Gen 9 removed the ability to see your game time when you go to save your game, in S/V if you want to see your game time you have go into the trainer profile menu
In X and Y, there’s a scientist lady who can show up in the berry fields when you get a berry mutation. As you go to leave after a mutation, she shows up, goes into the old man and his granddaughter’s house, and then just stands there for the rest of the game. You can report your mutations to her, and she’ll respond to it.
a popular theory is that pokerus was removed due to the pandemic and the reason it's still partially coded is that it was removed pretty late into development
It is also theorized that the Loto-ID removal is because it is related to gambling, which is hypocritical because the Item Printer relies on luck in getting the Master Balls. The removal makes trading Pokémon almost meaningless.
Yeah, especially since the first thing most players did when getting a Pokémon with Pokérus was try to spread it to as many other Pokémon as possible. Not something you want to encourage.
@@rjd-kh8et It is ignoring the fact that even though the regions are based on real life Japanese regions and countries outside of Japan, Pokémon is a video game series where the medium is set in fiction. Having the in-game warnings would have helped like one character letting you know that Normal-type moves will not hit Ghost-type Pokémon and Ghost-type moves will not hit Normal-type Pokémon since they will be like they are not there and wasting the PPs.
I wouldn't be surprised, considering that to this day, I've never seen Pokérus in SV. Also, gotta love how the world gets salty and offended if you so much as even mention COVID. A global pandemic happens and everyone wants to pretend it never existed...rather than, oh I dunno, LEARN from it? EDIT: Now that I think about it, if it's still in the game but can't be obtained, what if you transferred a Pokérus Pokémon from SwSh to SV? Has nobody thought of doing that yet?
The inverse battle one reminded me of a move idea I had that GF is likely never gonna introduce. "Inverted Room", has the same priority as the other room moves and sets up an inverse battle for 5 turns. I'm sure the competitive community would absolutely love it lol
@@GhostGuy99 they literally just buffed ice types to the point we're there usable now and just added a gimmick that has led to a very interesting competitive meta de stabilizing some past staples. Literacy wtf are you talking about.
In gen 2, in addition to the regular stat badge boosts that existed in the first 3 gens, each gym badge will give a boost of 12.5% to your attacks that are of the type of the gym where you got the badge. Even though Blue doesn't specialize in any type, his badge still boosts ground type moves as if it was still Giovanni. This means that if you have beaten every gym leader from both Kanto and Johto, every single one of your offensive moves will have its power boosted... except for the Dark-type ones, since it's the only type that doesn't have a gym. This feature is never referenced in the game in any way, and to my knowledge was never officially acknowledged in any capacity. It was most likely discovered by datamining the game.
@@M_Alexander yeah, but it means it's a lot more of a pain to train them up right when you get them. Trying to train a static Electrike in Emerald before the rival fight is so awful, the last time I caught a static one I ended up catching another one with Lightning Rod.
Okay I never knew the headbutt mechanic had anything to do with TID. I just assumed some playthroughs I got very lucky getting what I wanted and other times it took hours
Thanks for the Flash Fire Sizzlipede encounter tip. I hadn't heard that before and am coincidentally on a hunt for Sizzlipede in my current replay of Pokémon Shield
Gotta love how people are acting like the pandemic never happened. Watch as we get hit by another pandemic in like twenty years because we as a species don't learn from history.
As you said, with how easy it is to prep a Pokémon for competitive now a days, it wouldn’t shock me if they removed Pokerus purely because it became redundant. Starting with SwSh they removed the limit on vitamins, and with there being easy ways to grind money in SwSh & SV, the only purpose Pokerus would serve is bragging rights if you got it naturally. Not to mention the Macho Brace already did the same thing anyways. All that being said, with it still being in the code and all, it would’ve been cool if Pokémon transfered into SV with it got a special mark
I remember when I played HeartGold I was grinding around Mt Silver, and I did a routine trip to the Pokemon center. I was going through the motions mashing A then I saw sometjing about pokerus. I was so confused and had no idea what to do with it. The crazy thing for me is, I didn't know it was 5x more rare than a shiny. So I got pokerus years before I encountered my first shiny that wasn't Gyrados.
I think that while it's rarer from a number perspective, it's more common from a player pov. The amount of wild Pokémon you face that can be shiny is often quite low in an average play through, while the amount of Pokémon that could give you pokerus is higher.
it is, and there is also something called the Cute Charm Glitch, where in HGSS/DPP; if your SID and TID numbers are correct in relation to themselves and the RNG algorithm, then you will get a nearly 50% shiny encounter rate when using cute charm as your party lead.
In Gen II only, badges boost their respective types by 1/8, with the Earth Badge boosting Ground even though it's no longer given by a Ground-type specialist. In Gens I and II, status moves that reduce stats have an additional 25% chance to fail when used by NPCs, as do moves that inflict status in Gen II.
