Pokémon (Tournament) - Raising POKEMON is a drag, man.

BlueBlue

Welcome to the world of Pokémon!




Let's have a tournament!

Speed Racer wrote: »

Reynolds wrote: »

I don't see any info in the OP, so what's up with the supposed tournament? I want to know what I need to prepare for, if I'm going to attempt to prepare.

You're going to register a pool of 6-10 Pokemon, which'll get posted publicly. Every team you use has to be made out of Pokemon from that pool.

You don't have to abide by Item Clause unless your opponent says that you do.

Meet the opposition!

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1418 3381 0393 - Aggril (Hivemind: 3.1)

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4596 5912 3966 - AshtonDragon (Hivemind 2.9)

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5283 7880 2148 - BlueBlue (Hivemind: 5.5)

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1633 1499 9731 - Chen (Hivemind: 4.7)

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4897 6582 8155 - dingus xavier (Hivemind: 4.5)

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1890 7641 5153 - InvisibleInk (Hivemind: 2.9)

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4682 6277 2672 - JaysonFour (Hivemind 2.5)

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1032 2644 5075 - Jugs (Hivemind: 4.2)

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2277 9321 5433 - Kay (Hivemind: 5.0)

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2320 2630 5407 - Munkus Beaver (Hivemind: 4.6)

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Alakazam
Scizor
Starmie
Electivire
Toxicroak
Bronzong
Ninjask
Tyranitar
Magnezone
Salamence

1333 0236 8007 - Nerdgasmic (Hivemind: 3.777...)

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3136 5916 9044 - RavynBlackheart (Hivemind 4.625)

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0860 0250 1654 - RedMageDarion (Hivemind: 4.5)

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1246 8725 4688 - Reynolds (Hivemind: 1.6)

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0301 6425 9658 - RockinX (Hivemind: 3.9)

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0645 2240 5346 - SirToasty (Hivemind: 3.6)

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3694 6498 9606 - SpeedRacer (Hivemind: 3.6)

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3437 0107 2915 - Terrendos (Hivemind 3.6)

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3265 7443 2076 - Zerokku (Hivemind 5.6)

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Scheduled Battles:

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Round 4
Munkus Beaver vs. Aggril

Round 5
Chen vs. SirToasty
Nerdgasmic vs. Terrendos
Kay vs. Loser of [Munkus Beaver vs. Aggril]

Current Standings:

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dingus xavier-4/4
Jugs - 4/4
RedMageDarion-4/5
Chen-3/4
SirToasty-3/4
Aggril-2/3
Munkus Beaver-2/3
AshtonDragon-3/5
BlueBlue-3/5
InvisibleInk-3/5
Kay-2/4
Zerokku-2/4
RavynBlackheart-2/5
SpeedRacer-2/5
Nerdgasmic-1/4
Reynolds-1/4
RockinX-1/4
Terrendos-1/4
JaysonFour-0/4

Wow what the hell everyone is using the exact same guys....is what you might be saying to yourself. Let's see who got used the most!

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How do I play Pokémon?!
Let's start with the basics.

...
Alright enough of all that let me show you how to really play pokemon.

Spoiler:

Welcome to Solaceon Town, get used to it.


First you're going to need something with flame body, to make your eggs hatch faster.


Drop your pokeparents off here. Make sure they are awesome enough! Awesome parents beget awesome children.
Males pass down moves, females determine species and (when holding an everstone, 50% of the time) nature.


You'll be getting this a lot.
Now, let's ride around until they realize what a thin line there is between love and hate.


See interesting sights!


Meet interesting people!.....uh.. how's that egg coming? Better go check.


It is impolite to explain the facts of life to other people's children. He knows how it got there.


Let's ride around some more! Three cheers for a long, unobstructed stretch of ground.


Oya?


Oh man, what's it going to be?


It's a GARDEVOIR! Great!


Some people like to nickname their hatchlings to keep track of them, but I don't.


Now we need to check to see if it's worth keeping. Lonely nature? This one obviously sucks.


I can't even stand to look at you. What a waste of time.


This one is more like it! Modest nature, but impetuous and silly? Not good enough for me, but maybe if you're just starting out this would be an ok result. It all depends on how much breeding you can stand. Patience is rewarded, however!


