Correct. Mewtwo, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, and all Mythical Pokémon are banned.
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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire |OT| Hoenn Finally Confirmed
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Correct. Mewtwo, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, and all Mythical Pokémon are banned.
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Guys, I have a question: what can I use a Mew for, talking semi-competitively? I've read Smogon's opinion but I would like to hear from you guys too, if possible.
Found out about Camerupt just now. But for the rest, yeah. Seems fun. And since I'll be playing without exp. share it will be nice to compensate when I need to with the mega stones. Not sure how much I wanna keep grinding every time
Alright, guess I'll just do Delta without worrying about natures.
You get Manectite really early and Mega Manectric is godly!Found out about Camerupt just now. But for the rest, yeah. Seems fun. And since I'll be playing without exp. share it will be nice to compensate when I need to with the mega stones. Not sure how much I wanna keep grinding every time
Enjoy that Sharpedo Surf speed too!Nintendo Playstation
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I'm going a little crazy with this team, 5 Megas, don't care! (All Pokemon I've never used before)
Tropius - Adamant (nest)
Leaf Blade
Fly
Steel Wing
Earthquake
Mega Sharpedo - Adamant (net)
Surf
Crunch
Poison Jab
Ice Fang
Mega Camerupt - Modest (repeat)
Lava Plume
Earth Power
Ancient Power
Flash Cannon
Mega Ampharos - Modest (quick)
Thunderbolt
Power Gem
Signal Beam
Dragon Pulse
Mega Lopunny - Adamant (love)
Dizzy Punch / Power-Up Punch
Fire Punch
Ice Punch
Thunder Punch
Mega Gardevoir - Modest (dream)
Psyshock
Moonblast
Thunderbolt
Energy Ball
Just gotta catch a breedable Tropius and I'm off to Hoenn!
Tropius - Adamant (nest)
Leaf Blade
Fly
Steel Wing
Earthquake
Mega Sharpedo - Adamant (net)
Surf
Crunch
Poison Jab
Ice Fang
Mega Camerupt - Modest (repeat)
Lava Plume
Earth Power
Ancient Power
Flash Cannon
Mega Ampharos - Modest (quick)
Thunderbolt
Power Gem
Signal Beam
Dragon Pulse
Mega Lopunny - Adamant (love)
Dizzy Punch / Power-Up Punch
Fire Punch
Ice Punch
Thunder Punch
Mega Gardevoir - Modest (dream)
Psyshock
Moonblast
Thunderbolt
Energy Ball
Just gotta catch a breedable Tropius and I'm off to Hoenn!
You get Manectite really early and Mega Manectric is godly!
Yeah, I read about Sharpedo, sounds awesome. Also really need to keep an eye out for the mega stones. Only found one for Alakazam so far.
Currently I'm running:
Metang - Lv. 22
Electrike - Lv. 23
Grovyle - Lv. 21
Numel - Lv. 13 (just caught him)
Tailow - Lv. 19
Poochyena - Lv. 13 (keeping him around for rock smash currently)
Tailow will lose it's spot for Swablu. And Poochyena for Carvanha. For my in-game run I'm not gonna bother with nature's and stuff. Once I've finished it's time to dive into that. At least I'll be going trough the game with a team filled with Pokémon I've never used before except for Sceptile.
Seven Force
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Do I still have to do the six tile bullshit to encounter a Feebas or is it switched up now? I've heard conflicting things.
Charlie0108
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What's a good moveset for Manetric when playing through the story?
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I wish I could challenge Maxie and Archie for a three-way dance-off.
Also, Liza & Tate could be great synchronized swimmers.
Also, Liza & Tate could be great synchronized swimmers.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
hahahaha
Nope, you just fish them up. Can do it with an Old Rod too -- and once you've fished up one you can DexNav like anything else.
CMojicaAce
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hahahaha
Oh wow flygon finally got a mega! /s
Every gen 3 dragon got a megaevo except for flygon...Gamefreak plz.
Seven Force
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Good to know, thanks!
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hahahaha
"Flygon will not get a mega because it would be too big."
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And Shiny Ho-Oh is done! This one only took 2 hours and a half!
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Congratulations! All those shinies coming are making me happy, hopefully I'll get my Reshiram fast too.
Anyone else wish legendaries would stop being the focus of pokemon games? Like, imagine going to bell tower and finding ho oh with no idea what it looked like, or getting to the point in oras where you had to go *find* the legend yourself. So far in x/y it's been "oh I bet soandso knows about the legendary!" But its not as cool: he's on the box. I know I'm getting him. The side-legends are much cooler in that theyre unexpected, like mewtwo.
I hope gamefreak puts the starters on the box for pokemon Brown/beige and let's the legends be rad surprises. Hell, make it a plot point that you have to lose to team badguy's killer piranha monster before you realize the legend is real and you have to seek out the one that supposedly counters it. I feel like the whole games have become "uh oh! Go track down this big monster!" And thats the whole story. Idk, I wish they'd let more happen.
They could even have team science-villains invent a whole new monster that you have to figure out how to beat. Or even not have a team until the post game and let the player actually focus on the gyms. I saw team flare almost immediately and its just been "so what, were bad guys" ever since
I hope gamefreak puts the starters on the box for pokemon Brown/beige and let's the legends be rad surprises. Hell, make it a plot point that you have to lose to team badguy's killer piranha monster before you realize the legend is real and you have to seek out the one that supposedly counters it. I feel like the whole games have become "uh oh! Go track down this big monster!" And thats the whole story. Idk, I wish they'd let more happen.
