[bza]

Where's my... Mega Dunsparce ;_;
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[sarsamis]

I want a Mega Milotic, but I'd settle with them just letting me transfer the damn thing to this game already ;_;

Also, I really hate that fairy resists bug type. I think that's horrible from a balance standpoint and don't see much sense in it.

[Infernarl]

Hello, I am a pokemon zombie. I need freindzzzz. Esp. if you give my friendzone Ditto (Two max IV's!!).

Please add me I have beaten the game and provide Ghosts to Friendzone.

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Is my code. Adding everyone now.

[Infernarl]

Very good factoids:

Sharkpedo can learn:

Surf
Waterfall
Rock Smash
Strength

So if you eat a spot for Cut on a second one, you're fully mobile. Farfetch'd can learn Fly and Cut.
Fetchling evolves to have the egg hatch ability (flame body)

[Infernarl]

I did stuff to the 3DS SB Wiki

http://wiki.selectbutton.net/sb:hookup:3ds_friend_codes

[Gorblax]

We're still missing pure Fighting, Poison, Bug, Dragon, and Ghost legendaries. Maybe G7?
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[Infernarl]

So my fantasy of actually battling another person might actually happen this time! Usually I burn out before I get the Pokemon I want.

I could use some advice and would be interested in other people's teams at ths point. Also I don't even know what the convention is.. Do pvp battles usually have 6 pokemon? Some of the in-game events seem to suggest less.

So far my team is:

Cloyster | Jolly | Skill Link | King's Rock
Shell Smash
Icicle Spear
Razor Shell
Rock Blast

Alakazam | Timid | Magic Guard | Focus Sash
Psyshock
Focus Blast
Dazzling Gleam
Not Sure (Shadow Ball? Hidden Power Turned out as Ghost for this one, don't think I have the stamina bother with breeding for hidden power)

Heracross | Jolly | Guts/Skill Link | Heracrossite (Moxie would be better, but no heracross in friendzone)
Pin Missle
Brick Break
Rock Blast
Earthquake

Tyranitar | Jolly | Sand Stream | Choice Scarf
Crunch
Pursuit (Had to chain breed x4 times from Doduo)
Stone Edge
Brick Break

Haxorus | Adamant | Mold Breaker | Life Orb
Swords Dance
Outrage
Brick Break
Earthquake

#6??? I was thinking Heatran, but that's not available. Maybe Skarmory? Also there is no coherent strategy between these guys. I hear about these Batton Pass/Rain/Spikes strategies that span multiple mons...

Is anyone else playing Pokemon like I am?

[sarsamis]

I've been semi-serious but haven't fought anyone besides my friends yet. Thing is that I'm refusing to raise anyone that I've raised in a previous game and it's limiting me a lot :/ . This is mostly due to the fact that I feel some attachment to my code creatures in black 2 and do plan on transferring them over when possible. But yeah:

Malamar (favorite)
Raichu
Noivern
Poliwrath
Talonflame (might replace with a Skamory)
Tyrantrum

I haven't really finalized anyone's movesets yet and am feeling too lazy to type out what I have atm >_> .

I usually have about 30 guys I randomly make teams out of and will again when PokeBank hits. Of those 6 the only ones I can really imagine becoming regulars are Malamar because Contrary + Super Power is amazing and I think the Pokeman itself is cute as hell and maybe Tyrantrum because having 3 different type STAB moves is neat.

[idle]

[Isfet]

i am not very good at Pokémon battles, it seems.

i've tried raising the pokémon of people who have beaten me and emulating what i've seen, but, somehow, it's just not clicking for me. somehow, the opponent's are always faster and my team never has the right moveset. i'm feeling like i may have hit the threshold for a "normal" approach to the game, so i'm not sure how much further i'm willing to take it.

edit: moreso in Rating battles than Free

[L]

"Why can't Strong Jaw boost Super Fang's damage from 50% of HP to 100% of HP": thing I just thought

[sarsamis]

technically it would be 75%

[geinou]

