10 things I wish I knew before playing Scarlet and Violet 

me with 100 hours in violet: Oh yeah, this videos for me

Titan Klawf should always be your first target in this game. Just the ability to sprint alone is massive. One of the biggest time savers in the game.

Just getting this out there here too: Regarding the Auto-Battles, if your Pokemon refuses to go after a specific wild Pokemon, it's most likely a shiny. So no, you won't lose those because of the system.

While on the map, you can click on the control stick to set the map to always be set to the north.

Another thing the game doesn't tell you: The upgrades to Koraidon / Miraidon are actually based on which titan you defeated, rather than how many titans you defeated.

Fun fact: Herba Mystica can be shortened to HM. Boom, mind blown.

Agree that level scaling need to happen, especially with the gym leaders. The bug gym was my 7th gym and had a team of level 40 against her level 10 pokemon.

100% respect to him giving no spoilers and putting censorship

I was just playing through and thought that I should mention something: You should do the academy classes and talk to the teachers as you collect your gym badges! The classes actually tell you useful information about the game like where to change your pokemons Teratype and if you talk to the teachers enough they will give you 50 Terashards of the type that they like! Hassel gives you 50 Dragon Terashards. It substantially cuts down on grinding for those

I think it's fun to have one team where you beat all the titans. Then start again with a new team of lower level pokemon and go through gym and star challenges. That way you can challenge yourself, try new pokemon, and fully explore in a fun way

Wolfe sleeping on how fast Fuecoco’s signature move can snowball out of control

Honestly, with no level scaling, I think you can run 3 different teams for the 3 story lines and have fun with it

I think if you want to avoid the problem of facing important battles too early or late, the best thing is to look at the description of the battle on the map. It indicates whether the fight is a first stop for trainers or the strongest opponent

11th tip, but having more than one team is really helpful for keeping the game fun. If you come across a stronger gym, you can use your strongest team. If you find a weaker gym, switch to a weaker team. This is really easy to do because this game just has so many pokemon to make multiple viable teams, and using different pokemon added fun to my game

You can definitely lower the stats of the starmobiles. The last fighting type team star battle was giving me trouble so I used feather dance on the starmobile 3 times to lower its attack until it was only tickling me. (Feather Dance harshly lowers opponents attack).

6:08 good thing I checked this, you actually can lower its stats bc they have a move in the back to boost it back up, just can’t do stuff like toxic, Leech seed, and some others. Yesterday, I helped my friend through the Team Star fighting boss with use of feather dance and despite them being underleveled, this one change helped him get the W. Prior to learning this, he get deleted once Revavroom came out.

ALSO You all should know that on any surface your Ride Pokémon slides on, instead jump on it backwards. For some reason you’ll be able to climb walls you really shouldn’t

I don't comment very often on RU-vid videos so I'll keep it brief: Wolfe, the way you present content has improved exponentially and am happy to see that your channel is succeeding due to it. I have a language processing disorder which made it difficult for me to keep up with you and what you were saying during your livestreams and RU-vid videos, but over this year I've been able to access and understand you without difficulty. I can't wait for more competitive Scarlet and Violet content from you!

A tip for anyone who is battling the fighting team star boss when she starts with her toxicroak use sword dance since her first Pokémon is coded to use sucker punch until it hits and if you set up for 5 turns with any set up move for 5 turns and then start attacking you will 100% sweep her team

As a natural explorer I love going wherever I want. Also with wild evolved and final form pokemon, these are the first games I have actively tried completing the dex for since gen 2(excluding PLA). This has of course made me fairly powerful early but the levels have caught up with me.

Another thing to mention is that the final pokemon for every team star boss has infinite PP on its moves. I was struggling with one and my only win condition at that point was PP stalling the steel move. It never ran out.

