

Totem mons will wreck your crew if you're missing the slightest nuances, if that's anything.
Trying to use a ghost type on the first trial, for example, just gets infinite Bites and Pursuits from two mons at once, and you can't even switch out because Pursuit.

I know many folk who had trouble with the

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grass totem (who picked either Decidueye or Primarina, naturally) because of its ally setting up Sunny Day while it uses instant charge Solar Blades

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(and it even has a Power Herb to surprise you if you don't let Sunny Day get set!)

Wishiwashi is quite good, but one-dimensional. If you need a strong water type, you assuredly can't go wrong with giving Wishiwashi

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the Scald TM and Waterium crystal you get in the same area as itself

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[Plubio]

PSA: There seems to be a weird bug that corrupts your save file if you save your game inside a Pok?mon Center or inside Battle Tree.
Proof (as well as tumblr and r/Pokemon). Lumiose's Alola version.

Keep that in mind.

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I've had a Wishiwashi in my party since I could find one.  They're lots of fun and get surprisingly good coverage from what I've seen.

[Plubio]

I'm crying.

[commandercool]

I'm crying.

Whew, that's a relief. I was just about ready to be seriously disappointed in Nintendo for letting this happen again after the Lumiose City save bug in X/Y. Glad to hear it wasn't them who fucked up.

[Phasm]

Finally i have Pokemon Moon on my 2DS...  :V
Well tomorow i'll start it up because itttss waaaayyyy too late for me   

I hope the game is harder than ORAS.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Pokemon has never been hard outside of the obtuse as fuck things you have to do to unlock the Regis in gen 3, and that was just unfair :v

[commandercool]

I mean, that said, this is the hardest game in the franchise. It's still not hard, it's super easy, but you at least have to try A LITTLE.

I'm getting into the real story content now, and I will never, NEVER get tired of the game cutting to my goof-ass character in the middle of tense moments. The clothes in this game are... Too good.

Also holy shit, Mimikyu is amazing. He's going to be a force in competitive. The way he interacts with Knock Off is great. He doesn't take damage but does lose his item, so when he gets hit again once Disguise is broken the damage will be reduced. Good stuff.

[Chaore]

alolan grimer is a terror and i love this thing and i hope he never stops being good

come with me you beautiful mess, i'll rename you to someone still terrible but less soon enough

[ふねん1]

So I set up my Incineroar for a strong attack with Malicious Moonsault, only to forget to get rid of Totem Mimikyu's disguise first. I don't care that I still won easily, I'm a terrible trainer. >.<

But yeah, that's the sixth trial down, though I'm stopping the story for now until I can find a Mimikyu of my own. Here's my team (haven't really used the last two in forever though lol):

- Incineroar: Lv. 35
- Charjabug: Lv. 33
- Crabrawler: Lv. 32
- Mudsdale: Lv. 34
- Pelipper: Lv. 27
- Magnemite: Lv. 22

Also Guzma's theme is amazing. Finally a battle theme I can stand listening to.

[Sect]

So I set up my Incineroar for a strong attack with Malicious Moonsault, only to forget to get rid of Totem Mimikyu's disguise first. I don't care that I still won easily, I'm a terrible trainer. >.<

I did the same damn thing. I couldn't stop laughing at how much I derped.

I actually have a huge roster of pokemon that I swap between, particularly between champion challenges. Currently I'm at a place where I can't see the levels of my PC'd pokemon, but they're all between 29 and 38.

Current team:
Mimikyu lv 35
Alakazam lv 36
Parasect lv 37
Hariyama lv 36
Lycanroc (Midnight) lv 34
Incineroar lv 44 (he's never left my party, so he's been getting shared EXP constantly)

My reserve party pokemon are as follows: Lycanroc (Midday) (yes I know I have two of the same species fight me), Lurantis, Raichu, Muk, Marowak, Sylveon, and Gengar. I should probably pick up a Water type some time, but none of them have really been calling out to me yet.

[Bio]

E4 is pretty hard when you're five levels underleveled. This is probably the first game I've actually had to use X items to get through it. Nuzlocke was also fine until E4.

[Raikaria]

E4 is pretty hard when you're five levels underleveled.

Interesting. Most of the time I breeze through the E4 while 8~10 underleveled.

That said; in Kalos I kept up with the level curve more or less even without the Share; and when in Play S/M later today once it arrives; it'll be 90% blind.

As long as the E4 are less of a joke than Kalos'. I swear; Kalos had the hardest regular trainers but joke bosses.

[Plubio]

I just reached the second island after 10 hours of playing and all I can say is that I'm totally in love with this Pok?mon.
Got Brionne, Snorlax and Petilil at level 20. I kinda dislike how the game guides you were to go but I'm somewhat okay with that.

