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not only do i hack in rare candies, but i also hack in IV's, EV's, natures, moves, and additional TM's every single playthrough
i also make sure to only use my favorites too

>hack in

Why bother? Exp Share is on from the start now so it's trivial to keep pokemon leveled compared to the stupid bullshit you used to have to do before you got Exp All/Exp Share, and the game shits out those experience crystal things at you so it's easy to juice up a new pokemon if you want to be strong or just nudge it to its evolution threshold.

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>>736475213
>fan parts
the grind is the fan part, without the grind you will not have the satisfaction
and pokemon is a trash holded from becoming good by nintendah licensing that leading to the lack of competition

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>>736475213
>hack in rare candies to save time
>in pokemon
What is there that is so painful you need to hack in rare candies to skip? I'm not a diehard pokemon fan but I can't think of a single point in the games that would have hacking in rare candies being a better solution than just bum rushing through it.

No, I just cut out the middleman emtirely by opening up Paint and drawing the words "U WIN AT EVERYTHING" so I can get my dopamine rush and be happy for about five seconds before I need my next hit.

The grind is part of the game. Rare candies also remove significant risk from grinding inb4 duuurrrr just kill level 5 mons for 100 hours. No, grinding without rare candies is a balancing act of realistic xp gain and risk. It is part of the challenge
In short, you didn’t beat the game.

I save more time by not playing at all

>>736475385
you can almost never fight wild pokemon that give enough exp to feel worth your time

>>736475339
no one plays the games with default xp share

>>736475213
If I need to hack then that's a failure on the dev for making such a shitty levelcurve

>>736475213
>im so NORMIE and SUCCESSFUL with my ahuurdduurr WIFE N KIDS and my ahuurduuuurr FULL TIME JOB im sooo busy DUUUUURRR soooo busy IM SO SUCCESSFUL I LOVE MY FULFILLED LIFE DURRRRRR

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>>736475213
When I was like 10 I remember doing the MissingNo glitch just to duplicate rare candies, never really cared much about breaking the balance of the game

>>736475458
>OH MAN I'M SUCH A GAMER FOR TURNING ON 8X FAST FORWARD AND WALKING THE SAME TILES OF GRASS AND THEN SPAMMING A UNTIL THE BATTLE IS OVER. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY RETROACHEIVEMENTS PROFILE

>>736475342
Op is baiting. It's mainly people playing nuzlockes and challenge runs while adhering to a level cap, usually the level of the next gyms ace. So they don't over level, they just use them to save time grinding low level mons up to cap every single gym.

Pokemon games are easy to the point where they can be cleared with one overpowered sweeper, you don't need to level them up any more than you would naturally from experience.

>>736475458
>>736475494
I say both these things

>>736475213
>to save time
Just get another hobby

>>736475605
But the fun parts of pokemon are still playing. Killing 1000 bidoofs is not any more fulfilling than using candies

>>736475675
still worth playing I mean

>>736475213
Actually using a ton of rare candies is a pain as well. If you're going to hack then just hack the level directly.

>>736475213
Every pokemon romhack has infinite rare candies and imposes level caps. This is apparently how single player pokemon is played these days. All HMs are removed and instead you're given a key item that does field moves for you.

Remember the optimal way of playing Pokemon Gen 1-4 is to overlevel your starter, use three HM slaves, and have the cover art Legendary be your backup if your starter faints.

>>736475213
Pokemon is all about rasing the Pokemon. If you're cheating in 999 rare candies "to skip grinding" you're not actually playing Pokemon. You're just interested in the ascetics of playing Pokemon.

>>736475213
Nah, I just abuse ACE to set Pokemon to level 100 right away. Rare candies take too long to use.

>>736475787
*aesthetics

>>736475213
theyre easy enough without rare candies

>>736475495
That's retarded, just play normally if you think the challenge run is too hard without grinding

>>736475213
I just used rare candies on whatever my starter pokemon was and plowed through the game with just it. Every other pokemon was a HM slave or resbot

>>736475213
The best romhacks have level caps depending on your progress but also allow infinite rare candies so you can mix up your team for different fights.

