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I love the set up of the gyms. The battles have never been more epic
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Centiskorch is the boy!

Rapidash is a bit of a beast as well
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Also I love the new heavy duty boots item. Completely negates stealth rocks which Centiskorch would normally lose 50% health on straight away
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I love the set up of the gyms. The battles have never been more epic
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Dynamax but I do love what they've done with the gyms. I hope they retain the stadium aspect in future games but replace dynamaxing with mega evolution or something.
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I've been doing the Surprise trades today to get rid of my excess of Scorbunnies and I got a japanese Sobble and a Dreepy back to back

Still not encountered a mist weather setting in the Wild Area once yet though, I just want a Mimikyu
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I've done the sixth gym, a rock type gym in a winter-y town like that didn't fit at all but I liked the gym as a whole a lot more then I did with the fire gym. I don't think the exclusive gym thing has really worked out though, every town in this game reflects it's gym leader. Milo's town is a farm town, Nessa's is a harbour town, Opal's is a mystical town in the forest etc but I can't imagine the ghost leader fits the town he's in and the rock type gym leader didn't really reflect his town either. It's a cool idea but if it comes back in future, they need to pick types that have more similar aesthetics so the gyms fit into the towns better.

I'd have made the fourth gym Fighting/Ground and the sixth gym Ghost/Ice.

I have to say as well, I love what they've done with the towns in this game, pretty much all but one of the towns I've seen so far has been pretty as ****.
I didnt know the ice town gym leader was different too! Shield had some thick blonde girl
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I didnt know the ice town gym leader was different too! Shield had some thick blonde girl
It felt so bizarre to go to that town and fight a.... Rock type Gym leader...

He was better than the boring Fighting Gym Leader but I don't think that was the right city to put him in.

I've beaten all the gyms now. I loved the theme of the seventh Gym's city but I'm sad that it was just a giant corridor with nothing there. It was cool that we finally got a Dark Gym leader though, hope we don't have to wait seven generations for the next one.

I really liked Raihan's battle. I think it's the only gym battle so far which lasted long enough for both of us to come out of Dynamax. I'd say Raihan, Opal and Nessa were my favourite gym leaders.
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So I just finished the game..

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the end story was pretty weak I thought.. Chairman Rose wasnt even evil, he just made a bad decision and then after you battle him all of a sudden hes 'good' again.. like it would've been more climatic if Oleana turned out to be the bad guy all along or something.

Im a bit gutted they scrapped the elite four this game, but I kinda liked how they made it a mini tournament with the gym leaders (I wonder if the ones you battle are random or if you always battle those ones?) Bede becoming the fairy type gym leader was a bit meh

I think the storyline was good, a bit simple, but still good, like there wasnt much fuss from any evil organization or anything, you could kinda just get on with your gym challenge. I'm not even sure what Rose's goal was..? to bring the darkest day to make energy for the towns? idk maybe I didnt read it properly..

The graphics have been amazing, especially for the routes and towns, most of the Pokemon animations are good, although ive seen a few questionable ones lol


at the end my team was Cinderace, Cursola, Polteageist, Grapploct, Orbeetle and Toxtricity.

I swapped out Grimmsnarl because he was **** and would faint so easily. So I added Polteageist instead. In camp, her and Cursola are besties, they always go and have a chat. Cursola doesnt like Toxtricity though, whenever I speak to her she always says shes not keen

I love pokemon camp tbh, its cute seeing your team all together interacting.
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I might try and power through to the end tonight, I've got a bunch of newly hatched pokemon I want to EV train but I won't be able to do that without the Battle Tower.
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I completed the story.

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They certainly packed a lot into the end, didn't they? The story feels really spare up until you reach Wynden and then it really kicks into high gear. I think presentation wise it's definitely the best ending they've ever done although the whole 'interrupting the championship match' thing was done better in Black/White, I think (I remember being SHOOK when it happened in that game). I liked the whole tournament format (although Bea taking up a potential rematch against one of the more interesting gym leaders felt a bit crap) and thought it made for a nice twist on things.

