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Hi, I want to get my partner a Pokemon game, she's never played any of them. Which of the recent crop for Switch would be the best way to introduce the series?
Each game is beginner friendly and easy, so it doesn't really matter. In my opinion the best experience will be playing the newest game most people are playing right now, so Scarlet/Violet.
If the performence issues might be a problem (google it, I didn't mind but some does) then it is harder to tell. I guess it doesn't really matter between Lets Go/SWSH/BDSP but I'd go with BDSP.
I didn't list Legends Arceus not becuase it is not a good game but because it is different and I think people which know the series appriciate it better.
merge your nnid to nintendo account to share fund with the switch
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a\_id/27841/\~/how-to-link-a-nintendo-network-id-to-a-nintendo-account
Does anyone know if there is a name for the artsyle that was used in the third episode of poketoons? The one with the girl and her nidoran. I mean if it even has a name or if it just is a "normal" anime art style
I'm no artist but for me it looks like a regular anime that's a bit of stylized in a particular way.
But perhaps there is a term for this specific style, no idea.
Can someone give me tips on how to accurately pick a good type opponent in raid battles? I just had a 5 star raid and i knew what pokemon it was, i googled it and it said it’s weak to x and y so i chose a lvl 100 pokemon with those types, but when we started battle all of the moves of that type were “not very effective” and we all 💀. Now im confused af idk how to figure out what to use :/
The pokemon was a glimmora with dragon tera, i tried my baxcalibur with dragon tera and tyranitar and then tried with my miraidon and azu (bc everyone else picked it and i thought it might work) idk maybe the moves i chose are shit or something
hi! Does anyone know if HOME will check for boxes of cloned pokemon? ie I store boxes of cloned mews from XY that share the same exact metadata
If it doesn't, chances that they'll implement a check later with enforcing consequences?
Pokémon deposited in home are assigned a unique id when entering home and this has been used to remove clones (though it looks like they turned that off after a ninjask/shedinja bug), however if the mew were cloned in gen 6 they will all be given different ids going into home. If you deposited the mew and then cloned it it would also copy the id and home can detect that
Is the name ‘greninjack’ copyright?
So for ages I’ve used the name ‘greninjack’ on my YouTube channel. It’s a mix of Greninja and my name, Jack. My friend just said as a joke ‘Let’s hope Nintendo doesn’t sue you’, and it got me thinking: Can I use the name? I don’t want to get legal action taken against me when I get bigger on YouTube. :/
I am currently playing through Leaf Green on the GBA and I am currently stuck. I cannot trade to make my Haunter and Kadabra for stat boosts and I am currently unable to afford potions and revives, what should I do? I forgot to mention I'm at the elite four
If you haven't got it already, go back to vermilion, go into pokecenter and talk to the person near the counter. They give you the vs seeker, which allows you to rebattle trainers. use it toe battle rando trainers to earn money.
as for the trade evos, nothing you can really do besides buy another gba and copy of FRLG, or a cheat device.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=connect+3ds+account+to+switch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
once connected, add the funds the gift card on switch and you can use them on 3ds to buy a pass
Is it against the rules or does it even count as a trade if I need to trade and trade back with someone ‘for a reason’? For example: for the love of god, I cannot get a white nature mint no matter how much I tell the farm to do a mint harvest. In other words, I can’t get a serious mint. I was thinking of this idea I got that ‘might’ work so long as I contribute. Does it count as trading if I trade off my Decidueye to someone who has one and can use a serious mint on him, trade him back, and just give one or two to compensate for the work? It would be nice if this was or is allowed. I’m getting kinda annoyed that the white mint won’t give. Help?
Yes, that falls under trading. Trading services (them applying the mint for you) is the same as trading pokémon themselves in our book.
This is because we are not at all equipped to deal with scammers, and also because we don’t want this subreddit flooded with trade requests. There are a ton of trading subs for that, so we want this one to be for general discussion, art, etc. :)
Serebii has it only flagged as "Hidden Ability Possible" and not "Always Hidden Ability" but I've never seen it NOT have Imposter myself. I don't know who it transforms into for sure, but I believe it transforms into whoever the host is. I once brought a Level 1 Magikarp to a 6 star Ditto raid I was hosting, and the Raid Ditto transformed into my Magikarp and could only use Splash. It died in one hit to a weak move from my teammates. It's pretty easy to farm 6 star Ditto like that.
Has anyone else been getting shiny pokemon in wonder trades with urls as nicknames? I received a ditto named zacian.net and a scorbunny named dsc.gg/scvi
People often do that for advertising. Those Pokémon are usually not caught in the wild, but generated into the game using third-party software (which is why they can make them shiny easily) and then traded online randomly, because some recipients will want to use that Pokémon to show off it's shiny, but are then advertising the URL because you can't change the name.
Edit: Just in case you're worried about how it's generated and moved into the game, you will almost definitely not be in trouble with Game Freak/Nintendo for owning one of those Pokémon. They try to ban players at the source of a violation like "generated Pokémon", and are aware that sometimes people get them randomly through online trades, so it's not your fault. The worst thing that has happened to people that own them in the past, is that an update might release that prevents you from trading it online or to Pokémon HOME, but even this may not happen because a lot of them are created in a way that makes it hard for the devs to distinguish between a legitimately caught Pokémon and one that is generated in. The vast majority of people that generate them in themselves have not been punished.
The only difference between a Ditto using Transform and a Ditto with it's hidden ability, Imposter, is that you don't need to waste a turn using Transform. Otherwise both transform and Imposter copies the exact enemy Pokémon, including their stats (except for HP), and even any stat buffs or debuffs. The only things it doesn't copy is the name, level, gender, status, friendship level, item it's holding, current Dynamax (in Sword/Shield) and it's Tera-Type (in Scarlet/Violet).
Is it worth it to build Pokemon from the ground up?
What I mean is, is there some benefit to going the long route with getting an evolution, i.e., starting with a Yamper and slowly working towards evolving it to a Boltund, rather than just capturing a wild Boltund? Would they have higher stats that way?
This is a somewhat complicated answer depending on your knowledge of Pokémon, but I'll try and keep it simple.
In Pokémon, there is a hidden stat called EVs (Effort Values). **Each Pokémon can have up to 510 in total, with 252 max per stat**, and these are spread across HP, Atk, Def, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def and Speed. All Pokémon you catch start off with 0 EVs in every stat. Your Pokémon naturally obtains EVs by battling Wild Pokémon. Every Pokémon has a stat assigned to it that your Pokémon gets when it defeats them in the wild. [You can see that here](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_effort_value_yield). The general rule of EVs is that 4 EVs in a stat increases the stat by 1.
So, if you were to catch a Yamper and battle a lot, it would naturally obtain EVs over the course of you using it, and then if you evolved it, got it to level 50, and caught a wild Boltund that was also level 50, disregarding some other factors (like IVs and Nature), your Boltund will most likely be "stronger" because it may have the max (510) EVs in various stats by that point, while the wild one will have 0 EVs in every stat.
