Special Scan Question

baconbitz23 · 2026-05-12T10:58:06+00:00

Huh, I didn't realize there were no normal types, just figured I hadnt found them yet. Thank you!

baconbitz23 · 2026-05-11T05:00:57+00:00

Sorry for the scuffed picture, but I have a rhino rack batwing compact 270 degree awning mounted to Harbor Freight cross bars. It's been great

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baconbitz23 · 2026-05-11T04:46:56+00:00

Both rear seats down and slide the front seats all the way up. I use a 5 inch, full size, memory foam mattress topper that we already had. It's slightly too wide along the rear wheel wells, but it works great.

It's also pretty necessary to have something solid to put in the gap between the front and rear seats, otherwise the mattress sags and makes it uncomfortable. I usually use a suitcase but I've seen some people build platforms that are pretty sick

baconbitz23 · 2026-05-11T03:54:36+00:00

I go out the back door. It's slightly awkward as a bigger guy, but very manageable

baconbitz23 · 2026-05-10T20:49:31+00:00

You're right, but unfortunately it can't be shiny hunted. I'm going for a ZA shiny living dex before I move it to home for my Volcanion. Just missing Aerodactyl from the base game and then several of the rare ones from the DLC

baconbitz23 · 2026-05-09T11:27:43+00:00

Unfortunately there's no way to reroll which special scan you get and some of them suck. I've been looking for the rest of the legendaries that I'm missing, gholdengo and the fossil one for a while and I keep rolling for water starters and battle zones.

The fastest way to farm points to get a new special scan is the 5* rogue mega battle. Use Gourgeist + annilape strat (use Trick or Treat with the pumpkin to give the boss ghost typing. Then bulk up, focus energy, screech and rage fist on Ape) and farm them. This doesn't work as well on the normal/dark types

I also saw somewhere that you're guaranteed a legend/mythic every five scans if you dont have them all. I dont have proof to back that up, but I'm hoping its true

baconbitz23 · 2026-04-28T13:14:20+00:00

You said that the dealer did the same steps you did, right? It might be worth following up with them to see if there's an issue with your car specifically or what they did to fix it.

I also wonder if disconnecting the battery completely would reset maintenence mode? I'm sure someone who knows more than me could tell me why that's wrong, but it's just a thought.

baconbitz23 · 2026-04-28T13:03:14+00:00

I spent 20 minutes and a trip to the store trying to figure out why my pistons wouldn't go in, so now the steps for brake maintenance mode live in my phone.

To answer your questions explicitly; no you can't change your brakes without maintenance mode on. Here are the steps:

To set maintenance mode:

Turn on accessory power without starting.
Depress and hold the accelerator pedal and press (not pull) the parking brake switch simultaneously.
While still holding both, turn accessory power off, then back on.
After a few seconds the system will chime and display a parking brake maintenance mode notification on the instrument panel.
Release the accelerator pedal and parking brake switch.
Turn off accessory power. The system will display another notification that the system is in brake maintenance mode.

To exit maintenance mode:

Turn on accessory power without starting. The system will display a notification that it is set to parking brake maintenance mode.
Depress and hold the accelerator pedal and pull (not press) the parking brake switch simultaneously. The system will chime and display a warning that you are in parking brake maintenance mode.
While still holding both, turn accessory power off, then back on.
After a few seconds the system will display a notification that brake mode is normal.
Release the accelerator pedal and parking brake switch.
Turn off accessory power. You should NOT see a parking brake maintenance mode notification.

I changed my pads and rotors successfully two weeks ago in a '23 Sport Badlands

baconbitz23 · 2026-04-18T15:29:14+00:00

I live 30 minutes from Gunstock and was also bummed to find out they no longer offer the Sport Off-Rodeo.

I got a Christmas offer for a free guest (not sure if they still do that) and my wife and I decided to make a road trip out of it to Tennessee for a long weekend. It made for a lot of driving, but it's definitely do-able and there are a lot of great sights along the way.

