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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire |OT| Hoenn Finally Confirmed
- Thread starter ColtraineGF
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There's no reason to assume that. The last patch was just to force people to update to inject and this one just updated various bits of text, altered the name filters and fixed a few glitches that occurred and caused them to have to remove blocking nicknames on Battle Spot since that was causing disconnections.
It's a bit different. With Stone Edge you have other options. You can use a higher accuracy rock move or just a different damage dealing move all together. When you want to inflict burn, WoW is pretty much your only option. All in all, I don't think WoW is disruptive enough that it needs to have low accuracy to balance out what it does when it hits. I feel the same about most low accuracy moves to be honest.
The thing about burns is that unlike Sleep and Paralyze, it also slowly drains your HP so it has more than one good use. 85% is fine considering it does a lot more damage in the long run than other conditions in the game.
I disagree. Paralysis has the dual purpose of slowing down fast Pokemon and causing them to lose turns. A paralyzed Pokemon will have a chance of doing nothing every turn for the rest of the battle. That's a pretty strong effect and Thunderwave still got to be 100% accurate. A burned Pokemon can still recover HP or buff it's attack to make up for the drops but a paralyzed Pokemon can't compensate for losing turns.
Junahu
Member
Are we talking about vgc 2v2 by-the-way?
Burn is very much the most common status effect being flung around there (when there are physical pokes about). Accurate sleep has terrible distribution and an unreliable duration (it can last just 1 turn). Thunderwave has two immunities to deal with and tough competition from the other forms of speed control.
Honestly, if it was up to me I would make the accuracy of all status moves to 85%. It should be a risk and reward system considering how game changing some of those moves and conditions are.
Either raise WoW to 100% or lower anything else. It's just stupid that's the only move like that.
WoW may be the most widespread status move in VGC but don't overlook how common Thundurus and Amoonguss are. Paralysis also has the benefit of comboing well with Swagger and Rock Slide for more chances of missing turns. Heatran is also super common and acts as a WoW deterrent.
I think you have to consider the reasons why WoW is so common. Is it because its more powerful than other status effects or is it because Kang and Lando are everywhere?
Andrefpvs
Member
Do you have an idea about what text was updated?
True, though I would like to believe, that and they are doing it for X/Y as well. They are probably updating the Text in all the games too.
Mostly just grammatical errors and minimal. The bulk of the patch was actually bugfixes.
Randomly Nameless
Member
Haha, I had the same problem. You need to first register from within the game on the PSS Battle Spot. Then you can back out and obtain your ID.
What on earth? Why doesn't it tell you that? Such sterling and intuitive design, GameFreak. Good lord.
Thanks for the help though, man.
You can catch them in route 230 via Pokeradar in DPPt. So bring over a Loveball from HGSS and grind awhile in Sinnoh. Also I still have the runner up Prizes I did for you sitting in the PC. :X
Edit: wait it's been a long time, I don't remember if you can even trade the special balls to Sinnoh. I have Dream Ball Togepis via Dream Radar though.
Okay, what is going on? I went to Battle Spot within PSS, registered on pokemon-gl.com, played an actual match via Battle Spot just to be sure I was registered properly, and went back to the Live Competition option from the main menu - it's still stuck on the "Receiving the Digital Player ID" screen.
I tell ya what this is not how I planned on spending my Friday night
EDIT: Oh... apparently it's because there isn't a competition going on right now. I thought there was one for April, but maybe I misread something somewhere
Actually, there is one going on right now. Maybe the servers are just sucking at the moment.
Would the servers really be under THAT much strain on a random Friday night six months post-launch? I don't know what else it could be though.
More pressing - is your avatar... Chuck Schuldiner with a puppy?
I have no idea then. Maybe the game just doesn't like you.
Haha yes. Nothing funnier than the so called "father of death metal" being cute.
Randomly Nameless
Member
There is indeed a competition going on now, but you might have missed the registration date? This is my first online competition so I'm not entirely sure but that might be it.
