If we're mentioning teams we get sentimental for, I can't not mention Rory, the ever loyal swampert who loves getting ripped, Gridon the Shiftry, which turned a pokemon I thought was "aight" into a new favourite, Blade the Gallade, who I kept as a Kirlia so long just to find a Dawn stone (and it was worth it), Rocket Linoone, who HM'd his way through many a battle, and Laserbeak, who joined because I needed a flyer, and ended up tanking her way through the Elite 4.

I fall in love with a team every generation (who'd have thought Omastar would be a team staple in Gen V?), and I'm sure the same thing'll happen with Moon. Looking forwards to battling some of you guys then

Giratina

So there's a bad acapella cover of the Pokemon theme song, and my god it's glorious. It even has MS paint recreation of the OG opening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDtMKQbMEE

Oh...fuck me.

This is what I get for not paying attention. Accidentally chose to send all the points I had saved up from Bank (which I was saving for Sun) to my Y...as Pokemiles. Incredible. Incredible and incredibly fucking useless. Had over 150 bps worth of them so even that wouldn't have hurt much but miles are completely useless now that that stuff has been shut down for Gen 6. Ugh.

This stinks.

Though at least I still have a couple of months to build up points until Bank becomes usable for Gen 7...I guess. Should be able to rack up a couple hundred till then. Provided I don't mess up again. Sigh.

Would it be a bad idea to use Charizard and Delphox on the same team since they're both fire types?

No because Charizard can Mega Evolve (I recommend the X Mega Charizard because he's Fire/Dragon) and Delphox is Fire/Psychic. Go for it!

It depends on what the team is and if you can cover up the weaknesses with support

Well I was thinking:

Delphox
Charizard*mega evolves into Charizard X*
Lapras
Lucario
Tyrantrum
Xerneas

and it's for casual play.

Wait, you mean for single player? Go nuts then!

Yeah I might try random online battles but competitive Pokemon sounds painful*just constantly resetting to get a female starter almost made me cry no way could I do that for IVs,Natures and abilities:lol*

IVs are a non-issue in SM, and you just need an Everstone for natures. It's kinda easy at times

Hahaaaa oh boy. Apparently there's like a 3 minute long cutscene before you choose your starter in SM. rip. (not sure if that should be in spoilers? i feel like it's unimportant enough that it shouldn't but you never know)

And one of the Pokemon I want to use has a 1% appearance rate. That'll be fun.

Is it Green Falkor? :lolol

Nah, it's the ugly cucumber.

How dare you call Pyukumuku ugly! Also, don't use it for single player
NO offensive moves! At all!

Oh joy.
Just as well I can't be bothered to reset for gender/nature this time around then.

...

Damn.

Maybe I won't bother with it this time too...

tbh there's no point in resetting for your starter as A: Single player's MUCH easier than competitive, B: NO access to Hidden Abilities, which can make or break a pokemon, and C: Ditto for breeding purposes

But what if I want my female Rowlet to name Hedgewig?

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Pretend it's transgender?

I dunno


Also, making sets is haaaaaard, gonna spoiler my team idea, has unrevealed news, so be warned
Z-Parting Shot heals the replacement 100%, and Silvally learns it, so I'm trying to see if I can have Zygarde 10% carry Focus Sash so that it gets 1HP, switch into Toxapex, set up toxic spikes, switch to Silvally and make sure Z-Parting Shot heals a Zygarde Complete before destroying everything

Competitive isn't everything. I did it on Y just because I wanted to female Fennekin to play with in-game. Male Delphox just seems weird to me, and the same goes for Primarina.

Sure you could just get one of GTS/wonder trade later, but for some its not the same as having it as your actual starter Pokemon.

Can someone who embraced the spoilers tell me how the Battle Tree works, or rather what options you have with it? Is it just another Battle Maison with the added functionality of recruiting famous trainers or is the more to it?

And is there something else in the lategame which isn't an epilogue like the Delta episode? Not counting stuff like catching all Pokémon or something like that.

according to someone I stalk on twitter, SM postgame is promising based off of some bullet points, There's also collecting all the Zygarde Cells, and it's apparently a bit meatier than most games. Also a bit harder, which is nice

Actually I meant Mareanie.

Pyukumuku's 5 base speed would have scared me away anyway.

ooooooooooooh
WAIT IT HAS A 1% CHANCE? O.O
I want Toxapex so badly! Godly defences and Regenerator? Fucking busted!

1% chance?

Oh god, that's for getting Bottle Caps isn't it?

Actually, Bottle Caps seem easy to get from what I heard.
Also, how they work. Spoilering just in case
They DON'T raise IVs, they change the stat to make it LOOK like it's max IVs. AKA, you can have ANY Hidden Power you want without affecting your stats!

That's what I've heard. And that's what it looks like looking at the encounter rate data. In some circumstances it appears to have a 20% encounter rate, but people who have played the game do not seem to know what exactly. Hopefully it'll become clearer when it's officially out.

Apparently one way to get it easier is taking advantage of the "Pokemon calling for help" mechanic. Apparently Corsolas will call for Mareanies sometimes, and Corsolas have like a 5% rate instead at some points. So...an option. Increased chance of HA that way, which is something since I think Regenerator is the HA. Though I want a Merciless personally.

The calling for help thing is apparently the cool and new way to hunt for shinies, which is unfortunate, with the HA thing...I want a shiny Salandit but I don't want a HA one, ya know? Corrosion is way better than Oblivious. Haven't heard anything about Ability Capsules working on HAs this gen so that's gonna be tricky.

Wait what?

Essentially steroids, changes performance, but not the genes
That's fucked up, Mareanie EAT Corsola. I guess the best way to check the ability is having a toxic orb and Thunder Wave, if it crits you, it's Merciless, if it can't get paralyzed, Limber. None? Regenerator

Yeah plus I always try for a starter with the same gender as my character avatar.

I know weird.

So does IV Breeding really matter anymore then? I'm confused.

Yes, for Hidden Power, as Hyper Training doesn't affect Hidden Power. If you used Hidden Power Fire, your speed stat wouldn't be as high as it could be due to HP Fire required imperfect speed IVs. As Bottle Caps are 1 stat at a time and need Level 100, breeding is a much quicker alternative if you can do it. There's also the fact you can't reduce the stats, so if you want low speed for Gyro Ball or low attack for Foul Play, you still need to breed for that

I just realized something: Am I the only one who sees the Origami Ultra Beast and is reminded of Papyrox/Kirigami from Super Samurai/Shinkenger?!

If I'm able to nickname the Ultra Beasts I think I know what I'm nicknaming that one...

You CAN catch and nickname them! They're even VGC legal!
Question for people who watch VGC. Does the Pokemon company upload their streams of VGC? I REALLY want to see the VGC tournament coming up in a few weeks for SM

WOO-HOO!!! And yes. You can stream them on either the Pokémon website or on their Twitch account.

Although breeding is the faster method, I think I'll settle for the Hyper training, since it probably won't make me want to kill myself.

Agreed.
By stream, you mean live stream or that they have the full thing in videos?

Live stream.