>He didn't put Ogerpon in a Beast Ball since it's the best looking ball, it's incredibly rare and the capture rate doesn't matter since the Ogerpon battle gives you a guaranteed capture
Same here, brother. Everything goes in a standard Pokeball. Drives me nuts when special Pokemon come in special Pokeballs, like the Toxel in a Luxury Ball in SwSh.
Even in PLA where the other balls have really strong effects I still exclusively used Pokeballs.
Premier balls whenever possible, if the catch rate is too low I'll color coordinate. Whatever is on the cover of the box goes in the master ball, no exceptions. I'll kill a shiny if I have to
Tried making one a while back but gave up pretty quickly, might try to continue at some point when there's time. I'll post what I have if I can find it and the thread is still here after lunch.
Problem with this is it has so many that don't fit thematically. Dive Ball is on so many things just because it's blue, but to me you should never use Dive Ball on anything not water related, you shouldn't use the Heavy Ball on small/light mons, and the Moon Ball should be for things associated with the Moon or at least space.
Tried making one a while back but gave up pretty quickly, might try to continue at some point when there's time. I'll post what I have if I can find it and the thread is still here after lunch.
>regular normal mon: poke ball >minor legendary: repeat ball >major legendary: timer ball >shiny normal mon: premier ball >shiny minor legendary: luxury ball >shiny major legendary: master ball
I only break this convention when it's unavoidable eg. shiny starters and giftmons
I like the look of most balls on their own but just hate the mismatchedness
also hope that if a non-shit modern game comes out it lets us swap balls, then i might get into colour matching balltism. idk
Yeah, I don't really color coordinate too well though so I just try to match the primary colors. Maybe I'll look for another Zorua in a Moon Ball instead.
How the hell did you manage this? It's not like you can just catch a Hisuian Zorua with a Beast Ball, and unless I missed something there wasn't a Hisuian Zoroark raid, so the only one that should be in an unusual ball is the DLC Preorder gift one, right?
Everstone lets you pass down the form of the Pokemon holding it, and if both parents are of the same Pokemon (a normal Zorua in a Beast Ball, and a fresh Hisui Zorua born from the DLC handout), each parent has a 50/50 chance to pass down their ball. So I just bred until I got a Hisui in a beast ball and went from there.
He showed up very early in the process, I'm glad I managed to get a 0 atk IV at least early on with the power bracer.
>Everstone lets you pass down the form of the Pokemon holding it, and if both parents are of the same Pokemon (a normal Zorua in a Beast Ball, and a fresh Hisui Zorua born from the DLC handout), each parent has a 50/50 chance to pass down their ball. So I just bred until I got a Hisui in a beast ball and went from there.
Oh shit, good to know. I think I'll use this trick to breed myself a Shiny Alolan Vulpix in SV. Thanks.
Sometimes, but frick the grind and artificial scarcity of apricorn/beast/dream balls. I duped a bunch of my favourite balls in the early SV patch and i'm saving my limited supply for the rarest stuff like legendaries and one-off encounters. If I don't have something better to match with, i'll default to premier or luxury balls.
I don't get hyper autistic about it, usually I just use Poké Balls but if there's another ball that looks nice or matches them I'll go for that (within reason, I'm not made of Apriballs)
Quick Balls and Dusk Balls are pretty ugly/clashing for most Pokémon, so I avoid using them
Somewhat, i keep my "A-Team" sorted, and on my first run i generally stick to premiers for mons i gonna use and if a mon really makes me think "This ball was MADE for that Mon" i use that Ball.
I basically sort my "A-Team" (Read: Fully trained Mons) Boxes sorted by Balls like this.
Poké (IE: Gift Mons event mons and In-Game Trades)
Premier (IE: Default ball for mons i caught myself and i see no obvious BALLTISM ball for.)
Cherish (No Explanation should be needed, But it is Event Mons)
Beast (It looks great and goes with surprisingly many mons, not just the UBs and Space Trio, but the Pardoxes and Miraidon too, that's practically a full box right there)
Strange
Misc. Balltism
I don't have enough tism to go POKÈBALL FOR EVERYTHING or grind/dupe THAT fricking many Apriballs to coordinate every Pokémon that exists, but my system works for me.