Huge tip for people: Have multiple teams! If you feel overleved for one area because you missed it early on, you can switch out your main party into a lower-leveled team. Personally, I also had a 3rd team for just general exploration so neither of my other 2 teams ended up overleveled, and just never used team #3 in boss battles

For anyone that wants it. Order of story: Bug - Lv. 15 Rock - Lv. 16 Grass - Lv. 18 Flying - Lv. 19 Dark - Lv. 21 Electric - Lv. 23 Fire - Lv. 27 Steel - Lv. 28 Water - Lv. 30 Poison - Lv. 32 Normal - Lv. 36 Ghost - Lv. 42 Ground - Lv. 44 Psychic - Lv. 45 Ice - Lv. 48 Fairy - Lv. 51 Dragon - Lv. 55 Fighting - Lv. 56

Herba Mystica HM Not only are you getting this plant to save your friend's dying dog, but you beat big Pokémon to learn HMs. GameFreak you MADLADS.

Thank you so much for these Wolfey. I just had time to start playing and I am at the beginning. This wideo is super helpful :)

Wolfey your reviews are great keep creating more content

Beating great tusk when I was level 30 only to find out that bad boy was like level 45 was pretty insane 🤣 I also remember finding my 8th yellow black stake and getting the “Pokémon roar” pop up like what the heck was that. And then several hours later finding a big yellow circle on a wall and the surprise that gave

The Team Star Boss Pokémon have a move where it harshly drops their Speed afterwards. So they are very fast and will usually be quicker than you but you can find yourself in a situation where you're suddenly faster after they use that move 😊 Anyway, great tips and fun video 😊

You're so right wolfey, so many things to explore! I love when I go off the main road and I find the most bland area ever, and I'm rewarded with random items and maybe a new TM. So much effort put into details! 10/10 Pokemon game.

Regarding that second point, I was exploring in depth until I realized that the competitive scene already started and after playing for 4 whole days I hadn’t even gotten my 2nd badge so I said screw it, I’ll just plow through the main story and go back for the loot

This is my first time watching any of your content, and it is very engaging. The images you choose to use, the edits you have made, and the way you seamlessly put it all together is very enjoyable to watch. Thank you for what you do! Keep it up!

RU-vid suggested this video to me and I ended up finding it quite useful and entertaining. You've earned yourself a subscriber here! Now, I haven't "finished" Scarlet, as I haven't had that much time to play the game. I have been taking in all three routes at the same time, going around the map and doing whatever's close-by. I managed to beat Team Star bosses by combining my Tallonflame's insane speed with super effective moves by another 2 or 3 pokemon, while having the rest of the party there just to revive the super effective mons. It was very challenging, especially because I ended up being 20 levels below one of the bosses, but I still manage to do it. I stopped progressing through the story as soon as I've earned all the badges (from all 3 routes), as I realized I was nowhere near as strong as I should be, going forward. I've been exploring, levelling up, grinding, improving my team, and it's been an amazing experience, just like you describe in this here video! I guess they've integrated enough aspects from Legends Arceus to make this gen amazing, despite the bugs and frame rate issues. Anyway, just sharing my experience so far. Great video and I'll stick around, waiting for more content! ;)

Kinda late on this but certain marks can also be earned by a Pokemon. For example: my starter gained the Partner Mark after a long time of having it on my team and basically being the only pokemon I didn't remove from my team. That being said marks are so cool! Amazing video!

Here's what I want from Scarlet and Violet 1 Rematching Gym Leaders Daily 2 Shiny Sounds 3 Catching The Box Legendaries Before Sada and Turo 4 More Uniform Choices 5 Permanent TMs

Hopefully Generation 10 fixes the level scaling if they're going to keep the non linear battles. But I'm not holding my breath.

Tip 11: This goes for any Pokemon game, but it's especially the case here since grinding levels is so much easier - switch out your pokemon as gym battles/star bases need. Don't try to power through with the team you've had since the beginning. So many people I've seen struggle with certain gym battles (cough* Larry *cough) because they don't have something good against that team. If you take a second to train up a new pokemon that would be good against the next type battle you're looking at, it will pay off very well.

