The most annoying part of Totem battles is how, without fail, they become 2-on-1 and remain so for the duration of the encounter until the Totem is taken out of the picture. I don't hate Double Battles as much as I used to, but having no ability to bring in a second to even the odds really irks me. If you get two, I should get two, stupid bloated oversized Pokemon.
After watching Houndoom and Mawile go down to them, I decided enough was enough and brought out Zygarde. It was able to tank a few hits while I mended my party, then obliterate the enemy ranks with a combination of Rock and Ground attacks. It would have done so a lot quicker if it weren't for that blasted Spiky Shield move.
But what's done is done, and the trial is over and the two Z-crystals from the observatory obtained, along with a handful of trinkets for use or sale and some stickers. Now to head back down the mountain and figure out where to go from here.
I prove myself to dulse just inside the canyon. He sure hasn't figured out coverage, since his poiple is walled by all my steels.
The canyon is full of wooden bridges with no rails. Good thing most of my team can float. Heights don't bother me, unsound bridges do.
One step from the trial, I decide to fight one more guy. took a few revives. Flygon and Gengar could hit everything super-effectively.
I need to stop running back to the centre right before Lillie heals me.
So there's an uncontrolled pokemon in this area that is more powerful than usual. People use this route! This thing is a safety risk! Why has nobody contained this thing?
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Though was annoyed it couldn't learn Surf...
I know this is a pretty old post, and maybe you already know this by now, but in case you don't I figured I'd mention it. You can get a surfing pikachu which you can evolve into the new raichu form in US/UM, by
Though was annoyed it couldn't learn Surf...I know this is a pretty old post, and maybe you already know this by now, but in case you don't I figured I'd mention it. You can get a surfing pikachu which you can evolve into the new raichu form in US/UM, by ** spoiler omitted **
Considering the other coverage a pure electric needs, I'm pretty ambivalent on it getting surf. Now that the rodent has been brought to my attention, I'm wondering why you would run any of its particular Z-crystals when light ball is the only thing that has any hope of making this thing deal any damage. It has base 50 SPA, giving it all the offensive potential of carbink without light ball.
Light ball only works for Pikachu though, not Raichu.
Totem pokemon have a set number of reinforcements (1-2), so it is possible to make it 1v1. However, the summon is only occasionally worth the effort compared to the totem.
Protect and variants aren't frustrating when they are used for something. Doubles with an attacking partner, Stance change, an extra turn of passive damage/healing, Speed Boost, gen 6 mega evolution are all real reasons to use protect or equivalent. Having and using it just because is annoying.
I'm meaning annoying to fight against more than to use. The AI tends to spam it, which does little more than waste PP and prolong simple battles.
But I never learned an instrument! Can I get one of my team to play it? I mean, most of them don't have limbs or breathe, but we should be able to think of something.
Dusk mane Necrozma is not catchable. The option to use pokeballs is unavialible. It took me a while to notice, leaving me to wear it down. This was difficult, because it knew morning sun.
I got to try on the Squad's armour! I was so exited I forgot to get sidetracked and actually went to the Ultra Meagapolis.
And then we fight necrozma in it's true form. It's not catchable this time either, which was its weakness. It could 2HKO anything on the team and outsped them as well, so I got next to no direct damage in. It died to Toxic, nothing more.
For saving a few realms, the other half of the Squad has gifted me with their Poiple. My teammate preferences aside, I know enough to not refuse an adorable little alien.
Also, the Squad lent me their transport Lunala.
*idea forms, buy 99 ultra balls*
Mina isn't going to know what hit her.
*gets swept by kartana*
Good to know you come back to the same place if you fail to capture or KO.
*KOs kartana*
*gets swept by nihilego*
maybe I'm a little underleveled
Light ball only works for Pikachu though, not Raichu.And neither catastropika nor 10,000,000 volt thunderbolt (incidentally 1% of a gigavolt) work for Raichu either. Stoked Sparksurfer is actually pretty good, due to it's 100% paralysis.
