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seeing the wave of new pokemon that came from Home washing away mons into lower tiers like Toxtricity, Centiskorch, Obstagoon, etc is a weird feeling. Just a reminder: it's going to happen again, twice, with the DLC
It's nice to see that a lot of my favorite Pokemon that were pretty unviable ended up finding a decent home in RU, like Mr. Rime and Boltund. The only mon I really, really like that hasn't found a home yet is Golurk, and I fear the worst for him.
I did a 12 mon rotation for my Sword team, and while I completed the game almost a month ago, I still haven't talked about my squad. In general, most of the team did well, possibly a consequence of my team being overleveled due to me spending a lot of time in the wild area when the story sent me...
If the giveaway is still on, could you PM me? My favorite mon this gen is Boltund, and I will happily send you one of mine in exchange for shield doggo
Does anyone know the base odds for finding a Brilliant Aura Pokemon? I know how much the base odds get boosted based on the number of mons you catch or battle, but I don't know what the base odds are. "1.6x" doesn't mean much when I don't know what 1x represents
The agonizing wait until Christmas is both my favorite and least favorite time to be a Pokemon fan, because I'm spending this time making constant tweaks to my eventual in-game team. For instance, I realized that with the max raid exploit, you can get a Dewpider as early as the first wild area...