Sticky Orange Islands SQSA Thread

Is there anywhere in Pokémon X where you can see Gorebyss, Rhyperior and Yveltal (especially the latter) to complete your Pokédex since that just needs Pokémon seen rather than caught, or do I have to obtain them myself?
(I was planning to go through Y for Yveltal and transfer up some stuff eventually, but it would be nice to get the Oval Charm before all that...)
Yveltal I don't think so, but I think that the people in the cafes who will show you a random Pokemon can show you anything else.
 
Is there anywhere in Pokémon X where you can see Gorebyss, Rhyperior and Yveltal (especially the latter) to complete your Pokédex since that just needs Pokémon seen rather than caught, or do I have to obtain them myself?
(I was planning to go through Y for Yveltal and transfer up some stuff eventually, but it would be nice to get the Oval Charm before all that...)
Inver can have a Rhyperior, no trainer in XY uses Gorebyss outside the Battle Maison.
 
Is there anywhere in Pokémon X where you can see Gorebyss, Rhyperior and Yveltal (especially the latter) to complete your Pokédex since that just needs Pokémon seen rather than caught, or do I have to obtain them myself?
(I was planning to go through Y for Yveltal and transfer up some stuff eventually, but it would be nice to get the Oval Charm before all that...)

Yveltal is not able to be seen without having been caught in Pokemon X, you must trade for one for its Pokedex entry.
 
Hey y'all! I was recently starting to consider making a mono bug playthrough for pokemon scarlet (I might post a thread about it if/when I get around to do it). However, I stumbled upon a weird situation when thinking about using scizor. I don't really have a second game to trade back and forth and evolve scyther with or irl friends that could help me evolve em, but I do have legends arceus on the same switch, so in theory I could transfer the scyther, evolve em in that game, and transfer em back to use scizor. However, I'm kinda worried about the legality of it. Would doing that be technically the same as trading back and forth or would it be considered cheating?
 
Hey y'all! I was recently starting to consider making a mono bug playthrough for pokemon scarlet (I might post a thread about it if/when I get around to do it). However, I stumbled upon a weird situation when thinking about using scizor. I don't really have a second game to trade back and forth and evolve scyther with or irl friends that could help me evolve em, but I do have legends arceus on the same switch, so in theory I could transfer the scyther, evolve em in that game, and transfer em back to use scizor. However, I'm kinda worried about the legality of it. Would doing that be technically the same as trading back and forth or would it be considered cheating?
Buddy, you're doing this for your own enjoyment. It's only cheating if you think it's cheating.
 
Hey y'all! I was recently starting to consider making a mono bug playthrough for pokemon scarlet (I might post a thread about it if/when I get around to do it). However, I stumbled upon a weird situation when thinking about using scizor. I don't really have a second game to trade back and forth and evolve scyther with or irl friends that could help me evolve em, but I do have legends arceus on the same switch, so in theory I could transfer the scyther, evolve em in that game, and transfer em back to use scizor. However, I'm kinda worried about the legality of it. Would doing that be technically the same as trading back and forth or would it be considered cheating?

If you decide transfering a Scyther to PLA or SwSh is off limits for your playthrough, then if you're willing to wait a bit in your playthrough to add Scizor to your team, you can catch it from 5* raids or in the terarium if you have the DLC. You can get access to the terarium before you beat the main story, though I don't know if the areas Scizor is in would require certain Raidon sandwich abilities, or what level the Scizor would be at before you beat the main story.
 
Hey y'all! I was recently starting to consider making a mono bug playthrough for pokemon scarlet (I might post a thread about it if/when I get around to do it). However, I stumbled upon a weird situation when thinking about using scizor. I don't really have a second game to trade back and forth and evolve scyther with or irl friends that could help me evolve em, but I do have legends arceus on the same switch, so in theory I could transfer the scyther, evolve em in that game, and transfer em back to use scizor. However, I'm kinda worried about the legality of it. Would doing that be technically the same as trading back and forth or would it be considered cheating?
As Pumpkinz says this is just something you're doing for fun. Mods are not going to come into the thread and ban you because you evolved your Scyther in another game. No one would care about this unless it was literally a speed run that has to go up on a leaderboard.

