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I suppose the opposite argument is that you can't really walk too much in isolation? But yeah, I agree it's annoying.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I would just like some diversity at this point. Go Metagross three times straight for first 3 levels and have gotten only Cobalion since, which I think is 8 times, but I'm not sure. Motivation is seriously dying.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

It is highly annoying how common Cobalion is as a reward, I don't get anything else and it kills the motivation for me because these battles are not at all that fun.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Hopefully they don't make it so rare, that the event might as well not be there.

I'd assume Nincada is old enough by now for that to not be the case, but you never know.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

There are way too many costumes this event. They really went overboard.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

It's fine as long as they make Nincada available again. They really messed that one up.

It should've just been released in the wild along with a quest that says "Evolve a Nincada" which gave Shedinja or something like that.

At the very least not make Nincada exclusive to small periods.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I haven't seen Axew at all. Not even the shadow of it, I had forgotten it existed.


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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I wish I had been active for that.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, Sawk was the first I caught in this new wave, and I've met him more than that. Regionals only being in eggs would be terrible as well, I think only Mime Jr. is like that.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

More often than not it's more of a timesaving thing, so yes, I'd say.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Even if Skyward Sword wasn't frustrating a lot of the time, ALBW is a really great game

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Leonhart4 posted...

And yet they might be the two best Zelda experiences I've had

If Majora didn't exist I would probably agree.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I have played through it all now and made myself a living dex missing only Zamazenta and Type: Null, both of which I'll trade over when I get Shield. It wasn't nearly as much effort as it has been before due to dexit and wild area. I'll sum up my thoughts.

Positives:
It should be mentioned that I love Pokemon, so it has overall been a very enjoyable game. There's no point in listing all the returning things I like, so it might seem like I enjoyed it less than I did.

-The gym challenge.
They managed to keep the classic format while keeping it fresh. Most of the gyms were also fun in themselves. I enjoyed all but the final two, which didn't have much substance, we'll get back to that. It was cool to see how getting the regional badges actually made you a known trainer in the region. I liked having sport outfits mostly because it harmlessly made no sense to change clothes and talk about being exhausted from a Pokemon battle where you just stand and name moves.

-The league
Very cool alternative to the elite four, even if it was obvious who you would face. I didn't mind it being interrupted quite a bit either in itself, this is a very welcome addition.

-The pace
I didn't really know what to call this, but what I mean it that it was a lot smoother to go through dialogue, which was a major issue in gen VII, where it took forever to get through the first island compared to what it had and I really appreciated that. Also really appreciated the Rotom Dex not being able to talk. This will make a billion times better to play through again.

-The New Pokemon
I think this is a solid bunch. Toxtricity is among the best they ever made imo and there are a lot more up there. There's also less than usual I dislike, so very good job overall.

Negatives:
Most of these can be summed up to "Not enough developement time", but there are some other points.

-Lack of substance in the overworld in latter half of the game.
Suddenly, the world was just much less pretty and there was a lot less to do. The early routets and citys had very cool backgrounds and it was pretty to look at. I don't care that the graphics are way below average for a Switch game, it looked good to be. But that sure wasn't the whole game. Early on you could also visit at least most houses. I see no point of these big citys if it's just a cover and they don't actually have anything at all. Wyndon and Spikemuth in particular were bad here.

-Lack of story and things to do.
As much as I enjoyed added focus to the gym challenge, this was a major step backwards. There was kinda sorta a story going on at times, but you were excluded from it until the league where it honestly sucked and yet I almost enjoyed it because we finally got something. The whole plot to get to Leon and Rose's meeting in particular was bad.

-Dexit
We spoke about this for many months before the game came out, but that doesn't make it better, especially when you consider the above things. I honestly doubt we'd have that much worse a game if they ported all the Pokemon. We know they straight up lied about the models and look at how they created them all from scratch back in XY and made a game with as much substance otherwise. It didn't have to piss me off that they removed so many Pokemon, but they handled it so horribly. Some of the moves they removed also sucked.

-Catch rates
I don't understand the slightest bit why this was necesarry. It is so easy to level up anyways, it's not like it would be broken to get something a level higher than your own Pokemon. The was extremely frustrating on a lot of new routes.

-Dynamax
This might be controversial, but I really think the gimmick this gen failed. There's a fine idea in there somewhere and I do appreciate how any Pokemon can use it and without use of an item, but it's severely broken. It's no fun at all. Smogon is probably banning it already. In game it was awful as well, it's a shame it probably took too much focus in developement. There's no fun in it really, not helped by how it's extremely predictable. Why do the gym leaders always have to use it with final Pokemon. I get they want to show off the Gigantamax forms in most gyms, but could they at least then not necessarily use the Pokemon capable of that as their last one? It's also insanely time consuming, being the only real flaw in the otherwise great pace. All in all, I have not enjoyed it at all.

