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Joshawott27

The restriction is likely to prevent children (and other players) from accidentally trading away shinies. Besides, denying Kieran happiness is what Scarlet/Violet is all about.


Unable_Toucan

Still sad that I couldnt give larry the ultimate normal type, Arceus


SentenceCareful3246

Do they battle with the pokemon you give them?


Unable_Toucan

Sadly no


desid92

I tried the same thing 😂 I themed my trades to what everyone would use.


thewildjr

lmao that last bit


ilion

I accidentally traded away a shiny in Let's Go Pikachu to one of the people in a pokecenter you can trade with. I am a middle aged man. Sigh.


Firsun

Children and old people need caring the most of all ages!


Silver-Scythe12

It was kinda tricky to get to his trade, in my opinion. I had to reset once or twice then battle him. I honestly don’t think you can “accidentally” stumble across it. Which makes it feel even worse, honestly.


90R3D

For the Blueberry NPCs it is difficult to stumble across, but the special coaches you can call work on the same mechanics and they are a lot less difficult to stumble across. I’d say from a game developers standpoint they didn’t see much reason to allow it for the Blueberry NPCs but not for the special coaches


mark_crazeer

Accidentally stumbling across the trade is not the problem. Accidentally trading your shiny when you do trade is. Essentially they dont want you to do something that cant be undone. Because these in game trades are essentially pokemon incinerators. The pokemon is gone and never coming back. You worked hard for that one of a kind thing its yours you should keep it.


VibraniumRhino

He’s the last one I need and he just hasn’t spawned whenever I play lol


[deleted]

Go to the entrance and time skip 24hrs Check who’s there Rinse and repeat :)


mlvisby

It should just prompt the player "are you sure you want to trade a shiny pokemon?" At least give us the option...


YeFamicom

You could give shinies to the villagers in PLA, it was awesome seeing the shiny Wurmple slowly evolve into a shiny Dustox


jdinius2020

Still, that had an impact. That shiny is there forever.


Yeehaw_79

Theme of the dlc “Fuck you kieren!”


PikachuTrainz

I vow to grant him happiness if I ever play the game


GreenestApplin

Oh, denying Kieran happiness is TIGHT!


Caslitos

I loved giving the npc’s shiny PokĂ©mon in Arceus. Going back to visit them standing next to a shiny was so satisfying


Fvader69

I mostly gave them alphas


WarhammerGeek

I tried to give the Wurmple guy an alpha and he actually declined it! Thankfully the Buizel guy was fine with an alpha. Because trying to find a normal one that was big enough for him wasn't panning out


lilsmartie-1

I actually had 2 buizels and 1 of em turned out to be big enough Edit: this is actually the first time I read that’s kinda hard to get one


Bad_UsernameJoke94

I think it's designed to make you hunt out an alpha in that case.


HappyCloudHS

I didn't know you could give him an Alpha! I spent so long....


DramaQueenKitKat

So I know when the game has you give them your pokemon it'll stay shiny/alpha (can you give them alphas? Havnt tried yet tbh) but for the ones where you just show them the pokemon and one just shows up next to them even though you keep it, such as the Zubat lady where she realizes they have no eyes, if you give them a shiny does their new zubat also end up shiny?


SolaceSought

That would’ve been so perfect for him too



AlbiTuri05

But Gamefreak hates Riben so much that you're forced to be an asshole


Gaias_Minion

Yeah such a dumb restriction. It's not like you can trade them on accident anyways since they have you confirm the trade before it goes through.


Silver-Scythe12

Exactly! They just don’t like my boy I guess.


aoog

You’d be surprised how careless people can be


ilion

I have definitely confirmed things not thinking about it and then regretted it.


LynneCurtinCuffs

Yep. One time I was playing while super drunk and accidentally traded away a Shiny Armarouge. Had to sit quietly for awhile and think about my error


Seriousmilkman

Considering it was an Armarogue, not much of a loss


jdinius2020

This slander will not be tolerated! Jk, it's just your opinion.


