Pocket Monsters Thread III - Game released *almost* everywhere

[FamilyTeam]

You bloody beat me to it.
Yeah, it's not like I was already wanting to go to London or anything...

[Yookie]

Well that is nice.
Maybe now I'll see something different on battle spot.

Unrelated: I've found a way to reach 100% crit with moves that carry increased crit chance and at least 50% (feels like 50) with everything else. Is quite funny and I always have to imagine my opponents reaction on being crit 4 times in a row. :V
It seems gimmicky but you can really counter things like Sigilyph or others that rely on defensive boosts.

[Esifex]

TIL to slow down and read the entire post, because PAL regions =/= NA and that tiny little acronym was easily glissed over while skimming the thread and then my hopes went soaring just to nosedive

[Phlegeth]

TIL to slow down and read the entire post, because PAL regions =/= NA and that tiny little acronym was easily glissed over while skimming the thread and then my hopes went soaring just to nosedive

Don't worry, it's how I felt too.

[Hanged Hourai]

America now too. Have fun with the Celebis.

[Suikama]

finally

welp time to complete dat pokedex


wow why is poketransfer such a pain to use

nintendo pls

[Yookie]

I've noticed that whenever I go to Battlespot I basically am forced to bring 4 specific mons to counter all this annoying stuff everybody uses there and it makes me sad.
I mean it is not that I dislike these 4 but I'd really like to mix it up from time to time. :<

I really need someone to do 6v6 with.

[commandercool]

I've noticed that whenever I go to Battlespot I basically am forced to bring 4 specific mons to counter all this annoying stuff everybody uses there and it makes me sad.
I mean it is not that I dislike these 4 but I'd really like to mix it up from time to time. :<

I really need someone to do 6v6 with.

I'll fight you if you want, but my team is colossally un-competitive. Are we DS friends? I don't remember.

[Yookie]

I looked and we weren't so I've added you.
And the fact that your stuff is uncompetitive doesn't really matter as long as you aren't bringing something that is as weird and unused as what I have. :V

[commandercool]

I looked and we weren't so I've added you.
And the fact that your stuff is uncompetitive doesn't really matter as long as you aren't bringing something that is as weird and unused as what I have. :V

It certainly should be. :V It's a mono-Poison team, if that helps. Doesn't work nearly as well as it did in NU (I actually have to care about the fact that it's impossible for me to get a Dragon resist now), but I can kind of win sometimes. Had a couple of sad cases of getting beaten or nearly beaten by people's in-game teams, but those were mostly due to mistakes on my part, so hopefully I can at least kind of put up a fight.

[Yookie]

I've faced some mono-type teams and it never really went well, so I've got that going for me.

The thing is that I really just want some not super serious gameplay without everyone being a tryhard. It gets tiring but there is next to nothing else on battlespot because even outside of ranked everyone is a tryhard.
If you want to be a tryhard then go do rankeds imho. :V

[commandercool]

Agreed, but people love easy buttons and as soon as people start to abandon the meta all of the meta stuff becomes an easy button.

Having not played a ton of competitive generation six, my understanding is that the metagame is no longer dominated by weather, but now requires answers to very specific ultra-threats (typically megas and Talonflame) that can effortlessly sweep entire teams or at least open disproportionate holes without fairly specific counterbuilding. Is that accurate, or am I way off?

[Yookie]

From what I've experienced so far the thing with the specific counters is absolutely correct.
This is the season of hyperoffensive sweepers that just dismantle your team if you don't carry something that shuts it down.
It is either One-Shot or get One-Shot or have the proper defensive counter to switch in which mostly results in switch-carousels that take forever.
Aside from stuff like Rotom (which is more of a tank/annoyer and really started as a counter to Talonflame but is just too good in general) and certain Substituters/Pranksters.


I've yet too see weather in 3v3 but thinking about it it seems to be still viable in this mode even with the turn-limit on the abilities considering that there are not 6 mons and the battle is so much shorter you can really put out a lot in those 5/8 turns in terms of offense. Defensive weather tactics are probably rather dead now (Parasect, Vaporeon, theoretically Goodra) since these typically don't want to generate the weather themselves and need the infinite turns.

