Empoleon Announced for Pokkén Tournament

Empoleon has just been announced as a playable character for Pokkén Tournament! The Water/Steel-type will be available in the arcade version beginning on December 15th. Its existence was first hinted at in datamining leaks during summer, but it will finally make its official debut now six months later.

Still no word if the extra characters, including Darkrai and others, will ever make it to the Wii U console version. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for some official word!

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1,431 thoughts on “Empoleon Announced for Pokkén Tournament”

  1. Haven’t actually played Pokken in quite awhile, but Empoleon is a cool choice to bring into the game it’ll be interesting to see how it does 🙂

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      • You gave it a try so that counts for something, I don’t know I enjoyed playing for a bit and think its a good idea for a game and still like playing occasionally but I’m not as into it like with the main Pokemon series

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          • It’s up to you if you ever get in the mood to play again it’s there waiting, but its not something you have to force yourself to play we all have things we like and things we don’t but there’s nothing wrong with that 🙂 if you ever decide to maybe we could play sometime!

      • Hey when first testing the SOS on Route 1 Caterpies I went nearly 200 before just giving up. And I was unlucky enough to have the Minior I ran into self-destruct on me. haha It’ll happen eventually. I’ve literally been playing Pokémon since the beginning and it wasn’t until this past year I started seeing more shinies.

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  2. So here’s my collection of legitimate shinies:
    Gengar (Gen 6 event)
    Gyarados (Soul Silver)
    Dragonite (White 2 from Alder) [On W2 team]
    Pichu (Gen 4 event)
    Raikou (Gen 5 event)
    Entei (Gen 5 event)
    Suicune (Gen 5 event)
    Zigzagoon (Alpha Sapphire)
    Whismur (Alpha Sapphire)
    Swablu (Alpha Sapphire) [Going on OR team]
    Snorunt (Sun)
    Haxorus (White 2 Nature Preserve) [On W2 team]
    Stufful (Sun)

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    • Mine
      Gyarados (Same as you)
      Haxorus(Same)
      Raikou, Suicune (Same)
      Yveltal (Event)
      Xerneas (Event)
      Lumineon (Diamond)
      Kriketune (Heart Gold)
      Dragalge (Y)
      Mudbray (Moon)

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    • Zubat (Horded for it)
      Tentacool (Random)
      Tangrowth (Platinum Safari Zone)
      Cresselia (Took 3 weeks to find)
      Gible (Random hatch)
      Garchomp (B2W2)
      Dragonite (B2W2)
      Pyroar (Random; Female though :/)
      Entei (Event)
      Altaria (Random)
      Haxorus (B2W2)
      Xerneas & Yveltal (Event)
      Palkia, Dialga, Giratina (Event)
      Rayquaza (Event)
      Gyarados (Soulsilver)

      I think that’s it…

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    • All my legit shinies are from XYORAS, not including trades since I doubt them. Many of these are incidental ones from EV training.
      2 Foonguss
      2 Whimsur
      1 Wingull
      1 Zigzagoon
      1 Froakie (not HA, crap!)
      1 Cacturne
      1 Xerneas
      1 Yveltal
      1 Rayquaza

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    • Oh man…I have like 3 boxes of shinies that I bred,obtained through random encounters or given through WT.I even made a list of how many eggs I went through in order to get a shiny

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      • Sometimes the hax is on my side and it feels great.

        I remember the time I was down to a frozen Togekiss and a Typhlosion stuck in Focus Blast vs. 4x Calm Mind Latios and half-health Suicune… Togekiss thawed, did Dazzling Gleam and double crit. :p

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        • watching my replay. just bewear left, full health. my opponent sends in glalie.
          Glalie used hail!
          Bewear used Hammer Arm! … Glalie dodged the attack!
          Glilie’s Moody! (+Sp. Atk, – Atk)
          Glalie used Blizzard! (Crit, Bewear is Frozen)
          Bewear is Frozen Solid!
          Glalie’s Moody! (+Sp. Atk, – Atk)
          Glalie used Blizzard!
          Bewear fainted….

