[bza]

Ok I've played a bit more and added everyone in the thread!

My code is 5472-7370-4005
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[Gorblax]

Bugs are active at night I think
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[sponkmonkey]

I always though it had something to do with the traditional appreciation of bugs in Japanese childhood
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[Family Computer]

There's a patch for this in the eshop that fixes the saving glitch.
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3DS Friendcode: 2337-3480-4823
PSN: play2forget
This summer, become Buried In Games.

[bza]

Just did a bit of wonder trading to see what all the hubbub is, got a jolly Gible from Japan. lol
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[Persona mobile]

I have a box of Wonder Traded Pokemon. There's about 10 yellow Flabebes. No one likes Flabebes, I guess.
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[Bingle]

[Family Computer]

[Sakurina]

Having remarkably good luck this week getting shinies with no effort. Wound up getting a shiny Pancham first thing when entering a Friend Safari, and got a shiny Kakuna on Wonder Trade tonight.

Other trick that isn't immediately obvious: you can milk Wonder Trade for Rare Candies. Short version is, each trade you complete gives you Pokémiles, and Pokémiles can be redeemed for items in Lumiose's Pokémon Center or on Pokémon Global Link (at a ~50% rebate). A Rare Candy is 250 Pokémiles on the Web store, and on average, 15 trades gets me about 1000 Pokémiles.

[eskaibo]

L i'd really like to know why steel resists electric (lightning rod? b-but water's weak!)

now that i'm actually considering getting back into this, i'm remembering how thoroughly knowledge of EVs sucked the fun out of Platinum for me, despite my best efforts
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[eskaibo]

oh you're totally right, i guess i read it wrong

i just figured that since flying things are higher up they're easier targets for thunderbolts
edit: oh wait you already said that!!
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[Isfet]

i guess i'm at Victory Road, which means i'm almost at the end of the (main) game?

thoughts going through my mind: dear god, the amount of random battles. also, the whole HM system is absolutely ridiculous. i feel pretty severely limited as to which Pokémon i can have in my party at any given time. if they don't have some of the right field abilities, i can't progress. and, of course, if i do have a Pokémon who has that ability, but isn't in my party because i simply don't find it useful...well, i have to go alllllll the way back to a Poké Center to switch?!

argh. i dunno; it's just one of those things that isn't the hugest issue, but it definitely feels more annoying than it needed to be. and the fact that i can't just overwrite HM abilities on the fly is also a nuisance.


anyway, question: i've played against a number of people who seem to use less than 6 (usually 3 or 4) Pokémon in battles. is this like, an etiquette thing, that i'm unaware of? or are these people just being weird?

[scratchmonkey]

Nah, apparently carrying just three Pokemon (presumably four as well) is a "power-leveling" strategy -- the guy sitting next to me at work did it and beat the game over the weekend after release that way.

[L]

I recently beat Diamond with just my starter in the party (plus three HM agents).

[Gorblax]

I wanna know why electric doesn't beat bug. Bug zappers and all.
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[Persona mobile]

[misadventurous]

maybe unevolved it would be more interesting but i've found playing through pokemon with just a starter is 1) super easy 2) really boring

i guess the later games might be tougher too!!

[eskaibo]

my cousin was ploughing through the elite four in Red with a lv100 Venasaur way back in the day and the drama only started when it ran out of PP for every move except sleep powder during the champion battle
and all his other pokemon were woefully underlevelled
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[L]

Elite Four question: is the X/Y champion still some random schmo that has barely anything to do with anything and you only meet once earlier - as it has been in every game except R/B/Y and B/W?

[Persona mobile]

The Champion in B/W2 is a twist if you've played through B/W1! Also you encounter them earlier too.

In Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, you encounter the Champion a couple of times on the journey and she helps you out to fight the gang of the region, I think. Also she shows up in B/W and B/W2 because she's the best.

Speaking of which, the champion of Ruby/Saphire/Emerald shows up in Platinum and gives you his house that you then can decorate and chill out at, and gym leaders and other NPCs come to visit you and hang out in the house every day. That was a pretty cool feature! Total hang out game right there.
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[L]

Wouldn't it be amazing if the gym hint person turned out to be the Champion in one of the games. I mean, wow, what a dream.

[Pijaibros]

[remote]

i finally gave in to my curiosity, got this and have been playing it

i have an espurr! i named it after my cat kismet! but how will i feel when i encounter a skitty?!

my fennekin is named quelox cuz she's a chaos witch

she owns
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[Persona mobile]

Remote, please raise an all-cat team. That would be the most purr-fect playthrough.
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[remote]

oh man that sounds rad but i really like my fennekin! and my goat named baphomet!

maybe this will change...
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[Isfet]

so i beat this game and now i'm battlin' people and gettin' and raisin' more rare pokemans and BATTLIN'.

this was a cute game; i'm happy i played it. the story has some cute, positive messages, too. if i had children, i'd let them/want them to play it. it's a feel-good kind of game, really, which is what i needed right now.


soooo anyway, as i said, i've been getting into battles and i can see that there's kind of a threshold before you actually need to get "into" it in a way that i'm not sure if i want to let myself do. also, in ranked matches etc., they have banned pokémon? crazy! what the hell did i get this mewtwo for?!

also, the passersby system is cool, but like...not-seemingly-well thought out? having 2000 names rush by on the bottom of the screen isn't really a great way to trade/battle/help. or, i wish there were filters, like, this person has played for so many hours. if i see a person with over 180 hours, i am certainly not going to challenge them.

[bza]

Legendaries tend to be so ridiculously powerful that they're banned from competitive play or placed in their own tier, it's nuts.
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[Persona mobile]

It's not nuts because it's annoying as hell to fight a child that has a team of 6 legendaries.

Though it's sometimes fun to make an anti-legendary team and then sweep their dragons with a fairy or something. This has been my dream for 5 generations.
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[bza]

I mean the power imbalance is nuts, not that people like them!
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[Persona mobile]

On that end of the spectrum, I wonder what the most broken team you could possibly have is. Not counting multiples of the same species or the same hold items, what is the most powerful Pokemens?

I'm thinking a form of Deoxys, a Mewtwo, Giratina, Rayquaza, a legendary bird or two, or a few Dragons.
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[Gorblax]

Arceus
Black or White Kyurem

Your choice of four of the following:

Mewtwo
Lugia
Ho-Oh
Rayquaza
Dialga
Palkia
Giratina
Reshiram
Zekrom
Xerneas
Yveltal
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[Gorblax]

For the most powerful non-Legendary team of Pokemon*, choose six of the following:

Dragonite
Tyranitar
Salamence
Metagross
Garchomp
Hydreigon
Goodra

*List does not include Slaking. While statistically the most powerful non-Legendary Pokemon, Slaking can only use a move once every two turns.
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[L]

I like that the only reason this works is because Shedinja is the only mon where "full HP" = "1 HP".

[L]

The word is out that all the mons in this picture without extant Megastones will probably be receiving event-only Megastones in the coming years or upon release of Pokemon Z.

Man, this mega-evolution thing is a goldmine for event mon restriction. It's like 50 different Mews!

[Persona mobile]

[L]

Shedinja has five weaknesses (Rock, Flying, Fire, Dark, Ghost) the first two of which are far from uncommon.

[Gorblax]

It certainly explains the sudden drop in new Legendary Pokemon. Kind of an elegant answer to "where do you go after you make God a Pokemon"
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[Persona mobile]

They don't need new Legendaries because they made EVERY Pokemon legendary!

Where's my Mega Psychic Cat, Game Freak?
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[Gorblax]

Where's my Megameganium
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