Oh! That explains it, then.
Do you get anything for winning these "Battlespot" tournaments?
You get Championship Points which are used to gain entrance into the World Championships. Sometimes there are participation prizes like rare berries or Pokemon with hidden abilities. I don't know if there is one for this particular tournament though.
Can you soft reset for these hidden ability 'mons to get the right nature?
Hidden abilities are such a joke. And not a funny one, either. There needs to be a more accessible way to obtain them.
You can just breed them. Both males and females can pass on Hidden Abilities this gen.
Thanks. Sounds like it's worth the yearly subscription. I'm just scared of Nintendo shutting it down and then losing all of the Pokemon.
The idea of Pokémon Bank is to last across future generations. It's not going anywhere.
If they were to shut it down, we'd have ample warning.
Speaking of Pokebank, because I didn't use it to back up my most important stuff. I have lost everything on my Y eshop game when I accidentally wiped it as I was supposed to wipe my Y cart (which was in my New 3DS instead).
So I have basically lost basically 80% of my Gen 6 event booty, I still have WCs on other games and my primary game being eshop AS/eshop X.
But this has taken a huge chunk out of my pokemongaming.
I knew I should have gone out to watch Furious 7 instead.
As for my RNG sweepstakes I'm going to have to delay it. This moment is basically making me rethink everything and all my time invested in the events.
And it's not just my events but half of my breeding projects were on that game too.
I'm at a lost right now.
If I was younger I would be in tears right now, but at my age now I just have silence.
I don't know if it's karma or a wake up call or anything. =/
So I have basically lost basically 80% of my Gen 6 event booty, I still have WCs on other games and my primary game being eshop AS/eshop X.
But this has taken a huge chunk out of my pokemongaming.
I knew I should have gone out to watch Furious 7 instead.
As for my RNG sweepstakes I'm going to have to delay it. This moment is basically making me rethink everything and all my time invested in the events.
And it's not just my events but half of my breeding projects were on that game too.
I'm at a lost right now.
If I was younger I would be in tears right now, but at my age now I just have silence.
I don't know if it's karma or a wake up call or anything. =/
With the help of Aveyn and Muku, I basically had almost every event thus far from every region (except Jessie's Wobbafet).
Well not anymore.
For the competitive side, like I said, it's all on my other games. I can easily rebuild from the older games on up, on that case (but losing half of my projects hurts a lot tho). But my trades have taken a huge hit.
My warchest is basically gone, I have some stuff left, but I don't think I can be swimming in Arceus anymore.
I still have my collection of Diancies, I think I lost like one or two Diancies maybe, maybe one. I have other WCs on my other games. But ugh, I don't know.
I still live here in Tohoku, so if they redo Tanabata Jirachi again this year (I don't know if they will), maybe I can rebuild? But probably it's not the same anymore.
I might have to reevaluate my pokegaming. ='(
Well, unrelated but I did take up Tekken 7, so hey TekkenGAF, it looks like I'll be there more often!
Well not anymore.
For the competitive side, like I said, it's all on my other games. I can easily rebuild from the older games on up, on that case (but losing half of my projects hurts a lot tho). But my trades have taken a huge hit.
My warchest is basically gone, I have some stuff left, but I don't think I can be swimming in Arceus anymore.
I still have my collection of Diancies, I think I lost like one or two Diancies maybe, maybe one. I have other WCs on my other games. But ugh, I don't know.
I still live here in Tohoku, so if they redo Tanabata Jirachi again this year (I don't know if they will), maybe I can rebuild? But probably it's not the same anymore.
I might have to reevaluate my pokegaming. ='(
Well, unrelated but I did take up Tekken 7, so hey TekkenGAF, it looks like I'll be there more often!
