Zargerth

I don't remember finding Heart Scales that early in the game. In my opinion Narcissa is one of the more difficult leaders of the game, even when you're not doing a mono run. Marianette on the other hand is relatively easy without A-Raichu, just use special attacks on Bewear.

Yah, 110 Speed w Sleep Powder and Leech Seed was ironically super great at supporting stuff like Bulk Up Toxicroak, Typhloshion, Crobat into winning very easily at the time. Haven't used it in forever but that run made me SUPER fond of the thing.

@ZargerthThere's one in Amethyst Grotto.

If there's a legit way, but it's too troublesome, then it is OK by my rules to hack a few Ability Capsules in by debug menu to save time. Honestly though, we're 11 Gym Badges in. We should've been able to buy Ability Capsules since like 5th Gym, it's not that crazy/game breaking to have Ability Capsules.

@JessThey used to be available on route 3, but that was removed in V8 or 9 from what I remember. Might ask Jan if he'll add them in again.

@Azeria It would be great to have them. Not having them post-(say) 5th Gym doesn't offer anything with regards to game difficulty, since we can breed for 'mons with the correct Ability. It just saves us time (and helps morally, cause I'm bonding with my mons too much to replace them by breeding for better Ability).

Well, thank god trading exists for such cases!

Oh, btw, where can you get Dewpider/Araquanid? I want one! <3

In North Aventurine Woods there is the small area where Galvantula used to be (the one with spider webs), there're now small ponds there. Use Good Rod to catch Dewpider or Araquanid - often Araquanids are 60+ lvl, so theoretically they are battle-ready as soon as you catch them.

Thanks! Hmmmm, I wonder though how is Joltik obtainable now....

@Autumn Zephyr

@Zargerth Hahaha. Well, size has always been a very complicated topic in Pokemon. It's inconsistent almost all the time. I kinda wish they wouldn't give measurements for Pokemon and just leave them for interpretation. But then we wouldn't have anything to laugh at, now would we?

@Youmu9 Agreed!

Well, I have an excuse to post this again:

I'm picturing it and it's waaaaaaaaaaay too much. First of all, that big-ass cushioned belly it possesses will not burst, so the explosion will just happen inside and it'll get digestive problems. Either that, or it'll fly away like a popped balloon.

@BRS swag

The exact same message I intended to say. This is just hilarious.

I have still yet to play a souls-like game. saving those for when I got my own place and a console that can run them. I've beaten Castlevania's tho, does that count?

@Wolfox I dunno, haven't really played Castlevania games.

depending on the Castlevania, they can be 2d dark souls

Yeah, I double-checked the alleys and couldn't find it. Maybe certain time of day and/ or weather is needed for Zangoose too?

I'd guess night

I found Zangoose, it indeed had to be night for that event.

My starter was Eevee, which I evolved into Espeon. I intended to start with Ralts, but got Eevee instead.

Ohhh, I see. I made an assumption there...  

Edited in, right? Or random starter?

Jackpot from the starter machine.

@Alistair If you pay attention to item descriptions, you get some level of understanding. If nothing else, you should realise your task is to kill the Lords / Great Ones / Gods or just some beasts. With that said, they're not easy games to understand lore- or story-wise, since that part of the game is up to the player to discover.

@ZargerthThat was a joke based on how the Souls games give you notoriously little information on a plate and the players have to read/research a bunch of things by themselves to get the full picture.

It's also partly true

@Wolfox 1. It really depends on what is your cup of tea, so to speak. All three games were challenging in my opinion at least. While I definitely had my moments of frustration, the only thing/boss I skipped (for now) was Ancient Wyvern in Dark Souls 2. There are no unbeatable enemies, even if you're inclined to think that way from time to time.

While Dark Souls-games are known for their difficulty, that's not all there is to them- item descriptions and talking with NPCs reveal quite a lot about the lore/story. Some people actually compare Dark Souls and Monster Hunter: both games require you to memorize patterns of enemies/bosses or otherwise you get annihilated. While this might be true, I've had quite extensive experience in MH and yet in Dark Souls I'm still a scrub - or a "casul".

2. From what I understand, Rapiers are considered one of the best weapons. They're fast and each attack doesn't cost that much Stamina. 

