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@MoonKnight7 30 dollar additions is reasonable for content normally locked inside a sequel/remake game, but fact of the matter is that SwSh are pretty empty and all the Pokémon should’ve been in by default (even if they’re free without the expansion).

To us, an expansion adding new areas just feels like that should’ve been the full game to begin with.

I get where you’re coming from and completely agree that I would rather buy DLC than play through a full game again just for tutors/frontier/most Pokémon to catch that I should be able to transfer regardless, but right now it still feels like Swsh is half the length and size of the gen 4 games, and the DLC sounds like it’s adding no more than the gen 4 post game areas in terms of new content. Swsh is such a bare bones game for its price tag compared to last Pokémon titles that DLC expansions should’ve came with it free.

I find this article hard to believe, because smogon really doesn't appreciate the dex cut at all..

infact, smogon made their own national OU metagame, with megas+z-moves, and dynamax still isn't banned in it with lando and kartana still being legal while galar-OU has already banned dynamax, quick banned darmanitan, and is generally considered really stale with a very small OU list.

If that claim "game would be problematic with lando and kartana" was true, national OU would've axed dynamax way before galar-OU, and that doesn't change the fact they can still ban pokemon and mechanics.

Infact here's a thread on smogon where they mostly ranted about it: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dexit-discussion-thread.3655705/

@Blizzia They banned both.

Also 86% of the voters all voted to ban dynamax. This isn't "fearmongering" anymore than everybody agreeing something is uncompetitive.

You probably would think banning metaknight in brawl is fearmongering if you disbelieve in majority of the bans at smogon. Or maybe you like it when Ditto, of all pokemon, has a 50% usage rate in OU just because its the only way for players to avoid getting 1v6'd by anything that can dynamax (btw, everything can).

If you read the offical statement, linked in the article, which you didn't:

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dynamax-is-banned-from-ou-explanation-information.3657917/

You'd know smogon did this ban because it ruins competitive play and everyone agree so, and the same post even acknowledges that the integrity isn't as important if the game becomes unplayable due to it. The first paragraphs also mention none of you HAVE to play by smogon rules, but if you're playing competitive, on showdown, and want to have serious games with serious players, they have to put restrictions so you can't just bring your geomancy xerneas and hit rank 1.

As someone who doesn't play by smogon rules, its actually very logical to ban dynamax.

I get 90% of NL users don't play competitive pokemon, and the ones that do probably only play VGC or battle spot singles, but there's a lot of problems with the dynamax mechanic that made it impossible to play the game on the showdown ladder.

One of the biggest problems was maxs moves causing secondary effects, so anything with access to max airstream, max knuckle, or both simply 1v6'd unless the opponent brought out a ditto... then the ditto 1v6'd.

For example: Gyarados would setup 1 dragon dance, then he would dynamax and use max geyser for rain, or max airstream for +1 speed.. or both. So he could potentially have +2 speed, +1 attack on his water moves, and due to moxie ability, +3 attack if he got 3 KOs... so there was a +4atk/+3 Speed in rain gyarados once the dynamax wore off, after already chunking half of the opponents team.. oh and don't think you can simply counter it, he got power whip this generation so rotom-wash still dies, and the 100% boost in health lets it live a hit from most pokemon even if they're 4x super effective. Now apply this same threat level to excadrill in sand, hawlucha with unburden and max knuckle, and the fact you can run a power house like dracovish, choice lock it, bring in something to wall the move its locked in, then dynamax and break out of the choice lock to use whatever move you wanted.. It wasn't limited to just 2 pokemon either to single them out;

-Gyarados
-Hawlucha
-Corviknight
-Excadrill
-G-darmanitan
-Durant
-Hydreigon
-Togekiss
-Ditto

were all abusers of the mechanic, and we don't even know what else would show up and break the game after half of them are banned.

Glad its gone in galar-ou

If it wasn’t for the leaks, I never would’ve bought sword and shield.

Sorry TPC but no, not going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything new you added I like, nor am I for the first time of the franchise going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything I like even returned. It was due to the guidebook leaker revealing interesting new mons like centiskorch that gave me a little hype and dex leakers revealing mons like runerigus and frosmoth as well as returning ninjask line that made me preorder.

