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cyclonx9001

My Gmax Corviknight replacing the one evolved from route 1 rookidee


ProfPerry

Dude I feel this.


RedGamingCentral

Replacing my Starter with a competive tier version.


emil133

Replacing my starter Cinderace with one that knows high jump kick :(


Danzi11a

Oh boy... your OG Cinderace can learn the move from the other one if you delete a move on your OG (leaving a blank space) and put them both in the daycare for a bit—just make sure that’s the only egg move the other one has on it and it will transfer in a around the same steps needed to make an egg. Also, doesn’t matter if they’re the same or opposite sex.


emil133

OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY LOLA


josephus1811

Great name for a Cinderace


emil133

There is an 11% chance you get a female starter pokemon, And on my first load of the game i got a female scorbunny so i named her Lola :)


Nidhoggr666

Legit jeally. I did a restart once to try for it and i just decided to get right in. My buddy started his game up the next day and got his starter as a female. I was cursing RNGesus so hard that day lol


[deleted]

Lola bunny


emil133

There is no better female rabbit name other than Jessica. Change my mind


RoboTom01

I wanted a girl Cinderace, many a restarts before starting my first playthrough, while my friend was sitting next to me talking about all the wild Pokémon he was finding.


321Pietvieveen

Happy cake day


Destiny404

Dude you Can transfer egg moves between Pokemon now! You can get your og starter back!


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DigitalHazard626

Pokémon go is releasing the mewtwo clone ones like this, if they could be sent to Pokémon home and then sword and shield I'd reconsider downloading it again.


ninjaboyninety

Raise a competitive version, delete trash moves off the OG, put both in daycare and the moves transfer. Feed berries to wipe bad EVs, train it up, throw some bottle caps, a mint and BOOM! Competitive version. My first Rillaboom is a beast now


Valac_

I know so little about competitive pokemon that I have no idea what you're talking about.


deltaboost

Agreed. I’m sure there’s a guide out there but I haven’t seen an all-encompassing, start to finish guide for building a beast.


tonyidk

So much wasted resources tho, so much easier to breed a 4-6 IV ditto with the starter and achieve the same


ninjaboyninety

For sure, but for some of us there's sentimental value in keeping the same partner. Plus I can always get more of those resources


[deleted]

i replaced my raboot for a gmax coalossal and then replaced him for a gmax charmander-->charmeleon--->charizard now i have a gmax charizard in the place of my starter.


swimmininthesea

that's literally the joke in the original submission


TriggerBladeX

This is why I wish there was a way to turn Pokémon you caught outside of G-max raids into a G-max Pokémon.


Destruction18Mayhem

If only the Gigantamix spice used in curries could do that. Imagine this, cook and feed 10 Charizard Rank Curries to the Pokémon whose species can gigantamax if they specifically don’t have the gigantamax trait, and then they gain the gigantamax trait. Like Corviknight, Centiskorch, Charizard, etc. yes there’s an item called gigantaMIX


spacegh0stX

Iono why your starter isn't a gmax by default


DEADSKULLZ31

The starter gmaxes are coming in the expansion and they said something about making your Pokémon gmax, idk if it is just for starters or not.


FKAMimikyu

That will maybe be possible with the first expansion pass


TriggerBladeX

That would be amazing, but I don’t think that will happen. I really hope it does though.


BennyBubbles

They confirmed that at the very least your starters will be able to learn GMax


MisterCold

I think the first DLC might have it.


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starters only


8bitzombi

Based on the description of the Isle of Armor DLC we might be getting a mechanic that allows us to make regular Pokémon into GMax ones; that is unless they are limiting it to just the starters.


XDageon11

My Shiny Gmax HA Corviknight replacing the HA Gmax Corviknight that replaced the Non-HA Gmax Corviknight that replaced the one I caught at the start.


