Unless someone wants to convince me otherwise, I've decided on Swift Swim for Omastar. I feel like Weak Armor is too risky, especially in conjunction with Shell Smash. Omastar's defense is great but its HP is barely decent, so if I can get a Timid Omastar to survive a Shell Smash in the rain, he'll be a force.
Pokémon XY |OT3| How's That? Owned, Suckah!
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spindashing
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You mean the horde of Taillow? I've seen them a few times while EV training here.
Cool battles. Looks like Tyranitar gave you a lot of trouble. Do you think running Focus Blast on Charizard could be a good idea?
Gaming Truth
Member
You know what's awesome about hordes? Encountering a shiny at two in the morning while levelling pokemon and forgetting which Pokemon was the 2nd pokemon on the touch screen ...
No, I like his moveset as is. Honestly the problem is my team just isn't too well balanced. Garchomp for example wrecks it. I'd probably want to replace Trevenant with something more useful against Tyranitars and Garchomps. My Zapdos was also useless as it had a horrible moveset. Thankfully a friend just caught a 31/x/31/31/31/30 HP Ice Bold Zapdos that I'll be able to play around with soon!
I've been thinking of another one to start again from scratch or maybe using a team my friend developed that centres around Charizard and Venusaur using the Pledge moves.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Does anyone want to battle? I want to try out my team.
Scythesurge
Member
What kind of battle? I'm down, FC is 3695-0044-9285 and IGN is Windy.
PreyingShark
Member
Thank you, R Inanimate, for having something resembling actual fashion sense and not just slapping your girl in a trench coat.
Seriously, in real life you pair trench coats with khakis to look decent but AFAIK you can't do that in this game.Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Damn, I didn't realise Excadrill was so fast. Good game, rac.
Did your Blaziken have max speed? My Excadrill is jolly nature.
edit: Maybe if you ran protect you would've out sped it next turn
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
I was so mad when I found out females got scarves and we didn'tThank you, R Inanimate, for having something resembling actual fashion sense and not just slapping your girl in a trench coat.
Females could also take off hats right? :/I was so mad when I found out females got scarves and we didn't
User 73706
Banned
I was so mad when I found out females got scarves and we didn't
ownership canceled
I don't have a 3DS
Get scarves for dudes and we'll talk nintendo
spindashing
Banned
We also got shafted as far as hairstyle choices go.
Z version better have some better options, for real.
Z version better have some better options, for real.
Yeah it should be like animal crossing where can cross dress and design your own styles. I also want the option of looking like the trainers from every pass gen.
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I'm trying to create a new team and getting lost with Venusaur. I want to run regular Venusaur with something like Toxic, Leech Seed, Mega Drain. Probably @Leftovers?
What nature is good for something like this? Is Venusaur defensive enough to pull this off competently? Or is this so terrible that I should reconsider (barring the part where I don't want to use Megasaur, as my team has another Mega already.) I understand that type-wise the defense is not all that great, but I wondered if I could mitigate this with poison/drain moveset.
I'm trying to create a new team and getting lost with Venusaur. I want to run regular Venusaur with something like Toxic, Leech Seed, Mega Drain. Probably @Leftovers?
What nature is good for something like this? Is Venusaur defensive enough to pull this off competently? Or is this so terrible that I should reconsider (barring the part where I don't want to use Megasaur, as my team has another Mega already.) I understand that type-wise the defense is not all that great, but I wondered if I could mitigate this with poison/drain moveset.
PreyingShark
Member
It's just part of a shirt, but yes, it's very nice. Confession: I'm switching my main file to my JPN file simply because that's my female one and females have way better customization.I was so mad when I found out females got scarves and we didn't
No. That's for your rival only.
Guys have 4, girls have 6 with the option to have bangs or not. And out of the guys' 4 hairstyles, Short makes you look like a noob, Medium makes you look like a 5 year old, Long makes you look like a bum, and Perm is... a perm. In contrast, the only girl haircut that isn't awesome is the default one because of the whole hair tying thing.
So yeah, I agree, but more because of quality than quantity. Ponytail master race
hehehe looks like another pokemon I have to set up an egg move for. Breeding isn't that bad, at least.
Right now its companions are something like:
Greninja (special, not mixed, except maybe + U-turn if I'm unsure of the defensive capabilities of my team)
Mawile (Intimidate, thinking of giving it Fire Fang. This is the Mega.)
Gliscor (Poison Heal, or w/e tf it's called)
And on the fence with
Espeon (possibly baton passing, at least one screen)
Though I'm fairly convinced Espeon would be helpful. The thing right now is I assume the Venusaur build would impact the Gliscor build, since Gliscor does Toxic-stalling better than Venusaur except Gliscor's physical, and I don't want two Pokemon doing the same thing.
Thanks though. Should definitely slap a Giga Drain on the monster.
HypnoDarkrai
Member
I've got Giga Drain/Amnesia Bulbasaur if you'd like one.
