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It's been a week so feel free to be a bit more open about pre-post game stuff.
This is the Pokemon X and Y general thread, where we talk about the game and the meta of it, while actually playing it. The announcement thread has almost reached the posting cap, so it would be best to start our discussion afresh in a new one.
Friend Codes
Post your preferred name, friend code and game version and I'll add it to the table below.
| Name | Friend Code | Version | IGN |
| Bio | 1134-7894-2606 | X | Noire |
| Suikama | 4425-1491-5645 | Y | |
| Trance | 3883-5561-7702 | X | Serika |
| Chaore | 4570-7511-6543 | Y | Puream |
| Keegster2 | 1418-7215-7869 | Y | |
| Matsuri | 3067-4906-0948 | X | |
| Nobu | 4270-0718-2053 | X | Nobuko/Himeko |
| Xan | 3222-5806-1297 | X | |
| commandercool | 2964-8587-9806 | Y | Blue |
| Raikaria | 0834-1782-2667 | Y | Elly |
| Red Frost | 0388-0205-2932 | Y | Cecilia |
| Skye | 3738-0956-7708 | Y | Keila |
| Phlegeth | 3282-2913-0504 | Y | Phlegeth |
| BSoD | 2895-7562-2562 | Y | |
| Edible | 4227-0814-4208 | X | |
| Molten | 3265-5274-1401 | Y | |
| Savory | 0387-9578-4918 | X | |
| sol35 | 5284-1917-5071 | X | Eienko |
| Esifex | 5429-7181-7829 | Y | Erik |
| Bardiche | 3926-5588-0324 | ? | |
| Pasu | 1950-7975-8774 | X | |
| capt. h | 1435-3539-1313 | Y | |
| Shadou | 0490-5728-2527 | X | |
| Dibble | 3282-2247-4077 | Y | |
| Genso | 4038-6283-8806 | Y | |
| Mister Sanity | 4425-2614-3093 | X | |
| T-A-C | 2165-5266-6153 | X | |
| Zork787 | 0748-2156-8970 | X | |
| Alchemist | 5429-6759-3085 | X |
| Catherpie | 3024-5730-0545 | Y | |
| Minch | 2423-2597-4752 | X | |
| Polaris | 2251-5199-2177 | X | Xavier |
| Bound | 3136-6552-0029 | X | |
| Patorikku | 2449-4726-9834 | X | Nate Varner |
| Fast Fanatic | 2578-3937-3854 | Y | |
| Alex | 1392-5223-9479 | X | Maribel |
| Yaersulf | 5343-9023-2973 | Y | |
| Kwr32 | 3480-3530-4357 | X | |
| triangles | 1676-5051-9468 | ? | |
| JT | 1392-4443-0026 | ? |
| FamilyTeam | 3668-8814-5063 | Y | Team |
| Nick G | 0662-3160-6397 | ? | Nicktendonick |
| EyeM | 3282-3148-5064 | X | Cirnobyl |
| SirBlueberry | 1418-7034-4502 | Y | IF |
| Adol Christin | 3153-4846-2473 | X | Alex |
| Jana | 0946-3424-2598 | X | Jana |
| Endless Hunger | 1822-0626-7569 | ? | |
| Yookie | 1822-0710-3636 | ? | |
Vivillon Trading
If you don't already know, Vivillon's pattern in the game is dependent on the 3DS's country, with there being a few many patterns for each country in the world. One single pattern is selected out of the possible pool when you first load the game, so to get the others in your pool, and other ones not in your pool, there's only one thing to do; trade.
And what better way to do it than with an international community!
Mega Stone/ Version Exclusives Trading
Some Mega Stones are unique to one version, and as usual there are version exclusives. Most notably, the Larvitar and Aron lines are unique to version, while their Mega Stone can only be found in the other version. Another excellent marketing ploy by Game Freak.
Steps for Breeding Perfect Pokemon
Firstly, a good supply of Dittos is never a bad thing. Catch multiple in different natures and then use the Stat Checker in the Kiloude City Pokemon Center to see if they have perfect IVs. I usually them nickname them with the IV they have 31 of. Now you can go catch the Pokemon you want anywhere in the wild, though the Friend Safari guarantees a few max IVs and also the Hidden ability if that is required.
Pokemon abilities have a 80% chance to be inherited from the female, and when breeding in the same egg group, the offspring species' will be of the mother. Hidden abilities will now also be able to be passed down regardless of the gender of the parent having the ability when bred with a Ditto, but females will still only be able to pass them down when bred normally.
Everstones can be used to transfer the nature of any of the parents to the child and Power items (such as the Power Anklet) can be used to transfer that particular IV from the parent down to the child. New in generation VI is that the Destiny Knot makes it so that 5 IVs are chosen to be inherited to the child (though this does not stop Speed from being chosen all 5 times) making it much easier to pass multiple perfect IVs down.
The easiest way to go about is by giving a Everstone to an appropriate natured Ditto with max IVs in the stats you want and then giving a Destiny Knot to the other Pokemon, which you should have calculated the IVs off. Whenever you breed an offspring with better IVs switch it for the one currently in the Daycare. Once you have a couple of superior-outstanding Pokemon, you can simply just replace the Ditto if one of them is better than the Ditto.
Of course you do not need the Everstone and instead may choose to use a Power item to transfer a specific IV over, speeding up the total process in achieving 31 across the board, but I prefer using an Everstone so that I don't need to play the RNG again to get the appropriate nature.
If you have a perfect Pokemon in another egg group, then you simply have to breed this perfection across to Pokemon in another egg group and bridge the gap between the perfect Pokemon and the one you want.
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POKEYMAN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Z_k50ltkY)
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May I please sit at the table, good sir?
IGN - Nate Varner
FC - 2449-4726-9834
Version - X
Safari - Pidgey, Tranquill, Tropius
Vivillon - Polar
So alright, I'm not a big man on competitive Pogeymans gameplay -- unless it's the card game, in which I play a mean Psy/Dark deck -- so I wanna know what's a general rule for setting up a team. For example, should I have a mix of each general role, IE. one physical and one special powerhouse, a tank, etc., etc.; or should I aim to just throw together several Pokemon that just click with me?
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team building
The only real rules are having a good blend of things that hit both physically and specially. Having good team synergy and not having everything weak to one type.
The tactics to do with maintaining a switch advantage with pivots and walling threats aren't really that important. Just pick Pokemon you like and see what other Pokemon blend well and give them movesets which suit their stats/ability and can cover most types.
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May I please sit at the table, good sir?
IGN - Nate Varner
FC - 2449-4726-9834
Version - X
Safari - Pidgey, Tranquill, Tropius
Vivillon - Polar
So alright, I'm not a big man on competitive Pogeymans gameplay -- unless it's the card game, in which I play a mean Psy/Dark deck -- so I wanna know what's a general rule for setting up a team. For example, should I have a mix of each general role, IE. one physical and one special powerhouse, a tank, etc., etc.; or should I aim to just throw together several Pokemon that just click with me?
Note: This is just how I build teams, and I'm not great at this game. I'm not terrible, and part of my problem is that I'm usually only having fun if my team has a dumb gimmick, so take this under advisement. At any rate, as far as I know this advice isn't going to hurt you, it just might not be fully complete.
You should probably have 2-3 defensive Pokemon that cover each-other's weaknesses (probably 3-one physical, one special, one mixed) and something that can revenge kill the things that you need to be able to revenge kill (usually something Scarfed, and/or a strong priority user). Your team should be able to handle Baton Pass in some way (usually Roar or Whirlwind). Make sure you don't have too many things that share a weakness, particularly if it's to a common attacking type (Rock, Ice, Electric, and Fighting are probably the biggest ones to watch out for). Fill in the remaining slots in your team with synergistic attackers, play a bunch, and figure out what's working and what isn't and make changes accordingly.
Edit: Oh yeah, and I should clarify that "defensive" does not have to mean "invincible" and generally shouldn't mean "offensively worthless". Ideally you want bulky Pokemon that can still leave a mark on the things that they're supposed to switch into. Scald is great for this, since it has decent enough power to sting and can totally cripple things if (when) you get the burn. Don't be so focused on making things able to take hits that they can't handle the threats they're supposed to take once you bring them in. Resistances are as important as stats if not more so for this. And maybe this is just the gimmick-lover in me talking, but try not to be predictable with your defensive Pokemon or they can become setup bait. If you've got something that's a magnet for U-Turns or Volt Switches, pack Counter or Mirror Coat and ruin someone's day. :3
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Why does minimize raise evasion by two stages? I couldn't land a single Earthquake on that Blissey. How the fuck does an earthquake miss?
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Why does minimize raise evasion by two stages?
Trolling from Game Freak.
I couldn't land a single Earthquake on that Blissey.
:(
How the fuck does an earthquake miss?
Tiny Pokemon have greater structural integrity I guess? :wat:
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So is the whole chain fishing thing real or am I wasting my time?
I want a shiny Staryu/Horsea/Clamperl :O
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How the fuck does an earthquake miss?
It jumps.
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Several people in Smogon, Serebii, and GameFAQs have mentioned they have gotten several shinies that way in a single day. I also haven't gotten anything.
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So is the whole chain fishing thing real or am I wasting my time?
I want a shiny Staryu/Horsea/Clamperl :O
Well, chain fishing certainly isn't fake, because there's a dude in the Fishing area which has a chain record.
I dunno how it affects the odds of encountering a shiny though
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Trust Stone Edge to miss when it counts.
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Trust Stone Edge to miss when it counts.
god-like wisdom right here
Well, chain fishing certainly isn't fake, because there's a dude in the Fishing area which has a chain record.
I dunno how it affects the odds of encountering a shiny though
I'm guessing it's something similar to how pokeradar chaining (much easier in my opinion) works and just increases your chances of finding a shiny. That is if it's actually true and not some coincidence.
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Since there was some Stored Power discussion on the last thread, I wanted to know if running Swoobat with Simple and Calm Mind would be a bad idea. It looks like it could work against specially offensive mons, but I'm a complete idiot when it comes to the competitive side of the games, so :derp:
By the way, does anyone know if evasion factors into Stored Power? Because Clefable could be seriously annoying with Minimize+Cosmic Power, if you're willing to be that much of a jerk.
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By the way, does anyone know if evasion factors into Stored Power? Because Clefable could be seriously annoying with Minimize+Cosmic Power, if you're willing to be that much of a jerk.
yes it includes evasion and accuracy
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In response to Edible saying Stored Power is Fairy on Mega Gardevoir in the last topic, Pixilate only makes NORMAL TYPE moves Fairy, so Stored Power will remain Psychic Type and therefore Darl types will retain there immunity of the move.
on the plus side, Fairy Type Hyper Beam is fuuuuuuuuuuuuun :>
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In response to Edible saying Stored Power is Fairy on Mega Gardevoir in the last topic, Pixilate only makes NORMAL TYPE moves Fairy, so Stored Power will remain Psychic Type and therefore Darl types will retain there immunity of the move.
the bigger deal is Fairy-type Hyper Voice which bypasses substitutes, but that won't come out until PokeBank is released
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the bigger deal is Fairy-type Hyper Voice which bypasses substitutes, but that won't come out until PokeBank is released
Also the fact that it has quad-resistance to Fighting, an admirable speed (though I'm not sure if the extra speed comes into play that evolving turn) with a massive Sp. Atk stat behind it. It also has to really on Focus Blast for coverage which isn't that reliable.
It's not really fast enough to be a sweeper, and slapping a scarf on isn't an option anymore.
And then Mega-Gengar is a real problem (well it would be if it wasn't blatantly obvious it wouldn't be allowed in standard OU play). It could run an excellent Calm Mind set however, or run Will-o-Wisp.
It's biggest problem would be that other Megas can probably out-do it in terms of general usefulness.Since there was some Stored Power discussion on the last thread, I wanted to know if running Swoobat with Simple and Calm Mind would be a bad idea. It looks like it could work against specially offensive mons, but I'm a complete idiot when it comes to the competitive side of the games, so :derp:
Yes, if it can set up, but then a bunch of other things could use that turn to set up too and probably out perform it in terms of taking a hit. It's really fast though, I'll give you that.
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It's biggest problem would be that other Megas can probably out-do it in terms of general usefulness.
did you forget about Scizor Bullet Punching Gardevoir in the face?
Because you know, Gardevoir has a shiny Steel weakness now
e: Also, no, the additional speed is not factored on the same turn as mega evolution
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did you forget about Scizor Bullet Punching Gardevoir in the face?
Because you know, Gardevoir has a shiny Steel weakness now
Hm? No, I did say Scizor's place in OU was cemented with Technician Bullet Punch in the previous thread, it basically just goes from Pursuit trapping to Bullet Punch OHKOing.
e: Nvm I understand
A Banded Bullet Punch has a 68.75% to OHKO after rocks however with no defensive investment.
Now that I think about it, 252 Def/ 4 Sp. Atk/ 252 Speed isn't that bad of a set, running defensively will probably be the easiest and then just jumping in on banded Close Combats or something.
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Something something something I'm almost at the E4 now <_<
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e: Nvm I understand
A Banded Bullet Punch has a 68.75% to OHKO after rocks however with no defensive investment.
That calc somehow seems off; Gardevoir (and its mega form) only has 68 HP and 65 DEF, though?
Something something something I'm almost at the E4 now <_<
hopefully your 3rd safari mon isn't a trashmon `-`/
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That calc somehow seems off; Gardevoir (and its mega form) only has 68 HP and 65 DEF, though?
Well then I guess it's a guaranteed OHKO, and it won't even survive with defensive investment that way :/
If only Shadow Tag Chandelure was a thing, then Gardevoir wouldn't have to worry about a thing bar Shadow Sneak.
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Now my question is, what is Entei doing with Sacred Fire?
GG2G-WWWW-WWWX-PQ2F insert this code into your Vs. Recorder, to watch
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Now my question is, what is Entei doing with Sacred Fire?
GG2G-WWWW-WWWX-PQ2F insert this code into your Vs. Recorder, to watch
Silly Entei, that's Ho-oh's signature move :V also dat Endeavour Arron lol
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So there I am, training my Zubat on Route 11, when I get a horde of Nidoran. I love Nidoran, but I don't have False Swipe or a Synchro-Ralts for a good nature, so I don't bother with catching. Most of the males go down in 1~2 Aerial Aces, but not the female. I like running DW Nidoqueen with Special Attacks, so I figure I'll just end the battle with one more Aerial Ace.
But the camera zooms in.
And I can't do it.
Ability: Hustle
Nature: Modest
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In response to Edible saying Stored Power is Fairy on Mega Gardevoir in the last topic, Pixilate only makes NORMAL TYPE moves Fairy, so Stored Power will remain Psychic Type and therefore Darl types will retain there immunity of the move.
Yeah, my bad. I thought Stored Power was Normal for some reason. ;_;
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Now my question is, what is Entei doing with Sacred Fire?
GG2G-WWWW-WWWX-PQ2F insert this code into your Vs. Recorder, to watch
Maybe it's movepool got a buff?
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Aw man, Snorunt in 3D. I don't even know what Snorunt is, but I know it's fucking adorable.
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So, I got Pokemon Y at launch from Nintendo World itself and I completely neglected to actually post my friend code here. I still have no idea what pokes I have in my Safari Zone, so let's hope.
2578-3937-3854
Also, having finally getting a perfect IV streak in Bulbasaur, I realized that I can't yet pass its delicious genetics to a Snover yet because it's a female. Is there any hope for a Hail team this generation around? Mega Abomasnow looks cool and I'd like to use it.
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Maybe it's movepool got a buff?
A lot of Pokemon in the Battle Maison have plain currently unobtainable stuff, like Rock Head Tyrantrum using Head Smash =s
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I got bored, so I'm gonna do something for luls:
Wonder Trade run.
Catch 6 mons.
Wonder Trade
Whatever I get, I use; with the exception of duplicates; which get re-traded out.
New trainer name is Elly.
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I think a weedle/caterpie/fletchling/bunnelby/scatterbug/zigzagoon team is probably going to be pretty dull
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I think a weedle/caterpie/fletchling/bunnelby/scatterbug/zigzagoon team is probably going to be pretty dull
you forgot the pikachus the japanese players like to wonder trade
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Well, this is a good sign; female Chespin :V
Also, apparently Exploud gets STAB Boomblast.
You know, that's like Base 140.
And sound moves apparently ignore substitutes too.
Anyway; I changed my mind after the 10th Bunnelby. This ain't getting anywhere. I'm just gonna use some stuff I've not used before in-game, or not used since R/S/E [Aka: Pre Physical/Special Split].
I might actually be the ultimate man and use a Smergle in-game.
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I think a weedle/caterpie/fletchling/bunnelby/scatterbug/zigzagoon team is probably going to be pretty dull
I don't think I've EVER received something I wouldn't use in-game in a wonder trade. I did four a couple of nights ago and it was like "gen-6 starter, gen-1 starter, fossil I don't have, version exclusive".
And sound moves apparently ignore substitutes too.
Makes sense, and cool.
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And sound moves apparently ignore substitutes too.
Noivern confirmed for best dragon.
No seriously, forget the pseudo-legendary Dragon/Flying bunch; you get a fairy-type using Substitute you might as well kiss your spiky tail goodbye, but Noivern don't give a Dunsparce 'bout your little dolls.
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I am gonna put together the weirdest in-game team full of stuff no-one in their right mind would probobly choose to use in-game, and it will be GLORIOUS.
I already know I wanna use a Smergle, Carbink and Mantine.
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My PR Video is too EPIC for you guys to handle! :derp:
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I am gonna put together the weirdest in-game team full of stuff no-one in their right mind would probobly choose to use in-game, and it will be GLORIOUS.
bidoof, bidoof, bidoof, bidoof, bidoof, and bidoof. No one would expect that! :smug:
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I beat the game, apparently.
Now I have time to play phoenix wright tomorrow! <_<
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So I've been trying to decide if my first breeding project is going to be perfect Fennekin or perfect Pumpkaboo, and I just settled on Pumpkaboo because I assume its eggs have a shorter hatch time because it isn't a starter. I hope I understand the theory behind this. I'm starting by catching a bunch of Chinglings so that I can refine one into a male Chimecho with six perfect IVs and start breeding it with my female Super-Size Pumpkaboo. That's what I'm supposed to do, right?
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So I've been trying to decide if my first breeding project is going to be perfect Fennekin or perfect Pumpkaboo, and I just settled on Pumpkaboo because I assume its eggs have a shorter hatch time because it isn't a starter. I hope I understand the theory behind this. I'm starting by catching a bunch of Chinglings so that I can refine one into a male Chimecho with six perfect IVs and start breeding it with my female Super-Size Pumpkaboo. That's what I'm supposed to do, right?
Yep, that's how you should do it
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I just chain breed off that Marill you gave me :V
Although with genderless dudes I'm screwed
I need to find someone with a Ditto safari
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I just chain breed off that Marill you gave me :V
Although with genderless dudes I'm screwed
I need to find someone with a Ditto safari
Fuck yeah you do. And when you find them either pass the info along or catch ten trillion Dittos, because everyone's going to want them all. I know a guy who spend 50+ hours searching for an Impostor Ditto in generation five, so loading up on them is gonna be great.
I do have a few Dittos with a perfect stat in Black 2, although I don't know if I want to transfer them. Has anyone found a source of infinite PP-Ups in X/Y yet? Is there a place where you can buy them or something? It kind of sucks that in the same generation we can kind of (sort of) handle IVs we may have lost our source of PP-Maxes.
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You can buy them with PokeMiles (if I could only figure out how the hell they worked and why I keep losing them) and from the lottery center in Lumicrashyourgame city. If you win the 2 digit prize it's a PP Up just like in DP and I think BW?
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So, I should have my third pokeyman in the friend safari, anyone care to take a gander?
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its nothing because you arent online
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THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM WOULDN'T IT HOHOHO ;_;
(try now)
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You got Frogadier too
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SO MUCH PROTEAN
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I guess that's good :V
(Thanks for checkin' <3)
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I've encountered unforseen difficulties in the breeding program: Evolving all of these fucking babies through happiness so they grow working genitals. What's the most efficient way to do this?
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What I did to evolve my Azurill quick was go to the area I caught it(Bulbapedia says you get bonus happiness in the place you met the Pokemon) and just ran back and forth for like an hour. I just watched tv while doing this.
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What I did to evolve my Azurill quick was go to the area I caught it(Bulbapedia says you get bonus happiness in the place you met the Pokemon) and just ran back and forth for like an hour. I just watched tv while doing this.
Well, I caught these in a cave and Cleanse Tag seems to reduce encounter change by like 1%, so that's out. I guess I can just bike back and forth and hatch some random eggs while I do homework. I think I can write a lab report one-handed. If that is true it should make subsequent generations slightly easier since I'll have met them on Egg Hatch Road, but regardless this is a HUGE setback. This adds many, many hours to the process of making a team. I don't know how many yet, but a ton.
Edit: Wow, Luxury Ball actually has a use now. I may have to throw out this batch of Chinglings, buy a bunch of Luxury Balls, and catch a new batch. Apparently the kind of ball something is in is now an inheritable characteristic (Pokesex is super weird I guess?), so I assume the Luxury Ball effect is also inherited.
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Edit: Wow, Luxury Ball actually has a use now. I may have to throw out this batch of Chinglings, buy a bunch of Luxury Balls, and catch a new batch. Apparently the kind of ball something is in is now an inheritable characteristic (Pokesex is super weird I guess?), so I assume the Luxury Ball effect is also inherited.
Been doing this with every pokemon I find in the friend safari 8D. I only spent 200000 on luxary balls alone for this. And yes, baby pokemon inherit the same pokeball the mother had.
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I have ten Chinglings now (all caught wild) and every single one has maximum HP. Has anyone else noticed the good IVs being weighted heavily toward HP? Is that a known thing?
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I dont remember if it was mentioned, but commandercool has Breloom as the third Pokemon in the Safari.
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I have ten Chinglings now (all caught wild) and every single one has maximum HP. Has anyone else noticed the good IVs being weighted heavily toward HP? Is that a known thing?
wild pokemon that cannot be bred like wild baby pokemon have guaranteed 3 flawless IVs
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Evolving a baby via happiness: give it a Soothe Bell, and kill a high leveled Pokemon with EXP Share on. The baby gains like 10 levels and then evolves :V
I suppose you can try it without a Soothe Bell but it'll probably have to gain more levels.
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I dont remember if it was mentioned, but commandercool has Breloom as the third Pokemon in the Safari.
Oh cool!
wild pokemon that cannot be bred like wild baby pokemon have guaranteed 3 flawless IVs
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that a hugely disproportionate number of mine have HP as one of those three IVs (I did finally get one without it).
Evolving a baby via happiness: give it a Soothe Bell, and kill a high leveled Pokemon with EXP Share on. The baby gains like 10 levels and then evolves :V
I suppose you can try it without a Soothe Bell but it'll probably have to gain more levels.
Even with a Luxury Ball it takes more than ten levels. Assuming happiness still works like it used to, my math is right, and you aren't at the Pokemon's home location it takes 52 levels to get max happiness purely off of leveling up.
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well I evolved a Togepi to a Togetic in like ten levels or so so I dunno what's going on :V
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doesnt togepi get happiness faster or something
i coulda sworn there was someone who actually got happiness faster
maybe it was happini
e: yeah it was happini and other babiespokemon have a higher base happiness
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doesnt togepi get happiness faster or something
i coulda sworn there was someone who actually got happiness faster
maybe it was happini
e: yeah it was happini and other babiespokemon have a higher base happiness
I didn't take base happiness into account. At any rate, I had a bunch of Chinglings up to level 28 before I gave up trying to evolve them purely off of levels.
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I didn't take base happiness into account. At any rate, I had a bunch of Chinglings up to level 28 before I gave up trying to evolve them purely off of levels.
It only evolves at night time, but I assume it's night where you are?
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It only evolves at night time, but I assume it's night where you are?
Yup. It was after 8pm anyway. I guess it's possible they changed what counts as night this generation.
Anyway, got the operation started. The Chinglings are all Chimechos and I have one with four perfect IVs now, as well as five hatched that I haven't checked out yet.
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okay so apparently my pokemiles have all been sapped into game sync the entire time :derp:
so uh how do i get them back
okay found it (http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/mileage/)
..oh shit everything is 50% off
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Well apparently Pokemon bred from eggs start with a base happiness of 120, but I just tested a happiness evolution with Eevee -> Umbreon and it evolved at level 19 (starting from level 1) using the Soothe Bell. If I account for residual happiness from walking that I forgot about along with Togepi being able to level faster than Eevee, then it might explain Togepi's superevolving. :V
Without Soothe Bell it'll take approx. 30 levels or so, so I guess this is really better for single Pokemon rather than group happiness evolving.
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Oh shit this game actually has achievements
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Well apparently Pokemon bred from eggs start with a base happiness of 120, but I just tested a happiness evolution with Eevee -> Umbreon and it evolved at level 19 (starting from level 1) using the Soothe Bell. If I account for residual happiness from walking that I forgot about along with Togepi being able to level faster than Eevee, then it might explain Togepi's superevolving. :V
Without Soothe Bell it'll take approx. 30 levels or so, so I guess this is really better for single Pokemon rather than group happiness evolving.
Interesting. Shouldn't Chingling have a higher base happiness than Eevee? What went wrong on my end? Is it possible night really did move?
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Right now there seems to be no point in the PGL aside from 50% off PokeMile items. I really hope that when Attractions arrive it's like the Dream World from Gen 5, except you get Mega Stones instead of Hidden Abilities. Then again, it might not even be that.
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Trying to figure out my Friend Safari types
DS name - Alex (IGN - Maribel)
FC - 1392-5223-9479
Version - X
Safari - dunno yet
Vivillon - High Plains
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Here's a cool little trick to max out your Lumiose style. Buying things in Lumiose increase your style. So get the Bargain O-Power Lvl3. Everything costs 50%. Buy 999 Premier Balls from the Pokeball shop and sell them back. Buying and Selling cost is 100 with the O-Power. Keep doing it over and over again. The prices stay at 50% even after the 3 minutes expire as long as you don't stop talking to the shopkeeper. You can potentially gain profit by buying 10 Pokeballs to get free Premier Balls.
Mr. Bonding, giving you the power to screw with the Pokeconomy.
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ughhh
so apparently sweet scent is canceled out if its raining
and it always rains where there are bellsprout for attack evs
Right now there seems to be no point in the PGL aside from 50% off PokeMile items. I really hope that when Attractions arrive it's like the Dream World from Gen 5, except you get Mega Stones instead of Hidden Abilities. Then again, it might not even be that.
at least you can farm pp ups and rare candies by spamming wonder trades :V
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I managed to snag a whole lot of friend safaris with desirable pokemon the other day by lurking reddit's /r/friendsafari (http://www.reddit.com/r/friendsafari/) for long enough. Snagged ditto, garvantula, droughttales, ferroseed, skarm, togepi, forretress, eevee.. all kinds of stuff. Might be worth checking out for some of you.
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DIIIITTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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and it always rains where there are bellsprout for attack evs
route 5 for scraggies bro
I managed to snag a whole lot of friend safaris with desirable pokemon the other day by lurking reddit's /r/friendsafari (http://www.reddit.com/r/friendsafari/) for long enough. Snagged ditto, garvantula, droughttales, ferroseed, skarm, togepi, forretress, eevee.. all kinds of stuff. Might be worth checking out for some of you.
>Ditto
do waaaaant
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I have a ton of extra dittos if you need them. If you're looking for specific natured ones the only viable competitive ones I can help you with is Calm (2 spares) and Adamant (1 spare). First to call dibs gets them.
Of course, if you're just looking for any old ditto I have a ton that anyone can help themselves to. I can even give you a choice between Limber and Imposter variants!
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I'm not picky for nature; I just want an Impostor Ditto ;w;
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Also, apparently Exploud gets STAB Boomblast.
You know, that's like Base 140.
I was just thinking today that Specs/Life Orb Exploud with Boom Blast/Fire Blast/Surf would be great.
And it came into being.
galvantula
I want an electric spider.
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I have a ton of extra dittos if you need them. If you're looking for specific natured ones the only viable competitive ones I can help you with is Calm (2 spares) and Adamant (1 spare). First to call dibs gets them.
Of course, if you're just looking for any old ditto I have a ton that anyone can help themselves to. I can even give you a choice between Limber and Imposter variants!
Do want, though any is fine as I need one for breeding for perfect IVs.
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Sita' - What is your name in game? I'm not sure if we're friends or not.
Bio - Sure, i'll go catch you one in a jiffy. Same, what's your in-game name so I can find you?
Genso - Name in game?
I'll be on for at least another hour super training and whatnot, so I can get to all of you if you're available.
Another thought, maybe we should add another column to the master friend list table for in-game names?
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Sita' - What is your name in game? I'm not sure if we're friends or not.
My name in-game is Serika nobubu ;_; it's me trancehime
Also I'm currently unavailable but i'll get back to you ASAP
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My name in-game is Serika nobubu ;_; it's me trancehime
Also I'm currently unavailable but i'll get back to you ASAP
Ahahaha sorry maybe if it wasn't so late and I was a bit more observant sometimes :V I'm usually pretty good at identifying you regardless of name in IRC at least..
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I am Calem, though I'll restart the game after all the breeding and moving them to another game.
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Another thought, maybe we should add another column to the master friend list table for in-game names?
I was thinking about that, but some people like to restart the game. And there's the chance that some people in the OP won't come back and post their IGNs.
I guess we could try.
EVERYONE POST YOUR IN GAME NAMES AND I'LL ADD THEM TO THE OP
Mine is Noire for that matter.
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Mine is Nobuko! And also Noire-san, get online so I can give you Yamame!
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Mine is Puream!
Also yeah reddit or 4chan are good places to troll for friend safaris. I spent a while on 4chan and nabbed ditto and a bunch of desirables
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can banette be caught at any time on thursdays or only at night?
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Mine is Nobuko! And also Noire-san, get online so I can give you Yamame!
Thanks!
Now all I need is a Volcarona, Rotom, Jellicent and Porygon and I will have every Pokemon I want in some form or another.
And it seems like the last two can't be found in the game. December it is.
can banette be caught at any time on thursdays or only at night?
I think it's anytime.
e: Don't quote me on this, the bins hate me.
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My IGN for now is Elly.
Note that unless this game is smarter than the DS games and lets you connect regardless of being at a specific connection, I'll be unreachable in pokemon terms for 4 days.
Not that I'm far enough for that to matter. Only just hit Luminose in my current run :V
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My IGN is Max. I also have the shittiest friend safari ever with Masquerain, Combee and Vivilon :/
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My IGN is Max. I also have the shittiest friend safari ever with Masquerain, Combee and Vivilon :/
Eh; at least you don't have 3 useless Dark-types that are all accessible in game and don't even have good DW abilities. Intimidate is pretty decent on Vespiquen. I forgot my exact safari, but I recall Mightyena is there.
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In-game I'm Cecilia. I don't really know about the Friend Safari because I'm nowhere near the end of the game, so... yeah. I also keep forgetting to go online. :derp:
Eh; at least you don't have 3 useless Dark-types that are all accessible in game and don't even have good DW abilities. Intimidate is pretty decent on Vespiquen. I forgot my exact safari, but I recall Mightyena is there.
Oh, did they give Vespiquen a new Ability for Gen VI?
EDIT: Serebii still says Pressure for normal, Unnerve for Hidden. Masquerain normally has Intimidate, but it gets stuck with the craptacular Unnerve, too.
At least it ain't Truant.
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Eh; at least you don't have 3 useless Dark-types that are all accessible in game and don't even have good DW abilities. Intimidate is pretty decent on Vespiquen. I forgot my exact safari, but I recall Mightyena is there.
Wait, Vespiquen gets Intimidate? Everyplace I check it says that it has Unnerve :/
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Wait, Vespiquen gets Intimidate? Everyplace I check it says that it has Unnerve :/
Oh, that's me being a derp and getting it confuzzled with something else.
IGNORE ME.
Edit:
*Not paying 100% attention as I'm breezing through Route 5 to get to Route 7 for Smergle*
*Sound of Gulpin Horde*
*Shiny sound*
WAT
SHINY GULPIN.
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I've finally gotten off my arse and got around to beating (read: stomping) the Elite Four, so I have access to the Safari now. I'm working today from 11am to 3pm EST, but after I plan on spamming the absolute crap out of some Super Training to finish my team of Eeveelutions up. Just so I can go through and find the ones with the best natures and start over again :derp:
Speaking of Eevees, I have like 2.5 boxes of them stored up if anyone wants some. For some reason I have an ungodly amount of Sassy Eevees, but I've got a decent spread of other natures.
...also somehow somewhere I picked up a second destiny knot so woooo maybe I can go crazy with some perfect IV breeding
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So my ingame name is eienko and My friend safari is ice type
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Okay, my friend safari has Pikachu, Dedenne, and Galvantula.
Electric spider. I'm useful for something!
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Oh yeah, ingame name is Erik, I have version Y, safari type is Dark.
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Apparently, all pokemon who cannot breed are encountered with at least 3 perfect IV's.
This includes legendaries, and stuff like Ditto; even the ones not in the Safari.
It also includes baby pokemon. Like Azurill. And Rilou. So yeah. Lucarios with 3 perfect IV's 100% of the time from the wild.
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Apparently, all pokemon who cannot breed are encountered with at least 3 perfect IV's.
i mentioned this already V:
BTW, I'm reminding that my IGN is Serika, please take care of me~
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I just picked up X as well. Also gonna be playing as a ladygirl this time. I'm looking forward to what's all changed between X and Y and guy and ladygirl. Mostly I'm curious if Dancydude or French Bugsy replaces Shauna in her scenes or if they left that alone. Also I'm catching me a Panda and gonna have one for most of the game.
And since this is the same Friend code will it register as a new "Friend" or will it still show up as Brandon when I go online? I'm gonna name this character Phlegeth in any case.
Also in a moment of derp, when I read the title I thought Forevermore was a new Pok?mon I hadn't ran into yet.
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This includes legendaries, and stuff like Ditto; even the ones not in the Safari.
wait what
well then
TO THE POKEMON VILLAGE
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Ditto has an egg group, it's called Ditto. It has to be in the no egg group.
EDIT: Oh, and my character in game is Keila
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the Ditto group.
I'm dumb. Although Ditto technically cannot breed still. You cannot get a Ditto Egg...
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The Wonder Trade could better be named as the Eevee Trade. Half of my trades in that thing have been Eevees. Not that I'm complaining; I'm breeding starters for Pokemon I'd have trouble finding otherwise, after all. (Chespins and Charmanders right now, for the interested folk)
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the Ditto group.
I'm dumb. Although Ditto technically cannot breed still. You cannot get a Ditto Egg...
Which is irrelevant- hell the no egg group thing is technically an oversight, as this change was clearly aimed towards legendaries and they just went a slightly lazy option.
It is, admittedly, hillarious. FREE SUPER LUCARIOS FOR ALL.
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My guy's name is Blue. My friend safari is Fighting, and the notable thing in it is apparently Breloom. I think I've added everyone on the first post, so just add me if you haven't already to claim yours if you want one.
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Home now, gonna turn my 3DS to online mode and just sit idle if anyone on right now wants to pilfer my Dark Safari. I dunno what all is in it, but it seems like 2 of the 3 are Dark-Grass, dunno about the third. I'll be playing LoL for a bit.
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I'm in a lecture right now with my DS on my lap, biking back and forth to hatch Chimecho eggs. I noticed a few minutes ago that there's an active passerby, and noticed a guy two rows to my left also playing Pokemon. I sent him an O-Power. :D
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The hell man, I get 30 consecutive fishing bites and still no shiny. The man in the fishing shack says you can find special pokemon but I never have luck with this even when reaching 40 in pokeradar chains. orz
EDIT: 100th chain, still nothing yet.
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The hell man, I get 30 consecutive fishing bites and still no shiny. The man in the fishing shack says you can find special pokemon but I never have luck with this even when reaching 40 in pokeradar chains. orz
I have a buddy who's hit 37-38 at least four or five times and still hasn't seen anything. Do we have at least any estimates about the numbers of this system yet? Maybe that's just bad luck, or maybe the numbers need to be higher or don't change enough to be visible without dozens and dozens of high chains.
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Looking for Cute Pokemon, trade with me!!
I have a buddy who's hit 37-38 at least four or five times and still hasn't seen anything. Do we have at least any estimates about the numbers of this system yet? Maybe that's just bad luck, or maybe the numbers need to be higher or don't change enough to be visible without dozens and dozens of high chains.
Supposedly fish chaining gives shinies a lot more easily than PokeRadar chaining. `-`;;
Then again same people also mentioned that tipping increases your chances too -.-
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Looking for Cute Pokemon, trade with me!!
Define "cute," because I know some people don't hold the same feelings toward Chespin/Pancham/Emolga/[insert other cute pokemon here] as others do.
Also, I know I sound a bit like a broken record at this point, but for the IGN list, I'm Nate Varner. So yeah, probably the only one on the list who'll have a "last name."
And back on the fashion train, can I just point out how disappointed I am about the lack of colour selection there is? I can't be the only one who thinks that a violet zipped shirt combo would look fabulous on the male character. And while we're on that boat, the possibility to go hatless would be a welcome addition, too.
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Looking for Cute Pokemon, trade with me!!
Supposedly fish chaining gives shinies a lot more easily than PokeRadar chaining. `-`;;
Then again same people also mentioned that tipping increases your chances too -.-
Well I failed on my 137th chain on route 21 (reeled too late orz). I restarted on route 8, and on my second bite I find a shiny dragalge, go figure.
Anyways, is there anything you want, I think I'll restart soon after I collect the last of the mega stones I have been too lazy to catch and finish breeding Eevees
the possibility to go hatless would be a welcome addition, too.
The first thing I was hoping for when I heard we could customize our characters. Then my hopes were utterly crushed.
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Tyrantrum confirmed to get Dragon Dance, elemental fangs, Poison Fang and Curse via egg moves!
Nicee!!
Anyways, is there anything you want, I think I'll restart soon after I collect the last of the mega stones I have been too lazy to catch and finish breeding Eevees
Actually you ave Y, so a Shellder/Cloyster or a similar Y-version exclusive would be really nice.
Maybe you could fish a Timid Gorebyss @_@;
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Actually you ave Y, so a Shellder/Cloyster or a similar Y-version exclusive would be really nice.
Maybe you could fish a Timid Gorebyss @_@;
Sure, I'll go catch them. Though the timid gorebyss may take a while, so I'll get back to you when I catch one.
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Apparently, all pokemon who cannot breed are encountered with at least 3 perfect IV's.
This includes legendaries, and stuff like Ditto; even the ones not in the Safari.
It also includes baby pokemon. Like Azurill. And Rilou. So yeah. Lucarios with 3 perfect IV's 100% of the time from the wild.
so uh
i caught a ditto
it has 0 perfect IVs :/
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so uh
i caught a ditto
it has 0 perfect IVs :/
we discussed this
ditto has his own egg group
this is why you get ditto safaris
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Started a Nuzlocke run on my new shiny copy of Y about an hour ago. (For those wondering who 'Himeko' might be on their friends list) Just before the first gym leader, and here's what I have so far.
Chespin / Siegfried - M
Zigzagoon/ Kain - M
Fletchling / Falco - M
Farfetch'd / Quacklin - M
Go to route 22, and first poke is *drumroll* Huge Power Azurill :colonveeplusalpha:
Suddenly I feel like this run is going to be a lot easier than I thought. Also, it was female and I named it Haruhi. :3
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The first thing I was hoping for when I heard we could customize our characters. Then my hopes were utterly crushed.
I'd like to go around in my pajamas for the entire game.
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Found a shiny relicanth while fishing, two in one day is pretty good. So that makes 3.~
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I wouldn't give up hopes on this sort of stuff being left completely unavailable. There's something about X/Y that's making me think there'll be patches with more features in the future.
It might just be me praying to Arceus I can make my male trainer look more gorgeous than Sycamore, but don't kill my hopes just yet.
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My IGN is Xavier :> Pokemon X, Xavier, get it I'm so clever
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Wow, breeding a perfect Chimecho is going slower than I anticipated. I have 70 of them now, and of those six have five perfect IVs. Five of those, the first five, are female. The male with five perfect IVs was the 70th one to hatch. Fortunately since I have so many females I could easily match it up with one that complements the IV it's missing and cross my fingers that a perfect male is less than 70 more eggs away.
Is it necessary or useful to use power items for this kind of thing? I have one in the mix and am wondering if maybe it isn't actually slowing down the process somehow.
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Wow, breeding a perfect Chimecho is going slower than I anticipated. I have 70 of them now, and of those six have five perfect IVs. Five of those, the first five, are female. The male with five perfect IVs was the 70th one to hatch. Fortunately since I have so many females I could easily match it up with one that complements the IV it's missing and cross my fingers that a perfect male is less than 70 more eggs away.
Is it necessary or useful to use power items for this kind of thing? I have one in the mix and am wondering if maybe it isn't actually slowing down the process somehow.
If you have trouble getting 6 perfect IVs, do what I did. I got 1 male with 5 perfect except Atk and another one with 5 perfect except spA. Use the one you need depending if the Pokemon is physical or special.
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Okay, I found a shiny corsola before I even found a single gorebyss. It may take a while before I get the timid Gorebyss than I thought.
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So I lost on the 48th round of Battle Maison because I decided to Dragon Dance instead of flat out killing a Poliwrath with Focus Punch and Waterfall (that did 20%) and it Focus Punched.
And then I switched to my Scizor and their last pokemon just happened to be a Chandelure.
I swear they always seem to have a fire Pokemon last everytime I misplay even slightly.
And now I just lost because I missed both a Thunderbolt and Bullet Punch on what I can only assume to be a Brightpowder Barbaracle. And then it goes on to hit 3 Stone Edges in a row.
You know what, sometimes this game gets a bit annoying.
e: Also I can breed Larvestas and Beldums if anyone wants any.
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So Zengar joins the fight!
FC is 4184-1997-2689, IGN is Nozome, version is Y and Friend Safari is Psychic (Espurr and Drowzee so far).
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How have I not realised this yet?
- Catch female Inkay.
- Make sure it has Contrary
- Name SeijaKijin
Forget Cuthulu, this is the Pokemon Seija :V
Edit: That took far longer to find that it should have. But it's Quirky nature to boot; and highly persistent :V [She did come back in Stage 6 after all!]
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If you have trouble getting 6 perfect IVs, do what I did. I got 1 male with 5 perfect except Atk and another one with 5 perfect except spA. Use the one you need depending if the Pokemon is physical or special.
Unfortunately I think this is going to be a mixed set. I'm making a Gourgeist and I'm going to give it Flamethrower to kill all of the various things that hate fire. I may even make two and try Specs Gourgeist, although if I do that I have a Chingling with minimum attack I can pass on.
So I lost on the 48th round of Battle Maison because I decided to Dragon Dance instead of flat out killing a Poliwrath with Focus Punch and Waterfall (that did 20%) and it Focus Punched.
And then I switched to my Scizor and their last pokemon just happened to be a Chandelure.
I swear they always seem to have a fire Pokemon last everytime I misplay even slightly.
And now I just lost because I missed both a Thunderbolt and Bullet Punch on what I can only assume to be a Brightpowder Barbaracle. And then it goes on to hit 3 Stone Edges in a row.
You know what, sometimes this game gets a bit annoying.
e: Also I can breed Larvestas and Beldums if anyone wants any.
The only advice I can give regarding battle facilities is "use Substitute a lot" and "try to learn which Pokemon have random elemental punch and fang coverage". That doesn't help when their last Pokemon perfectly counters yours, but it does prevent them from crushing your Scizor with random Fire Punch every single time you try to set up. Fortunately I don't think AI ever uses Hidden Power.
