Obscure Features Pokemon Never Told You About

[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

What are some other obscure features you can think of?

[@matthewnordstrom6377]

There awesome

[@Fluminox-]

Silvally being the only foreign legendary in gen 8 prior to home

[@TheShadow1347]

I never noticed that Pokerus is gone until now

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

Shuckle can turn held Berries into alcohol. I mean Berry Juice.

[@ColtMagyar]

Gen 9 removed the ability to see your game time when you go to save your game, in S/V if you want to see your game time you have go into the trainer profile menu

[@linhardtvonhevring7262]

In X and Y, there’s a scientist lady who can show up in the berry fields when you get a berry mutation. As you go to leave after a mutation, she shows up, goes into the old man and his granddaughter’s house, and then just stands there for the rest of the game. You can report your mutations to her, and she’ll respond to it.

[@alessandronapolitano8620]

What does a mutation do?

[@linhardtvonhevring7262]

@@alessandronapolitano8620 It gives you a new berry to plant. For example, I bred an Oran berry with a Pecha berry and got a Qualot berry.

[@alessandronapolitano8620]

@@linhardtvonhevring7262 cool. Thx

[@shanelenham8736]

I didn't know that you could even mutate berries in the first place. 😮

[@eglol]

Okay, I never knew this

[@teslobo]

Super luck absol increases the odds of wild pokemon having items? Does that mean it's... an absol loot certainty?

[@soupstoreclothing]

awful. thank you

[@TheBasileman]

I still love that interacting with the bike racks in Gen 4 would just put you on your bike so you never had to go into your bag

[@Awesomewithaz]

God damn that's so cool

[@arianagrandefromfortnite]

This guy doesnt know about the Y button

[@farris1104]

@@arianagrandefromfortnite Bruh. The whole point is that you can have something ELSE registered to the Y button instead of the bike.

[@Mirawaru]

​@@arianagrandefromfortnite You can keep other items you use often like the fishing rod or vs seeker selected to it thanks to that feature

[@Gafafsg]

@@MirawaruWow. So useful.

[@scrunkore]

a popular theory is that pokerus was removed due to the pandemic and the reason it's still partially coded is that it was removed pretty late into development

[@rjd-kh8et]

Yeah, especially since the first thing most players did when getting a Pokémon with Pokérus was try to spread it to as many other Pokémon as possible. Not something you want to encourage.

[@GhostGuy99]

I wouldn't be surprised, considering that to this day, I've never seen Pokérus in SV. Also, gotta love how the world gets salty and offended if you so much as even mention COVID. A global pandemic happens and everyone wants to pretend it never existed...rather than, oh I dunno, LEARN from it? EDIT: Now that I think about it, if it's still in the game but can't be obtained, what if you transferred a Pokérus Pokémon from SwSh to SV? Has nobody thought of doing that yet?

[@Celestia282]

I'd believe it. I'm not too torn up about it, either. It's not like Pokerus was a big deal. It was so incredibly rare that in my more than 20 years of experience playing Pokemon, I've only gotten it twice, and once was from a GTS trade. And even when you did get it, it just has the same effect as the Macho Brace. It wasn't a worthwhile mechanic to begin with.

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

​@@Celestia282 I only got it in Emerald

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

​@GhostGuy99 Frankly, I think people get salty because *_A LOT_* of people severely overreacted (as bad as it was at times) and are embarrassed now. Plus a bunch of governments really went full "mask off" with using it as a means to seize more control - just saying.

[@ej-epicjourney5351]

The inverse battle one reminded me of a move idea I had that GF is likely never gonna introduce. "Inverted Room", has the same priority as the other room moves and sets up an inverse battle for 5 turns. I'm sure the competitive community would absolutely love it lol

[@Connowot387]

The name “Inversion Room” sounds better imo.

[@GhostGuy99]

Nah. They'd rather nerf Ice Pokémon and make redundant carbon copies of certain moves and Abilities than to actually make some good gameplay ideas.