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          • I also have another stupid thing on another replay! this is the very first 2 turns of the battle, my Xurkitree, random npc’s goodra.
            Xurkitree used Dazzling Gleam! Goodra dodged the attack (WHAT?!?)
            goodra used Dragon Pulse! Critical hit!
            Xurkitree used Dazzling Gleam! Goodra dodged the attack! (SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?!?!?)
            goodra used dragon pulse!
            Xurkitree fainted!

          • i assume he had a lax incense or a bright powder, which for the CPU’s works all the time. I remember a certain Feraligatr in BW’s battle subway that had a similar hax.

    • I’ve been reading about the trademarks, but wow, I never thought I’d see the day. I just feel like traveling to Japan jsut to play this game!

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    • I dunno, Decidueye seems to be unsuited for Claudio’s moveset with the exception of the rage art… why not Gallade though, it kinda fits better minus the rage art since Claudio does a lot of swiping…

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  3. Favorite Ultra Beast?
    Mine would have to be Nihilego. While I haven’t finished the UB quest yet, it resonates with me in a way that the others don’t. As a matter of fact, it ranks up there with my favorite Pokemon of all time…



    …but not surpassing Dedenne. It would never. Nothing surpasses Dedenne.

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  4. I heard marshadow’s cry…. its even cuter than I imagined!
    Every second I fall in love with this pokemon more and more

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  5. I know I’ve asked this before, but without spoilers, do we ever find out why the ultra beasts resemble certain people (Lillie, Lusamine, etc)

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    • Again yes, and I can totally spoil the reason if you want. 🙂

      It’s not directly stated like: “Lillie: I look like UB-01 because…”

      It’s kinda subtle so the clues are missable.

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      • I thought Nihilego resembled lillie because Lusamine modeled lillie after it because it was the only thing she really “loved” so she try to mold lillie in its image.

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      • Not really. Lusamine was telling her children and possibly Guzma to dress and have hairdos the way she wants. Since she was obsessed with UB, all of them including Lusamine herself were changed to resemble the UB’s rather than the UB’s coincidentally resembling the characters.

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      • That’s sorta what I’m thinking, though it’s interesting to see that Lillie doesn’t have Nebby, and even can’t touch Pokemon for that matter, I’m interested in seeing where thats going, and how they’re gonna handle Ultra Beasts, and finally, Necrozma, it can’t all be in School that would be a bit boring after about 10 episodes

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        • I want Team Skull to show up more.

          Since they’re gonna be wacky unlike BW’s Plasma, they hopefully need not be stuck as the focus of the later part of a season only when things get serious…

          Unless, they’re gonna be forgetting Skull even exists since Rocket is around…

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        • Well Lillie is going to get a Alolan Vulpix but I really freaking hope the main cast gets new Pokemon
          Because what truly pissed me off is they barely let Clemont of Serena have any new new Pokemon (I was so annoyed that she didn’t get an Absol)

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          • I always believed that Serena would be the perfect girl for Ash. In case you missed the episode with the Rhyhorn race, Ash’s kindness and encouraging spirit won Serena’s heart back at that summer camp when they were little.

          • She’s the worst female companion ever
            Bland boring girly girl who only stuck around because she wanted Ash’s butt

            Good riddance

          • I could write an entire essay about how you are wrong, but there’s no point since you most likely didn’t even watch it.

    • I’d be willing to bet that after a certain amount of episodes of them doing the school thing the Trial captains part ways to go to their trial grounds and Ash decides to then take full part in the challenge. He’s already stated that he wants to officially become worthy of using Z Crystals so in order to do that he’ll need to take the trials at some point. I can’t see them keeping him at the school forever.

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  6. @BigGuyI:disqus
    Hey Earthen. I need some advice on ground types for a vgc team. I need something that can generally eat a hit well from a trickroom Torkel, which isn’t a small task given the limit of the Alola dex. Any suggestions? Initial thought was gastrodon given that its large hp stat and water typing would be able to eat those overheats/heatwave’s. Though I”d rather have the opinion of our own ground fanatic in pointing out a good mon for that situation.

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      • I was thinking that too, Garchomp is just a powerful Ground type
        Amazing speed
        Ridiculous power
        Can either be a wall or a all out sweeper (granted the sweeper role hasn’t been strong lately more of a early game Stealth rocker slash Rocky rough skin

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        • I love Garchomp, but I feel like its speed will be its downfall here. I need something food in trickroom. Garchomps just too fast with not only Torkel being able to do some good damage to it, but 3/4 tapu’s outspeed it.

