Several leaks and announcements are pointing to Niantic gearing up for something huge in Pokémon GO!
Pictures, screenshots, and more have popped up from a confidential notice for Starbucks employees about a new sponsorship deal with the popular coffee shop beginning on December 8th. This sponsorship includes making most, but not all, Starbucks locations a Gym or Pokéstop in game and the introduction of a brand new Pokémon GO inspired Frappuccino! But what’s bigger than the appropriately Raspberry flavored blended drink is that the employee notice says “Pokémon GO is about to expand with new Pokémon” and a “new update.” This, alongside an official partnership with Sprint to make 10,500 locations Gyms or PokéStop adds to the hopefully growing list of sponsorships, and the possible introduction to Generation II Pokémon.
But if Gen II is just around the corner, what about the still omitted legendary Pokémon from Gen I? What do you think, will this holiday season mark us being able to catch Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile and the rest of Generation II in GO? Whatever the case, the update on Dec. 12th will definitely shed some light on the matter.
Got my first incidental shiny.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ed873b060f936ad29144cc8543c2e188818c468e0409a856131acfe2dd45b383.jpg
SHAVE IT SHAVE IT SHAVE IT!
If only there was a razor in Refresh…
Then…cook it up by burning it away with the hairdryer.
Oh, well I can just deposit it in Isle Avue until it gets cooked…
Wait, incidental or accidental
I was trying to get one Pancham for living dex… 🙂
(I hope I used incidental right.)
I think you mean accidental then xD
I guess yer right..!
Yo… Showdown anyone?
random or ou?
ou if you want
im carbbb
im at lobby
I’m so conflicted. I really want to keep breeding my first team, but I feel obligated to finish the pikipek quest at this point.
Can we just take a minute to ponder the fact of how busted James’ Pokemon will be? He’s got a bottle cap collection….
This NEEDS to be a thing.
I think we know who Ash is losing the league to this time
Youngster Tristan.
N-no! James cause bottle caps
Youngster Tristan can beat the E4 in around the same time span the protagonist can.
True true
OR
SUDDENLY ITS RYUKI!!! EVERYONES FAVORITE FANFICTION INSERT CHARACTER APPEARS !!
Everyone is going to waste their time making theories about him and he’ll never be seen again.
Or maybe,
That’s the joke. He brags about being a “star” but nobody knows who he is, so he’s really not famous.
Exactly xD
Watch him be the champ of stars and also be all eight gym leaders and seven trial captans… hell with it
STARS IS A GAME WHERE EVERYONE IS RYUKI BECAUSE HE IS A SUPERSTAR
I fear for the fate of totem pokemon in stars.
I hope they aren’t removed altogether, maybe have them be postgame superbosses.
Isn’t it obvious? Synchro will be a thing next game
Every totem is a dragon fused with Ryuki
Of course! How could I have been so blind?
And you forgot, each theme is Ryukified, just him saying his name over and over again to the theme of the theme
He keeps having to sell them though. Thinking about it I guess this is why he gets so much for them.
….Oh my god
https://media.giphy.com/media/bZT9BG7Nog9Gg/giphy.gif
http://1.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/96/86/d75d7142239a4fb49c5e42baf3cc3b97.gif
…
https://66.media.tumblr.com/dbea872ff063bf090ac90263733f574b/tumblr_n8vcx4mPUc1srq92go1_r1_500.gif
Why is there no “show less” option -_-
Refresh the page to “show less”…
Too much work
But you have to see what he did with his bottle cap money.
BITCHING A HEAVY BALL JANGMO-O
I prefer Level for it, or Luxury. Love Ball for its’ puke-worthy shiny.
Question: Is pokemon showdown completely updated? In other words, can I use it to accurately build a team?
Yes and no
The mons and stuff are all there
The tiers…. eh….
I really don’t need tiers right now, so that’s good. Are the moves accurate?
Yep!
Except the Z-moves don’t properly display damage, but they do the proper amount
Great, thanks! 🙂
Yw!
Now I’m curious since you mentioned tiers. xD
When do you think those will be updated? Do you know how long it took for XY?
I saw smogon post saying about a month
Seems fair.
Until Touccannon is sitting their dying
Completely unrelated to team building. . . but I keep calling Araquanid “Aquarachnid”.
(Twitching) Y-you can’t pronounce HIS name wrong
Mershaydoo.
Uh oh… 🙂
…….
Welp I’m done with life, jumping off a cliff, cya
How….?
