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[Echoes]

I have absolutely no idea. I call it luck... lol. It's not like I'm RNGing for them, you know? They just happen to be there, where I'm dickin' around :lol

I have some that are not mine (Azelf, Crobat, Shuckle, and this new Eevee), but still, I encountered a lot in a very short time.

 

[OMG Aero]

Holy shit. Help!
I just encountered this in the safari zone...
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii103/dechaios/shinymisdreavus.jpg

Now.. I'm not a Safari Zone master, wtf do I do to get this guy without making him run?

Oh man, did you manage to catch it? Finding a shiny in the Safari Zone is pretty much my worst nightmare.

 

[JADS]

Oh man, did you manage to catch it? Finding a shiny in the Safari Zone is pretty much my worst nightmare.

Finding a shiny at the beginning of the game when you don't have any pokéballs :lol

 

[Mafro]

I've got a Horsea and considering levelling it up to a Kingdra after seeing Clair's one in the 8th gym. Are they worth it? The single weakness to dragon types is interesting, but their moveset looks a bit poor.

 

[Metroid Killer]

For once I'm not jealous at Echoes, since I have my own shiny Espeon ;-)

 

[Shiggie]

I've got a Horsea and considering levelling it up to a Kingdra after seeing Clair's one in the 8th gym. Are they worth it? The single weakness to dragon types is interesting, but their moveset looks a bit poor.

Smogon seems to like em.
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/kingdra

 

[Echoes]

Kingdra is fantastic IMO. With a Rain Dance he can wreck teams with his speed and fantastic dual-typing.

For once I'm not jealous at Echoes, since I have my own shiny Espeon ;-)

I'm not sure what to do with it. I already EV-trained all of Eevee-olutions except for Flareon and Vaporeon. Vap sounds nice, but I'm nor sure. Or maybe trade it for bazillion of Pokes? :lol

 

[Wichu]

My own (was Bill's) shiny Eevee is sitting in my box. I'm probably going to trade it to Pearl and turn it into a Leafeon, as it's Jolly. It's a shame I already have a near-identical non-shiny EVed one (the only differences are that the non-shiny one is female, and has a higher Sp. Atk IV which it's never going to make use of).

 

[MNC]

If it's the first time you've encountered a Mismagius, I'd just throw the Safari Ball. The first time you encounter one kind of Pokemon I've found it almost always doesn't "fit" with what you learn of that species later on, and you have a high chance of catching it...

If it doesn't run, or if it isn't the first time, I'd Bait -> Mud -> Safari Ball.

I've found Pokemon of the same species usually have a normal "tolerance". Pokeballs = -0.5, Bait = +1, and Mud = -1. You have to get a feel for what that species starting "level" is, and what its tolerance is to run away. Usually through trial and error, although there are a couple that don't fit in with the rest of that Pokemon you encounter...

Of course I may not know wtf I'm talking about. :lol Good luck though.

You may be missing out it's a shiny :lol

Okay, now for the most idiot question to ask in this thread: What exactly do natures do.


<RUN>

*got away safely!*

 

[Masked Man]

For once I'm not jealous at Echoes, since I have my own shiny Espeon ;-)

I dunno how I feel about Shiny Espeon... I'm so enamored of its lavender fur that I might not be able to bring myself to go the green route. =/

 

[Jintor]

You may be missing out it's a shiny :lol

Okay, now for the most idiot question to ask in this thread: What exactly do natures do.

Modify base stats or base stat growth a little, generally +10% one area and -10% another... I think.

 

[Metroid Killer]

Actually running into a shiny in the safari zone wouldn't it be best to use bait(makes the pokemon harder to catch, but less likely to run away). You want it to stay for all sakes, and it's a shiny so you it doesn't matter if you have to use a lot of balls, just that it wont run away.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

One time in one of the Safari Zones, I threw bait on the first turn. The Pokemon still ran away immediately.

Ever since, I have not bothered selecting anything besides Ball or Run. Fuck the Safari Zone.

 

[Metroid Killer]

Yeah I have 3 more pokemon to catch in the safari zone and once I get them, I'll never place my feet in the sf again.

 

[Mafro]

Smogon seems to like em.
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/kingdra

Kingdra is fantastic IMO. With a Rain Dance he can wreck teams with his speed and fantastic dual-typing.

Thanks. I'm gonna give my Horsea exp share and just grind Victory Road till it's learned all its moves, then evolve it.

 

[Mr. Sam]

One time my mother bought me a moon stone too.

"Mother, where did you get this? Where in the blue hell did you get this!?"

 

[Kurtofan]

"Mother, where did you get this? Where in the blue hell did you get this!?"

Yeah that's what I thought too :lol

 

[Mr. Sam]

Ah, that reminds me - I have a spare moonstone banging about. Now, should I get a Wigglypuff or Clefable?

 

[Oxx]

This is so much more enjoyable than Pearl.

 

[upandaway]

One time in one of the Safari Zones, I threw bait on the first turn. The Pokemon still ran away immediately.