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          • Well
            Jolly
            252 Attack 252 Speed 4 Sp Def
            Dragon Claw
            Earthquake
            Poison Jab/Iron Head
            Crunch/Rock Slide/Swords Dance

            This is pretty standard

          • And that’s a great set, and I’ve used it myself, but I need something that’s a good counter in trickroom. Something that has really low speed. Like I’m actually considering Palossand. 35 base speed will make it go second in almost all trickroom battles(torkel will always go first), torkel can only 2 shot it with solar beam, where it can oneshot it with earth power provided it has 124 or less ivs in S. defense, which isn’t impossible given the physical bias of competitive and wanting to take advantage of that 140 base defense on that beast. Combined with giga drain, sludge bomb for fairy’s and protect and it could be a decent set.

          • that’s option B, but I need more of a special attacker against a Torkel. As well Porygon/Orangru are threats, but a bit less since their both weak enough to be taken down easily.

          • Not a bad choice, but with torkel’s base defense being 140, and it being a physical attack, and torkel having instant solar beams, it’s not an ideal fit.

          • Truuue. It’s been a headache dealing with the fact than minimum speed Torkoal is slower than minimum speed Gigalith so it gets weather control and is faster under Trick Room.

        • Using only Scolipede and Mega Garchomp, I was able to successfully sweep team in Ubers

          ?⚔️?? I killed everything in sight except Lugia which was really annoying

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          • Honestly the speed drop isn’t a total cripple
            That solid 170 freaking attack paired with Sand Force makes anything touching the ground dead

            And it can take a couple of blows

      • enemy’s torkel. Trying to figure out a good counter for it given I’m messing around with an E-terrain team and it pretty much shuts down half my team.

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        • Well given Torkoal’s new Drought Gastrodon is a very bad choice since it now has Insta Solarbeams

          As Someguy stated Garchomp is pretty solid because I honestly doubt they’re carrying HP Ice, but if you wanted to stick in the Alola region maybe consider a Special or Mixed Minior

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    • You probably shouldn’t wait to tank it. Do you have a taunter or fake outer to delay trick room going up?

      Does it really have to be a Ground-type? You can consider replacing the weather with Pelipper or Politoed or Gigalith. These also resist fire so they’re decent switch-ins. Plus, messing with the weather also weakens Solar Beam as well. Rain also synergizes with any Thunder you might want to run.

      If there’s enough expected Torkoals in your event, I might even think of running Water Sport or Light Screen.

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  7. I know that I have not gotten to it yet but looking at Minior’s stats… This thing is in the top 10 strongest Alola Pokémon (New ones at least)

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  8. Ok so everyone thugs that UB-02 Absorption corosponds to Gladion but I think it is actually Kartana. Since Lusamine dressed Lillie like Nihilego, maybe she dressed Gladion like Kartana. He would have that white and yellow and red color scheme most likely. Gladion wood change to his current outfit after leaving

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    • I never saw how Absorption resembled him.

      To me the only human characters that resemble UBs are Lillie who resembles UB-01 and Lusamine who resembles Pheromasa.

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    • The thing is though, Wicke states that the first time Kartana was seen was when Lusamine summoned it at the same time as Nihilego and Buzzwole/Pheromosa

      And tbh I feel the theory that Lusamine dressed people after UBs is kinda eh, mostly becuase the symbolism theory just makes more sense.

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  9. so I’m rewatching some of the subbed anime and apparently Jessie’s Mimikyu harbors immense hatred/jealousy towards Pikachu
    Which makes me think if this trait is personality or genetically spread across all Mimikyu

    And speaking of Team Rocket I wonder what James will catch this time around, I honestly see it being a Sandygast or maybe even a Dhelmise none of the currently have his “scary dangerous yet a decent appearance” which kinda is his tendency when capturing

    Any other ideas?

