Topic: Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet

Willing to trade Ceruledge for Armarouge.

My brother has "accidentally" cancelled his Pawmo's evolution and can't get it to evolve again. Does he have to walk another 1000 steps with it?

claps hands together

SO.

Like with Sword/Shield, I'll hold out for an all-in-one physical release, otherwise it's a skip.

I have finished my Pokemon Scarlet 2 weeks ago so I called a day and I can move on another games to be finished.

So I have a new use for the "surprise trade": I catch some duplicates, then trade them off. If I receive any that give me a new dex entry, I'll keep it. However, if I get any that are an evolved version of one that I already own, I'll trade the pre-evolved version away (excluding my starter, of course, as I have far too much emotional connection to give it away). Eevee is excluded from this rule since I'll have to get all their evolutions. I don't really plan to finish the dex 100% though. Also the only Pokémon I'll list with nicknames are the ones I caught myself, anything caught in surprise trading won't have nicknames on my Numbers sheet.

Feel free to ask if this doesn't make sense to you (which I'm sure it won't, my brain works weirdly)

@Fizza banger artwork like always but I'll do the same thing as Silly this time. 35€ is steep when I don't even know what I'm getting.

Don't need the Zoroark, the clothes are ugly. I can wait till fall, did the same with SwSh until Armor Island released, maybe the first wave will look meaty enough to get me confident they can give us two good chunks of new stuff again.

I'm slightly wary about the wording on the second half, they don't outright say the blueberry academy is in a new place. You'd assume it is but...i don't wanna get disappointed early lol

Iron Leaves is freaking difficult. Walking Surge was a once and done, but Iron Leaves just sweeps everyone.

Tonight I'm going to try to get Iron Leaves.

Phew, I finally got lucky and managed to catch one using an Iron Moth.

Funny how the Violet Paradox Pokémon have "Iron" in their names, but Iron Treads is the only one that's part Steel.

Yeah it’s a bit misleading. Specially considering they’re all clearly made out of metal.

Though I have to admit it would be very boring if they all were part steel!

It's already pretty boring how similar they all are to their original versions, tbf. The concept of having robot versions is cool, no doubt, but I wish they did more with the concept like with Bundle and now sort of with Leaves(?) having hidden "Features" so to speak.

Valiant is the best one exactly because they didn't just make the design look like a robot. Hands and Moth are also okay but the rest are meh.

I just need to catch Iron Valiant and I’ll have all the non-event Violet Paradox Pokémon.

@Eel
Grass is vulnerable with Fire, right?
Was Iron Leaves vulnerable with Fire attack?
I have my Ceruledge (Ghost + Fire) with level 75+.

@Anti-Matter iron leaf likes to build up attack bonuses, so it can easily one hit ok pretty much anything after a while. Ceruledge should be a good match up though.

My successful run with iron moth was pretty lucky, because it didn’t spam its psychic type move on me, and the one time it did KO me, it was just before it did the dreaded Tera power drain, so it didn’t affect me, and I could terastalize the moment iron moth was back in the battle, and broke the shield just in time.

All done!

https://i.imgur.com/JNrYhp4.jpg

Ooof. And the Scrarlet/Violet DLC is even more expensive than the Sword/Shield DLC, priced at AU$52.50 each (compared with Sword/Shield's already expensive AU$45). And yet again, no discount for buying both versions. What a joke.

That's nearly as much as any of the full games (albeit on sale at retail). Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl were also available for under AU$35 late last year, which seemed almost too good to be true.

Incidentally, I recall paying only AU$50 each for HeartGold and SoulSilver back in the day (and also for Black/White), and they both came with full games on a cart plus the nifty PokéWalker accessory.

For the exorbitant asking price, they might as well have spun these off into standalone games (and maybe offer a discount for digital owners of Scarlet/Violet so they wouldn't have to pay AU$80/US$60 as physical buyers would). Some people make the disingenuous claim that paid DLC prevents publishers from essentially issuing derivative games at full price, but I know I'd rather pay AU$70 for a done-and-dusted physical copy than AU$50+ for DLC content that is account/console locked and cannot be backed up.

I'll grab the DLC in the form of physical releases if they issue all-in-one carts like they did with Sword/Shield. Otherwise, it's a hard pass.

I notice the DLC includes an extra uniform rather than giving us real clothes. >.<

I haven't decided whether to grab the DLC personally; I played a ton of Violet last year, but I've kind of fallen off the wagon after giving up on finding all the annoying purple stakes. I'll probably wait to see if the new story is good. I tend to prefer actual real new games rather than partial-game DLC though.

I tried to beat Iron Leaves with online help (as its Tera type is Psychic) with my level 100 Skeledirge and Shadow Ball, but it kept wiping the floor with us using its Psyblade, and after losing a fifth time I was like “Eh, it’s just not worth getting my migraine worse over.”