The day you’ve all been waiting for is finally here! (Aside from those of us who have to wait just a little longer.) The first stage of the release for Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire starts today, fans in the US, Japan and Australia can finally get their hands on the game after years of wishful hoping, and months of anticipation. Trainers in Europe can expect to get their mitts on the games when they release on November 28.
For those of you who have already picked up the game, we hope you are enjoying it! In this article we invite all of our readers, whether old or new to join in and discuss the games. What starter Pokémon will you/have you chosen? What are you most looking forward to in the games? How are you celebrating the release (outside of playing the games, obviously!)
Get talking in the comments! For those who don’t yet have the games, this is a free-for-all discussion. The comments will contain spoilers
All I want is Junichi’s friend code… Why 3ds have you failed me?
Time for Lugia.
So it appears that the pokemon you have on your team at the time that you create a QR code for your base are the pokemon you use when people battle you in your base.
Interesting.
I need to get the right items and Mega Stone, so my base will not be ready for a bit.
And i’ll have to rebreed my entire Earthen Warriors
I have ZERO intentions of transferring them
Why?
Because i’ve spent so much time with them
The Heart level is basically maxed on each one
It would just feel so wrong to see all that time and love reset
I understand.
I’m transferring mine because I’m too lazy to rebreed.
Hm. That means I’ll have to regenerate my code. I love the feature though.
Hopefully all the pokemon are lv50 for the battle.
They are but you can turn it off.
I am about to become the Hoenn Region’s newest Pokémon League Champion!!!!!! This battle against Steven was so cool :’)
(Played with Battle Style: Set Rules)
I led off with Lettuce (Minun), and easily took out Skarmory, Thundering it to oblivion.
Lettuce then missed sing on Aggron and died to Earthquake. I sent out Big Baby (Dusknoir) to Burn Aggron, and did. I then switched to Diamond (Gorebyss) to kill Aggron.
In comes Cradily, I switch to Sazzrupt (Camerupt) and get confused. Sazzrupt eventually faints to hax. I send out Fluffles (Altaria), and it becomes a stall war. I eventually kill it with Poison Damage. Fluffles the MVP then proceeds to stall out Claydol and Armaldo.
Finally it’s down to Mega Metagross. I Hyper Voice it trying to bait it into Giga Impact against my +6 Defense. It does, and I take this as my opportunity to switch to Sceptile for nostalgic purposes.
I mega evolve and use Earthquake, but it does little damage. Sceptile avoids Giga Impact!! Next turn I use Giga Drain because of my high Special Attack, and it gets Metagross into red health. Metagross AGAIN goes for Giga Impact, and AGAIN it misses!!! I see this as a chance to finish it off in style, I use Leaf Blade, but Metagross lives with a sliver of HP. It then uses Giga Impact, HITS, BUT SCEPTILE HOLDS ON WITH 5 HP!!!!!!! About to know finish this with a Leaf Blade 🙂
Some pics:
Angry Fluffles: http://ust.chatango.com/um/t/c/tcmets/img/l_259.jpg
Sceptile vs. Metagross: http://ust.chatango.com/um/t/c/tcmets/img/l_260.jpg
Sceptile vs. Metagross the end: http://ust.chatango.com/um/t/c/tcmets/img/l_261.jpg
TL:DR, I’m the new Champ, bitches
Metagross’s eyes are so cross-eyed in the end. It’s like he’s fainted like in the anime lol
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Honestly, you couldn’t have set this battle up any better if you had planned it. One of your most memorable battles was between Sceptile and Steven’s Metagross. And now you have this one to go alongside it. That is beyond awesome. That is FATE. You, Sceptile, Steven, and Metagross are locked at the hip of destiny. You were then, and you are now. AWESOME!!! =D
And this time I didn’t lose a bajillion times <33333 It was close tho, if I lost Fluffles (And I almost did, came down to 13 HP at one point), then this battle is a COMPLETELY different story
And it seems like a challenge, even so! Congrats Brandon! 😀
IT IS! THAT CRADILY IS THE DEVIL
Tanky Fossil Pokemon for the win!
Especially against a team of mostly water types.
DAAAAANG, what is it with you and Steven constantly having battles of EPIC proportions? Two of your biggest partners, coming through when you need them most. That’s teamwork, friendship, and love.
You owe Steven a new team for killing all of his pokemon.