Edit: Oh yeah, and I want a Beldum and a Larvesta. A Fire Body Volcarona is useful for breeding.
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The best Pokemon for Flame Body would be Fletchinder, because Fletchinder can use Fly
Good night
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The best Pokemon for Flame Body would be Fletchinder, because Fletchinder can use Fly
Good night
So can Volcarona which is the point, although I guess Talonflame is easier to evolve. I did not even know that Fletchinder was Fire/Flying or that anything evolved into Talonflame. Fair enough I guess.
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WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? I bred a pumpkin and a bell (who don't even like each-other) and the third egg was a perfect female Super-Size Pumpkaboo. The male Chimecho doesn't even have perfect IVs, I just swapped it out from a different male that was missing an IV that the Pumpkaboo hatched from the first egg inherited. So yeah, if anyone wants a Chimecho with five perfect IVs or a Super-Size Pumpkaboo with 2-3 perfect IVs, let me know because I have extras.
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Friend code: 5343-9023-2973
Version: Y
Friend me and become a magical girl o/
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e: Also I can breed Larvestas and Beldums if anyone wants any.
Yes please.
I don't know what I can give in return aside from one of my (many) hatched Spritzees, but I would definitely want Beldum and Larvesta.
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I'd like a larvesta, i can give you fennekins in return or any pokemon egg really cause i have a ditto, but i have a few fennekins and braxiens with perfect ivs in a couple of stats
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Discovered what my friend safari is.
I'm a fighting type. With Mankey, Pancham, and Breloom. I'm happy on that. Mankey's not much used, but Brelooms are, so yay.
Beat the game, now in postgame, and enjoying the friend safaris sofar. Haven't tried the extra battle stuff yet. I suppose I want some strong mons before I do.
I also found my first legitimate shiny in years. (last one I found was a Beautifly in ruby, and before that, a shiny Butterfree in GB gold). A shiny Swaldoon, which is now a shiny Leavanny with chlorophyll. I also found a bulbasaur from wonder trade with a +sp.a nature and chlorophyll. A rare, but awesome find. (with Megazard Y, I'm 3/6 of a sunny day team now)
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Technically I'm not dead here yet.
Aside from Emerald, this is the first game in which I did really any breeding, and wow. It can get annoying when you have 20 eggs and all of them are among the worst possible natures and after 20 more failures suddenly some random miracle which you then get to Everstone off. Maybe I need to find the time to get Synchronizers.
Pogeyman X
3480-3530-4357
Join me, Link
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Kangaskhan by the 2nd Gym is stupid.
Also my Kangaskhan allowed me to do something that is rather difficult in Y version... catch a Zangoose. The 4 Serviper gang up on it and kill it so you can't catch it; but Kangaskhan's Bulldoze OHKO's the 'Vipers and left Zangoose alive.
I guess you can do the same with Razor Leaf to save a Serviper in X; as I presume Serviper is the rare one there.
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How many in-person passerbys have you guys been getting? I've got five so far, not counting people who are also on my friends list. Two on the bus, one in class, one at the bus stop, and one in my apartment complex.
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so i maxed out affection with my Breloom in Pokemon-amie
and now he demands head rubs after and during every single battle
its getting kinda annoying :<
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Durant's hidden ability is Truant
why
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How many in-person passerbys have you guys been getting? I've got five so far, not counting people who are also on my friends list. Two on the bus, one in class, one at the bus stop, and one in my apartment complex.
I get a tonne of passerbys depending on location. At my mom's house (current location) I can rally up a pretty strong zero until I turn on the internet settings on the PSS. In my residence, there's probably one or two folks, but no one I know personally because I don't talk to people there. Then, at my college, because I'm in a Game Dev program in the Game Dev building, I can average out to six people playing at any given time, and the number jumps up nicely on Fridays due to the club activities from 3 - 6. On a vaguely related note, anyone here go to George Brown in Toronto? :V
But yeah, if we don't count internet usage, I get a plentiful harvest of passerbys, though that number is bound to go down as the school year progresses.
so i maxed out affection with my Breloom in Pokemon-amie
and now he demands head rubs after and during every single battle
its getting kinda annoying :<
I think Pokemon Amie is both a wonderful and terrible thing to my heartstrings. I maxed out my Chespin's hearts and I couldn't use him in battle very well because he was only a few levels above everyone else and evolving him is verboten to me, so I'd often find myself in a situation where my enemy nearly knocks him out, and here's the rundown:
I choose a move like Return or something
The enemy goes first, usually with a super effective move that would normally take Chespin out one-shot
Chespin endures with one health to show off his best side to me
He turns his head back
"Chespin is in a bit of a pinch. He might cry."
I whisper, tears welling up, "Fight on, Chespin"
Return knocks the enemy out
Also, Pancham is the most adorable thing in Amie oh god why did i ever evolve you i just wanna pat your head and give you high fives all day uguu
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Durant's hidden ability is Truant
entrainment durant is a go
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entrainment durant is a go
and then everyone leaves to take a coffee break the next turn
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Durant's hidden ability is Truant
why
In order to absolutely devastate battle facilities. Seriously, I think Nintendo gave it that as an apology for programming their AI to cheat.
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I'm still looking for the timid gorebyss Sita, so take a shiny corsola and a cloyster for now.
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im just going to assume every azumarill i see on link battle has belly drum+aqua jet so i don't make stupid switches like that again
I'm still looking for the timid gorebyss Sita, so take a shiny corsola and a cloyster for now.
thanks
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why do we get so few boxes this gen
I need as much space as I can get for all of these Spritzee
why can't i just have a shiny
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why do we get so few boxes this gen
I need as much space as I can get for all of these Spritzee
why can't i just have a shiny
you get 31 boxes and 1 battle box. To get more boxes, you need to fill up every box with at least one pokemon.
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you get 31 boxes and 1 battle box. To get more boxes, you need to fill up every box with at least one pokemon.
...why would they make you do that? That's kinda dumb. :V
Well, good to know I have more than 7 boxes then.
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...why would they make you do that? That's kinda dumb. :V
Well, good to know I have more than 7 boxes then.
It's to make the boxes easier to navigate when you don't have to organize all of your pokemon early in the game.
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aarrggg why is heatmor so hard to catch
they only seem to appear in hordes with 4 durants trying to kill it
well at least I've passed the 50% mark towards catching em all
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im just going to assume every azumarill i see on link battle has belly drum+aqua jet so i don't make stupid switches like that again
People find auto-win setups attractive for awhile. Once folks get good at dealing with them they'll probably mostly go away.
...why would they make you do that? That's kinda dumb. :V
Well, good to know I have more than 7 boxes then.
I've been told it reduces save time. It certainly seemed true on the DS that having more boxes open vastly increased save time, but I assume that's because all of mine were full.
aarrggg why is heatmor so hard to catch
they only seem to appear in hordes with 4 durants trying to kill it
well at least I've passed the 50% mark towards catching em all
Do you still need one? I found a solo one so I can breed it if you want it.
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People find auto-win setups attractive for awhile. Once folks get good at dealing with them they'll probably mostly go away.
Belly Drum Azumarill only works if you LET it work though
I was stupid and made a switch to do my own setup thinking the Azumarill didn't have Belly Drum because I made the false assumption people were too lazy to breed egg moves, but I was horribly horribly wrong
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im just going to assume every azumarill i see on link battle has belly drum+aqua jet so i don't make stupid switches like that again
People find auto-win setups attractive for awhile. Once folks get good at dealing with them they'll probably mostly go away.
(http://i.imgur.com/YrmxoJY.png)
lol belly drum
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why bother using topsy-turvy when you can just KO Azumarill before it can do any aqua jet or BD shenanigans :V
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People find auto-win setups attractive for awhile. Once folks get good at dealing with them they'll probably mostly go away.
I've been told it reduces save time. It certainly seemed true on the DS that having more boxes open vastly increased save time, but I assume that's because all of mine were full.
Do you still need one? I found a solo one so I can breed it if you want it.
that would be great
any particular mon you need?
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that would be great
any particular mon you need?
I don't know. Probably, but I haven't taken the time to figure out what yet. Have you got an Aron?
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For all those who wanted a Beldum or Larvesta, just trade me (Noire) and offer up pretty much anything, though something with a few perfect IVs would be nice.
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And I'm the only Pok?mon player that doesn't care about Competitive Battling and IVs?
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why bother using topsy-turvy when you can just KO Azumarill before it can do any aqua jet or BD shenanigans :V
If it's so simple why were you acting as if it was such a problem :V
And besides I'd do topsy-turvy anyway just for laughs have fun with your -6 Atk BV
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If it's so simple why were you acting as if it was such a problem :V
And besides I'd do topsy-turvy anyway just for laughs have fun with your -6 Atk BV
It's not simple, but it's exactly as complicated as just doing a non-priority attack. And it gives your opponent the chance to switch out and get rid of the -6, if not the halved health. An Azumarill can still clean up without the bonus though, so that's pretty risky. Not that it might not be worth it for laffs, but it's a terrible, terrible move strategically except maybe to give yourself an opportunity to bring something in safely at the cost of letting the Azumarill live.
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Okay, there is something weird going on right now, so can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I have this setup in the daycare right now:
Female Pickup Pumpkaboo holding Destiny Knot
Male Pickup Pumpkaboo holding Everstone
Based on my understanding of how inheriting abilities works, each egg I hatch right now should have an 80% chance of having Pickup and a 20% chance of having Frisk. I have hatched 35 Pickups in a row and zero Frisks. Did I misunderstand how something works here, or am I incredibly unlucky?
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If it's so simple why were you acting as if it was such a problem :V
And besides I'd do topsy-turvy anyway just for laughs have fun with your -6 Atk BV
+6 Aqua Jet guaranteed OHKOs Malamar unless it has some defensive EVs. You need a minimum of 252 HP, 12 Def, and a +Def nature to avoid any chance of OHKO.
on the other hand Malamar will always outspeed Azumaril even if it has a -speed nature and Azumarill has a +speed one, so it doesnt have to worry about the fact that waterfall OHKOs even with 252 HP, 252 Def, and a +Def nature :V
Okay, there is something weird going on right now, so can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I have this setup in the daycare right now:
Female Pickup Pumpkaboo holding Destiny Knot
Male Pickup Pumpkaboo holding Everstone
Based on my understanding of how inheriting abilities works, each egg I hatch right now should have an 80% chance of having Pickup and a 20% chance of having Frisk. I have hatched 35 Pickups in a row and zero Frisks. Did I misunderstand how something works here, or am I incredibly unlucky?
The male now can pass abilities too so the chance is less than 20%
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There's always Team Preview so if you see Malamar you can plan accordingly ::)
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The male now can pass abilities too so the chance is less than 20%
Oh, okay. Perfect. That makes sense. Making the appropriate adjustments then.
This breeding project has gone terribly despite getting that one perfect Pumpkaboo. I could've saved 6-7 hours if I hadn't made a bunch of mistakes. Which is great news, because it means I know what not to do again. Next up: Mawile, because I barely got to play with Mega Evolution in-game. And I gotta figure out how Super Training works because I've also barely looked at that.
By the way I've been drifting in and out of being online thanks to my weird connection problems, but if you happen to notice that I'm on send me a trade request to claim your Heatmor. I made a copy of it, so I'm ready to go.
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I don't know. Probably, but I haven't taken the time to figure out what yet. Have you got an Aron?
dont have any extras atm
i have like a million shroomish of varing high IVs though :V
OMG WHY DO I KEEP FINDING SOLROCK I NEED LUNATONE
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dont have any extras atm
i have like a million shroomish of varing high IVs though :V
I don't think I have a Shroomish, and it is adorable/Poison. SHROOM ME!
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that Shroomish has 31/31/?/x/31/31 and its hidden ability btw
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that Shroomish has 31/31/?/x/31/31 and its hidden ability btw
Just looked up its egg groups to see what I can do with it breeding wise, and ha, fairy group.
Edit: Wow, I never realized that it isn't Grass/Poison. Oh well, having Poison "The Best Ability" Heal is more than enough for honorary membership (for the species, not this one in particular). It's good enough for Gliscor.
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Breloom is the best pokemon
and lunatone is a stupid head arggggg
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If it's so simple why were you acting as if it was such a problem :V
I was beating myself up for making such a stupid mistake that I shouldn't have made ::)
If I hadn't switched out my MegaMawile thinking the Azumarill actually HAD belly drum I would've actually won
+6 Aqua Jet guaranteed OHKOs Malamar unless it has some defensive EVs. You need a minimum of 252 HP, 12 Def, and a +Def nature to avoid any chance of OHKO.
you can use topsy-turvy to make that +6 into a -6 >_>
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I was beating myself up for making such a stupid mistake that I shouldn't have made ::)
If I hadn't switched out my MegaMawile thinking the Azumarill actually HAD belly drum I would've actually won
you can use topsy-turvy to make that +6 into a -6 >_>
But Aqua Jet will hit first?
also yaya Lunatone
that Fletchling has uh... I forgot IVs :V But it has Gale wings + Adamant
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But Aqua Jet will hit first?
if your malamar is slow enough to be outsped by Azumarill then BD will trigger first and you topsy-turvy
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that Fletchling has uh... I forgot IVs :V But it has Gale wings + Adamant
Oh neat. Gale Wings is something if I can ever get over my hatred of Talonflame for its terrible, terrible name.
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I just said earlier that's impossible, unless you purposely have 0 speed IVs for whatever reason ???
Also I was considering a Malamar switching in on a belly drum
If it weren't for Aqua Jet, Malamar could switch in on the drum and Topsy Turvy it before it can do anything
But Aqua Jet exists
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Guys is it possible to get Hidden Ability eevees before Box comes out?
I really want to make a Magic Bounce espeon for some reason! :D
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I think someone here has an eevee in their safari?
It was Keegan
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Guys is it possible to get Hidden Ability eevees before Box comes out?
I really want to make a Magic Bounce espeon for some reason! :D
I have lots of them at the moment. Though you can look through I think Keegan's safari for Eevees.
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Keegan! Add me please! :D I would like Hidden Ability eevees!
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Ok, Alchemist, I added you. (My name's Keegan, of course)
You know, it would be cool if you edit the OP so that it lists everyone's FS Pok?mon.
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Current Progress: 393/596 caught
a lot of the safari only dudes are gonna be a pain
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Super training is confounding. I don't really understand how scoring in the target shooting part works, it seems to be completely random. And how do I unlock the level 2 and 3 courses? At this rate this is monstrously impractical. I think I just need someone to trade me something with Pokerus so I can do this the comprehensible way. Or maybe I'm doing this all wrong and it's super easy, I don't know.
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you have to charge up your shot by tapping and holding on the screen for it to do more damage
essentially you want to figure out a rhythm of tap, hold, release that lets you output optimal damage, then focus on hitting targets and dodging shots
higher level courses and unlocked by beating all lower courses (medal not required so its pretty easy)
pokerus horde way though is still way faster
each horde yields 50 EVs with a bracer item and pokerus, so just 5 earthquakes per stat are needed + a bit
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Yeah, I think hordes will ultimately be the way to go. Is there a horde for each stat? And is it true what people are saying about putting 4 EVs into a third stat no longer being necessary to maximize stats?
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you still get 6 extra EVs after maxing two stats
but you can no longer go above 252 per stat by any means
which means no more accidental overtraining resulting in a lost 3 EVs
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Yeah, I think hordes will ultimately be the way to go. Is there a horde for each stat? And is it true what people are saying about putting 4 EVs into a third stat no longer being necessary to maximize stats?
HP: Whismur (Connecting Cave/Zubat Roost)
Speed: Zubat (Connecting Cave/Zubat Roost)
Attack: Scraggy (Route 5)
Sp. Attack: Psyduck (Route 7)
Defense: Nosepass (Route 10)
Sp. Defense: Hoppip (Route 7)
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You still need to go use other methods if you want non 252/252/4 spreads though.
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hey edible
since you beat the game can i have my mega stone back
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Has there been any conclusive evidence that tipping helps boost shiny rate, and if so, does this also apply for hatchings? Because I could be saving a hell of a lot of time hatching Spritzees if I can take that 1/1365 chance and make it even bigger...
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Super training is confounding. I don't really understand how scoring in the target shooting part works, it seems to be completely random. And how do I unlock the level 2 and 3 courses? At this rate this is monstrously impractical. I think I just need someone to trade me something with Pokerus so I can do this the comprehensible way. Or maybe I'm doing this all wrong and it's super easy, I don't know.
Beat every other course of that tier; can't recall if you need to break every record.
By far the best shottype to use for this is one with what looks like 4 orange balls; it's very, very, very rapid fire and is basically easymode since you literally spam shots everywhere. Venusaur has it.
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By far the best shottype to use for this is one with what looks like 4 orange balls; it's very, very, very rapid fire and is basically easymode since you literally spam shots everywhere. Venusaur has it.
Rapid Fire is useful for hitting moving targets like Noivern's wings, but for some reason it's making Magnezone a bitch to beat. It feels like it takes me a lot longer to beat Super Training whenever I have to use Rapid Fire. I think it's because of how different the charge shot is.
I'd kill for some Pokerus right now.
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Caught a shiny Zebstrika from trance's friend safari, hooray!
My first ever shiny ever :]
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Caught a shiny Zebstrika from trance's friend safari, hooray!
My first ever shiny ever :]
top lels, also you're like the only person in my friends list who's online :V
Rapid Fire is useful for hitting moving targets like Noivern's wings, but for some reason it's making Magnezone a bitch to beat. It feels like it takes me a lot longer to beat Super Training whenever I have to use Rapid Fire. I think it's because of how different the charge shot is.
I'd kill for some Pokerus right now.
Even without Pokerus 25/horde is really fast if you have money to burn on vitamins from Laverre
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Even without Pokerus 25/horde is really fast if you have money to burn on vitamins from Laverre
I play video games at the pace of a genetically engineered molasses snail stuck in traffic during the winter holidays. I've also been busy.
With what's available to me, I can only get 5 per horde.
That's why I'd kill for some Pokerus right about now.
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Rapid Fire is useful for hitting moving targets like Noivern's wings, but for some reason it's making Magnezone a bitch to beat. It feels like it takes me a lot longer to beat Super Training whenever I have to use Rapid Fire. I think it's because of how different the charge shot is.
I'd kill for some Pokerus right now.
It was the only way I could beat Magnezone; personally, just spammed shots while dodgeing and hit stuff with sheer spam. No need to aim and carefully click while moving; just wiggle the stylus around like a madman. I've cleared all of Super Training with a Venusaur. All of it. Without failing.
Anywho; in my current run; I just got the Mega Ring; and my actual team is:
Lv 29 Quilladin - I hate this thing. It's so bad compared to Braixen. Why is the grass starter ALWAYS the worst in the games they are in? [Venusaur is now the best; but he wasn't in FR/LG or R/B/G]
Lv 30 Kangaskhan - This thing is a beast. Took me an hour to find it; then I found 2 in a row.
Lv 30 Malamar - This thing is hilarious and fun to use. Swagger + Foul Play just wrecks everything... provided I don't just Payback it.
Lv 30 Shiny Swalot - I am disappoint in your shinyness compared to Gulpin.
I know I'm about to add a Mantine to the roster; because I've never used one ever. I tried to use Carbink but it's... so... awful...
Might abuse the Combee I have to Sweet Scent out some Mareep or something for an actual special attacker [Swalot hardly counts; and Mantine isn't exactly a special attacking monster]. Probobly gonna drop Swalot if it doesn't improve soon; although no clue what for.
Speaking of Combee and hordes; such a way to powerlevel with hordes, and an AoE move. [Although Bulldoze dosen't kill Tauros hordes fast]
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That's why I'd kill for some Pokerus right about now.
OK I get it, go online and I'll trade you one.
Or whenever I next see you on PSS.
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OK I get it, go online and I'll trade you one.
Or whenever I next see you on PSS.
*Pokerus Larvesta*
I love you.
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Next in my long list of horribly bad ideas, I will dump my level 40-50 team in favor of training level 20 poison types until they can fight in the Fairy Gym.
I shall one day complete my journey to become the worst pokemon master ever.
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Lv 29 Quilladin - I hate this thing. It's so bad compared to Braixen. Why is the grass starter ALWAYS the worst in the games they are in? [Venusaur is now the best; but he wasn't in FR/LG or R/B/G]
You know what your problem is? You evolved him. :V
But as for the Super Training shooting game, I really won't deny that the rapid shot is a good ability to have, but considering I've never fully trained a Pikachu or anything else with that shot type, I'm not going to claim it's the best. The thing is, I've had little to no trouble with clearing the challenges without a special shot type. I trained up my Pancham, Talonflame, Gardevoir and Noivern almost exclusively on the Super Training, and clearing stages came super easy. It can be all about spamming the shots all over the place if you so desire, but if you have the hand-eye co-ordination and can figure out how to hit the nets accurately, (considering the velocity of the balls you launch and where the net will bloody well be (which is hell against Noivern at first, beeteedubs)) you can train your Pokemon with ridiculous efficiency.
Saving up a few large bags from the attack/special attack stages is recommended for lower leveled Pokemon, though, or you'll be going pretty slowly at first.
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Lv 29 Quilladin - I hate this thing. It's so bad compared to Braixen. Why is the grass starter ALWAYS the worst in the games they are in? [Venusaur is now the best; but he wasn't in FR/LG or R/B/G]
are you kidding me? my grass starter wrecked everything that my azumarill didn't wreck >_>
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How many in-person passerbys have you guys been getting? I've got five so far, not counting people who are also on my friends list. Two on the bus, one in class, one at the bus stop, and one in my apartment complex.
I've met 27,231 people, but of them, in person, probably like... seven. Total.
Additionally, the Super Training thing gets easier once you learn the arc of your own soccer balls. Also don't forget if you like to play it risky you can push Up on the d-pad to scoot closer to the targets; less travel time means easier shots, but also more likely to get nailed in the face by giant soccer balls. Hold the L trigger to put up your barrier; you can't shoot while your barrier is up, and it only stays up for so long. Certain pokemon can keep it up for longer.
The higher your Attack or S.Attack stat, the more points your shots earn. The higher your Def and S.Def, the faster that little charger circle refills. If it's at least up to the inner ring, you'll shoot a higher power ball that scores roughly 2.5x as many points. Rapid fire + charge shot is devastating on the Red Targets, since they don't typically move. Thing is, while you're doing the charge shot barrage, you're locked in place. Tap your barrier to break the shot chain if you need to move.
HP makes the enemy shots take less points from you, and I think Speed is actually soccer ball velocity. Not sure, since there's a Swiftness bag for your own 'mon moving around the screen.
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252 SpA Gengar Focus Blast vs. +1 252 HP / 0 SpD Drapion: 136-160 (39.53 - 46.51%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Atk Drapion Crunch vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Gengar: 270-318 (103.05 - 121.37%) -- guaranteed OHKO
guys
i think we have our megagengar counter
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Assault Vest Drapion and Choice Scarf Diggersby, the face of Generation VI.
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252 SpA Gengar Focus Blast vs. +1 252 HP / 0 SpD Drapion: 136-160 (39.53 - 46.51%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Atk Drapion Crunch vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Gengar: 270-318 (103.05 - 121.37%) -- guaranteed OHKO
guys
i think we have our megagengar counter
but how do you switch into a megagengar ???
unless its first turn of course
oh okay drapion learns pursuit so that's pretty good
still have to watch out for substitute though
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omg
i tried wailord in pokemon amie
HE EATS THE POKEPUFF IN ONE HUMONGOUS BITE HOLY SHIT
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Ok I just got this game and I don't know what except my mom won't let me go wandering outside in pink pajamas.
Friendcode 1676-5051-9468
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Okay, so I caught a random lanturn. I didn't see the animation when it first appeared and it turns out it was shiny. I'm thinking I might just give away some of these shinies if they are this easy to find now. (had 12 and gave away 3)
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hey edible
since you beat the game can i have my mega stone back
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I downloaded the patch, and after trying to transfer the stuff I had to a larger SD card to be able to get it, I notice something. The 1.1 patch is actually larger than Pokemon Dream Radar. So either the glitch was so bad they had to make a ton of coding to fix it, or they might have added stuff they aren't telling us. Or I'm just crazy.
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dammit why are stones so hard to get
i need a bunch of moon stones so i grinded super training hydreigon and only got two sun stones
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Well I finally found a ditto safari. Also, I happened to add a passerby (apparently happens after 2 trades/battles) that has a dragon safari: gabite, shelgon, sliggoo. So if anyone wants some, I'll be catching them for a while as soon as I catch a magikarp for imposter dittos first.
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I downloaded the patch, and after trying to transfer the stuff I had to a larger SD card to be able to get it, I notice something. The 1.1 patch is actually larger than Pokemon Dream Radar. So either the glitch was so bad they had to make a ton of coding to fix it, or they might have added stuff they aren't telling us. Or I'm just crazy.
they also did a fix for the GTS not only Lumiose
but how do you switch into a megagengar ???
you can dry bp
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volt switch is probably your best bet since it can break potential subs
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they also did a fix for the GTS not only Lumiose
I still find it weird that fixing two bugs is bigger than a game with several 3d models and sprites. Code is usually a txt file with a different extension that gets compressed into binary when building the game.
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Suikamers, I'ma trade with you to return your mawilite
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welp im online now
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"Asking your friend Suikama if they want to trade!"
(The answer is yes.)
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im playing pad at the same time
half stamina weekend dungeon runs all day
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Thanks for letting me borrow the mawilite. I got a lot of use out of it (and replaced it with my own).
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np :V
also current progress 452/596 caught
man i need to farm so many evo stones
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volt switch is probably your best bet since it can break potential subs
that only really works if the (mega)gengar uses sub before you, otherwise pray to god you outspeed the gar on its mega-evolution turn
I still find it weird that fixing two bugs is bigger than a game with several 3d models and sprites. Code is usually a txt file with a different extension that gets compressed into binary when building the game.
yes, I know this :V
but it also depends on how exactly they fixed the bugs, sometimes bugs as big as these (especially considering the GTS bug involves network coding which is a fucking pain in the ass) take high amounts of LOC, even with optimization or trimming.
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that only really works if the (mega)gengar uses sub before you, otherwise pray to god you outspeed the gar on its mega-evolution turn
yes, I know this :V
but it also depends on how exactly they fixed the bugs, sometimes bugs as big as these (especially considering the GTS bug involves network coding which is a fucking pain in the ass) take high amounts of LOC, even with optimization or trimming.
you can always volt switch to an infiltrator and fuck subs up :V
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Doing some breeding now that I'm in postgame. Is it possible to chainbreed Ice Punch onto a Sneasel still, or is that only possible with Buneary? In the meantime, gonna mess around with Electabuzz and Pinsir.
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Finished breeding for the Mawile that's going on my team fairly quickly, since it has two stats I don't care about (Special Attack and Speed, because honestly it's not going to be outspeeding anything anyway). I would love a Pokerus if anyone's on right now who has one to spare.
HP: Whismur (Connecting Cave/Zubat Roost)
Speed: Zubat (Connecting Cave/Zubat Roost)
Attack: Scraggy (Route 5)
Sp. Attack: Psyduck (Route 7)
Defense: Nosepass (Route 10)
Sp. Defense: Hoppip (Route 7)
...Especially now that I know this. Thank you for the info.
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I am now making it my goal in this game to collect every single male clothing item and create the most stylish combinations possible from the works of them. I have at least 3/4 of the entire collection completed already, with a good amount of Lumiose City's items missing simply due to the painful burning the price tags inflict upon my hands. But I will complete this goal. In the name of all that is fabulous, I WILL complete this goal!
And then back to creating my battle team. Actually, come to think of it, considering what I'd need to do to buy half the stuff there, I'll likely be levelling up my team AS I complete my Fashiondex. To the crappily named restaurants! Seriously, "Le Nah?" "Le Yeah?" "Le Wow?" You could've at least tried, you guys.
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you can always volt switch to an infiltrator and fuck subs up :V
if Exploud could outspeed MegaGengar, then you could volt switch to Scrappy Exploud and use Boomburst to OHKO MegaGengar
sadly, Exploud isn't fast enough...
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sadly, Exploud isn't fast enough...
I was about to say scarf it, but even then it still doesn't outspeed.
Also my team is pretty much done except for item choices. I would have wanted more leftovers.
Tyranitar/Scizor/Rotom-W/Starmie/Galvantula/Haxorus
In limbo are Gengar/Banette/Aegislash/Volcarona/Chandelure
That seriously took way too long. I'm even thinking of raising a Whimsicott or Liepard just for Prankster Encore which pretty much ruins a bunch of things people are using.
And yes Encore goes through subs.
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*Evolves a Mantyke into Mantine*
*Realises something is missing*
Oh; they removed the Remoraid from under Mantine's fins.
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*Evolves a Mantyke into Mantine*
*Realises something is missing*
Oh; they removed the Remoraid from under Mantine's fins.
Dude. Went out of uni to buy lunch today, random dog followed me all the way back. Felt like a real Mantine.
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OK this is both hilarious and sad.
Mantine can do Sky Battles.
Unfortunetly; the oneI tried went like this:
Mantine cannot use Surf here!
Foe Silyglph used Charge Beam!
*Black Out*
Man Sky battles don't mess around.
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That seriously took way too long. I'm even thinking of raising a Whimsicott or Liepard just for Prankster Encore which pretty much ruins a bunch of things people are using.
And yes Encore goes through subs.
You can't get Whimsicott right now so you will have to find a Friend Safari with a Prankster Liepard.
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Finalized the Mawile I'm going to be using last night, and when I was picking moves I was like "Aw man, it doesn't actually learn Pursuit. Smogon seems to have made that up. That's cool though, I'll give it Focus Punch. What, that's a fourth-gen TM? Fine, I'll give it Foul Play. Fifth gen move tutor? Fine, I'll give it Pain Split. Fourth AND fifth gen move tutor? Hooray!". AAAARGH. So now I have to give it Taunt or possibly a weird coverage move until someone figures out how it's supposed to get Pursuit as an egg move or something, or until December.
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So I was thinking, about the counters to the megas for these quasi-competitive battles that everyone is fussing about.
Why not just use a Ditto to morph into it and render most of its skills not-very-effective? Blow those 4 or 5 PP skills on plowing through your Ditto, or force a switch. Not really worth the wasted team slot?
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So I was thinking, about the counters to the megas for these quasi-competitive battles that everyone is fussing about.
Why not just use a Ditto to morph into it and render most of its skills not-very-effective? Blow those 4 or 5 PP skills on plowing through your Ditto, or force a switch. Not really worth the wasted team slot?
That seems especially good against Mega Gengar, since Ditto always outspeed and it always carries something to one-hit KO itself. Creates some weird mind games, at least.
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oh boy
if you can somehow baton pass a belly drum to Talonflame you almost auto win
+6 CB Brave Bird outspeeds and OHKOs almost every single pokemon in the game
even pokemon that x4 resist flying like Aggron has a chance of being 2HKOed
only Larion with Evolite can survive 2 hits
its like azumarill but also nothing outspeeds it except for extremespeed users
of course in practice though you can just sacrifice someone with high HP and watch it kill itself
also BD BP smeargle sucks
also RE:ditto
ditto is cool but in practice isnt as good as its forced to use a Choice Scarf in order to do its job and that can be played around
eg, have a sweeper bait out ditto, then switch to a tank
what's a choice scarfed tank gonna do? let the other tank set up that's what
in other new, turns out Entrainment Truant Durant is actually useful... in Battle Subways
all of the top scores on Smogon use Truant Durant in them :V
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Has anybody played around with Magician Delphox of Klefki yet? Does Magician still steal items with non-damaging moves? And do you think there's any potential use for it? Seems quite a bit better than Pickpocket, which is an ability I've always kind of liked in theory. There aren't a ton of items that would actively hurt Delphox, and it can learn Trick to get rid of them or shuffle opposing items around. I don't know if that's worth losing your Scarf or Specs or Life Orb or whatever though, and team preview should make it pretty obvious so there's little chance for surprise factor.
Also need to trade evolve the Pumpkaboo I just finished EVing, and I'd still like Pokerus. If anybody's around who can help me out with those things this afternoon I'd totally appreciate it.
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i have a ton of pokemon that need trade evolving and plenty of pokerus so ill trade
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That seems especially good against Mega Gengar, since Ditto always outspeed and it always carries something to one-hit KO itself. Creates some weird mind games, at least.
Except since Ghost is such a great spam-attack it can only come in to Revenge kill; as otherwise is is likely to be OHKO'ed switching in on an SE Shadow Ball with Base 40something HP.
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Apparently Males cannot pass down their hidden abilities UNLESS bred with a Ditto
So breeding a male and female of the same species, the ability will simply be the female's 80% of the time
Not sure about different species
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well, I already managed to get a female Elekid with Adamant and Vital Spirit, so step 2's going to be evolving it and breeding for the best IVs I can get
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well, I already managed to get a female Elekid with Adamant and Vital Spirit, so step 2's going to be evolving it and breeding for the best IVs I can get
Can you even get an Electrilizer in X/Y?
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yes battle tower(w/e its called)
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if you can somehow baton pass a belly drum to Talonflame you almost auto win
+6 CB Brave Bird outspeeds and OHKOs almost every single pokemon in the game
even pokemon that x4 resist flying like Aggron has a chance of being 2HKOed
only Larion with Evolite can survive 2 hits
its like azumarill but also nothing outspeeds it except for extremespeed users
Talonflame will kill itself from recoil eventually.
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Finalized the Mawile I'm going to be using last night, and when I was picking moves I was like "Aw man, it doesn't actually learn Pursuit. Smogon seems to have made that up. That's cool though, I'll give it Focus Punch. What, that's a fourth-gen TM? Fine, I'll give it Foul Play. Fifth gen move tutor? Fine, I'll give it Pain Split. Fourth AND fifth gen move tutor? Hooray!". AAAARGH. So now I have to give it Taunt or possibly a weird coverage move until someone figures out how it's supposed to get Pursuit as an egg move or something, or until December.
I don't know if any of those will work as Egg Moves in this gen, but maybe Smeargle is the answer?
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Talonflame will kill itself from recoil eventually.
of course in practice though you can just sacrifice someone with high HP and watch it kill itself
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You don't need to sacrifice someone with high HP.
That's the point.
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Except since Ghost is such a great spam-attack it can only come in to Revenge kill; as otherwise is is likely to be OHKO'ed switching in on an SE Shadow Ball with Base 40something HP.
Oh yeah, fair enough. I was assuming that the Shadow Ball would hit the Normal-type Ditto, but that's not how Impostor works at all. I guess you could try to predict a Focus Blast and come in on that, but it's risky.
I don't know if any of those will work as Egg Moves in this gen, but maybe Smeargle is the answer?
Huh. I honestly have no idea how egg moves and Smeargle work. That is totally worth looking into. Good call.
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You don't need to sacrifice someone with high HP.
That's the point.
but if you dont then youd have to sacrifice more pokemon
that aside though, what really makes talonflame stand out is how he just shits over every other sweeper thanks to its ability. 1v1 talonflame wins over any squishy sweeper because it will strike first regardless of any boosts. and then choice scarfers are useless for revenge killing it so unless you have extremespeed on your team its very hard to stop talonflame without taking serious pain. not to mention the fact that will o wisp cant burn it, sticky web doesnt affect it, paralysis doesnt affect priority, and nor does trick room. oh yeah its movepool is great too. it can run everything from SD sweep to a bulkier Bulk up set or it can run CB Uturn funtimes or it can even use special moves like overheat for blasting physical walls. the only thing holding it back is SR+self damage on its main moves, which helps stop it from sweeping entire teams, but unlike other sweepers, it cant be worn down and then excecuted without extremespeed because of dat speed + priority. Its only dead when its really dead and it will almost always take someone down with it.
also its totally broken in 3v3s where theres rarely SR and it can easily take out 3 pokemon before dying to recoil. If you dont have something to deal with it you straight up lose the game to CB brave bird x3.
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Genso, can I have a Gooey Sliggoo?
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Genso, can I have a Gooey Sliggoo?
Xan's friend safari has Sliggoo in it.
paralysis doesnt affect priority, and nor does trick room.
Paralysis affects priority if both Pokemon on the field run priority, which is something worth thinking about.
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Xan hasn't added me. So can I be added?
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Huh. I honestly have no idea how egg moves and Smeargle work. That is totally worth looking into. Good call.
I used Smeargle back in Gen IV to save TMs and get combinations of Egg Moves that were either impossible or required a lot of chain-breeding/leveling. What I did was breed or catch a Pokemon with the move I wanted, delete every other move it knows, then encountered a Ditto with it. Let the Ditto transform, switch to your Smeargle, let the Ditto use the attack, Sketch, and you're done~
(if you still need Pokerus, lemme know)
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Bar sturdy, focus sash, Gliscor and Intimidate. But of course these stop any physical sweeper. I think Talonflame is a good Pokemon and will probably make it to OU and join the ranks of Volcarona. It's probably the best at being an anti-lead/late game. It still has plenty of counters depending on its set; Quagsire or Ttar for SD, Gliscor for Band, and Heatran and Rotom-W to toxic stall non boosting sets. He seems to be just like any other late-game sweeper in a 6v6 situation, up in the end of Scizor and Scarf Dragons.
I think the main problem to being OU is the fact that he needs a bunch of support (spinner and something to get rid of counter if anything) but doesn't hit things hard enough due to only having base 80, and needs a turn setting up SD in order to net crucial KOs.
pretty balanced imo as far as pokemon goes
Also Acrobatics w/ Flying Gem w/ SD is better because you don't sacrifice HP the 10 BP under SD hardly matters.
It's going to ruin everyone's day in 3v3 however where defensive Pokemon really aren't that monumental in a team and you can't really afford to fodder something.
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Genso, can I have a Gooey Sliggoo?
It was my father's birthday yesterday so I had to drive all the way to my parent's house. So I was gone for two days, but yea I can give you one.
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Also Acrobatics w/ Flying Gem w/ SD is better because you don't sacrifice HP the 10 BP under SD hardly matters.
Flying Gem is currently unobtainable.
If Talonflame were bulkier, Weakness Policy might be worth looking into. That said, there aren't many good Stealth Rock setters in Gen6 right now so you should probably take advantage of that. Steelix might be one of the more competent SR setters, which is saying something.
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So there's
the ultimate weapon.
I should probably do something about it, but first, I gotta take my picture in front of it!
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k273/AKA_Gluttony/249dab20-3fda-11e3-bc37-068eb593e427_zps01dfa56b.jpeg) (http://s90.photobucket.com/user/AKA_Gluttony/media/249dab20-3fda-11e3-bc37-068eb593e427_zps01dfa56b.jpeg.html)
BRB, off to save the world. #IMBATMAN #TEEMPHLAIR
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... so apparently "Asuka" is not an acceptable nickname anymore.
It was back in Gen IV. I even traded that Pokemon to Gen V with no problem.
Is it because I'm naming my female Nincada after the main girl of Senran Kagura and I'm playing on a North American 3DS? :V
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I used Smeargle back in Gen IV to save TMs and get combinations of Egg Moves that were either impossible or required a lot of chain-breeding/leveling. What I did was breed or catch a Pokemon with the move I wanted, delete every other move it knows, then encountered a Ditto with it. Let the Ditto transform, switch to your Smeargle, let the Ditto use the attack, Sketch, and you're done~
Iiiinteresing. Okay, I'll give that a try. I don't really fully understand the mechanics of egg moves regarding TMs that are no longer TMs, but Subbull can learn Focus Punch via TM in generation four and as an egg move, and has both the Fairy egg group to breed with Mawile and the Field egg group to inherit Focus Punch from something that learns it by level up, so I can test it and see if anything happens.
(if you still need Pokerus, lemme know)
I do.
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Iiiinteresing. Okay, I'll give that a try. I don't really fully understand the mechanics of egg moves regarding TMs that are no longer TMs, but Subbull can learn Focus Punch via TM in generation four and as an egg move, and has both the Fairy egg group to breed with Mawile and the Field egg group to inherit Focus Punch from something that learns it by level up, so I can test it and see if anything happens.
I do.
It's kinda weird and different for each case and depends on the Pokemon and move. This is why I don't transfer all of my breeding stock over to the new games because some attacks lose their ability to be passed on through breeding, even though they're TMs in previous gens.
Movesets are always changed a bit between games, so I'd say it's worth a shot.
Gimme a minute and I'll trade you.
EDIT: Alright, I'm online.
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And I'm back with the connection my current save file is registered to. You'd think you could connect from anywhere. It's a pain for people like me who are students and move around.
Going through the 4~6th Gyms again and I just sigh as I see how little there is between them. Seriously; 4~6; or even 3~6 is just like a boss rush; the only thing that beaks up the back-to-back battles is occasionaly a rival battle or a tiny bit of team flare. No long routes; multiple location or anything.
I really wish there was actually more of a balance in Kalos between the Gym pacing. It's not even like the 2nd Gym reached any milestone levels for evolutions... the Gym pacing just seems... awful.
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It's kinda weird and different for each case and depends on the Pokemon and move. This is why I don't transfer all of my breeding stock over to the new games because some attacks lose their ability to be passed on through breeding, even though they're TMs in previous gens.
Movesets are always changed a bit between games, so I'd say it's worth a shot.
Gimme a minute and I'll trade you.
EDIT: Alright, I'm online.
I'm posting from class right now and have work after this actually, sorry. I should be home in seven or eight hours and should be online intermittently, so I'll send you a trade request if I happen to see you, but it could be a while.
And I'm back with the connection my current save file is registered to. You'd think you could connect from anywhere. It's a pain for people like me who are students and move around.
Going through the 4~6th Gyms again and I just sigh as I see how little there is between them. Seriously; 4~6; or even 3~6 is just like a boss rush; the only thing that beaks up the back-to-back battles is occasionaly a rival battle or a tiny bit of team flare. No long routes; multiple location or anything.
I really wish there was actually more of a balance in Kalos between the Gym pacing. It's not even like the 2nd Gym reached any milestone levels for evolutions... the Gym pacing just seems... awful.
I played through the game at such a crazy pace that I have no idea what it's actually like if you just run through it. Didn't bother me at the time, but I can see how it might if I didn't waste as much time on side stuff as I did.
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I'm posting from class right now and have work after this actually, sorry. I should be home in seven or eight hours and should be online intermittently, so I'll send you a trade request if I happen to see you, but it could be a while.
No worries, I'll try to catch you then.
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... so apparently "Asuka" is not an acceptable nickname anymore.
It was back in Gen IV. I even traded that Pokemon to Gen V with no problem.
Is it because I'm naming my female Nincada after the main girl of Senran Kagura and I'm playing on a North American 3DS? :V
I'm gonna have to name my next Sylveon Hibari now.
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Oh no; I'm doing the side stuff and everything; I'm doing as much as possible to the side to try and fill out the gap.
But the fact is as clear as the level ranges for the gyms about the pacing; as well as the areas between them:
Viola - Lv 10 + 12
Grant - Lv 25+25 [Rise of 13 levels of ace]
Korrina - Lv 29+28+32 [Rise of 7 levels of ace + extra pokemon]
Ramos - Lv 30+31+34 [Rise of 2 levels]
Clemont - Lv 35+35+37 [Rise of 5 levels of ace; and 6 of one other]
Valerie - Lv 38+39+42 [Rise of 5 levels for ace; but less for the others]
It takes THREE GYMS for the level increase between Viola and Grant to be matched [Grant -> Clemont]; and the gap between Korrina -> Valarie doesn't even reach the increase of 13 levels.
That shows horrible pacing.
Olymia isn't much better [6 level rise in ace; and her ace is a joke that you've beaten literally 4 or 5 times already; including outside her own Gym], and then there's an 11 level jump in main pokemon to Wulfric; because there's a lot between them.