[@HuneeBruh]

@@GhostGuy99but they literally buffed ice type???

[@Prinny_god]

​@@GhostGuy99 they literally just buffed ice types to the point we're there usable now and just added a gimmick that has led to a very interesting competitive meta de stabilizing some past staples. Literacy wtf are you talking about.

[@M_Alexander]

Inverse battles were cool

[@tabbender1232]

In gen 2, in addition to the regular stat badge boosts that existed in the first 3 gens, each gym badge will give a boost of 12.5% to your attacks that are of the type of the gym where you got the badge. Even though Blue doesn't specialize in any type, his badge still boosts ground type moves as if it was still Giovanni. This means that if you have beaten every gym leader from both Kanto and Johto, every single one of your offensive moves will have its power boosted... except for the Dark-type ones, since it's the only type that doesn't have a gym. This feature is never referenced in the game in any way, and to my knowledge was never officially acknowledged in any capacity. It was most likely discovered by datamining the game.

[@aikou2886]

I had no idea rhis was even a thing.

[@liamwhite3522]

I think that was also a thing in gen 3, or at least in FRLG

[@tabbender1232]

@@liamwhite3522 Gen 3 only had the stat badge boosts

[@CosmicCorviknight]

Thanks for the Flash Fire Sizzlipede encounter tip. I hadn't heard that before and am coincidentally on a hunt for Sizzlipede in my current replay of Pokémon Shield

[@ClampEEGEE]

While I love Static attracting electric Pokemon, I hate how annoying it makes training pokemon with Static.

[@M_Alexander]

Well electric types tend to be focused on a few sites

[@Ospyro3em]

Especially when trying to find Audino to train on in Gen 5 and instead you just get Emolga!

[@ClampEEGEE]

@@M_Alexander yeah, but it means it's a lot more of a pain to train them up right when you get them. Trying to train a static Electrike in Emerald before the rival fight is so awful, the last time I caught a static one I ended up catching another one with Lightning Rod.

[@huntermengel2683]

Okay I never knew the headbutt mechanic had anything to do with TID. I just assumed some playthroughs I got very lucky getting what I wanted and other times it took hours

[@CaptainObliviousV]

As you said, with how easy it is to prep a Pokémon for competitive now a days, it wouldn’t shock me if they removed Pokerus purely because it became redundant. Starting with SwSh they removed the limit on vitamins, and with there being easy ways to grind money in SwSh & SV, the only purpose Pokerus would serve is bragging rights if you got it naturally. Not to mention the Macho Brace already did the same thing anyways. All that being said, with it still being in the code and all, it would’ve been cool if Pokémon transfered into SV with it got a special mark

[@himynameisben95]

Pikachu The Diseased

[@himynameisben95]

Hippowdon with the Sickness

[@rjd-kh8et]

But rare occurrences like Pokérus are a big part of Pokémon's popularity, hence the prevalence of shiny hunting.

[@CaptainObliviousV]

@@rjd-kh8et the popularity difference between Pokerus and shinies is as wide as Eternatus is big. Pretty much everyone knows what a shiny is, be it through word of mouth or Pokémon literally putting promotional stuff in the Switch’s notifications, meanwhile even after all this time Pokerus is still mostly obscure, only rarely talked about by old school competitive players and “cool fact” videos. You have a much better chance at finding a random full odds shiny than getting Pokerus naturally; so rare that they felt the need to introduce an item equivalent along side it. Yeah, rare occurrences help with Pokémon’s popularity, but Pokerus takes it too far to the point of making itself irrelevant.

[@ArceusDX]

Considering Game 9 came out in 2022, I think it's pretty obvious what real world event made them take out Pokerus

[@AceChampElite]

The fall of the Roman Empire?

[@NotAnElk]

Yeah it was the fall of the Roman Empire

[@SuperbGorilla]

I thought that was 2023

[@GhostGuy99]

Gotta love how people are acting like the pandemic never happened. Watch as we get hit by another pandemic in like twenty years because we as a species don't learn from history.

