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Post by King Silva on Oct 14, 2020 2:29:18 GMT -5
I caught 2 shiny Vulpix a couple hours ago. Ninetales is my 4th favorite Pokemon of all time so I'm thrilled to get one let alone another on the same day. The first is 2/3 stars and the second 1/3 stars so not the best but I'll still evolve and max out the better IV one eventually.
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Post by LK3 on Oct 16, 2020 8:12:45 GMT -5
I got shiny Vulpix this morning and yesterday morning at nearly the same time. 9 AM yesterday and 9:08 AM today. Good luck window I guess!
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Post by King Silva on Oct 16, 2020 8:30:39 GMT -5
I got shiny Vulpix this morning and yesterday morning at nearly the same time. 9 AM yesterday and 9:08 AM today. Good luck window I guess! Nice.
Any good IV wise or just lucky that it is shiny?
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Post by LK3 on Oct 16, 2020 18:27:18 GMT -5
I got shiny Vulpix this morning and yesterday morning at nearly the same time. 9 AM yesterday and 9:08 AM today. Good luck window I guess! Nice.
Any good IV wise or just lucky that it is shiny?
Nothing special IV wise. I don’t much care about that though, having the shiny is the important part. It’s not too difficult to have a good IV regular Vulpix, or anything else for the most part, which makes no difference in battling whether it’s shiny or not.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 16, 2020 18:57:26 GMT -5
^ Yeah since good shinies are so rare I tend to just like to have them and power up good IV attacking Pokemon especially if they are lucky so I save on stardust.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 17, 2020 2:42:09 GMT -5
Welp, got my ticket for today. Time to get absolutely no shinies as usual so I never get a good, shiny Charizard.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 17, 2020 2:46:09 GMT -5
Good luck.
I don't have a shiny Charizard yet since I started doing the Community Days like 3-5 months late..
I am annoyed that this one will just have Dragon Breath and not also Blast Burn.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 17, 2020 3:34:19 GMT -5
Good luck. I don't have a shiny Charizard yet since I started doing the Community Days like 3-5 months late.. I am annoyed that this one will just have Dragon Breath and not also Blast Burn. I'm disappointed this one even is happening at all. I get that Niantic had some strict stay at home stuff, so that's why we got so many repeats throughout the year since there have been flareups all around the world starting in last December. And while they're rolling back the protections (scaling down spawn rates again meaning i have to use an incense every day now to encounter literally ONE POKÉMON THE WHOLE TIME THE LURE IS UP, making remote raiding basically REQUIRE 10+ people remote for the Mega or the legend of the week when during the international lockdowns it only took five or MAYBE six if you had, say, a weather boostedMega Charizard X, kicking hatch rates back up and introducing in 12km eggs, refusing to pull Feebas from the 10km eggs, etc) they really should have done solo, evo mons instead of more Squirtle with glasses again. Or the ten thousandth replay of the PikaHats. Porygon was cool. Give us some obscure stuff. Give us a split day where we can get, say, Girafarig and Dunsparce. Hell, it's SPOOPY month. Give us Sableye and Shuppet and introduce Mega Sableye and Mega Banette. Mega Absol. They're clearly not going in any kind of dex order...just give us something that's been used like four times...hell ,we'll probably see the early Kalos region, so by Christmas we will probably get any combo of; Mega Glalie Mega Kanghaskhan Mega Gardevoir Mega Gallade Mega Abomasnow Mega Ampharos Among others. Which is fine. I want them. But there's one thing I've learned during the pandemic: Never expect Niantic to do anything for the fans. They'd sooner release a compilation with Crunchyroll to give Pikachu a Hidden Leaf/Sand/Rock/Cloud/Mist ninja bandana. Sure, it'd look cute, but maybe at least let us have the chance to turn a Hidden Leaf shiny Pikachu into a Raichu and name the bastard Naruto because it's orange. Meh.
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Post by LK3 on Oct 17, 2020 5:24:26 GMT -5
CD is today? Wasn’t really paying attention as I have plenty of shiny Charmanders.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 17, 2020 5:32:01 GMT -5
Yeah it is today.
And I totally agree I hate the repeats of Pokemon but in this instance it isn't so bad for me.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 17, 2020 20:13:33 GMT -5
I played for 4 hours or so and got 15.
2 were pretty great so I'm happy.
