Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

@BrazillianCara @Fizza Congrats. I'm still trying.

That side-quest is insane.

@Ralizah Just to rub salt into the wound, the game gave me a big enough Buizel about a month ago.... except it was an extremely rare Alpha variant. I'm not giving up a bloody Alpha to that fecker!

I just gave that guy an alpha Buizel, are they rare?

@Dogorilla Each alpha of a Pokemon has a roughly 1-2% chance of spawning in with every group of Pokemon. There are some guaranteed alphas strewn about the maps but Buizel isn't one of them. With how long it took though, I was genuinely considering giving that one out of defeat. However, I stuck to it and ended up finally finding it in a mass outbreak.

@Fizza Oh ok, I thought I'd found a loophole by giving him the alpha, I didn't realise that was hard to find in itself! I don't mind though, it's nice seeing the alpha Buizel standing by the gate looking comically large next to the little one.

It's relatively rare, but not particularly precious.

It's basically the easiest way to complete that mission, so that would be the one major use for an alpha Buizel.

Whilst we're here talking about battle strategies, can I say how much I adore the Path of Solitude? It's a great way to test how much you know your Pokemon in a 1v1 fight tailored to give both a very good challenge whilst also being very doable if you play your cards right. The way the levels scale according to the Pokemon you pick is great as well and makes every fight feel surprising and exciting. It also gives a great incentive to keep using Grit items after the main game as well in order to beef up very weak mons into unstoppable killing machines (it's worked particularly well for mons like Budew, Finneon and Bergmite). And the fact you get a mark in the Pokedex after you've beaten it with any given Pokemon is just so good and provides so much replay value in wanting to get them all. I have about 27 Pokemon done already and can't wait to do more (plus anything to do with Ingo is fantastic in my book).

I am so confused rn.

So I was fighting a Gastrodon on Ramanas Island trying to perfect Rowlet's dex entry. I was using Roost so I naturally wasn't paying that much attention. I look back to see the Gastrodon use Earth Power..... AND IT HITS ME. HOW!? Rowlet's part Flying! It shouldn't have done anything, right? Does anyone have an explanation for this? The Gastrodon's moveset was Water Pulse, Ancient Power, Mud Bomb and the aforementioned Earth Power.

EDIT: ROOST GROUNDS YOU I'M AN IDIOT.

Hahaha yeah it’s easy to forget that

I made an incredible observation while playing PLA there recently.

So, in the Crimson Mirelands, on the trail to where you fight Lilligant, you can find an Alpha Honchkrow there at night with a bunch of Murkrows around them. All of them will attack you without mercy if you alert them. However, if you defeat/catch the Alpha Honchkrow, the rest of the Murkrow will immediately stop attacking and run away as quickly as possible.

It's one of the best tiny details I've ever seen and it kind of encapsulates why I love Legends so much: every single Pokemon has details and habits you'll need to learn in order to effectively fill out their research tasks and this one here is my favourite example of that.

In other news, I also managed to catch a shiny Quilava. The difference? IT'S AN ALPHA. I somehow managed to get both a shiny starter AND and a shiny alpha all in one. I guess I'm not evolving it, huh? I mean look at this absolute loaf of a Pokemon!

@Fizza I’m not envious or anything… Amazing catch!

Wow. Catching Enamorus is going to be the death of me.

I hid behind a rock and threw things at her until it worked.

Some time ago I found a shiny alpha stantler, out of all the pokemon with new evos, shinys's I like wyrdeer the least. But my 2 shiny wurmple boys make up for the stantler.

Those three are some jerks, I hated catching all three of them, but I did manage it at some point LOL.

@Eel Got it, thanks. That worked out a lot better than chasing it. 🤣

@Kermit1 I love shiny Wyrdeer personally: it takes the garish green from Stantler and tones it down considerably, leaving it as a more lime colour instead of being radioactive. The way they kept the horns and beard the same as they were before was a good call too since I always hated how Stantler's horns, one of the main points of it's design, turned the same colour as it's body when shiny, it made everything blend together too much.

@BrittGOAL14 hah you’re welcome, glad to hear it worked for you too. Boulder strats ftw.

@Fizza Hmm. That picture of shiny Wyrdeer is hmm it's growing on me.

It looks like a mossy wyrdeer, instead of a lime lemon one.

The slight greenish tinting in the beard is nice too.