I love the set up of the gyms. The battles have never been more epic

Centiskorch is the boy!

Rapidash is a bit of a beast as well :love:

Also I love the new heavy duty boots item. Completely negates stealth rocks which Centiskorch would normally lose 50% health on straight away

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.

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 :love:

Still not encountered a mist weather setting in the Wild Area once yet though, I just want a Mimikyu :(

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... :laugh:

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.

So I just finished the game..



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 :skull:

I love pokemon camp tbh, its cute seeing your team all together interacting.

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.

I completed the story.



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.

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 :joker:

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

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.

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!

and they've all been female except Sylveon.. idk if its just really lucky or perhaps the odds are higher this gen?

also I keep seeing people say how rare ditto is but hes literally everywhere :skull: hes so small in the grass I keep running into him by accident

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.

I think it's the raid Ditto that people are after which is quite rare, I believe.

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...

Only getting the first shinies because of these Magikarp raids >>>

Well the DLC looks great but not good enough for me to buy it

Pretty sure they said they wouldn't patch Pokémon in but we're getting at least 200 old pokes which is neat

I’m buying it, the Legendary birds look divine, plus, the actual post game is horrendous

I'm sick of Pam or whatever his name is, and the bitch with the side ponytail. Bring back the days of seeing Gary every so often, who just says you smell and leaves you to it.

I like the new Zapdos, the other 2 idk