-The creation of TR:
Something I haven't seen mentioned a lot, but this was to me a great step backwards from where we got to in Gen V. Most TMs are completely worthless, the good ones come very late and they aren't that good. The TRs are all the things you want, but they're locked to the wild area where it's tedious to search for specific ones, because it depends on you finding and beating the right raid if it's there, or hoping that one of the sellers are there. But their prizes are ridiculous for you until you become champion.

Some ambivalent things:
Some things I'd like to talk about I don't think I can call neither good nor bad.

-The rivals
I appreciate having more than just one rival and that was fun. I also appreciate them trying to give the tival some storyline of his own, but Hop was pretty terrible honestly. I enjoyed Hau mostly last gen, but Hop was mostly just annoying, same thing with Bede. Marnie was fine enough.

-Raid battles
I love the idea in principle, but it sure doesn't work as I had hoped. It's fun if I can get to do raids with my brother and two roomates since that's local, but online functions horribly and playing alone hands you the worst teammates you can imagine. There's certainly room for improvement if they keep this feature around and dynamax wouldn't really have to stay for this to stay, they could simply handle it Pokemon GO style.

-Wild Area
I appreciate the idea of making a lot more Pokemon available early on, but I also think the Wild Area is a big reason for lacking routes during the rest of the game, so it doesn't feel as too much of an addition honestly. It's a shame how many things are exclusive to some specfic weather. In particular two of my favorite Pokemon, Clefable and Mimikyu, being locked to postgame was a darn shame. You can change the date to no negative consequence, but that's really just a simply exploit and not something they intended to do. Also, for as wide as it is, it's very empty. A lot of areas have close to nothing unique to find and the raid battles didn't have to be distributed to this much space really.

All in all, I really just hope the next games will have had the necessary developement time more than anything, then I can look past everything else. If that means no Pokemon games in 2020, then that's fine with

I'll play it once I'm home later. Staying longer today so I can play the whole weekend.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Man, competitive Pokemon is gonna have a hell of a shake. It was heavily dominated by legendaries, mythicals, ultra beasts and mega evolutions, so there's so little left up there. From gen VII meta:

Ubers:
Aegislash

Overused:
Clefable
Excadrill
Ferrothorn
Hawlucha
Kommo-o
Pelipper
Rotom-Wash
Toxapex
Tyranitar

Aegislash is one of two Pokemon in Ubers that are none of the categories mentioned before, the other one being Blaziken, so that was bound to be short. No way Aegislash isn't banned another gen now that we have whatever the opposite of a power creep is. I guess the three legendaries will join in.

Overused has also been heavily dominated by the above categories, but there's good amount that could've been in that isn't too. Without Z-stones, Kommo-o will fall completely out of favor. Pelipper will be able to continue to do what it does, but for who? Mega Swampert, Kingdra and Ash Greninja are all gone, so something new perhaps. Maybe Qwilfish will be a prime rain check pick now, it had a niche before. Hawlucha will be nearly as dangerous without Tapu Koko to set up electric terrain.

I suppose we'll see many Pokemon in OU for the first time, along with perhaps some returners from the first gens. Probably almost everything of UU and what it banned will be good picks in OU now. It's gonna be quite different.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I also noticed that as of the Galar dex, there are now no Pokemon that has been available in every single regional dex to date, as Zubat/Golbat, Psyduck/Golduck and Magnemite/Magneton have all been excluded.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Their choice of regional birds is one of the worst things imo. Noctowl and Unfezant are by far the worst of them, while Starraptor and Talonflame are fantastic Pokemon, Pidgeot being cool as well.

I think my favorites are somewhat evenly split, so I guess that's nice considering less than half are in. I'd have to count.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Paras/Parasect are good candidates.

Venonat/Venomoth was probably bumped out of last place by TTP.
No way it's Golduck. Psyduck rose to fame in the anime and then you remember the line.
Doduo/Dodrio is a fine guess imo.
Could be Seel/Dewgong as well.
Are Shellder/Cloyster forgettable? I wouldn't have thought.
Krabby/Kingler are saved by the anime too I think.
I'm surprised people forget Lickitung. Its tongue makes it quite memorable and it got an evolution later.
I'm more surprised anyone named Rhyhorn/Rhydon here, like what, no way it's those.
Tangela is in the same boat as Lickitung. Unique design, you don't necessarily encounter it, but doesn't a leader have it? It gets an evolution later too.
Goldeen/Seaking, probably saved by Smash.

Overall, probably the Seel line, with Paras and Doduo being close
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I got shiny Zangoose as well, that's the easier one.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I hatched some 70 eggs and no Unown. Off course that's not at all only 10km. I will do another refill, but I'm expecting anything really.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Battling Team Rockets is probably the best way to get that candy right now.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

They made a lot twitter posts about it but during and after, so I think it was more a tease than a slip up. It'll probably be back soon.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Almost definitely inspired by Colosseum and XD, basically an "evil Pokemon". In Colosseum and XD they were stronger in many ways than they would be normally, but could not level up among a few other things before you had purified them.