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    • James since gen 5 catches small, but powerful Pokemon (Yamask, Inkay) so I could see him catching a Stufful, Dewpider or Minior? Especially Dewpider would fit James very well imo. He’s the complete opposite of Jessie

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      • I actually thought Minior and Dewpider exactly
        We never can tell, I was befuddled when they gave Jessie the Mimikyu instead of James
        She should’ve gotten a Salandit who shared her toxic beauty

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      • I think the whole “James gets hurt by his Pokemon” running gag is very much over sadly

        Also I didn’t know that the legs that held its water bubble actually could move

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    • I had one of my “Delusional fanboy fanfic fantasy Battles” the other day and it depicted me as an Veteran trainer returning from the Alola to fight (insert main character) and I had Alolan Ground Types
      A. Dugtrio, Pallossand and Mudsdale

      But in my fight with Pallossand, my Pokeball hits the ground with a audible thud, and slowly sifts into the battlefield and right under the trainer’s Pokemon Pallossand’s tubular arms snatched….lets just say a Riolu from beneath the ground, it moaned with eerie vigor and had the ability to stretch its arms out and regenerate when blasted off, knowing powerful moves such as Giga Drain and Sand Tomb, but it’s mastery of its grainy body allowed it to sink into the ground and a terrifying awesome attack involving it opening its mouth right under the target from the sands and swallowing it with Giga Drain ( Where it’s mouth and eyes glow green and it inhales nutritent particles from the target)

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  10. So I had a totally awesome yet sweet idea, I want to draw a tributary piece of Sun and Moon artwork of a tanned Snorlax with Bermuda trunks with a ukulele playing to hundreds of Alolan Pokemon and trainers
    In honor of Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole

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  11. If you would have to make a top 5 of favorite typings, what would it be?
    1: Dark
    2: Electric
    3: Water
    4: Steel
    5: Dragon

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  12. OK, im wanting to make a new team to take through the elite 4. I want to keep incinaroar, but everything else will be decided by you guys!

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  13. It’s weird that there are only 7 3-stage pokemon of the new alola pokemon. There are so many that only evolve once or not at all.

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      • Swords Dance + Leaf Blade/Leech Life/Brick Break or Poison Jab tho

        Murdered 4/5 of Lusamine’s team and Potion stalled Kukui’s Snorlax to let the rest of my team to be revived before slaughtering it

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      • It REALLY should’ve. Bug is a better type than grass, imo, especially if you’re not fast or bulky, which lurantis is neither

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        • That’s an odd concept though. I don’t get why they felt the need to switch up what an orchid mantis actually does. Doesn’t make sense.

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          • It’s a world where cats shoot fire hair balls and seals can be Fairies

            It doesn’t need to make sense. It just gives it a unique twist rather than just straight up giving us a flower mantis.

          • I want more pure bug pokemon though :/ And I would’ve rather had them take the “flower pretends to be bug” concept and apply it to something original than confusingly flip an orchid mantis

          • They could’ve easily added another pure Bug tho w/o Lurantis

            And I mean they could, but then we’d just be stuck with a literal orchid mantis doing nothing

        • Also Lurantis gets a boosting move, as well as a draining move, and has better physical Grass move options (though 1 is situational but is still good in-game)

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      • Have you used it? In-game, I personally found my one with a genuinely terrible nature to be my best team member

        Competitively? Yeah it’s bad

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          • *cough* it would be more appealing if it had been pure bug *cough*

            I still find it to be better looking than tsareena (which I think is an ugly lilligant)

          • Tbh the more I step back the less I like about it (Tsareena)

            Like its legs are just off-putting, the colour scheme looks like Christmas puked on it, and it feels like they tried to make a waifumon out of fruit

            And it has to breed to get anything resembling decent coverage without having to sacrifice an item slot

          • Well, that’s the point of Lurantis. It’s a plant disguised as a bug, not the other way around.

          • That’s just stupid. The only advantage it has in pretending to be a bug is over rock types. It’s still weak to both fire and flying pokemon, like bug type is.

          • Then it should just “adapt” into a bug type magically like the alolan forms. Turning into whatever type you want seems pretty easy in the pokemon world.

          • How does a plant adapt into a bug type?

            Also that ruins the point of it. I’m not a fan of the design either but the concept is neat and I respect the pokemon for it.

          • How does an electric mouse start levitating on its tail? 😛

            I think “This pokemon was once a grass type plant, but turned into bug type over time to avoid common predators” or some bullshit makes a hell of a lot more sense than “It ate some pancakes and turned into a psychic type.”