[Bio]

As long as the E4 are less of a joke than Kalos'. I swear; Kalos had the hardest regular trainers but joke bosses.

My team was pretty slow due to what I picked up along the way, and was woefully unprepared for

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Fluffy Bewears. 2HKO with Hammer Arm against my Skarmory, itemless Acrobatics from Archeops did like 30%.

It would have probably been a lot easier if I had some faster Pokemon, or better setup sweepers. I definitely notice that the AI has gotten better. I forget if it was this good in XY/ORAS but I had a Magnezone switch into my Sludge Wave and priority moves used against me when they mattered. When matchups were good, the game was still easy, but when I had no resist, boy was it hard not losing anyone.

[Raikaria]

I just reached the second island after 10 hours of playing and all I can say is that I'm totally in love with this Pok?mon.
Got Brionne, Snorlax and Petilil at level 20. I kinda dislike how the game guides you were to go but I'm somewhat okay with that.

It's better than everything being a straight line right? Kalos was the FF13 of Pokemon.

Anyway; it's out in Europe! I have it! My OCD is making me look and look for this Driftloon an NPC wants to see but I can't find a Driftloon! I'm amazed at some of the stuff you can find early. Misdrevus has really come full circle from being hilariously late in Jhoto.

Also Gamefreak just won't let Zubat be good at low levels. They replaced Leech Life with Absorb...

Also man there's quite a few water-types to give Popplio competition early...

Edit: Oh Driftloon is day only. We're back to Day/Night encounters and I have Moon. Makes sense. Now I'm going to stop looking at catch lists because I looked at Route 1 and almost went crazy at the number of things I didn't run into and my first run is usually a 'catch what you see make it work from there' thing.

Edit: Team Skull is best team. 'I have self-esteem issues yo'

[The Greatest Dog]

It only took FOREVER and a half of chaining, but I finally got my

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Snow Warning Vulpix

for posterity

Now to get a Smeargle with Freeze-Dry and Moonblast so I can finally start putting this together...

I suppose if I wanted to pull together a ~hail~ team it would involve Ninetales, Slush Rush Sandslash, and something to kill the inevitable fire and steel types. Hmm

[Raikaria]

OK Hala just proved to me how much better the AI is.

He withdrew his Makuhita from my Misdrevus; and then proceeded to spam Leer... and then used Pursuit and almost OHKO'ed me [1HP left]. I'm sure the AI was trying to make me think it could do nothing then as soon as it had a chance to OHKO tried to.

Currently got Litten/Cutifly/Misdrevus/Slowpoke/Yungoos/Magnemite. Basically a mix of new stuff and stuff I've not used before. Alola is really surprising me with the sheer number of earlygame mons that are not earlygame in other games.

Also Cutifly is surprisingly awesome.

As I explored Route 3 I saw a cave and I'm wondering how to get there... I'm sure I'll find out eventually.

[aUsernameIsFineToo]

OK Hala just proved to me how much better the AI is.

Thanks to him I've been grinding and leveling up my team for longer than I'd imagined. The trainer AI has definitely improved, and by a lot.

[Raikaria]

Speaking of grinding; I'm more scared of the wilds than the actual trainers now.

Calls for Help man. Especially annoying when you're trying to catch something. I have a Leftovers on my Slowpoke now at least from a Munchlax.

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Glaceon ran a train over me and I hardly beat it. And I had Litten and Magnemite...

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Igglybuff called for help Igglybuff appeared. Igglybuff fainted! Igglybuff #2 called for help! Igglybuff appeared! Igglybuff fainted! Igglybuff #3 called for help! Jigglypuff appeared! The ride never ends.

[commandercool]

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Igglybuff called for help Igglybuff appeared. Igglybuff fainted! Igglybuff #2 called for help! Igglybuff appeared! Igglybuff fainted! Igglybuff #3 called for help! Jigglypuff appeared! The ride never ends.

They're getting BIGGER! Do an experiment, let them keep going. Figure out where the end of the line is.

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Kaiju Wigglytuff

[Raikaria]

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Is every Totem pokemon going to run a truck through my team?

Also TM Scald this early and right before Waterium Z. My Slowpoke grows ever stronger. And changes it's item again. At least until the novelty of Slowpoke; destroyer of worlds wears off.

Also a huge selling point for Popplio which probobly makes up for the early water competition.

[Sect]

Team Skull is rapidly becoming my favorite villain team. They're such dorky losers,

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then when you get to the abandoned village they become both somewhat threatening and somewhat pitiable.

[Bio]

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Is every Totem pokemon going to run a truck through my team?

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The ones you don't have a good matchup with yes. Especially any which summon actually threatening aid Pokemon. Totem Mimikyu is an absolute pain with a slow team.