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Constable Lemon posted:Why would anyone want Magician as an ability? It's pretty much worthless, considering the only way it can be useful is if you forgo your own item to steal your opponent's. And even then, you can't guarantee the item will be useful to you. You could very easily accidentally swipe a Choice Band as a Delphox and now you're stuck in a choice item that doesn't even boost your preferred attack. At least with Blaze you can hit things harder when you're at low health, which is always useful. I've seen people say it'll be helpful in Little Cup with a Fire Gem and stealing your opponent's Eviolite.
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Volt Catfish posted:Waiiit how does the GTS even work? There's a post-game thing that'll let you get some pokemon from other generations. Not to mention that all the Pokemon in X/Y are a blend of various generations anyway rather than leaning too heavily on the Gen 6's.
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Constable Lemon posted:Why would anyone want Magician as an ability? It's pretty much worthless, considering the only way it can be useful is if you forgo your own item to steal your opponent's. And even then, you can't guarantee the item will be useful to you. You could very easily accidentally swipe a Choice Band as a Delphox and now you're stuck in a choice item that doesn't even boost your preferred attack. At least with Blaze you can hit things harder when you're at low health, which is always useful. A lot of abilities and even hidden abilities are indeed pretty garbage. That ones sounds like it's mainly good if you know your opponent is holding some nasty item.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:28
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Constable Lemon posted:Why would anyone want Magician as an ability? It's pretty much worthless, considering the only way it can be useful is if you forgo your own item to steal your opponent's. And even then, you can't guarantee the item will be useful to you. You could very easily accidentally swipe a Choice Band as a Delphox and now you're stuck in a choice item that doesn't even boost your preferred attack. At least with Blaze you can hit things harder when you're at low health, which is always useful. But can you steal megastones off opponents? I can see that being mildly useful to prevent some of the more absurd ones from triggering.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:29
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SCROTEBUSTIN posted:You're water! I'll edit in a sec with the pokes. Thank you sir! That seems...semi-useful? I hope! I wonder what my third one is.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:30
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I'm battling in a restaurant but all I meet is level 10 apes. What do I have to do to make the chefs/butlers/whatever have better Pokémon?
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Oct 18, 2013 17:32
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Ha ha, holy poo poo. Put a Quilladin on the GTS asking for a Xerneas a couple of hours ago. Lo and behold, someone traded. Sure, it was a special ability one from the Safari, but still.  Also clearly somebody thought it'd be hard to capture because it's in a Master Ball. Heh.
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McDragon posted:Ha ha, holy poo poo. Put a Quilladin on the GTS asking for a Xerneas a couple of hours ago. Lo and behold, someone traded. Sure, it was a special ability one from the Safari, but still. I hope someone tells that poor soul about Quick Balls  . Maybe they traded it to get rid of their shame?
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Oct 18, 2013 17:34
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McDragon posted:Ha ha, holy poo poo. Put a Quilladin on the GTS asking for a Xerneas a couple of hours ago. Lo and behold, someone traded. Sure, it was a special ability one from the Safari, but still. I did the same thing. Only difference was that mine was a girl instead of Bulletproof. Seems like you can get just about anything for a starter.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:35
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This game is so fun. I've already planning out my second playthrough. I'm going to do a mono rock type run and Aurorus is going to be my best buddy. I'm going to name him Steve Austin in honor of his typing. 
