Official Pokémon Sun and Moon (S&M) Thread

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Nothing super groundbreaking, although data miners managed to find all of the new Gen7 pokemon in S&M if anyone is interested in looking it up. You do get to port Ash-Greninja to S&M once you've completed the main part of the demo, though!



On another note, for those of you who have legit X/Y/OR/AS games, you can get Keldeo/Volcanion for free right now via Mystery Gift/GameStop code card (respectively) & bank them for use in S&M if you want.

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I'm going grass starter. I was going to do water but the evolved forms made me super sad.

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I'm not sure how I feel about Rowlet's final form having Ghost as its secondary type.

It's almost pushing me back to Popplio...

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I'm waiting because Christmas present.

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Added AniX and Reck and Sudo, will be picking up Sun tomorrow.

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I'm playing rough sun normally. When Qudz gets Moon I'll do a nuzlocke on that. Benefits of having physical copies of each game!

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Finding shiny Pokémon in the wild is a fun experience regardless of stats or abilities (especially since you basically *have* to breed for competitive play anyway). The only shiny I ever found outside of Friend Safari was a shiny Steelix in Diamond. I took it to the HoF because why not.

I'm at the first trial. I've only had the game for two days and spent all of Thanksgiving w/the family. Still, I'm taking my time on this and enjoying exploring. I rushed through X last month to have it finished before this came out, and I didn't enjoy that experience nearly as much.

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I am not a fan of the "call for help" mechanic. It's really fucking stupid when I'm just trying to catch a damn Pokémon and I have to fight five of them before it fails to find help.

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That is the one benefit, you can kind of mess around until you get a specific gender of something.

Right now I'm on Route 4 (like I said, I'm REALLY taking my time with this game) & rolling w/the following team:
Dartrix
Snorlax
Grimer (I just want to see how the Alola form feels - secondary dark type seems handy)
Cutiefly (deceptively good!)
Growlithe
Magnetite

It's nice that HMs aren't going to be a thing. I plan on phasing out some of the Gen1 Pokémon as I go along. I also haven't gone hunting for rare Pokemangs yet.

How Oricorio (the dancing bird one)? I caught one but I haven't gotten a chance to try it out yet.

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Oricoro is kind of neat, since it has the Darwin thing going on- different islands have different forms. As far as quality goes, I don't know.

The SOS mechanic is supposed to be really good for competitive batters, since each pokemon counts separately for ev training, and the pokemon called during the chain can have the Pokemon's hidden ability, and have progressively better IVs. If I remember the Smogon thread, the third pokemon called is guaranteed to have 2 perfect IVs, and the fortieth is guaranteed to have four perfects. Though I imagine that if you don't care about competitive, it's probably just annoying.

I don't care about competitive when I'm on fucking Route 4.

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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.

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Anyone have a Treasure Hunt ** shop they're sharing in Festival Plaza? I need to start farming Bottle Caps soon...

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Also, I *really* liked the mons in this gen, and this is my favorite storyline/adventure to date. I'm p sure I'd put Sun down as my favorite Pokemon game thus far.

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According to Serebii, Salandit is supposedly 12.5% female, 87.5% male. That said, I bred 52 male Salandit before I got my first female (an impressive 0.11% chance of getting 51 males in a row).

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Yeah but breeding a high-IV Salandit >>>> catching one of the right nature, leveling it to 100, and Hyper Training it.

EDIT: Like, I played with a Salazzle in my party for a while, but her stats are garbage and she has a terrible nature so there's not really anything I can do with it right now as I prep for competitive.
EDIT: Well now I have 5 with 4 perfect IVs among non-attack stats, so yeah. That luck turned around quick lol.

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Anyone have a Treasure Hunt ** shop they're sharing in Festival Plaza? I need to start farming Bottle Caps soon...

I have 4-star and 2-star, add me <3

If you have any decent shops let me know too

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Great, thanks! In case you missed it earlier in the thread, my FC is 4356-4257-4083 || Glork

Remember that only the shop immediately to the right of your castle is the one you share with other people. If you could move the 2* Treasure Hunt there, that'd be amazing. Then I just need to be online with you for a second to add you as a VIP.

Appreciate it!