Things I wish I knew in Pokémon before Scarlet/Violet: -I should’ve listened to Pokémon Challenges when he said X items are op. Being able to beat up Grusha at lvl35 was funny as hell

"Today I am just gonna beg." "Please, please, please..." Had me bursting out laughing Great twist

Thank you so much for this video. Although I ordered this game a long time ago (and it still haven’t been shipped due to regional reasons) I haven’t spoiled myself much about the single player experience (only competitive side, since it is my first gen when I want to learn competitive) and this video assured me that I made a great decision about buying this game without major spoilers. Thank you, Wolfe! Your few last videos really help a lot!!

I just wish they had recommended levels on the map for the Gym Leaders, Titan Pokemon, and Team Star bases. This would allow you to quickly figure out your own route to get what you want. Although, that might take away from the illusion of freedom thing they've got going on. I guess we'll just have to wait for Bulbapedia to make a page on SV Boss levels.

I knew about fast travel from the beginning but spent so much time not using them bc I thought it was so fun to just go there myself. Now that’s a good game!

The auto heal feature is also super nice. Basic potions are the most cost effective healing but do it in small doses, you can however afford a larger more effective healing pool for kinda cheap between battles. I dumped money on around 200 and could just autoheal whenever out of combat. Was a lovely quality of life improvement. Might even be a better option if fresh water etc. count for autoheal but I didn't look into it further since the potions did the job

So incredibly grateful, thank you!! I'm still very early in the game, and love the information about the titans. Thanks again!

I absolutely LOVE the way this game handles TMs. Idk if anyone’s talked about it but remembering moves -especially if you caught a high level Pokémon- is great too, most of them already have a backlog of moves that you might wanna consider switching in if you need certain move types for a battle, bc you can literally switch them back! Tbh I probably do this more often than crafting the TMs themselves.

Fun fact about marks: SV added a handful of new marks that can appear on pre-existing Pokemon, unlike how in SwSh all marks were determined when the Pokemon was created.

There are a couple other tips you could compile if you plan on making a second video. For example, completing the school courses and then completing the mini stories with the teachers give some decent rewards. Also, if you open your Pokedex and start browsing, you can press x to get small rewards for every 10 Pokemon caught. There's a bunch of small things like that I'm sure a bunch of people are missing.

5:55 lol I remember trying to use toxic against the trucks every time and being dissapointed when it never worked.

Thank you WolfeyVGC more content PLEAAASE!

there were many times I was 10-20 lvls below whatever I was fighting, it was fun but challenging especially since I made a terrible team (I always choose 'my through the game team' based of visual design alone and just rework it so something good later)

I'm glad you're giving mostly positive takes on Scarlet/Violet despite the flaws. It's nice to see someone on youtube give honest takes rather than rage for clicks.

You literally describe this game perfectly. Great video again man

Mans is already making a bunch of videos on the new game. Keep up with the amazing content.

I was extremely confused by star battles. One minute my status moves would work and the next they wouldn’t. I was using the salt guys main move in case you were wondering. Gotta stop those spoilers

Maybe by Gen 15 we'll get level scaling. Would be nice to have Gym teams scale slightly to your level.

banger video, but also the LoL pings out of nowhere straight up made me panic a little bit lmao

I loved getting to a boss or gym and saving before it to see their levels. Normally that was followed by an "uh oh" and took some thinking to get out of it, and was super fun.

Wolfey, you should rate some of the new Pokémon. I wanna know what you think of Glimmora, especially as a setup mon. I don’t know much about competitive, but I think focus sash with stealth rock and then explode

They made getting a competitive team easier and more efficient than ever as well. I also love how quick breeding and hatching eggs are. And how you can teach a pokemon an egg move by having another pokemon in that same egg group teach it to them.

1 more tip is that size differences can’t be changed once you catch the Pokémon, however there is a ribbon you can get for having the biggest version of a Pokémon, and I’m guessing there might be one for small size too

This is the best kind of advice you'd give since I wish there would be more info that isn't a 30 min screenshare presentation.