          • to be fair the pancakes thing is just a silly theory created by the islanders

            Also I stand by my second point, a plant disguising as a bug is an interesting idea and is contrary to what you would expect in the real world.

          • That’s why I don’t like ittttt. Orchid mantis makes sense because the bug is trying to avoid detection so over time it adapted to look like part of a flower. I don’t see how a plant looking like a bug is much of a suitable adaptation. But, whatever, this is a fictional world and a lot of it happens just because they want it to.

          • It could be that the Alola Forms had to change to survive their environment itself, or had a major factor changed (such as diet), where you can’t ‘fake’ a change.

            To avoid a predator, you can fake a change because it isn’t factors that would passively kill you, it’s other organisms that can be fooled: but you can’t fool the cold or fluffy pancakes.

  14. Battle Tree is stupid. The Pokemon are so obviously EV trained from the get go.

    But we are unable to breed good IV pokemon until we can accrue enough BP to get the Destiny Knot and Power Items

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  15. I have officially caught all 4 Tapu Pokemon. Lele was easily the hardest to get to stay in her ball. Took almost 30 balls for her to take. The rest were all under 5 lol

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      • Surprisingly Fini was super easy. All I had to do was one Discharge, wait out her Misty Terrain, and then paralyze her. Even with an Aqua ring on and just into the orange from healing herself it only took like one ball after all the set up. I’m surprised as it seemed like everyone was having trouble with her lol

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          • Well I’m glad I got lucky. lol Now to finish hunting the UBs and get Necrozma. After that I can continue trying to bother myself to finish the dex so I can properly shiny hunt……..I kind of wish I didn’t have everything I need in the Bank so I’d actually have some initiative. I’d rather wait for the mons I have already, but I want to shiny hunt NOW!!! hahaha

  16. So Battle Royals are a more efficient (and more fun) way to get BP.

    It’s actually a very clever battle mode and I love it. Also the AI is intelligent and won’t always go for the obvious KOs when it knows it won’t won’t win. And it gangs up on you sometimes. I’ve only actually won 1 or 2 but it’s definitely more fun than the battle tree.

    Also in the Super Royals you get 2 BP for coming second or third and 1BP for coming last

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    • We’re basically almost half way to a sinnoh battle frontier, we have 2 facilities lol.

      Also no, you’re wrong. Royales against AI are super frustrating and time consuming just to lose.

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      • Well I’m speaking from my own experiences. I don’t care about losing right now, I just want BP and I find Battle Royals a much better way of earning BP than the battle tree, where battles can take ages cos your using non EV trained Pokemon against EV trained ones, and you get nothing for losing.

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    • If I were to use Ribombee (which I probably won’t) I would go for.

      Timid
      252 SpA, 252 Spd
      Quiver Dance
      Bug Buzz
      Dazzling Gleam
      Energy Ball

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      • The movesett is the one I use for my in game Ribombee, and I know competitive and on game aren’t exactly comparable but it works very well

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        • Honestly in a metagame with a bunch of bulky steel types including but not limited to Scizor, Skarmory and Celesteela that set ain’t doing all too much…unfortunately. However once the metagame settles I see it doing work in the lower tiers.

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          • TBF, a set up sweeper should have team support anyway

            But Celesteela is such a hilarious counter to it, being 4x resistant to two of the attacks

          • Yeh I agree it should, like Magnet Pull Magnezone for instance. But like I said it’s just gonna struggle to get past a lot of stuff, even set up.

            Also Heatran 4x resists all 3 of those attacks :/

          • Heatran’s just been loving everything he gets since his introduction. Even this gen it gets a brand new friend in Tapu Bulu.

  17. Finally. Freaking. Home
    Stupid butt fracking job making me work two extra hours, and pick up my brother AND DINNER AND TAKING CARE OF THREE MANGEY DOGS ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH

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  18. My biggest generation 6 regret: not hunting for a shiny noibat. Since it’s not in the regional dex (I’m pretty sure) I have no motivation to try.

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    • TBH the whole Type: Null and gladion stuff needed to be fleshed out more. I don’t think it was ever answered why he stole Type: Null, or was it?

      Honestly I think a sequel/third version is the best thing that can happen to these games. With a little polish, they could’ve been the best games, and I think stars will do just that.

