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Trying to catch Skarmory is actual hell>One skarmory per spawn>You either have to wipe out the entire pack of Pyroar or be very careful not to enrage them because they all have Earth Power and can snipe you out of existence even on the roof>Skarmory flies on the building and gets stuck easily on roofs. You need to coax it patiently into the roof to fight it>Surprise catches fail>Somehow very low catch ratei wanted to use Mega Skarmory for Jacynthe, but I guess Mega Aggron is good too
>>58552331this is emulated right
>>58552386just blow up the pyroar with eq or waterfall and then kill the skarmory and save. you can soft reset on ko
Do Furfrou trims ever reset in this game? I see a form argument for each form in PKHex, which determined how long before the trim reset in previous games, but I don’t see any reports of Furfrou’s trim resetting in ZA
I kinda want the dlc now.
>>58553123is it out yet/can you predownload it/is there any benefit to getting it now?
>>58552331>at the climax of the game>accidentally finish a sidequest where the guys looking for the perfect apartment>he's praising this location right in front of Prism Tower mid crisisKekaroo
I know I'm always hyping up flareon, but hippowdon is also a beast.
>Taunie's eyes watering when she loses to us before the climaxI like how they made her flawed instead of le generic friendly rival. But also wtfs her problem at the same time
How do you check a mon's stats after it mega evolves? You can't check them during battle and the pokedex doesn't show them.
>>58553537They stay mega evolved outside of battle.
>>58553627Thanks
>>58553506I let her win because it clearly meant a lot to her
>>58553652You can let her win? Kek. I do like how they wrote her since she's a bit annoying and abrasive. Just like some friends can be in real life. Most people aren't like Hau, Nemona or Hop for example
>>58552411I eventually caught a Skarmory by killing the Pyroar pack and the Alpha Mawile and then chucking like 20 pokéballs ob Skarmory at low health. Took forever, because every four balls Skarmory gets mad about it. Mega Skarmory better be worth it
Does anyone need help with trades for dex? I need some help as well so looking for touch trades. I have all the pokemon and items
How do I dodge that arena-wide attack in the Zygarde complete battle? I can’t figure out how to dodge the beam he fires when he flies up and then it looks like nowhere in the arena is safe either inside or outside that glowing Z
>>58552331>Just got the game>Up to the part where you get Ralts with Gardevoirite Stone>Need to hit max rank is Season 1 before it ends in a few daysHow is the ranked system in this game? Is it like Halo where if you lose a match you lose a ton of points and drop the ladder? Do you need hundreds of matches to advance?What's the best way to advance the ranks to hit "A Rank" before midnight Wednesday?
>>58553777nice trips.you go up in points if you're 1st or 2nd place. you go down in points if you're 3rd or 4th place. Need more points as you go up the ladder. IT's complete chaos though with tryhards.
>>58553777You don't need to hit A rank though. It's fairly easy to climb especially if you get metamons.
>>58552395I actually clipped through the street around Wild Area 3 the other day on my actual Switch, the digital version. It really was just random, it felt like a Sonic 06 moment
>>58553789Why the fuck does dragonite just 1 shot everything?
>>58553777It takes ~15-20 minutes to get the stone (I think you get it at Rank K). You don't need to get the highest tier. The battles are simple, you will progress through ranks even if you finish 3/4. It's basically just 5 matches of not losing. You and your opponents Pokemon will be set to level 50.
Is there a list of which attacks are affected by size?
How should I build Metagross for online? Mega stone or no?
>>58553921>How should I build Metagross for online? Yes>Mega stone or no?Yes
>>58553914Not yet though aoe attacks like earthquake and surf get bigger and beam attacks like flamethrower get a larger range.
