In VGC you either play 4D chess or not at all!

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(Never posted this Akira movie poster spoof I did that was very very hyper specific and no one would understand it but me)

It's Extra Steps The Game 😂

All that on top of the structure of a mobile game amd just replacing old hurdles with different annoying hurdless and feeling like a "don't worry, it'll feel like a fully realized game after a year of updates, trust"... I just still miss SwSh lol

My main gripes are that everything that's fun about it, was and would be fun in any full Pokémon game,
and that it doesn't seem to care about giving new players any kind of serious onboarding, besides very weak tutorials that don't even let you get familiar with the UI or explain much beyond press A

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Yeah, crazy move to use negative priority holding a quick claw after setting Tailwind the turn before XD

Daily Champions Ranked ???-moment

3 Rock Slides later I won 😂😂😂
Thought I was done for sure

Mamoswine against the world!

It took me like 5 battles in Master 4 before I realized that higher tiers aren't unlocked in the game yet LOL

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But that's the thing, you still need to spend the necessary VP to train them if you want them to be matched to the team you are replicating.
It's hurdles within hurdles, extra steps with extra steps.

Easily the worst thing about Pokémon Champions
and it's driving me nuts that it feels like nobody is freaking out about it, even though everyone is calling the game bad for all the other less surprising reasons.
www.twitch.tv/videos/27446...

As a long-time VGC-enjoyer who wants other people to be able to get into it and have fun,
I can't get over the fact that they removed the single biggest accessibility aspect of..
wanna try VGC in SwSh/SV?
Boot up the game, type in a rental code, start matchmaking.
That's basically gone in Champions.

I mean... they know all the battles have timers they could make use of to avoid causing this, right? xD

Maybe they should try to make the app better every 5 years or so..

VGC is finally accessible

(This is sarcasm. Think testing "Replica teams" in champions broke my brain)

i'm normally pretty good about managing The Horrors but for real how is anybody supposed to get anything done today

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Discourse around AI is intensely polarized and very emotional... but I can always count on @etvpod.bsky.social to bring nuanced points to the discussion.

Here he is on the latest episode of Cognitive Dissonance. Highly recommended!

youtu.be/Q9vFiWh5MLQ?...

Uh, thanks? XD

The base layout hasn't changed in years, but you can reduce the row width a few slots by making the browser window smaller in width

Ok, now I actually gave it a shot and made a fresh 151 Dex of a cross-generation selection of Pokémon I like.

I still tried to aim for healthy type diversity and for the Dex to feel like it follows a biome progression of a Pokémon region I was making up in my mind XD

Was trying to find a file where I did this,
but only keep finding versions where I'm using my Fakemon and filling gaps with Pokémon, like this example

...man I feel like I'd wanna redesign most of these 😂

(seems to be from 2011, but no clue why I didn't have the updated Blissey artwork saved lol)

OH LOL
Good catch, guess I just didn't have Blissey saved with its HGSS artwork? xD

I mean, taking BDSP as an example where it's probably most significant. If I'm not mitsaken, moving a Pkmn into BDSP basically creates BDSP-specific version of the Pokémon's data, right?
Because then moving it into a post-Z-A game would let them drop the BDSP specific data.

I imagine they want to have one-way transfer points every ~2 generations just to get rid of a bunch of the accumulated specific game baggage data, so that it doesn't get increasingly bloated for Pkmn that have gone to a lot of games with unique mechanics/features.

I assume nothing changed in regards to ribbons/marks on switch?