You mean I don't have to spend 100s of hours riding my bike up and down waiting for eggs to crack?
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Pokémon Community Thread 2: "This is the Real Power of Johto..."
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Cute Dragon Here
Member
Oh my...
I think this Victini is more evil.
I think this Victini is more evil.
Chet Rippo
Member
All Victinis are evil, only some are more evil than others.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
But-but-but they're adoraaableee~
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Have people actually named Drifblim Hindenburg?
ThatObviousUser
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Exterminieren
Banned
But it's a Fennekin. Chandelure > Fennekin.
Only with explosion or destiny bond.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
A true Hindenburgh Drifblim would have the ability Aftermath, and the moveset Explosion, Destiny Bond, Fly and Giga Impact.
Yesss
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Long time no see.
I remember when I had my last vivid nightmareyes, it involved the Tails Doll. I think it got mixed in with recent memories of watching the Angry Nintendo Nerd (AVGN, I know) Castlevania II video; I soon thought one of the jiggers in that game was stalking me. Then it morphed into that fucking Doll and shit happened.
These days, though, I'm a totally different kind of guy.
Portugeezer
Member
Is Black/White 2 meant to feel this much like a re-hash? I swear I am in the same city as in Black/White 1!
Well, yeah.
Well, you are for the most part. About half the game is new, but few of the old areas got a big overhaul.
Apparently the hack checker they use online is very poor when it comes to hacking. Some people have said you can just keep trying your same hacked Pokemon and eventually get through. If you finish really high in the tournament standings though, you're likely to be disqualified when they go through all the teams. This is apparently what has happened in previous ones online.
MotionBlue
Member
For EV training, if i stick an exp share on my level 1 and just grind litwicks with a high level. The exp share will let my level 1 get EVs without having to switch out to it right?
You'll get EV's faster if you give him a Power item or even a Macho Brace and just switch out.
Portugeezer
Member
MotionBlue
Member
chet ubetcha
I'll do that. I used 10 Calcium on my level 1 Ralts, then levels up, but his Special attack didn't go up 25 points, is there a system in place to prevent abuse at low level?
You don't get all the points at once. It balances it out over time. 100 EVs will eventually turn into 25 stat points by the time you reach level 100.
Skyfireblaze
Member
In my experience pokes don't need to have perfect values to be viable online, as long as some thought has been put into the team building and moveset (the actual fun stuff). Natures and EVs do make a big difference though. It's actually kinda fun to try something different to the standard sets, or use pokes that aren't used much.
I remember reading an article where someone used an eviolite Scyther and got kinda creative with the EVs, and it was a pretty unique team. I think it was on Nugget Bridge.
Okay alright reading this I have to say you kind of do give me hope that I actually might have fun playing online. I avoided it so far because I had the idea I would get crushed at all times but I might have to try to see what I can do as I do care about team-building and my move-sets so who knows I could have a chance! Thank you for the encouragement, the nature part sounds quite doable even for me
This is pretty much how I feel aswell and it's nice to see that I'm not alone with that mindset
I do want to try RNG'ing out once however whenever I get a used DS Lite just so I can say I tried it and know how it works.Little Green Yoda
Member
Basically, the game tracks the number of EVs your Pokemon has. It throws that number into a formula to generate the stats you see on the screen. The stats formula is scaled by level so it's normal that you're not seeing much difference at low levels.
Aggrotek
Member
Mind if I snag Cubone?
UltimateIke
Member
I don't! I'd be excited for someone else to use one!
EDIT:
The artist also added Haxorus today!
Aggrotek
Member
Woo! Coolbone checking in.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
I love Fez Croagunk, but capes are too important to me.
Very possible. Just with RNGing it's not really worth the risk or community backlash. If RNGing was on I would expect it to be very common.
There are usually about 2 - 4 good natures for most Pokemon. Having a chance with any Pokemon would just make it a dice rollHmm I always had one problem with natures and all the in-depth Pokémon modifications :/ Well I don't really see how they could fix it so my comment is rather void though one thing that always bothered me about natures and whatnot is that there seem to be one ideal configuration for each Pokémon which essentially makes any other of the same Pokémon worthless for competitive plays. Like last week I saw two friends of mine breeding dozens of Scyther's till they they had one with all the right values and released all the others, what I personally would like is that you would have a chance with every Pokémon if you play smart (not cheap!) instead of letting the one win who invests the most time in breeding the perfect Pokémon. Though I guess the whole thing just doesn't work differently aslong as it's still based on a rock-paper-scissors system sadly
Also is there a counter somewhere where I can see when I can access the Dream World again? Yesterday morning my 3DS's date glitched itself back to 01.01.2011 somehow and now I can't access the Dream World obviously o.o
IVs are really the stupid part about Pokemon. They're supposed to help make every Pokemon unique but all it does is make most Pokemon worthless.Professor Renegade
Banned
That Skarmory with the scarf is darn cute. I guess you could call it a "Skarf-mory"!