It wasn't very realistic, though. Like sure, it makes sense that Hoothoot would be asleep during the day, but if you headbutt the tree it's in and knock it to the ground, I'd imagine the thing is going to wake up. If someone were to flip my mattress while I'm in bed and send me tumbling to the ground, I'm not going to just sleep through it.
I never had issues grinding in Gen 3. I always used the Interviewer & Cameraman double battle (Magnemite/Magneton & Whismur/Loudred/Exploud) as my personal grinding trainers especially since they are easy to get to on Route 111, 118 & 120.
How about Vital Spirit increasing chance of encountering a Pokémon at there highest level for that area. Apparently Hustle and Pressure do this too. And Synchronize increases odds of encountering Pokémon with the same nature as the ability holder
Synchro is the best. Make sure the Pokémon that have that have any neutral Nature (Shy, Docile, Hard Working, Quirky, and Serious) to be safe. At least that way you can manipulate the stats in ways, while the preferred flavors and Pokémon breeds will just have the same default Natures.
@LuigiTheMetal64 or at least manipulate targeted encounters that can manipulate for ideal natures ie using a Modest Synchronize mon in a monolocke for a type that excels in Special Atks such as Psychic
@@mazharsiddiqi7288 Right, but it would make the Adamant Synchro Pokémon almost useless since that would depend on the Pokémon as Adamant would work for Neitio/Xatu when planning to give it Swallow Return/Aerial Ace.
Maybe I've just been super unlucky but It seems to me that Synchronize in SV doesn't have the feature where the Pokémon you encounter has a 50% chance of being the same Nature anymore. I've caught multiple Ralts with Synchronize before and had them at the head of the party and yet I'd catch multiple Pokémon in a row with different natures.
I don't care what people say about it XY went HARD with its levels of detail and immersion. All of the little ordinary things you could do like petting your pokemon after a battle or sitting on a bench to look at the scenery made those games feel alive
Pokémon would emote and react to their environment in HG/SS and would give you berries and other little gifts. This was partially inspired by the Pikachu in Yellow, so it came back in a way with both the partner Pikachu and Eevee in the Let’s Go titles. I remember melting into a puddle when my Pikachu gift wrapped a cool rock she found to give to me. So cute!!
I like friendship based evolutions. I think it makes sense for some pokemon to evolve due to a strong bond with their trainers. It's a very immersive evolution method in that sense and I never had a problem with it. And I feel that the hate for friendship evolutions is just a dumb bandwagon. Side note: I really like restricted sparring in SwSh. The idea of training to show your mastery over a specific type is pretty interesting and cool to me and it's a great way to get BP.
Yeah, I really don't get the hate for friendship evolutions. Gaining friendship is so easy that you can reach the required amount by just playing the game naturally. Like, every time I have ever caught a Zubat, it would evolve into Crobat immediately after evolving into Golbat. I've never had an issue with it.
I never got the hate for friendship evolutions. You just have to run around for like a half hour and you have a Pokemon you shouldn't get access to til probably far later. I'm talking Crobat at level 23, Lucario before the first gym in BW2. A Lopunny before your second battle with Hau in USUM if you're weird and also want to spend a little more time running since Buneary always starts at 0 unlike every other Pokemon who gets an immediate boost right after being caught. It's boring but I'll take it personally.
Yeah, I always ended up with Crobat almost by accident. It was a very useful pokemon back in those early gens. Other friendship pokemon were a little more challenging though as they were either designed to take longer/more care or were not great utility mons right out of the gate.
@ 7:21 This never stopped the hackers and cheaters from ignoring the super easy competitive team building in favor of creating their own hacked generated Pokémon. It’s a real shame that cheaters participate in official VGC events. It ruins the chances for legit players. And if you think I’m wrong, remember the recent Worlds event where a large number of cheaters got caught and disqualified.
Oh, ha, that’s basically the same as me! I found Pokérus in Emerald and SoulSilver, but the only game I’ve ever caught a shiny in is Ultra Sun (not counting the Red Gyarados).
Same here. Whenever I play, I just can't stop myself from caring about them. I don't care about getting perfect IVs, thankfully, but I have to get IVs that are at least decent on all my team members. If I catch a Ralts, and it has a special attack IV of 8, that's a reroll. It really sucks.
I liked the idea of natural objects, but I wish they were easier to break. The only one of the applicable moves I regularly use is Rock Slide, so the trees and grass were always just...inaccessible. They should have drastically increased the pool of applicable moves to make it easier.
I really wish they had done more with Inverse battles, they were a lot of fun. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll bring them back in ZA. You said that ALL of the bonus effects of Abilities were removed in Gen 9, but Magma Armor/Flame Body/Steam Engine cutting down the number of steps for hatching eggs still works. I actually had a Pokémon get Pokérus back in Sapphire. I can't remember the species anymore, but thanks to that I was able to carry it forward to all future games.
