#pokeporter

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

does anyone know if the tera raid greninja can be female? time sensitive question I'm really tired of battling this thing.

[reroute-artist-strategy]

Reminder that in pmd you can just like recruit guys into your party once you fight them enough

does this apply to kecleon? i have no clue

[shingetsu-online]

so i was doing tera raids yesterday and heres some of the stuff i happened to get

a shit ton of herba mystica. i got like five. i barely get any lmao

a few more entries to my pokedex, none of which were scarlet exclusives [i finally got an umbreon and a frosslass. it took an embarassing amount of time to get them]

A RANDOM SHINY SYLVEON?? i was doing the raids through the pokeportal and the sylveon one was a randomized ice one. i swept with bitter blade and i was able to keep him. his name is cotton candy and hes in a moon ball i fucking love him :]]]

[aviculor]

Good lord, was I playing with my eyes closed or something? How did I not see that when I was literally running in a circle around it?

I caught four more shiny Duraludon today, and at this point I think the Joyful mark event was full of shit. I took it for granted when three of my first four were sociable, sleepy, and snow-frolicking. I evolved the Sleepy one (renaming it New York to be ironic) and connected to the PokePortal News to finally let the event end. I'm done. No more of this.

[rabbitholeresearch]

It's Arven's Fault :( : A Theory

When the book was first written, it was by a man named Heath. A man who went on an expedition with an unnamed team and his beloved Cyclizar! There, he met fantastical creatures that we know now as Paradox Pokemon, including a strange-looking Donphan and a creator we only know as the Disc Pokemon. 60 years later, this same man who saw amazing things, is being discredited because what he saw in Area Zero was too fantastical to be real. In the world of Pokemon, someone said, “That’s not real.” Yeah.

Area Zero is a brutal environment that only those with permission can enter due to how dangerous the area is which brings the question Arven: Why is he getting special treatment just cuz his mom and dad are professors? Talk about elitists!

It’s been three months but spoilers for the end of Scarlet/Violet respectively! For all intents and purposes, from this moment on, I will talk about the games through the Scarlet perspective cuz, for me, it’s a lot easier to explain to Paradoxmons this way, but also because I played the game itself. I loved Scarlet and all I can hear when I see Koraidon’s goofy face is the distant sound of its feet slapping against linoleum tiles like an uncoordinated frog.

Okay but seriously, why was Arven given access to Area Zero before the game, and even in post-game? It doesn’t make sense. It’s extremely dangerous to go here. Even if he’s the professor’s kid it doesn’t make sense. What possessed him to go into Area Zero which resulted in Mabosstiff getting severely hurt? And I offer you, his anger.

We will be talking about the final plot line, “A Way Home,” so AGAIN. SPOILERS. Alright, I did it twice now. Moving on.

In the postgame, the professor tasks us with breaking her out of the Zero Lab, which is on lockdown as a safety measure. Remember that. This was a safety thing that started it all. 

Here we are pressing buttons at the four separate research stations with varying journals as well as rest and teleport points for easy access throughout the unmapped Area Zero, which yes does not have a map. It truly is a world of its own in the Great Crater of Paldea. In fact, it was through Area Zero my friends and I discovered you can’t invade each other’s craters in the PokePortal function which honestly made me sad cuz I wanted to catch Mecha-Godzilla and Mecha-Mothra on my own but I did eventually get them in trade.

The journals in these stations tell us a lot about the professor and, thereupon, Arven. At R.S.1, we read:

“We've determined that this energy crystallization is linked to the being we call ▊▊▊▊▊▊.

The interlocking hexagonal plates that comprise ▊▊▊▊▊▊'s shell must somehow cause this phenomenon—which I've dubbed "Terastallizing."

And:

“Thanks to my prototype Tera Orb, I secured corporate funding for my research and made a laboratory in the lighthouse near Cabo Poco.

Someday, though, I'll return to the crater and resume my study of these crystals.”

With these alone, we can determine that Arven is around 6. Why? Because in the game, we learn that Professor Sada had invented Tera Orbs, about 10 years before the game starts!

