I agree. I used one on my Ultra Sun team and I kept forgetting it's weak to Ground now...
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Things that grind your gears!
- Thread starter Frost Mage
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I agree. I used one on my Ultra Sun team and I kept forgetting it's weak to Ground now...
RedJirachi
Veteran member
In fairness, memorizing the moves that never miss is a lot harder than memorizing type charts
Mega Altaria
☆~Shiny hunter▢~
Yeah, that can sometimes be very frustrating. I think there were some times when my opponent switched a Gengar onto a Ground move or I switched a Gengar into a Ground move and I was somehow surprised that it wasn't immune to Ground anymore.
You could just check the move summaries of your Pokémon and if it doesn't have an accuracy value then the move will never miss when used.
YES! Finally someone said it! oO UGH! Me and my best friend both were so infuriated how bland this character was with his expression... Tomodachi was a game that came out years before, allowing users to create several characters and determining how much they emote. Why not at least have an option to decide whether the character always smiles or is quirky? *sweat* Sorry, was starting to think too much about this...
Hmm... I suppose what gets me upset is when I try so hard to capture something, and been at it for a long time, until the Pokemon ran out of moves, uses Struggle, and faints itself before I could capture it! oO
At least better than Gen 1 where having your box full would not let you keep the Pokemon you tried so desperately to catch. DX
I actually had that happen to me in Pokemon Blue when I tried capturing Mewtwo, GAH! oO
RedJirachi
Veteran member
It's incredibly frustrating whenever I have to catch a wild Beldum, because it only knows one move. Said move causes recoil damage. And its catch rate is 3, the same as legendaries.
Mega Altaria
☆~Shiny hunter▢~
In USUM, Bounsweet is unable to be found in the northwestern area of Lush Jungle and were quite common with a 40% encounter rate in SM. In USUM, at least it's good that Steenee can be found but it just annoys me that Bounsweet doesn't have encounter data there and Steenee are rarer, with an encounter rate at 10% probably because the Trumbeaks there gobbled up a lot of Bounsweets.
RedJirachi
Veteran member
Whenever you need to catch a legendary(notoriously hard to catch) with low PP moves
Sceptile Leaf Blade
Nighttime Guardian
Look for the rustling spot close to the entrance of Lush Jungle, Steenee has a 70% encounter rate in it.
Put it to sleep. It can't waste PP when asleep and sleep is also the best status aside from freezing for catching probability. Roto Catch also works. Ultra Ball on asleep legendary pokémon (catch rate 3) with low health is about 1 in 4 chance to succeed with Roto Catch. Even if they only have 20 PP in total that should be plenty of time to catch them, and other balls (like Fast Ball for Mewtwo, Latios, or Raikou or Heavy Ball for Groudon, Regirock, and Lugia) work even better. Heavy Ball is about an 85% chance to capture Groudon with Roto Catch when it's asleep at low health. Repeat Ball is also really good if you already have it registered as caught (also works without national dex, the game still keeps track of it), Repeat Ball gives about 35% capture probability, or slightly better than 1 in 3.
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Mega Altaria
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I don't really count ambush encounters because there is only one Pokémon in that spot and once that Pokémon is encountered, then the spot disappears until you leave the area. But these type of encounters sometimes annoys me because if you stay still for a bit too long then the encounter is triggered.
RedJirachi
Veteran member
The glitch in FRLG that causes Entei and Raikou to be gone forever if they use Roar
Pokefan_1987
Avid Pokemon TCG Card collector.
You should see Shauntal's top creature in Pokemon Blaze Black 2 which is a level 82 Sableye. This thing uses Leftovers as item, knows Shadow Ball and Trick Foul Play and spams Recover whenever it gets close to losing. So if you're unlucky it'll always be like a game of cat and mouse.
The only consistent strategy i know is to use use a gengar starting with embargo and then shadow ball it until its defense stat weakens. I've gotten stuck for hours on that battle
(i know rom discussions are not ok but this is the only time i will mention the things
)Did they patch that in Heartgold and Soulsilver ??
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RedJirachi
Veteran member
Thankfully the glitch was solved in HGSS
Mega Altaria
☆~Shiny hunter▢~
That the player in the Gen 7 games has to hatch at least 20 eggs to have access to IV judging because in previous games, the player just had to get to the IV judge. But this time judging covers all IVs not the highest IVs like what it used to be and starting in Gen 6, any 0 IVs, so at least the egg hatching compensates for how much more powerful and accessible Gen 7 IV judging is.
I agree completely. Plus the ability it gained doesn't really help it that much. It wouldn't have been bad if it had just been a new secondary ability but it wasn't a direct replacement. Personally i would have just had it gain a new ability something that worked like motor drive so the ability change would boost it while keeping the ability.
Mega Altaria
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Yeah it's quite frail so the Ability isn't too effective but at times it might disable a move that can be quite annoying.
RedJirachi
Veteran member
The cutscene of the Straiton Trio and Shadow Triad in BW2. It has barely any relevance, and comes off as a blatant attempt to disprove a popular fan theory for no given reason
Pokefan_1987
Avid Pokemon TCG Card collector.
BW2 did have a lot of things that made it annoying including
Driftveil City Gym, Clay Tunnel, Opelucid City Gym, Mistralton Gym for confusing layouts
worst offender though in BW2 is Nimbasa City Gym.
First you go through the old gym which has a confusing layout
it forces you to fight those who step out the cart which mskes you wait for that cart to come back and after all of that if you get to the end you get trolled hard and told that the new gym is on a modeling stage floor now. But if you try to visit that new building first you wont find Elesa or get access.
On top of that she has one of the most annoying fights with her emolga volt switch spam which is difficult if you dont have rock moves or a good sweeper.
Driftveil City Gym, Clay Tunnel, Opelucid City Gym, Mistralton Gym for confusing layouts
worst offender though in BW2 is Nimbasa City Gym.
First you go through the old gym which has a confusing layout
it forces you to fight those who step out the cart which mskes you wait for that cart to come back and after all of that if you get to the end you get trolled hard and told that the new gym is on a modeling stage floor now. But if you try to visit that new building first you wont find Elesa or get access.
On top of that she has one of the most annoying fights with her emolga volt switch spam which is difficult if you dont have rock moves or a good sweeper.
Mega Altaria
☆~Shiny hunter▢~
I don't think the former Nimbasa Gym in B2W2 was the worst but as long you remember the layout from BW you should be fine. I personally find that Driftveil Gym from B2W2 worse because of the lighting in the Gym. You just kinda don't know where you're going and you might bump into a Trainer by mistake.
Pokefan_1987
Avid Pokemon TCG Card collector.
The layout is ok but doing it for nothing just to get trolled at the end is annoying. I wish gamefreak had the courtesy to allow the use of a escape rope to exit the nimbasa gym.
Deadeye
H(a)unting...
Oh yea damn, that's true! It's kind of funny and even okay to me that anime can put exceptions to inflexible game logic. But sometimes those exceptions could be better placed.
Also, it grinds my gears that anime has become so technical. Too many references to game techniques (especially when it simultaneously ignores type immunities) at expense of livelihood and fun of older seasons. I admit I'm being a nostalgia *** here but it's not just that Indigo League was good. Johto was pretty awesome also. And i still randomly follow the anime, even while I feel the quality has gone down.