Araquanid is so catchy….
The reason I do this is because that’s what I thought its name was until I saw it in game. I just read it too fast online I guess. xD
Bottom tier of Gen 7 be like
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/19fd2abc7a62c83016fa8fb9a0131602768c6cd498711147ed9a31a764c72e1a.jpg
So true lol
XD its true
I just thought of something.
??
Formes are placed in different tiers, so Midday will be on a higher tier laughing at Midnight…
XD it’s true
Alolan Sandslash is slowly becoming my favorite Pokemon to use on Showdown. People assume that Alolan Sandslash is useless because of that 4x Fighting and Fire weakness. And while that’s true, Slush Rush completely throws people off, so I’m able to bulldoze through entire teams with it XD
I have a fun little challenge (if you can call it that) for everyone. Name your top 3 favorite gen 7 pokemon, and predict what tier they will be in. I want to see where you think some pokemon will be!
Tapu Lele – OU
A. Marowak – OU
Torkoal – OUPrimarina – UUBewear – Uber
Marshadow- Uber (This CANNOT BE DENIED WITH IT’S SIGNATURE)
Decidueye- UU but used in OU once bank comes out as a partner with dugtrio
Araquanid-OU (DONT SLEEP ON MY BOI!)
7 star strike?
No, spectral thief
Enlighten me.
90 BP ghost type move
steals the opponents positive stat changes
Oooooh, that’s certainly interesting. And OP.
Yep!
And it’s literally me
*uses Araquanid as pillow*
Wouldn’t you drown?
I’ll get one with the hidden ability so it don’t have a water bubble. 🙂
And that will be a bad one
For combat yes, but for being a pillow, no more threat of drowning…
I honestly see it working a bit different
I wonder if it’s water bubble distorts it and it actually has a much smaller head.
Awww
Minior – UU
Kartana – BL
Araquanid – UU
Araquanid is OU imo, faaaar too good for UU
I haven’t used it enough, but that’s encouraging to hear it’s doing well!
1. Decidueye – UU
2. Marshadow – Uber
3. Golisopod – RU
EEEY!! TWO OF THE SAME FAVES!
It wasn’t until I saw Marshadow attack that I truly knew how much I loved it. Decidueye was a favourite as soon as I saw it though.
😀
Golisopod is in my top 15 so you got really good taste
Well you must have too then 🙂
😀 yay!
Decidueye – RU
Komala – OU
Minior – OU
Little bonus:
Rowlet – LC (I’m willing to bet money on this one)
Decidueye is not Ru
I’m not really that informed on tiers, but I thought it being a mixed attacker wouldn’t work well in UU.
Oh, that isn’t how its run, bulky pivot
Hmm. I’ll have to
steal your ideaskeep that in mind.Everyone runs it
I actually decided to try Shackle, roost, SD and Defog
Primarina – UU/RU ;-;
Mimikyu – OU
Magearna – OU
Prim is UU
Ok good yay
Might as well round out the starter trio. What about Incineroar? RU?
PFFFFT!! NO!
Nu if it is lucky! Easily the worst fire starter ever made! Possibly the worst defensive typing in the entire game!
(Behind certain Ice combos)
Uhhh… FYI, Houndoom was UU in Gen 5…
It was offensive and had sweeping potential. It was glass cannony
Incineroar is a defensive pokemon attached to a purely offensive typing. It does not work at all
If only Incineroar learned Agility…
It’s rotting in a place where nobody has to see that ugly as hell design
yeah mimikyu wont be OU, sure disguise is such a good ability but the poor defenses it literally dies to any attack after disguise
edited*
Few things will really outspeed it though. Jolly max speed will take care of alot. You get a free swords dance and maybe even another if you can predict well then you get stab Ghost and Fairy moves.
his speed is still bad in a way because is not pass the holy 101 speed tier. plus the thing about mimikyu is how easy is to predict it. Everyone will always SD and then attack, so most people just stay, break the disguie and switch. most of them carry the basic Play Rough, SD, shadow claw, and shadow sneak. Any good bulky steel type walls the heck outta of it.