MrCookiepants
Member
That sucks Lupinko. I know you put a ridiculous amount of time into these games judging by some of your posts. I would be devastated.
btw, I'm thinking of doing a new playthrough and I want a HA Cranidos SO badly. Does anyone here have one they could possibly trade me?
btw, I'm thinking of doing a new playthrough and I want a HA Cranidos SO badly. Does anyone here have one they could possibly trade me?
Sigh, I also lost almost all my gen 6 Shinies, bred or caught. All my Pokebank Celebis.
I just committed pokesuicide. :/
Again competitively I'm fine, game progression wise sure, and I still have my personal WCs (I lost a bunch on that y game tho).
But for trading I'm basically done, although I still have like 50+ shiny Coro Rayquaza and maybe like 10 Shaymin. But I'm kinda subdued to try and redeem them all (that's what got me into this incident because I wanted to speed up the process).
Ugh I lost both 5iv flawless Pokescrap Victini and Shaymin.
That was a lot of work, and now it's gone.
It's not just the time I invested it's also what my pokepals did for me to in helping me build that collection.
I'm done talking about this now. :/
I just committed pokesuicide. :/
Again competitively I'm fine, game progression wise sure, and I still have my personal WCs (I lost a bunch on that y game tho).
But for trading I'm basically done, although I still have like 50+ shiny Coro Rayquaza and maybe like 10 Shaymin. But I'm kinda subdued to try and redeem them all (that's what got me into this incident because I wanted to speed up the process).
Ugh I lost both 5iv flawless Pokescrap Victini and Shaymin.
That was a lot of work, and now it's gone.
It's not just the time I invested it's also what my pokepals did for me to in helping me build that collection.
I'm done talking about this now. :/
entremet
Member
How did this happen? I don't get it.
I thought the modern games do save backups to prevent corruption.
entremet
Member
I thought the 3DS did do this? The Wii U doesn't.
Actually not sure if it works with cart based 3DS games.
It does but I'm not sure what the limitations on those backups are though. If my 3DS dies will the backups work on a new system? It also doesn't allow backups of Pokemon or Animal Crossing which is a shame because those are the only games worth backing up in my opinion.
God damn that must suck.
But on the bright side you get the joys of starting your collection all over again. It'll be like another adventure; like searching for the Dragon Balls year after year.
entremet
Member
I haven't messed with it much honestly.
Weird about Pokemon/AC. You're right. Those are the games that needed it.
Muku
Member
Agree, but I imagine they're afraid folks will use it as some kind of cloning method, yeah? How would they be able to do a backup without folks abusing it?
entremet
Member
It's crazy how GF is just so obsessed with collecting meta that they're so many restrictions--single save files and such still.
Muku
Member
I agree. The single file stuff sucks so much. I don't get what would be so wrong about additional save files. Sometimes I want to replay through but not lose my main game. But that's where they get you to buy more copies of the game. I see it as they don't want to give up a cash cow. :/
Thats terrible to hear :/
If you want to backup, it will replace the save with the backup if the two keys are equal (and thus, making it impossible to use older backups to clone things)
This (very simple) process has some flaws but it works. Its actually the same process I used in a college project this year
Its not hard to implement, its just that GF doesn't care.. Because even an average second year CS student like myself can find a solution. I'm sure they could find a (much better) solution if they wanted to
Every abusable action (those that require forced saves) also updates the backup and changes the encription key (stored in the backup, and also stored in the game card/file)
If you want to backup, it will replace the save with the backup if the two keys are equal (and thus, making it impossible to use older backups to clone things)
This (very simple) process has some flaws but it works. Its actually the same process I used in a college project this year
Its not hard to implement, its just that GF doesn't care.. Because even an average second year CS student like myself can find a solution. I'm sure they could find a (much better) solution if they wanted to
Muku
Member
But I think you forget about PokeBank. They throw everything into the Bank, then refresh their save with the backup. I think that's where the GF paranoia would begin about "cloning".
Unless I'm missing something important that would counter that.
Acessing the bank falls on the "abusable actions" criteria
Just like it modifies the game save file, it should also update the backup