Pocket Monsters Thread III - Game released *almost* everywhere

[Yookie]

"Hey, let's get a Zangoose with Toxic Boost."
Nope.

It only appears together with 4 Seviper in horde battles and gets bitten to death before I can knock all of them out even with me carrying heal pulse.
And even if I manage to have it survive until I can catch it there is always only a chance of it having toxic boost.

If only there was a Ghost type aoe attack.

Edit: Okay, I got a strategy that works. Took a low lvl Sandile and tought it Bulldoze. It just about doesn't take out the Zangoose while oneshotting the Seviper.

[Raikaria]

"Hey, let's get a Zangoose with Toxic Boost."
Nope.

It only appears together with 4 Seviper in horde battles and gets bitten to death before I can knock all of them out even with me carrying heal pulse.
And even if I manage to have it survive until I can catch it there is always only a chance of it having toxic boost.

If only there was a Ghost type aoe attack.

Edit: Okay, I got a strategy that works. Took a low lvl Sandile and tought it Bulldoze. It just about doesn't take out the Zangoose while oneshotting the Seviper.

I was about to suggest that method. I personally recall doing it with a Kangaskhan.

Also, isn't Ominous Wind AoE?

[Yookie]

I thought that too but it isn't. For whatever reason. I mean, it spreads wind over the entire battlefield in its animation.
Would probably be op in multi battles because it could proc on each hit.

I've got it and now I'm wondering if there is an actual difference in effect between Guts and Toxic Boost aside from the requirements.

Edit: You know what's great? When your setup Noivern with Tailwind/Hurricane/Attract/Taunt (heh, it is THAT Noivern BV) which is just supposed to take a hit, survive with focus sash, whip up the tailwind and die sweeps the enemy team.
But yeah. Zangoose with Tailwind is pretty good in 3v3. Oneshotting Mega-Venusaur.

[Hanged Hourai]

Got a Shiny modest 6IV ditto on wondertrade. Not foreign, oh well.

[ToyoRai]

So just a wild question, how does Lucky Egg work with Exp. Sharer? Does a Pok?mon who is holding it and getting the leaked experiment get extra or does the Pok?mon int he front have to use it?

[pineyappled]

The Pokemon holding it gets the boosted experience iirc.

E- nvm

[Jirachi]

So just a wild question, how does Lucky Egg work with Exp. Sharer? Does a Pok?mon who is holding it and getting the leaked experiment get extra or does the Pok?mon int he front have to use it?

Yeah they get the Exp boost normally as if it held both a Exp Share and Lucky Egg. Just like EV training items work normally as if the pok? had both Exp Share and the EV item, so you can EV train multiple pok?mon in hordes. That's really lovely.

[Raikaria]

So I caught an Eevee in my Nuzlocke run.

I kinda want to use a Glaceon for a change, but I'm earlygame still. [Also I've used Espeon in prior gens and I already have enough Psychic-type coverage in a Braixen, Espurr and Psyduck]

Anyone mind evolveing my Eevee for me into a Glaceon [And teaching it Ice Fang since it'll hit lv 20, delete Baby-Doll Eyes]

[Yookie]

You just have to bring it to that rock in the Ice Caverns and have it level up, right? If so, then I could do that.

[Raikaria]

You just have to bring it to that rock in the Ice Caverns and have it level up, right? If so, then I could do that.

Yep, that's all. Thanks. Here's hoping I don't get it killed.

[Yookie]

please don't worry if I take a moment, I need to search for the rock. :V
I always get lost in that cave...

[Raikaria]

please don't worry if I take a moment, I need to search for the rock. :V
I always get lost in that cave...

Just trade me when you evolved it into Glaceon.

[Jirachi]

I made a Living Pok?dex!  :*

[pineyappled]

B/W, but what's a reliable counter for Archeops? My team is horribly imbalanced and N's Archeops manages to take out every pokemon on my team in one hit each.


_{i'm fantastic at this game shut up}

[commandercool]

B/W, but what's a reliable counter for Archeops? My team is horribly imbalanced and N's Archeops manages to take out every pokemon on my team in one hit each.


_{i'm fantastic at this game shut up}

Anything with priority or a Choice Scarf, especially if Archeops is weak to it. Bullet Punch, Ice Shard, or Aqua Jet, most ExtremeSpeeds, or any decently strong/super effective Scarf hit should shut it down no problem.

[commandercool]

I made a Living Pok?dex!  :*

I'm a few old event exclusives away from one, although I haven't had time to port over anything from generation five so my gen-six stuff hasn't joined the bulk of it yet.

[Rei Scarlette]

If you're just trying to kill N's Archeops and don't need the Pokemon for anything serious, a Bisharp could do the job easily enough without any real effort put into it aside from being the appropriate level. It resists every one of his learned moves and has it's weaknesses and stuff.

Of course for competitive play you can't "just grab a Bisharp and use it" but for N yeah.

[Bio]

Scizor, Donphan, Carracosta off the top of my head.

[FamilyTeam]

Okay, I'm playing Pokemon Showdown again after quite a while and well, I can still do good with Lucario even without the stupid Lucarionite!
Oh, and the best part about this ban: The Smogon haters going like "OOOOH, LUCAREONIGHT WASN'T OVERPOWER! SMOGON IS @ IT AGAIN BANNING STUFF DAY SHOULDN'T BE!"
This is a Public-Service-Announcement, people: If you ever meet one of these whiners, show them this.