If you just skip the leveling, you really start to see the bare, flimsy skeleton of the single player campaign in these game. I really noticed this big time in Sword and Shield. The excess candies from the online content in the wild areas just let you blow through the main game, which was incredibly bare bones and flavorless.

>>736475213
If you are not even playing the game like a rpg why not just use showdown? Training doesn't matter, catching doesn't matter and showdown will respect your time right?

>>736475495
The point of Nuzlocks is that your pokemon can die at any point, if you just instantly level to what the gym needs you to be at the game just boils down to building a team that just beats the gym.
Defeats the point of a challenge run to start eliminating the challenging parts of it just because your youtube audience might catch on to the point that you're not that great at the game.

>>736475385
In a really hard challenge run, you're just going to do what's most optimal regardless of how obnoxious it is. Whatever balance the developers originally had in mind doesn't apply.

Each mainline Pokemon game lasts like four sit downs of casual play at this point, there is no need to shorten the experience.

People who say they don't use rare candies or any kind of hacking don't know how long it takes to grind up a party. These are the kind of people that just spam charizard the entire game

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Early in the series, I remember encountering an NPC who alluded to rare candies not making Pokemon as strong as leveling them normally, likely a cryptic way of alluding to EVs, so I never used them as a kid (Not realizing EVs could be dealt with separately from leveling).

>>736475416
ok then go fight the gym leader at your current level instead of pretending you would've grinded wild pokemon for 10 hours

>>736475973
It's mainly difficulty hacks that are designed around it. Ones where each trainer is actually difficult and it's a lot of beelining from mandatory fight to fight
Rare candying in a vanilla nuzlocke is lethal levels of fried brain cells though. I've only seen one person do it and I don't get it at all

But working for things then putting them to use is way more satisfying.

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>romhack
>black diglet called "niglett"
>white diglet called "wiglett"

This entire thread is arguing with a strawman that doesn't exist... In the first place people only use excess rare candies for difficulty hacks like kaizo emerald, meanwhile you guys are just talking about casual playthroughs of the regular game...

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>>736475213
No, I hack in Master Balls so I can just catch whatever I want and have fun playing the game. Just shoving every pokemon up to Lv.100 sounds absolutely boring. You're going to win, obviously, and what level you're at when you beat it and what speedbump you might run into is part of the fun.

>>736476316
>white diglet called "wiglett"
That's not a hacked mon.

>use Charizard until the elite 4 dogwalk you with rock and dragon pokemon (or overlevel with wilds in victory road because that's the only place that wild xp feels alright)
or
>get by with a normally leveled charizard and a pidgeot, raticate, mankey, fearow, and victreebel because trainer battles give you just enough to "not grind" with one team and you blew your load catching shit from the first 5 routes
>probably win, but feel boring at the end
or
>grind out 100 wild pokemon kills with a new member of your party because getting something with a type matchup is more strategically interesting to you than bruteforcing through everything with Charizard
>feel good about this for one installment and, for whatever reason, none of the other gens ever really feel as good as the one you started in. wonder why
these are the ways to play pokemon. you did this as a kid because your parents got you your copy of the game for being good during a major life event and you didn't play better games because you can only have your tonsils removed once

or
>play a "challenge ruleset" and cheat in items, or play a romhack with level caps, or play a romhack with a funny gimmick, or just play Showdown
>the circumstances surrounding your run are tailored to actually be challenging at every level of play, and you don't even GET to think about overleveling
nobody actually disagrees with you for doing this, they just recognize or subconsciously realize that you're pirating or hacking your game, so the nintendo tumor in their heads is sending them pain signals as they continue to consider your existence. they need to make it stop.

>>736476439
Nice straw man retard. Who is using candies to level 100? You just use them to be just below the level of the gym's ace

The games in general need to have way better experience rewards and a soft level cap to be honest.
I want to gain a level every 2-3 battles with wild mons and get several levels when fighting trainers, while also having a soft cap of my pokemon not obeying orders or gaining 1/10th of experience if they're over the level cap.

