Hello! I’m trying to figure out a good gift for my husband this year. Can you help me figure out what he’s missing from his collection?

So I had a Shining Pearl file that I started up and kind of forgot about. Thankfully, I wasn't too far (hadn't picked out a starter yet), so I didn't see a reason to start a new file. And since I was so early in the game and forgot what my plan was, I figured I'd give a Steel run a try. If I had to guess why the name's Platinum, it was probably because I wanted to name her after the Pokémon Adventures character (I think I was just doing it in name only rather than a Platinum or Dawn run, but I don't remember).

• Empoleon. Get to start with it, and it'll be the go to coverage for Ground and Fire coverage (even though it is weak to Ground).
• I have a level 14 Scizor (caught and evolved in Legends Arceus), I'll be adding it to the team after I beat Roark. I've always wanted to use one and it'll neutralize the team's Fighting and Ground Weaknesses, while also covering Dark and Grass types.
• I've never used Jirachi in any of my BDSP playthroughs or in general. So this is the perfect chance to use one. It'll also be good against Fighting and Poison types. Metagross can be transferred over before you get the National Dex, however, this is a general playthrough. As such, I don't mind using a Mythical.
• Aggron and Mawile will also be transferred in. Aggron is one of my favorite Hoenn Pokémon, and I haven't really used one since getting my Switch. Would transfer in as an Aron so it can travel with me for most of, if not all of, the duration of the playthrough. All the while, Mawile will have much needed Fighting coverage. I could breed both so that they're native to this run, but I'd rather have them as soon as possible.
• Lucario will most likely be the last addition since you get the gift Riolu before you battle Byron. I do have Riolu in Home, however, it kind of feels counterintuitive since you are gifted one. Alternatively, I could send a Lucario over and breed it with a Ditto for Riolu. That way, I could have Riolu prior to Maylene's Gym and get an early start on raising it's friendship.

Thoughts?

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Drawing Lillie in the style of her in-game model from pokemon Sun/Moon

I have never been into RPG's growing up and got both of these games at the same time years ago, only playing them once, and then storing them away for years.

Saw a listing for a loose cartridge being $25 on marketplace and was just wondering if I could sell the full game and case and if people are actually into purchasing this game still.

For me, it's Origin Palkia. The first time I saw its design, it was very weird. It was like: "What the hell? Is that a horse? Where are its arms?!"

But then, it came to my mind that it was inheriting Arceus' power, and took a form resembeling the Alpha Pokemon. And I found that it was such a great idea! But it's funny how when Palkia uses Spacial Rend, it uses its arms, but in the origin form, it has none.

To me, Origin Palkia has a misunderstood design, and its perfectly related to Arceus as its creation, with a more organic look, losing most of its armor, both arms, and became quadrupedal.

newer artist trying out different things hope hope you enjoy

Just something that came to mind. The regions in the spin off games can be very interesting in their layout and I’d be interested to see them be used as the location of a main series Pokemon game (or a romhack, that’d be interesting too). If you had to choose one, which region would you choose? If you aren’t aware of many of the spin-off regions, here’s the Bulbapedia page on it (just check the “In the Spinoff games section): https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Region

Me personally I’d go with Almia from Ranger. It’s got the nostalgia for me and also there’s a lot of cool locations like Almia castle, Hippowdon temple, Boyle volcano, etc.

I’m looking to get my partner a quagsire plush for Christmas. But I can’t find one for cheaper that 50 dollars. Does anyone know of any place that has good quality ones for cheaper than 50? Quagsire is their favorite and I have looked all over. Thank you to anyone who can help. (Any size) I’d be willing to spend the 50 but I was wanting to look for a cheaper one first.

My friends were talking about Pokémon games, he said it be a whole lot better where all Pokémon are available, every mechanic like Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Dynamax, and Terastallizing is included, and Pokémon types are visible instead of guessed would improve the series? Would combining these features create the ultimate Pokémon experience.
I said no, where it just ends up breaking the game. but I want to hear it from you. what do you think

As the titles says I battled myself in pokemon showdown to make a setup that creates the highest stat for every stat.

HP is the easiest because you can’t boost it with anything, the highest is Blissey at 714 HP.

Attack is a little most interesting, the highest base attack is Mega Heracross but since it can’t hold an item it is actually worse. The actual best pokemon for this is Kartana who with a choice band, swords dance to get +6 attack, and an ally with flower gift in the sun has an attack stat of 4257.