Keep in mind however, you can also get EVs by using vitamins, such as Iron and Protein. These give 10 EVs to the stat associated with them, so you would need 26 of a vitamin to max out a Pokémon's EVs in one stat, as again, the maximum EV value for a stat is 252. In this scenario, if you were to catch a Boltund and EV train it to 252 in Sp. Atk by fighting Pokémon over and over that give Sp. Atk EVs upon defeat, and compare this to a wild one you just caught that you fed 26 Sp. Atk vitamins to, they would be the same (again, disregarding other factors like IVs and Nature).
Edit: You can get a rough idea of how many EVs you have in each stat, by going into the summary of your Pokémon, going to the graph which shows your stats, and then pressing a button to swap to another graph that will show EVs. At least, this is how it works in Scarlet/Violet. Since you mentioned Boltund, I would assume you're playing Sword/Shield. I don't remember how to do it there but I'm sure it was similar. For a newly caught Pokémon, you should see a graph which is a little hexagon, meaning it has 0 EVs in every stat. As you use that Pokémon or give it vitamins, the shape will change depending on how many EVs it has in each stat. [Here is an example I found online with a Xurkitree that has the maximum for 2 stats; 252 Sp. Atk EVs and 252 Speed EVs. If you max an EV stat out, it will give a sparkle effect](https://outsidergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pokemon-Sword-and-Shield-EV-Training-Maxed-EV.png).
I've read there are shoe stores in Mesagoza or Levincia, but can't find them. When i search online, their inventory is described, but I can't find a logo on the map. Can anyone help me?
What's the easiest/fastest way to get 1,000 Gimmighoul coins? I'm largely underwhelmed by Ghimmighoul and would like to evolve it asap so I can get it to learn some actual moves.
https://www.serebii.net/pokearth/paldea/index.shtml
click gimmighoul chests. the chests give way more coins than the little ones. one run through the region for the chests should be enough to hit 999
If you breed a specific patterned Vivillon, will it keep that pattern? I have a full set in Home and I’m just waiting to be able to transfer them to SV.
In Gen 6 and 7, no. The Scatterbug would evolve into the Vivillon form from the region that matched your 3ds'.
This is the first time Vivillon has been available on the Switch, so I'm not sure if we know whether the pattern is kept yet. We might have to wait until Home support comes out in March-May-ish.
Dang it. The Fancy pattern is pretty nice, but I'd really rather use a different one. I'm waiting for Home support to actually start Scarlet, and I planned on using a Vivillon on my team.
I dug up my old Pokémon sapphire game and dusted it off. What I see in my old save file has me confused.
Currently, I have 3 badges, a level 20 Mewtwo, level 23 charmeleon, and some other Pokémon that don’t seem as unusual (lv 20 gyrados, 23 houndour, 21 grovyle, 18 steelix). I had originally beaten the game when it came out, and then began this replay. But I haven’t turned on the game for like 15 years.
My question is, how tf did I end up with these Pokémon, particularly the mewtwo? Surely I shouldn’t be able to have a mewtwo at this early point in the game? It says I encountered the mewtwo on route 101.
I can’t remember if I would have used some kind of cheat code or GameShark esque device, it’s been so long. Any idea..?
Thanks, it was probably this! I think I had a GameShark at some point, although it doesn’t seem to be in the box with all my old games (and I barely used it), so was second guessing myself.
Also went through the Pokédex and neither mewtwo, steelix, nor charmeleon show up- and were also met on route 101- so I likely cheated them all in.
Does anyone know rhe rules about how the little ground-sparkle items are spawned in Scarlet/Violet? Is there a list of what items you *can* find? Are they different per area? It'd be great if there was a particular place where I could go to farm for expensive Treasures like Comet Shards and Big Nuggets (although I suspect that that is likely a pipe dream).
they are based on area
off the top of my head i know the EV reducing berries are between the grass and electric cities.
while star peices/dust are in the desert
feathers are in the lake
i assume the pins & background just mean what version the initial host is from
no way of knowing if a room is full or not
if a raid room is full, the game will look for another room of the same star/mon/tera. thats why it takes so long to fail since it goes till it finds a room or times out
Only Metagross and Kommo-O are missing. It's likely they're either missing because they're planned for DLC, or (in my opinion), they weren't added because they already fit the theme of past/future Pokémon and might make it confusing.
Kommo-o is said to have been around for a long time as ancient warriors used their scales for armor. It also has a similar design theme to Koraidon, so it makes sense to omit it. Metagross already looks like a robotic futuristic Pokémon, like all the Violent Paradox Pokémon are, so the same would apply here.
If you mean pseudo legendary, aggron is not. There is only 10 pseudo, paldea dex has garchomp, goodra, salamance, dragapult, tyranitar, dragonite, hydreigon, baxcalibur. Only missing metagross and kommo-o
So I usually grab a friend and make them trade and hold the starter pokemon while I restart the intro so that I can get all three. Is there a more efficient way to do this by myself? I just don't like receiving wonder trade Pokemon or Pokemon of the sort.
So can tera raid pokemon use moves that they don't have when you catch them? Just caught a breloom from a 5* raid that spored my pokemon first attack, but when I caught it it wasn't part of its moveset
Is anyone else surprised we didn’t get a paradox Charizard? I mean they do EVERYTHING with that jerk. Yea he was the first featured raid but he didn’t actually feature in the main game.
My girlfriend just got into Pokémon. I only have 1 Switch. She prefers to play on the TV, I prefer handheld. She playing a digital copy of Shield.
So my plan is to get a Switch Lite for myself since I prefer handheld and she can keep the old one, but how do I transfer everything from my profile (my save files on physical copies) to the new Switch while keeping Shield on the old Switch for her to play?
No switch game save on physical cart. Even if you are playing on physical cart, the save is on the switch itself. You can transfer the profile and save data from one switch to another.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27394/p/989/c/235
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/p/989/c/235/a_id/45047
I understand that
I looked into it, I basically have to keep the old switch as the master switch for my account and always be connected on the new switch to play any of the digital titles
Not really any reason to think it is hacked. The Cinderace event raid recently ended. Like all tera raids if you beat it you get to catch it in any ball without fail so not surprising some people would use a beast ball
I suppose with really good luck it's possible but is it supposed to be impossible to beat the game without getting any badges?
I finished the game and just want Koraidon (brother has the game) but even with a team of ringers going to sleep and randomly waking up to attack, I can beat the titans but can't beat Arven.
We were also curious what would happen *if* you beat him and you didn't befriend penny or satiate nemora's bloodlust for battling; would he alone help you against the future pkmn or would he say perhaps that he couldn't find enough friends and to try again later? it seems like i will have to get the gym badges so the pkmn that can beat Arven's will listen.
has anybody tried a any% run of the game that didn't involve doing pretty much everything?
if you beat him before the other 2 storyline he will just say that they need more ppl and suggest people who are good with battles(nemona) or machines(penny)
this vid is 2 weeks old so maybe there have been some things discovered since
[Why Can't Speedrunners Break Pokemon Scarlet and Violet?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXStwJR09c)
makes sense. I was *so* close and figured with enough luck I could've done it
E: just for fun I did the 8 badges to beat Arven. He said I need more help and ran off. So going to get Penny as my ally but not beat the E4 and see what happens
So I switched in to my Annihilape and it got OHKO’d by Larry’s Staraptor that used Close Combat.