>>736476507
So you skipping trainers, and avoiding possibly interesting combat encounters, in order to just use a bunch of items and end up at the same level? That sounds like doing more work for less reward. If that's how you have fun with the game, go ahead. But it sounds like a waste of time at both ends.

>>736476004
you're brown

>>736476756
Mandatory fights and gyms are where the fun is at. Pokemon is only good as a boss rush game. No one actually larps as an epic trainer

>>736476829
>you're not a minority in your own country

lol ok

>>736476756
>trainers
>interesting combat encounters
See, this is how I know you don't play Pokemon.

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>>736475213
bro I was forced to use rare candy while playing pokemon black during the post-game.
can't believe how balls-to-the-wall hard the difficulty spike got after deafeating N.
I kept relying on hyper potions, full restores and revives.
so glad I picked up gen 5 games. very good games.
my team didn't use a legendary pokemon, though so maybe that's why.
black 2 will also be played with no hacks soon

>>736475342
Nuzlockes encourage using different Pokemon and sometimes you don't want to grind that level 5 to a level 40, but for my use case rare candies are good for leveling weaker Pokemon up to where I already am. Wild encounters don't always scale with my party and fuck grinding weak pseudos when I'm already at the end of the game.

>>736475675
I played all pokemon games and I never had to grind.

>>736477691
What do you do when you catch a new low level pokemon? Do you just not level it?

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i am so fucking tired of the endless bait this board spews whose only purpose is to farm for (You)s by being intentionally retarded

>>736477728
If I really have to, you can use exp share, and if not you can always put it in the first slot and witch it when fighting a trainer.

>>736477809
so your only viable option is parasitism that splits the xp and makes you waste even more time. congrats moron you might as well just play a better game at that point

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>>736475213
I never used Rare candies because my friend or someone told me that they dont get the full stat increases from the level ups if you use them. is that even true?

>candies
You did not beat the game

>grinding
You did not beat the game

>fighting any optional battle
You did not beat the game

Simple as

I don't really understand the pokemon leveling process, but don't you need your pokemon to defeat certain types of other pokemon to level up their stats effectively? Just using rare candies means you get shit stats, right?

If I have the ability to hack in rare candies then why wouldn't I just do the smart thing and edit my stats and levels?
No need to bother with rare candies

>>736478071
There's actually level scaling in the games, meaning that even if you are not gaining any EVs, you're still stronger due to having a higher level

>Play some retarded pokemon challenge mode
>Cheat in stuff to make it easier
What is the point?

>>736475213
I don't particularly enjoy the grind, but let me draw a little distinction here:
While playing the campaign, full legit. If I find rare candies I use them, but do not give myself more through hacks or glitches.
While playing PvP or frontier, I cannot give a heck because I want to experiment strategies without having to waste retarded amounts of time dealing with playing eugenics, levelling, natures, EVs, abilities etc. etc. to get them online. I've previously engaged in these things and fully understand how to do them across various generations, but I can't be bothered to do so every single time I get a funny idea.

>>736477730
there are genuine real retards that actually say this shit though
>yes i need my cheats because uh you can't expect me to put time into this game I paid money for I have to have everything handed to me

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>>736476107
>Not realizing EVs could be dealt with separately from leveling
do gen 5 babies really

>>736475213
>im a mature adult without any time. Here's this wojak edit for babies about a pokemon game made for babies that resonates with me

>>736478312
Strong Pokemon.

Weak Pokemon.

That is only the
selfish perception
of people.

Truly skilled
trainers should
try to win with
their favorites.

>>736478128
If there was level scaling, you would be weaker at a higher level because everything gets dragged up to your level.

When someone says they have difficulties with a pokemon game, i get the same feeling when meeting a conspiracy theorists. I get uneasy and bit scared as someone that unstable is near me.

