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  1. Ketsuban

    Generational Breakdown of Regional Pokedexes

    Is there a way to measure how overrepresented or underrepresented each Pokémon is, correcting for the fact that Pokémon introduced earlier have more regional Pokédexes they had the potential to appear in?
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    In-game tier list policy discussion thread

    This is only true if you completely ignore the Grand Underground. I slept on it too because I figured "it's just the Underground again with a new name, why should I care" but PonStefon made a case earlier in the thread for it being a game-changer—it gives you access to Pokemon which either are...
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    Pokemon Black and White In-Game Tier List [GP 2/2]

    Minor nitpick of CryoGyro's pass - Bulldoze is also a TM, so it doesn't need to be implicitly excluded from the list.
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    Dexit discussion thread

    Per GBATek, "it is not possible to link between [Game Boy Advance] games and [Game Boy] games, [partly] because of different cable protocol, and [partly] because of different signal voltages".
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    SPOILERS! Sword and Shield in-game team discussion thread

    You don't need to do this; the game is balanced around the new experience mechanics. Just build a team of six and don't grind, you'll be at around the same level as the AI the whole way.
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    SPOILERS! [Crown Tundra!] List of Movepool Changes

    Do you have proof that that's the case for normal Sticky Web? The video that was posted in the mechanics research thread used Court Change, so it could just be that you can't trigger Defiant/Competitive with your own hazards (which is no different than not being able to trigger it with your own...
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread

    Dragonfree (author of some extremely comprehensive guides to capture rates in Gen 1-7) has been digging into the catch rate thing; there's definitely a reduced capture rate if your active Pokemon is lower-level than the target (until you beat the game) but it's not clear as yet how much worse it...
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    Sword & Shield Battle Mechanics Research

    No odds; it's based on remaining HP. You'll get an Arrokuda at >50% HP and a Pikachu at <50% HP.
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    Dexit discussion thread

    Gamefreak could have been replacing the whole movepool every generation since the series began, because the consistency you're talking about only matters if you could battle across generational lines. They make changes to old moves all the time - Tackle went from 35/95 to 50/100 to 40/100; Fire...
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    There are gym leader rematches.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread

    As I recall, online trades/battles have a matchmaking system, but you can ensure that you connect to a specific other person by sharing a secret with them outside the game. That's everything the GTS did implemented in a better way than the GTS ever did.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread

    It learns Roost. Heal Order is just straight-up redundant, and it has other signature moves.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    Its description is intact, so anything you transfer from Home with Softboiled keeps it. It's just not learned by anything in Sword/Shield.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    That'll be the Eternamaxed form which you fight in the raid battle, so it makes sense that they'd beef it to high heaven.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    Well, the Angevin Empire was a thing.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword and Shield Datamine Thread

    Why are people confused by the existence of Unfezant?
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    Sounds like a retranslation of the Gen 5 item Health Wing rather than a new item.
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    Sorry that this monster-collection role-playing game for children isn't a Borgesian masterpiece? Well, yeah, you just yanked the familial drama out, so no wonder what you're left with is lacking in any familial drama. (Also, if you go with the abusive-father interpretation then a Bianca who...
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    As with everything else, it's possible to do character development badly, but I don't think it's as bad as you make it sound. Compare Bianca and Cheren with Hugh. Bianca is going on a Pokemon journey to find her independence as a person. She and Elesa confront her father (who may merely be...
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    SPOILERS! Pokemon Sword & Shield Pre-Release SPOILERS - Check Post 2!

    Previous datamines could happen before release because the preload for digital purchases was unencrypted. That's not the case on Switch, and breaking the encryption in a timely fashion requires resources not even the likes of the US or Chinese governments can muster. The leakers could in theory...
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