Leon_Genesis

Thank you, it turns out I havent gotten it yet because sticky hold exists and I've been using thief this whole time. I just thought it was made crazy rare since its poison leftovers.

What are the chances for a trubbish in the east gearen sewers to be holding black sludge? I've been grinding on and off for it for a while and still haven't found one holding any (Although I've found 3 shiny alolan ratattas surprisingly)

The shopkeeper for the Berry Emporium is glitched, when you talk to them the first shop menu will only have Oran and Pecha berries, but if you try leaving that menu they'll ask you again if you want to buy or sell and then the buy menu will have the updated selection.

Yeah looking the Shadow mons I got only 2 are worth noting and not for any sort of battle usage. The Ponyta has flame body to help with breeding and the meowth has pickup, but thats the only good i can really see out of them. Looks like they tried making them useful by having an equal IV spread for all of them, and while that sounds cool on paper, in execution they just have either 10 ivs in each stat or somewhere around 20 in each, which probably wouldnt be that good later on. They did the same for EVs too but from my knowledge on competitive Pokemon you dont want at least 30 EVs in each stats, its usually maxing out only 2 stats so doing that only hinders them. They might also have moves they cant normally learn but you cant see those right away. There was 1 shadow mon that I remember being really good though, which was Shadow Torkoal but that was removed a long time ago.

Where could I get a Torkoal? I remember it was a shadow pokemon at one point but I think they removed that.

I'm at the point in the story where I'm about to fight Crawli, and from what I've heard he's one of the hardest gym leaders. Any tips or things I should know going in before fighting him? I'm playing on Normal difficulty

Okey now that I've slept I'm going to touch on Shadow Mewtwo a little more. Keep in mind I've never played XD or Colosseum so I'm going off the little knowledge of Shadows I have. A shadow Pokemon is made by closing and locking the heart of a Pokemon from what I've gathered, but if that's the case wouldn't Mewtwo be immune to becoming a shadow mon? Mewtwo doesn't have a heart, or at least not the metaphorical kind of heart. They were made a heartless beast, that was the whole reason the Mewtwo project fell apart. So how do you lock the heart of something that already doesn't have one?

In my opinion, it was a cool idea to bring in shadow mons but the execution, while good, wasn't exactly perfect. You get the snag machine early on and are quickly able to snag some shadows, 8 of them in total to be exact. Then after the 2nd gym battle (But before the 2nd badge) you lose it, making snagging impossible for a good while. I feel like they took it away a bit too early as you barely got to get used to snagging shadows to really feel as weak as you could losing it, and it was just to ensure the player doesnt capture shadow Mewtwo (When I mean, they couldve just had mewtwo bat away the ball like another legend fight down the line instead of breaking the snag machine). Shadow Mewtwo itself too is a weird concept to me, but I'll go into that later as I'm typing all this after waking up at midnight and unable to actually sleep.

I changed the name of the thread because I wanted to hear thoughts about Shadow mons but I didnt want to keep making new threads.

Thing about that is his first fight was directly after your snag machine breaks so you couldnt even catch it, but going off that I'm assuming that was their initial plan but dropped it after they introduced that Jenkel memory mechanic. But now that that's gone it's more like "Missed a shadow? Tough luck kid you're never seeing it again." Fun fact, when I started replaying Rejuv once v12 came out, all I could remember was how useless shadow mons were after the caratos section. Last time I had played after your snag machine breaks you encountered 3 shadows you couldnt catch even using Jenkel's memory thing and after it's fixed you encounter a grand total of 1 for the rest of the game, making the whole journey to fix it feel pointless. I'm glad to see they put in more shadow mons but that time will always stick out to me.

I always somehow forget that sprite, sorry about that, here you go!

Alright, here ya go! The last one goes in the Transitions folder, everything else goes in Characters. You might want to make sure the file names are correct when swapping since the newer builds have some different file names than the older builds. Lemme know if I forgot a sprite!

That's a lot of sprites, so give me a bit to figure out how to send them all. For now I'll just include their card sprites

I was thinking back to when I first played Rejuvenation back in I believe it was 2016 and I remembered something that wont stop bugging me now. I specifically remember that in the first battle with Rorrim B he had a shadow Pokemon on his team, which it seems like it was removed in later versions. Was Rorrim B initially going to be a member of Team Xen but the idea got scrapped later on? I haven't played through all of V12 yet so please avoid spoiling that for me if this at all relates to it.