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Or you can get a Mold Breaker Pokemon that completely bypasses the whole Sturdy being annoying thing, if Stealth Rocks isn't your thing. Is this kind of thread allowed here? I was thinking the section is mostly for competitive team building. I guess since the activity in this part of the forums is so sparse it wouldn't matter either way, so we can let it slide. Umbreon isn't actually quite good for an ingame mon actually from what I figure: it is slow and weak, but if you really like it that much, you can go ahead and use it. It has some options for offensive attacks such as Psychic, but be warned that using Umbreon will turn a usually quick paced battle into a rather slow one. It is probably best in those major battles like Gym Leaders or E4, if you like setting up with Curse/Payback. It is similar to the Coil + 3 Attacks Serperior I used in White 2. Generally, you want to look for a Pokemon that is offensive in nature when playing in game, or at least not very weak. I don't discourage use of favourite mons but be warned it can get tedious.

Eh, you would think there would be more discussion going on in the ORAS section, or even the recent XY, but since XY proved itself to be a rather subpar game for single player and there seems to be other places where one can have casual discussions for the game, you do not see as much traffic here for that, but rather people asking for help on their Powersaves or RAM editing and such. I think the bulk of the activity takes place in the development section, which is why it seems to be lacking in activities. We're trying, I promise! I may even have to put up some obscenely long article that nobody reads or comments on yet again...

It's just that some of us are ghosting and do not actively speak out until there is a need to... I think more people are active in the IRC.

I figured Alpha would get Alpha Sapphire. I will have to delay me getting any of the games for now though, despite the fact it comes out one day before my birthday. I like the colour blue, so I suppose it would be Alpha Sapphire for me as well.

Hello. Welcome to Project Pokemon. I started with the old versions as well.

Hello there. Water types are my favourite types as well (along with Ice and Grass... and a few others). Welcome.

I think I got a Squirtle somehow (Male Jolly), and chose Bulbasaur as partner. That usually works.

Are you trying to have a negative attitude to everything I'm saying? I'm not here to shoot you down mate. Good grief. You're putting words into my mouth when I'm not even saying things like that. You don't have to use everyone's top Pokemon. In fact, many "lower Pokemon" can be used just as effectively and take down the higher ones. It's really about teambuilding and smartplay. And to blame all your bad experiences from hacking... I'm starting to wonder. I'm not saying it cannot be from hacking, but was everything all from hackers? No, I have never heard of widespread hacking ever. Powersaves can only take you that far. And Cyber Gadget is not that widespread and I think those stuff can only work in passerby battles. All shinies isn't that hard for some people especially now that there are known ways of getting the SV of eggs (I don't do this because I'm not a shiny freak, but I have multiple friends who do this). Try to save those battles in the VS Recorder if you're getting swept by the likes of those... in rated battles even. I want to see it because it's the first time I've ever heard of these situations. It is possible in Passerby battles but I think those are blocked in Battle Spot. It's great that you like Pokemon then and I hope you find other people you can have fun with. But with that downer attitude you may turn off people who are sympathetic to your cause, so I'd be careful.