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Oct 18, 2013 17:36
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Volt Catfish posted:Waiiit how does the GTS even work? People have found old pokes in friend safaris. It's totally possible they found a sewaddle and put it up.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:39
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:People have found old pokes in friend safaris. It's totally possible they found a sewaddle and put it up. Yeah, Swadloon is in a bunch of my friend safaris. Discounting the 50 legendaries, and 12 gens 2-5 starter lines, there are only about 50 pokemon total you cannot currently get. Including, bizzarely, Rattata.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:41
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You can get pictures of the team you beat the elite 4 with on Pokemon-GL.com! MVP here was Crabink for soloing 2 of the E4. The bottom 3 were sort of deadweight. Sylveon doesn't have much coverage besides Fairy which I already have pretty well covered, and Spritzee and Slurpuff just have lowish stats. The game doesn't seem to acknowledge you beating the champion with a single type like in B2/W2 
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Has it been established whether it is possible to have one parent hold a Destiny Know and the other a power item and have all 6 IVs passed down?Constable Lemon posted:Why would anyone want Magician as an ability? It's pretty much worthless, considering the only way it can be useful is if you forgo your own item to steal your opponent's. And even then, you can't guarantee the item will be useful to you. You could very easily accidentally swipe a Choice Band as a Delphox and now you're stuck in a choice item that doesn't even boost your preferred attack. At least with Blaze you can hit things harder when you're at low health, which is always useful. There are good consumable items, such as Focus Sash. On my White 2 I have a Weavile with Pickpocket. Since Weavile is fragile, I give him a focus sash. A lot of the time when he gets hit by a strong move, he steals the item after the Focus Sash activates. Francis posted:I completely ignored Gen 5 after Pearl was unplayably slow. X/Y are really good though! Unfortunately the post-game is kind of lacking. I've heard really good things about how much there is to do in Gen 5 after you beat the game, but four different versions is really confusing. So I have a few questions about going back to the older games: 1) I don't know, how much do you want a shiny Giratina? If the shiny Sinnoh box mascots activate a special event in XY that we don't yet know about (the shiny legendary dogs did in BW), you might be annoyed later. 2) You'll have fewer avenues to get pokemon with good hidden abilities. You can still probably trade with goons to get anything you really want. Some of the medals (achievements) in BW2 will not be attainable. 3) If you care about the story you might want to play BW1, otherwise not really. 4) Local only
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Urgh, I don't like grinding the plot to a halt like this right after Xerosic activates the ultimate weapon/crystal thing , but I've gotta find some rain to evolve my Sliggoo.
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The Moon Monster posted:You can get pictures of the team you beat the elite 4 with on Pokemon-GL.com! Florgess certainly looks less like some kind of insect that has merged with a plant and more like a fairy in that picture.
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Alcatrash posted:I'm battling in a restaurant but all I meet is level 10 apes. What do I have to do to make the chefs/butlers/whatever have better Pokémon? There are better restaurants the unlock as you go through the game. The next one up is the two-star Restaurant Le Yeah
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Oct 18, 2013 17:45
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Florges looks better in this line art.
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Oct 18, 2013 17:46
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McDragon posted:Ha ha, holy poo poo. Put a Quilladin on the GTS asking for a Xerneas a couple of hours ago. Lo and behold, someone traded. Sure, it was a special ability one from the Safari, but still. I got an Yveltal for an Electabuzz 
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Zore posted:Yeah, Swadloon is in a bunch of my friend safaris. Has anyone found a porygon in friend safaris? As far as I can tell, porygons are uncatchable right now, but they're my favorite. I don't want to wait until December. 
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OK, Serebii says this on the "new breeding mechanics" page.quote:Another new feature is the furthering of IV transfer. Previously, when the parent Pokémon had power items attached, it guaranteed the transfer of one of the IVs, while several IVs were guaranteed to pass down. However, as of X & Y, if you have one of the parents hold the Destiny Knot item, then 5 IVs total from either parent will be guaranteed to be transferred It sounds like if one parent holds a Power Item and the other parent holds a Destiny Knot then the power item stat will be passed down from the parent holding it, and then 4 other stats at random will be passed down from either parent. Not as powerful as it first sounded but still a really big asset to IV breeding. Anybody have better information on this?
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Skimmed the thread so I probably missed this being asked, but in Black and White there was a version of the battle subway double battles where you and a friend each controlled one Pokemon at a time. I always thought this would be really cool to do online battles in this way, but as far as I know this wasn't possible in B/W. Has it changed for X and Y?