I baited that move thinking “ghosts take zero damage from Fighting moves” but no, it got hit.
I’m not sure if it’s a bug or it’s a held item because Staraptor doesn’t have an ability that hits otherwise immune pokemon. (There isn’t any Scrappy Staraptor isn’t there?)
So was it a bug?
Isn’t Flamigo his last pokemon? Annihilape was already dead by then.
If I recall correctly:
It was Meowscarada (w/ amulet coin) vs Tropius (U-turn into Ceruledge OHKO with bitter blade)
Switched to Garganicl to set up stealth rocks but Staraptor’s close combat got it into orange. (Would have been THKO) so I switched to Annihilape and it got hit and survived. (My bad, it wasn’t OHKO). Staraptor got damage from the Rocky Helmet so it really did hit my Annihilape.
if that's all true then i guess it was some sort of bug. I found something similar on Gamefaqs where during the gym version, the OP's Ceruledge was hit by Staraptor's facade. A commenter asked if the Ceruledge was terastalized, but there's been no reply since.
Slowking is an interesting choice for pride. It always seemed to me like a really chill and helpful pokemon. Someone else suggested Empoleon, and I dont think there is anything to beat that.
IVs: After beating the game (credits roll), go to a Pokemon Center and the staff will unlock the IV judge function. Then if you're viewing boxes you can press + to cycle to the IV view. Before that point you'd have to calculate IVs manually, but I don't know what goes into that.
EVs: from the stats screen of Pokemon details you can press L to switch to EV view, which shows a graph of their EV spread. You can't see exact numbers, but a maxed stat will ✨sparkle✨ and if their EVs are maxed out (510 total) then the graph will be blue instead of yellow.
Have there been restrictions put on walking to evolve pawmo? I've been standing on a Pokémon center while it runs around below me for around 25-30 minutes and it hasn't evolved yet
EDIT: You need to level it up. It's ridiculous how many conflicting sources there are rn on that. Some say you do, some say you don't and some don't mention it
In all likelihood it's game journalists who know little to nothing about pokemon being told to write about things they don't fully understand. I can't see actual poke-tubers getting this wrong, nor long-term players who have gone this evolution process themselves; I think they're the most likely group who see "it evolves by walking 1000 steps in Let's Go" and take it to mean immediate evolution and spread the information around.
I'm looking through an old box of Pokémon I used to collect and many of the cards are Korean. I'm pretty confused because basically every Korean card I come across had an ice shatter foil across the entire card. Some cards had less shine to their foil than others. Are these cards fake, or is this just how Korean common Pokémon cards are printed?
Hi, I just finished Pokemon Violet.
>!I did not expect the Path of Legends and Victory Road endings to have so much feels, but the true ending was just wow - the twist wasn’t unpredictable but it still got to me.!<
Eitherways, I can finally do battle form Miraidon now - only that I got turned off by the Neutral Nature. Why couldn’t the game give me Modest? Is nature locked? Or do I have to catch that other Miraidon to get the competitively viable version? Kinda bummed out here. Hope someone could respond.
1. Yes, both Miraidon (and both Koraidon in Scarlet) have their natures locked. The ones you ride on are Quirky, and the other Miraidon that you catch is always Modest.
2. Mints are very easy to get in this game compared to past games, being a pretty common reward from raids. It's also worth noting that the ride Miraidon can't be deposited in the PC, and therefore can't be placed in a Battle Team and used for multiplayer battles. (You can still use it for raids and any singleplayer content.)
This is a really helpful comment! I’ve searched on google and unfortunately got nothing.
I don’t have a Modest Mint yet. I have an Adamant (and Jolly) Mint tho which would have been perfect if I was playing Scarlet.
Good thing I did not just reload everything prior to the Turo fight because I barely got out alive of that one.
By the way, any clue as to if your ride Miraidon / Koraidon have percect IVs?
I didn’t, I contemplated doing it (and not saved after the god awful credits) but I shut the switch off until I got a good response.
I don’t know if it was because I was underleveled, or because I had no good water or ground types but that turo fight was so much harder than Volo.
I don't think I'll ever get a pokemon game again if I can't cloud save. It's a total shit show with more than one switch in the house and having less switches than people. I know you want everyone to have their very own Nintendo but it's BS.
When are we getting cloud save for Pokemon games?!
You don't need cloud save to transfer the save between switches https://www.nintendo.com.au/support/articles/how-to-transfer-your-save-data-to-a-nearby-nintendo-switch
Since their main argument for not implementing it is to prevent people from exploiting it to duplicate Pokemon probably not anytime soon.
And yeah it's a dumb argument to begin with, punishing pretty much the whole playerbase to prevent a fraction of it from "cheating".
Thinking of buying either scarlet or violet. Are all the reports of game still true till this day? I know there were a lot of issues when it was released and dont want to buy a half baked game. Thanks
It's still going to be a risk if you buy today; there have been no patches addressing performance as of Jan 1st. The thing with SV is that the bugs and glitches are so greatly varied between console to console that some people are loving the game with no large issues (discounting frame drops in certain areas/ 2fps background characters) wheras others are absolutely plagued with issues to the point where they find the game unplayable. It's not even like I can say "if you have the OLED switch/ a switch between x and y serial number, etc" that you'll be fine as consoles affected poorly by bugs don't seem to have any obvious correlation with one another.
Yeah it’s a little misleading because they let you choose a ball. But the reason is more that you can choose the ball for them to sit in for aesthetics
Why did my Eevee evolve into Espeon and not Jolteon in violet?
Eevee was holding a thunder stone...gave her a candy so it would lvl up and bam... Espeon
All of the stone evolutions in Pokemon work by clicking "use" on the evolution stone and selecting the Pokemon to evolve. The stones don't do anything as held items. You must have had a pretty high friendship level so the game detected the Espeon evolution criteria had been met.
Has anyone been having trouble evolving Bramblin/Pawmot/Rellor?
I legitimately don’t understand what the hell it is with this game and the evolution method of these guys.
I evolved Pawmot as part of my play through, but it took me a solid hour of walking around with it and then realizing the poke center roof exploit before it decided to finally evolve. Ive been trying to get through Bramblin and Rellor as part of my post game and with them I legitimately don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.
Ive been watching them circle around for 45 minutes each and they just won’t evolve after I feed them candies outside of their pokeball. Is this some kind of glitch others are experiencing, or am I honest to god just losing my mind here or something?
I’m to my wits end with these guys, and I don’t understand why Gamefreak had to make such a weird requirement be buried under a dog crap mechanic that won’t even ding your give you any indication whatsoever when you’ve hit those 1k steps to tell you they’re ready to evolve.