Good, good, keep damaging your reputation so it’s easier for us long term veterans to leave.

@SilentHunter382

They tried this with black and white, and everybody was critical of the games and it sold worse than the others.

LGPE did this where they flat out restricted the game to kanto, and that didn’t sell as well as the mainlines either.

Simply put all people want is a Pokémon game they can transfer all their hard shiny hunted, bred, and earned in the case of events. Everything else should be an after thought when making these games.

Went with snivy, love the line too much and as a plus, serperior is pretty good in competitive.

He also said ridley was too big.

If we know anything about sakurai, he loves to bait and switch to surprise everybody. His 'not going to happen' could easily turn into 'its happening now, gotcha!'. Not like these characters don't have video games out there to bend the rules either (fighter z).

At the end of the day, anything is possible to be in smash. Still hope for shrek.

Yea no, this is cover-up shilling for gamefreak, the rigs are identical to sun/moons and let's go, even so much as the whiskers on gyarados are STILL bugged at the bend joint. That's just flat out a copy - > paste because there's no way a trained animator or modeler could mess that up twice while having a visually exact model and exact animation sequence frame by frame.

The only thing changed are slight texture tweaks and some animation/posture changes, but those are for a couple pokemon, majority of the rest are as copy and pasted as they could've copy and pasted the culled ones into the next game. The simple fact of this is they're being lazy and they're going to use the remaining pokemon as a selling point for the sequel titles. 'CATCH EM ALL IN ULTRA SWSH!'

Literally cant wait for them to release the rest in 2 years and say 'oh suddenly we have the file space'

Something worth mention is a lot of people bought multiple copies of the other handheld games too.

With let's go, there's hardly any reason at all to have more then one as there's little to actually do other then the solo experience, and the version exclusives iirc just boil down to the starters and a few pokemon rather then story elements (don't quote me on that, never was interested to actually play and find out myself).

With the handhelds, a lot of people would buy another cartridge or two due to;

Modding, trading with yourself, Storage, Nuzlocke without ruining the old save file, corrupted data, and losing them (lets face it, this was a time when cartridges tended to be ruined or lost somehow due to mishandling experience but nowadays we're more used to it, and there's less problems with modding and data corrupting compared to using random action replay codes that could be anything.), and competitive reasons (It was more of a big deal for games like ORAS because competitive players had to grind for the inaccessible pokemon, but with lets go there's no incentive to due to lack of proper online or competitive experience.)

@nessisonett

I ordered mine off of walmart literally last night.

Got the email that it was shipped.

You can use the same gamecube adapter from the Wii U. It was built for Wii U and PC but it works perfectly fine I've heard as long as its set to Wii U and the switch has pro controller enabled. Buying the switch version of it is just nintendo marketing that its for the switch, so if you can get an old one, then this shouldn't be a problem.

@Greator Yes.

Its even funnier how passionate people are getting over this joke. I guess all those google and tidepod cosplayers are serious matters too.

If people literally stopped talking about it, it would fade away like the majority of OCs out there.

No reason to make articles about it, its a meme, a joke. You might as well report every single nintendo character turned fat and given carl brutananadilewski's face.

@Cosats Datamining encouraging piracy and theft?

I guess news shouldn't talk about crime either for "promoting crime".

Its reality dude. If you don't want to see it look away cause believe me most poke-sites and mobile gaming news sites share news like this. Much like any local news station is going to share about the latest shoot out or robber. Do these sites ever say "try it yourself with these easy steps?" no.

And datamining isn't necessarily bootlegging either.

Don't mind it as much now, but I'm probably going to pass either way.

Too simple, no online as far as I know, 60 dollars for 151 pokemon when 700+ plus was available for 40 on the 3ds (yea i know hardware expenses but c'mon, thats a lot of models left out and a lot of reused models and animations for that value..)

Company just couldn't keep up with the trends sadly. Most kids went electronic, but more importantly online stores offered the content they offered at least 10%-30% cheaper IME.