Even looking at locations:
Viola -> Grant; Route 4; Route 5; Route 6; Route 7; Battle Chateau [There's no reason to not clear it upon finding it]; Connecting Cave; Route 8; Route 9; Glittering Cave; Route 10 is accessible
Grant -> Korrina Route 10+11; Cave of Reflection
Korrina -> Ramos: Route 12; Azure Bay which dosen't have much in. Route 12 is accessible
Ramos -> Clemont: Route 13; Power Plant event; exploreing Luminose
Clemont -> Valerie: Route 14. That's it.
So; Viola -> Grant has 10 locations. Grant -> Valerie opens 8 new ones; discounting towns on both fronts.
Again; that shows a huge pacing issue.
The issue is most blatant; however; from Clemont -> Valerie; where there is literally almost nothing between them. Just a single route. And Route 14 isn't even that long.
Usually I hate playing the early par of pokemon games; but X/Y early has so much to explore I love it early. However; the midgame slows the exploration and even the new pokemon to find down to a crawl. [Ramos -> Clemont being the worst; with a grand total of ZERO NEW POKEMON TO CATCH [Route 13 is already open]]
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so who wants to help me trade evolve some pokes :derp:
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If you can wait until I'm back home, then sure.
(7 hours or so most likely)
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so who wants to help me trade evolve some pokes :derp:
Given I'm trying to fill the kalos dex, I am hella down for it. Just ring me up when you need help.
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how about now
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Phelgreth how are you a badge and the Team Flare plot ahead of me in 2 hours less D:
Also Seiga > China :3
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how about now
whoops sorry i disappeared for food and it somehow took an hour??
Nows cool.
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sweet
now all i need are the legendaries and KALOSDEX COMPLETE
oh hey i dont actually need the birds for the coastal dex to say complete
so all i need is Zygarde
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sweet
now all i need are the legendaries and KALOSDEX COMPLETE
Saves me having to get a protector for a rhydon too!
...mind you I am a long ways from glorious oval charm but it's closer.
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so just for fun i traded for the yolocarp
turns out its always adamant and has 31 attack and special attack :V
also his trainer's name is Caveat goddamn
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cafes do not work very well for dex entries
i still need baby nidorans so i still have to catch the fuckers fuuucckkk
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cafes are more for viewing unobtainables
but there's this one girl WHO KEEPS SHOWING ME HER GODDAMN RAIKOU IVE ALREADY SEEN YOUR STUPID DOG
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Phelgreth how are you a badge and the Team Flare plot ahead of me in 2 hours less D:
Also Seiga > China :3
I rushed through like the first half of the game. And I just finished the Team Flare plot when the battle started. I mean it, I just exited the dungeon and was at the gate when you called xD.
And Seiga is mean. It made me want to train up one.
Also I was worried the entire time I was going to disconnect, cause for whatever reason my internet and 3DS to not get along all the time.
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I rushed through like the first half of the game. And I just finished the Team Flare plot when the battle started. I mean it, I just exited the dungeon and was at the gate when you called xD.
And Seiga is mean. It made me want to train up one.
Also I was worried the entire time I was going to disconnect, cause for whatever reason my internet and 3DS to not get along all the time.
Ah; what good timing then. I was just bored after doing Route 16 [And I forgot to put my Swalot back on my squad.]
Mantine beating Xerneas was also pretty cool. [You know it's part flying so Megahorn probobly wouldn't have OHKO'ed]
I'm probobly gonna try and breed a flawless Female Contrary Inkay [Or at least 5 flawless; Sp.Atk dosen't matter] after the E4. Because Seija. [Why did I type Seiga? It's Seija. FLIP EVERYTHING UPSIDE DOWN; INCLUDING STAT CHANGES]
Also I failed to notice first game but this random level spike on hitting Frost Cavern. Before it trainers are 38~40; then suddenly LV46 DOUBLADE
Edit: I just met the smartest wild Beartic ever. It's spamming Swagger.
On my Contrary pokemon.
And nw it's getting chains of crits.
This thing is making me want to use it just for putting up this fight; but I'd have to drop my Shiny Swalot which is useless but SHINY!
Holy crap this thing is ripping m team apart while refusing to stay in balls. AND IT HAS FLAIL.
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cafes are more for viewing unobtainables
but there's this one girl WHO KEEPS SHOWING ME HER GODDAMN RAIKOU IVE ALREADY SEEN YOUR STUPID DOG
You don't even need to have seen a poke to search for it in the GTS, though. When you're picking which one you want, scroll down to the bottom, pick the "What Pokemon?" option, and just type in the name.
The GTS is so goddamn addictive. I've only got 3 badges but I've already spent like 25 hours doing nothing but breeding and trading. I'm 1392-4443-0026 for anyone who wants to add me.
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everyone still asks for xerneas/yvetals all day though, but i have gotten some good trades from it
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*Decides to do a little super training with the Bear*
Your Soviet Bear found a RESET BAG.
Dear god; first it mauls my team and wastes like 6 Ultra Balls and a Dusk Ball; and then it does this. This bear man. This bear. And it has a +atk nature.
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everyone still asks for xerneas/yvetals all day though, but i have gotten some good trades from it
That's why I mainly just do Deposit instead of Seek. Most dudes will get traded within minutes anyway, and starters or rare Pokemon like Abra or Gligar will get you pretty much anything you want.
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You don't even need to have seen a poke to search for it in the GTS, though. When you're picking which one you want, scroll down to the bottom, pick the "What Pokemon?" option, and just type in the name.
The GTS is so goddamn addictive. I've only got 3 badges but I've already spent like 25 hours doing nothing but breeding and trading. I'm 1392-4443-0026 for anyone who wants to add me.
Which is an improvement for GTS, but a small one hampered by the terrible nature of the actual GTS community.
And pointless for me since I just want to see everything in the kalosdex for my god damn oval charm ;w;
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oh shit you actually get something for catching em all this time?
damn, i was just doing it on principle :V
holy shit its faster breeding too
dammit Zygarde stop having shitty IVsssss
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Oval Charm? I forgot what that did. Something to do with eggs; right?
Also; pretty major spoilers:
You may know about Malva's... afiliations. But there is also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it thing; especially as you've not actually met her yet; and don't for a while longer, making it easy to forget. After the pokeball factory; the reporter who said about the attack immediately afterwards; but said 'Identity of attackers is unknown'? That was Malva. She also mentions she was a Holo-Caster Star. She does the news.
Which means; as well as Team Flare spying on Holo-Caster conversations; they were also IN CONTROL OF THE MEDIA to some degree. Which probobly explained their somewhat good publicity. [Some people saying they were good; for example]
The spying and control over the media kinda rings true for the modern world. Especially the spying after 'Murica and Germany's little argument.
oh shit you actually get something for catching em all this time?
damn, i was just doing it on principle :V
holy shit its faster breeding too
dammit Zygarde stop having shitty IVsssss
Seeing them all; and you got them for Gen5 too. I recall seeing the entire national dex barring event mons gets you a charm that increases Shiny encounter rate.
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the terrible nature of the actual GTS community
Hmm... How so?
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Oval Charm? I forgot what that did. Something to do with eggs; right?
Also; pretty major spoilers:
You may know about Malva's... afiliations. But there is also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it thing. After the pokeball factory; the reporter who said about the attack immediately afterwards; but said 'Identity of attackers is unknown'? That was Malva. She also mentions she was a Holo-Caster Star. She does the news.
Which means; as well as Team Flare spying on Holo-Caster conversations; they were also IN CONTROL OF THE MEDIA to some degree. Which probobly explained their somewhat good publicity. [Some people saying they were good; for example]
The spying and control over the media kinda rings true for the modern world. Especially the spying after 'Murica and Germany's little argument.
Seeing them all; and you got them for Gen5 too. I recall seeing the entire national dex barring event mons gets you a charm that increases Shiny encounter rate.
that might have been black/white 2 because I have all 649 in BW and I dont remember getting anything
also this fucking Zygarde keeps having 31 IVs in the stat that it's nature reduces arggg
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Also; pretty major spoilers:
You may know about Malva's... afiliations. But there is also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it thing; especially as you've not actually met her yet; and don't for a while longer, making it easy to forget. After the pokeball factory; the reporter who said about the attack immediately afterwards; but said 'Identity of attackers is unknown'? That was Malva. She also mentions she was a Holo-Caster Star. She does the news.
Which means; as well as Team Flare spying on Holo-Caster conversations; they were also IN CONTROL OF THE MEDIA to some degree. Which probobly explained their somewhat good publicity. [Some people saying they were good; for example]
The spying and control over the media kinda rings true for the modern world. Especially the spying after 'Murica and Germany's little argument.
Don't forget that Lysandre was the guy who developed the Holo Caster in the first place, which is even more telling of their influence over the media :derp:
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oh shit you actually get something for catching em all this time?
damn, i was just doing it on principle :V
holy shit its faster breeding too
dammit Zygarde stop having shitty IVsssss
Seeing. Catching for the national dex might be something else entirely (SHINY CHARM?????)
But yeah it's mad awesome and I really want it to speed breeding up.
but bluhhhh so many things missing. Why can't this be like DPP where you could see them all from trainers.
Hmm... How so?
The aforementioned LEGENDARIES FOR RANDOM SHIT is basically the entire GTS community, not to mention the assholes who do shit like put up random piece of crap dittos and try and fool people into thinking they're 6iv+ dittos for their legendaries. (Which is literally the entirety of the ditto selection. Fake dittos.)
Theres a lot of guys who abuse idiots for their good shit too.
tldr; A lot of people are either greedy idiots or assholes willingly abusing the gullible by lying about what they have.
And one of these is directly fixable by allowing you to view a summary of the pokemon in question.
Gamefreak mad bad.
It's so encompassing you rarely hear about people like you or the honest ones.
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huh I never considered the full implications of the buffed rock tomb on Breloom, but now that I think about it it's actually pretty damn good
60 BP and 95 acc means that with technician it hits harder and is more accurate than rock slide. In fact it hits for only 10 bp weaker than stone miss and is way more accurate plus has a much more desirable secondary effect
Not to mention Breloom always wanted more coverage with rock moves to take on flying types and bug types, but stone miss is both unreliable and is hard to fit on Breloom. Now with rock tomb over low sweep Breloom can still pull off the slow down -> hard hit combo but with much better coverage. Rock, fighting, grass is only resisted by toxicroak and aegislash. Also Breloom LOVES sticky web support as it just stomps over Pokemon that are slower than it
also if everyone else thinks hes been nerfed to the ground then we can go back to the days where only I used him :>
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Seeing. Catching for the national dex might be something else entirely (SHINY CHARM?????)
But yeah it's mad awesome and I really want it to speed breeding up.
but bluhhhh so many things missing. Why can't this be like DPP where you could see them all from trainers.
because the kalos dex is Too Damn Big :V
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at least you dont need the birds or mewtwo even though the appear in the kalosdex
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stone miss
You made me spitdrink there :V
And nooo I will always use Breloom if I can help it ;_;
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so uh
why is Zygarde's signature move just a worse earthquake
meanwhile Xerneas and Yvetal get Uber stats and crazy good signature moves
its like gamefreak just made him suck on purpose so you have to buy Pokemon Z to see his TRUE POWERRR
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so uh
why is Zygarde's signature move just a worse earthquake
Zygarde's move is actually a Physical Earth Power :(
Yes that does make it a worse Earthquake
You made me spitdrink there :V
Focus Miss, Stone Miss' distant cousin of the Kung Fu Fighting type.
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so uh
why is Zygarde's signature move just a worse earthquake
meanwhile Xerneas and Yvetal get Uber stats and crazy good signature moves
its like gamefreak just made him suck on purpose so you have to buy Pokemon Z to see his TRUE POWERRR
they used all the awesome on xerneas and yvvykins so they had to give zygarde leftovers
he'll get super saiyain mode in z thou don't worry
he'll have over 9000 bst
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Zygarde's move is actually a Physical Earth Power :(
Yes that does make it a worse Earthquake
Focus Miss, Stone Miss' distant cousin of the Kung Fu Fighting type.
actually its even worse because earth power has a chance of lowering special defense but I dont see any bonus effect to Land's Wimp
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Alright so I got one with Brave nature and 31/16/31/x/31/9 IVs. Perfect bulk and decent attack with +attack nature but awful speed with a -speed nature
I guess I can run Extremespeed + dragon tail so half my set doesn't even care about that stat
oh yeah and
KALOSDEX COMPLETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Alright so I got one with Brave nature and 31/16/31/x/31/9 IVs. Perfect bulk and decent attack with +attack nature but awful speed with a -speed nature
I guess I can run Extremespeed + dragon tail so half my set doesn't even care about that stat
oh yeah and
KALOSDEX COMPLETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Great! Now just get the other what? Couple hundred probably? =D (didn't bother to look at how many were in the Kalosdex, since I don't personally own a 3DS or the games yet)
/me is shot*
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There are 450 pokemon in the kalosdex and 596 total obtainable pokemon in XY
I currently have 535 caught so just 61 to go~
Unfortunately they're all pretty much from friend safaris so either I need to add a whole bunch of people and get lucky or stalk the GTS nonstop
I think I'll just take a break from catching for now and move on to breeding
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rofl Talonflame gets PRIORITY ROOST so it wont even necessarily kill itself with brave birds
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rofl Talonflame gets PRIORITY ROOST so it wont even necessarily kill itself with brave birds
priority roost only reason why bulk up set even works IMO
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man it can run Bulk up, Roost and will o wisp like its some kinda of tank :V
okay bulk up and wow dont really synergize at all but imagine if it had calm mind and... hurricane rofl
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So I guess there's a patch for that save bug (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-25/pokemon-x-and-y-data-saving-bug-patched). Good for Nintendo.
so uh
why is Zygarde's signature move just a worse earthquake
meanwhile Xerneas and Yvetal get Uber stats and crazy good signature moves
its like gamefreak just made him suck on purpose so you have to buy Pokemon Z to see his TRUE POWERRR
Yeah, I was just wondering that.
Zygarde's move is actually a Physical Earth Power :(
Yes that does make it a worse Earthquake
Focus Miss, Stone Miss' distant cousin of the Kung Fu Fighting type.
Don't forget High Miss Kick! At least when used in-game. I think my hit rate with that throughout my entire playthrough right now is over 50%, but just barely.
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I'm on now if you can trade.
Your name is Blue, right?
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There are 450 pokemon in the kalosdex and 596 total obtainable pokemon in XY
I currently have 535 caught so just 61 to go~
Unfortunately they're all pretty much from friend safaris so either I need to add a whole bunch of people and get lucky or stalk the GTS nonstop
I think I'll just take a break from catching for now and move on to breeding
I have essentially every friend safari so you can possibly hit me up too.
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I think a 60% win rate on Battle Spot is pretty decent.
I mean Galvantula and Rotom basically ruin everyone by themselves.
Also have a couple of Vs Recordings ranging from a week ago to today.
ER7G-WWWW-WWW2-6BPZ
X2SG-WWWW-WWW2-6BGE
FMPG-WWWW-WWW2-6BGR
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OK how on earth did my Mantine just beat a Mewtwo; and why are people bad enough to use Aura Sphere from a Mewtwo on a Mantine in the first place, let alone over and over? [3HKO with Rain Boosted Surf FTW] You'd think he'd use Psychic...
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if someone is using mewtwo online then they are probably 12 years old
also mantine's spD is actually pretty good, even psychic is only a 3HKO with Life orb
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if someone is using mewtwo online then they are probably 12 years old
also mantine's spD is actually pretty good, even psychic is only a 3HKO with Life orb
I know Mantine is the Sp.Def Skarmory; but still; Mantine wasn't full HP [It had eaten a Hex [Why?!] from a MegaGengar that double Crit Dark Pulsed my Kangaskhan]. My Mantine isn't exactly EV trained either; and has a Damp Rock.
Hilariously my team works really well with rain. My in-game team has no Fire-types; a Chesnaught; a Beartic with Aqua Jet; [Both of whom appreciate reduced damage from fire] and an Ampherous that could quite easily trade out Thunderbolt for Thunder. It's kinda funny how random stuff I threw together for rule of cool has worked out to form a surprisingly solid team.
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I know Mantine is the Sp.Def Skarmory; but still; Mantine wasn't full HP [It had eaten a Hex [Why?!] from a MegaGengar that double Crit Dark Pulsed my Kangaskhan]. My Mantine isn't exactly EV trained either; and has a Damp Rock.
Hilariously my team works really well with rain. My in-game team has no Fire-types; a Chesnaught; a Beartic with Aqua Jet; [Both of whom appreciate reduced damage from fire] and an Ampherous that could quite easily trade out Thunderbolt for Thunder. It's kinda funny how random stuff I threw together for rule of cool has worked out to form a surprisingly solid team.
I'm gonna second the "you were fighting a small child" theory (not to say that your team doesn't work, but that would explain the dumb). There are non-me people who use Hex Gengar? Must be someone who doesn't know any better. :D
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He had no status moves; and yeah, he was probobly some little kid; but still; it baffles me how you can be that bad after clearing the game to not know type matchups and keep spamming NVE moves ._.
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I know adults who do that. I don't know how they manage it, but some folks just don't care enough to try I guess. Fair enough. That poor kid's just lucky he got matched up to you rather than the usual Aegislash/Mega Gengar/Speed Boost Blaziken/Noivern/Tyranitar/Excadrill that every other person seems to be running online right now.
Has anyone tried Scarfed Malamar? If so what set are you running and how is it? I decided I kind of want one, but I'd like to know if it's worth bothering and which egg moves to me looking for.
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HEY SUIKAMA DO YOU HAVE A HEATMOR
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I know adults who do that. I don't know how they manage it, but some folks just don't care enough to try I guess. Fair enough. That poor kid's just lucky he got matched up to you rather than the usual Aegislash/Mega Gengar/Speed Boost Blaziken/Noivern/Tyranitar/Excadrill that every other person seems to be running online right now.
Has anyone tried Scarfed Malamar? If so what set are you running and how is it? I decided I kind of want one, but I'd like to know if it's worth bothering and which egg moves to me looking for.
Why would you run scarf Malamar? You can't reliably set up with Superpowers because Ghosts; you don't hit hard enough without set-up, and MegaAbsol is about as fast; hits harder; and has Magic Bounce while being able to swap moves and use Sucker Punch.
And wait; everyone stopped using Charizard? NEWS TO ME.
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Why would you run scarf Malamar? You can't reliably set up with Superpowers because Ghosts; you don't hit hard enough without set-up, and MegaAbsol is about as fast; hits harder; and has Magic Bounce while being able to swap moves and use Sucker Punch.
And wait; everyone stopped using Charizard? NEWS TO ME.
Part of it is the novelty of Scarfed Topsy-Turvey, I want to use it to stop setup and that seems like the most plausible way to do it. I haven't done the math yet, but I'm pretty sure Malamar is strong enough to be able to one-shot Mega Gengar and Mega Alakazam with Night Slash with the correct investment, and I think Scarfed Foul Play has very strong revenge-kill potential. You would use it, or at least I would use it, because of a lot of half-baked ideas that seem like they could work. Which is why I'm wondering, because it could just as easily be totally terrible.
What other sets would you rather run it with? Banded? Assault Vest? Those don't sound as potentially fun to me, but I'm open to ideas. Swagger+Foul Play maybe?
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HEY SUIKAMA DO YOU HAVE A HEATMOR
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbe
Part of it is the novelty of Scarfed Topsy-Turvey,
so uh
you send in malamar and risk dying or taking huge damage
only to force you to both switch out ???
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maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbe
the gts is full of dicks so if you do I will get you a safari mon you really want for one
i'm down to like 5 kalosdex entries and he's like the only actual challenge of them (hell i could even just throw the xerneas I got from gts for zygarde probably)
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you send in malamar and risk dying or taking huge damage
only to force you to both switch out ???
Absolutely. I think I've alluded to this before, but just for clarity I don't play games necessarily to win them. I really like stupid gimmicks. That doesn't mean I want to lose, but it does mean that if I can do something like Topsy-Turvey something to -3 attack and -3 speed I will absolutely go out of my way to do it, including basically wasting a move slot on a Scarf set.
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i'm currently breeding pikachus
because i like stupid gimmicks too :V
the gts is full of dicks so if you do I will get you a safari mon you really want for one
i'm down to like 5 kalosdex entries and he's like the only actual challenge of them (hell i could even just throw the xerneas I got from gts for zygarde probably)
k let me check serebii for a sec to see who i'm still missing
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i'm currently breeding pikachus
because i like stupid gimmicks too :V
k let me check serebii for a sec to see who i'm still missing
That is an admirable gimmick. Can they be born holding Light Balls? Or do you already have one?
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Screw Black Belts and Battle Girls.
Screw wild Durant
I just crawled back to the pokemon centre from looking for TM Brick Break with nothing but a ONE HP Ampy.
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That is an admirable gimmick. Can they be born holding Light Balls? Or do you already have one?
found one in a pikachu safari
too bad pikachu's movepool is as bad as his stats
he really doesnt have anything going for him other than light ball and lightning rod despite being the mascot of all pokemon
also heres a list of safarimons i still need:
Lillipup
Beautifly
Nuzleaf
Vullaby
Cacturne
Luxio
Galvantula
Tranquill
Tropius
Rufflet
Tangela
Swadloon
Petilil
Sawsbuck
Maractus
Camerupt
Gastrodon
Cascoon
Munna
Xatu
Girafarig
Klang
Excadrill
might be forgetting 3-4 guys there are so many pokemonnn
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man that list is so large i just went into a random safari and found something for you
you've got a cute petilil waiting for you now suikama, just trade me when
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found one in a pikachu safari
too bad pikachu's movepool is as bad as his stats
he really doesnt have anything going for him other than light ball and lightning rod despite being the mascot of all pokemon
also heres a list of safarimons i still need:
Lillipup
Beautifly
Nuzleaf
Vullaby
Cacturne
Luxio
Galvantula
Tranquill
Tropius
Rufflet
Tangela
Swadloon
Petilil
Sawsbuck
Maractus
Camerupt
Gastrodon
Cascoon
Munna
Xatu
Girafarig
Klang
Excadrill
might be forgetting 3-4 guys there are so many pokemonnn
I can help you with some of that. Got at least a Nuzleaf, Cacturne, Galvantula, and Camerupt, probably more.
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yay petilil :>
dammit i forgot forretress
also im still missing one more aaaa
I can help you with some of that. Got at least a Nuzleaf, Cacturne, Galvantula, and Camerupt, probably more.
that would be great :D
okay the last one was phanphy
for some reason i thought i already had it
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-what do you mean you don't have phanpy-
this is inexcusable suikama
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Phanpy's the best non-dragon.
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I don't know about Phanpy. He's not purple, not round, can't hover, and doesn't have a deranged grin. Those are all of the "best Pokemon" criteria and he fails them all. :derp:
And I'm not talkin' 'bout Gengar...
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-what do you mean you don't have phanpy-
this is inexcusable suikama
:<
also i just made the dumbest 3v3 team ever
Smeargle@Focus Sash
Stealth Rock
Roar
Whirlwind
Spore
Purrloin@w/e
Assist
Protect
Thief
Liepard@Leftovers
Assist
Protect
Thief
Substitute
someone use this online it will be amazing (until talonflame shows up)
incase you know no idea how it works:
smeargle is just there to stealth rock and then die, then maximum fun begins (not for your opponent though)
spam prankster backed assist, which lets you fire off PRIORITY ROARS/WHIRLWINDS letting stealth rock slowly kill everyone while the opponent cries
if your unlucky though assist can pick stealth rock and waste a turn for you, so sub/protect/spore can help pad your mistakes
this strategy mostly loses to bad luck like many other luckhax teams. if you pick stealth rock and have no sub/sleep up then you will die to any attack
it also loses to talonflame, extremespeed, or any pokemon that takes no damage from stealth rock/resists rock and has leftovers :V
but if it works out there is NOTHING the opponent can do aside from pray
even if smeargle is stopped by taunt or stealth rock, assist can restore it
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You can do a similar thing with Prankster Riolu using Mimic on his own Roar, and it works in 6v6. It is similarly impractical and Riolu can't set up its own hazards, but it is hilarious.
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Oval Charm get.
GTS is suprisingly useful for trade evos.
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you can trade evo using the gts?
or do you mean just grabbing the evolved form from someone else
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I think a few people have my Friend Safari, and I have Tranquill and Tropius in it. I'd just jump online so you can add me and get my Friend code and yay happy fun times with tree dino birds, but I just got off Reading Week and probably won't be able to access the interwebs until Christmas break rolls around so... derp. :V
I dunno, anyone want any specific Pokemon? I could see if I have it/can grab a few to breed them like mad before my school assignments tackle me into a Full Nelson of stress and constant work.
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You can trade evo using GTS!
It's still a trade after all.
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i have 9 clear bags oh man :getdown:
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Screw Black Belts and Battle Girls.
Screw wild Durant
I just crawled back to the pokemon centre from looking for TM Brick Break with nothing but a ONE HP Ampy.
Did you find it? Cause it's in a one room cave off to the side of the main entrance.
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holy fuck Pineco is a BUG TYPE!?!?
all of these years i thought it was grass because of the pokemon cards...
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holy fuck Pineco is a BUG TYPE!?!?
all of these years i thought it was grass because of the pokemon cards...
Pineco: the Bagworm Pokemon.
Most bugs are Grass types in the card game, with a couple exceptions(Larvesta/Volcarona, for example, are Fire type instead, and Scizor is usually Metal type, as some exception examples. Don't recall if there're any others off the top of my head.)
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Smeargle@Focus Sash
Stealth Rock
Roar
Whirlwind
Spore
Purrloin@w/e
Assist
Protect
Thief
Liepard@Leftovers
Assist
Protect
Thief
Substitute
I like Lagging Tail Assist/Swagger/Psych Up Liepard with a Smeargle with Dive/Shadow Force/Fly on the side.
Assist V-Create Spinda is also fun.
Assist teams are fun.
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The TCG only has a limited amount of types to keep it simple, stupid.
Psychic is Ghost, Grass is Bug and Poison, Water is Ice, Fighting is Ground and Rock, Normal was Dragon for a while and I don't know if it still is.
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The TCG only has a limited amount of types to keep it simple, stupid.
Psychic is Ghost, Grass is Bug and Poison, Water is Ice, Fighting is Ground and Rock, Normal was Dragon for a while and I don't know if it still is.
"Grass" is actually just Bug and Grass now, Poison was delegated to "Psychic" status. There was always a crapton of Grass-type cards, so this was probably their way of dialing it back. Also, Colorless counted for Normal, Flying, and Dragon, up until Dragon got its own typing (minus the need for Energy cards). The Dragon types are weak to themselves, but they use Energy cards from other types.
Also, no need for name calling, it's an easy mistake to make. :< I thought Steelix was Steel/Rock until I tried to Thunderbolt one in HG.
I also called Suicune "Suicine" for longer than I care to admit.
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Also, no need for name calling, it's an easy mistake to make. :< I thought Steelix was Steel/Rock until I tried to Thunderbolt one in HG.
That wasn't an insult. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) :derp:
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That wasn't an insult. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) :derp:
No, you were bullying Suikama-chan and making him cry. That's sage advice right there.
Speaking of Bug Pokemon... WHY AREN'T THERE ANY MORE AFTER VIVILLION!? ;____;
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WHY AREN'T THERE ANY MORE AFTER VIVILLION!? ;____;
I had enough bugs after the last generation.
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I had enough bugs after the last generation.
... but last gen's bugs were some of the best bugs ever. Why wouldn't you want to continue the trend of awesome bugs? Hell, Pokemon was inspired by bug collecting. You can't have too many bugs.
Yes, I get a$1 for every time I say "bug".
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Yes, I get a$1 for every time I say "bug".
But you get none of the respect. Not a single "I bet you were bugged :V" in sight.
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But you get none of the respect. Not a single "I bet you were bugged :V" in sight.
... I have failed... but at least I've got my bug money. You can buy respect with that, right?
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... I have failed... but at least I've got my bug money. You can buy respect with that, right?
A few Great Balls at best.
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Did you find it? Cause it's in a one room cave off to the side of the main entrance.
Nope. I did find Shadow Ball though. [I have a grant total of 2 special attackers, Ampherous and Mantine. Neither can use it/want to give up existing coverage to use it]
I'm not done with Terminus yet anyway.
But yeah anyone saying X/Y is easy hasn't tried to explore all of Terminus Cave in one go while not using the EXP.Share so hardly being above the levels of the wild Durant that literally outspeed my whole team. I'd actually say it's one of the harder games if you don't EXP.Share.
In fact people saying X/Y are easy tend to have teams with Lv 75+ Charizard and MegaBlaziken by Dianthia. So yeah.
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I like Lagging Tail Assist/Swagger/Psych Up Liepard with a Smeargle with Dive/Shadow Force/Fly on the side.
Does this still work in gen 6 or did they change the priority mechanics?
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I'm only actually doing pokemon battles in this game to get money to buy more clothes
What have I become? :ohdear:
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I'm only actually doing pokemon battles in this game to get money to buy more clothes
What have I become? :ohdear:
Tell me about it, customization is simultaneously the best and worst addition of this generation. With Pok?mon Amie in a close second, what a perfect time waster that is. And speaking of customization, I just found out you can change your eye color. And I have hazel eyes in real life and let me tell you, they ain't gold like they are in game. I wish they were though, gold/yellow/amber is the best eye color.
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Oh yeah I guess I should say what the merry band of misfits my team is:
Chesnaught
Malamar
Ampherous [+Megastone]
Kangaskhan
Mantine
Beartic [Replaced SHINY SWALOT simply by virtue of beating up HALF THE TEAM. Then I found out Icicle Crash is stronger than I thought it was. And Beatric can learn Swords Dance. And Aqua Jet. The bear is here BY RESPECT IT EARNED. I've... never done that before. I've never been impressed enough by the fight a wild put up to do that. Especially so late in the game.]
Once I find Brick Break 3 members of my team are gonna learn it... hnnngk this power spike.
My team is currently Lv 48~50 without use of the EXP.Share [Mantine gained quite a few levels fighting off Durants]
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I've been listening in on a smogcast (it's still going) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXR0-8e1O_c) and I think I'm going to like this meta. Main points include how the go-to strategies to overpower defensive teams are no longer "spam rain", "spam dragons", "spam sun" etcetera (the return of stallbreakers?), Defog presents some cool mindgames with teams that insist on using Spikes/TSpikes and there are just a lot of interesting mons to work with like Togekiss and Aegislash and Zygarde and Talonflame and aghaghah. I mean I'm still not sucked in completely but I think I might want to be.
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Oh yeah I guess I should say what the merry band of misfits my team is:
Chesnaught
Malamar
Ampherous [+Megastone]
Kangaskhan
Mantine
Beartic [Replaced SHINY SWALOT simply by virtue of beating up HALF THE TEAM. Then I found out Icicle Crash is stronger than I thought it was. And Beatric can learn Swords Dance. And Aqua Jet. The bear is here BY RESPECT IT EARNED. I've... never done that before. I've never been impressed enough by the fight a wild put up to do that. Especially so late in the game.]
Once I find Brick Break 3 members of my team are gonna learn it... hnnngk this power spike.
My team is currently Lv 48~50 without use of the EXP.Share [Mantine gained quite a few levels fighting off Durants]
the bear also gets swift swim as its hidden ability allowing it to potentially sweep with swords dance + rain support :V
Okay time for the best of both worlds
Ditto ● ‿ ●
Ability: Impostor
Nature: Any
Evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Item: Choice Scarf
Moveset:
Transforrrmmmmm
Skarmory
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Impish
Evs: 224 HP / 252 Def / 32 SpD
Item: Leftovers
Moveset:
Protect
Fly
Whirlwind
Liepard
Ability: Prankster
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Item: Lagging Tail
Moveset:
Assist
Protect
Thief
If your opponent has a stealth rock lead then you get a guaranteed SR set up barring Magic Bounce (not even pransker taunt will work since ditto will also get prankster + choice scarf)
Then switch Skarm in and spam whirlwinds until it dies to get some damage out there
Then its Liepard's turn to shine
Spam assists which will either pull out an invincible fly or a priority whirlwind
Once you run out of pp or die to a random extremespeed or talonflame, ditto is there to try to clean up
With this combination you get the best of both the whirlwind and fly spam with no risk of either unlucky stealth rock assists nor does it let the enemy set up for free
...so anyone have an impostor ditto with 31 HP IV i can use :derp:
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That barely works. Stealth Rock is pretty uncommon rare in 3v3s.
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oh right :V
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If you're lookin' to break 3v3s I think Roarolu is the way to go. If you plan on doing this to computers as a stupider alternative to traditional setup/sweep Battle Tower shenanigans you should probably use one of the standard setup scenarios with Trick/Flash or Entrainment Durant, but this one maybe has a slim chance of working on a human once.
Skarmory
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: +Def, -Spa
EVs: HP, DEF, make sure you outspeed Taunt as much as possible
Item: Mental Herb
Moves:
Spikes
Stealth Rock
Taunt
Brave Bird/Roost
Whimsicott
Ability: Prankster
Nature: Who cares
EVs: HP, Speed?
Item: Sitrus Berry?
Taunt
Memento
Encore
GrassWhistle?
Riolu
Ability: Prankster
Nature: +Def, -Spa
EVs: HP, Def, try to outspeed Pranksters
Item: Focus Sash
Moves:
Roar
Copycat
Swagger?
Vacuum Wave?
Edit: Oh yeah, and you basically have to put a bulky Perish Song user on there or something or you have no way to kill your opponent's last Pokemon since you can't shuffle them any more.
Edit edit: And by "bulky Perish Song user" of course I mean "Endeavor Rattata", because why stop the gimmick train?
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oh shit that's how it works
hmm maybe there's a new XY mon that can act as a suicide lead with prankster SR, spikes, and memento
time for research :V
Carbink
- Stealth Rock
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Explosion
taunt kinda messes it up but it can at least SR with a mental herb
the smogon set for riolu is titled pawns like dog ahahahahahahaha
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Pokemon-amie observations:
-Tentacool, how can you even eat? Is that thing on your face a mouth?
-I want to give Pumpkaboo a hug but I bet it would feel gross.
-Even if I was total best buddies forever with a Beedrill I still don't think I would pet it.
-I imagine touching a Rotom that's in an appliance feels like a joy buzzer.
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if you touch Pikachu's cheeks you get electrocuted
also in super training pikachu and all the other pikachu-likes get a yellow rapid fire ball which i havent seen anyone else have
it also totally sucks :V
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I can't be the only person here of all places who keeps trying to graze the soccer balls during super training. HITBOX!
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super training - pretty much a 3d touhou
okay so now I got Skarmory@MentalHerb, Riolu, and Talonflame@CB
since riolu is less gimmicky than assist in that you can actually have a normal team and just plug him in as opposed to NO ONE CAN HAVE MOVES OTHER THAN ROAR you can run a more standard skarm and CB talonflame to clean up all the leftovers since nothing really outspeeds it, and with enough hazard damage it can OHKO anything with Brave Bird
steel and fighting types that resist SR are taken out easily with talonflame's stabs and ground types take full damage from spikes. even heatran takes like 30% so just 5-6 switch ins with roar with only SR out will put it in kill range
for skarm, both SR and spikes are used with whirlwind and taunt and a mental herb
against taunt leads, fire whirlwind immediately as the herb will block the initial taunt and send them out. this can also help stop rapid spinner switch ins (but who uses RS in 3v3s?)
if you predict that they will immediately try to bring them back in, fire off taunt and taunt it before it can even try to do anything, then you're free with get at least a SR and 1 layer of spikes
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super training - pretty much a 3d touhou
Touhou is harder though. I can clear even the hardest Super Training but I can't clear SA even on Ezmodo.
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Touhou is harder
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and yes super training is pretty easy, unless you try it with a lv 1 caterpie then its nuts
dammit i cant get SR skarmory until pokemon bank opens
time to find someone else...
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I feel as if I have spent more time using Wonder Trade and playing the Pokepuzzle in Pokemon Amie (?) than actually playing the game. Oh and losing internet battles because everyone has Mewtwo's and giant scary death endgame Pokemon and I have all these cute little babbymons :ohdear:
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oh hey maybe i can run a custap lead
...right no custaps in XY
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OH NOOOOOOO! I lost the EVed, ideally IVed Pumpkaboo I made in my gigantic mountain of Pumpkaboos! Why didn't I put it in a different boooooox?
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if it's EVed then just withdraw them all and check their stats in super training
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That's what I'm doing right now. But there are still like 40 of them with the right ability and nature.
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(http://i.imgur.com/aOSQ22C.png)
Yo if 15 years of playing JRPGs has taught me anything is that there's scores of people who leave perfectly good hamburgers in trash cans you can't make me stop :colbert:
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Trash Master hi5 (http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/user/W-594-5013-Q/medal)
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dammit i cant get SR skarmory until pokemon bank opens
I don't even like Tyranitar. Why do all the stealth rock users have to be tutored.
Good luck with your team, post a few replays when you're done.
I'll just be here using my Sand Veil Gliscor @ Bright Powder w/ Double Team, Toxic, Knock Off, Sandstorm. And a Chansey @ Eviolite w/ Rest, Toxic, Minimize, Flamethrower.
I don't know how this will go.
Or well Baton Pass works too instead of Knock Off.
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(http://i.imgur.com/aOSQ22C.png)
Yo if 15 years of playing JRPGs has taught me anything is that there's scores of people who leave perfectly good hamburgers in trash cans you can't make me stop :colbert:
Hah. Every trash can has treasure, even if it's empty.
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I don't even like Tyranitar. Why do all the stealth rock users have to be tutored.
Good luck with your team, post a few replays when you're done.
I'll just be here using my Sand Veil Gliscor @ Bright Powder w/ Double Team, Toxic, Knock Off, Sandstorm. And a Chansey @ Eviolite w/ Rest, Toxic, Minimize, Flamethrower.
I don't know how this will go.
Or well Baton Pass works too instead of Knock Off.
good thing heatran isnt available yet :V
oh hey Scolipede has Speed Boost now with SD and BP
pass to Talonflame, win the game
not even opposing talonflame can stop it because of the speed boost
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good thing heatran isnt available yet :V
oh hey Scolipede has Speed Boost now with SD and BP
pass to Talonflame, win the game
not even opposing talonflame can stop it because of the speed boost
Extremespeed can stop it; being +2. As can pretty much any rock-type with Sturdy.
Or just high defense rock types like Golem/Gigalith/Rhyperior in general.
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none of those pokemon are ou though because they are easily destroyed by fighting/grass/whatever
and extremespeed has poor distribution, in fact the only real user of it is Lucario and Dragonite, and extremespeed lucario fails to OHKO talonflame while talonflame easily OHKOs it back
if those are the only two things that can stop it then it's really not hard at all to build your other 5 pokes to stop them
but thats not even the worst part
talonflame's movepool is so ridiculous it can do things like Will O wisp on the switch in, making extremespeed and even rock moves useless, especially since rock moves will only hit for x2 damage thanks to roost
also because brave bird and flare blitz has good enough coverage to hit anything at least decently hard, it can do whatever the hell it wants with the other two slots: bulk up, roost, u-turn, will-o-wisp
priority roost means it can switch in, take 50% from SR, then roost and give 0 fucks
priority roost + wow or bulk up means it's actually fucking physically bulky
i mean it just had to get fucking priority roost 'omg its finally low on hp from all those brave birds i can finall-' HAHA NOPE FUCK YOU
talonflame is pretty much imagine the threat of the fastest sweeper or choice scarfer and now outspeed that and give it healing and other support moves. if had any higher attack it would unquestionally be uber
also heatran can counter it but guess what IT HAS U-TURN HERE COMES MAGENZONE
dragonite is also a pretty good counter but it hates being burnt as it ruins multiscale and it's damage
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But since we're talking about OU isn't SR a given [Especially since the only way Scolipede is getting off a BP is as a lead]; so Talonflame is at 50%?
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Why would heatran (which in addition to fire moves commonly packs earth power) give a damn about being "trapped" by magnezone?
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talonflame is still plenty dangerous at 50% but if there is one thing that is holding it back from ubers its SR + checks
if you pull off a pass to talonflame then even if it eats 50% it doesnt really care because any sweeper you send it gets OHKOed and any bulky mon gets roosted on
if you can constantly check it IMMEDIATELY every time it comes in with stealth rock then you can keep it from sweeping but you need a lot of specific pokemon to do that and any team lacking those checks and counters are instantly defeated
Why would heatran (which in addition to fire moves commonly packs earth power) give a damn about being "trapped" by magnezone?
oops i meant dugtrio
air ballon wont work since u-turn would pop it
shed shell might work lol but a lot of heatrans now want to run assault vest
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The only talonflame counter I can think of off the top of my head that was also in last gen's OU was rotom W. Even then though, if talonflame sets up enough then it'll be able to take rotom out. Mega aerodactyl (which I haven't seen anyone use at all). Can probably also work well as a counter.
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mega aero is super unfortunate in that it gets tough claws as an ability and nothing to make use of it. Rock moves are all non contact, earthquake is non contact, and IT DOESNT GET BRAVE BIRD :/
instead it gets sky attack rofl
one of the best megas is actually kangaskhan cause power up punch is now a swords dance that does damage and everything else hits super super hard
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Aw man, I was so excited about Mega Mawile that I totally forgot about Mega Kangaskhan. I wonder if I could get away with running both..? Probably not, since they fill similar-ish roles and are both pretty questionable if they can't mega evolve.
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/* Taizen is drowning in infinite Eevee babies
why the fuck do none of you want to be sassy my sylveon-having experience will not be complete without owning a sassy male sylveon
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talonflame is still plenty dangerous at 50% but if there is one thing that is holding it back from ubers its SR + checks
Base 81 attack isn't winning awards; even with BP120 STAB's. [Especially when both STABs are resisted by rock-types, such as Tyranitar.] Compare Lucario; where pokemon such as Gliscor can easily take even +2 Close Combats from Base 110 Atk. Loads of pokemon are going to be able to tank Talonflame's attacks. Maybe not switch in; but Talonflame is best as a revenge killer anyway.
You are severely over-estimating the power Talonflame has. And with Base 126 speed priority on flying-type moves isn't even that big of a deal except against other priority users and a very small list of pokemon.
And with a 50% SR weakness; as well as 78/71/69 defenses; and weaknesses to common types such as water; electric and x4 to rock; Talonflame isn't living long; even with Roost.
Especially when you add in the possibility Talonflame has a Life Orb; or is using Brave Bird/Flare Blitz [Although no item Acrobatics is probobly going to be more common due to Talonflame's lifespan; Flying Gem doesn't exist atm]
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Defog means SR will be around less (not gone but less) meaning you get enough switchins. Priority Brave Bird or Acrobatics even off of crap Attack hits really hard and actually stops a lot of sweepers. Don't underestimate either, it should be OU for a while if not permanently.
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oh yeah tyrantrum does pretty well vs talonflame but it also hates burn
Base 81 attack isn't winning awards; even with BP120 STAB's. [Especially when both STABs are resisted by rock-types, such as Tyranitar.] Compare Lucario; where pokemon such as Gliscor can easily take even +2 Close Combats from Base 110 Atk. Loads of pokemon are going to be able to tank Talonflame's attacks. Maybe not switch in; but Talonflame is best as a revenge killer anyway.
You are severely over-estimating the power Talonflame has. And with Base 126 speed priority on flying-type moves isn't even that big of a deal except against other priority users and a very small list of pokemon.
And with a 50% SR weakness; as well as 78/71/69 defenses; and weaknesses to common types such as water; electric and x4 to rock; Talonflame isn't living long; even with Roost.
Especially when you add in the possibility Talonflame has a Life Orb; or is using Brave Bird/Flare Blitz [Although no item Acrobatics is probobly going to be more common due to Talonflame's lifespan; Flying Gem doesn't exist atm]
uh that's cause gliscor resists cc?