The best Pokemon for defense used to be Onix due to how overpowered the eviolite item is but as of scarlet and violet snow boosts the defense of all ice types so the best defense pokemon is Avalugg. With iron defense to boost defense up to +6 and snowscape to get that 1.5 times bonus for ice types it gets a defense stat of 3078.

Special attack is pretty straight forward, Moraidon with choice specs, hadron engine, and calm mind gets to 3238 special attack.

By far the most difficult to get the highest of was special defense. The assault vest item to boosts special defense by 1.5, sandstorm to get a 1.5 multiplier for rock types, and a stat boosting move to get to +6 are required to get the highest special defense. The only way I could do this was in a double battle and to have a Shuckle hold an assault vest and use a weak attack while it’s ally uses aromatic mist which boosts your allies special defense, then you have the enemy pokemon use sandstorm. After all that you get an insane special defense stat of 5526.

Speed had a lot of contenders with quick feet, Regieleki with a high base speed, surge surfer, unburden, and more being tested, but swift swim came out to be the best ability. The best pokemon to use swift swim is Barraskewda, with agility to boost your speed, rain dance on an ally, and a choice scarf you get a speed stat of 4896.

If anyone has any ideas of other ways I could get higher stats I would love to test them out.

We already have Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee.

Seemed a bit easy, he was at the Elite 4 in a few days.

I haven't kept up with Pokemon games for a decade so I feel out of the loop.

His reading is good now, I would like to introduce him a Pokemon game that will take him a while to get through and is closer to the originals (I grew up with Pokemon Red on gameboy).

What switch title do you think would make him happy on Christmas morning?

Thanks!

Here is the idea I first came up https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/wbfg2a/what_if_you_fought_the_gen_1_gyms_backward/ during the summer one day I tried to make the hack on many things but failed because I was buzy with school the guides weren't that reliabile outdated my computer was diffrent etc.

Now that I'm older and learned about stat changes abilities and typing changes. I plan to do some for Kanto Pokemon and their evolutions even the ones I consider good, For example giving Rapidash Rock head ability and the normal typing. Increasing Onix BST slightly to 400 but still decreasing it's defense from 160 to 100 and his special attack to 20 in order to increase his special defense to 75 and his speed to 90.

Decreasing Alakazam attack in return for a decent defense stat. Giving Kingler more speed. Electrive getting iron fist. Venusaur getting thick fat as a hidden ability. Rhydon Golem Steelix getting better special defense. Arbork and Hypno getting the dark typing etc. Though I'm making sure the max BST increases are 25 points not too go too much to the point where their completely different Pokemon.

I'm being careful to make sure it makes sense with their designs and evolution level and where their placed in the game. However Beedrill and Butterfree are made purposely weak early game pokemon while Fearow being the superior version of Pidgeot I think is a way to reward the player for exploring more. Spearow is found in quite uncommon spots in the start of game near the pokemon league during Kanto and in the area south of Blackthorn city between New bark Town and Cherrygrove City. While Pidgey can be found everywhere Spearow is in spots you might have to go out of your way to explore and even then it isn't common. So I'm not sure if I should buff the guys or just make it appropriate for how obtainable they are.

Beedrill and Butterfree BST is increased to 410. 20 points from it's OG stats. In order not to make them too strong early game both now have to evolve at level 12 instead. This was before I found out about Vivilon stats on a false swipe gaming video on Butterfree when people talked about Vivilon being better.

Beedrill: Health(65) Attack(90) Defense(70) Special Attack(30) Special Defense(60) Speed(95)

Abilities: Swarm Sniper or Technician(I think Sniper would be better for it however I'm not sure if Technician could also work) Sharpness(boosts the power of slashing moves by 15% similar to Iron fist does for punching moves but I don't want pokemon with X-Scissor Shadow Claw etc to be too OP I gave it and some other pokemon like Persian Parsect Scyther etc)

Moves boosted By Sharpness

Cut(55 base power Bug move with good chance of Crit based on Razor Leaf) Aerial Ace Slash(80 base power) Shadow Claw(80 base power) X-Scissor Night Slash(80 BP) Leaf Blade Psycho cut(80 BP) Razor Leaf Cross Poison(75 would be 80 if not for the chance of Poisoning) Razor wind(80 BP)Air cutter Air Slash. Not Furry cutter a bit too strong for my tastes. Cross Chop(85 base power) (95 percent accuracy).

