WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT HOW IS THIS SHIT WIPING MY PARTY

GIT
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>Magmar used Clear Smog!

Made every totem after Lurantis easy, です.

>send in shitmon
>break the disguise
>let shitmon die
>send in Primarina
>z-move

>>31328059
>Implying im going to use fagarina

>>31327986
it hurts famalam. I lost half my party to that little bastard. Thought it was gonna be an easy victory with Metang using bullet arm to knock him out fact, but thatI forgot about the decoy and that fucked me up. I hadn't lost anyone in this Nuzlock until I went up against that bastard.

>>31328008
this

>>31327986
What a fucking shitter

>>31328059
>Mimikyu used Play Rough!
>Haunter used Hypnosis!
more like a dead Primarina

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>>31327986
>losing to an ingame fight

>Duderino used Shit Attack!
>The disguise broke!
>Mimikyu used Killmurder!
>Duderino died!
>Go! Decidueye!
>Decidueye used Sinister Arrow Raid!
>Mimikyu was wiped off the face of the planet in 0.7 seconds!
>Shit Totem Ally used Shit Attack!
>Decidueye murdered Shit Totem Ally!
>You Win!
Three turns.

You literally just got Steelium Z and you got the TM for Smart Strike two trials ago, first turn break the Disguise, second turn pop that Z-Smart Strike and cut that Fairy down. Or hell, if you're using Decidueye, you can use Sinister Arrow Raid instead.

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>losing to a wild pokemon with a stat boost

Holy fuck, I thought that "totems are hard" was just a meme.

>>31328142
>>31328059
>MUH Z-MOVE!

No, don't encourage this guy to play on easy mode for a children's video game.

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>>31327986
My team was overleveled and I almost got wiped. I got lucky when hypnosis finally missed and was able to break the disguise. Play rough one shot everything.

the only totem to give me trouble was alolan marowak/salazzle i was baked as shit and kept guessing the marowak wrong and they killed 2 of my party kek

>>31328127
>Molasses Owl
>outspending +1 Mimikyu's Shadow Sneak and Haunter using Night Shade

>>31328180
>ariados
>golisopod
>pyukumuku

>>31328181

That fight was a literal joke with mudbray. Beaten with one magnitude. Also,

>DUDE

>>31328181
Dumbfuck

>>31328180
>>31327986
lol u suck bro. git gud fag.

a) ur team is bad
b) u are bad
c) all of the above

take ur pick

>>31328145
Not to mention you get a SE Z-Crystal for each one after the first two right beforehand. And for Gumshoos/Raticate you still get the TM for Brick Break right beforehand.

Wishiwashi is the only one anyone should have any remote trouble with. And even if you avoid Z-Moves and all, it's still a joke with a full team of six.

>>31328173
>don't use the new major gameplay mechanic!

Next thing you're gonna tell me is that playing on Set actually makes Pokemon games significantly harder than playing on Shift.

>>31328194
>Level 40-something Decidueye likely with at least a few speed EVs just from ingame battles alone
>vs 30-something Mimikyu that sucks ass and only gets a meme attack boost
>DURR ITS BASE STAT IS SLOW SO ITS GONNA GET OUTSPED
One free (You) for you, dear Anon.

>>31327986
did people seriously not bother to catch a magnemite at any point during the game
it BTFOs almost all the trials

Use Toxic.

>>31328233
>only gets a meme attack boost
It gets boosts in all stats, idiot. Also, level 40 Decidueye needs 252 speed EVs, 31 speed IVs, and a +speed nature to outspeed a +1 level 30 Mimikyu.

Here's your (You), retard.

>>31328245
I used one early on, but ended up dropping it for Raichu. I didn't want to use too many old pokemon.

>>31328233
>level 40-something

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I just entered Poni Island

Can someone explain why everybody and their mom is 5 levels above me?

>>31328205
Pyukumuku did a bit of damage when it died. Golisopod was the only one able to break the disguise with its priority. Ariados was the MVP because it was at such high level that it could survive, insomnia to deal with hypnosis, and psychic to take care of hunter.

>>31328026

not everyone uses Magmar feg.

>>31328233
>Level 40

>>31328233
>overleveling

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>>31328059
>tfw haunter kept outspeeding every pokemon I sent in and using hypnosis
>tfw brionne(who I tried to keep from battling to prevent overleveling) somehow avoided it and ended up carrying the team anyway
Truly the most dependable and reliable.

