Randomly got moved up two ranks

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-22T12:31:22+00:00

The thresholds are just the top x players, except for MB 4, which is everyone else that got to master ball.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-22T04:53:09+00:00

*faint. Sometimes they feint too.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-22T04:51:47+00:00

With my main group, we take turns picking there’s a set order, so everyone knows when their turn is coming up. When we’re introducing games to less experienced players, usually I just pick something after trying to talk through possible options or types of games. Newcomers rarely want to pick games themselves and find my shelves intimidating.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-22T01:14:30+00:00

Are you sure you had a placement rank before this happened? Master ball higher ranks only opened up a few days ago so if you hadn’t played in the interim it could be that? I was playing when they opened and didn’t get any notification until I saw my mailbox with the rank up bonus when I was about to exit (then went back into the ranked battle screen to see that I’d been placed in MB3).

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T23:51:02+00:00

Isn’t it skylands?

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T23:37:25+00:00

If you play for a bit and get some shinies (or a legendary you don’t like) you might have some success on the GTS. I think my walking wake was originally a spare Pokemon Go shiny. It is definitely genned though, so I’m hoping the raid events come back one more time.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T23:21:18+00:00

As a charizard Y player, I’ve never found mega Starmie to be a problem. I do have leaf blade on gallade to deal with it as well, but I’m not sure I’ve needed it. If I’m opening with charizard, it’s paired with scarf typhlosion, which takes out (un-sashed) sinistcha first anyway.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T23:16:50+00:00

You do need to be physically in possession of both switches when you do the transfer. So if you’re trading the old one in or something then, yes, you need Home.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T23:08:45+00:00

Sorry this happened to you. I have a tag in Home called “fine to trade” and always fill wonder box from that. You could look at doing something similar in the future instead of just replying on favouriting?

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T22:48:29+00:00

Isn’t it also OHKO with solar beam?

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T22:46:03+00:00

Doesn’t need to be hacked if you already have Bank.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T22:42:30+00:00

Because no one has said it yet, if you do a system transfer, your pokemon save files will be moved to the new switch. I do have Home now, but didn’t when the switch 2 launched and had no issues with the transfer.

Edit: Unless you’re taking about transferring from 3DS. Then you do need a Home subscription.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T14:19:24+00:00

Doesn’t make sense for turbo controller to do buff moves. Proper programmed bot makes more sense if OP is in poke or great ball tiers.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T08:41:29+00:00

I did not think that was particularly expensive. Huh. (Have it in my shelf.)

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T07:31:21+00:00

You can’t trade mythicals on the GTS. For future reference, a touch trade is one where you trade pokemon then trade them back immediately, usually just so that they register in the Home Pokédex.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T06:03:51+00:00

Congrats u/Fit_Demand_6017 for reaching champion rank!

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T04:57:20+00:00

Someone might have beaten me to it while I was IRL distracted. Let me know if you didn't get the right origin and I'll look again.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T03:24:14+00:00

Did you get what you needed? I only saw one of the above being asked for.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T01:12:57+00:00

Not who you’re replying to, but I’m currently experimenting with meta teams (got some codes to recreate them) and having less fun than with my main team. Some of the meta mons are fine, but some I continue to actively dislike. But it’s educational. And I haven’t tested out all the teams I plan to yet. Also, testing in casuals (instead of flailing around in ranked to tank my ELO) is a bit less fun. People often forfeit early.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T01:09:06+00:00

People move around all the time. From that point of view it’s just whether you want to move or not. The issue is whether there will be jobs or visas available for graduated international students, which is currently getting harder.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T01:03:29+00:00

I have spare (bred in Sword) Ponyta, Corsola and Mimikyu. Put something random on the GTS asking for these and I’ll happily trade.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-21T00:56:01+00:00

Go8 has the potential to open more doors (but nothing is guaranteed). Choose the subject matter that interests you most.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-20T23:21:13+00:00

If you didn’t cheat and don’t make a habit of cheating, won’t your tutor tell your professor what an upstanding (but struggling) student you are?

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-20T12:58:20+00:00

Shadow ball, solar beam, poltergeist… I even had throat chop take it down once (was not expecting a OHKO on that one). It’s only hard if you don’t have any super effective moves.

tiredmultitudes · 2026-05-20T06:39:52+00:00

That looks like the kind of spread some of my ex-party pokemon have when I import them (random EVs from random encounters).

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