Pokémon Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet General Discussion

[Sara?]

I need to create a union circle in order to be able to evolve my Finizen to Palafin.

If you have a Finizen up to level 38 and you have exp. Candy lets make a union circle and give them a exp candy while online together and when it reaches level 39 it will evolve.

Let me know if you are up to it

 

[Snek]

Tauros Fun Time!

Spoiler: P Tauros

Finding a Leaders Crest Bisharp was easy compared to finding the other Breed of Tauros. Im playing Violet so I can only get Aqua Breed (Water Buffalo). I managed to get one that was mixed in with a herd of regular Paldean Tauros.

The Pokedex states that the Fighting/Fire Tauros isnt found in my version, meaning it is indeed Scarlet exclusive (I will be requesting this later) Anyway I just wanted to share how I managed to get one. The one I found was Relaxed but I wont try to SR for an Adamant or Jolly one and will try breeding this one with a Ditto.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I need to create a union circle in order to be able to evolve my Finizen to Palafin.

If you have a Finizen up to level 38 and you have exp. Candy lets make a union circle and give them a exp candy while online together and when it reaches level 39 it will evolve.

Let me know if you are up to it

I would be interested but I don’t have a Finizen yet and I will not be playing the game until later tonight.

 

[Sara?]

I would be interested but I don’t have a Finizen yet and I will not be playing the game until later tonight.

Once you get one let me know and we can evolve them into palafin together, maybe more pp will join too with their finizens

 

[Imbri]

I need to level my Finizen up some - it's still around 22-23. But I'll give a shout when I get up there. If you still have a need, we can hook up.

 

[Sara?]

I need to level my Finizen up some - it's still around 22-23. But I'll give a shout when I get up there. If you still have a need, we can hook up.

Thaaank you !

 

[Lancelot]

I just figured out that your pass shows you how many "shinies you battled".

How did I battle 4??? More importantly how did I not see 2 of them. I don't remember ever seeing those shiny sparkles anywhere except for the two shinies I did catch in the wild.

Dunno if anyone replied to this, I haven’t read further down yet. But , if you’ve evolved the 2 shinies you did catch they get added to your counter

Post automatically merged: Nov 23, 2022

haven't actually finished the game yet (1 boss, 3 gyms, 2 titans), but i wanted to put my thoughts so far together in one post. prefacing this by saying it's largely critical, so if you're "anti-negativity", obviously don't read, and a lot of said criticisms could've been fixed with the simple addition of level-scaling. i'm sure i've forgotten stuff, but spoilered for length.

Spoiler

so, pros first. (i wish i had more to say, but a lot of the things i like feel pretty obvious?)

• i like the story so far, even if i'm pretty sure i've already guessed the team star twist. it's character-driven, and the main players have decent motives sans nemona, imo.
• despite my gripes with it below, i do actually like that the game is open-world. (but i also like the more 'hand-holding' style.)
• a lot of the character designs are really good, although some of the npc models feel a little off, especially the female ones for some reason?
• even though i do think it suffers from the lack of level-scaling, and there clearly being an order implemented, i do enjoy the freedom of choice in which storyline you go with first, as well as the ability to simply alternate between all three.
• visually, the game is good, but... well.
• the auto-battling feature is fun !! it is a little finicky, with the pokemon sometimes having delayed responses or going in Completely the wrong direction, but it's still enjoyable and much quicker. i love watching meowscarada just go absolutely ape and start obliterating every pokemon around it lmao
• i really loved being able to design my character before entering the game.
• i also really like that you're not stopped every time you pick up something.
• i really enjoy the battle style of yeeting three pokemon out when you first enter the team star bases. really fun.

okay, so. the cons.