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  19. So I’m 4 cutiefly in and I haven’t seen a single shiny. This is such a dumb method, I thought shinies were supposed to be easy to get.
    0/10
    Would not recommend.

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  20. Hey I thought I would ask this question because we all use the 3DS quite often. It just so happens that whenever I try to start up Moon the screen has been black for a bit before actually getting to the title screen. I wasn’t really concerned until this time-the title screen didn’t show up. I have turned it off and back on again; the game is still working but there is still a lag for the title screen to pop up. Is there a reason that anyone can think of as to why this is happening? Sorry for asking this troubling question but this is bothering me quite a bit.

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  21. Festival plaza would be so much better if it wasn’t the only way to link trade and battle. It’s cool, but it’s a hassle to find people on there.

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  22. Legitimate question: are the people on the GTS stupid enough that they think they’ll get their pikipek for necrozma trade, or are they just trying to be annoying?

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  23. Idk if this is relevant, but in gen 6 games (XYORAS) the meoletta event is live. So close out of gen 7, open gen 6 realize how bad gen 6 graphics are, reopen gen 7 obtain meoletta.

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  24. The Battle Royal is an interesting concept, but the frame rate on my 3DS XL is terrible. For those currently hosting one (Earthen, SomeGuy, and Ithsme), are you guys using a New 3DS or coping with the lag on the older one?

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  25. Anyone else notice the golf course by Hano Grand Resort, which is visible on the Alola Map, can’t be accessed? That’s kinda unfortunate, considering it would have been a great way to develop Kahili’s character more other than the single NPC who mentions her in the Resort.

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  26. I’ve got to go from the comments, but I’ll finish up the battle. I know it’ll be GG, so GG in advance. Thanks for playing with me tonight, I had fun! ^_^

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  27. -_-; what a friggin’ day. had to watch some poor 18 year old girl bleed to death, then clean up around her carcass. I think ive had enough of that for the day. thank god I have a day off tomorrow. back to S.O.S chaining for a 5IV ditto. get my mind off of that.

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  28. regarding S.O.S. chains and IVs, does the chain stop counting at 40? like, the odds of getting good IV’s doesn’t get any better after 40? that’s what I hear, but I want to make sure. ive killed like 150+ of the damn things (ditto) so far.

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  29. So I think got myself hooked on shinies. Here’s the list of those I wish to hunt for at some point:
    Ivysaur
    Charizard

    Sneasel
    Magcargo

    Flygon

    Luxray
    Lopunny
    Drifblim

    Serperior
    Boldore
    Woobat
    Chandelure

    Braixen
    Tyrantrum
    Sylveon
    Dedenne
    Goodra
    Noivern

    Litten
    Brionne
    Crabrawler
    Oricorio – Baile
    Ribombee
    Rockruff
    Tseenee
    Palossand
    Salazzle
    Minior
    Dhelmise
    Hakamo-o

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  30. Am I the only one who noticed that the names of the Tapu ruins are ironic to the path that leads to it.

    The Ruins of Conflict = A peaceful nature trail

    The Ruins of Life = A graveyard

    The Ruins of Abundance = A desert full of nothing

    The Ruins of Hope = The remains of a fallen civilisation

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  31. PRAISE GOOMY, a 2nd chance Arceus Wi-Fi event has just gone live along with Meloetta! Looks like I’ll be getting 4 of each tomorrow. I doubt I’ll even need a Genesect from somebody after all…I might have 4 coming my way in March.

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  32. Headcanon says that when Dark-type trainers reach a certain age, they get afflicted with a curse where their hair turns white, and their soul slowly dies away. Nanu had gotten the curse years ago, and Grimsley has recently gotten it too. Karen and Sidney will also soon get this curse as well. It also explains why there are no Dark Gym Leaders because they don’t want to get the curse

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  33. Speaking of Exploding, I finally (because it’s goddamn random when the AI gangs up on me) won the Battle Royal master difficulty level with Silvally, and unlocked a new battle style.

