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I too understand the message and the reasons behind it, but pretty much blaming the scammed, no matter how many similar cases there are, seems a bit rude, to say the least. Refusing to help someone who's been scammed for doing something that's been done like this (because we lack a better method of doing it, and no, sending the money per trade is anything but comfortable when you're trading 5+ boxes at once unless you wanna spend your evening staring at the PC) for well over 5 years is crazy, what is this supposed to be? A disciplinary punishment? So people learn to... not be scammed?

I'm a bit lost, which drawing are you referring to? There's one in this thread that is very clearly AI and I already reported it as such, but starting to demand proof from everyone and witch hunts is unnecessary. And people not participating before doesn't have anything to do at all with AI or not, lol EDIT: Ok I just saw the "Smoochum" and idk how I missed that one, thought we were talking about a different artwork entirely. Yeah that Pocoyo ahh drawing is very clearly AI as well, gotta love the effort of trying to pass that weird pink rabbit as a Smoochum tbh

You can't install PokeMMO in any of those platforms as far as I know

Considering it takes 280 entries to obtain I'd say that yeah, whatever its purpose it's gonna be worth it. Either that, or we're grabbing the pitchforks until they make it worth it (a.k.a. we're gonna cry for weeks on the forums, of course)

Okay, I didn't think there was a need for anyone to explain this, but I'm gonna give it a go and I'm not gonna base it on "but I feel it's like this!" so you can see what an actual argument looks like. First of all, I also happen to play the game, and lately I haven't played vs. stall that much. Does that experience mean that stall is out of the meta? No, not at all, because it's a really small sample of games from the pool of games that are played every day on ladder. So instead of just straight up affirming that stall doesn't exist at all in the meta, I use the tools at my disposal to assess its relevance, and the ONLY, and I repeat, ONLY tool we have right now for such purpose is the stats tab. Of course, stall teams don't uniquely depend on 6 walls, thanks for explaining that to me, I wouldn't have been able to understand that otherwise. So let's check what are the most played Pokémon's most common allies, shall we? I'm, of course, not gonna list every single mon in the stats tab, because you can check them yourself, but as you can see, every single one of the mons I listed earlier as proof of stall not being "dominant" in the metagame is most commonly paired with, you guessed it, not stall mons. Skarmory/Rotom-Wash/Chansey might show here and there, but in those teams they fulfill the role of pivots/defoggers, and also happen to cover weaknesses of the mons listed. No one pointed at winrate, furthermore, the winrate stat, like you said, is pretty meaningless on its own, because a million variables factor in that. We're also lacking a better tool to analyze our meta, since the PvP Statistics tab measures the ENTIRE metagame, without taking into account Elo or tournaments. But with the tools that we do have beyond hearsay or anecdotal, personal evidence, the stats clearly show that stall is NOT dominant in the metagame. The topic of discussion here is not that, however, it's about Hydreigon and Draco Meteor. And this is my entire point: you can't have a Pokémon that completely destroys ladder just because there's an archetype you don't like in it. Even if we had comprehensive statistics separated by both elo and ladder type, and stall indeed dominated in high Elo (let's say top 100 for the sake of this example), you can't completely break the rest of the ranked ladder because of the sample of 100 players alone. High Elo players playing stall is not the same as stall dominating the metagame either, because what makes up the metagame is not the 0,001% of the playerbase, but everything, all at once. You can't set loose a Pokémon that 2HKOes pretty much any wall in the game (which means it'll also destroy any defensive pivot, any sweeper that gets in its way) and then switch out with little to no risk/punishment only for it to come back to do the same thing again just because some guy won a tournament with stall. Hydreigon having access to Draco Meteor in a metagame where we lack any means to deal with it outside Chansey and similar mons (and not even, because as smarter people than me already stated, it has multiple ways to bypass this possible check/counter by running Superpower, Taunt, Focus Energy, etc) isn't just unhealthy, it's meta warping. It forces you to consider a very specific mon when teambuilding, and even then there's no good answer when it comes to dealing with it, because it has a massive movepool, great typing that allows it to not get Pursuit-trapped, an ability that prevents it from getting chipped by hazards other than rocks + being trapped by Arena Trap; and coverage that is at the very least neutral to literally everything in the form of dragon + fire. Like someone mentioned earlier, the only thing setting it back a bit is its speed tier, and even that's not enough because of its more than decent bulk that allows it to not care about being outsped and hit by certain threats. Also, the "stall is bad so hydra should stay" argument makes it seem as if there were no other wallbreaking options in the metagame. In my experience, both here and, in a different setting, Magic the Gathering, those who complain the most about stall are the ones who just can't recognize when a game is over and refuse to forfeit a very obviously lost game. An archetype existing (not dominating, by any means, as the tools at our disposal show) shouldn't be the reason for a completely broken, meta-warping Pokémon to be introduced into the metagame. If Hydreigon was ONLY GOOD vs. stall it would be somewhat acceptable, because it'd have its niche and role, but the thing is that if it's able to 2HKO most walls (even Empoleon, idk why it got brought up so much in this thread) then it's gonna be able to send every other mon in the metagame into a different postal code. All in all, Hydreigon getting Draco Meteor should only be acceptable if we also got Fairy type *vomits, shudders, shivers, cries*, or maybe stuff like Heatran, but right now, with our current meta, it's just gamebreaking and nonsensical. If the metagame shifts because they introduce new mons or HAs, it would be deserving of a second look, but we haven't had those for months, so right now it's just not healthy for our metagame.

