The new season of Pokémon, Pocket Monsters, has begun airing in Japan. The Pokémon Company has made the first episode available on YouTube, likely to spark more interest in the revamped format.
Although many of you probably don’t understand Japanese, you may be able to follow along with the general gist of the episode—or at least enjoy the animation!
Please leave a comment with your thoughts and don’t forget to join our Discord server if you want to find someone to trade or battle in Pokémon Sword & Shield!
Just beat Gordie.
Team:
Ranken the Rillaboom
Philo the Toxtricity
Ganesh the Copperajah
Brent the Dracozolt
Abbadon the Grimmsnarl
Galder the G-Darumaka
Like these names
So Pikachu’s mother is a Kangaskhan!?!
I can’t wait to watch this episode. Been wondering about how Pikachu was before Ash since I was a kid.
My team right now outside kabu’s gym
Drizzile (Blondie) male
Orbeetle (Lady) female
Dreepy (toothless) female thanks to @exeldus
Applin (Fuji) female
Centiskorch (Volvagia) female
Koffing (Lucy) female
Will switch in g-darm for Centiskorch later when someone with sword trades it to me
And Frosmoth for Orbeetle. I don’t seem to care about type overlaps with this game, which I love because I can use my favorite mons without fretting about it.
Also, Applin is useless before it evolves so I can’t wait for my sweet apple
Well I’ve
-beaten the main game
-beaten the post game story
-unlocked the battle tower
-got my starter to level 100
Now, we enter the grind
Oh and I plan to have a detailed review for this game out soon
lol I don’t even have the second badge yet
I don’t even have the first on either version
My friendcode if anyone fancies: SW-8136-3643-1809 🙂
Allister is dead and gone, and my team is:
Sean, the Inteleon (lvl 38)
Ben, the Boltund (lvl 36)
Olivia, the Coalossal (lvl 38)
Javier, the Morgrem (lvl 36)
Mads, the Ponyta (lvl 34)
I’m sorry but why can a 5-star raid mon summon not one, but two of those busted shields? they better release a patch because its literally impossible to beat this within 10 turns or preventing 4 faints.
Five star raids are made more where you have to battle with other people online rather than the NPCs you were given if you choose not to invite someone
I’ve played a lot of gen 8 battles on Showdown, and I can confirm, Dynamax is way too OP. The good side is, my thick boi Snorlax is really a beast with belly drum and dynamax. Like, Snorlax is pretty much OU now. Not to mention the fact that Gigantamax Snorlax is already Uber! Can’t wait to cream people with it on Battle Stadium. And if you still need proof that Dynamax Snorlax is op, here it is. https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen8oubeta-1011841932
Honestly, dynamax breaks this game. You either sweep or be sweeped now
If I’m near Gym 7 and my team is all level 47 am I over leveled?
No, the champion has mid 60s
Anyone wanna help me with a 5 star Gmax Dreadnaw Raid in 6 hours?
I want to but I don’t know if I’ll be home in time
Finally got myself an Adamant Ditto
So, even tho the story itself is very low key and mostly focused on your Gym Challenge, I think this game has the strongest character Writing in the series. Hop’s character arc is great and Bede’s is just hilarious. The whole deal with Eternatus felt kinda tacked on, but I enjoyed that the plot was more personal, with less Standard JRPG world ending shenanigans until the end.
Also, this was probably the most satisfactory League FIght in the series, by far.
It’s highly disappointing they didnt give Galarian Rapidash a unique physical fairy horn move…
Radiant Jab: 100 att. Lowers opponents defense
Anything
Has anyone posted this yet??
https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1196342543425781760?s=20
Apparently required a lot of work just to do one without animations and with the inferior textures of Pokemon Go. Interesting that it can be done tho, maybe this will encourage them to make an official update.
They ported a model and animations from an existing game with a similar graphic style. It took them a while for one and it doesn’t even have its own stats and moves. And because its Let’s Go, they can only do this with Kanto Mons.