[FamilyTeam]

It's out.
It's bloody out.
It's Goddamn out,
Let me sing you the song of my people.
Ahem.

IT OOOOUT.
I-IT'S O-O-OUT.
IT'S.
OOOOoooOOOoooUUUT.
Time to get every single bloody legendary ever.

[Suikama]

dammit apparently my mew is too fake to transfer

anyone got a legit mew? :derp:

[FamilyTeam]

I loved the part that said "IF YOU USE HACKED POKEYMANS WE WILL NOT LET YOU USE THE BANK AGAIN!"
I did two things once I saw this.
1. I laughed my arse off.
2. I said "Who the hell do they thing they are threatening."

No matter how secure it supposedly is, people are going to get hacked Pokemon in it. Game Freak ain't stopping anybody, The best they can do is slow us.
It's not like I have THAT much hacked pokemon to worry about anyway.

[Suikama]

I already got a bunch of hacked pokemon through so :derp:

Not poor Mew though :ohdear:

[commandercool]

From what I've experienced so far the thing with the specific counters is absolutely correct.
This is the season of hyperoffensive sweepers that just dismantle your team if you don't carry something that shuts it down.
It is either One-Shot or get One-Shot or have the proper defensive counter to switch in which mostly results in switch-carousels that take forever.
Aside from stuff like Rotom (which is more of a tank/annoyer and really started as a counter to Talonflame but is just too good in general) and certain Substituters/Pranksters.


I've yet too see weather in 3v3 but thinking about it it seems to be still viable in this mode even with the turn-limit on the abilities considering that there are not 6 mons and the battle is so much shorter you can really put out a lot in those 5/8 turns in terms of offense. Defensive weather tactics are probably rather dead now (Parasect, Vaporeon, theoretically Goodra) since these typically don't want to generate the weather themselves and need the infinite turns.

Hmm, yeah. If that's the case, stop playing 3v3s. It's too hard to fit all of the answers you need on one and still have a team. Probably should ban those megas and loosen up that metagame a lot, but since when does Nintendo try?

Edit: And I assume defensive weather guys are still good, just mostly for doubles right now. It's easier to bring your own, more likely your opponent will, and all three of those are good against or with Surf-spam, which they don't even need weather for. And Manaphy was probably the most obnoxious thing in that game in my opinion, so good nerf to it (and possibly bad that it dropped tiers and everyone has to deal with it now, but at least it's fightable sort of).

[Suikama]

Shiny Charm and National Certificate GET! o/

[Phlegeth]

Shiny Charm and National Certificate GET! o/

I'm working on that now.  I just can't get over the fact of how awesome Mismagius looks in 3D.

[Bio]

I like Latios. And Porygon-2. And Jellicent. I think I have all the best Pokemon now.

Spoiler:

who needs to catch them all

Also all you guys with pokegen'd pokes.

[Tamer Anode/Cathode]

So now that Pokebank's available (At least in Canada)... I have a bunch of stuff I want to transfer over from 4th Gen (Diamond/Platinum/SoulSilver). Am I going to have to use Poke Transfer in 5th gen to send the Pokemon over one by one, then use the Poke Transporter app? Is there a more efficient way than this?

Because I might have a lot to send over. Like "ten years since my previous Ruby and LeafGreen saves" a lot.

[FamilyTeam]

I deided to check all of the Pokemon on my "Pokebank" Box and check which ones counted as were legit and which ones weren't. I detected THREE Non-Legit Celebi and 1 non-legit Shaymin. Turns out I will only be having the Pokebank Celebi after all. I altleast have the Flower Garden Shaymin in Platinum to spare tough. I also noticed that I have the Hall Of Origin Arceus, and I wonder if the Poke Transferrer will think it's legit or not. If not, then who cares, I still have an Event Arceus in Soul Silver.
After that, My list is Kyogre, Rayquaza, Thundurus, Tornadus, Landorus, Victini, Meloetta, Genesect, Keldeo, Zekrom, Oshawott, Tepig, Mudkip, and after that, I'll just need to evolve some Pokemon and my National Dex will be complete as well.
I could Pokegen the Event ones and Just move my Arse and get the genies (which isn't hard) but Serebii Net doesn't give you the SID of the Event Pokemon, so It's not safe at all. I didn't find the cheats for the events either. Dammit.

