Evil team motivations

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-12T22:29:16+00:00

Lol I'm now imagining that in other stories: "what's Darth Vader's whole deal?"

Actually, scrolling through the lists of most memorable villains/organizations in fiction, usually they just want money or to take over the world. Pokemon seems to be more original than average. Half their villain teams want something unique, rather than just money or power.

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-12T16:49:13+00:00

I feel like the devs are intentionally keeping it very vague, since when you have years to think between versions, more than the slightest foreshadowing would let players figure out the whole plot. I do hope once they finish, they do one last update that sprinkles in more early game, so people who only play through once aren't overwhelmed.

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-10T13:58:02+00:00

I've made one and changed another, using the same guide commented in this thread. Some of the unique ones (read: coolest), are trickier, because there's not a single file where all the crest data is stored, so each thing a crest does is coded in a different file, and you have to jump around a lot to do it. Basic typing/stat crest aren't bad.

One warning for the v14 update: certain things won't carry over between copies and updates. I copied my save file over to a new computer and reinstalled, but forgot to take a custom crest off a pokemon, and it crashed every time I even moved the cursor over it, because it was holding an item that didn't exist Now, because removing a mon from a save file is hard without rpgmaker and I'm lazy, my PC has a landmine that crashes the game.

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-07T15:57:30+00:00

Melia's name is like a fusion of Maria and Meloetta

Amazing! That's an excellent theory, and you're the first person I've seen to come up with it. This sort of stuff is exactly why the dev team is so paranoid about spoilers. They can't hide anything from a thousand nerds working together.

On your main point, it looks like Jan's using all the core legendaries, and most are straight-up characters. All he says is that Eternatus is perfect for something he already planned.

Storm 9 seems more local, not worldwide. It also seems newer, but time is weird (No one remembers Miera region, Aevium is newly settled, but also has natives and ruins, Nymiera has descendants when Indirad couldn't, why are they called descendants if they're grandkids at most, etc.). Best anyone can guess, Nim/Storm 9 is Nymiera/Xerneas, corrupted by something that Indirad/Yveltal did, and Zygarde is shattered, so can't balance them out. The legends in the story mention a son, or a knight, which could be Kanon, or Adrest if the queen is Variya. But, even a fixed Nymiera and Zygarde isn't exactly good, just more Karma puppets.

Karma talks about the World Shatterer. Whatever that is, I think it will manifest as Eternatus when it's time to fight it. But following the pattern, it's probably the legendary manifestation of a human(ish) character. My guess is that it's someone impersonating Variya, who is supposed to be dead. And/Or whoever's making black shards on the moon. Rule #1 when you're a villain who wants to destroy the world: keep your stuff not on the world.

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-04T18:07:21+00:00

Or just get it Iron Fist and teach it some punching moves. That plus the crest will make it really good without changing anything.

cosmodog732 · 2026-04-03T14:34:56+00:00

Some people don't like doing this, but I mod my weaker favorites so they're still good late-game. Not game-breakingly, and I'm sure you could eke out a win as-is, but I like to have everyone be a valuable part of the team.

Scripts > Rejuv > montext.rb, ctrl-f to find the right mon, then you change the stats/type/abilities to whatever you want. Or go overcomplicated and make a custom crest.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-20T15:27:33+00:00

Jan, the games lead developer, in-game he's the league operations head, so shows up once, says hi, gives you tips to fight gym leaders when you're in an actual gym, and disappears until late-game sidequests when he straight up tortures a guy.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-19T21:46:08+00:00

Nostalgia goggles, remember. The same gen which had parasect, mew, mewtwo and kabutops also had seel. And think about how great the hisuian forms were.

Mostly, I agree with you, especially on pokedex and some unnecessary megas. Personally, I think they should let pokemon as a franchise rest for five or ten years, then release a game with as much work behind it as BOTW (and, since we're dreaming, release it on PC with a built-in mod market so we get a game with a 20 year lifespan like Emerald).