Turns out I'm the one who can't read, sorry Captn o7

"it's not my personal opinion but rather my personal opinion" ok I guess can't do much against that argument

EDIT: I thought we were talking about a different artwork, and yeah, you’re absolutely right, that one is also AI. So far 3 entries in this thread are AI generated.

Whoever says stall is dominant in the meta either plays HO or just doesn't like the archetype, but please stop using personal biased opinions as an argument to keep a mon that destroys not just stall but everything else in its way in the game And I hate using the stats tab because it shows a skewed version of the meta by compiling all elos usage, but come on, let's stop being toddlers about stall. It's just another archetype, and we're all acting as if Taunt wasn't in the game. You just gotta accept that there are more playstyles than just clicking the big number button until your opponent dies.

reading the post explains the post

Maybe the friends we made along the way

The requirement is just beating Ho-Oh and having 8 badges (redundant because to beat Ho-Oh you need those already), can only be found in grass in outside areas of Johto (no caves, no water, no Ilex Forest) and the spawn rate is hell so be patient about it ♥

The only argument I can think against this is that it's really strong in sun teams and could cause UU sun to become more dominant. But, then again, my knowledge of UU is very limited and my opinion just comes from actually using it in OU sun, where it can trap stuff that isn't in UU like Tyranitar, which of course is huge for a weather matchup. Agreed on it being excessively hated, I get how pursuit/arena trap/revenge killing in general can feel somewhat unfair/cheap but at the end of the day it's just something else to take into account when playing a matchup vs. those moves/Dugtrio. The question, again, is if it would give certain team comps (not just sun) a really strong tool that'd make them dominate.

They aren’t boosted like this year’s, you can check the tooltip of both and you’ll see the difference between them. It’s the first thing I checked because I hoarded a lot of those and was too lazy to open them, I wish they had boosted odds as well 😞

Yessir

282 Pokémon = 94 waves of 3

This is an absolute bro theory and has nothing to back it up, after I finally got Glaceon today I was able to easily do 15 more waves in a row. It's just confirmation bias, you don't realize how easily you're sweeping through the boxes until it finally asks for the one you're now missing.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe it's one of the rewards for turning in a certain number of swarm Pokémon to the elfbots, 100 rings a bell but like I said I'm not really sure, so hopefully someone smarter than me can give you the definitive answer.

To add to this, it would be understandable if we had a huge meta shift because of new HA introductions or whatever, but most if not every HA we've gotten since September-ish has been pretty much useless and irrelevant. There's no logical reason as to why they're trying so hard to push this specific Pokémon, why are we caring if Gallade, who had its very well established position in its own tier, falls back to lower usage tiers or not. Why aren't we buffing Milotic so it doesn't stay in NU and comes back to OU? Sounds ridiculous when I put it like that, but because it is. Exact same scenario here. We could actually have a discussion if we weren't given, as always, the silent treatment, because that way we could elaborate on the arguments given by staff in the patch notes, "Sharpness is now 1,5x again because of this and that and we feel like this and those could benefit from Gallade being in the tier, yadda yadda". But without any reason, and like you said, after months of providing calcs, debating, and coming to a conclusion, we can't really say anything that hasn't been said before. Completely absurd.

#FreePidgeot

Easier* just like what happens with Raikou, Entei and Suicune

Brother, you can't just pull the "we have a life" card when you literally said in another post that you spent 10 hours on the first day of the event hunting it. Like Seth said, the game doesn't owe you giving you stuff easily, and even more so considering that when you made the thread not even 24 hours had passed since the event launched and was live for all of us to play. Again, I'm the first one to criticize how the legendaries are distributed, but I also know better than to complain when I don't find a very rare encounter on the first day it gets released. Lowering the odds wouldn't help at all, because then we'd get the forums flooded (as it already happened when they got released, lol) with people pissing their diapers because the legendaries don't feel unique enough. I do think that the difficulty of obtaining the legendaries shouldn't be just sheer RNG (pretty similar with what happened with the Pumpking this past event), but rather skill-based somehow, or like CNY's method of obtaining Shaymin (spread throughout a wider time window, though, but you get me, a daily quest type of thing). But this is what we have right now, and complaining based on unrealistic expectations, if anything, dampens any feedback that could get to the developers by making it look like it's just a sense of entitlement from the community rather than something to address.

Just to clarify a bit more, Kyu, do shiny charm/donator buffs affect Mysterious Balls or those override any shiny odds modifiers and only apply their own? Thanks for the response 🙂

Precisely today I was thinking about how the current event encourages precisely that, sinking money into poke balls like crazy, be it for the swarms, getting dittos, etc. Those sinks (like Alpha mons) are almost invisible but they probably constitute a big chunk of the inflation prevention mechanisms

Wait, you’re onto something here. Formal petition to play Subway Surfer videos as background for wild encounters so we can watch something while shunting 😮