Whee. Well, I've trained my own espeon before so I can give you this advice - drop fake tears! Espeon is way way too fragile to use a set up move like that, plus I can just switch out to remove the effects. Also you may want to consider getting rid of recover on starmie, it's really built for attacking, rather than taking hits.
Before the battle it had Rapid Spin, but I just don't know many people that use ground effects. Against my friends recover is more viable, but I understand your point. Because I didn't know your team I just Recovered instead of attacking the Pokemon you were switching into.
...but you're absolutely right about the Espeon. I've always been iffy about it.
EDIT: Oh, and you killed the biggest part of my strategy opening move. :P
...and Oh Dear God the flinching!
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
edited January 2008
is there a way to customize the way your trainer looks online? or do both teams just use the little boy/girl?
is there a way to customize the way your trainer looks online? or do both teams just use the little boy/girl?
It's always the boy and girl online - but you can change the sprite that shows up in the local lobby by talking to some npc....somewhere. I don't remember where (some pokecenter) but they say something like "which of these are you most like" or something.
is there a way to customize the way your trainer looks online? or do both teams just use the little boy/girl?
You can only customize what your little avatar looks like (and only based off about five trainers to choose from). As soon as you enter battle your full self just looks like the guy/girl.
I don't know much about Espeon, but I will say that moves like Fake Tears and Charm are still useful, but not as a set-up...unless you have something like Stealth Rock/Spikes to discourage people from switching, or Mean Look or Spider Web or Block or whatever to actively prevent them from doing so.
What they ARE useful for is a pseudo-haze (PHaze). Basically, once you use a move like that against someone, no one in their right mind will want to keep that Pokemon in play and will probably switch it out next turn. Fake Tears is useful against special walls, in particular - with their defenses removed, guys like Milotic and Dusknoir will quickly get switched out. Charm neuters physical sweepers, and will cause them to get switched out, or get KOd.
So those moves can be strategically viable, but they can be a little bit situational. Still, if you, say, see a Blissey come out and Fake Tears it, you can possibly force a switch and buy some time to make a switch of your own (or use another helpful move, like Wish).
You can customize an avatar displayed on your friend's wi-fi lists. That's it, really.
So, BlueBlue, up for a battle?
I suppose! I can't wait to put blissey up against your balanced, all physical team. I'll warn you, though, this team is far from balanced - look out for your grass types!
I'm, uh, waiting online. I'm pretty sure you're still in my pad! I'll check. Yep.
DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
edited January 2008
Question...I was about to buy Diamond(just got a DS for Christmas) and I was wondering if the game supports trading with any of the older versions. I heard something about using the older cartridges but I wasn't sure how that works.
You can trade from the other Advance gen Pokemon games (that is, Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, and FireRed/LeafGreen), once you defeat the Elite Four. You can't trade them back once they're traded to D/P though, its a one way trade. Sadly, the previous gen games cannot trade.
And the dragon with the funny moon language is toast!
Thanks, GENGAR!
All jokes aside, good game. At the start I gambled with Swampert and lost. Because of that I became too cautious and made some bad calls, like sacrificing Gyarados and waiting to reveal my final member, I was afraid I'd run into a T-wave. Also, haha, was Bronzong ever annoying!
What made him even more annoying was that I had two counters to him that I couldn't use thanks to tyranitar, gengar, and tentacruel sitting around to take the flamethrower and mongle me.
When you swapped out whoever to take the hydro pump I was like HA, EAT IT but then it was ol' gyarados who I had forgotten about completely.
What I was afraid of also came to pass - my team was completely made up of special attackers since dave didn't have anything that can take a special hit well except for roserade sort of. Y helo thar bronzong and tentacruel! Oh, a sandstorm? Fantastic.
I don't know why you had P-Z face off against Bronzong, who given our last experience would have been your ticket out. At any rate, sending out Salamence against it is pretty risk free, so I was surprised you tried to wall it with Togekiss. It was funny to see it struggle, then you were like "shit, this isn't working at all!"
I don't know why you had P-Z face off against Bronzong, who given our last experience would have been your ticket out. At any rate, sending out Salamence against it is pretty risk free, so I was surprised you tried to wall it with Togekiss. It was funny to see it struggle, then you were like "shit, this isn't working at all!"
I was hoping to flinchhax it to death, but got sick of it. I sent out porygon-z because I didn't want infernape to eat a psychic or rack up poison damage that early, since I knew he was my best chance to deal with t-tar, and was hoping to put at least a dent in bronzong.
I don't know why I didn't use salamence, maybe he was already hurt at that point and I was intimidated by the double sp atk up it had.
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...but you're absolutely right about the Espeon. I've always been iffy about it.
EDIT: Oh, and you killed the biggest part of my strategy opening move. :P
...and Oh Dear God the flinching!
It's always the boy and girl online - but you can change the sprite that shows up in the local lobby by talking to some npc....somewhere. I don't remember where (some pokecenter) but they say something like "which of these are you most like" or something.
You can only customize what your little avatar looks like (and only based off about five trainers to choose from). As soon as you enter battle your full self just looks like the guy/girl.
EDIT: Beat, and it's Oreburgh.
So, BlueBlue, up for a battle?
What they ARE useful for is a pseudo-haze (PHaze). Basically, once you use a move like that against someone, no one in their right mind will want to keep that Pokemon in play and will probably switch it out next turn. Fake Tears is useful against special walls, in particular - with their defenses removed, guys like Milotic and Dusknoir will quickly get switched out. Charm neuters physical sweepers, and will cause them to get switched out, or get KOd.
So those moves can be strategically viable, but they can be a little bit situational. Still, if you, say, see a Blissey come out and Fake Tears it, you can possibly force a switch and buy some time to make a switch of your own (or use another helpful move, like Wish).
I suppose! I can't wait to put blissey up against your balanced, all physical team. I'll warn you, though, this team is far from balanced - look out for your grass types!
I'm, uh, waiting online. I'm pretty sure you're still in my pad! I'll check. Yep.
Damn you! DAMN YOU
Next time we fight, I'll make sure all my guys use a leftovers so we can have a real stall-off.
Thanks, GENGAR!
All jokes aside, good game. At the start I gambled with Swampert and lost. Because of that I became too cautious and made some bad calls, like sacrificing Gyarados and waiting to reveal my final member, I was afraid I'd run into a T-wave. Also, haha, was Bronzong ever annoying!
When you swapped out whoever to take the hydro pump I was like HA, EAT IT but then it was ol' gyarados who I had forgotten about completely.
What I was afraid of also came to pass - my team was completely made up of special attackers since dave didn't have anything that can take a special hit well except for roserade sort of. Y helo thar bronzong and tentacruel! Oh, a sandstorm? Fantastic.
I was hoping to flinchhax it to death, but got sick of it. I sent out porygon-z because I didn't want infernape to eat a psychic or rack up poison damage that early, since I knew he was my best chance to deal with t-tar, and was hoping to put at least a dent in bronzong.
I don't know why I didn't use salamence, maybe he was already hurt at that point and I was intimidated by the double sp atk up it had.
yeah, I'd be happy to. I just evolved my kadabra and want to trade him to make him an alakazam since the moves list is the same
edit: also, how about the new sig... eh? eh?
Edit- I got a spare Nincada you can take too.
sweet, getting on now
shut up
http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/290.shtml
Edit: Just realised my Scizor got given the Technician ability.
Is that useful?
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