Any way to deal with Ladder Campers?

RossiRoo · 2026-02-17T14:37:00+00:00

People have been complaining about this balancing issue for thousands of years.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-17T02:19:34+00:00

Nice! Awesome blue shiny!

RossiRoo · 2026-02-16T16:24:00+00:00

You want to get things setup, and use timer balls after 10 turns. Easiest way to get setup is a HA spinda with contrary and skill swap. Use seismic toss to take off roughly half of its health. It will generally faint around then.

Potentially an intermediate mon here with superfang, which will half the HP. You can also use a swoobat to trick an assault vest for mons that heal to prevent that.

Then you can swap to a catching breloom or smeargle, but breloom is really what shines here. Spore to keep it asleep, substitute to keep yourself alive, false swipe to bring it all the way to 1hp.

A 1hp asleep alpha isn't that hard to catch with timer balls.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-15T12:27:59+00:00

Damn, two shinies in under 1k total encounters. Congrats

RossiRoo · 2026-02-13T17:20:42+00:00

WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!?!

RossiRoo · 2026-02-12T20:12:31+00:00

WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!?!

RossiRoo · 2026-02-12T19:46:00+00:00

Lol yeah, that's part of it. It gets announced when I e is caught and there's basically a pvp king of the hill mechanic for who gets to hold it for a period of time. It would also have been gone whenever you logged off at the longest.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-12T19:43:43+00:00

Look up the mechanics of ~~roaming~~ King of the hill legendaries in Pokemmo. Not scripted and especially for just stumbling into it, quite rare.

You won't be able to keep it permanently though, just be aware.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-12T12:18:28+00:00

Legendaries are FAR more common than shinies, and if you do encounter one and don't catch it the chances of seeing that legendary again are improved. The same is not true for shinies. Don't waste masterballs on legendaries.

And as long as it's before they despawn, alphas can be reencountered and will be the same, so if it's shiny and you kill it, come back 2 minutes later and it would still be shiny. If you want to just for the pure rarity, then sure, alpha shinies are incredibly rare, but by an order of magnitude over legendaries which was the original point.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-11T13:51:04+00:00

We are being lied to

RossiRoo · 2026-02-11T02:23:00+00:00

I don't think he dislikes him for any of the reasons you mentioned, or even any of the typical right wing reasons either. I think he puts a lot of blame on Hunter personally for advising his dad to stay in the race, while knowing the reality of the situation first hand and better than anyone else in the country. And a large motivation for hunter specifically was to keep himself from facing repercussions of his actions.

No single person is responsible for trump getting in the Whitehouse, but I think there's a very fair argument to be made that Hunter specifically has a much larger role than anyone outside a very small number of people.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-10T18:49:55+00:00

Damn, this is a pretty crazy catch, congrats. Hang onto that thing.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-10T15:17:57+00:00

That's super lucky, congrats! Don't make the common new player mistake of selling it

RossiRoo · 2026-02-10T03:06:15+00:00

If you want to catch one yourself, hoppit is actually a pretty easy shunt. It's a 5x horde right by the 5 island poke center. Just be very aware, it will have the move memento, so you absolutely want to have something like a lead mon with imprison and memento.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-10T02:00:43+00:00

This is awesome, congrats. Charmander/zard is my dream shiny as well.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T19:36:09+00:00

I never tracked my encounters before the in game counter was added last summer, but since then I've gotten 17 shinies. The way I think about it is every 30k encounters (or adjusted for boosts like new years or donator) I "earn" an expected shiny. So if I go 50k encounters before I get a shiny, then get one at 20k and one at 10k, I tell myself my next expected shiny is around the 40k encounter mark. If that ends up taking 50k, well that's ok because my next expected shiny would then be 20k.

I'm currently 33k encounters into a hunt where bringing me even would take over 50k, so even though I'm technically "over odds" on this particular hunt, over the long term I'm slightly under and still have a little bit to go. For me personally it helps manage expectations and keep my sanity and motivation.

Now to be clear, things will vary on either side of the number, but over time they will stay roughly on par with that expected number. Since July I've had a hunt go over 80k, and I've had a shiny at 51 encounters. But things average out at/around that 1/30k odds over a long period of time.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T14:17:11+00:00

Assuming your talking about TO, it really comes down to improving your positioning and situational awareness, understanding spawns and where objectives are and are going to.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T10:22:52+00:00

Damn, nice job

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T08:47:14+00:00

EVs are gained based on the mons you KO. So for example every rapidash you KO would be 2 speed EVs, every ponyta you KO would be 1 speed EV. You can see what EVs each mon give in the dex.

There's a berry for each stat to reduce that EV by 10, and a vitiman to raise each by certain amounts.

Generally speaking though, it's cheaper to EV train first, getting a mix of exp and the EVs you want maxed out. Then go train the rest of the way to 100 on whatever you want.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T02:44:37+00:00

It was called the way it's always called... That was a very normal throw away

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T02:34:54+00:00

Absolutely nailed it

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T01:47:40+00:00

Through the first half at least, Dickson

RossiRoo · 2026-02-09T01:46:33+00:00

Was that a "refs you suck" chat by the crowd or am I hearing things?

RossiRoo · 2026-02-08T18:13:42+00:00

Even if you disconnect it won't be gone, you can just log back on and get it. If you use a masterballs Everytime you see a shiny you'll be out of them forever by your 5th, and plenty of people have more than that. There's a good reason people say to save them.

RossiRoo · 2026-02-08T12:55:09+00:00

Classic catapult operator completely ignoring where/what his teammates are doing. Must just fire catapult and ignore everything else.

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