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BTW, I have pages and pages of Salandit & Vulpix breedjects if anyone wants any. Piles of them with 3-5 perfect IVs, Timid nature, and most of the Vulpix ones have Snow Warning, too.

I don't really care for anything in exchange, happy to give them away (although I wouldn't say no to other people's breedjects, as it would help me save some time, too).

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I just run in tiny circles right in front of the nursery, that way I can see when the nursery lady folds her arms to indicate a new egg.

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Glork's post reminded me: If anyone is having trouble acquiring a particular breedable Pokemon let me know. I can't guarantee good IVs but if it can be bred I can breed it.

Can I take you up on this and get a Cranidos breeded? Don't care about stats, nature, or anything like that.

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Glork's post reminded me: If anyone is having trouble acquiring a particular breedable Pokemon let me know. I can't guarantee good IVs but if it can be bred I can breed it.

Can I take you up on this and get a Cranidos breeded? Don't care about stats, nature, or anything like that.

I have it all set if you can trade now.

Thanks. I fell asleep minutes after making that post and was out of commission all day yesterday but I'll be around basically all day today. I'll keep an eye on this thread so you can lmk when to get online in Festival Plaza.

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I think it fits with the general vibe of Alola region. There's a lot of "happy fun times togetherness" expressed by NPCs throughout the region, and Festival Plaza is supposed to represet that.

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K, in online in FP now.

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I'm getting the same. I assume it's a network/Global Link issue.

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I'm trying to catch a Tapu Lele with low Attack (not even necessarily going for 0 IVs), but literally 16/18 so far have had 31 IV in Attack. It's getting really annoying.

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I have a bunch of leftover 5 IV Porygons, mostly timid but a bunch with random natures. lmk if you want one

Yeah sure, I haven't gotten around to breeding Porygon so that'll save me some time.

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My breeding game is on point right now. Perfect IV Rhyhorn, Beldum, and Salandit in one day. (Sadly, I am going for a 0 ATK Salandit. I did get one with 30/0/31/31/31/31 but it's male.)

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How are people building Tapu Fini? I've actually held off on capturing it because I can't decide what I'd like to o with it.

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Anyone have a Sandshrew with Slush Rush to trade me? Good IVs will make my life easier but it's not necessary.

I can trade a Snow Warninf Vulpix in return.

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What is your favorite Alolan pokemon? Your least favorite?

I really like some of the Alolan forms of Gen 1 Pokémon -- especially Alolan Ninetails & Alolan Muk. I also liked Palossand and Dewpider/Araquanid.

Wishiwashi was kinda cool at first but I ultimately found it to be very meh. Yungoos/Gumshoos were obnoxiously common throughout the game which is expected, but still really lame.

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Anyone want a perfect IV blue Minior? I'm trying to breed a shiny and have bred like 4 perfect IV ones in the meantime. I also have a dew that are 5 perfect IVs with the 6th IV being 30.

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All Jolly.

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Still no shiny btw. I'm over 1100 Minior bred. Up to 6 perfect IV ones...

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Fair enough. Jolly/Sash is what I've seen people use, but Adamant is probably viable too?
Anyway, don't want or expect anything in return so if you change your mind lmk At the very least it might help other breeding projects.

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Oof that's rough. That's about what it took to get my shiny Minior. Other mon (Pichu, Mimikyu so far) have had considerably better luck.

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I actually have like 2 shiny Pichu and 2 shiny Pikachu because of extreme luck when I was iterating for better IVs (and one because I simply forgot to put an Everstone on one before breeding, so wrong nature)

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I'm excited.

I just like playing Pokémon games.


In other news, I've had some bad shiny hatching luck lately. Over 1k Cubones without a shiny.... game up on getting a shiny Salazzle because of that absurd gender ratio, and I'm not willing to use 3rd party RNG abuse programs.

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Yep, Ultra S/M had a release date, and a new Lycanroc form (Dusk Form) was revealed.

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New cap giveaway if people don't realize- PIKACHUM20

As someone who chose to get the classic hat Pikachu, I'm really hoping they do this with all variants over time. Otherwise I'll be annoyed.

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That is so cool!

What was your team? Also, is there an article/stream link?

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If you have rare candies you really only need to get to level 89. Then have the +9 level meal, 2 rare candies, done.

But yeah 4 hours seems easy enough, including potential breeding time.