SirRob
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I'd still be happy to battle you or anyone here, I've just lost confidence in my ability to play the game.
The Pokemon Thread
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DrDingo
Moved to phoenix.corvidae.org with the others
.. I'd also be happy to have a game with ya sometime!
In fact, this puts me in the mood for playing a bit of Pokemon right now! I'm gonna be online on the PSS, probably battling randoms.
Milo
New Member
as someone once told me (yesterday in an episode of pokemon) it's OK to lose today. Because you can always win tomorrow!
Alexxx-Returns
The Sergal that Didn't Vore
Oh man... Do I have a shiny story for you guys! This is almost as bad as the Starly disaster in my Pearl restart!
I met my first X version shiny today. Geodude, at the end of the Victory Road. In a hoarde, right in the middle. She stood out like nothing I'd ever seen. It was only a matter of time really, with all the grinding I've been doing for pokedex data (Zapdos is lvl99 now).
Anyhow I was so goddamn happy. But then I remembered, shit... Geodudes have Magnitude! And Game Playa (Zapdos) has to pick them off one by one!! So on turn 1, 2 of the little bastards had used Magnitude - luckily, one of them was the gold one. She picked off one of the others. Next turn, Game Playa got another one, but then one of the remaining 3 used Magnitude again! Call me a terribly sad person, but by this point I was shaking. My first shiny encounter of the game, tits would be flipped if I lost it. She was down to red, the other one got picked off. THANK. FUCK. I could get rid of the other one and catch her.
Unfortunately, Gold Rush has apparently got literally THE worst IVs known to Pokemon. I'm wondering if I could trade her out for a better one.
I met my first X version shiny today. Geodude, at the end of the Victory Road. In a hoarde, right in the middle. She stood out like nothing I'd ever seen. It was only a matter of time really, with all the grinding I've been doing for pokedex data (Zapdos is lvl99 now).
Anyhow I was so goddamn happy. But then I remembered, shit... Geodudes have Magnitude! And Game Playa (Zapdos) has to pick them off one by one!! So on turn 1, 2 of the little bastards had used Magnitude - luckily, one of them was the gold one. She picked off one of the others. Next turn, Game Playa got another one, but then one of the remaining 3 used Magnitude again! Call me a terribly sad person, but by this point I was shaking. My first shiny encounter of the game, tits would be flipped if I lost it. She was down to red, the other one got picked off. THANK. FUCK. I could get rid of the other one and catch her.
Unfortunately, Gold Rush has apparently got literally THE worst IVs known to Pokemon. I'm wondering if I could trade her out for a better one.
Alexxx-Returns
The Sergal that Didn't Vore
My nerves are pretty shot now. I'm very much out off grinding in Victory Road now, in case the same thing happens again at some point... But I don't know where else to grind that would be as good for levels D:
And I can imagine SLIGHTLY worse... How about a shiny in a Zangoose/Seviper hoarde??
SirRob
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Magnitude does super effective damage though! I can easily imagine it one-shoting Geodude.
Battle Chateau and Le Wow are the best places for leveling-- they're in the game pretty much specifically for that reason.
Stratelier
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Starting up a secondary playthrough on X tonight. But there are two big questions - one, what to name my Trainer? Especially the nickname in your circle of friends. Should I have them call me "dude", "bro", or "boss"? (Note to self: "silly Pokemon nickname" on Google Images definitely has funny results. Not always safe-for-work results, but perhaps that's what makes some of them so funny.)
On a sidenote, it's a good thing I didn't name my Trainer directly after my username (Stratadrake) because the game won't let me input "rata". I wonder why.
On a sidenote, it's a good thing I didn't name my Trainer directly after my username (Stratadrake) because the game won't let me input "rata". I wonder why.
I have two Smeargle with lower IVs than that. (No, really. If I take them to the judge in Kiloude City, he talks about how all six stats are equal and then how all six are horrible.)
