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I got lucky when I was looking for a Shroomish that I wanted to raise up to a Breloom for catching wild Pokemon. It had its hidden ability, so the Breloom that it became ended up with Technician. COmbined with being a traded Pokemon, it leveled up quick and a moveset of False Swipe/Spore/Cut/ROck Smash also makes it good for getting around the game. Combined with something that flies and something that can use Surf and Waterfall, I have every terrain field move that I will ever need. It's nice that rocks pushed around with Strength stay in their holes.
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Star Man posted:I got lucky when I was looking for a Shroomish that I wanted to raise up to a Breloom for catching wild Pokemon. It had its hidden ability, so the Breloom that it became ended up with Technician. COmbined with being a traded Pokemon, it leveled up quick and a moveset of False Swipe/Spore/Cut/ROck Smash also makes it good for getting around the game. Combined with something that flies and something that can use Surf and Waterfall, I have every terrain field move that I will ever need. It's nice that rocks pushed around with Strength stay in their holes. Hawluche learns Rock Smash, Cut, Fly, False Swipe and Strength. Lapras learns Rock Smash, Surf, Strength, and Waterfall. Bibarel learns Cut, Surf, Strength, Waterfall, and Rock Smash.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:13
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nutranurse posted:e: I just got wonder traded a nicknamed pokemon. This is the first time it's ever happened. People, nickname your pokes.  v.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:16
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Paul.Power posted:I nickname everything... but then again, I get too attached to my pokes to use Wonder Trade v That's why you go in knowing what you wanna Wonder Trade and give them offensive nicknames. If you ever see starters named Dong Quixote, that's me.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:18
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The White Dragon posted:That's why you go in knowing what you wanna Wonder Trade and give them offensive nicknames. If you ever see starters named Dong Quixote, that's me. Its great that I can get things with names like pen.is mouth from wonder trade but we can't use the name Violet.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:21
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The White Dragon posted:That's why you go in knowing what you wanna Wonder Trade and give them offensive nicknames. If you ever see starters named Dong Quixote, that's me.  That's a good one.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:21
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Started breeding for my Milotic. I haven't bothered to gather any egg moves though. I guess I should do that even if I don't intend to use them, because of how egg moves can be re-taught this Gen. Twitch update: Currently in Rock Tunnel (no flash). They were stuck on Route 9 for more than half a day. Route 9 has a bit where you have to walk along a 1-tile-wide ledge that's about 20 tiles in length, and if anyone presses down you have to go back to the start. So you can imagine they were there for a good long time. I gleaned from the chat channel that they had to get past that bit twice, because the first time they whited out at a trainer later on the route and got sent back to Cerulean. :laff: <--- imagine this is that laughing dog, gently caress searching for anything on the smilies page.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:22
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Hammerite posted:Twitch update: Currently in Rock Tunnel (no flash). They were stuck on Route 9 for more than half a day. Route 9 has a bit where you have to walk along a 1-tile-wide ledge that's about 20 tiles in length, and if anyone presses down you have to go back to the start. So you can imagine they were there for a good long time. I gleaned from the chat channel that they had to get past that bit twice, because the first time they whited out at a trainer later on the route and got sent back to Cerulean. :laff: <--- imagine this is that laughing dog, gently caress searching for anything on the smilies page. They may have whited out, but it was in the most spectacular of ways.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:25
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And of course they skipped out on Pidgeotto learning Wing Attack. I thought they were going to white out again but somehow all 30,000 minds managed to make the body escape rope out of Rock Tunnel and into the Pokemon Center. They'd be so hosed if that Charmeleon was knocked out and whited out again because of Pidgeotto's poison damage. Star Man fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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Feb 16, 2014 08:33
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Star Man posted:And of course they skipped out on Pidgeotto learning Wing Attack. Wing Attack only has 35 BP in Gen I, so it's not that great. Probably would've been nice to finally have a non-Normal type move on something that isn't a Rattata though. Strange Quark fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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Feb 16, 2014 08:36
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Strange Quark posted:Wing Attack only has 35 BP in Gen I, so it's not that great. Probably would've nice to finally have a non-Normal type move on something that isn't a Rattata. Holy poo poo I did not know that. You get a Pidgeotto all the way up to level 31 and all it gets is a move equal to loving Peck.
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Feb 16, 2014 08:41
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Okay you bastards. I promised I would do another batch of Dittos so here I am. I currently have 32 6IV Dittos for trade. If you're interested in details go my cross post in the trading thread which I will link so we don't clutter this thread up. This most likely will be my last batch that i'm going to transfer. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3574421&pagenumber=271#post425788944
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Alabaster White posted:The existence of M-Aggron has actually made standard Aggron more viable in surprise factor; they expect a massive bulky wall and get recoil-free Banded Head Smashes in their face That's actually a really awesome idea. My next UU team is totally going to have a Band Aggron and a Scarf Gardevoir on it. Next level mind games.
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Feb 16, 2014 09:06
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Star Man posted:Holy poo poo I did not know that. You get a Pidgeotto all the way up to level 31 and all it gets is a move equal to loving Peck. It also happens to be the only attack move the Pidgey line learned naturally in Gen 1 besides Gust and Quick Attack. We complain about how much worse some Pokemon are than others now, but even the worst have nothing on how horrific Gen 1 movesets tended to be.
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Feb 16, 2014 10:17
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Star Man posted:I think naming my Scizor Wesley Snips was the greatest idea ever. Galvantula named PeterSparker. Totally the best name ever.