But Mimikyu is versatile enough to still leave people guessing. It can be a sweeper, a staller, or something else.
no offense, but he is not versatile at all. His HP hinders any type of stalling or wall ability and has no access to instant recovery. It does not have any move to be an utility mon. His only good set is the sweeper one with everyone use
He is OU.. even if it is for a niche reason.. the damn red card set
To my knowledge, Scizor and Celesteela are freakin nightmares for it though
that niche is not good enough tbh. When it comes to niche it has to be something that can be used often in a battle. For example, Magnezone is only OU because of its niche totrap and kill Skarmory and Scizor. When it comes to mimikyu, after disguise is used, is niche is done, if you switch you are now carrying a death fodder through the entire battle
Oh I know, I’m well aware
It’s a niche in the same relam as Hawlucha, it’s far too good for UU yet not good enough for OU
So BL is very accurate
TBH BL is starting to make me hate the tier system. It’s no fair that a large group of pokemon don’t get to see play in any tier.
i mean you can still use BL pokemon and still be succesful. Togekiss, Zapdos and Weavile were BL
My poor baby is BL…
Where are BL pokemon legal? I thought they were “banned”, hence the name?
Banned from “a lower tier”. So being in BL prevents use in UU, but free game in OU.
Oh, I gotcha. I thought it was banned from everything.
That would be Mega Rayquaza, banned from everything (except Anything Goes).
The ubers, I know about those. I just hadn’t realized BL was even a thing until now.
Mega Rayray was beyond uber though. 🙂
Wait really? That’s news to me.
Yep, it is banned from Uber, and they created the new Anything Goes tier to house it.
Was that entire tier just people spamming dragon ascent? xD
Actually, no. Well at some point it’s mostly people using 5 swagplay klefkis… and 1 numel to counter the enemy klefkis.
If you’re using any kinda sweeper, including mega rayray, you will need to baton pass a substitute to it, and hope it’s not broken by foul play while you set up.
Zapdos has returned to OU at some point, and Weavile became OU…
Togekiss used to be OU.
Hey
Things like Araquanid will likely end up OU
Mimikyu lower BL or OU
But remember
At least it isn’t Mega Gallade syndrome
MG syndrome?
Mega Gallade was in an awkward part of BL and literally was one of the least used pokemon imaginable
Oh lol.
i Will just do a list for sun and moon tbh
OU: The Tapus (Fini may drop), The UBs (Pheromosa needs to be banned), Toxapex, Dhelmise
UU: Decidueye, Primarina, Tsareena, Bewear, Mudsdale, Palossand, Minior, Salandit
RU: Araquanid, Lycanroc, Vikavolt
PU: Gunshoos, Toucannon, Lurantis
Eviolite Salandit too OP.
Is it actually any good?
I’m just kidding because it said “Salandit” instead of Salazzle. xD
For LC though, I wouldn’t be suprised.
MATE ARAQUANID IS NOT THAT LOW
listen i love araquanid but those stats are a mess, water bubble save him from being PU. Highkey can be BL tho
What is BL?
ban list aka is too good to be RU, but not good enoguh to be officiallly a uu
So basically pokemon tier limbo?
yeah lol
That’s BL2. 🙂
BL is the list of pokemon banished from UU.
Aka, Decidueye if it got Leech seed
listen Drain Punch bewear should have been a thing
It’s OU
Lemme just say this… it hits harder than damn Azumarill
In fact,it has one of the hardest hitting moves in the game
I’ve used it a lot in OU, and I can tell you it works
UU least, OU most
but Azumarill has the typing, and the bulk and the priority. I hope you are right but i dont see hope
Trust me
Lemme change your mind
It one hit kills Xurkitree and can take a thunderbolt from it
It can tank ANY special hit in the entire game pretty much
And physically it’s no slouch either
Alright guys: Top 10 favorite new pokemon! (You can include alolan forms if you want but I’m not even though I love Raichu and Ninetales)
1. Primarina
2. Mimikyu
3. Magearna
4. Salazzle
5. Tsareena
6. Pheramosa
7. Lunaala
8. Ribombee
9. Nihiligo
10. Toxapex
Eh, I’m super lazy. How about 5?
5. Toxapex
4. Kartana
3. Minior
2. Decidueye
1. Komala
Might as well finish the list.
10. Silvally
9. Mimikyu
8. Cosmog
7. Xurkitree
6. Lurantis
1. Wishiwashi
2. Decidueye
3. Salazzle
4. Ribombee
5. Lycanroc
6. Golisopod
7. Araquanid
8. Vikavolt
9. Silvally
10. Buzzwole
The bug types this gen <3 <3
Now if only we can get some love for Ice next gen 😀
And steel, maybe.
The next region will be a VLFS in an icy ocean.
I would love more steel and ice types
Yeah, they got no love this gen.