>>736478138
Because all the cheat does is remove worthless and safe grinding. Challenge hacks are balanced around level caps and infinite candies won't let you bypass that
Holding the turbo A button at 8x speed for 10 minutes is the alternative of using candies

>>736478279
If the game requires to put in 10 hours of grind a day to be played optimally you either don't play it or skip the grind with cheats (unless you're an unemployed neet)

>>736478372
Level scaling has completely different meanings from game to game. You just have to know that the damage formula also uses the levels of both mons for calculation, not just your stats

>>736478459
>pokemon takes 10 hours of grind a day to be played optimally
bro its a kids game get fucking real

>>736478370
What even "selfish perception" means here though?
I'm not being selfish when I say certain mons obviously have both better stats, movesets and abilities than others and these claims are proven objectively when people have a higher win rate while using those.

>>736478128
What do EVs do?

>>736478486
If you want to have optimal EVs and shit you have to waste a retarded amount of time on a kid game

>>736478494
Thats from a npc in the game, and in the game world pokemon are living creatures

>>736478459
>10 hours of grind a day
Are you making a living dex of level 100s or something?

>>736478598
You don't need any of that unless you're literally trying to play in competitive tournament shit retard

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>>736478608
Yes anon, I know Karen.
And while I do understand the context there, she should not generalize such claims because even in-universe, I'm sure you will see certain mons being obviously stronger and certain teams winning more often than not.
She a member of the goddamn Pokemon league, she is supposed to be following competitions and data relevant to it, to some degree.

>>736478620
I don't play pokemon games, but especially in earlier gens you waste lots of time trying to highroll for the correct stats

>>736478691
You are being selfish towards the pokemon, as you see them only as tools with stats and numbers. Most people see pokemon as companions and friends.This is a hard concept if you are unironically autistic.

>>736478691
in the pokemon world, a pokemon strength is highly influenced by its trainer, which is why you can't classify them as weak or strong. If you are a good trainer you can win with your favorites.

In game this is translated with IV/EV. This is why your Pidgey is far stronger than a wild or trainer one.

>>736478902
It would be alright if she wasn't specifically putting in the context of winning high-level competitions, such as becoming the regional champion.

>>736478951
Still, there is a inherent baseline, if we assume stats aren't real, at very least types, movesets and abilities are.

>>736475213
gen 5 (once again, the best one) fixed the need for grinding by adding in audino bushes and trainres who fought you every time you reentered the map
it was perfect

at least for me, defeating higher level gyms with my own lower level pokemon is the fun part of the game.
i have never grinded for levels and i don't understand why somebody would want to

>>736475213
Idk the actual fun part of pokemon to me is grinding them to lv50, breeding and shiny hunting. Never gave a fuck about the dogshit stories even as a kid

>>736479138
You are trying to argue with the message of the npc in a fictional video game world. In shonen and kids media its common message that friendship and love wins.

>>736479242
I just wish the gen 5 pokemon didn't exist, they are literally gen 1 knockoffs. They don't even fit in with the already existing ones

>>736478312
EV's applying on the fly and not on level up is a recent thing. Back then if you Rare Candied to Lv100 then you'd be stuck with 0 EVs no matter how many Zubats you killed

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>>736479310
>You are trying to argue with the message of the npc in a fictional video game world.
That's part of the fun, yes.
Karen is still being preachy and emotional there, there is a gentleman who also argues the opposite case in gen4 and makes a lot more sense.

>>736475305
based

>>736479532
Gen3* lol

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>needing to cheat at a child's game

Pure mental illness and hilariously sad

>>736479532
>please buy our Landorus DLC!!!!!!
Nah, I will never use ugly Pokemon

>>736479486
That is what I was referring to. This change was made in gen 5, thus gen 5 babies don't know it wasn't always that way.

>>736479532
>and makes a lot more sense.
Yeah because gen 4 is dogshit lol

>>736479618
I think you meant the best

>>736479665
No I mean dogshit, that's why I said dogshit lil gup

i haven't played a pokemon game in like a decade so maybe im misremembering but doesn't leveling a pokemon exclusively with rare candies lead to it having gimped stats? i feel like i remember that being a thing

>>736478778
>I don't play pokemon games
Then why the fuck are you posting? You're such a goddamn faggot.