• performance. i've seen some people on twitter try to defend this, claiming they personally haven't encountered any issues, but i think most of us can safely say that this game is a mess. like, it feels horribly unfinished. i would be mortified to release something in this state. it's buggy, there are frame-rate issues, and it's laggy as all hell. obviously i can only speak for myself, but wild battles take multiple seconds to initiate, as do battles in general. the boxes are absurdly slow to load in even with only >150 pokemon spread out across them. it's super jarring, frustrating, and overall just ruins the experience.
• map. now, like i said, i do enjoy the open world design, but i think legends of arceus pulled it off much better. obviously opinions on this will depend on the person, but for me, it's just too big, and because you can generally go anywhere all at once, it's super overwhelming, especially as someone who has a compulsion to explore first. the actual map feels completely useless. i don't think it reflects the terrain anywhere near enough to guide you properly; paths are missing from it in the majority of places. i'm constantly getting lost and then stressing that i've missed areas. i think the fact that you can ride incredibly far and still encounter 95% of the same pokemon speaks enough to the map being unnecessarily large. even with your ride pokemon boosted, travelling still feels like it takes an eternity. most of it also just feels empty. i would've happily taken loading zones if it would've improved the performance of this game, because i suspect the entire map being out at once partly contributes to that problem.
• customization. worst in the series for me, and i thought it couldn't get worse than arceus lmao. i know i sound petty being mad about the lack of a redheaded option, but imagine if they didn't have brown hair? people would obviously be annoyed. the fact that you can have blue, green etc. hair but not natural red is absurd. anyway, beyond that, the hairstyles just weren't varied enough for me. only one long option? most of them can't even be used with the hats, which is frustrating when clothing choices are already so limited. the fact that you can't even switch to a skirt with the uniforms feels weirdly restrictive. i definitely don't feel individual or like myself. for some reason, it really feels like women/femininity drew an incredibly short straw with this game.
• charm. i've been over my gripes about the picnic vs. the daycare. i would've liked the shops to have interiors rather than just menus. yeah, it's more stream-lined, but it also doesn't feel as personable, and the world feels a little emptier to me. i feel similarly about pokemon centers vs. gas stations. i just don't think it works, personally. even a mix of the two would've felt better, with the gas stations in the wild and a real pokemon center in each town, idk.
• story. battle-wise, which they all are, it really suffers from the lack of level-scaling. was not enjoyable just completely breezing through the first team star boss because i'd explored and accidentally over-leveled. i'm pretty sure i'm going to stomp the second one, too. obviously you could solve this problem yourself by switching out to a lower level team, but. i want to play with the pokemon i like lol? being able to switch between the three is fun, but not when there is clearly an order already in place with certain gyms being at x level and ride upgrades locked behind titan defeats.
• voice-acting. this game really needed it. personally, i would've preferred they focused on that before open-world. when i have battles, there's always a really awkward pause because i read the dialogue much faster than it lets me continue, and i feel like this would've been very easily solved with having the lines voiced. the lack of it also makes playing with the sound on kind of boring imo. shell out for some voice acting, game freak, god.
• minor notes. surprise trading feels slower. instead of immediately going to the trade animation, it takes you to the menu, and then you have to select it, and if you miss the three second notification, you have to enter the menu yourself. yeah, it's only a few extra presses, whatever, but it was already streamlined so why. do this. team star boss introductions feel like they were designed by a kid asdfghj, that is the most underwhelming text i've ever seen. i've heard there's no battle tower? lame. the academy classes are a real slog to go through if you accidentally let them pile up like i did. no shiny sound... dumbest decision ever.

Agree with everything but WAIT. Do I NEED to do the academy classes? Cause I just left the school as soon as I could and haven’t looked back, didn’t realise they would pile up and I hate that building

Post automatically merged: Nov 23, 2022

I deleted and restarted my main Violet game because I messed up with training my Pokémon pretty badly that I couldn’t progress any further because all of my Pokémon couldn’t handle the Fighting Team Star Base, the E4 after Rika, and Arven at the Lighthouse. I’d be only one hit away from winning and then something kept going horribly wrong and I’d lose and couldn’t recover at all. I didn’t use the promo card I ad gotten from preordering the games from the Nintendo eShop for this reason.

Could you just have levelled your mons up more with EXP candies?

 

[Sara?]

I am trying to finish my pokedex and need someone trustworthy, as in order to finish it, i need to give or trade someone my Slowpoke with a kingstone with him which will make him into slowking and then they can pass it back to me

Can someone please help me up?

 

[Midoriya]

I am trying to finish my pokedex and need someone trustworthy, as in order to finish it, i need to give or trade someone my Slowpoke with a kingstone with him which will make him into slowking and then they can pass it back to me

Can someone please help me up?

