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2: Not sure. Problem I see is against the Rock/Grounds - off the top of my head I'm not sure if either learns any moves to deal with them. (Probably at least one gets Brick Break, but I dunno where you get the TM).
If I were to use only 2 Pokemon for an ingame run, I'd likely make one a water type.

EDIT: If you want Typhlosion + Gyarados, you can probably catch and evolve a Magikarp rather earlier than Lake Of Rage.
 
connoisseur said:
2. Is Mareep/Flaffy/Ampharos the best companion to Cyndaqui/Quilava/Typhlosion only using two pokemon throughout the adventure?
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Lets see here...

Amphardos

Discharge/TBolt
Signal Beam
Focus Blast
Power Gem

Typhlosion

Fire Move
SolarBeam
Earthquake
Filler

That hits 14/17 types for SE damage, so I'd say Amphardos is a fairly good choice.




Also, just to confirm: is there a step counter in HGSS, like DPPt's Poketch Pedometer? I don't think there is, but I haven't played very far in...
 
Cipher Admin Lovrina said:
Does anybody have a decent/quick way to softreset for Latias?--I'm unable to rng abuse, and it takes me between 5 and 25 minutes to catch it!
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The only way to softreset for latias is unfortunately softresetting your DS and tracking it down again.

EDIT: Yeah hikers are a pain in the you know what, that's why I was asking; however, raising a magikarp to level 20 is not worth it unless the magikarp comes at level 19, so I'll stick with Quilava+Flaffy.
 
cantab said:
Every game up to Platinum has done so - I'd expect HGSS do. But I doubt that's when the roamers spreads are set.
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According to other users, you have to hit your seed before fighting the E4 and advance the RNG by walking enough steps before finishing off the champ. So I'm not exactly sure how that would work if the game saves afterwards. And if you somehow counted your steps/frames incorrectly, that would suck. :/
 
Dark Froslass said:
By saying Dragon is the best STAB type, does it mean it's also the best attacking type?

Also, should Lati@s use Ice Beam?
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Dragon is the best neutral attacking type.

If you want super effective attacking types, fire, fighting, rock, and ice super effect at least 4 types each if I recall correctly.

EDIT: On Latias you should complement your dragon move with surf for neutral coverage on everything save empoleon and shedninja. Ice beam is redundant on it since your dragon moves already super effect other dragons, thunderbolt(third attacking move you should consider on latias) hits fliers, and surf hits ground covering icebeam's duties + more.
 
Dark Froslass said:
What are the qualities of the Psychic-type in general?
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In general I would say that most Psychic Pokémon have few good stats and many bad stats (Espeon, Gardevoir) but sometimes those one or two good stats sets them apart from the crowd (Deoxys), but usually they are still hindered by their other lacking stats (Alakazam). But of course there are always some Pokémon that throw off the curve, in this case that Pokémon would be Mewtwo
 
cantab said:
EDIT: If you want Typhlosion + Gyarados, you can probably catch and evolve a Magikarp rather earlier than Lake Of Rage.
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You can catch a Lv. 20 Magikarp once you get the Good Rod in Olivine. Before that, it's going to be a pain level up. The reason I mentioned the red Gyarados is because it comes at Lv. 30 when trainers are still using level 20 Pokemon and will probably be higher than the rest of you team if you go to Mahogany town first (which is probably a good idea if you have Tyflosion anyway).
 
Dark Froslass said:
What are the qualities of the Psychic-type in general?
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Most commonly used psychic types in competitive fall into this category I like to call "pursuit bait" (latias, azelf, alakazam, espeon).
Psychic types are generally good at special attack and are relatively fast (azelf, alakazam, espeon).

Generally if the psychic pokemon used has a secondary type, it is more useful to the pokemon (celebi, metagross, latias).
 
connoisseur said:
Dragon is the best neutral attacking type.

If you want super effective attacking types, fire, fighting, rock, and ice super effect at least 4 types each if I recall correctly.

EDIT: On Latias you should complement your dragon move with surf for neutral coverage on everything save empoleon and shedninja. Ice beam is redundant on it since your dragon moves already super effect other dragons, thunderbolt(third attacking move you should consider on latias) hits fliers, and surf hits ground covering icebeam's duties + more.
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Actually, Fighting and Ground hit 5 each.
 
Does the Lati@s that Steven tells you about outside the Pokemon Fan club regenerate if I kill it and rebattle the Elite 4? Wanted to know because I want the Magnet Train pass, but I don't have time to abuse Latias just yet.
 
connoisseur said:
Most commonly used psychic types in competitive fall into this category I like to call "pursuit bait" (latias, azelf, alakazam, espeon).
Psychic types are generally good at special attack and are relatively fast (azelf, alakazam, espeon).

Generally if the psychic pokemon used has a secondary type, it is more useful to the pokemon (celebi, metagross, latias).
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Of course Uxie and Cresselia are exceptions. Cresselia's one of (if not the) most defensive mixed walls outside Ubers. But it can't do an awful lot besides walling, and doesn't have great recovery.
 
Ok. I was using a Timid Synchronize Abra to reset for a Mewtwo with good IV's for the past 5 hours. Needless to say I couldn't get a single good IV spread.

Just 10 minutes ago, God thought it would be funny to give me a **SHINY** Impish Mewtwo with the most god awfully shitty IV's I've ever seen.

1/26/3/0/2/29

Now I already saved, because ffs who throws away a non-RNG'd shiny legendary?

Question: Is there any (gimmicky or not) set(s) I could possibly use for this Mewtwo to make it useful at ALL?
 
firecape01 said:
Is arceus banned forever in the uber tier? Or will he be allowed eventually...
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Arceus is not "banned" from Ubers. Rather it is an Uber of Ubers. When you play with Arceus you're playing with "Arceus allowed" rules. Since this probably doesn't make much sense let me show you an example:

In RBY there was no Uber tier. Instead there was just Mewtwo and Mew who were banned. You either played without them or with Mewtwo and Mew allowed but you couldn't really call it "Ubers." That's kind of what Arceus is like.
 
firecape01 said:
Is arceus banned forever in the uber tier? Or will he be allowed eventually...
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I'm sure that thing won't ever have a chance of hitting the standard tier. Look at it, it can change to any type depending on the trainer's preference and has 120 in each stat (Base), which interestingly, is the highest of all Pokémon so far (720). So...it'll probably stay Uber.
 
Actually, it is because the only legit Arceus that you can get is the TRU Arceus, which comes at level 100. Therefore, it suffers from an EV restriction, which cannot be implemented into Shoddy Battle 1. It will be included in SB2 and then you will be able to use Arceus.
 
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