The only thing TrU offered was some exclusive stuff, but that's assuming you wanted that or didn't go to ebay anyway. It was a nostalgic experience as a kid regardless.

I'm glad

but I hope that its smash 5.. and not just a port with inkling DLC.

I prefer my games played with envelope.

This game looks so poorly made and so amazing at the same time.

I think what people truely have a hard time understanding is what exactly makes a pokemon "a pokemon". This particularly rose some huge debates with hoopa-unbound being more "yu-gi-oh" without any real description of what made it more belonging to yu-gi-oh over pokemon.

I don't get why people hate on poorly designed mons, there's over 800, not all of them will be good designs just like how other monster collection games (be it cards, yokai, whatever) have lame designs. Somebody will like it or like it because its hated and ironic. I can understand people complaining about an underwhelming generation in details or their pokemon, but not hating on GF on specific pokemon.

Regardless, I find GF's methods of designing pokemon great, at least they don't just go on google and make what ever fanmon they see.

If they made it work, that'd be great but just like how skype was never a thing on nintendo consoles I doubt we'd see discord for the switch.

Discord is also more dynamic with its options, bots, servers, etc which would require a massive remake of the app for the switch exclusively (rather than letting you just sign it on the same account you use with your PC or phone.) It'd be great if we got it, but I doubt we'd get "discord" and more like "diet discord" in which case we're better off with something more fleshed out like microsoft's communication system.

A customizable character?

Where have i seen this before...

I don't think this can even be legally lawsuited. Patreon if I'm not mistaken is just a method of donation rather than contract/business profit. Its why the free use claim for copyrighted content uploaded on youtube gets abused and monetized every day through patreon. I don't believe nintendo could lawsuit the emulator anymore than it can lawsuit patreon as a service.

I'm completely against this, this is in fact abusing a service to get around an illegal act of piracy, without it being piracy in context of law. (free use of a product they purchased)

@hieveryone

Idk if 2017 will be better than 2016. We're already expecting an emoji movie.

@PlywoodStick It is canon!

I feel like they gave up on metroid. Its been a dead franchise for such a long time and it's revival just dug a deeper grave it seemed.

They're working on F-zero for suuuurrrreeeee.

@HyrulianOfHyrule CN isn't dropping pokemon, pokemon is dropping CN for Disney XD (why I have no clue but atleast its not nickelodeon.)

@MadAdam81 "Even better team" isn't due to hacking more or less just knowing how to build their sets better. Time is irrelevant, some players don't have the time to soft reset for 7 weeks to get a 5 IV heatran.

Any illegal pokemon do not work over online functions so if you lost to a darkrai its cause you lost to a darkrai, not because it was a hacked one. The only issue is the time it took to build the team, well you shouldn't be fighting good teams unfinished with yours to begin with. There's no advantage for the enemy player for building their team in 3 minutes while yours was in an hour.

Not pirating the game by leaking rom hacks which players can optionally download instead of buying the real games, that's a big deal that changes the company (finacially)

Apparently there are other exclusives such as ledyba, spinarak, trapinch, and something else.

Why do I get this sinking suspicion the "preview" will just be the box cover of the NX while the rest of the presentation is gameplay of old Wii U titles.

Ah who cares

HYPE!

@RoboDuck I don't want to feed the obvious troll but I need a meme for this.

That will do.
_{let's not...}

And thats how Trump got impeached.

I'm excited for the games but not as excited as I was for ORAS. There's lots of things I love about sun and moon so far yet at the same time I don't know what else to be excited for, if new megas were announced I'd be even more excited with anticipation on which one of my favorites would potentially get one, but with sun and moon the only anticipation I have would be other mon designs, and what other aloha formes we'll see. I'm excited for a fresh new take on the franchise and something else to spend lots of my time breeding/battling on, but I can't be excited for something gives me nothing to actually be hyped for, being hyped for new pokemon and formes is like being hyped for new skins in MOBAs or DLC, granted those do hype me but only if it's specific to something I really like (example: mega to a fav mon).