I can hardly think of any new steel types
Togedemaru, Sogaleo, Celesteela, Kartana, and Magearna.
So literally NOTHING that wasn’t legendary or a cookie cutter pokemon.
Toge could have been good
(Holding a piece of paper that reads “iron head”)
Unfortunately probably never
I would love Nihilego a ton more if I hadn’t screwed myself over by not SRing for nature.
Gen 7 only? OK in no order:
1. Decidueye
2. Golisopod
3. Marshadow
4. Lycanroc Midday
5. Kommo-O
6. Lurantis
7. Ribombee
8. Salazzle
9. Solgaleo
10. Toxapex
UB’s:
1. Kartana
2. Guzzlord
3. Celesteela
Alolan Forms:
1. Muk
2. Marowak
3. Ninetales
4. Raichu
1. Tapu Lele
2. Silvally
3. Oranguru
4. Mimikyu
5. Golisopod
6-10. (some other stuff I haven’t thought about yet)
1. Marshadow
2. Araquanid
3. Decidueye
4. Rowlet
5. Kommo-O
6. Jangmo-O
7. Lunala
8. Nihilego
9. Golisopod
10. Tapu Koko
Oh, I was doing final evos only. Rowlet would be up there otherwise.
XD
Damn, I forgot marshadow. Well, he’s in there somewhere
HE BETTER BE
Probably at least kicks buzzwole down to 11
Yep
Ok now for top 10 all time favorites. So all regions
1. Primarina
2. Lopunny
3. Mimikyu
4. Magearna
5. Salazzle
6. Gardevoir
7. Tsareena
8. Lunaala
9. Sylveon
10. Gothitelle
10. Zangoose
9. Shedinja
8. Raichu
7. Turtwig
6. Ho-oh
5. Arcanine
4. Decidueye
3. Komala
2. Ampharos
1. Togekiss
Raichu is both Alolan and Kantonian, btw.
It’s still the same as before, I’m not dethroning anyone with new Alola stuff yet.
1. Azumarill
2. Azelf
3-6. Suicune, Chespin, Keldeo, Swampert
7-9. Lopunny, Lucario, Zapdos
10. Tornadus
1. Marshadow
2. Victini
3. Araquanid
4. Flygon
5. Decidueye
6. Rowlet
7. Kyogre
8. Kommo-o
9. Hydreigon
10. Ya boi Dunsparce
The new pokemon in stars should all be evolutions. Dunsparce and Corsola are a must.
Dunsparce is for a … special reason
Too personal?
I swept an OU team including a mega metagross with six Dunsparces
Oh. DO YOU HAVE THE REPLAY?!!?!
I forgot where XD
I flinched them to death, I got eight flinches in a row
If you ever find the replay, let me know, I’d LOVE to see that. xD
okay XD
No particular order:
Mega Charizard X, Mega Lopunny, Serperior, Palossand, Vanilluxe, Alolan Raichu, Brionne, Steenee, Rayquaza, Hydreigon
This is all not in order
Charizard, Skarmory, Heracross, Sceptile, Toxacroak, Mudsdale, Mimikkyu, Garchomp, all the tapus
THEY’RE ALL GIRLY
haha lol probably because I’m a girly girl?
My friend is SUPER lucky with shinies.
He got a shiny in twenty chain encounters a few weeks ago, he got a shiny from WT (probs hacked), a shiny randomly in the wild, another chain shiny in two hours, and he just texted me that he got ANOTHER chain shiny.
Damn,he’s lucky as hell.Even I don’t have that much luck,and I’m part Irish.
Same here lol. I had super good luck with a shiny zubat (in 80 encounters) but I’m 1300 into a pikipek with nothing.
I don’t care if I get hacked Pokémon on WT. As long as I wasn’t the one to hack it.
I could never with a good conscience keep it though. I just trade them away, the best I can do is try to make some kid’s day.
Is stockpile Toxapex worth it? Yay or nay?
no, you goint to switch toxapex to regain health anyways
Recover?
Regenerator, actually.
No, I mean is stockpile/recover set a good option?
n o
If you ever need to use Stockpile you probably don’t wanna switch out, but if the ability is Regenerator you’d wanna switch out.
