We’re finally ready to do a giveaway from the wonderful Dragonite and Dratini plush which is a part of the Taiki-Bansei line of goods.

We’re happy to be offering this giveaway with our partner Meccha Japan! Using code PKJ5 will net you a 5% discount when buying from their online store and they carry a wide variety of Pokémon goods from Japan.

Band Pikachu winner
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You must be 13 years of age or older and anyone under 18 needs parental permission to participate.
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Yassss at catching eternatus in a heavy ball lol
i think ol Eterny is a 100% capture you could probably catch it on the 50th turn in a quick ball
My desired changes/demands to Sword and Shield
Rookidee and Corvisquire Normal/Flying and Corviknight Steel/Flying
Cramorant Water/Flying
Grappleoct having a pure fighting form and a fighting/water form based on an attack or ability
Stonjourner Rock/Ghost or even Rock/Psychic is fine with me but mostly Ghost
I really wished Copperajah was Steel/Ground but….we have too many of those….
As for Regional Forms
Gweezing can stay fairy but it has to have Levitate removed and only have Neutralizing Gas (Whats the point of having the ability when everyone ops out for the ability that made it so annoying)
G. Farfetch’d removed and burnt because the sheer fact they made a Galarian Farfetch’d after promoting Sirfetch’d feels like a big fat lie
Corsola and Cursola Ghost/Rock give them something to even the playing field (and by even i mean a glaring weakness)
Also nerf Fishious Rend so it causes 50% recoil damage so it can still be powerful but having to be used sparingly
Man I love how almost every one of these changes add nothing or would make the game worse :0
Copperajah, Eiscue, Skwovet, and the fossils have all grown on me a significant amount since leak season
Eldegoss, Morpeko, and Polteageist have grown on me extensively since I have the game now
The only thing that grew on me was this boy here
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/1/11/844Sandaconda.png
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Is it true that Pokemon can kick other Pokemon in PKMN Camp? I know about the Togepi-Cinderace kicking but am not sure if it’s just a neatly edited video or actual. I did see my Hatterene having a slap fight with inteleon but it didn’t seem they were physically hitting.
So I beat Leon a few hours ago and I must say his team was pretty solid but I dont get why he was so unbeatable. I also enjoyed Rose’s team but they’re all slow “bulky” steel types that kept getting one shot by my Centiskorch.
Final team *shield* :
Falinks
Mr. Rime
Toxtricity
Inteleon
Centiskorch
Grimmsnarl
Gonna start my sword playthrough after I do some things in shield and I’m picking scorbunny as my starter and I’m not using the same pokemon twice which also removes Corviknight and Orbeetle from this playthrough
About to enter the championship cup!
Haxorus lv.55
Kommo-O lv.55
Goodra lv.55
Flygon lv.55
Duraludon lv.55
Zweilous lv.55
Mono dragon! Yaaaassss
Saw frozen 2 unexpectedly today. Was a great movie! Loved it more than first to be honest.
Oh, nice – that’s fantastic to hear!! I’m going to be seeing it with my brother tonight!
I already loved the first Frozen, so I’m really excited for this!
Wasn’t a fan of the plot, but the characters and emotional storytelling in that movie were just spot on.
https://twitter.com/joemerrick/status/1200366615562465281?s=21
Altho his interactions withBede and Oleana and their loyalty to him kinda imply a certain abusive and manipulative side to him.Leon seems to be that…. he just can’t take a simple no for an answer, not even a “Not now, later”
And his entire conflict with
Truly the most thankful thing i’m thankful for is ALL THE LEFTOVERS FROM HOSTING
There’s no beautiful sight than waking up in the morning, opening the fridge and seeing a chilled carved succulent ham (call me crazy but i don’t like ham the same night its cooked but give it a night in the fridge and i will destroy it)
I never realized how much I need a Mr. Mime evolution…it feels just like out of Sinnoh and I love its goofy yet vividly animated personality.
you masochist…
Alright, Thanksgiving has come and gone, so now it’s officially Christmas season. And to celebrate that:
https://twitter.com/spacefunkyarp/status/1200278210987954176
A few questions… how do you get the bike to ride on water? And, if you catch a Dynamax Pokémon that isn’t Gigantamax form, can it still Gigantamax?