>>58553777If you only want the mega stones the greninjaite will be available next season at a lower rank and they lowered the requirement for the delphox stone so next season will be way easier
The key characters of the game are definitely getting updated teams for their reward matches after you beat the DLC, and I feel like theorising their upgraded teams already, for example Gwynn’s team has:>Banette, Gourgeist, Gengar, Froslass, Chandelure I’m guessing that her-post DLC team replaces Banette and adds Ceruledge and Annihilape
Finally got my shiny charm, and just a few minutes later i got an alpha shiny starmie, just a few side missions and royale matches and i’ll be done with the game
Aw, come on Taunie....
I’m having more fun with this than any game since SM
fairly niche question, is it possible to obtain the shiny charm before finishing the game? i wanna hunt a shiny alpha jumbo pumpkaboo so would like the charm when the game is night only if possible
/wfg/ wasn’t upCan someone help me evolve an alpha haunter?
>>58555435Yeah. You won't have access to certain post game stuff that gives you rewards while you grind the 1000 battles.
>>58555494Post code.
>accidentally used a pokeball instead of premier on first shinyit's so over bros.. is victreebel's mega stone available fairly early?
Can someone help me evolve my Kadabra, I love her so much and hate the thought of leaving her behind.
>playing ranked for greninjanite>getting hard carried by the Glaceon>use Blizzard on a garchomp>Dragonite Extremespeeds in out of nowhere>they both explode to the blizzard>Plus move FreezeDry into a pack>freezes all 3 monsAmazing what not being gimped by shitty speed will do to a mon
>>58555934Actually make it 00552244
Very much a longshot, but would anyone be willing to trade me a friend ball in Legends ZA? I want to catch Zygarde in one
>night almost ending>get a card to poison 1 enemy pokemon>"this should be easy">the next 5 trainers I encounter only have poison or steel typesthis has to be intentional
I'm just gonna do a driveby in here--what does Hawlucha's mega actually do? I don't have the game yet and the only shit that comes up when I google just has the same abilities Hawlucha has always had. It's not just a stat boost, right?
>>58556437this game doesn't have abilities
>>58556442Well shit. So are all the megas just stat boosts, then?
Dammit I want to have Ceruledge in this game already, can’t wait for the DLC to come out
>>58556560Mega Ceruledge maybe.
>>58556457Stat boosts, typing changes, also megas automatically use plus moves which is an additional damage boost.
The hunt for a moon ball is killing me.
>>58556375I would if I had nintendo online
There's NO way I have 10 screws left to find. Ive been all over this city dozens of times for 3 days now
>>58557294Is the giant Canari plush even worth it? I'm probably still gonna collect every screw anyway since I find it fun
>>58557515Its just a big plush for your hotel room
>>58556663We already know that Ceruledge (and Armarouge and Tinkaton) aren’t getting megas despite being in the DLC, sadly, I’m guessing they are still in just because they’re popular
>just finished the story>thinking about starting the MP grind for Greninjite>decide to check what the plans are for Season 2>see thishttps://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/earn-delphoxite-and-greninjite-in-pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battles-season-2-november-2025>For Trainers who reach Rank S during this season, a special reward of Delphoxite, which is used to Mega Evolve Delphox into Mega Delphox, is waiting. Greninjite—the Mega Stone required to Mega Evolve Greninja—will also be redistributed as a promotion reward for reaching Rank Y.If I skip season 1, then I get to play less MP matches to get two stones than I would if I started grinding for the first stone now. Seeing as I hate playing MP, this is a good deal.>>58557294I'm down to 9 screws left without having gone out of my way to search for them. Seeing as the only plushie I haven't maxed is the 'player takes less damage' one, I don't mind never finding them all.
>>58557857The greninja stone right now is literally less than an hour of playing.
>>58557861Yeah, but it could also be less than 10 minutes of the hour or so it'd take to get the Delphox stone.That seems like a better deal to me.>switch no longer connects to my home wifi>it was fine several months ago when I last played it>the only wifi/tether in the house it can connect to is my cheap and shitty phone>I live in rural Australia where mobile signal can be spotty on good daysThe less time I spend online gaming on my switch, the better.