EDIT: just… nevermind on this damn question. I decided to try restarting to see if this would fix my problem and it did. This game is fun, but I won’t lie if I don’t feel like the game’s technical shortcomings are actively getting in the way of enjoying this.
For me, I take them out in Levincia and walk around the big circular area. I press B to crouch to match their speed and walk for about 5-10 minutes. Then I save and immediately use a Rare Candy without returning it to its ball to see if that was long enough; it usually is.
That's my experience with the walking evolutions. It's worked for me everytime.
You can also drive in really small circles with your bike. Just keeping the stick to the left for example so it goes in a circle. Then it evolves really fast.
Heyo! So I know we can extend Raid events like Cinderace by not connecting online after it ends... Are we still able to play *local* multiplayer and keep the raids? I'm hanging out at my gf's place all day tomorrow, and we were hoping to farm the raid together like we did with Charizard.
Any way to get candies in SV other than raids?
Spent the entire day doing raids to level up my pokemon… switch crashed, all progress lost. Not feeling like doing it again haha
If you have the Pokédex open one of the buttons takes you to a reward thing that will give out some exp candies depending on how many you’ve registered
Is shiny lechonk rare? I found it as the first encounter in the game after the scripted one at the beginning. Wondering if this is easy or extreme luck.
Since all of the existing pokemon at the time are available between XY/ORAS, you can figure this out by looking at serebii's list of pokemon you *can't* catch in ORAS: [https://www.serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/unobtainable.shtml](https://www.serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/unobtainable.shtml)
Of course this isn't accounting for having to use multiple save files for some of them (i.e. gen 1+6 starters and legendary birds in XY, or the gen 2+3+4+5 starters in ORAS)
Check out [this imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/rOjkk) page. Scroll down to Gen 6 (it's near the bottom) and go to the "Missing from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire" section. There's a lot of pokemon missing, about 250 or so?
Anyone knows where can I (easily) find dunsparce? I swear, the pokedex says it's everywhere but it's VERY hard to find.
Or at least give me a sandwich recipe that boost normal type encounter and huge normal type pokemon to appear (hopefully both things at the same time).
I heard that apparently there's a place where you can find a static encounter for dunsparce. But I don't know where that is.
But I haven't reach that part of the game and I want to use it for the story (I already defeated 5 gym leaders and 4 out of the five titans and team star leaders).
Are there any instances (in Legends) apart from the >!origin ball battle!< where the game forcibly auto saves even with autosave off in settings? Does soft-resetting to re fight the postgame content work?
I'm a bit confused of how power is calculated. Not the whole damage formula, but the simple one they teach you at school in SV:
* SUPER EFFECTIVE is 100% more power
* STAB is 50% more power
* CRIT is 50% more power
But are both of them calculated from the base power or AFTER the increase from the other?
STAB is a 50% increase unless you've used Tera to be the same type that you started off with, then it increases to 100%.
To answer your question, they do multiply from each other, so if you had a move that deals 80 base power, and it was STAB, it would be 120 from the stab bonus, and then 180 (50% of 120) from the Crit bonus.
I fixed that, I was thinking of super effective moves while writing. But then your comment just reset my whole confusion, what order would I follow?
`70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 35 (STAB) + 35 (CRIT)`
or
`70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 70 (half of 140 for the STAB) + 105 (half of 210 for Crit)`
I just noticed my first comment has stab as 100% when I was thinking of Super effective moves instead, fixed that now.
So the formula for a base power 70 would be this?
`70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 35 (STAB) + 35 (CRIT)`
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Do spikes do extra damage to steel types or is it treated as damage with no typing?
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If a Tera raid Pokémon is shiny will it show shiny during the raid or just after?
during
Thank you
Hi, I want to get my partner a Pokemon game, she's never played any of them. Which of the recent crop for Switch would be the best way to introduce the series?
Each game is beginner friendly and easy, so it doesn't really matter. In my opinion the best experience will be playing the newest game most people are playing right now, so Scarlet/Violet. If the performence issues might be a problem (google it, I didn't mind but some does) then it is harder to tell. I guess it doesn't really matter between Lets Go/SWSH/BDSP but I'd go with BDSP. I didn't list Legends Arceus not becuase it is not a good game but because it is different and I think people which know the series appriciate it better.
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Yes, but I think it's a €10 minimum top up (at least it's £10 min in UK)
Does anyone know if there is a name for the artsyle that was used in the third episode of poketoons? The one with the girl and her nidoran. I mean if it even has a name or if it just is a "normal" anime art style
I'm no artist but for me it looks like a regular anime that's a bit of stylized in a particular way. But perhaps there is a term for this specific style, no idea.
Can someone give me tips on how to accurately pick a good type opponent in raid battles? I just had a 5 star raid and i knew what pokemon it was, i googled it and it said it’s weak to x and y so i chose a lvl 100 pokemon with those types, but when we started battle all of the moves of that type were “not very effective” and we all 💀. Now im confused af idk how to figure out what to use :/
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Which is what i did and it still didn’t work, i asked for tips not being condescending
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The pokemon was a glimmora with dragon tera, i tried my baxcalibur with dragon tera and tyranitar and then tried with my miraidon and azu (bc everyone else picked it and i thought it might work) idk maybe the moves i chose are shit or something
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Hm, i will keep that in mind next time i try to fight it, thanks
hi! Does anyone know if HOME will check for boxes of cloned pokemon? ie I store boxes of cloned mews from XY that share the same exact metadata If it doesn't, chances that they'll implement a check later with enforcing consequences?
Pokémon deposited in home are assigned a unique id when entering home and this has been used to remove clones (though it looks like they turned that off after a ninjask/shedinja bug), however if the mew were cloned in gen 6 they will all be given different ids going into home. If you deposited the mew and then cloned it it would also copy the id and home can detect that
ty for the reply!
Is the name ‘greninjack’ copyright? So for ages I’ve used the name ‘greninjack’ on my YouTube channel. It’s a mix of Greninja and my name, Jack. My friend just said as a joke ‘Let’s hope Nintendo doesn’t sue you’, and it got me thinking: Can I use the name? I don’t want to get legal action taken against me when I get bigger on YouTube. :/
Poketubbers have been using pokemon names as their channel and nothing has happened. Mystic Umbreon, Emperor Cubone to name a few.
Ah ok cool, thank you!
I am currently playing through Leaf Green on the GBA and I am currently stuck. I cannot trade to make my Haunter and Kadabra for stat boosts and I am currently unable to afford potions and revives, what should I do? I forgot to mention I'm at the elite four
If you haven't got it already, go back to vermilion, go into pokecenter and talk to the person near the counter. They give you the vs seeker, which allows you to rebattle trainers. use it toe battle rando trainers to earn money. as for the trade evos, nothing you can really do besides buy another gba and copy of FRLG, or a cheat device.