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>>31328225
Zmoves are obviously acceptable for multiplayer and Battle Tree but its literally babby mode for the single player. I never touched my crystals throughout the singleplayer and the game was still too easy for me.

Also Switch does make battles easier that should be obvious, getting a free switch into a counter for the next pokemon with no drawbacks doesn't make the game easier? Really?

>>31328282
Yeah, i found that funny too, looks like im not the only one. I think it was a problem with GF's level progression or something. Just grind through it, it's not too hard.

>>31328224
I'm not OP. Team are the pokemon I like and they did the job. Barely but they did it.

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>>31328283
>special attacker ariados

>>31328282
compensating for all the overleveled exp share shitters at that point

>>31328339
Considering how easy the game already is and how braindead the AI is, yeah, it really doesn't make much of a difference flipping between the two. Never really did as a kid playing the first three generations, still doesn't now as an adult playing any of the seven.

Maybe I'm just difficulty-deaf, though.

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>>31328282

Poni Island has a legit difficulty curve, so you better grind

>tfw I thought I was too high being 44-45 on my team

>Then Hapu shows up with level 47's and 48

>tfw I used a level 19 Eevee with Baby Doll Eyes to lower its attack and then had Magneton go to town

>>31328282

Because the Fourth Island is the rush job, as you can tell with Victory Road being there, but not actually "Voctory Road", the lack of anything in the final trial, the trial captain doesn't do anything besides give you a Z-Crystal, half the island being restricted till postgame, and so on and so on.

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Is this thread for real? I'm a Pokemon casual and I could count on one hand the amount of times I've had a single Pokemon faint during singleplayer.

>>31327986
>this tomtem nearly wrecked my team
>I wasted my z move because I fucking forgot about Mimikyu ability
>fucker then out speed and one hit all my other mons but one
he only got me because I made a stupid mistake

>>31328282
It seems like the first 75% of the game was made for people who don't use exp share.
The last half was balanced around people using it the whole game.

>>31328217
My Mudbray had a Modest nature and shit attack ivs and it still ass raped Totem Salazzle.

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>>31328072
>I'm not going to use this Pokemon because it's girly and has cooties!

>>31327986
Used a sableye to break the disguise with shadow sneak, paralyzed it with electibuzz (thunder wave triggered the lum berry, it critted electibuzz and one shotted him but paralyzed itself on static) and then one shotted it with a gengar shadow ball

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>totem mimikkyu during mono-bug run before golisopod

>>31328282
>skip island trainers to get right to the canyon to evolve my vikivolt
>no exp share so my team is just above 40
>Hapu's team is 10 levels higher than me
>Vikivolt is usless compared to eviolite bug bus

After catching a Gastly early on and afflicting like the first three or so totem Pokemon with Curse, I had to box it because it was making everything a faceroll.

Didn't have any trouble with it. Mudsdale tanked Play Rough with ease and murdered Mimikyu with Heavy Slam. Easy fight.

Incineroar used fire fang.
Disguise broken.
Incineroar used z-movie
Mimikyu got rekt

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>>31328680
>mfw the only time I ever black out in SM is Ghost Trial, along with accidentally losing to a literal preschooler because I was a dumbass with a mostly dead party

Feels good, don' it?

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>mfw shadow claw and hypnosis denial

>>31327986
Send in shitmon, break disguise.
Sacrifice shitmon in hopes of more damage.
Send in Scizor, use sword dance
???
Profit..

i just sacked mons to bring in intimidate tauros repeatedly to get it to -6, and used rest to stall out play rough. took a while, especially with the helper mons being faster and using hypnosis. my team was 4-5 levels below it.

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>>31328282

You better be prepared for Hapu's angry horse cock

>>31328291
>Muk used Clear Smog!
Gitgud feg

>>31327986
Have you tried attacking it ?

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>>31327986
>tfw masturbated most of my team to 5 hearts by then and it won it for me with a lucky OHKO block on my false swiper shitmon that let me pop a revive on my ace
>then it mutilated it with a crit thunder

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>>31329166

I know I am

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>>31327986
>PP stall play rough with 5 of your Pokemon
>Make sure it has haunter
>Send in your event munchlax
>Laugh as you thought you lost and your lv12 shitmon saved you
>Laugh harder when you get foresight twice and kill a totem with full hp with your munchlax

Ez tbqh

>>31328107
This. Anyone who loses to the computer is a fucking noob.