I would do: Recover, Scald, Toxic Spikes, Baneful/Haze
Haze is a must imo, if you dont run Haze, you will be setup bait
It’s mostly setup spikes and run though… unless it’s Mega Sableye… :0
best set imo:
Recover
Scald
Haze
Baneful Banker
Recover + Regenator = you will never die
Scald for burn
Haze for nobody to set up
and Baneful Banker to poison those who could not be burned by scald, plus protect bonus
You think BB is better than Toxic Spikes though?
you could play around, i do because some mons I dont need poisoned, i needthem paralyzed or burned
Thanks for the advice! ^_^
Ok last list probably. 5 least favorite pokemon
1. TOUCANNON UHHHGGGGG
2. Dunsparce
3. Volcanion
4. Jynx
5. Cascoon (bad memories)
1 and 2 are killing me
Same, I love those two.
;~;
jynx? the best pokemon in gen 1
I wish it got an alola form to make it look not awful
hell even some of these would be better as regular evolutions
http://img04.deviantart.net/f705/i/2013/195/5/4/possible_evolution_of_jynx__by_dieguitohh-d6dhl4f.jpg
http://orig03.deviantart.net/4b9c/f/2010/145/e/4/jynx_evolution_by_ilovejynx2.jpg
http://img06.deviantart.net/1342/i/2013/124/9/1/jynx_evolution_by_grimegan_bt-d642ui7.jpg
i have a hope it will get an evo
my Mega Jynx would be at least 11 feet tall like some imposing Nordic Amazon goddess
Bruxish, Jynx, Finneon, Stunfisk, Pineco
oh and alolan dugtrio. I will never use that thing
Uhg, Pineco. Porbalby my number 6
1. Bewear
2. Bewear
3. Bewear
4. Bewear
5. Bewear
ALSO WHY FOR NUMBERS 1 AND 2!?!?
Add Incineroar onto that list too
Nothing can surpass my hatred for that. . . thing.
Incineroar is an abomination to all starters, fire, and dark types
Agreed, but Incineroar is still > Bewear.
Not to me… nothing is worse than Incineroar…
To each their own.
what about MY HATRED surly that shatters record
you going to see him alot when he becomes OU after tutor returns
i’m gonna run BULK UP HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
You. . . you betrayed me!!
Ithsme honey…you’ve known me for how long?
3-4 years actually. Time flies, wow.
Also don’t call me honey that’s awkward.
Alright snookiepie
let that rattle in your head
you’ll lie awake in bed forever mentally scorned
O_0
when drain punch becomes available. Bulk Up + Drain Punch would be deadly
Ugh.
I forgot special fire types weren’t a common threat
!!!!. Chandelure is the only special fire type that matters (and volcanion but he is a legend so it doesnt count)
With a special stat like that you ain’t gettin far
1. Biggest disappointment of this generation. You had this cute little bird,the best one since Starly, with a great Black, White and Red color scheme and an all around cute, appealing design. Oh! Maybe it could be Grass/Flying or Flying/Steel! It could be something like these
http://i.imgur.com/PWAuaZ0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/so1LazN.jpg
ya know, intimidating but still cute. But NOPE instead we get a disgusting toucan with a giant beak and tiny eyes that look like it can only see itself in the mirror at all times. It gets Normal/Flying as its type and pretty much no redeeming qualities.
2. Its just gross and dumb, and needlessly rare, and it doesn’t evolve. Like I would probably like it if it just evolved into something neat like this
http://img02.deviantart.net/d63b/i/2010/162/6/a/dunsparce_evolution_by_chocolatthunder28.png
but nope. Just an annoying dex filler that does nothing but irritate me
Use it in anything goes, run six with serene grace choice scarf with headbutt and bite
Tell me how you feel when it sweeps an OU team
1. Toucans are my favorite animal, so I really love getting to see it pokemon-ified. Never was a fan of pikipek, so I don’t mind the sacrifice.
2. Yeah, it should evolve, you’re right. But, there’s always hope (I think)!
It requires a mass blood sacrifice to evolve.
I don’t really have any least favorites. Because if I don’t like them I tend to forget they even exist…
5 isn’t big enough to compose this list
Is all the Ultra beasts on it?
that’s on volume 6
Does Nihilego get a pass for its fairy killing?
ehhh
Come onnnnnn
Don’t you love the image of a Nihilego slowly Neurotoxining a Tapu Bulu to death?
it really doesn’t do it for me
the only likable quality is the sole reason its a rock type but thats where it stops
also why isn’t it Poison/Psychic?
itsmade of glass?
