I need one these, man. If you somehow happens to have a female with these moves, it would be perfect (so I can use my already trained male one to breed). I can get some cool stuff, perhaps a female Serene Grace Togepi w/ Nasty Plot? Or some of my other stuff
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Pokémon XY |OT3| How's That? Owned, Suckah!
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spindashing
Banned
Is there an easier method to check a Pokémon's exact IVs than giving it rare candies?
PreyingShark
Member
NO DON'T TELL PEOPLE MY SUPER SECRET SET
If you ever wind up with any spare males with 5 of the right IVs for that, hook me up. >_> <_<
I think if you battle with it somewhere where the pokemon's level is scaled to 50 (battle institute?), you can check the stats during the battle.
Yes! They're basically physical versions of Flamethrower, Thunderbolt and Ice Beam with a chance of flinching.
Yes! Give me a few days though, I'm having issues with my 3DS (got the black screen of death, now internet connection problems on my replacement). But I will put one aside for you.
Ultimadrago
Member
Yikes, that's awful. I hope you get it worked out smoothly. And much obliged! I'll be sure to return the favor handsomely.
spindashing
Banned
Oh wow, hahaha. Never thought of that. Thanks.
SenorArdilla
Member
Uh, yeah screw hidden power breeding.
RNG Eggsploitation. Sure you have to catch and breed some 30 IV Pokes. But the end result makes it all worth it.
I cannot believe I won.
http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/oubeta-61306236
He missed with Hydro Pump... 2 times!
http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/oubeta-61306236
He missed with Hydro Pump... 2 times!
Astral/H3X
Member
I thought Battle Institute only leveled things DOWN to 50? If it levels them up to 50 though that's fantastic, will make checking on babies 10x easier.
Astral/H3X
Member
Sorry to burst your bubble...tried and failed
That's what I figured, just thought it would go better with that, so I got hopeful. Darn.
Ah, I didn't know that. Oh well. :/
IV breeding becomes soo much easier and faster once your collection of 5IV Pokemon expands. Gonna use my perfect Tyrunt to breed a Jolly Dratini with Dragon Dance, then use that perfect Jolly Dratini to make a Jolly Gibble.
Dragon Dance on Garchomp, yay or nay? The thing already has beastly attack and speed.
Dragon Dance on Garchomp, yay or nay? The thing already has beastly attack and speed.
PreyingShark
Member
Battle Institute levels you UP to 50. It's the Battle Maison that doesn't.
Turn out you only need a 30 in Def so it shouldn't be too bad, actually! Just breed like normal and once you get to the point where 31/X/30/31/31/31 is easy to get you just cross your fingers. Your chances are pretty good, actually.
I checked the HP Ice spreads.Uh, yeah screw hidden power breeding.
Turn out you only need a 30 in Def so it shouldn't be too bad, actually! Just breed like normal and once you get to the point where 31/X/30/31/31/31 is easy to get you just cross your fingers. Your chances are pretty good, actually.
Astral/H3X
Member
Okay so Battle Institute works differently from Maison, gotcha.
This *might* actually get me to use the semi-RNG abuse method.
This *might* actually get me to use the semi-RNG abuse method.
spindashing
Banned
Just as you posted this, I was able to get a 31/X/X/31/31/31 Rotom. The only hard part about this all is that Rotom breeds with Ditto. I'd love to get a X/X/X/31/31/31 Ditto at least to make things easier.
I think I'll stick with it.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Congrats! Hydro Pump has failed me like that before as well. It seems like 80% accuracy moves miss way more than 8 out of 10 times. Lol
Gillian Seed
Banned
RomanceDawn
Member
Can anyone catch Mankey's in one of their Friend Safaris? I'm looking for a female captured in a Premier Ball(what ever the white ball is called) with the hidden ability defiant.
I've got lots of lucky eggs to trade for faster experience gains.
I've got lots of lucky eggs to trade for faster experience gains.
Oh noo. It would be such a beast with Dragon Dance. How is Outrage on Garchomp? I've always been afraid to use it because of the confusion and not being able to stop it and use something else to fit the situation, and now that fairies outright resist it...Garchomp can't learn Dragon Dance through breeding.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Yeah Swords Dance is very Lethal on him though. I used this set last Gen:
Garchomp@Yache Berry/Focus Sash
Jolly EV's 252Attack/252Speed/4SPD
Swords Dance
Fire Fang
Earthquake
Outrage
It worked very well. You could use Dragon Claw over Outrage if your more comfortable with that.
Subtervotion
Member
Le Wow charges me 90k and I got Hatching O-Power from that guy. But Charizardite Y and Blastonite still cost 50k. What gives? Do I need more style or am I maxed?
This looks good. How useful is Fire Fang? I think Poison Jab might be more useful now with the emergence of fairy types.
PreyingShark
Member
You're not maxed. Go buy more balls.
That makes no sense. You're sure he's charging 50k each?
Gillian Seed
Banned
Yeah Poison Jab is solid. Its to bad he doesn't learn Thunder Fang, because Azumarill and Togekiss are going to be the most used Fairy types. And it wipes out Gyarados. But Fire Fang is needed for Skarmony and Ferrothorn.
