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@Jackpino_ @JoeMerrick It had to be open world, because Sword/Shield played with the idea & so that was the natural progression. Balance of what? throwing balls was buggy in what game, remember we're discussing SV here and ball throwing was in the battle screen, no aiming necessary

@JoeMerrick Okay then i’ll switch to put “thought” in it Better? There was no thoughts in as to why the game had to be open world or what it even means to make an open world There was no thoughts on the balance. They didn’t even think of bug testing because even just throwing balls was buggy

It's funny (it's not) that I continue to see people use the state that SV originally shipped in as the continual norm that Pokémon games have been in for years, when it isn't. Hearing it on mass media today was wild. One instance doesn't make a pattern, it makes a dot.

@JoeMerrick The species when used by a pokemon trainer do not appear to be affected, as the url for those species is pokedex-rs, so it appears to only be the wild encounter tables for the pages.

@JoeMerrick Heya Joe, i've noticed some if not all of the species in kanto pokearth on gen III anchor(fr/lg) link out to pokedex-dp url, not gen 3 dex entries it's not a world ender, as you can just click to gen 3 from those dex pages, but i figure it could use a quick fix, thanks

The best part of potentially mapping stuff with Pokopia is that I am the one who gets to decide where benches and ladders go. Bwahahahaha

@SerebiiNet This can mean only one thing, R/S/E Ports confirmed for Winter 2026.

Serebii Update: Pokémon Winds and Waves will release on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027 serebii.net

@SerebiiNet Fire, Water or Megamind

Serebii Update: The new starter Pokémon have been revealedL Browt Pombon and Gecqua serebii.net

@SerebiiNet stream says 24 mins till it premieres, so is it at half past the hour, or a 30 min intro?

Serebii Update: The Pokémon Presents to celebrate Pokémon's 30th Anniversary is to air in less than an hour from this post We'll be live posting full details and you can watch @ serebii.net

@Cosmic_Poyo @Davovovovovovo @BluesLafayette x.com/JoeMerrick/sta… Kind of funny how in that thread he also brings up how frustrating it is to deal with persons such as yourself, who incessantly feel the need to bring it up over and over. "Yes, it runs like butt. Nobody says otherwise. It's been 2 years now :P"

@Davovovovovovo @BluesLafayette When has he

Like seriously, GO Passes have been like $10 a piece. Even tickets are like $2 or $5 if it has a pose/cosmetic This is not a good change

@JoeMerrick That's the bare minimum that should be included if they're going to charge £17 for these ported games. Even making those tickets Mystery Gift's would be a slap in the face, considering it's unnecessary to do so.

If these have the Aurora Ticket and Mystic Ticket available natively like they did with the GS Ball in 3DS Virtual Console, that'd be super.

@JoeMerrick Yeah i'm racking my head on that too lol I've smashed over 50 small balls in 4 stars with special 3 and nothing so far. Will try treasure next to see. I thought maybe they're battle zone exclusive as they're only in small balls.

@AtlantianWraith It's not an error. They only appear when Flavor Power boosts them serebii.net/legendsz-a/fla… Off the top of my head, I am unsure which power boosts

@JoeMerrick Heya Joe, was wondering if you knew the % rates for Item drops in the floating balls? I've done a decent chunk of 4 star zones now, just chasing the balls with item power special & even with level 3 item power, i don't seem to be getting bottle caps from small balls

@JoeMerrick or are those bottle caps 4 star battle zone pokeball exclusive? if so, perhaps the page could use identifiers to relay that :) thanks

@JoeMerrick or is that an error that they're there? it seems small balls and large balls share the same drop lists for every single item for their respective levels however the bottle caps aren't on the large balls, only the small balls

I'm in the post post-game & i assume the items are listed in group order, so candies, treasures, balls, special & coins. So i'm assuming the 3 bottle caps are part of the special type grouping, but i'm not seeing them & they're so far the only item i never see with a lvl 3 donut

@SerebiiNet confirmed this is the case by completing the Meowstic hyperspace challenge i was putting off whilst grinding berries and just got all those berries as the reward so you need to unlock the 4 star zones before the 3 star zones will drop those berries, otherwise you don't get them

@SerebiiNet The berries listed in 3 star, from Rindo down to Shuca. I've been grinding 3 star small zones and have not seen any of them. Do you first need to unlock 4 star zones for those to be added into the 3 star pool of berries? I've got 40+ of the other berries, but none of those

Serebii Update: We have got full details on the items available in the Floating Poké Balls in Hyperspace Lumiose in Pokémon Legends: Z-A for each rank and in each of the three possible Poké Balls Full details @ serebii.net/legendsz-a/flo…

@AustinJohnPlays Is that a 20+ minute video cooking in the background of this tweet being posted? I hope so xD

it looks like sparkling power MAY be only obtainable after completing several main story missions (better butter)

@jomeezy617 @antiwardork @JoeMerrick As an observation for the series as a whole, if you're not into ranked, raids or shiny hunting, the games have almost no shelf life at all if you really look at it. Once you finish the main story/complete the dex, then you're done till DLC.

@jomeezy617 @antiwardork @JoeMerrick The Legends games aren't meant to have a long shelf life tbh, look at the first one, there was literally nothing to do post main story except shiny hunt. The only reason ZA has ranked battles was to reintroduce the Mega's into the meta for Battles ahead of Champions.

Not going to lie though, I was sort of hoping the final launch trailer for the Pokémon Legends: Z-A DLC would give us something I can go off of to help prepare for tomorrow. It's going to be a long day tomorrow, that's for sure.

Sidenote: The Wild Zone 10 page also lists Sharpedo was a wild non-alpha spawn, though pretty sure that it isn't?

@JoeMerrick Heya Joe, Is there a reason why the pages for the districts list 40% Alpha chance for certain species? Example below... serebii.net/pokearth/lumio… The spawners themselves only every show these spawns as being 20% alpha chance, never 40%. Is it an error on the page?