The other players can't interact to you in your game, but if you talk to them, they act as npc characters and give you free items. I think once you reconnect with internet, the "bikes" will remain until you turn the game off. So if you don't want then around, don't connect to the internet, surprise trade etc.

 

The NPC's make winning a lot of the 5 Star raids extremely difficult though.

 

My raids wins/loses are about 50/50.

I've caught 11 G-MAX Snorlax and I don't even bother fighting them because of poor NPC partners.

But I did catch a dynamax Xatu yesterday. One of my favorite Pokémon.

 

Either I have gotten extremely lucky or G Max Pokémon have became easier to catch

 

I can seriously agree with this. Just today, I really got lucky and caught myself a G-Max Flapple.

 

I noticed that, too. I got three alcremie, a few lapras, a coalossal and even (literally just now) a shiny g-max chairzard (I was praying to god, and he is now named God's gift. )

 

Yeah, must've taken me a half dozen times to catch that first G-Max Butterfree from back near release, but since then it's become incredibly rare for any of them to break free -- even as a "guest" in online Raids, which are supposedly harder to catch.

Mind you, I've switched from Ultra Balls to Repeat Balls (having nearly completed the Dex now), so maybe those make it way easier? Either way, can't complain.


EDIT: Naturally, the next G-Max Pokemon i attempt to catch breaks free, lol

 

They called it. They did call it.

 

So I just started up the Mystery dungeon demo and I got isakai'd into a cyndaquil…..neat!

 

Eternatus is also a railgun, so technically the 3rd legendary of the trio is a gun too.

 

I still can't believe Eternatus blasts it's own head off to use Dynamax Cannon.... Hey, did anyone else see how awesome Eternabeam looks in single battles? So awesome.

 

Theory time.

Based off of Galarian Slowpoke being mono psychic type and the only other difference being that it learns Acid. I'm pretty sure Galarian Slowbro and Slowing will both be Psychic/Poison. Since your rivals are either a poison/psychic type specialist. They'll most likely have the evolution on their team. There's even a pic of Avery being in a portrait with a Slowbro.

For Slowking, It looks like the new item/shellder/crown has eyes on the side of it. You can see line art for an eye design in a small spacing of the marker streaks hiding the face. To me it looks like the crown will completely consume the head of Slowking, besides its mouth.

Possible Galarian Dustox and Beautifly line. Since Klara's bow is actually Dustox's wings. But white, this could just be a style choice however.

The legendary birds can actually be seen in the concept art of the giant tree in the mountains for the Crown Tundra DLC. However whilst the other two are airborne, Zapdos is seen overlooking the area on a mountain peak instead of flying. Its possible that their second typings are the ones that'll change. My guess is they'll be a type triangle trio and I'm going to say they'll be Fire/Dark, Ice/Psychic and Electric/Fighting.

Calyrex will probably have a Gigantamax form too.

Since the Regies are based off of ages such as the stone age, ice age and iron age. I'm going to say that these Regies are too. Regilectric is probably based off the age of electricity and Regidrake since it looks like a dragon, could be based off the dark ages. Heck, it could even be dark typed.

 

Saw the trailer for the new Pokémon movie a couple of days ago. Nice to see that they realized even gen1 fans go nope on a remake of the first movie.

 

Ya, but it looks to be another soft reboot movie like they've been doing. This time its Pokemon 4ever, but instead of Ash meeting Oak as a kid in the woods, looks like he'll meet a Tarzan-like kid who grew up in the forest.

Plus if I'm not mistaken, that was Celebi's shrine at the end of the trailer.

 

I got Totodile'd XD huge nostalgia bomb for me honestly.

 

I agree on Galarian slowbro being poison/psychic, especially after seeing how gleeful Klara was at seeing it in the station and aiming to be a poison gym leader. As for Slowking, I'm into the theory that it could be psychic/dark and it has a dead pokemon shell on it's head to assert itself as king. Also, cool idea about Galarian wurmple lines. Hope it's true since wurmple is one of my favorite buggy Bois. *Pets the party hat wurmple in PG*

The rest makes me think we both watched the same YouTube videos to get to these conclusions   Also, liking those names for the new Regi-golems. I've been sticking with Regishock and Regidragon or Regiragon.... haven't committed to either tho.

Speaking of, I watched a video with Gamexplain thinking that Arcticuno is Ice/steel and wondered how they got to that conclusion...

There's a new trailer? *Checks serebii* neat! Glad to see it's 2D but I don't know why they'd go Tarzan for the Soft 4ever reboot. Then again, I still don't understand why they soft rebooted the movie lines in general. Also reminds me that I need to watch the one with zeraora in it. I need to watch the thunder kitty.

 

I bought Pokemon Sword yesterday! I havn't played a Pokemon game since Red and Blue/Lets go so this will be fun! Looking forward to playing it  

 

Finally caught a Gigantamax Coalossal that has Steam Engine. 15 encounters and they all have been Flash Fire.

 

Haven't even seen a G-Max Coalossal yet. Got three or four lapras' though.

 

The promoted raids changed, with Coalossal and Flapple in Sword and Lapras and Appletun in Shield. Gigantamax Alcremie shows up in both, but with different colored variants in non-Gmax form that vary between both games and star rating for 3-5*.