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If you touch Ampharos' red bulb things on the head or tail you get zapped. It's amazing. 
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Holy crap I hope they sort out the issues on the GTS. 9/10 times I go to trade something that I'm assuming is already taken it just gives a communication error and requires the game to be restarted. Once, only once I've actually seen the "this has already been traded" message. Now I'm just putting stuff up for trades, but it doesn't help knowing other people might be facing the same thing, and the limitation of one up at a time.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:40
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Has anyone successfully reset for a shiny starter yet? And if so, how long did it take?
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Oct 15, 2013 05:41
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Chance posted:Holy crap I hope they sort out the issues on the GTS. 9/10 times I go to trade something that I'm assuming is already taken it just gives a communication error and requires the game to be restarted. Once, only once I've actually seen the "this has already been traded" message. GTS is down for maintenance through Wednesday. So I just encountered a ghost in lumoise city on the 2nd floor of an office building. Apparently I am not the one. whoever said there was no post game is lying.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:44
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You can definitely get EV-reducing berries in X and Y! In the berry farm, planting two different trees next to each other can cause hybrids/mutations. A Qualot berry grew when I had Oran and Pecha trees side by side.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:45
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The size difference Tyrantrum and Klefki is hilarious. Also now I've got my Klefki! Now I got an awesome team of Klefki, Geninja, Tyrantrum, Gogoat, Doublade and Talonflame!
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Oct 15, 2013 05:45
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Dehry posted:GTS is down for maintenance through Wednesday. Which building. I need to see this.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:46
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I swear I saw a passerby with both a different set of eyes other than the default and a distinct lack of a hat, anyone else seen this/know where you can change these things?
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Oct 15, 2013 05:47
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Does Power-Up Punch benefit from Iron Fist?
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Hammerite posted:I don't know. I haven't even been playing Pokémon-Amie so I don't know how it works. Some info for anyone that hasn't messed around with Pokemon-Amie. You find it by using L or R on the 3DS or the < or > buttons on the top corners of the bottom screen which cycles through PSS, Pokemon-Amie and Super Training. It's available almost immediately. I'm not sure if it's there from when you turn the game on, but you can't do anything with it until you get your first pokemon anyway, and it's definitely available then. Your pokemon will move around the screen as you move, and in different ways depending on how you're moving. This doesn't adequately replace following pokemon from Yellow and HG/SS, but it's something at least. If you tap your pokemon on that screen it'll bring up a few different options, as well as show you some floating icons above your pokemon's head.Decorate allows you to change the background image and place cushions, tables and other things as well as place a Poke Puff. When you go to place a cushion it shows three blue spots, which is where up to three pokemon from anyone on the PSS screen will come by and hang out for a little while if you have the Amie screen open. Placing cushions here will show them sitting on them. When they leave they have a chance of leaving behind a present which contains either a Poke Puff or decorate item, and a placed Puff guarantees a present at the cost of the Puff. Higher quality Puffs will feed more groups before being completely consumed. I don't know if placed cushions has an effect on presents, but why wouldn't you give your guests a comfy leaf, a fluffy cloud and a sturdy candy cushions to sit on? Switch allows you to choose which of your active pokemon to use. It is also where you can most easily see the three stats that are used in Amie.