>>58557857Reaching Rank E in the current season now will be the only way to get Sport Balls though, which are pretty valuable
>>58558037My balltism is normal pokeballs until I have the funds to use luxury balls. Occasionally a shiny gets put in a premier ball, but otherwise it's just normal and luxury.
>>58558096That’s fair, I’ve been wanting to build a Gyarados maybe for next ranked but i’m holding off until Sport Balls get legally released
>>58552641Probably not because ZA doesnt use your real world time. If it were based off of how many ingame day cycles you go through, then it would have been reported by people sleeping on benches over and over.
WHERES THE BALL DUPE GLITCH
Man I want the DLC already, I wish the postgame had more to do beyond infinite royales and shiny hunting
>>58557857There's 23 screws after making the blushes you dummy.Also, you literally can get greninjite right now by just playing MP like 5 times. You advance no matter what unless you literally do nothing
Is speed useless in this game? I just feel like fights just come down to doing sumo wrestling fights with your biggest and bulkiest mons.
>>58559203Its not very important compared ro the overall move cooldown. If you load up on high bp moves, your speed wont make a noticable difference. But it can be quite strong if all your moves hover in the 60-90 range. Training speed probably doesnt matter.
>>58559252Should I always be running max hp and some non speed stat if I'm making competitive builds then? Even for pokemon who would usually like more speed?
>>58559281Probably, but honestly online can rapidly become a clusterfuck. Good positioning and timing will do a lot more then the extra stat points.
>you can fall multiple times and make Corbeau angryok this was KINO as fucknever expected for GF to put effort on this
>try and do Z-A Royales normally, only manage up to 32~ wins per night even at my most productive>say fuck it and look up a guide>build up an Alpha Dratini I had in my boxes and resetting for the Jaune District Battle Zone I needed>got 52 (53 if you count the reward match after) wins in one session even after fucking up the loop multiple timesThank fuck, if this method didn't exist I probably would've held off doing the rest until Mega Dimension dropped
>>58559939>Ran into a Shiny Bellsprout while doing thisHad to cut the night off at 34 victories because the area where it spawned was literally inaccessible that night due to the walls of the Battle Zone, but totally worth it regardless.Think I'll name her Rory
Can someone with Pkhex show me what Aloha Yveltal looks like?
>>58560718wat
>>58560727Meant Alpha
>>58558720>There's 23 screws after making the blushes you dummy.There is? I honestly didn't expect them to have that much leeway. Still, I now have 6 screws to go until I get the final plushie.>Also, you literally can get greninjite right now by just playing MP like 5 timessee >>58557873
I beaet the game, got AZ's LucarioHave done the infinity ZA tournament 3 times alreadyMy meganium has reached level 100 I still haven't collected all of the colorful screwsI still haven't completed the PokedexI still haven't finished all the side quests I still haven't worn an outfit outside of the default I still haven't figured out how to catch a Shiny Skarmory since it's apparenlty strong nowI feel overwhelmed there's still so much to do, and I'm still trying to balance this between Sonic Crossworlds and Xenoverse 2, there's a new festival of universe going on and ichiban is due out this week as well as in this game another online tournament is staring for Delphox' mega stone, I don't remember the date, I don't remember what rank I have to reach to get itI've found 2 shiny pokemon thus far, Dratini now a Dragonite and a valued member of my team and Espurr who I'll train up since it's going to get a mega going by the leaked listOh, and I gotta go back to work starting tomorrow, what should I do?
>mayor brought up multiple times in the game>we never see him
>>58560890>I still haven't figured out how to catch a Shiny Skarmory since it's apparenlty strong nowwild zone 20. If you kill the fodder and do the trick to triple the centre spawn points for alphas, you can just run, fast travel or use a bench a few dozen times to respawn them and quickly build up some shinies.
Wait so why actually is Yveltal in Lumiose, they never explain it. Just say that its headed to Lumiose and we catch it. Seems a bit anticlimactic
>>58560890>I still haven't finished all the side quests I'm never doing this since you don't get anything from it.