+2 brave bird from talonflame is a guaranteed 2HKO on gliscor btw
also roost stops the electric weakness and turns rock to x2
im not saying its uber, but it's definitely one of the best pokemon in the game
also also brb currently typing out a huge mega evo post
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oh yeah tyrantrum does pretty well vs talonflame but it also hates burn
uh that's cause gliscor resists cc?
+2 brave bird from talonflame is a guaranteed 2HKO on gliscor btw
also roost stops the electric weakness and turns rock to x2
im not saying its uber, but it's definitely one of the best pokemon in the game
also also brb currently typing out a huge mega evo post
And the same applies to pokemon such as Steels; Rocks and even Electrics who resist Brave Bird. Gliscor is an example of how a +2 BP 120 STAB will not OHKO everything. The fact Brave Bird is a 2HKO on Gliscor at +2 speaks enough; that's a 3/4HKO without BP'ing a Swords Dance. [For that matter Gliscor is a hard counter with Poison Heal and Protect aiding it; as well as Stone Edge]
Which just shows my point. Don't overhype Talonflame's damage. It's STAB Flying moves hurt; but they're nothing special, and Flare Blitz has crippling recoil, combined with being SR weak. Hell; I've not calced it; but I'm pretty sure if you used Flare Blitz on a Ferrothorn after switching into SR you'd KO yourself as well as the Ferro due to the recoil + Barbs.
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here's what ive gathered about megamons so far
Speed calculations are done BEFORE mega evolutions so any megamon with a faster speed after mega evolving wont get to enjoy it for the first turn. This is ESPECIALLY bad for banette as it does NOT get pranskter for the first turn. Furthermore the fact that you need to actually perform mega evolution means that you dont get ability benefits right away. This means pokemon like Absol are forced into being leads if they want to bounce any starting hazards. Now for some specifics:
Mega Venusaur: (625 BST) Gains a ton of bulk at the expense of leftovers and chlorophyll. However because of the aforementioned speed mechanics, if there is sun on the mega evolve turn, he will be super fast for the first turn and can get in a sleep powder before turning into his bulkier form. With sun support and synthesis it can function as a great special tank thanks to thick fat block out it's fire and ice weaknesses as it fires back super stabs sludge bombs annihilating all dem fairies. It can also use power whip and EQ to get past other special walls with it's new 100 base attack.
Mega Charizard: (634 BST) A big improvement and every 12 year old's wet dream, but how much better it will do remains to be seen. Y hits SUPER hard thanks to sun + 159 SpA, but because it cant hold a heat rock its best left leaving sunny day starts to ninetails and instead just hog all the sun to itself. X finally becomes the dragon it always desired and do dragon things with all its new dragon buddies like dance the dragon dance and get wasted at outrage parties. They both still hate SR and thier impact on the game will probably depend on how the meta turns out.
Mega Blastoise: (630 BST) A HUGE improvement. He's now possibly one of the best rapid spinners in the game with mega launcher backed dark pulses taking out any spinblockers, on top of its bulk and special attack. Luckily gamefreak gave it a bunch of moves to use with it's shiny new ability (unlike aerodactyl *coughcough*) like dark pulse and aura sphere.
Mega Alakazam: (590 BST) Kinda meh from what I'm hearing since it can't pull off the magic guard focus sash combo which propelled it to fame in gen 5. It can still come in on hazards without a care and then mega evo, but once it's mega although it may annihilate one guy, it's easily revenged or pursuit killed afterwards. Trace is cool though.
Mega Gengar: (600 BST) Everyone kind of just accepted it to be uber and moved on, but I don't know how well it will actually do in the metagame because there are many things going against it. After it kills something it can still be pursuit trapped by tyrannitar, which is harder to kill than ever thanks to assault vest. Also regular life orb gengar hits approximately at hard and the extra speed doesnt really mean much since so little outspeed him in the first place, and no amount of extra speed will stop Talonflame from murdering it. The biggest thing though is the threat of shadow tag is NOT immediate, which is HUGE. That means it cannot just switch in right away and fuck up their day, the opponent gets one turn to react first and switch in any pursuit trapper. The only real way to take advantage of mega gengar is to run substitute, which opens up a new counter: Crobat. Crobat can switch in on the mega turn if it sub and OHKO it with infiltrator brave bird. They tie for speed but Gengar doesnt really have much to hurt it back with unless you want to run psychic and get destroyed by dark types even harder. IMO Mega Gengar acts more as another trick in Gengar's giant arsenal rather than a devastating threat (like Talonflame :V) by itself.
Mega Kangaskhan: (590 BST) Now THIS is a MONSTER. Parental Bond turn this old NU into an OU threat by causing all attacks to active TWICE. This includes moves with secondary effects. Power up punch activates twice to work as a Swords Dance + 60 BP attack at the same time. Afterwards Return just hits so fucking hard. 100 Base power x 1.5 STAB x 1.5 Parental bond boost = 225 BST attack backed by 700 Attack. It can also do a ton of fun things like double body slam with a 50% chance of paralysis. Or how about double sing witch gets its accuracy boosted to 80! It also gets a ton of other moves like Fake Out, Sucker Punch, Earthquake, hell it even has Outrage if your feeling dragonic, all of which gets a 50% power boost from parental bond and just dissolves things like substitutes, sturdy, and focus sash.
Mega Pinsir: (600 BST) Say hello to the sole user of FLYING OUTRAGE. :V Also flying quick attack (but Talonflame gets both at the same time in a single move...) Most importantly however, is it finally gets to fly out of the shadow of its greatest rival Heracross, who got slower and fatter and is currently going through a mid life crisis. Stealth Rock hurts but not as much on the turn it mega evolves. Also normal moves that get converted to flying get an ADDITIONAL 30% BOOST. So he basically gets life orb on stab flying moves without the life orb.
Mega Gyarados: (640 BST) Just 40 base points away from 680 ubers sounds crazy, but it misses out on having items a lot. No Life orb means it doesn't really hit much harder and no leftovers means it doesn't really tank better. It does get to enjoy double abilities by switching in, using intimidate, then going mega to get mold breaker. It also trades flying for dark type which is arguably worse as its fighting resistance turns into a weakness. Also it doesnt get crunch for stab! Dammit game freak!
Mega Aerodactyl: (615 BST) As I mentioned before, it gets tough claws and nothing to back it up. It doesn't even get to enjoy that 150 speed on the first turn as a suicide lead or something. Truly a shame...
Mega Mewtwo: (780 BST) That BST is pretty much a Fuck you Arceus :V That said the Y form isn't really that much stronger than regular life orb mewtwo and it dies even easier to bullet punchs and extremespeeds. However it can make Darkrai think twice about using dark void and it can pull off a set with Rest where you sweep with normal mewtwo, then get a free chesto-rest by resting then mega evolving afterwards to wake up right away. X on the other hand is a bit more interesting as its bulkier and can probably pull off a Bulk up set throwing off anyone that might of thought it was going to Calm mind. Losing dark weakness is also pretty big as dark types switching in thinking they can grab a free meal get pulverized. You could also do all sorts of crazy mixed sets where you fake being special mewtwo, then turn mega x to destroy dark types that come in and tank pursuits. You can also take a genesect u-turn and get a free bulk up in the process.
Mega Ampharos: (610 BST) from 55 speed... to 45 speed, but I guess that's better for what it wants to do. It still pretty much does the same job as before as a tanky slow volt switcher, allowing you to safely switch in whatever you want. Unfortunately while it gets a shiny new dragon type, it does NOT get Draco Meteor which would have been fucking awesome for it. Also with trick room support this thing will destroy.
Mega Scizor: (600 BST) Better bulk but no ability to hold items means just one thing, swords dance. Everything else is done better by normal Scizor. After a sword dance you can just bullet punch everyone to death and laugh as they try to tickle their way through your incredible defenses.
Mega Heracross: (600 BST) It loses speed, but it gains skill link and 185 base attack oh god. No item or guts boost though means it doesn't really hit as hard as it sounds, but thanks to skill link it gets to replace megamisshorn with pin missile, which tanks to skill link and new buffs, is more accurate and hits harder than megahorn. It also gets rock blast for lying and bullet seed for water types. That shitty speed really holds it back though, and it's still 4x weak to flying, so skarmory gets to sit there and laugh at how stupid it looks.
Mega Houndoom: (600 BST) It's faster, it's stronger, and thanks to solar power, it's even stronger than stronger. Sun + solar power + stab fire blast with 140 special attack is gonna hurt so goddamn much, i wouldn't be surprised if it 2HKO blissey. That said I'm not sure if its enough to be able to climb to OU, but it will still be nice for fire teams. It can also run sunny day over nasty plot for damage + team support at the same time.
Mega Tyranitar: (700 BST) oh god dat bst surpasses ubers. Between this and assault vest, tyrannitar now has more defensive options, although assault vest adds way more special defense than mega ttar adds to its defense, and because of that I expect assault vest ttar to be way more popular than mega.
Mega Blaziken: (630 BST) The extra gain in power is counteracted by the lack of life orb, so the only real advantage is sliiightly better bulk, no recoil damage, and 20 extra speed, which Blaziken doesn't get to enjoy on the first turn. However it does allow it to say fuck you to base 99 and slower choice scarfers. Otherwise it's the same as normal Blaziken except it looks way cooler. If Blaziken is your main sweeper and you have no one else to use mega on then why not, but watch out for those Talonflames ;)
Mega Gardevoir: (618 BST) If this thing got Boomburst then holy fuck. But it does get hyper voice instead, and because of the 30% boost though, Hyper voice becomes a 117 bp fairy attack THAT HITS THROUGH SUBS! Kinda makes sense considering its mega evo animation. If it got boomburst then that would have been a 182 bp fairy attack with no drawbacks :V (aside from soundproof). Also thanks to it's fairy type it is no longer weak to dark!
Mega Mawile: (480 BST) HUGE POWERRRR... and 50 base speed... It does get a ton of defenses but it's hp still sucks. Luckily it gets sucker punch and the shiny new fairy type, which plugs up its weakness to fighting. Also it can still use intimidate once before mega evolving, giving it a chance to swords dance and hit 1356 attack ahahahaha yeah something is gonna die. That aside though, it still has a ton of weaknesses like having to rely on unstabed sucker punch for speed, 50 speed holding back a sweep, and 50 hp holding back it's bulk. :(
Mega Aggron: (630 BST) See that defense stat? It's equal to SHUCKLE'S. Furthermore it loses the crappy rock type and gains an ability that lessens damage even more. You wanted a real talonflame counter well here you go. +2 flare blitz deals 69% and aggron can easily ohko back with any rock move. If this thing could hold an assault vest then I dont think anything could kill it. In terms of moveset it can run a ton of things from support with stealth rock/twave or it can boost it's speed with autotomize and start a super bulky sweep with it's 140 base attack. It also gets dragon tail and roar so you can't set up on it at all. This thing has potential to join the big league tanks like ferrothorn and forretress and maybe even blow them out of the water thanks to it's mere 1.5x weakness to fire.
Mega Medicham: (510 BST) PURE PO-oh wait it always had that. But now it has 100 speed! And with pure power it gets 656 attack!... which I think makes him the strongest unboosted pokemon in the entire game :o Other than that it does what it did before, hit really really hard.
Mega Manetric: (475 BST) Winner of the stupidest looking mega form award. So what did it get? Intimidate. And really powerful volt switches. And that's about it. Incredible.
Mega Banette: (555 BST) Oh boy prankster surely this thing will be a huge threat right? Except for one problem. On turn one when it evolves, not only is it 65 base speed slow, it does not get prankster. That means if you don't want to die uselesslly as your evolving, you pretty much have to run protect on it. Once it's evolved it possesses the terror known as prankster destiny bond, ensuring that no matter how strong you are, you won't get to sweep (unless you're talonflame haha). It also gets priority taunts, willowisps, and shadow sneaks backed by 165 base attack. The mega mechanics are really unfortunate for banette but other than that it highly enjoys its new mega form.
Mega Absol: (565 BST) Magic bounce and stab sucker punch with 150 base attack means great things, but like banette it has problems with needing to get off a mega evo first. Still can work as a good anti lead though as if it forces a switch it can get a free SD as it evolves. As a bonus it is the only magic bouncer that isn't weak to pursuit.
Mega Garchomp: (700 BST) omg game freak why. While it does lose speed, it actually benefits from the mega mechanics and keeps it's speed for the first turn. Still the loss of speed isn't that big of a deal as with it's higher attacking stats and bulk, it can just pound things to death like a tyrannitar. Normal chomp is still probably better overall though as it can pull off scarf/band/mixed/w/e while mega is pretty much just a beater.
Mega Lucario: (625 BST) Oh boy this thing gets adaptability making stab bullet punch and all of it's fighting moves hit harder than ever. Adaptability bullet punch hits harder than extremespeed, although it still might want to keep ES for killing talonflames. Also it very much enjoys the increase in speed, letting it outspeed things like garchomp.
Mega Abomasnow: (594 BST) Gains a lot more power and its speed drops to the level where trick room is good and it still has ice shard. Overall better and a great boon for ice teams in general.
Mega Breloom: (??? BST) GAME FREAK PLS ;___;
Overall biggest benefiters were Charizard, Blastoise, Kangaskhan, Pinsir, Mawile, Aggron, Banette, Absol, who all gained new abilities that may help them flourish in the new meta, while others gained the option of trading thier item slots for being bulkier and hitting harder with no drawbacks.
And the same applies to pokemon such as Steels; Rocks and even Electrics who resist Brave Bird. Gliscor is an example of how a +2 BP 120 STAB will not OHKO everything. The fact Brave Bird is a 2HKO on Gliscor at +2 speaks enough; that's a 3/4HKO without BP'ing a Swords Dance. [For that matter Gliscor is a hard counter with Poison Heal and Protect aiding it; as well as Stone Edge]
Which just shows my point. Don't overhype Talonflame's damage. It's STAB Flying moves hurt; but they're nothing special, and Flare Blitz has crippling recoil, combined with being SR weak. Hell; I've not calced it; but I'm pretty sure if you used Flare Blitz on a Ferrothorn after switching into SR you'd KO yourself as well as the Ferro due to the recoil + Barbs.
what's really scary though is the damage is much higher that what really should be allowed from a priority move. Talonflame is still primarily a revenger yes, but he can also sweep and spread status and do a whole bunch of other things at the same time while choice revengers get locked using one move.
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Megaerodactyl does get tough claws head smash which will hit really hard with that huge attack stat, but over all it's not worth it.
I've also been using mega absol recently and it's pretty cool. Play rough can replace what would have been psycho cut in earlier gens with the bonus of hitting other dark types and the occasional dragon (though I don't like to risk that often as they tend to be scarfed). Fire blast can take out ferrothorn/foretress and can allow me to attack aegislash without fear of the kings shield drop. I run stone edge on it currently but I'm thinking of switching it out for pursuit or iron tail (for fairies), and sucker punch helps to pick off weak things towards the end of a battle. The team I use it on is pretty hazard reliant so as to compliment absol's sucker punch. Interestingly enough, I rarely try to use absol like I would espeon or xatu as my team relies on it a lot for sweeping power and with its defenses I don't like to take chances.
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I just recently finished my Mawile, and playing with it some seems to basically confirm that it's aimed at doubles. In a format where Intimidate is double good and Trick Room is very common it's going to be a menace. Smogon mis-reported it as being able to learn Pursuit (as far as I know nobody's found a way to get Pursuit on it, although if they do it'll be great), which would have been a huge deal. I kind of like the sound of a SubPunch set, but I don't know that it's totally worth the effort.
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So the hidden legendaries have been discovered
spoiler 1 (http://smealum.net/volcanion.png)
spoiler 2 (http://smealum.net/hoopa.png)
spoiler 3 (http://smealum.net/diancie.png)
What do you guys think? I like Diancie the most, but Hoopa the least. Volcanion looks uncomfortable with that thing on it's back
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...Okay then. Of course they wouldn't break the formula of minor legendary trios. But these guys look weird and kind of different, are they even related?
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I'm more intrigued that we're only now just finding out about them. Like, the game's been out for two weeks short of a month, and no one's found them until now? Are they roaming or something?
But this still pleases me. Does this mean there are still more new Pokemon out there we're not aware of? I thought there was an unusually amount of new legendaries in the game thus far, so.
I want a Diancie!
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Those were hacked
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those color schemes looks like they should be the shiny versions...
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Any word on typing or abilities or anything?
I'm gonna guess...
Volcanion: Fire (seems like a fair bet)/Steel/maaaaaybe Dragon?
Hoopa: Psychic/Fairy/Steel
Diancie: Rock/Fairy/Steel/Psychic?
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According to tumblr:
Diancie is Fairy/Rock
Hoopa is Psychic/Ghost
Volcanion is Fire/Water
Very interesting combinations, really. However, the rumor mill says that these are event Pokemon, not a legendary trio. They don't look similar enough to be a trio anyway.
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Yeah definitely event Pok?mon, since we wouldn't have had to hack the game to find a legendary trio. It's the same as Darkrai/Shaymin/Arceus or Keldeo/Meloetta/Genesect: we technically weren't supposed to know about them until they were officially revealed, but looking into the game code revealed them beforehand. It just took longer this time.
how much is a spoiler anyway ?_?
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If possible, I'm naming Volcanion, Kanako. Also is it suppose to be a cat or something?
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I asked the guy who hacked the game to check out the meteors with a Deoxys in the fossil lab. It's kind of weird there are 5 meteors instead of 4.
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Speed calculations are done BEFORE mega evolutions so any megamon with a faster speed after mega evolving wont get to enjoy it for the first turn. This is ESPECIALLY bad for banette as it does NOT get pranskter for the first turn.
Huh? Doesn't the other player always go first on the turn you mega-evolve regardless of speed? Or am I not following here?
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Mega Banette: (555 BST) Oh boy prankster surely this thing will be a huge threat right? Except for one problem. On turn one when it evolves, not only is it 65 base speed slow, it does not get prankster. That means if you don't want to die uselesslly as your evolving, you pretty much have to run protect on it. Once it's evolved it possesses the terror known as prankster destiny bond, ensuring that no matter how strong you are, you won't get to sweep (unless you're talonflame haha). It also gets priority taunts, willowisps, and shadow sneaks backed by 165 base attack. The mega mechanics are really unfortunate for banette but other than that it highly enjoys its new mega form.
I love Mega Banette.
252 Atk/ 252 HP
- Thunder-Wave
- Sucker Punch
- Phantom Force
- Destiny Bond
Just goes out and paralyzes everything and then speed isn't an issue. Sucker Punch for clean up and damaging priority. And Phantom Force to kill things.
Normal types are the only problem really.
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how much is a spoiler anyway ?_?
They weren't initially discovered by looking into the game code, they were discovered when people used the GTS filters online.
Huh? Doesn't the other player always go first on the turn you mega-evolve regardless of speed? Or am I not following here?
Mega-evolved Pokemon use the speed stat/ability of their original form on the turn of their mega-evolution, which is a pretty big deal because it means you can switch away from Gengar on the turn it mega-evolves, but whatever you switch INTO the MegaGengar will get hit by Shadow Tag. What this means is that if the original Pokemon is faster still than the opposing Pokemon even before mega-evolution, then it still goes first.
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Is anyone else on here farming for shinies?
I had awful luck in trying to get a specific nature (21 attempts at a 1 / 25 chance) so I'm thinking that sitting here and hatching 2, 000 eggs is kinda.. ehh...
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Is anyone else on here farming for shinies?
I had awful luck in trying to get a specific nature (21 attempts at a 1 / 25 chance) so I'm thinking that sitting here and hatching 2, 000 eggs is kinda.. ehh...
(http://i42.tinypic.com/awdnwz.jpg)
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Mega-evolved Pokemon use the speed stat/ability of their original form on the turn of their mega-evolution, which is a pretty big deal because it means you can switch away from Gengar on the turn it mega-evolves, but whatever you switch INTO the MegaGengar will get hit by Shadow Tag. What this means is that if the original Pokemon is faster still than the opposing Pokemon even before mega-evolution, then it still goes first.
Are you sure the thing about metas only getting their abilities the turn after they evolve is true? I've seen a mega alakazam in a wifi battle mega evolve and then have trace activate before either pokemon used an attack that turn. You can always technically switch away from shadow tag pokemon the turn they come in as long as you predict the switch and make the decision to switch out before the shadow tag pokemon is sent out. I'm pretty sure that's the case with mega gengar and not it not having shadow tag as soon as it evolves.
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But wait, (http://serebii.net/latias.jpg) there's more. (http://serebii.net/latios.jpg) (spoilers,
unreleased legendary megas
)
They look the same. :o
Are you sure the thing about metas only getting their abilities the turn after they evolve is true? I've seen a mega alakazam in a wifi battle mega evolve and then have trace activate before either pokemon used an attack that turn. You can always technically switch away from shadow tag pokemon the turn they come in as long as you predict the switch and make the decision to switch out before the shadow tag pokemon is sent out. I'm pretty sure that's the case with mega gengar and not it not having shadow tag as soon as it evolves.
Nah abilities like Trace and Intimidate (Mega Manectric I think it was?) activate as they happen, unlike abilities like Shadow Tag that only affect your DECISIONS, BEFORE you choose a move.
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But wait, (http://serebii.net/latias.jpg) there's more. (http://serebii.net/latios.jpg) (spoilers, unreleased legendary megas
)
BITCH IM A PLANE
also here's how the whole timing thing works
1. pick moves
2. attack order is determined
3. switching happens
4. pokemon mega evolve
5. attacks happen in order
since mega evos happen after attack order and switching, mega abilities that apply to those things dont happen during the first turn nor do speed changes
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Oh wow Seibold turned the hax up to the max.
Water Pulse -> Confuses my Chesnaught -> Hits self twice
Aura Sphere -> Crits Kangaskhan for a OHKO where Return would have 2HKO'ed him. I've had this matchup online it's a 2HKO from Aura Sphere
Water Pulse -> Confusion on Ampheros -> Hit self twice
From there I didn't have anything to stop Gyarados.
And then it turns out in the rematch HE WON A SPEED TIE WITH CHESNAUGHT
And that's the E4 and champion beaten
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okay forget talonflame
AZUMARILL DA BEST
this thing has carried me so hard
meanwhile unfortunately Breloom kinda sucks :<
he'll probably be better in 6v6 where there are more tanks to punch but in 3v3s Azumarill has the right bulk and power to just destroyyy
also the battle maison quotes are hilarious
also so i managed to grab the remaining guys i needed from the gts so I just need to breed/evolve them and I've caught em all (or as much as possible) BV
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Has anybody got a female Magician Fennekin or family they'd be willing to trade me?
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i think i have some
got any prankster riolu? :V
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No, unfortunately. I keep getting the same types over and over and over for friend safari. Like half of mine are either Water or Flying, and I have not even a single Steel or Fighting.
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WHY ARE ALL OF THESE WURMPLES CASCOONS
THIS MECHANIC IS STUPID
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So I've recently become obsessed with the fact that Pokemon now inherit Pokeball types, and just threw out a perfectly usable Inkay because I decided I wanted one in a Repeat Ball for some stupid reason. Anyway, what's up with the non-purchasable cool-looking Pokeballs in the cases at the Pokeball store? I want that red and blue one in the case on the left!
On another note, WHY DOES MEGA GENGAR HAVE BETTER BULK THAN REGULAR GENGAR? Was the 170 attack not enough? I did some calculations and determined that maximum speed Scarfed Malamar barely outspeeds maximum speed Mega Gengar and barely one-hit KOs 0 Def/4 HP Gengar with Night Slash or Psycho Cut... But Mega Gengar has better defense than Gengar, which I failed to account for. I may have to run Adamant Malamar and hope opposing Mega Gengars are not maximum speed or that I can hit them on the turn that they have to use Gengar's speed somehow.
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Even though the stats and stuff of a Pokemon in an egg is now determined before the parents are dropped in the daycare, instead of when receiving the egg. People have found a way to abuse breeding. (http://i.imgur.com/tH7d9tv.png)
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I caved and bought Y on the 3DSwarez ;~; So far all I've caught and used are Gen 1 pokemon too which is awesome considering I've only ever played Blue/Red.
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Even though the stats and stuff of a Pokemon in an egg is now determined before the parents are dropped in the daycare, instead of when receiving the egg. People have found a way to abuse breeding. (http://i.imgur.com/tH7d9tv.png)
Huh. Interesting. That could be a moderate timesaver, although cramming candy into a Pokemon and taking the time to calculate IVs isn't quick, especially if you have to do it multiple times. But if you want something with six perfect IVs this definitely seems like the way to do it.
I caved and bought Y on the 3DSwarez ;~; So far all I've caught and used are Gen 1 pokemon too which is awesome considering I've only ever played Blue/Red.
Neat. What starter did you pick? And you should post your friend code.
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Even though the stats and stuff of a Pokemon in an egg is now determined before the parents are dropped in the daycare, instead of when receiving the egg. People have found a way to abuse breeding. (http://i.imgur.com/tH7d9tv.png)
its funny how they go into all that but dont know about the ingame IV checker dude :V
also funny is its more annoying to breed bad ivs than good ones
for example any trick room or gyro ball user
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its funny how they go into all that but dont know about the ingame IV checker dude :V
also funny is its more annoying to breed bad ivs than good ones
for example any trick room or gyro ball user
Do you know if IV guy has a specific phrase for minimum IVs? I know he talks about bad IVs, but I don't know if that refers to actual minimum numbers of just bad ones. I'll keep an eye out for minimum HP, Attack, and Speed I guess. Breeding for minimum Attack on everything that it's relevant for seems like it would be too much of a hassle, but minimum Speed should be reasonable if I can get a Ditto or something.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I have a minimum speed Ditto in Black 2. Pretty sure my Trick Room team has minimum speed all around, so it stands to reason that I have one somewhere.
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from what i've seen he's said "its not getting anywhere with that speed stat" and "that attack stat... is just terrible"
im not sure if the two sayings are different or if him saying anything at all means it's below like 5 or maybe even 0
i did breed a 'perfect' reuniclus with 'bad' speed so i guess ill check to see what its speed actually is
im trying to evolve this rufflet right now though
WHY DOES IT EVOLVE AT LEVEL 54!?
it's speed is 0-2. i dont have enough rare candies to check further though :derp:
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I think he only comments on a stat being low if it's 0.
Also Rufflet evolves so late because Gamefreak decided in Gen 5 to have you catch everything as a basic and have it evolve about 7~10 levels after the level you catch it.
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Huh. Interesting. That could be a moderate timesaver, although cramming candy into a Pokemon and taking the time to calculate IVs isn't quick, especially if you have to do it multiple times. But if you want something with six perfect IVs this definitely seems like the way to do it.
I never did find the time to do most of those. Frankly I go with the flow, as it turns out to be most time consuming indeed.
im trying to evolve this rufflet right now though
WHY DOES IT EVOLVE AT LEVEL 54!?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rufflet_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
I like Rufflet, he has Sky Drop.
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http://kotaku.com/three-new-mysterious-pokemon-discovered-in-x-y-1456798172
Old to some. But still...people being aware now and stuff. Most news just recently.
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Is anyone else on here farming for shinies?
I had awful luck in trying to get a specific nature (21 attempts at a 1 / 25 chance) so I'm thinking that sitting here and hatching 2, 000 eggs is kinda.. ehh...
y u no everstone breeding.
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1. pick moves
2. attack order is determined
3. switching happens
4. pokemon mega evolve
5. attacks happen in order
So it's a +5.5 essentially, because it would go before Helping Hand right?
hope opposing Mega Gengars are not maximum speed
Good luck, it'll never happen.
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Good luck, it'll never happen.
Really? I would run Modest Mega Gengar over Timid Mega Gengar in a second, was I inclined to use Mega Gengar at all. Is the extra speed really usually that important?
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Oh well, enough lurking on this thread. I have X, and my friend code is 1203-9218-1249.
And now for a little story that made me post in the first place. I decided to do wonder tradeing for the first time, and just kept trading what i got until i found something i liked. The second to last pokemon was a Stunkfish. I was going to stop, but then I thought:
"Eh, I don't really like Stunkfish, I'll trade one more time."
So i did.
"Aw, all I got was a Fletchli-"
POKERUS :o
I'd be alot more hapy if I cared about EV training. :V
And it stays on the pokemon if it's kept in the PC, right?
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Really? I would run Modest Mega Gengar over Timid Mega Gengar in a second, was I inclined to use Mega Gengar at all. Is the extra speed really usually that important?
yes you pretty much always want as much speed as possible especially on fast pokemon because there is so much competition with other fast pokemon
130 isnt even 'that' fast. it's top tier in speed but isn't over the top blisteringly fast (like deoxys-S fast) as there a number of other 130 base speed pokemon that will outrun you if you dont use timid (also even deoxys-s uses +speed nature lol)
the exception is if you want bulk over speed or if having that extra attack from the +attack nature will turn specific 3HKOs into 2HKOs and stuff like that, but generally its best to just max speed to outrun as many things as possible
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yes you pretty much always want as much speed as possible especially on fast pokemon because there is so much competition with other fast pokemon
130 isnt even 'that' fast. it's top tier in speed but isn't over the top blisteringly fast (like deoxys-S fast) as there a number of other 130 base speed pokemon that will outrun you if you dont use timid (also even deoxys-s uses +speed nature lol)
the exception is if you want bulk over speed or if having that extra attack from the +attack nature will turn specific 3HKOs into 2HKOs and stuff like that, but generally its best to just max speed to outrun as many things as possible
There are six things in the game that are faster than Mega Gengar (possibly barring other megas, I have no idea what most of them looks like), and three of those are Deoxys. Four things speed tie it, and all of them are either extremely frail or Uber. I'm not sure what the cutoff Speed to outspeed it with a +Speed nature if it doesn't have one is though.
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you're forgetting choice scarf
anyone with base 70 speed with a scarf will outrun base 130s with no plus speed nature
but with a plus speed nature, the fastest speed possible with a base 70 choice scarfer is outspeed by exactly 1 point :V
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you're forgetting choice scarf
anyone with base 70 speed with a scarf will outrun base 130s with no plus speed nature
but with a plus speed nature, the fastest speed possible with a base 70 choice scarfer is outspeed by exactly 1 point :V
I'm not forgetting Choice Scarf. Or Shell Smash or other options. Or Sticky Web dropping Gengar's Speed so that it has to try to outspeed stuff at -1. I'm not saying you're wrong, just looking at numbers.
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I'm not forgetting Choice Scarf. Or Shell Smash or other options. Or Sticky Web dropping Gengar's Speed so that it has to try to outspeed stuff at -1. I'm not saying you're wrong, just looking at numbers.
speed tiers are fucking confusing
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did someone say tiers (http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/ouspeed_tiers)
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Without Timid, you get outsped by +1 Tyranitar. Dugtrio, +1 Gyarados, Jolteon and tie with Starmie, Azelf and Raikou.
You really don't want to take a Ttar Pursuit.
Starmie Psychic is less of a deal since it's a coin flip to see who dies.
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POKERUS :o
I'd be alot more hapy if I cared about EV training. :V
And it stays on the pokemon if it's kept in the PC, right?
Yep. I'd probably spread it on a few more trash mobs you don't plan to use so you can make sure you have something with it.
After numerous frustrating attempts, I finally managed to get Ice Punch onto a Sneasel; now I just need to pass down some good Attack and Speed stats and I should have one I'm satisfied with.
On another note, how viable is Clawitzer right now? I was thinking of messing around with a Scarf'd one since I like it so much.
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y u no everstone breeding.
I am... not close to the level of ingrained into metagame as the remainder of this topic. I'm sorry /cries
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I managed to get to 41 out of 50 rounds in Battle Maison double battles. Little did I know they start sending out legendaries at that point.
The last one of my team was my Azumarill and my opponent had an injured Suicune and a newly released Regigigas. All I have to do is finish off Suicune and kill Regigigas with one or two Superpowers.
Suicune feints.
Regigigas uses Thunder.
It's super effective!
Azumarill feints.
...
All the despair...
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The trainers in Battle Maison are cheaters and they know it.
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I caved and bought Y on the 3DSwarez ;~; So far all I've caught and used are Gen 1 pokemon too which is awesome considering I've only ever played Blue/Red.
Do you think a lot of things changed for the ridiculous / just kind of strange with time? This is the sort of thing people talk about without having the right perspective themselves so I'm interested.
did someone say tiers (http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/ouspeed_tiers)
I used to know these really well once upon a time. *~* (that's a goomy face)
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I am likly to challenge some of you to battles now that I have cleared the game; especially since I want to test out a few things.
Still an in-game team though. So probobly awful :V
I have an idea of some stuff to breed though
Also willing to trade 1 version-exclusive -ite/Blastoiseite for a Pinsirite.
*Wants to goodguy before breeding for selfish purposes*
*2 Noibat Eggs*
*Both hatch before I get 3rd ._.*
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Yep. I'd probably spread it on a few more trash mobs you don't plan to use so you can make sure you have something with it.
How do you spread pokerus anyway?
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How do you spread pokerus anyway?
It's transferred after a battle. Just have your infected Pokemon next to 2 uninfected Pokemon in your team and go into a few battles. It's random, so the Pokerus might pass on after just one battle, or it might pass on after several. If your Pokemon becomes cured of the Pokerus (happens at midnight if the Pokemon's still in your party) there will be a small purple/pinkish face in its status window. These Pokemon retain the effects of the Pokerus but can not pass it along.
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*Trade some Noibats*
*Gets a Quad-Flawless Adamant Male Marill from Japan [HP; Atk; Speed; Ap.Atk; but it has Thick Fat]*
*Gets a Tri-Flawless Male Rhyhorn from Japan [HP; Atk; Speed]*
Welp; time to keep those for breeding fodder. Especially as I want to breed a Kangaskhan; and Rhyhorn and Kanga share the same egg group. I ven get the Matsuda Method as a bonus.
Also am I the only person who uses the 'Marking' feature to mark 31 IV's?
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I got the Pokerus from my addiction to Wonder Trade as well. I don't really get all this IV and EV (Eevee?) things and don't plan on minmaxing or doing Serious Post Game Battles, I just like picking cute or silly Pokemon and rolling with it but it's still something I want to put on everyone correct?
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*Gets Plant Badge*
... I should get Ocarina of Time for my 3DS...
Managed to get 2 Badges today after dragging my feet for so long. Hooray for training all those Bug Pokemon (it helped a lot with the Fighting Gym, too).
I also beat Emerald and caught Rayquaza (jerk), Groudon (jerk), and Kyogre (very cooperative), so now I can transfer them over to White 2 so I can form Captain Planet work on getting my Shiny Charm.
I got the Pokerus from my addiction to Wonder Trade as well. I don't really get all this IV and EV (Eevee?) things and don't plan on minmaxing or doing Serious Post Game Battles, I just like picking cute or silly Pokemon and rolling with it but it's still something I want to put on everyone correct?
EV = Effort Values. They're points you get for beating certain kinds of Pokemon that raise your stats. EG: Zubats are 1 EV for Speed, and every 4 EVs is +1 to your Speed Stat. Even if you don't care about EVs, Pokerus is still handy because you get twice the EVs, so think of it like buffing up your Pokemon.
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Xerneas has 31 IV in HP and SpAtk and a Quiet nature. Eye'm happy with this.
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Also am I the only person who uses the 'Marking' feature to mark 31 IV's?
Heck no. That's what it's basically for. I used to use that to mark EVs before they were visible in-game, or inverse to mark IVs on Dittos. But now that we can just look at EVs and IVs matter more, they're basically for IVs.
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Got a Quad Flawless Jolly Kanga... only Defense needed now.
Man this is fast.
Feel free to ask me for Kangas! Almost all of them have flawless Atk/Speed.
Also a lot less trash on Wonder Trade; everyone's tradeing bred stuff now.
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Also a lot less trash on Wonder Trade; everyone's tradeing bred stuff now.
I traded off a lot of my bred Sneasel on Wonder Trade before I went to bed last night; the last of the eight trades I did got me a JP Ditto with Def/SpDef/Speed IVs. Gonna try breeding that with some of my Bulbasaur/Ivysaur to see what magic unfolds.
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I hear you; I got a Protean Froakie off Wonder TRade immediately after another Froakie; while also getting a Chespin, Gale Wings Adamant Fletchling, two shuppets [From different regions] and a Bulbasaur.
A lot of the good stuff is coming from Japan; where WiFi battleing is biggest.
Anyway; every Kanga I'm getting is at least Duel-Flawless now; most are Tri-Flawless and I'm getting some Quads.
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just 4 pokemon left o/
so who has an articuno/zapdos and/or wants to help me evolve magmar/electabuzz
cause the gts trade evo thing doesnt work >_>
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I can get Articuno if I can hunt it down
Edit: Also I'm fine with helping you evolve your Electrabuzz/Magmar whenever you want it done; just ask me to trade.
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god fucking dammit
>have extra mewtwo
>see articuno for xerneas on gts
>trade mewtwo for xerneas
>articuno is gone
>have extra xerneas
>see zapdos on gts for mewtwo
>trade mewtwo for xerneas
>zapdos is gone
>see articuno for mewtwo
WHY
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Kangaskhan:
Ability: Scrappy
Nature: Jolly
IV's:
HP - 31
Atk - 31
Def - 29~30
Sp.Atk - 4~19
Sp.Def: 31
Speed: 31
(http://commadot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/closeEnough.png)
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so im on right now i have no idea what your characters name is
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so im on right now i have no idea what your characters name is
Elly; but give me a few mins; I gotta reset my game cause I used Rare Candies to check this Kanga's Defense IV and I'm leveling it to see if it's a 29 or a 30.
EDit; It's 29. 2 defense at Lv 100 isn't gonna kill me.
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pretty much since theres a ton of randomness to the damage formula anyways
its just speed that needs to be perfect
alright sweet thanks
now i just need them damn birds
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There's a pretty notable difference between; say; 0 and 31 defense; even 20 and 31 may be a decent impact.
29 and 31? Eh. I can live with that. Especially with no parents with perfect Def and the fact it hatched with Scrappy.
If anyone wants a *slightly* worse but still Quad Flawless Kanga to use MegaKanga on I'm up for giving it to you.
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*Trade some Noibats*
*Gets a Quad-Flawless Adamant Male Marill from Japan [HP; Atk; Speed; Ap.Atk; but it has Thick Fat]*
*Gets a Tri-Flawless Male Rhyhorn from Japan [HP; Atk; Speed]*
Welp; time to keep those for breeding fodder. Especially as I want to breed a Kangaskhan; and Rhyhorn and Kanga share the same egg group. I ven get the Matsuda Method as a bonus.
Also am I the only person who uses the 'Marking' feature to mark 31 IV's?
Fuck no, Me an a bunch of people I've gotten shit from do it too.
It's really really easy.
Also I'd say lucky bastard but I've gotten some okay stuff (And a japanese tri-flawless honedge)
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Just got a shiny Phantump is a friend safari. And it has its hidden ability, with max Attack, Defense, and Speed. I am happy with this. :D
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i think friend safaris have higher shiny rates cause man it just seems to shit out shinies
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I'm giving away Crandios and Shieldion with a free fossil, a 2 for 1 offer right now, for a limited time only, so hurry up before a trade them away via Wonder Trade.
Also I avoid the Metagame as much as possible, just pointing that out.
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I was grinding my Gourgeist up to level fifty for Battle Tower just mashing Shadow Sneak and I almost killed it. I was barely looking at the screen out of the corner of my eye and was like "Wait what, is that thing grey? Nothing in here is grey". Then I had to wait like 30 seconds for the camera to swing back around to it because it kept zooming in on Gourgeist.
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i think friend safaris have higher shiny rates cause man it just seems to shit out shinies
I think this is due to how the RNG works. Since two IVs are always set to max, it should be easier to get a personality value for a pokemon that turns it shiny since it's easier to get certain combinations in the RNG. That said, it should be easier or harder depending on your trainer and secret ID. I got a shiny Dunsparce and a shiny Gabite (which looks lame as a shiny Garchomp) this way.
Also those of you that saw me playing online, it was because I had left my 3DS at a friend's house. So my apologizes if "I" happened to pester you guys with trades or something.
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I think this is due to how the RNG works. Since two IVs are always set to max, it should be easier to get a personality value for a pokemon that turns it shiny since it's easier to get certain combinations in the RNG. That said, it should be easier or harder depending on your trainer and secret ID. I got a shiny Dunsparce and a shiny Gabite (which looks lame as a shiny Garchomp) this way.
Also those of you that saw me playing online, it was because I had left my 3DS at a friend's house. So my apologizes if "I" happened to pester you guys with trades or something.
shinyness has not worked that way for a long time dude
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shinyness has not worked that way for a long time dude
I'm pretty sure it did, at least in previous generations. I feel like I mentioned it before but my friend explained this to me since he has done RNG manipulation before. When a pokemon is generated, a random personality value, a 32 bit integer, is created that determines the pokemon you find, it's nature, ability, gender, etc. Shininess is one thing that is determined from this. When that personality value is xor (the bitwise operation xor, this is not a typo) with the secret and trainer ID and the result is less than 8 (older generations, this one we won't know yet), than the pokemon is shiny. This means that shinies of the same pokemon also will generally have similar abilities, IVs, gender, trait, etc. as each other for a particular trainer. I had 4 shiny corsola with 3 of them Jolly with 1 perfect stat in attack for 2 of them and 3 female. So the way the RNG works in this generation should be similar if not the same. Perhaps changing the less than 8 value to something like less than 32 to increase the encounter rate of shinies. Anyways, even if not this generation, this was how it worked before, and I'm just basing it off that (4th generation) since I never bought a 5th generation game.
EDIT: I just remembered that IVs are determined a different way since Gen 2. so that's just a coincidence most likely.
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I'm pretty sure it did, at least in previous generations. I feel like I mentioned it before but my friend explained this to me since he has done RNG manipulation before. When a pokemon is generated, a random personality value, a 32 bit integer, is created that determines the you find, it's nature, ability, gender, etc. Shininess is one thing that is determined from this. When that personality value is xor (the bitwise operation xor, this is not a typo) with the secret and trainer ID and the result is less than 8 (older generations, this one we won't know yet), than the pokemon is shiny. This means that shinies of the same pokemon also will generally have similar abilities, IVs, gender, trait, etc. as each other for a particular trainer. I had 4 shiny corsola with 3 of them Jolly with 1 perfect stat in attack for 2 of them and 3 female. So the way the RNG works in this generation should be similar if not the same. Perhaps changing the less than 8 value to something like less than 32 to increase the encounter rate of shinies. Anyways, even if not this generation, this was how it worked before, and I'm just basing it off that (4th generation) since I never bought a 5th generation game.
fuck i actually remember part of this now that you mention it.
guess you're probably right then
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But I thought IVs were independent of personality value, so I don't think it has anything to do with shinies appearing more frequently.
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But I thought IVs were independent of personality value, so I don't think it has anything to do with shinies appearing more frequently.
Yeah, I mentioned that in an edit of my previous post when I realized I was using synchronizers and cute charm male jigglypuff when I found my shinies, which was probably why it was easier finding certain shinies (since they changed the range of personality values on pokemon you find). But yes, IVs and shininess were not connected from gen 3 onwards. Gen 1 and 2 on the other hand were based on IVs so shinyness and IV values were interconnected.
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what
god damnit i'm too tired for this shit today to be right ;w;
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My team is coming along nicely. This is what I got so far:
SubSeed Gourgeist
Assault Vest Tentacruel
Mega Mawile
Scarfed Malamar
I just need a Magician Braixen and an Infiltrator Zubat to finish it. I have Gale Wings Fletchinder, Huge Power Diggersby, Prankster Sableye, Moxie Gyarados, Magic Guard Abra, Lightningrod Pikachu, and a ton of other stuff available for trade (granted much of that is through friend codes from this thread, but some of it may not be, I don't remember).
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Assault Vest Tentacruel
Scald, Sludge Bomb, Ice Beam?