The only way to obtain them is in Gen 9 is either as rewards for the Academy Ace Tournament (Beast, Dream, Fast, Friend, Heavy, Level, Love, Lure and Moon Ball each have 0.1% chance, totaling 0.9% chance for all of them).
Alternatively, all of them can spawn as a purchasable (expect to pay about $500,000 each) auction item in Porto Marinada, with the exception of the Beast Ball.
The Sport Ball and Safari Ball are currently unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet but are still recognised and have models if you transfer Pokemon from previous games that were caught with them.
Oh bummer, every single youtube video/guide I've seen has the genius solution of buying a turbo/modded controller and just auto battling the tournament 24/7 but that feels so counter to how I enjoy Pokemon, but a 1% chance when the tournament can only be done x amount of times per hour is such a downer.
I'll check out the auctions way more often, thanks!
Sure anon, here have a taste~
Not a troony, so no
you’re the soulless type of person that didn’t put ogerpon in a friend ball
I'm a soulful person that didn't buy the latest gf slop.
It's sad cause you'll miss witnessing the soul returning to Pokémon
I will not buy a single new game until every Pokemon is available in a single game again.
This is not a high bar to clear.
Ah so it's autism, I understand
I put all my mons in a pokeball. Ball autism is for Black folk and trannies.
you're just on the opposite end of the balltism spectrum, don't kid yourself.
>he didn't put Ogerpon in a friend ball
Yikes
>she didn't put Ogerpon in a love ball to cuck Kieran even harder
Never gonna make it
I wanted to but I used it for Iron Leaves already and didn't get the second one yet from the dex rewards 🙁 So I used a Love Ball instead
Nah that green shit is the reason why Kieran hates me
It should be thankful that I'm at least keeping it in my PC
Friend Ball is for Apples only. Saves a lot of effort on getting balls when you can just breed apples.
>He didn't put Ogerpon in a Beast Ball since it's the best looking ball, it's incredibly rare and the capture rate doesn't matter since the Ogerpon battle gives you a guaranteed capture
It doesn't fit the Beast Ball thematically or visually at all though.
These, kys OP.
Everything goes in a normal pokeball
This.
What do you tend to do with your rare balls then? Out of curiosity, I'd love to know.
I either sell them or just leave them in the bag.
I don’t understand the mentality of selling a rare apricorn ball for a couple of hundred pokedollars
You have your autism, I have mine.
>placing value on a rare item is autism
only on /vp/ folks
I could get a £6 alt-art Acerola PTCG card and a £20 Magikarp/Wailord Tag Team PTCG card, and I'd still value the Acerola more.
Rarity doesn't give me value.
Value is in it being useful. Shitty Pokeballs are not useful.
>sell them
What
Don't they sell for chump change? Fair enough though I suppose. You know you can probably trade them for pretty rare mons.
I don't use pokemon that dont have my trainer name, and I don't care about shinies unless they're also 6IV
>that nickname
Want to know how I know you're a gacha pedo?
You can't tell me that it doesn't fit.
Gacha players are worse than Black folk.
I've been into Fate probably longer than you've been alive kiddo, save me the impotent rage about FGO killing type moon.
>being a fate Black person
Lel, enjoy your wormpussy
I'm not that much of a Sakura fan really. She's good but I will follow the Once and Future King.
I do the same.
Ultra ball everything, any other ball i sell.
Nothing, I just dont use them
How do you get that pose?
except Ogrepon she goes into the friend ball
Same.
that's really boring
Same. My autism won’t allow me to do anything else.
I do that, specially with legendaries so they know their place.
Same here, brother. Everything goes in a standard Pokeball. Drives me nuts when special Pokemon come in special Pokeballs, like the Toxel in a Luxury Ball in SwSh.
Even in PLA where the other balls have really strong effects I still exclusively used Pokeballs.
Yeah all Quick Balls because I don't want to spend much time with the boring battle system
haha yeah I coordinate my balls hehe
Ehehehe
Everything normal in a pokeball
Shinies in premier balls
Shinies I particularly like or black/gold shinies in luxury balls
I always hack the games and use a master ball on everyone.