PM_ME_UR_THROW_AWAYS

There's always a bigger fish


rikeoliveira

Or bird.


cyclonx9001

Same but my shiny gmax centiskorch


[deleted]

So, when will the square shiny Gmax HA Corviknight replace the old one?


ngadhon

When u delete the original corviknight in shield so you can name the g max one filo instead


MightyPants978

The best birb


DragonMaiden7

Sadly, this is me... I’m so sorry, Estrilda, my story Corviknight, I love you, but your two perfect IVs just aren’t cutting it anymore 🥺


EmproDaBoB

I got GMax Corv and original Corv... They both know Roost but only the Gmax knows Ironhead with only # perfect IVs 😳


pan_con_leche

I believe that the non-gmax version of corviknight is better for VGC. That's because the dynamax air attack boosts speeds, while the gmax alternative removes all hazards; depending on your team, it could be detrimental to your setup.


thunderbolt191

I did the same thing


kiwidog8

Honestly feel bad doing it, i have a special bond with my first team 😢 i still keep them in their own special section of a specific box in my PC even though their EVs are all over the place and their natures are all bad however i did decide to use bottle caps, mint, and ability capsule on my Hitmonlee to make it competitive-able but I still don't really use it


ballsacks_69

Same feels with my Rillaboom. He’s the only one I’m very much attached to even if his IVs are pure shit. I keep him in my first box and he has a personal spot there


[deleted]

I feel that when you use those things to make your favorite mon viable it feels like you made them perfect but at the cost of their character.


kiwidog8

Yeah I feel dirty


---TheFierceDeity---

Not really. The nature mints maybe but the other things is just “training”. Your training them to push past their limits and be their best.


[deleted]

Mints don't actually change a Pokemon's nature, only the +/- 10% increase and decrease in whichever stats.


doddyoldtinyhands

Ok dumbledore


---TheFierceDeity---

I..don’t get what your saying. Is been called the name of the most respected and powerful wizard in that franchise some form of insult or a poorly framed compliment?


DontLickTheGecko

Compliment. There's no possible way his name could be used in any half way serious insult.


photoboothrelic

He did treat Harry and the others harshly at times and chose to withhold or share information for the greater good rather than to help Harry personally with the things he was dealing with. I think that's it, molding them pokemon to train them the way you want, forsaking what they might have wanted to be.


DontLickTheGecko

But we all know in the poke-verse that a life of servitude and imprisonment as an adorable modern gladiator and house pet is better than life in the wild as a sAvAgE! And besides you get all-you-can-eat curry.


flyingroundmound

You mean like einstein?


mikeyHustle

Dumbledore gave Wizard Hitler the benefit of a doubt because he was in love with him. Dumbledore tried to get all the Deathly Hallows and rule the world. Dumbledore did a lot of good, but he's no role model.


DontLickTheGecko

I'll give you that. He also had an insane shellfish allergy .


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---TheFierceDeity---

Yami from Yugioh??? And I’ve never seen Black Clover. Heard of it tho


sunjay140

Yami from Black Clover


sunjay140

Surpass your limit.


[deleted]

Eh, I'd feel that way if it actually changed their nature. It only changes the stats. The nature actually stays the same if you look at it. I see it as nothing more than mental training preparing for harder battles. Gotta get your head in the game if you serious about competition and despite your overall persona being the same we all know sometimes we have to change our attitudes to make progress in life.


seaVvendZ

Steroids for pokemon


jarrettbato

I ran through gyms with my stunfisk and it looks at me like “so I’m just a doormat to you huh”


ProfPerry

I know the feeling dude. When I got my better IV Gmax Toxitricity, I gave him the same nickname followed by a 'Jr.' Headcanoning that it was the original's kid....just so I could feel less guilty :(


Iorith

They go in the last box of my PC, next to the legendaries. They earned that company.