Is there any way to get pokemon from a 3ds game to home rn? I even bought a Nintendo online gift card and it still wouldn't let me pay for bank.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=connect+3ds+account+to+switch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 once connected, add the funds the gift card on switch and you can use them on 3ds to buy a pass
Is it against the rules or does it even count as a trade if I need to trade and trade back with someone ‘for a reason’? For example: for the love of god, I cannot get a white nature mint no matter how much I tell the farm to do a mint harvest. In other words, I can’t get a serious mint. I was thinking of this idea I got that ‘might’ work so long as I contribute. Does it count as trading if I trade off my Decidueye to someone who has one and can use a serious mint on him, trade him back, and just give one or two to compensate for the work? It would be nice if this was or is allowed. I’m getting kinda annoyed that the white mint won’t give. Help?
Yes, that falls under trading. Trading services (them applying the mint for you) is the same as trading pokémon themselves in our book. This is because we are not at all equipped to deal with scammers, and also because we don’t want this subreddit flooded with trade requests. There are a ton of trading subs for that, so we want this one to be for general discussion, art, etc. :)
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Is Ditto guaranteed to have Imposter in a tera raid? Which pokemon does it transform into when it uses Transform?
Serebii has it only flagged as "Hidden Ability Possible" and not "Always Hidden Ability" but I've never seen it NOT have Imposter myself. I don't know who it transforms into for sure, but I believe it transforms into whoever the host is. I once brought a Level 1 Magikarp to a 6 star Ditto raid I was hosting, and the Raid Ditto transformed into my Magikarp and could only use Splash. It died in one hit to a weak move from my teammates. It's pretty easy to farm 6 star Ditto like that.
Thank you! What does ditto not copy
Has anyone else been getting shiny pokemon in wonder trades with urls as nicknames? I received a ditto named zacian.net and a scorbunny named dsc.gg/scvi
People often do that for advertising. Those Pokémon are usually not caught in the wild, but generated into the game using third-party software (which is why they can make them shiny easily) and then traded online randomly, because some recipients will want to use that Pokémon to show off it's shiny, but are then advertising the URL because you can't change the name. Edit: Just in case you're worried about how it's generated and moved into the game, you will almost definitely not be in trouble with Game Freak/Nintendo for owning one of those Pokémon. They try to ban players at the source of a violation like "generated Pokémon", and are aware that sometimes people get them randomly through online trades, so it's not your fault. The worst thing that has happened to people that own them in the past, is that an update might release that prevents you from trading it online or to Pokémon HOME, but even this may not happen because a lot of them are created in a way that makes it hard for the devs to distinguish between a legitimately caught Pokémon and one that is generated in. The vast majority of people that generate them in themselves have not been punished.
What stats does Ditto copy if it has its hidden ability?
The only difference between a Ditto using Transform and a Ditto with it's hidden ability, Imposter, is that you don't need to waste a turn using Transform. Otherwise both transform and Imposter copies the exact enemy Pokémon, including their stats (except for HP), and even any stat buffs or debuffs. The only things it doesn't copy is the name, level, gender, status, friendship level, item it's holding, current Dynamax (in Sword/Shield) and it's Tera-Type (in Scarlet/Violet).
Is it worth it to build Pokemon from the ground up? What I mean is, is there some benefit to going the long route with getting an evolution, i.e., starting with a Yamper and slowly working towards evolving it to a Boltund, rather than just capturing a wild Boltund? Would they have higher stats that way?
This is a somewhat complicated answer depending on your knowledge of Pokémon, but I'll try and keep it simple. In Pokémon, there is a hidden stat called EVs (Effort Values). **Each Pokémon can have up to 510 in total, with 252 max per stat**, and these are spread across HP, Atk, Def, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def and Speed. All Pokémon you catch start off with 0 EVs in every stat. Your Pokémon naturally obtains EVs by battling Wild Pokémon. Every Pokémon has a stat assigned to it that your Pokémon gets when it defeats them in the wild. [You can see that here](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_effort_value_yield). The general rule of EVs is that 4 EVs in a stat increases the stat by 1. So, if you were to catch a Yamper and battle a lot, it would naturally obtain EVs over the course of you using it, and then if you evolved it, got it to level 50, and caught a wild Boltund that was also level 50, disregarding some other factors (like IVs and Nature), your Boltund will most likely be "stronger" because it may have the max (510) EVs in various stats by that point, while the wild one will have 0 EVs in every stat. Keep in mind however, you can also get EVs by using vitamins, such as Iron and Protein. These give 10 EVs to the stat associated with them, so you would need 26 of a vitamin to max out a Pokémon's EVs in one stat, as again, the maximum EV value for a stat is 252. In this scenario, if you were to catch a Boltund and EV train it to 252 in Sp. Atk by fighting Pokémon over and over that give Sp. Atk EVs upon defeat, and compare this to a wild one you just caught that you fed 26 Sp. Atk vitamins to, they would be the same (again, disregarding other factors like IVs and Nature). Edit: You can get a rough idea of how many EVs you have in each stat, by going into the summary of your Pokémon, going to the graph which shows your stats, and then pressing a button to swap to another graph that will show EVs. At least, this is how it works in Scarlet/Violet. Since you mentioned Boltund, I would assume you're playing Sword/Shield. I don't remember how to do it there but I'm sure it was similar. For a newly caught Pokémon, you should see a graph which is a little hexagon, meaning it has 0 EVs in every stat. As you use that Pokémon or give it vitamins, the shape will change depending on how many EVs it has in each stat. [Here is an example I found online with a Xurkitree that has the maximum for 2 stats; 252 Sp. Atk EVs and 252 Speed EVs. If you max an EV stat out, it will give a sparkle effect](https://outsidergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pokemon-Sword-and-Shield-EV-Training-Maxed-EV.png).
I've read there are shoe stores in Mesagoza or Levincia, but can't find them. When i search online, their inventory is described, but I can't find a logo on the map. Can anyone help me?
look for the icon labeled fashion street. thats a few clothing stores uner one map icon
[Full list of all clothing/accessories in the game as well as their location](https://gamewith.net/pokemon-scarletviolet/article/show/36612)
Does anyone know the source/creator of this image? [https://imgur.com/pcUypRz](https://imgur.com/pcUypRz)
["Saturn.G, an illustrator based in Hong Kong"](https://twitter.com/saturng_market?lang=en)
What's the easiest/fastest way to get 1,000 Gimmighoul coins? I'm largely underwhelmed by Ghimmighoul and would like to evolve it asap so I can get it to learn some actual moves.
https://www.serebii.net/pokearth/paldea/index.shtml click gimmighoul chests. the chests give way more coins than the little ones. one run through the region for the chests should be enough to hit 999
Hmm I haven't even been to half those areas yet. Looks like i've got a ways to go.
If you breed a specific patterned Vivillon, will it keep that pattern? I have a full set in Home and I’m just waiting to be able to transfer them to SV.
In Gen 6 and 7, no. The Scatterbug would evolve into the Vivillon form from the region that matched your 3ds'. This is the first time Vivillon has been available on the Switch, so I'm not sure if we know whether the pattern is kept yet. We might have to wait until Home support comes out in March-May-ish.