They could even have team science-villains invent a whole new monster that you have to figure out how to beat. Or even not have a team until the post game and let the player actually focus on the gyms. I saw team flare almost immediately and its just been "so what, were bad guys" ever since
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In theory it would be good, but in practice it would happen the same thing that happened with X/Y starters final evolution: it would leak the moment somebody (not from the press) had their hands in the game.
balladofwindfishes
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I'm more annoyed by Shiftry and Ludicolo not getting Megas than Flygon. They seem like obvious candidates... and yet here we are.
Especially with other opposites like Sableye/Mawhile and Groudon/Kyroge having megas, and I consider Shiftry and Ludi to be iconic opposites, in that, everyone knows that they're exclusives and they're pushed as such (like Pinsir and Scyther of old)
Especially with other opposites like Sableye/Mawhile and Groudon/Kyroge having megas, and I consider Shiftry and Ludi to be iconic opposites, in that, everyone knows that they're exclusives and they're pushed as such (like Pinsir and Scyther of old)
Spinosaurus
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Ludicolo doesn't need a mega. He's already perfect.
balladofwindfishes
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Gamefreak has toned legends way down since Black and Whites ridiculous amount of them.
But story wise, I wish they'd tone it down a bit. The "let's capture a big monster and rule the world muahahaha" thing is getting old 4 games in a row now. I much preferred the ganster/mafia stories RB/GS had. They seemed more grounded in reality. They were using normal Pokemon as a means to ruling the world through their own skill as trainers (and their money), not only because they happened to summon a minor deity. And Rocket didn't want to summon some all powerful Pokemon. They wanted to clone one, make it better. Build their own god, and we got to watch how it failed through subtle clues in the game.
I think even in Heart Gold/Soul Silver where they retconned it that Rocket wanted to summon Lugia/Ho-oh they still only attempted it as a last ditch effort when they're real plan failed. They didn't rely on a big Pokemon as the basis of their entire plan.
But I can't really fault this game specifically for not changing it up though, since Ruby/Sapphire were the first games in the series to be about an organization trying to rule the world via a god Pokemon, so it was a novel idea back then.
I know man. It is hilarious how meta this gets.
Nightcrown
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Still no word if Kyogre/Rayquaza are shiny locked? I know the mirage spot legendaries aren't but what about the box legendaries?
The good old days of brining my link cable to school.
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One guy apparently caught a normal looking Kyogre, but then he went to check the pokedex and it appeared the shiny entry, and he had only 1 encounter with it. The game could've forced his shiny one to appear regular in the game.
I'm right there with you, ruby and sapphire was still cool since the legendaries weren't Gods yet, just hyperpowerful living dinosaurs and you had two factions at war and then trying to get superweapon pokemon was a rad idea.
I'm not saying to retcon oras at all, I'm just holding out hope that the next iteration is more grounded, even if finding the legendary is a pet project for the leader or something.
Something like smuggling in pokemon from other regions to give the gang a leg-up in destabilizing the local governments would even be cool, since you'd be fighting pokemon from other regions that you can't have unless you go get those games. Rocket's deal with playing god is still rad as hell, much more so than catching the gods of time/space/antimatter (though getting giratina to stomp on team galactic was rad, since you essentially captured the pokemon antichrist to kick some ass for you)
So far in x/y, I don't even see WHY team flare needs xerneas like at all: the plan to steal all the pokemon is interesting enough to stand alone.
I don't even mind having to find a lot of legdaries, but they don't need to be deities imo, just make more stuff like real powerful and elusive dogs or ancient birds and less "singular pokemon that created *something* and arceus made only one for this specific purpose" I feel like R/S was the last believable game, black 2/white 2 had a good story about it's cover legends that I liked as well.
I'm not even sure what's going on with yvetal or why I need to research and find him at this point other than my buddies reminding me that there's this legend that we should SO TOTALLY GO FIND even though it isn't of any major importance of yet and idk I know he's suddenly going to become hyperimportant later and idk I wish I wasn't being constantly reminded about him.
Pokemon should take cues from Jurassic park and focus on the "you were so focused on doing something that you didn't stop to think if you should" because that makes interesting situations like team rocket and mewtwo
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Do I need Strength to get to Groudon?
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Don't think so.
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Ok, thanks.
Aaron Strife
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Just to get through like Victory Road I believe you need Strength, Surf and Waterfall. Possibly Rock Smash (which you need to clear the Verdanturf tunnel and advance past Mauville but I don't know about anything after)
You also need Dive for a significant chunk of the game.
You need Rock Smash, Strength, Surf, Dive and Waterfall to clear the game.
Hmm, I'll teach surf and waterfall to Sharpedo probably. But Strength and rocksmash...
Don't you need dive anywhere then?
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Ah, that's what I was thinking. Oh well, that's a lot of HM's. I don't feel like corrupting my Camerupt with HM's.
SuperEpicMan
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So I have just got my Contest Pikachu, how do I change its outfit?
Go to the changing room and speak to the lady who gave you the Pikachu
Me too, that's why I'm putting up a personal restriction against using first gen Pokemon. It payed off to avoid third gen in XY so I hope lightning will strike twice.
Finding a Heavy Steel Aron is hard
I feel your pain, have 9 game hours now and 7 of them has apparently been spent hunting for a quick feet bullet seed Shroomish. Seems like the hardest move to find as I have seen every other egg move multiple times and bullet seed only twice. I'm up to 150 on the search level, but I think I have seen others go higher for what they wanted so I'm not giving up. My determination is going to be the death of me...
And also, while the dexnav is great I don't really like it as I nickname the first Pokemon I catch and want to use them. Maybe I'll find more use in it after getting my Shroomish and clearing the elite 4.