@@a_person5668their sole purpose is to breed Tentacool to learn Surf and they grow up into Tentacruel specifically so anyone with Videogame Character Syndrome can escape the city if they remove their only Surfing Pokemon for some reason
I mean, they created a region where; - the bird is actually kind of cool - HMs still mandatory - sick electric lynx on route 1 - early game strong grass/poison type - no fire types except chimchar or ponyta on cycling road
@@lilpetz500 that is why everyone in Sinnoh has those mons: Starters(all of them. bt most used is Chimchar because of the Coolness of imfernape.) Staraptor: cool early route pokemon that could brave bird itself into OU tier. Luxray: cool Electric mon on early game Roserade: cool grass mon Crobat: a staple since gen2: a fast and furious poison/flying mon. Buisel/Floatzel: because ash vs Crasher wake was cool. Garchomp: Pseudo Legend you can find early in Pt, because of the rock that blocks the cave etrance in D/P doesnt exist. and Biberal: only there because you taught 4 of the 5 HM's nessesery to walk through Victory Road.(Strength, Surf/Waterfall, Rock Smash, Rock Climb
The thing with Sinnoh is that it presents you alot of very good long term options very early into a playthrough. So by the second gym a lot of people are going to have half or more the pokemon theyll need for a playthrough.
@@SimonDman Oh that definitely contributed to teams being similar, especially if you didn't pick chimchar and wanted a fire type mon. But at the same time, with shinx, starly and budew (if you didn't pick turtwig) all being in the first couple routes, that's 4 eventually powerful 3 stage mons on your team from before even getting to Roark. Add on a that bidoof can learn almost every HM and thats 5 slots quickly filled for a playthrough team. Add on that lucario was/is extremely popular and you gettting it as an egg from a cool trainer you just saw use a lucario to great effect.
Ill add that gen4 early mon were all very cool looking and diversified which justified those same looking team. Sphinx Starly and Budew are just too iconic because of their design and avability. The only mon that change in gen4 is the remaning two, which will usually be a floatzel for surf, a lucario cause its cooll or a roserade after you see gym2. Oh and dont forget the jacket legendary
@@TheMightySceptile i mean... here is a list of most used pokemon in DPPt, and where to find early Starters:... well, they are starters. Staraptor: Route1 Bird Bibarel: route1 Rodent Luxray: Route 2 pokemon Gyarados: Old Rod Fishing, Old Rod is around Jubilife City. Roserade: North of Jubilife City, at the first grass pile. __________________ Buizel: after Floroma Town Driblin: at Walley Windworks at friday after Team Galactic Event. For Pt: Garchomp, in a cave under bicycle road. for Diamond and Pearl, it requires Strength Tm.
You can also have an underleveled Primeape use Rage against Lorelei in Red and Blue, locking you into an unwinnable and unloseable battle as Dewgong infinitely uses Rest to heal the tiny amount of damage you do with Rage
Rest only has 5 pp, even in gen 1 and pretty sure they never gave NPC trainers infinite pp moves. So at best its five turns of wasted Rests and you'll likely still chip Dewgong down
@@GD-ep5fl Well that would make the fight unwinnable to a degree, but not unlosable. Her Dewgong had Ice Beam and Take Down, meaning while you wont be able to do any lasting damage she can kill you just fine. No idea how you wouldn't be able to lose with an underleveled Primape just because you use Rage, yeah it likely to use Rest a lot but it also has Growl, Ice Beam, and Take Down. It can still pick one of its attacking moves when it wakes up, one of which can freeze you
@@caiusdrakegaming8087 Gen1: buggy mess that it is, has a few stuff that messes with your arguement. 1- your own mess. unlike gens after it, Rage in Gen 1 works like a weird Rollout Clone. it uses 1 PP for activation, and then hits the opponent again and again like how rollout uses 1 PP to roll onto its target for 5 turns. unlike Rollout, Rage only gains power when the user is damaged by an opposing move, and rage only ends when you switch Primeape out or the battle ends. 2- Strong Trainer AI makes strong trainer use 'SUPER EFFECTIVE' move regardless of the move being a damaging move or not. Primape being Fighting type, makes Dewgong go rest, because its Psychic type regardless of it being a non damaging move. 3: gen 1 messyness: in Gen1, your AI opponents doesnt have to worry about PP, unlike you who needs to move around your own PP. Chain: Primeape uses Rage and damages Dewgong. Dewgong uses REST because its Psychic type move. Dewgong goes to sleep and gains 100% HP. Because of Rage, you cant change moves so you use Rage 2 turns in a row. Because of being underleveled, Rage at this level and this strength can never defeat Dewgong. Dewgong wakes up, sees that Rest is a Psychic move, and uses rest again, sleeping and gaining max hp. Here comes the buggy and incomplete mess that is Gen 1 games: Because in R/B/G/Y, AI opponents have no PP, this cycle goes automatically, BECAUSE how RAGE works in Gen 1, how opponents work in gen 1, and how Strong Trainer AI works in gen 1.