[Yookie]

The thing with Mega-Lucario is that you really can't know beforehand what it actually is, physical, special or mixed. It's basically a get-out-of-jail-free card on its first switch-in because nothing but a wall or something that resist will take a CC from it, the mixed version is impossible to tank and special is imho the least dangerous.
So the only good way to safely depose of it is to one shot it but it is not too frail and a halfway decent player won't let that happen.

On another note: Does somebody here either have a Kecleon with hidden ability or a friend safari with one?

[FamilyTeam]

The thing with Mega-Lucario is that you really can't know beforehand what it actually is, physical, special or mixed. It's basically a get-out-of-jail-free card on its first switch-in because nothing but a wall or something that resist will take a CC from it, the mixed version is impossible to tank and special is imho the least dangerous.
So the only good way to safely depose of it is to one shot it but it is not too frail and a halfway decent player won't let that happen.

On another note: Does somebody here either have a Kecleon with hidden ability or a friend safari with one?

Well, in that case, Mega Charizard X/Y should be banned too, because you can't predict which one it's going to Mega Evolve into.
No wait, you can, 90% it's Y.
Okay, I'm just busting your chops, Mega Luke was a much bigger problem than Overratedzard. I was just making fun out of the butthurts that tought the nerf was unnecessary.

[Bio]

Special Lucario was dangerous too, had priority Vacuum Wave and the ability to 2HKO anything after a nasty plot. Mixed set is checked by burns and then switching to a special wall,  Jellicent comes to mind. Physical can be walled by Gliscor and after a CC drop Lucario is vulnerable to Mach Punches. The only real thing that tips it over is that it take virtually no damage from SR.

[FamilyTeam]

My Pokemon Bank license is about to expire, so i figured I would buy credits to keep using it, since I still have not transferred my Gen 5 Pokemon thanks to the fact that I played it on an R4.
And then, doing a quick search on the web, I was able to find 20$ cards for, well, 20$ if you do the convertions. That's a lot of Bloody money. I do have this money, but I was saving it for more important stuff, like Steam Games!
I did hear that after your license expires, the Bank still gives you a few extra days to withdraw your Pokemon or get a new license. I think I'll end up buying it anyway just because 20$:5$ for the license = 4, so assuming the credits don't expire, I'd have 4 full years of Pokebank, and I already checked, nothing on the E-Shop interests me.

[Jirachi]

My Pokemon Bank license is about to expire, so i figured I would buy credits to keep using it, since I still have not transferred my Gen 5 Pokemon thanks to the fact that I played it on an R4.
And then, doing a quick search on the web, I was able to find 20$ cards for, well, 20$ if you do the convertions. That's a lot of Bloody money. I do have this money, but I was saving it for more important stuff, like Steam Games!
I did hear that after your license expires, the Bank still gives you a few extra days to withdraw your Pokemon or get a new license. I think I'll end up buying it anyway just because 20$:5$ for the license = 4, so assuming the credits don't expire, I'd have 4 full years of Pokebank, and I already checked, nothing on the E-Shop interests me.

Don't you have an international card or something? If you use brazilian eshop, I heard national cards aren't accepted yet due to some shenanigans, but I paid mine with an international card (there's some MEO card thing that works as well). But if you use the canadian/american one, I guess they'd still work, and if they didn't, how could eshop not interest you since you get cheaper stuff there than you would buying in brazilian eshop or physical copies?

[FamilyTeam]

Don't you have an international card or something? If you use brazilian eshop, I heard national cards aren't accepted yet due to some shenanigans, but I paid mine with an international card (there's some MEO card thing that works as well). But if you use the canadian/american one, I guess they'd still work, and if they didn't, how could eshop not interest you since you get cheaper stuff there than you would buying in brazilian eshop or physical copies?

I was about to edit my post to say that. YES, INDEED, WITHOUT AN INTERNATIONAL CREDIT CARD, THE BRAZILIAN ESHOP IS COMPLETE AND UTTERLY 100% BUGGER-ALL USELESS.

[Jirachi]

I actually have the brazilian eshop and don't mind because I'd never buy digital copies since I have really bad experiences with sdcards and don't want to have my savefiles corrupted/deleted, plus I personally like physical copies even though they're somewhat expensiver. And even though Club don't exist in Brazil, the free download codes are compatible with any american (continent) eshop.

[Garlyle]

I'm just gonna stop by here and mention that you might notice something about Masuda's page on the Pokemon JP site.

Spoiler:

>758 pokemon

[Jirachi]

I'm just gonna stop by here and mention that you might notice something about Masuda's page on the Pokemon JP site.

Spoiler:

>758 pokemon

Spoiler:

Power Save guy will confirm the veracity of that. :V

[Raikaria]

I caved.

I like doing in-game runs but I also want to be able to do online stuff like battleing.

So I found a 2nd hand copy of X and I now have both versions, one for in-game challenge runs like Nuzlockes, and the other will be the main file.

[FamilyTeam]

So, I was testing one of my possible teams for X and Y and...
OHOHO, OH THAT SLAPS ME ON THE KNEE.
Seriously, did this guy ever considered that my Vaporeon could have Ice Beam? Why did he sent Garchomp? Why am I complaining, that was a free 25 points for my score!