And if all Kanto Mons were in, people would’ve bıtched anyway.
Dexit was a bad, bad idea but using this as a ‘haha GameFreak baddy bad’ is dumb lmao
Just caught Gmax Sandaconda!! 😀 😀
Love this one.
My Beautiful Edgy Champion boy
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Perserker got Mike Wazoiski’d so I took this one
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Yo so like
A Snom
PLEASE
I’VE BEEN RAID FARMING SINCE THE FUCKIN GAME CAME OUT
So they nerfed Disguise, nerfed Moody into competitive potential, and added steel stealth rocks
Okay, I need a little help with something. It was late last night and I saw that, if I won this contest, I could win $650 worth of art supplies (which would make me sooooo happy!! Because money is a bit tight rn, but I digress). When I submit my work, would you guys view it and give it a LIKE? I guess the amount of likes is how you win (I forget, have to read the email again).
Also, Round 1 prompt is Dynamic Duo and I need a bit of help about what to draw (has to be original so don’t go into detail please). I was thinking of doing a picture of a character my son made up, Captain Sword, and his trusty sidekick dog, Buttah.
Can try. Sounds like a good idea.
Thanks Fuzz!
Small spoiler to the huge ass review I’m doing
Bede’s the best rival in the series
I hated Hop
Leon’s a godtier champion
This game’s in the top four generations in the series, top 5 games in the series.
Still has some glaring flaws, some of which are INCREDIBLY annoying.
Does a lot right in spite of this
Best set of new mons since gen 5
I’ll go into more detail soon, but here you go
Add me
SW-4010-0460-1076 I do Max Raids at night on Tuesdays and Fridays, until the 7th of December when I will start doing them every night.
Just realized my quest for a living pokedex is nigh impossible.
Theres quite a lot of pokemon that there’s no way in hell anyone would trade me for.
Other than the cover Legendary, which ones?
I can assist
So basically I’m baby https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e4a586e868da948f7ad40d7752fb9f994e6add35eb05946a91823fe04117069.jpg
I really love these cards. I kinda wish there were more gym leaders cards of ascending rarity, and packs to buy or something. They’d be fun to collect and they add lore.
Gaaaaaayyyy
Kinda remind me of morty tho
Lollll
I’m adorable and you know it~
My Review of the game:
Most fun I’ve had with a Pokemon game in years. 8/10.
Most of the “technical issues” people ragged on from leaks were mostly on the Wild Area but exclusively while playing Online, which is understandable given how many creatures end up running around, it’s being held back by the Switch, visuals in the game are really good overall imo, the towns feel grand, and the characters are expressive and well animated.
The new format for the Pokemon League is amazing and fills you with excitement, hope this is kept from now on.
Dynamax and Gigantamax really do open up a lot of strategy possibilities for Pokemon that would normally need some support and during online keeps battles from being too predictable.
Dynamax Raids are really fun and challenging.
I clocked in 12 Hours before even getting to the third Gym just from how fun it was to go around the Wild area and do Raids, even staying only on the parts where I could catch Pokemon.
Despite the Dex Cull, there is a good variety of old Pokemon to be found here, altho some do make me scratch my head for their inclusion, like Delibird.
New Pokemon designs are really good, with only a few clunkers.
Negatives I think need adressing:
1. Some of the Battle backgrounds transporting you to the white void are really disappointing. I understand for things like the daily Bakery battles, but the battles inside the Lobby that are story obligatory should have a unique Background.
2. While online is good, it has a serious issue refreshing the intstances, so some times you get no Stamps and you end up looking at Max Raids that you can’t join anymore. This needs a manual refresh on top of the automatic one, even if it results in you having to wait a bit for it to communicate to the server again.
3. Some of the routes really are too small, altho some open up a lot after getting the water bike.
4. Team Yell was underwhelming, altho Piers was one of the best Gym Leaders on the series.