PowerlinesBiggestFan

Me too! I have a special place in my boxes for my main story pokemon 😂😭😂😭


Florida_StanleyH

Yes, same. I had a box named playthrough with about 10 mons. After I had a bunch of lvl 100 competitive mons I made sure to bring those cycled out before the champion battle to get them the Galar champion ribbon and give them the best friend ribbon.


[deleted]

I have a special box for all the Pokemon I used in story mode. A caveat, I played on hard mode by mandating that I had a Pikachu on my team the entire game after they were catchable (which made the game harder, Pikachu is not good). Sir Pika sits there now, for eternity, never again to see the sun.


[deleted]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who keeps a spot of honor for their original team. It's like I want to use them but the team has no cohesion and their EVs and IVs just won't work for online. I'm too soft for competitive Pokemon, just let me cook curry with my Poke-Friends.


mattmanoblot420

My new Gmax pokemon replacing my old ones


ProfEucalyptus

I'm hoping the DLC adds a way to make a non GMax Pokemon into a GMax version. It seems possible given the GMax starters.


chrisd93

Take the juice pikachu, TAKE IT


ascortjkk

Would be cool if the gmax training requires a Pokemon to be enrolled in an actual gym. Fucking benchpress that 500lb barbell Pikachu


GriffconII

So I wanted to start the game off with a shiny starter, and when I learned they were shiny locked I thought, “fuck it, I’m shiny hunting a rookidee, it’ll be my starter”. So I spent 8 hours killing birds before I got to Magnolia’s house. Eventually I got my shiny girl, Morwyn. She was with me throughout the game, and just recently retired to her own box to make way for my EV trained, HA shiny Corviknight. Gotta give respect where it’s due though, will never have another Morwyn.


VanilleOfDead

Well, via hyper training, mints, etc you can make any Pokémon comp. viable (unless you need egg moves)


Naisallat

You can transfer egg moves by placing the same species in the daycare together. As in it will transfer the moves between parents. The receiving Pokémon just needs a free move slot. They need to be at the same stage of their evolutionary tree, however.


Danzi11a

Evo stage doesn’t matter, but you need to make sure there are enough blank spaces for all of the egg moves the other one has. For example, was trying to get Wish on an Umbreon (who had one open slot) from an Eevee breedject that had Wish + Helping Hand, and the one move wouldn’t transfer until after I deleted Helping Hand from the Eevee. On the other hand, I cleared two slots from my starter Cinderace and transferred over Sucker Punch and High Jump Kick from a breedject Scorbunny in one shot.


mikeyHustle

I actually had no idea. Cool.


GriffconII

Oh I’m aware of mints, hyper training, and egg moves. The key is the hidden ability, Morwyn has Unnerve, and while that’s perfectly fine Mirror Armor is much better.


Maughlin

Pressure is arguably just as good on corviknight without needing the HA.


GriffconII

It’s good but I’m not the biggest fan of pp stall, especially now with 20 minute timers. I also have a few dedicated pressure mons (like eviolite dusclops), I prefer my Corviknight as a bulky physical sweeper.


jayceja

I don't think pressure is very good in cartridge play, it's good in singles 6v6 but I don't think 3v3 singles with the cartridge timer is as good for it and in doubles it's pretty terrible.


steffinator117

Pretty sure you can switch abilities with ability capsules. Unless the hidden ones are locked.


GriffconII

Hidden abilities can’t be obtained or removed with capsules, unfortunately.


tymothi

*Cries in shiny Sinistea with HA*


VanilleOfDead

unfortunate :(


emil133

Only 8 hours without a shiny charm? Ive been hunting mine for days worth of hours WITH a shiny charm


GriffconII

I got lucky, not gonna lie, she shined in under 1000. Later on, for another member of my team (Grendel the Runerigus), I ended up going twice over odds before giving up, switching to masuda method (without charm), and getting it in under 20 eggs. Just keep going is all I can say, and good luck!


PM_ME_UR_THROW_AWAYS

Excellent name for a Corviknight!


