Separate pokemon behind obstacles like big rocks or lure the one you want to catch outside the rift.
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you can sneak on them if you "lose" them a bit. you can also throw spoiled apricorns and mud balls to stun them and literally walk to their back and throw a ball there
I don't think so? I'd have to check my boxe- er, pastures.
I did at first. I still wish battles were *just* a bit quicker. But I do them a lot more now that I have half a stable team in place.
Well, I'll be damned, apparently I caught a shiny Aipom at some point. Too bad I hate Aipom, or else I'd be excited.
It's been the opposite for me, I battle whenever possible.
Damn what an awesome get congrats, a shiny of each gender for wildly different looks!
ok holy shit is this game fun once you get a mount. the way you can whip around the map, hop off instantly to loot and hop right back on without waiting for it to finish is awesome. the exploration in this game is great. love the verticality too, it feels like any time you're up high you can go to the ledge and find a bunch of shit to go find on the lower levels. I love how sometimes you don't even have to go down you can just throw your pokemon/pokeball down and it'll reach. I was enjoying the game before but it just went to another level
Yes. Battling sucks.
The more I play, the more I realize this will be a one and done for me. Once I complete the post game story and get my shiny Electabuzz line I don't think I'll ever touch this game again.
I only battle when I fail to capture a Pokémon or when I want to complete some research tasks. Otherwise, I keep sneaking and capturing Pokémon.
I hope this series is a success and that they improve upon it. I always thought Pokémon battles to be boringgly slow. I loved battles on SW/SH because of the spectacle (gym battles), or the co-op feature of it (raid battles), or the special Pokémon hunt (also raid battles). The battle itself was never something I looked for. I think it is so boring that BDSP put me to sleep, and I mean literally.
So yeah, I never liked the combat focus, and always wished I could explore and see Pokémon on the world. There are many things I wish this game would improve, but it is a really solid base. So far it is the Pokémon game that I love the most. That said, I'm still on the 1st area while being 3 stars rank. So maybe it is fairer to say "it is the Pokémon game that I loved the most the beginning/tutorial"?
Filling out the Pokedex is a big grind. I'm post-game now and need to complete everything, so I'm in this tedious loop of: pull out the Pokémon I caught but don't have level 10 research for > check which moves I need for research and what style > go do 5 battles against Bidoof and use agile/strong whatever attack (hope Bidoof doesn't run) > talk to Professor, update to level 10 > repeat 200 times
I truly wish there was a guaranteed method to spawn Distortions, I only need a few pokemon to fill out my dex and I'm running out of things to do whilst waiting for them to spawn.
You only need to have caught them, not max research, for the post-game final boss.
Detailed Interactive Maps by Gamer Guides
Hi everyone,
Thought I'd share the Interactive Maps we've worked on for Arceus. We've had a team on this since launch and put a lot of hours into it so hopefully, it's useful for some people. Please see below:-
- Obsidian Fieldlands
- Crimson Mirelands
- Cobalt Coastlands
- Coronet Highlands
- Alabaster Icelands
- Jubilife Village
The map(s) currently contains the following:- High resolution, zoomable region images.
- All 107 Wisps & 28 Unown Locations (with screenshots and descriptions).
- All Normal, Alpha, Noble, Legendary & Mythical Pokémon Locations.
- Points of Interest such as: Camps, Fast Travels, Dungeons etc.
- Space Time Distortion Locations.
- All Dig Spots
- All Old Verses
We are currently working hard to add more screenshots and Pokémon markers so please bear with us. If you click certain markers you will see screenshots and useful links to more information. Please Note: Normal Pokemon are zone-based and may have a wide spawn radius so they may not be in the exact same position. Try to look in the area around the marker and you should be able to find one. Would greatly appreciate any feedback.
Thought I'd share the Interactive Maps we've worked on for Arceus. We've had a team on this since launch and put a lot of hours into it so hopefully, it's useful for some people. Please see below:-
- Obsidian Fieldlands
- Crimson Mirelands
- Cobalt Coastlands
- Coronet Highlands
- Alabaster Icelands
- Jubilife Village
The map(s) currently contains the following:- High resolution, zoomable region images.
- All 107 Wisps & 28 Unown Locations (with screenshots and descriptions).
- All Normal, Alpha, Noble, Legendary & Mythical Pokémon Locations.
- Points of Interest such as: Camps, Fast Travels, Dungeons etc.
- Space Time Distortion Locations.
- All Dig Spots
- All Old Verses
We are currently working hard to add more screenshots and Pokémon markers so please bear with us. If you click certain markers you will see screenshots and useful links to more information. Please Note: Normal Pokemon are zone-based and may have a wide spawn radius so they may not be in the exact same position. Try to look in the area around the marker and you should be able to find one. Would greatly appreciate any feedback.