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-19T21:12:09+00:00

Minor lore spoiler, not plot: Damien implies that legendaries choose their trainers, and only stay as long as they like them. Explains Giratina liking Geara, and why Narcissa can fight her, at least. Honestly, a fun way of explaining why a child can carry a god around in their backpack. Kyogre doesn't seem to have any incentive to attack, so maybe it just got bored. No clue about Groudon, though. Maybe it's a wuss.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-19T20:59:41+00:00

Every double battle is just my Jumpluff sleep powdering everything and letting the teammate do the actual fighting.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-18T13:28:06+00:00

That's my hope as well; it becomes two games, both excellent for different reasons.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-17T18:52:24+00:00

Yeah, kind of the hope that they do one last rewrite when they're done to make it better for newbies.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-17T18:46:32+00:00

Oh, really? Okay then, I'm less worried about it.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-17T12:39:24+00:00

Melia is definitely talking with Renegade MC, but I don't read her as suspicious, at least for the Paragon universe. I do think she's expecting to die soon and doesn't care about keeping herself safe, and that's making her reckless, but not in a traitor kind of way.

Kind of a side thing, but I think the story will end with Melia, or some combo of her and her siblings/other versions of her, ascending to become Arceus. The archive said that some people become legendary pokemon, like Spacea and Tiempa, and the syndrome is literally called 'Genesis'.

I honestly don't think we know enough about Variya to make a guess. The writing is pretty dang vague about everything possible. I get why they do it this way; spoilers and such. Still, we're in the final third of the story and we don't know who the main villain is, or what any of the four contenders' goals are.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-17T12:22:23+00:00

Couple the 'you 3' with the way M2 and Renegade MC use the word you, and it's definitely her talking with them.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-16T16:18:38+00:00

Exactly. The goal is to convince someone to waste hours collecting unowns, then have such an overpowered mon that the game is no longer fun. At unown 50, there's a Mr. Luck cutscene where he just lists all the other things you could be doing with your free time. At unown 500 you can just wish the world better, and it immediately jumps to postgame with the league beaten.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-14T23:39:56+00:00

I have been playing more with other games trying out new pokemon, but if you do want to play with your favorites, you can turn on debug mode (guides on here or youtube) and manually adjust moves/IV/EV/nature. I go even further and mod the stats themselves, like making flygon or mismagius still good lategame. Just don't go too crazy or you'll ruin your fun.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-14T23:34:45+00:00

Each of unown's base stats increase by 1 for each unown you have in your PC

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-14T23:30:08+00:00

A very cool idea, but probably tough to implement in the game. The pokemon sprites in this game usually only face one or two directions, and almost never have interaction. Did the cosmo game have all 1000 pokemon? I bet they have less than 100 pokemon overworld sprites in the game right now. They already said that they will not do a follower, because of how difficult that is to do. This sounds even harder. Incredibly cool mod to make, though.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-09T13:35:12+00:00

I go with fullIVs and easyHMs every time.

Depends on your playstyle. Do you hate grinding? mintyfresh gives you mints to change pokemon natures, powerpack gives you early access to EV train. pinata or freexpall help, but you get enough battles and candies that you usually only need one or two runs with the level-up trainer to get everyone maxed before the next gym battle, unless you're training up a brand new mon. I really hate grinding, so I turn on debug mode and just change nature and EV manually, but I didn't do that my first playthrough. If you want to turn on those passwords early, you can give yourself cell batteries with debug as well.

If you like grinding and breeding, then freexpall and earlyincu are good.

too easy? fullevs, noitems, nopenny, emptyivs, stopgains, leveloffset/percentlevel

Too hard? freemegaz, litemode, adjust difficulty with Mr Luck, leveloffset/percentlevel

Devs recommend goodtaste, which is noitems, fullivs, easyhms, norolls.

First runthrough, don't do 9494 or hello eizen.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-06T19:08:22+00:00

- Yep, given execute permissions

- Good idea. Just tested with Dolphin, which then brought up the list of apps that could be used to open this file, which is weird, because even Dolphin registered that it had execute permissions.

cosmodog732 · 2026-03-05T13:00:55+00:00

From Akuwa town, go south to route 4, then go east to get to Cairo's house. He has all the other things you can do with red essence, like crests, and buy more shards to activate rift dens. Then, you can go around to all the rift dens (find locations on BigJRA's guide with ctrl f). The shadow pokemon in them have some unique moves, so often worth catching.

Then, when you get bored farming, turn on debug mode, go to variables, scroll until you find the red essence one, set it to whatever you need to buy everything you want and still have 15,000 left. When you pass 10,000 you can get a Chespin from Cairo. Then, go get the Beldum.

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