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I can attest that the capture mechanics, especially the low level penalty, apply even outside the underground. And here is the proof. According to Merrit in the Orange Islands Discord server, a magikarp below lv. 10 can be captured 100% of the time with a Great Ball if there is no penalty at...

Hey kids, you ever wanted to experience what true murderous hell is like? Play Shining Pearl, get to Palkia with an underleveled team (below his lv. 47), don't use the Master Ball, and watch as your sanity slowly begins to ebb away from you. As if Aqua Ring on a legendary with Pressure wasn't...

I just remembered one that even amongst all the gen 7 nonsense is especially egregious.. Mareanie: So clearly someone at GF really wanted to make this thing a complete pain in the ass to find and capture in SM/USUM, because it's locked behind SOS chaining. Now, that in and of itself is only...

Feebas also likes to be extremely hard to find and use for in-game runs outside of ORAS. Hope you enjoy fishing in a very few select spots where it may or may not appear per tile, or going back to a route you otherwise have no reason or inclination to even think it'll be there to try and fish it...

Holy shit, I am loving all the crazy nonsense I am seeing from these gym leaders and elite 4 and bosses. This made me go from "Eh, I'm good on games until January" to "I NEED THIS INJECTED INTO MY VEINS RIGHT NOW!" Jupiter's damn Skuntank having flamethrower just to melt that gift Jirachi you...

At least there is a soft workaround for the Exp. All. If you don't mind running a rotating 15-18 mon team, the levels are going to be around where they were with base D/P for your mons, thus making things all the more harder. It's not a perfect workaround by any means, but at least it alleviates...

*Sees Hall of Origin listed in the locations* I can hear the drums already, faintly, yet drawing nearer...

while options up to the first gym or two tend to be limited in any game, BW it is extremely limited, with a handful of available mons by the time you are dealing with the triplets and whichever monkey thrashes your starters. Let's compare, as base games, D/P and FRLG to B/W. D/P: By the time...

Sheer Force and constant momentum with U-turn. Yes, it lost one of its tools in Hidden Power Ice to deal with... itself, but it doesn't really need that when a combination of Earth Power/Sludge Wave/ U-turn/Focus Blast/Psychic gives the genie damn near all it needs to blast giant holes into the...

You underestimate how resourceful and determined children can be when they want something, and how little parents tend to keep track of their own bank accounts when they have no reason to suspect anything is wrong. It's a more common nightmare than you might assume.

The other thing about microtransactions is that it's something outside of the wheelhouse of most parents. Most parents would assume that a kid playing on their phone or Switch isn't going to get into any trouble, especially a POKEMON game. There are horror stories of not just kids, but people...

Just because it isn't pay to win microtransactions doesn't mean it's acceptable. The entire reason this sort of thing is so predatory is because it creates a "haves and have nots" dichotomy, where you see people running around with skins that cost money constantly, applying a constant stream of...

I don't think we'll be seeing one made anytime soon, for the simple reason that the Wild Area destabilizes any such attempt to do a normal IGT thing. Over a hundred species of mon available right out the gate, all the evolution stones and numerous items open if you know where you are looking...

You can go to where they're at even before the first gym... it's just the game warns you not to go up there until you get three badges due to the high level mons. If you run around and grab enough watts, you can easily get a dig or two from them, and have a chance at those stones... nevermind...

It's not me despiring the overleveling aspect of the Exp. Broke. It's the fact it just enables me to use so many mons at once. XY and ORAS, I could easily rotate 20 mons around and not have an issue. SM lesso once I got to Poni Island, and USUM was a nightmare, but not like this. The changes to...

So because I am an absolute madlad and willing to push the Exp. Broke to its limits, I decided to go with a 21 mon rotation team. It was a mistake. I was so hideously underleveled past the third gym I needed to grind raids for the experience candies necessary to do work, and it sucked. Being...

If we're going off of overall easiness, then XY and the Lets Go titles are the preferred starting point. XY, once you get past Korrina, the game just rolls over and dies, and Lets Go you got an easy to break starter and a party that's easy to become nigh immortal monsters with candies and chain...

Yeah, I have to disagree here. If a mon you are using is bad and has no good matchups in the future, it is perfectly fine to drop It, since the ranking is all but written in the sand (purrloin, simisear, patrat). If it's something that has yet to reach it's zenith (magnemite in usum for...

It was bad. Really, REALLY bad. Let's go over the matchups it has in the game: Gym 1: If I had started off with Tepig, it would have been invaluable here. Alas, I had Oshawott, so I only picked up the grass monkey afterward. Lenora: Even if I had Tepig, Ahahahahaha-no. Literally death...

For me, a d rank Mon is one that isn't really average, but struggles against most of the game with very limited success, and also needs constant healing and babying just to get working. Woobat and purrloin, due to their severe crippling issues, fit into d rank in my mind, but venipede can deal...