No, it just means instead of seeing Surf/Fly after walking 2 miles, you'll start seeing them after a mile and a half. You still only have a 2% chance, and it's still one or the other. Personally I'm not terribly worried about it -- the most I've walked in a single day with the stupid thing on is about 6000 steps, and honestly the volt tackler is probably "good enough" (tm).
I gathered. But I can easily get 12000 steps in a day with my walks + work. So it's a non-issue for me.
No, it just means instead of seeing Surf/Fly after walking 2 miles, you'll start seeing them after a mile and a half. You still only have a 2% chance, and it's still one or the other. Personally I'm not terribly worried about it -- the most I've walked in a single day with the stupid thing on is about 6000 steps, and honestly the volt tackler is probably "good enough" (tm).
I gathered. But I can easily get 12000 steps in a day with my walks + work. So it's a non-issue for me.
Wow... I need to be more active. I used to walk about 1-2 miles to work every day, but ever since the great Dell screwjob, well...
Pity.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
No, it just means instead of seeing Surf/Fly after walking 2 miles, you'll start seeing them after a mile and a half. You still only have a 2% chance, and it's still one or the other. Personally I'm not terribly worried about it -- the most I've walked in a single day with the stupid thing on is about 6000 steps, and honestly the volt tackler is probably "good enough" (tm).
I gathered. But I can easily get 12000 steps in a day with my walks + work. So it's a non-issue for me.
Wow... I need to be more active. I used to walk about 1-2 miles to work every day, but ever since the great Dell screwjob, well...
Pity.
If you've got restless foot syndrome like me, put it on your sock while you tap your foot.
Yeah, I tap my foot so I get 5-8k at work. I check on my breaks to see if my pokemon found any watts/items for me. It's funny seeing the whole work day when I return him to the cart cause I can pinpoint the areas where it falls asleep or is resting to when I am driving or on a conference call.
Put it in the little handle thing on the door when you're driving. You can rack up some pretty nice watts in a short trip. I can usually get like 500 on my 10 minute drive home.
To clarify, I'm certain he means the inside thing, not the external handle. Don't be stupid and lose your walker to a gust of wind.
Is there a way to replace the walker, anyway?
You can forcefully return your Pokemon to the cart if your pokewalker breaks or is lost with a series of button presses at the pokewalker menu, and then you can buy a replacement pokewalker from the Nintendo store.
Sadly, to check the IVs you really need to go into a battle where your pokemon will be set to a high level (a wi-fi battle) and then put their stats into an online calculator. A man in the battle tower lobby can give you a slight idea, though.
As for getting good ones, it can be hard. The best way is to have a parent with a good IV in one stat hold one of the Power items (purchasable at the Battle Frontier). Each item corresponds to one stat, and the parent holding the item will pass their IV in that stat to the baby. There's also a chance that some of the parent's IVs will be naturally passed down. The best way is to have parents with good IVs and also to have good luck.
IV breeding is a real pain.
You can always give your Pokemon a load of rare candies, check its IVs, then reset the game without saving. Relies on you having a load of rare candies, but it's what I do.
So I just spent a bunch of time using my roommates game to try to breed me an extremespeed Dratini only to find out his Dratini is female and its needs to be male to pass down extremespeed (fucking stupid). Can anyone breed my a extremespeed Dratini? I'll hatch the egg on my own, obviously, if needed.
Aww. I fought a good Pikachu (!!!), but it got away. Still, pretty good for the first day attempt. I got a (!!) one but it most likely just has Volt Tackle, so I'm just going to leave it in for today so that I don't start seeing ones with Flail.
Kor (or anyone else who is up for a battle), I still have a team ready for battle, but I'm not going to be sitting at my computer. I'll check back every now and then for the next couple hours.
I just put the sucker on my key chain so now its always on me. Keys go in pocket and everything registers fine.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
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My job involves a lot of walking around (like around 20,000 steps), so I don't need to trick the thing.
Although, for some reason the interaction between my and my bosses Pokewalker wasn't recorded in the Stroll diary. I still got the item, but that was weird.
Aww. I fought a good Pikachu (!!!), but it got away. Still, pretty good for the first day attempt. I got a (!!) one but it most likely just has Volt Tackle, so I'm just going to leave it in for today so that I don't start seeing ones with Flail.
Kor (or anyone else who is up for a battle), I still have a team ready for battle, but I'm not going to be sitting at my computer. I'll check back every now and then for the next couple hours.
I'll get you my friend code in a sec. I should have a new one if my cartridge is in a different DS now, right?
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KorKnown to detonate from time to timeRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
Sorry, just had a round of Megaman 10. I'm here now for battles.
