They don't want to overload their servers by releasing it everywhere at once again? By the time Bank comes out in the US, activity will have died down in Europe.
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Pokémon XY |OT4| Don't Bank On It
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They don't want to overload their servers by releasing it everywhere at once again? By the time Bank comes out in the US, activity will have died down in Europe.
Jimnymebob
Member
Does anybody have a non-English Hidden Ability Pokemon from the Goomy line that they could trade with me for Masuda Method purposes?
I don't have anything whatsoever valuable to trade, only in game stuff and access to a Helioptile and Emolga friend safari.
I don't have anything whatsoever valuable to trade, only in game stuff and access to a Helioptile and Emolga friend safari.
Damn those Japanese going all crazy for Pokemon Bank!US wasn't even involved in the first overload! You all ruined it for us
I got my 30 IV Ditto (every stat is a 30 IV one) as well. This is gonna make HP breeding so much easier!
Very happy I finally got Bank, but god damn these apps are terrible! What the hell!
Charlie0108
Member
Is Pokemon Bank supposed to not have touchscreen controls?
I t hink so as they don't work for me either. Such a half-assed app
Right now I think its just Poke Miles for buying random items off GL.
It also keeps track of medals, GTS trades and Ranking Battle scores.
Nintendo Playstation
Member
There's a setting you can disable so it doesn't attempt Game Sync every time you save. And yes, the PGL is worth using. My PokeMiles earned me hundreds of useful evolutionary items and stones.
Brigette, or whatever her name is, will let you know. You get some Pokemiles or BP (whatever you choose) first though, so I think you have to claim those first.
Does anyone know how to "change" the box you transfer? The Transporter tool is stuck in my shiny box so I have to move every Pokemon I want to transfer to that box which is stupid. Please tell me you can switch it so I can just go to the box I want to transfer.
ArchedThunder
Banned
You can only transfer Box 1.
My god this is so stupid
I have everything in my White (1) game, and apparently no such feature had been invented when those games were released. Annoying
Been testing out a new Doubles strategy today. This one's a bit gimmicky as mine usually are. Has anyone else thought of this one?
Pokémon:
Gourgeist (Small Size)
Lucario @ Lucarionite
Gourgeist uses Trick-or-Treat on Mega Lucario
Mega Lucario is now a Fighting/Steel/Ghost-type meaning its weaknesses/resistances are:
Normal: 0
Fire: 2
Water: 1
Electric: 1
Grass: 0.5
Ice: 0.5
Fighting: 0
Poison: 0
Ground: 2
Flying: 1
Psychic: 1
Bug: 0.125
Rock: 0.25
Ghost: 2
Dragon: 0.5
Dark: 1
Steel: 0.5
Fairy: 1
It does give it a Ghost weakness and Dark resistance, but it increases its resistances in Bug (Have to actually test if it gets it down to 0.125), plus gives it Normal & Fighting immunities. However, that's not the cool bit. Lucario gets Ghost-type STAB now, and it has Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball at its disposal, and thanks to Adaptibility, the STAB is increased to *2.
Plus, it allows for Gourgeist to go out ceremoniously with an Explosion that does nothing on Lucario, though it won't be too powerful due to it being a Small Gourgeist, but I chose that for the Speed.
Not one of my best doubles one, compared to Protean Slaking and Malamar/Noivern, but I think this one has a use. It definitely did a couple of good things in the Maison.
Pokémon:
Gourgeist (Small Size)
Lucario @ Lucarionite
Gourgeist uses Trick-or-Treat on Mega Lucario
Mega Lucario is now a Fighting/Steel/Ghost-type meaning its weaknesses/resistances are:
Normal: 0
Fire: 2
Water: 1
Electric: 1
Grass: 0.5
Ice: 0.5
Fighting: 0
Poison: 0
Ground: 2
Flying: 1
Psychic: 1
Bug: 0.125
Rock: 0.25
Ghost: 2
Dragon: 0.5
Dark: 1
Steel: 0.5
Fairy: 1
It does give it a Ghost weakness and Dark resistance, but it increases its resistances in Bug (Have to actually test if it gets it down to 0.125), plus gives it Normal & Fighting immunities. However, that's not the cool bit. Lucario gets Ghost-type STAB now, and it has Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball at its disposal, and thanks to Adaptibility, the STAB is increased to *2.
Plus, it allows for Gourgeist to go out ceremoniously with an Explosion that does nothing on Lucario, though it won't be too powerful due to it being a Small Gourgeist, but I chose that for the Speed.
Not one of my best doubles one, compared to Protean Slaking and Malamar/Noivern, but I think this one has a use. It definitely did a couple of good things in the Maison.
All my trained Pokemon (and things I still need to train) are in White 2, but my Pokedex is on Black 1... bleh.
Just noticed I had the nature thing all wrong, I thought red indicated a decrease in stat and blue an increase, apparently it is the opposite. Good news is only 5 of the pokemon I had used to clear the game are screwed, rest had neutral natures and I'm only starting to breed for perfection so no time has been wasted yet.
The racism (yes, racism) and sheer idiocy I have seen about Bank the last 2 months has been horrific. It has disgusted me somewhat.
They're staggering release of Bank so it doesn't kill the servers again. I don't get why people don't get that.
Now to wait to get it in america. *sigh*
Middle of what? It's almost 4pm on a tuesday.
I'm pretty sure most people understand that, they're just annoyed at not having Bank while others get it. I know I've been dying for Bank ever since I finished Y, and Bank has been released numerous times just not in the region I live in. It is completely understandable, just horribly annoying.
Before you load your save file on the main menu, choose "Global Link"
Soodanim
Member
Excellent, thanks.