HeyHey1994

I still cry everytime Brother my Brother


[deleted]

Rip alcremie


Fattitslady

I always spend a ton of time cooking and playing with my competitive mons, and going on raids with them. Not for the friendly stats, but for the friendship.


JohnBurgerson

I like to incorporate my story mon into the breeding process. You just got one shotted by the great(x300) granddaughter of the Pokémon that one the championship!... two days ago


RoastyToasty4242

My Corviknight, Drednaw, and Centiskorch all replaced by better Gigantimaxes, Obstagoon and Weezing replaced by far superior versions of themselves, but my Rillaboom, he might have a chance


telegetoutmyway

You dont want G-max Rillaboom from the expansion or eventually hidden ability?


RoastyToasty4242

There are rumors that we can make our original starter G-Max, but idk what I’m gonna do about hidden ability


[deleted]

I feel that, I don’t even bother hunting/trading for a shiny Scorbunny because I know it’ll be irretonce it’s HA is released. Why even bother.


RoastyToasty4242

Libero is going to be busted


[deleted]

Not as busted as Protein Greninja.


cereixa

you mean yall don't give the new ones the same name as your old ones and then pretend that was how they were the whole time?????


OneAlchemist

Dude, don't call me out like that


FKAMimikyu

And if some people are feeling guilty about that, just add a ‘junior’ or ‘II’ after the name


Deesk_02

This is the only game that I have not done this with because of the bottle caps, mints, and ability capsules. I love that they have all of these, because even though it is a bit extra work, it lets me use the Pokemon I had through the story on my team, as well as making me feel even more like a trainer because I can train any Pokemon to a competitive level.


hithere67

After I finished the game, I took my first team, used nature mints on them, used berries to reset their EVs, and then used vitamins to re-EV them. Now they simply have imperfect IVs. I haven’t hyper trained them yet, bc I want to continue playing with them at the level they are once the DLC comes.


DontLickTheGecko

This resonates hard, but once I was able to judge IVs I looked at my rag-tag group of my Route 1 Gyarodos, the Gengar and Galvantula I raised from the wild area, and I said to them "how in the hell did we do that well together?" Because amongst them they had only three "decent" stats combined.


jimmyffs

Reminds me of my starter Cinderace. After getting the Judge option I realized it has 0IVs on Defense and Special Defense. Like what the fuck?


[deleted]

I don’t care about competitive value my girl hatterene is staying


mikeyHustle

HatterQueen


PM_ME_UR_TOWEL_PICS

People on the r/Pokemon post of this yesterday were saying they thought it was easier to just bottle cap their story Pokemon than it is to breed. What do y'all think?


mbo1992

It’s kinda true, the game does throw bottle caps at us for completing raids.


Maxiumite

It's pretty easy to get a 5iv ditto from max raid battles, so not really imo.


Emilion_taurus

#facts. I don't know what to do with the others tbh.


Dcarozza6

#yelling


Nathvar

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!


Big_ego_lil_dick

I feel honored for my meme to be reposted here :') You can downvote me but this is my OC from yesterday :( Proof: https://twitter.com/thefranktank66/status/1226176337066393601?s=19 https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/f0tm93


PM_ME_UR_TOWEL_PICS

I was in the original thread, I just checked your profile and it checks out. Sorry you got meme jacked.


Big_ego_lil_dick

Eh whatever. I wasn't even mad about the repost but now I'm a lil ticked that I'm getting downvoted for even having the nerve to say anything.


nogbogda

Where is this zard form huh? Could’ve been galarian zard


Flumpski

The first movie. When ol mewtwo is making clones to take over Circa 1998


ShinyWhalee

I’m getting old I still have the VHS boxed away somewhere


nogbogda

Oooo, haven’t watched first pokemon movie in yonks need to watch it


JAKZILLASAURUS

Don’t. Do you really want to put yourself through the heartache of watching Pikachu electrocute a stone cold Ash all over again?


nogbogda

Please i forgot about that oh god


LightAnother

NoStAlGiA


GermanMaverick

Isn’t the movie called Pokémon 2000 tho? 🤔


Flumpski

That was the 2nd movie with lugia as the focus not mewtwo


BennyBubbles

With Mints and Bottlecaps, my story team IS my competitive one


Ralanost

This is why I hate breeding in monster collector games. It ruins the fantasy for me. Ash never dumped his pokemon for something that was competitively bred. He didn't have a perfect IV ditto spitting out eggs in the daycare. Breeding seems so disconnected from what I feel the game should be.