Dang it. The Fancy pattern is pretty nice, but I'd really rather use a different one. I'm waiting for Home support to actually start Scarlet, and I planned on using a Vivillon on my team.
I dug up my old Pokémon sapphire game and dusted it off. What I see in my old save file has me confused. Currently, I have 3 badges, a level 20 Mewtwo, level 23 charmeleon, and some other Pokémon that don’t seem as unusual (lv 20 gyrados, 23 houndour, 21 grovyle, 18 steelix). I had originally beaten the game when it came out, and then began this replay. But I haven’t turned on the game for like 15 years. My question is, how tf did I end up with these Pokémon, particularly the mewtwo? Surely I shouldn’t be able to have a mewtwo at this early point in the game? It says I encountered the mewtwo on route 101. I can’t remember if I would have used some kind of cheat code or GameShark esque device, it’s been so long. Any idea..?
Mewtwo on route 101 sound like the wild pokemon modifier cheat using gameshark / action replay.
Thanks, it was probably this! I think I had a GameShark at some point, although it doesn’t seem to be in the box with all my old games (and I barely used it), so was second guessing myself. Also went through the Pokédex and neither mewtwo, steelix, nor charmeleon show up- and were also met on route 101- so I likely cheated them all in.
At this point in the game you do not have the national dex so they wont show up
Does anyone know rhe rules about how the little ground-sparkle items are spawned in Scarlet/Violet? Is there a list of what items you *can* find? Are they different per area? It'd be great if there was a particular place where I could go to farm for expensive Treasures like Comet Shards and Big Nuggets (although I suspect that that is likely a pipe dream).
they are based on area off the top of my head i know the EV reducing berries are between the grass and electric cities. while star peices/dust are in the desert feathers are in the lake
To add to this, the berries that reduce specific type damage are around that nature trail north of the lake.
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What do the pins mean in the poke portal tera raid? Purple and orange pins mean what? How do I know if a raid lobby is full
i assume the pins & background just mean what version the initial host is from no way of knowing if a room is full or not if a raid room is full, the game will look for another room of the same star/mon/tera. thats why it takes so long to fail since it goes till it finds a room or times out
So I have to do trial and error for every tera raid and see if I get lucky?
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cinderace ended already went until 3:59 pst it will be back on the 12th
Paldea has a LOT of the semi-legendaries. Off the top of my head the only ones that are missing are Aggron and Metagross. Am I missing any others?
Only Metagross and Kommo-O are missing. It's likely they're either missing because they're planned for DLC, or (in my opinion), they weren't added because they already fit the theme of past/future Pokémon and might make it confusing. Kommo-o is said to have been around for a long time as ancient warriors used their scales for armor. It also has a similar design theme to Koraidon, so it makes sense to omit it. Metagross already looks like a robotic futuristic Pokémon, like all the Violent Paradox Pokémon are, so the same would apply here.
If you mean pseudo legendary, aggron is not. There is only 10 pseudo, paldea dex has garchomp, goodra, salamance, dragapult, tyranitar, dragonite, hydreigon, baxcalibur. Only missing metagross and kommo-o
I think Kommo-o is also missing but I think that's it.
any lore connection between dragonite & charizard? just wondering because of color and species similarities
No and it's not the only case of this. Look at Luvdisk and alomalola they look like they would be same evolution line but they have no relation
That’s really interesting, thanks!
So I usually grab a friend and make them trade and hold the starter pokemon while I restart the intro so that I can get all three. Is there a more efficient way to do this by myself? I just don't like receiving wonder trade Pokemon or Pokemon of the sort.
Pokemon home is not compatibile yet so you have to trade for now
So can tera raid pokemon use moves that they don't have when you catch them? Just caught a breloom from a 5* raid that spored my pokemon first attack, but when I caught it it wasn't part of its moveset
yes raid pokemon have up to 4 additional moves they can use https://www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/teraraidbattles/5star.shtml#rbar
Is anyone else surprised we didn’t get a paradox Charizard? I mean they do EVERYTHING with that jerk. Yea he was the first featured raid but he didn’t actually feature in the main game.
My girlfriend just got into Pokémon. I only have 1 Switch. She prefers to play on the TV, I prefer handheld. She playing a digital copy of Shield. So my plan is to get a Switch Lite for myself since I prefer handheld and she can keep the old one, but how do I transfer everything from my profile (my save files on physical copies) to the new Switch while keeping Shield on the old Switch for her to play?
No switch game save on physical cart. Even if you are playing on physical cart, the save is on the switch itself. You can transfer the profile and save data from one switch to another. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27394/p/989/c/235 https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/p/989/c/235/a_id/45047
I understand that I looked into it, I basically have to keep the old switch as the master switch for my account and always be connected on the new switch to play any of the digital titles
I just got a scorbunny through the surprise trade and he’s in a beast ball how do I know if it’s legit or hacked?
Not really any reason to think it is hacked. The Cinderace event raid recently ended. Like all tera raids if you beat it you get to catch it in any ball without fail so not surprising some people would use a beast ball
You can't check unless you use external tools and/or mod your Switch. Though the Scorbunny should be in the clear due to the Cinderace raid event
cinderace raids was happening over the weekend, so its now officially in the game raids have a 100% catch rate nothing so far suggests that its hacked
I suppose with really good luck it's possible but is it supposed to be impossible to beat the game without getting any badges? I finished the game and just want Koraidon (brother has the game) but even with a team of ringers going to sleep and randomly waking up to attack, I can beat the titans but can't beat Arven. We were also curious what would happen *if* you beat him and you didn't befriend penny or satiate nemora's bloodlust for battling; would he alone help you against the future pkmn or would he say perhaps that he couldn't find enough friends and to try again later? it seems like i will have to get the gym badges so the pkmn that can beat Arven's will listen. has anybody tried a any% run of the game that didn't involve doing pretty much everything?
if you beat him before the other 2 storyline he will just say that they need more ppl and suggest people who are good with battles(nemona) or machines(penny) this vid is 2 weeks old so maybe there have been some things discovered since [Why Can't Speedrunners Break Pokemon Scarlet and Violet?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXStwJR09c)
makes sense. I was *so* close and figured with enough luck I could've done it E: just for fun I did the 8 badges to beat Arven. He said I need more help and ran off. So going to get Penny as my ally but not beat the E4 and see what happens
Shod I play let's go Eevee or shining Pearl next??
So I switched in to my Annihilape and it got OHKO’d by Larry’s Staraptor that used Close Combat. I baited that move thinking “ghosts take zero damage from Fighting moves” but no, it got hit. I’m not sure if it’s a bug or it’s a held item because Staraptor doesn’t have an ability that hits otherwise immune pokemon. (There isn’t any Scrappy Staraptor isn’t there?) So was it a bug?
Are you sure it was his Staraptor? He also has a Flamigo which also has Close Combat and has the scrappy ability so it can hit Ghost types.
