[Game On] Pokemon D/P and Battle Revolution

BlueBlue

Why unburden? He can't get rid of the brightpowder.

Munkus Beaver

RainOPain wrote: »

I just beat the Elite Four and am trying to decide what would be a rad team for kicking the asses of my friends who play

How do these 3 look?

Snorlax – w/ Leftovers, Careful nature, ability Thick Fat, EV’s: 252 Sp.Def, 128 HP, 128 Def
· Curse
· Rest
· Sleep Talk
· Body Slam

Drifblim – w/ Bright Powder, Timid nature, ability Unburden, EV’s: 252 Speed, 128 Def, 128 Sp.Def
· Minimize
· Baton Pass
· Hypnosis
· Rest

Garchomp – w/ Shell Bell, Adamant nature, EV trained in Attack and Speed/HP
· Sandstorm
· Earthquake
· Outrage
· Fire Fang

I'm also thinking about a Scizor with Technician, though it seems like the only physical move that will let me take advantage of that is Metal Claw.

Aerial Ace

Mordrack

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

TyrantCow wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

argh

I need 10 irons to get this Tyrogue to have a hope of evolving into a Hitmontop.

Argh.

Cash money.

10 BP?

i would rather not waste my BP on bloody iron

Use the vs seeker on the rich kid named Trey directly outside of the resort on the road toward Sunyshore, battle his one level 55 Luxio, bike back to the resort, touch the wall, go back, rinse, repeat, 17600 each time with an amulet stone.

RainOPain

Yeah, I don't know why I went with Unburden. Good catch.

Also, Aerial Ace works but since it doesn't get the STAB bonus with Scizor isn't it better to just go with moves above 60 base attack power?

Speed Racer

Sandstorm will screw with your other Pokemon. Also don't split up physical and special moves.

If you're going to Baton Pass, you should probably make him a devoted Baton Passer. Stuff like Calm Mind and Substitute would be optimal.

It looks decent on paper, but Sleep Talk has a nasty habit of choosing Rest when you need it most. I'd replace it with either Yawn or Crunch.

Also, you've already got two Pokemon weak to ice-type, so watch that.

Also, if you want to build a Scizor Technician, Aerial Ace, Night Slash, U-Turn, Double Hit, Quick Attack, and Metal Claw are all of the options worth mentioning. Swords Dance wouldn't hurt either.

Munkus Beaver

RainOPain wrote: »

Yeah, I don't know why I went with Unburden. Good catch.

Also, Aerial Ace works but since it doesn't get the STAB bonus with Scizor isn't it better to just go with moves above 60 base attack power?

Aerial Ace becomes a 90 attack power move with technician.

Otherwise: X-Scissor, Iron Head, and Night Slash.

Speed Racer

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

RainOPain wrote: »

Yeah, I don't know why I went with Unburden. Good catch.

Also, Aerial Ace works but since it doesn't get the STAB bonus with Scizor isn't it better to just go with moves above 60 base attack power?

Aerial Ace becomes a 90 attack power move with technician.

Otherwise: X-Scissor, Iron Head, and Night Slash.

I'm pretty sure the cut-off for Technician is 70, not 80.

Munkus Beaver

Nah, it's 60.

EDIT: The other moves I listed are just to round out the scizor. Aerial Ace is pretty much the only move that takes advantage of technician, but that's enough, really.

Speed Racer

Then why do Ambipoms hit so hard with U-Turn?

And Double Hit takes advantage of Technician damn nicely too.

AshtonDragon

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

Then why do Ambipom's hit so hard with U-Turn?

Life Orb, and/or your pokemon have bad defenses. The Technician cut-off is 60, trust me.

Speed Racer

AshtonDragon wrote: »

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

Then why do Ambipom's hit so hard with U-Turn?

Life Orb, and/or your pokemon have bad defenses. The Technician cut-off is 60, trust me.

Huh. Well, hm.

So then, why do people treat U-Turn like an Ambipom staple?

RainOPain

Thanks for the tips, guys

Munkus Beaver

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

Then why do Ambipoms hit so hard with U-Turn?

And Double Hit takes advantage of Technician damn nicely too.

Double hit is two 35 shots, making it a 105 attack on Scizor. But it's not super effective against anything, hence why I'd go with Aerial Ace. Iron Head usually does the trick for most poke-types.

Munkus Beaver

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

AshtonDragon wrote: »

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

Then why do Ambipom's hit so hard with U-Turn?

Life Orb, and/or your pokemon have bad defenses. The Technician cut-off is 60, trust me.

Huh. Well, hm.

So then, why do people treat U-Turn like an Ambipom staple?

Because it attacks and gets Ambipom the fuck out of Dodge.

Speed Racer

Fair enough.

Also really guys even if someone could do a tradeback real quick with a member of the Feraligatr line that would be really awesome.

Munkus Beaver

In a little bit.

Climbing the tower.

TyrantCow

Mushroom Pie wrote: »

Fair enough.

Also really guys even if someone could do a tradeback real quick with a member of the Feraligatr line that would be really awesome.

I have a couple extra totodiles, if you desire.

BlueBlue

So there's a thing on PBR where you can only use level 5 or under pokemon. I'm thinking a gible with dragon rage should ohko everything?

