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I don't know what's worse. Random encounters or running through an area to be stopped by a Nymble that was concealed in the grass
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Neat, you can easily tell what is an event raid at least
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We're one week in. Let's see the Top 20 most looked up Pokémon on Serebii!
Meowscarada
Charcadet
Ceruledge
Skeledirge
Annihilape
Tinkaton
Palafin
Kingambit
Baxcalibur
Quaquaval
Pawmot
Armarouge
Roaring Moon
Clodsire
Tatsugiri
Iron Valiant
Dudunsparce
Gholdengo
Tinkatink
Frigibax
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The fact I'm seeing lots of people claim we're never getting a patch because the game sold well is absurd.
Come on. Use your heads.
This is the same logic people had of "Games won't change" after SWSH sold well, and Legends & SV are the biggest departure from the previous norm
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This is quite a stunning amount.
Despite the jank performance, these are really fun games and I'm seeing so many people have so much fun with them.
If they can stabilise it in the future and provide DLC/updates, then these could be amongst the best games. twitter.com/SerebiiNet/sta…
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So I sat through and timed the phases of the day in the game
72 minute day so basically equivalent of 3 minutes per hour
Evening gives you a 6 minute window to evolve your Own Tempo Rockruff
serebii.net/scarletviolet/…
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Not paying attention in class in Scarlet & Violet?
I've got you covered with a cheatsheet for those pesky exams serebii.net/scarletviolet/…
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Fun fact, if you see a Wild Tera Type Rockruff in West Province Area Three, it is in fact an Own Tempo Rockruff so can evolve into Dusk Lycanroc
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New generation coverage has always been a fun one.
Most of you weren't around for this but with Ruby & Sapphire's launch, we actually crashed the server we were on due to sheer load. At that point, the site didn't fund itself and so we lost the server and were down for 5 months! twitter.com/SerebiiOTD/sta…
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Well, we did it
Serebii just had its biggest day on record, beating the peak from Sword & Shield with well over 3 million visitors as per the site's stat system
That's wild. I honestly thought we'd never break it. Thank you so much and I hope the site continues to help!
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Oh so people are hacking Tera Raid Battles already. Joy.
Be safe out there, they did ban some people who joined hacked Max Raid Battles with SWSH. Hopefully they can solve this soon
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Ah yes, BDSP
Really, of all the Pokémon games, it certainly is a main series title. twitter.com/SerebiiOTD/sta…
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When people see me on Twitter having not followed me before
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Can we stop this narrative people are spreading where I said the performance issues didn't exist. I have never said that and the fact that people are spreading that's what I've been saying is just ridiculous
Me saying I've not experienced them isn't me saying that.
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In case anybody is having trouble finding the spawn points in Scarlet & Violet, here's a map with all the Pokémon spawns in land, air, water and caves. Hope that's helpful!
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So, my thoughts going into credits
Fantastic game so far
Performance wise, it can be bad with shadows and the animation slicing I mentioned before, but I have not once experienced the issues people have been sharing. It's by no means broken or unplayable
Roll on postgame
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Quick side tangent
They're releasing a Shiny Hisuian Zorua plush based on Hisuian Snow at the Pokémon Centers in Japan next week
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I'm too busy to deal with this but it's spreading, so.
If you're going to complain, get your facts straight.
No TPC isn't withholding budget.
No TPC can't give Pokémon to another company.
No TPC isn't time constraining Game Freak.
No they don't ignore games just to make merch twitter.com/JoeMerrick/sta…
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Basically it seems from the reviews that the game is great, pushes Pokémon to new limits, but is let down by some technical performance issues.
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Scarlet & Violet reviews are out so doing my usual roundup. Be sure to check them all out and read beyond the score
Gamespot - 8/10 gamespot.com/reviews/pokemo…
ScreenRant - 4.5/5 screenrant.com/pokemon-scarle…
VG247 - 4/5 vg247.com/pokemon-scarle…
NintendoLife - 7/10 nintendolife.com/reviews/ninten…
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At a launch event in Japan today, Takato Utsunomiya of TPC confirmed it's the highest pre-ordered Pokémon game of all time
This is going to be big twitter.com/oricon_anime_/…
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Card artwork is so good lately. My word...
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This week, Gen 9 truly begins
@JoeMerrick
Geek. Pokémon Master. Webmaster of Serebii.net @SerebiiNet. Freelance Journalist. Also @VirtuallyMarti's Player 2. Business Email: webmaster@serebii.net