…
unique typing?
first poison legendary (eh kinda)?
no, its glass like but a more logical explanation is Mercury which is a clear silvery mineral which is extremely high on the toxicity charts and prolonged exposure causes a plethora of problems (including memory problems)
Hmmmm
You have like encyclopedias of all the pokemon you hate and the reason. When you line up all of the volumes up it says “F*ck fairies*
line up*
Surely you can name 5 that are the worst of the worst..?
Omg you need to let toucannon gooooo
But my list:
1. Alolan Golem
2. Alolan Persian
3. Hypno
4. Chesnaught
5. Tympole
NOO IM NOT LETTING IT GO
https://31.media.tumblr.com/c3156bdc971a6a53c250dbf67ca440b4/tumblr_inline_nroa79jWKG1twqaz0_500.gif
There are so many more ugly pokemon to hate
yeah but they didnt tease me for… what? 7 months?
Tell me about it with the gen 6 flop starters
Yeah but at least
1. Chesnaught has a neat typing and is a decent tank
2. Greninja is really strong and good
3. Delphox… yeah Delphox is unforgivable but Braixen is great
I just hate them all design wise, like Delphox is okay, but its model is bad I don’t wanna use it
Definitely one of my least favorite Pokemon are the Mudbray line.I just don’t like the design
3…2…1…
Here it comes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_VlmEamUQ
I thinks its a neat idea and design, just doesnt appeal to me
Ok,I can respect that.I just think it’s design looks really bad.
It’s a beast in battle though
Your design looks really bad Alex
(We’re friends IRL, we can be dicks to each other)
Yeah,me and Spectral are best buds(not really).Anyways,I think it looks cool,and I guess I can see why you said that.
Yeah we are jackass
And that’s what makes us friends.
Yes indeed
(Insert freeze frame)
(Insert that one song that goes “And wouldn’t it be nice to live together”
Omg
Or maybe the friends theme song
Or maybe the Seinfeld theme song
No to that
you putting toucannon n.1 is literally the pettiest thing ever lol. but yeah
my lists of flops:
1. barnickle
2. chansey, and this one is just for competitive reason only
3. garbodor
4. Spinda
5. sunflora
How is it petty? I dislike pretty much every aspect about it
If gyms made a return in stars, which characters do you think will be gym leaders, OTHER THAN TRIAL CAPTAINS (because those are obvious and boring)?
I would think maybe Dexio and Sina.I would like to see them as Gym Leaders.
Good idea!
Nanu?
It’s a cool idea, but I can’t see it. He says he doesn’t want to do any duties he doesn’t have to (he says he can’t turn down a tapu, so that’s why he’s kahuna).
I can honestly hope to see more of Molayne and Ryuki!
Same! I love Molayne!
POKEMON RYUKI VERSION
Who is Ryuki? Wow there are characters I just dont even know about huh?
Ryuki is a character you fight in a Title Defense battle.His design kinda makes him look like a Gijinka Midnight Lycanroc.I think he looks cool tho.
Googled him… ooooo he’s cool
My guesses are Plumeria, Guzma, and Molayne.
Who is Molayne?
Postgame, you’ll see! He has a badass outfit
Where in the post game?
Not sure, since I haven’t gotten that far. I’ve just been spoiling myself xD
No, he’s in game.
Really? Only in that title defense thing?
No, he was the previous captain of Mount Hokulani.
Are you mixing up Ryuki and Molayne?
Ryuki’s the guy with Dragon-types dressed in red. Considering he wasn’t part of the main story, I assumed he had some role to play in the UB quest or something, but it seems he’s simply a Champion challenger.
Right, but Molayne, the guy in the blue jacket, is in the story.
Yeah I know xD
Soffy’s cousin Big Mo.
Oh yeah
YOUR BOI
Hmmmm other than the Captains? that’s a tough one I could definitely see Molayne being a gym leader. and that Ryuki guy from the Champion challengers. Maybe even the Captain for the Dragon trial could be a gym leader. They were never shown so they could show up as a leader rather than a Captain. lol
The captain for the dragon trial is Mina.
She’s a Fairy-type user…
I know, but there was no totem for her on poni, and there was no captain for Kommo-o on poni. I’m just connecting the dots.
Didn’t Hapu mention something about it being the first trial and no captain appointed to it? Might be wrong on that one. Also Mina stated her trial wasn’t ready yet.
I think you’re right. I wanna say Hapu said the Trial Captain was off the island for some reason and thus why they weren’t around to give the trial. And then Mina is such a free spirit that she just doesn’t care enough to set up a proper Trial that she just gives you her crystal.