Funny the timing of this video, I just got back into Violet and was doing EV training today when I wondered if my Azumarill had pokerus (obv it did not lol)
Shuckle is the only Gen 2 pokemon with an ability. If you give it a berry (10 hp) it has a 1/10 chance after a battle to turn it into a berry juice (20 hp)
3:33 when i was growing up, i saw my older sister cut down grass, but i didnt see how she did it, i was astounded and curious, so i asked her "HOW DID YOU DO THAT!??!!?" and she just told me you had to use a move called "Slice". I searched all over hoenn for the Slice TM and never found it... years later i learned the truth...
Pokerus likely got taken out due to the you know what. But it was pretty late into development so there’s still lingering data on transferred Pokemon that caught it
How about a post-game battle facility where you can battle npcs with competitive teams to earn a currency to purchase TMs, hold items, and other assorted goods useful for the competitive scene? Oh wait! That wasn't an obscure feature! It was a main feature for 7 generations!
I never encountered any shinies prior to the 3DS games, but, weirdly, I did end up getting Pokérus while I was EV training in both Emerald and SoulSilver.
Dunno if anyone mentioned this, but there's still hidden mechanics tied to abillities, just the hatching ones. Yeah, kinda lame that those were the only to stay. Then again, there is no tall grass encounters to be manipulated.
i only just learned the "met location" friendship mechanics even existed in the last year or so, and i figured it was a new gen thing. now youre telling me it's been around since gen 2??? whenever i think i know everything about these games, jpr comes through and blows my mind
That depends on how doomed to fail Z-A is, because part of me is worried that TPC won't give a crap if the games fail. Kalos needs to stop being dunked on as much as it does; as someone who joined the fandom somewhere between Gens 5 and 6, it pains me to see how much TPC seems to hate Gen 6.
@@GhostGuy99tpc hating Kalos, lowkey thought it was sword and shield, the anime barley focused on it, the manga meh But Kalos had a good anime and manga, but I see what ya mean
I had no idea that Hyper Cutter increased the radius of grass cutting, and to be fair I already knew about the cutting tall grass. The lightningrod thing is neat, didn't know about this. Pokerus was removed due to Volcaronavirus. I just know it! I think Inverse Battles should have been added to the PVP battle system.
the 3 held items in XY exclusive to natural objects are the wiki berry (purple trees on route 5) requires blizzard the float stone (rock in connecting cave) requires rockslide the snowball (piles of snow on route 17) also requires rockslide luckily both are tms, you can buy blizzard at the pokemart in anistar for $70,000 and rockslide you can find above the waterfall in couriway(requires surf, waterfall) good pokemon for it would be poliwrath - you can catch poliwhirl on a bunch of different routes with the good and super rods(id recommend R21, itll be either lv40 or 50- bulky enough to survive R17 encounters), give it a water stone, teach your new poliwrath surf and waterfall to get rockslide, then teach it rockslide and blizzard now you have 3 pretty much useless items
"it lead to friendship evolution Wich kinda sucks" has to be one of the dumbest takes I've heard from this fandom, it's literally the most core theme friendly method and makes sense in a world we're friendship can power up attacks.
I think that it could be done a lot better, though. Friendship IRL should have a meter and stat screen next to it like a dating sim, it would make everything a whole lot easier.
And yet my Pokémon have caught pokerus naturally at least 5x more regularly than I’ve found a full odds shiny before gen 9, and about 4 generations earlier (1st time with pokerus was sapphire while first full odds shiny was sun)
i got pokerus just once. it was my starter pokemon of black and white, and since i had no idea what it was, i wondered if it didn’t contract it from the magikarp i bought. i also thought my pokemon was going to die, as i was 9 years old and very, very stupid. aaah, nostalgia…
I miss all the alternate battle styles. Triple battles, rotation battles, horde battles, inverse battles. Well, most of them, at least. Sky battles and SOS battles weren't great.
I dont see the hate for friendship evolutions. They usually happen normally if its a Pokemon you really like using, and it results in some really good mons (Crobat, Espeon and Umbreon, etc).
Having an Inverse Circuit for the gyms and Pokémon League could have really added more engagement as you would need to use team set ups normally counter-intuitive.
I always wondered why Pokemon potrayed a virus as something helpful. Also, you think that Pokerus was taken out because of....Volcorona if you catch my drift (I'm joking of course but it would be funny if that was the reason).
The absolute luckiest playthrouth I've ever had was Ultra Moon. Over the span of a regular playthrouth + RR. I got a shiny female salandit, pokérus, and a shiny pyroar.
really wish they made egg moves and hidden abilities easier to get in order to improve accessibility to pokemon without gening for VGG that they're so against instead of pokerus which I think has less of an impact than if getting egg moves and hidden abilities were easier bc imo that's the hardest bit but i don't play vgc so I hope the change did help people who do play it
They did that in S/V. You can get egg moves by deleting moves from your Pokemon to give them empty slots, let them hold a Mirror Herb, then starting a picnic with a it and a Pokemon that knows the move you want to copy. You can also get hidden abilities by using Ability Patches (which were also in Sw/Sh).
@@Infindox I kind of like Buneary and Lopunny's gimmick. Buneary is the only pokemon that naturally learns frustration, while Lopunny is the only one that naturally learns return