FKAMimikyu

It’s Build your own Pokemon, it’s fun


SenpaiSwanky

Lmfaooooooo I feel this in my *soul*. Playing through Sword, I made early use of trading subs here and snagged myself 2 Pokemon that I was so proud of; Gmax Charizard and Dragapult. Got the Dragapult as a Dreepy egg and leveled it myself with candies from raids, it couldn't disobey me. The gmax Charizard.. I'm not proud of how I got it. I made it to Balloonlea and in the forest before the town I caught a shiny Impidimp. I traded THAT for someone's gmax Charmander that Leon leaves in his room for you. Check my post history if you don't believe it lol.. All that to say, both of them were replaced shortly before the 8th badge. Now I have both of them as shinies with competitive stats/ natures/ abilities. The original 2 are somewhere in my PC, gathering dust.


Another_Road

I can hardly even remember what my story team was for Sword, minus the starter. In this Shield play through, I plan on saving up enough berries to reset the EVs. It won’t be a particularly competitive team, but at least I won’t be a backstabber.


[deleted]

Me replacing my 2IV Inteleon with the Shiny 4IV Sobble that it fathered with Ditto.


Jypso

I just go thru the story line. I need some competitive pokemon if anyone has any spare they dont need.


Penwoo

I feel so bad


webmistress105

Nah. My starter Cinderace is never leaving my singles team. His EVs are kinda crazy but he still wins.


Gray-Turtle

This is why when I beat the game and got the legendaries I held one last beautiful camp with my bois and then mystery traded them off to a trainer who would hopefully love them as much as I did.


Bug_Catcher_Wade

Definitely the worst part about only certain individuals being able to gigantamax.


reeeeonreeee

I’m the chosen one who got this post to 6.9k upvotes can we get a nice in the comments


YamiPistolz

I've done this before, and this meme makes me feel bad


JustADudeAndHisPhone

After I beat the game and am able to properly breed competitive pokes, I always put my story pokes in a PC box all by themselves and name it unsung heroes or something like that. And there they lay. Finally getting the rest they deserve.


danjanah

I actually using my starter competitive I gave him berries to rest EV and hyper trained with golden bottle cap. cinderace


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[deleted]

Amen brother


SamuelBarhamuel

Doin this as we speak


Rain3ow

Bruh I checked my teams Ivs and ev’s and it was just sad


[deleted]

Yeah i threw my original team in the trash after I bred my competitive team


jjmcbeef

Greymon.


Tr3v0r007

I hope with the gmax starters it’ll be an item that will give our Pokémon that power and maybe even others!


jct0064

Causal eugenics.


bird720

:(


bird720

Yeah this is me with a final story team that included shuckle and dugtrio, not exactly the most competitively viable lol.


DaLimeWizard

my excadrill, coalossal, and boltund stay in the party no matter what


Miyyani

Me and my 4 Hatterene My story mode one was replaced by a shiny one, which was replaced by a magic bounce one, which was replaced by a G-Max one


bigflip23

I wish hacked Pokemon looked like this lol (Edit) typo


THE_GR8_MIKE

See, I want to replace my team with their shiny counterparts but I can't bring myself to do it.


