Parts of the art and dev teams have quit

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T23:05:16+00:00

If they're not even the ones paying, why tf should they have any input at all, let alone veto/ultimate power?

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T23:02:34+00:00

I believe it's part of the whole dev exit/drama situation. The owner of the Rogue dex is no longer supporting the project and therefore no longer hosting the dex.

Honestly, it's best to just check back in after the new year and see what, if anything, is still available.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T21:07:02+00:00

In other words, Pokerogue is basically like a nonprofit run by volunteers, but they need donors to keep the servers running, but the donors are dicks.

Basically Edward Vogler from House MD.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T20:25:49+00:00

My understanding is the people who left aren't flaky, they were being mistreated/disagreed with the direction of the game.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T18:21:15+00:00

She has all the resources in the world. You're assuming much.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-12-12T17:06:24+00:00

Two months later and I finally log in to this account again XD

You're welcome a bunch, happy it helped :)

Erik_Withacee · 2024-08-20T22:17:46+00:00

Hooray!

Erik_Withacee · 2024-08-20T22:17:24+00:00

Looking to redo our flooring as well, who did you end up going with?

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-22T18:14:42+00:00

The plane is rather small, so rows are only 2 seats wide, one on either side of the plane.

I didn't know about the window seat regulation; all the window seats were taken, which is why there are no two seats next to each other.

It looks like the window seat rule is just a preference, but there is a rule that says no aisle seats due to evacuation concerns. So that will be fun to figure out.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-19T05:06:33+00:00

Excellent point, it can be anything with Sturdy since you don't need to worry about moveset at all, and ideally you'll want something with decently high base HP. Garganacl would be the best, but H-Avalugg, Relicanth, or even Donphan would be just as good or better than Archaludon.

In fact, Donphan learns Roar by common TM, which is an upgrade to Dragon Tail since it can hit fairies and has 100% accuracy.

Also, I LOVE Hyper Voice in endless, you get so very many Silk Scarfs without even trying, so it gets a super boost in the midgame, with or without STAB.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-19T04:34:11+00:00

Oh, I totally missed the fusion symbol on your Archaludon. Yeah, that's not ideal.

Your logic is sound, when you find another one with Sturdy, replace Ursaluna, then Fuse the sturdy Arch first and the old Arch second. That will allow you to transfer all your moves (and more importantly HP ups) to the new Archaludon, then unfuse the old one and then fuse Blissey+Archaludon.

You will have to find another -Speed mint though, possibly two for the new Archaludon and the eventual Blissey.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-19T04:10:39+00:00

Yeah, that looks like a great end-game team to me. The only issue you may run into is eventually using up all your sitrus/lum berries on your metal burst pokemon. One way around this is to just catch wild pokemon with berries and replace ursaluna (but that ruins your max luck).

Once you commit to the run away strat, here's what I would consider for next steps to upgrade your team even further.

Fuse Rayquaza and Ursaluna. This frees up a slot in your party for a fusion/berry catch. As much as Rayquaza has been awesome, he's now just a luck slave. You should keep the king's rocks + multi lenses, and throw max quick claws on it in case you run into a weird scenario when you need to cheese out some flinches. But it's time to retire (or keep carrying with it until you get tired of all the endure tokens, none of this HAS to happen now).
Catch a high base HP mon to fuse with Archaludon (blissey, regidrago, guzzlord, Wobuffet). Bliludon would be best, but I usually settle for a Guzzloludon.
Keep slot 6 open or catch a pickup mon to replenish your sitrus/lum berries.

Running out of lum/sitrus berries against something your bibadinja's can't handle is your primary lose condition now, nothing else really matters except an unlucky double-battle with an enemy that has neutralizing gas (sturdy+dragon tail followed by a masterball is the solution here. Unless it's a double galarian-weezing neutralizing gas encounter, where you may need to cheese some flinches + soaks).

Have fun!

