Official Pokémon Sun and Moon (S&M) Thread

[Davsto]

I believe that on the online battles and in stuff like the battle tower thing in previous games that the super big legendaries are banned, but that's about it.

[SleepyKrew]

holy shit the abandoned megamart song with headphones in

[McMenno]

decidueye
magnezone
snorlax
mega alakazam
alolan muk
alolan persian

^team, around level 70 currently, training them up to 100, shame there isn't something like the battle resort in sm

[Davsto]

No Battle Resort? Huh

It's always seemed odd that they've seemed to downgrade it

Emerald had like 7 or 8 different games, D/P just had the one Tower but Platinum had 5 different ones iirc, Black/White just had the Subway and now it's been removed completely it seems. Shame.

[McMenno]

well there is this battle tree, but the battle resort has these trainers with level 60 'mon, now you have to grind at the e4

[Glork]

I finished my Dex last night to meet my goal of one week. A living dex of all the new pokemon (and the new forms of old ones) plus alternate forms ready to transfer with just touch required for old pokemon I have sitting in Bank already.

Next step will be to breed a shiny Minior (because you can't SOS chain him for some dumb fucking reason) to complete the full core spectrum.

Uh, to each his own, I guess.

I'm just having fun dinking around with different Pokemon right now. I am getting MASSIVE enjoyment smashing duders with Wishiwashi right now.

There will be plenty of time for completion, competitive, and much more.

[AniX]

I finished my Dex last night to meet my goal of one week. A living dex of all the new pokemon (and the new forms of old ones) plus alternate forms ready to transfer with just touch required for old pokemon I have sitting in Bank already.

Next step will be to breed a shiny Minior (because you can't SOS chain him for some dumb fucking reason) to complete the full core spectrum.

Uh, to each his own, I guess.

I'm just having fun dinking around with different Pokemon right now. I am getting MASSIVE enjoyment smashing duders with Wishiwashi right now.

There will be plenty of time for completion, competitive, and much more.

I find it much easier to have fun once I get the chores out of the way. Especially because I can train/evolve my weird gimmick teams (Animorphs themed, Breakfast Cereal, Edgelords) up much quicker and easier when I have access to high level opponents, all the pokemon/items I need to create the team, and player customization options to theme myself to the pokemon team.

[Sudo_Nym]

Out of curiousity, how did you complete your dex so quickly? Do you have friends trade you the alternate starters and version exclusives, or do you have a bank from previous versions, or what?

[AniX]

Out of curiousity, how did you complete your dex so quickly? Do you have friends trade you the alternate starters and version exclusives, or do you have a bank from previous versions, or what?

I have a bank from a previous version but that doesn't help because you can't transfer any Pokemon in until January.

I did trade but not with friends. Mostly I made good use of the GTS. The trick is to breed your starter as quick as you can, trade those for the other starters, and just spend a whole day breeding starters and trading them for other valuable/rare pokemon and breeding and trading THEM. I found Goomys are basically good as gold on the GTS. Anything short of a legendary I could basically buy wholesale for a Goomy or a Porygon. I also found people will pay well for any of the non-stone Eevolutions, which actually are very easy to get. If you use Poke Pelgo at all you can basically make as many Sylveons as you have eevees.

The legendaries I bought with Goodras. Breed a Goomy or two, trade them for another person's Goomy, slap some lucky eggs on them, hit the grass outside the boat city for a few hours, when they get to 49 fly to Po Town and give them a rare candy, and then put your Goodra up for literally anything and wait 5-10 minutes.

[Garmr]

[pickemgenius]

blah blah I have sun now.

feelsgoodman

[Garmr]

I just got my shiny charm

[Marquis]

i lost my save file.

[Annadog40]

Did you lose the game or did you delete it?

[Garmr]

do you hack your mons that can delete saves if you save in a pokemon center.

[Davsto]

After the last two gens, the design of the E4 rooms was really disappointing tbh, totally out of line with how pretty the rest of the game has been

Like, B/W had those nicely themed rooms where you get gradually taken to the battle, X/Y had those pretty rooms where fire or water or whatever rains down, ORAS had rather dull rooms but a nice bridge leading towards the room

And then this just has rooms with coloured rocks and dull holograms surrounding a ring

[SleepyKrew]

I'd much rather have an E4 that were involved with the story and have rooms that look fine over really fancy rooms filled with strangers

[SleepyKrew]

oh and also the rooms kick ass

[Davsto]

I'd much rather have an E4 that were involved with the story and have rooms that look fine over really fancy rooms filled with strangers

Because those are mutually exclusive..?

[Davsto]

Like your response would make sense if I'd gone "The E4 were awful in every way compared to last gen because the rooms were crap"

But all I said was "the room design was disappointing compared to both previous gens and the rest of the game's appearance"

All other factors of the E4 and league are great, and I in no way knocked them or implied that the disappointing design ruined the experience in any way so idk what the deal with your response was

[SleepyKrew]

oh and also the rooms kick ass

[Davsto]

Other than the real subjectivity of that, I think it's pretty odd to deny that they are definitely at least underwhelming compared to the room design from BW and XY.

[AniX]

The rooms in XY were great...the first time. The 10th time I'm trying to run through it and have to wait for all the animations to end...not so much.

[Davsto]

Is it just me or is Tapu Fini hard as hell to catch?

Misty Terrain preventing status for first five turns, followed by Aqua Ring healing each turn (plus the classic legendary low catch rate) is just the worst

[Annadog40]

Ya, I tried to catch it once, it struggled to death and I had to reset.