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[Dunamisdeos]

I mean, Pokemon story has basically been "brainstorm some set pieces, connect them with nothing" since they came out with the anime.

[Iduno]

I remember the first games' plot clearly: An old man bribes you to come to his house with candy an animal, his son chooses the one that should beat yours in a rock-scissors-paper fight, but is wildly incompetent and loses, you want a bike, you do some stuff to get a ticket, trade the ticket for a bike, you get on a cruise ship with team rocket, team rocket tries to steal fossils, you win the right to bring one fossil back to life as a pokemon, then you fight the elite 4 for some reason.

Edit: I left out the zubat cave where you learn the light HM. I'm not sure if that was a plot point or not.

[Scripten]

Don't forget that Team Rocket took over a giant company somehow to get their hands on a device that can see ghosts, which are currently rampaging through a graveyard tower. Also the head of Team Rocket is actually the first gym leader you would have seen if he wasn't too busy running the Pokemon mafia.

[Iduno]

I remembered there being a ghost tower, but just assumed that, like everything pokemon, the reason you climbed it was "Pokemon?".

[Sirus]

I remember the first games' plot clearly: An old man bribes you to come to his house with candy an animal, his son chooses the one that should beat yours in a rock-scissors-paper fight, but is wildly incompetent and loses, you want a bike, you do some stuff to get a ticket, trade the ticket for a bike, you get on a cruise ship with team rocket, team rocket tries to steal fossils, you win the right to bring one fossil back to life as a pokemon, then you fight the elite 4 for some reason.

Edit: I left out the zubat cave where you learn the light HM. I'm not sure if that was a plot point or not.

Minor quibble, Team Rocket wasn't really involved in the cruise ship at all. I'm not sure there was a single Rocket Grunt on the entire thing.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: thoughts on postgame story (click to show/hide)

My understanding is that some time has passed since the champion battle and sonia wrote and published her book.  The book says that the pokemon and the pokemon alone were responsible for stopping the calamity because after a point there stops being mentions of the 2 human heroes.

The super stupid hair bros know that their ancestors were the heroes and take offence that a pair of annoying dogs could possibly be the heroes and go around dynamaxing random pokemon to make sure they have a handle on forcing pokemon to dynamax. They don't want to screw it up on the main event after all.

They getting better at it after multiple attempts (by stage 2 they are dynamaxing multiple pokes per gym instead of one) by learning how to better use the wishing stars, and by stealing more from Sonia.  I assume they already had a stash and just stole more from her to ensure they would still have plenty by the end of their testing.  Then they decided to force one of the doggos to dynamax to show 'well they can't possibly be the heroes they are just mindless beasts like the rest of the pokemon'. 

The one they tried to dynamax starts going crazy and hop runs off alone to be eaten by a dog.  You false swipe the other one into obedience after resetting 10 times for the right nature and 31 IVs in atk and spd.  And go rescue hop before he gets converted into a doggie land mine in the sleeping weald.  Hop somehow manages to show competence and calms the dog down right before fastballing a pokeball right into it's face from half a foot away.  The dog suffers brain damage and starts following hop's stupid orders like switching in on a lv 100 salazzle.

In reality the heroes were more than likely human pokemon trainers, and the doggos were their pokemon, thus all the symbolism of the human trainers wielding a sword and shield.  Doofy hair bros' more closer ancestors probably put up the mural to try to have the royal family take more of the credit during the royal family's decline and hide the mentions of the pokemon entirely.

Oh and I don't get Rose's motivations either.  I think he's just an idiot, maybe a writer's attempt at discrediting environmentalists to make them seem crazy but done very badly.

[Culise]

I remember the first games' plot clearly: An old man bribes you to come to his house with candy an animal, his son chooses the one that should beat yours in a rock-scissors-paper fight, but is wildly incompetent and loses, you want a bike, you do some stuff to get a ticket, trade the ticket for a bike, you get on a cruise ship with team rocket, team rocket tries to steal fossils, you win the right to bring one fossil back to life as a pokemon, then you fight the elite 4 for some reason.

Edit: I left out the zubat cave where you learn the light HM. I'm not sure if that was a plot point or not.

Minor quibble, Team Rocket wasn't really involved in the cruise ship at all. I'm not sure there was a single Rocket Grunt on the entire thing.