[@SuperbGorilla]

That is very optimistic that we last twenty years

[@AyaanicBond]

At least they made the headbutt TM from Crystal into a move tutor so it gets infinite uses, but the sleeping Pokemon thing woulda been neat to keep.

[@Celestia282]

It wasn't very realistic, though. Like sure, it makes sense that Hoothoot would be asleep during the day, but if you headbutt the tree it's in and knock it to the ground, I'd imagine the thing is going to wake up. If someone were to flip my mattress while I'm in bed and send me tumbling to the ground, I'm not going to just sleep through it.

[@miikaroos3809]

You could buy more Headbutt TMs in Gen 2, you know.

[@AoKGuy47]

I remember when I played HeartGold I was grinding around Mt Silver, and I did a routine trip to the Pokemon center. I was going through the motions mashing A then I saw sometjing about pokerus. I was so confused and had no idea what to do with it. The crazy thing for me is, I didn't know it was 5x more rare than a shiny. So I got pokerus years before I encountered my first shiny that wasn't Gyrados.

[@TheRandomJammy]

I think that while it's rarer from a number perspective, it's more common from a player pov. The amount of wild Pokémon you face that can be shiny is often quite low in an average play through, while the amount of Pokémon that could give you pokerus is higher.

[@MerkhVision]

@TheRandomJammy wait, can you explain what u mean by that a lil more? Why is it more likely to encounter a Pokémon that has a chance to give you Pokerus than a shiny in an average playthrough?

[@Moonstriker2514]

There is also a facility in Mauville that you can do Inverse Battles in

[@rjd-kh8et]

In Gen II only, badges boost their respective types by 1/8, with the Earth Badge boosting Ground even though it's no longer given by a Ground-type specialist. In Gens I and II, status moves that reduce stats have an additional 25% chance to fail when used by NPCs, as do moves that inflict status in Gen II.

[@marioipod]

WHAT?! I have literally never heard of this before. How did you figure this out?

[@rjd-kh8et]

​​I just read it on Bulbapedia. I don't think anyone knew about the badge type boosts until fans decompiled the game's source code.​@@marioipod

[@theashenogre8948]

I never had issues grinding in Gen 3. I always used the Interviewer & Cameraman double battle (Magnemite/Magneton & Whismur/Loudred/Exploud) as my personal grinding trainers especially since they are easy to get to on Route 111, 118 & 120.

[@AbeM.]

A feature I miss is being able to pet my own Pokemon after catching or defeating a Pokemon.

[@jwanie366]

The only one I really knew about was the Pokerus feature. This was a good watch; I learned a lot

[@bolladragon]

Pokémon would emote and react to their environment in HG/SS and would give you berries and other little gifts. This was partially inspired by the Pikachu in Yellow, so it came back in a way with both the partner Pikachu and Eevee in the Let’s Go titles. I remember melting into a puddle when my Pikachu gift wrapped a cool rock she found to give to me. So cute!!

[@VenusTeNecesita]

5:13 Pokemon News: "Can Manetrics surf the net and corrupt our kids? The Lightning rod chat room here on Sick Sad World"

[@MxMothra]

I wonder if they got rid of pokerus due to the pandemic. This is the first new generation after 2020 I guess.

[@xyzgamer100]

I actually didn’t think about that concept, but the idea actually makes sense

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

How about Vital Spirit increasing chance of encountering a Pokémon at there highest level for that area. Apparently Hustle and Pressure do this too. And Synchronize increases odds of encountering Pokémon with the same nature as the ability holder

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

@LuigiTheMetal64 or at least manipulate targeted encounters that can manipulate for ideal natures ie using a Modest Synchronize mon in a monolocke for a type that excels in Special Atks such as Psychic

[@BmanTheChamp]

Maybe I've just been super unlucky but It seems to me that Synchronize in SV doesn't have the feature where the Pokémon you encounter has a 50% chance of being the same Nature anymore. I've caught multiple Ralts with Synchronize before and had them at the head of the party and yet I'd catch multiple Pokémon in a row with different natures.