I hate that you can’t go into random houses anymore 😂😂😂

For anyone coming down to the comments I have a little tidbit of information for you. There is a secret that the game does not openly tell you, and that secret is: Bellibolt. Bellibolt is such a powerful Pokemon under the right conditions, speaking from experience Bellibolt can beat the last titan fairly easily at around lvl 35, for refence that titan is around lvl 55. Bellibolts ability electromorphis doubles the power of electric type moves if it has been hit that same turn, that coupled with its high defense makes it quite easy for Bellibolt to one shot things, even if they are 5-15 lvls higher. So play the game better, play the game fatter, play the game with two fake eyes, use Bellibolt.

The things that I love about the game is how it takes the best parts of past games and sticks them into one, for me it really works and makes me the slightest bit nostalgic of sword and shield (even though i only played it like 1 year ago). Just the main problem for me is the graphics, I understand that this is an open world game but looking at legends arceus I really wish they spent a bit more time working on how the enviroment looks graphic wise. But really I love the game, and I love the spanish influence on it.

Biggest thing I can recommend is if you are doing a straight playthrough, do raids because you can get XP candies.

Great video! Though I have to say, climbing is a definite must have for traveling, as koraidon/miraidon can't seem to jump over even tiny ledges.

Just got the first badge, and was planning on going after Klawf next. Good to know about the travel capabilities thing, and I imagine the other tips will be handy, too.

This game is such a major step in the right direction. Give us manual difficulty options and level scaling and we have a masterpiece

i love that they did this with these games! giving us the ability to rome around and do whatever with little restrictions instead of everything being level and badge restricted and only being allowed to do so much within the game even with the needed badges, etc. these new pokémon games are as if Pokémon met Zelda Breathe of the Wild so much exploration and so much to do within the game.

Great job with your audio dude. Keep it up 👏🏽

I was 5-10 levels under for most of the game, and I honestly think of that as a good thing because it made battles truly fun.

Dude I just got Scarlet for Christmas and have avoided spoilers best I can do I'm so pleased that you didn't include spoilers excluding the trailers, which I've already seen tho so thank you :p

definitely agree with your takes here! I genuinely didn't think pokemon would ever divert from the formula enough to be this level of pure, genuine FUN. it's enough to tempt me to overlook the bugs and unfinished graphics. hope others feel the same

what i love most about this game is eventually exploring you will find a pokemon with an abnormally higher level than the average for the area and I love those unexpected challenges. I found early in the game a level 50 Jolteon. That was a great fight (my team was around level 20} and capturing it was so rewarding!

I did a 2nd replay of Scarlet and I was able to trade the Pokemon I used from my file to beat most of the 5 Titan Pokemon. Of course the pokemon I traded were high leveled so they would not listen but thankfully I defeated all titans and I unlocked all abilities for the ride Pokemon. It made going around the map so much easier.

Late. I remember when I first got the game. I did *not* plan on getting it, but watching my favorite streamers play it I was like ‘aight imma get it, and I’m gonna complete the Pokédex for the first time ever’. I was on a path and looked at the time and it was like 3.. and by the time I finished catching all the Pokémon in that ONE are it was like 8. I was like what the hell- time fleeeeeww by

thanks for making these mostly spoiler free! :)

As far as picking up every item, I'd reccomend finding a pokemon that can keep up with your mount (pre-sprinting) and sending them into Lets Go Mode, then just running around, avoiding battles as you go. Its easier than spamming the A button and having to heel-turn every time you barely miss an item, and quite a few evolved pokemom are fast enough to follow. (As an easy example, Cyclizar keeps up with your mount and is available in both games by lvl 20. Mine was a game-changer for berry grinding)

This was such a great video I’m re watching today because I just bought scarlet and I’m gonna start playing through it. Thanks 🙏🏽 again

One thing I love about the game is that they further streamlined the ease to get a competitive team. I've never gotten into competitive Pokémon due the work needed for it (even though it has been made a LOT easier in recent entries) but this time I actually feel like doing it. You can get good IV pokëmons from raids and even if you don't you can actually buy the bottle caps now AND they're only 20k each. AND the nature mints are also buyable as are the good battle items as well. And on top of EV training ain't bad either since the Power items cost only 10k each as well. No matter if you go catch a random pokemon you want or decide to breed for one, or if you find a lucky shiny you CAN make it for competitive use now. EDIT: Oh yeah, and you can also buy (or get from raids) Ability Capsules as well. You CAN also get Ability Patches from end-game raids to get hidden abilities that way as well, but the drop rate for those seems to be rather low, only found two so far and one of 'em I used for my raid mon. ...The ONLY THING I ain't fan of is that there's no alternate way (at least yet) to learn any egg moves. A thing my poor shiny Kingambit fell victim to since it can't learn Sucker Punch now... Or how if you evolve Shroomish too early, there's no access to Spore for it. If they can fix those things in DLC this is more or less the best as it can get for me.

