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  1. SwampySwampert

    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    The Grand (Alolan) Tour We pick up where we left off at Mina’s house, where we start the last Trial off by battling her. Her lead Mawile and second Granbull both have Intimidate, which, uh, you really shouldn’t have done that, Mina. Her team, like the other captain battles, is max offense and...
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    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    Welcome back! Real life struck once again, but I’m energized and ready to finish the fight. Taking the Fight to Team Skull When we left off, I was just about to go after Team Skull, and had just added a great team member in Mimikyu. Grimsley gives us Sharpedo Jet and we can make it to Route...
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    The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?

    Kieran’s Furret at the Paradise Barrens against my underleveled Kommo-o: Tidy Up -> Tidy Up -> Super Fang
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Adding on to this, I just started Teal Mask and playing it semi-blind. I’m doing somewhat of an “Ash Ketchum” challenge where I boxed my entire main game team and am going to try and beat the DLC with only Pokemon I catch in Kitakami, and I like that vitamins/EV items are plentiful enough when...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Probably about 50% of the times I’ve tried Nuzlocking B2W2 have died to Cheren alone.
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    Pokemon that disappointed you in-game despite looking good initially?

    Game Freak when designing Toxtricity: "Let's make a Pokemon with great stats and a cool gimmick based around sound with an excellent signature move and ability...then let's also give it a 50% chance of not having that ability and having a completely worthless one instead. Also, we locked the...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    One thing I'm loving in Gen 9 is that with the Exp. Candies from Tera Raids, along with having access to boxes anywhere, I can legitimately use a constantly rotating team and have their levels up to par with the rest of the team without that much effort.
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Probably been mentioned before, but Walking Wake, Raging Bolt , Iron Crown, and Iron Leaves are in the game, but the OG legendary beasts and musketeers can't be transferred into Scarlet/Violet from Gen 8 because...reasons. GF had a chance to add them as transferrable in the DLC but just didn't...
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    Your Favorite (and least favorite) Routes in Pokémon

    Getting a Trapinch in that route and then immediately losing it to another Arena Trap mon is a Nuzlocke canon event.
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    Hilarious NPC Quotes

    I never really thought about this, but Lysandre is basically just redheaded Thanos.
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    The Best and Worst Boss Fights in Pokemon

    I hate B2W2 Nuzlockes for a similar reason but for Cheren. If you didn't get the 5% Riolu spawn, you're in for a world of pain.
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    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    Jellyfish(ing) We return to our Pokemon-hunting adventure by heading up the road to Hano Grand Resort, where we can make some extra cash by chucking the daily Pyukumuku infestation into the sea (they’re common, so it’s fine) and then going to meet Faba for our trip to Aether Paradise. He leaves...
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    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    Trial and Error With Hala defeated, it’s a quick surfing trip off to Akala Island and Heahea City. There isn’t much to do right away except battle the vacationing Sina, but now it’s important to start thinking about how the heck I’m going to beat the upcoming Totems on this island, particularly...
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    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    Thanks for this! With this information, I don't know how much I'll specifically be searching for an SOS encounter in this run unless it's absolutely necessary, just because of the sheer odds required. To use an example, getting a Slowbro or Slowking would be a 3% chance of a call from a...
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    Unpopular opinions

    If there's a similarity between USUM and BW2, I think it's definitely in the "while the gameplay is better, the story isn't". I like BW2's story, I think Hugh is a really unique rival in his ambitions and temperament, but nothing they did was ever going to live up to N and the significance of...
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    Challenge Treading Lightly: Pokemon Ultra Moon with rare encounters and limited options (Champion Defeated)

    I’ve done a couple solo runs of Pokemon, and while they’re exciting Beedrill and Nuzleaf both turned into “find a way to set up and win”, even if Steven turned out to be quite the challenge in the latter one. For this challenge, I wanted to both do a game I haven’t done a run of before and do...
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    Real-world territories that will never be Pokemon regions

    Am Canadian. I think if the country were to ever get a region it would be probably just the populated parts of Ontario and Quebec. The St. Lawrence/Great Lakes areas could be cool to explore and for the designated "cold" area there's the northern parts around Hudson Bay.
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    The dumbest coverage moves you've died to in-game (primarily on random mooks)?

    Nothing like fighting Cynthia, hitting her Milotic with a SE move, and discovering that she can and will switch to a counter.
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    Challenge Pokemon Omega Ruby - Nuzleaf Solo Run [COMPLETE]

    The long-overdue ending! Wally On paper, Wally is a terrible matchup for Nuzleaf as he has several type-resists and his ace is a Gallade that has Close Combat. It actually didn’t end up being as bad as it seemed, though. My first attempt fainted to Roselia since Screech from Magneton into...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    It does treat it the same as blacking out. I get why they did it. In an open world game, it’s a time save to not have to fight a Trainer that has 30 levels on you and watch your whole team get KO’d in case you accidentally talk to the wrong person, saves the friendship penalty too. Don’t know...
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