🔴 Pokemon S/V General Thread 🟣

[Bulbasaur]

Yes people have loved Dachsbun for this!

Here's a video that I think @(you need an account to see links) was going to post so all credit to them hehe

ily lol

I've been using The Good Doggo, and they've been doing pretty well! Especially when a Slowbro is in the Party.
I use Helping Hand/Charm/Play Rough and Im thinking of getting Wish just so I can heal myself. I have Howl atm, but all the top Pokemon being used are SpAtt

Im 252 HP/252 Def/4 SpDef
Leftovers

Cinderacee does have Iron Head, but after just 1 charm, it doesnt really do any damage lol Hell, at some point my Leftovers heals more than any damage I take lol

[Mothman]

With the Unrivaled Cinderace coming back in a few days, it's a good time to start training up your Pokemon!!

Here's the build I have been using for a solo-able offline raid! (this also allows you to grind them after the event if you don't connect to the internet )

Slow
Slowbro @ Life Orb
Ability: Doesn't matter - I chose Regenerator
Tera Type: Doesn't Matter
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 31/31/31/31/31/31
- Iron Defense
- Stored Power
- Nasty Plot
- Slack Off

Use Iron Defense x3, Nasty Plot x3, and then Stored Power. Should 1 shot the Cinderace.

I have only ever had issues when the Cinderace crits, sometimes you can recover with Slack Off but if the shield goes up before you attack at all it's tough to set back up. When you are solo and offline, it doesn't matter though bc you can just run and then do it again

The shield goes up at around 60% of the timer or health bar. If you just have NPC's, their deaths don't move the timer and their attacks don't do enough to get to 60 before you are beefed and can one shot. It's an amazing set.

[Bulbasaur]

With the Unrivaled Cinderace coming back in a few days, it's a good time to start training up your Pokemon!!

Here's the build I have been using for a solo-able offline raid! (this also allows you to grind them after the event if you don't connect to the internet )

Slow
Slowbro @ Life Orb
Ability: Doesn't matter - I chose Regenerator
Tera Type: Doesn't Matter
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 31/31/31/31/31/31
- Iron Defense
- Stored Power
- Nasty Plot
- Slack Off

Use Iron Defense x3, Nasty Plot x3, and then Stored Power. Should 1 shot the Cinderace.

I have only ever had issues when the Cinderace crits, sometimes you can recover with Slack Off but if the shield goes up before you attack at all it's tough to set back up. When you are solo and offline, it doesn't matter though bc you can just run and then do it again

The shield goes up at around 60% of the timer or health bar. If you just have NPC's, their deaths don't move the timer and their attacks don't do enough to get to 60 before you are beefed and can one shot. It's an amazing set.

I have a Slowbro, but I may need to breed a new one with the correct EVs lol
I think using one would help out for most raids, or even soloing! Thank you for the info!

Also! Thank you so much for adding the Giveaway!
Im so excited!
Everyone! Please feel free to join in for a chance at the Scorbunny!

[SomethingHere]

If you already defeated the elite 4 and such, you can just go to the Hyper Training guy in the town with the ghost gym to boost up any IVs that need to be boosted (you need bottle caps, but I think they are sold in a few shops and/or the auction house on occasion). As well that there are a few items in the game that will make your pokemon 'friendlier' but reduce their EVs in certain parts if you accidentally EV trained them wrong! Super nice to be able to make some pokemon you find in the wild into something viable.

[Mothman]

If you already defeated the elite 4 and such, you can just go to the Hyper Training guy in the town with the ghost gym to boost up any IVs that need to be boosted (you need bottle caps, but I think they are sold in a few shops and/or the auction house on occasion). As well that there are a few items in the game that will make your pokemon 'friendlier' but reduce their EVs in certain parts if you accidentally EV trained them wrong! Super nice to be able to make some pokemon you find in the wild into something viable.

Yep, bottle caps are found at Delibird Presents for 20k each :3 The EV reducing berries are also at the auction house all the time! I found my shiny slowbro wild (in an outbreak) so I had to do all the IV and nature changes with items eugh

OH also if anyone plans to do the Slowbro build, you have to complete the history classes and catch the 4 legendaries to get the Nasty Plot TM

[Nattiee]

I'm finding it a bit difficult to stay motivated to play S/V. There's so much you can and need to do but the lack of organization for me makes it a bit difficult, especially when I go days without playing and then forget what I was doing. It would have been nice to have a quest/plot list or something to give a bit more structure

I also wish there was a faster way to level up. I think I'm around 30s right now. Is it better to do terra raids for exp or catch Pokemon? I'm not quite strong enough to to the Chansey exp catching.
SEND HALP.

[Bulbasaur]

I'm finding it a bit difficult to stay motivated to play S/V. There's so much you can and need to do but the lack of organization for me makes it a bit difficult, especially when I go days without playing and then forget what I was doing. It would have been nice to have a quest/plot list or something to give a bit more structure

I also wish there was a faster way to level up. I think I'm around 30s right now. Is it better to do terra raids for exp or catch Pokemon? I'm not quite strong enough to to the Chansey exp catching.
SEND HALP.

This is 100% how I felt when I first started. I felt very overwhelmed and honestly was close to not playing because it felt so unorganized.
I don't really like the "open world" system they have in S/V. I think they did a WONDER Jon on Arceus, bit this one seems so... random. Hell, the game was even saying that you could go anywhere (which you can), but you also can't due to the last of the Pokemon and gyms.
I don't get it.

The way I was able to even figure it out was with a guide on who to actually battle first and in which order lol
After I found that, I was able to enjoy the game a bit more because I felt like I was back on the road of the story.
I like the game and I still have fun, but I honestly think this is the worst one in terms of organization );

Oh! As for lving! A good way to lv is to use the Go feature. The one where you just send your pokemon out and it goes on a rampage on all the wild Pokemon near it lol
I did this and was able to get a good amount of lvs in for my team

[Excalibur]

Hi everyone! Thanks to nanobyte i was able to find this. whats everyones favorite method for shiny hunting?

[Mothman]

I'm finding it a bit difficult to stay motivated to play S/V. There's so much you can and need to do but the lack of organization for me makes it a bit difficult, especially when I go days without playing and then forget what I was doing. It would have been nice to have a quest/plot list or something to give a bit more structure

I also wish there was a faster way to level up. I think I'm around 30s right now. Is it better to do terra raids for exp or catch Pokemon? I'm not quite strong enough to to the Chansey exp catching.
SEND HALP.

My way for EXP is grinding for candies via raids

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Hi everyone! Thanks to nanobyte i was able to find this. whats everyones favorite method for shiny hunting?

My favorite is outbreak hunting! Have you done any hunting yet?

[Bulbasaur]

Hi everyone! Thanks to nanobyte i was able to find this. whats everyones favorite method for shiny hunting?

I enjoy pain, so I do egg hunts!
I also like to breed for 5-6 IV pokemon as well, so I just seem to like to make it harder on myself lol
But I enjoy it still

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Yep, bottle caps are found at Delibird Presents for 20k each :3 The EV reducing berries are also at the auction house all the time! I found my shiny slowbro wild (in an outbreak) so I had to do all the IV and nature changes with items eugh

OH also if anyone plans to do the Slowbro build, you have to complete the history classes and catch the 4 legendaries to get the Nasty Plot TM

Ah crap... I haven't done any classes nor caught any of the legendary ones
Looks like I got some work to do!