Ah, I missed that those moves specifically were what was being talked about. So noted.
Looks like it repeating locations after a loss only applies if you go right back in. Had to PP stall Xurkitree's power whip and electric terrain, but eventually slept and caught him with palossand.
Maybe it's possible that these are actually dangerous. Then again, since the guy in the hazmat suit dosn't seem to be giving any ill will towards the Guzzlord I caught in a single ultra ball, it might have ended up in a post-apocalyptic city by coincidence.
Although it’s alien to this world and a danger here, it’s apparently a common organism in the world where it normally lives.
Although it’s alien to this world and a danger here, it’s apparently a common organism in the world where it normally lives.
Although it’s alien to this world and a danger here, it’s apparently a common organism in the world where it normally lives.
I am now low on rescources and cash with which to buy them. Total captures in ultra space:
Nihilego
Buzzwole*2, one traded for pheromosa
Xurkitree
Kartana*2, one traded for celesteela
Guzzlord
Articuno
Latios
I'll get back to the plot soon.
My personal opinion is "yes, just the Pokemon of other realities/planets/etc.". Honestly the way Ultra Warp Ride measures things in lightyears brings into question if you're actually visiting other dimensions/timelines or if you're just traveling to really distant planets.
I am Loving the exploits of That kid from that region!
Also I've never done themed pokemon teams, think I should for when I get Ultra Moon & Sun in 2 days?
Sure. Any ideas?
My Rotom now calls me Master. I am okay with this.
By way of normal procedure for monotype runs (i.e. anything that evolves into the desired type is allowed), you can start a run for any type except Ice, fighting and Dragon before route 2. fighting and Ice begin with crabrawler on route 2, dragon is verdant cavern noibat.
Edit: I got ninja'd while doing reasearch, but most of it didn't end up here (first pokemon available by breeding group was not deemed necessary)
Apparently one of the Tapus had a fit and trashed part if a city and a whole marketplace. Touchy much?
Wonder if I can convince people to rebuild once I catch the troublesome thing.
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I'm thinking maybe.... a Bug-like Run, so I can include Lurantis, Drapion, and Flygon (three of my favs even though the three of them don't have the Bug Type, and I'd trade in a Skorupi egg to be my "starter")
And then maybe try out an Artifice team, in honor of That kid from that region, or maybe a Fairy/Nature Team as an Antithesis x3
Today we finish off the fourth island. Plot should be mostly finished for now, so I'll stop spoilering everything.
Rook is Xurkitree,
Queen is celesteela
The callenge for Mina's trail (which seems to be chosen specifically so she can do the least work) is fight all the other captains. They're in the low 50s. I trained my team to 60 for the sidequest. Knight's been doing well for the early ones, possibly due to type and natural coverage.
Lana's fight is skipped, Kiawe's includes Hiker David, Sophocles' entire team is double-weak to ground, Acerola's is also skipped.
Okay, truns out it also has draining kiss. While continuing to PP stall, I take out blissey, and pelliper shortly thereafter (I had magnezone out)
Was this more costly than taking the loss, leading with Muk and killing it with poison? Yes. But I know better than to be defensless near a fey.
Eventually, helped by the fact it only 3HKO's magnezone at maximum offense, it could only dance. It was at that point the battle ended as it began, with a Meteor Mash to the face.
I would like to disintegrate this abomination-engraved artifact. Seriously, everything about this thing is creepy.
Time for Hapu, and she's taken advantage of the expanded pokedex. Rotom takes out Golurk, and Knight beats mudsdale. Flygon comes out and takes out Knight. Remembering a previous encounter with flygon, I take the hit with Sturdy and corkscrew crash with magnezone. Dhelmise then takes out gastrodon. I'm still slightly overleveled.