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Feb 16, 2014 10:33
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Classtoise posted:Galvantula named PeterSparker. One day there will be a Pokemon game that allows for at least sixteen characters for a nickname and I can call an Electivire "General Electric". Until then, I'll have to settle with Gen.Electric.
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Feb 16, 2014 11:05
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Main Paineframe posted:It also happens to be the only attack move the Pidgey line learned naturally in Gen 1 besides Gust and Quick Attack. We complain about how much worse some Pokemon are than others now, but even the worst have nothing on how horrific Gen 1 movesets tended to be. And that is why I have such a hard time taking the Gen 1 purist crowd seriously. It takes so much nostalgia to forget how horribly broken those games were.
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Feb 16, 2014 11:31
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Geostomp posted:And that is why I have such a hard time taking the Gen 1 purist crowd seriously. It takes so much nostalgia to forget how horribly broken those games were. Part of the insanity of generation 1 is just how the game was designed, and it was all by accident more than anything. Special attack and defense being one stat and how critical hit odds were calculated were probably the most egregious offenders. And then you had goofy poo poo like Water Gun being a TM and loving Meowth can learn how to use it. I'm sure all those things were done to provide coverage, but god drat.
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That's being far too charitable. I suspect they didn't do any end-to-end playtesting, which would have revealed things like the disparity between the Water Gun TM and actually good ones like Ice Beam and Surf, or how ridiculous it was to get level 22-26 Zubat, Machop and Geodude in Victory Road.
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Feb 16, 2014 13:48
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Considering how poorly designed and programmed the Gen 1 games were it's amazing that the core idea shone through enough to allow the series to succeed. Current Twitch status: they've just been sent back to the Route 9 Poke Centre by a Hiker for the umpteenth time
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Feb 16, 2014 13:52
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Mega Charizard Y and Chlorophyll Venusaur with focus sash and growth make a really fun doubles team. Super fast Venusaur with instant boosted solar beams. 
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Feb 16, 2014 16:28
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General consensus, what's the best shiny starter? I'm in a breeding mood.
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CherryCat posted:General consensus, what's the best shiny starter? I'm in a breeding mood. I'd go with Charizard. The black coloring really pops.
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Feb 16, 2014 16:56
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During my Battle Maison Super Rotation run, this confused me for a bit.
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Zoran posted:During my Battle Maison Super Rotation run, this confused me for a bit. Zoroark?
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Exactly.
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That actually sounds like a fun gimmick doubles team. Just two of the same lead every time.
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Ignite Memories posted:That actually sounds like a fun gimmick doubles team. Just two of the same lead every time. That doesn't work because Lucario copies the last thing in your party. In this case the opponent lead with Zoroark and had Absol in reserve. Also, looking at that picture reminds me that I didn't nickname anyone on my team. 
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So, I just changed my clothes in-game, and as soon as it showed me what I now looked like, a whirlwind of musical notes appeared, which I've never seen before. Does anyone know what it means, and/or what the trigger is?Zoran posted:That doesn't work because Lucario copies the last thing in your party. In this case the opponent lead with Lucario and had Absol in reserve. You mean Zoroark, right?
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BearDrivingTruck posted:So, I just changed my clothes in-game, and as soon as it showed me what I now looked like, a whirlwind of musical notes appeared, which I've never seen before. Does anyone know what it means, and/or what the trigger is? You put on an outfit the game considers "colorful." This only matters for getting the Pagoro hat or whatever female characters get from that one NPC in Kiloude City. quote:You mean Zoroark, right? Haha, yeah. I was battling a Lucario while I was writing that.
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Zoran posted:You put on an outfit the game considers "colorful." This only matters for getting the Pagoro hat or whatever female characters get from that one NPC in Kiloude City. Don't you need to have an outfit consisting only of clothes with yellow/orange tags for that to happen? I've only got one (a pair of shoes).
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BearDrivingTruck posted:Don't you need to have an outfit consisting only of clothes with yellow/orange tags for that to happen? I've only got one (a pair of shoes). Oh yeah, I was thinking of the paint splatter effect. I think the musical notes might be for wearing the premium (black tag) items? I'm not sure.
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FPzero posted:Nice! What was it? Sawsbuck, spring form. Would have been nice I it was an ivysaur but screw it, it's my first shiny 
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TwoSheds posted:I'd go with Charizard. The black coloring really pops. That or Greninja, for pretty much the same reason.
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Feb 16, 2014 17:44
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Chespin, I choose you!   I am 33 years old, why do I love this game so much??
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Feb 16, 2014 19:09
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Keska posted:I am 33 years old, why do I love this game so much?? Everybody loves pokemon, some people just don't want to admit it.
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Feb 16, 2014 19:56
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Ah some leaked screenshots from Flappy Chesp. Dodge pillars of Ice Beams/Flamethrowers !!
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I think I give up on trying to get a team ready in this game. I underestimated how obnoxious it is trying to get perfect IV Pokemon, and it's pretty pointless when you have Pokeshowdown.
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If it was literally just getting five or six IVs I'd be okay with the amount of tedium required to make a team, but when you have to contend with egg moves and hidden abilities it's still not good enough, and anything which is a trade forward you can say goodbye to because the good breeding mechanics are new to Gen VI. The secret is getting someone (Kuhmondo is the wind beneath my wings) to trade you a perfect Ditto.
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I just caught my first shiny. It happened to be a shiny Trevenant and luckily I was stocked up on Quick Balls because I had nothing that could touch it without making it die.
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