Holy shit! This is so great and rare that I'm going to give it a nickname!


This way you can tell it apart from a hacked shiny. Yep, the only way to be sure.


Looks like this passes preliminary tests - "Somewhat vain" indicates that the highest stat is in special defense, and that the hidden "IV" ends in a 1 or 6. Since 31 is the highest value, this could be good news! We'll have to do an IV check to be absolutely sure.


To do an IV check, we'll need to view our stats as they would be at level 100, which can be accomplished in an online level 100 battle.


View the summary of the pokemon you want to check. Yep, those sure look like numbers, but what do they mean? We'll have to plug them in, along with the nature, into an IV calculator, available at an internet near you.


This is Serebii's calculator! Well, this looks like a pretty good pokemon. When you get a good pokemon like this, you can either keep it, or use it as a parent to try and breed something even better!
HAHAHA, FAT FUCKING CHANCE, BITCHES


*Ahem*
Well so that's all there is to pokemon breeding, now just go do that 5 more times and you're got yourself a team! Some people like to waste their time making really crappy pokemon, and some people like to waste their time making really good pokemon. The world of pokemon is one full of difficult choices.

Good luck!

NOW SOME GENERAL BATTLING RULES. WITH CAPS

- Pokémon battles through Wi-fi automatically level your Pokémon to either levels 50 or 100. So you don't have to train them to level 100 yourself, saving a lot of time.
-Sleep Clause: you may not put more than one of your opponent's Pokémon to sleep at a time.
-Species Clause: your team must be comprised of six different species of Pokémon.
-Suicide Clause: If both players are down to their last Pokémon, the player with the first Pokémon to hit 0 HP is the loser. In other words, using moves like Self Destruct and Explosion cause you to lose, even if it kills your opponent. However, using a move with a recoil that kill both you and your opponent is a win for you.
-No Legendary Pokémon whatsoever.
-No Wobbuffet. You may ask "Wynaut?", but you should already know.
-No Garchomp. You may ask "Wynaut?", and I really couldn't tell you.

Pokémon Resources:

PokéMart: All Pokémon trading can be done here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=25308. READ THE RULES

Strategies that have been proven useful

GameFAQs, links posted by Kay
Natures Chart.

Pokédex.

General Breeding/Customization FAQ.

Pokédexes
Psypokes
Serebii's Pokédex
Marriland's Pokedex
Veekun -Narian
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Metal Kid's IV Calculator
Serebii's IV Calculator
Psypokes' IV Calculator

Team Builder
Marriland's Pokémon Team Builder - Figure out your team's strengths and weaknesses!

EV Training
Psypokés' Guide
Serebii's


Art Resources
Sprites from every game
Ken Sugimori art of every Pokémon

Community
Smogon is big on competitive battling

Serebii forums will melt your soul. Beware.

Wi-Fi Help
FAQ on trading and GTS
Serebii has one for battling

Everything
Bulbapedia... everything about Pokémon. Has high traffic, so load times will be long-ish

And now, some useless knowledge!

- Pokémon is a made-up composite word.
- None of the Pokémons' names change in Spanish translations from either continent, yet, they change in France, Italy and some others. Oh yeah, Latin America hasn't got the Spain Spanish translation since the RBY days, by the way.
- Ledian is based on Pulseman, which is a character from another game made by Game Freak, but it was released on the Genesis/Mega Drive.
- Pulseman's nemesis was the Galaxy Gang. Sound familiar?
- If you evolve a Pokémon with a Japanese name on an American GBA cart, and that name was the default one, it will keep its name. But if you do that on DP, its name will be the evolution's. It won't change if it's an actual nickname, though.
- Infernape is based on Sun Wukong, a character from a very old Chinese Book called Journey to the West. Sun Wukong is pronounced Son Goku in Japanese, and he bore a staff while flying on a cloud.

And now, some slightly more useful knowledge.

- You can get new wallpapers for your boxes in Jubilife City's TV station. Details here.
- Pokémon Battle Revolution sucks, unless you can find it for cheap.
- Pokémon Ranch: Pokémon go in, what comes out? MOTHERFUCKERS!
- You can check an Eggs Nature before it hatches. Heres how.