>>736479727
>>736479486

>>736475213
Never a faster way to level up 99 to 100.

>>>/vp/

>>736479760
oh so in the newer games your stats can increase from battles even if youre already max level?

There's genuinely no pokemon game where you need to actually grind to progress, if you cycle while just progressing you'll have an evenly leveled team of appropriate level.

The only time I'd grind when I was a kid was to evolve a pokemon, because I wanted it sooner, not because it was necessary.

>>736475305
Genuinely why bother with IVs/EVs outside competitive?

>>736479816
Yeah. There's a cap of 560 points, with 252 max in a single stat. It depends on what Pokemon you KO

>>736479816
>>736479892
You could always just box a Pokemon the update stats from EVs without leveling

>>736479892
>Doesn't use items. Pleb.

>>736477929
>You're using an intended mechanic to get a pokemon up to speed?
>How fucking dare you not just hack and level it up, go play a better game.

It ultimately doesn't even slow progression. If you're so worried about splitting exp you can beat every pokemon game with just a starter and HM slaves.

>>736475339
>stupid bullshit you used to have to do before you got Exp All
You mean switch your lead Pokemon every time it levels up? Something so trivially easy I figured out how to do it as a child in Viridian Forest, playing Red version?

>>736477929
>so your only viable option is parasitism that splits the xp and makes you waste even more time.
Are you clinically retarded? You get the same exact amount of exp overall you dunce

>>736478778
Why?
Early gens are easy enough to roll with your starter regardless of stats. If you're going competitive then that's an entirely different game.

When I was playing pokemon as a kid I was fiending for those candies. Wanted to get an action replay just to get even more.

If the people who grew up on Pokemon paid an iota of attention to the series, then they should damn well know that raising your pokemon is the best part.

Won't you get no evs if you rare candy everyone so you would still have to spam vitamins if you can affotd it or go spam some random mon that gives the right kind? I'm starting to think these nuzlocke players are making things harder on themselves

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There are unironically people on /v/ who have not yet realised that cheating ruins your own fun

>>736480336
Being a casual and cheater is the new norm here, everyone on 4chan has become That Kid and they hate fun anyways

>>736477342
b/w are probably the easiest to get things to level 100 at least, very easy to trigger audinos in the shaking bushes in that post game route with the water near the coast town.

>>736480426
A more sensible explanation is that /v/ is now full of Asians

>>736479738
I used to play them (as a kid). Still, "cheating" to skip pointless grind is not wrong

>>736479618
That was a typo anon, the guy is in gen3 games supposedly.
Though the quote specifies it's the remakes, so idk.

>>736475213
No. The grinding is part of the pokemon experience for me, because I am playing them all on Nuzlocke. They can sometimes die while leveling up and that adds to the thrill.

>>736480963
>They can sometimes die while leveling up and that adds to the thrill.
Literally how

>>736480979
Being excited by a sporting challenge. Sometimes you get lax and the random wild pokemon or trainer crits your pokemon and they die. It's a harsh lesson but it changes things, you sub in a different pokemon in their spot, your team changes. The run develops. It's fun.

>>736479881
Same reason people equip stronger weapons in RPG's despite being able to win without them. People like feeling like they have maximized their power and unlocked all the best options.

>>736479881
Dudes like this will team wipe to level several times and not realize that's them grinding on accident

>>736476872
A cheat only qualifies as "quality of live" if it doesn't affect anything that tests your skill in any capacity. Teleporting to a boss is fine, if there are no enemies inbetween to test your skill to get past them, and also no platforming sections to test your platforming skill, no puzzles to test your problem-solving/logical thinking/perception/knowledge.

>but what if I have passed all these tests already, and die to the boss. Do I have to do it all again? That sounds awful

Depends. If these tests are so easy for you, that doing them again doesn't feel like a genuine challenge, but like tedium, they are pointless. Just teleport to the boss.
But it may also be possible that, while you passed the test at some point, you only did so by the skin of your teeth. You aren't yet able to do it consistently. You should man up and take the test again.
A lot of it also depends on what the primary focus of the game is. In the case of a platformer, where the main challenge is the platforming and bosses are more like a fun little distraction inbetween, you should definitely do the platforming section again, if somehow you died to the boss. If you don't want to, it is a bad platformer or you don't enjoy platforming. Or you have done it so many times already, that it becomes boring, but in that case how the fuck are you dying to the boss so often. Either the boss is completely overtuned (bad design) or you suck at boss fights (look for a platformer with easier/no bossfights).

