well for competitive you'd need completely need pokemon and either max level them to bottle cap Iv's or breed for perfect iv's and then ev train.

but as for your team for base game content seems fair

Yeah that’s all I viewed it as too

But I figure if I wanna get my moneys worth and keep playing without it getting tedious and boring, I’m gonna have to make the jump to competitive side

makes the game more fun and gives you much more s*** to do i still play and constantly look for diff team comps and strats i could do and it adds a new dimension to the game

cop bro!! i copped 3 days ago and also havent played from diamond its amazing imo

play competitive shiny hunt

It's nothing to do after you do that except do rank battle online but you need to get competitive pokemon. If you're not into that you can shiny hunt. If you don't want to do that then let this s*** gather dust and wait for the DLC or play one of these fire games coming out in 2020. This year is loaded.

I swear I feel like the DLC is going to only be 2 hours long and can be beat in 40 mins.

Got a spare g Max lapras if anyone wants

Wasn’t expecting new Regis at all.

Is there a Shiny version of every Pokémon?

And how do you know if it’s a Shiny?

Like if you don’t know what colors it’s originally supposed to be lol... how do you know if it’s a Shiny one?

So I can finally see IV’s....

I got a Lvl 46 Rhydon

HP - Decent
Attack - Best
Defense - Pretty Good
Sp. Atk - Best
Sp. Def - Best
Speed - Best

And I have a Lvl 47 Noctowl

HP - Best
Attack - Pretty Good
Defense - Best
Sp. Atk - Best
Sp. Def - Best
Speed - Best

And then I have a Claydol and Qwilfish that have 4 Best’s too

Are those any good? Should I breed them or something?

I only have 1 Ditto and it doesn’t have any Best categories

Bro go look up a good competitive team. You'll get dirted using a Rhydon, Noctowl, and quilfish. The Meta is setup around some mons that can one shot everything such as Dracovish. Competitive is a lot deeper than just getting perfect IVs and EVs that's why a lot people don't get into it. You need to build a team with synergy or you'll get destroyed every time.

Expecting this as well

Right

I’ve already looked up what the best Mons are for competitive

Is the most important Pokémon to catch for competitive purposes is a perfect IV Ditto?

I have some of the best Pokémon for competitive teams but they don’t have good IV’s

Do I need to breed those Mons with a high IV Ditto to try and get high IV’s?

the story itself is probably 2 hours long

i'll add another 2-3 hours of exploration and hunting Pokemon i don't have yet

$30 for 10 hours isn't bad

Yeah you can use a perfect IV ditto with a destiny knot hold item. That's how IVs get passed on easy. Then you have to get the right nature for a pokemon also.

Ok thanks

And how do I go about getting a perfect IV Ditto lmao?

I can trade you one now you're online

i've caught 4 boxes of shinnies these past few days

When you’re walking through tall grass... what’s the difference between when a ! pops up and when a ? pops up when you run into a Pokémon?

Also....

On your Pokédex it has “Current Recommendations”..... And then lists a couple Pokémon

Is there a bonus or something to catching them immediately or something? Or is it just random

Like what’s the point of it?

Is there a trick to doing 5-star raids with NPC trainers?

I’ve beaten 1 or 2.... but it’s nearly impossible when the DynaMax Pokémon keeps putting up that f***in shield that takes 5 hits to take down

And it’ll do it like 2-3 times in one raid... that’s 10 or 15 attacks wasted

Is there another way to do this or something?

It all depends on what the npc mons are. If they weak to the raid mons moves, there’s nothing you can really do about it except to try and kill em as fast as possible before all your lives are used up.

I recommend to just used Zacian/Zamazenta, Max out attack EVs, level it to 100 and if you need to hyper train it’s stats and make sure it’s got a decent move pool for coverage.

It’s signature move (iron head turns into it when you have the held item) does double damage vs Dynamax mons