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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AAAAAAAAAA ITS SO GOOD
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!
Incineroar
Mimikyu
Tsareena
Alolan Raichu
Salazzle
Primarina
Eww too main stream
Well its main stream for a reason because its GOoD
Incineroar
Oricorio pom pom
Araquanid
Palossand
Shiinotic
Oranguru
Underrated treasuries
I tried to go with pokemon that were underrated. Also I didn’t want to repeat types. Oricorio pom pom is probably the best of the oricorios (if that’s even possible) because of the typing. Electric/flying is pretty good.
Oricorio is really good… If it got Revelation Dance at a decent level or just got moves of its type anyway
So disappointing
Incineroar
Toxapex
Mudsdale
Shiinotic
Alola Sandslash
Kommo-o
Also Stufful and Cosmog have the most adorable cries, dont @ me
SCREEEEEEEE
EVERYONE: I’m going to SOS chain for my favorite shiny!! 😀
ME: ;_;
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please PLEASE don’t make me MM for another grass starter, ugh.
I can’t do another 2500 eggs.
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his mental state broke
That too.
But fine.
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THATS NOT RIGHT EITHER.
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^^^^^^^
Get the charm first!
around 45 percent there, definitely gonna do that.
And check off my bucket list, who knows how long it’ll take.
I’m going to Shiny Hunt for Rowlet once its HA is released.
^^ good idea
Don’t underestimate overgrow. That’s something I’ve learned the hard way.
But its HA is more awesome, especially because its physical movepool is 10x better than its special. I’m still pissed they made it a viable mixed/special attacker because the movepool just isn’t there and its exclusive HA is for a physical movepool! Ugh, why didn’t they put that sp attack into speed!
Tbh I’d rather they’d of put the Sp. Attack into bulk
Archers don’t move too much and the speed represents that
Yeah, that would’ve been good too.
I wish you good luck in your hunt! Hopefully your fortunes have turned since Turtwig
I’m worried Zubat ate up all my luck.
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.
I can only think of the starts and komo-o who are the others
Grubbin, Pikipek, Bounsweet
I really like Pokémon that don’t evolve. But that’s likely due to the fact that I like things the more people hate on them.
I find it more fun when things do evolve. That said, wishiwashi, as I’m sure everyone has heard me say on here, is probably my favorite alola pokemon
I hate soft resetting..
Most underrated Pokémon this Gen?
My vote:
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It’s so pretty. too bad its stats are disappointing. I’d use it over tsereena or w/e any day though
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
I still love it, just wish it was at least fast or had good defense. I plan on using one on my moon team so I may steal your movepool
Do it
And if you find the scope lens slap that on it
The crits are so worth it
I wish solar blade didn’t have to charge or if it got drought
Well Lurantis is just so redundant since Tsareena exists. Should’ve been bug type
It REALLY should’ve. Bug is a better type than grass, imo, especially if you’re not fast or bulky, which lurantis is neither
Okay, but as has been said ad nauseum now, it’s meant to be a flower pretending to be a bug
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.
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
I just think it would’ve made Lurantis a bit better. Pure grass is a bad typing, imo.
I mean yeah, but sometimes it’s concept > ‘it’s a better pokemon for battles’
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)
Well….its kind of useless.
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
Have to admit I haven’t. But that’s mainly cos I don’t see the appeal of it.
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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
The middle one is super cute though. Idk what happened to it.
It feels like looking at a Disney channel star aging, but with fruit
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.
Ice?
Eh, I guess, but it doesn’t live near any at all.
Bug isn’t weak to Bug, which is most likely Lurantis’ main predator
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.
Lol true, fluffy pancakes are not one to be messed with.
People are constantly talking about how awesome it is?
Not here then
Eh well I notice yours and Star’s comments more than most so between us three I feel like people like it a good amount lmao
How I feel rn
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:3
GF gives us a free Talonflame with Gale Wings. Pity they made it useless lol
Free Talonflame?
A punk NPC at the Battle Tree entrance trades his Talonflame with HA for a Bewear
Hm. I don’t understand why they’re giving us doubles of the Z-crystals in game, but not the apricorn balls, something we actually need more than one of.
TBF its not Doubles of Z-Crystals
Due to the way they work you can infinitely produce them from your bag
Then why the fuck are they attaching them to in game trades? -_- Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Pretty much to push you into using them on that Pokémon
Boooo. I never do. I still haven’t used my exclusive starter one
Ok so Battle Royals are a lot of fun.
And you get BP just for participating. Don’t even have win them
They’re more fun with real people IMO.
Probably are, but I haven’t tried them with real people yet.