I don't know anything else it can use properly. I don't see it doing much outside of rain support.
Also I have had no luck breeding an 31 Atk Adamant Shuppet so far, looks like I'll have to chain-IV breed from Bug to Amorphous.
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Don't forget Hidden Power and Rapid Spin.
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aqua jet adaptability crawdaunt
it's real
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aqua jet adaptability crawdaunt
it's real
No it ain't, Crawdaunt doesn't get Aqua Jet.
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Scald, Sludge Bomb, Ice Beam?
I don't know anything else it can use properly. I don't see it doing much outside of rain support.
Knock Off. It's not great, but it is interesting. And it had good defensive synergy with Gourgeist. The only major thing that pair seems to have trouble handling is physical dark moves, which Mawile loves to switch in on.
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Assault vest tentacruel would probably like giga drain to deal with gastrodon and other waters as well as a way to gain back health. I guess it can't have giga drain until the poke bank starts though.
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Alright, after a lot of lack of success with the GTS I have a male Magician Braixen. According to Serebii there's a small chance that a father can pass on its hidden ability, but only if it breeds with Ditto. Is that right? I thought it was only if they weren't breeding with Ditto. Regardless, does anyone actually know what that small chance is? Is it 10% small or 1% small? Am I wasting my time trying to fish a female Magician Fennekin out of this?
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I'm not sure the exact number but I don't think its that bad
however getting that + female might be difficult cause all starters only have a 1 in 8 chance of being female
I could help you get one since I'm pretty much done everything else although I still need articuno and zapdos
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Alright, after a lot of lack of success with the GTS I have a male Magician Braixen. According to Serebii there's a small chance that a father can pass on its hidden ability, but only if it breeds with Ditto. Is that right? I thought it was only if they weren't breeding with Ditto. Regardless, does anyone actually know what that small chance is? Is it 10% small or 1% small? Am I wasting my time trying to fish a female Magician Fennekin out of this?
Try the Friend Safari; I know Nobu has Braixen as her third. On that note, maybe it would be worth it to put together a list of the known Friend Safaris from people in the list in the OP?
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I'm not sure the exact number but I don't think its that bad
however getting that + female might be difficult cause all starters only have a 1 in 8 chance of being female
I could help you get one since I'm pretty much done everything else although I still need articuno and zapdos
I'll take one if you got an extra. That would save me some time.
Try the Friend Safari; I know Nobu has Braixen as her third. On that note, maybe it would be worth it to put together a list of the known Friend Safaris from people in the list in the OP?
Nobu will have not added me then, because I don't see her.
I don't know if it's worth putting available Pokemon on the front page or not. Ideally everybody would add everybody rather than just the couple of things they want, but I guess having more information available wouldn't hurt.
Edit: Took me five eggs to get a female Magician Fennekin. Not bad. Maybe I got lucky. So I don't need that any more, but I do need a female Infiltrator Zubat. I was trying to find one in hordes earlier but didn't find a single Infiltrator in ten Zubat hordes or so, so I gave up.
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Copycat can no longer call Roar for use.
WELL THEN
SO MUCH FOR THAT
R.I.P. A TRUE DOGE
wow
so sad
such dissapoint
alright so i found a ditto safari and bred and trained some guys so if anyone wants to battle I'm finally ready :V
also still looking for zapdos and articuno if anyone has one *winkwinknudgenudgecoughcough*
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...I should probably do the same instead of breeding the exact two mons :v but efffoorrrt ;w;
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why are there cat memes in this game
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why are there cat memes in this game
Somebody's been playing Battle Maison. :D
I guess it's because there are a crapload of trainers and they got bored thinking of things for them all to say, so they started getting creative and sometimes crazy. The battle subway was the same way.
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well i've pretty much caught them all (minus those two damn birds) and i've raised a full team and then some so it's time to
pottlebattle :V
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My team is a few days from being done I think. I've made significant progress on getting my Delphox (breeding starters is hard), so there's just one left after that. Then we should battle (although my team will be questionable even when finished and my 3DS wireless has been less than stable for some reason).
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YES. I've finally got the Tanga berry. Now it's time to do some botany and breed me some
perfect EV stat raising berries.
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man, the Battle Chatelaine's designs are fucking awesome
goddamn (http://airiban.tumblr.com/post/64709946502/battle-chatelaines)
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I like how despite the low-cut they have no cleavage.
They're clearly also pokemon.
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I've only seen the first two in-game.
I mean who actually plays triple and rotation.
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I've only seen the first two in-game.
I mean who actually plays triple and rotation.
I had 3/4 of a triple battle team in Black 2 that I didn't finish because XY came out. So... People who have done absolutely everything else play triple battles, almost. No idea who plays rotation battles.
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more like who plays multi
fucking ally ai is so garbage STOP KILLING ME WITH EARTHQUAKES WHAT IS THIS 3v1!?
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No it ain't, Crawdaunt doesn't get Aqua Jet.
fuckers lied to me saying Crawdaunt got Aqua Jet in gen6 as an egg move? >:|
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fuckers lied to me saying Crawdaunt got Aqua Jet in gen6 as an egg move? >:|
I just checked the Smogon research thread to make sure and whoops, it does. Not sure what tripped me up because I checked a bunch of places. <_<
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Mega Gengar
When Gengar Mega Evolves into Mega Gengar, its Sp. Atk rises significantly, putting it in the top tier of all Pok?mon.
this is from the official pokemon website :V :V
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So according to Nintendo Gengar is Uber now?
That said; Nintendo/Gamefreak isn't exactly good at balancing stuff. See: Flareon compared to Vaporeon and Jolteon
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Just you wait, Flareon will get Sacred Fire or V-Create or something like that through move tutor. I can feel it in my bones.
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this is from the official pokemon website :V :V
Can we just call it? Gentlemen's agreement that Mega Gengar does not exist and shall never be used by anyone ever? :D
I'm starting to feel that way about Aegislash too, although I'm sure that's just Ferrothorn-style overexposure.
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My money is on Aegislash being OU, not Uber. TBH I don't think there's any guarantee that Mega Gengar will be Uber, either. It's definitely up there but I think a lot of people are overstating its broken-ness.
I have a buttload of Timid Protean Froakies if anyone wants one. I'm also gonna need more FCs for Friend Safari! Mine again is 1392-4443-0026.
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I'll be kind of shocked if Aegislash it uber. I wish I didn't have to see it every single match ever forever, but I don't think it's powerful enough to have to be uber. It occupies that unfortunate design space of "not so powerful it necessitates being removed from play, but deliberately overpowered enough that there's barely a reason ever not to use it".
What do you think the odds of Blaziken being de-ubered are? People have made the case that it's totally balanced now for whatever reason, but I have my doubts.
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Blaziken being de-Ubered? I don't see why it would be. What's the rationale behind that?
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im pretty sure the tiers are reset with the new gen and no one is uber right now except for really really obvious pokemon like Mewtwo, Xerneas, and Yvetal
after all the initial research is done then the new tiers will be sorted out
the official list of ubers right now for XY is:
Arceus
Darkrai
Deoxys-A
Dialga
Giratina
Giratina-O
Groudon
Ho-oh
Kyogre
Kyurem-W
Lugia
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin-S
Xerneas
Yveltal
Zekrom
and the ability Moody
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My money is on Aegislash being OU, not Uber. TBH I don't think there's any guarantee that Mega Gengar will be Uber, either. It's definitely up there but I think a lot of people are overstating its broken-ness.
I have a buttload of Timid Protean Froakies if anyone wants one. I'm also gonna need more FCs for Friend Safari! Mine again is 1392-4443-0026.
Pretty sure I have you added already. Mines in the OP but it's 4570-7511-6543.
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also yeah jt i added you day one but you never added me back you bum >:<
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Wow, Skarmory looks super weird in 3D. FLAP YOUR WINGS YOUR WEIRDO HOW ARE YOU FLYING.
Blaziken being de-Ubered? I don't see why it would be. What's the rationale behind that?
I've heard "Talonflame beats it" and "honk honk Sticky Web". Being a paranoid jerk, my assumption is always "This is just an excuse to easy-button sweep, isn't it? :derp:", but I don't really play OU so I don't know if that might actually be true.
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Wow, Skarmory looks super weird in 3D. FLAP YOUR WINGS YOUR WEIRDO HOW ARE YOU FLYING.
I've heard "Talonflame beats it" and "honk honk Sticky Web". Being a paranoid jerk, my assumption is always "This is just an excuse to easy-button sweep, isn't it? :derp:", but I don't really play OU so I don't know if that might actually be true.
Talonflame OHKOs Blaziken with CB Brave Bird. Sticky Web is a weaker argument because it's not that great in higher tiers, but Galvantula does outspeed Blaziken before and after mega-evolution, for what that is worth.
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Pretty sure I have you added already. Mines in the OP but it's 4570-7511-6543.
also yeah jt i added you day one but you never added me back you bum >:<
Ah, just got you both. For some reason it never occurred to me that there might be a convenient list of friend codes in the OP. :derp:
I just skimmed through it now and added everyone who's recently posted in the thread. Anyone else who I might have missed, let me know.
I've heard "Talonflame beats it" and "honk honk Sticky Web". Being a paranoid jerk, my assumption is always "This is just an excuse to easy-button sweep, isn't it? :derp:", but I don't really play OU so I don't know if that might actually be true.
Yeah, that reasoning sounds a bit flimsy to me as well. My knowledge of the metagame isn't exactly MLG tier though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. :x
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Sticky web has shit distro. Like basically the only relevant thing maybe with it is galvy-baby.
Talonflame wrecking it's shit barely means anything.
Talonflame wrecks a lot of shit before he dies and he will die because his stats are not as great as his ability.
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Dont forget weather was a much bigger factor last gen which let Blaziken hit EVEN HARDER in the sun (and switching any of the other weather users into Blaziken would be a bad bad idea)
Also Blaziken kills himself pretty much as fast as Talonflame does due to having same HP stat (Blaizken has 4 more HP) and eating 50% off a missed HJK (which you can induce with a ghost type switch in)
He does get to avoid stealth rock pains though
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Talonflame OHKOs Blaziken with CB Brave Bird. Sticky Web is a weaker argument because it's not that great in higher tiers, but Galvantula does outspeed Blaziken before and after mega-evolution, for what that is worth.
Oh man, does Talonflame need to be banded to one-shot Blaziken? That doesn't seem great.
Sticky web has shit distro. Like basically the only relevant thing maybe with it is galvy-baby.
Talonflame wrecking it's shit barely means anything.
Talonflame wrecks a lot of shit before he dies and he will die because his stats are not as great as his ability.
I had heard that Forretress was supposed to get Sticky Web. Was that a make-'em-up, or does it just not matter because Forretress is busy doing other stuff?
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oh yeah Azumarill resists both of Blaziken's stabs now and can ohko with priority aqua jet
and i dont think the forretress thing is true
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Man, Shuckle could be a thing now between Infestation and Sticky Web.
Can anyone confirm what Binding Band does now? I was kind of surprised to see that it was even still in the game, but any increase to residual damage over 1/8 is pretty good.
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Binding band increases the damage from 1/8 to 1/6 per turn
Since infestation locks the enemy for 4-5 turns it will bring them pretty close to death if you can survive that long without leftovers
ahaha i just noticed that smogon still calls everyone fat when you quote them
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Binding band increases the damage from 1/8 to 1/6 per turn
Since infestation locks the enemy for 4-5 turns it will bring them pretty close to death if you can survive that long without leftovers
Daaaamn!
Shuckle with Sticky Web/Infestation/Protect/Toxic? Use it as a lead, and your opponent has to choose between setting up their rocks and getting demolished by Shuckle or switching out into something that can handle him. (I don't actually know what leads Shuckle can stand up to, but I like that idea. Also if they want to stack Spikes you're semi-boned, if anyone is even going to bother running Spikes any more.)
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I think spikes is still okay, I mean people used toxic spikes despite the fact that all you needed to do was switch in a poison type to eat them up
That set kinda lacks healing though so its likely it will get brutally Rorschached in those 5 turns
Also taunt
Also JT your friend safari is Sawk and Mienfoo
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I think spikes is still okay, I mean people used toxic spikes despite the fact that all you needed to do was switch in a poison type to eat them up
That set kinda lacks healing though so its likely it will get brutally Rorschached in those 5 turns
Also taunt
Also JT your friend safari is Sawk and Mienfoo
As someone who uses the shit out of Toxic Spikes, that's because people don't use grounded Poison types, at least not in NU. I'm anticipating that not really working any more with fairies being around and potentially making Poison more commonly-used. I'm fine with just one layer of Toxic Spikes being up most of the time, but are Spikes worth it with just one layer? Then again Greninja can do plenty of other stuff if your opponent looks like they might be in a position to suddenly Defog you, so it might just be a matter of picking your battles.
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if you want to do something really silly, run shell smash with contrary to boost your defenses to legendary levels, then infestation/toxic things to death and heal with rest
the fact that crits were nerfed to 1.5x helps a lot
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if you want to do something really silly, run shell smash with contrary to boost your defenses to legendary levels, then infestation/toxic things to death and heal with rest
the fact that crits were nerfed to 1.5x helps a lot
You KNOW I want to do something really silly. Infestation/Rest/Shell Smash/Power Split. :D
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Anything that makes Shuckle even better is a good thing in my book. :D
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COME ON NINTENDO, GIVE SHUCKLE CONTRARY OVERHEAT. Make that base 10 attack a force to be reckoned with. :derp:
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if you really want gimmicky power look no further than SWAGKEY (http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/pokebankoubeta-58732999)
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Now that I have my Magician Delphox finished I've got to test it and figure out if Magician triggers off of non-damaging moves. If it does I don't think I can ever use Prankster Klefki again, because Magician has too much goof potential. Got my fingers crossed that someone can figure out how to give Klefki Fling, because the idea of repeatedly wanging its opponents with their own items is too appealing to let go.
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if you really want gimmicky power look no further than SWAGKEY (http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/pokebankoubeta-58732999)
That was... beautiful. :,)
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if you really want gimmicky power look no further than SWAGKEY (http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/pokebankoubeta-58732999)
banthisthing: you know you're such a cunt
:* hahahahahahaha
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so right now I'm looking at Goodra, Garchump, Arcanine, Rotom-OU, TogeKISSMEYOUSTUD, and something else. Maybe a scolipede for lol speed boost baton OH SHIT MEGACHUMP WITH ACTUAL SPEED.
how badly am I going to get wrecked
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banthisthing: you know you're such a cunt
:* hahahahahahaha
banthisthing: why would you use something so cheap which takes no skill?
banthisthing: do you actually have fun sitting there doing nothing?
Honestly I fucking hate this mindset. This Klefki can be countered in many ways, really. Like, you know, not always being on the offensive and smacking it with paralysis to trip it up and stop the onslaught of prankster'd fun or burning it to counter its recovery or I don't know STOP FEEDING IT KILLS because you keep falling for the same trick? Or send out something with a dark resistance? Or something that resists paralysis like idk every electric pokemon ever now?
It's not that the strategy lacks skill, or else you could say the same for sending out a scarf'd pokemon and just bashing the hell out of stuff before they can hit back. It's that you lack the skill to counter uncommon strategies.
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Matsy I saw you say toxic at first.
I am -ashamed- in you.
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That's a totally legitimate complaint in some cases. Though I guess you weren't making that argument.
Like, a lot of times a strategy that involves one or maybe even two mons just sitting there and spamming their obvious strategy to win matches is considered void of skill because you can play all your matches like this and win in the same way / lose in a bunch of different ways.
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I'm all for calling people out when they're easy button-ing their way through a game. That is not what just happened there.
Also, I don't imagine it stands up too well in actual play, but in the Battle Maison I've been loving Scarfed Malamar. That little freak can take hits shockingly well after just one Superpower boost. I've seen it survive U-Turns a few times already. Sure, ghosts stop the +1 train, but that just means it gets to come back later with Night Slash. And I do love TrickScarf in 3v3s, where it's that much more crippling.
Edit: Ha ha, just killed a guy with a +5 Struggle!
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oh god boosted struggle
the true meta nightmare
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Daaaamn!
Shuckle with Sticky Web/Infestation/Protect/Toxic?
Jumpluff @ Binding Band with Infiltrator: Infestation/Leech Seed/Substitute
Shuckle is pretty good with Acupressure/Rest/Sleep Talk/Rollout
I mean if you make sure they don't set up on you or taunt you.
It's not that the strategy lacks skill, or else you could say the same for sending out a scarf'd pokemon and just bashing the hell out of stuff before they can hit back. It's that you lack the skill to counter uncommon strategies.
The complaint is more like the set relies too much on luck, confusion gives you a 50% chance of not hitting which means you can get paralzyed the next time, decreasing your chances of hitting it even further. And if you have terrible luck it can literally take down your counters since people don't use Own Tempo things. And if you try to non-priority paralyze then it's just going to substitute so there's really not much you can do.
This is the smogon mindset of course which harps on about minimizing the dice roll victories and then you go on Wi-fi vs the jps and their Blisseys minimize all over you instead.
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It's not that the strategy lacks skill, or else you could say the same for sending out a scarf'd pokemon and just bashing the hell out of stuff before they can hit back. It's that you lack the skill to counter uncommon strategies.
The best part is, if the Genesect didn't freeze the Klefki I am 100% sure the Klefki would have 6-0'd him.
The saddest part is, 75% of Swagkey is shut down by Taunt. Unfortunately though there is the caveat where you won't get the Taunt off first and will have to deal with getting Swagger'd beforehand, and then it becomes a luckfest. Swagger Klefki is literally a 95% luck-based mon that requires insane luck to make sure that:
A ) you don't hit yourself in confusion
B ) you don't get fully paralyzed
C ) you get through a Klefki sub
In other news, http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/67729286?page=10 <-- GameFAQs flips out over the Ditto trading moratorium.
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...you can't trade dittos anymore? Lameee >:
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...you can't trade dittos anymore? Lameee >:
Just kidding. It's just GameFAQs being stupid.
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Matsy I saw you say toxic at first.
I am -ashamed- in you.
You hush! >:O
Like, a lot of times a strategy that involves one or maybe even two mons just sitting there and spamming their obvious strategy to win matches is considered void of skill because you can play all your matches like this and win in the same way / lose in a bunch of different ways.
I know. But that's also the thing: pretty much everything has a counter. If you're not even going to try to counter an obvious strategy, then you really have no right to complain.
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I used to run across dudes like this all the time when I used to play StarCraft. The sore loser meltdowns always were one of the best parts of that game. Like fried chicken, man. So succulent and delicious.
But yeah, I totally agree with you. Not only does this way of thinking demonstrate poor sportsmanship, I think it's also counterproductive in terms of one's own strategy. Writing something off as cheap or unfair can blind you to potential counters. Even when the odds really are stacked against you, it's better to approach it from the perspective of "How can I still win?" than "This is unwinnable." Every strategy can be beaten somehow.
Swagger Klefki is literally a 95% luck-based mon that requires insane luck
I was just going to say that. Even in a favorable situation like this where the guy was unprepared, there were a few points where Swagkey would have likely eaten it anyway if she hadn't been as lucky. Which makes the indignant rage all the more hilarious.
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Just kidding. It's just GameFAQs being stupid.
...you sure? FourLETMETALKABOUTHOWIWOULDFUCKTHISCHARACTER is reporting you can't as well.
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But yeah, I totally agree with you. Not only does this way of thinking demonstrate poor sportsmanship, I think it's also counterproductive in terms of one's own strategy. Writing something off as cheap or unfair can blind you to potential counters. Even when the odds really are stacked against you, it's better to approach it from the perspective of "How can I still win?" than "This is unwinnable." Every strategy can be beaten somehow.
Swagkey isn't unfair but I think you're deluding yourself if you don't consider it cheap, because it is! It's an incredibly easy move-set to obtain, requires virtually no skill on the user to use it, and is overall just very effective at what it does for such low effort. But yeah it is hardly unfair. Just... one of those low-effort high-reward setups that infuriate people.
I was just going to say that. Even in a favorable situation like this where the guy was unprepared, there were a few points where Swagkey would have likely eaten it anyway if she hadn't been as lucky. Which makes the indignant rage all the more hilarious.
No, I meant the guy needed insane luck to make sure that the cards didn't play against him when Swagkey already laid down all the cards on the table. Being able to break past both Confusion and Paralysis takes some luck. There are definitely counters though I won't argue that.
I know. But that's also the thing: pretty much everything has a counter. If you're not even going to try to counter an obvious strategy, then you really have no right to complain.
That guy had virtually nothing to stop that Klefki outside of his Rotom-W getting incredibly lucky and just bursting down Swagkey, though, which is the problem. He was completely unprepared for Swagger Klefki.
...you sure? FourLETMETALKABOUTHOWIWOULDFUCKTHISCHARACTER is reporting you can't as well.
Someone on Smogon IRC literally just traded a 2 31 IV Ditto on Wonder Trade about an hour ago.
e: http://www.siliconera.com/2013/11/04/dragon-type-overpowered-admits-pokemon-director/
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The E4 + Champion this gen...
I am disappoint.
I wasn't even really overleveled, I entered 64 - 68 with one 59.
/shrug
Oh well, I get to do postgame things now.
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Swagger Klefki pretty much falls under Evasion Clause, or a lesser version of it. Evasion Clause is, basically, about making the metagame healthier by minimizing luck-based strategies that require narrow, bad counters that you wouldn't otherwise have a reason to use. That doesn't mean that I think it should be banned (maybe if every single team had one suddenly, but that's true of nearly everything), but it does kind of work against that mindset. Parafusion's nothing new though and there are more ways to be Substitute than there have been, so whatever.
Edit: I just re-read that and realized it's a half-formed thought that doesn't really make sense. I'll clarify that what I mean is "Swagki is a similar to the kind of stuff that Evasion Clause discourages, so I can see why people don't like it. I don't see how it's that much different than the generally accepted paraflinch or whatever though, so unless it proves to be so strong that people are consistently winning games just based on it, which seems unlikely, it's probably fine". Lum Berry would be a nasty surprise for Klefki and is not actually that low-utility, so it seems like a reasonable thing to expect someone to have. I'm generally in favor of anything that makes the item pool more diverse than "DUR FIVE LEFTOVERS AND A CHOICE SCARF".
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swagkey carries a big risk if you get unlucky though cause then you just gave your opponent a free SD and then you get swept
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I find it amusing that I may have caught the first ever shiny version of what may be the most annoying pokemon ever.
On that topic; yo; Commandercool; can I have my Klefki back so I can turn it into a Swagkey and annoy some Uber-users online with it in all it's **GOLDEN SWAG**
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oh shit right shiny klefki is golden
now THAT is some REAL SWAG :V
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Clearly gamefreak knew Swagkey was a thing.
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I find it amusing that I may have caught the first ever shiny version of what may be the most annoying pokemon ever.
On that topic; yo; Commandercool; can I have my Klefki back so I can turn it into a Swagkey and annoy some Uber-users online with it in all it's **GOLDEN SWAG**
Heck yeah! Do you have a reset bag for its wonky stats?
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Heck yeah! Do you have a reset bag for its wonky stats?
Yep; and I'm online atm; and will be for about 40 mins more.
Anything in particular you want/need?
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Yep; and I'm online atm; and will be for about 40 mins more.
Anything in particular you want/need?
I will not be home for around an hour, and then not for very long. I'm in class right now. I'll be back for the night around four hours from now, and will try to be online as much as possible after that.
The main thing I'm looking for right now is an Infiltrator Zubat, preferably a female. And/or something with Pokerus. If you don't have extras of either of those things, just send me a whatever.
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I will not be home for around an hour, and then not for very long. I'm in class right now. I'll be back for the night around four hours from now, and will try to be online as much as possible after that.
The main thing I'm looking for right now is an Infiltrator Zubat, preferably a female. And/or something with Pokerus. If you don't have extras of either of those things, just send me a whatever.
I don't have any of those; and I won't be online at that specific time window either.
But there's no rush.
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so uh im probably gonna need to get articuno off you since EVERYONE ON THE GTS HAS MOLTRES and there are pretty much no non ridiculous articunos and every zapdos wants an articuno
i guess everyone started froakie
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Well I'll have to corner it; and Articuno is proving most un-cooperative about doing that.
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I pretty much just kept flying to cities that had a ton of routes connected to it
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Just wait 'till December, I'll rain legendary birds down upon the land. I think I have like four of each at this point since they keep popping up in every game. And by then it won't matter because everyone else will have a bunch too. :V
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I wanna catch em all before December though since I already have everyone ready in BW :V
All I need is those two damn birdsss
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Think I got a Zapdos cornered or close to it. I'll check on it tonight. You can have it if it's there.
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i guess everyone started froakie
That would explain why none of the Froakies I put on the GTS ever get traded. :/
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Battle Maison:
*Switch my Gourgeist into an Escavalier*
*Frisk finds Quick Claw*
Hmm, I really hope that doesn't activate before I get a chance to burn it.
*Quick Claw activates*
*Critical hit*
Gourgeist is still well above half HP. Nice try, Battle Maison.
*Burn with Will 'O Wisp*
*Quick Claw activates again*
*Critical hit again*
Even this business can't bring down the mighty gourd!
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All I need is those two damn birdsss
Might as well, I'll be online with Articuno. Zapdos is the only bird I don't have yet, so can't help you there.
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Might as well, I'll be online with Articuno. Zapdos is the only bird I don't have yet, so can't help you there.
oh sweet :D
you can have a timid mewtwo cause i've been trying to trade it for articuno anyways
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Suddenly I have the urge to breed a perfect shiny Swagki
sometime at least
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oh sweet :D
you can have a timid mewtwo cause i've been trying to trade it for articuno anyways
There was an error with my internet, did you get it?
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There was an error with my internet, did you get it?
yep!
and with that
(http://i.imgur.com/oguKVT2.jpg)
I've caught em all!
...well as much as possible until december >_>
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Well, what do you know. I got another Articuno in wonder trade for some reason. Don't suppose you have my old Articuno anymore do you Suikama.
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nope sorry traded it for zapdos :derp:
want it? :V
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I'll eventually restart the game again for the last bird, just thought having the one I caught would be better. :derp:
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If anyone has a female togepi
in a premier ball
that they could trade me, I'd appreciate it.
In return I could give, I don't know, Chansey, HA Corphish, Rocks Careful Larvitar, anything really.
Nvm I guess I'll find it by myself (which I did).
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so uh
(http://i.imgur.com/OHyXdFc.png)
they look too similar for comfort
professor i just came to show you my pokedex, please put your clothes back on
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Hey Raikara, I'm home right now and should be for two hours if you want to get your Klefki. I'll try to be online as much as possible although my 3DS wireless drops a lot.
so uh
(http://i.imgur.com/OHyXdFc.png)
they look too similar for comfort
professor i just came to show you my pokedex, please put your clothes back on
This has been noted, and rightly so. :D
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Online; IGN is Elly
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Online; IGN is Elly
Be right back on. Think my wireless went out.
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I've been trying to catch an Infiltrator Zubat from hordes for you but every single one as Inner Focus...
Anyway; now to create the MOST SWAG SWAGKI
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That's what I'm doing right now, fighting Zubat hordes. Well over 30 of them now I think without any Infiltrators. Maybe there were a couple in there and I missed them, but I've been checking fairly thoroughly. Does anyone know what the actual frequency of hidden abilities in hordes is? I thought it was higher than this. People definitely do seem to have reported getting Infiltrator Zubats this way, so it should be possible.
Anyway, I'm going to start putting Magician Fennekins up on the GTS requesting Infiltrator Zubats and see if anyone both takes me up and reads and respects my request. Looks like the usual bunch of goons around GTS so I don't have high hopes for this avenue, but that is how I got Magician after just three tries, so it could happen.
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How do you check horde abilities? Spam gastro acid on them?
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How do you check horde abilities? Spam gastro acid on them?
For Infiltrator I put up a Substitute and waste time until I see each of them attack me once (which can take a while for Zubats because they love their fucking Supersonic, which bypasses Substitute anyway). I don't know what it looks like exactly when an Infiltrator bypasses a Substitute, but I assume it involves my Pokemon taking the damage somehow and not the Substitute, which has yet to happen.
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Has it been mentioned that the abilities Refrigerate, Aerialate, and Pixilate not only give normal moves STAB, but also an extra 33% boost? I was thinking of moves to use aside from Return, after the 33% and STAB Hyper Beam is 300 power. Is it worth using it with Mega Gardevior?
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Has it been mentioned that the abilities Refrigerate, Aerialate, and Pixilate not only give normal moves STAB, but also an extra 33% boost? I was thinking of moves to use aside from Return, after the 33% and STAB Hyper Beam is 300 power. Is it worth using it with Mega Gardevior?
It's almost certainly worth it in doubles, but it still might be too risky in normal battles. But Hyper Beam is so cool that you should totally do it anyway. When are we getting gems other than Normal Gem? I like the idea of Hyper Beam Ice Gem Aurorus. :D
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Argh. I challenged a friend to a battle today and I almost won- if it weren't for his fucking Aegislash
It makes me so angry
On an unrelated note, I will be adding everyone on the friend code list so I can get utterly destroyed :3c
Let's all battle each other, it will be the most fun
Edit:
So I guess a bunch of you already added me and I never added anyone before this and now I am sad
Editedit: You should totes add something to the OP about Friend Safari types.
Spoiler: Mine is disappointing as fuck
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Random question - is there a way to search in the Global Trade by Pokemon you want to give away? I only just got to Third Gym Town and my Pokeyman knowledge is limited to Gen 1 and like a third of Gen 4 so I don't even know my choices of what I want to search for and what's even obtainable due to version transfers, but I know what I'm willing to pawn off.
I've actually had surprisingly good luck with it, same with Wonder Trade oh god I am so addicted to that.
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You should totes add something to the OP about Friend Safari types.
First of I don't have everyone on the OP unlocked with all 3 of their Pokemon and I'm not really sure of the usefulness of it.
If you are looking for a certain Pokemon, you can just search for the safari's which have the proper type.Argh. I challenged a friend to a battle today and I almost won- if it weren't for his fucking Aegislash
I was worried about Aegislash for a long time until I found out most popular defensive walls can check it if not counter it.
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Whew, I just bred my first pokemon with perfect IVs. I now have an Adamant Breloom with bullet seed. The whole breeding process took me about 8 hours. Not too bad, I guess.
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I wasted like two hours last night breeding after forgetting to attach a Destiny Knot. I wondered why the stats on everything were consistently coming out so bad. :wat:
Despite that, as of a few minutes ago I have the male Swanna that I need to make my Crobat ready to go, I just need the Zubat. Damn you Zubat, since when are you hard to get?!
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This guy really wants his shiny fish Pokemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBGHUfw-Ho
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So Gems only boost by 30% now
so much for SD acrobatics Talonflame sweep
guess the choice band is staying on him
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So Gems only boost by 30% now
so much for SD acrobatics Talonflame sweep
guess the choice band is staying on him
Wait, what? Why? Why bother to nerf that of all things? :wat:
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they were really strong in doubles
like dragon gem draco meter oops everyone's dead
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I know it, I play doubles some. So is Protect. It's really easy to waste your item. Now they're so much weaker than Life Orb that I can't really see ever using one outside of Acrobatics/Unburden abuse maybe. One of my growing annoyances with this metagame is how centralized the items are, and something that further confirms that dominance of the ~three items that are actually good enough to bother using doesn't sit well with me. I guess it's nice that Assault Vest has joined the pantheon of not-underpowered items, but I would much rather see extremely niche items get buffed, not nerfed deeper into their niches.
What do you think? Can you see yourself using a gem for non-Acrobatics reasons at this point? Or are Unburden-like effects enough to justify the existence of 17-18 distinct items?
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it would definitely be nice to have more items because of the stupid item clause
i wouldnt care if i could use 6 leftovers but i cant because 1: theres only 1 leftovers item in the game and 2: item clause which is kinda dumb cause all it really does is limit team building
like if i wanted more healing i'd have to use a poison type with black sludge or someone with poison heal because there aren't really other healing options except for lol berries
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That is kind of the opposite of how I feel. I think that's a result of poor balance, not the way things should be (if that is in fact what you're saying, I guess I don't know if it is). I wish we could have item clause and have it be a thing, but Nintendo has chosen to make most items such for some reason. If Shell Bell actually worked and there were some more options it wouldn't be so limiting to not be able to use Leftovers x6. Basically, I wish item choice was a part of team building and not 95% autopilot non-choice.
Anyway, it is possible to get more Leftovers in the same game, but it involves Pickup and a tooooon of grinding. Might be worth it with five or six Pickup users maybe?
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is shell bell even in this game i dont think ive seen it
also 6 leftovers is far from optimal after like gen 5 where everyone was hyper offense and could 2HKO regardless of if you had leftovers or not
item choice is really fine as is i mean there isn't really an auto pilot item choice because they all have downsides. choice items lock you to one move, life orb drains hp, focus sash and berries work only once. leftovers doesnt really have a main downside but it's more that it's effect is really weak thanks to all the hyper offense created by the other items (especially choice band/specs/life orb)
but my point is i should be able to use 6 leftovers if i want to because that's allowing more team variations while enforcing item clause forces people to use pokemon who use other items optimally for literally no gain in balance
like for instance assault vest really only works for tanky hard hitters like tyrannitar and heatran and item clause causes them to be optimal choices over other tanky pokemon that need leftovers
pretty much i dont see how limiting choice is supposed to be either good for balance or for anything
also why is there no physical version of assault vest
this is like gen 3 all over where there was choice band but no choice specs :/
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is shell bell even in this game i dont think ive seen it
also 6 leftovers is far from optimal after like gen 5 where everyone was hyper offense and could 2HKO regardless of if you had leftovers or not
item choice is really fine as is i mean there isn't really an auto pilot item choice because they all have downsides. choice items lock you to one move, life orb drains hp, focus sash and berries work only once. leftovers doesnt really have a main downside but it's more that it's effect is really weak thanks to all the hyper offense created by the other items (especially choice band/specs/life orb)
but my point is i should be able to use 6 leftovers if i want to because that's allowing more team variations while enforcing item clause forces people to use pokemon who use other items optimally for literally no gain in balance
like for instance assault vest really only works for tanky hard hitters like tyrannitar and heatran and item clause causes them to be optimal choices over other tanky pokemon that need leftovers
pretty much i dont see how limiting choice is supposed to be either good for balance or for anything
I don't know if Shell Bell is still around. I haven't seen it. It shouldn't be, honestly.
And I understand that point, but currently teambuilding is "everything defaults to Leftovers always except for the rare cases when you decide to change it out for something else" which seems weak to me. I'm not necessarily advocating for item clause (it obviously doesn't work right now, anyway), but in an ideal world, at least in my opinion, there would be enough compelling options that duplicate items would be rare because items are balanced against each-other. Which goes back to, why nerf items that barely see any use anyway?
also why is there no physical version of assault vest
this is like gen 3 all over where there was choice band but no choice specs :/
Because physical attacking didn't need balancing but special attacking did. That's why special moves got a power drop and physical moves didn't, and why Hidden Power got nerfed. That's my guess, anyway.
Alternate answer: There is a physical Assault Vest, but Furfrou stole it. :derp:
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And I understand that point, but currently teambuilding is "everything defaults to Leftovers always except for the rare cases when you decide to change it out for something else"
that's not really true at all
only tanks and bulky pokemon want leftovers, and bulky pokemon were shat on pretty hard last gen (poor swampert ;-;)
any hard hitter wants choice band/specs
any sweeper wants life orbs
revengers want choice specs
fragile revengers or set up pokemon like smeargle want focus sash
pre evo forms want evolite
and theres a bunch of other options like shed shell, custap berry, etc
with the damage nerfs bulky attacker and leftovers might make a comeback though, but assault vest is nice too
also dont forget MEGA STONES :V
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http://satorikomeiji.tumblr.com/post/66324743028/professorbel-porcubird-some-trainer
okay okay fine I'll breed a good Azumarill
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i could just give you one of mine :V
also imo azumarill is one of the best pokemon in the game now
its bulky, its strong, it has priority, and its adorable WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR REALLY
http://satorikomeiji.tumblr.com/post/66324743028/professorbel-porcubird-some-trainer
okay okay fine I'll breed a good Azumarill
lol i just realized the other guy literally just used their ingame team and is probably like 12 years old :V
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Many sweepers still use Leftovers, if they're setup-style or use Substitute. Maybe that's just/mostly an NU thing?*
I very rarely see Focus Sash on anything, but never on revengers unless they're Alakazam. It's just too difficult to keep intact.
Choice and Life Orb fall under the very tiny "pantheon of general-use items".
The rest are very niche, with like 0-2 common users. Stuff like Custap Berry, Eviolite outside of Little Cup, and Shed Shell (and Focus Sash I guess) are the kind of items I'd like to see more of what with being able to team build around them, but they don't buck the trend too hard right now given how few things fall under that umbrella.
But most importantly, oh shit I did forget mega stones. :wat: That shakes stuff up a lot obviously.
And speaking of items, is anyone using Safety Goggles? I heard some buzz around them early on but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to use them on, especially with Sleep Powder/Spore getting nerfed twice this generation.
*Maybe my whole experience with this is based on primarily playing NU. I guess it's possible Leftovers sees more use there than in other tiers. But ~4 on every team is pretty common.
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it makes sense that there would be more leftovers in lower tiers because the really hard hitters are usually what sent them to the lower tiers in the first place :V
also some people called UU gen 4 OU :V
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There are hard hitters around, they just usually have other horrible problems.
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well you're losing one of them (http://www.smogon.com/bw/pokemon/kangaskhan) to OU :V
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Yeah, there are going to be a few unfortunate losses (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c0/303Mawile.png). :D
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Many sweepers still use Leftovers, if they're setup-style or use Substitute. Maybe that's just/mostly an NU thing?*
NU is pretty hefty on bulky sweeping or just plain out stall (I'm talking about sombrero duck Pokemon with Rain Dish and Leech Seed). I don't use any Leftovers on my sweepers since none of them can reliably take a hit at around ~50% to allow them to survive another one. Life Orb Sawsbuck, White Herb Gorebyss and Band Floatzel.
You can throw Leftovers on things which need use subs though, like Hydreigon, or Dragonite for Multiscale after a switch-in. You can also use Leftovers to mitigate damage done when you are setting up to ensure you can't get priority-revenged.
Nothing I've particular become attached to has left NU, I don't think. But I'm going to have to scrap my rain team now.
Also Safety Goggles for Hackmons.
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Just managed to breed a 31/31/31/X/31/31 Impish Immunity Gligar! I have a bunch of extras with 4 perfect IVs and/or Immunity up for grabs if anyone's interested. Right now I'm in the market for a female Scyther, perfect speed IV being my main priority. Also Magic Guard Abra.
Edit: I have a small handful with 5 perfect IVs too, actually.
Edit again: Nvm, got a 31/31/31/X/X/31 female Scyther on GTS. Still up for Abra though.
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Logging into the Pokemon Global Link. Please wait. This could take up to 20 seconds.
... it's been 20 minutes.
Is there something I'm supposed to do before trying to log into the Global Link for XY with my old account for BW/BW2, or does the site just hate me?
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Reminder that Lagging Tail Talonflame with Fly is a horribly unviable, but funny thing.
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It just occurred to me that Talonflame gets STAB Priority Acrobatics and that's just lovely. Like why would you even use Brave Bird when Acrobatics is 110 power without an item and you won't take recoil damage?
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It just occurred to me that Talonflame gets STAB Priority Acrobatics and that's just lovely. Like why would you even use Brave Bird when Acrobatics is 110 power without an item and you won't take recoil damage?
Simple.
Because with Brave Bird you CAN use an item.
A better question is why do Talonflames use Leftovers when they usually are not going to get 4 ticks of it because 50% weak to SR and recoils; so should be using Sitrus instead. [Sitrus = 25% heal when you dip below 50%. Lefties = 6.25% per turn. 4 turns of Lefties = Sitrus] Sitrus is a lot more likely to give Talonflame an extra attack than Lefties; but I keep seeing Lefties Talonflames. [Also since Sitrus is consumed you can run Acrobatics to use afterwards if you want. It's not like Steel Wing is exactly winning awards for damage]
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That much is true, but does the benefits of having an item make up for the fact that you still take a bunch of recoil damage?
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That much is true, but does the benefits of having an item make up for the fact that you still take a bunch of recoil damage?
It all depends on what you're using Talonflame for. LO Brave Bird hits a lot harder than No-item Acrobatics; and Talonflame's Base 81 attack means it needs the extra punch.
Acro is certainly usable; but considering Talonflame is very unlikely to be living very long in the first place; dying even faster means little.
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really acro isn't going big until flying gems come out because
LOL FLYING GEM ACRO
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The new PGL is pretty underwhelming... I didn't even get the Pokemiles for logging in with my pre-existing account. I should've gotten 500, but I had 0 to my name until I used Game Sync (which, ironically, gave me 499).
Did it take BW this long to get the PGL up and running? Seems kinda weird to not have the attractions available even after the game's been out for almost a month.
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*Watching the 720 marathon as I'm playing*
*Types in battle to battle*
*Actually gets picked*
Wat.
So I got to show off my Shiny Klefki and my Mantine to a few thousand people.
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Meanwhile in dumb newbie question land...
I decided to live the dream of 13 year old me and field a team of all Eeveelutions as much as possible from here on out and rotate among them for any type matching troubles, I just finished the power plant. So far I've got Jolteon (rock smash), Vaporeon (surf), Espeon, Umbreon (cut, traded and he came with it) and Sylveon. Am I going to hit any problems where I won't have compatible HM-mons to proceed through the storyline? I don't mind if I have to grab another one to get a secret item or whatever.
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You require Strength.
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Looks like Flareon will be able to grab that and that's what the next one out of the egg is going to be so I should be set awww yeah :V
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That reminds me. Is Flareon actually viable now that it finally gets Flare Blitz? :v
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That reminds me. Is Flareon actually viable now that it finally gets Flare Blitz? :v
It's certainly far better for it.
Viable uh... a bit much to put on it :v
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Still working on my 5-IV Elekid with Ice Punch, although if I get good Attack and Speed on the same one I might just go "good enough".
Also wound up getting back into the TCG due to the online client; thinking of building a Grass/Water around Serperior and Seismitoad since they have some pretty good attacks (Serperior can do 70 damage and heal 30 for 3 energy, while Seismitoad can do 50 damage for 3 energy and then 100 on each subsequent turn)
That reminds me. Is Flareon actually viable now that it finally gets Flare Blitz? :v
Better, but not as good as its companions (although it's still ahead of Leafeon and Glaceon, I presume). I think at some point the Eeveelutions should really get signature/exclusive moves to make them more viable (or at least some more move variety)
I'm still in the Jolteon camp here, and might try breeding for one once I get sick of my current project.
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That reminds me. Is Flareon actually viable now that it finally gets Flare Blitz? :v
flare blitz with 65 hp doesnt really work so well unfortunately
neither does 65 speed
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That reminds me. Is Flareon actually viable now that it finally gets Flare Blitz? :v
Oh, does it? That's great! Good for Flareon.
Is it viable? I'm thinking its closest analogue is Darmanitan, as "mono-type physical Fire attacker". How do they stack up?
Flareon's stats are much less minmaxed, leaving is significantly slower and sort of bulkier, but with much worse HP. It has a much better Special Attack, which could let it go mixed I suppose. Darmanitan has a MUCH better movepool with stuff like Earthquake and Superpower that Flareon has no real way of matching. Flareon does get Curse, which could be interesting with its high Special Defense and already low Speed, and seems like the better Roar user of the two. However Darmanitan gets interesting support options like Taunt and Encore.
I would say Flareon's biggest saving grace is probably Flash Fire, which gives it some interesting opportunities that Darmanitan doesn't have. Either a Flash Fire boost or a Guts boost should (I think?) leave it hitting harder with Flare Blitz than Darmanitan is despite the slightly lower Attack stat and Sheer Force.