Ever since, I have not bothered selecting anything besides Ball or Run. Fuck the Safari Zone.

Yeah same here, I just hit ball. There is absolutely no strategy there at all.

Now, if the Safari Zone were to allow using "friendly traps", or things like that that took form outside the battle, it would be infinitely better, and as a bonus very different from the main game. Sort of like Honey but more developed?

 

[Sixfortyfive]

Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres
Mewtwo
Raikou
Entei
Suicune
Lugia
Ho-Oh
Latias
Latios (need wi-fi event)
Kyogre
Groudon (need a friend's SoulSilver copy)
Rayquaza (need Groudon)
Giratina
Spiky-Ear Pichu

So, that's going to be halted for the time being.

In the meantime, trial-and-erroring my way through the E4 to respawn legendaries about twelve times brought my in-game team up to:

Typhlosion lv80
Togekiss lv80
Sudowoodo lv80
Espeon lv80
Gyarados lv80
Dragonite lv80

Dang.

 

[Echoes]

That's great 645. I can give you a Groudon 30 minutes later as I'll be going out now.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

Thanks, but I'm done for the day.

 

[Metroid Killer]

Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres
Mewtwo
Suicune
Lugia
Latios
Kyogre
Rayquaza (need Groudon)

Shit I still have all these legendaries to catch once I beat E4 round 2 and Red.

I'm just about to face Lance with a team of lvl 55-57. How hard is it gonna be?

Edit: Fuck I''m running out of healing items as well. This doesn't look too good for me, eh?

 

[Inferno313]

Shit I still have all these legendaries to catch once I beat E4 round 2 and Red.

I'm just about to face Lance with a team of lvl 55-57. How hard is it gonna be?

Edit: Fuck I''m running out of healing items as well. This doesn't look too good for me, eh?

Lance 1? Shouldn't be too tough. You can easily take down his Dragonites if you have a good ice move.

EDIT: OH, Lance 2? Uhh... Good luck. I still haven't attempted that.

 

[Wizpig]

Holy shit. Help!
I just encountered this in the safari zone...

Now.. I'm not a Safari Zone master, wtf do I do to get this guy without making him run?

So what happened?!

 

[Gravijah]

So what happened?!

He's never going to post again because it fled and now he hates Pokemon.

 

[Inferno313]

I've yet to run into a shiny in gen 4 .

The only shiny I ever caught was a purple Drowzee in gen 2. I once ran into a shiny Electrike in Ruby. This was after I used my very last Pokeball on Latios. I think I didn't play Pokemon for a month afterwards. :lol

That is, aside from the red Gyrados and the event Pichus.

 

[Metroid Killer]

Lance 1? Shouldn't be too tough. You can easily take down his Dragonites if you have a good ice move.

EDIT: OH, Lance 2? Uhh... Good luck. I still haven't attempted that.

wow :lol his first pokemon wrecked my entire team in no time... Needs to be at least lvl 60

 

[DarkKyo]

For anyone who is interested, I did end up catching the Shiny Misdreavus. Just threw a single ball and it worked!

 

[Brazil]

He's never going to post again because it fled and now he hates Pokemon.

Sad story.

 

[DarkKyo]

I'm kind of a nub when it comes to Pokemon. What's the best thing to do with this shiny? Just horde it as a collectible, or actually bring it out and EV train it later on when I know how? (I have never EV trained)

 

[Metroid Killer]

For anyone who is interested, I did end up catching the Shiny Misdreavus. Just threw a single ball and it worked!

Congratulation! I just love ghost pokemon, so you are very lucky indeed!

 

[Azure Phoenix]

Just taken on Chuck, my god what a complete cheese-fest that fight was on both sides. First attempt his Primeape managed to get three critical hit KOs in a row with Rock Slide. Restart.

Second attempt I brought out my level 23 Togepi first, technically should have been suicide, right? Somehow I managed to completely sweep Primeape without even getting hit.

Primeape: Double Team
Togepi: Extrasensory hits
Primeape: Focus Punch charges
Togepi: Extrasensory hits and flinches
Togepi: Quick claw kicks in, Extrasensory hits and flinches again
Chuck uses Hyper Potion
Togepi: Extrasensory hits
Primeape: Focus Punch charges
Togepi: Extrasensory hits and flinches yet again
Togepi: Quick claw again, Extrasensory hits and critical hit KO

For Poliwrath I went to Bellossom, kept using Mega Drain and got it to a slither of hp where he promptly used a Hyper Potion. Got him to a quarter HP again and then he starts sweeping my entire team with 100% accuracy Hypnosis, OHKO Focus Punch and 100% critical hit ratio Surf. In the end I only had Magmar left and chipped him down to 1hp, at which point he used Surf, but Magmar hung on with 3hp left to KO it next turn.

 

[DarkKyo]

Congratulation! I just love ghost pokemon, so you are very lucky indeed!

