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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Chen wrote: »
    Yeah, exposure might be good. Only three registrants so far. Might have to extend the deadline if there's not enough people.

    A deadline extension would probably be good. You could always see if anyone in SE++ is interested, too.

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  • KoldanarKoldanar Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Those that I was hoping would help me trade : I should have some time later tonight (Lets say after 7 PM EST) if any of you will be around.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    I don't know why we keep trying

    how many of these tournaments have worked out in, like, 4 years of threads

    I can remember at least three tournaments running pretty well. One at the very least, because I ran it.

    Main reasons I didn't sign up for this one are because I don't really like flat battles and because I haven't been playing Pokemon lately anyway (half because of how bad flat battles are, half because of fighting games).

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  • troublebrewingtroublebrewing Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I would sign up but I just know there's no way I'll have a team ready in time.

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  • ZombiewskiZombiewski New JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just signed up with the team I've been tweaking. I'll probably lose first round, but them's the breaks.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's show six, choose three, so you only really need to train three! The other three can be just to look scary on the poke selection screen so who cares about the stats, as long as they're level 50 or over and holding something, they're good to go.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm ready to go! Well, mostly. I'm putting the finishing touches one last pokemon and grabbing an item or two from the battle subway. I hope it works out. Otherwise, I'll have this totally badass team for squashing people on the GTS.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's show six, choose three, so you only really need to train three! The other three can be just to look scary on the poke selection screen so who cares about the stats, as long as they're level 50 or over and holding something, they're good to go.

    Sorry, that's just not enough to have decent coverage.

    Flat battles aren't really as bad as they look. They're just different and you need to have more specialization. It also features less stall.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    I'm totally up for regular battles, though
    sign up mang

    The counter is now at 5! (excluding me)

    edit: correction: 6!

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    RockinX wrote: »
    It's show six, choose three, so you only really need to train three! The other three can be just to look scary on the poke selection screen so who cares about the stats, as long as they're level 50 or over and holding something, they're good to go.

    Sorry, that's just not enough to have decent coverage.

    Flat battles aren't really as bad as they look. They're just different and you need to have more specialization. It also features less stall.

    I'm trying to encourage participants in a for funsies tourney, no need to get all super cereal about it :P

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    RockinX wrote: »
    It's show six, choose three, so you only really need to train three! The other three can be just to look scary on the poke selection screen so who cares about the stats, as long as they're level 50 or over and holding something, they're good to go.

    Sorry, that's just not enough to have decent coverage.

    Flat battles aren't really as bad as they look. They're just different and you need to have more specialization. It also features less stall.

    I'm trying to encourage participants in a for funsies tourney, no need to get all super cereal about it :P

    Oh, sorry. I've been playing too seriously lately. I need to lighten up, yeah.

    Have you announced the prize, Chen?

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    No, I'm going to wait after the tournament ends. Maybe I should as an extra incentive to sign up.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ugh, just got to Black City and it's like a graveyard. Guess I know what I'll be doing during PAX.

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  • troublebrewingtroublebrewing Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just double checking but I after an EV gets to the max it just "caps out" right? Meaning if I killed a couple extra pokes of the desired EV accidently I won't cheat myself from anything in the other stat i want to EV train?

    As long as that is okay I'm about halfway through EV training I think the first poke I've raised up myself. The power items guaranteeing a pass down is really nice!

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It caps at 255, so if you don't care about that extra stat point, yes, it's much easier to just train in excess and be safe

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Is anyone else having issues logging into the PGL?

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm having issues with the whole system. It fucking sucks that you have to get 10,000 points just to have the chance of encountering a pokémon.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nevermind, it's working now.

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  • DashDash Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Lodsiek wrote: »
    Dash wrote: »
    Rather than hear me analyze it, just watch the battle video I uploaded. It’s intense!

    26-39851-57903

    How do you watch this?

    EDIT: Never mind, found it. Talk to Global chick at the back of the Pokemon Center.

    So, awesome right?? That Dark Gem totally shut down my stall tactics with Renucleus before I could even start though.


    I hope to enter the tourny. I'm gonna figure out my team tonight and send them in tomorrow. An announced prize would probably be a good incentive to get others in on it.

    So like, my friend has this shiny Emboar, that he swears he hatched, but it has different OT and is in goddamned Friend Ball. He says he bred it from a normal Tepig he got over GTS, which had a different OT from what is on the current Emboar(Ricky, and Ricardo lol). What on earth kind of hack is this?

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Hacked as hell. Starters should always be in pokeballs (unless there's maybe a special event ball or something)

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ugh, I could be so close to having the item I need, but in the Subway I missed due to Brightpowder twice in a row with a 100% accurate move and lost.

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  • DashDash Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Spoit wrote: »
    Hacked as hell. Starters should always be in pokeballs (unless there's maybe a special event ball or something)

    Yeah was telling him that myself. We figured he should probably release it to be safe. He was so proud to have a shiny too. At least he'll have the shiny dex entry to look back on!

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  • glithertglithert Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    How does iv inheritance work? if I breed a jolly Archen with an everstone and a ditto with a power whatever (the one that passes on attack) will I eventually get one that has perfect attack and just inherit perfect speed from the Ditto, or what?

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  • FerquinFerquin Snorlax Renton, WA, USARegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Event Pokémon always come in a Cherish Ball. Also, aside from Shiny Pichu (and its evos), Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Eevee (and its evos), and Milotic, there should not be any shiny event Pokémon. (Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head that are official released shinies.)