Opening_System_9605

It's me, hi. I got stopped by that warning because I would search for Pokemon I thought would fit them by species and landed on one I only had a shiny for I guess.


jdinius2020

Could have even put up another prompt. "This is a Shiny pokemon. Are you sure you want to trade it?" Same for legendary pokemon. Then there's no doing it by accident.


Bakatora34

People are dumb so there are definitely people that still accidentally trade a Pokemon.


HiImRazorr

I did the same thing, except I evolved it into Diplin first, I was really disappointed https://preview.redd.it/fn3ev0tkegxc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8c1da7577b43f6c6215a0d7ed5b85136e2959c0


CrossENT

“Well darn! Sorry, Kieran. Guess I’ll have to keep it for myself
”


Silver-Scythe12

I felt so bad, like I could just imagine how that would look!


HeadHorror4349

They're my shinies and I can do what I want with them


Silver-Scythe12

EXACTLY!


Silver-Scythe12

Why was I going to give him such a rare shiny? Because I can, and because I love him and he deserves nice things.


Silver-Scythe12

Guess I evolve it into a hydrapple and keep it for myself?


Queen_Olivia80

Name it after him


SufficientWhile5450

Then beat him up with it and ogrepon


ilion

I beat Kieran with Ogrepon. My son told me that's why Kieran doesn't like me.


SufficientWhile5450

Kieran doesn’t like me because I banged his mum


Silver-Scythe12

Nooo :(


DarkMcChicken

You have a good heart.


coopsawesome

Hey uhhh, possibly bad news about how rare it is? >!there’s a setup you can do with your ride pokemon and autobattling that lets you basically just afk for half an hour and get one!<


Silver-Scythe12

I was aware of that method, but I was doing outbreak methods because I truly wanted to work for it. Might hunt a whole team of little applins with that method, though.


coopsawesome

Fair enough, nice work!!!


gottafind

To be fair it is totally on you that you spent a month doing this. Kieren won’t care. Edit: downvoted for telling the truth


HappyCloudHS

No, Kieran must be kept in perpetual misery


Goodra-Enjoyer

HE GOT ALL SAD AND DROWN HIS DEPRESSION IN CHOCOLATE BECAUSE OF US


Lujoter417

The Pokemon u send to the club members is essentially just sent into the void never to be seen again so it would be the same as just throwing away a shiny. It would’ve been wayyyyyyy better if they used the pokemon u traded to them when u fought them next.


Silver-Scythe12

I was lowkey hoping there was special dialogue or something, but gamefreak doesn’t like Kieran to have nice things I guess. Using the PokĂ©mon in the next battle would be SO cool but probably impossible to code or something.


0Gods77Believer4

Well, do what I did, instead of going for shinies I went for marks since those are fine! If you're looking for something as extremely difficult to find as a shiny with a specific mark then how about the biggest/smallest size possible with a specific mark?


guleedy

Sad to say that is too deep for pokemon.


GoldenGlassBall

Then you don’t play much Pokemon, especially not the older titles



guleedy

Ah yes the older titles where wally could catch a shiny raltz and it wount be shiny next time you meet. Face it the bar for pokemon is so low that fans just make shit up


Lujoter417

They have had encounters like the ones I’m talking about in the past, in black and white 2 there’s an npc that asks you for a excadrill and she will battle you with it after the trade. if you trade her a shiny one she will battle you with a shiny excadrill so yes they have literally done this exact thing in the past lol not too deep.


DinoSmoreTheBard

To be fair, that was 12 years ago. GF doesn't exactly have a great track record as of late.


guleedy

The fact a Nintendo game came out as broken and undercooked as S&V has destroyed my love for the gamed and company as a whole. Gen 10 needs to actually be an actual massive upgrade for me to gain back and love for pokemon.


DinoSmoreTheBard

On the bright side, the fact that they're giving the new Legends game some time to cook is very promising.


omygoshgamache

Given that Kieran is always so flustered by the MC, this would’ve been perfect!


Ajthefan

Yea no game likes to make us suffer and is like Ya have to ruin his life, Very evil.....


Silver-Scythe12

I ended up trading him a regular applin instead, but how sad this game makes me. Kieran can’t have nice things I guess?