I thought they were technically separate. I think it was said that the Dragon Captain wasn’t anywhere to be seen on the island and then Mina was a captain on her own, but she didn’t have a trial set up. Which is why she just gives you her Z crystal instead of making you do something for her. I think they’re two separate Trials in general.
Great minds think alike
Apparently they do lol
I just wanna say that one thing I find…interesting about Ryuki is how his eyes change color depending on his emotion.Like,his overworld model’s eyes are white,battle model’s is yellow,then blue when you defeat him.How does he do that?
Contacts? Idk……..I actually haven’t re-challenged the league yet so I’m looking forward to seeing him in action. Seems like a cool design. I really do hope we’ll see more of him lol
Honestly, I really think those plots serve an alternate purpose. I can’t see Gyms and Trials coexisting… it would be strange and almost redundant considering the League didn’t require any Badges (though it could, but then what good would completing Trials do?) Then again, I can’t think what else they could be for…
My best guess (and personal hope) is that the gyms are built post game, and serve as a post game quest.
That would be great, and I pray that the Trial Captains don’t double up as the Gym Leaders. 8 new characters (or ones not in a Captain position) would be great!
I’d like to think they would be integrated a bit. Like you have to do some sort of short trial before taking on the gym/gym leader. Maybe each Gym facility itself is a bit more involved and the trial happens in each gym. Something like that would be cool I think
That could work. One of Team Skull’s intentions, as stated by Guzma in Malie Garden, was to get rid of all the “old traditions” of Alola, specifically stating Trial Captains and finding no need for a Pokemon League. Maybe another team (Neo-Skull or Eclipse) will share his mentality?
Yeah and them integrating the Trials and gyms could work as a way of showing that Alola as a culture is making it’s way into the current times while at the same time preserving some of their old traditions. Some old and new mixing in harmony kind of stuff lol
Omg why did they give tapu fini aqua ring, how fucking evil of them
RIGHT, THAT WAS TOO MUCH
I’m trying to catch it in a dive ball and this is just evil
I had…….zero problem with catching Tapu Fini. Lele was the only one I had a problems with and that was only because I didn’t really go in with a plan of any sort. The rest were relatively easy to say the least. At least for me anyway lol
I’m about to go move tutor heal block onto silvally
I’ve only caught the first two.Both took extremely long to do so.
The Tapu’s are actually relatively bulky as long as you don’t crit and use a move that isn’t crazy effective against them. If you’re Pokemon are reasonably leveled with them then you should be fine. Once you lower their health just paralyze them ore something and it should be a snap as long as you’re using a ball that’s not terrible. lol
I got Tapu Lele to extremely low health,and it still took forever.
Good thing my ball this gen is Timer Ball, so I had no plan for Bulu and Lele except “stall/roost with Skarmory” until they go in.
Hey anybody wanna 6v6??
Showdown or in game?
In game.
I would but gotta wait on my pokes to EV train and Magearna and Type:Null to level up all on pokepelago 🙁
Awww alright :/ Are you trying for level 100?
Yep. So much fun
Gross. With Isle Evelup’s rate that’s gotta take like, what? A week?
Too long, thats for sure. I’m just using Isle Evelup so I can get a tiny bit of progress while not playing
Singles, Smogon OU?
Sure!
Hey, wait! I was just asking the format. 🙂
I won’t be available for about 1.5 hours… also my team’s not really ready but I think I can piece together some interesting scraps…
now i feel compelled to list every single pokemon i hate and reason why…..let me see
So I did 63 sessions on Isle Evelup and the stat isn’t fully trainer. What’s wrong?
*trained
Is the island fully upgraded?
Not when I did that, no. I guess that’s the issue, thanks!
alright i’m still counting but i’ve clocked in at 51 hated pokemon and i haven’t even finished Hoenn region
jeez fam, you cant just list every fairy and legendary
That’s excessive. You should broaden your interests
For a guy named EARTHen he’s not very inclusive
Eh? Eh?
