[DS] How do you get 3,000 pikachus on a bus? POKEMON!

I can do you better than PP ups. How about PP Maxes? I can get any number you need.

I might be able to dig up a Focus Band also.

I have no spare TM64s, though.


In return, I could totally use one of those whatever-it-isses that let Electabuzz evolve into Electivire. Extras of useful TMs are also good.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I still need one of those devices that allow you to make an Electivire. I don't own FireRed, so I can't steal them.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Generic Badass

Suddenly had the urge to finally breed and EV train a Cacturne... Why must all of my favorite guys be UU?

For what it's worth, on the right team, Cacturne is hardly UU. My friend drove me up the wall with his. It took down three of my team before I nuked his one Cacturne. (Sucker Punch, WTF...)

Anyhow, I've been breeding, EV training and levelling like mad for the past few weeks. It kills time and helps me fall asleep sooner. Currently, I'm working on a Hippowdon. I'm considering Mismagius next.

I don't really care too much about Uber/OU/BL/UU listings. (I'm not even certain what "BL" stands for - "balanced" maybe?) I play with the Pokemon I like. Lapras isn't top-tier by any means but it's fun. And though I took second place in a craptacular Pokemon tourney a few weeks ago, I'd much rather play casually.

Getting Pokemon from older versions has never been a priority. Yeah, I could take the time to send an Arbok over, but why? Arbok's not gonna be much help to anything, honestly. My only motivation is casual competition, so foddering my Pokedex, eh, whatever.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Kairyu

I hear Crash Landon still plays as well, so he may have everything you're looking for =D

Given that I own one of the discontinued GBA GameSharks, yes, I can acquire all Pokemon from past games. I've got all the codes entered, at least for the base evolutions. I just never cared enough to send and evolve them all in my Diamond game. Who needs a Level 100 Luvdisc?

But yeah, I can make just about anything from previous games. Can't control a ton of the random elements like gender, ability, IVs, etc., but if you just want a Meowth for kicks, that's simple.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Sacred X

I've been hearing a lot of people talk about shiny pokemon pretty often. Are they somehow easier to obtain or something?

Shiny Pokemon are quite rare. They occur randomly, but the chances of finding one are extremely slim. Being able to capture it on the spot is trickier still.

It's been said that using the Poke Radar tool can increase your chances of finding a Shiny. You have to be patient and observant though. If you consistently fight only in the grassy spaces that shake when the radar goes off, the story goes that eventually you'll see a patch that sparkles as it shakes. In there, should be a Shiny Pokemon. But it takes a ton of patience and battling, I hear.

I've never tried it out, honestly. Shiny Pokemon look cool but aren't very good in fights. What makes them shiny is that all of their Individual Values (IVs) are set to 10. When you consider that each IV can reach a maximum of 31, 10 just isn't very desirable. A level 100 Shiny Pokemon will often be much weaker than its normally colored counterpart.

So they're cool to look at but that's about it. I've got two: a Zangoose and a Cacturne. I admit, they both look really sweet.

FELIPE NO

FYI, wild Pokemon have no EVs. A level 50 Sandshrew caught in the wild has the same amount of EVs as a freshly hatched level 1 Sandshrew: zero.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Yeah, it could. If you somehow wound up with a lot of Special Attack EVs on a Pokemon that didn't use any Special Attack moves, it'd be a waste. That's points that could've gone toward Attack EVs or Speed, or whatever else was more useful. Your opponent might've gotten the extra points into useful areas, and those few points of Speed, Defense, etc., could make a big difference in surviving.

I don't know of any way to get a status breakdown of your current EV spread. You either keep track as you level and just know or you don't and wind up guessing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It went reasonably well. I think a couple people dropped out due to other obligations but that's about it. We saw it through to the end and nobody went undefeated.

We had a system in which teams were posted beforehand, including movesets. This was so that nothing illegal was used. But you were allowed to list up to nine; nobody quite knew which ones you'd be taking into battle; forming counterstrategies against particular players was more difficult.