Maybe I missed a move that gives Flareon a significant niche, or maybe comparing it to Darmanitan isn't fair since they won't be shooting for the same roles on teams, but I don't think this makes Flareon "viable" really. It'll definitely see more play in whatever tier it ends up in, but I don't think it'll be seeing a ton of competitive use or anything. I'd love to be wrong though.
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if you want to try a legitish all eeveelution team, Espeon learns trick room and every eevee can use Wish for Flareon support
also eevee has baton pass so an all eevee team can have so many passing shenanigans and espeon can negate debuffs with magic bounce
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if you want to try a legitish all eeveelution team, Espeon learns trick room and every eevee can use Wish for Flareon support
also eevee has baton pass so an all eevee team can have so many passing shenanigans and espeon can negate debuffs with magic bounce
I have like three of these saved on Showdown. :D Flareon not included.
All of the various immunities bouncing around is kind of funny. The lack of any kind of hazard support or removal is a killer, which means you have to be really careful and smart with Espeon to keep them off of you and onto your opponent. It's fun to play, but I don't recall it ever winning anything against people who were even remotely trying.
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you can always sneak a skarmory in there, especially since you have volt absorb jolteon and flash fire flareon to take care of it's weaknesses
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What. I just started organizing my boxes to prepare for completing my Pokedex, and is there seriously not enough room for every Pokemon? I'm two whole boxes short! And that's not even accounting for alternate forms (which I don't care about anyway, but still). Did I do something wrong? I'm counting 23 boxes and the battle box. Is that really the maximum?
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oh hey infiltrator ignores subs, yet another breloom nerf
What. I just started organizing my boxes to prepare for completing my Pokedex, and is there seriously not enough room for every Pokemon? I'm two whole boxes short! And that's not even accounting for alternate forms (which I don't care about anyway, but still). Did I do something wrong? I'm counting 23 boxes and the battle box. Is that really the maximum?
I have 31 boxes
and when pokemon box comes out you get like 300 or something :V
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I have 31 boxes
You do? Okay, then I am doing something wrong. Good to know. I have at least one Pokemon in every box I'm pretty sure, but I'll double check.
and when pokemon box comes out you get like 300 or something :V
Of course. But I want one of everything in-game, and to be able to organize everything before then to figure out what I need to transfer over. The plan right now is to keep my collection on my card and my extras and breeding stock and stuff online. 31 boxes would be plenty of room to manage that.
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Random question, but can you repeat the things that make you STYLISH?
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Random question, but can you repeat the things that make you STYLISH?
It seems to be mostly a matter of doing stuff around Luminose City. Working in the hotel and going to the available restaurants in particular. Some people claim buying/wearing a certain number or dollar value of clothing factors in, and some people claim number of badges/Champion status matters, but I don't know if either of those things are confirmed. I know for me it became available after I became Champion and did all of the jobs at the hotel once, but before I bought much clothing or did any restaurants.
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Well, on a note related to STYLE, I managed to get 5,385 Points in the Battle Institutes Single Battle Test on my first try. I don't know how, but I got it.
Also, if you can't repeat stuff that makes you stylish, then I'll just forget about Hatching Power.
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The only things I ever did to get style was work in the Hotel Richissime every day for a while and then suddenly Hatching Power GO!
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I had like 5 badges and visited every store in Lumiose when I had the chance-- including doing every job I could do and fighting every alley battle I could find, and I was able to get into the clothing store.
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Can anyone PM me if they have a Hawlucha in their Friend Safari?
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So... Focus Energy + Scope Lens Hydreigon.
In theory, infinite Draco Meteors because the SpA drop gets negated by the 100% critical hit rate.
On one hand, that's like a Choice Specs boost without actually being locked in addition to bypassing Light Screen and Calm Mind, but it requires a turn of setup and that's not cool.
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(Re:Style)
Haha there's no point to going to the Lumiose store pre-clear, that's revives money I'm spending on clothes
Anyway, I finally got my Goodra and Gardevoir. Mr. Stones Guy offers me nothing but Venusaurite, though. Can I forcibly slap him into changing stock? Or at least discounting this shit?
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he discounts with guess what
style~
he can go as low as 10k and after you buy one stone he sells the other
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In terms of stats, how does Hawlucha stack up against Talonflame? I know Hawlucha doesn't get auto-priority, but once Flying Gems are available it sounds interesting to stack that or a berry effect with Unburden and Acrobatics.
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In terms of stats, how does Hawlucha stack up against Talonflame? I know Hawlucha doesn't get auto-priority, but once Flying Gems are available it sounds interesting to stack that or a berry effect with Unburden and Acrobatics.
In terms of stats they're extremely similar. Hawlucha is very slightly slower and a little stronger. Fling might be an interesting option for Hawlucha to lose its item. Maybe a King's Rock, Hard Stone, or Flame Orb (as long as you make sure to always get rid of it or switch immediately before it cripples you) would be cool, if a little gimmicky.
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What all stones does the dude in Lumiose sell? Just the Gen I mega-stones, or will he just eventually cycle through all the ones you don't have already?
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Gen 1 mega stones only.
The rest you must hunt for.
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In terms of stats, how does Hawlucha stack up against Talonflame? I know Hawlucha doesn't get auto-priority, but once Flying Gems are available it sounds interesting to stack that or a berry effect with Unburden and Acrobatics.
Hawlucha has higher ATK but is a fair bit slower than Talonflame, so an Unburden set is probably necessary to keep it competitive.
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I have homework to do but I can't stop doing Wonder Trades. I've gotten two things I needed for my Pokedex already. Can't ever stop...
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I'm currently on the lookout for a Prankster Sableye. Please poke me if you have one!
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Okay now I'm seriously debating Sniper Kingdra for infinite 2.25x Draco Meteors or Hydreigon for infinite 600 BST Draco Meteors aaaaaaggghh what the hell.
Is Kingdra even worth it if he's not running Swift Swim in rain?
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Okay now I'm seriously debating Sniper Kingdra for infinite 2.25x Draco Meteors or Hydreigon for infinite 600 BST Draco Meteors aaaaaaggghh what the hell.
Is Kingdra even worth it if he's not running Swift Swim in rain?
Kingdra was used because he was a blazing fast sweeper with a powerful Hydro Pump in rain, though a lack of rain can be remedied by using a Substitute with maybe some setup. The Pokemon you have listed are both susceptible to being revenge killed quite easily, and the turn taken to set up provides a great opportunity for the opponent to switch into a Togekiss or Ferrothorn.
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Well, this seems like it's the appropriate place to ask this, so... Is it worth buying a 3DS solely for this game?
I've been reading some reviews about the game, and a lot of them were basically "IT'S POKEMON, BUT IN 3D! 5 STARS, A+, 4 STARS!"
And watching my friend playing the game and some videos at youtube, this is what I gathered:
- The Overworld looks like arse (but the battles actually look quite nice)
- The camera angles on the battles look really epic
- Playing Pokemon Showdown with Gen 6 rules, I've come to the conclusion that Modern Warfare 2 feels 10 times more balanced than this game's metagame, so I won't even approach Multiplayer battles.
- And I heard there is absolutely nothing to do after you're done with the Elite 4.
So, should I really try to grind 750 brazilian bucks just to get this? Outside of the 3D overworld, it doesn't seem like it's much of an improvement over Diamond and Pearl.
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Well, this seems like it's the appropriate place to ask this, so... Is it worth buying a 3DS solely for this game?
I've been reading some reviews about the game, and a lot of them were basically "IT'S POKEMON, BUT IN 3D! 5 STARS, A+, 4 STARS!"
And watching my friend playing the game and some videos at youtube, this is what I gathered:
- The Overworld looks like arse (but the battles actually look quite nice)
- The camera angles on the battles look really epic
- Playing Pokemon Showdown with Gen 6 rules, I've come to the conclusion that Modern Warfare 2 feels 10 times more balanced than this game's metagame, so I won't even approach Multiplayer battles.
- And I heard there is absolutely nothing to do after you're done with the Elite 4.
So, should I really try to grind 750 brazilian bucks just to get this? Outside of the 3D overworld, it doesn't seem like it's much of an improvement over Diamond and Pearl.
Sounds to me like you've already decided. :D
For me it totally was, but if you hate the metagame, don't bother. Unless you think you'd really, really enjoy collecting the Pokedex again (like I do) there isn't much else to do postgame.
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I don't know what the conversion is, but 750 is a lot of fucking money for just one game. X and Y was the deciding factor for me getting a 3DS, but there was other games I was interested in and it was just a bit over 200 USD. I mean yea if there was other games and it was a bit cheaper I'd say go give it a try, but since it's so damn expensive and you only want Pok?mon and you seem to already have negative opinion on it, I'd say pass.
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I don't know what the conversion is, but 750 is a lot of fucking money for just one game. X and Y was the deciding factor for me getting a 3DS, but there was other games I was interested in and it was just a bit over 200 USD. I mean yea if there was other games and it was a bit cheaper I'd say go give it a try, but since it's so damn expensive and you only want Pok?mon and you seem to already have negative opinion on it, I'd say pass.
It's 750 with the 3DS AND teh game. Fuck, we Brazilians had enough with our 2000$ dollars PS4.
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Oh man, I assumed $750 was before conversion. If it's after, do not do. I paid $165 for my 3DS+game and probably would've been willing to go a little higher than that, but not much.
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I'm going to clean up the air around here.
The Standard 3DS around here costs around 600BRL, or 260US$.
The average price for Pokemon X/Y around here is 150BRL, or 65US$.
The total price is 750BRL, or 322US$.
Dammit, if it was 750$ I would never even consider buying it, as you guys might've noticed, I'm not desperate to get the game.
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I'm going to clean up the air around here.
The Standard 3DS around here costs around 600BRL, or 260US$.
The average price for Pokemon X/Y around here is 150BRL, or 65US$.
The total price is 750BRL, or 322US$.
Dammit, if it was 750$ I would never even consider buying it, as you guys might've noticed, I'm not desperate to get the game.
Ah, okay. Makes more sense. How negotiable is the 600 for the system? Can you expect to pay significantly less than that for a used one? At any rate, $320 US is way more than I think the game is worth if you have previous versions available and don't think you'll use the system for much else.
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Ah, okay. Makes more sense. How negotiable is the 600 for the system? Can you expect to pay significantly less than that for a used one? At any rate, $320 US is way more than I think the game is worth if you have previous versions available and don't think you'll use the system for much else.
I think I can TRY to persuade the shop to sell me the console and the game for 500 bucks (215$), but that might be stretching it a bit.
As for buying it second hand, I found some as cheap as 300BRL (130$) but they could either be stolen or damaged, so I don't know if it is worth taking the risk. And I found a couple of other used ones at around 420BRL (180$) so i could take a look at them.
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Why does it seem that everyone has a Frog? I can't get anything from the GTS, even Common Pok?mon, and every person I trade with has one.
Why does no-one want my Frog?
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Why does it seem that everyone has a Frog? I can't get anything from the GTS, even Common Pok?mon, and every person I trade with has one.
Why does no-one want my Frog?
because smogfrog is an overhyped son of a bitch
seriously everyone got their rocks off when they heard about protean and hunted one the fuck down
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Well, then why the hell does EVERY PERSON EVER want just that dumb ability? I only get the other starters for Dex Completion and everyone wants the damn Frog to have some stupid ability.
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look at you expecting people on the GTS to want simple stuff :V
furthermore protean is actually kind of awesome so yeah
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look at you expecting people on the GTS to want simple stuff
A FROG FOR A BUNNELBY, NO, FREAKING, TAKERS.
JUST BECAUSE IT HAS TORRENT.
It's like all Frogs with Torrent are terrible and should not exist.
I just want a Chestnut, ok?
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It's like all Frogs with Torrent are terrible and should not exist.
that's because all froakies with torrent compared to protean frogs are terrible
because smogfrog is an overhyped son of a bitch
sure it's overhyped, but it's another case of a starter being miles better with its hidden ability than its normal one
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If this keeps up, then Protean will be called the best ability in the history of Pok?mon.
Also, can someone PLEASE just help me throw away my Frogs?
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If this keeps up, then Protean will be called the best ability in the history of Pok?mon.
Also, can someone PLEASE just help me throw away my Frogs?
Wondertrade them then jesus. You are getting way out of shape.
sure it's overhyped, but it's another case of a starter being miles better with its hidden ability than its normal one
this was not even an inch of what i was even saying
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I'm not using Wonder Trade because I don't want to throw it away, just to get some stupid Pok?mon I already have.
I'm thinking of just forgetting about trading.
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this was not even an inch of what i was even saying
am i not allowed to make side-comments that do not necessarily address what you may or may not be saying? =|sir. please.
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A FROG FOR A BUNNELBY, NO, FREAKING, TAKERS.
JUST BECAUSE IT HAS TORRENT.
look at you expecting people on the GTS to want simple stuff
no seriously have you ever even looked at the GTS? Getting what you want requires ridiculous demands because people love to ask for stupid shit for relatively common things.
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I'm not sure I quite follow the logic behind trying to swap your Froakie for Bunnelby over the GTS and then refusing to use Wonder Trade when the result will probably be the same, and faster.
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I'm trying to say that Frogs with Torrent are so useless, that even if I want a really common Mon for it, no one will take it.
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you know you could have just gone out and caught a bunnelby in all of this time spent getting mad right
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The standard currency of GTS is Xerneas, Yvetal or Mewtwo.
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Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres are also in pretty high demand, I'd say.
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look at you expecting people on the GTS to want simple stuff
no seriously have you ever even looked at the GTS? Getting what you want requires ridiculous demands because people love to ask for stupid shit for relatively common things.
Nintendo needs to give me the GTS records for the last week, a banhammer, and zero accountability. Just for an afternoon. I'll fix the damn thing if they won't, I swear I will. >:D
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On an unrelated note I'm giving a Cotton Candy Bird to anyone with a Ice Cream Thing.
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Does anyone know what exactly interrupts a fishing chain? I know moving, failing to get a bite, and reeling in at the wrong time do, but what about changing rods, accessing the bag, or saving and turning off the game? Running from the things you catch doesn't effect the chain, does it?
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Like the PokeRadar, if you run away from a battle, it resets, so you have to defeat every Pok?mon you reel in.
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Hmm. That's a bummer. Well, I've been told Suction Cups still works if your lead is fainted, so I may have to have this Octillery meet an unfortunate accident and let something else handle the fighting.
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(http://i.imgur.com/R5xI08z.jpg?1?2767)
WOO! FINALLY! After running through this Friend Safari for nearly two days I FINALLY find the shiny I was looking for!
Also managed to get a shiny Clauncher earlier today through fish chaining.
EDIT: You're supposed to run from the Pokemon you reel in if you're going for fish chaining.
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(http://i.imgur.com/R5xI08z.jpg?1?2767)
WOO! FINALLY! After running through this Friend Safari for nearly two days I FINALLY find the shiny I was looking for!
Also managed to get a shiny Clauncher earlier today through fish chaining.
Neat, congratulations.
EDIT: You're supposed to run from the Pokemon you reel in if you're going for fish chaining.
Oh, okay. You would know given that you've gotten it to work. I've wanted a shiny Shellder for years, so I figure it's about time to get one.
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Found a shiny Vanillite in a horde!
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I got my first shiny the other day! From hanging out in GTS trying to fill the blanks in my pokedex...
"Oh this guy wants a Skrelp for Miltank, I've had one sitting in my box for a while.. oh cool the males are blue apparently"
No triangles, you are ill informed of the ways of pokeymans.
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Smogon's kicked Blaziken to Ubers already.
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Does anyone know what exactly interrupts a fishing chain? I know moving, failing to get a bite, and reeling in at the wrong time do, but what about changing rods, accessing the bag, or saving and turning off the game? Running from the things you catch doesn't effect the chain, does it?
Chain fails/ends if: you fail to get a bite, you reel too quickly, you reel too late, you move from your spot, you use your bicycle, you use your skates, you catch a pokemon, entering a non-fishing battle (sweet scent), you exit the area (flying, teleport, dig, etc), you turn off the game, accessing GTS, battling online, trading, and finding a shiny
Things that do not break your chain: running away, switching rods, saving, opening the menu(or your bag), fainting the opposing pokemon, putting the system in sleep mode
I have a total of 15 shinies (17 before I gave 2 away) so that should be proof enough
chain fishing: dragalge, relicanth, gorebyss, remoraid, octillery, lanturn, 2 corsola (originally 4)
encounters: dunsparce, gabite (now Garchomp), sunkern, oddish, ditto, mawile, petilil (now Lilligant)
Oh and a note, apparently the shiny rate is now at least 1/4096. These are just speculations from tests, but if anyone knows where I can find a IV to PID calculator, I can confirm this using all the shinies I caught so far.
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Excellent, thank you. Very good to know. If I'm interpreting that correctly does that mean that reloading a save resets the streak? Does that count as turning off the game?
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Excellent, thank you. Very good to know. If I'm interpreting that correctly does that mean that reloading a save resets the streak? Does that count as turning off the game?
Yes, reloading the game counts as "turning off the game" and resets the chain. An average chain is around 30-40, though it can be more or less. My lowest chain for a shiny encounter is 2 and my highest chain is 184 (according to the fishing guru).
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OK; I've got the itch to reset and actually Nuzlocke the game now. The postgame is just so dull.
This means giveaway/storage time!
- Shiny Klefki; now EV Trained! [Likely to CommanderCool unless he no longer wants it]
- Aggronite
- Houndoomite
- Blastoisenite
- 4IV flawless Kangaskhan with Jolly Nature
- Shiny Swalot
- Articuno [Will catch before resetting; working on it now] Forget this it's not co-operateing
- Lv 1 Rotom
Italics are pokemon I may want returned at a later date. [The Rotom is a maybe]
Just give me trashmons in return.
There's no big hurry to do this by the way.
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Yeah, I'll take the Klefki again if you don't mind. Might even use it a few times.
Edit: Oh yeah, and you should totally do that Wonder Trade Nuzlocke. I've been thinking about that ever since you mentioned it (and especially every time I do a batch of Wonder Trades). The last group of six I got was Dratini, Torchic, Fletchinder, Marill, Shuppet, and Budew. That would make for a weird, weird Nuzlocke.
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I tried it but I just didn't like the way a 'Wonderlocke' worked. It didn't feel the same. There were not MY pokemon; they were someone else's.
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How do I impress the artist in Kiloude City (as a boy)? I tried wearing a bunch of colorful clothing but she didn't notice. What are the criteria for this?
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hoodies, jeans, beanies- you need to have the colorful effect when you preview (sparklies and shit)
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Rakaria, i'll take that aggronite if you still have it
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Rakaria, i'll take that aggronite if you still have it
I'll need an IGN. Mine is in the OP.
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How do I impress the artist in Kiloude City (as a boy)? I tried wearing a bunch of colorful clothing but she didn't notice. What are the criteria for this?
While you're in the changing room, look at the background for each of the articles of clothing. There should be like an orange splashy pastel background for certain things; get an entire outfit made out of this.
For example, the matte black background (plaid combo shirts, fedoras, checkered pants, and vinyl messenger bag) produce a sort of jazzy riff with music notes flying around you.
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Raikaria mine is already in the opening the name is eienko
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May I please have that Shiny Swalot?
It's simply Keegan.
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May I please have that Shiny Swalot?
You'll need to post your IGN.
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So does any one have a good moveset for Bisharp`I am trying to raise one, so I want to know what should I give it (Sucker Punch seems to be a go-to thing).
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Swords Dance and Substitute are good options. The former is... Swords Dance when you have a Priority Move; and the latter can force the foe to actually attack to use Sucker Punch instead of burning you or whatever.
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So does any one have a good moveset for Bisharp`I am trying to raise one, so I want to know what should I give it (Sucker Punch seems to be a go-to thing).
I've got a buddy who uses one as a Rocks lead, but I think that set is impossible in XY right now. It's something like Stealth Rock, Pursuit, Metal Burst, and Stone Edge or something, with a Focus Sash. It works fairly well in casual games. It's prediction-heavy, but if you don't know how it works in advance it's surprising. I love Metal Burst.
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Yo Raikaria can I get that Houndoomite from you then? It may take a bit for us to be on at matching times, though, it seems...
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Yo Raikaria can I get that Houndoomite from you then? It may take a bit for us to be on at matching times, though, it seems...
Your FC isn't even in the OP. I'll need a FC and an IGN so I know who you are. But yes; you may have it; it's first-come first-serve; and you're first come.
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So does any one have a good moveset for Bisharp`I am trying to raise one, so I want to know what should I give it (Sucker Punch seems to be a go-to thing).
SD/Sucker Punch/Low Kick/Iron Head or Night Slash.
Passing speed is a good thing, Sucker Punch neccesary to overcome poor base speed, Low Kick for resists and last move for reliable STAB. Iron Head may hit Fairies but you have to take into account your speed and your relatively poor bulk.
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Your FC isn't even in the OP. I'll need a FC and an IGN so I know who you are. But yes; you may have it; it's first-come first-serve; and you're first come.
Yes it is, it's near the top: Matsuri 3067-4906-0948 X :P
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Is there even a way to get Low Kick for Bisharp in Gen VI? I guess I would give it Brick Break for type coverage, but replacing Low Kick with Subs would probably be better idea.
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Depends if you are looking for an all-round sweeper or just an opportunistic one. Sacrificing Low Kick leaves you wide open to a range of resists while taking a while a STAB makes you setup fodder. Substitute does however give you the advantage in scouting and guaranteeing a dance and Sucker Punch, but recovery is a problem and leftovers is sometimes better used on someone with more even defences.
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But again, if I cannot learn Low Kick in Gen VI, then what can I use?
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Brick Break is 5 less PP usually except for Ttar, Heatran, Cobalion and Ferrothorn. These things you don't really wan to stay in on, except for Ferrothorn which you can reliable check if you run Substitute.
All the other Pokemon can usually be hit for a similar effect with Iron Head, though somethings may be troublesome if you don't have a reliable Dark move.
Low Sweep can be used to gain a speed advantage and is only magnified if you choose to run Sticky Web, but otherwise Brick Break is better.
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You know, do you just hate when there is one thing what makes things complicated? Like, say IVs? Honestly, not sure of I should even bother with them as I am just raising the Bisharp just because. Though the IV rater says that Pawniard has decent overall and its Attack cannot be beaten and Croagunk has above average overall and has fantastic Attack.
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How does the stone store work? Mine only sells water, fire, and leaf stones right now. Internet claims more should become available as I beat gyms, but given that I finished the Elite Four over a hundred hours ago I'm thinking that isn't right. :wat:
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as far as i know that's all he sells
every other stone you have to get from super training
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So my breeding begins and the second egg I get is an Adamant Pawniard... with Inner Focus.
Ability Capsule, you are so tempting.
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So my breeding begins and the second egg I get is an Adamant Pawniard... with Inner Focus.
Ability Capsule, you are so tempting.
Now that you have an Adamant Pawniard it should take like five minutes at the most to get an egg with the ability you want. Just get one of the opposite gender with the ability you want. Although I think even without the ability you want as long as you're looking for a standard ability it should come up. That's how that works, right?
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so while I farm money from the Chateau and eggs from the daycare, a thought occurs to me: how good is Electivire as a Klefki counter? Switching in on Thunder Wave is basically a free speed boost with Motor Drive, and if you use a Persim Berry to counter Prankster Swagger you can counter with something like STAB Wild Charge/Thunder Punch or Earthquake, then have a +2 Attack/+1 Speed sweeper ready. Would you be able to KO Klefki before it moves again, or would you have to worry about something like boosted Foul Play?
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Kinda niche; and you're in trouble if it Substitutes on the switch because then it gets to Swagger you twice. Hitting yourself at +4 is gonna hurt; and without a boost 'Vire is too slow to really sweep with +4 Atk/+0 Spd.
Still; certainly works on paper.
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so while I farm money from the Chateau and eggs from the daycare, a thought occurs to me: how good is Electivire as a Klefki counter? Switching in on Thunder Wave is basically a free speed boost with Motor Drive, and if you use a Persim Berry to counter Prankster Swagger you can counter with something like STAB Wild Charge/Thunder Punch or Earthquake, then have a +2 Attack/+1 Speed sweeper ready. Would you be able to KO Klefki before it moves again, or would you have to worry about something like boosted Foul Play?
Inability to deal with Substitute makes me question how well this would work in practice, but it couldn't hurt to try. You might make people more conservative with their Thunder Waves if they see it coming, but that could be a useful thing to do.
If I'm doing my math correctly you have to run Adamant to get a guaranteed one-hit KO on max HP, max Defense Klefki with Earthquake at +2, but you can do it.
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Thanks for the tip, commandercool. Now I must get one who doesn't have its IVs on wrong stats (Defiant Adamant Pawniard with IVS on special attack? Really game?)
EDIT: I now got a Pawniard which I am satisfied with (probably not perfect IVS, but hey). Two of them, one male and one female. I decided to pick the female one even if the male one has more moves already. Any nickname suggestions?
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Yay I beat the game :toot: now I can play with Pokemon Craigslist without feeling like I'm wasting time.
Also this Friend Safari thing - how do I know what critters are in mine? And I can't go to my own because I'm not my own friend right? What other sort of post-game shenanigans exist for someone who doesn't want to do ~competitive~ online battling and all the breeding eugenics that'd entail?
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Also this Friend Safari thing - how do I know what critters are in mine? And I can't go to my own because I'm not my own friend right? What other sort of post-game shenanigans exist for someone who doesn't want to do ~competitive~ online battling and all the breeding eugenics that'd entail?
Someone else has to check your safari for you. And sadly, there doesn't seem to be that much aside from capturing Zygarde and Mewtwo and the Legendary Birds? And trying to do the Battle Chateau. You can also do double/triple/rotation battles at the expensive restaurants in Lumiose.
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While I do not follow the anime; it seems the anime makers are aware of the Espurr face memes; with the title of this episode in January:
Spooky Shelter! Espurr Watches You!!
You get things like this all the time:
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Espurr+in+Pokemon+Amie...+E-Espurr_e74e2f_4839025.png)
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So finally, I have decide on a nickname for my Pawniard (Tomoe Gozen). Now I have to EV train her. So max out her Attack, and either max out Speed and drop the rest for HP or almost max Speed and put some to HP.Or should I switch Speed and HP around?
EDIT: Some one suggested HP was better. Now to begin the long progress soon.
EDIT 2: And she is fully EV trained! Now I just have to level her up and get the moveset for her.
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Alright, I've put off having a rational team long enough. Does anyone have a Speed Boost Scolipede and/or Chlorophyll Ivysaur they can breed and trade me? I could also use a Sheer Force NidoranM, but I can get that in-game. I've got a variety of hidden abilities for offer.
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Someone else has to check your safari for you.
Well I'm now curious, can someone check for me? Hopefully I have more than just Pidgey and Rattata level pokeymans :V
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Well I'm now curious, can someone check for me? Hopefully I have more than just Pidgey and Rattata level pokeymans :V
You show up as your IGN which isn't on the OP so it's hard for me to check.
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I'm second from the bottom on the OP ???
My game name is triangles I thought that'd be a given :V I'm pretty certain I have you added but I'll go update just to be sure
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Well I can't find anyone called Triangles in my safari.
Also I'm gonna leave my DS on in case you can come on Commandercool; for the Klefki trade.
EDit:
Triangles; your name was showing up as chrispants in the FS. You are Normal Type with Aipom; Smergle and Loudred.
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It wouldn't show up under my 3DS name (Chrispants) instead would it?
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Why do I get the feeling you posted that as I edited?
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:V :V :V
Two of those guys I don't have hahaha.
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:V :V :V
Two of those guys I don't have hahaha.
Well two of those guys are obtainable in-game normally :V
Edit: Commandercool can you hold onto my Kangaskhan too?
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Edit: Commandercool can you hold onto my Kangaskhan too?
Sure can.
Found my Hustle Nidoran, so now I just need Scolipede and Ivysaur. There are very few Scolipedes for trade right now on the GTS and they want dumb stuff, so I'm not willing to take the game that one has a hidden ability. Haven't looked into Ivysaur yet, but it might be a better bet. At any rate, I can be patient since the centerpiece of any commandercool team is Weezing, who has been locked out of the game for the time being, presumably for being too kickass.
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K; Nuzlocke settings:
I'm ignoreing forced encounters [R2 Pidgey and Snorlax]
Set Mode on
No EXP Share
No Pokemon Amie
I'm going Fennekin cause everyone does Froakie.
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K; Nuzlocke settings:
I'm ignoreing forced encounters [R2 Pidgey and Snorlax]
Set Mode on
No EXP Share
No Pokemon Amie
I would have gone as much Pokemon Amie as possible. If the idea of a Nuzlocke is to form an attachment to your party that'll do it. If you think the benefits are too strong maybe offset it by another rule like limited healing items.
I'm going Fennekin cause everyone does Froakie.
Fennekin is the best. Down with Froakie. I'm suck of that guy. :derp:
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Still have nooooooooooo idea what I wanna do now that I've become champ besides collecting stuff I missed (like if I wanna try working towards competitive stuff and if so, what sort of team, etc.) but heeeeeeeey here I am. FC is 2122-6584-5199, I have X, IGN and 3DS name are both Arashi, I have been told my safari is water with Quagsire, Panpour, and Azumarill. (Also my Vivillon pattern is Polar but all the patterns that the US includes are probably a dime a dozen.)
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I would have gone as much Pokemon Amie as possible. If the idea of a Nuzlocke is to form an attachment to your party that'll do it. If you think the benefits are too strong maybe offset it by another rule like limited healing items.
I've been Nuzlockeing since Gen 4. I don't need PokemonAmie to form attachments to my pokemon. [I legitimately almost cried when a Shiny Kricketune died. A KRICKETUNE. Albeit a badass Kricketune. DEDELELELELELEWOOOP *PING*]
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K; Nuzlocke settings:
I'm ignoreing forced encounters [R2 Pidgey and Snorlax]
Set Mode on
No EXP Share
No Pokemon Amie
I'm going Fennekin cause everyone does Froakie.
That Pidgey is fixed? I never realized that.
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I've been Nuzlockeing since Gen 4. I don't need PokemonAmie to form attachments to my pokemon. [I legitimately almost cried when a Shiny Kricketune died. A KRICKETUNE. Albeit a badass Kricketune. DEDELELELELELEWOOOP *PING*]
I had to abandon the Heartgold Nuzlocke I tried last summer because I didn't give a shit about my Pokemon, but I have no soul. Usually I have no reservations about abandoning my in-game team postgame or if I reset a game, but this was the first game where I really like most of them, and I credit a combination of Pokemon Amie and great designs for that. I have a genetically superior Gourgeist and Delphox now, but I still like my in-game Gourgeist and Delphox and still use them for exploration and stuff.
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That Pidgey is fixed? I never realized that.
Yep; Pidgey is the forced first encounter of anyone playing X/Y.
You'd think it would be Fletchling.
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Okay everyone, I got around 340BRL now, and I'll get 155 next week, which will net me a total of 495 bucks. My Dad will complete the rest, which is 255BRL. (Yes, he may have scolded me because I got startled, but he still is my dad, so I still love him)
So yeah, I think I'm actually going to get the game. So I will hand out a few Brazilian Pokemon to anyone interested in doing the Masuda method. And I think I might actually have to make up stuff to do after I've beaten the game up to alteast two months, because if my dad doesn't see me playing this game 24/7 in the first few weeks of owning it he is going to rip my heart out. I better not give him any ideas.
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So how good place is Battle Chateau when it comes to level grinding? My Pawniard (now Bisharp and renamed SuzukaGongen) is soon over the levels from Victory Road and I hope to level grind her at least near 100
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So how good place is Battle Chateau when it comes to level grinding? My Pawniard (now Bisharp and renamed SuzukaGongen) is soon over the levels from Victory Road and I hope to level grind her at least near 100
Rather lackluster if you're after EXP, but if you're wanting cash it's probably the best place in the game.
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So how good place is Battle Chateau when it comes to level grinding? My Pawniard (now Bisharp and renamed SuzukaGongen) is soon over the levels from Victory Road and I hope to level grind her at least near 100
The Battle Chateau caps at 80, given the most expensive Writ and fighting Diantha.
It's about the best you'll be able to get.
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actually the furisode girls give way more xp than anyone in there
everytime you find one just pop your EXP O-powers and bring out the lucky eggs and you'll hit level 50 in no time
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Can I just say that Bisharp has probably the most boss Feint Attack animation? I mean, its all like "Don't worry, I come on peac- Pysche! Eat hidden blades!"
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HORRAY, I GOT MY GAME! I would post some photos but I'm lazy now. Anyway, I need to find a way to delete my save, because it says that my adventure started at 10th of january 2011, because I hadn't set up the 3DSXL's Clock when I started the game.
Also, is anyone here willing to trade me the other starters, Chespin and Froakie? I think I might actually try to compelte the National Dex.
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HORRAY, I GOT MY GAME! I would post some photos but I'm lazy now. Anyway, I need to find a way to delete my save, because it says that my adventure started at 10th of january 2011, because I hadn't set up the 3DSXL's Clock when I started the game.
Also, is anyone here willing to trade me the other starters, Chespin and Froakie? I think I might actually try to compelte the National Dex.
Sure, just post your friend code and stuff. Also from what I've been seeing recently you should have no trouble getting them through Wonder Trades with just a couple of tries. Lot of generation six starters going around right now (I'm sending out mostly Magician Fennekins myself).
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Well, after I set up the 3DS' internet, I will post my friend code here. I'll edit this post later.
HERE IT IS: 3668-8814-5063
My version: Pokemon Y.
My character's name: Team.
Iv'e already added commanbdercool, just as a test.
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If anyone manages to get a Happy Hour Smeargle. Please share the wealth.
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And if anyone has an spare Abra, please contact me.
HERE IT IS: 3668-8814-5063
My version: Pokemon Y.
My character's name: Team.
Iv'e already added commanbdercool, just as a test.
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Well, after I set up the 3DS' internet, I will post my friend code here. I'll edit this post later.
HERE IT IS: 3668-8814-5063
My version: Pokemon Y.
My character's name: Team.
Iv'e already added commanbdercool, just as a test.
Successed. Your friend safari is Bug, and so far you got Volbeat (hidden Prankster, very cool) and Paras (I use a Damp Parasect for exploring/catching, so it might be useful to someone). Bug 3 has some very interesting stuff, so this seems like a pretty good haul.
And if anyone has an spare Abra, please contact me.
Does it have to be Magic Guard, or will any Abra do?
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Successed. Your friend safari is Bug, and so far you got Volbeat (hidden Prankster, very cool) and Paras (I use a Damp Parasect for exploring/catching, so it might be useful to someone). Bug 3 has some very interesting stuff, so this seems like a pretty good haul.
Glad I could help.
Does it have to be Magic Guard, or will any Abra do?
I've alreadu got one from my friend. I just wanted his data on the Pokedex.
Edit: Oh my lord, I want to Wonder Trade so i can fill my Pokedex faster, but I'm horrified I might get one of those "Mystery Eggs" Are those still around? Is it safe to trade now?
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I don't know what that is, but I've never gotten one or had a problem short of someone having internet connection issues. You can't trade eggs anywho.
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It seems to have only been a rumor that the Mystery Zone egg glitch showed up after hacked Pok?mon were traded over Wonder Trade. I did some checking around it looks like the problem actually is caused by a broken/corrupted SD card causing problems with the save file, so I don't think there should be any problem with Wonder Trading.
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Okay then, I guess i'll try it out. I hope I don't get a LVL. 3 Weedle or anything.
Edit: I feel really bad doing this and not having any decent Pokemon to offer... Also, I noticed that on the trade screen, if you are trading with a friend, you can talk in the mic. If you plan trading with me, forget about it, my spoken english is rather rubbish.
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Okay then, I guess i'll try it out. I hope I don't get a LVL. 3 Weedle or anything.
You'll get several. And terrible froakies.
you'll get gems too no worries
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Okay then, I guess i'll try it out. I hope I don't get a LVL. 3 Weedle or anything.
If you were doing it when the game first came out that's all you would have gotten. Now you get a plethora of things (read: breeding leftovers).
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AAAAND guess what? I got a Bunnelby. Not a particularly horrible one, (LVL12, decent moves) but damn, I wanted to get a starter...
Edit: Three trades later and I get a Froakie! Awesome! I think this can be a great tool for me to complete my Dex more quickly, assuming people stop sending me LVL.1 Honedges with no IVs at all and Bunnelbies that were caught on Route 1.
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Bunnelbies that were caught on Route 1.
Teach me how to catch on Route 1 plz.
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Teach me how to catch on Route 1 plz.
...They appear on Route 2....... DAMMIT.
But you guys get me: Someone caught a Bunnelby on an early route (Route TWO) and Wonder-Traded it with me. Happy now?
Oh yeah, I remember now, HIS NAME IS BLUE! Route 1 is that pointless route near the first city.
Oh yeah: I want a Chespin, and I'm not finding one on Wonder Trades. If anyone has a spare one, (No Ivs, no Natures, no special moves, no nothing, just the Pokemon) I can trade a Smeargle I got here, It's Hasty and it's ability is Techinician. (It's a basic Smeargle, so another reason why I just want a basic Chespin, so the trade is fair)
if you have one, please contact me, I want it, and I don't need a Smeargle.
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I haven't really been following the thread, but tomorrow is Cheap Things Day, so I might be able to pick up a new game. I checked the OP and didn't see anything about it, but are there any version differences other than the wild pokemon/mega-evos available? Like how White/Black had White Forest and Black City.
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Nope it's just classical version exclusives and box legends this time.
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Gotta love that recent-game information ambiguity. I spent a long time breeding a perfect male Hustle Nidoran, then was superbummed to learn that the only way to get Earth Power on it is through a tutor, effectively wasting a ton of time. In the process of trying to figure out if it was possible to inherit a Gen-5 tutored Earth Power, I learned that apparently Nidoking does in fact learn Earth Power by level up, or at least it used to, and Bulbapedia is the only site that lists otherwise. Hmm...
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I jusy catched an Yveltal with a SINGLE QUICK BALL.
That wasn't anti-climactic at all.
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Pretty sure the box legendary has a 100% catch rate.
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Pretty sure the box legendary has a 100% catch rate.
That just makes it even more anti-climactic. My battle basically went like this "OH NO! SHOULD I USE MY MASTER BALL AT HIM? SHOULD I KEEP IT AND RISK A QUICK BALL? OR SHOULD I JUST DO IT OLD SCHOOL STYLE, WEAKENING IT AND THROWING ULTRA BALLS AT IT- Oh wait, I somehow caught it in the first turn... What?"
It's not like cathcing Lugia or Ho-Oh, which the battle sometimes goes for so long you'll start to have to revive your Pokemon and the Legendary will begin Struggling.
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That just makes it even more anti-climactic. My battle basically went like this "OH NO! SHOULD I USE MY MASTER BALL AT HIM? SHOULD I KEEP IT AND RISK A QUICK BALL? OR SHOULD I JUST DO IT OLD SCHOOL STYLE, WEAKENING IT AND THROWING ULTRA BALLS AT IT- Oh wait, I somehow caught it in the first turn... What?"
It's not like cathcing Lugia or Ho-Oh, which the battle sometimes goes for so long you'll start to have to revive your Pokemon and the Legendary will begin Struggling.
the encounter is rigged because you cannot progress through the story without the box legendary
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Why would you use your master ball on a box legendary anyway? Save those for rare pokemon that run away :P
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the encounter is rigged because you cannot progress through the story without the box legendary
And why is that? It's not like the battle against the man whose name I will not mention due to spoilers is impossible without it, and it's not like you're going to battle a Legendary Pokemon just to kill it.
Why would you use your master ball on a box legendary anyway? Save those for rare pokemon that run away :P
Because that's how I always rolled. The only reason why I didn't instantly went for the Master Ball was because my friend also "somehow" Quick-Balled it, so I wanted to give it a try. Also, I always tough that Quick Balls were sufficient for Roaming Pokemon, or Dusk Balls if I found them at Night, hell, even the standard Ultra-Balls do it for me. (I caught the Beasts Trio and the Legendary Birds all on Ultra Balls on HGSS, even if it took me a few tries)
Also, THIS KEYBOARD IS STARTING TO GET ON MY BLOODY NERVES, every time I finish typing the reply, I have to correct pretty much every other word.
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It did take me a few balls to catch my box legendary, so it's not guaranteed, just a relatively high catch rate for a legendary.
Not sure which of the two prime targets I want to save my Master Ball for. :V
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And why is that? It's not like the battle against the man whose name I will not mention due to spoilers is impossible without it, and it's not like you're going to battle a Legendary Pokemon just to kill it.
It's implied the main character rescues the box legendary from that particular weaponry prison, since knocking out the Pokemon (deliberately or not) forces you to fight it again.
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Gotta love that recent-game information ambiguity. I spent a long time breeding a perfect male Hustle Nidoran, then was superbummed to learn that the only way to get Earth Power on it is through a tutor, effectively wasting a ton of time. In the process of trying to figure out if it was possible to inherit a Gen-5 tutored Earth Power, I learned that apparently Nidoking does in fact learn Earth Power by level up, or at least it used to, and Bulbapedia is the only site that lists otherwise. Hmm...
Nidoking still learns Earth Power, so you're good to go. I prefer Serebii for Attack/TM information, and Bulbapedia for general information about the Pokemon species itself. I don't think Nidoran can grab Earth Power as an Egg Move because they don't actually learn it via level up at that stage in their evolution.
*checks*
According to Serebii, Nidoran M/F can't even get Earth Power through Move Tutor.
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Nope it's just classical version exclusives and box legends this time.
I guess I'll check to see which versions my friends have then. Thanks~
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Nidoking still learns Earth Power, so you're good to go. I prefer Serebii for Attack/TM information, and Bulbapedia for general information about the Pokemon species itself. I don't think Nidoran can grab Earth Power as an Egg Move because they don't actually learn it via level up at that stage in their evolution.
*checks*
According to Serebii, Nidoran M/F can't even get Earth Power through Move Tutor.
According to Bulbapedia Nidoking/Nidoqueen can learn the move tutor, but their pre-evolutions can't. But yeah, it probably doesn't work as an egg move. It's not listed anywhere except one calculator that I used that came up with a bunch of weird stuff that made me question the validity of it, like listing legendary Pokemon as potential parents to pass on the move. But as long as it still learns it by level up I'm good to go. Just finished EVing the Nidoran.
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Over sixty wonder trades today and not one hidden ability. Got ten each of Gastly and Honedge though. It's almost like nobody has any ideas at all. :derp:
My wireless seems to have stabilized for some reason, so hopefully it won't be dropping inexplicably any more. That being the case, anyone want to battle my weird mess of a team?
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I have all of the badges now. I decided that before going to the Elite 4, I was going to buy some clothes at the Lumiouse Boutique. I decided to try that thing where if you buy 150 Premiere Balls on the Poke Ball Boutique, one-by-one, you'll be allowed inside the Boutique, which, EXTREMELY SURPRISINGLY, worked! I even went inside the Lumiouse Boutique before buying all the Premiere Balls and it wouldn't let me in, and it let me in after I did that! My God, it's the first rumour in Pokemon I heard that is actually true.
Not counting the Mew Glitch in Gen. 1
Too bad a moderator in another forum I go isn't believing it.
I just finished the game, and a few things:
Thanks to Pokemath. the water guy was a BITCH to beat.
The champion was disapointingly easy.
And yes, the ending is quite beautiful. I'm typing this as the credits are rolling, and damn, a lot of people worked in this game, because the credits are pretty damn long. Tough it doesn't hold a candle to GTAV's Staff rool that literally goes on for a half hour or so (or atleast it feels like half an hour)
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In regards to that rumor, it's technically true, but also false. To explain, after doing certain things, you raise a "Style" gauge that you can't see. This includes buying stuff at the various shops in the City. If you buy 150 Premiere Balls one by one, you raise your Style gauge high enough to be allowed into the Boutique.
