[Nintendo] Pokémon Franchise

[Flare]

You get it at night from a police officer after getting Frustration, which you get after beating the Kahuna.

[DogKama]

Heads up, I beat the elite four went back to the Battle Royal super mart to talk to some guy at a register. Turns out he once was an eevee breeder but could never beat the other eevee trainers before settling down and asks if you would battle them in his stead. If you do battle all five(six?) he'll battle you yourself and if you win he'll give you the eevee z crystal thing.

[Kaijin]

You get it at night from a police officer after getting Frustration, which you get after beating the Kahuna.

That's all I needed to know, I'm still baffled at how uninformative can specialized sites be sometimes...
Thanks for the info (It kind of sucks that they give you such a good TM so late in the game... but it could be worse... Yes, I'm looking at you Hoenn arc games).

[Jinouga87]

Has anybody tried using Ash-Greninja yet?

[DogKama]

Has anybody tried using Ash-Greninja yet?

I played Ash-Greninja in the demo but yet to port him over, since I was waiting until I beat the main story first.

[Kaijin]

Has anybody tried using Ash-Greninja yet?

Demo only... and because I was forced to.
I've ported it over my Sun copy, but I doubt I'll ever try it because of:

A) I've got a severe allergy to EVERYTHING with the name Ash on it (or remotely related to it in any way)
B) Battle Bond is not even that good as an ability (It only raises the power of Water Shuriken and even with that it will never hit 5 times).
C) Ash-Greninja still has the plethora of weaknesses that normal Greninja has (that's why Protean is so good)
D) You have to wait literally half game in order to use it.
E) There are better Water types in Alola to consider before it.

Once Pokébank works with Gen VII, I'll transfer that thing to my Pokébank account (since the game doesn't let me neither trade it away nor release it in the wild), pretend it never existed... and maybe port a Protean Froakie from my X save.

[Feathers]

Haven't even see it, but probably wouldn't use it for a few reasons.

[Perentie]

B) Battle Bond is not even that good as an ability (It only raises the power of Water Shuriken and even with that it will never hit 5 times).

Just wanted to make sure it is noted here that that is not the only thing it does, heck the Water Shuriken boost is basically just an extra feature (and makes it always have a base power higher than Aqua Jet). The main feature is a 110 point boost to its base stats once the ability activates, which isn't necessarily that hard to do thanks to Greninja's speed.

As good as Protean Greninja? Definitely not (particularly because you lack access to egg and tutor moves), but Mega-style stat boosts on a pokemon that can still use an item is not anything to sneeze at.

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Finished the Sun playthrough a bit ago and am going through Moon now. Araquanid will be my main Bug this time (Golisopod was Sun). Man I love that thing, both its design and ability. I wish more abilities were as multi-faceted as Water Bubble.

[Kaijin]

...So? Even with the stat buff still is unable to hold a candle against mon like Water Bubble Araquanid (Damage decrease of Fire by 50%, absolute protection against Burns, and a 100% boost to Water type attacks...STAB not included in that boost), Primarina (One of the best dual type combinations in the whole game) and even Golisopod (Access to three priority moves, STAB Leech Life, STAB Liquidation, 125 Att and 140 Def)...

...Not to mention... That Water/Dark is quite an awful combination with a plethora of weaknesses against EXTREMELY COMMON types... Why on Lord Odin's name should I consider adding another crippling type liability after carrying the owl (due to False Swipe mostly) for slightly more than 50% of the game (I've bred and raised a Litten for a reason... well actually two, as one of them was calling it "El Gatástico")? What would be the next thing? Adding an Exeggutor to the mix? A Crabominable?

Simply put: IT'S...NOT...GOOD...ENOUGH...TO...EVEN...CONSIDER...TRAINING...EVEN...WITH...PSEUDO-RAYQUAZZA...SHENANIGANS

[Perentie]

Oh, I wasn't say you should use it, just that its a powerful pokemon in its own right.

[Kaijin]

Oh, I wasn't say you should use it, just that its a powerful pokemon in its own right.

A pokémon with that many weaknesses and those abysmally low defensive stats (its defensive stats don't change, neither does its HP) is not a powerful pokémon... But a glass cannon and one heck of a liability to almost any competitive team.

