RedShell

I hope you like Oranguru Great. Thanks, @Hero-of-Time

Cool, thanks. I’m online right now, hook me up with the code.

Just got one from a max raid! *removes it from list* And a Mawile just arrived via Surprise Trade.

Ok, here’s my list: I believe a few of those are actually available in Shield, but either I just can’t find them, or they really hate regular Poké Balls.

Encountered/caught my first shiny Pokémon last night! One of those blue jellyfish things. So yeah, I finally used an Ultra Ball. Still have my Master Ball too, which I’ll use if I ever come across a shiny that I actually like... so probably never then. As for the Pokédex, think I’ve got or evolved everything that I can now (other than a few max raid Pokémon) so will need to start organising some trades for the Sword version exclusives soon.

Yeah, it is insanely addictive. If you do decide to sell it let me know, I’ll give your legendary Pokémon a good home.

Yeah, I probably will seeing as I’ve already been using one for most of my playthrough, It’ll need some tweaking, but with all the QoL improvements to the training system it won’t take long at all. Sounds crazy! We’ll need to have another battle at some point, with these new super Pokémon!

The Touryst is on my watch list, I’d certainly have gotten it at launch if it wasn’t for Pokémon, but yeah, that game has put the brakes on everything else.

I wasn’t doing any raids of my own yesterday, no. Was working on catching wild Pokémon, including the big cheese of Shield: He wasn’t too bad actually, only had to reset once and that was my own fault really for stupidly putting a burn on it. Funny moment leading up to that encounter: Galarian Corsola is just insane. Found out about it’s potential from a recommended YouTube vid and then discovered that I had an almost perfect stat one which I’d received off a Surprise Trade, so I went ahead and trained it up. I pretty much haven’t had to use another Pokémon since! This thing + Eviolite is basically a sponge, almost impossible to take down. It’s not very powerful but combined with moves which constantly drain HP, you can just sit back and wait for Pokémon to die. Anyway, I’ve reached 300 caught in my Pokédex now, so I’m getting there. This could well be the first Pokémon game where I fully complete the dex. Can’t remember for sure now, but don’t think I’ve ever quite managed it before.

Some clips from last Thursday:

Got the crab, but not the giant cake unfortunately. I often miss out on the giant Pokémon though, thanks to my standard Poké Ball obsession. I’ll get there though... eventually. How is everyone going about organising their Pokémon boxes on this? I didn’t really pay much attention to it initially and now my collection is all over the shop! The search feature seems pretty useless too as it only highlights Pokémon, rather than give you a list. I have a lot of duplicates from surprise trade, and they seem to have accumulated in different boxes, all mixed up with the Pokémon that I’ve caught myself. Looks like it’ll be a right nightmare to sort out now.

Raid isn’t showing up for me.

Cheers. Not sure if I need that, will let you know.

Hmm, yeah that’s a bit poo. Oh well.

Ah, I see. Thanks. Did you get anything for those wins BTW, PB or something? Good idea. I’ll hopefully be a bit better prepared next time.

Well, no surprises there then. I thought I’d be able to Dynamax Pikachu when I switched though. Anyway, cheers for the lesson.

Ok. Do I need to have the team I’m going to use in my active party, or can I choose them from the storage box?

The team I beat the game with is Grookey, Meowth, Pikachu, Arcanine, Pelipper and Ribombee. So 50/50. Could do no Dynamax on the first battle, then another with it on?

7pm is cool, yeah. Better stick to singles for now though, I’m still trying to get my head around that! You can choose whatever you prefer for Dynamax.

Sounds like a laugh, I’d be up for that. I’ve been messing around with the Battle Tower stuff on this now. Hit a brick wall with my own Pokémon quite soon, so switched to one of the rental teams and have so far made it to the Ultra Ball Tier. You can get some crazy good rewards in there! So yeah, having properly trained/evolved Pokémon definitely helps, but I still make a lot of mistakes with sending out the wrong types or using moves at a bad time. There are so many variables though, it really is insane just how deep the mechanics go. I’d love to get better at the competitive side of things though, especially as once the Pokédex is complete (although I still got a while to go there) that’s pretty much what’s left to sink your teeth into.

That’s it for me, @Glen-i. Pikachu needs a nap.

Lol. This butterfly is a right bastard.

Not sure I’m afraid, it’s happened with other Pokémon too but I have no idea what causes it. Don’t think it has ever happened at an NPC camp though, only my own ones. I cook quite a lot of curries maybe that has something to do with it.

What a clusterfuck. Thanks for the laughs.

I actually thought something was wrong with my game at one point, like why am I finding so much expensive stuff!? The wild area is so awesome. Just a shame that performance can absolutely tank when playing it online. It is cool seeing other trainers wandering about though, and it’s nice how everyone has a present for you.