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Pokemon Violet and Stalking

March 7, 2023February 22, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon violet

Everyone in Pokemon Violet is stalking me. I’m not normally a paranoid person, at least I am not any more, but something is massively bothering me in the new Pokemon games. Since day 1, I have been some sort of prodigy, some super powerful trainer, despite mostly fluking my way through with just a cat made of grass and a dog with horns and a devil tail. Honestly, it’s mostly the weed cat. But yeah, everyone seems to know who I am and everyone seems to know where I am too. At first, I just thought it was my rival,… [Continue Reading]

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Hoenn Tour Day 1

February 26, 2023February 25, 2023 Medic 0 Comments groudon, kyogre, pokemon, pokemon go, shiny

This February, we had the Hoenn Tour in Pokemon GO. Just like the Kanto and Johto tours in previous years, the Hoenn Tour featured Pokemon over a two day event, as well as special raids and new potentially shiny Pokemon. Day 1 is more of a collectathon, while day 2 is generally a tad more story-based, if that even makes sense. Anyway, let’s have a look at Day 1. Day 1 had rotating habitats, during which various Pokemon would spawn. Like the previous tours, we had to catch one of each Pokemon to complete a collection challenge. Unlike the previous… [Continue Reading]

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What is a better companion, a hundo or a shiny?

February 13, 2023February 2, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go

Lately, I’ve been having problems trying to decide what buddy I should have in Pokemon GO. I enjoy leveling up buddies and getting them to the best buddy level, but it can take a long time to do so. By my calculations, it tends to take 28-30 days to get one Pokemon to Best Buddy, and that’s in a semi casual way. There are definitely ways to speed up the process, but that requires more effort than I have available. Most of the time, I have to narrow things down and make a final decision on what Pokemon I will… [Continue Reading]

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Medic Plays Pokemon Violet – Part 7

February 8, 2023January 30, 2023 Medic 0 Comments playthrough, pokemon, pokemon violet

Okay so I’ve been a tad busy. I found and caught a Gible, and immediately I wanted to level the little bastard up, because, well, I don’t have a dragon type on my team yet. But also, a little birdy told me that I might need a ground type in a bit. That’s because I’m heading off to the electric gym on the other side of the world map. All those Pokecenters were well worth walking to. But before I go in with just one ground type, I consider bringing something else too. A second ground type. There were wild… [Continue Reading]

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Medic Plays Pokemon Violet – Part 6

January 30, 2023January 17, 2023 Medic 0 Comments playthrough, pokemon, pokemon violet

I’ve kinda been ignoring Team Star for a bit. They’re basically a bunch of troublemakers that keep on skipping past. However, I decided to do one Team Star base to see what it’s like. It’s, well, weird. So everything stars off as pretty normal. I go up to the gate and ask if I can come in. One of the grunts fights me with a Murkrow, then runs inside. The other grunt follows, informing everyone that I am here. So I walk into the place and it’s nothing special, just some stages and stuff. The challenge here is to… [Continue Reading]

Weed Cat is not amused by the giant seafood

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Medic Plays Pokemon Violet – Part 5

January 23, 2023January 10, 2023 Medic 0 Comments playthrough, pokemon, pokemon violet

So I’ve been playing Pokemon Violet for a bit now, and I have realized that there’s more to life than unlocking Pokecenters so I can fly to them. Now it’s time to make some actual progress, and that involves going to the next gym. Mostly so I can start catching more Pokemon and have them listen to me. The next gym, located in Artazon is a grass gym, with an addiction to Sunflora. Seriously, there are so many statues of them lying around. They’re about as obsessed with Sunflora as the previous gym was with Smoliv. And, of course, just… [Continue Reading]

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Medic Plays Pokemon Violet – Part 4

January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 Medic 0 Comments playthrough, pokemon, pokemon violet

This is the part in which I go to every Pokecenter on the island of Paldea. Why? I don’t really know, I just like having easy-to-access teleporting between locations. In fact, I actually do that in a lot of games I play. Unlocking new areas is always fun. What started all of this was actually quite simple. I was riding Miraidon and decided to jump over a wall in Mesagoza to see what happened. Turns out, I ended up at the Pokecenter next to the Pokemon League. I probably wasn’t supposed to be there, but I took it as a… [Continue Reading]

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Pokemon That Would Be Awesome If They Had Better Moves

January 20, 2023January 8, 2023 Medic 0 Comments legendary, legendary pokemon, pokemon, pokemon go

Not all Pokemon are equal. And not all Pokemon get added to Pokemon GO. But sometimes Pokemon are added and they turn out to be completely useless. Normally, this applies to ‘early game’ Pokemon like Pidgey or Weedle, but it turns out that even legendary Pokemon can be completely screwed over, just because they don’t have a good selection of moves to choose from. Here are five unlucky Pokemon that are really missing out. Xerneas Xerneas is one of my favourite legendary Pokemon, but it’s in a terrible state currently. As I mentioned in this article, Xerneas is stuck with… [Continue Reading]

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Pokemon That Are Useless But I Don’t Have the Heart to Transfer them

January 19, 2023January 5, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go, shiny

Really, Pokemon GO is a pretty grim game. The majority of Pokemon you collect, they are chucked away and transferred, because they’re not very useful. Only the cream of the crop are allowed to stick around, and eventually even some of the better Pokemon get transferred away, to make space for Pokemon that are slightly better. Otherwise, in the end, you run out of backpack space. So space had to be made and Pokemon have to be sacrificed. Despite all this, I am a bit of a hoarder of Pokemon. I have so many that I’ve meant to transfer and… [Continue Reading]

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An Early Pokemon Interlude

January 16, 2023January 5, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon

So I’ve been playing Pokemon Violet for a bit now, and I have some thoughts. I haven’t gotten too far into the game, I’ve only done the first titan and first gym. I feel though that I’ve had enough experience to question what I’ve seen. First things first, this whole game is just like the wild areas in Pokemon Sword and Shield, just with added towns. Even Pokecenters are no longer buildings, instead every Pokecenter is a shack, with a TM machine and a shop to buy Pokeballs and stuff. A side effect of this is that the towns feel… [Continue Reading]