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Hammerite posted:It sounds like if one parent holds a Power Item and the other parent holds a Destiny Knot then the power item stat will be passed down from the parent holding it, and then 4 other stats at random will be passed down from either parent. Not as powerful as it first sounded but still a really big asset to IV breeding. Anybody have better information on this? Combined with friend safari its still pretty big. It's fairly easy to breed a pokemon with 3-4 31 IVs and you put two together and you would get a 5 top IV child within 5-10 eggs.
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I evolved my Floette into Florges, and I really love how she looks. She looks like a Parasite Eve boss or something. She's also mega cute in Pokemon-Amie. Also, is Sableye rare in this game? I caught one the other day in a cave and it was the only one I saw in all my running around. Mondlicht fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Skimmed the thread so I probably missed this being asked, but in Black and White there was a version of the battle subway double battles where you and a friend each controlled one Pokemon at a time. I always thought this would be really cool to do online battles in this way, but as far as I know this wasn't possible in B/W. Has it changed for X and Y? I think you can do multi battle while online in the Battle Maison.
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Enzer posted:But can you steal megastones off opponents? I can see that being mildly useful to prevent some of the more absurd ones from triggering. You cannot steal megastones. Megastones can't be messed with at all, by knock-off, trick, anything.
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How are people raising Happiness quickly in this game? Preferably without leveling the pokieman too much. My Munchlax is still munchin' around but I want Belly Drum on my Charmanders
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Locke Dunnegan posted:How are people raising Happiness quickly in this game? Preferably without leveling the pokieman too much. My Munchlax is still munchin' around but I want Belly Drum on my Charmanders I rode my bike for an hour.
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How exactly does the Global Link website's miles store work? I bought about 600 miles worth of Lemonade and Moomoo milk and poo poo, but so far nothing has appeared in-game. I've got the game sync set up, I've saved, reloaded, force quit the game, reloaded again, nothing.
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Locke Dunnegan posted:How are people raising Happiness quickly in this game? Preferably without leveling the pokieman too much. My Munchlax is still munchin' around but I want Belly Drum on my Charmanders I just left them in my party with a soothe bell on while leveling other stuff. I'm not sure how to power-happy things in this game yet.
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Does anyone have Riolu in their Safari? I need it to breed every single Pokemon on my final team. If you do please add me, FC is 5300-9018-9920, my type is Dark. vvv Thanks for the offer, but the ones from the Safari have three 31 IVs that I need to pass down for breeding. Millions fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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The Moon Monster posted:I just left them in my party with a soothe bell on while leveling other stuff. I'm not sure how to power-happy things in this game yet. In the juice store, the man at the left counter says that his poo poo will make your pokemon happier. You can also get massages in ??? town. Millions posted:Does anyone have Riolu in their Safari? I need it to breed every single Pokemon on my final team. I don't know what this new safari stuff is, but I have a male Riolu you can have. Do you just need a riolu or does it need to be a special one from the safari? e: I can go catch a female if you need one of those, too.
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For you guys looking at IVs, what's currently the easiest way to check a freshly-hatched monster's IVs, if the online calculators aren't working/don't have that 'mon yet?
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The Moon Monster posted:I just left them in my party with a soothe bell on while leveling other stuff. I'm not sure how to power-happy things in this game yet. There's also a lady somewhere that gives massages like the last game, but I totally forget where she is. So I'm not help. She does exist, though. So in Pokemon-Amie, do the hearts not decay? Only the fullness/enjoyment?
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I meant other than the one massage a day thing, but thanks. I'll just ride around while making eggs or something.
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Is ther any trick to leveling o-powers, other than just giving them to people?
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Sorry if I've missed this somewhere, but has there been a change to the rareness of shiny pokemon in the wild? Is it more frequent, or was I just lucky with my wild shiny Sandile?
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turnways posted:For you guys looking at IVs, what's currently the easiest way to check a freshly-hatched monster's IVs, if the online calculators aren't working/don't have that 'mon yet?
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So is it confirmed that the destiny knot and IV item stack? ...not that it really matters given you need one parent to hold an everstone for the right nature.
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