Recent content by chicobo329

Trainers. I don't see any past-region surprises. Also no Pokemon higher than level 70. I hope it isn't too easy to overlevel yourself before postgame.

Looking at the item list it seems that as usual, Game Freak never cleans up their item indexes. It seem items from as old as Gen IV in here still!

Uh, Delta Episode was pretty comprehensive in OR/AS I'd say.

I'm pretty sure they're just jersey numbers. These are all styled just like a collectible sports card really, it's like an ingame trading card set.

Hawlucha is really popular in speedruns at least, it's a main go-to in X/Y runs after a few prior main switches and is used extensively in Gen VII routing.

There's three examples that strike me as odd: Snorlax with High Horsepower was always a bit puzzling. The move's name in Japanese is '100,000 Horsepower' which doesn't make things any easier to understand. I'd love to see this move get some more distribution in the next games of this generation...

Been a while since I've posted but regarding Porygon and Z-Conversion...can't you just Snatch it? Snatch has priority and in theory at least it should give you the +1 boosts instead and also uses up the opponent's one Z-move.

Both Water Pulse and Shock Wave are former TMs that lost their status in Gen V. More importantly, they were TMs originally handed to you by Wallace/Juan and Wattson respectively. In OR/AS they will have to give you a different TM instead (likely Scald and Charge Beam). This explains why both of...

I'm considering swapping Ice Beam for Dazzling Gleam on my Lanturn but I'm not sure how much help this may be since a lot of popular Ice-weak Pokemon are doubly so to it (Salamence and Garchomp for example). It gives a different sort of variety to your coverage but I feel like it doesn't give a...

I'm not sure if it's mentioned already, but Frisk appears to identify the items of all opposing Pokemon in doubles. A Duskull with Frisk in the Battle Maison identified both my Mienshao's Amulet Coin (that I forgot to remove :^P) and Tierno's Sitrus Berry on his Talonflame at once. Previously...

Focus Energy's effects do last more than one turn though if I remember correctly (unless Gen VI changed this to be just for one turn), and there are times where you can't Power Up Punch because of a Fighting immunity from a Ghost type like say, all the Aegislash running around. And what's to...

What's the viability of using something like Focus Energy now that it appears to give 50% crit chance? Or even Focus Energy and then double up Shadow Claw for two guaranteed crits and in general ignore opposing defensive boosts.

How do you guys feel about this checking (not countering) Aegislash? It has a perfect typing for it by being immune to Shadow Sneak and resisting Iron Head, although that targets the weaker of its defenses still. It can Dark Pulse back for at least a fair amount of damage. The only knock on this...

Asking this question for clarification purposes. Does Bug Buzz, being a sound-based move, bypass Substitutes? Or do only strictly status moves and Boomburst bypass it? The OP mentions only status moves, but some threads around Uncharted Territory like Noivern's say that attacks can as well.

Heliolisk can learn many moves by TM such as Focus Blast, Low Sweep, Dark Pulse, and Grass Knot. But it CANNOT learn Solarbeam! Isn't it strange how a Pokemon based around the sun cannot use its signature move? :^P