Ooh. I might take you up on that! I don't really have anything to offer though, besides Y Mega Stones, Ocean Vivillon (and it's not close to properly competitive), and a Timid Scatterbug with (since I don't understand IV's yet):
11 HP
ATK - 5
DEF - 6
S.ATK - 5
S.DEF - 5
SPD - 5
and Compound Eyes. It has no Egg moves, just tackle and string shot
HypnoDarkrai
Member
I'll take that Scatterbug! Mega Stones are more valuable than this Bulbasaur.
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Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Anyone want to battle? 6v6 Single Battle
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HypnoDarkrai
Member
It says your friend code isn't valid
HypnoDarkrai
Member
Thanks for the Scatterbug!
Use this: http://abload.de/img/breed2iqsdg.png
IVs and EVs are easy to pick up. Think of IVs as something like inherent traits / genes. It's something the Pokemon is born with. Whereas EVs, Effort Values, is something you could 'train' to further enhance that particular stat. Every 4 Effort Value translate to 1 Stat Points ( HP, Atk, Def, Speed etc ) and the maximum Effort Values allow for each Pokemon is 510. However, the cap for each stat is 252, that means you could have 2 max EV'd stat ( 252 x 2 = 504 ) and 6 leftover EV on the third stat. This is just one of common EV distributions employed by competitive players. You can get EVs by killing Pokemon or playing the mini game which is Super Training.
Perfect or ideal IV combination comes from breeding. You can use the link above for more information regarding both breeding and IVs.
As for Venusaur, the Mega version is just so much better at stalling and still hits rather heavily. It's much more bulkier and has thick fat to somewhat eliminate it's fire/ice liability.
If you don't want two Toxic stallers on your team (which is understandable because Toxic Heal Gliscor is so good at it), then how about switching Toxic for Sludge Bomb, and switching the nature to Modest? And if you want to be adventurous, get Sunny Day in there to work with Chlorophyll (although you might wanna sacrifice Leftovers for a Heat Rock if you decided to give your Leftovers to Venusaur).
And if you want a good Baton Passing Eeveelution, you can also consider Vaporeon with Substitute and Acid Armor and/or Wish. Vaporeon's wishes are crazy and the extra physical defense + substitute can be a big help. Espeon, though, is also really great. Magic Bounce outright stops the opponent from setting entry hazards, it can dual screen, and also pack a punch with its special attack if needed.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Ahhhh, question on Zapdos again. I got one with Timid nature and IV spread of 26/22/31/31/27/31. Worth it?
Black-Wind
Member
Game's a asshole.
I keep sweeping with Talonflame ... until the 6-7 match where SUDDENLY all I get are bulky water/ ice/ Rock types as the lead Pokemon for the next 5-6 battles. >_>
Think I'm gonna wait until I have my training worthy Mawile ready and a good Mewtwo before I try again.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Pretty sure the system changes and adapts to your team to beat it. So it's learning you better each battle. When you see a trend, interrupt and reenter at the same point with different pokemon.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
SloaneRisette
Member
Woo! Finally got my perfect Impish Grimer, 31/31/31/x/31/31!
Just need to figure out EV's, anyone have a good idea?
Just need to figure out EV's, anyone have a good idea?
ScraftyDevil
Banned
If you're going for a defensive build, then 252 HP/252 Def is ideal. If you want a bulky attacking set, then invest in Attack instead of Defense.
Did you breed any egg moves onto it? Muk really benefits from Cures and Shadow Sneak.
SloaneRisette
Member
I did not know that I can continue after interupting... DAMMIT
SloaneRisette
Member
Anyone that would happen to have a Shuppet with both Curse/Shadow Sneak and good IV's that you wouldn't mind letting me borrow?
Hatched a shiny Venonat! IV Judge says ?/x/31/31/31/31 which is good enough! It's male and has Run Away. I was deciding whether I should go for Tinted Lens or Wonder Skin, and well I guess the game has decided for me. Guess he'll mainly be a Quiver Dancing Baton Passer, which is fine. I was debating between that or a Quiver Dancer sweeper. I guess he's a bit too frail for that though, even after a Quiver Dance. Even if he can survive a Quiver Dance (with a Focus Sash), he'll probably be easily taken down afterwards anyway. So! I'm good.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I have one with perfect sp Atk and sp Def, but what are you looking to breed with the shuppet?
SenorArdilla
Member
Is the difference between 29 and 31 IVs worth worrying about?
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Unless it's in Speed (or HP for a Substitue-user), 2 points isn't going to make much of a difference.
This Venonat batch was literally the best set of 5 eggs I've ever hatched. A 5 IV one with Tinted Lens (which I'll also keep so two Venomoths for me), two 5 IV ones with Run Away, and a shiny one with Run Away. Wow.
I really wish I remember who here gave me the Venonat. I really really want to thank them again.
I really wish I remember who here gave me the Venonat. I really really want to thank them again.