>yfw

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>>30055333

>>30055333
>Lycanrock used Stealth Rock!
>Pointed stones were scattered around your team!

FUCK OFF

>>30055333
>created the Alolan Pokeman League
>appoints himself as champion

>>30055526
>Uses Stealth Rock when 4 of my team members are weak to rock.

Fug that was painful

>>30055679
Was this the first time steatlh rock was used by an AI trainer?

>>30055846
No, the Ace Trainer in the first island can do it, and he uses Roar in conjuction.
The AI in this game can be devilish

>>30056051
Wait it wasn't Roar it was a Red Card, I wasn't looking so I assumed that's what it was.

>>30055679
Kukui is like a writer that's way too into making the MC a self-insert Mary Sue of himself.

>"I'll set up years of construction for a League just to make myself Champion without a fight just because I lost the Indigo league"

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>tfw entire team weak to rock
>tfw Lycanroc first mon out
>tfw Stealth Rock
>tfw almost swept to death by first mon

>tfw tsareena with rapid spin on deck
felt great desu

>>30055333
How about using a spoiler tag you fucking retard

>>30056192
how about keeping with news grandpa

this is a pokemon imageboard for fuck's
sake, if you don't want SM spoilers you're in the wrong place

He could have come as the wrestler and the first challenger of Alola league, saying he was just from beating all the elite 4, just like Red did in RBY challenging blue. That would leave a bigger impression of the finale of the game.

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>>30055333
I was hype as fuck

but then he unzipped the smogon strats and I ended up having to pop all 5 of my max revives to survive

best champ of the series though

>>30056192
>Not beating the league already
kek

regardless this is a mostly unregulated imageboard in terms of spoilers. If you don't want spoilers, either add filters, disable pictures, or stay away for a bit

>>30056225
I already beat the game, but for some here it might be a spoiler. It's an unspoken courtesy. Spoiler tags exist for a reason.

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>>30055679
he wasn't the champion

he was challenging you for the title

>>30055526
I was glad I kept Rapid Spin on Tsareena. With z-Splash and Trop Kick and Hi Jump Kick. I swept.

>>30056309
If you're browsing /vp/ 2 days after release without disabling images or a filter and hope you manage to not get spoiled than you're just retarded though

>>30056309
>Not only bitches about spoilers on a board specifically for discussing it where people who want to avoid spoilers should know to avoid
>But also does that faggoty thing where he gets upset on behalf of someone else that doesn't actually even exist

You are the worst kind of cunt.

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>fuck up and forgot to switch primarina back to first on my team, end up putting out arcanine, because i knew this faggot was probably going to put out lycanroc first
>switch to primarina out of fear of it OHKO'ing arcanine
>Lycanroc used stealth rock!
>realization on how hard i just fucked up hits me, most of my team is weak to rock and I have no way to clear it because I didn't know gamefreak would actually do something like this
>nearly get swept by his fucking snorlax because I had no fighting type moves and he was tanky as hell and hit like a truck
>barely made it through because he switched to decidueye which is complete SHIT so I got to freely revive all of my team
This is the closest I have ever gotten to whiting out in almost a fucking DECADE

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>>30055679
>>30056334
I actually thought about this for a bit. He is the creator of the league, after all, so he has to have somebody at least as strong as him to run it. So, he's technically the champion in all but name.

How the fuck did Kukui even lose to those Kanto shitters?

>>30057667
He did?

>>30055333
I thought it was a nice nod to all those RBY era playground rumours about being able to battle Proffessor Oak as the final champion.

>>30055333
>use exp share all game
>Pokemon all end up around level 54-55
>e4 has 5 mons, pleasantly surprised that I'm not super overleveled and stomping everything like in XY
>sit in that comfy chair, fuck yeah
>he comes out
>team is actually difficult
Midday Lycanroc has so much fucking attack and speed. Fun battle, I had to actually pay attention.

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>>30058061
>playground rumors
>anon doesn't know

>>30055333
>30055555
come again

>>30058130
>>30055555
what did he mean by this

>>30058042

Lost to Lance.

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>>30057539
>This is the closest I have ever gotten to whiting out in almost a fucking DECADE
I don't have my copy of Sun yet so no stories from the newest games but I had some serious fun with my relatively low level run of Alpha Sapphire
>Wally was cake, now at the league gates with a team of ~18 Pokemon all below lv40
>Sidney and Phoebe are doable, lose to terrible decisions with Glacia the first time though, and then a second time thanks to complete RNG horseshit (fucking Sheer Cold)
>finally make it past the Elite Four on third attempt, decide to save game before Steven because fuck it, I ain't wasting more time on the first four chumps
>again make some bad choices on Steven but pull through with my lv37 Curse Skarmory tanking Claydol and Metagross' biggest hits
>the whole ordeal still got me to the final few Hyper Potions and (Max) Revives I had, but hey, it's over
>Credits roll
>May challenges me, oh shit oh shit ooooh shiiit
>I don't care if it doesn't matter if you lose here, my pride is on the line here
>her levels are considerably lower than the league's so she was meant to be an easy cute little bookend fight to end the story on
>except my team is still barely lv40
>work through her team with a few surprising losses here and there, I don't fucking have healing items any more
>she throws out Blaziken
>fucking Mega Evolves it
>tears through my team
>my last hope is Relicanth who I didn't even try sending out earlier thanks to low speed and Fighting weakness
>miraculously survives the attack with its insane bulky Defense and KOs in return with a Waterfall

>>30055333
>inceneroar used dark lariat

Fuck me

>>30058193
>Lost to 3 Dragonite

Understandable.