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Post by LK3 on Oct 18, 2020 0:55:58 GMT -5
I opened the game every half hour or so to click on whatever was around me. Ended up getting 5 shiny. Now I really don’t need anymore shiny Charmanders.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 18, 2020 5:20:32 GMT -5
Yeah they really just take up space.
I need to get with my cousin and have him store tons of my shinies that are not doing much on Pokemon Home.
I'm always hovering around 1,285-1,350 Pokemon out of a max of 1,350 so that will help.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 18, 2020 5:46:05 GMT -5
I'd been up for *looks at sleep tracker* 101 hours straight before I crashed early this morning. I've got a tunna pain from a jse infection and nothing has helped and naturally I couldn't sleep. Of course I would finally fall asleep at 4am and only just woke up about three hours ago. A nice, solid, 24 hours straight. And I'm now off to bed again just three hours after waking up. Next time y'all hear from me, I'll be asking one of ya for a Shiny Charchar. Real talk, I'd work something out for these shinies: Dunsparce Seviper Charmander Absol Sandshrew Kantonian Yamask
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Post by King Silva on Oct 18, 2020 8:13:08 GMT -5
Damn and I thought I was a tweaker! I feel bad for you but hopefully you can get into a normal sleep schedule. I mean at least get to go to bed for a couple hours every day/night! I'd trade you a shiny Charmander right now if I could but they are so shady to not implement trading to friends far away.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 19, 2020 0:07:19 GMT -5
Nearly finished a playthrough of X. Got a ton of Horde Shinys I need so gonna start that when I’m done. Had some fun playing this and went for a Shiny Clawitzer for my team too, just because. It was Modest too!
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Post by King Silva on Oct 19, 2020 0:19:24 GMT -5
I caught a shiny Exeggcute earlier this morning so that was nice.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2020 1:45:45 GMT -5
Nearly finished a playthrough of X. Got a ton of Horde Shinys I need so gonna start that when I’m done. Had some fun playing this and went for a Shiny Clawitzer for my team too, just because. It was Modest too! As someone who started with Pokémon Red on day one, Y remains my favorite game. The story was equally as intense as all of Gen V, Mega Evolution was a phenomenal addition to the series that was scrapped far too quickly, and it had just the right amount of new and classic mons that made it feel like Gold/Silver. My only critique is that the story is criminally short. I believe you're in Scotland, right bro? I'm not sure what shows the Isles have available to them on Netflix, but if Pokémon XY/XYZ is available, watch it. Even if you aren't big on the show, it's not only cinematically rich, it's also clear that the writing AND localization teams knew the show was an opportunity to pull something like Avatar did with Legend of Korra. Fully understandable for the "target audience" but with enough story content to hold the attention of its OG fans. It's borderline violent at times, and has a couple of episodes that, luckily, didn't get the "Beauty and the Beach" treatment (THAT episode) but did earn Pokémon it's first ever TVPG rating, with the only other Pokémon media ever getting bumped from everyone was Gales of Darkness XD, Conquest, Origins, and most recently Detective Pikachu. It's worth it.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 19, 2020 1:58:04 GMT -5
Nearly finished a playthrough of X. Got a ton of Horde Shinys I need so gonna start that when I’m done. Had some fun playing this and went for a Shiny Clawitzer for my team too, just because. It was Modest too! As someone who started with Pokémon Red on day one, Y remains my favorite game. The story was equally as intense as all of Gen V, Mega Evolution was a phenomenal addition to the series that was scrapped far too quickly, and it had just the right amount of new and classic mons that made it feel like Gold/Silver. My only critique is that the story is criminally short. I believe you're in Scotland, right bro? I'm not sure what shows the Isles have available to them on Netflix, but if Pokémon XY/XYZ is available, watch it. Even if you aren't big on the show, it's not only cinematically rich, it's also clear that the writing AND localization teams knew the show was an opportunity to pull something like Avatar did with Legend of Korra. Fully understandable for the "target audience" but with enough story content to hold the attention of its OG fans. It's borderline violent at times, and has a couple of episodes that, luckily, didn't get the "Beauty and the Beach" treatment (THAT episode) but did earn Pokémon it's first ever TVPG rating, with the only other Pokémon media ever getting bumped from everyone was Gales of Darkness XD, Conquest, Origins, and most recently Detective Pikachu. It's worth it. I agree with X and Y being one of the best games for sure. That first dive into 3D really put Pokemon Games over the top for me. Story was short and a terrible postgame story with everyone’s favourite detective sucked! I’ve seen the full series, I stopped watching at Sun and Moon (although the 3 series are on our Netflix in the UK). XY is up there with Hoenn for me as best series by far. I loved the Zygarde story late Series 2 and all of 3, very well done. I still have Black and White as my favourite and I don’t really know why other than it’s the region that started me playing again.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2020 2:39:04 GMT -5
