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[Sirus]

So, the earlier statement about being able to get all of the HAs in game was a falsehood?

Dammit, I had gotten my hopes up, too :<

[RekkaAtsuma]

So, the earlier statement about being able to get all of the HAs in game was a falsehood?

Dammit, I had gotten my hopes up, too :<

Maybe, maybe not.
Primarina can't have her HA at this time in the game...but thanks to QR codes....Maybe she can get Luiquid Voice in the future,
But even then, without external codes/events/etc, no you can't obtain them all in-game.

[Rolan7]

The popular Game Theorists did an interesting theory video claiming that Pokemon GO takes place before the other games, and might be building up to the mysterious Pokemon War that military guy mentioned.  I haven't really played any but GO, but it seemed pretty well evidenced?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9EEH_iDXU

Main points:
Fossil pokemon aren't extinct yet
No sign of Ditto or Mewtwo yet, though Ditto got added recently!  Relies on theory that Ditto are failed attempts at Mewtwo
Professor Price looks similar to an old Willow, and his middle name is Willow
Rare candies seem like contraband in most games, but are everywhere and species-specific here.  Does the current candy-system get outlawed due to the war?  Are rare candies Mew candies?

And then he said Instinct and Mystic would ally to defeat Valor but I think that was a joke (:

It can't be true, though.  Lt. Surge claims that electric pokemon saved him during the war...  And electric is complete balls in GO
Vaporeon is why we can't have nice things

[Sirus]

Game Theorists is full of crap. The fossil pokemon are pretty explicitly prehistoric, some of them even have Pokedex entries mentioning them being extinct for 100,000+ years. You would have to argue that the games take place so many millennia in the future that all traces of our modern society have been completely wiped away while somehow leaving humans and the vast majority of pokemon species pretty much exactly the same, which just raises more questions.

[Reudh]

Game Theorists have always been full of crap. "MARIO: EVIL?" "NESS: DEAD?" etc.

[Tawa]

Keep in mind that this is the guy who played one or two cases before declaring Phoenix Wright a criminal who steals evidence and claims that Sans is a dead Ness.

Fakedit: Dammit Reudh

[Rolan7]

He's often full of crap (the Halo armor video was much ado about a very minor theory, though the cosplay was nice).  But as someone who Wants To Believe (tm), the videos can be fun...  Also I think his sign-off disclaimer that it's "Just a theory" counts for a lot
He sure gets excited about trivial stuff sometimes though.  That's pretty much the point of the show, heh.

Game Theorists is full of crap. The fossil pokemon are pretty explicitly prehistoric, some of them even have Pokedex entries mentioning them being extinct for 100,000+ years. You would have to argue that the games take place so many millennia in the future that all traces of our modern society have been completely wiped away while somehow leaving humans and the vast majority of pokemon species pretty much exactly the same, which just raises more questions.

Mmokay good, this is the sort of thing I was looking for!
I wanted to argue that the fossils are old but the extinction could be recent, but Ruby kinda shuts that down by calling Omanyte "ancient and long-since-extinct".
And the show says they went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, but I was ready to doubt the show

Well, poop.  Guess it was a long shot anyway, but it's kinda sad - the game mostly makes a lot more sense as a prequel.  Guess they were lazy about the lore.
And lazy about adding ditto, because it's actually at all different...

[Akura]

I did my first Wonder Trade today. For some stupid reason, I had captured a second Salandit and worse, both are male. And even worse, both were captured with nigh-irreplaceable Quick Balls(I've yet to figure out where, if at all, they're sold besides FC). Sent one on his way via Wonder Trade, received... Ratata. Enjoy the useless lizard, Ratata's OT.

Spoiler: Idle headcanon about post GenVII plot*majorspoiler* (click to show/hide)

I'm going to bet that Gen 10 will take place in Kanto 25 years after Gen I, and that Lillie will be a Dark-type Elite Four, having basically given up on life after her attempt to purge Nihilego's toxins from her mother via Bill's Cell Separation machine fails and instead kills Lusamine.

[Sirus]

Go doesn't need lore, it's a mobile tie-in game. It needs to have no relation to the main series other than including the appropriate mons and items.

[Rolan7]

Bleh, I guess.  Niantic put a *crazy* amount of lore into Ingress, I guess I was hoping for... at least a bit of story, here.  But it's like they're barely in contact with Nintendo.

[Sirus]

Well.

I don't think I've ever said "what the fuck" out loud in response to a Pokemon game before, save for some lousy hax on the AI's part in battles. Until just now.

Spoiler: midgame-ish SuMo spoilers lurk here (click to show/hide)

Battling through Aether Paradise to rescue Lillie and Nebby. It's one hell of a slog, but I quite enjoy the fact that both Aether and Skull grunts use a mix of Pokemon types. Keeps me on my toes and requires some semblance of a balanced team. Not like Team Magma, which could be utterly wiped by a single Peliper.

But then I got to Lusamine's private lab. Those frozen Pokemon, some seemingly frozen in the throes of agony. This sort of thing would be disturbing in most games. In Pokemon, it's incredibly dark. Holy shit.

I wanna go back to the days of beating up on silly, ineffectual Skull grunts :C

[Culise]

Alright, out of all the things I did not expect to encounter in SuMo...

Spoiler: Malie Garden spoiler (click to show/hide)

...a Team Rocket recruiter was high on the list.  As played by a Veteran rather than a Team Rocket Grunt as per the entire set-piece reference to the Gen 1 Nugget Bridge, but even so.  Heck, given his comments after, I suspect he actually may have been former Team Rocket.

[Reudh]

IT ALL COMES TOGETHER


In all seriousness though, I've gotten a Gible in a Beast Ball via wonder trade, i've been pumping them out from the nursery, so if anyone wants a dope-ass beast ball Garchomp they're more than welcome.

Also just caught a Dratini, so I'm gonna be trying to breed more Dratini.

[Greiger]

I have a doubles team in the works. Selazzle, toxapex, Kommo-o, Dragonair(yes DragonAIR), Crobat, Braviary.

I bred all I need and started leveling pokes,  first one is the braviary, because I always wanted to fit a braviary into a team somehow.  It was meant to beat ground types, since selazzle is weak to ground.  It had steel wings to beat ground!

Then after fully training it, took hours because I don't quite have anything high enough level to have the E4 on farm yet. I came across 2 problems:   1) Even with sheer force buffing it, steel wings is weak as all hell.  2) It turns out...GROUND IS NOT ACTUALLY WEAK TO STEEL.

[umiman]

lol... I was wondering why you said steel wings is strong against ground.

Yeah, it's a terrible move.