>>58560933I didn’t realize they gave you all the actual held items until my run was almost over. I only did a few of them and still ended up overleveled for all the story until the post game fights, game needed a better exp curve.
Willing to trade everything in this box for anything in return.None of these are Alphas and both snorunts are men. As for the Fennikin, she was three perfect IVs and I'd like her to have a nice home. Please reply if you are interested. It's better than releasing, I suppose.
>>58560967>didn't post pictureI'm smart.
>Pokémon like Stunfisk and Emolga are competitively viable because they are small enough to go unoticed I love this game
>>58553224The DLC isnt out, its not even finished, theres some loose data for it thats been datamined but its not going to be out for a long time.The "Day 1 DLC" buzzword refers to the fact you can pre-order the DLC, not that its actually out or will be out any time soon.No thats not what Day 1 DLC usually means but people wanted a reason to be mad. Like how people continue to think any Switch 2 game besides Mario Kart is $80 because of memes.
i have like 8 boxes of random ass shinies i dont want. why did they not have wonder trade in this game?
>>58560925They only explain that the Ange issue in the climax is what attracts them to Lumiose. But they only explain that in Xerneas' quest for some reason kek
>>58561010Got any shinies that are XS?
>>58561023>XS anything1 in a billion
Will there be another Gimmighoul coin hunt in the DLC so you can evolve it? They have to add a way to evolve Gimmighoul in the DLC right, otherwise they’d be stranded in ZA unable to evolve, and you can’t send them back to SV to evolve them there either
>>58561023just checked, a male gardevoir
>>58561069>he forgot meltan
>>58561080i'll take that off your hands if you're looking to get rid of it.
>>58561086sure. post code as numbers
>>585610892000-0001i'll trade delibird
>>58561089numbers as code, whatever, 58561089
>>58561089Thanks man. i'll bottle cap it up tomorrow
>>58561010I'll take one if you don't want 'em, I'd take whatever but a Charmander or female Fennekin would be cool.
>>58561110have fun with the sneaky magic elf thing
>>58561111I dont have extras of those. Those are two of the hunts I got a lot of this trash trying to get (and stacking the alphas in 20)
>>58561112I have 4 XSmolmons nowthanks.
>>58561084Oh yeah, Meltan and Melmetal will also be added with the DLC…. Meltan is not gonna be evolvable here either will it? In Sword/Shield you couldn’t evolve Meltan eitherDo you think they’ll actually let Meltan be obtainable AND evolvable in ZA, or is that too much to ask and it’ll be transfer only and not evolvable
>>58561131You can't even evolve meltan in LGPE
>>58561130oh, I thought you were trying to do something competitively optimal or something. this is much cooler
>>58561130>tiny gardeimagine
I'm getting really tired of people ganging up on me online. I don't even use meta mons. Meta users always get to run in circles and farm low HP kills. Online blows in this, when are we getting team battles or 1v1s?
>>58552395Switch 1 moment
>>58561189tiny benis
>>58561148>oh, I thought you were trying to do something competitivelyoh, I am.>optimalnope. Most attacks scale with size, so something like dazzling gleam is much weaker when you're small. I'll try a defensive Gardevoir set with willow wisp and draining kiss/tbolt and either moon blast or mystical fireBut being small is cool, sometimes you can skirt around noticed, and you get a sick feeling of David v Goliath when you take down huge alpha mons
In the Infinite ZA Royale is there a way to choose who to rematch after beating Taunie? I wanna rematch Canari and Corbeau
>>58561231It's random after fight 20.
>>58561237Fuck
Got the shiny charm awhile ago but grinded out the last of the research to see if my wife said anything. Nothing on the reward screen but she praises you in the lab.
I thought everyone was saying the postgame in this game is way better than Arceus but it seems to be mostly the same: legendary hunt (smaller in this game since there's less legends), battle facility and complete pokedex/research as well as any remaining sidequestsAm I missing anything?