As someone who started with Pokémon Red on day one, Y remains my favorite game. The story was equally as intense as all of Gen V, Mega Evolution was a phenomenal addition to the series that was scrapped far too quickly, and it had just the right amount of new and classic mons that made it feel like Gold/Silver. My only critique is that the story is criminally short. I believe you're in Scotland, right bro? I'm not sure what shows the Isles have available to them on Netflix, but if Pokémon XY/XYZ is available, watch it. Even if you aren't big on the show, it's not only cinematically rich, it's also clear that the writing AND localization teams knew the show was an opportunity to pull something like Avatar did with Legend of Korra. Fully understandable for the "target audience" but with enough story content to hold the attention of its OG fans. It's borderline violent at times, and has a couple of episodes that, luckily, didn't get the "Beauty and the Beach" treatment (THAT episode) but did earn Pokémon it's first ever TVPG rating, with the only other Pokémon media ever getting bumped from everyone was Gales of Darkness XD, Conquest, Origins, and most recently Detective Pikachu. It's worth it. I agree with X and Y being one of the best games for sure. That first dive into 3D really put Pokemon Games over the top for me. Story was short and a terrible postgame story with everyone’s favourite detective sucked! I’ve seen the full series, I stopped watching at Sun and Moon (although the 3 series are on our Netflix in the UK). XY is up there with Hoenn for me as best series by far. I loved the Zygarde story late Series 2 and all of 3, very well done. I still have Black and White as my favourite and I don’t really know why other than it’s the region that started me playing again. Yep. The Looker BS was...well...BS. And I'd be om if we didn't hear from him for a few generations after his shoehorning into Sun and Moon. The anime was top notch production. XYZ was infinitely better than XY, but as a whole, I really thought the series was FINALLY evolving with its audience. But instead they pressed B. ...but Ash won, and Goh is pretty awesome so eh? And the reason Gen V is the favorite of most, in particular the first set of games AGAINST N, it was like playing Red for the first time. New region, New Pokémon, similar formula yet better storytelling and no nasty up glitches like Missingno and craplike gen one misses and the lack of diversity regarding the special attribute. It was essentially a soft reboot of the series, with the the right formula to get kids who've never played before into it, while teens and young adults who grew up with the series being able to have that same thrilling, be all end all choice with the starters again that has only been replicated one more time for the franchise since then, Mystic/Instinct/Valor. Gen five also made for a great last hoorah for many fans who weren't all too tempted to drop a hundred plus on the upcoming 3DS, since MOST Pokémon fans don't even use their Nintendo handheld devices for much more than Pokémon. That is, until the Switch. And Sword/Shield had MASSIVE potential twice. Once, on drop day last year when the immediate fans were going to clamor for it. And a second wave of interest coming in March when the world went on lockdown so people who'd either never understood the hype around Pokémon, or had jumped off the wagon when the OG DS came out, suddenly had a tunna time on their hands and they fumbled horribly. The game is phenomenal, and there's for sure a solid outlook for the future. But for non stalwarts, well, I can see why they're either loved or hated. Granted, it's not like GameFreak had any clue the world was going to shut down for a whole year and everyone would stay inside and play video games. But they could have remarketed SnS similar to how New Horizons changed directions when it came out that "Oh...umm...this is serious, even America and North Korea are...somewhat...acknowledging a problem here." But nope. All we got was some fancy Pikachu in hats like we get every gen, and a DLC that didn't live up to the hype, did NOT warrant the price tag, and that's part of the issue with SnS as a whole. I love it. I really do. But for their first step into the world of 60+ dollar games when the MAX they've ever charged before was half that? The story shouldn't be able to be beaten in four hours. Less if you had the ability to skip cutscenes. It was too fast paced from the moment you beat Milo. I like the energy, but don't go balls to the wall if you're just going to make two and a half hours of the main story (with no real post game) be cinematics and have this vast open wild area just...be there. Nothing special to it, aside from the funny GIFs of being chased by a Machamp or whoever the first feller to discover the Runegrigis evo. That's it. Raids are fun, but they're repetitive and boring after you've caught all of the GMax ones and rebred them for comp.
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