I can help you! I'll need around 30 minutes to an hour before I can though, if that works for you.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Once you get one let me know and we can evolve them into palafin together, maybe more pp will join too with their finizens

I’ve been wanting to get a group of fellow trainers to form a Union Circle so we can all help each other get Palafin.

 

[Sara?]

I can help you! I'll need around 30 minutes to an hour before I can though, if that works for you.

Works wonderfully for me,ty! Just text me when you are available and we can start

Post automatically merged: Nov 23, 2022

I’ve been wanting to get a group of fellow trainers to form a Union Circle so we can all help each other get Palafin.

Well let me know when ever you want to meet up

 

[Amilee]

so i finished the game and the pokedex now, still not done playing tho since i want to shiny hunt and raid. ill put some pictures in the spoiler. i really wish we had more customization options for our trainer, i hope dlc will fix this cause we got new outfits in swsh dlc too!

Spoiler

all the shinies ive got so far without even hunting for them​

 

[Snek]

The issues are so glaring with this game. Sometimes when I spot something glowing, thinking its an overworld Tera mon, there ends up being nothing there. So frustrating...

 

[LittleMissPanda]

Truth be told, reading reviews of the game and how it had such severe performance issues, lag, glitches, etc. it really began to turn me off from getting it. A lot of people talked about the negatives and showed only the negatives, but I really wanted to give the game a chance because it genuinely looked like fun, plus I skipped getting SwSh and really didn't want to miss out on another Generation, and after spending 3 whole days playing I can happily say I'm having a great time with the game.

I have yet to experience anything really game-breaking. It doesn't seem as bad as some people made it out to be, honestly. I do get the occasional camera clipping through the ground and the game sometimes chugs in certain areas, but nothing too extreme. The graphics really aren't that bad. Not super amazing but also not that terrible. Personally I think it looks really good. Graphics don't make or break a game for me. What's important is, "Am I having fun with the game?" and it's safe to say I definitely am! And if graphics just happen to be really good then that's just a bonus.

Like Pokémon Legends Arceus, ScarVio is very addicting and feels so liberating being able to run around and explore. Every corner I turn, I see tons of adorable Pokémon in the overworld, and I take the time to admire the textures on them. Furry Pokémon look furry, scaly Pokémon look scaly, and metallic Pokémon have such a nice luster. I'm so glad I didn't spoil myself of every new Gen 9 Pokémon otherwise the thrill of discovering them really wouldn't be the same. Some designs are nifty and cute, while others are pretty questionable imo but every Gen has Pokémon that I absolutely love and others I just don't click with.

I took some more screenshots of my adventure thus far and I always keep finding myself wanting to snap a pic of every little thing and play all day for hours on end. I'm not that deep into the game, either. I'm taking my time with it and fully immersing myself.

Here's my team so far! love my reptiles! Jalapeno and Aguacate compliment each other very nicely, with the former being Modest nature and the latter being Adamant nature. And then there's my newest addition, Empanada! You can bet my heart burst in absolute happiness to learn the Applin family made it past the border and into Paldea! On my Pokedex notes I saw the silhouette of Appletun and made it my life's mission to find Applin and unlock the Sweet Apple to evolve her right away! So far, my team is looking like it's going to be 90% Galar Pokémon but I don't mind since I skipped SwSh, so that makes them new monsters in my book, and these are some of my favorites!

Always be sure to wash your fruit properly!

Looks like someone was pretty thirsty! This was Aguacate back when he was just baby but now he grown, but he's still a huge sweetheart!

My Empanada cooked to perfection!

Proudly walking toward a new horizon...

I love and appreciate little details like this omg how can you not smile at this cuteness??

Okay so the picnic feature is the best ever I only wish you could pet your monsters and feed them treats like you could in Pokémon Amie/Refresh. I could watch them play with the ball all day! And it's so adorable when they run around you in circles!

Also I love Crocalor so much! I really dig his design! He's so round and happy! I can totally see him vibing to some festive Mexican music, which brings me to the music of Paldea. So dynamic and Spanish-sounding! Not just Spain spanish but also different kinds of Spanish from around the world. So can you tell just how immersed I am in the world of Pokémon? lol!

 

[Sara?]

I just finish the game and although i have heard or read many critics about it i never had a real performance issue (yet) although i would have appreciated the graphics from pokemon pikachu go ( even though i never played it but i have seen it and looked lovely ).