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>>30055333
More like Professor Cuckui

>>30055333
Honestly the best champ since Cynthia and you can even make an argument for him being better than her

Not even sure how he lost the shit league known as kanto

Maybe he has potential and chokes when under pressure

>>30055333
I love how in this game you have to denfend YOUR champion title instead of still having Green, Lance, Steven or whoever still having their ass glued to the champion room that should be yours by now.

It took GF 20 fucking years but it finally happened.

>>30058213
You'll going to have fun in these games without even having to go out of your way as long you play on set without exp share. In the second part of the game you'll see level spikes.

>>30059422
I heard Exp Share is good to go this time around since the exp scaling prevents you from becoming too overleveled.

>>30056300
>smogon strats

I don't get why people are so blasted about an popular optional format to play Pokemon.

Nintendo created Stealth Rock and it's interactions in Generation 4, not Smogon.

I'm glad they use some of the tools available, there's plenty of options Nintendo have introduced and the AI previously hasn't used. The most criminal of these is switching, but I understand in some scenarios it'd be extremely hard to program without "prediction" just being reading your input.

>>30055679
>>30057645
>>30059338
He never fucking was the champion. He made himself a temporary elite 4 member (basically elite 5) to test the first alolan champion. If you encounter him challenging your title, he even says he has no interest in being the champion of a league he himself built, he just wants to see you use your powerful moves.
Stop mashing A.

So what was his ace? At first I thought it would be Lycanroc but he sends him out first.

>>30059836
The pokemon strong against your starter.
He was the true Rival all along

>>30059452
Yeah, the game is balanced around the use of exp share, that's why turning it off (or turning it on only to train the pokémon you just caught and then turning it off again) makes the run even better.

It's almost like the BW2 difficulty mode.

>>30059889
Huh
Didn't even realize that
So rowlet is hard mode since you have to deal with incineroar kicking your shit in
Popplio is easy mode cause ghost owl a shit

>>30060004
Ghost Owl is easily the best of the 3.

>>30060335
This, Decidueye kicked my ass the first time around.

So, how does this run on the old 3ds XL? I don't really want to upgrade just for one game.

>>30060490
badly but you can still play it

>>30060421
Mixed attacker can be better for the CPU in main game usually, due to to TMs and level up learnset are usually mixed/unoptimised.
This isn't always true but I'd say more often than not.

I fucking hate him so much
why are his pokemon so strong??

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>>30055333
It was a nice surprise. I knew something was up when he walked into the League with me.
Even better when I saw him using an Incineroar.

>tfw you ditched your starter first playthrough

>>30055333
Guys please I need an answer

If you pick Litten, will the Primarina that he'll use be male or female?

>>30061109

Why don't you just pick Rowlet and trade for a Litten? Starters are the most traded pokemon ever at the beginning of a gen and nothing fits Kukui like Incineroar. Also his Primarina is all man, baby.

>>30061146
You don't get their Z Crystal if you don't pick them tho..

>Also his Primarina is all man, baby.

Hahahaha fug

>>30061183
you get them postgame

>>30060490
ok

>>30055333
This marks three generations of shitty champion music. Which is real disappointing because the E4 music was solid this time around. Shit didn't even sound like a final boss theme, sounded more like a title screen opening song. Shit, DIANTHA'S was better than this one.

>>30061584
>kukui theme
>bad

Fuck off you dumb fucking nigger

>>30055679

But he's not the champion.

You are. That's why the challenger is different every time you beat the E4.

>>30061584
Nice bait.

>>30061904
>>30061981
Not even baiting, the theme sucked cock.

>>30062009
well technically this is YOUR theme, YOU are the champion not kukui.

>>30061584
Iris theme is Diantha's theme done right.

>>30055333
I was expecting it but then I sat in the throne and thought "it's not happening" but then it happened. 10/10 buildup

I was expecting him using his mask though.

>>30055333
I expected either him, Guzma or Kahilli when someone in the demo talked about a golfer who is one of the strongest pokemon trainers in Alola.
Samson Oak and Colress also crossed my mind but I knew it would be pretty much impossible.
So I can't say I was that surprised but it was still amazing.

>>30059452
How does the exp scaling work, I've heard it talked about but never gotten it explained.

>>30062614
Like in Black and White
It's based off the level difference
You get more experience the lower you are
Less the higher you are

>>30063205
Aha, thanks for telling me.

>>30057539
His snorlax actually gave me no trouble at all. I'm SO glad I backtracked to get Mareanie.

>>30055333
>Mudsdale used High Horsepower!
And that's how I BTFO'd Alola.

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>>30057539
>telling a positive story about challenge level in the game
>still finds time to shit on the owl
Don't know what the Royal has for a moveset, but Decidueye has been far and away my MVP and the folks at Smogon seem to be pleasantly surprised by it. Not likely OU quality, but far from utter trash. I was afraid my favorite new Pokémon would end up being worse than Meganium and useless even ingame. Glad to have been wrong.

>>30055679
It's literally the reverse of Red/Blue.

The player character is in Rival's position, given he just became the champion, and the professor's in Protagonist's position, trying to take the champion's title right after he got it.

Anyone used any "shitmons" in game?
I was thinking of using a combo of A-Raticate, Gumshoos, Pyukumuku, Lurantis, Drampa, A-Sandslash, Oranguru and A-Persian with some other stronger 'mons.

I know Pyukumuku is basically like Wobbuffet but with shit HP although I finished Crystal with Wobbuffet, but the counter/mirror coat was .ore predictable back then

>>30059752
That's what I'm saying. He is the creator, and thus the owner of the league. He isn't the champion, but is the final test before someone can become champion.