Choice Band would be better. Or even better than that: Sword Dance + Life Orb :eek:
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Doesn't need LO +2 STAB Dark Aura does a lot. If Yveltal could get Tailwind that is fricking set to sweep. Yveltal doesn't look like it'll get Tailwind though judging by its appearance.
Would be neat, but we don't know Yveltal's stats yet. It could be a special attacker for all we know. :/
I know what you mean, like how Victory Star works with Victini, if its in the party all 'mons accuracy raises 10%
So if for example Yveltal is in the party then all your 'mons get a boost to their dark attacks
Anyway on a new topic I was thinking about yesterday
The games were shown to have the option to choose languages, instead of each country getting their own translated versions. Would this mean that all copies of the games would be the same worldwide and not have a region lock?
The reason I ask is for the Masuda method. How will the games know that a Pokemon you get in a trade is from another country? Could I just set my language to French on the game and trade my friend a 'French' ditto? Will they maybe not include the Masuda method this gen?
EDIT: it could just be like the GTS where you select on the globe where you live. Still interesting though. I've been able to get a few shinies this way, would suck to not have it
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Shot put an Iron Ball through a guy?
252+ Atk Adaptability Crawdaunt Fling vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Giratina: 560-660 (111.33 - 131.21%) -- guaranteed OHKO (50% boost to Fling factored in via modifying the BP)
Yeah, could be neat.
Where was this shown?
Region lock is by system, i believe, so it'd presumably still be able to tell if a game is a foreign game
I do not think Victory Star works when Victini switches out. The only abilities that does are the weather-based ones.
That said, I believe the auras are fairy/dark versions of Adaptability, providing more or less boost.
Anyway, from the design of the cover legendaries, I think Yveltal will be an speedy offensive Pokemon and Xerneas will be a defensive mon (it got that Suicune thing going for it).
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I read just before that we did not know what the abilities Fairy Aura and Dark Aura do.
According to the official site, Fairy Aura powers up Fairy-type attacks for all pokemon in play (including your opponent's). The same goes for Dark Aura, except it powers up Dark-type attacks for all pokemon in play.
We just don't know by how much these abilities power these type of attacks up. Similar to STAB perhaps? We'll just have to wait and see.
According to the official site, Fairy Aura powers up Fairy-type attacks for all pokemon in play (including your opponent's). The same goes for Dark Aura, except it powers up Dark-type attacks for all pokemon in play.
We just don't know by how much these abilities power these type of attacks up. Similar to STAB perhaps? We'll just have to wait and see.
...Yes, that's exactly what we were bantering about.
Between Fairy Aura, Dark Aura, and Sweet Veil, all of the new abilities released so far are geared toward multi-battles. Does anybody think this hints towards having a more fleshed out metagame for double and triple battles? Can we expect to see a slew of new abilities that benefit multiple active Pokémon, and by extension of that, more attacks than before that hit multiple opponents?
If Draining Kiss has a decent base power, and if there's a Fairy Gem/Plate, then Fairy Aura might be quite helpful as well.
I am. I want SR to last only 5 turns like the screens. Also the spikes can last 5 turns each layer. It makes sense flavor-wise, since how can hazard last an infinite amount of stepping on without being wore out.
But I don't agree with changing the weather abilities since a lot of teams are base on them.
Well, weather abilities can be made to last up to 8 turns (12 or 13 with the respective stone). Permanent weather takes a lot of strategy out.
Gen 2 introduced ITEMS (pretty big if you come to think about it), special split and Dark/Steel, not IVs, back there it had DVs ranging from 0 to 15.
But yea Gen 5 introduced freaking nothing mechanic-wise, I suppose they will bring something big for XY to kinda compensate this?_?
I see. Either way, it's probably done so they only have to make one PAL version. It'll probably still have the same region lock as every other 3DS game.
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Well, first of all, they kinda did introduce something new in the way of mechanics- specifically, Triple and Rotation battles. I'd say two new battle styles qualify. Not to mention, now in Double and Triples, if more than one of your Pokémon get KO'd at once, you get to choose which replacement goes in which spot. Kinda minor, though not so much in Triples. And two, X and Y already are bringing in something big. I'd say an entire new type qualifies, wouldn't you?
Battle mechanics usually refer to changes in calculation, applicable to any form battle, like explosion no longer using half the defense as an example, whether, triple, double, or rotation. So, a new battling style is not a change in battle mechanics. Yes, fairy type is a new mechanic, and a significant one at that. I was hoping for even more, as an example maybe a total of 765 evs, instead of 510 evs. That type of change is an example of what I'm hoping for, but highly doubt would happen, as it conflicts with cross compatibility, but then again so does fairy type.
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Maybe we get hoard battles for multi-player battles or VS battles?
Sounds chaotic, but I think if they want to pull that out, they'll have a way to fix that.
I hope they can hit further than adjacent opponent, otherwise it would be stressing the usage of Acrobatics, Dragon Pulse, Dark Pulse and other pulses.
Perhaps changes to Triples and Doubles too.
Sounds chaotic, but I think if they want to pull that out, they'll have a way to fix that.
I hope they can hit further than adjacent opponent, otherwise it would be stressing the usage of Acrobatics, Dragon Pulse, Dark Pulse and other pulses.
Perhaps changes to Triples and Doubles too.
Every time they've talked about Hoard battles, it's been in relation to in-game
I doubt it will be in vs mode at all, if only because there's likely some level/power balance going on so you're not completely screwed
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