ShogokiX

About toxic communities....i will send you a PM trying to explain this in a little more detail, @xX_Rock_Wrecker_Xx I'm not doing this here because i don't want to start anything that might escalate.

You should also be able to use a Mightyena with Moxie ability and just spam Bite. Pop a healing item if you feel the need, but usually it's not needed.

F......F........F......F..... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!! FUS-RO-DAH!

That one i take as a personal insult XD You might want to be careful with statements like those, especially around a Pokémon community, since Pokémon is also an RPG.

Seeing your point of view with all this information from your side makes it easier to understand what it is that you don't like. However, as much as i do understand your opinion on the matter i still think that for my taste the game is just right. Allow me to tell you my side of the points you have been making. -Yes, you are right, the grinding is kind of time consuming, but let's be honest here: A lot of well known RPGs involve grinding. So this is not an issue with Temtem itself. I don't know about how Sword/Shield tried to keep grinding to a minimum, since i absolutely don't care about these games. But as far as i can remember you never needed to do any grinding to beat Pokémon EVER. The grinding startet after you beat the game and you start training your competetive teams. For me the grinding in Temtem is not much different than grinding in Reborn and Rejuvenation if you need to spice up your team a little to beat certain opponents (mainly gyms or boss type opponents ofc) -You say that most of the NPCs feel like they are not of any matter to the story at all. To be honest, that is just like Pokémon. For example: If you were to swap the gym leaders around between generations the games wouldn't change one bit. That of course is just my personal opinion, but i never felt like the official Pokémon games had a story at all. Again, i have not played Sword/Shield, so i cant judge there, but as fas as i am concerned these games don't even exist. On a side note: You can actually avoid about 1/4 of the trainers on most routes in Temtem, but i took all of them, because free EXP and money. -About spamming your strongest moves: Yes, you can actually create a few nice chain combos that can last a while (and finding good synergy combos is actually a nice element of the game's combat mechanics), but the strongest moves that i encountered so far are actually consuming lots of stamina and/or have a 3 or even 4 turn limitation that allows to use them only every so often. Also on a site note: The thing on that picture (which is called Sparzy, and is an electric type, btw) does have a weakness to crystal and earth type moves. Aside from the Starter named Crystle other early game counters are Tateru and Skail, both being neutral types, with no weakness to electric, and both learning Sand Splatter pretty fast, which in turn is effective against Sparzy. Or you could use Saku, which is resistent to electric and can do neutral damage with its poison or nature attacks. But you are right, Temtem DOES have its fair share of issues that i can not look away from, acting as if these don't exist. It is fair to point those out, however we don't know what parts of the game are still subject to change, as this is still an early access. And you know that the first thing you see when launching the game is this notification that literally says exactly that. Of course, early access is not an excuse for everything, but so far the developers have been very much devoted to improve the game, and i am willing to give both the developers and the game the fair chance they deserve, even with the flaws it may currently have.

Sooooo......just regular TTar stuff, right?

For starters Pokémon fans always wanted a little more of a challenge. Temtem does that, since the battles are a little more challenging due to how the combat system works as a whole. I also like the fact that you are not able to just perma spam your strongest all the time, since not only do the moves run on a shared stamina bar instead of individual PP for each move, but also a lot of moves come with a turn restriction, as in "you can only use this move every third turn" Now one may think that is the double battle system that makes for a slightly higher difficulty, but that's not all. The removal of random factors like critical hits, attacks missing and the min/max rolls on damage multiplier are greatly improving the competetive factor of the game. Damage is calculated only on raw numbers, no rng involved. The same attack from the same Temtem on the same opponent will always do the same amount of damage. There are a lot of other factors i could tell you about right now, like synergy moves and stuff like that, but let's not go too deep here. The short version of what i am trying to say is that Temtem manages to be more challenging without being too difficult. And you can't call it unfair, since there are no random factors involved in combat. If you like i can also go into things like breeding and Temtem's equivalent of "EV and IV" training, but i'll end it here on that note for now. I can certainly see why you think that Pokémon Sword/Shield is better (at least atm), but like i said, Temtem is still in early access, so a lot of things are still not done, but those that are there are looking good right now. Also Temtem is a new IP while Pokémon has been around for over 20 years now and had more time to improve.

Well, going by everything that happened in the story so far we do have some general ideas of what Team Meteor's plans and ideals are. But of course there is still that matter of the last chapter in EP19. We might be in for some really unexpected plot twists. But Team Meteor "electing" Craudburry as mayor, or some other kind of high ranked city official might really help them to get citizens out of the city. Not because they would be scared of an old hag, but because she's annoying and nobody wants to listen to any of her 24/7 ranting and shrieking. Either that, or an angry mob will storm her house and burn the witch! XD

Hahahahahaha! That's a good one! We should ask Ame if Craudburry and Fern are somehow related by blood XD. But in all seriousness i think while Team Meteor might take Craudburry's money (because why not, as if they cared where the money came from), they would get rid of Craudburry the Sirius way as soon as she opens her mouth even once.

