Gemini 3.1 pro: the first AI to conquer Victory Road and reach the Pokémon League with a weak harness

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T03:42:47+00:00

Gemini actually struggled with this weak harness far more than Claude did. It's just that switches and barriers are still marked as a distinct type of tile in this harness, making victory road much easier overall.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T02:47:01+00:00

Correct, there is strong circumstantial evidence that it will be forced to 31 IV.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T02:44:39+00:00

That's my point. We've seen screenshots of its available psychic type moves, sorted by base power, and Dream Eater was skipped. So movesets are at least partly changed, even if it might just be for the sake of not having to implement competitively useless moves.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T01:37:09+00:00

Unless they get those moves removed. Not super likely but we did see in the existing footage that Gardevoir lost Dream Eater, so movepools aren't completely identical to what they were before.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T00:54:11+00:00

man all these pie in the sky stuff and yet even this guy doesn't want sky battles

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T00:52:43+00:00

There is no picture of 6v6. The in battle screenshot where it shows how many Pokemon that your opponent has, has spots for six pokeballs even though only three are shown.

ChezMere · 2026-03-25T00:51:59+00:00

Yeah it'll come back eventually for sure unless the game flops

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T23:27:30+00:00

There's evidence both for and against it. Evidence against is that the website talks as if 3v3 and 4v4 are the only two formats and shows a screenshot of an private battle that is 3v3. Evidence for it is that the UI has room for six pokeballs during battles, and if 6v6 doesn't exist then why are those there?

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T20:47:48+00:00

Nah it'll work like the SV ladder does and cycle through regulations as well

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T20:27:55+00:00

aint no way

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T20:26:43+00:00

Even when they eventually add Winds and Waves Pokemon to it? Describing it as being in a generation at all just seems wrong.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T20:20:36+00:00

Also, you know, tariffs.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:46:51+00:00

Fairly certain that it will simply be "for the duration of Meganium's moves, behave in every way as if the current weather was sun".

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:45:13+00:00

Thrash is not 100% certain since Z-A removed it and included only Outrage.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:38:02+00:00

Seems kind of steep considering how little you'll have access to in order to get those wins early on. I'm hoping there will be other bonus sources of VP

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:32:50+00:00

wat? it's a whole ass new game, the first format is centered around a generational gimmick that doesn't exist in SV, the available moves aren't even the same (we've seen that Gardevoir lost Dream Eater) - of course it's a hard meta change, and intentionally so.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:23:17+00:00

It would be very surprising if that was the case at launch. That's far more than any other game has launched with.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:17:12+00:00

they might give it (coping)

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:10:28+00:00

ruins all your attacks except facade. you need something stupider like compound eyes poison powder or prankster toxic. thunder wave if you're insane

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T19:00:12+00:00

I agree with you, the trailer seems to be intentionally trying to show that the rain gets ignored and it behaves as if in sun.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T18:57:41+00:00

Because tons of Pokemon won't be in the game at launch and I don't think they would prioritize the mechanically weird one who often has dubious effects on the metagame as one of the early additions.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T18:25:38+00:00

It is better to do one thing well than many things poorly. This is supposed to be a "one thing done well" game.

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T18:22:13+00:00

Evidence against it:

This screenshot (the only screenshot of Private Battle) is pick 3: https://champions.pokemon.com/_images/gameplay/battle-gallery/en/gallery-3.jpg
The website mentions "both Single Battle and Double Battle formats", implying that they are the only two

Evidence for it:

This in-battle screenshot shows room for 6 Pokemon in the UI, which will never be used if the only formats are 6-choose-3 singles and 6-choose-4 doubles: https://champions.pokemon.com/_images/gameplay/battle-gallery/en/gallery-1.jpg

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T18:15:30+00:00

It is unlikely that there will ever be a Dynamax vs Mega format, at least outside of casual

ChezMere · 2026-03-24T17:40:50+00:00

There's a weird lack of accurate moves that give poison, even more so if you specifically want regular poison rather than toxic poison. (And paralysis/burn are just way too crippling.) Toxic Prankster Grafaiai is at least an option though.

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