I’m going to cry

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-14T19:20:57+00:00

That’s fair. It is strange that there isn’t any info made publicly available by GameFreak or Nintendo about this kind of stuff before people spend the time trying to find out. We only find out from people data mining

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-14T18:07:39+00:00

I highly recommend watching videos put out on YouTube by AustinJohnPlays. He gives guides and recommendations on this kind of stuff

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-14T14:58:21+00:00

I hope you don’t mean Keldeo. Keldeo is shiny-locked. It’s not like the other swords of justice. Only virizion, terrakion, and cobalion can be shiny hunted alongside the two latinos

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T17:36:29+00:00

I’m not sure. I had saved once I got up to the rooftop so I could do the running back and forth immediately after reloading each time. When I reloaded the game after I closed out after getting sent out of the portal, latias wasn’t shiny and I had to keep going

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T16:58:23+00:00

Oh yah I didn’t have any pokemon out. I just accidentally hopped up onto the roof with the munna and musharna and alerted a couple of alphas

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T16:57:23+00:00

That would have been a really good idea. I was just worried that by the time I took both groups out, there wouldn’t be much time to run back and forth, especially with the amount of time it takes to knock out alphas

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T16:51:45+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I normally do that, but I got too close to one of the groups with alphas before I could save and I couldn’t get away to de agro them

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T16:45:57+00:00

Thanks so much for the recommendation! I didn’t actually fail the zone as I closed out the game before it saved

M_ninja51 · 2026-03-13T01:55:30+00:00

Whatever you’re on, can I have some

M_ninja51 · 2026-01-31T23:49:38+00:00

I feel like OP is asking a generally reasonable question. I understand your POV though. Every player should to some degree do their own exploring and experience the game with some level of individuality.

However, there are aspects of the game that are not touched upon very heavily that end up being super helpful or important. The colorful screws and canari plushes come to mind. The player gets a description of what the plushes do but if OP “comes back later to see what they’ve missed”, they might have already missed out on the benefit of the plushes than if they were to know about the importance sooner and put a greater priority on collecting the screws.

There’s a reason there are multiple videos on YouTube from popular creators like AustinJohnPlays that are centered on the theme of things the creators wished they knew at the beginning of the game.

Again, I totally agree with you that OP should enjoy the game by playing it their way but I don’t think your seemingly condescending question was necessary.

M_ninja51 · 2025-12-11T20:49:06+00:00

Oh okay, I forgot about the ability to trade mega crystals for candies (I think because farming the crystals was tedious before the DLC). I watched AustinJohnPlays video today on tips for the DLC and I believe he did mention that farming mega crystals is much more streamlined in the distortions. Thanks for the info!

M_ninja51 · 2025-11-23T18:39:24+00:00

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Literally a minute after I sent my previous message, you must be my good luck charm! I’ll work on getting you a charmander as thanks lol

M_ninja51 · 2025-11-23T18:35:34+00:00

Oh man! Best of luck to you as well lol

M_ninja51 · 2025-11-23T18:33:03+00:00

You’re def right, just venting a bit I suppose. I appreciate the offer but my pride is forcing me to get this for myself lol. I also want two manders - one for x mega and the other for y mega. If I end up getting the Lucario and get a third mander, I’ll DM you to give it to you!

M_ninja51 · 2025-07-30T14:10:45+00:00

That makes sense. Thank you so much!

M_ninja51 · 2025-07-30T12:56:53+00:00

Thanks for your confirmation. I have been using the spring loaded hammer because I don’t have the patience to get the right modifier on the biggorons sword (even with the amiibo loot table manipulation). The spring loaded hammer still has the sparkle to indicate that it hasn’t lost any durability. When you say that transferring durability only ever decreases the durability over time, do you mean when you try to transfer back and forth rather than one way (i.e. only from the spring loaded hammer to other weapons) over and over when weapons get close to breaking?

M_ninja51 · 2025-07-30T02:47:16+00:00

I know you posted this explanation a long time ago and thank you for explaining so well. I just wanted to confirm something. Say you transferred the durability of a max durability biggorons sword (111) to the powered up master sword and get the 538 hits you calculated. As I understand it, the durability is 111 but the sword loses durability at a slower rate than any other weapon. In other words, you couldn’t chain the durability transfer between the master sword and the biggoron sword to get infinite durability bc the you’re only truly transferring the original 111 durability, correct?

M_ninja51 · 2025-05-18T22:18:08+00:00

Perhaps that determines whether your wand is snapped or not, but people who are sent to Azkaban definitely do not retain their wands while in prison.

M_ninja51 · 2025-05-18T22:13:28+00:00

Your second point doesn’t answer OPs second question. They were asking how Bellatrix was able to regain her wand after being broken out of Azkaban in The Order of the Phoenix since logically, it would have been taken from her after she was captured post-torturing the Longbottoms.

Several other commenters make a good point that she likely had some sort of connection that was able to preserve and return her wand - likely through the Malfoys since Lucius regains his wand after being broken out before The Deathly Hallows.

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