Linkhero1 said:
Can you explain a little more? I do not have Pokemon Ranch yet, but I was thinking of getting it since there are some Pokemon I can only get in that game.
Well, it's a ranch. There's a girl who runs it by herself. All the game really involves is you dumping pokemon from a single game (it's not like Box, you can't dump from multiple games) into the ranch, where they basically hang out and futz around. There's no positive or negative effect to dropping them off, and you can't withdraw them to anything but the SAME cart and savefile on your DS. No EXP or money is earned there, either.
She generally offers trades with decent movesets every day, but she has two "special" pokemon:
1.
Mew (trade her an egg of any type, must already have 1000 pokemon in the ranch, including the egg, as I recall). Moveset is garbage but Mew never has a problem there.
2.
Phione (trade her Leafeon). Moveset is nice (Grass Knot/Rain Dance/Rest/Surf) but Phione is the breeding product of Manaphy so I'm sure it's not hard to find otherwise.
The only trick is that the Ranch has a size limit. Every time you hit a certain amount of deposited pokemon (or the limit), she says to come back tomorrow, and the limit is raised. So it can take a little while (or some Wii time skipping) to hit the 1000 pokemon mark.
In my case, I already had nearly 450 pokemon due to obsessive trading towards my current 492/493 pokedex status. From there, I caught male and female zigzagoon (well, bidoof or whatever is also fine, I'm sure), sent them to the day care, and did the biking trip to mass-produce another 500. You can check with the old man at the day care to see how fast they can produce eggs.
Make no mistake; it's tedious. But you get a legit Mew out of the deal.
