TheInnerBeast

Thanks again everyone

I downloaded that patch before I started the game, but apparently I didn't put it in the right spot. Where do I put this?

It's definitely supposed to be beatable. I know that for 2 reasons: 1, I have tried just losing a bunch of times and it just throws you back in the ring again with the gyarados for another round. 2, Shofu (a popular youtuber playing this game) posted a video 2 weeks ago on his playthrough of him beating the gyarados. Sadly, I'm not going very far unless I beat that behemoth.

Basically I'm fighting the Dimensional rift gyarados and it is literally impossible to beat with my current team. The battle goes as follows: I click literally any attack -> the gyarados outspeeds every one of my pokes -> 6 earthquakes -> crushing defeat. FeelsBad.jpg. Normally I could just take that L and go catch some other Pokémon or train or something, but lucky for me the game locks my sorry tail in the dimensional rift so the only option I have is to battle the gyarados until I beat it. Since there's no way to leave until I win and DEFINITELY no way to win, I honestly have no idea what to do. I guess my journey is over? Is there anyone who can help me out on that one? I have no idea what to do. It's basically just me standing against a brick wall at this point, which is even less exciting than it sounds. Requesting assistance

When is this game planning on actually being finished? If there is a new update every 3 months (or however long it takes) and there is only 1 badge per update, won't it take like 2 more years to be done with this game? 2 years is a freaking long time to think about this game and not be able to finish it up. I'm sure people have thought about this. I have no idea how much time it's taking for updates (which is why I'm asking), but I know there was only 1 gym in the last update. Can someone tell me when this game is planned on being completed? Thanks

Let the record show that Blazekin is the only reason I beat radomus. It took out 5 of the 6 pokes. Also, tell me how Blazekin loses to the fire gym when mine took down almost all of her Pokemon single handedly. Clearly you haven't used it or were using it wrong. The flying gym, however is a different story.

A Couple of things: Just because you beat a game, doesn't mean it isn't too hard. This game is almost tailored for you to have go through multiple boring grinds in order to complete it. You can beat the game, but not without going through tedious hassles that I feel make the game needlessly time consuming. My personal opinion of course. I have beaten this game with a save file that doesn't use Blazekin, which is why I have the perspective that other people do. Therefore I just believe she made it very over the top. The Pokemon game in general already had a multitude of powerful Pokemon that can shut down entire teams, so the fact that she increased the power of the opponents 2 fold and made the level cap the way it is makes it so that you don't have a lot of creativity as I feel people should have while completing this game. For example, why is there a level 75 arceus when all your Pokemon are like level 50? What "strategy" are you supposed to have versus that Pokemon that isn't supposed to be bad? That battle is definitely a low blow. That being said, I do enjoy the challenge most of the time in the game. I do feel, however, that the game should give you more options and that any idea to make the game as easy as possible is a good idea.

As every single one of you who plays this game knows, Amethyst made this game extremely difficult by nerfing everything that would give you any sort of edge. For example, the pickup ability for rare candies, fishing for magicarps, and event ghastly are no longer useful or usable options in this game. To make matters worse, the field effects for gym leaders and level caps of your Pokemon are completely insane. All of these factors make the game pretty much impossible without you having to do boring grinding at least once or a couple of times during your play through process. However, there is one way you can cut the difficulty of the game by at least 60 percent that amethyst can never nerf or take out of the game. The easiest way to complete this overly difficult game is Blazekin. A lot of you already probably knew this, but Blazekin (torchic) is the best starter by a long shot. But some of you might not know how great the gap is between blazekin and all other obtainable Pokemon in this game. Oh let me count the ways: this Pokemon gets an amazing attack and speed stat, amazing fire and fighting STABs that are hard to find in this game, amazing move sets with bulk up, and of course speed boost. Blazekin also has enough bulk to where it usually can live the first hit by an opponent and gain the speed boost to sweep the opponents team. Amethyst Diliberately takes out all good Pokemon so that this game will be as ridiculously hard and so that you can't use good strategies that work against multiple opponents. This makes it so that you will inevitably get stuck at some point during the playthrough. However she can never take out Blazekin from the game because it is a starter Pokemon and she can't nerf it because she has to go by what the pokemon's stats and abilities actually are (if she ever does either of these things, I'll probably just quit playing this game out of principle). In short, Blazekin is your only surefire chance to get a Pokemon that is actually a good option. You will find that Blazekin can use bulk up only once or twice coupled with speed boost and then it can easily sweep even gyms where it has weaknesses. Blazekin can also help sweep double battles and, though not as potent, Blazekin makes even double battles at least 60 percent easier than they would be otherwise. I guarantee that if you choose bazekin to be a part of your team, you will start to notice it winning most battles for you and carrying whatever team you pair it with. If you were planning to use Blazekin, I would suggest you save before you pick your first Pokemon and then keep obtaining torchic until you get an adamant nature. Trust me, it helps immensely and it is worth it since you only have to do it once. You can get speed boost by using an ability capsule if it for some reason comes with the blaze ability instead. Amethyst has made the power of the Pokemon that the opponents get considerably better than yours and has taken most of your offensive options away. By using Blazekin on your team, you can combat this somewhat unreasonably hard game.