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Pokemon Thread XICV: Everyone Has Caught A Shiny But You (Page 1 NSF56K)

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  • drp527drp527 We sacrifice our own That more may rise in their placeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    SLyM wrote: »
    So I'm at the elite four with my highest level being my baby eagle who still needs 4 levels to evolve and everything else 47 or lower.

    Exactly how fucked am I?

    You're actually fine, it's possible to go through with 40-42 as your team levels, although that requires a ton more items

    The Rufflet may not get much use though

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  • MizuumiMizuumi pet dog you've been eating my video game how could you eat my video gameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    so have we all gotten used to the fact that pokemon threads go on far more pages than they ought to, to the point where it is no longer a Big Deal

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    only eight more pages until we beat the last one

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I love capitalizing the first letters of Specific Words to indicate that they are More Important than the others.

    (Not mocking, I legitimately love doing that)

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  • MizuumiMizuumi pet dog you've been eating my video game how could you eat my video gameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    SLyM wrote: »
    I love capitalizing the first letters of Specific Words to indicate that they are More Important than the others.

    (Not mocking, I Legitimately Love doing that)

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  • Day of the BearDay of the Bear The Qun demandsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I think I could take the e4 down right now except I have godawful type coverage on my team. Just gonna grind a bit because it's faster then leveling up a whole 'nother dude.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    fffff, modest liquid ooze tentacool with 31s in both Defense and Special Defense

    hard to turn down but I really want that Calm bonus

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  • CrowbawtCrowbawt Member of the Midnight Crew Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Naming Pokemon is the best part of the game for sure.

    I'm not particularly good at it though.

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  • MizuumiMizuumi pet dog you've been eating my video game how could you eat my video gameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Mizuumi wrote: »
    SLyM wrote: »
    I love capitalizing the first letters of Specific Words to indicate that they are More Important than the others.

    (Not mocking, I Legitimately Love doing that)

    well isn't that basically what they did back in the olden days

    except almost Every Noun was Particularly Important

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    fffff, modest liquid ooze tentacool with 31s in both Defense and Special Defense

    hard to turn down but I really want that Calm bonus

    why are you doing this to youself

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  • drp527drp527 We sacrifice our own That more may rise in their placeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I am awful at nicknames

    Wottson the Oshawott is legitimately the most creative thing I've ever come up with (also possibly the first time I've ever tried a nickname)

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Wait, you can do the elite four in any order?

    That just seems really cool, even though it's honestly a really trivial change kinda.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    gary do you think I should go with that one or hold out for a calm one

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    fffff, modest liquid ooze tentacool with 31s in both Defense and Special Defense

    hard to turn down but I really want that Calm bonus

    use it as a parent

    and then don't settle for one until you get a calm tentacool that receives both 31s

    in other news I am dropping wigglytuff from my team. It's just too much work for too little payoff. I'm gonna use it once, lose catastrophically, and never touch it again.

    I need to figure out that last slot though. The think I'm missing the most is special defense. My options are blissey (bleh), chansey (more bleh), togekiss (everyone else blehs), or Snorlax

    so I guess Snorlax it is!

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  • FreshnukixFreshnukix Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh that poor person.

    Couldn't make it through my Vaporeon. I feel like such a jerk winning that way.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The elite 4 rooms in this are so amazing. They did a really excellent job with the visuals for B/W.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    just so long as it's a thick fat snorlax

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  • CrowbawtCrowbawt Member of the Midnight Crew Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I am trying to remember names I am particularly proud of and I can't really think of any.

    Most of them are just nerdy references to things.

    I guess I am fairly proud of Mr.Nibbles the Feraligatr, MrsNibbles the Krookodile, and SATAN the Clefable.

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    gary do you think I should go with that one or hold out for a calm one

    on a scale from one to a million how much weight does my opinion hold

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  • drp527drp527 We sacrifice our own That more may rise in their placeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Ugh, the worst part about transferring a full team over as eggs to do a story run is trying to catch them up

    Have to get 6 level 1s up to around 10-12 or I'm going to be behind the random trainers

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  • MizuumiMizuumi pet dog you've been eating my video game how could you eat my video gameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    speed

    do whatever your heart guides you to do

    your heart guides you to snorlax
    no but seriously if you wanna use togekiss don't let nobody hold you back

    spread those wings and fly away, leaving the haters to choke on a cloud of Deal With It

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    probably not a lot as I've already decided that the calm boost to special defense is worth far more than an offensive boost as that isn't the pokemon's purpose

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    It's pretty easy to go from 1 to 12 though.