>>58561332Those people are liars. Arceus has something resembling a Battle Facility with the dream fights, this doesn't.
>>58561332online multiplayer
>>58561336I counted the infinite royale as a battle facility
>>58561336I still haven't caught XY so I'm guessing you can't replay the climax of the game?
>>58561349Already got rank A :PI still play it though since it's fun. But that is true
>>58561352That's dumb since there's no level scaling.
>>58561358No.
>>58561364I did not know that since I actually haven't finished it
>>58561359Yea, I wish online battles counted toward the 1k Mable quest. Online battles are fast and fun. And i'm glad they're 4 man FFA, i've had people drop and a 3-man FFA is terribly unbalanced.
>>58561398I'm not even bothering with that until the DLC since it will likely make it 1 trillion times easier
I fucking hate the side quests that make me have to raise a specific Pokemon otherwise they won't accept the fight.
I've got two free male Bagons. Tell me what ball you want it in.
>>58561857Shiny btw.
U wot m8?
>>58562176Grade A japanese lag
I just caught a big girl in area 18. Put her in a heal ball
>>58561319How was the sex scene?
ZA felt like it wanted the ability to change the case of the Rotom Phone way more than SV did, with it showing the characters phones during every rank match and stuff.
>>58562860You can change your case in SV tho
>>58562887That was my point, yes.
>>58562860Seriously, the phone shows up so much that there's no excuse for not letting us at least change the colors. Especially because of how easy it would be (there's already other color models in the game) + there's a clear emphasis on fashion and other color options for hair and eyes in Lumiose
>>58563079Wasn't it customizable in SM?
>>58563080been a long while since I played Sun/Moon but I can't recall that being an option, regardless, they just hyped up the customisation stuff for this game despite whats there being fairly lacklustre, especially with, as I said, stuff like the phone colors which would be super easy to implement.
>>58561468For real, they are the worst. I only have 1 remaining and it's the Furfrou one and I just have 0 motivation to do it even with the Alpha I have. It feels like such a chore.
Got my first Alpha Shiny with a Krookodile. Shame that it's not, "meta," competitively but it still looks rad as hell.
>>58562860>have rotom phone>cant use rotom to fight>not even rotom in region
Is it just me or are glass cannons like Mega Alakazam especially shit in this game. Even if you do ranged attacks all it takes is like 3 seconds for a Swords Danced up Mega Garchomp to run up and dragon rush you and ur in the shadow realm
>>58563532Its definitely better to get a pokemon with decent defence + speed in this game so you don't have to keep ducking back into your inventory to heal.
>>58563712speed doesn't affect how fast you attack
The rank a promotion actually kicked my ass
>>58563735i don't believe you, any half-assed team should be able to limp through it even if they have to spam items
>>58563729really? what the hell does it affect?
>>58563746I think actual movement speed
>>58563746literally cooldowns only0.033s per point of spd past 25there is a cap of 3s, cds can't go lower than this, so any mon with about ~190spd doesn't gain anything from more spd for 8s cd or lower moves, assuming you can actually fire off all your skills before cd becomes a factor
>>58558037Are they available at the ball store after you get them?
What would be some good picks to counter all the yveltal and xerneas spam that's going to be in season 2?
>>58563793i don't see xerneas making a splash since geomancy is shit in this game, but yveltal is going to be super annoying with oblivion wing. the obvious pick would be a steel type but all the steel-types in this game are shit against yveltal except for mawile and klefki and they aren't good mons themselves
>>58552331>How early in the game did you play ranked?>How far did you get?>What was your team?
>>58563793If you can use Diancie, she should be pretty good into Yveltal, only problem is Steel moves from other meta mons like Metagross.
>>58563874She's not in yet
>>58563862I got to Rank K and got the Greninja Stone like 3/4 of the way through the story, but you should be fine to muddle through by the time your Pokémon are level 50+. Most lower ranks are filled with people in the same situation who have no idea what they're doing. It doesn't get really sweaty until maybe Rank B.My team was Feraligator, Excadrill and Talonflame, neither was fully EV trained or Alpha or anything special.
