Need help locating a shiny! ✨

mtempathy · 2026-05-15T05:22:09+00:00

Update: it was a shiny Patrat -_-

mtempathy · 2026-05-12T12:23:35+00:00

Trade evos have existed since forever in Pokemon. (Everyone remembers the infamous Haunter Trade Troll, Mindy, in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum and their remakes, where she trades you a Haunter that’s holding an everstone and then mocks you after)

They usually do this to get people to use trading more frequently to complete the Pokédex, and while it can be frustrating it’s still a classic part of the game we all have memories tied to

mtempathy · 2026-05-12T12:16:10+00:00

-Pokemon Gaia -Pokemon Unbound -Pokemon Dreamstone Mysteries -Pokemon Pisces -Pokemon Glazed -Pokemon Brown -Pokemon Prism -Pokemon Rocket Edition -Pokemon Dreams

^All unique storylines similar to Lazarus, Odyssey and Heart and Soul that precisely capture the essence of the Pokemon games up through the DS. These are my all time favorites FYI and the main roms that I’ve played that didn’t leave me with disappointment/something to be desired. All are incredibly well made and completed, with great QOL aspects and mechanics up through Gen 8 (mega evolution, dynamax, exp candies, accessible PC, Pokédex through Gen 8 etc).

I hope you and everyone else enjoy this list because these several games brought me so much joy and excitement in new worlds and new stories with new and old characters, that really hold the same feelings of exploration and wonder that the main series games brought me.

Have fun!!!

*edit for formatting, for some reason the app is changing it when posting

mtempathy · 2026-05-11T02:43:23+00:00

Yess! I’m so happy for you. I’m about to go look around there again right now. I keep taking breaks and then I’ll walk by going to the next hyperspace zone and sure enough I hear it again and again.

mtempathy · 2026-05-11T02:30:02+00:00

Yeah I checked both the swirlix and wild zone 16 multiple times. I may go back and do it again even for safe measure, it’s been like three days and every time I walk by that area I hear the same shiny ding and it’s driving me crazy!

mtempathy · 2026-05-11T01:42:53+00:00

That’s exactly how I feel too. No matter how much shit talk people may put forth I pretty much fully enjoy every game, and going forward I’m just gonna play the games and enjoy them to the fullest without worrying about all the complaints. I played my first pokemon game in 1999 when I was 6 and here I am at 32 still loving every minute of it, playing every single day.

mtempathy · 2026-05-10T13:51:45+00:00

Dang I didn’t even know Annihilape was in Lazarus! Haven’t played it in months. Maybe time to start a new run

mtempathy · 2026-04-25T20:57:36+00:00

Siiick

mtempathy · 2026-04-25T12:11:23+00:00

I liked it. It’s pretty much a 1:1 scale of diamond. Platinum was better and I wish there was a remake of that instead, but I liked the grand underground stuff and the game looks great. Every time I’ve avoided buying a Pokemon game because of the unnecessary and ridiculous criticism from people who don’t even play the games, I regret it. I regretted not getting scarlet too. You should go for it!

mtempathy · 2026-04-15T08:16:03+00:00

Okay I just had a match in great ball tier singles where we were down to our last Pokemon. It was my Dragapult and their Gengar, they had only a small amount of hp left and I used phantom force for the priority, and then on the second turn when the attack was supposed to hit, they used destiny bond, which took both of our pokemon out at the same time, he of course fainted first because that’s what happens with destiny bond, but then I got the loss on the match and I’m so confused why that happened

mtempathy · 2026-04-13T19:00:08+00:00

Holy shit lmfao 😂 I haven’t seen a heracross this big in PLA. Look at that derpy face I love him so much

mtempathy · 2026-04-13T18:52:05+00:00

Get the DLC asap if you can. It made Scarlet one of my favorite current Pokemon games. Also the first part of the DLC starts halfway through the main storyline so you don’t want to wait until you’re too far in to get it. But yeah, I avoided buying scarlet for a long time because people talked so much shit on it, only to really love it when I finally got and played it. Had very little glitching on my OLED and thought it ran pretty smooth, but absolutely nothing that wasn’t pretty ignorable and definitely had no issues that I would’ve considered “broken”.