@@fastrockproductions9788 They totally are. Shaymin is my favorite mon and I missed the event because the way they worded it in the trailer made it sound like it was going to be included with the update.
I’m pretty sure I had a dream about a Newsteevie short last night, the premise was signature moves that got distributed to other Pokémon but the examples I remember were Reuniclus getting Smelling Salts (which iirc he said was Machamp’s signature move??) & specifically Gabite-not Gible or Garchomp-getting Psyshock (not Mewtwo’s signature move Psystrike, the commonly distributed move Psyshock) Man dreams are so weird I love them
Me: the map design sucks, the game has way too much exposition and gameplay halting for a plot not as deep as it seems to think it is and the trials are trash
Gen 7 is when Game Freak's bizarre decision-making became obvious. Gen 6 had its faults excused because GF was new to 3D, Gen 7 made it clear that those issues were here to stay.
Not a softlock, but I saved too many times on my Pkmn White cartidge, triggered a reset, lost all my data. Still, it was fun getting all the progress back.
@@stetsonherrick8090 I have never heard this, I don't know how this guy would be able to prove this was the cause. It is likely their file was corrupted a different way.
Surprisingly the only time anything like this ever happened to me in any game is when Sword crashed for the first time, and luckily I'm smart so I saved a bit before it
@@AdrieneTheDarkestHorse So you weren't softlocked at all then... but the way you say it makes it seem like you were. Why mention it at all? (Did I miss something or what?)
@@MaximeLafreniere433 I would have said "The only time this has happened" instead of "The only time anything like this has ever happened" if I had gotten softlocked Sorry I guess I should have clarified
I got a softlock in canalave in bdsp, after beating the gym leader and having to go to the library, I decided to go complete my dex instead. Once I did, I went to go get the shiny charm, and at the same time I also did the rotom event in eterna. Once I went back to the library to progress, I no longer got the dialogue with the professor and rivals and couldn't continue.
Not for me, I have literally never chosen Chimchar as my starter. And Bibarel is just my hm slave, not an actual battle member. Also stopped using Staraptor because I'm not an edgy 12 yo anymore
You can also softlocked in Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire. If you ride the boat towards Slateport then made the error of using teleport with going to the Slateport Pokecenter, you can also have your own island life
When I played Pokemon Sun, I lost the Guzma battle at Aether and the boat never came back. This meant I could not refight him and I was stuck on the third island as I could not fly there.
HGSS has a nice anti-softlock on Cianwood where a man will give you a Tentacool infinitely if you have *A* single Pokémon, meaning throughout the save in the boxes and the party, there's a single Pokémon. The purpose is mainly to get the player out of town with a surfer.
the only soft lock i ever had was in alpha sapphire where you can use an escape rope after seeing kyogre but before battling and i went to get more pokeballs to catch it and then saved. i had to completely reset my save after i traded my pokemon to a friend due to not being able to go back and battle kyogre
I personally love the alola games but the water, fire and grass totem pokemon were extraordinarily difficult and I'm not even gonna talk about necrozma. Also RIP to online trading, now I cant complete my pokedex.
