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Ame's probably holding out hope that mega Hydregion becomes a thing by the time she gets to the final battle with Lin. At the rate things are going, we'll get there in like, generation 9, so Gamefreak has plenty of time.

Got Mawile. Kinda weird that I'm a dude yet I'm a Pokemon that's based off of a woman in mythology. But if we're talking megas here I'm more than happy with what I got

Well, turns out we didn't ever get any leaks about how battling works because up until now, the player was locked out of using gyms. But now they've been enabled in the beta, and we know what combat is like. As it turns out, the reason Pokemon have only two attacks is because one of them is a "standard" attack, and the other is a "charged" attack. Good news is, at the very least the battle system itself isn't a clone of Ingress. Bad news is it's not what you want, it's one of those "tapfest" kinda mobile games. Spamtap to do regular attack, tap and hold to do charge attack, swipe to dodge, and all these actions drain your stamina bar wich refills at about 20% per second. I gotta admit though, it seems to have more potential for depth and strategy than most tapfest games... Except that there are attacks that can't be dodged. What the hell devs, now everyone's obviously gonna use those over the Pokemon who can be dodged! The people who leak it claim it's funner than it sounds, tho. And I have to respect the devs for (seemingly) making it that you can only use items to heal when outside of battle, otherwise it'd be unfair towards the attacker. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. This battle system is the attacking player vs the Pokemon who was set to defend the gym by another player, which is obviously computer controlled because the other player can't be expected to always be on the ready for someone to attack. While understandable, this makes it seem more and more that actual pvp does not exist... You can train at your own gym by fighting the Pokemon you set there with any other Pokemon you have. This seems to be for little more than practice, since Pokemon seem to not have levels. At the end of a battle the defending Pokemon goes back to full health, but any damage or fainting the attacker takes persists forever until the player does something. And since there are no Pokemon Centers, items are the only way. Yes, this even happens during training. When you attack a gym you select a team of six out of the Pokemon you have, and when a guy of yours faints you can send out more. This seems rigged in the attacker's favor, but it's balanced out by the fact that the battle can only last 120 seconds or you fail. That and the fact that afterward, you're gonna have to use items to heal all your damaged 'mons. The fighting itself is one on one, butit's suggested that in the full release it'll be three on three. Maybe the other slots are for two other players on your team? Because it sounds like it would be hell to manage 3 guys at once with this kind of battle system. And still Gen 1 only.

So the leaker struck again and what he gave away this time is a real doozy:

Huh, so it is. I made a point to check that things didn't swap floors between episodes, but I must have just looked at "Special 1" being in the right place and glossed over the rest. Weirdly enough, though, Ame didn't change the NPC who mentions that Focus Sashes should be on the floor with the consumable items. He's still on the 5th floor, even though it no longer has consumable items. Also, Great Ball's been added to Mid Tier stuff

Remember the guy who gave out the entire Gen 5 Pokedex months before Black and White came out? And more recently, gave away the reveal of Fairy type a weeks before the official reveal? Apparently he's gonna strike again soon. Just because everything else he's leaked turned out to be true in the past though, doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be true this time. So believe whatever he says at your own risk. Or maybe just don't listen at all, it would be a pretty big hype killer if he did something as big as with gen 5.

Hey look, my sarcastic "prediction" was exactly right.

Another leaker popped up and gave away an interesting bit of information. Remember how they said in the press release that you evolve Pokemon by combining multiples their kind? Well apparently that's completely untrue. You're supposed to collect these crystal things and spend them to make your Pokemon evolve. Still no word on how "battles" are supposed to work, although it's been noted that out of all two hundred and something moves found in the datamine, every single one is an attacking move with the exception of Splash. This makes it seem even more likely to end up as some kind of automated mobile stupidity...

Welp, the gameplay thing turned out to be a complete lie. The show was 29 minutes of people freaking out over Pokemon themed pencils, then they showed the same Sun/Moon "trailer" from earlier (as in the one that DIDN'T HAVE GAMEPLAY). The end. I wouldn't expect much from Corocoro this month either. It'll probably be like "hey these games are a thing and now tune in next month and maybe we'll actually tell you SOMETHING about them"

Um yeah, about that. You have to go to the boulder from the "Route 2" side, then push it, then go down the rock climb wall to get around the boulder, then go get the life orb. Yes, you read that right. You need Rock Climb. In other words you can't get it. There was a glitch I myself discovered in a previous episode to get around it, but I don't know if it still works.

Just as a fair warning, even in old episodes with gen 5 breeding mechanics some TM moves just don't breed right. I know Echoed Voice is one of them.

Wait, maybe if it's a tropical isle it's near Hoenn, and all those loose ends from ORAS really will be tied up after all? Please let that be it. I don't care about that one guy going on about diversity or whatever, I want to know why they put that random scene with Looker there. I want to rematch the gym leaders like they literally said I could. I want to know what AZOTH stood for. I want to fight Champion Wallace with his Mega Milotic, and most of all, I want construction on the battle frontier to be finished.

Good news, you won't have to see a single Miltank. Because Miltank isn't gen 1. It's still possible that the other 570 Pokemon could be added by the time the game comes out, but after ORAS and its "beta" I wouldn't count on it.

This seems to keep happening to you, Ame. Do you have some sort of medical condition or something?

leaks have all but stopped happening, it seems Nitanic successfully destroyed everyone willing to share info on the game. However, we still have the datamine. From this we've found out: Pokemon are assigned 2 moves and you can't change them or add more. RIP battles. There are only 7 "natures": raider, assassin, stoic, guardian, protector, sentry, and champion. Again, RIP battling. Trading's a thing, at least. Local only though. Pokemon are divided into common, legendary, and mythical... Which is stupid, because this is gen 1 only. That means there's a grand total of 4 legendaries and 1 mythical, and the rest at common. Why even bother having that distinction. We still haven't figured out how the battle system works, but given the information above we can safely say it's not ACTUAL battling, but some crappy watered down mobile replacement. Which is probably done automatically, because that seems to be the way mobile games are these days.