Topic: Pokemon Sword & Shield

Now that I know they can fail, I’m sure I’ll see it happen soon...

@Galenmereth just to confirm, I just found a fossil in the wild area. I was in the “dusty bowl”, not sure if they can spawn elsewhere.

@Galenmereth @Eel Also of note, the fossils aren't exclusive, just way more common.

The Digging Duo can dig up the fossils from the other version, though less common than the native ones. Best bet is to use the Skill brother who has less items but better chances of rare ones, including wishing pieces.

Oh that's good to know then

@Galenmereth Nope. I found a Drake from the Skill brother.

And Serebii's list includes them too.

Its just easier to trade for them.

Huh, I assumed the Drake and the Fish would be exclusive to shield, since those are the only ones I've been finding.

Edit wait you must have sword then

@Galenmereth I found a Drake and Fish in Sword as well. They're definitely more rare than the other two, and I ended up trading for another pair of them, but they're not really exclusive.

@Galenmereth I did like 20k worth of watts on the left digging bro. Got way more than enough and plenty of treasure to sell. I just stood in front of him and spammed R trigger on a joycon while I was doing other stuff

Anyone else finding issues getting online. We where trying to do max raid battles and the server crashes...

@Fowlersrs it's been acting up all day. Should work itself out

May want to hold off multiplayer raid battles until it’s sorted out.

It's entirely possible to get a gigantamax Butterfree with the AI helpers, so don't be afraid of going for it [alone].

I was referring to joining other people’s raids

If any1 playing on non-ENG could breed me male 5 IV mons, I’d appreciate it, I’ll even get the two 5 IV mons to breed with I just need the language change for masuda

In return, I can offer (when I’m done breeding them, working on snom rn):

HA mareanie, HA snom, HA Pincurchin, HA corsula, HA sizzlepede, HA torkoal, which I’ll be giving to breed with for keeps. I primarily need a water, bug, mineral, field, and dragon egg group mon.

@iKhan I prefer the next game be the Gen 4 remakes, just like in Gen 6. They can bring back all the Gen 4 pokemon in that game.

@BlackTalon2

I know that's a really popular demand. I certainly wouldn't mind that, but the reason I mention a 3rd version (or maybe a sequel) is that I think a lot of the ideas like the giant stadium gym battles, the wild area, raid battles, the TRs, etc are genuinely brilliant. However, there are small foundational things like the Exp Share that are pretty much deal breakers for me.

A gen 4 remake wouldn't be able to bring in all the great ideas from Sw/Sh. Hence why it's not my preference.

The ending for this game just feels so wrong. The villain is a complete moron, the underling had much more going for them than the big bad! With Rocket it was straightforward and simple, Plazma had ideals.

Don't even get me started on the post game weirdos, seriously that bit only lasted maybe 30 minutes!

@GameOtaku my biggest issue with the “villain” was that his entire evil plot was introduced and resolved right at the end. There was no build up or really any development of his goals, it was just kind of dropped in there. Really I liked the simple idea of fighting through the gyms to become champion, and would have preferred to just leave it at that. I actually thought the post game baddies were way more interesting, and there seemed to be an engaging story to their history and purpose, but it just kind of ends.

The villain for this game definitely felt rushed. So little was explained about their mindset or even their plan. In the end it just makes them look incredibly dumb. Not as awful as Archie and Maxie but their plan is laughable and even by Pokémon standards, I’d say they’re almost the worst villain.

I'm only at the 4th gym and I'm already getting major Altru Inc. vibes from the way Rose has been set up so far.

More importantly thoigh, where do I sign up to adopt Allister?

Those little pink toy stuffed animal looking pokemon dang near mopped the floor with my whole crew in the wild lands

Started a second playthrough on the docked Switch, cause sometimes I just wanna catch mon on the TV, and ran into a whole gang of those pink things.

1... 2... 3... 4... 5... down they go. One after another. My last pokemon somehow managed to survive long enough for me to catch them. Felt really good but my team was eviscerated after that.

Then oddish came along, and I love Oddish. He's like a blue radish. Or turnip or something. Those things dont like getting caught. Keep popping out of the ball.