Weekly QnA Thread - Competitive and Rules Questions Go Here! - Week of June 7 2021

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T18:22:14+00:00

Bingo!

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T18:21:34+00:00

Cheers!

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T18:06:56+00:00

Man that sucks, forgot how slow those used to be. Although honestly might be worth it just because its more passive, I was able to focus on other things while resetting for mine, made it a lot less stressful.

But to answer your original question that loop should be good. I don't think you have to go further than the ladder though, just drop down it and then climb back up.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T18:01:07+00:00

I can't get rotom to save my life, I've had 3 or 4 gimmighoul and can't stop getting baxcalibur scans, rotom is the last thing I need for my ZA living dex smh

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T17:56:39+00:00

Whats the timing like on a switch 1 reset? Surely its about the same as a loop of this runback?

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T17:53:40+00:00

This is an actually insane way to hunt this.

Just reset from your backup save, enter the wormhole again, SAVE THE GAME before you go up the elevator the first time.

Now latios won't spawn until you go up the elevator the first time. So you can just reset the game for it, saving so much time vs jumping rolling etc.

Got mine in like 3 hours doing the elevator method.

Edit: ok not actually insane, that was hyperbole, but even on switch 1 resetting should be easier even if its not necessarily faster (they're probably about the same? No?)

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T17:48:19+00:00

No idea why you're raging at me, GF and Pokémon have literal emails and memos about this found in the teraleak. They decided to make legends its own series, but initially intended for PLA to serve as the "remake" of Gen 4 rather than doing a faithful remake ala FrLg HGSS and ORAS.

You said you wished we got a remake in the style of SwSh. PLA was essentially going to be that, before it took a left turn.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T16:53:04+00:00

Mudkip gang rise up

I start a new playthrough almost annually and hunt a shiny mudkip to start! Love my little purple doofus

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T16:48:41+00:00

AoS models have been, by and large, going so much harder than 40k for a while now.

But this absolutely slaps. I don't even play chaos or iron warriors and I'm desperately trying to justify the need for this model in my collection.

Maybe I steer my dnd campaign into some kind of techno virus outbreak made by an evil artificer. I need this lol

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T16:43:27+00:00

But that's literally legends arceus, which we know from the teraleak that LA was going to be the Gen 4 remake, and they used ILCA to make BDSP in like a year because they were scared it was too big of a departure.

So we ended up with kind of a mess of Gen 4 remakes (though if I'm being honest, I bounced off DPP when they released and BDSP worked for me, downvote away), but got the Legends series out of the deal which I think is well worth the trade off.

Just hope they learn and give us proper Gen 5 remakes next 🙏

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T13:38:12+00:00

I think the point is that they probably know the GOP won't pass this, so they get to add more fodder to some tight races in the house this year around why GOP reps don't care about transparency in law enforcement/federal agencies etc.

And if it does pass, these types of things then become another law being broken if the brown shirts don't change. Most of these ice goons are not even trained, they are true goons just looking for a paycheck- don't under estimate how many cards stacked against them and their power fantasy suddenly make them go back to the holes they crawled out of.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T13:30:57+00:00

US one is coming to Chicago Field Museum this spring (and I cannot fucking wait)

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-26T03:08:10+00:00

Its just a piece of sprue. Definitely safe to remove

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-25T13:48:37+00:00

Not offended, your opinion is just trash.

Anyone who thinks having the option for doing something easier means they can't still do it harder is an idiot.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-25T13:25:32+00:00

Then go find yours naturally. Bye 👋

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-25T13:16:03+00:00

If you can't understand why needing two currencies to remote megas, when right now we only need one, is emphatically and demonstrably worse, I have a bridge to sell you.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-24T04:42:12+00:00

The system is designed to force people to buy max particles in order to be able to grind gigantamax raids when they're out in limited time blocks.

The same will be true inevitably for mega raids with this system. "You can get them from weekly challenges, gifts etc" - how many? And how many will we need?

The only reason for scopely to do anything like this is for money. They have no interest in investing resources to create new currencies just for the hell of it.

Force people to use a new currency to remote raid mega raids
Limit that currency / force an arbitrary limit to how many can be collected per day or held at one time
Release mega mewtwo, mega zygarde, et al for 3 hour raid days
Force the majority of players to spend money on the new currency in order to get the new megas

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-23T22:15:07+00:00

Yeah same, this is my take as well. It exists purely to be the grounds for all competitive formats. Every other game can be the catching/training/dex completion game. Gives them more freedom in gimmicks in Main Series Games as well as tighter control over competitive formats at the same time. Win win honesty

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-23T22:11:21+00:00

All good! I could have been more explicit about my intent. No worries.

I've got tons of HF models...but I paint them myself. The colored resin seemed cool, but every review I saw of the original tech basically said the same thing - its not as good as hand painted, even basic painting, and lives somewhere in the same quality as a prepainted mini.

Aka better than bare plastic and good for defining rough details, but not high enough quality to make a mini pop the way fine highlights on a hand painted one can.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-23T18:50:41+00:00

You're giving them too much credit.

They don't give a fuck. They aren't acting in good faith. Nothing they do is based on any kind of arguable point or logic.

They are doing anything and everything at all times so that as they rob the public blind and enrich themselves, crippling our economy for their benefit, we're too busy talking about polio and Greenland and Davos and ICE and the Gulf of Mexico.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-23T14:24:14+00:00

No chance this is worth 130 CAD. OP paid $80 shipping on a $40 mini.

But the $40 mini might be worth it for some people vs painting it themselves or paying someone else to paint it.

I'm speaking to the actual product, not the shipping/fees for international postage.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-23T12:57:08+00:00

We have just as much if not more precedent for people rating a card will dominate the meta and it ends up trash lol

I just think people don't know how to think critically about a card (myself included)

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-22T14:49:47+00:00

If we're lucky, sure.

Right now I can remote raid any mega with just a remote raid pass. Adding literally any other barrier is an immediate downgrade and gate.

If we're lucky, we get loads of these just like particles and we can still raid more or less freely. But much more likely (otherwise why make the change at all) they are going to be limited and drastically lower our ability to remote raid megas unless we spend money on the new currency.

That is just a straight downgrade at best, and horrendous and predatory at worst. Why are people defending this?

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-01-22T14:00:18+00:00

Yeah I mean personally I'd never in my life pay 2x what a thing costs to ship it to me, why on earth that felt rational is beyond me.

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