Why does victory road only have one elevator? If it's going to see use it should have more. Gladion was here, I wanted to have some fun with Rook, but I keep forgetting how slow he is. He takes a Z-move from zoroark, but falls to silvally. rest of fight was uneventful. Weird that using the Z-move removes zoroark's illusion. Congrats on getting the mask off, I guess.
The ones that looked like the little ticking tree spirits from Princess Mononoke? With a filename that literally referenced Hell?
You find some interesting stuff in Victory Road. Stuff like impact craters with weakened legendaries. I was pretty worried since it was under a hailstorm, but the guy wants to be with me since I got him with a single try when he still had over half health. Colress shows up and has hilariously modified the devices to depower necrozma into ways of increasing it's strength. He also drops the second hint that Solgaleo is waiting in Mahalo trail, so I finally check it out. Fortunately, it's on my side of the bridge. Why is the new bridge the same style as the old bridge that collapsed?
Messing around a bit while I decide on the team for the elite four. Almost definitely going to have magnezone and palossand (the two highest level), as well as Muk for coverage and resistances. Any suggestions for the remaining three? I am willing to grind up, and have already started a bit for some
- magnezone Lvl. 68
- Palossand Lvl. 66
- rotom(wash) Lvl 65
- dhelmise Lvl 65
- metagross lvl 64
- muk lvl 63
- Rook lvl 62
- Knight lvl 60
- Queen lvl 60
- klefki lvl 60
- banette lvl 53
- probopass lvl 48
- drifiblm lvl 46
- golurk lvl 43
- Claydol lvl 43
- bisharp lvl 36
- trubbish lvl 33
Highlights of combing the desert:
Was not expecting a Z-crystal pedestal here. With it being so close to the Tapu, I gotta wonder if the area was destroyed because some psychic type annoyed him. An attempt to stop the legendaries from getting more power, ignorant of their personal equivalents?
A guy who's apparently been lost for over a year and doesn't want a ride out on charizard. I guess he likes sand.
well from the list I'm seeing, other than Bisharp the rest are based on artificial stuff x3
Palossand is a sand castle
Rotom is the ghost of a bunch of different appliances (his original form even came out of a TV the first time we see it in a game)
Dhelmise is an anchor
Metagross is a super computer, but has a form reminiscent of landers, UFO's, and robots... >.>
Muk is sludge
Xurkitree is a bunch of electrical wires
Kartana is origami
Celesteela is a rocket
Klefki is a key ring
Probopass is a maoi head/wooly willy
Drifblim is a hot air balloon
Golurk is a robot
Claydol is a shakōki-dogū(a clay doll)
lil Trubbish is a bag of garbage
I did not realize that about Dhelmise
Yep, that's why it doesn't actually have the Steel type (It's Grass/Ghost), but rather has an Ability that gives it Steel STAB instead.
Ah good point
I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm hoping that "big open world" means/includes "nearly everything is accessible before you reach endgame", and even if it takes a while to put everything together, it's still quite doable before you have to finish the "plot".
But I have a very different focus for Pokemon games. I am 100% only interested in the single-player experience. I have no desire or interest in competitive, and I usually drop the game quickly once I've beaten the Elite Four or whatever and maybe poked around a bit in the postgame. A huge open world that lets you do whatever is kind of my dream game, because it might actually feel like a game that isn't focused primarily on "get to postgame ASAP, do the Battle (whatever) to buy your competitive items/movesets, go to multiplayer" for once since Gen 4 or so.
At the same time, I agree that done badly it could go incredibly wrong. And add to that the issue of moving to a new system and possibly being a new generation (with all the new mechanics, creatures, etc. that implies), and it could be a perfect storm of everything going wrong.
That said, I haven't been keeping up on any rumors regarding Switch Pokemon as of yet, so I'm out of the loop on what's being predicted/expected.
I decided to go with magnezone, palossand, muk, rotom, knight, and metagross.
Kukui calls himself a professor and couldn't beat Lance. They don't even have multiscale, all you needed was something sturdy with ice beam!