[@mazharsiddiqi7288]

@BmanTheChamp they got rid of most of the encounter effecting part of the ability to accommodate sandwich power

[@silverthehero1295]

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but a Pokémon with the cute charm ability would raise the chance of finding a Pokémon of the opposite gender.

[@jormungand72]

it is, and there is also something called the Cute Charm Glitch, where in HGSS/DPP; if your SID and TID numbers are correct in relation to themselves and the RNG algorithm, then you will get a nearly 50% shiny encounter rate when using cute charm as your party lead.

[@SoulBoundSagaDX]

Shuckle is the only Gen 2 pokemon with an ability. If you give it a berry (10 hp) it has a 1/10 chance after a battle to turn it into a berry juice (20 hp)

[@USPSArtoria]

True Obscurity Right Here💯💯💯

[@gavinaaric]

Happy Every other JPR Friday!!!

[@HaxAras]

Once you get Headbutt and Rock Smash in GSC, you can purchase them at the department store.

[@RedAugust08]

IDK why, but you using the Kingdom Hearts pause screen makes me very happy.

[@crazyeeveelady3636]

I don't care what people say about it XY went HARD with its levels of detail and immersion. All of the little ordinary things you could do like petting your pokemon after a battle or sitting on a bench to look at the scenery made those games feel alive

[@IronWolf123]

Safari Zone. And the HGSS objects mechanic where placing certain objects and waiting a certain amount of time grants you new pokemon to obtain

[@mediumxanax]

I was always mad as a kid because I found Pokerus in the wild TWICE but never caught a shiny until SV

[@autumnphillips151]

Oh, ha, that’s basically the same as me! I found Pokérus in Emerald and SoulSilver, but the only game I’ve ever caught a shiny in is Ultra Sun (not counting the Red Gyarados).

[@autumnphillips151]

I never encountered any shinies prior to the 3DS games, but, weirdly, I did end up getting Pokérus while I was EV training in both Emerald and SoulSilver.

[@giboit.]

I like friendship based evolutions. I think it makes sense for some pokemon to evolve due to a strong bond with their trainers. It's a very immersive evolution method in that sense and I never had a problem with it. And I feel that the hate for friendship evolutions is just a dumb bandwagon. Side note: I really like restricted sparring in SwSh. The idea of training to show your mastery over a specific type is pretty interesting and cool to me and it's a great way to get BP.

[@Celestia282]

Yeah, I really don't get the hate for friendship evolutions. Gaining friendship is so easy that you can reach the required amount by just playing the game naturally. Like, every time I have ever caught a Zubat, it would evolve into Crobat immediately after evolving into Golbat. I've never had an issue with it.

[@Buffbud96]

3:33 when i was growing up, i saw my older sister cut down grass, but i didnt see how she did it, i was astounded and curious, so i asked her "HOW DID YOU DO THAT!??!!?" and she just told me you had to use a move called "Slice". I searched all over hoenn for the Slice TM and never found it... years later i learned the truth...

[@turbo-trex6163]

I really wish they had done more with Inverse battles, they were a lot of fun. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll bring them back in ZA. You said that ALL of the bonus effects of Abilities were removed in Gen 9, but Magma Armor/Flame Body/Steam Engine cutting down the number of steps for hatching eggs still works. I actually had a Pokémon get Pokérus back in Sapphire. I can't remember the species anymore, but thanks to that I was able to carry it forward to all future games.

[@UltimateFunBilly]

Pokerus likely got taken out due to the you know what. But it was pretty late into development so there’s still lingering data on transferred Pokemon that caught it

[@castform7]

I never got the hate for friendship evolutions. You just have to run around for like a half hour and you have a Pokemon you shouldn't get access to til probably far later. I'm talking Crobat at level 23, Lucario before the first gym in BW2. A Lopunny before your second battle with Hau in USUM if you're weird and also want to spend a little more time running since Buneary always starts at 0 unlike every other Pokemon who gets an immediate boost right after being caught. It's boring but I'll take it personally.