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Alexxx-Returns
The Sergal that Didn't Vore
Thing is a lot of Geodudes have Sturdy, so they tend to last 2 turns minimum usually - and the average Magnitude from one of them doesn't actually do much in the way of damage (Gold Rush survived 2). But last Z/S hoarde I was in had 4 Zangooses and 1 Seviper. I was trying to catch the Seviper but it didn't last one turn. It would be good if there was a way to guarantee survival of a hoarde Pokemon in that situation - or at least, be able to catch with more than 1 opponent.
Trouble with grinding there is that I won't EVER meet another shiny. I think it's time for me to move to a different room in Victory Road or something and see what else I can find. Plus, there's always all the searching I've gotta do for the Pokedex ^.^
CaptainCool
Lady of the lake
So apparently Twitch Plays Pokémon used the Master Ball to catch a Goldeen.
Good.
Good.
Stratelier
Well-Known Member
It's not a person, it's a website. The way this particular stream is set up, anyone and everyone who is logged in to the IRC channel can input commands to the emulator running the game (and thus control the game character, 20-30 second lag between the chat and the video stream notwithstanding). So basically imagine 10,000 people trying to operate the same controller at the same time; it proceeds less like an actual Pokemon game and more like . . . this. (But seriously, folks, it's more like this. See the stream of commands on the right? Imagine trying to follow every last one of them.)
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yell0w_f0x
~Foxy loves oreo~
Down to 57 of 718 of the national dex. All that's left are those that need evolving and breeding.
Mostly the starters since I haven't evolved any of the pokebank starters yet.
Mostly the starters since I haven't evolved any of the pokebank starters yet.
Btw.. im still looking for houndoominite. if there is anyone who doesn't need theirs or has an extra one.so like.... does anyone have a spare houndoominite or one that they dont want anymore?
im willing to trade stuff for it.. i have an extra reshiram i apparently got off from wonder trade.
im supposedly complete with pokebank exclusive pokes. (not legeendaries) so i can breed you one if ye need em.
i got an extremespeed dratini if ye want one.
please help me get the hell dog's stone.
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Stratelier
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Starting a Nuzlocke-type run on Pokemon X today (separate from my Y playthrough). No sooner did I pick Team Fennekin, kicked Chespin's grass and caught a Pidgey (and determining that that first wild Pokemon encounter on Route 2 is most definitely scripted) than I used a second 3DS to trade off Fennekin for the Pokemon I really want to base this team around: Zorua. I considered sending over the Lv.10 Zorua from the W1 event, but then I'd be risking loyalty issues . . . so instead I bred a Zorua egg and sent that over in exchange for Fennekin.
(Yes, you might say I'm holding X's Fennekin ransom on my Y save file for the time being.)
The only problem? Zorua ("Kotaro") hatched at Lv.1, which is a serious disadvantage when normally your starter is Lv.5.
And it just gets worse from there. Zorua is able to beat a Lv.2 Scatterbug and start levelling up, but ran afoul of a pretty strong Pidgey, which killed the one Pidgey I caught along this route (it was doing 6HP per hit, which is insane at these levels). The worst part is that you don't get PC access until Santalune so that I can't actually remove him from the party. Which means that if I'm to honor Pidgey being declared 'All Dead', I can't go back to Aquacorde for healing! (Rule number zero: the game is always right.) And Zorua's running low on Scratches pretty quickly....
I also despise the fact that X has Weedles while Y has Caterpie. I am NOT facing Weedles with only one Pokemon and no Antidotes.
I did finally get a lucky break - the trainer blocking access to Santalune saw fit to start spamming Growl instead of Tackle (which would've 3HKO my Zorua), and Zorua had just enough Scratches left to score a KO and reach Lv.5 and learn Pursuit! (that's an extra 20 attacks, and this time with STAB!) Now I'm in Santalune and hoping I can catch a Fletchling. I'm not playing by the only-catch-the-first-thing-you-see rule, but I am enforcing a one-species-per-route rule. I'd rather avoid getting a Fletchling if I can help it (as there's a Pikachu to fight somewhere in here), and I want to save Shauna's offer for free healing as a last resort (as it'll revive Pidgey). But if I can make it to Santalune proper, things will finally start looking up for this run.
Alas, poor Pidgey, I barely knew ye. (insert Bird Jesus reference here.)