Honestly you could literally just cheat a Scizor in and no one would really care.

If you decide transfering a Scyther to PLA or SwSh is off limits for your playthrough, then if you're willing to wait a bit in your playthrough to add Scizor to your team, you can catch it from 5* raids or in the terarium if you have the DLC. You can get access to the terarium before you beat the main story, though I don't know if the areas Scizor is in would require certain Raidon sandwich abilities, or what level the Scizor would be at before you beat the main story.
Kitakami has pre- & post- game levels but I believe Terrarium is post-game levels only (outside of the raids). It's like the IoA/CT split.
 
The Johto wild Pokémon battle theme has been used in the anime in episodes like Good 'Quil Hunting, however it turns out it has also been slightly remixed and used in the third Pokémon movie (in Japanese) with Entei and it plays when Misty battles Molly.


It's distinct from the usual anime version of this theme though obviously is very similar. I remember it being used in the penultimate episode of the AG series Once More With Reeling.

My question is where else this particular remix of the theme has been used in the anime - whether they be sub or dub, episode or movie. Cheers!
 
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Okay after seeing a Weavile refuse to use Triple Axel on Rayquaza, I need to ask. Do we happen to know if the AI in SWSH is really much worse than in SV? I'm seeing way too many instances in Dynamax Adventures of CPU allies seemingly not using effective moves or trying to spam stat reducing moves when they can't work.
 
Okay after seeing a Weavile refuse to use Triple Axel on Rayquaza, I need to ask. Do we happen to know if the AI in SWSH is really much worse than in SV? I'm seeing way too many instances in Dynamax Adventures of CPU allies seemingly not using effective moves or trying to spam stat reducing moves when they can't work.
Multihits only see the base power of the move. At 20 base power, it's gonna use whatever Dark moves it has first.
 
Someone please refresh my memory, if I join a Zacian raid remotely before it's started appearing in my time zone, can it still be shiny for me? Been saving my remote passes for ages and thought I might do a couple of raids at midnight tomorrow.
 
Is anyone doing Ogre Oustin? I really want the shiny Munchlax but can’t win on my own (came very close a few times but just couldn’t quite get it).
 
Someone please refresh my memory, if I join a Zacian raid remotely before it's started appearing in my time zone, can it still be shiny for me? Been saving my remote passes for ages and thought I might do a couple of raids at midnight tomorrow.
Yes. Generally events, raids, shinies etc. will be based on where the Gym is hosted. If there's no caveat like a ticket (for the Go Tours/Fests for example), you effectively are "going there" for the raid and it'll just behave as matches that time zone.
 
In Let's Go, following Pokémon can sometimes find items in bushes, flower beds, rocks, etc. Some of these (berries out of bushes) seem to be discoverable by every Pokémon, while some are only discoverable by specific Pokémon (Paras/Parasect in Mt. Moon) or types (Rock- and Ground-types in Rock Tunnel). Bulbapedia and Serebii both have information on these, but their info doesn't actually match each other, which leads me to wonder if there are perhaps gaps in this knowledge on both sites' accounts. Does anyone know if there's any more thorough documentation about the items available using this method and the types/species required to get them? If not, my alternative is to scour every area with every one of the 18 types, and possibly every species if I am feeling particularly masochistic
 
Clearly the answer to my preceding question was 'no'

But I do have a second question now hence the double post
Does anyone know if there's a data dump of Johto Safari Zone in HGSS? I am aware that Bulbapedia and PokeBip both have encounters lists but they *don't match* so I'd like to know if there's a dump or if I gotta do some real annoying shit to find out the truths
 
Clearly the answer to my preceding question was 'no'

But I do have a second question now hence the double post
Does anyone know if there's a data dump of Johto Safari Zone in HGSS? I am aware that Bulbapedia and PokeBip both have encounters lists but they *don't match* so I'd like to know if there's a dump or if I gotta do some real annoying shit to find out the truths
Pretty sure this PokeBip site is just wrong, I've never heard of it before and Serebii matches Bulbapedia's list. So I'd trust the established site, rather than the obscure, clearly wrong one.
 