>Well, McGarnagle.. Billy is DEAD
Premier balls whenever possible, if the catch rate is too low I'll color coordinate. Whatever is on the cover of the box goes in the master ball, no exceptions. I'll kill a shiny if I have to
Yes.
Does anyone have the updated version of this?
>shiny lugia
>heal ball
Shit list. Premier fits better because it has 2 colors that are found on it and nothing more
If you need a list its not balltism
Its being a conformist homosexual
Man, I miss those balltism threads from 6-7 years ago
Tried making one a while back but gave up pretty quickly, might try to continue at some point when there's time. I'll post what I have if I can find it and the thread is still here after lunch.
Problem with this is it has so many that don't fit thematically. Dive Ball is on so many things just because it's blue, but to me you should never use Dive Ball on anything not water related, you shouldn't use the Heavy Ball on small/light mons, and the Moon Ball should be for things associated with the Moon or at least space.
There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s
As a big Reese's fan I can definitely think of more than a couple, and not even all involving the butt.
This is as far as I got, not very.
>level ball shiny FUG
If convenient yes. Otherwise just whatever will catch easier.
Yes, and I like every Pokemon on my team of six to have a different ball.
>regular normal mon: poke ball
>minor legendary: repeat ball
>major legendary: timer ball
>shiny normal mon: premier ball
>shiny minor legendary: luxury ball
>shiny major legendary: master ball
I only break this convention when it's unavoidable eg. shiny starters and giftmons
I like the look of most balls on their own but just hate the mismatchedness
also hope that if a non-shit modern game comes out it lets us swap balls, then i might get into colour matching balltism. idk
>shiny marked Clefairy
>moon ball
>fails first shake
;_; I want it back
Why didn't you save before trying to catch it
I’m a Dum dum
Team = regular pokeball
First stage mons = regular
Second stage = great ball
Final stage / single stage = ultra ball
Shinies = premier ball
Yeah, I don't really color coordinate too well though so I just try to match the primary colors. Maybe I'll look for another Zorua in a Moon Ball instead.
How the hell did you manage this? It's not like you can just catch a Hisuian Zorua with a Beast Ball, and unless I missed something there wasn't a Hisuian Zoroark raid, so the only one that should be in an unusual ball is the DLC Preorder gift one, right?
Everstone lets you pass down the form of the Pokemon holding it, and if both parents are of the same Pokemon (a normal Zorua in a Beast Ball, and a fresh Hisui Zorua born from the DLC handout), each parent has a 50/50 chance to pass down their ball. So I just bred until I got a Hisui in a beast ball and went from there.
He showed up very early in the process, I'm glad I managed to get a 0 atk IV at least early on with the power bracer.
>Everstone lets you pass down the form of the Pokemon holding it, and if both parents are of the same Pokemon (a normal Zorua in a Beast Ball, and a fresh Hisui Zorua born from the DLC handout), each parent has a 50/50 chance to pass down their ball. So I just bred until I got a Hisui in a beast ball and went from there.
Oh shit, good to know. I think I'll use this trick to breed myself a Shiny Alolan Vulpix in SV. Thanks.
>nicknames pokemon
Jesus fricking christ
Literally nothing wrong with nicknaming.
Based nickname chad
You wouldnt know, turbo autistic anon.
Tell me how I know you never had any pets.
Shit nicknames
I usually don't, but I did with Ogerpon.
>TFW I wasted most of my Premiere Balls trying to capture Wo Chien and went for a Timer Ball
the only game I've played since the 3DS is PLA.
Is there any way to change a pokemon's pokeballs in the mainline games yet?
Nope.
No, and there never will be.
if it's in a quick ball or chrono ball you didn't really catch it, simple as.
>quick ball
Eh, my Manectric is in a Quick Ball, there's a handful of mons that actually go well with it.
Sometimes, but frick the grind and artificial scarcity of apricorn/beast/dream balls. I duped a bunch of my favourite balls in the early SV patch and i'm saving my limited supply for the rarest stuff like legendaries and one-off encounters. If I don't have something better to match with, i'll default to premier or luxury balls.
I catch all my Pokemon, legendaries included, in regular pokeballs.