[@pn2294]

People don’t like to play the game; they prefer grinding 😂

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

bro is onto something

[@BusinessSkrub]

​@@pn2294literally, people really be out there dodging trainers only to spend 4 hours training in the grass lmfao

[@AceChampElite]

Depending on the game you could increase happiness with massages or haircuts.

[@adriantallent8557]

Yeah, I always ended up with Crobat almost by accident. It was a very useful pokemon back in those early gens. Other friendship pokemon were a little more challenging though as they were either designed to take longer/more care or were not great utility mons right out of the gate.

[@phyllojoe5346]

Funny the timing of this video, I just got back into Violet and was doing EV training today when I wondered if my Azumarill had pokerus (obv it did not lol)

[@Celestia282]

I liked the idea of natural objects, but I wish they were easier to break. The only one of the applicable moves I regularly use is Rock Slide, so the trees and grass were always just...inaccessible. They should have drastically increased the pool of applicable moves to make it easier.

[@Link_724]

3:39 Mans casually having a magcargo that used to have Pkrs. Nice.

[@RedDragonForce2]

@ 7:21 This never stopped the hackers and cheaters from ignoring the super easy competitive team building in favor of creating their own hacked generated Pokémon. It’s a real shame that cheaters participate in official VGC events. It ruins the chances for legit players. And if you think I’m wrong, remember the recent Worlds event where a large number of cheaters got caught and disqualified.

[@_DewGaming]

The friendship feature included here was included in all future games, minus any gen 4 games

[@remyoconnor3141]

There are definitely still Headbutt trees in heart gold soul silver.

[@axoshlotl2255]

he was saying that pokemon aren't asleep when they fall out of the trees anymore

[@victinistar8968]

Dunno if anyone mentioned this, but there's still hidden mechanics tied to abillities, just the hatching ones. Yeah, kinda lame that those were the only to stay. Then again, there is no tall grass encounters to be manipulated.

[@edgargaebolg9307]

Now you use food to manipulate encounters but they don't affect things like gender or nature

[@VampPhoenix99]

I LOVE Inverse Battles! I wish they were utilized more; they're so disorienting lol.

[@gackupo05]

I like swarm uniqueness

[@samcortez420]

Can't forget about compound eyes on your lead pokémon raises the chances of a wild pokémon holding an item.

[@Dw7freak]

How about a post-game battle facility where you can battle npcs with competitive teams to earn a currency to purchase TMs, hold items, and other assorted goods useful for the competitive scene? Oh wait! That wasn't an obscure feature! It was a main feature for 7 generations!

[@janew2108]

As a long time player I learned new things! You weren’t kidding that they were obscure.

[@KevinJoshPUBG]

Literally every feature for new players... Except SM...

[@trowland65]

The headbutt tree thing is crazy! I feel so sorry for all those kids looking for a Heracross they would never find!

[@Joel97_]

You can buy headbutt and rock smash in the goldenrod department store after obtaining them so it's not a one use TM

[@SinNun-tx5jp]

This is the literal first time I've heard a person complain about friendship evolution

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

the thumbnail is so cute

[@parkershaw3753]

We just ignoring Shuckle making Berry Juice in Gen 2?

[@VampirePrinceKRS]

Hurricane is probably just too strong & ends up blowing the berries away.

[@catticorner]

i only just learned the "met location" friendship mechanics even existed in the last year or so, and i figured it was a new gen thing. now youre telling me it's been around since gen 2??? whenever i think i know everything about these games, jpr comes through and blows my mind

[@littletim98]

You can headbutt trees in Kanto

[@xxgamerlegendxx1280]

At least in the new Pokemon Z coming out we might get a follow up on the ghost girl from X and Y

[@GhostGuy99]

That depends on how doomed to fail Z-A is, because part of me is worried that TPC won't give a crap if the games fail. Kalos needs to stop being dunked on as much as it does; as someone who joined the fandom somewhere between Gens 5 and 6, it pains me to see how much TPC seems to hate Gen 6.

