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Pokémon XY |OT3| How's That? Owned, Suckah!
- Thread starter ColtraineGF
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I've got a lot of Dittos with Quick Powders and Lapras with Mystic Waters.
Yeah, I got quick powders. I've fought so many Golurk and they all have nothing
They do yeah. Lead with a pokemon with Compound Eyes to increase chances of encountering one with an item.
Lead with a fainted Compound Eyes Pokemon.
Well, the fainted part is optional, but I don't think any Pokemon with that ability can learn Thief, but I am most likely wrong about that.
There are some.
I caught a CompoundEyes Galvantula in the Safari, taught it Thief, then went Metal Coat hunting on Metangs in another Safari.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Whoa, a random Japanese Wonder Trader just gave me a Tundra Vivillon!
All I need is Monsoon now.
All I need is Monsoon now.
SenorArdilla
Member
This. Also put a Pokemon with Frisk in the second slot. That way you can just run if the wild Pokemon isn't holding anything.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Shouldn't use non drought boosted solar beam man.
Just asking to be destiny bonded.
Destiny bond works with the lastest damaging move.
Just asking to be destiny bonded.
Destiny bond works with the lastest damaging move.
Oh, dang. Then I was gg'd as soon as I had Charizard against your Banette since you cold just spam it.Shouldn't use non drought boosted solar beam man.
Just asking to be destiny bonded.
Destiny bond works with the lastest damaging move.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Preeeetty much. You could have tried stalling it.
Man, I have absolutely no good answer to jumpluff.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Man, I should have stone edged too. Didn't account for the 4x resistence.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wait what.
How did breloom outspeed charizard?
edit: oh man.
All praise the RNG gods, for they have favoured me today.
GGs man, those were some seriously close games. The last one was kinda bullshit though.
How did breloom outspeed charizard?
edit: oh man.
All praise the RNG gods, for they have favoured me today.
GGs man, those were some seriously close games. The last one was kinda bullshit though.
Pffft what the hell :lol
Really I thought so hard about Volt Switching because I knew you'd switch, and it would have been perfect, but alas. I also made the mistake of using U-turn with Jumpluff instead of just switching out when I was in Trick Room. I do remember doing two skillful Roosts with Crobat though, and one time I had a great countdown plan on Trick Room that I pulled off, that made me feel happy.
Considering how I lucked out on the Banette Overheat, it's not really bullshit that I stayed asleep on Breloom. I lost cleanly there.
Fighting you is so exhausting Whippy, just counting Trick Room and planning around that was taxing enough. My team really isn't built around stalling Trick Room turns, save for Jumpluff (and he's gimped pretty hard by Trick Room).
edit: oh also, the mistake of using powder with Jumpluff when it was obvious you'd switch to Breloom. I should have U-turned to Charizard there. That actually might have turned things around now that I think about it...
Really I thought so hard about Volt Switching because I knew you'd switch, and it would have been perfect, but alas. I also made the mistake of using U-turn with Jumpluff instead of just switching out when I was in Trick Room. I do remember doing two skillful Roosts with Crobat though, and one time I had a great countdown plan on Trick Room that I pulled off, that made me feel happy.
Considering how I lucked out on the Banette Overheat, it's not really bullshit that I stayed asleep on Breloom. I lost cleanly there.
Fighting you is so exhausting Whippy, just counting Trick Room and planning around that was taxing enough. My team really isn't built around stalling Trick Room turns, save for Jumpluff (and he's gimped pretty hard by Trick Room).
edit: oh also, the mistake of using powder with Jumpluff when it was obvious you'd switch to Breloom. I should have U-turned to Charizard there. That actually might have turned things around now that I think about it...
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Nah seriously though, you need to use more moves other than roost and overheat on charizard. If you had flamethrower or air slash you would have won the match. I'd consider changing overheat to something more reliable (seriously, with drought charizard doesn't need it) and also have air slash.
Your team is pretty tricky to maneuver around too. I was surprised that petitil managed to OHKO slowbro with no boosts. Plus I can't do anything to jumpluff other than prediction. It was fun games man.
Your team is pretty tricky to maneuver around too. I was surprised that petitil managed to OHKO slowbro with no boosts. Plus I can't do anything to jumpluff other than prediction. It was fun games man.
I was confused as hell when I frisked Tyranitar and Heracross and found mega stones on both.
Still GGs either way, even though parashuffle is annoying as hell.
KittenMaster
Member
So right now my team idea for Doubles is looking like (Mega) Venusaur, 9tales, Dragonait, Florges.
The other two I'm not sure about. Probably Meowstic for Fake out and prankster support, and something like Metagross to tie it all together (again not sure).
The other two I'm not sure about. Probably Meowstic for Fake out and prankster support, and something like Metagross to tie it all together (again not sure).
Yeah, never actually used a parashuffler before, but I noticed most of my pokemon were pretty slow and always getting demolished before I could attack.
It does get completely stopped by a Fairy, though.
Though, even without that with full HP/SpDef and Marvel Scale with Eviolite, Dragonair can really take attacks.
EDIT: My Tyranitar just got destroyed by an Arcanine. It didn't have Close Combat either; Will-O-Wisp, Morning Sun, and a Rocky Helmet.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
I think by the end of this generation, I'll have a full EV/IV of every Pokemon line.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Are those related to supers in battle mansion or are they unreleased like enigma berry? If you're thinking about mixing drinks then wasn't there a 1 a day limit on that?
