I was thinking more competitive. Just curious how online will pan out. Being new I'm expecting people to have perfect teams already lined up.
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Pokemon X Pokemon Y |OT| Gotta Catch em All...NOW IN 3D!
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I was thinking more competitive. Just curious how online will pan out. Being new I'm expecting people to have perfect teams already lined up.
Nobody's going to have a perfect team until we know just what effect Mega Evolution and Fairy types will have on the metagame. They're pretty significant changes.
hemtae
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Ingame, you can pretty much make anything work. Competitively, it starts to get a little complicated. There isn't anything that's "unbeatable" but there are certain stuff that synergize well like Skarmory+Blissey, Rotom-W+Scizor, and stuff like that.
Yeah gameplanet is doing this too https://www.facebook.com/gameplanetmx in the cover photo it says "available now!" and a friend of mine posted a picture of his copy
Antiwhippy
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No chance of australia breaking street date right?
...right?
...right?
No one's going to have their perfect team because of the new additions (Fairy type, Mega Evolutions, etc.) and also because of a lack of being able to transfer their Pokes from B2/W2 at launch.
Honestly, random online battles should likely be full of in-game teams for the first week. It might be at least three weeks before anyone has the right team they want to use competitively. What with needing to trade, needing to figure out how strong/weak the new Pokemon are, how Fairy types are, etc.
For some of us who have been playing for awhile, it'll feel like we're starting over anew anyway. So, it sort of turns out that everybody is somewhat on an even playing field.
Not looking likely
Nintendo Australia is being really hard on stores here this time around.
If the meta isn't absolutely broken, things won't settle for some months.
Aww shiet, really? :O
Thanks.
Hm, not sure if we're going to pick it up on Saturday or just mess around downtown for a few hours- I don't feel like losing to eShop folks!
Deified Data
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B2/W2 was the first game where I picked a female character...that trend might have to continue.
ScraftyDevil
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If anyone knows where I can find a copy of X or Y in the Greater Toronto Area, please shoot me a PM as soon as you can. Thanks!
SquiddyCracker
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Oh, Amazon UK dispatched my copy today.
Friday pokemon fun
Friday pokemon fun
I'll add you once I get home, my FC is 4425 - 1491 - 4842
That goes for anyone else too who decides to add me, just message me back.
By the way eShop prices are up now and it's apparently only $59.95 as most games have been recently
looks like the early reports of $69.95 were off.Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
By the way eShop prices are up now and it's apparently only $59.95 as most games have been recently
Still, I'd much rather get the discount of $15 using the big w price match.
There were 54 different Pokemon represented at the World Championships last year at the highest age division and I don't believe any two teams were 100% the same -- even with some players who based their own team off another.
Pretty much yeah, same reason I'm waiting for tomorrow haha.
What do shinys do?
Different color.
ShyGuy0504
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Mihael Mello Keehl
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They are absolutely beautiful digital collectors items
Its pretty to be obsessed with them once you get one. I remember when I hatched a shiny adamant charmander. It was a beautiful thing :,)
K
kittens
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I love your avatar!They are absolutely beautiful digital collectors items
Conor_Fool
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Is there a link to a recent post that outlines all of the differences in X and Y? I have been Team X from the get-go, but I am having second thoughts...
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Are there any breaking date? Id check tomorrow.
Thankyou! Ive had this color scheme for link for a long time in my mind. BGBW made it happen..
Surely you can see black charizard? :/
I dunno if they do it here, but there will be a sparkle animation or whatever when a shiny one gets sent out.
So this is a really, really stupid question but: in the newer Pokemon games are you able to catch Pokemon from previous generations? Like say, can you catch a Mudkip in the new game? Or is it just 100% new Pokemon? Sorry, been forever since I've played Pokemon and can't remember how it works >.< Thanks.
X/Y contain heaps of older pokemon from every generation that are obtainable by catching.
Mudkip, however, is a starter pokemon and has never been catchable in the wild.
Ah right. Thanks!
Metal Khaos
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I'm in the same boat. I always see people get crap early but none of the 50 stores near me ever break street dates.
I don't mean to sound like a cunt, but I am not really enjoying the way the main character controls. There's something weird about the way it still sticks to a grid, and the diagonal contols seem a bit...off. Presumably I'll get used to it, but I'm still struggling to get used to it a couple of hours in. Rollerskates seem to make the situation worse, and I'm using the D-pad just to avoid using them at the moment. :/
There must have been a better way to say that...
darkpaladinmfc
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I thought roller stakes made it way better, it's so fun to move around on them.
It's quite good fun tearing around on them, but actually going in the direction you want, or rather aiming for NPCs or doors, is a bit of a nightmare. So far.
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Deleted member 17706
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Looks like lots of places in Central/South America are doing official releases tonight. Wonder if Nintendo down there gave them the go ahead or something? Maybe they just don't care.
Crimsonlink
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Alright WTF seriously!
First UK of all places gets it first, then South America, what next Japan gets it... oh wait they are a day ahead anyways.
Screw you Nintendo for picking Saturday of all days. I'm asking my Gamestop if they will give me my copy tomorrow.
First UK of all places gets it first, then South America, what next Japan gets it... oh wait they are a day ahead anyways.
Screw you Nintendo for picking Saturday of all days. I'm asking my Gamestop if they will give me my copy tomorrow.
SpaceBridge
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Anyone in Toronto find a copy early tomorrow shoot me a PM. If I find it I'll post in kind.
mapachealocado
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Retailers in Mexico went crazy. One was having a night sale tomorrow (where I preordered) and the competition suddenly went and said "night sale TODAY!" so the first store just said "fuck it, you can purchase it here right now". I've never put on pants faster in my life.
There're so many Pokémon on the first areas that I can't decide what to use
There're so many Pokémon on the first areas that I can't decide what to use
Retailers in Mexico went crazy. One was having a night sale tomorrow (where I preordered) and the competition suddenly went and said "night sale TODAY!" so the first store just said "fuck it, you can purchase it here right now". I've never put on pants faster in my life.
There're so many Pokémon on the first areas that I can't decide what to use
lmao
QuiteWhittle
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Yeah. I only gave the leak thread a cursory glance when they were discussing them, so I don't know how major or minor those differences are but, supposedly, they are there.
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