0 eggs hatched and what? What kind of people have you been battling? I do not know that kind of extreme hacking is available to nearly everyone, because if there was, we would have all heard about it by now. It can also be that they imported their Gen V hacked legal mons and are using those instead, as there are many incentives to that, such as old move tutors and such. I didn't play Wifi during those generations and actually skipped on Gen V for the most part because it wasn't level grounds. Or... they're people with two versions, but one version is used to breed while the other is used for battling and Pokebanking stuff to transfer from one version to another for that is also possible (that is a bit of a stretch though, but I am speaking of all possibilities here... and I did plan on doing that once). Usually I would tell you if you are getting swept by Garchomp completely then you would need a better team that can deal with it. And that is usually right. Was Mamoswine spamming the same moves over and over? It may be that it is a Jolly Choice Scarfed version, or was using priority Ice Shard (with possibly Choice Band in that case). Base 80 speed can go over base 130s if they have a + 1 speed, if I'm correct. Is Sheer Force Feraligatr or Contrary Serperior actually usable online? Right... it was Battle Spot that kicked those out (which I don't like the 3v3 Singles metagame there: doubles is better). I am usually reluctant to accept passerby battles nowadays because they do like hacking. Legendaries are actually a bit easier to get in XY now because they come with at least 3 perfect IVs. I have a Timid Moltres with 31 HP/31 Atk/31 Def/30 SpA/24 SpDef/31 Speed... I didn't bother soft resetting too much although I wanted max SpA and SpDef over that Attack... the older ones like the OP Landorus and such on the other hand... are deliberately hacked or RNG abused. However it is considered legal. I'm sure I stated it someplace long ago but I disliked fighting everybody with their perfect Hidden Power Fire Latios and such from Gen IV on Wifi. There has always been hackers and unscrupulous people who only play to win. Remember that time when that devious tool that allowed a person to see the person's moves before it was even done? I always wondered... do people REALLY want to win THAT much? I understand your frustration. You don't even have to compete with the largescale amount of people if you're afraid of such. In fact, I don't even participate in those either. I never did. If I wanted to battle, I'd do exactly as you did: have close friends (I don't have friends who play Pogeymanz much though) or some group of people and play in a local setting. I'm not really shooting you down for it: in fact, go ahead and do it. I'd encourage it if you love that kind of thing. Or take a break in Pokemon if it isn't fun: I don't play the game much to be honest (let alone games in general), but when I do, I play it for fun with usually people I know. I do miss those days when XY was out in the fresh and passerbys battling me was actually fun. Mind you, I was in middle of the game so I had no access to VS Recorders and such, but I've had unbelievable battles and overall fun ones when nobody knew anything. You wouldn't believe me if I told you my in-game Pidgeot made this Japanese guy's Mega Mawile forfeit. I had my in-game Swords Dancing Aegislash sweep a Japanese lady on a 3v3 which along with other battles afterwards made me believe that Aegislash was too useful and I probably shouldn't use it too much. But alas, time corrupts and taints what was once innocent, and things get devilishly dangerous now that some people (it's not an overwhelming population mind you, but it does exist) have access to hacks. I still do, however, have recorded some fun battles I've had. In fact, maybe you and I can try the same, such as "in-game team battle" or "ocean Pokemon only" battle or "wild Pokemon freshly caught no EV but TM allowed" battles or "bring 6 potential megas and guess which one is mega" battles and such. I found those fun if you don't want to see Gale Wing Talonflames and Garchomps everywhere. I blame this generation's emphasis on competitiveness and such... which happened to the likes of many other games I do play that it just is not fun anymore. I don't strive to get high in rankings or such: I just want to have fun. Stuff like that is what made things like Starcraft II so less popular in Korea than it should have been... when games punish you so hard for small mistakes. I feel like XY in general had many flaws, only because as an adventure game it was completely lacking: clearly many aspects of the game that could have been developed more in the single player part was left behind and yet they thought they "had it right" for the competitive aspect of the game, that it really serves as a "small platform" to get kids to compete against each other. "Gotta Catch 'Em All" is more like "Gotta Catch All 30 usable Pokemon and compete against one other". And the chances are, you can only use Pokemon you bred from eggs if you are to compete in such, and not exactly your in-game mons that you've loved and cherished for the time being (which wasn't too long in XY tbh). But I think that is the fundamental flaw of the nature of this game as a whole. I think it was bound to shift this way in the end: grabbing them all seems trivial now (though I still have not done that and still striving for that atm), and the new gen kids idea of "communication" with one other isn't always just trade and innocuous battling, but rather a cutthroat fast-paced kill or get killed environment that you see in many games. I've seen many games ruined that way. And while Pokemon is headed that way (or was since Gen IV when things got globally connected), perhaps there may be hope, but I won't hold my breath. And I'm sorry if your experiences have made you bitter in that sense. I can understand why. The question is, why do you continue playing? (It's just an honest question: nothing said to offend you). 수정: Okay, one more thing. I remember long ago back in Gen IV days we made groups like these for people who wanted to get a small group for wifi battling. I did not really participate back then much because of apparent nervousness or whatnot, but now that the game is more easily accessible to us and all, it might be nice to bring activity back for this. However, the activity of that kind of community in PP has long since died out. You may have more luck finding others from Serebii or such general interest places and the likes. Happy battling.

Seeing how this is a Ruby/Sapphire remake with some hint of Emerald enhancements like they did in HGSS (GS with some Crystal enhancements) and them continually announcing Steven as the champion, most of my hopes of Wallace being champion has been dashed (along with trainer customisation). Luvdisc Wallace was rather lame. I'm still hoping for Wallace as Champion with Steven as secret Champion (who can be rechallenged please) and Juan as the 8th Gym Leader, but I wouldn't be surprised if they continually do things I don't like once more. But then again, this is not my game.