[@staydetermined6717]

@@GhostGuy99tpc hating Kalos, lowkey thought it was sword and shield, the anime barley focused on it, the manga meh But Kalos had a good anime and manga, but I see what ya mean

[@HyperImaginative]

That damn Manetric on my team absorbing my lighting in a Raid battle

[@richardkennedy1408]

You make the best Pokémon videos on KZbin! You are by far my favorite poketuber

[@jbcatz5]

Having an Inverse Circuit for the gyms and Pokémon League could have really added more engagement as you would need to use team set ups normally counter-intuitive.

[@allhailme8457]

The Ball Capsule. It was a neat feature that only showed up in one game.

[@JosephRouen]

It's morbin time

[@gubsy3730]

I just finished playing Pokemon Y again and I had no idea that that in battle object feature was a thing, that's so insanely random.

[@Infindox]

I dont see the hate for friendship evolutions. They usually happen normally if its a Pokemon you really like using, and it results in some really good mons (Crobat, Espeon and Umbreon, etc).

[@jeffmassicott7186]

>seeing this drop last night but waiting until 7:24 am so JPR could say good morning to me

[@asherpr1nce700]

I miss Horde battles - the were great for training and shiny hunting.

[@Celestia282]

I miss all the alternate battle styles. Triple battles, rotation battles, horde battles, inverse battles. Well, most of them, at least. Sky battles and SOS battles weren't great.

[@4eraeI]

9:44 guess this is f0reshadowing that if sound t'/p actually becomes a thing it wouLd be sup9er effective ag4inst rock

[@ichiqwerty8769]

the 3 held items in XY exclusive to natural objects are the wiki berry (purple trees on route 5) requires blizzard the float stone (rock in connecting cave) requires rockslide the snowball (piles of snow on route 17) also requires rockslide luckily both are tms, you can buy blizzard at the pokemart in anistar for $70,000 and rockslide you can find above the waterfall in couriway(requires surf, waterfall) good pokemon for it would be poliwrath - you can catch poliwhirl on a bunch of different routes with the good and super rods(id recommend R21, itll be either lv40 or 50- bulky enough to survive R17 encounters), give it a water stone, teach your new poliwrath surf and waterfall to get rockslide, then teach it rockslide and blizzard now you have 3 pretty much useless items

[@marioipod]

I had no idea that Hyper Cutter increased the radius of grass cutting, and to be fair I already knew about the cutting tall grass. The lightningrod thing is neat, didn't know about this. Pokerus was removed due to Volcaronavirus. I just know it! I think Inverse Battles should have been added to the PVP battle system.

[@derekjohnson6603]

now we need a jpr and blueboyphin collab after this

[@tabbender1232]

Friendship evolutions are my favorite because you never know when they happen

[@Infindox]

Other then Buneary who starts with an extremely low happiness, yeah I agree.

[@tabbender1232]

@@Infindox I kind of like Buneary and Lopunny's gimmick. Buneary is the only pokemon that naturally learns frustration, while Lopunny is the only one that naturally learns return

[@_Banjo_]

ok, the swam and lightning rod abilities are really cool ideas.

[@VixanaL]

In Scarlet and Violet the "Power Weight" and similar items are stronger to make up for the lack of Pokérus.