Just farming BP
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
The games are amazing, but again, horrible for breeders. I hope Stars fixes the major issues
They also make the teams to counter yours. It’s funny and frustrating and fun all at the same time 😀
I tried multi battle.
My teammate had a water type and and flying type, so they send out a Jolteon straight away, and takes out both of her Pokemon in one hit each.
And I’m just there like….Ok cool.
Just use Pokepelago while you sleep and speed it up with beans
That doesn’t help with breeding.
Or does it? I dunno….
No, just EV training
Just EV training but it will do until you can get the proper items
Seems I wasn’t the only one to think that was backwards.
However, I am a fan of the concept of the battle tree, even though it’s another copy and paste.
Battle Royals and better than the Battle Tree. It’s just another continuos streak thing like every game before it.
It’s half past 11 on a school night
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Almost there yo!
If all these trades don’t kill me first XD
wonder trading and GTS is a god send lol
Pretty much
im on 82. your so close tho!
You are too! Keep it up! 😀
Sorry for being blunt, but are you new here or simply somebody with a changed username?
I ask because newbies don’t seem to frequent as often as you.
It’s Dazzling XD
Oh lol.
Glad that I was right so I don’t sound stupid. xD
I’d do the same in your situation tbh
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
There’s always one
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
Yeh, it’s strange, cos it’s all RNG based so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes not so much.
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
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
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.
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.
Eh, that’s fair enough.
It does take longer IMO though, but you do get consolation rewards.
Maybe slightly longer.
But 2BP per Battle Royale around 80% of the time. Is equal to 2 battles in the battle tree (at least for the first 7)
What is a good ribombee move set?
Max Sp.Atk and Speed
Moonblast and bug buzz are a must (or dazzling gleam I guess).
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
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
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.
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 is perfect anyway tho
Heatran’s just been loving everything he gets since his introduction. Even this gen it gets a brand new friend in Tapu Bulu.
Someone at GameFreak must be a hella fan boy of it
Bug Buzz can lower sp. def…but pollen puff can be used a recovery in doubles. Also, why energy ball over psychic?
Well, if you’re gonna breed one
Moon Blast (egg move)
Quiver Dance
Pollen Puff/Bug Buzz
Psychic
I’m getting the itch for more shinies.
Hmm, how about Cutiefly? That’s the prize tonight.
CUTIEFLY IS THE BEST
Pink little bee is so cute. ^_^
i was fairly close 🙁
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Woah that is super close! And melonbat!
Melonbat noo its a blood moon .-.
Aura Break should have been upgraded to cancel the effect of terrains.
Like Air Lock does with weather.
48 more mons to go before being complete
If any of those are Weavile I wish you good luck
i have a Weavile?
Good, because otherwise having it as one of your last Pokémon to get would probably drive probably you insane
do u wanna trade?
Like trade and trade back? I’d be up for that
do u have a goodra or a politoed
for trade and trade back of coure
Both! 😀
it would be a big help if u could trade me those and this slowpoke i need to evolve too. so its a win win
Okay, so trade and trade back one thing for Slowking and another for Weavile?
yep
Do we have each other’s FCs?
i dont think so whats urs
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Ill add u when i get home. im currently on a bus
Okay! Worried I might fall asleep since it’s late over here, could we arrange something for tomorrow maybe?
yea im free all day just remind nme
Okay! See you then
jjust let me get the kings rock
OMG dont remind me.
I spent 4 hours chaining hamako-o for the dumb razor claw, and never found it.
In the end my friend got one on the GTS for a castform.
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
How many pokemon do you use in the Battle Royal? Like how many do you bring?
3 each.
Ok shoot guess Ribombee will have to carry the rest of my non-EV trained pokemon
Alolan Grimer/Muk are actually pretty good. Have to remember that for future playthroughs
Poison/Dark is a good typing. Drapion is better though.
Drapion is one of my favorites in general
Could be a tad better
Otherwise it’s just another hindrance
I love it. Especially when ash fights Paul’s in the sinnoh league and it just rotates its body around
It could always did that
I love catching shinies with Luxury Balls. They have a little spark before the big star appears its great
Haha that’s what I caught zubat in.
How am I the only one who hasn’t even seen a shiny yet
¯_(ツ)_/¯
You’ll find one eventually.
Siiiiiiiigh
I caught both of my random encountered shinies with quick balls due to not having a false swiper on my team
Oh btw watch the game awards. We are getting some zelda footage
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Slowpoke…..seriously you probably could use them as road blocks and they’d probably not flinch
Ok but where can I buy the shirts on the instagram thing? I want one… or two… or maybe all of them (save for the luvdisc).
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.