I don't think you will find many people who will want to play with limits like "no Megas". A lot of Megas tend to be people's favourites, and it caters to their teambuilding as they can build a team around their favourites (like Mega Houndoom, for example, who likes to be in a sun team). Charizard's problem is the massive amount of fanboyism it gets and has not one but two Mega forms, making it hard to stop when you predict wrong. Mega Charizard Y is powerful in its own right, but I would not say unstoppable. I don't like facing it, but it is not as overpowered as you make it. Some Megas are inherently broken, however, but that is because of the mechanics of some of them. And that all depends too if you can play them right. Mega Gengar is one cheese, for example, because he can basically choose who to KO and who not to. People who kept complaining he is too weak are clearly not playing him right. And Megas OHKOing other Pokemon is different from regular Pokemon OHKOing each other how? Having a Mega doesn't always guarantee a win. I don't think I have used my Megas to powerhouse through my opponents by using it as an unfair advantage, ever. Okay... Battle Maison is an exception with Mega Kangaskhan, but they are cheaters. Perhaps you can try finding a wider scope of people to fight with. Showdown has a broad range of people, and of course you are bound to find people who copy pastes sets from the top 10 OU Pokemon of those simulator rules. If you really tend to hate that aspect about Showdown, try the lower tiers. NU/RU/UU... all of those can accomodate to your style because you will never see things like Garchomp or Talonflame or Thundurus ever. There, also, lays the problem of seeing highly used mons in those tiers as well (Volcarona in UU led to people using Fletchinder of all things...), and the problem will keep repeating, because in the end, people want to win. When given the tools, why not use them? I get where you are coming from, but the limitations are also quite arbitrary. Just where does one draw the line about how fair one can make the game? What makes one's opinion of one's game's level of fairness more fairer than whatever else there is? We tried the whole PP tiers stuff, but this isn't a community with that sort of interest, unfortunately. Generally, I think the most widely accepted rulesets are no supers (legends with BST over 600s like Kyogre or Mewtwo, can extend to Nintendo banned Pokemon list), do not put more than one Pokemon to sleep at once, and usually, no evasion moves, as it makes the game more luck based than it already is. I see some people play with Species clause (no duplicate Pokemon) and Item clause (no duplicate items), but the latter is uncommon asides from Nintendo VGC rules. Most people would not have a problem playing with those rules. That's as fair as the game can get, really. This is not exactly a "new way of playing" either. Many people do try something like this, and it ultimately doesn't work and turns out it is not popular. What the game gives, people use and I guarantee you, many people will find a way to abuse them as much as possible. That's how this game is. We cannot exactly go and say what is fair and what is unfair. But sure, I'll give it a bite. I try using newly bred mons and test them out against some friends of mine if I want to. And I have not even tried my competitive Talonflame yet to even speak of it. If you want, we can try experimenting with the lower class mons and see how well they fare.

I have little else to say here, but here is the long awaited Ruby Sapphire remakes coming at last at 21 November. You may post your thoughts and such about this game here. Remember to limit this only to speculations and such. Try to promote discussion and not post one liners. Any post deemed unnecessary will be deleted.

I hope it does. I'm not a fan of the method of catching the Pokemon in there, but it would be a lot better than that effortless grass of patch in Pokemon XY they call Friend Safari. I prefer a playable single player game with a large adventure field than a small means of putting people ultimately into a competitive setting (which I figure what XY was about). Threads like this is merely speculation, so we would have to see. Either they reveal the information beforehand, or we would have to play the game and find out for ourselves.