We did this last summer or so, and I've had plenty of time to bulk my roster. Depending upon when the tournament is held, I could participate. (The end of May/beginning of June is out, as I'll be on vacation then.)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Josiah

Were legendaries allowed in this previous tourney, or were there any other restrictions in terms of what pokemon one could have in their group (besides the obvious like no hacked pokemon)? None of the six I'm getting ready are legendary, since I know some tournaments say they're a no-no.

I don't recall any specific bans (other than Wobuffet, for obvious reasons). I think most participants considered it a general courtesy to not fill their rosters with Ubers. There's not much skill or dignity in beating people down with the Mewtwo/Giratina/Rayquaza death squad anyhow.

I think we used the Sleep Clause, and that was about it. No item clause even.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie

They'd still form a strategy against me fairly easy when they see the majority of my choices are Poison Pokemon.

How'd you guys do a tournament? Over Wifi?

Funny you should mention that. I'd been thinking that if we do another tournament, it would be awesome if everyone worked with some sort of theme. Certainly type-specific teams, such as all-Poison, could work. Or people could find their own theme, so long as it was broad enough and each Pokemon featured it in some way.

It'd be cool since some people might indeed have an innate advantage over you, but you might have the total edge on someone else. Steel teams would rip you apart, but Grass teams couldn't do a whole lot. It could be interesting.

And yes, it was all over wi-fi. There's really no other practical method available.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

At least you're aware that Beedrill sucks royal ass.

I do think a single-type tourney would be pretty rad, as long as everyone avoided using the same types.

I don't know if I'd be the best person to organize such a thing, especially since I plan on attending the GFF NE Meet in a week's time. I'd rather just participate right now, thanks.

I think the only caveats for tourney play would be the usual: No Ubers, no Wobbuffet, and Sleep Clause. Otherwise, I'm okay with people using popular Pokemon. They're popular for a reason - they work.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Generic Badass

We'd also need to consider removing certain types out of fairness. Dragon should be banned (even if Flygon and Altaria suck), and Steel might need to be because of its awkwardness and sheer impracticality when used offensively.

Not necessarily. Dragon teams would have some difficulty against Water teams, if but due to the presence of Ice Beam. Not only that, but there's enough Pokemon out there that can learn Ice Moves, and also Dragon moves. Dragon teams would be strong, I agree, but not infallible. The same goes for Steel. Steel is slow and weak to several common typings, particularly Ground and Fire. The Fighting weakness doesn't help either.

I suppose this is why team-building is key, isn't it?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hey, if someone wants to take a type that's known to be offensively weak, let them. Who knows, maybe they'll do better than expected. Even Steel has Skarmory, Metagross and Bronzong. They're not exactly pushovers.

FELIPE NO

How's about just keeping it simple by adhering to the type-specific clause and not worrying about "purity" or anything like that? Who cares about primary typings? As long as a Pokemon is in some way of the chosen type, I'm happy. Metagross is just as much a Psychic type as it is a Steel type in my book.

Adding too many restrictions will severely limit peoples' capacity to participate. Don't force people to train entirely new teams. If you need to impose a hundred limitations just to feel as though the battlefield is even, then perhaps competition is not for you.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

All I'm saying is that I don't feel there's a need to set numerous limitations, else we'll all have to spend time training up new teams instead of using stuff we already have. In the interest of having an actual tournament sooner than later, it might be best to sacrifice a bit of the style in favor of simplicity.

Having a Gym-like quality is cool, definitely. But I don't agree that style should be emphasized over strategy. Selecting a competitive team that shares one type is a challenge in itself. The purpose of a tournament is to have good battles, not to see whose Rapidash best exemplifies the spirit of Fire Pokemon.

It's not the end of my world if someone's Milotic doesn't know Surf. With or without, it's still weak to Thunderbolt.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Xardion

Can you even get a Dragonite or Tyranitar at level 50?

If you breed them, sure.

I'd bet Dragonite and Tyranitar are banned because their cumulative stats are better than some of the available legendaries. Uxie wishes it were Tyranitar.

There's nowhere I can't reach.