Hey Wolfey, would love an in depth analysis of all the new moves added and their impact on competitve play

Very fun, thanks. I'm a bit into it and just having so much fun wandering around. This is what I dreamed I was playing with Yellow all those years ago.

Fighting Mella and Eri while underlevel has been one of the best experiences i've had playing a pokemon game, things I only experienced in romhacks and fangames, where I am 100% not ready for what's about to attack me and I need to formulate a strategy on the and somehow pull it of. Againts Mella ended up winning with my last pokemon, about 2-3 hp help, no revives and no potions that would heal me more than the god damn truck of hell would do the next attack. It was very down to the wire and I will probably remember that for a while.

The star mobiles were fantastically designed...kinda wish there was a way to give your own Revavroom their signature moves though And the move reminder function is the single greatest thing they ever added...having to struggle to find heart scales or meticulously deciding which move you wanna keep because you may not get it back...was such a pain...plus being able to relearn tm moves you taught to it is also quite the hefty bonus

for the revavroom that couldnt have its stats lowered: i used mud-slap wiglett to cheese it. it did have speed boost so it outsped wiglet after two turns, but it worked a treat because i was able to safely swap in other pokemon. i dont know about all of its other stats, but i could reduce its accuracy.

I just got the notification that my Scarlet and Violet order has finally arrived at my house. I'm looking forward to my new Pokemon Journey and I will take the tips in this video to heart while playing.

MAN this is so true I have about 19 hours on the game but only have 5 gym badges I just keep going about and exploring instead of doing the story sure I beat all the titans but it was slowly I also just really liked pressing A on anything like at the school you can actually go to classes and go around and read the books it's cool as hell and really takes your mind off the story to just enjoy the game in all of it's content

08:20 Ursaring sitting down in the background was very cute!

Something I’ve seen no one mention anywhere is that if you’re in battle and you click the right stick it reverse the camera to the traditional Pokémon battle ciew.

Ive been loving the more general Pokemon content, but I can't wait till you jump head first into vgc

Hey thanks for this video it really helped me determine if I was going to buy it.

Ok so the begging did indeed make me subscribe because it was funny. This is the first video I've watched from this channel. I do recommend watching this before opening the game because this game doesn't tell you right off the bat that your unpacking a lot. It's like unpacking breath of the wild for the first time.

Something that wasn’t mentioned but I think is important is going back to the academy for classes. You get some items for completing midterms/finals, unlock conversations with teachers that can also get you some useful items, learn about mechanics in the games you may have not known (like how I didn’t know anything about how picnics worked til I went through Home Ec) and (my personal favorite) learn about the lore of the legendaries and region as a whole

You got me with the begging. Good job.

Torch Song with a Quick Claw on Skeledirge completely clean swept thru the last 3 gyms and the elite 4 for me.

ngl didnt bother to check if i was subscribed or not until the begging, so well played

Right after I did the first Titan pokemon, I immediately prioritized the other ones. Got the last one around lvl 30, just to be able to travel faster.

Bosses tend to be 1-2 levels higher than nearby trainers and wild Pokémon. It's a good way to tell if your Pokémon are strong enough for upcoming boss fights.

Another intriguing video thanks wolfy

Excellent Wolfe I want the shiny sounds back 😢

One thing I like is the Auto Healing option, because if you wanna save time from manually healing your pokemon by selecting the right potion, auto healing not only does it with a single press of a button, but it also uses the minor potions first, not the best option automatically. You can basically buy tons of super potions and auto heal with those, while saving the full restores for later.