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Oh yeah: I want a Chespin, and I'm not finding one on Wonder Trades. If anyone has a spare one, (No Ivs, no Natures, no special moves, no nothing, just the Pokemon) I can trade a Smeargle I got here, It's Hasty and it's ability is Techinician. (It's a basic Smeargle, so another reason why I just want a basic Chespin, so the trade is fair)
if you have one, please contact me, I want it, and I don't need a Smeargle.
I have Quilladin, it's evolution in the friend safaris. I can give you as many of those as you desire, and specifically, the bulletproof ones. (http://www.serebii.net/abilitydex/bulletproof.shtml).
Chespin's line disappointed me, sadly, by so much. He looks cool, but he's way, way too slow and grass/fighting gives it so many weaknesses its' not funny. Especially to flying. Quad and he'd down. And he's so slow he can barely get a hit in. And if he's a great physical tank, and lacks sorely on special.
I really liked him, I wanted to like him. I always like the grass starters, but he well, failed me. Couldn't even take on Mega-Garde at the game's end. My Megazard Y had to finish the job.
You can give me anything you desire really. I'd appreciate the sketcher (and if you have X instead, I'll take one of the exclusive X mons instead. )
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PS- did you guys add me yet? Add me to the main dude-person-who-edits-front-pages-dude.
0662-3160-6397, Nick G / Nicktendonick
My friend safari is a Mankey (yay), A pancham (cool), and a Belroom (woot)
Have fun guys. I'll be adding you guys when I get around to it *lazy+busy*
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In regards to that rumor, it's technically true, but also false. To explain, after doing certain things, you raise a "Style" gauge that you can't see. This includes buying stuff at the various shops in the City. If you buy 150 Premiere Balls one by one, you raise your Style gauge high enough to be allowed into the Boutique.
It lets you inside the shop with that trick anyway, and it worked, so that's what's important to me.
I have Quilladin, it's evolution in the friend safaris. I can give you as many of those as you desire, and specifically, the bulletproof ones. (http://www.serebii.net/abilitydex/bulletproof.shtml).
Chespin's line disappointed me, sadly, by so much. He looks cool, but he's way, way too slow and grass/fighting gives it so many weaknesses its' not funny. Especially to flying. Quad and he'd down. And he's so slow he can barely get a hit in. And if he's a great physical tank, and lacks sorely on special.
I really liked him, I wanted to like him. I always like the grass starters, but he well, failed me. Couldn't even take on Mega-Garde at the game's end. My Megazard Y had to finish the job.
You can give me anything you desire really. I'd appreciate the sketcher (and if you have X instead, I'll take one of the exclusive X mons instead. )
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PS- did you guys add me yet? Add me to the main dude-person-who-edits-front-pages-dude.
0662-3160-6397, Nick G / Nicktendonick
My friend safari is a Mankey (yay), A pancham (cool), and a Belroom (woot)
Have fun guys. I'll be adding you guys when I get around to it *lazy+busy*
I don't need the Chespin anymore, but if you still want the Smeargle, I can add you and trade it for something else. Like Squirtle, I SWEAR no one chooses that Pokemon, I can't find it on Wonder Trades no matter what.
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So umm.. i have several pokemon looking for new homes, i have 4 iv gibles and some 4 iv marills, the marils have belly drum, aqua jet and super power, they are adamant and they have huge power as their ability. So if you'd like to take one, their open. I don't really care what u give.
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Is anyone willing to trade a Mawile with me? i SWEAR I spent 20 minutes on that cave and I found no Mawile in there.
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...Also, somewhat off topic, which game do you think will be GOTY? Pokemon X and Y and GTAV are very strong contenders, since, In my honest opinion, most of the competition is gone: COD Ghosts and Battlefield 4 weren't good and I barely hear anyone talking about The Last of Us nowadays. (and I played the game and it was good, but not nearly as good as GTAV and PKMN X/Y)
IMO, choosing between these games would be like, I don't know, kinda like choosing between having all the chocolate from the world but be poor, or be rich but not being able to eat chocolate. It's difficult.
Please don't kill me for this, but I think I'm veering very slightly towards GTAV's side. Mostly because of things I'm going to admit I'm biased for, like Soundtrack (it doesn't match up to GTA San Andreas or Touhou's but it's really good), or graphics (the graphics on X and Y's Overworld look much better than what they do on the videos I watched before buying the game, but I cannot help but get the feeling they could be better, especially considering that the battles look amazing)
But yeah, If I were to give a rating to both games, I would give GTAV a 9/10 and Pokemon X/Y also a 9/10.
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this year's goty is obviously Divekick
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IGN - Cirnobyl
FC - 3282-3148-5064
Version - X
Safari - Fighting type
I'll battle people with like 3 pokemon. Anyone? : )
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*trying to encounter Latios in Emerald so he can have an extra one for transfer*
*playing Kantai Collection and watching TV at the same time*
... how long has this Shiny Poochyena been staring at me?
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Check this out:
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/HNI_0003_zps3f22c638.jpg)
This is what the game uses the SD card for: For storing your photos. Pretty neat if you ask me.
Just look at my sexy Dark Skin.
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Just about to face the Champion. About fucking time. After this I can finally set the game aside without it constantly nagging at the back of my mind.
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Check this out:
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/HNI_0003_zps3f22c638.jpg)
This is what the game uses the SD card for: For storing your photos. Pretty neat if you ask me.
Just look at my sexy Dark Skin.
The game actually freezes if you remove the SD card while playing, I believe...
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The game actually freezes if you remove the SD card while playing, I believe...
...LOGICALLY... I mean, the same thing would happen if you were playing GTAV installed on a Pen Drive and then removed it while the game was still running...
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Wait the game card or the SD card?
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Wait the game card or the SD card?
About removing the Game Card.... Use your imagination.
About removing the SD card.... You shouldn't be removing things like that on a game that uses it. I don't know if it freezes, but I'm not trying.
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I'm pretty sure the data of the game gets corrupted.
It actually happened to two people I know already. One of them lost 90 game hours. : (
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my 4 GB card was corrupted and resulted in a bunch of problems when i started playing this game so i had to get another one
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I set Pokemon aside when I realized I got like 500 or so 'dex entries mostly via GTS and Wonder Trade.
Last I was working on a grass team to make into my psuedo-gym for my friends to fight, with a 'mon set up for Doubles.
When does the Box thing come out?
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the gen 5 global link is closing down on dec 10 so i guess soontm
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When does the Box thing come out?
For some reason I thought it was December 5th, but it's the 25th for Japan, 27th for Europe/US. Free until January 31st, 500 yen a year after that.
I was really hoping this week but I suppose this gives me more time to get stuff ready. I think I'll abandon the Latios in Emerald for now because I haven't run into it once. I beat the Elite Four, picked "Blue" when I watched the news, and nothing. Hell, I ran into a Shiny before running into Latios. At the very least I'll pick up the spare Regi in the game and then work on transferring stuff to Gen IV and then to V. I should probably give the Dream World a few more plays before it closes down for good, too.
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The next victim of the Smogon Quickboot is Gengarite. R.I.P; October 2013 - December 2013.
Apparently it was Destiny Bond that pushed it over; as well as things like Sub on the switch as you M.Evo.
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It was kind of too good by which I mean you needed a dedicated check for it and in order for it not to pick off all your other counters for their late-game sweepers.
Shadow Tag is too good really.
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I'm pretty sure the data of the game gets corrupted.
It actually happened to two people I know already. One of them lost 90 game hours. : (
Case and point: Don't remove things from videogames that are actively running, or else shite like that happens. It's not that hard to Save your game, turn off the console and THEN remove the SD card to see what's inside.
And if anyone is wondering what's inside, but are too scared to put the SD card in their PCs, here's what's inside (Alteast inside mine): Two Folders, One named Nintendo 3DS and the other I don't remember.
Inside the Nintendo 3DS Folder, there are a bunch of other folders, and going in these folders generally leads you to a bunch of dodgy looking .bin files that you probably shouldn't be messing with.
And in the other folder, there is another folder inside it named "NIN100PHOTO" IIRC, and inside are the photos you took in Pokemon X/Y.
Christmas thingy:
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7936246784/h822F2D73/)
I think I'll breed some Eevees and donate them on Christmas. I know not every kid will get their game and imediatly start Wonder-Trading, but still, it would be nice to make atleast someone smile.
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Sorry for the double post, but yeah, just keeping this thread alive, you know.
Anyway, I have 220 species registred on my Pokedex now. And, man, I am seriously scavenging for things to do in this game. Outside of completing the Pokedex and catching Zapdos, I got no incentive to keep playing it. I'm currently evolving random Pokemon I caught during my journey, and trading/breeding them every once in a while. If I keep up this rate I may very well end up with 270 species by the end of the week, but somehow I doubt it.
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Sorry for the double post, but yeah, just keeping this thread alive, you know.
Anyway, I have 220 species registred on my Pokedex now. And, man, I am seriously scavenging for things to do in this game. Outside of completing the Pokedex and catching Zapdos, I got no incentive to keep playing it. I'm currently evolving random Pokemon I caught during my journey, and trading/breeding them every once in a while. If I keep up this rate I may very well end up with 270 species by the end of the week, but somehow I doubt it.
Do you have local friends who play? I've been enjoying co-op Battle Maison doubles. Battle facilities in general are usually a pretty good thing to do postgame, at least for me and when they're not cheating too bad. Win streaks are fun. Although after a certain point I pretty much just play on the bus, so it's not like I'm doing that for hours a day or anything.
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Anyone want to battle? :3c
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Do you have local friends who play? I've been enjoying co-op Battle Maison doubles. Battle facilities in general are usually a pretty good thing to do postgame, at least for me and when they're not cheating too bad. Win streaks are fun. Although after a certain point I pretty much just play on the bus, so it's not like I'm doing that for hours a day or anything.
Actually I do. I may try out that.
But what is somewhat dissapointing is that I was relying on this game to carry me through this summer. December and January tend to be very stale months for gaming to me, but every year since 2006 I had atleast one game to carry me through this time period, like in '06 it was with Virtua Fighter 2, Kids and Daytona, '07 was Topspin and Everybody's Tennis, '08 was with Virtua Tennis 3 and Wii Sports, '09 was with Pokemon and Wii Sports Resort, '10 was with OutRun, '11 was Team Fortress 2 and last year was a mixture of Plants Vs Zombies, Call Of Duty: Black ops 2, GTA San Andreas and Touhou.
But this year I got nothing! I was hoping to play GTA V and Pokemon Y, but as you might've noticed, I got nothing to do on Pokemon and I finished GTA almost completely, and doing massacres in this game is unnecessarily hard and not as fun as in otehr games.
Anyone want to battle? :3c
I would battle you if my Pokemon were all LVL. 100. The strongest Pokemon in my team is that strong, but my weakest is still at LVL. 75
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That's not how Wifi battles work.
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Anyone want to battle? :3c
Yes. Although my 3DS wireless is unpredictable so it might drop for no reason, and my team won't technically be finished until Pokebank comes out. But yeah, I'll do it.
I would battle you if my Pokemon were all LVL. 100. The strongest Pokemon in my team is that strong, but my weakest is still at LVL. 75
What is this, 1999? :D
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What is this, 1999? :D
You moron, it's obviously 2016. I don't have time to play Pokemon X and Y. I'm playing the 7th generation of Pokeymans, Pokeymans Wood and Ground. Can't you see the war between Russia and the United States, just as Modern Warfare 2 predicted?
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You moron, it's obviously 2016. I don't have time to play Pokemon X and Y. I'm playing the 7th generation of Pokeymans, Pokeymans Wood and Ground. Can't you see the war between Russia and the United States, just as Modern Warfare 2 predicted?
Did I get my goddamn Poison Eevee this time? :wat:
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Did I get my goddamn Poison Eevee this time? :wat:
No, but they did give him the New "Wood" type, which is resistand to Ghost, Grass, Water, Poison, Fairy and Dark, and is weak to Fire and Steel. Sudowoodo gained this typing, and a new ability: Scary Tree. When Sudowoodo is sent to battle, it will randomly cause a status effect on the foe's Pokemon, and has a 1% chance of insta-killing it. (Of course, when an NPC is using him, this chance goes up to 69.24%)
Oh, and there is also a Mega Evolution for Arceus now, with 960 base stats total, it comes with this ability, every move you use in it will be STABed, and it can be any type you want at any time, you just have to choose from a drop down menu which type you wish him to change to before the turn begins.
Holy Shit, I better stop. I may be giving Game Freak ideas.
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Wifi battles scale Pokemon to lvl50. So reaching 100 gives you all the benefit of... well nothing. Unless the power of love and tender care from those days of training help.
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Wifi battles scale Pokemon to lvl50. So reaching 100 gives you all the benefit of... well nothing. Unless the power of love and tender care from those days of training help.
Yeah, I know it does that. But even then, my Pokemon aren't EV trained and I didn't make them screw a Ditto until they gave me a Pokemon with perfect IVs, so i wouldn't stand a chance anyway.
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Yeah, I know it does that. But even then, my Pokemon aren't EV trained and I didn't make them screw a Ditto until they gave me a Pokemon with perfect IVs, so i wouldn't stand a chance anyway.
Well, there you go. That's something for you to do. :derp:
I think I have a Scorupi and a Bulbasaur in my trade box with perfect IVs for their nature, so I can trade you those if you want them. You can either use them for breeding or just EV them and put them on a team potentially.
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Well, there you go. That's something for you to do. :derp:
I think I have a Scorupi and a Bulbasaur in my trade box with perfect IVs for their nature, so I can trade you those if you want them. You can either use them for breeding or just EV them and put them on a team potentially.
Well, I could use that Bulbasaur. maybe we could plan a day to trade it.
And well, I will be playing this game less now, atleast for a while, because my copy of COD: Ghosts arrived. Hey, that game is beyond dull, and it's just like XboxAhoy phrased it, "The dying embers of the Call of Duty franchise", but I still want to see how the campaing plays out, and I still want to wreck some Christmas Noobs. It will also be a very good tool to keep my annoying little cousin quiet when he visits me, especially since I'm going to hide my 3DS while he's around, just to make sure nothing happens to it.
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Just finished breeding my first "competitively usable" mon wanting to have it 31 IV in everything but attack, which is nowadays not that hard thanks to new items.
Turns out I get one that has actually 31 IV in everything.. Nature and ability fit as well; pretty big wtf-moment right there. :V
Now on to the other ones.
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Does anybody know about the Ambipom in the Battle Maison that uses Fake Out, Fling, and Thief and carries a King's Rock? What is it's fourth move?
It outsped my Jolly 31 Speed IV 252 Speed EV Crobat just now, and I'm almost positive it didn't set up in any way. Is the last move Agility or Low Sweep and I just wasn't paying attention when it used one of them, or does it have impossibly high speed? Crobat switched right into it, so it shouldn't have been an effect from a previous opponent. I can't find anything about it in X/Y, but it seems that in generation five the last moveslot on an equivalent Ambipom is U-Turn.
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Iirc it's U-turn. The strategy went something like flinch with Fake Out, flinch with Fling+King's Rock, U-turn out. Then it can use Fake Out again the next time it switches in for maximum flinch abuse. Only thing I can think of for why it outsped is that Fake Out has priority, but I dunno for anything other than that.
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Does anybody know about the Ambipom in the Battle Maison that uses Fake Out, Fling, and Thief and carries a King's Rock? What is it's fourth move?
It outsped my Jolly 31 Speed IV 252 Speed EV Crobat just now, and I'm almost positive it didn't set up in any way. Is the last move Agility or Low Sweep and I just wasn't paying attention when it used one of them, or does it have impossibly high speed? Crobat switched right into it, so it shouldn't have been an effect from a previous opponent. I can't find anything about it in X/Y, but it seems that in generation five the last moveslot on an equivalent Ambipom is U-Turn.
Simple explantion: The AI in the game is shit, so it has to cheat to compensate. I once hit myself 3 times in a row when confused, and my Skarmory got paralyzed 7 turns in a row in Sapphire once.
...Okay, I'm just joking. Except with that Confusion and Paralyzed thing, that really happened. I have no idea how. If it attacked you with Fake Out then it actually makes sense, because it has priority over other moves.
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Iirc it's U-turn. The strategy went something like flinch with Fake Out, flinch with Fling+King's Rock, U-turn out. Then it can use Fake Out again the next time it switches in for maximum flinch abuse. Only thing I can think of for why it outsped is that Fake Out has priority, but I dunno for anything other than that.
Simple explantion: The AI in the game is shit, so it has to cheat to compensate. I once hit myself 3 times in a row when confused, and my Skarmory got paralyzed 7 turns in a row in Sapphire once.
...Okay, I'm just joking. Except with that Confusion and Paralyzed thing, that really happened. I have no idea how. If it attacked you with Fake Out then it actually makes sense, because it has priority over other moves.
Yeah, I know Fake Out has priority. It was being outsped by Thief that was what got my attention. If I see another one I'll switch in Crobat and hope it's the same set (I think there are two different ones?). Now I wish I had saved the battle video.
Edit: Ran into another one as I submitted that, but unfortunately it's a Nasty Plot variant. I did outspeed that one though.
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HEY GUYS, DRIFTOR HERE, WELCOME TO POKEMON X AND Y IN-DEPTH.
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/HEYGUYSDRIFTORHERE_zpsab1e4118.png)
IN TODAY'S EPISODE WE ARE GOING TO COVER THE EVER SO POPULAR CELEBI.
Well, Game Freak will be giving away Celebies. (Or Celebis? Or Ce-le-bai? OR WHO CARES)
Well, it will be a reason for me to play this game again.
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I may be mistaken but this may be the first time Celebi has been available in the UK ever.
Also; on a side note; Smogon's banned Mage Khan too now. One by one they fall~
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Actually those two were the only ones seeing any use. Now we can sit back and enjoy typical OU with M-Lucario tearing everyone a new face with Aura Sphere.
I also will never use Celebi because it's not as good as the other 100 flats.
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I may be mistaken but this may be the first time Celebi has been available in the UK ever.
Also; on a side note; Smogon's banned Mage Khan too now. One by one they fall~
And this must be the first legendary period in Brazil.
...Nah, that's a hyperbole. i think they must've given a couple of Mews but THAT'S IT.
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I was hoping for Jirachi. I got a Celebi here a couple of years ago, and I think Japan got a Jirachi distribution last year that I was hoping we'd follow up. It's one of four things I'm missing at this point (seven I guess, if you count the unreleased sixth generation legendaries). Oh well. Hopefully still within the next year.
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The plural of Celebi is Celebi. As with any other Pokemon. BV
Btw one of my favorite things to do with bans nowadays is look at the great sea of likes that accumulates.
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The plural of Celebi is Celebi. As with any other Pokemon. BV
Btw one of my favorite things to do with bans nowadays is look at the great sea of likes that accumulates.
MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE. I ALWAYS SAID STUFF LIKE "PEEK AT YOUS" "PIKACHUS", "LUGIAS", "TYPHLOSIONS" ETC.
But atleast I always said the plural of Pokemon was Pokemon.
But yeah, I don't need this Celebi. I already got two on my Soul Silver save, one even being Shiny. (Both I had to get through cheats, again, because this is the first Legendary Event I'm aware of) But I don't need it, but it doesn't mean I don't want it :3
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Get it and then never use it.
Gotta box 'em all.
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Get it and then never use it.
Gotta box 'em all.
Too bad I'll have to "box" my 3DS tomorrow, my annoying cousin is coming tomorrow!
RUN TO THE HILLS!
Jesus, it's not liek I wanted to play pokemon again anytime soon.
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Actually those two were the only ones seeing any use. Now we can sit back and enjoy typical OU with M-Lucario tearing everyone a new face with Aura Sphere.
As well as about 7000 types of priority.
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Christmas is coming, so i will not only give away a bunch of Eevees, i also decided I will give away a bunch of Starters too! Horray!
...Actually, i'm just doing this as a lazy copout to filling the Pokedex myself.
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Christmas is coming, so i will not only give away a bunch of Eevees, i also decided I will give away a bunch of Starters too! Horray!
...Actually, i'm just doing this as a lazy copout to filling the Pokedex myself.
I was going to give out Light Ball Pikachus with Volt Tackle, but after ~100 Pikachus Frisked I have yet to see one Light Ball. I may be giving out Eevees with evolution stones after all.
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Are Eevees just really common in X and Y or something?
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Are Eevees just really common in X and Y or something?
Yes. They can be caught in the wild for the first time (?) and are pretty common to get over wonder trades because people breed them a lot.
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Plus they're available in some people's friend safaris too.
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Yes. They can be caught in the wild for the first time (?) and are pretty common to get over wonder trades because people breed them a lot.
You could get Eevee in D/P as a possible daily encounter in the mansion backlot, and if I recall correctly you could find them in a hidden grove in Castelia in B2/W2. Still, I don't recall them being available so early before.
So yeah, they're pretty common now.
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Pokebank has now been released in Japan, so everyone suddenly has Porygons and Gen 3 starters. It will be released for the rest of the world around the 27th.
And now Wi-fi battles have become much more annoying.
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Pokebank has now been released in Japan, so everyone suddenly has Porygons and Gen 3 starters. It will be released for the rest of the world around the 27th.
And now Wi-fi battles have become much more annoying.
Last one I've played was gen 2 pokemon gold so I'm out pce.
Going back to pokeonline.
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I'm trading Eevees and starters now. And man, I already have a FUCKton of Pokemiles, and I'm only halfway through. I'm sure I'll have enoguh Rare candies to evolve a Dratini into a Dragonite without ever fighting with it.
Also, I got a Chimchar. Horray Pokebank.
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Pokebank has now been released in Japan, so everyone suddenly has Porygons and Gen 3 starters. It will be released for the rest of the world around the 27th.
And now Wi-fi battles have become much more annoying.
And Feebas.
Speaking of; anyone seen Milotic's shiny new ability?
Finally; a pokemon with Competitive that can actually use it. Switch a Milotic on a predicted double-switch with an Intimidator and you get +2 Sp.Atk. On a Milotic. Which has stupid bulk; Recover and pretty good Sp.Atk.
Niche; but scary. Probobly more use in doubles/triples ofc. Use something like Bulldoze; lower everyone's speed [Including Milotic's] and then evil grin time, Bonus points if Trick Room to make up for Milo's bad speed.
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So I finally got this game (yeah, slowpoke and such, been spending my money elsewhere) and wow it certainly looks amazing compared to the others. I never picked up B2/W2, so the last one I've played was B/W.
Well even though I know next to nothing about X/Y so far (I've just started playing) I guess I may as well post my info anyways :V
FC: 1418-7034-4502
Version: Y
In-game name: IF
I guess I'll just like add everyone in the OP for now (not like I was using up my FL slots for any other games anyway) then start my adventure by catching everything that moves.
Edit: It seems I have underestimated how much work it is to type in so many friend codes :V Still, added everyone.
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So it appears that the NA/EU launch of Pok?bank will be delayed due to heavy load on Nintendo's servers right now. (http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/26/pokemon-bank-service-taken-due-nintendo-server-troubles/)
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So it appears that the NA/EU launch of Pok?bank will be delayed due to heavy load on Nintendo's servers right now. (http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/26/pokemon-bank-service-taken-due-nintendo-server-troubles/)
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Still no... Koffing..?
Somewhere out there a Japanese guy has a Koffing. If anyone can get me a Koffing I will be very grateful. And to a lesser extent Run Away Venonat.
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If we're making "maybe someone will stumble into JP bank castoffs" requests I could use something with Heat Wave to breed onto my Litwicks =P (Which I guess mostly means the Slugma line or Litwick's own line.)
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FC 3153-4846-2473
Version: X
ID Alex
So I got this today, but because of the crash, I can't update/do fun stuff online/get Kid Icarus Uprising which sucks, but, either way, I'll keep this here just because.
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I've gotten the game and progressed a little bit, but since the shop's been down for a few days, I haven't been able to update it an get online.
Friend Code: 0946 - 3424 - 2598
Game Version: X
Character Name: Jana
A friend told me I have a psychic-type safari. If you add my friend code, please send me an MotK PM so I know who to add back~
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I think the Serebii dude got the full national dex so every mon should be attainable... somewhere. Gotta hunt down them all!
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I've gotten the game and progressed a little bit, but since the shop's been down for a few days, I haven't been able to update it an get online.
Friend Code: 0946 - 3424 - 2598
Game Version: X
Character Name: Jana
A friend told me I have a psychic-type safari. If you add my friend code, please send me an MotK PM so I know who to add back~
I added you, so I sent you a PM.
Tough I will not be playing Pokemon a lot because my cousin is STILL here, and my parents said he's gona stay here for a week more. I'm not actually kidding, I'm felling like I'm about to have Mental breakdown here, but my parents don't give a shit...
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I think the Serebii dude got the full national dex so every mon should be attainable... somewhere. Gotta hunt down them all!
Japan's pokebank is still up; just not avaliable for download; so yes; everything is around; although legends will obviously be hard to get.
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How about this: Why don't we organize our own Pokemon Tournament for us to compete? That would be interesting. We could use a site like Challonge.com (http://challonge.com/) to organize it. Here's a Test Tournament I made in it. (http://challonge.com/SHAPKMNTest) We could make rules like ban certain Pokemon, use Pokemon up to the OU tier, restrict items like the Mega-Evolutionary Stones ETC.
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How about this: Why don't we organize our own Pokemon Tournament for us to compete? That would be interesting. We could use a site like Challonge.com (http://challonge.com/) to organize it. Here's a Test Tournament I made in it. (http://challonge.com/SHAPKMNTest) We could make rules like ban certain Pokemon, use Pokemon up to the OU tier, restrict items like the Mega-Evolutionary Stones ETC.
i will participate as long as legendaries are allowed because i play only using pokemon that i really really like
so you see like two giratinas and a random shuckle in the corner
fuck i'd even use dunsparce because i have one named Gurren Lagann because drill tail
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i will participate as long as legendaries are allowed because i play only using pokemon that i really really like
so you see like two giratinas and a random shuckle in the corner
But then what will be stopping everyone using 6 different Arceus? If this ever becomes a thing, then we revise the rules before setting up the tournament.
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How about this: Why don't we organize our own Pokemon Tournament for us to compete? That would be interesting. We could use a site like Challonge.com (http://challonge.com/) to organize it. Here's a Test Tournament I made in it. (http://challonge.com/SHAPKMNTest) We could make rules like ban certain Pokemon, use Pokemon up to the OU tier, restrict items like the Mega-Evolutionary Stones ETC.
'Cept there isn't any teirs now. There's a banlist [Ubers] and 1 metagame.
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'Cept there isn't any teirs now. There's a banlist [Ubers] and 1 metagame.
I was just throwing examples out there. Besides, by the time we make this tournament, there may be already a list of Over Used and Under Used Pokemon.
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Or just play VGC rules.
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Or just play VGC rules.
(http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/wynaut.jpg)
Again, we decide what will be the rules we want the tournament to have. And if we really are to do this, let's wait a little, to guarantee everyone gets the Pokemon they want to use and train them properly.
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How about this: Why don't we organize our own Pokemon Tournament for us to compete? That would be interesting. We could use a site like Challonge.com (http://challonge.com/) to organize it. Here's a Test Tournament I made in it. (http://challonge.com/SHAPKMNTest) We could make rules like ban certain Pokemon, use Pokemon up to the OU tier, restrict items like the Mega-Evolutionary Stones ETC.
I am super on board with that, although who knows how long we'll have to wait before doing it is viable what with Pokebank being indefinitely delayed. At any rate, count me in.
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I am super on board with that, although who knows how long we'll have to wait before doing it is viable what with Pokebank being indefinitely delayed. At any rate, count me in.
I was thinking about doing the around late January. Just to guarantee everyone will have their fully Perfect-IV-with-Maximum-EVs team and that they're not back at school/work yet. Also, you'll need to play this music while you look at the Tournament bracket because I said so. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtLf-oTcTwU)
Also, regarding the rules: Can we atleast have Sleep Clause, just so no one can Trick Room-Spore someone to death?
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I was thinking about doing the around late January. Just to guarantee everyone will have their fully Perfect-IV-with-Maximum-EVs team and that they're not back at school/work yet. Also, you'll need to play this music while you look at the Tournament bracket because I said so. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtLf-oTcTwU)
Also, regarding the rules: Can we atleast have Sleep Clause, just so no one can Trick Room-Spore someone to death?
That may not be that necessary at this point, since the generation five sleep rules are gone.
That said, my vote is standard simulator rules, or for everybody to make a gentlemen's agreement that this game is kind of degenerate and we can all break it if we want to so might as well not.
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I made a mock up bracket with the names of most of you from this topic. Here it is (http://challonge.com/MOTKPKMNTest). It looks weird as hell thanks to the fact that there are about 27 names there, and Brackets normally have something like 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc. people in it. this tournament would quite literally start at R27, THEN go to R16.
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I would be willing to join if this becomes a thing, and i don't mind mega bans.
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welcome to my not ev not iv trained team
i will attempt to sweep you with not power
but with 10/10 pokemon roars
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I'll try to breed my Snorlax to get perfect IVs in it as soon as my annoying cousin GTFO my house. YES, the annoying bastard is still here. All he is doing is leeching internet, playing my Xbox 360 until it overheats, annoying me, annoying me even more when I tell him not to do something, stealing my sweets, ETCE-FUCKING-ETERA. If I actually dare trying to breed anything with him here, he will say stuff like "Can I play, too" "Why are you biking around a tower, it's so boring!" "My dad doesn't let me play Pokemon because he thinks they're from hell!" "Are you still trying to 'hatch eggs'? Why don't you do something fun with your game?" "Why is your character a girl?" "How much was this console?" "What a boring game!" "Play Call Of Duty with me!" (he is so bad at COD it isn't even fun destroying him) and other such stereotypically annoying things.
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That may not be that necessary at this point, since the generation five sleep rules are gone.
Even though that may be the case, it's still annoying if they sleep your entire team.
Otherwise standard clauses of Species Clause, Evasion Clause, Self-KO Clause, OHKO Clause, the one that stops you nicknaming your Pokemon as another species and perhaps Item Clause for balancing as not everyone can find multiples Leftovers. Either Standard OU with Quick Bans or just have 'special Pokemon' banned.
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I finally had some time to play, after getting the game on Christmas and getting the patch when the e-shop wasn't down anymore.
holy moly why is there such a huge gap between the first two gyms
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I finally had some time to play, after getting the game on Christmas and getting the patch when the e-shop wasn't down anymore.
holy moly why is there such a huge gap between the first two gyms
To amke sure your Pokemon gets pretty damn overleveled.
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I finally had some time to play, after getting the game on Christmas and getting the patch when the e-shop wasn't down anymore.
holy moly why is there such a huge gap between the first two gyms
Because the game's pacing is whack.
In terms of area to travel the first two Gyms are like 40% of the game; and there are more areas leading to the first 2 Gyms than there is in the entirety of 3~6. Kinda like B/W2 where 4~6 were close; and then a MASSIVE gap before 7.
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Because the game's pacing is whack.
In terms of area to travel the first two Gyms are like 40% of the game; and there are more areas leading to the first 2 Gyms than there is in the entirety of 3~6. Kinda like B/W2 where 4~6 were close; and then a MASSIVE gap before 7.
And then there is a massive gap between the Eight Gym and the Elite 4 because the game LOVES to shove the storyline down your throat. Now, if only the storyline was actually good and fun to play through, and not "beat a shitton of grunts and watch someone talking."
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Now, if only the storyline was actually good and fun to play through, and not "beat a shitton of grunts and watch someone talking."
you just described every pokemon game so far
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Even though that may be the case, it's still annoying if they sleep your entire team.
Otherwise standard clauses of Species Clause, Evasion Clause, Self-KO Clause, OHKO Clause, the one that stops you nicknaming your Pokemon as another species and perhaps Item Clause for balancing as not everyone can find multiples Leftovers. Either Standard OU with Quick Bans or just have 'special Pokemon' banned.
Yeah, sounds good to me. Whatever. And what is "self-KO clause"? I don't think I know what that is.
Do we want to try to get the bracket to a normal number? We can do first-come, first-serve signups or I can try to wrangle some non-MotK folks to fill in if we're a few short.
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Yeah, sounds good to me. Whatever. And what is "self-KO clause"? I don't think I know what that is.
Do we want to try to get the bracket to a normal number? We can do first-come, first-serve signups or I can try to wrangle some non-MotK folks to fill in if we're a few short.
Maybe we could do "The first 16 People who says they want to be in the Tournament enters." That's about the number of people who still post in this topic. If we get short of that number then we could maybe get some more people to get in it.
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Self-KO is the one that stops draws if you die from LO recoil or any recoil when down to 1v1. It's not enforced everywhere but draws are dumb. Forget the ruling on Explosion though.
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Self-KO is the one that stops draws if you die from LO recoil or any recoil when down to 1v1. It's not enforced everywhere but draws are dumb. Forget the ruling on Explosion though.
Oh, okay. Is that necessary? I guess a draw would be kind of a mess for a bracket to handle, so maybe it is.
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Gonna post my friend code now since I finished the game.
Friend code: 1822-0626-7569
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Draws haven't actually been possible since Gen 5. The one who faints first on the screen loses. [I believe it is the attacker but I've never experienced this myself. I know in-game using Explosion gives you no EXP].
That said Explosion kinda sucks since Gen 5's nerf.
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If you faint your opponent using a recoil-move/life-orb/whatever but suicide in the process and you're both on your last mon then you win. Don't know about explosion (I've heard that if you use such a move with your last member you automatically lose, but I'm really not sure about that.)
On another note: I've got some leftover Litwicks from breeding :V. 8 with 4 IVs and 3 with 5 (Hp, def, satk, sdef, init). The ones with 4 are all modest and the entire bunch comes with clear smog. So, whoever still wants to breed one of those, I'll hand them out for free. (If nobody wants them they'll just go into wondertrade. :p)
Friend code: 1822-0710-3636
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..I'm trying to breed a 5Iv Impish Snorlax with Thick Fat...
KILL ME... PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/69531_193064774231169_1025310789_n.jpg)
WHY DO 99.9% OF TEH SNORLAX I HATCH HAVE IMMUNITY?!
EDIT: I just heard that there is an item that can change a Pokemon's ability, but i is MEGA expensive... Time to grind for BPS!
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It's not that expensive, it's only an hour or two of Super Singles grinding.
And it also doesn't let Pokemon change to HA so it was kind of a downer when I realised that Crawdaunt was going to be a bit harder to raise.
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I'm loving the Battle Maison.
I got Critical Hit'd 5 times in a row.
And a Togekiss used Encore on me 7 times. I didn't know NPC coudl use PP Ups.
And a Breloom was somehow able to 1HKO my Snorlax with Mach Punch, even tough when I play against real people on Pokemon Showdown, it is barely a 2HKO. Game Freak, if you are going to cheat, atleast don't make it so blatant. And this Snorlax had Perfect Defence IVs and was Slighly EV trained on said stat.
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Battle Maison can be quite ... aggravating.
Especially super triple-battle and the one where your team is on that turning board of which I don't know how it is called in the English version.
Especially if it throws legendaries at you which just so happen to counter your team in the 47. battle out of 50.
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And a Togekiss used Encore on me 7 times.
Well considering these are perfect competitive teams, everyone usually has each of their moves PP Maxed.
As for the Snorlax, Mach Punch from LO/Band Breloom is most definitely an easy 2HKO, and only 5% off from an OHKO at max range if banded.
252 Atk Choice Band Technician Breloom Mach Punch vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Snorlax: 218-258 (81.6 - 96.6%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
However from what I can tell, it is impossible for it to OHKO without Stealth Rock support or some damage already, unboosted and not a crit of course.
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Well considering these are perfect competitive teams, everyone usually has each of their moves PP Maxed.
I'm fairly sure they don't usually use PP Up. I'll have to remember to pay closer attention in the future.
As for the Snorlax, Mach Punch from LO/Band Breloom is most definitely an easy 2HKO, and only 5% off from an OHKO at max range if banded.
252 Atk Choice Band Technician Breloom Mach Punch vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Snorlax: 218-258 (81.6 - 96.6%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
However from what I can tell, it is impossible for it to OHKO without Stealth Rock support or some damage already, unboosted and not a crit of course.
Maybe there was a residual Screech of something leftover from a previous Pokemon?
I have yet to accidentally see a battle facility do something straight-up illegal except for that weird priority issue with that Ambipom that I can't confirm actually happened and have never seen duplicated. I'm almost certain they use weighted probability, but I don't think they have straight-up illegal stats.
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Guys.
I did it.
I got Koffing.
Anybody want Koffings? Free Koffings for all. Spreadin' the good word.
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I would have maybe asked for a Koffing, except that I have literally nothing to give in return. I know you said "free Koffings for all" but still.
Think I'll wait until I have something actually worth giving, unless there's seriously nothing you want or something.
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On an unrelated note, I'm making progress somewhat slowly, because I'm having too much fun customizing my character, even with the limited selection available at this point. What a good way to distract me from actually getting anything done. :V
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(I should've put my IGN and version in. So my IGN is Ian and my version is X)
I've almost created my Ghost team. All I need is a Froslass, and more friends for Friend Safari :P
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I've almost created my Ghost team. All I need is a Froslass, and more friends for Friend Safari :P
I took the liberty of adding you. I don't know what type of safari I have, but maybe you'll find something.
Version is Y, name is Kazami, FC is a few posts earlier in this thread.
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I took the liberty of adding you. I don't know what type of safari I have, but maybe you'll find something.
Version is Y, name is Kazami, FC is a few posts earlier in this thread.
You have a Ghost safari. This makes me super happy as it has Pokemon I don't have yet in it. :D :D :D
EDIT: IT HAS SHUPPET IN IT OMG
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GUYS.
I DID IT.
I FINALLY DID IT.
MY FIRST PERFECT POKEMON!
HORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!
Anyway, Now regarding that thing were a Breloom suddenly 1HKO'd my kind of EV trained with almost perfect IVs (It had Pefect IVs on Defence and HP, which were the ones who mattered for that situation), the game cheated. It just decided to do that. The Snorlax was fresh, it was my last Pokemon, it wasn't afflicted with anything. Also, I remember I somehow missed a Psychic and a Flamethrower on a Ghastly BACK TO BACK. It's shouldn't be possible for me to miss them unless I was hit by a accuracy-retardant move (which was NOT the case) or the Ghastly was holding BrightPowder, but even then, I think they'd still have something like 90% accuracy, so it would still be hard for them to miss, LET ALONE BACK TO BACK!!!
And this didn't happen only once. This actually happened something like 3 times, and all of them were on Ghastlies, all with different trainers. I think I smell Bullshit.
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Before I go trying to make friends with random people from the internet at large, does anyone here have Cloysters in their friend safari? Dittos would work too.
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1540410_193449304192716_2143707789_o.jpg)
GUYS.
I DID IT.
I FINALLY DID IT.
MY FIRST PERFECT POKEMON!
HORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!
Anyway, Now regarding that thing were a Breloom suddenly 1HKO'd my kind of EV trained with almost perfect IVs (It had Pefect IVs on Defence and HP, which were the ones who mattered for that situation), the game cheated. It just decided to do that. The Snorlax was fresh, it was my last Pokemon, it wasn't afflicted with anything. Also, I remember I somehow missed a Psychic and a Flamethrower on a Ghastly BACK TO BACK. It's shouldn't be possible for me to miss them unless I was hit by a accuracy-retardant move (which was NOT the case) or the Ghastly was holding BrightPowder, but even then, I think they'd still have something like 90% accuracy, so it would still be hard for them to miss, LET ALONE BACK TO BACK!!!
And this didn't happen only once. This actually happened something like 3 times, and all of them were on Ghastlies, all with different trainers. I think I smell Bullshit.
Do you have video of the Snorlax thing?
Also I don't know for sure, but it's fairly safe to assume that the Gastlies did have Brightpowder if you missed them with perfect accuracy. I'll keep looking and see if I can find out what they've got.
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No. I kind of tought about it, but I want too angry to do it :V
But really, altough it is bullshit, That Snorlax was barely EV trained, looking at it's EV stats, it didn't even have 50 points on them, and I decided to go with my actual Snorlax that was EV trained (Tough it only had Pefect IV in Defence and decent on HP) and fight in the Battle Maison until I found a Breloom again and it DID survive (tough with little health) so I think it was my fault there. Sorry for the confusion, my brain is finally working :V
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Also, even if they DO have BrightPowder, did the RNG REALLY made two moves with 90% accuracy miss back to back with a straight face?
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Also, even if they DO have BrightPowder, did the RNG REALLY made two moves with 90% accuracy miss back to back with a straight face?
Pokemon is funny with how accuracy works in it at times. (http://youtu.be/cyqsV8pqEmE?t=2m38s)
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Pokemon is funny with how accuracy works in it at times. (http://youtu.be/cyqsV8pqEmE?t=2m38s)
This just proves that whoever programmed the Pokemon games failed at maths.
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I'm not sure if you were in the thread backed when I got swept by a Brightpowder Barnacle monster who dodged my Thunderbolt, Shell smashed and then hit all 3 Stone Edges where I also missed a Bullet Punch.
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I'm not sure if you were in the thread backed when I got swept by a Brightpowder Barnacle monster who dodged my Thunderbolt, Shell smashed and then hit all 3 Stone Edges where I also missed a Bullet Punch.
Accuracy is a fucking bitch.
Now changing the subject, what Pokemon do you think it's better? A Hydreigon with 252 SPATK, 252 Speed that has Draco Meteor and U-Turn or an Haxorus with 252 ATK, 252 that has Outrage?
I'm asking this because: I was thinking of including Hydreigon in my competitive party for the tournament, but I noticed that if I do this, my team will have a clear weakness to Fighting-type moves, (Even tough 252 Speed Hydreigon actually outspeeds every single one of the most popular fighting type pokemon) but Haxorus has less BST and Locking myself into Outrage can result in trouble. What do you guys think?
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Depends on if you already have proper coverage in the physical/special attack-types. Then there's also typecoverage, where Hydreigon covers fire/dark/ground and Haxorus learns some proper ground, rock, bug and poison attacks aside from what you mentioned.
In terms of general usability they're both capable. Hydreigon is probably better at picking off single targets and Haxorus has sweeping potential with some setup.
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Being weak to fighting means being weak to Mach Punch, either coming from Technician or Conkeldurr, or now Vacuum Wave from M. Lucario. I like Mixed Scarf Hydreigon the times I use it just to heavily damage Pokemon with Draco Meteor and 98 speed is not incredibly fast. They used to say there were no true counters to Hydreigon but now with Fairy types which resist Superpower, Dark Pulse AND Draco Meteor (i.e. essentially 75% of its usable offensive movepool) Hydreigon to be honest, is kind of bad this generation. You DO NOT want to let Slyveon/Clefable T-wave your incoming counter or set-up CMs.
Haxorus I just like because it hits incredibly hard even on Skarmory with a SD and doesn't have to suffer from being mixed because Earthquake will undoubtedly 2HKO most Fairy types so they can't come into the switch. It also suffers from being slow however. Being locked into Outrage is not really a bad thing, it still hits hard on anything that isn't a Fairy or bulky Steel (read Skarmory) but throw on a SD and your problems are solved 864 Atk on Adamant is nothing to scoff at. For my Jollydancexorus I run DD/Outrage/Poison Jab/Earthquake but I probably would want to switch Poison Jab for Dragon Claw seeing as I don't do enough damage with DD to OHKO things anyway and most things will get 2HKO'd from an EQ.
