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Crosscontaminant posted:The daycare is seriously the most stupid money sink in the game. Now that I have all the TMs that and occasionally buying more Poké Balls are the only reasons I still need to grind for more money. Does anyone actually use the daycare for levelling rather than just breeding? Between the EXP share and the free Lucky Egg, who would?
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Crosscontaminant posted:The daycare is seriously the most stupid money sink in the game. Now that I have all the TMs that and occasionally buying more Poké Balls are the only reasons I still need to grind for more money. Does anyone actually use the daycare for levelling rather than just breeding? How much money are you spending in the daycare  ? All I've been doing lately is breeding and using the 3* restaurant for leveling and I have >1mil poke bucks at the moment.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:31
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Crosscontaminant posted:The daycare is seriously the most stupid money sink in the game. Now that I have all the TMs that and occasionally buying more Poké Balls are the only reasons I still need to grind for more money. Does anyone actually use the daycare for levelling rather than just breeding? ...1 step is worth 1 point of exp? If you were ever using the daycares to level a pokemon up, you were doing something wrong. Either it should have been the lead in your party, or it should have been in your party with the exp share.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:35
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Generally a couple thousand per breeding pair. Level 1 Pokémon grow up fast. I ended the game with juuuuuust about enough money to buy all the TMs after selling some of the random crap I'd been lugging around all game, then fought the Elite Four to have enough money to do Restaurant Le Wow (which was hugely underwhelming - everyone talks up how much money you get out of it, but I made 100k for a perfect goddamn run). Currently sitting on about 150k.Gensuki posted:If you were ever using the daycares to level a pokemon up, you were doing something wrong.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:35
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Even if you completely ignore the "be done in x turns" gimmick in Le Wow you still get profit from the prize money + selling balm mushrooms. And you'll probably get close to the goal anyways because holy loving hell does the computer LOVE PROTECT. Lucario used Protect! Morris's Pokemon shifted to the right! Togekiss used Protect! Morris's Pokemon shifted to the right! Shieldon used Protect! Morris's Pokemon shifted to the left! Togekiss used Protect! But it failed!
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Nov 7, 2013 22:37
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Crosscontaminant posted:Generally a couple thousand per breeding pair. Level 1 Pokémon grow up fast. I ended the game with juuuuuust about enough money to buy all the TMs after selling some of the random crap I'd been lugging around all game, then fought the Elite Four to have enough money to do Restaurant Le Wow. Currently sitting on about 150k. Any time you are doing the 3* restaurant, make sure one of your mons has the amulet coin and that you are using prize money power. I only have prize money 2, but between the mushrooms and prize money I end up making something like 150k profit per rotation battle run.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:37
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My Timid Gengar currently has this moveset: - Substitute - Disable - Shadow Ball - Dazzling Gleam I'm not sure if Ghost/Fairy is the best coverage. Smogon recommends Focus Blast but that accuracy is way too low for my taste. Should I keep it as is, or swap out Dazzling Gleam for something better?
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Nov 7, 2013 22:39
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Nov 7, 2013 22:40
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I do runs in the Battle Chateau. It's right next to the daycare which is convenient and I make about 100,000 pokebucks every time I go in there. Sometimes a lot more if theres a Gym Leader or Elite 4 member there, they give about 80,000 a win.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:41
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The Leper Colon V posted:What's his hold item? Not sure yet. Probably Black Sludge.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:42
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MizPiz posted:Are there any pokemon rom hacks that have every pokemon in that generation available to capture? Ideally, I'd like to have it be FireRed/LeafGreen, but I'll take what I can get. Fire Red Omega
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Nov 7, 2013 22:42
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Lhet posted:The other nice thing about horde training is that you have a chance of encountering a shiny, and you get some pickup triggers (Got my leftovers while training excadrill). If you have -EV berries you can just blindly go to a high level place and get a bit of leveling too. What carries Leftovers?