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I don't need the level 10? Well that's definitely something, thanks you just saved me a ton of grinding. Do you need level 10 everything for the shiny charm I assume though?
They were pretty chaotic for me at first, but I've found that you can usually start a battle and catch things on your first throw. So start a 3-vs-1 battle, first turn capture the biggest threat -> take two attacks -> capture the second Pokemon -> endure a final attack -> catch the last thing.
One of the big things about PLA is to unlearn 25 years of other Pokemon games. Wild Pokemon don't need to be weakened to capture, and have very high capture rates. I captured Palkia first turn with my first Ultra Ball toss at full health, I'm not even sure that's possible in the regular series :D
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Is it possible to use a Smoke Bomb to escape combat, like one would expect a Smoke Bomb to be used? It seems like all it does is allow you to generate stealth grass to approach Pokemon with.
It feels weird how the game has so many tools for sneaking up on Pokemon but so few tools for dealing with alerted Pokemon. Particularly with how stingy the game is with the stun items.
It feels weird how the game has so many tools for sneaking up on Pokemon but so few tools for dealing with alerted Pokemon. Particularly with how stingy the game is with the stun items.
Started the game yesterday, about 5hrs in now, and am completely addicted to the game loop.
I'm finding myself having more fun catching the Pokemon than battling them.
Really enjoying myself so far. I do wish the avatar's running was better. It's a bit slow and janky for me.
I'm finding myself having more fun catching the Pokemon than battling them.
Really enjoying myself so far. I do wish the avatar's running was better. It's a bit slow and janky for me.
No shinies for me either and it's supposedly easier to find one. Arceus doesn't like us. Lol
I came across my first last night. Haunter, Gengar and Licktitung all spawned directly in front of me, threw a ball at each one and caught them all first try. Then the distortion ended. I'm guessing this isn't what should happen?
Yes, there's really just no point to it. I've had an extremely easy time catching even much higher level fully evolved alpha Pokemon without entering combat, so why should I bother?
Why are you going after Bidoof when a lot of Pokémon have some kind of "defeated with [x] type move" as one of their tasks?
Go after Geodudes with a grass starter and its signature move, for example, and you're taking care of 4 tasks at once (the move, the style, defeating 'dudes, defeating them with a grass attack).
Yup I suck. Can't even find a pikachu and the second area is kicking my ass and I just started that area.
pretty bad that I'm even terrible at a Pokémon game now.
Edit: maps posted earlier is going to help catching the Pokémon I want. Thanks.
pretty bad that I'm even terrible at a Pokémon game now.
Edit: maps posted earlier is going to help catching the Pokémon I want. Thanks.
I'd love to be that efficient, yeah. The problem is that it's not very easy to coordinate all of that in game (have to look up what move they need to be defeated with, pick the appropriate Pokemon, travel to that area unlike Bidoof who are right next to the camp, and anything other than Bidoof is probably going to require healing between battles, etc). Also, most of those Pokemon I could complete by defeating I've already completed by catching, it's their less common evolutions I'm completing now.
That would be a neat tool to find on the internet though, a PLA "efficient dex" planner.
What is "early"? I got them right when I arrived at the second area. When are you meant to get there? The whole mirelands was wyrdeer jumps for me. I could get everywhere.
Palkia's catch rate was always on the rather high side, tbh.
I can definitely see myself using this to collect the unowns and spirits, great job!
Just finished the Kleavor fight. Sometimes I sit back in awe and say wow this is a Pokemon game. One thing this game does well is hold your attention with stuff to do on the path to your objective. I've went down many detours before I've even got to the objective, sometimes hours later. Reminds me of BOTW for sure. Love this game.
These are great. Nice job. Bookmarked!!
I'm sure they meant infernape, it tracks with the rest of the post
Hopefully the continued snubbing of best ape is because they're working on giving him a new idle animation.
I made mine modest (+Sp. Atk, -Atk.) because it seems to be better at that and its speed is nothing to write home about, but +Speed, -Atk might be good too if there are threats that are getting two turns on you. I think a mixed attack/special attack might be good too since it would open up lots of physical moves like iron tail, wild charge, drain punch, and rock slide, but its attack stat is pretty mediocre.
Does anyone have the drive file (or somewhere else like Imgur?) of all of the new Pokemon models/images?
I really liked seeing them all before the game came out but that original drive file was nuked. Someone has to have the high res images somewhere right?
I really liked seeing them all before the game came out but that original drive file was nuked. Someone has to have the high res images somewhere right?
You don't need any tricks for Petilil, just go round the back of Lake Valor. For Goomy you need to jump over the river at the bottom.
This is great. I would love a button for each Pokémon that would quickly hidden everything else and only show that Pokémon (so a focus button basically). Right now the flow would be to click hide all and then click the Pokémon, but I think what I want to do most frequently is to search for one specific mon.
