Can someone explain how this screenshot can exist?
(Heavy Slam is a physical move, Burn cuts your Attack in half. That second Heavy Slam should have dealt less damage.)
I've gone over the Bulbapedia articles for Heavy Slam and Burn and didn't see anything that would explain it. My opponent offered the possible explanation of "the damage is based off of an external variable" which could be the case, but I'm doubtful because the target's relative weight only affects Heavy Slam's base power. Is it possible that it's just a Showdown bug? The whole replay is here, for reference. It's also a really cool battle that I had anyway, so you should watch it regardless.
This is just because of Dragonite's Multiscale. It halved the damage of your first attack.
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So while breeding I got my first shiny, a Dratini. Now I need to figure out what I can try and get for it to help my son's obsession with legendaries. As soon as he finishes catching Moltress on my Y, I can restart so I get to keep a copy of Yvetal for myself, then start on the Black2/White2 I bought on the way home from PAX. Luckily my wife supports my new found pokemon obsession, though I still am not sure if I regret skipping HeartGold and SoulSilver for 70$.
I haven't made a new team since the beginning of gen VI. For the two generations I've played competitively I seem to have done the same thing:
Make a slightly gimmicky team whose core strategy only involves two pokemon
Choose four pokemon as filler, mostly so you can test out the two "real" pokemon
Discover that those two pokemon do, indeed, work well together.
Discover that, despite never intending to keep them, your filler pokemon actually have quite a lot of synergy with your strategy
Discover that they have a lot of synergy with each other
"Oops, I accidentally made a good team"
Swap out one pokemon for another exactly once when the meta changes
Never touch it again
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I've been making an effort to catch all the legendaries I can from Diamond and White 2, and just now I failed my most infuriating attempt at capturing a legendary (specifically, Diamond's Heatran) ever. I got her down to one hit point with False Swipe and paralyzed her. I used 30 Ultra Balls, 5 Timer Balls and 9 Dusk Balls with no success. I only had one Dusk Ball left, and right before I could use it Heatran used Struggle and knocked herself out. What the fucking fuck.
The worst thing is that even if I had caught her there was only a 50% chance she would have a Modest nature like I wanted.
I haven't made a new team since the beginning of gen VI. For the two generations I've played competitively I seem to have done the same thing:
Make a slightly gimmicky team whose core strategy only involves two pokemon
Choose four pokemon as filler, mostly so you can test out the two "real" pokemon
Discover that those two pokemon do, indeed, work well together.
Discover that, despite never intending to keep them, your filler pokemon actually have quite a lot of synergy with your strategy
Discover that they have a lot of synergy with each other
"Oops, I accidentally made a good team"
Swap out one pokemon for another exactly once when the meta changes
Never touch it again
I like playing around with lots of different Pokémon to find what works (I play on Battle Spot, though, so I'm not constantly up against top-tier opponents). Right now my favorite team strategy revolves around my Gourgeist.
Alissey
Super Size Gourgeist
Frisk
Max HP, Max Def, Remainder Atk
Leftovers
Shadow Sneak, Phantom Force, Trick-or-Treat, Will-o-Wisp
Alissey is very durable (I'm talking "survive a Megahorn from a Choice Banded Escavalier with 1/3 total HP remaining" durable), and with Phantom Force she benefits from Leftovers while being safe from harm. Will-o-Wisp allows Alissey to neuter physical attackers after tanking their attack. Trick-or-Treat adds the Ghost type to the target Pokémon, letting her two ghost-type attacks deal more damage in most cases (Phantom Force especially becomes surprisingly powerful). Her teammates all have at least one Dark or Ghost type attack (my Toxicroak has both Pursuit and Sucker Punch, which is pretty fun), so even if Alissey goes down she hopefully at least got Trick-or-Treat on something that will be severely hurt by it.
With all that said, most of my battling experience has been in 3 vs 3, where I suspect the smaller number of opponents makes this strategy more viable than it would be in 6 vs 6.