I will say that Hydreigon has delicious bulk however and that Sublefties is a pretty good check to things like Ferrothorn who can't take Flamethrowers or Fire Blasts at all and Power Whip won't even break the sub.
e: Wait fairy resists bug inexplicably, meaning Hydreigon using Draco/U-turn/Superpower/Dark Pulse cannot hit for neutral on Sylveon or Clefable.
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Being weak to fighting means being weak to Mach Punch, either coming from Technician or Conkeldurr, or now Vacuum Wave from M. Lucario. I like Mixed Scarf Hydreigon the times I use it just to heavily damage Pokemon with Draco Meteor and 98 speed is not incredibly fast. They used to say there were no true counters to Hydreigon but now with Fairy types which resist Superpower, Dark Pulse AND Draco Meteor (i.e. essentially 75% of its usable offensive movepool) Hydreigon to be honest, is kind of bad this generation. You DO NOT want to let Slyveon/Clefable T-wave your incoming counter or set-up CMs.
Haxorus I just like because it hits incredibly hard even on Skarmory with a SD and doesn't have to suffer from being mixed because Earthquake will undoubtedly 2HKO most Fairy types so they can't come into the switch. It also suffers from being slow however. Being locked into Outrage is not really a bad thing, it still hits hard on anything that isn't a Fairy or bulky Steel (read Skarmory) but throw on a SD and your problems are solved 864 Atk on Adamant is nothing to scoff at. For my Jollydancexorus I run DD/Outrage/Poison Jab/Earthquake but I probably would want to switch Poison Jab for Dragon Claw seeing as I don't do enough damage with DD to OHKO things anyway and most things will get 2HKO'd from an EQ.
I will say that Hydreigon has delicious bulk however and that Sublefties is a pretty good check to things like Ferrothorn who can't take Flamethrowers or Fire Blasts at all and Power Whip won't even break the sub.
e: Wait fairy resists bug inexplicably, meaning Hydreigon using Draco/U-turn/Superpower/Dark Pulse cannot hit for neutral on Sylveon or Clefable.
So I think I better switch to Haxorus then, just so I have only Two Pokemon weak to fighting compared to three. Is a Mold-Breaking Jolly 4HP, 252ATK and 252Speed Haxorus with Outrage, Earthquake, Brick Break and Dragon Claw while holding a Choice Band for 50% more damage good enough? Or do I switch Jolly for Adamant?
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If you go band you need to be aware of it being outspeeded. But with its 140 or so base atk and the band it should pack quite a punch, so I'd stick with jolly. Or you go adamant and scarf it, if you really want to use a choice item. You could also go Focus Sash and ditch one move for dragon dance, which would give you both effects.
On another note: Friend Safari gives you 3 different Pokemon once the other person cleared E4, right?
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If you go band you need to be aware of it being outspeeded. But with its 140 or so base atk and the band it should pack quite a punch, so I'd stick with jolly. Or you go adamant and scarf it, if you really want to use a choice item. You could also go Focus Sash and ditch one move for dragon dance, which would give you both effects.
On another note: Friend Safari gives you 3 different Pokemon once the other person cleared E4, right?
Yes: Two Pokemon on the Safari when you have not cleared the game, 3 when you do.
And thanks for the advice, mate.
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Also, even if they DO have BrightPowder, did the RNG REALLY made two moves with 90% accuracy miss back to back with a straight face?
I've had 95% accurate moves miss twice in a row. That's 1/400.
I've been wiped in a Nuzlocke because 90% missed twice in a row and then I got Critted Twice. By Thunder. Which actually has to hit in the first place.
I'm not even going to TRY and get the odds on that one. And I'm the sort of person who works out odds a lot for doing stuff in Bloodbowl.
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THAT'S ANOTHER PERFECT POKEMON!
YAY!!!
I used your advice Yookie: I decided to make her Jolly. I already had a Jolly Axew with Mold Breaker and 3Ivs from Wonder Trade so getting this one wasn't as hard as the Snorlax.
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Congrats.
If the one you got from wondertrade is from another region you might as well breed for a shiny :P (don't)
Want to tell what you're going to breed next? Maybe I have something left over from what i did.
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Congrats.
If the one you got from wondertrade is from another region you might as well breed for a shiny :P (don't)
Want to tell what you're going to breed next? Maybe I have something left over from what i did.
I live in Brazil, I'm pretty much GUARANTEED to get Pokemon from other countries.
And I'm planning on breeding a Gliscor with Poison Heal, or maybe a Scizor with Swarm. (Tough I still want a Lucario, so it'd be nice if you could lend me one :V)
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Edit: Sent you a PM. We shouldn't spam the thread with this. :V
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I'm using you Pam-Pam to try to breed my Lucario now.
But first I need to get a female one. And they have only a 12.5 chance of being female. And Riolu can't breed. I think I'm going to have a GOOD time breeding Lucarios! <3
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Reminds me of the good times I had with breeding Vespiquen. Good luck on that one. And Pam-Pam is just the name of it in the German version. :V
Battle Maison is still being mean to me with para hax and such. Getting defeated after 46 battles is somewhat demoralizing.
Edit: But the AI is interesting at times. Like a Volcarona spamming Solar Beam on my Roserade.
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I know that. i just think the name is funny :V
But yeah, I think the only way to get 100 battles in a row is if you pretty much use a 5IV-EV trained extremely well balanced team with a lot of luck. The IV-EV thing is to make sure you'll 1HKO anything in your way, the extremely well balanced team is a must, but even then I don't think you can be ready for everything, and luck is to guarantee your enemy won't hit Fissure you 3 times back-to-back, or you get Paralyzed 7 turns in a row (I remember this happened to me on my recent Sapphire Playthrough, thank fucking Christ it was against a Wild Pokemon.)
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The way to get to 100 is to switch your team up every 20 or so rounds so that those teams of 3 fire types sent to incinerate your Scizor get to meet your Crawdaunt or something.
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Yeah, the German names are interesting at times. Like Noivern being called UHaFnir (with exactly these capitals). So many people rage about that. :p
The thing is that I am using my "perfectly" trained team for that with a good coverage but I am doing the Rotation Battles where the AI is just ridiculous with predictions and randomness and you have to cover your team against 12 different attacks at a time so there is basically no safety. And on top of that they just whip out legendaries in the mid 40s.
But I never noticed the enemy counterbuilding my team.
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wait there's still no pokebank?
game freak pls ;-;
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I know that. i just think the name is funny :V
But yeah, I think the only way to get 100 battles in a row is if you pretty much use a 5IV-EV trained extremely well balanced team with a lot of luck. The IV-EV thing is to make sure you'll 1HKO anything in your way, the extremely well balanced team is a must, but even then I don't think you can be ready for everything, and luck is to guarantee your enemy won't hit Fissure you 3 times back-to-back, or you get Paralyzed 7 turns in a row (I remember this happened to me on my recent Sapphire Playthrough, thank fucking Christ it was against a Wild Pokemon.)
Or you could just break the AI and basically cheat to be virtually guaranteed to get to 100. That seems to be what most people do.
Yeah, the German names are interesting at times. Like Noivern being called UHaFnir (with exactly these capitals). So many people rage about that. :p
That's amazing.
wait there's still no pokebank?
game freak pls ;-;
Look guys.
Just stop it.
Give me Pokebank.
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(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7984823808/h1F695BDB/)
I'll just leave this here.
That's amazing.
If you ever see a Noivern called Hugh Hefner online you know where that came from.
Edit: I don't want to evolve my Inkay, it's so adorable :< And I'm torn between playing it with topsy-turvy and some random item or a fourth attack-move and assault-vest. The former would be more faithful to its name and I already have a vest user but with the vest, its investment and the boosts from super power it would be really bulky. Meh, guess I'll just adjust it to fit the rest of the team.
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Well; I needed an extra Moon Stone.
I had to do Drag Down Hydregion like 20 times. Yet I got like 3 PP Up's; 5 Stardust; 2 Sun Stones; and that dosen't count the first-time stones I got getting there. @_@
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Related to Pokemon, but unrelated to the topic: I actually decided to properly read the Pokemon Adventures Manga. Well, I only read the first 4 chapters and, it's not bad really. It's feels weird because I'm reading the Brazilian Portuguese version, and for whatever reason they use the japanese names (RED is the protagonist, but GREEN is the Rival and BLUE is the girl, not the other way around)
I want to buy the physical manga, because it's rather clumsy reading it on a computer screen, but LOOK AT THAT PRICE! (http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-528872457-manga-pokemon-adventures-red-blue-box-set-_JM) I know that it's the full set, but, 245 quid? Or about 120 dollars? Really?
Now kind of related to the topic: Has the X and Y Pokemon Adventures manga come out yet?
Also, I still haven't started breeding my Lucario because of lazyness, but don't worry Yookie, PamPam is still here :V
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From what I know B/W 2 had not been finished with the release of X/Y and both bulbapedia and wikipedia still state it as incomplete but that may not be right, I don't know.
X/Y is stated to be in progress but there is already information on the protagonists:
"This chapter follows the adventures of X and Y, who travel throughout the Kalos region after their hometown was destroyed by a fighting Xerneas and Yveltal." (bulba)
"The X and Y chapter focuses on a depressed boy named X, who won a major tournament as a child, and Y, a girl who dreams of becoming a Sky Trainer." (wiki)
And while we're on the topic of the names of Pokemon: A lot of people I know or hear from really despise most of the German names. Is that just a thing here or are the Spanish/French/English/etc. names not that popular with the native speakers as well?
Edit: I now evolved my little Inkay (And now it doesn't hover and spin cutely anymore :<). If the stats wouldn't almost double I would have just played it with Eviolite for the lulz.
But now I can't test it. Everytime I'm busy breeding/hitting my head at the brick wall called Battle Maison I'm getting spammed with requests and when I just have the DS on while doing something else in case someone wants something from me nobody is online. :V
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From what I know B/W 2 had not been finished with the release of X/Y and both bulbapedia and wikipedia still state it as incomplete but that may not be right, I don't know.
X/Y is stated to be in progress but there is already information on the protagonists:
"This chapter follows the adventures of X and Y, who travel throughout the Kalos region after their hometown was destroyed by a fighting Xerneas and Yveltal." (bulba)
"The X and Y chapter focuses on a depressed boy named X, who won a major tournament as a child, and Y, a girl who dreams of becoming a Sky Trainer." (wiki)
And while we're on the topic of the names of Pokemon: A lot of people I know or hear from really despise most of the German names. Is that just a thing here or are the Spanish/French/English/etc. names not that popular with the native speakers as well?
Edit: I now evolved my little Inkay. If the stats wouldn't almost double I would have just played it with Eviolite for the lulz.
But now I can't test it. Everytime I'm busy breeding/hitting my head at the brick wall called Battle Maison I'm getting spammed with requests and when I just have the DS on in case someone wants something from me nobody is online. :V
Can't say for sure, since I don't live in the US, tough I will say that in Brazil PIKAchu has quite a double meaning. ("Pica" is a slang term for cock, or the male genitalia :V)
Edit: I finished reading the first volume. it's alright, but there is something odd in it: The cover of the manga calls it "POKEMON ADVENTURES", but almost everything inside it calls it "POKEMON SPECIAL", the japanese name for the manga. Most notably, the last page says something along the lines of "Catch the continuation of Red's adventures in POKEMON SPECIAL VOLUME 2!"
Maybe the Brazilian version isn't translated from the American one, but from the japanese original?
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My Weezing is nearly finished, just have to level it the rest of the way (and for wifi battles I guess I don't even need to do that). All that's left is Venomoth, which will be much harder to make pre-Pokebank since I want a hidden ability one. I have one in my Black 2, I just can't do anything with it...
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Commander, one of my friend safaris has a venomoth. I can get you a hidden ability one. (Later today I'll catch it. What times are you online?)
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With the new Christmas additions to our pokemon herd, has the front page been updated. I still need to run through and keep on registering everyone.
Ahh, just took on a VoltTurn Team with my B squad (or at least, six I seem to be using together that isn't my main six). And those Toxic spikes that Greninja threw up really messed me up. Also some decent prediction and he took down my guys.
Here's the video
5BXG - WWWW - WWW4 - DXYW (Nick Vs CHAMBER)
And I am very psyched about that Red Gyarados and my shiny bloodsword Doublade. I got them both from trades. One guy just randomly traded me both of them, and both had almost perfect IVs. And you may ask, why not evolve Doublade into Agislash? Because i'm the only guy in town with a shiny doublade. With Evolite, he's got more defense then his evolution. He lacks King's shield, but with a swords dance he can hit hard and not leave himself open like Agi.
Also, for that tourney, should we follow Smogon's lead and not use MegaKangaskahn? Does anyone actually intend on using MegaKahn? As cool as he is, I don't plan on using him.
And while I'm at it. Try this one.
UJ3G - WWWW - WWW3 - NP76 (Nick vs a Japanese lady)
I'd have to say, this is the best match I've ever had online. This one went right down to the wire. Literally, last pokemon, down to the red. Who won? Well, play it and find out.
My shiny Levy is one I cherish. She's the third shiny I have ever found. The last two I found shiny were a shiny Butterfree in classic Gold, and a Beautifly in Ruby. A shiny Leavanny from the friend safari in Gen 6 was the third one. Then came those two I got from trade, and then I found a shiny Wingull Ev training, and then by luck, a awesome shiny Venomoth in the friend safari. I will be using Venoblue eventually, just after I EV train him. I wish I could make him a quiver passer, but sadly he can't do that (baton pass is a egg move), but with Tinted lens he'll hit like a truck on anything.
My shiny Levy and my Belroom kinda compete for my 6th slot in my main team.
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Commander, one of my friend safaris has a venomoth. I can get you a hidden ability one. (Later today I'll catch it. What times are you online?)
Oh, do you? Okay, cool. For some reason I was thinking it was a Pokebank exclusive. I'm not usually on at any particular time, since class makes my schedule vary a lot from day to day, so I guess just let me know when you'll be on and I'll get on too. My guy's name is Blue. Is there anything specific you want for it?
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Mate, how can you guarantee that's a lady? Maybe it just uses the female character because it think the male one looks stupid :V (Like me)
Nice replays BTW.
EDIT: OKAY, I finally got a female Riolu to start my breedfest, so I decided to check the judge to see if it had any perfect IVs. For whatever reason, it was born with perfect Attack. even tough none of its parents had any IVs! Cool!
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Woo! Shiny Paras! I'm proud of myself for noticing it, since shiny Paras is barely different from the normal one.
Nature and IVs aren't spectacular, but they could be worse. It isn't Dry Skin unfortunately. I like Paras and Parasect a lot, so this is pretty cool.
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Nice replays BTW.
EDIT: OKAY, I finally got a female Riolu to start my breedfest, so I decided to check the judge to see if it had any perfect IVs. For whatever reason, it was born with perfect Attack. even tough none of its parents had any IVs! Cool!
Thanks. I appreciate it.
And a Prankster Riolu? Neato (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOcC9quDkwE)
Woo! Shiny Paras! I'm proud of myself for noticing it, since shiny Paras is barely different from the normal one.
Nature and IVs aren't spectacular, but they could be worse. It isn't Dry Skin unfortunately. I like Paras and Parasect a lot, so this is pretty cool.
It seems around me, the shinys I usually find are all bug type. I don't mind, the ones I've been getting I like. Venomoth has been one of my favorites.
And two people (are the first to) have seen my replays. *happy, and very much appreciates it*
As for what I'd like in return, well, I'm mostly open to anything good. I have been trying to get a perfect Eevee, but unsuccessful at that. I'd love a Female Eevee with a few perfect IVs (and 31 Speed) and it's HA. Imposter Ditto has been the other one I've been dying to find with no success either (despite having a FS with Dittos and Eevees), or a perfect IV Ditto for breeding (I can deal with natures later).
Those, ATM, seem to be what I really want, but honestly, I'd be willing to just give it to you. I leave it up to you.
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just fyi prankster rilou no longer works in xy :<
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As for what I'd like in return, well, I'm mostly open to anything good. I have been trying to get a perfect Eevee, but unsuccessful at that. I'd love a Female Eevee with a few perfect IVs (and 31 Speed) and it's HA. Imposter Ditto has been the other one I've been dying to find with no success either (despite having a FS with Dittos and Eevees), or a perfect IV Ditto for breeding (I can deal with natures later).
Those, ATM, seem to be what I really want, but honestly, I'd be willing to just give it to you. I leave it up to you.
I definitely don't have Impostor Ditto, but I think I have Anticipation Eevee. If I do I can probably get a female with perfect Speed pretty easily.
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1518649_196600883877558_1133985664_o.jpg)
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING FUCKER
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YOU. ARE. LUCKY. THAT. IS. AWESOME.
Also, why won't that prankster copycat thing work anymore? What happened? did it pick up Roar's negative priority?
I definitely don't have Impostor Ditto, but I think I have Anticipation Eevee. If I do I can probably get a female with perfect Speed pretty easily.
Ok, the Eevees I have to note...The rest all overlap.
Female HA, Eevee HP, Def, SpA, SpD,
Yawn Wish, Male HA HP, Def, SpA, SpD,
Yawn Wish, Male, HP, Att, def, SpA
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YOU. ARE. LUCKY. THAT. IS. AWESOME.
Also, why won't that prankster copycat thing work anymore? What happened?
Ok, the Eevees I have to note...The rest all overlap.
Female HA, Eevee HP, Def, SpA, SpD,
Yawn Wish, Male HA HP, Def, SpA, SpD,
Yawn Wish, Male, HP, Att, def, SpA
Apparently if you try it in XY it just fails
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I think it's for the best that it doesn't work since there's is not much counterplay to it once you're caught in it and it doesn't even require that much setup.
And if the Riolu has a focus sash your entire team is probably half dead and crippled until you get your mon with a prio move twice. (and it still has to be faster. I tend to play priority moves on slow mons since the fast ones are faster anyway.)
dat shiny
Congrats!
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Oh yea, there are weaknesses to that very dickish strategy of prankster copycatting phase-roaring. In truth, I was curious.
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Congrats!
Well, it's all thanks to you, mate! I was using Pampampampam to try and breed a perfect Lucario and thanks to Masuda's shenanigans this guy came out! And it's not half bad! Sure, it's Hardy, and I want a Naive one, but it actually came out with 5 perfect IVs! And horrible speed according to the judge :V
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YOU. ARE. LUCKY. THAT. IS. AWESOME.
Also, why won't that prankster copycat thing work anymore? What happened? did it pick up Roar's negative priority?
I think Copycat no longer counts as a non-attacking move in itself. [Same with Assist] so Prankster does not work with them.
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I still haven't got a shiny.
But my team has essentially become UU with the new tier listings. Haha, Haxorus, Chansey, Toed & Keldeo, Kyurem B and Deoxys S/D UU? Look at all these things that are going to BL along with Bisharp.
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I still haven't got a shiny.
But my team has essentially become UU with the new tier listings. Haha, Haxorus, Chansey, Toed & Keldeo, Kyurem B and Deoxys S/D UU? Look at all these things that are going to BL along with Bisharp.
The Dexoys are probobly because of N/A being Uber automatically. That and Defog kinda wrecks Deo-D's point; and to a lesser extent Deo-S.
Kyurem-B was almost UU in Gen 5 anyway.
Chansey was UU anyway :V
Toed is obviously UU; no more perma-rain; and since everyone abused Keldeo with Perma-rain; yeah :V
It's like I see people shocked that Latias is [unofficially] UU. It was teetering UU in the first place; most special moves were nerfed; Assult Vest exists now; as does the Fairy-Type and Ageislash [Who resists both of Latias' STAB's and has Shadow Sneak and the ability to run Persuit]
Don't get the hype around Bisharp. It's not like Salamence and Gyarados are everywhere. It ain't Gen 4. [And even then they sometimes run Moxie]
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You could run a Deoxys and when they switch in to Defog switch to your Defiant Bisharp and then proceed to Knock Off for at least 80%. Swift Swim + Drizzle isn't banned yet is it, which makes a bunch of Pokemon a lot better, Kingdra and Kabutops mainly.
Chansey was also most definitely OU with Eviolite making it a really good mixed wall.
Celebi has also dropped, which I don't find suprising.
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You could run a Deoxys and when they switch in to Defog switch to your Defiant Bisharp and then proceed to Knock Off for at least 80%. Swift Swim + Drizzle isn't banned yet is it, which makes a bunch of Pokemon a lot better, Kingdra and Kabutops mainly.
Chansey was also most definitely OU with Eviolite making it a really good mixed wall.
Celebi has also dropped, which I don't find suprising.
I forgot Defiant activates from Defog.
Chansey wasn't OU in Gen 5. Turns out being 100% reliant on Toxic and S-Toss to deal damage [Therefor being screwed by anything with either Taunt+Recovery or a Ghost with Taunt] unlike Blissey [Who had an existant Sp.Atk stat so could use Flamethrower/T-Bolt/Ice Beam to detter Dragons/Scizor/Lucario/Gyarados/whatever you didn't want setting up setting up in it's face]; and missing Leftovers is a big deal compared to a bit more physical bulk.
Swift Swim + Drizzle dosen't work so well when Drizzle is limited time. Especially since non-Specs Toad isn't that good.
Celebi would obviously drop with Talonflame and Ageislash.
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Is there a way to get a 6iv Lucario? I think the Destiny Knot has a chance of transferring 5Ivs only. I want SP.ATK on it because I want Lucario to have Flash Cannon, and it's the only good Steel Type move it can learn (besides Mach Punch, but I already got Extreme Speed for that)
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I realized that the typing of my physical wall doesn't seem to be that good on a second glance with it being rock/water. When I made it my entire team (consisting only of 5 members at that time, all being either weak to fire, flying or physically frail :V) so I built it to specifically wall fire and flying (looking at you, Talonflame...) and physical attackers in general.
But now the only physical attackers my opponents have are fighting or ground type it seems. With its ability reducing the damage of super effective movesI don't mind non-stab fighting/ground/electricity moves, especially since I gave it a weakness policy for surprise reasons (Tirtouga isn't used anyway, so why not make it completely random) but with stab they are all well able to twohit my poor turtle. (But I was proud of my Genji for surviving a Close Combat from a life-orb Infernape from about 80% HP)
So in conclusion: When your team lacks defense against fire and flying everybody comes at you with 6 of those damn birds and once you're able to hard counter them they all go hiding in a bush.
6iv Lucario?
Yes. The same way I got that 6IV Pampampampampampam: Pure luck. :V At best 5IV get passed down and the last one is decided at random. You can maximize your odds by having parents with 6IV each (lel) so that there are at least no bad ones to be passed down.
Edit: Got a name wrong. :V the gen4 grass starter is definitely rock/water (they're both turtles and start with T so, bleh.)
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Having 5-8 turns of speed is pretty good in itself considering that Kingdra usually has to Rain Dance itself to become threatening. The bigger problem is the fact that an item needs to be sacrificed and defensive play is generally even less viable now than in the previous generation.
Chansey is just a bit too annoying for the majority of UU, being a cleric is good enough in itself and it heals more than Umbreon. I'm quite sure Dusclops/Chandy/Sableye are common enough to counter it in terms of having any offensive stall presence.
To get 6IV Lucario you pray to the RNG Goddess to be kind on your soul.
Everyone runs Rotom-W to counter Talonflame, that or Gliscor. Rotom-W is just... too good really.
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I still haven't got a shiny.
But my team has essentially become UU with the new tier listings. Haha, Haxorus, Chansey, Toed & Keldeo, Kyurem B and Deoxys S/D UU? Look at all these things that are going to BL along with Bisharp.
i dont see any new tier listings ???
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http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/unofficial-uus-read-post-13-dont-post-bugs-here.3496622/
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http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/unofficial-uus-read-post-13-dont-post-bugs-here.3496622/
>unofficial
:derp:
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Which means that there will be suspect testing and things will be shuffled around a bit but mostly it will be the same. Kangaskhan for example will drop down to NU meaning something will shuffle up alongside the BL Pokemon, but we can be fairly sure that this is roughly how UU is going to look for Gen 6.
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Everyone runs Rotom-W to counter Talonflame, that or Gliscor. Rotom-W is just... too good really.
I know about Rotom but why take a washing-machine when you can have a flying turtle?
But in all seriousness: I don't really pick mons because of viability but I rather look at what I have and look at what is missing. Then I look for something I like that fills that role. And at the time I had just a physical and special sweeper, a general staller, an annoyance Aegislash (but really, what do you call that? It decently walls both while being capable of dishing out high damage and being kinda predictable) and a special wall, so go figure.
But thanks for the advice. The thing with Gliscor is, that I don't have a proper sandstorm team and no access to one with a hidden ability, so that one's kinda out at the moment.
This also was more about me wondering about the "lack" of Talonflames. Whenever I watch a video of someone talking over a battle there is almost always at least one on one team. Because it is really powerful (but also really ugly imo.) :V
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Gliscor doesn't need Sandstorm. And you get Immunity Gligars from hordes ingame, how else would everyone (including me) be running around with Gliscor.
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Having 5-8 turns of speed is pretty good in itself considering that Kingdra usually has to Rain Dance itself to become threatening. The bigger problem is the fact that an item needs to be sacrificed and defensive play is generally even less viable now than in the previous generation.
There is a huge difference between running a liabilty of a pokemon for a game-long buff; and running a liuabilty of a pokemon for a timed buff; especially a timed buff on a shared type; which means that same things can deal with it. You can't pivot to something to give Kingdra that free setup; you're losing limited time.
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So I finally got back into playing the game and training my Bisharp... aanndd I forgot what kind of moveset I was hoping for her. I think it was Iron Head, Sucker Punch, Brick Break and Sword Dance.
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Knock Off is too good to pass off now on Bisharp. 97.5 Power move before STAB with the added bonus of removing an item? Yes please. It's so good that you might not even want to run Iron Head or Brick Break for it.
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Problem: I am training the Bisharp on Y. Bisharp only gets Knock Off by a Move Tutor in B2W2.
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To get 6IV Lucario you pray to the RNG Goddess to be kind on your soul.
So I'll have to make do with a 5IV Lucario with everythign exceot SPATK?
Also, I wanted a Naive one, and the Lucario I used to start it all, Korrina's Lucario, was Naive, and I forgot to put an Everstone in it. God fucking dammit :V
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If you want it to be a sweeper you could also forgo one of the defensive stats since it won't take more than one hit anyways without defensive investment and a non-31 IV might still be in the high 20 or something, the guy in-game doesn't tell you about these.
Edit: Huehuehue
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7991782656/h834F9913/)
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If you want it to be a sweeper you could also forgo one of the defensive stats since it won't take more than one hit anyways without defensive investment and a non-31 IV might still be in the high 20 or something, the guy in-game doesn't tell you about these.
Edit: Huehuehue
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7991782656/h834F9913/)
https://twitter.com/AshKetchumTime/status/415869254035337216
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If you want it to be a sweeper you could also forgo one of the defensive stats since it won't take more than one hit anyways without defensive investment and a non-31 IV might still be in the high 20 or something, the guy in-game doesn't tell you about these.
Edit: Huehuehue
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7991782656/h834F9913/)
Well, then I've already got my perfect Lucario!!!
EXCEPT IT HAS THE WRONG BLOODY NATURE :V
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I went to see if there was any news on the Pokebank delay. All I could find is about 10 different places in the last 24 hours reporting that Pokebank let's you use Giratina and Mew in X and Y. Why is this news?
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This is starting to get REALLY stupid. GTA Online was delayed 2 weeks after the launch of GTAV just so Rockstar could ready up the servers, and for the most part, the game was semi-playable on the first week (Tough with a lot of bugs that were mostly fixed not long after). The Pokebank, however, was released 2 AND A HALF MONTHS after the release of X and Y, but the servers STILL couldn't handle it and Game Freak still hasn't fixed nothing.
What the hell was Game Freak doing in that time period exactly? Were they too busy counting their money? Or do they just enjoy watching us suffer? Must be the latter, seeing how balanced their games tend to be.
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Well, then I've already got my perfect Lucario!!!
EXCEPT IT HAS THE WRONG BLOODY NATURE :V
What did you think was going to happen? If you don't use an Everstone the odds of getting perfect IVs and the right nature are prohibitively low.
This is starting to get REALLY stupid. GTA Online was delayed 2 weeks after the launch of GTAV just so Rockstar could ready up the servers, and for the most part, the game was semi-playable on the first week (Tough with a lot of bugs that were mostly fixed not long after). The Pokebank, however, was released 2 AND A HALF MONTHS after the release of X and Y, but the servers STILL couldn't handle it and Game Freak still hasn't fixed nothing.
What the hell was Game Freak doing in that time period exactly? Were they too busy counting their money? Or do they just enjoy watching us suffer? Must be the latter, seeing how balanced their games tend to be.
Based on what I understand the problem isn't that the GTS can't handle the traffic, it's that their site can't handle the traffic of all of the people setting up Global Link accounts to be able to use it. That may not be correct at all, but it's possible that they underestimated the number of people who don't already have Global Link (or whatever service GTS recognizes you by) accounts and will want them first day. Almost certainly crazy oversight on their part, but probably not total lack of preparation.
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OK guys, finally got a naive Lucario, now, before I continue trying to IV breed, what spread do you guys think is better? 31 all except SP. Defence or 31 all except Defence?
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Since Naive reduces Special Def, might as well go with the except SP. Defence
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Since Naive reduces Special Def, might as well go with the except SP. Defence
Eh, might as well. Makes sense.
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Might as well go with whichever happens first.
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...Well, I got a 6IV Riolu!
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m506/itsover90001/SAM_1319_zps13efc9bf.jpg)
...WITH THE WRONG BLOODY ABILITY.
Oh, who the bloody hell cares, Inner Focus and Steadfast are both situational anyway, with Inner Focus a Togekiss won't be able to Flinch Hax Lucario to death, and with Steadfast, it will hand me a free sweep the turn Lucario will finally be able to attack.
Also, a question regarding the Pokemon Storage System: Does it have a limit? I'm halfway through the 25th Box, and I still got to breed the other half of my team, and one of the Pokemon on my team will be Rotom, and I KNOW breeding it will be even more painful than getting Riolu was. Or Snorlax, but it was just because it was the 1st Pokemon I ever truly got Perfect IVs, and I chain bred the IVs from a Mantine to it, so you know how much joy I had
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the limit is like 31 boxes I think
of course if only pokebank would come out then we would all get like 300
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...Well, I got a 6IV Riolu!
...WITH THE WRONG BLOODY ABILITY.
First of all: congrats. And as a solution to the ability "problem": Either get that item at the battle maison that switches the ability or go Mega-Lucario which has adaptability anyways. (But if you choose to use the Mega then Steadfast would actually be better as a really niche way of getting a +1 onto it by taking a fake out or trying to get flinched on purpose beforehand.)
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I don't really know if I want to switch the abilities. Lucario is faster than Togekiss, so I can't get flinched to death, and if someone flinches me, I get a free sweep. I think I'm going to buy the Ability Capsule, but keep it just in case SteadFast REALLY starts hurting. What I really need to start buying are PP Ups.
And well, 31 boxes is SHITE. I hope I can breed the rest of my team before I exhaust the limit, but I still want to complete the Pokedex, so I will need those Pokebank slots. And it can hold 3000 Pokemon, I believe.
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oh i thought it was 300 boxes so 9000 pokemon
but it's only 100 boxes so 3000 pokemon
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So I went to grind in Battle Chateau (Goddamnit game, stop throwing Barons at me!) and I found one who had Avalugg. The Avalugg kept on using Curse. Over and over and over again. I was thinking that my Kabuto (evolution reasons) was going to get killed by it, but nope. I Mud Shot myself to victory because the Avalugg refused to attack,
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pokebank confirmed
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Confirmed for 'shop since that tweet's not actually anywhere on @Pokemon and is announcing it for a date that doesn't exist. :V
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pokebank confirmed
Apparently the Miiverse's Leap Years come at different times?
This is pretty orz worthy. I got my Wii U yesterday and i was hoping to update it, then I learned the eShop servers went down...Unless they come up sooner (or I get a copy of Super Mario 3D World), it'll be a good two months before I can update my Wii U... :ohdear:
I still have to beat Pokemon Y, too. At least that's something i can do in the interm :V
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pokebank confirmed
Isn't that roughly when the free trial was supposed to end?
And why on earth is it taking 2 and a half months to fix this thing that you advertized with the game?
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Isn't that roughly when the free trial was supposed to end?
And why on earth is it taking 2 and a half months to fix this thing that you advertized with the game?
Confirmed for 'shop since that tweet's not actually anywhere on @Pokemon and is announcing it for a date that doesn't exist. :V
:colbert:
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I thought this year was a leap year :/
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As for what I'd like in return, well, I'm mostly open to anything good. I have been trying to get a perfect Eevee, but unsuccessful at that. I'd love a Female Eevee with a few perfect IVs (and 31 Speed) and it's HA. Imposter Ditto has been the other one I've been dying to find with no success either (despite having a FS with Dittos and Eevees), or a perfect IV Ditto for breeding (I can deal with natures later).
Those, ATM, seem to be what I really want, but honestly, I'd be willing to just give it to you. I leave it up to you.
I made a female Impostor Eevee with perfect Speed and one other thing (I think HP?). Will you take that for a Wonder Skin Venomoth? I can be online any time today after ~2pm.
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First of all, my project "Warrior Princess" is complete. My Bisharp is now called Haraedo at level 100 with Life Orb, Iron Head, Brick Break, Sucker Punch and Swords Dance. It took me long but its complete.
Second of all, SHINY WEEPINBELL!
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/011/8/0/shiny_weepinbell_by_tppr10-d71qrx2.jpg)
I caught it in Route 10 when I was trying to evolve my Inkay into Malamar. There was only one nickname I could give to him: HOLE, to go with my shiny Aggron, Arse (ARSE due of Gen III).
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(http://i.imgur.com/TL4G2ij.jpg)
Woop woop, now I get to puke out entry hazards in style. This is actually my first shiny ever.
Edit: It's really nice when you use the move you think is earthquake against a ground weak enemy when it is actually rockslide and your opponent switches into a talonflame.
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I had played nearly every handheld Pokemon game to date, and not once had I ever seen a shiny in one of my games. I never got any guaranteed shinies, or hacked to get one (I didn't see the fun in that!). For all I knew the world had a secret it was covering up that there was no such thing as a shiny Pokemon lol. So when I got my copy of X and finished the main game, I started breeding Fennekins using a trusty Japanese Ditto and got past 1000 without seeing a shiny. I lost hope and switched to Ghastlys, and hatched around 600. Finally I thought, if I ever actually get a shiny I'd like to breed a shiny Eevee, since I'd have quite a few choices as to what it'd look like later, and I determined to hatch Eevees forever until I got a shiny. No more giving up. 700 later, my first shiny ever hatched.
I picked Glaceon and I'm pretty happy with it. The end.
PS if anyone wants hundreds-er, any Eevees with at least a perfect speed IV, let me know lol.
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Okay, I just got back from my trip to the state of Santa Catarina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catarina_%28state%29). I really have been set back on my breeding agenda by this, so to save some time, does anytone have a breeding leftover Scyther/Rotom with some IVs? Pretty please? :3
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Welcome back
While I don't have a Rotom I do have a male Ralts that has everything but Attack IVs. And if Serebii doesn't lie, then they share egg groups.
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But doesn't Ralts have gender and Rotom not? I don't think It'd work.
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Ah, you're right. Missed that.
Then I got nothing, sorry. :V
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It's alright, mate. I'll just try to work with what I got here.
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If you had asked like a month ago I had Spe/HP/SpD/Spa Calms Rotoms and 5IV Scythers but I WT'd them to lucky people.
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Okay, I finally breed my 5IV Adamant Scyther with Technician. And since I don't know if Pokebank will let you transfer Pokemon BACK to Generation 5, and even if it did we still don't have it, I'll have to substitute Super Power with Brick Break for now. Great. Also, Gliscor with Poison Heal and Rotom with 5IVs will be a bitch to get, I presume.
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You cannot transfer back to 5th gen. Once a mon is on X/Y it stays.
And since Scizor seems to be played more as a stay-in thanks to roost and that physical bulk (if you play it mega) not using super-power is probably better. With technician you can also use rock smash for the def drop which is only 15 power weaker after the boost (or power-up punch, but with swordsdance that is probably not worth it.) (But you can also run thief on it, since that gets the technician bonus and nobody expects it.)
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I'm never going to use Mega Evolutions. Never. Never. I'll see what I can do about it.
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I managed to breed 5IV Rotoms with 1IV Dittos. If that isn't the worst, tell me what is.
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I managed to breed 5IV Rotoms with 1IV Dittos. If that isn't the worst, tell me what is.
Breeding 6IV Rotoms with 0 IV Dittos.
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It's really nice what you can get via wondertrade. I've got almost a full box of rare or for me normally unavailable mons like Frillish or
Smogon Koffing for trading away my breeding leftovers.
And I need someone to trade with to evolve my Feebas.
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Alright, my team is finished now. I have yet to actually try it in a standard match, but it's done in theory. I think I might make a new Crobat since mine has a slightly less-than-perfect Defense IV, but I can totally use it as is.
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It's really nice what you can get via wondertrade. I've got almost a full box of rare or for me normally unavailable mons like Frillish or Smogon Koffing for trading away my breeding leftovers.
And I need someone to trade with to evolve my Feebas.
Add me; I'm always up for helping with trade evolutions. [I frequently end up helping random people too]
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Thank you.
While looking at the list of Friendcodes I noticed that mine is there as well but with name and version missing: Its Y and Kazami.
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Yeah first time I misclicked no on the save prompt.
I'm actually running through a clean file atm XD.
Anyway; I'mma have a little fun. I'mma send out a Driftloon I just caught on Wonder Trade. It is called Partybaloon. I'm gonna see what I get in return; and how long it takes for me to get something good... and also to see if the acquaintance that gets the baloon gets the joke because birthday symbol.
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e: fuck wrong thread
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I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG THREAD.
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So I had this match pretty much won with my last mon against my opponents last and I knew I was faster. I had the super effective thunder bolt which would have been enough or the pixilated Hyper-Beam which just wins in style points.
I say to myself: "If I win, then in the correct way" press Hyper-Beam, miss, die.
10% yo.
And I'm not really a fan of the fact that you can only do 3v3 single battles via the random function. But I don't want to idle till someone challenges me and I'm not the person to just challenge random passerby people. <.<
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So I had this match pretty much won with my last mon against my opponents last and I knew I was faster. I had the super effective thunder bolt which would have been enough or the pixilated Hyper-Beam which just wins in style points.
I say to myself: "If I win, then in the correct way" press Hyper-Beam, miss, die.
10% yo.
And I'm not really a fan of the fact that you can only do 3v3 single battles via the random function. But I don't want to idle till someone challenges me and I'm not the person to just challenge random passerby people. <.<
Missing with Hyper Beam>hitting with Thunderbolt every time. EVERY. TIME. :D
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So I tested my Milotic with Competitive. It does what it is supposed to. I guess.
4WFW-WWWW-WWW4-M4PS
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I still haven't started breeding Gliscor or Rotom. i won't start breeding Rotom until i get a Ditto friend safari and Gliscor with Poison Heal will definitely be a pain in the arse to get.
Actually, it would just involve getting a Pokemon with Toxic and trying to Poison every wild Gligar I see until I find one with Immunity, but I have no Pokemon at a decent level that i'm willing to teach Toxic to.
EDIT: Ok, so I finally got a Gligar with Immunity. Can someone tell me why in BLOODY HELL DOES MAKAROV KNOWS YOU? he is in the Bug Egg group?
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EDIT: Ok, so I finally got a Gligar with Immunity. Can someone tell me why in BLOODY HELL DOES MAKAROV KNOWS YOU? he is in the Bug Egg group?
Because he's a scorpion, same reason Scorupi is in the Bug egg group. Why is Scorupi in Water 3?
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Registeel, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Deoxis, Phione, Victini, Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus, Zekrom, Kyurem, Meloetta e Genesect.
These are all the legendaries I never caught in a Generation 4 game and beyond. I have Kyogre and Rayquaza, but only in Sapphire. I must've had Registeel at some point, because I do have Regigigas, but if that's the case, then I no longer. The only reason I don't have Phione it's because of lazyness, so it doesn't count. I don't have all of those Generation 5 legendaries because I barely played the games after I finished them, and I was out of the Pokemon scene for most of Gen 5.
After I get all of these and transfer them to Gen 6 when Poke Transfer comes out, all I will need is a Mudkip (because I chose Treecko in Soul Silver and Torchic was free in X and Y) and I'll be GOLDEN, the rest of the Pokemon I still haven't registered will be a piece of cake to get.
I just feel I NEED to post this:
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Remember back then when Game Freak actually balanced the games? Yeah, me neither.
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I like the comments on Heatran and S-Deoxys. :V
And apparently my Teammembers are 95% non-rageinducing with me only actively using Ferrothorn from that list.
Also: Breeding genderless Mons is a pain.
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I like the comments on Heatran and S-Deoxys. :V
And apparently my Teammembers are 95% non-rageinducing with me only actively using Ferrothorn from that list.
Just Megasaur for me. Realistically I should cut something for Gengar, but I like my team having actual cool Pokemon on it so I'm not willing to cut anyone for him right now.
Also: Breeding genderless Mons is a pain.
Seems like you pretty much need Ditto safari. Do you have one? I do not.
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Sadly I don't have one as well; still breeding with 1-IV Dittos. :V (well, except for the one with atk and special atk but since i yet have to breed a mixed attacker that one is basically just a saved box slot.)
Maybe someone from here has one and offers assistance.
Then we also could pass them around for faster breeding via different ID and increased shiny chance.
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Why use Lando when you can use the Lando-T who sacrifices defensive utility in Intimidate to be able to 2HKO almost anything.
I used Mandibuzz before the metagame shifted into its favour.
Breed without using any good dittos, having perfect IVs is overrated anyway.
The only acceptable genderless Pokemon to breed are Porygon and Magnemite, Rotom-W versatility sucks
I should go make a new thread.
e: I'll do that tomorrow.
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I just have this really minor problem with stuff like IVs (I'll never play FF6 for the same reason. The level-ups with the stat-boni from the Espers would just make me sad). I can't help but think "I could have done this better" and it makes me nervous.
And Rotom-W is afaik just used as an annoyance and a Talonflame counter. Since I have several "counters" to said bird (as in "can take it out without being half dead afterwords and is a safe switch-in") and really don't like it appearance-wise I don't want one. :V
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This thread is about to reach 1000 posts.
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Who is going to make the new one? Bio again?
Oh, and about the tournament, if you guys still remember it: I think we should do it on February's weekends, since I'll actually have to study during the day in my new school, so a lot of you won't be up during the morning and we all are either going to be sleeping or tired during the night, so what do you guys think about this date scheme?
(Oh and if Bio happens to make the new thread again, make a section with the names of the people interested in joining it, that would make it easier.)
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This thread is about to reach 1000 posts.
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Who is going to make the new one? Bio again?
Oh, and about the tournament, if you guys still remember it: I think we should do it on February's weekends, since I'll actually have to study during the day in my new school, so a lot of you won't be up during the morning and we all are either going to be sleeping or tired during the night, so what do you guys think about this date scheme?
(Oh and if Bio happens to make the new thread again, make a section with the names of the people interested in joining it, that would make it easier.)
For me availability is best on Sundays, or maybe late Friday or Saturday night (Eastern time). Saturday night would probably be the easiest time for me to bring in extra people if we need bracket filler, but I would prefer Sunday.
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https://twitter.com/IsPokeBankOut/status/425775873896095744/photo/1
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http://www.product-reviews.net/2014/01/21/pokemon-x-and-y-pokebank-us-uk-countdown-after-japan/ (http://www.product-reviews.net/2014/01/21/pokemon-x-and-y-pokebank-us-uk-countdown-after-japan/)
Pokebank out in Japan. Fitting way to end thread.
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Soon.
New thread (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,16196.0.htm)