WHY Cass.......WHY you feeding the images in my head....... And thus my insanety continues to haunt me.....

You make this sound like a joke. But in reality it's ALL Shade's fault! Shade is behind everything! Shade even created Reborn, as he manipulated Ame to create the game! And he manipulated all of us to play the game! But jokes aside, yeah, i also noticed that a lot of people seem to dislike Heather. And i think that's because of the first impression you get of her when you first meet her after defeating Taka in Malchous Forest. She does have the attitude of some kind of entitled brat that thinks she can do whatever she likes. And as a first time player you don't know about her background or her situation at all at this point. She's just some random kid calling you out because you defeated the bad guys she wanted to beat up. And it's a commonly known fact that first impressions matter, so naturally people tend to think she's a stupid brat.

And now you've done it^^ Now i have an image stuck in my head, where Ame and Cass are headpatting each other at the same time XD

Which still leaves the question which part of it is her job. Is she the one demanding heatpats, or is she the one giving the headpats?

What part of it? The demanding or the giving of headpats?

I'm not sure if i can take that serious^^

Also apparently ZEL is a Magnezone now....(literally among the first things he says this episode...."they fused into a Pokémon") But man, that guy is hating on Heather...yeah, she acted like a brat, but isn't that normal for her age, given her situation?

I can't relate to your problems. I'm playing Temtem right now and i'm having a blast. This games does a lot of things right that Pokémon failed to do for years. This game has a lot of potential and i hope it will turn into serious competition for Pokémon, since the monopoly Pokémon has on the market right now allowed Game Freak to pull this stunt that is Sword and Shield. As it's own games Sword/Shield may be good games, but as part of the Pokémon franchise they are the worst games of the main series. And whatever you heard of "random people being banned by Temtem officials" is nothing more than a lie. Probably spread by people who got banned for trying to DDOS the game for the first hours after early access launch. And yes, it IS confirmed that there was a DDOS attack on the game right as they launched early access. Also, this is still an early access game, so it's not fair judging it as if it was a full release just yet.

Don't tell me you're demanding headpats next, because that is what my GF's cat would do......

This somehow feels like my girlfriends cat begging for food XD *opens up a big can of canned attention and puts it in a bowl*

ahem... *immitates epic movie trailer guy's voice* There once was a boy. His name was TTar. TTar lived a happy live and had everything a child wanted. But one day he got lost. Unable to find his way home he stumbled upon a cave. He went inside to escape the rain. This is where a legend began.... Little TTar was swarmed by hundreds, maybe thousands of wild Zubat that lived there for years without ever having their peace disturbed by the likes of a human. TTar was scared, he screamed in fear. The Zubat where scared even more, so they all used Confuse Ray. Poor TTar got hit by all of them, confusing the poor child for live. But this also changed his live forever. As the Zubat changed him, he would change the world. He would make everyone as confused as he his! In order to accomplish his mission, he decided to become the image of the creatures that changed him. He became ZUBATMAN! Now he sits in his Zubatcave, recording content for Zubatube, streaming on Zubatwitch, playing Pokémon fan games, creating wild theories to confuse not only himself even more, but all of his viewers as well! One day the world will be as confused as he is.... And it's all Shade's fault!

I mean, come on.......Shelly literally said that this book was titled "Lumina's diary". And Lumina wrote about her sister Evelynn building the pulse machine, the "organisation guy" showing up and the accident that fused them into one being with 3 minds in a single body. Although Zero is not called by name in Lumina's diary, it should still be obvious that this diary is about how ZEL was "created", since Lumina and Evelynn are just the full names of Lumi and Eve. Lumi even calls her sister "Eve" multiple times in her diary. And who was it again that does all the maintenance on the pulse machines for Team Meteor all the time? No, SERIOUSLY, how much more obvious do you need to get? Man, now i get why people hate dem Zubats in da caves.....poor TTar got hit really hard by dem Confuse Rays.....

TTar: *reads Lumi's diary* Also TTar: *makes up wild theories* Also also TTar: "So there is a Team Meteor guy with the concioussessessessess of 3 people....who could that be?" Me, watching his video: "Rly, dude?"

Is it possible to vote for Fern 3 times?

I was intentionally not going for nuzlocke rules, i was only pointing out all possible Pokémon that would have had Fake Out available. But you are right, according to nuzlocke rules Meowth, Purrloin and Pichu would have been out of the picture, but Espurr and Alolan Meowth, both appearing at the same location would have been a viable option at that time.

Yeah right, don't they have these healing spots and "PC" spots all over the place?