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Would Fury Cutter/Metal Claw be good on a Tanking Lefties Swords Dance Scizor? IE:
Scizor@Leftovers
Impish 176 HP 252 Defense 82 Attack
Swords Dance
Metal Claw/Fury Cutter/ ----------Rock Smash
Pursuit/ Aerial Ace
Quick Attack ---------------------Quick Attack/Metal Claw
The shit moved at left is for another set, the stuff not doubled stays on the other set. Would this be a good idea of utilization of Technician? Aerial Ace is base 60, and Rock Smash and base 40. Both attacks are stronger from the Swords Dance and the Technician boost. Flying and Fighting cover all except two pokemon, Zapdos and Rotom, which make him quite good at sweeping. Metal Claw is base 50 and raises your attack at a 10% chance, I'm fairly lucky and I like that boost. Any thoughts?
 
Okay, I've two (probably stupid) questions, one concerning Pursuit, the other Me First, both in doubles.

First off, if I'm not mistaken, does Pursuit just hit the opponent's pokemon which switches out, not the actual target in a double battle (for example, if I had a Heracross out, and they had a Slowbro and a Gliscor, and I tried to use Pursuit on Slowbro but the opponent left Slowbro in and switched out Gliscor, Pursuit would hit Gliscor instead of Slowbro, even though I selected Slowbro to attack)? I ran into this once in a battle, but I'm not sure if it was just the opponent choosing the wrong pokemon to attack.
But anyway, if the previous is true, then how does Pursuit work if both the opponents switch out? Does it hit the faster pokemon, or just the one you targeted? And if you use Pursuit the same turn you switch your partner out, could you hit him?

My second question concerns Me First, which, truth be told, I've never gotten to use. I know you must be faster than the opponent for the move to work, but how does that work with multiple targets? For example, let's say I had a Me First Lucario with a Choice Scarf out, for whatever reason, I select one of the opponent's pokemon, and use Me First. Will it always copy the move that pokemon was going to use, or is it based on speed (such as if that pokemon was to go, say, third, with Lucario being first, would I use the attack of the pokemon going second?)? Also, if I wanted to do something like, say, boost a Draco Meteor off of my partner Flygon, could I do that without hitting Flygon?
What I mean is, when you use Me First, can you actively choose who's move you want to copy and which pokemon you wish to target (say, Me Firsting a Thunderbolt off of your partner Gengar to hit the opponent's Vaporeon), or do you have no control over which move you Me First and use it against whatever you target or whatever you get the move from (perhaps I'm not putting this clearly...)?
 
The Notorious B.I.G said:
Would Fury Cutter/Metal Claw be good on a Tanking Lefties Swords Dance Scizor?
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Metal Claw could definitely work if you feel lucky enough, and is only 5 base power less than Iron Head after Technician. Fury Cutter is really crappy, though, due to the fact that by the time you get enough base power, you'll probably have to switch out because your opponent has switched to a counter.
 
StarmanXL said:
Okay, I've two (probably stupid) questions, one concerning Pursuit, the other Me First, both in doubles.

First off, if I'm not mistaken, does Pursuit just hit the opponent's pokemon which switches out, not the actual target in a double battle (for example, if I had a Heracross out, and they had a Slowbro and a Gliscor, and I tried to use Pursuit on Slowbro but the opponent left Slowbro in and switched out Gliscor, Pursuit would hit Gliscor instead of Slowbro, even though I selected Slowbro to attack)? I ran into this once in a battle, but I'm not sure if it was just the opponent choosing the wrong pokemon to attack.
But anyway, if the previous is true, then how does Pursuit work if both the opponents switch out? Does it hit the faster pokemon, or just the one you targeted? And if you use Pursuit the same turn you switch your partner out, could you hit him?

My second question concerns Me First, which, truth be told, I've never gotten to use. I know you must be faster than the opponent for the move to work, but how does that work with multiple targets? For example, let's say I had a Me First Lucario with a Choice Scarf out, for whatever reason, I select one of the opponent's pokemon, and use Me First. Will it always copy the move that pokemon was going to use, or is it based on speed (such as if that pokemon was to go, say, third, with Lucario being first, would I use the attack of the pokemon going second?)? Also, if I wanted to do something like, say, boost a Draco Meteor off of my partner Flygon, could I do that without hitting Flygon?
What I mean is, when you use Me First, can you actively choose who's move you want to copy and which pokemon you wish to target (say, Me Firsting a Thunderbolt off of your partner Gengar to hit the opponent's Vaporeon), or do you have no control over which move you Me First and use it against whatever you target or whatever you get the move from (perhaps I'm not putting this clearly...)?
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For question #1 I think it hits the target but I'm not sure.For Question #2 It uses the target's move on them.So in that scenario you would use the pokemon going third's on the pokemon going third.
 
When i'm breeding for a Ralts to become a Gallade, what DVs to I really want to aim for besides Attack? Preferably Sp Def, but what if I use WoW? Or Thunder Wave? Or even both?

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freaktron said:
Also, does anyone know what happens if you lose to Dialga or Palkia in-game?
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again, since I don't think anyone answered
 
If I transfer an Electrike with Lightning Rod over to Diamond, would it have a chance of switching abilities when it evolves? Or does this only work with Pokemon who have a new ability in D/P?

Also, what does Dive Ball do in D/P? Does it work just like an ordinary Poke'ball or does it have a special effect?
 
no, but the gender will always be the same if you soft-reset (save BEFORE taking the egg).

by doing this, you can keep the gender and nature you want, and keep trying to get the IVs you want.
 
It's an online pokemon battle simulator (shoddybattle.com).

Question: I'm trying to work in some ubers for marrilpet's gym challenge when I finally get there. I figure I should start testing out some now. Any suggestions?
 
'kay, so this has confused me forever.

I'm breeding a bunch of Tyrogue to evolve into Hitmontop. But I keep seeing that its Attack and Defense need to be the exact same for this to happen.

Does this mean IVs, or the actual stats? O_o;
 
Tailwind said:
'kay, so this has confused me forever.

I'm breeding a bunch of Tyrogue to evolve into Hitmontop. But I keep seeing that its Attack and Defense need to be the exact same for this to happen.

Does this mean IVs, or the actual stats? O_o;
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Actual stats.

And yes, it's a pain to get a Hitmontop, lol.
 
KevlarX290 said:
If I transfer an Electrike with Lightning Rod over to Diamond, would it have a chance of switching abilities when it evolves? Or does this only work with Pokemon who have a new ability in D/P?

Also, what does Dive Ball do in D/P? Does it work just like an ordinary Poke'ball or does it have a special effect?
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Anyone???
 
Hacked parent + Legit parent = Legit egg or hacked egg? What if you aren't 100 percent sure, but there is a chance that the parent is hacked?
 
actually you'll never know atleast for us normal people perhaps nintendo can find out if the baby has hacked parents but iirc even if both parents were hacked the resulting baby will still pass the cheat detector.
 
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