That a side, this is the only game i have played with this similar mechanics ( pokemon pikachu lets go and arceus ) and i must say the story line has been the best so far Nemona has being a lovely rival, Arven and his pokemon + dad story heartbreaking, the whole story from the star members regarding bullying was heart touching and really interesting. Its been a long time since i think i found the story line so entreating.

Another thing i have completely fallen addicted to is the pokedex, its the very first time in a long time which filling the pokedex entries is fun, thrilling and accessible, i have not been among the lucky ones to find several shinys among the story line even though i think i finished the story with a pokedex of more than 300 , but really looking forward for my shinys to come.

I already said that i was a bit disappointed with the graphics and the lack of beauty and uniqueness in them BUT although for many this mind sound bit lame i am super disappointed in the Fact i cannot customize my clothing .

Lastly, i miss a daycare where i can leave my pokemons and when ever i am in the mood return for my eggs, now i need to stay in my camp doing nothing waiting for that egg, real waste of time if you ask me. Talking about the camp i am not sure if i might be the only one but, hmm, i dont like the sandwich system i somehow t the currys as well as wished for more interaction with my pokemons, this is normally one of my favorite parts , to be able to connect more with them and care for them.

In over all, i finished the game but still have tons of more hours ahead to play and i am really looking forward to it.

Ps: forgot to say that i love like looove the open world system!

Great game in overall !

 

[Venn]

Tauros Fun Time!

Spoiler: P Tauros

Finding a Leaders Crest Bisharp was easy compared to finding the other Breed of Tauros. Im playing Violet so I can only get Aqua Breed (Water Buffalo). I managed to get one that was mixed in with a herd of regular Paldean Tauros.
View attachment 469807The Pokedex states that the Fighting/Fire Tauros isnt found in my version, meaning it is indeed Scarlet exclusive (I will be requesting this later) Anyway I just wanted to share how I managed to get one. The one I found was Relaxed but I wont try to SR for an Adamant or Jolly one and will try breeding this one with a Ditto.
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Where exactly did you find this on the map? I searched for hours and had no luck.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

I just finish the game and although i have heard or read many critics about it i never had a real performance issue (yet)

Great game in overall !

Have you tried it in multiplayer?

 

[LittleMissPanda]

To add to my previous thoughts about the game, I'm glad it have a good amount of QoL features, such as being able to recall and switch the moves of your Pokémon around from a list, being able to change the nicknames of your Pokémon on the fly, having access to your boxes from anywhere at any time, the ability to auto-heal your team, and plenty of other stuff. It makes things faster and more convenient but I sometimes still find myself manually healing them. That's what happens when you've been accustomed to the same formula for 20+ years lol which is why Legends Arceus felt so fresh and good. I also really enjoy the "Let's Go!" feature. It's great seeing your monster roam around picking fights lol and it's so cute how they come crying back to you for safety after taking a walloping themselves.

A major positive about the games imo is multiplayer. I was left stunned how smooth the game was running for me. I'm really impressed how players can pretty much do anything they want in the overworld - battle, catch Pokémon, explore, etc. - and not be restricted by one person going this way and the other person going that way. You can even fly to different destinations together. Playing with my friend, neither of us experienced any lag. Might be different for others of course, depending on connection, etc. but I was seriously wowed by how much freedom we have.

One gripe with the game, though. Using the map..... It's pretty clunky and I still get lost and can't orient myself properly in the direction I want to go sometimes. Paldea is massive, I feel I have yet to even scratch the surface. So far, I completed 1/5 Titans, 3/8 Gyms and 0/5 Team Star bases. Can't wait to explore even more and discover all the Pokémon inhabiting the region. Discovering and collecting Pokémon, and learning about the lore are the best parts to me about any Pokémon game. While I didn't play SwSh, I did look up and read about the Gen 8 Pokémon, such as their Bulbapedia information, typings/abilities, Pokedex entries and the concept/lore behind their designs.

 

[Sara?]

Have you tried it in multiplayer?

Very briefly to evolve a pokemon and that went okey, but it was a short encounter tbh

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Very briefly to evolve a pokemon and that went okey, but it was a short encounter tbh

That would be why you haven't seen many issues.