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OK i beat the game of Pokémon, goodnight everybody
I kept going back to this game until I caught the first fairy island guardian Pokémon thing, but I don’t know why. I’ve played through 3 Pokémon games now, and my tactic has always been to just over level my starter by fighting every trainer I can until it can basically one shot everything. I see that there all these types and moves and strategies, but it just doesn’t seem like you need any of them. I think I’ve had more fun going through online Pokédexes post-game than actually playing through this.
Is there an older Pokémon game with a hard mode or just one that encourages more strategic thinking against the AI, or is that what the multiplayer is for? I like to avoid competitive games that have any kind of grinding associated with them.
Also I find that I am averse to mixed type Pokémon and I’m not sure what that says about me as a person. I picked Rowlet in part because it already had two types and I figured I wouldn’t be blindsided by a new lame type on the third evolution…
There’s nuzlocke
Wouldn’t that encourage grinding and safe choices?
nuzlocke is great until you lose any of your stronk pkmn and hit a wall and have to grind. “your punishment is tedium” is not super fun. i think it’d work a little better in the new games w/ exp all though.
Try swapping out your pkmn at regular intervals and dont buy healing items. You have to kind of make your own difficulty w/ these games, unfortunately.
i heard Black 2/White 2 had difficulty settings but the way they did them was bizarre and backwards. You had to beat the game to unlock them, and one game had hardmode and the other had easiermode (?!) and you essentially had to “trade” the difficulty if you wanted both. Real weird.
I was playing this on the train the other day and absent-mindedly switched in my cubone on a trainer’s ghastly with a significantly lower level.
Ghastly used mean look, cubone had no effective moves whatsoever, ghastly’s licks were all doing 1 dmg, and eventually ghastly killed itself with struggle just before cubone would have died.
I think it took like 20 minutes with ghastly using that move to take cubone’s PP most of the time.
I want to look online for an alolan vulpix, but my 3DS doesn’t see my router and my energy for vidcons has been so low I just can’t feel assed to deal with nintendo’s ineptitude and will just wait until I’m next at a friend’s with wifi or something.
How far into the game does it appear?
I have Sun, but I only just about to leave the first island now.
dunno off-hand. will look it up later. it might not be for awhile since my friend, who also has sun, didn’t have it in his pokedex.
edit: “Tapu Village, Mount Lanakila” wherever those places are.
Looks like it’s near the end.
So for like 10 minutes or so this game looks like it’s going to go all Persona 3 but then it just sorta settles back down into familiar Pokemon territory which is just sorta ehhh.
am I missing out if I don’t constantly have my Stoutland sniffing around for items? I hate this mechanic (see FF9)
I just do quick spins with the dog sniffing every now and then. I like using the Stoutland for basic movement because its default running speed is pretty fast without needing to hold a button.
I’m only on island 3 though - maybe better neutral movement options open up.
Stoutland only finds things in sandy/dirt areas – non-sandy area hidden items are typically Zygardes which are not smellable by Stoutland. Not 100% sure there aren’t exceptions, but anyway, I never found anything spectacular with Stoutland, it’s mostly money items like Pearls.
ok good good, yeah it’s just I have obsessive tendencies and these kinds of mechanics can really bring me down
also, the mounts are nice, but I like being able to dress my stylish little dude, would buy the iconic prof oak tee irl
I’m so obsessive about finding items and looking good that I get off mounts when I see enemy trainers just so I don’t have to see the ride clothing when in battle.
Also I turn off battle animations when trying to chain guys because OMG it adds hours to the process. But then I turn it back on for story things because I want them to look good.
Lots of inane self-rules about these things. The joy of Pokemon.