(Yes, you might say I'm holding X's Fennekin ransom on my Y save file for the time being.)
The only problem? Zorua ("Kotaro") hatched at Lv.1, which is a serious disadvantage when normally your starter is Lv.5.
And it just gets worse from there. Zorua is able to beat a Lv.2 Scatterbug and start levelling up, but ran afoul of a pretty strong Pidgey, which killed the one Pidgey I caught along this route (it was doing 6HP per hit, which is insane at these levels). The worst part is that you don't get PC access until Santalune so that I can't actually remove him from the party. Which means that if I'm to honor Pidgey being declared 'All Dead', I can't go back to Aquacorde for healing! (Rule number zero: the game is always right.) And Zorua's running low on Scratches pretty quickly....
I also despise the fact that X has Weedles while Y has Caterpie. I am NOT facing Weedles with only one Pokemon and no Antidotes.
I did finally get a lucky break - the trainer blocking access to Santalune saw fit to start spamming Growl instead of Tackle (which would've 3HKO my Zorua), and Zorua had just enough Scratches left to score a KO and reach Lv.5 and learn Pursuit! (that's an extra 20 attacks, and this time with STAB!) Now I'm in Santalune and hoping I can catch a Fletchling. I'm not playing by the only-catch-the-first-thing-you-see rule, but I am enforcing a one-species-per-route rule. I'd rather avoid getting a Fletchling if I can help it (as there's a Pikachu to fight somewhere in here), and I want to save Shauna's offer for free healing as a last resort (as it'll revive Pidgey). But if I can make it to Santalune proper, things will finally start looking up for this run.
Alas, poor Pidgey, I barely knew ye. (insert Bird Jesus reference here.)
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CaptainCool
Lady of the lake
I remember my Fire Red Nuzlocke. I didn't lose a single Pokémon. I used all the regular rules except for the nickname rule. Because I don't do nicknames.
It was fun, but I am not sure whether it was skill or just luck that I powered through the game like that
It was fun, but I am not sure whether it was skill or just luck that I powered through the game like that
Stratelier
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I did consider that rule as well ("the rules don't take effect until Santalune"), but ultimately I didn't need to. It was pretty damn close though.
I did have to amend one rule though: It originally was "don't flee from a wild Pokemon unless it kills something" (during the current battle) but I had to change it to "don't flee from a wild Pokemon unless you have at least one fainted Pokemon in the party" (from current or previous battle).
yell0w_f0x
~Foxy loves oreo~
I finally did it! I got all 718 pokemon. I completed the national dex and got the shiny charm!
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Sorry if I mispost...
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Stratelier
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Halfway to Ambrette town by now. Firefly (Fletchling) and Abby (Charmander) both evolved. Was stuck on a good sword name for Honedge, so I called him Tassel. His typing shall be very beneficial for both Cyllage and Shalour Gyms, assuming of course he makes it that far - close call in a wild Pokemon battle. Shaggy (Furfrou) packs a wallop with Headbutt, outclassing Astley (Dunsparce) by far (except where Rollout is concerned).
Oh, and an epic battle occured here:
However, I'm thinking of retiring Astley for a Mienfoo. His typing will also be beneficial for Cyllage Gym.
Oh, and an epic battle occured here:
Tierno would be proud.
However, I'm thinking of retiring Astley for a Mienfoo. His typing will also be beneficial for Cyllage Gym.
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CaptainCool
Lady of the lake
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Weiss
Guest
Hmmm.. Imma add all of you. Free shiny Zoruas for those who accept
DrDingo
Moved to phoenix.corvidae.org with the others
Well, I just added ya anyway.
Alexxx-Returns
The Sergal that Didn't Vore
Well done! You story has inspired many [me] to complete the dex.
I even got Soul Silver to get the Gen 2 legendaries. I'm tearing through now with James (Feraligatr), Cronos (Hypno) and Dust (Venomoth).
My brother (who lost interest in Pokemon in between Gen 3 and 4) also said I could have the data from his Sapphire version so I can restart that to my heart's content. He's wanting to keep the cart in case of resale, though, which is fair.