The necessity to use "Quality of live"-cheats is often a result of either the game being not well designed in some parts, or generally, or the player not being honest with himself in regards to what kind of game he truly enjoys.

Sometimes players use cheats to make sections easier that they think are too difficult and call it "quality of live" but the reality is, that these people are simply not honest to themselfes with their level of skill. They are simply cheating.

>pokemon romhack
>you are given 11 stacks of 99x rare candies after you access your first pc

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>>736478691
>>736479532

>>736481673
What did Kartleman mean by this.

>>736475305
Literally me. Plus i spit on other trainer pokemon because they dont have perfect nature/iv/ev like mine. I called them pokedefect in my mind.

>>736475213
>If you use rare candies your Pokémon will be less strong than if you levelled them
This was an absolute lie, it turns out.

>>736475213
Grinding is part of the challenge. It incentivizes you to try to win using tactics and skill even if you're kind of underleveled because having to go fight wild pokemon sucks.
Also, Pokemon have different XP tiers. Did everyone forget this? Not every pokemon levels, evolves, and learns moves at the same level.

If you use rare candies then pokemon like Raticate or Butterfree are totally useless and pointless. In a normal playthrough they gain XP fast and evolve at a low level to create an early game power spike. With rare candies you just are leveling up everything to some arbitrary level cap. Rare candies also incentivize you to just cynically cycle through pokemon for every major encounter. Pokemon is about growing closer with your team as it goes on, watching them evolve and get stronger, not changing half the team to counter the next gym leader.

>>736475213
I get why people do this for super sweaty bullshit romhacks but for normal games I dont really see how this saves times because just doing all the mandatory trainer battles should be enough in these games.

>>736481064
Seems like a retard only issue

>>736475213
>y'all

>>736483318
Two shitmons with the same IVs and nature at level 100, the one who grinded from level to 5 manually has better stats than the one that shoved 95 candies down his anus
This is a fact anon

>>736475213
>do y'all
>playing pokemon
faggot detected

I did in Z-A, but otherwise I don't find it necessary.

>>736475213
No. Using the few the games gives you itself is fine but giving yourself all level 99 pokemon that can one shot anything in the game robs all the strategy and fun from it.

>>736484087
>>736484131
>falling for b8
Yikes y'all!

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>>736478312
>>736479486
lol newfags dont know that in gen1 and 2 it could apply at level 100.

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>>736484167
>look I'm sucking a cock
>ew fag
>joke's on you I was sucking that cock as BAIT
what

>>736475213
The levels arent even that important in Pokemon. The EVs are far more valuable.

>>736475213
if I'm playing on an emulator I just use fastforwards, but most romhacks already have inbuilt levelling methods anyway

>>736484201
OP was just pretending to suck a cock
He's still a faggot tho

>>736479881
>if you cycle
waste of time when rare candies fulfill the same objective but without interfering with the flow of battles

why are browns like this?

>>736475213
lol no. I still can't believe so many people try that shit in Clover.

>Certain pokemon cannot attack or have extremely limited move pools at low levels
>Intentionally makes training them harder because the payoff is a very strong pokemon after
>Necessitates swap training usually, or giving them your one XP share
>NAH BLUD I'LL USE RARE CANDIES BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA GRIND LOL

>>736477929
>you might as well just play a better game at that point
you are getting there anon. you are about to understand my point

>>736484073
Wanting to cheat at a children's game? I agree.

>>736475305
>giving a shit about all that outside of a Pokemon level
What a faggot.

>>736475213
I don't play Pokemon.