I don't know if I can part with my Brave level 97 French Gardevoir just yet (its a nice backup to similarly levelled Lapras) but Xerneas is basically all that is keeping me from oval charm so I'll keep that in mind.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Argh, finding dittos with >3 IVs is nearly impossible.
the Gardevoir i traded was extra anyway, i have alot of ralts from breeding and decide to put him in day care and went to Lumiose City and made my 3DS up all the night
the next morning it i found him at 70, evolved him twice and return it to the day care , after 3-4 hours , he-she was in 86
Starwolf_UK
Member
Well it is 32 times harder than 3IVs which is turn is 32 times hard than 2 IVs...speaking of Ditto, I've got all natures but Calm and Mild, all 15 combination of 2IV (there are 20 combination of 3IV) and a spare box of Ditto to Wonder Troll away* (this is storing inefficiently but easy to find what I want too so I have one box of natures plus non-trick room synchronize for non -Def and -SpD natures**, another box houses the 2 IV combination, the trick room natures and 3IV Ditto I have). Forgot to mention, with all that I did not find a single 4IV Ditto...then again assuming a sample size of 70 my chances were about 6%.Argh, finding dittos with >3 IVs is nearly impossible.
Ideally I'd want to have the 3 IV combination as the natures but that would be statistically difficult. I might be able to get the 2IV combination though which would free up 0.5 boxes.
*-Unsure if I or the recipient are the one getting trolled...
**-I don't think I'll ever use those natures, I have their Ditto as a just in case.
I was thinking that Focus Blast is more useful than Air Slash because Crobat is amazing (it resists fighting x4 and can take a rock move), but it would definitely be nice to have a reliable move. I really like the pure destruction Overheat deals though, with Drought it's basically a STAB 130 move coming off of 200 base Sp.Atk. Even if it's resisted, it'll do around the same amount as a Starmie's SE boltbeam, or a non-resisted Hydro Pump, which is crazy (if my calculations are right). But that's completely useless in the face of Trick Room :lol
I really have a ton of things on my team which, against a Trick Room team, are basically just taking up space. I can easily think of 5 moves and 3 abilities that are completely useless.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I actually have a decent stable of 3IV dittos with useful natures. Still, that 4IV one eludes me. Plus catching dittos are so expensive. Stupid low capture rates.
Air slash has a chance to flinch, and focus blast isn't called focus miss for nothing.
Also, you can make use of your flying STAB on charizard.The whole point of trick room is basically to disrupt what people normally expect. Don't worry about trying to cater to it too much though, my experience online tells me that I'm pretty much the only one using it extensively.
Starwolf_UK
Member
I love how they created a new move for the events; Celebration (effect in battle is same as splash, animation sounds funny).
I just hope Delibrid gets it as an egg move
Oh OK lol. Did not know that at all, and the reason being...BUTTERFREE
omg you know nothing
This. I always used Frisk + Compound Eyes.
Mixing has a limit? I thought you can only just buy one drink a day, but are free to mix as much as you like?
EDIT: You're right.
ColtraineGF
Member
I was breeding many Beldum yesterday - thank goodness for Hatching O-Power and Lumiose City
Right now, I'm laughing at the convoluted pass chain in order to get Rapid Spin and Haze onto Tentacool. But it must be done
(Also, I have your Krabby Smedwicks
)I was breeding many Beldum yesterday - thank goodness for Hatching O-Power and Lumiose City
Even those barely help. I mean Hatching LV.3 runs out before I even hatch one egg! And they keep inheriting the attack stat, so I have a lot of 4 IV Deinos but no 5 IV one, except one that has perfect attack IV, instead of health like I wanted. What stings the most is that it was random, as none of the parents have perfect attack.
MrCookiepants
Member
I hope everyone who uses Blaziken knows they're going straight to hell!
If you can breed something that is rare-ish you can get almost any pokemon you want really. I've been averaging 3 to 4 Xerneas per day for the last week getting rid of prankster/recover sableye rejects from when I bred my own.
Actually just turned on my 3DS to check the GTS because of this post, and, the Sableye I put up last night before going to sleep just got me an Articuno.
KittenMaster
Member
Finally decided to work around being unable to get the set of perfect IVs I want that still has drought, and got this:
Vulpix - #037 (Timid)
Male (♂ Drought
HP: 31
Att: 31
Def: 28
SpA: 31
SpD: 31
Speed: 31
I'm gonna wonder trade anything with Flash Fire.
Vulpix - #037 (Timid)
Male (♂
DroughtHP: 31
Att: 31
Def: 28
SpA: 31
SpD: 31
Speed: 31
I'm gonna wonder trade anything with Flash Fire.
Starwolf_UK
Member
It seems everything I can do like that (all pseudo legendary, I guess multiscale Dragonite is the best I can do) already has pages and pages of offers along those lines.
Well you could always find a niche and work towards it. I'm actually down to my last prankster/recover Sableye, but, it's so easy to reproduce and IVs don't really matter for the GTS that I'll probably just breed another 20 or so sometime later today. There are a lot of other lesser popular but still desired guys like him you could probably use for easy trades.
Ultimadrago
Member
The Scyther + Metal Coat trading still works last I checked. Or you can ask to see another Gaffer's Xerneas for a second.
Well, it does require a turn to charge up.
anotherVegan
Member
Takes two turns to do it, though