THE ENDING IS SO SAD I LOVE IT
Good job 😀 my fellow hoenner I knew you could do it
I just finished the Delta Episode…
So apparently, the protagonist has more than a diving suit in his inventory…
And some Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann for the people who watched that…
And I “killed” the final boss, but I’m sure it’ll turn up somewhere in Hoenn.
Good thing I was playing it in my parked car and I was alone, because I didn’t expect it, I kept going whooooaa repeatedly (it wasn’t screaming, honest!) and all that made my tear up in the end even though it wasn’t sad…
Best. Game. Ever.
I was sad too. It was emotional for me to complete the game. 🙁
It wasn’t sad!@@@! 🙂
Well coz now you have to play OR and fight/team up with Maxie…
Yeah. I was going to put all my Pokemon on Ruby but Archie and I have a thing going…. Now I don’t want to restart.
Well don’t restart then… all your Pokémon are now in AS… you still team up with Archie, and you can use OR as a legends dispenser.
I know. We only do Multi matches together in the Maison. I love it. AS is the best Pokemon game of all time.
Yeah I think this is the first time I can interact with the villain team post post-game.
I always wanted to fight grunts in the Battle facilities but I never dreamed of teaming up with their leader ever…
8 hours in, just got the Dynamo base and about to start heading towards Route 111
Combusken / lvl. 30
Kirlia / lvl. 25
Manectric / lvl. 26
Linoone / lvl. 25
(The other two are just fillers that I’m evolving to help fill up the dex quicker)
Still need to get a Carvanha, Trapinch and Anorith
Did you send me a Battle request last night?
Oh hello Archie, nice avatar 😉
Finally someone says “nice avatar.” everyone else has complained. Thank you.
Probably not seeing as how the internet sucks on my 3DS at uni
I should’ve thought of the last 3 spots as for evolving… I had pick-uppers instead.
8 hours waiting for a rare boss….
There are still world raid bosses in Warlords, I reckon?
Poundfist is his name…
and if you beat him
this is your prize (that’s a mount)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMovZOhqGvc/VFpRBeIzx7I/AAAAAAAAG_0/WqKCED06fY4/s1600/Sunhide%2BGronnling.jpg
Sootopolitan Wallace I like that term
Does anyone have Shaymin, melotta, or manaphy for touch trade?
I need Meloetta, Manaphy and Mew for touch trade as well. 🙁
We crie 🙁
He just implied he had shaymin… 🙂
>had 🙁
Oh. You don’t “need” it anymore? Oh, because touch trade. NVM…
Hmm… I have Meloetta, but sadly not Mew, Manaphy, or Shaymin cause I couldn’t get my hands on any of them. I’d be happy to help, though I am looking for someone who can help me move an item from X to OR so I can have a trade evolution with a Pokemon on OR.
I can help you right now. I’ll get online on my Y.
Wow just steal my placd
Place*
He asked me first in chat, though.
Mmmmmmmmhmmmmm
I like how in Battle Maison I could just pick Eruption and look away from the screen… my Multi parter is so good…
There’s only one thing I don’t like… my strat involves Archie starting with his Sharpedo and if he doesn’t I risk one loss because Typhlosion doesn’t work as well with his Crobat in terms of type coverage…
Same here. 😉
You can chain with the dex nav now woah
Really? How did you find that out?
There’s a video, I didn’t do it yet
Indeed, though I wonder if it affects the shiny rate, too.
It does, the higher the encounter rate the higher the chances
The Delta Episode is so confusing. So is it confirming a Zelda like timeline?
it’s pretty simple
R/S/E = dimension without megas
ORAS = dimension with megas
So ORAS and XY are diffrent from FRLG RSE DPPl BW and the rest?
Still, -SPOILER- whether or not we use the dimensional shifter to move the meteor or use Rayquaza, I don’t see how that affect the other world. The other world is screwed regardless.
No, if we did it, the other world would have NO WARNING of the meteor like we did, so the only option would be to just destroy it.
I need a Fathead of Archie made for my wall.
now will this face front or back?
Hm…
Front maybe.
Naright…
and radius will the hole in the wall be cut?
What
Wow, just wow, the Credits in ORAS are the best Credits I’ve ever seen in a video game. The credits were so smart too. I really hope they don’t change when I beat the League a second time, those pictures were perfect of my story through the game. So PLEASE, can someone tell if the pictures get updated, or are they forever like that with my Pokemon from my first time through!?
