Pokemon Scarlet and Violet finally right a 16-year-old wrong from Diamond and Pearl

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet feature a throwback to a 16-year-ol📖d Diamond and Pearl meme fans have been salty about since it first tripped them up.

Back in the day, heading to Snowpoint City in Diamond or Pearl meant potentially stumbling across an NPC called Mindy. She’s willing 💦to trade you a Haunter for a Medicham, which feels like a dang good deal as the Ghost-type should evolve into Gengar once traded, right? Well, that’s typically the case, but not here, as Mindy’s Haunter is holding an item that prevents them from evolving. What’s worse, she pours salt in the wound as you stand there doing your best Psyduck impersonation. 

Everyone is so salty about it that the💙re’s an dedicated to cursing her name. 

While playing Pokemon Scarlet or Violet, though, you’ll eventually come across an innocuous NPC in Levincia city who will trade you a Haunter for a Pincurchin. If you decide to take them up on their offer, the ghost-type Pokemon will evolve into a Gengar after being traded. The transaction may seem non-eventful if you don’t know the back story, though it’s offered relief to plenty who 🃏have been suffering for years due to Mindy’s treachery.  

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game Freak is on a bit of a tear with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet when it comes to healing age-old ills. Pokerus - a portmanteau of 'Pokemon' and 'virus' - is nowhere to be seen, meaning that one of the oldest training tricks in the book has been cured. The game does include 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a track from Ed Sheeran, 𝓰mind you, though fans have swiftly sorted t𓆉hat out. 

The real star of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is an apathetic Gym Leader called Larry. 

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN 🐟and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.