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This isn't a hack, it's more a glitch in the game. It's a very useful glitch.

First, save before you pick up an egg from the Day Care Center, then head to a PC. I use the one in the Day Care Center, 'cause it's right there.

Now, you need two empty boxes next to each other, so that you can switch quickly from one to the other with L and R*. Put your egg in the first position in one box, switch to the box next to it (via L or R), and place a hatched Pokémon in first position in this new box, so that it's in the same position as the egg.

*BlueNote: If your controls are set to L=A, then this won't work!

Next, use L or R to switch to the box with the Pokémon in it. Hover your cursor over said Pokémon, and you'll notice that a) the cursor will bounce, and b) a display at the bottom left will give you the Pokémon's item, then type, then nature, then ability, before cycling through to item again. Get a feel for the rhythm (it's about four and a half bounces of the cursor between changes, roughly), then switch from the box with the Pokémon in it to the box with the egg in it, just before the display changes from Type to Nature. If you've timed it right, you'll see the Nature of the Pokémon in the egg for a brief second before it clears. If you're too soon, you may see the egg's Type briefly instead. Practice makes perfect! You can do the same for Ability too, by timing it just as the display shifts from Nature to Ability on the Pokémon.

If the egg has the wrong nature or ability, simply soft-reset (L+R+Select+Start), talk to the Day Care guy, and tell him you don't want it. You have to say no to every option, or he gives it to you. Nature and Ability are set when the egg is laid, IVs are set when the egg is picked up. This is actually a notable difference. If you save, pick up an egg, and check nature/ability then hatch and check IVs, reload, and do the same, the nature/ability will be the same, but the IVs will be different.
Oh my god

Fear Drifloon!

Kuribo's Shoe

working on my sandstorm team AS WE SPEAK

dingus xavier

Oh yeah, and Magma Armor works also.

BlueBlue

Yeah dingus it's not comprehensive. There are also more buildings than that.

InvisibleInk wrote: »

Excellent job! Finally someone redesigns the OP. The old thread makers should be ashamed!

I would call it more an addition than a redesign~

I was kind of hoping someone would have noticed when I added it in the old thread but no one did!

Nerdgasmic

I would put the Egg Check thing in the spoiler with the rest of the breeding guide, but that was great.


Gah, I'll be lucky if I get a seventh Pokemon by the tourney.

BlueBlue

As time goes on I may add links to relevant information, I think. It will be like wikipedia.

Munkus Beaver

Oh damn. I already posted in the other thread.

OH WELL

dingus xavier wrote: »

Also note that most BLs can compete perfectly well in the OU metagame, and they are twice as cool. This is also the case with many UUs.

dingus xavier

Hey, that's important info! some guy could catch a Slugma and then be like, damn, Magma Armor, can't use this one!

...what a boring example.

Adellios

My favorite thing to do now that I started to play pokemon again is to breed Absols... then taunt Abras with them because they are jerks.

Zerokku

Speed Racer wrote: »

Hahah, that breeding guide is pretty great Blue.

Also, just a heads up: I've only received PMs from three people with their teams so far.

Probably won't get mine till friday night. I'm Indecisive as hell right now, and have bred more Pokemon then I would ever want to over the weekend. (Was stuck watching boring religious shit all weekend, what would you do? =P)

Speed Racer

Zerokku wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

Hahah, that breeding guide is pretty great Blue.

Also, just a heads up: I've only received PMs from three people with their teams so far.

Probably won't get mine till friday night. I'm Indecisive as hell right now, and have bred more Pokemon then I would ever want to over the weekend. (Was stuck watching boring religious shit all weekend, what would you do? =P)

That's fine.

Just for the record, when I say "starts October 11," I mean that it will start at 12 AM CST. You'll have 24 hours to complete your round.

InvisibleInk

I wish I could register more than 10 now. There are like 14 "core" pokemon. The ones I consider to be really usable.
The truth is that I'll probably form a team of 6 and never really switch it around.

Munkus Beaver

My list is something like...

Jim
The Wizard
Bojangles
Munkus
Nads
Professor Hugs
Jack McCoy
Belcruel
Tube
And I don't know who for my last slot.

Nerdgasmic

Anyone want to help me IV something?