>>31328339
>MUH COMPETITIVE
>Telling people not to use actual features in their play through
>Telling them to go full autism and not use game features like Z stones
I bet you also have balltism
Just kill yourself

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>>31327986
>Fighting a totem pokemon with a typing matchup detrimental to your monotype team
I can't fathom the suffering mono Ice teams go through against Salazzle

Mimikyu was the easiest totem for me along with that Dragon at the end. But it was one of the best things at the game, finding him behind me, and then Acerola telling me there's no back room.

>>31328180
nice team

>>31328233
>level 40
kys

>>31328059
>>31328310
I know, right? Brionne/Primarina saved me SO many times. It's basically the easy mode, even speedrunners use her

>Not using exp share
>Not using z-move

That's how you enter a hard mode, something that vp really wants to have. Anon propably is a good boy, with a lot of GBP, because he's on a hard mode.

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>>31328059
I literally did this unintentionally the first time that I reset just to not cheese it so hard. Spirit bomb was too strong.

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>running mono fire
>totem wishiwashi

why didn't you use bullet punch mumkey?

>>31328059
>>31328127
>third stage starters
How are you guys so overleveled?

I had no issue with any of the totems, cleared them all out with my Rowlet

>>31331565
You should've had a third stage starter by the time you arrive at Ula'Ula, or at least before Totem Vikavolt.

>>31327986
I raped it in all of my playtrought, but my last one was so easy :
Axew, Go !
>Steel Z-move based on Iron tail
>Break mold

>>31328282
can we take a moment to talk about how GOAT poni island music is? shit's so fucking good. from the night theme of the wharf to the poni canyon theme. best part of the soundtrack right there.

>>31331729
The canyon was good until I spent three fucking hours hunting for a Jangmo-O in it. And no, I'm not exaggerating, RNG just decided to fuck me in the ass that day.

>>31328217
Exactly. I had an underleveled Mudsdale and I literally swept this fucker

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>>31327986
>Scizor used Bullet Punch!
Literally easy guys what the fuck.

>>31331565
Not him, but I didn't use the Exp share and got Primarina right before the Ghost trial

>>31331565
Nanomachines, son.

>>31328245
>using an old pokemon

Lurantis was the only Totem to give me any problems. And that was only because it brought out Castform

>>31329101
I was rolling with this bad boy as well but got wrecked into next year by play rough and FUCKING CONFUSE RAY

>>31331565
I wasn't even grinding and had the exp share off. I literally got primarina inside the ghost trial after examining those floating pokedolls.

>Read up about Bus Bug's battery ability boosting teammates special attacks

>Remember that's vikavolt is a special attacker

>Oh shit, Totem Vikavolt is going to Murd-

>>>>>>Totem Vikavolt is a physical attacker

What's the fuck point GF

>>31328225
Can confirm, wishiwashi almost reky me. Can't remember what did it but I insta oneshot haunter and mimikyu was easy as far as I recall. Though I did use a Z move on it while its disguise was still up, didn't know about that then.

>>31332388
>Vikavolt
That thing is tied with Chandelier for the highest non legendary special attack in the game if the totem was a special attacker with battery boost it would have wiped the floor with us.

>>31332434
there's no excuse

>>31330884
There's ice pokemon in this game? I literally never encountered one

>>31332475
kek

>>31332434
>difficulty is bad so let's make the totem a complete and total shitmon that has no synergy with its allies

Was Totem Mimikyu really that hard? My friend struggled to beat it. I just used a Palossand and I got by just fine

>>31332505
>First turn breaks disguise
>Ally Haunter lands hypnosis
>Can't get any shit done
Pretty much how it goes with so few mons that can actually outspeed its ally.

>>31327986
>Losing to a totem Pokemon

>>31330884
I haven't done a mono-ice run yet but it's probably gonna be a pain in the ass.

>>31332595
You can't even get an Ice before the 3rd island, right?

>>31327986
Just inject lol

>>31332606
Oh I'm going to trade over a couple of eggs to get a boost.

>>31328225
>Wishiwashi
>start remembering that i only spammed razor leaf in that battle and still won