Arven has grown up alone in the Poco Path Lighthouse Lab for a long time, actually. He even mentions numerous times how his mom is always buried in her work and has no time for him, which is sad considering what we know now. Sorry Arven. Your mom was hot though.

Anyway, we learn in RS4’s journals that not only has she managed to build a highly sophisticated AI but that her partner, “that man”, has left (“not long after “that boy was born.”).

As someone who gets so hyperfocused on tasks that time doesn’t pass normally, not long after Arven was born, could mean frankly anywhere between 2 minutes after birth or 6 years after birth. Either way, Sada is bitter Turo left, leaving a pile of research in this lab in Poco Path alone with her son.

We also learn about an incident where civilians had seen Koraidon’s amazing power and scared a lot of people. The professor made the decision to not only return Koraidon to Area Zero but also bury herself in research to later build an AI and pull in a second Koraidon.

That’s sad. Not like in a mean way, just in general. Of course, the pronouns are altered in Violet, but either way, we get a story of a professor with a broken heart. Aw. Poor professors. Its hard not to sympathize when you realize they were probably really hurt by them leaving the professor alone with a child.

Or what it probably actually was was like her coworker that she occasionally had some…cardio with had quit.

It is noted that Professor Sada, when returning from Area Zero is not seen by Arven until the events of the game. Meaning that the moment Sada took Koraidon back to the crater, Arven hasn’t seen Sada. Meaning the Tera Orbs was the last major event Arven could have been a part of!

But Arven says he grew up with the red lizard. He also has its Pokeball. Its possible the professor saw what will be our Koraidon’s passive nature and decided leaving it out of its Pokeball was fine! In fact, she probably packed her bags and got on her bikemon and sped off saying she was getting milk.

So confirmed. Arven hasn’t seen Sada or Koraidon in 10 years. So what was it that compelled him to go to Area Zero?

“I wanna give my mom a piece of my mind.” GRRRRRR. I’ve got mommy issues and its my only personality trait.

Trust me dude. Using that as your only personality trait will leave you sad and angry. Wait.

Arven tells us later on in his Path of Legends story that Mabosstiff had been hurt after an attack from a rampaging pokemon inside of the crater when he was trying to see his mom. He repeats this sentiment when Penny sees Scream Tail and remarks on how cute it is.

Go back though. He was trying to see his mom. It is confirmed that Arven went into the crater to see his mom. Meaning this: Arven was trying to see his mom which might’ve set off the territorial Koraidon’s instincts.

A stretch? Not so much, actually.

At the beginning of the game we see our box legendary launching up from the clouds of Area Zero before flying over Paldea to show off what our beautiful region that we’re about to explore looks like and I want whatever sandwich he ate to provide infinite flying cuz that would’ve been funny to see in co-op.

After we feed our box a sandwich and get Damsel in Distress style rescued by said lizard, we meet Arven for the first time. And what is the first thing he says upon seeing Koraidon: "What're you doing out here?!"

Arven realizes Koraidon being out here is bad. Like insanely bad. It’s a bad taste in his mouth bad. He remarks how the memories do leave a bad taste in his mouth as well. While yeah, that makes sense, bad memories do leave a sort of bitter taste, but for me, this says more.

Bleh! I remember you as the reason my mom left me alone for ten years!

Bleh! If you hadn’t been taken away, I wouldn’t be emo!

Bleh! If you hadn’t been here, I never would’ve gone into Area Zero to watch my dog get nearly killed and can’t be possibly healed except for these herbs I saw in a book that I just found in my mom’s old lab that I was in just before the player and Nemona walked up.

However, this is countered by Arven saying this after being defeated: "But if you really think you can take Koraidon off my hands for me...you'll need this. It's the Poké Ball that brute's been kept in."

That brute’s been kept in. Wait, does he mean over the last ten years or just in general that’s Koraidon’s pokeball? I don’t think it’s the former. Not because its put a hole in my idea, but because to keep a pokemon stored in a pokeball for so long. We do know that when Pokemon go in, they almost shrink down and become data. Data huh–I might have ideas for a certain Kanto Cryptid–

Moving on. I doubt anyone would keep a pokemon in a pokeball for a decade as Pokemon are confirmed to age within Pokeballs. The only incidents we’ve seen of a pokemon being fine after being confined for so long are Sir Aaron’s Lucario in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Spiritomb. And fine? That’s a relative term considering Spiritomb had to be sealed because of its power and Lucario had a panic attack and went into shock when it got out.