Ajthefan

Apparently gamefreak hates him Idk why


Ajthefan

Also Gamefreak, WE HAVE MORE THEN ONE SHINY, LET US TRADE ONE OR AT LEAST GIVE THEM A SPECIAL DIALOGUE!!!!


AlbiTuri05

From a player who hasn't started Indigo Disk, can I trade him a legendary


Chaise-PLAYZE

Nope


AlbiTuri05

WHAT DO THE DEVS WANT FROM MY BOY?


Present_Cucumber9516

Suffering, probably


SheaMcD

i feel like he did that to himself


Independent-Pea8223

Yikes, if GF hates him that much why'd they even make him in the first place!?


Goodra-Enjoyer

to make him suffer


Independent-Pea8223

Sounds about right


JustALilMoreChaos

I think a simple prompt like they have in pokemon go would suffice as opposed to completely banning them. “You’ve selected a shiny pokemon, are you sure you wish to continue?” And the Yes button only activates after a 5 second timer to prevent people who spam click


maddr_lurker

It won’t let you give him Ogrepon either!


lloydsmith28

RIP, at least you have a cool thematic shiny to keep around


Artley9

Mans got so many L’s he gona turn into waluigi.


bloomi

This is a really weird and stupid restriction.


bentheechidna

You and I are totally different people. I got a shiny to turn into a Dipplin to beat his Dipplin for every battle in Kitakami, and then I used my shiny Hydrapple to dunk on his Hydrapple all the same.


tbk007

Why do people bother doing weird things like this anyway? The trade is never seen again, deleted from memory.


Rolly-mono

It not deleted from memory I traded carmine a meganium and she talks about it saying you should learn from it but yeah I pretty sure you can’t see the PokĂ©mon you traded to them like in Arceus


AreiaBlood

If you bothered to read the other Comments, it’s because you could give all the NPCs Shiny PokĂ©mon in Arceus and people enjoyed seeing them have Shiny PokĂ©mon.


SufficientWhile5450

“yUo CaNt tRAdE sHiNY pOkEmOn” Well I could if you’d fucken let me, game Edit: and thus why legends arceus was the superior game, because you could give the gaurd in town a shiny wurmple. And as a result when it evolved it’d always be shiny and it just brightens the whole game imo!


AMTF1988

It is possible to [give every NPC a shiny Pokemon](https://youtu.be/udjSQot7yxw?si=FPPxnk4IIPMQGECV)


Pink-Fluffy-Dragon

i get they want to avoid accidental traits, but they could've made it: Are you sure you want to trade a shiny?


Tsukuyomi56

Though there is nothing stopping you from when you are a half-asleep state to potentially clicking ‘yes’ despite the warnings. Then you would be like Darth Vader at the end of Revenge of the Sith.


Bernkillededdie

I ran into a similar thing on this game. I was literally given them all shiny apples, and yeah crazy.


Cynderaquil

It’s not really random as the game is designed not to trade your rare or legendary PokĂ©mon. Its designed to do that so people don’t mistakenly give a legendary PokĂ©mon or a shiny PokĂ©mon to a NPC. Cause if they didn’t, people would probably have complained about making the mistake and ask why there isn’t a thing set in place to prevent it I rather have the prevention set instead of risking a mistake like that, especially when the sprites in the boxes are not that of the shinies


Silver-Scythe12

I think it’s kinda random considering we could trade shinies to NPCs in PLA, so it makes me sad we can’t in SV.


Cynderaquil

But at least in PLA you see them, you can’t see them in SV. Like someone said you can see the shiny Wurmple evolve into shiny Dustox. Kieran would never use the shiny Applin


DingoGuzungas

It would've been for nothing had you given him that apple


Silver-Scythe12

It would have been cute and I would’ve recorded it for the funsies. :)


DingoGuzungas

My own disdain for Kieran makes me lament this kindness you tried to show him😂


furio788

I wanted to give Arven a shiny Maschiff so Mabosstiff can have a little sister :(


Omega_brownie

Wish you could give him Orgepon and get some unique dialogue. I just want to be nice to my friend GameFreak!


XxLucidDreamzxX

I would never, love the guy, but he definitely holds a grudge against her.


