Recent content by Esserise

This idea doesn’t really seem that strange to me. I would assume there’s just a big off-screen supply chain for this kind of thing; maybe Day Cares get their balls from wholesalers who offer them in bulk, maybe some Day Cares have contracts with their local Pokémon Leagues who provide them with...

I was able to register the new Abilities by just sending and re-depositing the Pokémon from Z-A. I figured it wouldn’t auto-register them even though I registered the new Megas last week, but I was pleased to find that I didn’t need to download Champions to register them.

I would argue that I don’t think GF are necessarily asking or expecting players to be thinking about maximizing the value of their “investment” when it comes to this. I think they anticipate that players, especially children, will probably futz around and experiment with different Pokémon...

For what it’s worth, you can get a Lv13-18 Dhelmise before the first badge in SwSh by fishing it up at 10% odds if you have the DLC. It’s a weird case where even though it’s not in the Isle of Armor Dex, it’s still, for some reason, in the encounter pool for Challenge Beach fishing spots. It’s...

Now that HOME has updated for Z-A, I can scratch my head about this. I suppose I can’t necessarily expect TPC to be as pedantic about sequencing alternate forms as I am, but prior to this update, the way that Megas, G-Maxes, and regional forms were sequenced seemed like it had some logic to it...

As they were happening, I would agree with that (although I sat out Emerald and most of Gen 4). In hindsight though, I think it feels like a very prolonged gestation period — I don’t think the overall vision for the games actually feels fully formed until Platinum (I would say Diamond & Pearl...

My ideal would be for the Lumiose Dex to reward Shiny Eternal Floette since when the hell else are they going to have a fitting chance to release it, and Shiny Hoopa for the Hyperspace Dex — but since they didn’t do separate rewards for each Pokédex in SwSh or SV, I think it’ll just be one or...

My younger Gen 5-loving self wishes this was how people talked about Gen 5 back then

I was gonna make a joke that while I personally don’t really mind IVs being removed, it does feel a bit funny to get rid of them so soon after adding Bottle Caps to completely trivialize the issue for most players outside of such edge cases as above. Then I remembered that Bottle Caps were...

Even setting aside Incineroar’s *gestures wildly at everything else*, it getting Intimidate while the other two got… Long Reach and Liquid Voice easily makes Incineroar the winner in that draw. A signature Ability is not necessarily a great Ability.

Is “aerilate” an actual word? Aerate is, and it’s always bugged me that that’s not what the Ability is called, but “aerilate” gets no hits on any of the dictionaries I can find. (While we’re on the subject, a nitpick: why the hell did Electric Skin get the name of “Galvanize” instead of...

I dunno, I think BW aren’t really putting the screws to the player so hard that you need much more than a moderate defense buff to get by for most of it. For instance, there’s also the addition of free healers in every dungeon. Gym Leader teams never go past 3 Pokémon and the Elite Four only go...

I’m not really surprised, per se. More just disappointed and a little confused if Champions really warrants it. Obviously the game has to make money somehow, but UNITE, TCG Pocket, hell even GO are all very much their own self-contained, standalone experiences, whereas Champions seems first and...

To me it feels like the entire dimension of the game’s “standalone” content, as in, not being a supplement to players with a mainline game, is really just a token inclusion. One of the things lots of people said in the wake of Dexit was, “Well, if we can’t bring them into every game, at least...