    Also, Friend Balls are exclusive to HeartGold/SoulSilver since it's a Poké Ball made from a Grn Apricorn. It's impossible to have a Tepig (let alone a shiny one) be in a Friend Ball.

    Before you release it, at least evolve it into Pignite and Emboar so you can record the shiny forms for each.

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  • FerquinFerquin Snorlax Renton, WA, USARegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    glithert wrote: »
    How does iv inheritance work? if I breed a jolly Archen with an everstone and a ditto with a power whatever (the one that passes on attack) will I eventually get one that has perfect attack and just inherit perfect speed from the Ditto, or what?

    It will pass on the IV of the holder of the Power item for the corresponding stat. If you want your Archen to have perfect Speed, you better have a Ditto that also has a perfect speed IV and have it hold the Power Anklet.

    Everstone only has the chance of passing down the nature of the Pokémon holding it. So, in your case, you can possibly have a Jolly Archen, and if the Ditto you're breeding it with also has a perfect Speed IV, then the Jolly Archen offspring may inherit this. If the Archen you're breeding from has a perfect Attack IV, you'll want it to hold the Power Bracer for a chance to have the offspring inherit both perfect IVs. However, the drawback is that you no longer have the chance to control what nature it is without the Everstone since each Pokémon can only hold one item. There is the slight chance that it may pass down the perfect IVs with only one of the Power items, but this is more likely to happen when breeding from the offspring itself instead of the original Archen.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    glithert wrote: »
    How does iv inheritance work? if I breed a jolly Archen with an everstone and a ditto with a power whatever (the one that passes on attack) will I eventually get one that has perfect attack and just inherit perfect speed from the Ditto, or what?

    Three IVs at random are chosen from the parents, the other three are entirely randomly generated. Power [item] forces one of the inherited ivs to be from that parent. Everstone is unrelated to IVs and gives a 50% chance of passing on nature.

    So in your above case the offspring would be 50% jolly and 100% with the attack IV of the Ditto. The speed IV has a 60% chance to be entirely random, a 20% chance of coming from the Ditto and a 20% chance of coming from the Archen.

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  • troublebrewingtroublebrewing Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You put that very well Jam, cleared it up for me too.

    and also, Scald > Surf ?

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dash wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Hacked as hell. Starters should always be in pokeballs (unless there's maybe a special event ball or something)

    Yeah was telling him that myself. We figured he should probably release it to be safe. He was so proud to have a shiny too. At least he'll have the shiny dex entry to look back on!

    No need to release it if you like it, just don't use it online.

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  • DashDash Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Yeah but it was hatched and had a different OT from even the one and a Johto ball. I mean, that's a pretty whack hack. Wouldn't trust it in my game. I did fight it locally though, and it's not really overly powerful from what I can tell.

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  • battledrillbattledrill Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I just wanted to come in here and say, I have no idea what EV training or Max Stats breeding is. But I have a Dragonite I just imported to Pokemon Black from my Soulsilver. He punches the shit out of everyone. OHKO's err'body and they mommas. Bitches don't know about my Outrage.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    You put that very well Jam, cleared it up for me too.

    and also, Scald > Surf ?

    I prefer Scald, for the burn, but you won't be OHKO very much at that power.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Fuck, Female Eeevees are popping up all over Smogon. I wish I hadn't wasted my fucking day just for a fucking Bold Espeon.

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  • troublebrewingtroublebrewing Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    female eevees with hidden abilities?

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Yes, they were just released in Japan.

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  • AdelliosAdellios Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Tempted to getting one to breed but I wonder if it would it be worth breeding for a shiny one.


    Getting sick of Frillish thats for sure.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's pretty coo'. I take it no one plays B/W in Japanese. I'd hunt down the GTS if I weren't so damn lazy.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm looking for someone on Smogon who caught the original female themselves so I can breed it myself.

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  • ZombiewskiZombiewski New JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    15 minutes tracking down a goddamn Crustle.

    5 minutes waiting for it to use Stealth Rock so Smeargle could steal it.

    I get to the Daycare and finally notice the Smeargle's sex: female. FUCK!

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zombiewski wrote: »
    15 minutes tracking down a goddamn Crustle.

    5 minutes waiting for it to use Stealth Rock so Smeargle could steal it.

    I get to the Daycare and finally notice the Smeargle's sex: female. FUCK!

    It's happened to me before.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ferquin wrote: »
    glithert wrote: »
    How does iv inheritance work? if I breed a jolly Archen with an everstone and a ditto with a power whatever (the one that passes on attack) will I eventually get one that has perfect attack and just inherit perfect speed from the Ditto, or what?

    It will pass on the IV of the holder of the Power item for the corresponding stat. If you want your Archen to have perfect Speed, you better have a Ditto that also has a perfect speed IV and have it hold the Power Anklet.

    Everstone only has the chance of passing down the nature of the Pokémon holding it. So, in your case, you can possibly have a Jolly Archen, and if the Ditto you're breeding it with also has a perfect Speed IV, then the Jolly Archen offspring may inherit this. If the Archen you're breeding from has a perfect Attack IV, you'll want it to hold the Power Bracer for a chance to have the offspring inherit both perfect IVs. However, the drawback is that you no longer have the chance to control what nature it is without the Everstone since each Pokémon can only hold one item. There is the slight chance that it may pass down the perfect IVs with only one of the Power items, but this is more likely to happen when breeding from the offspring itself instead of the original Archen.
    I'm pretty sure using 2 power items just means that it has a 50/50 chance of inheriting one or the other, plus the normal inheritance chance, meaning that inheriting both is about as likely as using just one item

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