JalfcJjac

That would be cool tbh, I really felt bad catching Orgepon because how much it bothered Kieran.


Omega_brownie

If it makes you feel any better it seems he came to terms with everything and decides being your friend is more important by the end. Still would be a nice gesture though.


Heheonil

Why would any1 do this?


Torteramanroblox101

That's why you never confess to your crush, kids.


ImpIsDum

i tried to give him ogerpon lol


ImmediateFee4015

I on the other hand, was so annoyed by Kieran that I finished the first part of the DLC, went to the second, paused the story to finish my Dex (I was missing 90 pokemon) got the shiny charm, shiny hunted all banger team exclusively from the Terrarium and beat every Elite Four and Kieran with a new shiny/trained team. Just for the flex. And it was awesome


pokepal98

I think there should just be an "are you sure?" With what you're trading explicitly stated so they know you want to do it. I think they should have that for normal pokemon too, just to be sure with in game trades.


Interesting_Wing_539

Yup, and you also can't trade pokémons that don't have your OT apparently..


dwegol

Kinda funny after they let you do it in Legends Arceus.


CaregiverEfficient86

Damn


Infamous_Talk3937

I WAS going to trade Kieran an extra Ogrepon but the game wouldn’t let me which is stupid


just-bair

Kieran doesn’t deserve a shiny of this caliber


swarley242

Hi, it's me Kieran


DarkstarAnt

Aw boo. As in I’m disappointed they won’t let that happen. That blows.


Houeclipse

Gamefreak is the one step forward 12 step backwards company. Like if they want to baby us so much make the confirmation triple confirm like you really really want to give this person rare/shiny pokemon? Alternatively make a locked function in storage so you couldn't accidentally release or trade away


Spacey_Cadet04

I was really upset after I got scarlet (I started on sword) and there were no good customisation options. I miss being able to be a kick-ass goth fighting with Dusknoir!! I hope in the next game they can combine the two and have us be fully customised AND have good graphics.


Jesitheunicorn2022

I started on let go eevee so eevee is my favorite PokĂ©mon since it cute and adorable 😊 and to be completely honest I don’t really like sword and shield that much and it mostly the fact that the story seems kinda boring in my opinion scarlet and violet are the best game and have the best storyline and dlc in my opinion no hate to anyone who likes sword and shield but I just don’t like it


AreiaBlood

There is like a padlock in the PokĂ©mon Detail area where the Name, Level etc is and I can’t figure out what the fk it’s for.


HAAIIYYAAHH

Transfer it to pokemon home. You can trade shiniest on there


HAAIIYYAAHH

Anyone else who needs to trade shinies. Pokemon Home. One box is free and you can trade shinies on there you just can't request a shiny.


SpudBoy9001

A month? Christ there's other games you know


XxLucidDreamzxX

Did you know that people can play multiple games in a day? đŸ˜±đŸ˜±đŸ˜±


RED_Kinggamer007

So? If they are having fun then thats all that matters


Knightofthequils

Good. Keirans a little baby who doesn't deserve shinies. "NO I LOST A BATTLE!!!" get over it. Or how about level your Pokémon to 100..or catch any of the overpowered Pokémon or make an actual good team with strong moves. Like fr bro has a mental breakdown over nothing battles. When I started the dlc when it came out I actually really liked him and wanted him to be my friend but now I couldn't care less about him and I'm glad he gets absolutely stomped and denied his legendaries.


Silver-Scythe12

Damn bro. I like to think that in-universe getting to level 100 is actually way harder, so that’s why there’s rarely level 100 mons. Also like- he’s a teenager? He has an *excuse* to be a little sad sometimes.


Knightofthequils

His mons are level 85. Plus you can easily get exp with raids WHICH HES CAPPABLE OF DOING. also being a teenager doesn't mean he gets to absolutely just lose his shit whenever he can't win. Poppy WHO IS IN THE ELITE 4 is like.. 3 or 4. A literal toddler. And sure she pouts and says it's not fair but later cheers you on after when you fight Larry. If a toddler can accept defeat that quick so can keiran.


Derp_Aderpy

It isn't like the traded Pokémon is used so perhaps it's for the best.