So the Professor likely left the Pokeball behind seeing as the book was also left behind. Meaning the Professor left quickly. She just suddenly disappeared until the Player comes to Paldea.

But what does this mean? Based on the timing and the build up: I think Arven is the reason his parents tragically die.

As far as we’re aware, Sada invented AI Sada sometime after Turo left and never reported it as the AI could not physically leave the crater due to the Tera Crystal energy. She even pulled a second Koraidon with the help of her AI partner. She’s been hyperfocused for ten years in Area Zero, likely living off the environment within. This isn't to say our professor is forgiven for her actions.

She was in Research Station 4 when the more aggressive Koraidon attacked Our Koraidon. 

Just before Paradise Protection Protocol takes control of the AI professor, the AI actually apologizes to Arven.

On top of that, when AI professor sends us to Area Zero at the end of the Path of Legends quest, we learn from Arven he used to come here to play all the time as a kid. Meaning, he was likely being watched by Director Clavell or even Jacq, which would probably give a realistic explanation as to why he’s allowed into Area Zero. They gave him access because they believe Arven is old enough to know how to care for himself enough to survive and give him too much credit for being the professor’s kid.

Not only that but when we explore Area Zero with Arven, he’s surprised by all the research stations. Meaning, he never went in but he does offer that he was attacked somewhere between RS1/2. Because of the location it was at, for the games, I think he was attacked by either Sliver Wing or Sandy Shocks in Scarlet and Iron Moth or Thorns in Violet. However, given that Sandy Shocks is Electric/Ground, I’d say it was Slither Wings for Scarlet! As for violet, the options for that area between the research stations are highly limited so let me know down below which Paradox you think Arven faced the first time, because spoilers, its not the Donphans and its not the Scream Tail/Iron Bundle! He would’ve reacted to them if he had.

Mabosstiff gets hurt, hurt enough that no potions or Nurse Delphine’s can help it. I’d say blood could’ve been drawn, given that Mabosstiff can’t even stand when we first meet it. The Territorial Koraidon smells the blood. There’s an invader nearby. It goes on a rampage and tries to attack our passive Koraidon. Why? Proximity.

The territorial Koraidon, or Miraidon for Violet players, attacking our Raidon out of nowhere doesn’t make any sense. The professor notes that the second one is much more aggressive but this thing has been with the professor and the AI for years. How do I know this? The AI apologizes for Arven being alone for so long.

"Arven. I am sorry that I kept the truth from you for so long. I inherited all the thoughts and wishes of the professor, and so I understand better than any..."

"Your mother truly loved you."

The territory battle leaves Koraidon weakened as it escapes to crash onto the beach near Poco Path Lighthouse, the one safe haven it remembers outside of the crater. It passes that lighthouse when it suddenly collapses. Meaning, Koraidon was still injured from that incident.

And it is with the Professor’s death that the AI decides it’s time to shut down the machine, hurrying from RS4 to Zero Lab. Afterall, someone just died because of a Paradox Pokemon, a pokemon that is one of the many that have been coming out of the time machine. The AI panics and puts the lab into lockdown to prevent anymore Pokemon from escaping into the crater and ultimately into Paldea.

When trying to track our Koraidon and the territorial one, the professor finds the Pokeball in proximity to a student with a Rotom Phone that just moved to Paldea.

So, there you have it, Arven’s want for closure with his mommy/daddy issues were the reason they died, and I think it’s sad to say that the guy might've figured it out, which is why we don’t really see a reaction from him aside from calling out to the AI when they go into the time machine to their dream eras as well as how he kinda is surprised by everything to do with his family in the post-game.

In the Director’s Office, he says:

"So she really was always amazing...right from the start, huh?"

"All these pieces of my mom's life—they were right in front of me this whole time...I spent so long trying not to think about her that I never even noticed...until now."

