Said this earlier, and it pops up as a hint later on, but you can lock on with ZLNeat, you can throw a Pokéball with your leader Pokémon to start battles, and the battle may start with wild Pokémon caught off-guard depending on the angle. It's a simplified mechanic, there's no aim so it seems to always hit, but I don't remember it being mentioned
MoreHow does the total count of Pokémon in the Dex compare to Arceus?
Almost double if I recall PLA's final count.How does the total count of Pokémon in the Dex compare to Arceus?
I’ve never caught a shiny. AMAOne thing that's surprised me about this game; it's the earliest in any Pokemon game I've found a shiny! I caught a shiny LeChonk and named him Wilbur. He's definitely going to be sticking with my team till the end!
I’ve never caught a shiny. AMA
Two of my friends caught a shiny LeChonk already too, and my brother ran into a shiny Fletchling but was out of pokeballs. Rate seems to be even higher than Legends: Arceus.In most games I don't! I caught two I'm Crystal and then found nothing until I caught a pink Hypno in Sun. That's part of why I'm so surprised!
I’ve never caught a shiny. AMA
Same... well unless we're counting freebies like the Ponyta in LegendsI’ve never caught a shiny. AMA
and must mean not counting the one the story gave you too hahaNot even in Legends? I feel like it's impossible to go through that game and not see a shiny haha
I'm enjoying myself a lot (still very early on) but it's probably very dependent on your tolerance of technical issues like visual glitches/poor performanceIs Pokemon Scarlet/Violet any good?
This map should help. The order includes all mission gyms and Star bases, blurred ones are the titans.Is there a recommended order of gyms to beat?
Also, I finally get what people meant when they said SV is not nearly as snappy as Arceus. Specially throwing Pokéballs feels extremely worse. I also miss the dodge-jump.
The music in this game is mostly great, but boy does the gym leader music take a nosedive when they send out their ace. I don’t know why they brought back the stupid crowd chanting bit from Sw/Sh, it really hurt the gym leader music there too, and here IMO it’s even worse. I just don’t care for it at all.
I LOVE the regular gym music from Sw/Sh, so high energy and bumping, it might be my favorite gym music in the series. But I admit, I like it a lot less once the crowd chanting kicks in. I don’t know what it is about it, I just don’t like it. Might be related to how I just don’t like the whole sporting event feel to it all. But I’m glad some people like it! Overall, I’m very much enjoying the music I’m this game.I haven't listened to the SV theme yet, but the chanting in SwSh sends thrills through my spine. I still smile whenever I listen to it, it's so good.
SwSh had the best gym battle format in the franchise, it's such a shame they're trapped in such bad games.
That's too bad then. I guess all we can do is hope for some patches to fix the hiccups. Can't we have a new gen without some major issue, GameFreak please?The game is great and lots of fun, but performance is worst than I thought. Frame drops are constant, missing grounds, texture and wild pop in are nowhere near acceptable (I still can't put the game down - it makes a really good point on Pokemon being a really really phenomenal experience)
Honestly I haven't found many complaints that the game is too easy, if anything it's the opposite (relative to other games in the series). Probably, if I had to guess, since EXP gain is much more player determined (no forced trainer battles or random encounters)For all the complaints of game too easy, I’m certainly not finding that to be the case. Been getting bashed up by lvl 20+ Pokémon in the areas I’m trying to explore cause I’m only lvl 10 atm.
Give Sprigatito or its evolution a Mirror Herb, put another Pokémon in the party that knows Sucker Punch, and do a picnic.Is it true that I can get my starter Sprigatito to learn sucker punch even though it's an egg move?? And do I need a female one??
Now that I've been playing some more Im warming up to the game. Its peak comfy just riding on your brute and finding new Pokemon to catch at every corner.Been playing for a couple of hours now. So far it's not as fresh, polished or fun as Arceus which I was already expecting going in, but it's still pretty okay.
I still wish the Gyms at least had limited level scaling. My first gym actually had some of my team on the ropes because I was underleveled for the fight, but the second one turned to ash at a mere sneeze.I wonder if I will end up wishing they had added level-scaling
I love catching in this game because I don't need to catch everything haha. I catch one of each species, then the rest my Pokemon can annihilate for EXP and goodies. Just the way I like it.Its peak comfy just riding on your brute and finding new Pokemon to catch at every corner