Bevendre

I have played every version of Pokemon since 1998.  Sun and Moon are hands down the most immersive, most in depth, and most narratively beautiful in the series.  Absolutely amazing.  I just finished Sun, and the first thought in my mind isn’t how long or how good the postgame’s going to be, but that I REALLY want to start up Moon now just to relive the game from a different perspective.

If you don’t have it already, pick up a copy as soon as you can.  If you do have a version already, I hope you love it as much as I do.

I love how my current team in Sun is all newly introduced Pokemon, and they’re all female.  On the third island and headed towards the 5th trial and my team consists of:

Jennet the Mudsdale
Nereid the Primarina
Vaeyla the Tsareena
Ampere the Charjabug
Mischief the Midday Lycanroc
Lilith the Salazzle

“It’s so ridiculous that GameFreak didn’t add any new fossil Pokemon to Sun and Moon!!!”

The games take place on a volcanic archipelago, it’s virtually impossible for new fossils to be prevalent in such a place, or any fossils for that matter.

“But the Pokedex has 4th and 5th gen fossils!!”

That are explicitly stated as having been imported from Sinnoh and Unova as trade goods and decorations.  I would have loved new fossil Pokemon too, but chill.

I’ve had a Mudbray for 5 minutes, and I love her.  You hit my donkey, she don’t give a fuck.  You hit her again, she gives even less of a fuck.

I think my favorite little touch to Sun and Moon so far is the addition of background pieces in houses to better let Pokemon live among people.  Stuff like your mom having a food and water dish for her Meowth, and some NPCs having little beds next to their own for their Pokemon.

Slow start in Sun/Moon, took 15 minutes to get the starter, but the first Popplio I chose was a Brave little patoot whom I have named Nereid. She’s precious!

Originally posted by keilidh

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ask-keystar replied to your post: I love it when everyone goes after one starter…

I want the cat. While I’m not a fan of the others, I don’t really mind them.

Minor spoilers for 7th gen starter stats, but Litten’s not a bad choice at all.  Incineroar has really respectable attack and solid defensive typing and stats.  It’s a little slow, but so are the other two.  

Decidueye has average physical and special attack, special defense that’s decent and physical defense that’s below average, with base 70 speed.  It’s set as a mixed attacker that doesn’t hit fast, and doesn’t really hit hard on either end of the spectrum.  On top of that it has more weaknesses than resistances, (though it does have 2 immunities) and relatively thin coverage.

Then there’s Primarina.  It only has 3 weaknesses, to relatively underused types while resisting 6 types and being immune to a 7th.  Stat wise the best comparison would probably be Gardevoir, but Primarina does what Gardevoir does better, albeit slower.  It hits harder and tanks hits better than Gardevoir, and has the highest Special Attack and Special Defense stats of any starter Pokemon in the history of the franchise.

Decidueye’s not bad in the scheme of things, but I expect to see a LOT more Incineroar and Primarina than Decidueye in competitive, and in just playing through the games.

I love it when everyone goes after one starter convinced that it’s going to be the best, and treats another like crap, then they evolve and the stats come out and suddenly the Pokemon that everyone said they were choosing turns out to be arguably the worst of the starters and the one who was hated turns out to be the best.