Good to see they haven't forgotten some representation of the tech that keeps this impractical setup off the ground. Molayne is in the elite four!
dugtrio is next, but I want to preserve hydro pump PP. I go palossand and OHKO with earth power.
Bisharp is next, meeting a brick break from knight. metagross comes out, and I'm surprised how well it takes X-scissor. Palossand comes out on the next hammer arm, and finishes with shodow ball.
an unnecssary earth power crit brings his magnezone to sturdy, cousing him to use his last full restore. It didn't save him the match
Thanks dex rotom, but I don't think going to a centre is practical right now.
I go for Acerola next, so I can afford to spam shadow ball later
Muk finishes, taking only minor damage from dhelmise and drifiblm. I only need to heal due to Aftermath.
Olivia's next, and sturdy will be the only thing stopping Knight from soloing.
Hey, you're that person who came out of nowhere when I got the flying Z-crystal! Why are you suddenly important? You play pro golf? Why would you expect me to know that? What kind of 11 year old wathces golf?
I switch Magnezone's Z-crystal to electric for this fight.
Oricorio is next, I go muk for the more consitent SE damage with rock slide. It's the fire type one, so even after featherdance, it's in the red. I toxic it immediately after she heals, which allows me to KO next hit.
Mandibuzz, infamously sturdy bird that it is, is the one recieving gigavolt havoc. I stay in for the final, Toucannon, knowing I can take overheat with sturdy. It goes for... screech.
Assesment: the E4 hang around level 56. I have 62-69 coming out of it. That sidequest really destroyed late game, even if I'm not using knight much.
Full heal for the champion, and Corcscrew crash back on magnezone. Let's do this! Oh hey, an empty seat! Yeah, I don't beleive this. They try to keep the champion fight a secret in Kanto, too.
Hau, seriously? You haven't even come close to beating me
Electric/psychic against ground/ghost as our leads. Expected result. Vaporeon falls to Knight, tarous does under a quarter with earthquake, and is only surviving brick break due to intimidate as Hau wastes full restores. Knight also easily OHKOs crabominable.
I know noivern will outspeed and KO, so I use metagross. Second damage roll is much higher than first, so his dark pulse 2HKOs. Muk finishes with rock slide.
Starter vs starter is how I choose to end it, with corkscrew crash leaving about the same amount of health left as spirit shackle does damage. He heals, and I pump lasers into him. He has enough full restores that it takes 5 more flash cannons at a normal 3HKO, but he couldn't KO magnezone first.
And so the historic moment of the first alola champion is engraved with a supercomputer, a sandcastle, a posessed washing machine, a few magnetic orbs, a pool of sludge, and
Take that, tapus!
I wasn't ready for the crowning ceremony. Not only was I marched across that stupid bridge without being able to hang on to magnezone, we were up in Koko's ruins without being able to keep our defenders out and ready. The blood knight probably felt my intent up there and now has time to prepare.
Give 'em hell, kid.
The fact that Tapu Fini makes its lair in a place called the "Ruins of Hope", a place that is most notable for its black sand, is not exactly inspiring any sort of trust or feeling of security.
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In better news, I've finally gotten Null to let me take that blasted helmet off.
Now I have a whole bunch of Roto Friendships with nothing to do with them anymore... though I guess I could just spam them to get Zygarde to like me enough to teach it Draco Meteor, since it apparently doesn't yet.
Yeah I don't usually make more than one team per game >_> which admittedly does tend to lead to me being above the level curve a tad, since I've noticed a lot of players like to have a rotating "team" of 10 or so members whereas I eventually find a set of 6 I feel can handle most if not all challenges and stick exclusively to them (except in the games that require HMs my team can't or won't use).
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I have been using same Pokemon throughout the game.
I have battled all the people on the road and only went through tall grass a few times in trying to catch Pokemon (got over 120).
I haven't been trying very hard to build up my crew.