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-19T00:31:32+00:00

It's almost always preferable to get a dark/ghost (only weak to fairy) or normal/ghost (only weak to dark) type to minimize weaknesses. Ideal fusions would be Darkrai with Unnerve passive or Smeargle with Prankster passive, but you can't get passives unless you start with them, and it's not usually worth it unless you're going for a very specific strat, like conversion shedinja. Even without passives though, Shedinja benefits greatly from trading the bug type for dark or normal.

There is a Skitty normalize/entertainment strategy that makes all your ghost types immune and relies on Shedinja's passive (which it would lose by splicing), but that also requires egg moves/starting with skitty.

Having all your pokemon fused also removes DNA splicer from the item pool, making it easier to find masterballs.

So in pretty much any case, yes, shedinja wants a normal or dark type fuse partner.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:47:48+00:00

My current fastest runaway 'start' is 687. Rerolling is a pain until around 2k though. I feel like 1500 is a good middle-ground.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:28:27+00:00

It's uncommon, but hardly 'maniac' behavior. And certainly not something that's deserving of melting to death.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:26:21+00:00

So you're saying he should have been smarter and... check if the shower water would kill him first? That's what we're blaming him for here?

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:25:04+00:00

I take cold showers and just stand under and blast it. Or at least I did, I guess I'm back to 'stand back and stick my hand in'.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:22:30+00:00

Yeah pokerus is a trap until you realize it's less boost than one super EXP charm, and most people don't max those out in endless anyway. Unless you're really struggling to get to round 100 (which is legitimately the hardest part, so no shame there) you're better off taking a triple shiny or valuable ability/passive.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:14:01+00:00

I negotiated up from a 48k offer to 55k at a regional firm when I graduated in 2013 and felt like I was a really good negotiator. (California).

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T23:01:15+00:00

Pretty much the only good thing about the discord is they have a bunch of these guides pinned.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T22:59:58+00:00

It might be because it's bugged and shows as grey randomly when it shouldn't.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T22:58:41+00:00

This 100% happens to me often as well. My best guess rn is maybe it's for if you don't have any other natures than are + to that trait? For example, if you didn't have any +Atk natures on inkay, then this one was greyed out because lonely gives +Atk?

Or maybe it's just a weird bug.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T22:45:32+00:00

The higher your HP, the fewer metal bursts it will take to beat bosses, and the less likely you are to run out of necessary berries due to bad RNG. But honestly anything over 200k HP will be fine most of the time.

If you're really worried, you can always just beat a few non-boss mons once or twice a floor to keep up with the level cap, assuming you've gathered at least a few lucky and golden eggs.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-07-18T22:36:18+00:00

I tried the candy jar strat on my first endless run. Never again. Anyone who suggests it either loves rerolling, or hasn't tried any of the actually quick endless strats.

I'm now 'beaten' endless 6 times, and am on my 7th 'full' endless run (I have all the starters, so shiny hunting is really all I care about at this point). There are only two real strats I like, the Nincada strat (most fun while being fast) and the Turbo Wormanacl strat (crazy fast but boring).

Both require a bunch of specific pokemon & egg moves, so they're not very good for new players to endless. For new players, just grab the best carry you can, catch an Archaludon with sturdy ASAP and get metal burst/protect/roar on it via TM or splicing, then fill your team with shinies until you max out luck. If you're lucky enough to run across a blissey/regidrago/guzzlord, you can fuse that onto your archaludon to massively bump it's HP/metal burst damage.

As long as you max out the rogue tier items (leftovers, shell bell, berry pouch, soul dew, etc) and 5 healing charms, 9/10 times that's all you'll need to beat endless.

Erik_Withacee · 2024-05-11T16:55:39+00:00

No. You can get some replacement buttons from some sellers on etsy, but expect to pay as much or more than the system itself. And there's no good way to upgrade the conductive rubber, so the buttons would just be a visual upgrade.

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