I just saw that too I was literally crying
They don’t, it’s only your story team
THANK GOD!!!! <3333 I'm gonna record it next time, because it was perfect. I've never had such an epic Pokemon playthrough, every battle so close, every battle meaning something, wow
Wait until the ending with May :,)
I did, and omfg, did I get chills when the end music started playing…..DE
Delta Emerald is very very possible,
(AZ’s floette is under the tree in sootopolis)
(That tree is where AZ buried floette possibly)
Also ORAS has r/s teams
DE will have emerald teams
it’s inevitable.
DE is happening
If not that then Delta Z
Delta Z is possible too
Archie smiles in it.
Did Mega Rayquaza really one shot Deoxys -_-
bitch it’s yo fault smh
I just wanted to listen to the theme ;-;
My Sharpedo one shot a +6 Cosmic Power Deoxys at full health.
Does anyone have:
Ho-oh, lugia, Shaymin, Melotta, or manaphy for ouch trade
Touch*
Or regigigas
I have a hooh and Lugia somewhere. Dunno where though.
I totally need to just touch trade both ;-;
Why is Brendan so hot?
Because Hoenn
Cuz hoenn
Because the people that designed him felt that he would be inferior if they didn’t do their best to have him try to match May.
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1416987904245.png
You bet your ass he is
If I had to choose a husbando I’d choose him in a heartbeat
May being top waifu of course.
So basically the heroes of hoenn are bae.
Because Hoenn
I love how Mega Stones aren’t version exclusive this time around.. This was a problem for me back in XY, I had none of the X exclusive stones.
LOL the names of the Jirachi on the GTS.
All r literali me XDD
Delta Emerald. May 2015. Would you buy it?
YES
Delta Z May 2015. Would you buy it?
I most definitely would
Kalos + Hoenn
Hoelos
Now that’s different, if it’s Z, most probably December’15/January’16
Over an XY sequel/prequel? yes. Over Gen 7? no.
They said gen 7 will be as simple as gen 1, which means more genwunner pandering and this frightens me.
I thought KALOS was genwun pandering.
He also said they would take out a lot of pokemon and moves to make it “easier”
Hyper beam is physical and has no more recharge if OHKO confirmed
I can’t even. Let’s enjoy Gen VI while we can and hope for another Colosseum/XD game
r u kiddin’ me? Seriously GameFreak, I know after Gen V you’re scared of doing what you want anymore, but one “mistake” (I like Unova btw) shouldn’t stop you from progressing. Pokemon better not become COD, it already has a yearly release schedule.
When did they say that?
It was from an interview ~4 months after X and Y
Okay
No, sort of like a game just to keep the Pokefans busy for 2015. I see Z releasing in early 2016
November 2015 maybe. But not May 2015.
It is just a repainted version of ORAS with new features, so I wouldn’t see why they wouldn’t release it in May or somewhere along that timeline
But you were asking if I would buy, not if I believed in that potential release date. 🙂
So nope, I won’t buy if that was the release date. It’s too close for me.
True, it’s too early. But if it entices me enough, I sure will get it haha
Latias was there in the credits 🙂
Oh wait, that was my Latias. NVM.
If they do the same thing for Delta Emerald and have it release on the original japanese emerald release dat, it will release on my birthday.
YES. YES.
Whens that?
May
Oh didn’t see that coming
*september
Same thing.
Well i wasted my entire day sitting for a rare boss to spawn but never showed…
I need a hug…
*hugs*
Thanks
i appreciate your bro love
Anytime bro.
Stop playing video games
Stop being obsessed with Hoenn and May’s Ass
Shut
no
I’d give you a hug, but you’d probably crush me. ;~;
Yeah probably
But its great way to get your back cracked
troo
In cartoons it actually repairs back pain…
and real life,
since your spine holds everything up, applying the pressure to right areas to loosen up things and get a flow flowing is a great relaxer
18 mega stones left!
I guess it’s time to start talking to every single NPC to find the remaining mega stones…
Or just look at Ser… a guide, I mean.
I want to find them by myself. I know I get Garchompite by collecting 1000 flags….
Well usually they are on the floor.
And good thing Garchompite is kind of worthless.
Yeah. I would never use it anyway.
I think that’s also a troll by Game Freak, coz maybe some people were expecting “Flygonite” or something from Aarune…
There’s this random ass Poochyena holding a Gyaradosite.. Like wth
I know! It was so cute!
You get Gardeviorite from Wanda and Galladite from Cozmo.
Both stem from a psychi/FAIRY type base.
I t s h a p p e n i n g
I found oh my fucking arceus I get it. Holy shit.
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