I just read somewhere that it uses Pokemon Battle Revolution's Legit Pokemon Checker. OKAY EVERYONE, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT ANYMORE, THE ONLY THING IT'S GONNA BLOCK ARE POKEMON WITH MORE THAN 510 EVS, AND ONLY SOMETIMES.
Hell, my experience with PBR's Checker: It once let my neighbour transfer a Route 201 caught Deoxys to it. So it probably won't stop anything unless it's really blatantly hacked, like 99IVs on all stats, 999EVs on each stat and no PID. (Maybe that is what stopped Suikama's Mew, maybe it had no PID)

[Yookie]

I just read somewhere that it uses Pokemon Battle Revolution's Legit Pokemon Checker.

That is really lazy.
I really don't care about people genning their Pokemon in XY since you can breed 5IV rather easily now and if they're so bent on having shinys then whatever. I would have cared in Gen5 since Destiny Bond Knot didn't do what it does now and they would have gotten a clear advantage out of it.
I know that some people don't have the time for breeding or simply are bored to death by it.


On another note: I've got some a crapload (because 12,5% yo) 4IV Evees with hidden ability and Yawn/Wish/Curse. So if someone wants one just ask.

[FamilyTeam]

Next time some guy acts like a moral idiot and tries to convince me to stop breeding and says something like "Don't you feel for all these Pokemon you reject while you are breeding?!", I'll quote the Sniper in "Meet the Sniper"

Feelings?! Look mate, you know who has a lot of FEELINGS? Blokes who bludgeon their wife to death with a gold trophy. Professionals have STANDARDS.

Of course it's just a joke. I love every single Pokemon I have <3. I'll just say that so they'll stop trying to judge the way I play.

[Colticide]

Just thought I'd post in here now.

FC: 2466-2429-8747 IGN: Colt V.: X  Friend safari: Steel, Metang, Exadrill, Ferroseed

Also as note I have access to a normal Safari and get people ditto's. I also now have a 5 IV Ada HP Bunnelby and Ada SL Absol if anyone wants them to use or for breeding purpose. Just let me know so I can add your FC.

[Yookie]

Apparently 4IV/Hidden ability Eevees get you stuff on the GTS. I've put in 3 so far and got what I wanted in less than 30 minutes.
And Tynamo is so adorable. :V

Next time some guy acts like a moral idiot and tries to convince me to stop breeding and says something like "Don't you feel for all these Pokemon you reject while you are breeding?!", I'll quote the Sniper in "Meet the Sniper"

Pokemon are just slaves to your every desire. Obviously, duh.

...

I have no qualms about releasing freshly hatched mons into the dangerous wilderness of Route 7.
But sure, I do get attached to them sometimes. The same way you can get attached to a character from a book/show/whatever. It all depends on if you give them a personality or not.

[commandercool]

Pokemon are just slaves to your every desire. Obviously, duh.

...

I have no qualms about releasing freshly hatched mons into the dangerous wilderness of Route 7.
But sure, I do get attached to them sometimes. The same way you can get attached to a character from a book/show/whatever. It all depends on if you give them a personality or not.

Naw man, they're science projects. Slavery is illegal, abusive science is just immoral.

[Colticide]

I release the pokemon that are not the the right nature or ability, but the ones that are but don't have the right IVs I do wonder trade, I've got some nice stuff from wonder trade.

[Suikama]

Alright so I GTS'ed my Mew for other Mews until I got one that could go through the transporter :V

Now all I need is Genesect and there's no way to get him from GTS

Anyone got one? I'll trade an Arceus for him :derp: Or almost any other legendary really.