Leon caught me off guard when I fought him as his Axew managed to take out two of my Dragon slayer pokemon and I didn't pack any healing supplies as I didn't think I'd need them. In the end it came down to my Drednaw vs Charizard (I had to sacrifice the others to survive Char's Gigantamax as he took out my Dynamax Drednaw with a Max Grass attack and so I had to revive him and throw him out when Gigantamax came to an end. He died as soon as he came out of it though since I hit him with a Rock Tomb for the on hit KO. It was mostly because I was caught unaware but I'd say that he's definitely the hardest champion since Cynthia. That being said, if I wasn't so cocky, I'd have probably not messed up and made that battle harder then it had to be.


I really enjoyed the game overall and I will likely play through Shield quite soon to see the differences. I think I've only really got three big issues with the game and those are:

Online features - The system they have in place is super clunky and the lack of GTS is downright CRIMINAL.
Level cap for capturing pokemon - This was aggravating and unneeded. Having high level pokemon in the Wild Area was pointless if we couldn't even try to capture them until all the gyms were beaten.
Weather in the Wild Area - They really needed to come up with a way to control the weather in the Wild Area, it's frustrating because there's a lot of pokemon that you are completely locked out on until luck favours you.

I do really hope the Wild Area becomes a feature in games going forward though, it's got a few issues but it's by far my favourite part of the game. Raids are addictive as hell and it's so easy to waste time in there.

My other favourite thing about this game is how they took the grinding out of it, EV training is downright instant (as long as you have the money, which considering the Wild Area, is not hard), the EXP candies are a lifesaver for levelling new pokemon and being able to change natures is fantastic.

I really enjoyed this game, I'm not sure if it's better than Sun/Moon but I'd place it ahead of X/Y.
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If you go to the doctor man in the hotel in Circhester you can get a catching charm to make catching wild pokemon easier. Ive been on a catching spree in the wild area

Id say these games are on par with Sun and Moon for sure, they both have good and bad qualities but were still great! XY were just awful and still my least favourite games in the series
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I've just been EV Training pokemon, doing battle tower and going on raids atm. It's so easy to do it now since you can just buy vitamins and do it in seconds. Also if you have G-Max Meowth, level it up really high, give it an amulet coin and go back to the tournament and let it rip, you got 100k plus per match if you manage to get three attacks off as Meowth in G-max form.

Once the weather is agreeable in the Wild Area, I'll catch the Sword exclusives and see if I can get a trade going for Goomy and Corsola.
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I've been trying to collect all the eeveelutions from the island place in the wild area. so far I have Leafeon, Jolteon, Sylveon, Vaporeon and Glaceon.

Just need Flareon, Umbreon and Espeon now!
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and they've all been female except Sylveon.. idk if its just really lucky or perhaps the odds are higher this gen?
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also I keep seeing people say how rare ditto is but hes literally everywhere hes so small in the grass I keep running into him by accident
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I've been trying to collect all the eeveelutions from the island place in the wild area. so far I have Leafeon, Jolteon, Sylveon, Vaporeon and Glaceon.

Just need Flareon, Umbreon and Espeon now!
Did you play Let's Go, Eevee? 'Cus if so you can get a Gigantamax Eevee from the Wild Area which is useless for combat but it has perfect stat growths so it's pretty great for breeding. I'm using it to breed all the Eeveelutions.
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also I keep seeing people say how rare ditto is but hes literally everywhere hes so small in the grass I keep running into him by accident
I think it's the raid Ditto that people are after which is quite rare, I believe.
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Finally got around to buying this!

I just got to the (first?) Wilds. Enjoying it so far, but it has a similar annoying thing to other recent Pokemon games - too much bloody talking, having to button-mash between every location...
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Only getting the first shinies because of these Magikarp raids >>>
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Well the DLC looks great but not good enough for me to buy it
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Pretty sure they said they wouldn't patch Pokémon in but we're getting at least 200 old pokes which is neat
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I’m buying it, the Legendary birds look divine, plus, the actual post game is horrendous
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I like the new Zapdos, the other 2 idk
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