I will make a proper doubles team for VGC, but up to this point I haven't made a specific team in XY. I have about half a box full of bred and trained random Pokemon that I throw together and see how they work. Some of them work really well! Some of them do not. But it is entertaining.
I will make a proper doubles team for VGC, but up to this point I haven't made a specific team in XY. I have about half a box full of bred and trained random Pokemon that I throw together and see how they work. Some of them work really well! Some of them do not. But it is entertaining.
Yeah, that's how I am too. I see a pokemon on youtube or whatever, and try it out. Sometimes it doesn't work out as planned, though.
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So I'm trying to fill up my dex. I'm up to 619 at the moment. Does anyone that has some spare time in a few hours, have time to trade some of their legendary pokemon back and forth so I can have them in my dex? Wouldn't mind having a Manaphy for a few mins to breed a quick Phione or two as well If you're in Australia time zone that would make it easier, probably wont be available to do said trading tonight til 20:00 EST. If not today then another day soon would work as well. Hit me up in PMs and we can organise stuff.
I just got on Pokémon Global Link for the first time in a while to exchange Pokemiles for Heart Scales. I don't know how long this has been available, but there's now a feature with rating battle statistics that showcases a lot of interesting information. You can see how often a Pokémon is used, what it's top ten most frequent moves and equipped items are, what percentage of individuals of its kind have what ability, what Pokémon are most often seen on the same team as it, what moves it uses most often to win matches, and what moves it most often falls to. Did Gamefreak keep such records before? If not, will they do anything with this information?
BTW, out of curiosity I decided to look at several Mega Evolution capable Pokémon to see how often they are equipped with their mega stone. Mawile, unsurprisingly, has Mawilite 99.6% of the time. Charizard is equipped with Charizardite Y 70.8% of the time, with Charizardite X only having a 25.3% use. Gyarados has its Mega Stone 48.5% of the time, Gardevoir 43.6%, and Tyranitar 24%. Only 7.3% of Garchomps are equipped with their Mega Stone.
They've had it for a while, it is really fun to look at things and get new ideas for sets from them.
I think I'm gonna use it for ideas on how to foil overused Pokemon and moves with less commonly used Pokemon.
I'm surprised I don't see Heliolisk more often. A Dry Skin Heliolisk with an Air Baloon equipped is healed by water attacks and immune to both ghost and ground. Furthermore, it can do deal a lot of damage with just Volt Switch, can learn Surf, and gets STAB with Hyper Beam (which can be invaluable when both you and your opponent are down to a single Pokemon).
I'm not sure I'd waste a valuable moveslot on Hyper Beam, regardless of STAB and the usefulness of it when you're both down to one poké (Let's be honest, the odds of that happening are low).
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Why the hell can't the stupid stone shop just carry all the stones. I have millions of dollars, I just want to spend it on stones if needed, not do stupid training crap.
I'm not sure I'd waste a valuable moveslot on Hyper Beam, regardless of STAB and the usefulness of it when you're both down to one poké (Let's be honest, the odds of that happening are low).
I mainly play in Battle Spot 3 vs 3, where (in my experience, at least) this sort of thing happens often.
So do EVs only matter if you get them early? I thought they were flat stat increases but my new understanding is that they are an investment over time and levels.
Would the best method for Super Training Pokemon be to just do it at level 1 or does it matter?
Hoopa has an odd movepool but has an 80 bp psychic attack that ignores protect and detect. He can learn stuff like Grass knotFocus blast and Thunderbolt as well.
Volcanion has a gold shiny and its signature move is a 110 bp 95 acc scald. It gets weatherball too making it a weather team wet dream
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So do EVs only matter if you get them early? I thought they were flat stat increases but my new understanding is that they are an investment over time and levels.
Would the best method for Super Training Pokemon be to just do it at level 1 or does it matter?
