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Mr-Joker said:
Sadly it doesn't, while you can get some challenge by not using the EXP share or Mega evolution but not much.

The Elite 4 looks to be laughably easy, along with the stupid champion.
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Siebold is a pain in the ass, though. He's probably the hardest trainer in the game.
 
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My two brand new shinies. :D Got within 20 minutes of each other. Thanks Friend Safari~
 
My last shiny must have been in Sapphire. :(

Tried abusing the RNG of Emerald, but never got it correctly.

Haven't seen a shiny ever since.

I hate all of you.
 
Well, going through Victory Road right now...

What HMs do you need? Waterfall I guess since I got the ability to use it from beating Gym 8? Sucks because I just found out Barbaracle can't learn it, meaning I'll need a temporary member for getting through the road and he'll miss out on EXP Points. :(
 
Damn all these shiny Pokemon. Two playthroughs ABD nothing :/

Currently IV breeding Tyrunts. I would love a shiny one!
 
Man you people are so lucky. I have never, I repeat NEVER, found a wild shiny, or hatched a shiny throughout my entire Pokémon life. The only shiny I ever got legitimately was a shiny Spiritomb I found on the GTS.
 
Watch Da Birdie said:
Well, going through Victory Road right now...

What HMs do you need? Waterfall I guess since I got the ability to use it from beating Gym 8? Sucks because I just found out Barbaracle can't learn it, meaning I'll need a temporary member for getting through the road and he'll miss out on EXP Points. :(
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Just Surf and Strength, and since boulders stay in the holes when you push them in you could easily Strength the one required boulder, leave, and come back. Though Strength also is key to opening up a few shortcuts from the entrance to the exit.

Also there is an optional Waterfall at the very end and it gives you Earthquake, so that's obviously highly recommended.
 
C.Olimar788 said:
Just Surf and Strength, and since boulders stay in the holes when you push them in you could easily Strength the one required boulder, leave, and come back. Though Strength also is key to opening up a few shortcuts from the entrance to the exit.

Also there is an optional Waterfall at the very end and it gives you Earthquake, so that's obviously highly recommended.
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Hmm...guess I'll grab my Blastoise, I think he learns all 3.
 
Boney said:
Does this have hard mode like B&W2?

Guess it doesnt
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Nope only challenge is self-imposed.

I've kind of made my life difficult by constantly changing my team and not using exp share most of the time(but i keep copping out by always having my starter, doublade, or both in reserve... the other 4-5 dudes do hard work but when I mess up, one of the big guns cleans up the mess.

I'm at 4 badges and wondering if I should keep this up or settle into an actual team... its getting rough.
 
FSLink said:
My two brand new shinies. :D Got within 20 minutes of each other. Thanks Friend Safari~
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What are shinies? If I dislike anything about the game so far is that it doesn't explain very much :) I miss the days of good old manuals.
 
fredrancour said:
Nope only challenge is self-imposed.

I've kind of made my life difficult by constantly changing my team and not using exp share most of the time(but i keep copping out by always having my starter, doublade, or both in reserve... the other 4-5 dudes do hard work but when I mess up, one of the big guns cleans up the mess.

I'm at 4 badges and wondering if I should keep this up or settle into an actual team... its getting rough.
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I jumped around a bit too. It isn't too hard to get someone to catch up with exp share later in te game. Although I only just got to the League so haven't beat them yet.
 
fredrancour said:
Nope only challenge is self-imposed.

I've kind of made my life difficult by constantly changing my team and not using exp share most of the time(but i keep copping out by always having my starter, doublade, or both in reserve... the other 4-5 dudes do hard work but when I mess up, one of the big guns cleans up the mess.

I'm at 4 badges and wondering if I should keep this up or settle into an actual team... its getting rough.
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One way I make the game harder is limiting myself to using the same amount of Pokemon as each Gym Leader (2 for the first two, 3 for everyone else) and sticking to only using the same Pokemon I choose at the beginning of each Gym.

In this game though, it was pretty much USE DOUBLADE/AEGISLASH for everything though.
 
I already have played Pokemon X for 110 hours, just checked in my logbook.
Thanks to feeding and playing with the Pokemons in Pokemon Amie, probably. I have ~40 Pokemon who are best buddies with me now. :D
 
So i saw on serebii that mega charizard has two different versions, x and y. So what about blastoise and venusaur? Do they have game version specific megas? Mega charizard X looks pretty beast but i always gotta go with my boy bulbasaur.
 
rocketskates said:
So i saw on serebii that mega charizard has two different versions, x and y. So what about blastoise and venusaur? Do they have game version specific megas? Mega charizard X looks pretty beast but i always gotta go with my boy bulbasaur.
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Unfortunately, Blastoise and Venusaur only get one Mega Evolution each. Because Game Freak practices favoritism, I guess. :K
Bufbaf said:
What are shinies? If I dislike anything about the game so far is that it doesn't explain very much :) I miss the days of good old manuals.
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They are alternately-colored Pokemon, and can be recognized by a special sparkly effect that they have when entering battle. For example, a shiny Charizard is black instead of orange, or a shiny Wingull has green stripes rather than blue.

They are ridiculously rare, though there are some ways to increase their likelihood of showing up. Most popular is the Masuda Method - if you breed two Pokemon from different regions (say, one Pokemon from the US and one from Japan) the likelihood of the hatched Pokemon being shiny increases by four times. Though they're STILL incredibly rare even with this method, so...
 
I haven't been around for past gens, so I'd like to ask people who've been into competitive battling/breeding in past gens, what do you think of the modifications made to breeding and the general process of making "perfect Pokemon" in X/Y?

It kind of bugs me how easy it seems to be to produce a perfect-natured, perfect-IV, shiny *insert anything here*. Of course since I've never been so knowledgeable about that stuff before I might have missed how common the practice was on old gens. What do breeding veterans think?
 
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You guys weren't kidding about the elite four. That champion was a joke as I had no need to use healing items while battling that person.
I wasted a lot of hours exploring and I forgot that I had rock smash all the way so had to go back on several occasions. I like Y and X a lot more than Black. The world feels less barren and more diverse however the world is not as interesting as some past installment. Look forward to start IV training now. I have already EV trained 2 pokemons before completing the game just to see how Super Training works.
 
Is there any other differences between the 2 games other than a few pokemon? I cant find a list of differences anywhere, or if I do, it just lists pokemon.
 
So, where am I supposed to go after defeating Olympia?
I missed the location that the rival told me to go after getting the call from Lysandre.
 
Threw about 80 pokemon from Friend Safari into an IV calculator and none of them were anywhere close to having perfect IVs. IV breeding in this game would be a lot easier with destiny knot... if you could actually get just ONE pokemon with good IVs. Sigh.

If anyone has any 5/6 perfect IV'd pokemon you want to trade me, let me know lol
 
RaySpencer said:
Is there any other differences between the 2 games other than a few pokemon? I cant find a list of differences anywhere, or if I do, it just lists pokemon.
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Pretty much it, and some mega evolution items. The different versions exist to encourage trading.
To make more money for Nintendo
 
RaySpencer said:
Is there any other differences between the 2 games other than a few pokemon? I cant find a list of differences anywhere, or if I do, it just lists pokemon.
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I've been told
there are tiny tweaks to the story of team flares evil plans bt versions but its just cutscenes /dialogue and not enemes or areas
but Ihavent got that far myself yet.
 
fredrancour said:
I've been told
there are tiny tweaks to the story of team flares evil plans bt versions but its just cutscenes /dialogue and not enemes or areas
but Ihavent got that far myself yet.
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They are super tiny tweaks and barely worth mentioning. The story is virtually identical in both.
 
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