So hypothetically speaking... If I would buy Pokémon Y (which I'll most likely do this year) would there be someone here who would be willingly to trade me his / hers Charizardnite X stone ? Because I love Charizard so friggin' much (it's in my top 3 list of my favorite Pokémon) and I would really like to have his Mega Evolution X as well (it's so damn cool). ;__;

[Gorblax]

I will geinou. I'm in it for collections, not battles. All I ask for in return... IS YOUR YVELTAL >:D
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[A New Duck]

I picked Y because I thought Yveltal/red looked cooler than Xerneas/blue, but if I'd known about Charizard's differing mega evolutions, I'd have picked X in a heartbeat.
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[A New Duck]

I can't believe how much time I've blown on attempting to breed a shiny Charmander. It's the height of madness (I'm breeding a German and Japanese pair).

I took a break and bred some other trade offerings.

In them was a shiny Riolu. lol
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[Persona mobile]

If only you could put up a trade request asking for a shiny Charmander :/
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[Isfet]

i give up on battling ;_;

after doing some research and youtubing of the stuff, it seems like, basically, the only way to stand a chance is to reaaaaallllly get into the nitty gritty of the game, do some crazy breeding or specializing or something or catch specific "types" of Pokémon and, frankly, that's more time than i care to invest. and then people somehow are supposedly hacking their monsters? unless i'm misunderstanding the terminology.

simultaneously, i'm not much of a collect-a-thon-er, so i don't feel super compelled to, as they say, "catch'em all," so i guess i'm...at the end of my run with this game?

which makes me a bit sad, to be honest. i guess i just feel like there's all this esoteric stuff that i had no prior knowledge of and that i don't really want to learn. i guess i wish there were some kind of middle ground between the kind of benign, easy game and the insane, super intense amount of information and time one would need to catch up.

[remote]

yeah, this is my first pokeyman and i'm basically just playing it as a cute rpg to chill out with

(i'm getting some dragon quest, earthbound, and mild chrono vibes from it so i'm enjoying it)

i can see that there's tons of depth to it that i'll likely never dig into, but yeah — it's not really calling out to me

maybe there are established casual clubs out there, or something? endgame battles among sb folks, at least?
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[bza]

This generation made the process for getting exactly the stats you want when breeding/training 'mons really simply but there's still the metagame of battling and knowing how to deal with certain threats!
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[Pijaibros]

[Persona mobile]

I usually get updated on the metagame from my friend who's really into the battles. It's fun to hear about how the metagame mutates as players create strategies and then create counters to them, then the next wave of players create counters to the counters, then the next generation is a counter of the counter of the counter and so forth, until a new game comes out and throws the previous metagame out the window and restarts the cycle.
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[Pijaibros]

it's true. i know a lot of people who quit the Gen 6 pokemans because the weather effects were cheap. this new generation is the equivalent of "street fighter 4" as it is bringing back a lot of old pros and a lot of people who haven't touched a pokemon game since the Red / Blue days.

as odd as it sounds to me, i didn't know so many people skipped out on the DS and GBA generations of handhelds. figure that was the best time to have them, before cell phones and mobile gaming took over.

[L]

I find the extreme woodenness of the Pokemon series's NPCs simultaneous repulsive and enticing. It's like a bad imitation of EarthBound? It also feels like the games came to life and is trying to imitate humanity, despite only understanding the world in terms of flags and goals.

[GrimmSweeper]

Shame they already had dealt with the pokemon Legendary whose sphere of influence is Dreams (Giratina?). Then they could have riffed off that and all the progress you made since you started the game until you encounter it (at which point dream overlaps reality and the resonance wakes you up) was basically you following roughly the same path. And then wooden NPCs make sense, weather being wildly volatile, and pokemon always 'fainting' instead of killed.

Culminating in the big question, do you continue the dream or do you damn the world to a life without dreams?

[L]

Giratina controls extra dimensions, as the third wheel to Dialga and Palkia. The one you confused it for (Darkrai) is actually representative of the new moon, as the nemesis of Cresselia.

