Recent content by doipy hooves

Probably the Jeffers or clasingla for consistent efforts in fostering discussion in the official Pokemon community.

https://www.famitsu.com/article/202603/69795 Slightly different Japanese preview footage and Q&A from Famitsu. Apparently this seems to confirm only fully evolved pokemon will be available on launch, specifically addressing the absence of Clefairy.

Items missing is expected because you have to buy them in the shop. Pokemon missing is a native feature of the game having a limited roster. Move descriptions being incorrect is something that I fully expect to carry over if the game releases in 2 weeks and they feel comfortable showing this...

Move descriptions have a lot of room for improvement. There seems to be a More Info button on certain moves, probably for relevant status terminology. Disable vs Taunt: Disable lists the number of turns it lasts, Taunt doesn't. Thunder goes to 50% accuracy in Sun, not mentioned...

According to serebii's preview there are random shinies (he saw his friend get one) and marks/titles within the rentals, so there's some more gambling content for people to roll for. I also noticed the pokeballs are random too with Great Balls on some mons and Friend Ball Kleavor sighted.

Unfortunately Ice Beam actually seems to still be at a lower PP than the others (12 vs 16) even still. According to serebii's preview, it seems there may not be an actual PP Up system and these individual PP values are just what they set them to at base. Which is different to all the official...

2:01 Mamoswine Bite down to 20PP (25PP) Ice Fang down to 10PP (15PP) 2:02 Furfrou Wild Charge down to 10PP (15PP) Dark Pulse down to 10PP (15PP) U-turn remains at 20PP. 2:06 Froslass Thunderbolt down to 10PP (15PP) 2:07 Hisuian Decidueye Shadow Sneak down to 20PP (30PP) Smack Down down to...

This is just the tutorial but varying PP Ups seem to exist (with non-multiple of 5 values), and also move base PP values are different. Bullet Seed nerfed to 20 PP from 30, Zen Headbutt nerfed to 10 base PP from 15, Body Slam/Flamethrower/Fire Punch/Fly all down to 10 from 15.

Serebii uploaded his preview footage.

In the other thread, CynicalGiant replied with an image which seems be a translated version of the end of the Japanese (also in Chinese/Korean) live-action trailer from Pokemon Day that has an extra 10 seconds at the end that isn't present in the other versions. I don't know where he got the...

I feel like the logistics of a cross-forums war and the value of reactions as currency would depend on if flagging/reporting still removed reaction score/forum points or not, and maybe if gambling would return to raise morale. I would say a Smogon reaction is more accountable than a Pokemon.com...

Arguably launch Unite was a lot less decisive in terms of the micro advantages from stats and more skill/experience/teamcomp-dependent (with F2P Eldegoss being top tier for a good while), compared to the present where the new releases are all overtuned and paid-only for a few weeks and then...

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23253/champions-is-free-to-start/p1 The official Pokemon.com forums (one user) are celebrating the downfall of Showdown and its bad graphics as we speak. And Champions is even going to take the iconic DS battle themes too for the other half of...

With the advent of Pokemon Champions's release date upon us, the official Pokemon forums are debating on if Pokemon Showdown even deserves to exist anymore if it has subpar graphics. https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/23253/champions-is-free-to-start#latest...

Gen 3 Lightningrod doesn't have its immunity/SpA boost effect yet, that was introduced in Gen 5.