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My first ever shiny (besides red gyarados) was a shiny mankey on a bootleg copy of Leaf Green. Tragically the cartridge deleted its own save data five minutes later. Not very tech savvy, just know that the game couldn't hold save data for more than two hours. Never found another shiny mankey...

If you want BP, I would prioritise getting KOs and winning quickly over winning the most consistently. At least in SwSh. Because you don't get rewards for a long winning streak, you're better off winning 90 matches out of a hundred than you are winning ninety-nine in battles that take twice as...

Which pokedex entries do you think defy logic so much that they simply cannot be accurate? Like gardevoir making a 'small' black hole and there still being a planet afterwards. I know they were probably thinking of a football-sized black hole sucking up a building rather than a star-sized black...

Its the merch that makes most of the money. Go is good at driving casual players, adults and children, to the merch.

I'd like more of them too. The OG free-for-alls was mostly DuncanKneeDeep screwing around with his friends, and the Battle Royales had a point system to promote more agressive plays. Even DKD had to limit protect and recovery moves IIRC. I think making FFA real competitive tiers and banlists...

Yeah, Go is the big moneyspinner, and the main series games have changed to reflect that. Max raids were the big feature of Sword and Shield, clearly based on Go's raids. Even the DLC was mostly just two new wild areas. Still I am sort of hoping they do a good job with Unova remakes. Even if...

I think that for the majority of casual players it works in the main campaign. They won't really be needing to give every pokemon dynamax 10 candies, and you might actually have to go out of your way finding a ice-type den to get the TR for ice beam in-game. You won't have a bag full of hundreds...

I was okay with finite use TMs mixed with infinite use ones, at least in SwSh. You gave to grind the hell out of those games to get dynamax candies anyway. So I have literally hundreds of each of the finites . Didnt play BDSP so I'm not sure how they are there. I've been experimenting a little...

I've used charm raichu in VGC and its pretty handy. I'll often see someone dynamax turn one hoping to attack through a flinch, only to find their main pokemon getting cut down to -2. Yesterday it managed to hit a physically offensive groudon twice with charm because it was sashed.

BW's problem wasn't that it only had gen V pokemon in the main storyline. Its better to start a new generation with a party of just new pokemon. The problem is that too many of the best Gen V pokemon are stuck in weak evolution stage until about level 40 or higher. Nobody is using a lvl 30...

I enjoyed Orbeetle and Thievul in Sword. I managed to go in blind, without getting a good look at any of the new mons' stats or abilities, and even had to guess at some of their types. Having screens and parting shot made it a lot easier to scope out the other teams. I love orbeetle's design and...

I think Sun and moon had more side varied gameplay and more interesting characters than X&Y at least. But yeah, there's been a big shift away from complexity in favour of reptitive, minimal thought required stuff like the Wild Area. There are barely any original caves with action puzzles. Go...

Ah, I really wish we could still transfer stuff to home with certain items. Would save quite a lot of BP and/or time sorting out stuff if I could transfer like 4 life orbs and focus sashes from older games.

I played a nuzlocke of XD Gale of Darkness within the last six months. It was a pretty challenging one.

I think people rembered it in Gen VI when the Last Of Us came out and everyone realised Parasect is effectively a clicker.