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  34. If we include UB’s as a kind of Legendary, we finally have a Poison one, and that’s pretty neat.
    I can see why people would say they’re not though, but I can give an argument for one of the reasons people give:
    “You can get Multiple of them” – Well, yeah, but most None main Legends there are multiple of, so that’s not really an excuse.
    Plus with the new Pokedex colouring system, their background, like the Tapus, is Green. Also Type: Null but I mentioned that already.
    Another plus is, well Necrozma, Solgaleo and Lunala are implied to be UB, but are still Legendary Pokemon.
    So my original point was, yeay Poison legendary. (for the sake of it, I’m including Mythicals as Legendary too)

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    • All I know is that the Tapus and Solgaleo and Lunala are 100% legendaries (just because they share a similarity with UBs doesn’t mean it has to be physical, it could be they came from similar worlds), UBs are a 50/50.

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    • For the sake of it, I’ll name Legendaries/Mythicals that there are certainly multiple of.
      In order:
      The Birds
      Mew
      The Beasts of Johto
      Celebi
      Deoxys
      Phione
      Manaphy
      Genesect
      Zygarde (Due to the cores)
      Type:Null
      Solgaleo
      Lunala (Both due to Multiple Cosmogs)
      Every UB
      Marshadow?

      And ones that there it’s possible theres multiple of:
      Mewtwo (There appears to be one in Kanto and one in Kalos)
      The Tower Duo
      Titans of Hoenn
      The Eon Duo
      Jirachi
      Cresselia
      Heatran
      Regigigas
      Darkrai
      Shaymin
      Victini
      Swords of Justice
      Forces of Nature
      Meloetta
      Diancie
      Hoopa
      Volcanion
      Necrozma

      Ones that only makes sense for there to be 1 of:
      The Weather Trio
      Lake Guardians
      Creation Trio
      Tao Trio
      Xerneas and Yveltal
      The Island Guardians
      Magearna

      There I think that’s alll of them

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      • Also I propose this:
        -Side Legends: (All other legends that don’t fit the other catagories)
        -Main Legends: (Mewtwo, plus Zygarde,Necrozma and All Boxart Legends excluding Suicune )
        -Mythicals: (All only event Pokemon plus Deoxys and Phione)
        -Ultra Beasts (Comon this one is easy)

        With some Pokemon being in more than one catagory. For example, Solgaleo, Lunala, their pre evos and possibly necrozma are also UB’s. Keldeo is a Sword of Justice so is in Mythicals and Sides, and Cresselia and Darkrai are a duo.

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    • I don’t see them as legendary cos there is nothing legendary about them. At least not in our world. Theres no myths or stories about them, they’re just Pokemon that appeared from another world.

      So Nooooo…we still don’t have a poison legendary.

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  35. I have almost completed the dex, I have also all the version exclusives of the other version. What I need to catch:

    4 Tapu
    Cosmog and Cosmoen
    3 UBs
    Necrozma

    Catching Legends is so boring but it’s the last thing I have to do….

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  36. So I’m on the GTS making trades trying to work on my dex, and unfortunately during one of the trades, a communication error occurred. Now I’m banned from making trades for the time being. How dumb.

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  37. I have HA Alolan Vulpix(s) for trade :
    Name: Vulpix
    Ability: Snow warning
    Nature: Timid
    Egg moves: Detect Moonblast Encore Charm/Hypnosis
    Looking for HA alolan pokemon or a mareani with egg moves.

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  38. Now that we’ve been playing a while, what are your teams like now as opposed to what you thought they’d be? I’m still too early in the game to really have any change and still have a lot to see by curious about those that are far along of have already beaten the game.

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    • I played Sun but wanted Lycanroc midnight and decided to go with Minior instead of waiting on my brother to train one up and trade it to me. Only change. I pretty much always plan my teams and I pretty much never change the planned team.

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      • That’s cool. I always end up changing my teams as I learn more about Pokémon and see them in action. I didn’t think I’d like Wishiwashi but I just caught one on my Moon team and it’s great! I can trade you a Lycanroc Midnight form once I get one if you’d like

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        • Well I try to keep track of all the Pokémon I’ve used on playthroughs so that I can use as many of them as possible as the years go on. but I’m good, thanks though! I’ve beaten the game now so I can just catch one in Vast Poni Canyon and I have Moon version waiting in reserves when I need another playthrough at some point.

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    • I just picked up things and filled my team if it felt worthy. So these guys got drafted:

      > Popplio
      > A. Meowth
      > Magnemite
      > Abra
      > Munchlax
      > Dewpider

      Despite evo it to Alakazam in a trade, it feels like it faints too fast and doesn’t damage enough, so I grabbed this Decidueye to replace Alakazam and it did well.