Current stats:
Litten/ Torracat/ Incineroar - 65
Pikpek/ Trumbeak/ Toucannon - 62
Yungoos/ Gumshoos - 62
Bunneary/ Lopunny - 62
Inkay/ Malamar - 63
Grubbin/ Charjabug/ Vikavolt - 63
Fought Poli Island's Totem character and it was level 45. My Incineroar and Toucannon had both fainted before I was finally able to defeat it and its cohort.
The very first hit from it reduced my HP by over 100.
Then I fought Necrozma at the Sunne Alter.
It was also level 45.
My Incineroar defeated it with 2 blasts from Flamethrower without taking any damage.
So disappointed.
I wonder if it will be that easy when I go thru the Warp Hole?
"I haven't quite figured out what a Champion is, but you're very strong, right?" -Dulse
So apparently there are a few wanderers about. I consider going for the beings disrupting the natural order first, but I decide saving Ultra Beasts from them is a higher priority.
Hau wonders why I received Null and not him, but it's probably because I'm something of a specialist in taking beings considered nearly mindless attackers under my proverbial wing.
These guys are way out of their element. As far as I can tell, they're apex predators, something that isn't challenged often. I used the Beast Balls immediately so they didn't injure themselves from prolonged strain.
"Perhaps a day will come when the Ultra Beasts will live here in Alola as normal pokemon" -also Dulse
I'm working on it.
Wait, I have to use the loaners from random other people? I won't be able to clear the honour of technology? ARE YOU KI- nevermind, this guy has a palossand.
Okay, they're continuing to target the few tech-heavy parts of the region, but that's just basic strategy. Lillie seems to have forgotten she no longer has a legendary to bail her out, so I guess I have to do it. I'll bring Banette for training purposes.
"Do you want to know how we took over the foundation so easily?" Because they don't have nearly enough steel types and you keep using poison types?
Faba says something to the effect of "It'll be easier to fight 2-on-2 than 1-on-1 if you're with Lillie" and considering she leads with an unevolved pokemon that sets up the wrong screen for the situation, I'm inclined to agree. Especially since I can't effectively use discharge. Doubles stall isn't usually viable, but that's assuming two competent opponents. At least the grunt with him is just as bad, effectively making this 1v1.
Muk put in the most work due to Faba's love of psychic types, and being a physical attacker through the grunt's use of snarl.
Dulse seems kinda well-meaning and generally open-minded, but a little slow on the uptake. Zossie is definitely the more adaptable of the two, but doesn't seem to have a Pokemon of her own, as well as seems to be a subordinate or trainee of some kind.
How is ultra stacking up to the originals thus far?
Warp panels! Always a nice thing to put in a fortress. Lets you not bother with the weak points known as doors.
memorization puzzles too unexciting? Put battles in the middle of repeating the sequence!
Hey, a free electrode! Shoot, it had explosion.
First boss: Maxie
Now this is somthing worth fighting. I switch a bunch between rotom and muk to stall Drought, and hit him with hydro vortex after 5 turns. I'd have been completely screwed if he was primal.
Expecting archie after the next segment, I tweak the team a little.
Kyogre doesn't start out great, with ice beam KOing dhelmise and me forgetting to refresh sturdy on magnezone. Rotom tanks hydro pumps and gets paralysis with discharge to bring me the win
Gameplay differences only really start after the dragon trial, but once they do, it's more to my taste than the originals. I expect that trend to continue as I go farther into the postgame and explore the extra options given by more legendaries and move tutors.
Pretty much this.
For the first three islands and the first trip to Aether Paradise, the only differences are some minor dialogue changes, the addition of the Ultra Recon Squad characters, and Mantine Surf.
Once you get to Poni Island and get through the trial areas, things change up.
Definitely the superior version of the games, and if you know anyone who's curious about Gen7 but still hasn't played the first two games, just tell them to skip them and play the Ultra ones instead. They won't miss anything.
Mm.
Thank you.
May just get ultra sun and bring over some Pokemon.
I want a shiny litten as my main though.