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>>736475213
This picture makes shitters mad. Almost everyone playing pokemon competitively at the VGC gen their pokemon or plays on showdown, for a reason. Only retards see value in braindead tedium grinding that shouldn't count as gameplay. See: Verlisify
He is shit at the game and seethes the most about it. Based and bump. If your JRPG gets easier by using cheat engine and speedrunning to make grinding faster, you aren't playing a good or challenging videogame. Go back to >>>/tv/ where you rightfully belong moviegame turn based jarpig shitter. Bump. Based thread

>>736486964
There is a bit of magic lost from chosing to put Magikarp, Abra or one of the bug types in your party. With Exp All they just stay in your backline until they evolve, no grind needed.

>>736475305
Based fellow Beedrillchad.
I only play romhacks that fix mon movesets and BST, so that I can play the game with my favorites.

>>736487691
Part of the community plays the game for gameplay, part of it shiny hunts.

>>736479881
>lvl up your mon
>see +8 stat increase from maxed out iv/ev
Feels nice

>>736475305
Unfathomably fucking based

>>736475213
Holy fucking underage reddit thread. This is the fucking lowest point.

>>736488023
how does it feel that Gamefreak is 100% adding infinite source of rare candies to Gen 10?

>>736475385
This and some pokemon were balanced around the fact that they had weak pre-evos and a strong final form.
It's what made Pokemons like Magikarp so iconic, it's obviously against the soul of the game and only speed and nuzlock trannies try to argue otherwise. I miss the comic era of nuzlocks, none of this spreadsheet and rare candy bs.

>>736488253
we have had infinite rare candies for a while now.

>>736488302
It's as if... speed and nuzlock trannies have evolved a Magikarp before... and know what it evolves into...

>>736488302
It's almost like people aren't spamming candies for vanilla games and applying vanilla game standards to old, difficult romhacks where you have no choice but to run calcs for hours and adding grinding on top of that shows you don't do what candyfags are doing.

>>736477515
Nuzlockes are dumb anyway, just play a different game.

>>736489608
No

using missingno to glitch your 6th item slot for masterballs or rare candies was peak pokemania and zoomies will never experience anything like it

I save my rare candies for the elite four. I figure the higher level you get the longer it takes to level up so you'd get the most benefit if you scoff them down for the final matches

>>736487770
It is the same as with the pseudo legendaries that evolve late. Before you had to consistently babysit them or do a sidequest to get the XP share to then gimp your entire party to level them. The trade off was them becoming an elite 4 sweeping killing machine.

Nowadays with XP share your team is always leveled and even if the first form still sucks, 5 leveled pokemon is enough to beat anything.

>>736492043
Yeah, you typically use them at the elite 4 or maybe in the earlymidgame if you have a pokemon like magikarp or abra that is about to evolve.

>>736475213
I can agree with this pre-gen 5 where if you were spreading exp around a whole team of 6 you would have to grind towards endgame, but there's simply no excuse now with scaled exp and bench exp. especially when gamefreak has moved to open world design. if you somehow hit a wall you can just go somewhere else and beat the wall later. if you want exp you can just go to a higher level area and catch mons or do raids. gamefreak's linear level progression was horrible and open world without scaling suits pokemon much better.

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>>736475305
>i also make sure to only use my favorites too
chad behaviour

>>736475213
Where does rare candy come from? Obviosly someone manufactures it so how come it's not sold anywhere and you can only find it in dank caves?

>>736475213
>we don't have the time to enjoy these games like we used to
it belongs to moneyberg

>>736475213
>cheating
>in an already way too easy babu game
lowlife

>>736475385
I wasted over 4000 hours playing Pokemon in my life because of that mentality. How many total hours in would you guess that you are?

The only hacking I ever did was to give myself pokemon that were locked behind garbage monetization. I always start my games off with a level 1 Mew.

>like we used to
I had less free time as a kid than I do as a working adult. You fucked up somewhere. Enjoy waging, pokefag.

>>736475213
In some shitty fan game, I might hack in Rare Candies if it clearly expects the player to spend hours grinding for a team capable of progressing. Normal Pokemon games are so easy, you don't need them.

>>736475305
Fpbp