Aww. I fought a good Pikachu (!!!), but it got away. Still, pretty good for the first day attempt. I got a (!!) one but it most likely just has Volt Tackle, so I'm just going to leave it in for today so that I don't start seeing ones with Flail.
Kor (or anyone else who is up for a battle), I still have a team ready for battle, but I'm not going to be sitting at my computer. I'll check back every now and then for the next couple hours.
The ones with three !!! have either Fly or Volt Tackle, I think.
By the way, Kay, I didn't know that jokes shouldn't be backed off until 12:00, yet it was 11:57 at the time I posted that.
Its already clear to me that I seriously underestimated Kor's team.
Yet you keep killing my mans.
edit: ha! got one!
Yeah, I critical'd the one that made me panic a bit, although it still survived.
EDIT: Good game! You had a good lead and your second thing scared me, although my new guy pretty much trounced everything else.
I could mix it up and play again if you want, although it kinda hurts that I know your team now.
Is there anywhere I can go other than smogon.com to kinda list me what pokemon are good and what are bad, so I can try to build a good team?
Karen of the Elite Four is not happy with you.
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KorKnown to detonate from time to timeRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
Man, Spiritomb worked better than I thought he would. I wonder if I had actually EV trained any of my dudes if they would have actually survived more than one blow.
Man, Spiritomb worked better than I thought he would. I wonder if I had actually EV trained any of my dudes if they would have actually survived more than one blow.
Hard to say. I was a little surprised that my Gyarados outsped a few specific guys. I was expecting the last attack to reeeally hurt but the OKHO was a bit of a surprise. EV training is vital.
Nah, I'll hold off on the rematch. Blackbeard, I'll be waiting in the lobby for you.
Actually wait a sec. I ballsed it up and need to enter wifi and re-register everyone since this is on a XL now. Probably got time for a rematch with him if you want.
Okay. Battle Factory is fun as hell sometimes. A shuckle was stalling my baton pass Espeon while I was calm minding up. The shuckle was using swagger like crazy. I passed +6 attack +4 sp.atk +4 sp.def to an electivire
One hit the rest of his team.
I bet the next round of pokes will be nothing but one hit ko moves
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Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
I gathered. But I can easily get 12000 steps in a day with my walks + work. So it's a non-issue for me.
Wow... I need to be more active. I used to walk about 1-2 miles to work every day, but ever since the great Dell screwjob, well...
Pity.
If you've got restless foot syndrome like me, put it on your sock while you tap your foot.
I got a 30k step day like that once >_>
Are you still looking? I just tossed together a team and I want to test the WiFi in this apartment anyway.
My FC is 2107-0892-4633
Is there a way to replace the walker, anyway?
You can forcefully return your Pokemon to the cart if your pokewalker breaks or is lost with a series of button presses at the pokewalker menu, and then you can buy a replacement pokewalker from the Nintendo store.
Yeah I know, I have one of those hooks on the inside of my car that I want to see if the swinging around will add up as opposed to my gas pedaling.
You can always give your Pokemon a load of rare candies, check its IVs, then reset the game without saving. Relies on you having a load of rare candies, but it's what I do.
Isn't that the whole point?
I get about 12000 on a day of teaching
I walk/jog/bike when I get home. Although I hear it's gonna rain today...
Kor (or anyone else who is up for a battle), I still have a team ready for battle, but I'm not going to be sitting at my computer. I'll check back every now and then for the next couple hours.
I just really don't feel like carrying this on my sock for a year to unlock everything.
Although, for some reason the interaction between my and my bosses Pokewalker wasn't recorded in the Stroll diary. I still got the item, but that was weird.
I'll get you my friend code in a sec. I should have a new one if my cartridge is in a different DS now, right?
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
The ones with three !!! have either Fly or Volt Tackle, I think.
By the way, Kay, I didn't know that jokes shouldn't be backed off until 12:00, yet it was 11:57 at the time I posted that.
Yet you keep killing my mans.
edit: ha! got one!
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Yeah, I critical'd the one that made me panic a bit, although it still survived.
EDIT: Good game! You had a good lead and your second thing scared me, although my new guy pretty much trounced everything else.
I could mix it up and play again if you want, although it kinda hurts that I know your team now.
I like strong pokemon. It's why I didn't get extremespeed dratini.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Hard to say. I was a little surprised that my Gyarados outsped a few specific guys. I was expecting the last attack to reeeally hurt but the OKHO was a bit of a surprise. EV training is vital.
Actually wait a sec. I ballsed it up and need to enter wifi and re-register everyone since this is on a XL now. Probably got time for a rematch with him if you want.
FC is 1031 7794 6437
Coincidentally, where's the best place to be leveling for them?
Got my Thunder Pikachu, as well as the Oran Berry holding boobie prize, so... Yeah.
One hit the rest of his team.
I bet the next round of pokes will be nothing but one hit ko moves