Yep. The cruise ship was entirely because you needed to learn how to cut down trees, which you got from the captain in return for giving him a backrub to treat his seasickness.

[scourge728]

Minor nitpick for you guys Dunamisdeos specified

since they came out with the anime.

which would imply after the release of red and blue/green

[Iduno]

Minor nitpick for you guys Dunamisdeos specified

since they came out with the anime.

which would imply after the release of red and blue/green

And I was pointing out that the plot was just a list of non-connected ideas before the anime.

[Bumber]

On a different note, after fishing up a feebas (took 131 tries) and spending forever trying to catch a wishiwashi before moving to somewhere with a higher spawn rate, I have concluded that I really hate fishing in pokemon games.  And... honestly don't feel like I have the patience for wasting time with random battles until I get the pokemon I want.  Each try for feebas took a full 30 seconds of playing animations, raichu bouncing up and down and telling me it was awaiting my orders, etc.  I am very thankful that the overwhelming majority of pokemon are visible on the overworld and don't have this problem.

The pokedex says "Habitat Unknown" for Milotic, but you can actually find it at Lake of Outrage or South Lake Miloch during foggy weather.

Caught one last night and bred it for Feebas. I've almost got all the pokemon I can get without trading.

[Rolan7]

In Pokemon Go I just realized that many of the legendaries have potential.  And at level 36, fights against Team Rocket are fricken brutal!  Have to pick my best three for the sitch.

And I beat all three!  Each fight was a brawl to remember!

and then I got a mission to beat them

*a month passes as I try things and fail*

I beat Arlo.  Eventually.  They had "steel" I think, but favored scyther/golbat/scizor
Now I just need to beat the guy and the gal.
...again!

[Telgin]

Meanwhile, I've only managed to find 7 shadow pokemon to purify since the event started and have only found 3 raids that I was able to solo in that time span.

I'd have had 9 shadow pokemon by now if I didn't run into the stupid grunts with the 3 hitmonchans twice.  I don't have any pokemon that can beat them because they have like 7000 CP and none of my psychic or flying type pokemon are strong enough or up to the challenge.  Even my legendaries like Lugia got stomped.

No idea what I'll do once I get to the point that I have to fight the named Team Rocket members.  It'll be a month or two before I get to that point in the quest anyway.  So far I've only seen one of them pop up at a pokestop, and didn't even bother trying to fight them.

Also, I dropped my Switch like a doofus earlier today and broke the left joystick on it, so I can't play Sword and Shield right now.  I'm at the point of just completing my pokedex anyway, but I've got a lot left to do there.  I'm at 312/400 pokemon, if I remember right.

[Greiger]

Enjoying a bit of endgame sword and shield in my usual way of breeding and training pokes for online.  The reduced dex is very limiting (want a pokemon with storm drain? I hope you like gastrodon because it's your only choice) but it does do the job of making you try pokes you would not have considered before. 

I probably never would have considered a galvantula before, but that little bug does some work.  Open with a light screen and your opponent will taunt it, then jokes on them because It's going to drop some 100% accuracy in neutral weather thunders on their head thanks to compound eyes and a wide lens and a nice f-you energy ball against ground types.  And in doubles throw out a string shot and you've just nullified their tailwind or forced a 2 poke switch.

Rapidash is both a psychic and a fairy that I don't hate the design of making it the first of both types I've ever actually bred, trained, and used, and for some reason nobody ever seems to expect the horse to know high horsepower.

And I'm actually using a lapras for once because it's one of the few dracovish counters available which isn't a ugly looking giant slug which opened my eyes to the advantages to a bulky pokemon capable of healing.  Freeze dry looks terrible on paper but has been doing work against the gastrodons people switch in to defend against it.  And it's hilarious leaving a staller to set up the whole match while I pick off their partner pokemon in 2v1 only to start using sheer cold on them when they are the last one left.

[Akura]

Also, I dropped my Switch like a doofus earlier today and broke the left joystick on it, so I can't play Sword and Shield right now.

You can turn on casual controls, which allows you to play with one(either) side of the controller.

[Telgin]

True, which has let me get by for the moment.  It's good enough to grind on mandibuzzes in this one spot so I can evolve pokemon to fill my pokedex.