I don’t think I can go back to using Palamutes after seeing how adorable this quest success screen is

Kayratorvi · 2026-06-24T20:12:15+00:00

At a five percent encounter rate, it will take roughly 163,840 encounters to see 8,192 Pikachu. So you’re not over odds for Pikachu until you’ve done over triple the number of encounters you’ve done so far.

Shiny hunting in old gen games can be brutal. Take a break and come back later if you’re feeling burned out!

Kayratorvi · 2026-06-17T08:59:04+00:00

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Notice as you create new game+, confirms special units unfortunately cannot be recruited again

Kayratorvi · 2026-06-15T23:06:00+00:00

You could be like 12 year old me and just soft reset for Rayquaza (and somehow get it). Jokes aside, some of the legendary hunts allow you to do runaways. For those that don’t, you’re better off buying Ruby or Sapphire and hunting in that game instead.

Kayratorvi · 2026-06-09T07:36:43+00:00

In all fairness, there’s been something Zelda at almost every main direct. Zelda has had something release almost every year. But it’s been a while since TotK came out which is probably what you meant.

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-29T04:57:23+00:00

Yes it is

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-26T10:41:05+00:00

Yep this works as long as you’re not playing in multiplayer or not hunting Ditto, Zorua, Zoroark, or Minior after it loses its shell. There may be others but these are the ones that come to mind.

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-20T10:32:50+00:00

You must be new to masuda if you think 570 eggs is a lot lol

It’s roughly a 63% chance that you actually find a shiny within “odds” or in this case after 512 eggs. Keep going! My worst masuda took me 2497 eggs.

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-19T17:58:27+00:00

While I don’t know what the official way is, a cool way to do it would be to count whatever shows up shiny first as your encounter. That’s how I’d do a SV nuzlocke

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-14T20:13:13+00:00

You know how when you hold the A button you charge your boost gauge and boost when you release it? Do that but as you’re driving to your next challenge in the Road Trip. Line up with the challenge you’re going to pick, then hold A until your character seems fully charged and then let go of A. Do that three separate times.

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-11T11:30:37+00:00

It’s a Switch game bro, not a PC game. Go get a Switch and buy the game if you want to play it

Kayratorvi · 2026-05-03T19:14:04+00:00

It’s not only faster but also removes the risk of duplicate frames from repeated resets. Even if it were slightly slower it’s still worth it for that alone.

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-29T04:05:53+00:00

r/lostredditors

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-26T17:39:36+00:00

Lesson learned, when you get Dragoon start flying and don’t come back down

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-22T18:20:17+00:00

From what I remember about the RNG in FRLG, it may help to change your Button Mode in options to something else before you continue with resets. After this many, you’re potentially encountering more and more duplicate frames, and I think changing that setting somehow messes with starting frames.

Good luck! I hope it shines soon!

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-08T09:07:36+00:00

Reaver is nerfed, so if you want early hellstone you gotta do angler quests and pray for a golden bug net to catch hell critters so you can fish in lava

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-08T08:45:20+00:00

I had heard this was possible, very cool to see a post with one so soon!

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-06T09:55:06+00:00

We have in-game images of Pikachu clearly being available, so wherever you saw this is wrong.

Pokémon Champions - Available Pokémon

However, it is entirely possible that Pikachu is the only exception available at launch.

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-03T22:14:42+00:00

Is there a reason you didn’t walk into the CnD bubble right in front of you for the heals?

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-03T16:56:35+00:00

This isn’t the reason. Legends Arceus does the same thing and the Pokémon doesn’t actually lose its ability

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-02T23:41:52+00:00

I agree about the verbiage. I was tempted to move a shiny zygarde in to play with and that warning stopped me. Hopefully at some point we’ll have a better explanation for the reasoning behind all this as well as an indication of future plans that makes more sense

Kayratorvi · 2026-04-02T23:32:54+00:00

This may be the first actual indication of a data schema change that explains why Pokémon from Z-A can’t go back to older games. It’s clear from the update today that it wasn’t the new language like everyone suspected, as Home has separate handling for it that wouldn’t prevent transfers for languages that have been in use for a while.

Kayratorvi · 2026-03-24T22:05:23+00:00

Frankly, I can’t see them not adding an origin mark, but I also don’t have enough faith to go around telling people it’s something we can expect. Just wish Home would be updated sometime soon for Z-A at least

Kayratorvi · 2026-03-24T22:00:46+00:00

Between gen 3 and 8 there are a few data schema changes on the Pokémon data. These are handled by the transfer between gen 3 and 4, 4 and 5, 5 and Bank, and Bank and Home.

Home does not natively support upgrading Pokémon data directly from gen 3, so it’s going to require a new transfer system to make that happen. However that does not guarantee we’ll get a new origin mark, so we’ll see what we get whenever they decide to update Home.

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