A softlock until the update to fix it were the 2 dlcs for Scarlet Violet, once you went to the new location(s) and tried to go back to the mainland you had a chance to fly out but couldn't fly back to the teal mask location for some weird reason. It happened to me and luckily I saved before so I was back at the dlc location and just stayed there. Luckily it was fixed like 10 days after the glitch was found and it was fixed. Happened again with Indigo Disk but again luckily it was fixed within 48 hours of the dlc being dropped.
@@1993rnicholson I agree but when I used to play comp during XY days my comp team was basically my post game team vs picking a generic team build that secures wins but has no individuality or thought put into it
In my opinion Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are the most difficult games in the series. I don't ever remember struggling so much in every trainer battle in any other game.
I thought I soft locked my self in scarlet when I started the game and got stuck on an island through a wild battle. It was the first route you can go on before the first poekmon center. I got into a wild battle in one of the ponds and it telepoerted me to an island. I genuinely thought I had found a softlock. Then a friend told me I could fly. My response to that was "how can I fly I don't have any gym badges yet".
In sinnoh, I didn't use a lucario because I was too lazy to hatch the eggs, I didn't use bibarel because I thought it was weak, instead of staraptor I used a crobat, my starter was a torterra and for the last 2 I used a gardevoir and an abomasnow
In RBY, you can get softlocked in the small area tht gives you the TM for Seismic Toss north of Cerulean by just going in there without the ability to use Cut outside of battle, saving and loading the game.
When I had my Nintendo switch lite, I have a Pokémon Sword, and a DLC Crown of Tundra. So part of the plot from DLS: You Have to Catch it with Masterball, But I already use it on Regirock, so that time I got Softlock in Pokémon games
I don't know if anyone has already mentioned it, but a friend of mine actually encountered a kind of very funny soft lock in Gen 1: He had a Machamp at the Elite Four battle against Lorelei's I think Dewgong. And he used Rage against it which, in Gen 1, only used 1 AP and never ends until the Pokemon fades or the opponent fades. And the Dewgong always used Rest, since it's a Psychic type move, and in Gen 1, NPC Pokemon always use very effective moves. And NPC Pokemon don't have limited AP on their attacks. So the Machamp could never actually kill the Dewgong, since the Rage was like a three round kill or something, and the Dewgong spammed Rest and nothing else, so the game got stuck in an endless loop. After like 20 minutes he just turned his gameboy off. xD
Soft-locked myself from a shiny charm in pla because in Pokémon home I traded all the lake trio for a couple shinys not knowing I needed to get research level 10 for them. Yeah.
There is a funny soft lock you can accomplish in BdSp where if you are in the friend park or whatever its called and you have out torterra and you walk into a specific spot torterra's hit box is too big to go around so you end up stuck there
I remember I got softlocked when I was playing Pokémon moon. The reason being is that all my Pokémon fainted when I was at the Aether Foundation and after that I never ended up playing again.
The fact that staraptor is the only pokemon that i ever share with other people's sinnoh teams 😂 (Staraptor, pachirisu, buneary that never evolved, Empoleon, Happiny that also never evolved, and shieldon who i kept small bc i thought bastiodon was ugly lol. I had a palkia named peace that i taught cut because it had more pp 😅)
when i played through moon initially when it released, i got soft locked onto the first island because i lost a battle on the second island before ever having visited the pokemon center and didn't have the charizard ride pager yet
When I played scarlet for the first time I almost got softlocked in area zero because I fell off a ledge and got trapped in between a bunch of boulders and couldn't use Korideon to get out. Softlocks are no joke sometimes
I remember in my first playthrough of pokemon moon i got softlocked when i went to Aether paradise for the first time. Without finishing the story there i left so i could trade with someone to continue my pokedex. I couldnt get back in to aether paradise to continue the story. I ended up losing that cartridge and switched to my sun copy where i beat the game and even did a bunch of shiny hunting.