Play is, unsurprisingly, where you get to actually play with your pokemon, and where you will spend most of your active Amie time. After tapping Play you will (likely) be face-to-face with your pokemon on the bottom screen and have at least two icons. The bottom right allows you to exit back to the main game while the top left is your Poke Puff drawer. You can pet your pokemon here to gain Affection as long as they have Enjoyment, which I'll cover in a bit. Some pokemon have certain areas they don't like to be petted, like Honedge's tassel/scarf/hand thing, while others have areas that have other effects, like Pikachu's cheeks and Mareep's fur shocking your hand. When you get a note icon instead of hearts it means your pokemon is out of Enjoyment. Dragging a Puff out of the drawer and holding on to it will allow your pokemon to eat it, but if you lift the stylus the puff will drop. Eating Puffs will increase your pokemon's Affection and Fullness stats. I don't know if quality affects fullness, but the type and quality of Puff will definitely affect how much Affection your pokemon will gain. 1 heart is the lowest I've seen, while giving your pokemon their favorite will show 6 hearts. While approaching a max Fullness stat your pokemon will eat slower until it will refuse to eat any more. I'm not 100% sure on how decreasing Fullness works, but I think playing Amie mini-games and running around in the main game will both decrease Fullness for your active Amie pokemon. You can get more Puffs by having your guests leave some behind or by playing the Amie mini-games. Speaking of the mini-games, if you have three or more active pokemon you will get a third icon in the top right which gives you access to the three mini-games, each using three of your active pokemon. (That's a lot of threes.  ) Every game has four difficulties: Easy, Normal, Hard and Unlimited, with each requiring 4(3?)-star performance from the previous to unlock. Berry Picker is a matching game where you drag berries on a tree to match one of your pokemon's requests. Get's a little hectic on Hard and around 70 berries on Unlimited. Unlimited runs until you miss three requests while the others have a time limit. Head It is a timing game where you're bouncing balls of yarn off of your pokemons' heads. Different colors have different speeds while different types have different accelerations. The closer the yarn is to the mark on top of your pokemon the more points you will get, I believe it's 1-3 points. Your longest combo is then added at the end to get your total. All game difficulties run similarly to Berry Picker's. Tile Puzzle is a relatively simple puzzle where you swap pieces to get them in the correct spot, not to be confused with the much more difficult sliding puzzles where there's one free space and you slide pieces around to make a picture. Unlimited runs until you run out of time but correct swaps and completed puzzles will add to your timer. The other difficulties have no time limit aside from possibly a soft-cap of taking too long and getting 0 points.Mini-games reward Puffs on completion. How well you do will determine how many and of what quality. 3-stars will get you 3 standard Puffs while 5 stars will get you 6, two of which will be the best quality possible. Completing mini-games will also give every pokemon that participated Enjoyment, not just your active one. Your pokemon will also gain Enjoyment just from starting Amie after a little bit of a wait from you last exit. It's just happy to see you. Finally, there's a fourth icon in the bottom left. When your pokemon is looking at you and you're in a position that the inside 3DS camera can see your face it will show up. Tilting your head or making faces while it's displayed will start a little side-game where you have to match your pokemon's requests. Things like tilting your head to one side, winking, closing your eyes and opening your mouth. If you have long hair, bangs, eye wear or anything else covering your face, including your eyebrows, and/or are not in a lit enough area, you'll probably have issues with the game recognizing what your doing. Put your hair up or to the side, take off your glasses (there's plenty of time to swap glasses off and on if you're like me and can't see poo poo without them) and turn on a light. It's also facial recognition software on a portable device with a mediocre camera, so I wouldn't expect miracles. Occasionally this will happen when you enter Amie: operative lm posted:I've run into a bit of a problem: When it does you cannot pet or interact with it at all until you call it's name out loud. Blowing over the microphone won't work, but other than that I don't know the specifics. You might also be able to just tap the bottom right corner, as I accidentally hit there the last time I had this happen and it immediately turned around. Haven't had this happen again since then, so I haven't been able to test if other corners work or whether it was just a fluke that it worked in the first place. You know it's an RPG when such a simple task as petting your monsters can actually take up so many  writing out some of the mechanics.  kharaa posted:Holy poo poo, if you are on a bike when you talk to the photo guy, you'll be on your bike for the picture Having your roller skates on will also show up. It's pretty easy to not notice them, though.
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Affection is NOT happiness. Getting 5 Affection on Togepi will not let it evolve into a Togetic. It might have an effect on happiness, but that's just speculation on my part.
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I'm new to the breeding game. I want baby bulbasaurs. I put my venusaur in the daycare with a mareep and only get mareep eggs. What am I doing wrong here? Also I saved in not-Paris, closed my ds for the night, quickly realized my mistake and moved out of town to resave. Close call.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:51
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Onean posted:When it does you cannot pet or interact with it at all until you call it's name out loud. Blowing over the microphone won't work, but other than that I don't know the specifics. You might also be able to just tap the bottom right corner, as I accidentally hit there the last time I had this happen and it immediately turned around. Haven't had this happen again since then, so I haven't been able to test if other corners work or whether it was just a fluke that it worked in the first place. Wait. Its species name or its nickname?
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Oct 15, 2013 05:52
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Sockser posted:I'm new to the breeding game. Your Mareep has to be the female in this case. If your Venusaur is male you'll need a ditto.
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Oct 15, 2013 05:52
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Fried Chicken posted:Go beat the second gym Oh my freaking God. I backtracked a bit because I just couldn't find out where the second gym was. I followed your advice and I scavenged around the bike track and there it was. I'm pretty stupid for not noticing it all this time. Thanks! I drew you something for the trouble. 