Munkus Beaver

The sad thing is that I can't name Professor Hugs or Belcruel because I got them in a trade.

Kuribo's Shoe

one of you should get on GTS, look for a male kadabra that wants a female combee in exchange, and do that for me

I'm tired of waiting!

Rogar

Well, shit. I may have to withdraw from the tournament. Forgot that Thanksgiving is on the 13th, so I probably won't be around most of the weekend to battle. Sucks too, because I was actually looking forward to this tournament after having been away for so long.

I will talk with my family later this evening and found out what we're doing. I'll give an update of whether I'm participating or not.

Speed Racer

Thanksgiving is in October this year?!

Also Munkus just so we're totally clear here when you send me your PM it has to be species names not nicknames.

Rogar

Speed Racer wrote: »

Thanksgiving is in October this year?!

Also Munkus just so we're totally clear here when you send me your PM it has to be species names not nicknames.

It is every year for Canada.

Nerdgasmic

Where are you from, Speed?


Also, Blue, the OP should mention that Species Clause doesn't apply to the pool of ten.

Speed Racer

Rogar wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

Thanksgiving is in October this year?!

Also Munkus just so we're totally clear here when you send me your PM it has to be species names not nicknames.

It is every year for Canada.

Ah! That makes sense.

Nerdgasmic

Does anyone mind helping me IV this Scyther, by the way?

Munkus Beaver

I just wanted to see if people remembered my pokes.

BlueBlue

Let's see, I think I remember a few.

The Wizard - Alakazam
Bojangles - Gengar
Nads - Tyranitar
Tube - Bronzong
Jim - Toxicroak

Those are all I'm familiar with, but if I had to guess I'd say Belcruel is a tentacruel.

Kuribo's Shoe

sweet, got me a combee from platinum

it knows bug bite!

Nerdgasmic

Would anyone like to battle?

Speed Racer

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

I just wanted to see if people remembered my pokes.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

dingus xavier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin

Yes.

Speed, I just sent you the PM with my team.

Push Button / Receive Cat

So i have a adamant 31 speed dratini bred up, and i am stuck on whether i should only IV him enough to outrun jolly weavile after a DD or to max it out to be able to match base speed 80's without DD and scarfed speed 80's after a DD.

I'll be mostly using him in battle tower. Any thoughts? I'm currently slightly more inclined to just max it out.

I also have my old dragonite to give away. Male, adamant. 11-12/25/14/31/13/25-26. Knows outrage, DD, aerial ace, fire punch if anyone wants it!

SirToasty

Later tonight (in a few hours) I might be up for a battle, so be ready if any of you are gonna be around. My battle with Dingus gave me some new hope with one of my team members.

Nerdgasmic

Would anyone like to battle later?

RockinX

I'm guessing saying "blue dot" is an offense now?

Anyway, anyone up for a battle?

Nerdgasmic

I am Rockin, let me just finish up this other game.

SirToasty

Saying "blue dot" is infractable because it contributes zero to the topic. If you want to blue dot something, just say something on topic instead of "blue dot". It's like bumping a thread.

Nerdgasmic

Will we meet online Rockin? Also, do you mind helping me IV something afterward?

InvisibleInk

saying Blue Dot has been against the rules for a while now.

Push Button / Receive Cat wrote: »

So i have a adamant 31 speed dratini bred up, and i am stuck on whether i should only IV him enough to outrun jolly weavile after a DD or to max it out to be able to match base speed 80's without DD and scarfed speed 80's after a DD.

I'll be mostly using him in battle tower. Any thoughts? I'm currently slightly more inclined to just max it out.

I also have my old dragonite to give away. Male, adamant. 11-12/25/14/31/13/25-26. Knows outrage, DD, aerial ace, fire punch if anyone wants it!

Weavile is usually going to have Ice Shard, so I don't know about outspeeding it. There are probably more important things to outspeed, but I can't help you much with figuring that out.

I'm available for battles right now to. Whos available?

RockinX

Sure, Nerd. Are you online now?

Also, to be honest, I cringe every time I see someone say blue dot.

Nerdgasmic

Nope, not yet.

Nerdgasmic

I can get on now, though.

RockinX

I'm on.

dingus xavier

TOASTY

I need my Careful Ditto.