Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

Should I replace machamp with lucario.

After missing out on shiny Buneary (who I encountered the day after launch, and I foolishly didn’t save prior to the encounter AND accidentally initiated battle with it when I meant to throw a ball), I’ve caught three awesome shinies today!

My first two caught shinies were Zubat (now Crobat) and Geodude (now Golem), which were really underwhelming, because I had already caught a Zubat and two shiny Geodude in Let’s Go, Eevee (the former of which I couldn’t evolve into a Crobat in that game anyway, which dulled any enthusiasm for having it at all).

And they were the only two battling Pokémon I’ve had on my team (as I figured shinies would be easy enough to come by that I committed myself to an all shiny team) until past the credits roll. A few days ago, I caught a shiny Toxicroak in an outbreak. Not my favourite Pokémon, but its shiny is just gorgeous. And today I’ve caught Finneon (now Lumineon), Hisuian Sneasel (now Sneasler), and I just caught Gligar and couldn’t believe my luck, especially as both Finneon and Gligar weren’t from outbreaks, and I don’t have a shiny charm either.

I’ll soon be able to retire Crobat/Golem at long last.

And that shiny jingle will never cease to send my heart racing.

@Silly_G That’s awesome! I initiated a battle with shiny Starly the other day when I meant to throw a ball. Ugh.

@Fujin Personal preference… Check the stats, if you want. I replaced Machamp with Lucario.

@Silly_G It's such a satisfying noise to hear when you're just wandering about the place and all of a sudden, bbbrRING! It's so good.

As for myself, I've gotten fully sucked into shiny hunting thanks to both the variety of methods to get them across all of the Switch Pokemon games and the announcement of Scarlet/Violet which will introduce tons of new mons to grab shinies of. In PLA alone, I've managed to grab a total of 40 shinies already thanks to the Shiny Charm being significantly easier to grab than in other games, perfecting dex entries halving the odds, along with the obvious of outbreaks. There's too many different ones to list but my favourites include:

• All Hisuian evos except for Ursaluna and Overqwil (despite me having perfected Qwilfish's entry before even starting the post game grumble grumble)
• Hisuian Arcanine, Growlithe, Electrode and Lilligant.
• 2 completely full odds Distortion mons in Rapidash and Drapion (I hadn't even got Research Level 10 prior to finding them, with the Rapidash being my first shiny in the game)
• A ? Unown that I hunted for myself (which I got in 58 resets and 225 Unown caught).
• And a Dewott from an outbreak which became a Hisuian Samurott, my first ever shiny starter.

In short, I may have a problem.

You should start a shiny hunting YouTube/twitch channel.

I’ve since found a shiny Shinx in an outbreak.

After so many hours of nothing, I feel truly spoiled now with four awesome shinies in a single day!

I want to replace staraptor with togekiss because I need more special attackers. The only special attacker I have right now is typhlosion. Togekiss has really good stats but weak moves besides moon blast. Any recommendations.

Just think of what coverage you need. If you need a counter for Dragons, Togekiss is your 'mon. Water types, get a Magnezone. You can also buy new moves from the lady at the dojo, I'm sure Togekiss can pick up Flamethrower that way for example.

@yegs88 I forgot about effort levels for togekiss. I'll test it's special attack then.

Is there any penalty in catching fully evolved pokemon. I just caught a 65 level infernape. and wondering if it's good to use him. Or does it come with drawbacks of any kind.

@Fujin Only that you don’t get the first two forms. If you don’t care about completing the Pokédex, no problem.

AFTER 2 MONTHS, BEATING THE MAIN AND POST GAME, FINISHING THE DEX AND FIGHTING ARCEUS, COLLECTING THE SHINY CHARM AND OBTAINING 46 SHINIES.....
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.....I finally caught a big Buizel.

It took me a long time of trying and failing repeatedly to find an alpha buizel for that request, until I finally got a big normal one to complete it.
And then some time later I found the alpha buizel by chance, and caught it as a matter of principle. Only briefly did I consider blasting it off with the strongest attack at my disposal.

@Fizza Congrats! That one gave me a lot of trouble as well… And no way was I giving up the alpha.

@Fizza the final boss

@EelI I cannot believe it was easier to get Research Level 10 on everything (including Spiritomb and Unown!) to go and catch God than it was to find a sea weasel that was slightly taller than the rest. I like to think those 2 Buizels are the ancestors of the Floatzel I used in BDSP. It would give me some vindication for completing that damn quest.

Guys I just beat the main game yesterday and now want to focus on catching all pokemon to fight arceus. I want to know do you need to only catch all pokemon to fight arceus or do you also have to max all pokemon to research level ten as well.

@Fujin only catch.

@Eel Thanks