Now to start the unnecessarily long process of...
Put in Transfer, put Black in, Box 1, open Bank, put the transfer box into a Bank box, switch to Black, put a whole box worth into Box 1, and repeat ad nauseam.
Good job, devs. Good job. I really don't know why it couldn't have been one piece of software that handled Bank and the transfer process.
Better to use Tyranitar in conjunction with Gourgeist. This gives you the ability to ToT Tyranitar to avoid fighting type attacks or use ToT on opponents to make Crunch super-effective. My friend was using it for that on a Trick Room oriented team around October or November and was having a good deal of fun and success with it. Also probably want it to be Super Sized.
I actually can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Ryan242004
Member
I just got a guy to trade me a kyogre for my typhlosion but then he cancelled it...
I didn't realize you could do that!
I didn't realize you could do that!
How?!Two notes
I managed to transfer my Pikachu with Fly
The free Celebi is in a luxury ball
He might have made a mistake so probably d/c'd before the trade savedI just got a guy to trade me a kyogre for my typhlosion but then he cancelled it...
I didn't realize you could do that!
Oh that's an interesting strategy too. Making Crunch SE with each hit is great, and removing its *4 weakness is very useful. Though does it need to be in TR? Trick Room is a bit risky due to setup. I guess the strategy could work with a faster Gourgeist without TR, could it not?
Though I do like the idea of giving Mega Lucario another STAB move. It'd be hard to find something that resists a set focusing on that.
HMs aren't blocked here
I don't know, it just transferred. I didn't even know I had one lol.
I'm pretty sure I have a surf Pikachu. Might try it out :x
Really? I thought you needed to delete HM moves before transferring them.
The fact that people in America are upset about Bank being released first in other places is ridiculous.
I'm in America, and my thoughts are that the service Nintendo will eventually offer for SUCH a low cost annually, and even free to start, is well worth waiting a bit.
It sucks that they botched the release and haven't given a solid explanation of the roll out plan, but we can't change that. Eventually it'll be out for everyone - I'd wager a guess within two weeks in the US. They'll see a ton of action in EU in the next few days, that demand will calm down, and they'll roll it out to the US.
It's a simple server strategy, and it'll work here, too. Allow a small set of users in to get all their activity completed, and then allow another set of users to complete their activity. I'd even guess that Nintendo hasn't actually fixed anything, but rather are rolling out with the same amount of servers as they had when they launched.
Staggering the release allows everyone to have a good experience because the entire world won't be crashing it at once.
We're right on the edge of it being released in the US.
I'm in America, and my thoughts are that the service Nintendo will eventually offer for SUCH a low cost annually, and even free to start, is well worth waiting a bit.
It sucks that they botched the release and haven't given a solid explanation of the roll out plan, but we can't change that. Eventually it'll be out for everyone - I'd wager a guess within two weeks in the US. They'll see a ton of action in EU in the next few days, that demand will calm down, and they'll roll it out to the US.
It's a simple server strategy, and it'll work here, too. Allow a small set of users in to get all their activity completed, and then allow another set of users to complete their activity. I'd even guess that Nintendo hasn't actually fixed anything, but rather are rolling out with the same amount of servers as they had when they launched.
Staggering the release allows everyone to have a good experience because the entire world won't be crashing it at once.
We're right on the edge of it being released in the US.
SkullHydra
Member
=O
How did you manage that?
Dang, that's pretty nice! I may need to try this out.
But what if the server increase from Europe and Australasia is bigger than they thought so they had to wait longer for it to calm down for release? Better to be ambiguous than to set a date that then has to be broken.
SkullHydra
Member
Kecleon is so slow though. Do you use a Focus Sash to help him survive that first round?Team with a Protean Kecleon and Skill Swap
They have to gauge the amount of incoming activity and let it get past a certain threshold.
Think of it like this: there's a scale of 1-10 on whether something will crash. When Bank first launched it was at a 10, so it failed. Let's say there was a 3 in America, 3 in Japan, 3 in Europe and 1 everywhere else in the world, totaling 10.
Rolling out to different regions separately allows these numbers to stay low, and the servers to actually stay up. When they launched in Japan servers went from 0 (because it was shut down) to 3, because everyone in Japan was using their servers, so activity was high. Over time that number went from 3 to 2, and 2 to 1.
Now that the action in Japan has subsided because most people have used Bank, Japan now comes in at a 1 instead of a 3.
This allows the 3 from Europe access, and the total is now 4.
Once Europe comes down and the numbers are at a steady 3 or 4 (1 from Japan, 1 from Europe, 1 from Australia) they can roll out to the US to allow users in the other regions to still have access while taking on our 3+ number.
Nintendo doesn't want another 10 on their servers - if they have to close down Bank again could you imagine the outrage at that rather than making people wait a bit for a steady experience?
It's coming soon!
That's the idea. Though if the opponent is smart, he'll try and take out Kecleon with both, which could be detrimental.
As I said, my sets are typically gimmicky. When they work, they're amazing, but they require all the dominoes to fall in place.
I find it more fun to play like this, to be honest. I could go with the standard sets that people use in competitions, but na. I like to live a little.
ArchedThunder
Banned
I posted that literally right when I woke up so I wasn't really thinking. I fully understand now that I am actually awake enough to think about it. I'm still annoyed but not like when I had just woken up.
Dandalf, that's what I mean by being able to give an estimate. They have some knowledge of the demand in Japan. It would likely be a bit larger in Europe and Australia.
That's what annoys me even more. It's obvious they are releasing it in different regions 1 by 1 so the load won't be so heavy. They can easily explain that to everyone and most people would definitely understand, but the silence is what is causing people to feel frustrated.