I want to be very excited for pokemon like lurantis and tapu koko but idk if i'll have much of a reason to play them, they could do something stupid that makes them worthless and unappreciated like move pools. (Zygarde didn't even get stealth rock, that was a huge factor in why he sucked, if lurantis doesn't get sword's dance or a similar setup move rip.)

The manga releases before the games do in september.

So.. I guess this means 90% of everything in the game will be offically revealed next month assuming every mon will get a cameo.

Do we really need this in our lives?...

..... YES

Wasnt pikmin 3 susposed to be a wii u launch title, than delayed to a wii u launch window, then delayed again to over a year after the wii us release?

@Krisi Cause it's a starter that pathetically needs a mega to be reconized.

Honestly bulba isn't that awful, the vote was probably based around starters to pick from rather than competitive viability. This list seems pretty accurate to me in the fact that if you choose these starters the story modes and gyms will be harder to do without another counter on the team.

@greengecko007 box legendaries are banned in VGC. Idk why we're worried about mega rayquaza in VGC when all box and event legendaries are prohibited as well as soul dew.

files nails

Oh boy, "legit" leaks. I guess mega flygon is confirmed finally.

(Can we not go through this again with sun and moon? Not a single damn thing that wasn't in offical corocoro on the exact same dates was legit for oras.)

@Yorumi Thought this was a nintendo direct, hmm. Most likely not then.

@Yorumi They could reveal the NX with them as launch titles. I mean the NX has been told to be a 2016 release and this might be the big "this is what it is" reveal.

Ah the ol' "It's trademarked so it's confirmed" belief.

Pokemon Grey, Pokemon Brown, the trademarked oras megas like jynx and plusle/minin, Delta Emerald, and yet we've seen not one of these.

Nintendo trademarks things just to say "ok, we can do this if we decide to" but they usually never become a thing.. Don't you find it ironic how every game that was confirmed never got trademarked? We just got the reveal? and everything that was trademarked never became a thing? We didn't know of X/Y until X/Y suddenly was a thing, we didn't know of oras until the reveal stream flat out reveal plans to show it (and absolutely nothing of it besides a 2 second cutscene and a man infiltrating a kid's house and bathing with him), while this may be like that niconico stream reveal, i doubt it since it's just somebody claiming a trademark (and trademarks aren't something you make overnight...)

I wouldn't get hopes up for this. I mean, it's possible, but I'm holding my excitement until the direct ends.

@BlatantlyHeroic I'm being very picky.

I don't think the community hate two forms, it's mostly the competitive scene where people need to flip a coin and guess which one it is rather than make accurate and safe plays based on skill.

I really feel uneasy...

Not the pokemon itself, but the direction. Like seriously, a man-made pokemon that came about 500 years ago? All I'm seeing is another porygon.. what's special about this?

The design direction is really cheap imo... when I saw the corocoro image before reading, I said "oh great another pokemon with two mega evolutions... we hated two charizard and mewtwo megas now we have diancie x and y" then when it said new pokemon I was like"..... so we're going to just make everything a new pokemon despite looking exactly like pokemon we already have"

When the zygarde formes were announced I was like "this is new, ok I'll accept this direction" now this went in the complete opposite direction.. this just makes the recent updates seem less like innovation and more like "we just randomly did this, we don't care."

"Man created it 500 years ago" that's not as long as they make it... atleast 500 years wouldn't be described as "ancient" and as somebody mentioned, the pokemon war, whether it be from the lucario movie or the x/y lore, was no where in that timezone.

I feel like they're just making stuff up for the sake of filling space they can't come up with ideas for.

I was a very opptimistic pokemon fan, now I'm starting to understand and see the trend others have fought about even after defending the subject.

I live in the attic of nintendo HQ, want me to leak all their plans?

@Dave24 magikarp was just revealed today as a support pokemon with pachirisu.

Chandelure is an odd one, I may get the game just to main it, but idk. I like usual characters and chandelure is one of my favorite ghost (if aegislash or doublade makes it in here I'm definitely sold)

Pokemon really wants to copyright their franchise hard huh? Just not long ago they sued a guy (tried), and now it looks like they're going to try and take over gif making from everybody?

I really wonder what made them make the tumblr.