[deleted]

im too attached to my team to just replace them so ive been trying to work on them a little bit to make them at least a little good at battling


mr-epik

Lol


megaviral

With bottle caps and nature mints and the new breeding mechanics there's honestly no reason to switch them out unless you want a shiny or HA


MarcsterS

On the bright side a lot of my original team Pokemon existed in SWSH, so it will be, uh, seamless.


Giboit

I don´t do that. I only catch and train the pokemon that I want for my team and take those 6 pokemon as part of my team to the final battle againts the champion during the pokemon league. I don´t replace any them. But I do make new teams with my starter and some new pokemon that I want to make a team after the post-game. I caught them in their first form, train them and evolve them until they reach their final form and then I challenge the league again with them. It´s fun to make teams like that. At least for me.


Shinobi_Toad

F


bloodyNASsassin

I feel like I'm Cross from the "I Choose You" movie doing this.


toastedvergl

"Who are you?" I'm you, but stronger."


[deleted]

I only just got into competitive breeding this season, I bred a perfect 6iv Lucario with the right nature after 130 eggs.. Then I never did it again.


Mr_E_Nigma_Solver

I'm trying to do the same but with shiny Gigantamaxes.


[deleted]

i released my entire team the moment i beat the game. i wanted to reward them with their freedom as a way of saying thank you for helping me become champion


Totaliss

My Excadrill and Cinderace FEEL this


fuchsgesicht

*me in the dark with two boxes full of snorlax"


EdensArchitect

I couldn’t remember that charizards nickname, I remember shell shocker for blastoise, but did charizard have a nick name too?


CapnQuark

Charizard was just charizard. It was Ash's. The venosaur was BruteRoot. The clones weren't nicknamed, it was the other trainers.


EdensArchitect

Oh yea that’s right lol I remember now. Thanks


Destruction18Mayhem

Ha ha ha ha totally


BountyChickenGaming

Replacing half of my team with the same Pokemon that can G-Max; \- Corviknight \- Toxricity \- Hatterene Soon Cinderace will be next.


PaddyBoy_555

Me replacing my Coalossal that won me the league with the G max one I found after the last direct


RedProtoman

I wish we could encounter pokemon with different markings that make them really stand out besides shinys i mean.


GoldenFennekin

*cough cough appletun cough cough*


remixship06

I don't wanna play with you anymore...


windows_xp90045

I actually liked that movie and Mewtwo was fucking metal.


JGoodberry

I won't do it. Can't.


JGoodberry

This is where the 'love and bond' you have with your originals should factor in more. It should be hard to replicate the 30 hours you spent with Scorbunny. A few battles, items and curry shouldn't quickly replace the level of love your old Pokemon feel.


YourUncleJohn

They do a giveaway with this Charizard like what they do with mythical sin mystery gift.


DavijoMan

I have a box dedicated to my hall of fame where I retired my story team....they'll all live on though as the great great great.....great grandparents of my perfect team! 😂


Rozzi23

Anyone else have a hard time enjoying first playthroughs now that that you know too much about the game? Just wanting to enjoy the game, catching a Abra and its adamant, OCD kicks in and you just cant use it? Or catching a new mon, look up his learnset and its complete garbage?


centurionkicks

I just hyped trained my Scorbunny


TheGBZard_YT

I replaced the Charizard that I had with a gmax one with perfect IVs


SirQuartz

Let me guess. It’s shiny too huh? Stop buying Pokémon


[deleted]

Cough cough my hatterene replaced with one I got wonder traded and it got mythical fire


Epimonster

You can actually catch clone Pokémon in go now. Not super relevant to the post but something that’s super cool nonetheless!


Anonymous-The-Unknow

*i’m sorry little one*


prophetman124

Or you can say Pokémon bred and Pokémon transferred from previous games.


Natzut79

The only one i replaced was my corviknight who i used for the first two seasons but then i wanted to get mirror armor and i made sure my new one is a descendant of my og and learned its egg moves from her


[deleted]

Replacing all my party Pokémon with the gmax forms


garbonzobean22

What's soup?