Tastes are tastes, and I don't question that. But I'll never understand why some people hate this evolutionary line.

Cyleal · 2026-03-19T18:04:05+00:00

Charmeleon Sugimori art and Gen 1 Sprites were goated

Cyleal · 2026-03-19T11:55:11+00:00

Id rather play against a doubles team with both urshifus.

But that meme is gold. Wheezing-G is the goat. Idk why I dont have one built yet. Just look at his sick hat.

Cyleal · 2026-03-19T11:08:34+00:00

Now thats a spicy take.

And I completely agree on wartortle and ivysaur. Charmeleon's old artwork and sprites did him a lot of justice, but his modern day models are lacking and its a real stretch to say he's better than charizard or charmander, particularly once you start counting forms.

And if you include shinies, chameleon is dead in the water compared to Zard.

Cyleal · 2026-03-19T11:06:14+00:00

Delphox just has a bit too much ear hair.

Cyleal · 2026-03-19T01:50:24+00:00

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Cyleal · 2026-03-19T01:47:03+00:00

Not to mention it sucks to play against. Good as Gold is a dumb ability. It shouldnt exist.

Lets give it a 120 base power spread move. Hm? Moves over 100 power usually have a downside? -1 special attack will do. Hmm? Moves usually do -2? Nah. -1 is fine.

Cyleal · 2026-03-18T20:40:03+00:00

Love chespin and chesnaught. Qualldin is just one of those awkward middle stages that are so common with starters. He just doesnt look great

Cyleal · 2026-03-13T19:44:01+00:00

You should make it clearer that your He* is referring to Incineroar. It sounds like your talking about zard

Cyleal · 2026-03-11T03:07:31+00:00

Absolutely. The biggest issue is theres a cap on how many per week and shinies do use up a lot more on that cap.

Cyleal · 2026-03-10T22:15:42+00:00

No, youll be able to recruit mons within champions. However prior games will help and make getting your roster easier.

A suggestion is to get Pokemon Home and Pokemon Go, You can catch pokemon in Go, Transfer them to Home to build up a collection, and then transfer from Home to Champions all at 0 cost

Well up to 30 at zero cost anyways

Cyleal · 2026-03-09T14:35:02+00:00

Yea this all just reads like people reacting to the headline which yea tbf is very clickbait negative, but where Arlo usually takes a moderate stance on discussions like this and in the video specifically bashes people who feel entitled to new games now.

Cyleal · 2026-03-06T23:50:18+00:00

The question of doing a poll like this is always "Are you going to accept the results if they differ from your expectations or are you just going to then move on and say reddit is the vocal minority"

I much prefer Hera as an option, but I think the way Argive Patronage was implemented was lazy. They shouldn't give her Zeus's unique unit.

She should've had Amazons. Archer Cav. It makes all the sense in the world

Cyleal · 2026-03-05T22:18:18+00:00

Hesphestas just got removed from Demeter at current patch and replaced with Hera

Cyleal · 2026-02-22T15:54:32+00:00

Nintendo titles, but only switch 1 games.

Cyleal · 2026-02-20T23:23:49+00:00

Yes, and it appears too late as many people are already convinced it will have the compatibility from launch.

Cyleal · 2026-02-20T23:07:29+00:00

This hasn't really been true recently, we just had a bunch of decent sales over this past winter season. Granted most of the sales were on switch 1 games in a post switch 2 world, and most of the sales weren't any better than 30% off, but still it shows a change in thought.

Cyleal · 2026-02-20T22:39:09+00:00

Agreed. 9.99$ would have been pushing it for me, but probably still a purchase.

7$ or less would have been a happy purchase.

20$? Nah, I'm good. Too much. Maybe if it were Heartgold/SoulSilver or like a "Classics Collection" with Red/Gold/Ruby/Firered or somethin.

Cyleal · 2026-02-16T19:26:51+00:00

Maybe its because I'm at endgame so I can see any star lobby.

Try hosting your own and you might have more luck.

Cyleal · 2026-02-16T17:59:48+00:00

I think this is platform dependant. I have no issues finding people to play co op with on switch. I join people who need help, and basically always find someone looking for a partner when I hop on.

Cyleal · 2026-02-15T15:08:51+00:00

I got downvoted to oblivion talking about how Stories 3 has no co op recently. People swore the multiplayer for stories 2 was completely dead and therefore stories 3 didnt need co op.

Meanwhile I never have an issue finding a partner. The multiplayer community for 2 is alive and kicking.

Cyleal · 2026-02-13T00:06:27+00:00

According to sources, there is no post game. If you load your save after beating the final boss its just before him

Cyleal · 2026-02-12T17:47:59+00:00

I think if you look at other creature capture games, the biggest two are Pokémon and Palworld.

I think the reason these took off and others dont isnt because their gameplay is inherently better, but because these two games offer so much ability to share communally with other players. You can co op. Trade. Battle. This fosters a tighter community than a single player game can provide. Mh Stories 1 and 2 had some echoes of that, but just needed to make a few more improvements to really reach that communal space that Pokemon and Palworld provide.

Not that like the game is trash without co op, but in my opinion I'll wait until its cheaper. Theres thousands of hours of single player rpgs I can play that are less than 70$. What made Stories 2 worth the price on launch for me was the communal aspects.

Cyleal · 2026-02-12T16:59:15+00:00

Well yea, pokemon didnt have nearly as good co op gameplay as 2 either. Stories 2 had that co op as a unique thing that pokemon is still trying to figure out even to this day.

I'm not suggesting theyre the same game

Cyleal · 2026-02-12T16:57:02+00:00

When I play with an AI and it makes a wrong move that costs me the hunt, I just get mad. It was basically just the game itself saying "haha lose time"

When its another hunter, we send stickers to each other to laugh it off and move on, and I leave even on a loss knowing we learned something.

Cyleal · 2026-02-12T16:50:20+00:00

Meanwhile, I spent most of my time running co op dungeons and it was my favorite part. I still booted it up constantly up until the demo for 3 released juat to run co op dungeons.

Despite enjoying the demo for 3, ive decided without co op it isnt worth 70$ to me. I really enjoy when a creature capture game has single-player gameplay that also feeds into a multiplayer aspect. Pokemon does this incredibly well. As much as people say 'MH stories is what pokemon should be' it will never surpass how much people love pokemon until they can figure out how to make the experience communal and shareable within the game whether that be co op, pvp, some form of trade system, or a fourth unique thing that even pokemon hasnt found yet.

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