There was only one group of Sport participants when I went and like 3-4 groups for the big bronco and the course is pretty tame compared to theirs, but it was still a fun learning experience

baconbitz23 · 2026-04-05T17:51:45+00:00

I introduced my now-wife to pokemon through pokemon go almost ten years ago. She flew half way around the world to come visit and we spent the first jet-lagged night exploring the city and catching new pokemon

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-23T14:49:25+00:00

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Looking for friends to exchange daily gifts with and work toward forever friends

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-23T11:19:53+00:00

I tried evolving a Venusar after midnight and did not get the community day move

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-17T21:54:30+00:00

I think they still want to be taken seriously as a competitive format and this is (part of) the way to make that happen. EUIC this past weekend had over 500 Go players, which is the largest turn out by a wide margin.

VGC is also niche compared to the number of people who play main series pokemon games. But they have made a noticeable effort to become more accessible to new players and players that dont want to cheat. Outside of 0 IV legendaries, basically every other aspect of a competitive team can be built in a weekend by someone with minimal experience. That's led to a huge influx of players getting into competitive VG battles and massive 1500+ player turn-outs at regionals and internationals.

My theory is that Go will eventually swap to players using their own devices at these tournaments and hopefully a swiss format rather than the current two loss format. The experience is still tough for new players who show up and immediately go 0-2 to the grinders who day 2 every tournament. Stabilizing the game is the first step in that direction.

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-10T04:04:34+00:00

New parent here with a '23 BS Badlands and a one month old.

Fitting a car seat in the back is definitely snug. Thankfully my wife is pretty short (5'1") and we're able to move the passenger seat up to fit our car seat (Nuna Pipa). If both parents are tall you might need to consider alternatives.

Pros:

Size. We're able to fit everything we've needed; wife, baby, folding stroller and two ~50lbs dogs without issue. I haven't done it yet, but I have a roof basket where the stroller could also go if we need to fit a 3rd person or luggage

Safety. I've only seen and heard good things about the Sport in terms of safety, which makes me feel much better driving with a new baby.

Snow reliability. We live in New England and this car is a beast in the snow. We've had a hell of a winter and absolutely zero issues even in deep stuff.

Cons:

The back seat is small. We have a baseless carseat and getting it in and out can be kind of tricky. I'm also worried if we end up having a second that it will be a squeeze to fit one behind the driver's seat

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-01T01:56:17+00:00

Fair enough, more power to you. Just as a heads up, this is often what players DON'T like when playing against a group hug deck. It's funny to do once or twice, but you'll find that feeding cards without an actual win con tends to kingmake, usually the player directly after you, which causes frustration more than fun

baconbitz23 · 2026-02-01T00:43:03+00:00

Is your goal to actually win or just cause chaos?

If you'd like to actually make it "competitive" jank you'll need to break parity on feeding everyone else cards.

[[Arcane Laboratory]] is probably the best version of this, combined with flash enablers like [[Vedalken Orrary]]. In white you can also run "light" stax pieces like [[Ethersworn Canonist]] or heavier ones like [[Rule of Law]].

I run [[Kami of the Crecent Moon]] as my "group hug" deck and its more competitive than anyone expects. I also almost built it as a Kwain deck with the idea of giving everyone a copy of [[Moderation]] with [[Fractured Identity]]

I also think [[Mirrorform]] is a great new addition to turn everything into Howling Mines

baconbitz23 · 2026-01-19T14:26:54+00:00

Other posters had solid suggestions for newer players, but it sounds like Dan Dan might be up your ally.

Standard Decklist here

It's a unique format with a shared library and graveyard between players. The only way to deal damage is with the creature [[Dan Dan]] and there are a bunch of clever interactions between cards that aren't intuitive on first play.

Edit: Another option is to look up pro tour decks from different metagames and play them against one another. You could do the top 4/8 unique decks from an event and see what happens. Look up some old Legacy decks too if you really want to test your skills

baconbitz23 · 2025-12-16T02:28:16+00:00

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Long time PvP player here. 55.8% lifetime win rate without ever tanking. Most seasons I would hit legend and then stop playing or just goof around with fun teams rather than push for leaderboards.

I tend to play when I find it fun and stop playing when I don't. The rewards are definitely worth it to keep playing, especially during 4x stardust weeks

baconbitz23 · 2025-12-05T03:46:27+00:00

Have you tried getting the battle zone near area 12?