I am so sorry.
UltimateIke
Member
I'm having this issue a lot in W2
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That's me any time I try to use the 3DS Circle Pad while playing.
THAT FEELING WHEN YOU FIND [URL="http://mivvu.tumblr.com/tagged/my-stuff"]A GREAT ARTIST[/URL]:
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah use vitamins first before EV training.
too incredible
ColtraineGF
Member
Currently going back into Dream Radar to see if I can actually play far enough so that it becomes useful to me. I sort of left it behind after getting my Riolu for my White 2 playthrough <_<;
Really don't like waiting 2 hours between plays...
Really don't like waiting 2 hours between plays...
Signups for the 2013 International Challenge January are up.
http://pglhelp.pokemon.com/en/gbu/2013_International_Jan/index.html
http://pglhelp.pokemon.com/en/gbu/2013_International_Jan/index.html
I'm having this issue a lot in W2
I almost never bother with the bike because it's a pain in the butt to have to activate it every time and then deactivate it once you're done.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
EDIT:
The artist also added Haxorus today!
*snatches it*
Haxorus Edition, anyone? :3
UltimateIke
Member
ColtraineGF
Member
http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0007/gfreak/
So much better
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0007/gfreak/
So much better
*cries*
http://www.glitterberri.com/pokemon-red-blue/
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0007/gfreak/
So much better*cries*
lol what the fuck
ColtraineGF
Member
Although I do name each and every member of my team (though GF isn't exactly lacking in cart space nowadays...)
Although, I wonder how much space nicknaming takes?
In RB:
Name: 10 bytes
10 * 6 (for team)
+ 20 * 12 * 10 (20 PC boxes, 12 per box, 10 per name)
= 2460 bytes (about 2.4 kb)
That's not counting any extra bookkeeping required to manage those names, which would be in the ROM itself, rather than saved on the cart - I'm not sure how much space it would take overall on the save, since the RAM size was 16kB.
Maybe they saw that if they had nicknaming, that extra 7.2 kB (if they had 3 save files) would push them over budget on save space (45% of the total space devoted solely to nicknames would've been a lot, admittedly), so rather than cut down on the maximum amount of Pokemon you could catch, they decided to use one save file instead.
(though GF isn't exactly lacking in cart space nowadays...)Although, I wonder how much space nicknaming takes?
In RB:
Name: 10 bytes
10 * 6 (for team)
+ 20 * 12 * 10 (20 PC boxes, 12 per box, 10 per name)
= 2460 bytes (about 2.4 kb)
That's not counting any extra bookkeeping required to manage those names, which would be in the ROM itself, rather than saved on the cart - I'm not sure how much space it would take overall on the save, since the RAM size was 16kB.
Maybe they saw that if they had nicknaming, that extra 7.2 kB (if they had 3 save files) would push them over budget on save space (45% of the total space devoted solely to nicknames would've been a lot, admittedly), so rather than cut down on the maximum amount of Pokemon you could catch, they decided to use one save file instead.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
In Generation V games, the characters in the nicknames are stored as UTF-16 code pages. 2 bytes per character - around 20 bytes + terminator if I'm not wrong. (If you somehow exported a save file from a Gen V game to a computer, try opening the save file in a text editor and have it read in Unicode (little endian). You'll be surprised at what you can see.)
Generation III and IV might have used their own (global) code pages except for Korean games (this had to wait until Gen V and true Unicode), and Gen I and II are definitely using their own code page, different for Japanese, International, and Korean. No trading between different code pages.
Mind you, this is not variable-length encoding like UTF-8, so don't expect magic on Pokémon nicknames, since it's already running up to the limit. Trainer names, on the other hand...
Generation III and IV might have used their own (global) code pages except for Korean games (this had to wait until Gen V and true Unicode), and Gen I and II are definitely using their own code page, different for Japanese, International, and Korean. No trading between different code pages.
Mind you, this is not variable-length encoding like UTF-8, so don't expect magic on Pokémon nicknames, since it's already running up to the limit. Trainer names, on the other hand...
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I wonder if we'll get an Iwata Asks for Pokemon XY
I agree.
Honestly it's my adventure and you better not touch it!
Also renaming Pokemon is the best thing ever.
I agree.
Honestly it's my adventure and you better not touch it!
Also renaming Pokemon is the best thing ever.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
...? They are the same gen. Just trade as usual.
But trading them over is annoying, oh well.
amishpriest99
Member
Greetings, PokeGAF . I'm a complete newbie to Pokemon...a few hours of Pokemon Conquest (so far) aside. The Pokemon Direct and X/Y announcement have finally got me interested, and so I ordered a copy of White 1. Hopefully soon I'll be able to intelligently discuss it with you all .
. I'm a complete newbie to Pokemon...a few hours of Pokemon Conquest (so far) aside. The Pokemon Direct and X/Y announcement have finally got me interested, and so I ordered a copy of White 1. Hopefully soon I'll be able to intelligently discuss it with you all .