[Mikey]

I'm where Isfet is - I'm bummed that it's impossible to be even "for fun" competitive unless you start doing all the EV training and catching Pokemon with the right personality types, etc.

I've got one friend I'm going to be playing this with and he's probably going to wipe the floor with me because he's up on all this stuff.

[Persona mobile]

EV training is really easy if you do the Super Training minigames. It'd probably only take you 30 minutes to fully EV train a Pokemon compared to the hours and hours and hours of meticulous grinding and notetaking of which Pokemon you need to beat and how many you've beat so far to get the EV values you need from previous generations.

EV training isn't really hard - trying to get perfect IVs is where I give up.
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[bza]

It's even easier to EV train using hordes, since each enemy there gives full EVs and you face 5 at once! You just need to look up where to find them, and then combine that with the EV training items you can get from Battle Maison. It's even crazier if you can manage to get Pokerus too, then you're talking like 5 minutes or less to fully train each stat.

The tl;dr for breeding for IVs is really short now too, you just need to find a friend safari with a 'mon you like then breed them holding a Destiny Knot so it passes down its guaranteed perfect IVs until you get the spread you want. Destiny Knot was changed to pass down 5 IVs from the parent so it's not nearly as time consuming.

Both require you to beat the game first, so really it's 100% metagame nonsense if all you want to do is play the story and casually battle friends
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[idle]

Yeah, I've just been doing some Super Training with my team each time I start the game back up and I already feel confident and secure in my Pokey Mens even though their EVs are nowhere near maxed out. Trying to find Pokemon with the right nature I want is a little trickier; I think once I've beaten the game (only one badge left until the Elite 4!) I'll mess around with breeding a little.

Today in Pokemon X I got my hair styled and colored, then I went clothes shopping and did a little gardening. This game gives me a strange feeling...

[loink]

This is probably fairly common knowledge, but catching or breeding a bunch of different natured Ralts/Abra with the Synchronize ability helps a lot in getting the monsters with the natures you want.

Does anyone play around with simulators like Pokemon Showdown? I find Showdown good for experimenting with different teams without the massive time investment (although less so this gen), and the documentation on the metagame is generally better than what you get in-game.

[Mikey]

[Isfet]

i'm sad to say that i will not be returning to the World of Pokingmonsters.

[loink]

[L]

I heard on the wiki that Pikachu has its anime voice in this game, the first time for a main series game since Pokémon Yellow. Is this true?

[idle]

Yep. Pikachu is the only voiced character in the entire game.

[Gorblax]

Every day, I roll a number between 1 and 718. That number corresponds to a Pokemon on the National Dex. I have six days to catch that Pokemon. Therefore, there are six Pokemon in my mission rotation at any given time. I can't catch any other Pokemon than the ones on that list in that time, unless they must be caught to obtain it. I currently have White and White 2. I will get Pokemon X once I roll one of the G6 starters, or their evolutions. A new 9/718 chance every day.
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[Persona mobile]

What's your completed list like so far, Gorblax?
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[Gorblax]

White:
Oshawott (now evolved, allowable by my rules when it passes from the six) - "Jack"
Alakazam - "Hocus" (traded my Kadabra, "Elazar", with a Canadian on GTS)
Tynamo (now evolved) - "Gabriel"
Cottonee - "Fluffee" (nicknamed by NPC)

I think some others but I have to go back and check.

White 2:
Pignite (evolved) - "Abner"
Sandslash - "Audrey"
Magnezone - "Asimov"
Umbreon - "Aristotle"

Currently working on completing the White 2 campaign so I can access Ralts, to evolve into Kirlia. Bulbasaur is also on my list right now, but since I'd rather not shell out for an original DS or DS Lite plus an out of print LeafGreen cartridge, I'm focusing on Ralts.
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[L]

Good luck rolling Genesect or Shaymin or Deoxys or something.

[Gorblax]

I rolled Rayquaza a while ago. It phased out of the rotation while I focused on completing the White campaign to gain access to White Forest.
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