In GO, Shadow Pokemon cost three times the stardust and candy to power up. They know Frustration, which will be replaced by Return once purified, I think that's the only difference outside of costs. Not sure if you could TM Frustration away. Purifying costs a little bit of stardust and candy, but upon doing it, the Pokemon will cost less than usual stardust and candy to power up and evolve, so you want to purify them.
You get them (well, got, the one day they were available) by finding and spinning dark pokestops thath also rotate weirdly. Then you battle a Team Rocket grunt and will afterward be given the chance to catch one of their Shadow Pokemon. Only a very limited number of Pokemon were avilable.

Oddly enough the Shadow Pokemon had more CP than they normally can have when the grunt had them, then it reduces to very low levels once you catch it and then once purified they return to level 25.

I got one the day they were here. There are medals for both battling grunts and purifying.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, it does, in fact that's the only way to get shadow versions of the evolutions as of now.

Though now they've pulled back the feature. Apparently just a tease.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

SantaRPidgey posted...

"HEY THERE FRIEND ITS THE ROTOPHONE HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS GAME"
"I'm enjoying it so much, thank you"
"I'm enjoying it even more now that you're here, rotophone!"

And if you accidentally click any bottom, he starts over asking it, and you have to answer before you can look at your map.

Seriously, I don't think any feature they've ever made has bothered me more, because they made it impossible to ignore. Not being able to turn it off was idiotic (Let's GO combining friendship and affection was just as stupidly annoying perhaps), and his lines were totally randomized. Like why the hell does he ask if I want to save when I just did it? Why am I getting route 1 turorial stuff post game? I'll never get over it.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Saw this live, but never wrote anything. Time to share some thoughts:

- Wild Area is a really cool idea and graet way to make a lot of Pokemon available. I'm guessing some of the things there is post-game and that some of the fully evolved Pokemon are super rare or maybe not even available at first, but if done right it could be great. My only issue is that it might mean we don't get as much post-game material. The first standard Pokemon games on a console always never have much postgame content, but Switch did have Let's Go, so they are a bit familiar with the engine.

- None of the newly revealed Pokemon looks fantastic to me in the "I must use that!" sense, partly because I don't care much for the typings, but none bad at all either. Hope Corviknight wont make Skarmory obsolete. Poor ol friend already suffered greatly in usefulness from Celesteela's introduction last gen. Electric corgi has potential if real. Initial reaction was that Shield Wolf is far cooler because it is a shield while the other one has a sword, but I think Sword Wolf could be growing on me.

- Don't care much for Dynamax at this point, but I did get a good laugh from the Player throwing that huge ball and it crashing into the ground after being thrown at Gyarados. That looked funny.

- Reading Rotom Phone is a thing almost killed by entire anticipation. I really hope is doesn't interact with you in the slightest, because if it's like in USUM, it'll be a constant distraction to anything enjoyable.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Sorry about lack of picture.

Bio:
SUPER CTES is the most unpredictable man you'll find in the ring. While mostly low key unremarkable perforances, he's unstoppable once he goes full force aimed at something, where very unsportsmanlike methods have often been needed to take him him down when he's in beast mode. He's a genius, and he's known to have a special sense of pride and would often rather KO himself if possible than take the final blow from his opponents.

Style of wrestling:
Brawler (but known to bring objects now and then)

Age, build, ethnicity, nationality:
22, about, 1,85m (slightly above 6 ft. I think) strong but not large if that makes sense, white, Danish

Partners and rivals: (mostly all decided from the few UCA events I can recall)
Partners: Chronic, XIII, Dp, Cobain
Rivals: Maniac, eddv, eaed, Sultan (all friendly)

Out-of-characters friends and not-so-friends:
Friends: XIII, Nick, Steiner, Chronic, (there's a very strong chance I forgot someone)
Not-so-friends: None that I can think of.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I enjoyed it quite a bit. It lived on being a universe known and loved in the sense that I would probably have been super bored, if you replace Pokemon with original creatures made for this and otherwise have the exact same movie.

Most Pokemon were great, other than the obvious Pikachu and Psyduck, I loved Ludicolo in particular.

For what is was, it was surprisingly loyal to the games. I'm one of those who thought "Greninja is not supposed to take damage from Psychic attacks", but then I excused it by thinking that if all the Greninja had protean, they had all used water shuriken before being hit, so it works.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I mostly have this done, but turns out I suck at finding pictures.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Tag, hopefully I'll remember. Any specific date you want this done by?
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

My best thoughts are with the two of you.
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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.