I wish the League Challengers you can fight in the Championship Cup post game, have had optional fights through out the game beforehand, instead of just being NPCs.
I mean you get to invite important characters too
Well I spent 17 scouts on Masters today and got one new character (Kris) and immediately just decided to max her to Feraligatr and 70 in level
Though I must say I really hate Lear. He’s a crappy villain who’s story all over the place and I’m stuck on the rematch stage despite being alot higher level than recommended
So I’ve put my writing on a break due to uni work, but I did some stress writing last week and have the first part of the prologue done!
To pad out numbers a little bit, I’ve made characters that aren’t based on Jungle Members. Partially to give the image of a larger community in the story, and partially because original characters makes controlling the narrative a lot easier without stepping on anyone’s toes.
So here’s Character Introduction #1!
Aavani ‘Ani’ Tamba and Ajahx
Aavani was born and raised in Driftveil City, although her family were fairly rooted to their old country customs which gave her a deep appreciation of her origins. Her family followed a patrilneal pattern of architects, but as the oldest daughter of a sonless father she took it upon herself to one day inherit her father’s Unovan branch of the family business.
When she turned four, she was gifted an egg from her grandfather back home. She excitedly cared for the egg as if it was already a child, and she was thrilled when it hatched into a Cufant. She named the youngster Ajahx, and put her all into raising her partner to both be a perfect battling partner and a building partner.
Inspired by her family’s Copperajah and her own Cufant, Aavani slowly developed a fondness for Steel-types. That fondness turned to love, and she soon found that Ajahx was not her only metallic teammate. When she learnt that her family were the ones Clay contracted to built the surface level of the Driftveil Gym, Aavani felt as if a path had been revealed to her – she would succeed both as heir to the family business and as the future Gym Leader of Driftveil City.
I’m going to be hatching some Morelulls today in hopes of them being shiny. I’ll be using Shiny Charm odds combined with Masuda Method odds so let’s hope the 1 in 512 skews in my favor today. I really want a dark orange Shiinotic!
Well that’s it! Playthrough number 2 is done, I’ve defeated champion leon!
Haxorus lv. 70
Goodra lv.70
Kommo-O lv.70
Hydreigon lv.70
Duraludon lv.70
Flygon lv.70
What can I say? It was a blast yet again to play through this game, and so soon after my first playthrough. I couldnt even sit through any gen 7 game a second time, barely finished my first ultra playthrough. Gen 8 really is something special.
What is it lance says in gen 1? “Dragons are hard to catch and raise but their power is incredible”? Something like that. That couldnt be more true. It took until about lv.30 for them to learn much of anything, but it was about there that the ball started rolling and we kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger and flattened everything in our way.
Mono runs like this give you a chance to use some pokemon you either dont like as much, or overlook, and even come out with a new appreciation for them. Kommo-O my boy, you are so much more than I was giving you credit for. Thanks for being such a reliable team member.
Dreepy is more common in surprise trade than Magikarp lol
Why does my body feel like its dying…..i only had four plates at dinner….then several more helpings throughout the afternoon, then before bed….. than when i woke up….
Raihan has special dialogue if his Duraludon enters the field solo! That’s pretty cool
Raihan: My Partner will send the whole crowd in the stadium flying!
Crowd: Lah lah lah lah! Lah lah lah, laaaaaah! YEAH!
So i’m still breeding my Drilbur and i’m checking his learnset and i’m a little pissed off
Apparently in SWSH Drilbur no longer learns Dig at level 19 but now learns it at level 32 a level after he evolves which he’ll learn at 34 and that really bugs me
One memory engraved in my brain is the usage a newly caught Wellspring Drilbur gets after learning Dig his namesake attack after Drill Run
And the thing that infuriates me even more is Earthquake, Excadrill is able to learn Earthquake at level 36 which is very early but in SWSH it’s all the way at 52 which is right after it finally learns Drill Run at 46…which annoyed me that it never learned earlier, i mean the coolest ground attack that exists and it’s species gimmick and it hardly gets any use out of it
Here have some nice music that was stuck in my head
https://youtu.be/XL_1kBz7WCI
Lowkey considering ditching my Shield Nuzlocke and instead doing a Shield mono Poison
Roserade
G-zing
Low Key Toxtricity
Salazzle
Two open spaces to change on the fly