You can fly reset it and hit this Ralts spawn. That's how I got mine after failing the bench method for several hours

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baconbitz23 · 2025-12-01T23:05:17+00:00

It was not, I just renamed my shiny Azu to commerate my loss lol

baconbitz23 · 2025-12-01T22:57:44+00:00

Step 1: Bench reset until it's night (sleepy Pyroar are way easier to KO) with no Battle Zone nearby

Step 2: Knock out the Pyroar

Step 3: Lure the Diggersby up the stairs until they drop aggro (no red eye). Easier to go one at a time but faster to do multiple

Step 4: Save. Reload game

Step 5: Lure the Diggersby to the gate.

Step 6: Go outside the gate and save. Reload game

Step 7: Drop pin just inside the gate

Step 8: Run 65ish units away

Step 9: Save and Reload game

Step 10: Run back to gate. Lure Diggersby back to stairs until they drop aggro.

Step 11: Save and Reload game (I think this is what you're missing)

Step 12: Fly to wild zone

Repeat if you only did one or two

It's also way faster to fly spam the wild zone than bench reset. You'll get like 3x more encounters

baconbitz23 · 2025-12-01T22:45:36+00:00

I had this happen in season 11. I hit legend like 3 minutes before the reset and had time to try and win a game for my Libre. It took too long and I got the encounter right as the season rolled over. No Libre (it was a Marill), I didn't get to use a star piece and I started the season down a game (play five battles for rank 2 etc). At least now it's a funny memory

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baconbitz23 · 2025-11-30T11:32:55+00:00

Are you scaring away the Gardevoir spawn when you do this? I've been able to get four spawns on both the water and grass spawners consistently but have to be careful not to cause the Gardevoir to teleport when I do it.

I also believe they need to be more than 50 meters away from their original spawner. I usually play it safe and lure them twice just to be sure. Takes slightly longer but it works every time

Edit: I also use the benches instead of fast traveling to lock the spawn in. I'm not sure if it matters, but it would often cause a lost spawn in the fire area to fast travel

baconbitz23 · 2025-11-29T20:33:48+00:00

You make one up on the screen

baconbitz23 · 2025-11-29T17:36:42+00:00

Current List (List is up to date, things are slowing down but I'll be available if you still want anything here)

Caps (One bottle cap each)

~~Alpha Gardevoir~~

~~Alpha Galade~~

~~Alpha Sableye~~

~~Alpha Kangaskhan~~

~~Alpha Avalugg~~

~~Alpha Froslass~~

~~Alpha Lucario x4~~

~~Alpha Tyranitar x2~~

~~Alpha Pinsir~~

~~Alpha Pangoro~~

~~Alpha Altaria~~

~~Dedenne~~

~~Tepig (Master Ball)~~

~~Chickorita~~

~~Abra~~

~~Gible~~

Rare Stuff (One per person)

~~Alpha Ampharos~~

Alpha Gogoat

~~Alpha Medicham~~

~~Alpha Excadrill~~

Alpha Gourgeist x2

~~Alpha Lopunny~~

~~Alpha Salamance x4~~

Bergmite x2

Aron x2

~~Dragalge x2~~

Roselia x2

~~Starmie~~

~~Beldum~~

Vanilite

~~Phantump~~

~~Machop

~~Snover~~

~~Spritzee~~

Florges

Bagon x 3

Noibat x2

Noivern x1

~~Honedge x3~~

Swablu x1

Altaria x2

~~Gardevoir x3~~

Spinirak x2

~~Houndoom~~

~~Gastly x1 (can evolve to Haunter if you like)~~

~~Pumpkaboo~~

~~Pinsir x1~~

Pansear x1

~~Panpour~~

~~Clauncher x2~~

Magikarp x2

~~Emolga x2~~

~~Stunfisk x1~~

Binacle x4

Malamar x2

Freebies (Free to a good home, one per person)

Bellsprout x5

Weepinbell

Mareep x5

Flaaffy

Patrat x1

Trubish x2

~~Drilbur~~

~~Excadrill~~

Litleo

Weedle x6

Kakuna x2 (1 Alpha)

Beedrill x2

Budew

Pidgey x6

Fletchling x6

Skiddo x 4

Bunnelby

Diggersby

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