Ian Entharalis Earthen T K
Wow. I couldn’t imagine wasting my time with something I hate so much.
who wanna make bets? i bet an adamant dewpiper that he will reach 115
I think…..I think I might vive up on completing the dex until the Bank opens for SuMo……..It’s such a grind and it almost feels like a waste of my time when I know I have mons to fill the spots just waiting in the bank. *sigh* Shiny hunting will have to officially start in 2017 I suppose. Well at least ti was a good way of training my main mons for a little while. I’m just so tired of having to grind for mons I’ll never use lol
135
A grand total of 135 pokemon i hate/hate battling/caused me trouble
Hmm expected more
look i lost count a few times, one of those self playing ads played and i lost count
Gotcha
there’s always room for more
Sure is
Ok now find a reason to like all of them 😀
no
ok I mean I wont do that for Toucannon so why should you
YOU MUST! Toucannon is a godsend.
shitty move pool and you can’t have skill link and sheer force at the same time
^^^^
yay more reasons. Its a worse version of Cincinno and thats an insult because I love Cincinno
So it has two great abilities? How’s that bad?
As I said below, Cincinno does its job so much better
I’m not looking from a competitive standpoint, I’m looking from a toucan-loving standpoint.
But Toucans are gross. Look how much better this lovely woodpecker is
http://www.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/via-Red-Bellied-Woodpecker.jpg
No, toucans are beautiful. Why cant you just let me have this? ;_;
look at this train wreck. Its dinosaur ancestors are so disappointed in it
http://antpitta.com/images/photos/toucans/Toco-Toucan-santateresa_3051.jpg
Dawwwwwww, so adorable! 😀
What you saying gurl?!?!? Toucannon is great lol
I despise it really
Only 16%?? Not bad.
Over a whole generation! xD
LOL
Wow!!! That’s probably more than most genwunners like!
It’d be funny if the total was 151…
I hate a grand total of 000000000 Pokémon.
I hate really maybe 10.
thats 16% of pokemon .o.
Have you ever considered accepting the idea that you can use Pokemon that don’t all share the same weaknesses? I know you love ground types, but using mons that are good against Fairies and such could be good for your game…..Just saying……lol
that sounds like accepting defeat
No its just being open minded
You only have yourself to blame then. Don’t hate the game hate the player. lol
i can hate both
you can’t force them to not use legends and the game made said legends op
No, it is being a real competitor and learning to counter the common strategies and using the strongest choices instead of complaining when other people don’t adhere to your self-inflicted handicap.
Yeah like, Earthen, you basically broke your own arm in the middle of a game of baseball, insisted you keep playing, then get mad when you struggle to swing the bat
i’ll grip the thing in my damn teeth then lose
What if your teeth broke too and the bat was on fire?
i am a man who’ll die trying
if i was a videogame boss i’d have like six phases
1st phase: Twin War Mallets
2nd: i conjure a huge molten hammer
3rd; metamorphosis into greater Earth elemental form
4th: i’d break the floor sending us down a giant chasm and you fight on the fall
5th: i become engulfed in magma enhancing my form
6th and Final: with my undying fury i cause a violent eruption to take you down with me
6th is countered by Mudki[ with damp
this is a a volcanic eruption fueled by pure seething rage by a mutated Lava Behemoth
a tiny kipper would be incinerated
It’s an Eruption, not an Explosion. 🙂
You need Water Sport.
You mean that move everyone forgets by level 12? Earthen’ll win for sure.
You might be surprised I am *actually* considering running Water Sport in VGC ’17 because surprise surprise, Torkoal is a b*…
Araquanid boi
Water bubble
Togekiss w/ Kings Rock
Dazzling Gleam
Thunder Wave
Air Slash
Ancient Power, Nasty Plot, or Roost?
Neither. Scrap it and get a Dedenne instead.
Horrible idea.
Respected.
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DEDENNE OR RIOT
LillieBonnie: Get back in the bagNebbyDedenne!aura sphere!
dont let be walled by steel types bro
For dazzling gleam?
no, go 252 HP 252 SpA.
Aura Sphere
Dazzling Gleam
Air Slash
T-Wave
That’s what I ran last gen, and it worked fairly well. Oh well, same thing I guess.
After I took 3 hours to breed nasty plot onto it… I might have two togekiss this gen then, why not?
if you wanna run NP, you could run HP and defenses ev with a little in SpA. Drop Dazzling Gl.
I’ll just make two. Thanks again for the advice!
IMO yes. Since you’re not running Leftovers you must have Roost.
Paraflinch is amazing. 😉
it needs to be banned
I’d rather it have…..well i was gonna say gale wings but that’s disabled the moment it takes a scrape
Statuses are kinda my signature thing lol.
status are fun! unless used against you
Watching your opponent crumble as you sit back. . .
That’s the best feeling in a battle for sure.
Ancient Power is good when you are unsure what to do next. It can kick off a sweep if you land the stat boost
Nasty Plot is ehh since its so slow
Roost is really good