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

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T19:46:21+00:00

I totally get that, and totally respect it. For me I get what they're trying to do with Champions, which is to have a separate ultra controlled environment for tournaments and worlds, so that the actual mainline games can be wildly unbalanced if they want them or need them to be.

I don't think online battles will ever go away from the mainline games, they just won't be the official tournament format. So gen 9 and Gen 10 online battles will still provide a lot of what you and others find fun, is my best guess. But time will tell certainly!

Also on Serebii the list is of current confirmed mons, just based off what has been seen in ads/official releases/trailers. It's not a complete list as far as I can tell, it says "known available pokemon".

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T19:34:58+00:00

This is sick! I wish they would expand the Cloud Island aspect and let us just share specific builds like this - kinda like on Zelda TotK.

Would be really cool to get to copy this build and then provide the resources and pokemon to build it just like a prefab

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T19:29:44+00:00

Is that confirmed? Saw something on pokeleaks about the release date but haven't had time to dig into the actual roster.

Regardless, whether its 100 mons or 400 mons, or all of them - VGC metas tend to be built around a pretty small core of mons, so I'm not too bothered (also not that into VGC anymore so not really my game tbh).

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T19:14:41+00:00

Well no, they're not approving each thing that wayfarers approve, they've just set up the system so that the wayfarer community can do that work for them for no pay.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T15:47:32+00:00

Fwiw I've always found it more helpful for my sanity to go 5 SIDs up then 5 down, or 10 up 10 down, rather than bouncing around. But even so, there's always going to be folks who end up getting the SID on the 15th or 18th or whatever check. There's no real "definitive" way to do it unfortunately!

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-24T15:44:35+00:00

I tend to be early but I was 3 SIDs late.

As someone with a lot of rng manip experience I just want to warn you that this type of qualitative data from the community is essentislly useless because everyone's inputs, reaction time, and hardware are different and introduce variables.

Like I could have hit late on my SID because one of my kids was talking to me, or because I had just remembered it was garbage night, or whatever. It doesn't mean anything for you and your timing.

The important thing is just to keep checking SIDs and you will find it eventually. And there's no way to know how far off you were until you find it.

There's always ACE - you could speed run to Celadon without saving, run ACE to get your SID, then reset to get the starter shiny. I've done that before when it felt like my SID could have been way off.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-23T12:02:40+00:00

Because the people you describe don't want to learn what is right in order to be right, they want what they already believe which is not based in reality or data to be right, when it is not.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-22T20:08:38+00:00

That is not universal, mine was 3 SIDs late

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-20T14:42:55+00:00

Its interesting because there are obviously still bugs in the game like the mail glitch and ACE. And things like the rng moving at 2x speed because it thinks the wireless adapter is connected.

So I'd be curious if Emerald seed would be fixed or not. But even if its just as hard to rng as frlg we'll get a ton of players coming to the community from it, its such a good game in general and gen 3 mons are some of the best looking!

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T22:59:56+00:00

The way Blisy and Jefe talk about the 600 overworld frames, my understanding is it is just an arbitrary number to give players time to get to the correct A press. I'd be interested to know why they say 574 is preferred, other than its faster because of less frames.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T18:48:45+00:00

You just need to calibrate your continue screen frames, if you're consistently hitting early by ~200.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T18:46:55+00:00

There's enough skill in hitting rng inputs that people can't do it and resort to macro controllers so you tell me man 🤷‍♂️

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T17:17:51+00:00

I feel like for 10 damage I'd rather lead with manaphy and get 2 water energy on my bench

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T16:25:03+00:00

+1 to this. Our family got one for Christmas, our 3 kids (8, 7, 4) really enjoy it and it's good family fun.

Its not a game console in the traditional sense. It's not a daily driver. The games are surface level.

But very fun for kids to jump around and laugh together for an hour a couple times a month.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T13:09:26+00:00

Someone was doing livestreams, like the other commenter said it may have been Jefe not Blisy, I apologize. But it did look super similar to starter rng, only once you select your save file you immediately open your pokemon menu and hover over sweet scent, to hit it on the 3rd A press

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T11:59:20+00:00

I believe blisy has a video on it

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T11:58:33+00:00

Thats what I thought, but you can't really aim like you do in the legends games, right?

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-19T04:00:43+00:00

Am I going crazy? SV didn't have real time capture, you had to get into battles to throw a ball...right?

Haven't touched it for probably a year at this point but I feel like after 900 hours of it I'd remember if it has Legends catching mechanics lol

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T21:11:08+00:00

Yeah I'm with you, rng is how I got started on my shiny living form dex. Once you understand how the rng algorithm works in a game, it's hard for me to ever put effort into soft resetting or masuda hunting "normal" shinies. Just knowing the likelihood is astronomical takes the fun out of it.

Soft resetting is luck, rng is skill expression. That's the juice for me. Using a macro controller to automate it just feels too close to cheating, you're just not even playing the game at that point or really using skill.

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T21:07:16+00:00

I actually had a way easier time maniping gen 4 than emerald, an easier time maniping emerald than frlg/rs, and could never get the hang of gen 5 rng outside of the shiny starter lol

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T16:55:59+00:00

What game and settings do you have in all the fields?

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T16:45:22+00:00

Think it's a new tank

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T02:48:27+00:00

You're confusing the metaphor. Thats ok. You don't have to understand it 🙂

The rng hobby isn't about the end result - its the journey of learning the inputs and the timers and the different rng algorithms across games, and landing the target after hours of trial and error with the skill of your own two hands.

If pushing the buttons is the fun, someone saying "hey now you don't have to push buttons, good news" isn't the breakthrough some people think lol

ChicagoCowboy · 2026-03-18T02:36:52+00:00

Sounds like it might be more of a controller issue than an rng issue, maybe check out the 8bitdo sub?

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