These commonly seen Pokemon all have a reason they're overused you know... that's because they do what they do best. Most of the time, the mentality I get from some people who challenge me is that there is direct correlation of fun and winning. Though, some of us actually like some strong mons: they just happen to be our favourites. I do like Tyranitar for example, but not because he is strong: that's merely bonus. He just happens to fit my tastes. Talonflame, on the other hand.... is exactly like a parvenu. As soon as one sees that he had Gale Wings: lolol priority bird spam. I hated facing that thing in Battle Spot: I swear that thing cannot be only 81 Attack. Whenever I play with people, I usually assume people try to play fair with "no legends" and the likes, asides from minor legendaries such as the Kanto legendary birds, that is. If a passerby challenges me and I find them cheesing with a team of all legends, they're usually people who did not EV train them properly and have no idea how to make movesets or synergise, so they usually go down after I see that Yveltal spamming Hyper Beam, or something. However, Mega Pokemon are not all that broken as you make out to be (not counting the already broken Mewtwo). Sure, there are things with incredibly gamebreaking capabilities, such as Mega Kangaskhan (she is too strong), Gengar (pro players can abuse his ability) or Mawile (just what were they thinking with Huge Power?), but usually all the others are able to be taken care of. It is generally fair game though because you are able to bring your own Mega Pokemon too. Sure, I hate seeing everybody using the same Talonflame, Aegislash, Greninja, etc, but there is not much one can do about it really. It's too bad I got really attached to Aegislash: its playstyle and its design is exactly what I like about it, and I played it too much without really realising how overpowered it was while I swept Japanese passerbys when I was not even up to the 7th gym badge yet. With that said, you are probably best off playing on Pokemon Showdown (either for fun or to test out what Pokemon work), as passerbys are a completely random variable which can go either/or, or Battle Spot where that ugly 3v3 Singles battle is too offensively oriented you will see Mega Kangaskhan or Garchomp 99% of the time. Or us Easterners who don't really play by Westerners "square rules" and massively abuse Double Team/Minimise and whatever tools that are actually given (people in Japan do go out of their way to breed Mud Bombs to Chansey: yes Mud Bomb/Minimise sets do exist). They also expect this from each other so they carry Sleep Talk on random Pokemon just to counter Sporespam. Because Nintendo apparently supports double battles only despite the fact most of us grew up with Single Battle format all throughout the games' existence, Doubles in Battle Spot is a lot more cleaner in my opinion. I have not exactly made Pokemon for Doubles quite yet, though some are because things like Cherrim function much better in doubles than in singles. One thing I dislike about Showdown is the OU tier is filled with overpowered new legends like the kamis (Westerners tend to call them "genies") and Black Kyurem and such. I would not use those Pokemon in-game honestly, but seeing things like Landorus everywhere is disturbing. Landorus is what you would call a "minor legend" though, so he would be allowed, but the power creep from the old gen Pokemon to new gen Pokemon is real. If you would like "fun battles" as you say, sure, go ahead and message me if you'd like. I have only bred some common mons so far and not all the Megas quite yet though, so you would not see me using overpowered mons as you say. I am more of a defensive player than offensive, and I tend to struggle when people lead with their Mega Tyranitar Dragon Dancing and the likes.

Yes, my X and Y characters are different genders but both instances ended up with female Vivillon.

I cannot test this out, as I just saved the game accidentally... though I can do this in Y version instead... though I was planning on restarting this file with a new game. Actually good idea I'll try this in Y and see if the Pokemon's sex is fixed or not. Fake Edit: The Vivillon in question continually ends up female. This is interesting. Nature/ability is randomised, however.

Actually, I got mine as female...

Problem resolved. Closing this.

Pokemon X users receive a Charizard with the Y stone, while Pokemon Y users receive Charizard with X stone. Both of their abilities are Blaze. The moves for Charizard Y are: Fire Fang, Flame Burst, Air Slash, and Inferno. The moves for Charizard X are: Dragon Rage, Fire Fang, Air Slash, and Dragon Claw. OT is 올레tv (OllehTV: funny, that's the TV and phone provider I use). I'm a little busy now I'll go look into this more later. Also, I'm going myopic: this forum keeps getting blurrier and blurrier everytime... or is it something I am missing? It's only the first day of April, though it is the second day here... I don't suspect anything. Nope, not at all. Serial Code. Eh another Mega Stone doesn't sound too bad, especially if it's the stone I don't have. EDIT: Looks like I have to use my television (though it's the most basic plan of the most basic) to watch 어린이세상 in the television select menu (in this case I have to click on 포켓몬스터 이벤트관) and after watching it I get a serial code on my cellphone as a text. How interesting... nvm it is on the website

Pokemon Mega Evolutions I'm surprised nobody else even made a topic about something so highly featured in this game One of Pokemon X/Y's new quirks are Mega-Evolutions, which can evolve specific Pokemon carrying a Mega Stone that correlates to their species and give them a tremendous boost in stats, and some even gaining new typing or abilities. However, there are some restrictions when using a Mega Pokemon. These are (and not limited to): Only one Pokemon can Mega Evolve per team. Even if you have more than one Pokemon carrying Mega Stones, if one activated theirs, the others shall be unable to Mega Evolve. This also means each Pokemon that can Mega evolve has to compete with each other for that slot in your team. The question is, are they worth it? Mega Pokemon cannot de-evolve back to their original stage, but will revert back once the battle finishes Since Mega Pokemon are carrying a Mega Stone, they cannot carry any other items, which means they may lose vital leftovers recovery or will sorely miss the extra damage Life Orb or the likes may provide Mega Stones cannot be Knocked Off, Embargoed, Tricked, Switcheroo'd, Stolen, etc... Although stats are altered, the HP stat will never be altered and never will be. Also all of these Pokemon seem to have a total net change of + 100 base stats when they mega evolve. How they're distributed depends on Gamefreak's tastes / colour of your shirt / etc. It is NOT mandatory to run a Mega Pokemon: in fact, you can make a good team without a Mega at all. The only difference these Mega Pokemon gives are stat changes and possible type/ability change. Whether one uses a Mega Pokemon or not is entirely up to their trainers, and unfortunately, so far, the number of Pokemon that can Mega evolve are rather scarce. I hope next game will add even more exciting Mega Evolutions to utilise, as the current list is rather disappointing and reeks of favouritism and/or obscure Pokemon, which I do not deny there are fanbases for, but highly unexpected. However, I think I'll start analysing some of the current Mega Evolutions and what it may mean for the metagame and such. So in the wake of the rise of the Mega Evolution Pokemon, which Mega Pokemon do you / will you choose for your team? Which new Mega evolutions would you like to see? [icon]010[/icon]Format [icon]003[/icon]List of Megas [icon]201[/icon]Secret Stuff (Warning: Possible spoilers)