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Nov 7, 2013 22:42
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Zahki posted:I do runs in the Battle Chateau. It's right next to the daycare which is convenient and I make about 100,000 pokebucks every time I go in there. Sometimes a lot more if theres a Gym Leader or Elite 4 member there, they give about 80,000 a win.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:43
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Harlock posted:Do you have to do writs to get better people to show up? I cleared it out once, then confused what to do next. As you defeat more trainers in there you'll rank up and stronger trainers will appear. I think you need to be at least a Marquis before Gym Leaders start showing up. The Writ of Invitations will make new trainers show up more frequently, so you can run it again sooner.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:46
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The Daycare is useful for leveling in that you can fly to the middle of Lumiose City, wedge a coin in by the control stick, then perpetually bike around in circles while you go do something else IRL. Never done it myself, though; EXP isn't that hard to come by.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:47
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Zahki posted:As you defeat more trainers in there you'll rank up and stronger trainers will appear. I think you need to be at least a Marquis before Gym Leaders start showing up. The Writ of Invitations will make new trainers show up more frequently, so you can run it again sooner. The writ you get at Marquis (maybe a rank sooner) basically makes a new guy show up in the time it takes to beat another one. Marquis is gym leaders/audino girls, the next tier up (Duke) is Elite 4/more audino girls, so those are excellent for XP. Marquis to Duke took me a while, it's kinda annoying there's no "beat X more people to rank up" meter to check.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:53
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Is there a move that's similar to Rock Slide that i can swap out for. The accuracy and having it on my Gogoat is making me heavily unsure about keeping it. I could swap for Earthquake, but then that leaves me open to flying-moves instead of being a big problem for them. Also, what are some decent spreads for a Gengar? I don't know the terms, but I want him to more or less be a specific problem for certain Pokes that's "sneaky" (I may mean fast? I'm not sure. I just ate a cheese stcik and also unsure about life)
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Nov 7, 2013 22:53
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sword_man.gif posted:Even if you completely ignore the "be done in x turns" gimmick in Le Wow you still get profit from the prize money + selling balm mushrooms. The Protect shenanigans are easier to overcome in the double and triple battle menus if you bring something that knows Feint (and station it in the middle if playing Triples). The first few turns, knock out all but one of the restaurant's pokemon. On the final turn, use Feint, and get the KO with something else.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:54
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Babysitting.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:57
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Bongo Bill posted:What carries Leftovers? You need a pokemon with pickup. Assuming the pickup charts are the same (pretty certain at least the leftovers are the same), then once the pokemon is 81+, you have a 1% chance of getting a leftovers each time it picks up a thing (10% chance after a battle). I've had my linoone from level 35, and it's spent a lot of time at level 100, grabbing candies, stones, and now finally leftovers.
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Hammerite posted:The Protect shenanigans are easier to overcome in the double and triple battle menus if you bring something that knows Feint (and station it in the middle if playing Triples). The first few turns, knock out all but one of the restaurant's pokemon. On the final turn, use Feint, and get the KO with something else. It has nothing to do with it being difficult, just time consuming, and since I mostly use it for leveling it's much safer to not have the dude you're leveling getting picked off by some opportunistic gently caress, and they still get up front exp even if they never participate in a rotation. Just more "shadow ball shadow ball shadow ball *watches movie* shadow ball oh it's done sludge bomb slud* etc.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:58
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Well, I'm stupid. I only just realized that the Ditto I was using to breed was Adamant.
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deadly_pudding posted:I really wish somebody would publish a better list of EV hotspots. That nuggetbridge one is kind of crap. I hunted for Bellsprout hordes on Route 14 and kept getting Skorupis instead, so I gave up and just Super Trained like usual. Have you looked at the one in the smogon forums? I find that list far more helpful since it lists all the possible horde encounters on each route.
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deadly_pudding posted:I really wish somebody would publish a better list of EV hotspots. That nuggetbridge one is kind of crap. I hunted for Bellsprout hordes on Route 14 and kept getting Skorupis instead, so I gave up and just Super Trained like usual. I'm going to do a better one, I think. I have nothing but time at work here today. I have also noticed it is lacking. Maybe they're trying to find the lowest level dudes? I have like a lvl 80-something Blastoise that just Surfs everything to death I was looking for Attack EVs yesterday and it was raining in like 3 of the places  But then I found a route (19) that has Arbok and Weepinbell on it (both 2 attack EV). The downside being the Gligar + Skorupi hordes. I just give Blastoise the smoke ball to guarantee I can escape.e: Even better, ^^^, someone did the work for me already!
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I've been using this for referencing Horde EVs: (warning, reddit)
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I read there was a thing that made eggs happen more often. Is this a thing?
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Nov 7, 2013 23:14
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I read there was a thing that made eggs happen more often. Is this a thing? It's a reward for completing the Pokedex.