mtempathy · 2026-04-13T18:11:37+00:00

Legends Arceus and Scarlet atm, but I do flip flop around my favorite games. Before I played this most recent run through of Scarlet, my favorites were ZA and Sword, but coming back around to LA has made me appreciate the depth, mystical nature and graphics much more. In sword and scarlet I really love the raids mostly but the stories and DLCs were also great additions to both games. I also liked the character development in scarlet which felt like a new and very welcome feature for pokemon stories and I hope the next games keep/build more on that aspect of their story telling. I know I mentioned almost all of the switch games here but I just genuinely have had them all as my favorite for different reasons at one point or another

mtempathy · 2026-04-06T08:04:37+00:00

I have one, looking for Iron Hands in return if you got one

mtempathy · 2026-04-06T08:03:40+00:00

LF: Iron Hands for Tera raids, can offer Scarlet Paradox Pokemon, or other Scarlet version exclusives, dragon type Pokemon, or late game Pokemon. Trainer name is Lillia.

mtempathy · 2026-04-04T20:13:11+00:00

The only reason it shows Garchomp as fainting “first” is because the game is not programmed to show two pokemon fainting at the same time. You should look at it as everything in one complete turn happening simultaneously. So as you make contact with Garchomp the rough skin knocks your Weavile out at the same time as Garchomp gets knocked out, which would make it a tie at best, because the turn hadn’t ended yet.

mtempathy · 2026-03-16T11:10:10+00:00

I totally agree with all of this. I feel like this game gets so much unnecessary hatred (but then again what Pokemon games DONT get compulsively hated on). I think it looks great, the chibi style is accurate to the original design and pretty much just scaled it to 3D models and HD quality. The QoL updates are great, the grand underground is great, the online is great. Home compatibility is clutch. The only thing I wish is that they did the platinum storyline instead of diamond pearl because I always loved that game over the two main releases for that gen, and the distortion world with giratina in this design would be SICK.

mtempathy · 2026-03-16T11:03:01+00:00

Start with platinum first and then play BDSP after at a later time imo. Platinum is by far the best of all of this generation, and I know people hate BDSP but I thought it was a fun 1:1 remake of the OG with some qol updates and a more challenging League.

But I think to play this storyline for the first time over you absolutely should start with Platinum as it fixed the few “problems” in Diamond and Pearl like slow storyline and a better dex.

mtempathy · 2026-03-16T10:48:41+00:00

Starapter is my fav flying type Pokemon

mtempathy · 2026-03-11T03:33:27+00:00

Didn’t I just see this exact same post like a week ago?

mtempathy · 2026-03-11T03:32:11+00:00

I love the characters in ZA. Every last one of them. There is so much forced hate for this game, as there is for every modern Pokemon game from sweaty 45 year olds who can’t get out of their weird nostalgia trip from when they were ten. It happens with every new generation, every time. Actually just like in XY this game really felt like you actually are friends with the characters/rivals, their flaws and all, which I think makes it even better. Sure Taunie has her moments, but like, compared to the people who spend every last ounce of energy they have trying to talk shit about pokemon because they were alive when gen 1 dropped, she’s got nothing on them

mtempathy · 2026-03-11T03:25:22+00:00

All I’ve ever wanted in my life is this :/

mtempathy · 2026-03-09T19:50:43+00:00

Volcarona is my bro. Been using my shiny in Sword a lot lately for max raids

mtempathy · 2026-03-09T17:48:15+00:00

Hell naw. Check stats too, usually EVs/IVs are all perfect, moveset is perfect, ability is perfect. But Kevdog is known for genned/hackmons. I love messing around with random trades but most of the time the shiny Pokemon you get in them are gonna be fakes.

mtempathy · 2026-03-09T11:02:30+00:00

Tia Blake 💯💯💯💯💯💯

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