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  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Rocksteady - Gigalith

    Kid Rock - Dwibble

    Garbage - Trubbish

    just a front of creativity over here

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    and man when tentacruel absorbs a thunderbolt or something and it takes barely 15% of his HP away I can just see the shades drop over his eyes as my opponent is forced to Deal With It

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  • FreshnukixFreshnukix Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So when they won't let you upload the battle video after that means the person used hacked pokemon right?

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Mizuumi wrote: »
    speed

    do whatever your heart guides you to do

    your heart guides you to snorlax
    no but seriously if you wanna use togekiss don't let nobody hold you back

    spread those wings and fly away, leaving the haters to choke on a cloud of Deal With It

    togekiss will most certainly be showing up to to take a big white dump on people's day

    but for the league stuff I feel like that's supposed to have somewhat of an air of casual fun, so employing a strategy that pisses everyone off seems counter to the point of the thing

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Freshnukix wrote: »
    So when they won't let you upload the battle video after that means the person used hacked pokemon right?

    I don't think it means that absolutely

    but it definitely means that it was a possibility

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  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Phikal the Ammongus was pretty good on my part actually

    also Amity for BEM

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    oh my god prejudice is a TANK

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  • FreshnukixFreshnukix Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Well he may wanna hack better.

    Cause he got stalled in the most brutal beastly fashion.

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  • FreshnukixFreshnukix Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Also

    Togekiss is the best pokemon and I will get paraflinched to death with a smile on my face.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    damn a bunch of these tentacool are showing up with the Capable of Taking Hits characteristic which I assume means they have a 31 defense because that's the only way the Somewhat Vain from their 31 special defense would be overriden

    yukira you glorious bastard this kabuto has a robust carapace

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Snorlax is also convenient in that I already have one trained up

    meaning that the only new guys I gotta make are bouffalant and Minccino

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Freshnukix wrote: »
    Also

    Togekiss is the best pokemon and I will get paraflinched to death with a smile on my face.

    we are now Enemies

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    this is the way the world ends

    not with a bang

    or a wimper

    but with sort of twitching angrily as it is held down and flapped at with big feathery wings until it dies

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I really miss the party status feature on the thingy from diamond/pearl/platinum

    I keep forgetting how many eggs I'm carrying

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  • MizuumiMizuumi pet dog you've been eating my video game how could you eat my video gameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    my nicknames are mostly words tangentially related to the pokemon's name/concept origin, corrupted to sound """cool""" (Onisci the Scolipede - a chunk taken out of the name of the order/family/whatever of centipede bulbapedia speculates it was based on)

    that or things that incorporate the inital letter or multiple other letters from the species name (Lillian the Petilil; Parsons the Purrloin)

    some more """creative""" ones that i am more """proud""" of include

    Mesmer - Munna (obvious reasons)

    Olive Oyl - female Timburr (the resemblance is uncanny)

    HOTSHIT - Darumaka (see its white dex entry)

    Mr. O - Sandile (other people suggested that; Crocodile from One Piece)

    Archelon - Tirtouga (not really original since that's just the unmodified name of the ancient sea turtle carracosta was based off of, but it is a RAD NAME)



    any instance of """triple quotation marks""" is intended to indicate """exaggerated finger quotes"""

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    my dudes are almost all "what's the first name I thought of"
    notable exceptions include

    Death Star the Starmie
    Sirius, the other starmie who knows Gravity (get it it's a star that has a strong gravitational field get it)
    and my current favorites, Pride and Prejudice the Sawk and Throh NO I WILL NOT SHUT UP IT'S STILL AMAZING FUCK YOU

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So macho brace + pokerus = 4 ev per 1 ev poke, yes?

    Making sure I have my math right

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