FirmSkater

Whats a good moveset for Rampardos? I seriously suck at this kind of thing, I haven't even beaten the elite four yet, I'm going to get all my team to 55+ before heading down victory road, all my other pokemon have moves sets I'm very happpy with.

Rampardos is the only one I can't figure out.

SirToasty

FirmSkater wrote: »

Whats a good moveset for Rampardos? I seriously suck at this kind of thing, I haven't even beaten the elite four yet, I'm going to get all my team to 55+ before heading down victory road, all my other pokemon have moves sets I'm very happpy with.

Rampardos is the only one I can't figure out.

Head Smash is a given.

Munkus Beaver

Ha ha! Focus sash works on guillotine! Fuck you, battle tower!

Shujin Katana

GUYS

FAKE OUT, U TURN

you don't use u turn to do damage, you use it to get out before you take damage (and with life orb, IVs, and EVs, it does nice damage anyway)

(unless you are facing a psychic pokemon, like say i don't know, an alakazam, then you might use uturn for damage)

Munkus Beaver

Man, I thought I was done for against the 2nd tower tycoon when he knocked out my Alakazam.

Then I realized his Cressilia only had Moonlight, Shadow Ball, Calm mind, and probably a pyschic attack.

So I sent in Nads, Dragon Danced 4 times while being pelted by calm mind, then swept him away.

Halfway there!

Faustum

oh no i requested to be in the second tournament and didnt get in!

more time to tune my team for tournament three...



...i will return

KiTA

Has anyone any experience with Contests? I've never, ever explored that part of Pokemon, and am sadly lacking.

Namely...

1. How does one breed / raise a good Contest Pokemon?
2. What movesets are ideal for a Contest Pokemon?
2b. In addition to this, what are some Pokemon that are better suited to Contests due to their movesets?
3. Besides moveset and their poffin-increased stats (Which will be hard for me to do, since my stylus is MIA), what else helps out in Contests?

The Wolfman

BlueBlue wrote: »

So there's a thing on PBR where you can only use level 5 or under pokemon. I'm thinking a gible with dragon rage should ohko everything?

Fixed damage moves like Dragon Rage are banned for the lv5 fights (for obvious reasons).

Vray

I saw this somewhere and wanted to slap myself in the face for not thinking of it myself


[email protected]'s rock

Fakeout
Fling
Protect
Last resort



Sure it gets screwed over by ghosts and steels and rocks and inner focus and steadfast and and and....damnit

Well, barring type/ability screwage, you'll have access to a 195 BP move after stab for some good damage.

Munkus Beaver

Doubleslap has 140 attack power with technician on Ambipom.

Nozz

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Doubleslap has 140 attack power with technician on Ambipom.

and swift is ridiculous

Vray

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Doubleslap has 140 attack power with technician on Ambipom.

Doubleslap? The move that hits between 2 and 5 times? Just seems a bit too unreliable to me.

Munkus Beaver

The move that hit two times.

35 power each.

With stab and tech. that become 70 power each hit. AKA 140 power.

Double-slap always hits twice and only twice.

Buzz Buzz

You're thinking of Double Hit, Munkus. Doubleslap is one of those crummy Fury Swipes style moves.

The Wolfman

There's a hold item that makes all multi-hit moves hit for their maximum amount of times.

Doing the math for Fury swipes:

18 base power X 1.5 Technician boost = 27 X 5 hits = 135 total power.

Jesus.... 80 accuracy though. If you hit with the initial hit, are you guaranteed to hit with the rest? Or does it calculate the accuracy "per hit"?

RadioKeg

from experience, its calculated per hit.

i could be wrong though.

HtR-Laser

So I finished Stargazer Colosseum. Gots me a Crown and a white suit now, bitches.

Seriously though, after Sunset it was all ridiculously easy. Double battles can suck it; I'm going all the way to rank one million in Main Street Colosseum.

Fantasyrogue

Ooh, I caught my first ever shiny (whiscash) and I caught the feebas I was actually after.

What would be the best nature for a feebas, so it can be useful beyond evolving into Milotic as a pokedex entry? Modest? Mild? Does it make a lot of difference between these? (I'm considering training one but I've never actually properly trained a pokemon before)

mystic_knight

Nozz wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Doubleslap has 140 attack power with technician on Ambipom.

and swift is ridiculous

Swift is also special.

Which means it's fucking useless for Ambipom.

Slagmire

Fantasyrogue wrote: »

Ooh, I caught my first ever shiny (whiscash) and I caught the feebas I was actually after.

What would be the best nature for a feebas, so it can be useful beyond evolving into Milotic as a pokedex entry? Modest? Mild? Does it make a lot of difference between these? (I'm considering training one but I've never actually properly trained a pokemon before)

You'll probably want Modest seeing as it only naturally learns two physical moves and it's attack stat is low normally anyway. Not to mention that the pofins you'll feed it will add to its beauty stat too.

angrylinuxgeek

I just got my shit ruined by a Girafarig that must've had Choice Specs

Seguer

Forgive me for asking, but I'd prefer not to crawl through 26 pages to look for an answer, and Google just has other people asking.

What is the actual difference between Diamond and Pearl? I know there are different pokemon available in each, but specifically which?