[@georginamathias5231]

And yet my Pokémon have caught pokerus naturally at least 5x more regularly than I’ve found a full odds shiny before gen 9, and about 4 generations earlier (1st time with pokerus was sapphire while first full odds shiny was sun)

[@SShadyJess]

"friendship evolutions are annoying" just say your Pokémon hate you bro lmao

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

It's really a shame XY's natural objects don't even appear in ORAS. I guess they tie to XY's beauty and destruction themes, but still. 😭

[@rjd-kh8et]

I wonder why Lightning Rod doesn't also increase the chance of trainers calling you on the Pokégear in HeartGold and SoulSilver. It would have made evolution stones easier to obtain.

[@MoramothHauntz]

I had Pokerus on my Platinum play through. It was so much fun

[@andrewandreski2659]

Gamefreak is the king of feature abandonment. Probably because they used to fire their whole programming staff between games to save costs.

[@ancientbaltoy8769]

The absolute luckiest playthrouth I've ever had was Ultra Moon. Over the span of a regular playthrouth + RR. I got a shiny female salandit, pokérus, and a shiny pyroar.

[@jbtom321]

Smoochum is my favorite pokemon to hatch from that egg

[@thedazzlingshell101]

Anyone here remember when they had some people asked for certain moves that they wanted to see in X & Y?

[@ikmkr]

i got pokerus just once. it was my starter pokemon of black and white, and since i had no idea what it was, i wondered if it didn’t contract it from the magikarp i bought. i also thought my pokemon was going to die, as i was 9 years old and very, very stupid. aaah, nostalgia…

[@joaovictorbatistaassumpcao]

This Cenario Object, in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, in caves, you can get weather stones if you use surf...

[@rotomRASENGAN]

Thumbnail appreciation post because I love how smug Rosa looks

[@tardust6409]

I always got pokerus often especially in gen 4 games

[@RoseSupreme]

That thumbnail has no right to look so cute.

[@miikaroos3809]

I've never understood this saying. Who says that anything has no right to be or do something? It sounds very arrogant.

[@ViewtifulBeau]

IV's. I hate that i learned what they were. Can't enjoy the game as much as I used to. Wish they'd get rid of them.

[@Celestia282]

Same here. Whenever I play, I just can't stop myself from caring about them. I don't care about getting perfect IVs, thankfully, but I have to get IVs that are at least decent on all my team members. If I catch a Ralts, and it has a special attack IV of 8, that's a reroll. It really sucks.

[@tktyga77]

If Inverse Battles were to make a comeback in offline or online battles, how well might such a mode work out in Smogon or VGC?

[@NavyBlueDude]

Most of these are never stated and are discovered accidently or randomly.

[@joopvanhedel1372]

Did you know that using cut on the grass on the island of the mew event in gen 3 actually makes mew angry and then he runs away

[@shawngallagher8764]

I’ll be honest I didn’t know about Suction Cups helping with fish encounters lol

[@virajach]

i thought the encounters are lower when youre high leveled by default instead of just when having intimidate

[@ldmassey]

For getting rid of pokerus they could have at least had nurse Joy heal any affected ones, saying they just discovered a cure. Missed opportunity.

[@danielmalinen6337]

6:49 Pokemon (and Game Freak) has explained that they removed Pokerus from Arceus and Gen9 and any future Pokemon games because of Covid19 and because they don't want to cause a bad taste with Pokerus by reminding players about the recent pandemic era.

[@Prinny_god]

"it lead to friendship evolution Wich kinda sucks" has to be one of the dumbest takes I've heard from this fandom, it's literally the most core theme friendly method and makes sense in a world we're friendship can power up attacks.

[@PlumEXE]

But they are a pain in the ass to do who cares about theming when it takes 30 mins to evolve your shiny pichu lol

[@matthewlong7547]

I think that it could be done a lot better, though. Friendship IRL should have a meter and stat screen next to it like a dating sim, it would make everything a whole lot easier.

[@incineroar9933]

I had the worst luck with shinies but always got pkrs on every save file lol

[@vamp97]

Back when I was a little kid I heard about pokerus on the playground and dismissed it as fake 😅

[@SinNun-tx5jp]

Wait, isn't headbutt available at store? I just don't remember if it was Goldenron or Celadon