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Harlock posted:I got challenged to one of those rotational battles. The rules said 3 on 3 but my opponent got to use six? Yeah I made an rear end of myself assuming that was the norm (thanks a lot, pokemon stadium)
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Oct 15, 2013 05:54
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alcharagia posted:Wait. Its species name or its nickname? I think either one, as long as the game can recognize them. I don't know the specifics as I've only had it happen twice. The first time I just called out Braixen and the second time I accidentally caused him to turn around without saying anything. I'm one of those boring people that don't nickname their pokemon, though I thought about taking up a gimmick this run, but couldn't think of one before I couldn't wait to play any longer. 
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Oct 15, 2013 06:02
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Mareep is the most dangerous pokemon to pet.
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Oct 15, 2013 06:03
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Anybody have a Kadabra they want to trade for a Kadabra and if so where do I get my FC?
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Oct 15, 2013 06:05
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Onean posted:I think either one, as long as the game can recognize them. So... so when Bank comes out I could trade my Metagross from White and have him actually respond to the name Mr. Bucket? WHY DO I NOT ALREADY HAVE THIS GAME
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Oct 15, 2013 06:05
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Big thanks for the Amie guide, Onean. One question, does Affection ever decrease?
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Oct 15, 2013 06:07
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Stalgren posted:Mareep is the most dangerous pokemon to pet. Where can you catch a Mareep?
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Oct 15, 2013 06:07
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Stalgren posted:Mareep is the most dangerous pokemon to pet. Muk is worse. Fire Red's Pokedex posted:It is usually undetectable because it blends in with the ground. Touching it can cause terrible poisoning.
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Oct 15, 2013 06:08
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"I can tell that Lucario has a great bond with you!" *shoves it in a box to never be used again*
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Oct 15, 2013 06:12
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Dehry posted:GTS is down for maintenance through Wednesday. Oh, must be not completely down/shut off then. I got some pokemon in and out today, just an abundance of the crashing as well.
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Oct 15, 2013 06:12
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Harlock posted:"I can tell that Lucario has a great bond with you!" I actually stuck with him for a little while because he was tearing poo poo up. But he was TOO good at tearing poo poo up so I boxed him. Also what's this big ice rock I came across? Is that where you evolve Eevee into the ice one?
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Oct 15, 2013 06:13
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Is there a button combination for a soft reset? And can I reset to change the nature on the free torchic or is it preset like the gender? It only took me three tries to get a female froakie which was nice. She likes when you rub her legs.
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Chance posted:Oh, must be not completely down/shut off then. I got some pokemon in and out today, just an abundance of the crashing as well. Yeah, I don't think it's completely down because I put a Pokemon up perfectly fine an hour ago. I think it's just "in maintenance" while still being semi-active.
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Macaluso posted:But he was TOO good at tearing poo poo up so I boxed him. 
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Awesome! posted:Is there a button combination for a soft reset? And can I reset to change the nature on the free torchic or is it preset like the gender? Start+Select+L+R
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Oct 15, 2013 06:20
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Damnit ghosts let me use False Swipe on you 
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Awesome! posted:Is there a button combination for a soft reset? And can I reset to change the nature on the free torchic or is it preset like the gender? L-R-Start
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Awesome! posted:Is there a button combination for a soft reset? And can I reset to change the nature on the free torchic or is it preset like the gender? It's L+R+Start. Finally got a shiny Chespin. Only took 17 hours. 
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Oct 15, 2013 06:22
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:Where can you catch a Mareep? Route 12 in the cutest hordes
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Oct 15, 2013 06:22
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Crosscontaminant posted:Why would you do this? Well to be fair I was going to box him anyway because I want my team to be all new Pokemon. And I'll be the first person to switch a game I play to easy mode, but Mega Lucario was just too easy
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Oct 15, 2013 06:24
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Can you semi-easily reset EVs in X/Y?
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Oct 15, 2013 06:25
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Elysiume posted:Can you semi-easily reset EVs in X/Y? Yes. Once a pokemon is maxed out having them hit the empty bag in super training for a while will eventually drop a bag which resets all EVs.
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Oct 15, 2013 06:26
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Crosscontaminant posted:Why would you do this? Because it makes things too easy to the point of being boring? That's the reason why I only use the event Blaziken in emergencies.
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Zore posted:Yes. Once a pokemon is maxed out having them hit the empty bag in super training for a while will eventually drop a bag which resets all EVs. They don't even need to be maxed out. Just press the screen when they just have the blank bag and you'll be rolling in extra bags.
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