[Feathers]

If anyone wants rare Pokémon plush, don't bother ordering from Toys R US on Ebay. They will cancel your order. >.> No way I'm paying double for a scalped item though. Nintendo just loves~ to make their items all rare for demand and advertisement don't they?

Preach on Jim God
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[Kaijin]

Pokémon plushies are relatively easy to find in manga/anime conventions here in Spain (the ones held in my hometown have quite the assortment of them in every installment).

I have five of them as a matter of fact: a Cyndaquil, a Fletchling, a (standard) Raichu, an Oshawott and a Snivy.
Hopefully I'll see an Alolan Raichu plushie by the next big convention (around April-May).


My Fletchling is exactly like this lil' fella

[Zadocfish]

Hey, hey, don't compare Exeggutor with Crabominable! It's not great, but at least Exeggutor is a little bulkier and has 3 double resistances. Crabominable is a perfect storm of awfulness; it looks awful (EVEN WORSE than A-Exeggutor), its attack is great but its bulk and speed is abysmal for something with such a hilariously terrible defensive typing. Add to that, it's not even good IN-GAME because it only evolves at the very end of the game's story mode. It's just... ugh. I would literally rather have a Spinda.

[Kaijin]

Exeggutor is still pretty horrible, sure it loses one weakness when compared with its standard counterpart but it also trades a quadraweakness for another (x4 to Ice instead of Bug) and loses three resistances (even if three of its resistances are quad-resisted now), not to mention that its defenses are still subpar and its speed is on par with that of Crabominable's (45 for Alolan Exeggutor and 43 for Crabominable).

As for Crabominable... That poor thing is a wreck: Awful dual typing, incredibly late evolution (same happens with other mons like Glaceon, Probopass, Magnezone, Vikavolt...), lackluster stats (other than physical attack)...
Which is kind of a shame since it has an interesting movepool, high attack and good abilities (all three are good).
If it only had some priority moves... it would be way more viable than it is (I'm still baffled at how GameFreak didn't give neither Mach nor Bullet Punch to a mon that is Fighting type and has Iron Fist as its ability...What were they thinking?).

[Feathers]

I have the Fletchling too, was a fairly easy find. I'm not really into plush much, but a couple caught my eye. Lilligant was pretty badly made and overpriced now, so I never bothered though.

[Zadocfish]

It doesn't even have Charjabug's excuse of being fairly decent without evolving, either. Crabrawler has to be my least favorite new Pokemon, I think. Also, Exeggcutor's quad weakness is to Ice, not Dragon... Which is worse, since Ice moves are more common.

[Kaijin]

...Right... My mind slipped for a nano second there (I was training an eviolite Shelgon by the time I posted that and the first word that came to mind was Dragon...Despite being one of the few typings of the game that cannot have a quadraweakness) and look at the result, one of the biggest and most moronic things I've ever said here (dang...that's almost Folagor's level of idiocy).

And now if you excuse me I'm gonna bash my head against the nearest wall, which surely will be way less painful than such a tremendous blunder.

.P.S.: I definitely don't deserve such official title after all...^^U

[Jinouga87]

So I finally got Pokemon Sun. On my way to fight Hala right now. Current team is as follows:

TigerTDark the Torracat. Named after Tiger the Dark

Ted the Grubbin: Named after the Second Blue Beetle.

Jessica the Alolan Digglett. No reason for the name.

[Kaijin]

It might be a bit of a spoiler (but pretty much necessary IMHO though) but... If you plan on using your Grubbin as a permanent team member the Eviolite is gonna become your very best friend during your Alolan adventure.

I retook my save again (I spent almost two weeks working on my Alola dex and I have it 74% full... Including the Moon exclusive mon and UBs) and I started training a Drampa. I don't think it will become a permanent part of my team since it needs a Trick Room user to fully shine (and you get Trick Room in the post game AFAIK) but its unique ability Berserk is pretty gimmicky yet fun to use (With Roost and a Sitrus Berry equiped you can set up some nasty sweeps with it).

Oh... I finally found a mildly challenging Island Challenge... It only took 6 of them though...

Spoiler: show

...even if the challenge was more due to the assist mon rather than the totem itself, Haunter landed three Hypnosis in a row. That was some serious RNG bull**** of the highest caliber.

.P.S.:

Jessica the Alolan Digglett. No reason for the name.

Mine is called L'Oreal, because she's worth it.