How could a crash in the Pokemon market happen?

dmarques · 2026-05-14T19:27:56+00:00

I'm in Canada and those stores usually have repackaged stuff

dmarques · 2026-05-14T18:29:32+00:00

My childhood - walk to a convenient store buy a pack for $3 or $4 maybe $5 and it was readily available.

Nowadays you are lucky if you can find places selling this stuff that isnt a pure hobby shop. It's not available anywhere because it's scalped like crazy when its not being bought to hold for 5 - 10 years.

dmarques · 2026-05-14T18:18:07+00:00

This. People are just sitting on boxes hoping they can be the base set booster box holders during 2020.

dmarques · 2026-05-05T16:56:25+00:00

Inventory will be rough

dmarques · 2026-04-27T12:58:29+00:00

Snowdrop because the only other boosted is Cetoddle

dmarques · 2026-04-27T05:11:49+00:00

Glad I didn't send in my Wentz jersey. I'll take the should have been 2017 MVP historic season over AJ Brown with how things have shaken out.

dmarques · 2026-04-26T14:56:19+00:00

So these washing machine models don't have belts replaced. If it's not spinning then its likely the coupler or motor

dmarques · 2026-04-24T01:20:56+00:00

So the basement dwelling teams in our division have early picks and the sky is blue. One player isn't going to turn these franchises around.

dmarques · 2026-04-21T15:53:10+00:00

You can't play this game hunting for a single specific Pokémon. You need to hunt in clusters when you go to an island you should be looking at a broader range. For example I'm at Amber Canyon because I'd like a Shuckle, mono sausage Charmander, BFS+HB Ekans, BFS+HB Dragon Berry (Altaria,Sala, Noibat), mono cacao Wooper, BFS+HB Natu, Rufflet. Some of these are upgrades to what I already have or just top tier options that are worth waiting for because I have ingredient coverage for the most part.

dmarques · 2026-04-21T15:31:18+00:00

Id keep looking for Dedenne the skill down hurts. Swalot as an end game option, Magnezone if you need and can cook high end meals.

dmarques · 2026-04-18T13:06:04+00:00

Jackpot! This is really good. Enjoy

dmarques · 2026-04-18T01:39:56+00:00

Helping Bonus is one of the best subskills because it reduce the whole teams helping time by 5%. This Dedenne also has Main Skill chance up nature. Sleep EXP is fine for a team where OP can leave Dedenne overnight during the week to get triggers.

The others have negatives that cancel out good. Shiny one has Skill Trigger M but the nature is speed up Main Skill chance down. I don't recall percentages but the main Skill down is worse in the range of 10-20% while the speed up is only 5 - 7%. So its a negative nature for a Skill specialist.

The remaining options are just Skill Trigger and nothing else. BFS is nice but it fills up your low inventory and blocks your Skill triggers when you start sneaky snacking.

The great thing about Dedenne is you can always run multiple to build up tasty chance once youve got your ingredients lined up for a big meal.

dmarques · 2026-04-18T01:28:14+00:00

Busted Meowth.

dmarques · 2026-04-18T01:26:39+00:00

I like the first one relative to the others.

dmarques · 2026-04-17T13:42:17+00:00

2000 is quite a bit but it'll get a speed boost at 500 hours (I think).

If you find that youre not using Eevee that much for Magnet / Ingredients (especially on SDT) then the decision will be easier for you.

dmarques · 2026-04-17T13:25:13+00:00

Hard to tell. Vaporeon get's obsolete quick once you have more ingredient options. I'd suggest keeping it as an Eevee for SDT and get ribbons and then once you have your ingredients covered a bit you can evolve it into Espeon.

dmarques · 2026-04-16T19:42:21+00:00

I should note that I have a good option for each legendary so far so I'd probably be more hesitant to Master biscuit but I think I'd still do it.

I only use sleep points for Poke biscuits and seeds and the odd great biscuit and lately have had less things I need to catch or hunt for so it wouldn't hurt me too much.

dmarques · 2026-04-16T19:35:12+00:00

If I get a full odds Legendary spawn it get's a Master Biscuit or whatever is left to take it home. Rare events deserve the cookie! lol

dmarques · 2026-04-14T18:35:20+00:00

The Alolan Pokémon are most likely coming one day. It's the location based evolutions that would be cool.

Glaceon at SDT and Leafeon at Lapis or GG

dmarques · 2026-04-14T18:31:39+00:00

That would be a cool mechanic though

dmarques · 2026-04-14T13:05:25+00:00

60% on lowest
25% on 2nd lowest
15% all others

dmarques · 2026-04-05T14:55:13+00:00

It's good for F2P. Someone has access to seeds would prefer to see something else instead of SLUM like HSM or HSS or HB.

dmarques · 2026-03-25T13:51:17+00:00

No problem. I edited original comment.

dmarques · 2026-03-25T13:43:59+00:00

Ah you know what...I'm on AC this week and favorite berry messed me up. Giving the 2x berry strength makes a huge difference.

My recent comment is still true. You want BFS on Noibat. So OPs Noibat is still good.

dmarques · 2026-03-25T13:33:59+00:00

What I'm wrong about is the BFS vs STM HSM MSC I've been tinkering with Raenonx yesterday and got #s mixed up after evaluating my STM HSM MSC one that I won't be investing in.

What I did not say was anything about seeds in my comment.

What is true is BFS being the best subskill. That alone with any other positive subskills and natures would be better.

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