In Pokémon Scarlet I got softlocked in whatever town the water type gym leader was. I saw a pokeball (item) on a ship docked nearby so I got on koraidon and jumped down to get it. It was early in the game. My Koraidon couldn’t jump back as a result. I couldn’t swim or fly and was just STUCK THERE
ThT wasn't my sinnoh team at all, I remember my first playthrough of sinnoh I did catch a shinx early but I just never used it, then much later like after the 6th gym I found a wild luxray and caught that, but I wasn't all hype about it, I didn't like it better than any of the pokemon I had. I didn't have a roserade cuz I just never evolved any roserade, I had bibarel but I didn't use it on my team, I didn't even use lucario because I liked my team better than it, I 100% did have a staraptor though and I chose piplup so I had an empoleon. I don't remember my full team but it was Empoleon, Staraptor, Skunktank, Rotom which I only knew about because of playground folktales, abamasnow, and I think drapion.
The island one is so silly because the odds that you : have NO fishing rod, had a finneon, only had surf on finnneon, had no pokemon in your team to teach surf or fly, have no rare candy to just give to the new magikarp so he would evolve, are so ridiculously small I refuse to believe it ever happened to anyone by accident
Getting cinnabar softlocked on leaf green because i couldnt take the ferry and my pokemon didnt know surf cause i didnt get it from the safari zone was really depressing as a kid
There's a spot in Challenger's Cave in Black and White where you can get trapped by trainers who only move when you move. If you don't have an escape rope or dig, you're just stuck
I actually managed to glitch my copy of Shining Pearl a couple times: the first I somehow whent diagonally and got unstuck, the second I was below one of those planks/bridges that you *have* to ride your bike on, and glitched onto it without my bike for no reason, then glitched back off, but I didn't screen record, 'cause I was tyring to recreate it
Before entering the academy for the first time in violet I fell of two buildings(at this point in time I knew nothing so I thought I might need hm fly). The buildings were connected by a piece of wood and I fell off there. Did not know you can use the map to fly
HM softlock is why I couldn't get to Deoxys within a 2 day period (I was using someone's copy of ORAS during a trip to their place and I started after gym 4)
I one time spent about 15 minutes thinking I'd softlocked in Violet. In the super early game, I threw my ball to battle a mon on an island, and once the battle was over, I found myself teleported onto it. Any attempts to get back onto the mainland didnt teleport me back, so I checked online to see if it happened to anyone else (I was about a week late in starting), and ended up learning about the flying taxis, which either hadnt been explained yet, or had and I just completely missed it.
Bro i got "softlocked" (i couldnt beat the e4) in soulsilver and i had to spend 20 hours grinding my team up. Then my game glitched and i had to restart
In Scarlet and Violet there is a group of misdreavous in the corner with a trainer(it will vary between fidough and misdreavous) And if you go into the corner where the misdreavous are blocking you can get softlocked there and you aren’t able to get out if you have autosave on. I think you can just change the date to get out and change it to fidough but im not sure.
i played platinum so i did have more choices tbf but my team was: empoleon, luxray, garchomp, lucario, giratina, and of course my beloved, insanely overleveled houndoom
FYM people don't like alola? It's literally the best from looks music and how lively it feels. It's not just the normal map It's HOME people love it and live in it it is literally the best
i actually used golduck and gardevoir instead of roserade lucario or bibarel for my sinnoh playthrough. honestly forget what i was using before catching a shiny giratina.
Luxray and Staraptor were the only two Sinnoh Pokemon on my team that match. (The rest being Luxray, Espeon, Rapidash, Garchomp, and Swampert after Empoleon failed me too many times)
2/6 of what I used for BDSP anyway. Went with Torterra, Houndoom, Kabutops, Spiritomb, Luxray, and Staraptor - with Mamoswine taking Kabutops’ place in the squad for the E4 and more importantly, the Cynthia fight, because she kept beating my ass without an answer for Garchomp.
I know you can get yourself unstuck by trading a pokemon with the move Cut, but considering I didn’t have a lot of friends as a kid, much less ones that played Pokémon at the time, I wound up stuck when the S.S. Anne left without getting HM 1 in Pokémon Blue :’>
played on the 1.0.0 BDSP patch. in 1.0.0 the ice slopes are merely a suggestion- you can trick the game into letting you slide up them oh right I guess that’s also a way to escape the softlock