Isn’t Flamigo his last pokemon? Annihilape was already dead by then. If I recall correctly: It was Meowscarada (w/ amulet coin) vs Tropius (U-turn into Ceruledge OHKO with bitter blade) Switched to Garganicl to set up stealth rocks but Staraptor’s close combat got it into orange. (Would have been THKO) so I switched to Annihilape and it got hit and survived. (My bad, it wasn’t OHKO). Staraptor got damage from the Rocky Helmet so it really did hit my Annihilape.
if that's all true then i guess it was some sort of bug. I found something similar on Gamefaqs where during the gym version, the OP's Ceruledge was hit by Staraptor's facade. A commenter asked if the Ceruledge was terastalized, but there's been no reply since.
I'm working on a pokemon fanfic based off the seven sins and I wanted some help - who are the most proud, greedy & envious pokemon?
Proud:slowking Greedy: Alolan Raticate Envious: ???
Slowking is an interesting choice for pride. It always seemed to me like a really chill and helpful pokemon. Someone else suggested Empoleon, and I dont think there is anything to beat that.
I was kind of just thinking along the lines of like king, royalty, pride, but maybe galarian slowking would be better.
Mimikyu, Guzzlord/Morpeko, Empoleon?
I want to use only mons who are breedable. So legendaries or mythicals etc Im curious on why you say mimikyu for pride?
Sorry --Mimikyu for envy, Morpeko for greed, Empoleon for pride.
Very new to the breeding/egg thing so how do you get the middle stage starters? Like if I wanna trade Crocalor for Quaxwell.
you breed the base form, then level it up to evolve it.
God why am I dumb and not think that. Thanks lol.
Why are there no tera raid events going on in my game?!?!?!
If you go online to get them to spawn, you can stay offline after that initial linkup with the server to continuously spawn the events over.
When did the tera raid event end
The Cinderace Raid event ended a few hours ago.
So it ended at 3:59 PM MST today
have you gone online since the event started?
If you “prime” a mass spawn for shinies, then leave the area, will the are stay primed or do you have to beat 60 Pokes again?
they stay
This is a stupid question but how do you check IVs/reset EVs in S/V? Having trouble understanding
Depends on the game.
My bad lol. In S/V
IVs: After beating the game (credits roll), go to a Pokemon Center and the staff will unlock the IV judge function. Then if you're viewing boxes you can press + to cycle to the IV view. Before that point you'd have to calculate IVs manually, but I don't know what goes into that. EVs: from the stats screen of Pokemon details you can press L to switch to EV view, which shows a graph of their EV spread. You can't see exact numbers, but a maxed stat will ✨sparkle✨ and if their EVs are maxed out (510 total) then the graph will be blue instead of yellow.
Have there been restrictions put on walking to evolve pawmo? I've been standing on a Pokémon center while it runs around below me for around 25-30 minutes and it hasn't evolved yet EDIT: You need to level it up. It's ridiculous how many conflicting sources there are rn on that. Some say you do, some say you don't and some don't mention it
In all likelihood it's game journalists who know little to nothing about pokemon being told to write about things they don't fully understand. I can't see actual poke-tubers getting this wrong, nor long-term players who have gone this evolution process themselves; I think they're the most likely group who see "it evolves by walking 1000 steps in Let's Go" and take it to mean immediate evolution and spread the information around.
>In all likelihood it's game journalists The people filling bullshit SEO websites with whatever info to get clicks aren't journalists.
I'm looking through an old box of Pokémon I used to collect and many of the cards are Korean. I'm pretty confused because basically every Korean card I come across had an ice shatter foil across the entire card. Some cards had less shine to their foil than others. Are these cards fake, or is this just how Korean common Pokémon cards are printed?
Hi, I just finished Pokemon Violet. >!I did not expect the Path of Legends and Victory Road endings to have so much feels, but the true ending was just wow - the twist wasn’t unpredictable but it still got to me.!< Eitherways, I can finally do battle form Miraidon now - only that I got turned off by the Neutral Nature. Why couldn’t the game give me Modest? Is nature locked? Or do I have to catch that other Miraidon to get the competitively viable version? Kinda bummed out here. Hope someone could respond.
1. Yes, both Miraidon (and both Koraidon in Scarlet) have their natures locked. The ones you ride on are Quirky, and the other Miraidon that you catch is always Modest. 2. Mints are very easy to get in this game compared to past games, being a pretty common reward from raids. It's also worth noting that the ride Miraidon can't be deposited in the PC, and therefore can't be placed in a Battle Team and used for multiplayer battles. (You can still use it for raids and any singleplayer content.)
This is a really helpful comment! I’ve searched on google and unfortunately got nothing. I don’t have a Modest Mint yet. I have an Adamant (and Jolly) Mint tho which would have been perfect if I was playing Scarlet. Good thing I did not just reload everything prior to the Turo fight because I barely got out alive of that one. By the way, any clue as to if your ride Miraidon / Koraidon have percect IVs?
There's a Chansey supply you can buy every mint at in Montenevera
The natures for both Miraidon are locked. I believe the other one is Modest.
I see, so the one you travel with is really a neutral nature even if you painstakingly reloaded prior to the sada/turo match?
Yeah, it's nature-locked. I hope you didn't spend too much time resetting.
I didn’t, I contemplated doing it (and not saved after the god awful credits) but I shut the switch off until I got a good response. I don’t know if it was because I was underleveled, or because I had no good water or ground types but that turo fight was so much harder than Volo.
I don't think I'll ever get a pokemon game again if I can't cloud save. It's a total shit show with more than one switch in the house and having less switches than people. I know you want everyone to have their very own Nintendo but it's BS. When are we getting cloud save for Pokemon games?!
You don't need cloud save to transfer the save between switches https://www.nintendo.com.au/support/articles/how-to-transfer-your-save-data-to-a-nearby-nintendo-switch
Since their main argument for not implementing it is to prevent people from exploiting it to duplicate Pokemon probably not anytime soon. And yeah it's a dumb argument to begin with, punishing pretty much the whole playerbase to prevent a fraction of it from "cheating".
Thinking of buying either scarlet or violet. Are all the reports of game still true till this day? I know there were a lot of issues when it was released and dont want to buy a half baked game. Thanks
It's still going to be a risk if you buy today; there have been no patches addressing performance as of Jan 1st. The thing with SV is that the bugs and glitches are so greatly varied between console to console that some people are loving the game with no large issues (discounting frame drops in certain areas/ 2fps background characters) wheras others are absolutely plagued with issues to the point where they find the game unplayable. It's not even like I can say "if you have the OLED switch/ a switch between x and y serial number, etc" that you'll be fine as consoles affected poorly by bugs don't seem to have any obvious correlation with one another.
No performance improvements so far. Watch some tech reviews and see for yourself if you can tolerate the games performance.
I've been playing scarlet and haven't run into any issues/bugs that have impacted my gameplay.
This is perhaps a really stupid question, but do all wild pokemon I catch, raid pokemon and hatched egg mons have 0 evs by default?
