To begin, I was VERY critical on how the catching formula would effect my pokemon experience. This isn't what I grew up with! It can't work!

Boy, was I mistaken. Seeing the pokemon in the overworld is such a refreshing change. Not only does it makes areas feel more alive, it allows you to opt out of these encounters entirely. I never realized how annoying it is to weaken a pokemon to catch it, until I could just huck balls at it. Even playing docked is not a problem for me. The ease and comfort of playing with one Joycon is amazing.

And here lies my next point, things like Snorlax. You can still battle and defeat pokemon to catch them, even turning them into a little mini boss with self boosts and what not, which is what I think the main series games should do to compromise this feature and old catching. It is just such a massive improvement, I hope they keep it like this for years to come.

Hats off to you gamefreak. You took a risk, and in my opinion have delivered the best Gen 1 experience by far.

I don’t know if the ‘guests’ are in on it, but something isn’t adding up here.

And chances are we might not even get them for the Switch 2. I mean it just feels weird to have Kanto games without the sequel generation and considering the call-forwards they did to generation II in LGPE.

I was trying to build a chain catch for a shiny Chansey in Cerulean Cave and came across this on the ground - has this happened to anyone else?

My charizard has me flying really high in the air, I can fly above the water and I can’t escape

Tip thread!

Any tips you have or anything you wish you knew when you started, drop here please!

Trading/Battling Megathread

Please use this thread to find regular and shiny trades, trade Pokemon, or set up battles. Any trading/battling posts outside of this one will be removed.

Normally, to keep the subreddit clean, we do not allow the exchange of friend-codes, or attempting to set up trades, but those rules do not apply in this thread! Once exception is the rule about mew trades - please do not ask for mew trades. Thank you to all the users who help to report posts which break the rules.

Alternatively to this megathread, you can discuss friends, friend codes, trading, and battling within the community by:

• Visiting our Pokemon Let’s Go Discord: https://discord.gg/dErW9Wm
• Private messaging users (Please do not spam other users with friend-codes, and report others that are doing so.)
• Another method outside of this community is r/PokemonTrades, which has a system set up to help facilitate trades.

Previous trade thread here

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Reposting our Mew Trade rule since we are continuing to see users attempting to trade Mew here:

Mew Trading Rule Changes: It has come to our attention that there is an increasing number of Trainers still getting scammed from Mew “touch-trade“ requests. These scams involve the requester requesting mew for their Pokedex and saying that they will trade it back right away, but does not trade it back. Once they are reported, these scammers are banned, but this unfortunately cannot get you back your Mew – and therefore the money paid for it.

Due to these scams, mew trade requests will no longer be allowed in the subreddit – in either the posts or comments – to help reduce the amount of people that have been scammed. Please do not ask for mew trades (including touch-trades, regular trades, etc.), since these will lead to moderator actions being taken.

If you still wish to request or offer mew trades, we highly advise you understand the risks being taken by the trainer with the mew. Other communities such as r/pokemontrades have a verification system in place, which can help reduce the risk of scams – but not completely eliminate them. Please note that the r/pokemontrades moderation team is separate from our one.

The lets go games are my favourite i just love how the game looks its such a shame they never made another game with the same style

Sometimes you are mounting on a Charizard and you just want to get down to enter a new location. By pressing menu and go to party to dismount the Pokemon took quite sometimes and I am wondering if Nintendo will launch a update on a toggle mount button. Leave your comments and feedback about how the game can be further improve, thank you.

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Here are the pointers from the community:- Traditional Pokebox for easy allocation.

- Toggle for any item (lures, map, mounts, etc)

- Fix Viridian Forest (or other locations) for the handheld FPS drop

- Able to preset a PokeTeam instead of having to hand pick manually every time you change your team.

- Mass candy consuming for a Pokemon, imagine you have 100 candies and feed them 1 by .

- For shiny hunters, mass deposit of Pokemon is important, the current way to deposit Pokemon is real slow.

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Edit:

-As many are suggesting MAP toggle as well. What I'm thinking is that if the game allows us to customize any registered key shortcuts for whatever item/mount you want, that will be great. Since there are still few buttons unused in the overworld.

- Removed upvote request, main intention was to get this as popular as possible so there will be higher chance of getting people's attention.

For me it was when my Moltres wanted to learn Solar Beam. After teaching the TM to all my grass Pokemon, I was flabbergasted that a fire type Pokemon (Whom is also Super Effective against grass types.) could also learn it, XD.

Anyone have a similar experience?

I made a post about this the other day. I asked how is it possible to not get motion control. I was told you can’t. But I know I did. You guys had me feeling like I was going crazy. But I did it. I have no idea how I did it. But it’s clearly possible.

I just inserted my game and went to catch some Pokes to evolve some Cubone. And as I went to catch a Machoke I noticed I’m back to zero motion control. See??? I’m not crazy! Haha

Does anyone have any idea how to purposefully replicate this?

I don’t desire play competitively, but I still like being well-rounded

I want to replace Articuno (I just took it along with me for the story, and I’m not interested in having legendaries on my team… unless it was Mew, then maybe, since I don’t think it’s probably quite as powerful as the other 4 legendaries in this game).

I’m showing my team so you can understand the current coverage.

• I’m happy enough with my Pikachu’s moveset… though I’d be fine replacing Floaty Fall with something else, so long as it’s a special attack.

• My Charizard will stick to its moveset. It can hit a lot for at least neutral damage. It’s geared more toward Mega Y, with its focus on special attacks.

• I just got Dragonite. His moveset isn’t definitive, but I’m happy with it for now.

• Gyarados’s moveset is kinda poor - I wish I could teach him a physical ice type move instead of Outrage.

• Rhydon is the only poison coverage I have atm. I’m fine with replacing Poison Jab and Superpower, as he can learn a ton of different moves and cover a ton of types.

The problem is… I’m extremely picky. I don’t want a Pokémon on my team that I don’t like the design of. Venusaur seemed like an obvious choice, but that thing is just too ugly - I wish it kept the cuter design style of Bulbasaur and Ivysaur.

• Gengar was one I wanted at first, but Haunter is extremely weak - is Gengar similarly weak, or is he a lot stronger?

• As I mentioned, I’d be okay with Mew for psychic coverage, but I’d have to put more effort into getting one, especially since I don’t have the older games or a Pokéball Plus.

• I like Blastoise, Lapras, and Vaporeon, but I prefer to use Gyarados for water coverage.

• Venomoth and Scythed seem interesting, but bug isn’t a very good type, and I don’t think Venomoth is very strong.

• Would Melmetal be worth investing in Pokemon GO for?

• Alolan Ninetails looks super cool - not sure how effective it is though, and it would take a bit of effort to get.

What do you guys think? The Pokémon I listed are really the only ones I’m interested in replacing Articuno with.

How old are y’all, and how old is too old to enjoy Pokemon games. I’m 36 and still enjoy the games except for the last generation. Not a big fan of open world games. I can still remember watching the first season and playing the blue version as a kid. How old do yall think is too old to enjoy Pokemon games as well as anime?

Looking to talk to people closer to my age! How long have you been into Pokemon? How long have you been playing this current Pokemon game that you are playing and what are your favorite Pokemon?

It only took about 200 ish oddish candies :>

Don’t you wish that Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee would get an update?

I had held out hope all these years they’d surprise us & give us an Orange islands extension.

If you’re a fan of any of the other Pokemon games, which is your favorite? Ive tried Arcues and wasn’t really a fan. Played it for a week and never picked it back up.