This guy fricks
himself exclusively.
>there's "people" who don't nickname their Pokémon
Absolutely soulless individuals
A bit. Gardevoir is shiny, btw
I don't get hyper autistic about it, usually I just use Poké Balls but if there's another ball that looks nice or matches them I'll go for that (within reason, I'm not made of Apriballs)
Quick Balls and Dusk Balls are pretty ugly/clashing for most Pokémon, so I avoid using them
I usually catch the mons i want early down the story, so mostly regular balls (Even though i want diversity in my balls :/ )
Somewhat, i keep my "A-Team" sorted, and on my first run i generally stick to premiers for mons i gonna use and if a mon really makes me think "This ball was MADE for that Mon" i use that Ball.
I basically sort my "A-Team" (Read: Fully trained Mons) Boxes sorted by Balls like this.
Poké (IE: Gift Mons event mons and In-Game Trades)
Premier (IE: Default ball for mons i caught myself and i see no obvious BALLTISM ball for.)
Cherish (No Explanation should be needed, But it is Event Mons)
Beast (It looks great and goes with surprisingly many mons, not just the UBs and Space Trio, but the Pardoxes and Miraidon too, that's practically a full box right there)
Strange
Misc. Balltism
I don't have enough tism to go POKÈBALL FOR EVERYTHING or grind/dupe THAT fricking many Apriballs to coordinate every Pokémon that exists, but my system works for me.
I've got 2 great balls that's all I need
Nah, they’re stuck in the Friend Balls
If anyone doesn't plan on using their Heavy Balls. I'll gladly trade my following apriballs 1 for 1.
2x Moon
1x Level
1x Lure
1x Friend
1x Fast
1x Dream
inb4 try /wfg/
Normal Pokemon: Pokeball
Legendaries: Ultraball
Trio Masters/Legendary Masters: Masterball
Shinies: Ultraball
once upon a time I did everything in a pokeball, except Mewtwo in Master, Reshiram in Luxury and Zekeom in Premier
now I'm redoing it all, getting everything in a luxury ball
Is there any way to farm a lot of apriballs without the dupe stuff from a year ago?
it feels like everyone has 999x of every apriball and I have 1x
The only way to obtain them is in Gen 9 is either as rewards for the Academy Ace Tournament (Beast, Dream, Fast, Friend, Heavy, Level, Love, Lure and Moon Ball each have 0.1% chance, totaling 0.9% chance for all of them).
Alternatively, all of them can spawn as a purchasable (expect to pay about $500,000 each) auction item in Porto Marinada, with the exception of the Beast Ball.
The Sport Ball and Safari Ball are currently unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet but are still recognised and have models if you transfer Pokemon from previous games that were caught with them.
Oh bummer, every single youtube video/guide I've seen has the genius solution of buying a turbo/modded controller and just auto battling the tournament 24/7 but that feels so counter to how I enjoy Pokemon, but a 1% chance when the tournament can only be done x amount of times per hour is such a downer.
I'll check out the auctions way more often, thanks!
>Sport and Safari are only available in the modern games via extremely low drop rate in the Sword and Shield DLC
What a world
Not just a low drop rate, but a low drop rate that forces you to save prior.
i just use regular pokeballs for everything until i can buy ultraballs, then i use ultraballs for everything
So you skip Great Balls?
yes, Only use them when i run out of regular pokeballs and i got them free from the field
Huh, interesting flavour of autism you got there then
Beldam's in Beast Balls make me angry
EVERYTHING IN THE NORMAL BALL. THE COOL BALLS ONLY FOR UNCOOL POKEMON WHO REFUSE THE NORMAL BALL.
Everything goes in Master Balls
I always just keep my story team in regular balls. I've been trying to color coordinate balls for shinies lately though.
With the Raidon dupe exploit, I have become hooked on balltism now that I have enough apriballs for the foreseeable future
I fear where this road will take me
What’s the best ball for Klawf? I’m thinking normal Pokeball, but fast ball and repeat ball seem like a good choice too. What do you guys think?
Pokeball is best
Anyone get Munkidori in a Moon Ball? I tried for a bit with Catch Power sandwiches but after 15 attempts I gave up