It doesnt matter when you EV as long as its before level 100 . The stats with an eb boost at level 100 are the most extreme though which is why nobody likes the forced level 50 battles
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So do EVs only matter if you get them early? I thought they were flat stat increases but my new understanding is that they are an investment over time and levels.
Would the best method for Super Training Pokemon be to just do it at level 1 or does it matter?
It doesnt matter when you EV as long as its before level 100 . The stats with an eb boost at level 100 are the most extreme though which is why nobody likes the forced level 50 battles
Oh neat! New Pokeymans right after I start playing X/Y.
I wonder, if you used Pokébank or something to transfer Pokémon to yourself, do they count as traded and not obey until you have badges? I am guessing they would, that makes sense.
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The worst thing is that even if I had caught her there was only a 50% chance she would have a Modest nature like I wanted.
I like playing around with lots of different Pokémon to find what works (I play on Battle Spot, though, so I'm not constantly up against top-tier opponents). Right now my favorite team strategy revolves around my Gourgeist.
Alissey
Super Size Gourgeist
Frisk
Max HP, Max Def, Remainder Atk
Leftovers
Shadow Sneak, Phantom Force, Trick-or-Treat, Will-o-Wisp
Alissey is very durable (I'm talking "survive a Megahorn from a Choice Banded Escavalier with 1/3 total HP remaining" durable), and with Phantom Force she benefits from Leftovers while being safe from harm. Will-o-Wisp allows Alissey to neuter physical attackers after tanking their attack. Trick-or-Treat adds the Ghost type to the target Pokémon, letting her two ghost-type attacks deal more damage in most cases (Phantom Force especially becomes surprisingly powerful). Her teammates all have at least one Dark or Ghost type attack (my Toxicroak has both Pursuit and Sucker Punch, which is pretty fun), so even if Alissey goes down she hopefully at least got Trick-or-Treat on something that will be severely hurt by it.
With all that said, most of my battling experience has been in 3 vs 3, where I suspect the smaller number of opponents makes this strategy more viable than it would be in 6 vs 6.
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Yeah, that's how I am too. I see a pokemon on youtube or whatever, and try it out. Sometimes it doesn't work out as planned, though.
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BTW, out of curiosity I decided to look at several Mega Evolution capable Pokémon to see how often they are equipped with their mega stone. Mawile, unsurprisingly, has Mawilite 99.6% of the time. Charizard is equipped with Charizardite Y 70.8% of the time, with Charizardite X only having a 25.3% use. Gyarados has its Mega Stone 48.5% of the time, Gardevoir 43.6%, and Tyranitar 24%. Only 7.3% of Garchomps are equipped with their Mega Stone.
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I think I'm gonna use it for ideas on how to foil overused Pokemon and moves with less commonly used Pokemon.
I'm surprised I don't see Heliolisk more often. A Dry Skin Heliolisk with an Air Baloon equipped is healed by water attacks and immune to both ghost and ground. Furthermore, it can do deal a lot of damage with just Volt Switch, can learn Surf, and gets STAB with Hyper Beam (which can be invaluable when both you and your opponent are down to a single Pokemon).
I mainly play in Battle Spot 3 vs 3, where (in my experience, at least) this sort of thing happens often.
Would the best method for Super Training Pokemon be to just do it at level 1 or does it matter?
Hoopa has an odd movepool but has an 80 bp psychic attack that ignores protect and detect. He can learn stuff like Grass knotFocus blast and Thunderbolt as well.
Volcanion has a gold shiny and its signature move is a 110 bp 95 acc scald. It gets weatherball too making it a weather team wet dream
It doesnt matter when you EV as long as its before level 100 . The stats with an eb boost at level 100 are the most extreme though which is why nobody likes the forced level 50 battles
You can EV train at 100 now.
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When I battled yesterday, the game said I've hatched around 5000 eggs, but that's also counting pre-Shiny Charm shenanigans.
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Appropriate.
I wonder, if you used Pokébank or something to transfer Pokémon to yourself, do they count as traded and not obey until you have badges? I am guessing they would, that makes sense.