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!
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Forewarning to you all: don’t take the final battle lightly. You’ll know the one. It’s taken me about six or seven attempts to figure out a strategy to best cheese my way through to the end. Considering the levels of his Pokémon, the difficulty is nearly up there with Red to me.
I finally won…that was insane. Two Focus Sashes were COMPLETELY necessary and every move had to be calculated. Bravo, Game Freak, bravo indeed.
Playing Shield since I got both, team is
Velvet the Scorbunny (F) Lv. 10
Raven the Corviknight (F) Lv. 11
Mercury the Obstagoon (M) Lv. 6
Gonna dump Raven and Mercury and get new Rookidee and Zigzagoon on Route 3 since Raven’s nature is really bad and Mercury isn’t in the ball I want him in.
I could give you a HA Rookidee. I am gonna try get it in a heavy ball soon too.
@Keihzaru I can’t seem to tag you any more but I’ll be on a bit longer if you want me for any more raids..
I’m going to bed, but got a question. For my writing thing I’ve settled on a modern setting, but should I have trainers with mixed type Pokemon or have it as a sort of ‘Gym Leader academy’ setting?
Depends if it’s limited to a certain region. If they can be from any then the latter is good.
Going with Kurusu and do gym academy!
Yay a Noibat raid accepted me for once.
Following that, if characters (based on Junglers) were restricted to Monotype teams, are there any types you’d want?
Please list three type choices in order of most to least wanted. Priority will be decided on who I think I can write best and Jungle seniority.
Ground, Fighting, Rock
I’m going to stop playing for the rest of the day because I believe that completing the game is a perfect opportunity for reflection. I also have to finish homework that’s due this week so I can push forth and continue filling up the remaining 180 spots on my Pokedex…and beyond!
After everything that’s happened, and after feeling so deflated about the Pokedex cuts, I was never in a million years expecting to feel the way I feel about this generation. However, I am completely and totally satisfied by what I played. Instead of being upset, I applaud Game Freak for somehow spinning their decisions in a way that made Pokemon feel genuinely refreshing again. I’ll be honest with you folks. I hated Sun and Moon. Well, I didn’t hate it, but it felt like such a slog from beginning to end. The amount of raw energy exuded from this game in comparison to what we had just two years ago is mind-boggling. If this is Game Freak at their worst (according to critics), I am absolutely thrilled to find out what comes next. 9/10, you did it Ohmori.
Did 2 raid battles against Gmax Butterfree, and both escaped. Now I successfully catch a Gmax Corviknight and a Drakloak! Lucky day, I guess.
Really happy I’ve been taking it slow… was happy to get to the area to finally catch a snom. 5 or 6 in just looking for a female to catch in a good ball I get this little guy!
There you are! I’ve got a sobble for you! I couldnt reach you here when I finally made it home last night!
Don’t know why the pic didn’t show.
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Shiny Rick.
Just beat Piers
Team:
Ranken the Rillaboom
Philo the Toxtricity
Ganesh the Copperajah
Brent the Dracozolt
Abbadon the Grimmsnarl
Galder the G-Darmanitan
This is gonna be my team for the rest of the game, as well (at least until I get into post game shenanigans after catching Zacian…still somewhat dissapointed you don’t get her til after all the plots)
Team update 7 badges!
Newt the Intelleon
Azarath the corviknight
Nova the centiskortch
Jubilee the Toxtricity
Rumpel the Grimmsnarl (I love it so much!!!!)
Dreepy (still need a nickname here)
Entire team is level 46. Taking a break for now will play more later.
I need raids in my wild area… Wtf is wrong with my game ????
Hey does anyone have a darmanitan? I’m dying to get one!
Tomorrow Jeff and Aurora get their first gym badge!
Wait, you still havent gotten the first badge?
You really like your take your time my friend!
I feel weird going through it so fast. I like to take my time and enjoy and train and make it like what it would really be like. Plus I like to do major things on odd numbered days…
Playing Shield all day and I’m at Spikemuth right now. My team is:
James Pond (Inteleon)
Applejack (Appletun)
Ol’ King Coal (Coalossol)
Roxie (Toxtricity)
Hairy Scary (Grimmsnarl)
Kaa (Sandaconda)
It’s really good . . I have a feeling I may come to like Go more than Ash. . The episode is subbed elsewhere if you search. I did take Pikachu evolving as a bit random lol .. and he Could have said bye
🙄😂😂 Can’t wait to see how Go gets a Scorbunny in Kanto.. and sure someday he will catch Mew.
My game won’t arrive until the 20th 😭
But my team will be:
Cinderace♀️, Corviknight, Obstagoon, Toxtricity(amped), Falinks, Dragapult
How good are these games? I’m 7 badges in and I absolutely love them. The wild area is so good 🙂 I wasn’t feeling the max raid battles prior to the game’s release, but playing the game makes me realise how fun they are. I love nearly all of the Pokémon designs. I think the story could be a bit more interesting, and the world could have been a little bigger, but the world is so rich and textured. I’m very happy 🙂
I agree 🙂
Who else loves the way they handled menus in Sword and Shield? They’re fresh, neat-looking, and easy to navigate. They can sometimes seem a bit over-organized, but it is probably useful once your item count gets bigger and bigger. I love the attention to detail Game Freak put into these games. They tried to improve everything, from menus/UI to trading & more. These are Nintendo Switch games for sure.
yeah really love the UI overhaul – especially flipping between pokemon and boxes so quickly, also that you’re able to see what TM/TR a pokemon can learn in one view, rather than flipping through each single one
Jeff just got his first badge. Do I make my way to the next town or go to the Wild Area?
You gotta go through the wild area to get to the next town. Wooloo block the tracks of the train so they let you off at the wild area
That’s before Motostoke (the opening ceremony). The way to Hulbury from Turffield is Route 5.
So with Sword and Shield, the number of unused typings has dwindled a bit.
We now have: pure Flying (that isn’t Tornadus); Electric/Poison; Electric/Dark; Dark/Fairy; Poison/Fairy (regional variant); Ice/Bug; Electric/Dragon (non legendary/mega); Steel/Dragon (non legendary); Dragon/Ghost (non legendary); and Ice/Fire (regional variant/very specific case).
I’d also say Grass/Dragon is more accessible, since it was originally a Mega typing, then moved to an Alolan variant, but now on a common Pokemon.
Mega only combos are still Dragon/Fairy and Dragon/Psychic.
Legendary only combos are still Fire/Water, Fire/Steel, Ice/Dragon, Fighting/Rock, Fighting/Ghost, Psychic/Ghost, and Psychic/Dragon.
Still a good number of unused combos, while also accessibility via variant is something to consider as well, like: Poison/Fairy, Dark/Normal, Rock/Electric, Ice/Fairy, Ice/Fire, Ice/Steel, and Electric/Psychic.
There’s also combo hog Rotom: Electric (Ghost/Fire/Ice/Grass).
(Spent way more time looking through several pages for all of this, and I’ve probably missed something).
So I guess Hatterene rips you apart with its hair claw thing if you are too loud. Jeeze.
If you show any strong emotions… you get fired from your job and come home crying and it murders you.
If anyone here gets a Corsola Max Raid Battle, I need to join as I need its hidden ability!
Game Awards Nominees in 45 minutes
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