And in the main hall/library:

"While I was here in the entrance hall, digging through my mom's research reports, I found this on one of the bookshelves. This book was so precious to my mom that she even kept a copy of it in the lighthouse lab... The Scarlet Book... That's what it's called, right?"

Arven was more focused on his anger, which was justified at the time. Now, it’s misplaced and he’s unsure. I think that’s sad but I won’t forgive Game Freak for such a tragic tale of a Professor who lost their love and buried into research…

Wait…I’ve heard this before…

PS: It was brought to my attention after writing the script that there’s no way this makes sense because there’s mold in the mattress and even crystals forming inside RS4. To that I counter with the mold. Mold spores take about 24-48 hours to actually lock in and be able to eat away at organic material, however, it’s never clarified what kind of mold it is. Some molds take YEARS to actually eat away at organic material. Others months.

As for the crystals in RS4, that makes sense because some material has been broken away. As we can see within the deeper caverns of Area Zero, crystals are ABUNDANT, and reflecting the wrong way, but they grow fast, even in Paldea. If you’re connecting to the internet, you can sometimes see Tera Raid crystals shrink down and respawn an entirely new crystal to give the player better variety. These things grow fast, and with the presence of Glimmora, it wouldn’t surprise me if those actually spawned like two minutes before the player walked in.

As for why the Zero Lab is covered in crystal, the professor actually notes the crystals can enhance both organic/inorganic materials, given it a cop out for why the AI is as sophisticated as it is, but also explaining how these crystals might be a major power source for the time machine.

Don’t forget, in RS1, a journal does state that the energy crystallization process we know as Terastylizing is a result of our mystery, possibly third legendary.

[deffik]

Mewtwo GET! Got it on the first try with randoms via pokeportal matchmaking, without Light Screen and Electric/Misty Terrain, guess we all were attackers :D Fought Mewtwo a couple of more times with a more organized group with 1 Support Mew, and 3 Attackers, with Light Screen, Electric Terrain and Taunt, and that was pretty easy, just took like 12-ish minutes. Cool raid.

[karlobears]

I didn’t think they could pull it off but GF actually improved a lot of base game Scarlet by A LOT. The PokePortal has minimal lag (except for loading)

You can travel through areas with slight lag where as before it was nigh impossible. Lag Lake up north is actually bearable. Holy shit

[dr-vulpine]

So, I started Scarlet again

And proceeded to sequence break.

After exiting the cave, game tells me constantly to go to the lighthouse, to which I refused, and went BACK to where I fell down to that little beach, (by backtracking to that spot with the rock and that upper area with the tree, and waiting for a wild pokemon to get in range, then run off on the outer part of the fence and go back down to the beach) then proceeded through the cave, and exited normally, from the true exit, which thankfully isn't buried in event triggers or barricades to block the player from ditching the objective. The pokemon in the cave are locked to Houndour, Yungoos & Diglett, so the rest of the spawns aren't available for some reason.

Make way around that upper area, and drop down into that little valley before Mezagoza, instead of going to school, quick pitstop at the pokecenter, I then went up to that ledge, south of that small town, the one ledge where there's a gap between the next ledge. I waited for a wild Pokemon to get close enough and threw the ball to force a battle, game mechanics can sometimes PULL the player over TO the wild Pokemon, effectively skipping gaps you can't leap over, or up steep inclines. So, cross the gap, freedom from the valley, wander a bit, escape the first area entirely.

Early on, I noticed, none of the gyms let you challenge them, in fact, they act like you've been to them already. Tera crystals don't exist on the map at all. But the wild, semi fixed tera pokemon do exist, but you can't utilize tera yourself.

Team Star basically doesn't exist, either, nor does that barricade that normally blocks you from the water gym. Pressing A at their gate buttons has no function mapped to it. Getting IN the base does nothing, there's no signs of life whatsoever.

Trainers are obviously in place, as you can battle them just fine.

No picnic available, because you don't have the sandwich guzzling bike with you.

No PokePortal, Pokemon centers union circle have no function.

Time doesn't exist, it's ALWAYS sun. And it doesn't budge.

And I still get the lighthouse prompt.

Pretty sure everyone knows where this is by now.

