Pokémon Trying to get back into Moon/Ultra Moon. Any tips?

[kiwi-strawberry]

I haven't played Pok?mon in months since I got New Leaf earlier this year. I lost interest after getting too many hacked shinies; I felt no accomplishment and therefore the game stopped feeling fun to me. I really want to get back into the game; I have already beat the main story, but I want to beat the Battle Tree and get Guzma as a battling partner. I forgot tons of stuff about battling and all that, so as a result I'm pretty rusty. Does anyone have any tips as to how I can get back into it? I might give away my shiny mythicals and legendaries/fake pok?mon I got through Wonder Trade (those were specifically the ones that made me lose interest) to make it more fun for me. I really miss kicking butt with my Swords Dance Mimikyu and Protean Greninja.

 

[Alienfish]

Wow, yeah... I never bothered with doing Battle Tree aside battling Blue to actually be able to get in because those things are rigged and it'd take ages to get all those BP things anyway. But yeah I'd say try and collect 'mon, try getting a shiny dex or all forms, and idk maybe get an older games and get stuff up thru Pok?bank?

 

[kiwi-strawberry]

Wow, yeah... I never bothered with doing Battle Tree aside battling Blue to actually be able to get in because those things are rigged and it'd take ages to get all those BP things anyway. But yeah I'd say try and collect 'mon, try getting a shiny dex or all forms, and idk maybe get an older games and get stuff up thru Pok?bank?

Thank you for the advice! The Battle Tree is incredibly difficult; the opponent's mons' seem to have stats that shouldn't be possible. I really want to get my hands on a copy of HGSS or ORAS, the Pok?mon following you around in HGSS sounds amazing and the Dexnav and horde encounters in ORAS are awesome concepts.

 

[Alienfish]

Yeah, I personally never did Horde encounters much unless I ran into them randomly. And yeah getting older 'mons to your current gen Dex feels awesome tbh

 

[kiwi-strawberry]

Yeah, I personally never did Horde encounters much unless I ran into them randomly. And yeah getting older 'mons to your current gen Dex feels awesome tbh

I've started playing again! I will probably be selling/giving away a ton of shinies, plus I'm on battle #7 in super singles at the battle tree! My team rn is protean greninja, a goodra, and a lucario with his mega stone.

 

[Ghostkid]

I've started playing again! I will probably be selling/giving away a ton of shinies, plus I'm on battle #7 in super singles at the battle tree! My team rn is protean greninja, a goodra, and a lucario with his mega stone.

My team is Reunicleus metagross with mega stone and mimikyu! Ive gotten a 21 streak so far

 

[amazonevan19]

What keeps me playing is coming up with new sets and trying them online. Specifically, I'm pretty active in Pimpnite's community so I'm making new mons and theme teams and trying them on battle spot and with people on his chat. Idk if you're into that sort of thing but maybe getting into the more fun side of battling or just more into competitive battling might spark new interest.