Has anyone found Volcanion at all? I can see it has dex entries and data in the game, is it maybe like the SV Meloetta and we just haven't figured it out yet? I only need it and Zeraora for my special Magearna and it is driving me crazy.
>Got to rank E>No Sport BallWhat is this scam?
>>58563855Oblivion Wing has a long wind up though. Also I've seen Mawile being used with success
>>58564220I thought the sports balls were season end rewards.
>>58564259This makes more sense, I'm dumb.I'm having fun though so I'll push a bit more to see how far I can get with a team that doesn't have good moves and has terrible natures.
>>58563862>How early in the game did you play ranked?Day 2 of when the game first released.>How far did you get? I got the Greninjite during the same day and told myself that I would complete the campaign first to optimize my team better but the allure of beating the shit out of other players won me over in the end and I got rank A on the same day as I got the stone. Its been a massacre ever since. >What was your team?Sylveon, Greninja, and Lucario. None of them were alphas.
Can i tradeevo someone one of my machokes for the research please? I will do the same for you.
>>58552331Just finished the battle with Canari. Is it ok to start spamming ranked for the rewards now? Never tried it before. Everyone is around level 40.Also got an Eevee laying around. What level is it best to evolve it? What is the current best evolution for ranked?
>>58564733Your pokemon get auto leveled to 50Glaceon is a top tier in ranked, freeze dry, icy wind, ice beam, calm mind
>>58564341You can 100% make it to A through smart play. Even with trash. Well maybe not trash. Alpha magikarp can spawn with hydropump, but i wouldnt take it into ranked.
>>58563532I mean, Mega Gardevoir was running all around ranked for a hot minute (though I dunno if Xerneas has put it out of a job now that it's legal) and mons like Glaceon and Pikachu were also seeing regular use
>>58564765>Well maybe not trashGot to rank D but for the past 4 ranks everything one shots my shitty mons. It kinda sucks
>>58557515Behold
>>58563862>>How early in the game did you play ranked?after I beat the game. I do not care for greninja so there was no need for me to rush into online.>>How far did you get?A rank>>What was your team?Delphox, Jolteon and Glaceon.
>>58564864How do you get this and are there any other customizable things for your room?
>>58564906It's the thing you get for collecting all the screwsNo
>>58564921lame
>>58564853Glaceon is tanky as shit with screens tho
>>58564864>8 screws for the last plush>Lol there's 23 screws left if you want the big plushCut my life into pieces.
>>58564856Get a focus band or use the resistance berries. Nobody expects that.
>>58565020All I have is quick claw anon...
How can I evolve inkay to malamar on eden emulator in android?
>>58564864I'm missing 2 screws and I'm not sure I care enough since I've had the shiny charm since week 1.
>>58565115Just wait for wild zone 20
>>58565087There are berry merchants all over lumiose and you probably picked up half of them wandering around. The focus sash is side mission 59. Not very far in to the game actually.
>>58565325Thanks anon, but I just got to rank A right before your post. Thank god people seem to love Garchomp.Swords Dance + Ice Punch with my Greninja that has a neutral atk nature was able to one shot a bunch of them and carry me. That was a lot of work for 3 sport balls but it was fun.
found abra while on a eevee catching spree
Of all the held items to bring into ZA why weakness policy? It doesn't do much with how stat buffs work, unless the weakness policy buff is secretly stronger then the others. What is surviving a super effective attack in this format and sticking around to start attacking? Only thing that moght fit is avalugg.
Why did they make Eevee only spawn once per certain areas?
>>58565213Just caught alpha inkay in the sewers so wanted to evolve it.No way to evolve inkay on eden android?
I have exactly 1 screw missing, what are the chances I find it on my ownWill I really have to check the location of every screw again
>>58565804Just run on the rooftops in a spiral the giant purple beacon should catch your eye eventually.