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I'm not sure what nature I want for my Supersized Pumpkaboo. Relaxed or Brave maybe?
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I read there was a thing that made eggs happen more often. Is this a thing? Yeah, that's the Oval Charm. You get it from Sycamore once you've seen everything in the Kalos dex, minus Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres. Yes, this means you need to have Xerneas and Yveltal marked as seen, too.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I read there was a thing that made eggs happen more often. Is this a thing? Yeah, it's the Oval Charm. I got it simply by seeing all the Pokémon in the Kalos Pokédex, excluding the two legendary birds I can't get. Isn't too difficult, Serebii's PokéEarth feature tells you where to find any you might be missing (Gliscor is tricky to find if you don't have a trade partner or BP for the Razor Fang for example, only appearing in the Sushi restaurant).
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:I'm not sure if Ghost/Fairy is the best coverage. Smogon recommends Focus Blast but that accuracy is way too low for my taste. Should I keep it as is, or swap out Dazzling Gleam for something better? The only pokemon you can't hit for at least neutral with ghost/fairy is the Pyroar line, the lone normal/fire type. Ghost/fighting technically has perfect neutral coverage as far as I know, but I would never use a below 90% accuracy move (then again, I'm focusing on the battle maison atm). I'm now swapping out Goodra for a support pokemon, Togekiss with Follow me and three other moves (probably thunder wave/moon blast and roost/protect). It'll take Alakazams spot as my second lead to help Kangaskhan set up. Also considering swapping out sucker punch for fake out on my khan.
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sword_man.gif posted:Even if you completely ignore the "be done in x turns" gimmick in Le Wow you still get profit from the prize money + selling balm mushrooms. I believe that the AI in the last battle round at Le Wow, in the rotation battles at least, is programmed to use only Protect and priority moves such as Extremespeed and Aqua Jet. At least I've never seen it use anything else.
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I have to admit, every time I'm in the GTS and there's a big grumpy-looking "NO NICKNAMES" in the message box, it makes me want to go and get what they want, call it something stupid like fartman and send it over.
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Slap taunt on your main killer. Problem solved.
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Gengar's STABs already have perfect neutral coverage (for individual typing anyway). The only things that resist Ghost are Normal/Dark, and Poison is neutral (not SE, sorry) against both of those. The reason people would run something else is mainly because both Poison and Ghost have a type that outright walls them. The advantage of Ghost/Fairy is nothing outright absorbs Fairy, and the advantage of Ghost/Fighting is perfect neutral coverage (except against a type mix that doesn't exist right now) and higher BP on Focus Blast... but it's Focus Blast, which misses a lot, so it's up to you if it's worth that.
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Nakar posted:Gengar's STABs already have perfect neutral coverage (for individual typing anyway). The only things that resist Ghost are Normal/Dark, and Poison is neutral (not SE, sorry) against both of those. The reason people would run something else is mainly because both Poison and Ghost have a type that outright walls them. The advantage of Ghost/Fairy is nothing outright absorbs Fairy, and the advantage of Ghost/Fighting is perfect neutral coverage (except against a type mix that doesn't exist right now) and higher BP on Focus Blast... but it's Focus Blast, which misses a lot, so it's up to you if it's worth that. I know you edited this but steel/dark and normal/ground resist or are immune to both, however rare they may be.
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Which spot in the party corresponds to the lead spot in a rotation battle? Is it top-left? Which one is the middle in a triple battle? I feel like at least one of them needs to be the top right
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MrFlibble posted:I know you edited this but steel/dark and normal/ground resist or are immune to both, however rare they may be.
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noirstronaut posted:Is there a move that's similar to Rock Slide that i can swap out for. The accuracy and having it on my Gogoat is making me heavily unsure about keeping it. I could swap for Earthquake, but then that leaves me open to flying-moves instead of being a big problem for them. Anyone have any recommendations for either of these?
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I really hate fighting Mega Kangaskhan, because they are fast, they hit very hard, you can't survive them with Substitute, Sturdy, or Focus Sash, they one-shot all of my favorite ghosts (though, admittedly, I haven't tried Gourgeist yet), they have an increased probability of making you flinch, and because if I were to train one of my own, everybody else's would be faster because I don't want to try to get perfect IVs. What can I do about it this problem?
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