Official Pokémon Sun and Moon (S&M) Thread

[Garmr]

I just wanted to rush to end game so I can get breeding and complete the Alloa Dex for the shiny charm

[Davsto]

Z-Splash boosts attack by three stages

No, really

[Davsto]

In terms of new Pokémon, I love this generation and I really liked the last - I'm liking their strategy of creating a relatively small amount of Pokémon each generation (60-90) and concentrating on making most of them great, unlike Gen V which tried too hard to make as many new ones as possible with 156, resulting in a lot of mediocre designs.

[Glork]

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.

[Annadog40]

I had one wild encounter go on for half an hour because of constant calls for help.

[Davsto]

It really works during the Totem battles, and I enjoy it then considerably.

It's kinda irritating during wild battles, but usually if I'm wild battling then I'm either trying to level up (in which case it's just exp), or I'm trying to catch a Pokémon or run through the area so clicking the "Run" option generally isn't a huge deal. So while it is just a minor irritation rather than a big huge problem with the game, it is an irritation which I find myself trying to work around.

[Davsto]

Although it did make catching a female Salandit easier, since it only ever called other Salandit, I kept a chain going until a female one appeared.

[Glork]

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.

[Annadog40]

Oricorio is amazing, Electric/Flying is the best type for it. The ability comes in handy when fighting other Oricrios

uyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy7777777777777777777777777777777777777u

[Davsto]

I'm at the Roadside Motel in the north of Akala Island

Current team:
Dartrix
Salandit
Trumbeak
Meowth (Alolan)
Araquanid
Magnemite

Trumbeak and Magnemite are likely to be phased out, and maybe Meowth too - the rest are almost certainly staying.

[animorpherv1]

Don't phase out Trumbeak. Toucannon is so worth it.

[Sudo_Nym]

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.

[Davsto]

Also I believe that successive Pokémon are more likely to be shiny

[Glork]

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.

[Davsto]

[hiplop]

I'm rolling with

Tsareena (prob replacing with eggsecuter)
dugtrio
marowak
waterstarterseal
bewear
charjabug (wanting him to be vikavolt asap)

[Marquis]

I like oricorio

4th island there's an oricorio trainer I almost lost all my mons to lol. Glad I'm not nuzlocking, but then I would probably have been more on edge

[Marquis]

So far I have

Primarina (Celeste)
Alolan Muk (Phyllis)
Shiny Palossand (Leilani)
Minior (Isabelle)
Bewear (Harriet)
Shiny Togedemaru (Mabel)

[Marquis]

I almost used Eviolite Charjabug because it's -that- good

[animorpherv1]

charjabug (wanting him to be vikavolt asap)

Hope you enjoy waiting to endgame.

[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.

[Davsto]

Okay why do so many foes use Confuse Ray or things which confuse you

It is genuinely infuriating

[Davsto]

Although Araquanid is like the best PokémonI love it

[animorpherv1]

Okay why do so many foes use Confuse Ray or things which confuse you

It is genuinely infuriating

I think it worked.

[hiplop]

I just almost got whooped by a random fucking garbodor