aka i'm... i have no idea how far i am, actually, because this game seems to be 90% tutorial and 10% actual game

uhhh i did the first mega evolution rogue fight and now the guy wants me to fight him to bump up to rank F. but even though every other trainer has level 18 pokemon i got my shit wrecked with my team at 27 because all of his are over 30?? i guess????

they want me to use that absol so fucking bad

this is my current fit

also i decided i'm naming my pokemon after clothes and accessories this time around, so the squad rn is:

- Cravat (Bayleef, my starter)
- Kneesocks (Riolu)
- Sweater (Flaaffy)
- Ballgown (Kirlia)
- Boa (Fletchinder)
- Scarf (Frogadier)
- Brooch (Whirlipede)
- Boots (Glaceon)
- Corsage (Floette)

CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE

THANK U

im gonna get a better pic of the front also LMAO

just got fucking CHASED by a lv 40 dragonair and somehow managed to catch it without it murdering me personally

alpha dragonair, i should specify

yessss getting the squad up to 30 so now Brooch is a VENIPEDEEEE

idk when kneesocks will finally evolve though. like. help

god i wish there was a way to check friendship/happiness

THE FACT THERE ISN'T IS FUCKING KILLING M

ME*

YAAAAY AND NOW GARDEVOIR WITH THE MEGA STONE

ok Sweater is an Ampharos now and Ballgown is a Gardevoir, hell yeah

/KICKS DOWN THE DOOR

I UNLOCKED PINK HAIR

do you want the spoiler on how to do it

YES

HOW THE FUCK

it's one of the side missions! when you show the hairdresser all 5 different color flabebe she adds a bunch of new colors to all of the salons

SO IT IS THE FLABEBE WOMAN

goddamnit i just need orange to finish that one and it's fuckin nowhere

took me fucking forever because I kept finding white floettes instead of flabebes BUT I DID IT FINALLY o9

yeah you get pink when you finish it completely

FUCK okay ill

go back to hunting KLHLSDFGDS

god ok i rounded the corner from her and slammed into an orange one so QUEST FUCKING ACHIEVED

unlocked pink hair, spent 100k, redid my wardrobe entirely

and now its 3:30 am and i MUST sleep

man i'm really not the biggest fan of this game's just. structure ig?? but the characters are so good it melts my heart

Naveen's obsession with Canari... it's so cute

okay i need to ask, WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT TOP...it's so cute....

IT'S IN LIKE... let me see if i can describe it right

so if you look at the map, i've found 4 major shopping areas- one way to the north almost at the edge (just above zone 4), one that's one long hallway also in the north (to the left of 3 and 4, above 7), one that's kinda tiny by the stone emporium, and one on the left bottom side, near Bleu Plaza

that one I think is called Passage de la Felicite? it's in one of the shops there

at least... i think so... lemme confirm

if not that it's the second one (the long hallway)

okok i thiiink i should be able to find it...

the second one is called Passage Ombrage and I think that might actually be the one, lemme see

its between the looker bureau and the poke ball boutique

YES i found it, it's in Ombrage, store is Nightside!

it comes in this pastel pink and a black

they also have all the like, ruffle socks and shit

scream why am i not finding it....

here, where the green marker/blue triangle is, top left

FOUND IT

AAAAHH THANK YOU

YAY

there's another store that has 2 tops of this same style but with floral patterns also in that same strip, Glammor Girli. That's where I got my skirt lol

anyway, me crawling out of this shopping center again with 250 pokedollars KSHFLG;SLD

OH GOD MY GRENINJA WAS STILL POISONED THIS WHOLE TIME IM SORRY SCARF...

