Daily Report:
Sorry if I forgot to post this yesterday but I was busy doing something that we'll be talking about in a bit, but first it's pretty much the final things I did in the game:
1. Got all the Legendaries, which wasn't had as there are only 4. Now catching Yveltal is story required so that's 1, but what about those other 3? Well let's go over them:
Legendary Birds: After defeating the Elite Four you may want to start wandering around in the grass because sooner or later you're bound to encounter Articuno, Zapdos, or Moltres! That's right, Kanto's Legendary Trio are in Kalos... sorta. Actually you can only encounter one of them depending on what Starter you got: Chespin gets Articuno, Fennekin gets Zapdos, and Froakie gets Moltres. If you didn't think that was annoying enough, then guess what, they're also roaming Legendaries! But wait, don't go bother getting a Pokemon that can learn Mean Look, Block, or Spider Web or has the Ability Shadow Tag, because that's not going to work. For you see, upon encountering your Legendary Bird, before you can move or have an Ability activate, it'll run away. For you see, while Zapdos is a roaming Pokemon, when it is that's not when you can catch it. First you need to "play" a game of tag with it as you chase it all around Kalos what felt like a dozen times before it flees to the Sea Spirit's Den in Azure Bay. Once there you'll have to go to it and don't panic if you don't see it inside, if you look closely you'll see a little "encounter" shadow and stepping on it will have the Legendary Bird swoop down and attack you (I suggest saving outside of the cave if you're worried about saving inside the cave and accidentally activating the battle).
Let me say that this is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING! Roaming Pokemon are bad enough, but this takes it to a whole new level! Now that the bottom screen is being used for PSS, Pokemon-Amie, and Super Training you don't have the map to show where they are so you need to take out your Pokedex and see where it is (no, the Town Map doesn't show where it is, you need to use the Pokedex). Of course, like roaming Pokemon, you just can't fly where it is because it's programmed to jump to another location if you do. Of course it'll also do this if you take too long after traveling down a path for a few routes. After a few frustrating minutes I found the best strategy was to found a city/town which has 3 routes connecting to it and constantly Flying to that city/town (even if you're already in it) until the Legendary Bird is on a connecting route or is near enough that you can hopefully quickly ride of to where it is before it moves too far away and teleports to somewhere else on the map. I personally used Camphrier Town since, even if it appears as far as Route 11 I can possibly ride over there fast enough to encounter it. Though I don't suggest Lumiose City. it may take too long to get to get to the right get, you can easily get disoriented, and there's no way to encounter it if it's on Route 13. And though it feels like a dozen times (even Serebii says it's nearly dozen), honestly it was probably like 5, 6, or maybe 7 times. However it's still annoying and feels unneeded. How about instead of making us play this "tag" game, why not have us "chase" it back to the Sea Spirit's Den? Like I encountered it on Route 4, I encounter it, and it flees and goes to Route 5. I got to Route 5, encounter it, goes to Route 7. Repeat and it goes to Route 10, then Route 11, then Route 12, and finally it ends up in the Sea Spirit's Den. You see, though I still had to encounter it, this makes it more feel like I was chasing the Legendary Bird back to its nest then playing a game until it went home. Well in the end I caught a Hasty Zapdos so let's move on.
