Nintendo has made PvP available for everyone who has completed the main quest and understood the mechanics of breeding / EV-training. You can get pretty much any Pokémon you want on the handheld games, with a moderated effort (happened that I farm for 2 or 3 hours to get a male and female Bagon), and it puts almost all PvP players at the same level; hence skill matters more than play-time.

 

In PRO, I don't feel that PvP is that important... since many things are yet to be coded. PRO has that MMO dimension that makes it fun. But… I don't get the goal behind it. I play since august and appreciated most of it; again, sharing a Pokémon hobby with people is amazing. But after 1000 hours play-time, I find myself grinding all day-long, usually to get a good Pokémon (All IV > 20); I even spent 3 days catching 250 Magnemite to finally find 4 with h.p. fire and decent IV (15/+). I spent 5 days hunting Dratini and Ralts (found 2 h.a. Dratini in a row but I know people who never found any, even by spending more time). Sometimes, I hunt only for fun, to get some Pokémon from an event, like with clones; 5 days hunting Charmander, and 8 days hunting Xmas [anything]; I stopped after finding a shiny Stantler. But with all this, fun has gone away; and I regret most of the time I spend hunting. I will certainly play from a time to another, say hi to friend and have some fun doing all the trainers, gyms and bosses again, but never as much as before.

 

They tell us that breeding would kill the MMO-dimension, people would stop trading, economy would collapse… Raising the spawn rate of some Pokémon would have the same effect, raising the Xmas-sprite probability would have the same effect (even if that rate seems to be arbitrary)… But look at Game Freaks games... you will see people trade Pokémon on Festival Plaza (if you play Sun / Moon), and even with that feature, many people breed for themselves, hunt for themselves, people seem to share more, and that doesn't kill the games, at all. And this has been the case ever since Nintendo made the online trading available. PRO would be even more healthy since we can't generate perfect Pokémon by cheating!

 

But still, you will say economy would collapse and PRO would die. I'm just amazed how many MMO and economy expert we have around.

 

Whatever, I wish good luck to all those who have some bravery left and continue to search for an Xmas Pokémon.

I can't guarantee I'll still play this game in a few months because of the possibility to hunt weeks or months without finding what you're after, or never finding it at all. I had a horrible experience with skrelp, and there is no way that xmas eevee is easier to find than h.a. skrelp.

 

I love this game, but I'll never stop suggesting for extremely rare pokemon to have rate slightly boosted. if they are 1/200, i would like 1/150, if it's 1/150, then make it 1/130. Where it is now, it just hurts to hunt for anything.

 

Also, i don't know why i seem to be able to find 3 eevee per hour in flakewood, but hoenn safari zone area 5 gives me 1 eevee per six safari zone entries. Not sure what the deal is. I've tested for 6+ hours in each location and flakewood seems much easier :(

xmas pokemons rate are ridiculous... is 800% more than a shiny pokemon but i found 2 pokemon shiny and dont found any xmas pokes...ridiculous

321477 xmas pokemons rate are ridiculous... is 800% more than a shiny pokemon but i found 2 pokemon shiny and dont found any xmas pokes...ridiculous

i agree i found 1shiny in 10000hrs and i farm alot. If xmas pokes are 800% rarer its rip for me

321477 xmas pokemons rate are ridiculous... is 800% more than a shiny pokemon but i found 2 pokemon shiny and dont found any xmas pokes...ridiculous

 

I guess you didn't find shinies from the Pokémon with xmas sprites. Well... I got a shiny stantler looking for xmas [anything] :Nervous:

1/1019* :P its not that hard to find an xmas poke just hunt sentret or something else super common