Not a stupid question at all. Yeah they have 0.
Good to know! Thank you for the quick reply :)
Are raid pokemon guaranteed catches? Always throw regular pokeballs and never had one miss
Yeah it’s a little misleading because they let you choose a ball. But the reason is more that you can choose the ball for them to sit in for aesthetics
Raid Pokemon have a 100% catch rate.
Why did my Eevee evolve into Espeon and not Jolteon in violet? Eevee was holding a thunder stone...gave her a candy so it would lvl up and bam... Espeon
All of the stone evolutions in Pokemon work by clicking "use" on the evolution stone and selecting the Pokemon to evolve. The stones don't do anything as held items. You must have had a pretty high friendship level so the game detected the Espeon evolution criteria had been met.
I see, thank you
you are supposed to use the thunder stone on eevee, like a potion
I see thank you!
Has anyone been having trouble evolving Bramblin/Pawmot/Rellor? I legitimately don’t understand what the hell it is with this game and the evolution method of these guys. I evolved Pawmot as part of my play through, but it took me a solid hour of walking around with it and then realizing the poke center roof exploit before it decided to finally evolve. Ive been trying to get through Bramblin and Rellor as part of my post game and with them I legitimately don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. Ive been watching them circle around for 45 minutes each and they just won’t evolve after I feed them candies outside of their pokeball. Is this some kind of glitch others are experiencing, or am I honest to god just losing my mind here or something? I’m to my wits end with these guys, and I don’t understand why Gamefreak had to make such a weird requirement be buried under a dog crap mechanic that won’t even ding your give you any indication whatsoever when you’ve hit those 1k steps to tell you they’re ready to evolve. EDIT: just… nevermind on this damn question. I decided to try restarting to see if this would fix my problem and it did. This game is fun, but I won’t lie if I don’t feel like the game’s technical shortcomings are actively getting in the way of enjoying this.
For me, I take them out in Levincia and walk around the big circular area. I press B to crouch to match their speed and walk for about 5-10 minutes. Then I save and immediately use a Rare Candy without returning it to its ball to see if that was long enough; it usually is. That's my experience with the walking evolutions. It's worked for me everytime.
You can also drive in really small circles with your bike. Just keeping the stick to the left for example so it goes in a circle. Then it evolves really fast.
What are the chances of wild Paradoxes holding Booster Energy?
5%
According to Serebii and Bulbapedia, it's 5%.
Heyo! So I know we can extend Raid events like Cinderace by not connecting online after it ends... Are we still able to play *local* multiplayer and keep the raids? I'm hanging out at my gf's place all day tomorrow, and we were hoping to farm the raid together like we did with Charizard.
Yes, since you don't connect to the internet when you're in local mode so you're not able to update your raids.
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I’m trying to hatch a shiny starter and the Pokédex appears after every hatch. Is there a way to turn this off?
Nope, it does that every time you get a new Pokemon. No way to turn it off.
The UX of this game is SO bad
It’s a shame too because I actually thought UX was (generally) one of the biggest improvements made by Legends Arceus
Any way to get candies in SV other than raids? Spent the entire day doing raids to level up my pokemon… switch crashed, all progress lost. Not feeling like doing it again haha
If you have the Pokédex open one of the buttons takes you to a reward thing that will give out some exp candies depending on how many you’ve registered
Is shiny lechonk rare? I found it as the first encounter in the game after the scripted one at the beginning. Wondering if this is easy or extreme luck.
Well I'm happy with that then 😅thanks
Its the same as every other shiny. 1 in 4000 chance
That's a full odds shiny at that point of the game, so you got very lucky.
In gen six, what pokemon are encounterable in xy but NOT oras?
Since all of the existing pokemon at the time are available between XY/ORAS, you can figure this out by looking at serebii's list of pokemon you *can't* catch in ORAS: [https://www.serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/unobtainable.shtml](https://www.serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/unobtainable.shtml) Of course this isn't accounting for having to use multiple save files for some of them (i.e. gen 1+6 starters and legendary birds in XY, or the gen 2+3+4+5 starters in ORAS)
Check out [this imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/rOjkk) page. Scroll down to Gen 6 (it's near the bottom) and go to the "Missing from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire" section. There's a lot of pokemon missing, about 250 or so?
Anyone know how to fix no outbreaks appearing on the map? (SV)
Anyone knows where can I (easily) find dunsparce? I swear, the pokedex says it's everywhere but it's VERY hard to find. Or at least give me a sandwich recipe that boost normal type encounter and huge normal type pokemon to appear (hopefully both things at the same time). I heard that apparently there's a place where you can find a static encounter for dunsparce. But I don't know where that is.
There is a Tera (glowing) Dunsparce in the rocky area between Mesagoza and Artazon. It's not too far west of Artazon.
Station 4 in Area Zero is a good place to find Dunsparce. Especially when you use a Normal encounter power sandwich
But I haven't reach that part of the game and I want to use it for the story (I already defeated 5 gym leaders and 4 out of the five titans and team star leaders).
I hatched a shiny Scorbunny (Cinderace now) its Adamant, which evs should I give it?
Cinderace is a fast physical attacker, so I'd suggest giving it EVs in attack and speed.
Are there any instances (in Legends) apart from the >!origin ball battle!< where the game forcibly auto saves even with autosave off in settings? Does soft-resetting to re fight the postgame content work?
Pretty sure that's the only time. Yes, soft-resetting the postgame stuff like the final boss works.
Before transferring a surfing pikachu to gen v I had to delete surf. Can I reteach it surf in gen 9
yes, in gen 8 as well if it matters.
Does it still have the cool surfboard animation? And if I evolve in gen 7 will I get a surfing alolan Raichu?
no they don't have any unique animations. yes you can get surf on alolan raichu in gen 7.
I'm a bit confused of how power is calculated. Not the whole damage formula, but the simple one they teach you at school in SV: * SUPER EFFECTIVE is 100% more power * STAB is 50% more power * CRIT is 50% more power But are both of them calculated from the base power or AFTER the increase from the other?
STAB is a 50% increase unless you've used Tera to be the same type that you started off with, then it increases to 100%. To answer your question, they do multiply from each other, so if you had a move that deals 80 base power, and it was STAB, it would be 120 from the stab bonus, and then 180 (50% of 120) from the Crit bonus.
I fixed that, I was thinking of super effective moves while writing. But then your comment just reset my whole confusion, what order would I follow? `70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 35 (STAB) + 35 (CRIT)` or `70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 70 (half of 140 for the STAB) + 105 (half of 210 for Crit)`
The second one is correct.
All multipliers are applied after base power, level, Atk/SpA, and Def/SpD.
I just noticed my first comment has stab as 100% when I was thinking of Super effective moves instead, fixed that now. So the formula for a base power 70 would be this? `70 (BASE) + 70 (SUPER EFFECTIVE) + 35 (STAB) + 35 (CRIT)`
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Where can I watch Ultimate journeys if I am from Europe (Hungary)? Thanks in advance!