@Combat Tell me about it. I decided to skip this boss

I'm just going to quickly mention that I managed to defeat the Ancient Dragon. All bosses are now down, barring DLC.

gratz

The screenshot one is probably his reaction after his botlane fed to oblivion.

Texen reminds me of Insurgence for some reason... I can't put my finger on it tho

I already know the roles Seki and I would fill in this role distribution.

Well , she obviously can't , this is not french xD 

Hence the "has become a meme of sorts" (you actually can find the video in Youtube by typing kölkö sauce in the search bar)

Ah indeed ahah

scizor is x4 weak to fire so even with dragon type its still x2

@ArcherEric Exactly! Considering that shofu struggles against most Gym Leaders, Titania is the one who he then defeats on his first try.

@Youmu9 If I understand correctly, Dragon-type is added to Fire-type moves, making Flare Blitz Fire+Dragon-type move and thus neutral on Steel, but still super-effective on Bug.

Oh, is that how it works? That makes more sense. Anyway, I think Shofu won because he has a lot more steel checks in his team. The other gym leaders he struggled with were hard for him because he could only really rely on a single specific pokemon to win.

@Jess Yup!

this is beautiful...

@Yagami

What can I say? I'm on holiday, so I have lots of free time. How do I take a big screenshot?

Sorry,I meant a screenshot of your entire team.Not just your main team of 6 pokemons.

Here. I have to give dishonorable mentions to Girafarig and Audino, as I didn't use them much at all in important battles (besides as death fodder). Furret scouted Heart Scales with it's Frisk ability. I also used the Igglybuff you get early on, but have already returned it.

Edit: Weather mod allowed me to randomize my starter, so my first mon was Komala.

This isn't really a habit of mine, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

for me it kinda is oops

I mean its still better than not sending it in so

Tfw you lost points for a homework assignment because you finished it 12 seconds after the due date

Actually happened in one of my hs physic’s Classes 

Congrats Zargerth!

Thanks! My team definitely lacks Special Attackers. I used to have Heliolisk in rotation but it has already fallen behind.

Mine has a lot of special attackers, but none able to hurt Steel types, since Bugs have no Ground types... When I was breeding for a okay-ish Joltik though, I checked the Hidden Power types and found one with Ground! That's how Excadrill was dealt with  

Heliolisk is a good choice. Give it the Exp. Share and use the trainers in Grand Hall. Luck Incense too will help you buy a few are Candies. Today the double-battle couple is in Grand Hall, which means ~25k per win (with Luck Incense)  

I'll agree, but just because I haven't played the Country Returns series yet.

DK64 is amazing, yes

As much as I love the original Country games, DK64 is truly one of the greatest of all time.

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it's (only) a bad thing. Some of the effects feel like inconvenience for the sake of it, though.

I think several of the ones that give shield effects work really well if they switch them in manually, but with the AI that doesn't happen super often and when they just come in normally after a KO, some effects like that feel a bit wasted. the fact that the player can use them a bit too is cool though

I didn't manage to catch either one: Dugtrio died and Mandibuzz used Whirlwind...

Wow. that's so lucky it's unlucky

That was the second shiny Mandibuzz to do that. I also witnessed a shiny Excadrill getting Earthquaked to oblivion by it's fellow Sandslash.

Something is telling me I'm not supposed to catch these shiny mons.

Ooh, I'm curious how can you keep Lunatone..is it that good?

@Phi-Bi

I dunno, but Lunatone has served me well. It even tanked Gengar's Never-ending Nightmare (albeit weakened) and OHKO'd it in return. I'm also considering bringing it against Amber.

That's...tanky as hell. Never thought Lunatone would be that useful. Well, good luck for your run~

good old fisherman.

Old but gold

gotta be honest though, I still prefer these two brothers in crime.

Congratz! Personally I just killed him once for the reward and then quit again. Gonna wait for the actual release so I can actually earn stuff by hunting.

That's not a bad idea, you don't get exhausted or anything if you wait for the actual release to hunt more. Beta is pretty good for getting used to monsters movesets/ patterns.

Yeah, Monster Hunter is great when you're actively working towards something, but I always tend to burn out whenever I end up hunting something just for the sake of it or for some gear I know I'll pretty much never use.