Butterfree gets it's typing changed to Bug/Physic. It's a better typing and since I'm making Butterfree the special attacker this will benefit it more then depending on Razor wind and Air Slash for most of the game until it gets Sky attack. Plus both can now use serious super effective stab moves against each other.

Health(65) Attack(30) Defense(60) Special attack(90) Special defense(70) Speed(95)

The website I'm using Pokemon studio gave it Serene Grace as a second ability which I think works nicely.

Beedrill will be getting endure to make use of it's ability swarm as well as Shadow Claw Night Slash Bulk Up and even Leaf Blade(Covers Rock types) or Liquidation(Covers Rock and Fire types). Butterfree gets Calm Mind Nasty Plot Moonlight Future sight Energy Ball(Covers Rock types) and even Dazzling Gleam(Covers Dark types).

For Pidgeot it's BST is moved to 486(Sheer coincidence it turned out to be only a point higher than Staraptor but oh well)

Health(90) Attack(40) Defense/Special Defense: 80 Special Attack: 95 Speed: 101.

Abilities: Keen eye(Prevents Pokemon from Missing yes Pidgeot and Fearow won't get any one hit K.O moves now) Unaware(I think it's a boost from Big Pecks) Hidden ability: Sheer Force(I couldn't decide between this and Adaptability so I just spinned the wheel and hopped for the best)

Originally I was going to give 95 to it's attack stat and the ability reckless allowing to use Brave Bird and Double edge and Submission(90 base power now with 100% accuracy) with more power however I want it to be not like the other bird pokemon and that would be more suited to Fearow anyway which I gave all those moves.

Sky attack was changed to a 120 special move which after use decreases it's special and physical defense by one stage(I'm not that creative). Pidgeot will be getting Focus Blast(as coverage for Rock Ice and steel pokemon can go great with Keen eyes). It also gets Nasty Plot Earth Power(More coverage) Hyper Voice(except it has a 25% percent chance to confuse the opponent pretty low but good enough for it to get a boost from Sheer force if Pidgeot has the ability) Ominous wind(Has 10 PP now) Hurricane is Thunder for flying types I increased it's power to 120 and accuracy to 80 this could be pretty great in rain especially combined with sheer force and life orb.

Are these boosts to Pidgeot Butterfree and Beedrill and by extension Fearow okay for their placements in the game or should I stick with the game design making them mediocre as they were intended to be?

I have played S/V basically during Nov - Dec every year since release. Not hardcore about Pokemon, despite my love for it. Tera Raids remain a broken, un-fun disaster 3 full years after release.

• The Lobby is still clunky, shows too few options, and takes forever to refresh. Half the time I have to wait nearly 5+ minutes just to get into a queue.

• The timing is all over the place, I find myself still unable to figure out wtf is happening half the time, and I have great internet which I'm even hardwired into.

• Having to build Tera Raid-specific Pokemon is a pain, especially because to get the resources to do so you have to...play Tera Raids.

• Mostly I feel like I get trolled 3/4 of the time because 1-2 players will pick a Shiny Pokemon who is explicitly vulnerable to the Raid Boss, or something ridiculous like SpA Gyarados.

Truly, Gen X needs to get its act together. I blame TPCi entirely for the technical issues and pushing the game to release at least a year earlier than it needed. My only hope is that the success of games like Pal World and Tem Tem will somehow motivate TPCi to let Game Freak deliver a quality Pokemon title for the upcoming Switch Successor.

Which starter do you all think has the best shiny form? I'm curious if there is a general consensus among the fans. I personally like Incineroar's shiny form with the white stripes but I think Emboar's shiny variant look really good too. Of course Greninja and Charizard look pretty sleek with their black coloration as well.

First time ordering at Australia Pokémon Center.

I placed two orders on the same day for the same items (one for myself and the other as Christmas gifts for my family and friends).

Btw, The holiday Maushold is just too adorable! ;3

The Pokémon Center sent me an invoice. It has been five days since I placed the orders, but both of them are still in the 'processing' stage. One order shows "prepare for shipping" with shipper details but hasn’t been shipped yet, while the other is still processing with no additional information. Is it a normal processing time? I am worried that my order might be cancelled