Thanks! Yeah it's a pretty cool color swap for this shiny.

 

[thefil]

This is a Platinum question...

I've got a Budew at max happiness (two hearts on friendship checker). It's supposed to evolve when levelled with happiness/daytime. It's 10 AM in my game, and no evolution. What's the deal? =\

 

[Gravijah]

This is a Platinum question...

I've got a Budew at max happiness (two hearts on friendship checker). It's supposed to evolve when levelled with happiness/daytime. It's 10 AM in my game, and no evolution. What's the deal? =\

Might be considered morning, give it a few hours.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Glad my advice actually worked out for once. :lol

So... I've been thinking of picking up Platinum... wanna take another trip to Sinnoh, but I wanna play the superior version.

I also wanna replay the original Silver to see exactly what changed. Oh, and FireRed since I missed out on it. And I might as well replay Sapphire and try to finish it this time... I don't remember anything about it...

I may as well replay this entire damn series. :lol Curse you SoulSilver.

 

[Gravijah]

Glad my advice actually worked out for once. :lol

So... I've been thinking of picking up Platinum... wanna take another trip to Sinnoh, but I wanna play the superior version.

I also wanna replay the original Silver to see exactly what changed. Oh, and FireRed since I missed out on it. And I might as well replay Sapphire and try to finish it this time... I don't remember anything about it...

I may as well replay this entire damn series. :lol Curse you SoulSilver.

Find Emowaaaaaaald. It's the best Gen 3 game!

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Find Emowaaaaaaald. It's the best Gen 3 game!

But I had Sapphire originally and never finished it.

 

[manofmandango]

Does anyone have a Kingdra or Gyrados with dragon dance? I'm looking to breed it with my Shelgon so I can have a Bagon with dragon dance?

 

[Gravijah]

But I had Sapphire originally and never finished it.

IT'S THE DEFINITIVE VERSION!

 

[Metroid Killer]

I'm the opposite of you Andrex, I'm going totally overboard with HG squeezing out as much content as I can, but I have no intetions to pick up all the games I've missed since Gen 1. Heck, I don't think I'll get Black/White.

I guess 600 hours of pokemon every century is my limit

 

[ThatObviousUser]

I guess I'mm a glutton for Poke-punishment. :lol I'll usually put like 200 hours into each Pokemon game but I can't help but play one of each main installment. I can't wait for BW so I can further satiate my desire.

But I am trying to squeeze all I can out of SS. That way completing the BW Pokedex should be a piece of cake and I can hit the competitive ground running.

IT'S THE DEFINITIVE VERSION!

OK, why is it definitive?

 

[Wiseblade]

Glad my advice actually worked out for once. :lol

So... I've been thinking of picking up Platinum... wanna take another trip to Sinnoh, but I wanna play the superior version.

I also wanna replay the original Silver to see exactly what changed. Oh, and FireRed since I missed out on it. And I might as well replay Sapphire and try to finish it this time... I don't remember anything about it...

I may as well replay this entire damn series. :lol Curse you SoulSilver.

Dude, Emerald.

OK, why is it definitive?

For starters, it has both Groudon and kyogre, the original Battle Frontier, more pokemon available...

 

[Gravijah]

I guess I'mm a glutton for Poke-punishment. :lol I'll usually put like 200 hours into each Pokemon game but I can't help but play one of each main installment. I can't wait for BW so I can further satiate my desire.

But I am trying to squeeze all I can out of SS. That way completing the BW Pokedex should be a piece of cake and I can hit the competitive ground running.



OK, why is it definitive?

First time the Battle Frontier was introduced, fastest battles in the series, combines the stories of Ruby and Sapphire and adds onto them, reintroduced the phone from GSC ( YEAAAAH! ) just to name a few things. Oh, and it has an absolutely broken RNG that is super easy to take advantage of.

 

[Echoes]

Anyone up for a battle?

 

[MNC]

For anyone who is interested, I did end up catching the Shiny Misdreavus. Just threw a single ball and it worked!

OH MY GOD YOU LUCKY SOB :lol

Grah, my girlfriend is always one step ahead of me. She's already in Kanto and I have to do E4 still, and it makes me want to stop for a while, but then I head in this topic and see all the cool mons and I just want to continue :lol It's like everything I do that's semi-special she's done already

 

[Gravijah]

OH MY GOD YOU LUCKY SOB :lol

Grah, my girlfriend is always one step ahead of me. She's already in Kanto and I have to do E4 still, and it makes me want to stop for a while, but then I head in this topic and see all the cool mons and I just want to continue :lol It's like everything I do that's semi-special she's done already

Don't worry, my girlfriend destroys me in Tetris. And gin rummy. Badly.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

First time the Battle Frontier was introduced, fastest battles in the series, combines the stories of Ruby and Sapphire and adds onto them, reintroduced the phone from GSC ( YEAAAAH! ) just to name a few things. Oh, and it has an absolutely broken RNG that is super easy to take advantage of.

Phone, you say...