      A. Meowth is the surprise of this gen. Surprisingly good Pokemon for in-game progression and a solid teammate.

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    • -Litten(when first announced)> Primarina
      – Lurantis > Tsareena
      – Salazzle
      – Mimikyu
      – Lycanrock Moon > Sun (I like sun version more so I traded for it)
      – Pikipek > Oricorio > Raichu

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    • I intended to use:

      Decidueye, Alola Ninetales, Wishiwashi, Kommo-o, Salazzle, and Midday Lycanroc

      My final team was:

      Decidueye, Alola Ninetales, Alola Raichu, Shiny Magmortar, Bewear, and Midday Lycanroc

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  39. Assuming no new Alolan forms, Pokémon, or forms in general are added, who would be your Stars team? Mine:
    Incineroar
    Midnight Lycanroc
    Drampa
    Dhelmise
    Turtonator
    Alolan Sandslash

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  40. I’m glad that Hyper Training is a thing since I’m lucky enought to have a Modest Primarina as my starter (it also lessens the burden of having to breed for a competitive Primarina)

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  41. Enough beating around the bush
    I need a little help

    So far I think I finally figured out how to use Pokepalageo efficiently

    -Start Operations early in the morning

    -Bean island to gather beans to speed up actions

    -Berry island to grow the Five EV lowering berries (Pomeg, Kelpsy, Qualot, Hondew, Grepa and Tamato)

    -Treasure Island to hunt down Shards and or Rarities to trade for Bottlecaps (they say you can get Golden Bottlecaps from there but haven’t seen any yet)

    -And lastly Level up Island to put babies in a 63 Session Stat program while you do other things 63 equals 252 stat which is roughly 35 Hours

    I don’t think the Hot Springs are any good because you tend to hatch everything while waiting for eggs to spawn

    So I need anybody who’s free to go to Route 10 on Ula Ula to see if the berry Tree spawns a Hondew Berry it is the very last one I need and if one of you decides to help I would be more than happy to breed you a Regenerator Mareanie, or a Modest Salandit or Impish Mubray

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  42. So question for folks out there. Other then pokemon, have you been playing any other big holiday release? Personally I’ve been playing FF15, and with about 11 hours under my belt I think it’s clenched the title of GOTY for me personally.

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      • Fun times. I’m not really a fan of Kanto, and my copy of Leafgreen I bought off of a friend who was getting out of pokemon years ago, but skyrim’s fun enough. I’m personally not a fan of super openworld games like it, but whatever floats your boat.

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      • Personally I love it. my pitch would be its a final fantasy game with a better battle system and world similar to Dragon Age Inquisition or Xenoblade Chronicles X, but is much better handled then them. Like it’ll still have high level monster’s roaming early zones, but they might only be like level 30, and be stuck in a gorge where you would have to actively go after them. The story’s good, though I would suggest watching the five episode OVA(free on youtube) and the movie, though really it just tells you the movie’s ending in the first few hours. Everything about it is wonderful. The bromance is wonderful, the difficulty is just right, the music is straight out of kingdom hearts(kingdom hearts lead composer did the music for the game), and its all nicely wrapped up with your party members being a posh butler, big bro for the ages , and Michelangelo, tuxedo mask and that one blue haired guy from iron blood orphans all rolled into one being your party members.

        So yeah its really good. Also I kinda love Cindy and Iris.

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    • Pretty much just been playing Pokémon. I feel like most games I’m interested in picking up right now either aren’t on Nintendo consoles or might end up being ported to Switch so I’m just sitting on my hands waiting. But I think I might get LoZ: Twilight Princess HD over this month and play through that.

      I need FFXV so bad. I’m not a praying man, but I pray that that comes to Swith

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          • I mean the fact that it’ll be a console but I can take it on the go. Console RPGs are hard for me to get into cause they make me feel like a bum cause I’m actively stuck on the couch playing. It’s easier for me to avoid that feeling when I can at least pretend I can turn it off and on anytime and go anywhere with it.

      • I’ll pray with you, as unlikely as it is. The game struggles a bit on the PS4 at times, so I don’t have high hopes for the switch.

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