god it's always funny shaking down a new wild zone for more pokemon like SPAWN THE LAST ONE I NEED. THANK U

also which species ends up being unexpectedly aggressive

WHY ARE WEEPINBELL SO FUCKING MEAN

i love making 100,000 pokedollars in one night and then walking into the mall to spend all of it in 15 minutes or less

update: it's gone

got the new hair colors and decided to switch up my outfit

also my new z-a royale pic uwu

z-a: hey your friend was captured by the mob or something. maybe you should handle that?
me: oh yeah for sure
z-a: also there's two new wild zones.
me: HANG ON URBAIN I GOTTA. POKEMON FIRST

ok got up to rank C and. why is corbin just so fucking weird. why can't this game decide who is a bad guy

corbeau* not corbinLMAO

god this game is so fucking weird LMAO

did all the jacinthe stuff, made it to rank B, it's just. i'm. is anyone going to be remotely an asshole here

man if the pokemon franchise keeps doing this real time battle thing i am not going to enjoy the future of this fucking game lmao

like i hate this stupid thing of not being able to heal in the cafes and how you have NO CHANCE of avoiding attacks way, way more than in the mainline

im also grumpy because you HAVE to mega evolve which means you basically can't use held items!!

lol and then half the side missions give you held items and it's like cool.......thanks..................

HONESTLY LSIHUDGFSD

LIKE WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO W THIS?

im running a 9 pokemon team and i think 6 of them are mega-evolution, or at least like. 6 will be, I have 5

I went through the whole game with aegislash and lemme tell you it's SO satisfying to knock out a trainers' mega evolved pokemon with just

ust a sword

*just

i have been hesitant because of that real time stuff... i liked PLA's speed styles but

it just feels like. yknow how really, really good animated films get remade in live action because it's somehow "superior" even tho they're just different mediums for different stories

soooo many turn-based games are like but what if we went real time because obviously that's the future

like no some of us don't like and aren't fucking good at soulsbourne games. i don't want to play them. my fucking hands hurt.

part of the reason I love Pokemon so much is because it's fucking turn based combat i just. AUGH

i feel like there are ways to modernize pokemon's turn based combat without... having to do that

see here's the thing, I don't think it needs it!

i don't think it needs modernizing. I think it's a deliberate choice of a game type and there's nothing wrong with it

god youre not even wrong

there

THERE'S NOTHING TO FIX LMAO*

like you wouldn't eliminate animation just bc live action and cgi exists! it

it's just a different medium!!! let us fucking use ittttt

like maybe you could trim some moves to remove bloat but like................... yheah

actually what i want is. smtv has a consumable item that if you use lets you know an enemy's weakness. just add that

i mean it's not like they changed the type matchups or anything

real-time is just fundamentally not accessible

oh no its just like sometimes remembering what dual types are weak to is such a calculation

okay I mean fair LMAO im. a freak. who has that shit on lockdown because im insane

i guess at least i rather they experiment with real ttime in a spinoff like legends but im worried if it's popular theyll bring it to mainline too.....

yeah like if it stays here, or in Pokemon Unite, like-- fine! i'm fine with that

but i swear to god if they bring it to mainline i'm gonna kill nintendo

im just grumpy because the 3 star restaurant challenge is kicking my ass and i'm mad bc in ANY OTHER GAME i'd have crushed this already

oh god that was legitimately the hardest battle imo

i went in with overleveled pokemon and STILL got my ass kicked

LITERALLY LIKEEE i even got thru sushi high roller after a couple tries but NOT THIS

honestly I only just barely passed it, i didn't start getting decently far into it until I leveled up a steel type to deal with the first guy WHO LET THE POISON TRAINER GO FIRST

i was using my scoliopede to deal with the poison guy but unfortunately i have Gotten to 10. and no further

like i got to the last guy but was down to like, my greninja who was not effective on all those fucking dragons LMAO

is lucario susceptible to poison or nah? cuz if not I'm gonna lead w them next time

its steel so i think it shouldnt be, unless the poison type has a special ability

does za have abilities

oh god it doesn't. what the fuck. i JUST realized that

i knew PLA didnt but

i'm mostly laughing that i didn't even notice

i'm 50 hours into this game

well i got within 1 hit of winning that stupid 10 battle gauntlet and fucking lost im SO

my team is LEVEL 75

my ass leveling everything in the royale with no problem, 10+ levels over everything else in the game, but NOOOOO NOT THIS. STUPID. SIDEQUEST