Topic: Pokémon Sun & Moon - Discussion & Speculation

Just got a nice surprise when my Magneton evolved into a Magnezone while in the Vast Poni Canyon wasn't even trying to get one i just so happened to be in the right area with Magneton in my party. I think i just need Steelix, Slowking and Scizor for trade evolution not sure if there's more Gen 1 that evolve past what was possible before.

So I just pieced together the backstory of Your Boy Guzma (Never gets old).

The Pokédex entry for Minior basically amounts to "Those miniors you fight against but don't catch? They dead."

This Pokédex is like 80% gloom and creepypasta.

Speaking of the pokedex, it seems that most (if not all?) previous gen pokemon got a new entry, which is nice, since I was sort of expectig a copy paste from a previous dex entry.
(this may be why there's no national pokedex entries yet?)

No kidding. Gengar's is just disturbing.

Sun: "Should you feel yourself attacked by a sudden chill, it is evidence of an approaching Gengar. There is no escaping it. Give up."

Moon: "It apparently wishes for a traveling companion. Since it was once human itself, it tries to create one by taking the lives of other humans."

If grimmer runs out of garbage, it dies.

Muk? It will simply thrash your home to create garbage.

And it's A-MAZ-ING. It feels like all of the writing effort went into the Pokedex and the main story, with the NPC dialogue left to flag in the wind.

Seriously, that's the one of the best lines I've read! But of course the best line is still when you discover Gladion in the route 8 motel: "Get out."

it took me only 1 ultra ball to catch Solgaleo w/paralysis. It took me 35 ultra balls, 1 dusk ball and hp down to 10% ish to catch Tapu koko. In his defense, I couldn't paralyze him and didn't have a pokemon with a sleep move that would last 1 turn with it. I head over to another island to catch Tapu Bulu and it took me 10 ultra balls. I was able to paralyze it and bring it to like 3% of it's health. I wouldn't mind the challenge being upped with the cover pokemon and it lightened up a teeny bit with these others. Instead of like 35, more like 20 balls used to catch it haha.

@MegaMari0 Legends with story importance, like one such as Zekrom or Solgaleo, which are enteined in plot either as wanting to join you or for gameplay and story integration (Battle N equally as he wants) have catch rates of 45.

Why Xerneas and Yveltal had that iunno.

Primal Groudon and Kyogre had a catch rate of 3, the lowest possible, any lower and a master ball can fail, and those two Pokemon are scary. Tapu Koko has 3 as well.

So it depends. Wild powerful out of control monsters, hard. Something that for plot wants you, 45. Giratina, Primal forms, Kyurem....

Legendary Pokemon that must be caught, like Xerneas, Yveltal and Rayquaza in ORAS also have the better odds of capturing.

Because it would be annoying otherwise.

With X & Y, Game Freak didn't either.

Because gen 3 — the OG — wasn't casual.

-ate abilities were nerfed to 1.1% damage instead of 1.3%

This affects: Pinser-mega, salamence-mega, altaria-mega, gardevoir-mega, sylveon, glalie-mega, and i think that's about it.

Liquid Voice doesn't give any damage boost to begin with, just throwing that out there for primarina users. (its a bad ability)

So far this gen, we've seen nerfs to those pokemon as well as talonflame and kangaskhan. Ironically Aegislash got buffed because even if the move you use doesn't affect him, it still procs King's Shield so you get the stat drop.

Ugh, who do hidden abilities have to be so dumb?

Not everyone can be greninja.

Talking about [forced] signature cool pokemon... I wonder which pokemon will take that spot this gen.

Probably Decidueye and his ugly fat feather-fingers, lead-based paint-colored cloak and dumb, under-designed face and feet.

It'll be like Lucario but ACTUALLY ugly this time.

@Haru17 Too much trouble just to say that you don't like the design in my opinion.

Anyway, nice to see you again guys, I have been avoiding the thread while I play the game. I managed to get a shiny lycanroc midday form and a shiny salazzle so I'm pretty happy with my luck this time, specially because those two are my favourite designs along with decidueye this generation. The other pokemon in my team are decidueye, incineroar, golisopod and vikavolt. I'm still on the third island, but I think I already have all the pokemon I want for my team in the story mode. Incineroar might be changed for tapu fini or another pokemon though.

Oh right, team updates.

I'm on my way to the ghost trial. My current team consists of... (Name, species, level)

-Giovanni, Incineroar, 41.
-Gumball, Alolan Muk, 41.
-Peeko, Pelipper, 41.
-Buggy, Charjabug, 41.
-Amanita, Shiinotic, 41.
-Donovan, Snorlax, 40.

They're a fun bunch.

I wasn't even planing to get one, but Muk completely overtook Persian in my team; Grimer was way cuter, and stronger. My character is even wearing the sludge line of clothes, so you could say Muk is my "main".

Persian now spends her time in the pokepelago, training for her uprising.

I am considering replacing Shiinotic with Mimikyu as my fairy, but she's been becoming more useful. So who knows.

@Meowpheel I finished the game with;

• Primarina
• Ninetails
• Salazzle
• Muk
• Leafeon
• Raichu

Throughout the main quest, the best walls I discovered were Mudsdale (seems OP meta-wise) and Muk. I also ran Shiinotic for a while and its spore is insane. Way better than the other sleep-inducing moves, even yawn.

Oh yeah, Shiinotic's offensive options might not be very varied, but it's troll game is strong. Spore, strength sap, confuse ray, effect spore... It's fun.

But it's soooo slow.

I'm not sure if my muk could be considered a wall, but it's definitely my best attacker. He's cool.

Snorlax is another one I can consider swapping out for a better option, I mostly use it for hold back and happy hour. Let's hope something catches my eye.