Zygarde: Well, people said they wanted a Pokemon Z and they got one, but we'll talk more about that later. If you traveled though Terminus Cave you may have encountered someone who said you couldn't enter until you were as strong as the Champion. Well, can't be any stronger than the Champion by BEING the Champion so the guy have moved aside and you enter a cave which is sort of star shaped. The four side paths lead to a grassy area with light shining down where you'll find the Creation Trio's Orbs as well as a Big Nugget if you use the Dowsing Machine (or common sense since it's in the same sport where the Orbs were in their path). Personally I would have put the Soul Dew in the fourth spot but whatever, we now have the Creation Trio's signature items. And if you're wondering why they're there... because, that's why. Plus there's a Legendary dragon in this room. Indeed, if you go to the "top" of the star, you'll find a green and black slug-snake statue... until you interact with it and it suddenly attacks! This is Zygarde, and don't try using Xerneas or Yveltal against it as it's Ability, Aura Break, makes the mascot duo's Ability work against them by reversing their effect! Of course, maybe that's to your favor as it means you're less likely to knock it out and bring it down to low HP (oh, and remember that you're in a cave so Dusk Balls work any time of day in there). It's Dragon/Ground and knows DragonBreath, Earthquake, Crunch, and Camouflage which turns it into a pure Rock-type since it's in a cave. Its stats are 108/100/121/81/95/95 so I suggest trying to get one who's nature increases Attack/Speed and that doesn't have decreased Speed/Attack.
Mewtwo: WHAT?! That's right, Mewtwo's in the game for you to catch! Its in a cave accessible from the Pokemon Village. The cave is easy enough to find, you can easily see it though if it's before the Pokemon League there will be someone blocking it, I didn't even bother going there knowing he'll say I need to be the Champion. Anyway there's no puzzle, just go in and Mewtwo is right there looking away from the entrance. The battles starts when you interact with it after a cutscene of the Mewtwo looking away from the camera and down at the floor until turning to you and thrusting its hand out giving out a cry of challenge! Mewtwo's going to be a hard catch though as it knows Recover, increases its defense with Barrier, and has Psychic and Aura Sphere. Luckily we're inside a cave so Dusk Balls are your friend... unless you want to use your Master Ball (I took the Dusk Ball route and eventually got a Rash Mewtwo and kept my Master Ball! Not too sure what I'll do with it, maybe I'll be lucky and encounter a difficult to catch Shiny...). Oh, and for additional icing on the cake, after catching Mewtwo you get one of Mewtwo's Mega Stone depending on what version you have! If you have Pokemon Y I suggest getting a Mewtwo with increased Special Attack/Speed while if you have Pokemon X I suggest going for increase Attack/Speed.
But yeah, that's all the Legendaries... just 4, 6 if you want to include all the Legendary Birds. Sort of funny actually, Black 2 & White 2 had loads of Legendaries. There was a total of 13 Legendary Pokemon you can get, 15 if you Game Synced with the opposite version who had the key to the other Regi's room. In addition to the Swords of Justice (minus Keldeo) and the two Tao Dragons you can get depending on what version you have there was also one of the Eon Duo (version specific), all 3 Lake Guardians, 2 of the Regis though if you got the key for the other Regi's room you can get it and also get a Regigigas, a Cresselia, and a Heatran. Gen VI doesn't even have its own non-mascot, and in addition to that it's hard to put Zygarde with Xerneas and Yveltal because it's BST is 600 while there's is 680! Though my game won't be empty of Legendaries for long, for when the Pokemon Bank and PokeTransfer becomes available there's going to be a LOT of Legendaries to keep those 4 company soon (infact Mewtwo and Zapdos will even have friends of their own species...).
2. And as the final "big" thing I did is finish getting the TMs not prizes from the Battle Maison. The final two I needed I thought was in the room with Zygarde and Mewtwo but I was wrong, infact I could have gotten them before challenging the Pokemon League *sigh*. But whatever, they were Brick Break and Psychic and now that I have them I guess I'll try for the TMs at the Battle Maison? Of course my new goal now is to buy all the clothing at the Boutique in Lumiose City which FINALLY let me in after buying all the "normal" clothes in Kalos... of course all the clothes they sell there are VERY expensive, some costing 100k! So in the end I might end up using my BP to buy medicine to sell them for quick cash.
And that's pretty much it, though there's still the Battle Maison to do and clothes that still need to be bought (not to mention getting all the Furfrou trims and getting into that restaurant with the spinning dancing waitresses) I'm pretty much done. So with that done, next time I think it's about time we discussed in-depth about the new things XY has brought!