Edit: I guess Poison Jab would be better than Thunder Fang anyway. I thought Togekiss was 4Xweak to Electric.
Rogue Agent
Banned
I wish that in the next game, some of the sounds don't interrupt the flow of music in a batle. E.g. When one of my Pokemon levels up, there's a sound that stops the music for a bit. I wish there's a sound but the music isn't interrupted for a split-second.
Minor quibble for me
Minor quibble for me
User 73706
Banned
I haven't pinned down a definitive counter to Mega Kangaskhan yet, but Scarf Chandelure can 2HKO it with Heat Wave and is immune to Fake Out. Other than that I mostly just run priority moves (Mach Punch Breloom, Bullet Punch Scizor) and hope for the best.
Subtervotion
Member
I'm positive. I checked a few times.
Rocky Helmet is a fun hold item to use. Put it on a Rough Skin Pokémon (or Ferrothorn) and watch them lose half their health on a Fake Out. I don't think Kangaskhan can one-shot (two-shot?) Ferrothorn with Power-Up Punch, but I haven't tested it yet.
Hey, I read yesterday that you got disable onto gengar. How?? I really want sub disable gengar and thought I would have to wait til December, but if you got him I can start now. Let me know please or if you can give me one of your breeding fodders I can give you whatever you want back, I even have an extra choice band you can have.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Here's something interesting I saw pointed out on /vp/...
I've noticed this a few times as well, but basically, in a Horde, sometimes a Pokemon is facing at an angle (in this case it was a Durant Horde), so the person speculated if perhaps that was a tell that that Pokemon was the Hidden Ability one.
When I get home tonight I'm gonna find some Hordes and test that.
I've noticed this a few times as well, but basically, in a Horde, sometimes a Pokemon is facing at an angle (in this case it was a Durant Horde), so the person speculated if perhaps that was a tell that that Pokemon was the Hidden Ability one.
When I get home tonight I'm gonna find some Hordes and test that.
I can send you one.
I remember reading that they had a way to tell if a Pokemon had a HA, but I'm not sure. I thought that the orientation of the Pokemon is the way to tell, but it wasn't the case with a Zubat I caught, but I could be misremembering that. I can try it out more to see if it does work.
Muk. I think Grimer as well.
I've noticed that when getting infiltrator zubat. The first one facing that way had its HA after that the ones facing that way were all regular.
Nice! But... what protects Chandelure from being Sucker Punched for SE damage on one of those Heat Wave attempts?
Man, Mega Kangaskhan makes me nervous. That's why he's one of the three Pokémon I'm raising next.
Since I don't hide anything from you guys, might as well share my thoughts on the next version of my team:
Basically, I'll keep Carbink, Protean Greninja and Noivern since they're my MVPs and work together so well (I.E. Noivern moves in on Ground moves against Carbink, Greninja takes Ice Beams for Noivern, Carbink fortifies both, etc). But I'm thinking I'll:
- Replace Taunt on Noivern with Whirlwind to shuffle unfavorable targets and maybe inflict Stealth Rock damage in the process.
- Replace Klefki with Prankster Sableye running Taunt, Will-O-Wisp, Recover and Foul Play or Knock Off (tempted to go with Knock Off, actually -- if I'm to be as disruptive as possible, item removal is one way to do it). Quite simply, Prankster Taunt seems like the best way to stop most status-inducers. Prankster Will-O-Wisp and Prankster Recover is nothing to scoff at, either.
- Replace Aegislash with Rotom-W, running Will-O-Wisp, Thunderbolt, Hydro Pump and Chesto-Rest -- essentially a Full Restore to last a bit longer while Will-O-Wisp does its work. I considered Trick with a debilitating item, but it seems a bit situational and unpredictable given unfavorable item matchups. Volt Switch might be nice over Thunderbolt, but does it force you to switch? At any rate, another Will-O-Wisper to neuter the target's Attack and erode their HP. Along with Sableye, under protection of Carbink's screens, it could work nicely.
- Replace Mega Blaziken with Mega Kangaskhan, running Power-Up Punch, Sucker Punch, Earthquake and Return. I think this set is self-explanatory. Good coverage, and Kangaskhan would be Scrappy pre-Mega Evolution, for possible mind-gams with Ghosts. Although Sucker Punch kind of makes Ghosts a non-issue. Man, what a beast.
That would help me out SO much! What would you like in return? I recently bred Scythers, Adamant Larvitars w/ Pursuit and Dragon Dance and Timid Larvestas.
Plus some of my older stuff; Midest Serene Geace Togepi w/ Nasty Plot, Modest Rotom, various Eevees w/ Wish and more
No need to send me anything, but you're gonna have to wait a bit though. I only have one female left, so I'll breed it and get you a female one.
No problem at all. Thank you so much for doing this!
Gillian Seed
Banned
Yep Mega Khan Wrecks standard Gengar! I am glad some of these old school Gen 1 NU Pokemon like Khan and Pinsir finally got some Love.