[redjaybird]

[the pokeportal is taking some time to load o boy]

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

Japanese Scarlet Team Final Update

This update contains spoilers for the end of Pokemon Scarlet.

Well, I've done it. I've completed the game. Now I can finally do what I intended to do and catch a ton of 5-star tera raid Pokemon. Yes, that is the main reason I started this playthrough. Yes it was worth it.

My team did not change much between this update and my last, but the one Pokemon I did catch is a fairly neat one.

Meet コーリーン (Koreen) the キラフロル (Glimmora).

I told myself at the start of this that if there was a Glimmet outbreak I'd shiny hunt one and use it on my team. And well, right before I was about to challenge the fairy Team Star base, I found one. Thankfully I saved in front of it because it used self-destruct three times before I caught it. Anyway I named her Koreen after chlorine gas, I'm sure I don't have to tell you how this relates back to her poison typing.

Now that foreword is over with, let's meet the champion team, shall we?

Gumimimi evolved. Finally, I think I was going through random tera raid battles delaying the fighting Team Star base (I don't remember any of their names sorry) when it finally rained and I evolved her. Koreen ultimately replaced Aisha the Cetitan, though Aisha had a small redemption arc when I used her against Nemona's Goodra.

My entire playthrough has been spent getting increasingly annoyed by the fact you can't buy toxic orbs until the post-game. I was so looking forward to using Breloom with Poison Heal.

Crab Rave was a real stand out of the playthough. I was not expecting her to be so good throughout the entire game. Even at the end, her Anger Shell ability and X-Scissor is what gave me the edge over Sada's Roaring Moon.

Miriam still knows Bite. And Pippi still know Pluck. I never found better moves for them.

Breloom is still my favourite Pokemon.

Scarlet and Violet don't have a little spin-around like other games where they show off all your Pokemon, so I've done it myself. Enjoy these photos of my final team.

ミリアン / Miriam the ラウドボーン / Skeledirge

グミミミ / Gumimimi the ヌメルゴン / Goodra

ダだいすき / Dadaisuki the キノガッサ / Breloom

クラブレーヴ / Crab Rave (Kuraburēvu) the ガケガニ / Klawf

ピッピー / Pippi (Pippī) the クエスパトラ / Espathra

コーリーン / Koreen (Kōrīn) the キラフロル / Glimmora

And that's all. I'll complete the Ace Academy Tournament, catch the seven-star Greninja (I have not updated my Pokeportal news in ages) and ah, just keep fighting tera raids. Basically what I do in my English save file, really.

I don't have a concluding punchline. Just keep looking at that picture of Koreen until you feel satisfied.

[crystalelemental]

"canislupus-13: I need to figure out how to start it..."

Step 1: Go to PokePortal and open Mystery Gift to receive some special Pecha Berry.

Step 2: Go to Mossui Town, and go to the general shop with the old lady. There is a pink doll thing on the left. Talk to it, and the scene should start. It's very directive from there.

[duoduotian]

i think we need a short cut for pokeportal like the notif for surprise trade goes away too quickly if you’re not paying attention, which is annoying since you can’t press y to go to pokeportal when it’s gone, it’ll just open the map

[turtblurt]

POKEPORTAL TIME!!!

I thought about this idea where it’s just Portal except all the bots are Pokémon and I’m jUST—

Aaaaaaaaaaaa I love designing things like these

I have an 👀👀👀 idea planned for these but I wanted to get these designs out anyway because I love them and I thought y’all might like em too!!

Also here’s a more in-depth version of GLaDOS!!! Aaaa I love herrrr

*fortnite dances to Robots FTW*

[aviculor]

Shoving Charizard into a locker for herba mystica is fun. It uses up its "remove negative effects" turn 0 after using Overheat, so you can just debuff it to hell and back before it sets up its shield. It's -3 special attack and -6 special defense by the time I tera Moonblast it. I have the raids down to a science unless Hurricane lands the confusion or it gets a crit on me. And even then, I still beat it with a comfortable amount of time left.

Basically, it'll have to take something amazing to make me update PokePortal News. I already have so much herba mystica I don't know what to do with it. I shiny hunted Stonjourner this morning just because it's a rare outbreak.

[detpyrcnedlc]

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