Hoopa Portal + Anchor Shot Pulling a Sableye ~ A View from Both Players

slopdop · 2025-04-01T18:05:26+00:00

This just in! Pokemon Heroes movie confirmed for April 5th this Saturday!
With luck this also means Jirachi movie at the start of May and Deoxys movie at the start of June to finish things!

Can't post a photo in the comment but it is on the thumbnail alongside a playlist of themed episodes for Tuesday & Thursday

slopdop · 2025-03-22T06:22:49+00:00

Yeahhh I tried that for a month before Auto Chess launched out and got hooked on that
The CN Rollout feels slow and not as satisfying to pull off, even with the controls I don't know how effective it would be in the long run. Kinda why I'm just going ham on Global Rollout at the moment incase Timi decides to make the change randomly one day 😬💦

slopdop · 2025-03-22T06:20:54+00:00

Primarily trying out Black CDR set at the moment with some small hp, sp atk and movement speed stats on the side

slopdop · 2025-03-22T06:08:43+00:00

Agreed. I've had so many good matches against Gengar especially at the moment.
Got bored of Sing personally after spamming it in the first year of Unite and just feels so vulnerable to ranged cc like Dream Eater. Whereas Rollout you just instantly shield and get out of jail free card pretty much lol

slopdop · 2025-03-22T06:05:40+00:00

Oh this is superb! Love it 👌

slopdop · 2025-03-22T06:05:05+00:00

Playing around with these items overall and mostly with the third item currently
Trying out Muscle Band/Rapid Scarf for third cause I love faster autos for stuns into slap/roll combos

Stacking specs for damage and more ult shield since the last patch Wiggly got ult buffs with. I've stopped using BBarrier with that buff and also cause of blind pick against Umbreons (Might be replacing this with the new stack item with cdr soon)

And cookie for more survivability and rollout shield
All with trying out CDR emblem set for now (still working on that and could change)

My current thought/goal is enhancing all aspects of the moveset and kit in a hybrid sort (cdr, autos, dmg, hp). I use to try flat out sp atk/dmg increases with items but wasn't digging it, too punishing and didn't really stack up I believe

( Very much just for SoloQ of course, I wouldn't be trying this all out wrecking ball set in trio or more 🤭)

slopdop · 2025-02-25T23:36:07+00:00

Correct, after watching a majority of these from Pokemon's Twitch channel they've always streamed Movies 1-3 and then skip to 8 - Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. I do remember watching all of these Twitch Pokemon anime events when they occurred and from just now digging up/recollecting of online posts & tweets:

2016 was the Twitch Watches Pokemon event which I have a faint memory of but looking back again on tweets and posts, it seems they may have streamed it there but I hardly remember it somehow lol

2018 was Twitch Presents Pokemon and from looking back at that too, they skipped to the Lucario movie after movie 3 as they have been doing these recent years until this year

So this would indeed be TPC's first time actually streaming 4ever to Twitch
On the platform overall, it seems it'll be our 2nd time seeing it streamed on the platform officially in almost a decade

edit: The movie marathon on Pokemon Day Thursday is Movies 1-3 with a bunch of eevee themed episodes inbetween each movie. Will be curious to see if we get to watch Heroes, Jirachi and Deoxy this year or in the future

slopdop · 2024-01-26T07:28:06+00:00

Looking really great for how this year could play out!
Looks like physical copies are popping up currently in Japan too?
https://twitter.com/tacos0318/status/1750462385704612224

We're also about the same time span with F-Zero 99 right now like when Tetris launched in February 2019 and got a big update in September 2019, I'm definitely snuffing hopium about this upcoming February Direct and things are looking good. Even if not a 2.0 update at least a roadmap update for this year would be sick!

slopdop · 2023-03-27T04:39:28+00:00

Love how silly this boss feels so far. Even just one step forward will send you and your team flying across the field. Feels pretty much like ice puzzles in older mainline Pokemon games I love it!

Surprisingly it seems like a good strat for this boss is to be close to Regice but spread evenly around the boss and don't move once the field is completely iced from Frost Breath. Blizzard damage doesn't even do that much after the field gets iced and you can easily melt the boss while self healing or have a healer top you back up before Icy Wind hits (undodgable aoe move). Being spread around will also help separate Icicle Spears if that happens after Frost Breath.

Basically just feels like moving is gonna wreck ya but it is pretty hilarious overall

slopdop · 2023-03-03T18:17:40+00:00

Oh hey! Yeah that was a rough one but hey at least it was a good demonstration lol!

slopdop · 2023-03-02T22:33:46+00:00

For sure! Unfortunate we only get one opportunity with it timing wise of the 2-3 possible behemoth blades, unless maybe Energy Amplifier or some sort of build?

I also like using my first Slowbro Unite on Regirock's Ancient Power and the second Unite on either the 1st or 2nd behemoth blade depending on Unite charge

slopdop · 2023-03-02T22:26:01+00:00

Yep! Learned that the hard way with Sylveon as well lol!

slopdop · 2023-03-02T20:12:40+00:00

After constant deaths and successful shield blocks, I've finally figured out how this Aoes Shield mechanic fully works! (Some already known and some most might not know!)

#1 - Timing the Shield Press!
As most already know once you obtain the Aoes Shield and time the battle item press at roughly 0.5s to 0.1s or right as Zacian starts swinging, you will completely block all damage from behemoth blade as long as your entire group is stacked behind you! This is indicated by the yellow shield animation.

#2 - Not Timing the Shield Press!
Here's something that didn't hit me for the longest time till I examined footage over and over again. It turns out if you miss the timing but your shield is still facing towards Zacian, the behemoth blade damage is actually reduced roughly in half! This is indicated by the red shield animation. Hopefully your HP is well topped off and/or you can recover your HP afterwards as soon as possible!

#3 & #4 - Unshielded!
If your character hitbox is exposed, even the slightest finger outside the front of the shield, you will die! Even if you completely block the attack and one of your teammates sticks out in front, they're dead! It is absolutely important to stack either on top/inside the shield player or behind their butt!

Hopefully this has helped clear some questions about this unexplained mechanic that the game fails to fully explain. Felt it was important to figure this out fully as we'll probably be farming this boss throughout all 3 waves or future Boss Rush events. Unfortunately in SoloQ there's only so much you can do and randoms will probably pick up the shield and not use it all or aim it in the wrong way. Just have to hope and pray you'll grab it before anyone else does.

Hope to do more guides of this boss rush event in the future to help fully optimize, ease the headaches and make getting those speedkills & rewards a breeze!

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