This is a Floette Eternal form, aka AZ's Floette. It has different base stats with 74 HP / 65 Atk / 67 Def / 125 SAtk / 128 SDef / 92 Speed and learns Light of Ruin at level 50, which is a special 140 base power / 90% accuracy Fairy move that deals 50% recoil when used (similar to Head Smash). There is something melancholy about this form. This worries me because passerbys with Powersave can challenge me using things like this or Mega Lati forms. It isn't overpowered, but that is kind of annoying.

I'm pretty sure the only basic things Pokebank checks (asides from badly hacked things that trigger a lot of red alerts from Pokecheck such as PID, locations and such) are illegal moves, abilities and such. Importing Pokemon that are normally unable to be shiny (such as Dream World Torterra, but I don't know about shiny locked legendaries) or placing them in the wrong Pokeball does not seem to have a problem going through Pokebank (way to go Gamefreak). That said, the time I had trial period a month ago, every event I had imported through without a problem. If they're not going through, it's probably badly hacked or uploaded in the wrong format (i.e. Gen IV Pokemon uploaded into Gen V), etc. For Dream World Pokemon unreleased, such as Contrary Serperior, they CAN and WILL go through (provided the right flags are checked, is legal, etc...), but are unable to be used in online battles, even in Free Battles. However, Shadow Tag Chandelure will not pass, apparently (as its Hidden Ability has changed from Shadow Tag to Infiltrator). For some reason, Wide Guard Swampert will not work online either (though it is perfectly legal). Also, theSLAYER, I would think wrong location constitutes as a hack. Blatantly AR'd Pokemon would not go through. Even Gen IV Pokemon would have this (Possible J/K encounter does not match) kind of error if you ARd for a Pokemon and such.

Oh Wonder Trade... why are you so ridiculous? This is a Sassy natured Jynx named "Nikki" with Mean Look, Fake Tears, Wake-Up Slap, and Avalanche. I do not know who this Nikki is supposed to be, but that is certainly frightening. Anyways, due to the delay of Pokebank for the Western players and the coming of a New Year, I decided to do a little bit of some generous giveaways of non-obtainable starters that I have bred, a lot of them having good IVs and egg moves (examples being Piplup with Agility/Featherdance/Aqua Ring/Icy Wind and Chikorita with Leech Seed/Grassy Terrain/Leaf Storm). There will be a few "surprise Pokemon" in the mix as well. I think I will hold this giveaway at maybe sometime around 11 PM Saturday 3 Jan EST (8 PM Saturday PST), unless I change plans, where in that case I will notify right here. I hope I don't forget: I live 14 hours ahead of that specific time zone. Yes, the Pokemons' names will be in Korean, but they will change when you evolve them. Look for a person that looks like this and you will know it is me. Useful tip: Breed a couple of new starters if you receive them. You can place them up the GTS to help you find other Pokemon for your Pokedex. The demand for old starters are still rather high and trades usually take place almost instantaneously! That is how I received all of mine.

Nature is undefined I'm guessing, because I got one that's Neutral natured with 3 perfect IVs in Def, SpA, and SpDef. There is no way to Soft Reset for it, and it decided to hide in Box 5 of all places. It has my OT and ID as well. Hold Back is just a reskinned False Swipe.. there's literally nothing different asides from its name. I'm sure you all knew this information already, but I would like to confirm it.

You'll need to put up a whole team for us to rate. Read the following guidelines: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?977-Rate-My-Team-Rules-and-Formatting-READ-ME-FIRST-(8-29-09-Update-Illithian) Also, you have posted your in-game team, which would go here: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?2335-Take-2-Community-Discussion-In-Game-Teams This section is solely for competitive teams, which are much different from in-game.