Haven't yet put together a full team, but Caterpie (now a Metapod) is definitely going to be a party member for a while.

First off do we have each other's codes? If so I think I may have a Pokemon that I can trade. Do you want a Yungoos and if not what one do you want?

Also on my Pichu problems: it's now level 18 and while I'm getting messages saying stuff like "It's awaiting instructions", "it's taking in the sights" and "It's fond of the other Pokemon's scent" I don't know how close I am to getting it to evolve and even if I do I'll never be able to teach it good moves since it's a baby at LV 18! It's making me furious!

Does anyone know the maximum amount of PC boxes in Sun/Moon?

I got a Grubbin ready.

Tryin to catch a Stufful to replace Squishy (Wishiwashi)

What level is yours? Mine is called Jumpstart & also level 11 or something.

And again do I have to give you my friend code in order to trade?

Yes, we have to register each other in our 3DSes in order to trade. I have mine at the bottom of my post. G-Wonder

Just a warning for anyone hunting Shiny Minior.

Make sure to have a Pokemon with the Damp ability up front! I had to battle six Minior before one didn't use Self-Destruct so I could catch it.

HOLY FUCK!!! Leech Life got a buff to 80 BP!

Thanks guys I let you know what stater I went for.

Affection and friendship aren't the same thing. Playing with it in Refresh will raise the former and cause those messages to come up (among other things) but it won't do much of anything for friendship evolution. If it's at that high a level it shouldn't be too long though. Have it hold the soother bell, if you have it, and it'll help a lot.

It's probably too late to say now, but another option would have been to just catch a Pikachu. Pichus have a chance of calling them in SOS battles. It's also tedious, but probably less so than friendship evolution.

Anyway, cleared my second trial so gained the ability to fish. Took about 15 minutes of resetting some rippling water to get the Crosola, and then a bit more for some predatory starfishes to come out, but finally I got a Mareanie. It's so ugly and so cute. I love this thing.

Never going to evolve her so she's gonna be pretty useless but whatever. Mareanie!

Speaking of who, I love its Japanese name. Hidoide. It manages to be both a starfish pun and literally just the exclamation "that's terrible." It's wonderful.

And I got a friend to evolve my Rockruff into an edgewolf. Also love this dog.

Wow, Lusamine looks good for 40+.

When the game comes out in Europe, could someone give me a Minior egg?
Also, all female hairstyles and lipstick colours
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/com...yles_cosmetic/

And I got my team setup for now. Rowlet, Butterfree, Magnemite, Abra, Ledyba, and ungoos. I'm sure some of them will get replaced (probably Ledyba and Yungoos for sure), but for the moment it's a rather nice team. Been catching a lot more to fill up the PC and Pokedex.

During day 2 I beat the first grand trial. Spent way too long grinding at night because I wanted to evolve Linlin before she gets replaced since she'll be the first to get axed as soon as I can get a Rockruff (and almost caught a Crabrawler from some berries that would have replaced somebody too and actually made this fighting crystal I got useful). So feel pretty overleveled right now. Should probably turn off that exp. share too since even though I don't think it's as broken as XY's, it's still taking some fun out of it.

Team as of last night:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxr_RbWUcAAeHT0.jpg

Also still hate Rotomdex... Because now the darn thing won't ever just shut up.

Got Squishy to activate its Schooling form. Still doesn't help him stand against Salandits, so yeah, he'll probably get replaced with Stufful or a female Salandit. Mikio (Lycanroc) may have cemented his spot on the team. Accelrock is just soooo good in taking out Salandits that call on others lol.

And Alola Ula'Ula Island!

Why does the demon of the sea fail against Salandite? Should have a type advantage

It knows Dragon Rage

Um from what I've read it's the same as XY's but the leveling mechanics for Sun/Moon are different.

Goddamn. They SERIOUSLY need to give the demon Aqua Jet

I need a place to grind my crab to 37 so it can learn Crabhammer.

Ah. Well I should investigate that further at some point then.

EXP Share is exactly like XY/ORAS's, the EXP System was just reverted back to how it was in 5th Gen.

Say you have a level 15 Litten vs a level 3 Pikipek. Litten won't get that much EXP. Though if a level 3 Litten beats a level 15 Pikipek, it will gain a crap ton of EXP.

Right now Pichu's at LV 19. I'm worried it'll never evolve and while I did get a Pikachu it's only LV6. This is how I feel now even with the Soothe Bell on Pichu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4FjJ9tH5HY

Seriously fuck friendship.

Keep it at the front of your party, usually took me to level 25

It's at the front, it's holding a Soothe Bell and I treat it well.

I refuse to wait until LV 25 for a Pikachu; by that point I'd have to get it to LV 80 for all of its moves. There has to be someway to speed this along; Nintendo is insane if they think people have the time to tolerate this baby nonsense.

They really made it a pain to get Mareanie for people...

It has a 20% chance of being called by 'special fishing' iirc

Which is why it took me 3 hours to get Eureka XD

I know. I just got one, but it took awhile because Corsola would never get fished up.

btw, there are rumours about Pokemon Stars, the third version, for the Switch.An extremely reliable source for Switch news said she's positive this is the case too. Thoughts?

Another reason why I don't buy Sun or Moon yet. Not because I would want to buy Stars mind you, but because I don’t want to reward Game Freak if they plan to do this. I hate it when developers / publishers release an upgraded version of a game for another console entirely.

Going by past releases it would be 2 years after Sun/Moon before this "Stars" version even comes out.

I've read the rumors Annuga refers to; it says Stars comes out next year and that it was in development alongside Sun & Moon. Apparently you could see some HD models of a Pokémon in a trailer or something.

Why would they do this? It's like if Emerald was released on the DS.

For the sake of promoting the Switch, Nintendo needs a successful console again. I wouldn't be surprised if Pokemon Nemesis was also available on the 3DS aswell. Not to mention most of the Switch's rumoured games are ports, mostly Wii U ports, but ports nonetheless

Nemesis? Stars? Ack!

And Sun and Moon do barely use the touch screen (with most everything having button alternatives anyway), which is the main thing brought up when mentioning porting games to the Switch from the 3DS/WiiU...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgmFDjA8lxU
You missed it >.<
Also, I have a question for you Americans. Which new mons are you greatly enjoying useage of?