I don't trust Serebii on literally anything though lmfao

But like, Bulbapedia 's dump clearly still has the occasional error, like how in Wetland both Doduo and Ditto have an ID of 5 which is literally impossible and nothing has an ID of 8

Edit: I forgot PokemonSlots has this info!!!!!!!!! I'm good
 
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The biggest issue is that I wanted a data dump specifically because I wanted information about the encounter slots, which Bulbapedia doesn't have for non-block encounters - it instead just calculates the combined percentage of any mon's appearance rate. PokeBip at least had encounter slots, but other differences made me wary.

Other differences include:
  • Forest area's Bronzong is level 46/44 in Bulbapedia and 45/44 in PokemonSlots
  • Marshland area's Seviper is level 48 in Bulbapedia and varies on time of day in PokemonSlots (48/47)
  • Meadow area's Nuzleaf is lv48 in Bulbapedia and varies on time of day in PokemonSlots (48/47)
  • Meadow area's (walking) Wooper is lv42 in Bulbapedia and 40 in PokemonSlots
  • Plains area's Manectric has ID 7 in Bulbapedia and 2 in PokemonSlots
  • Swamp's Duskull is lv 42 in Bulbapedia and 38 in PokemonSlots

And there's more in the Surfing/Rod encounter lists, mostly level discrepancies, but I'm getting a little drunk and don't want to spend more time on this.

If it seems like I'm quibbling, I am, but at the same time - this is the world's most popular franchise and one of the best-selling video game series of all time (the best selling?) and the two most well-known sources, Bulbapedia and Serebii, simply aren't 100% reliable. This is why I wanted a data dump in particular - I'm trying to make a website to address some of this, precisely because the "established" site(s) have issues. My site may be newer and younger but I'm hoping to be able to say it's at least accurate.
 
The biggest issue is that I wanted a data dump specifically because I wanted information about the encounter slots, which Bulbapedia doesn't have for non-block encounters - it instead just calculates the combined percentage of any mon's appearance rate. PokeBip at least had encounter slots, but other differences made me wary.

Other differences include:
  • Forest area's Bronzong is level 46/44 in Bulbapedia and 45/44 in PokemonSlots
  • Marshland area's Seviper is level 48 in Bulbapedia and varies on time of day in PokemonSlots (48/47)
  • Meadow area's Nuzleaf is lv48 in Bulbapedia and varies on time of day in PokemonSlots (48/47)
  • Meadow area's (walking) Wooper is lv42 in Bulbapedia and 40 in PokemonSlots
  • Plains area's Manectric has ID 7 in Bulbapedia and 2 in PokemonSlots
  • Swamp's Duskull is lv 42 in Bulbapedia and 38 in PokemonSlots

And there's more in the Surfing/Rod encounter lists, mostly level discrepancies, but I'm getting a little drunk and don't want to spend more time on this.

If it seems like I'm quibbling, I am, but at the same time - this is the world's most popular franchise and one of the best-selling video game series of all time (the best selling?) and the two most well-known sources, Bulbapedia and Serebii, simply aren't 100% reliable. This is why I wanted a data dump in particular - I'm trying to make a website to address some of this, precisely because the "established" site(s) have issues. My site may be newer and younger but I'm hoping to be able to say it's at least accurate.
The Johto Safari Zone was terribly designed mechanically, no one really did any research on it til earlier this year (hence why Pokebip's is so egregiously off).

Gen 4 is really badly researched in general, Gens 1-3 have been picked apart from top to bottom for romhacks and from Gen 5 on Smogon existed and was doing extensive research into everything.
 
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