Any good area for grinding post-game?
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SPOILERS! Sun and Moon SQSA Thread
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The consensus to reaching level 100 seems to be:
1. Use the Elite Four to get to high level.
2. At level 66, use Festival Plaza and two-Rare Kitchen stalls to grant your Pokemon +7 / +7 / +9 / +9 levelups (Two rare-dinners and Two rare-buffets). This gets your Pokemon to level 98.
3. Either use Rare Candies or more Elite4 Grinding to get the last two levels.
The Festival Plaza trick will require a large amount of setup: you need to reach Festival level 8 before you can purchase buildings from friends, you'll need to find a friend with Rare Kitchens and another friend with level 5 Fortune Tellers for FC grinding. It seems like the fastest way to get FC is to hope that Fortune Tellers give you the 4x Festival Plaza Buff + 4x Wonder Trade buff, then wonder-trade a lot (32FC per trade with the two 4x buffs combined).
Still, you'll need thousands of FC before you get enough FC to purchase the Rare Kitchens and Fortune Tellers. Each +9 levelup (Rare buffet) costs 300FC, which is "only" 10 wonder-trades with the two 4x buffs however. This does seem to be the fastest level-up mechanism, even if it is reliant upon luck (the Fortune Teller +FC Buffs). Get level 5 Fortune Tellers from a friend.
There's only one Rare-Buffet per day per stall however (which is why you need two Rare Kitchens minimum to level up from Lvl 66 to 98)
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Still, it seems like its worth it. The +7 level up is only 100FC (very efficient!), although capped at level 79. And while the +9 level up is so expensive, the jump from Level 89 to Level 98 would have otherwise required huge amounts of Experience Points. So its definitely worth the 300FC / 10 minutes of Wonder Trading.
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No repeatable double battles, but you can use wild smeargles. Have a wild smeargle sketch a move, and it now will be able to use it again for you to sketch (It didn't work previously because Sketch did not restore a move's PP prior to this gen).
Hmm, that does seem like a good use. Also, thanks for your set in the other topic :-)
The main issue is getting Spore onto Smeargle. Do you have a trick for that? Maybe Adrenaline orb so that a 2nd Smeargle comes out, Spore the 1st Smeargle ?
I've been planning to get a Smeargle too. I haven't bred it yet, since I need a Destiny Bond before I can, but once I have it, I plan to have a friend help me via an online double battle. If that's an option for you, I think it's the easiest way. If you don't have someone available, I'm sure there's a Smogonite willing to help you out.
I thought Sketch failed in multiplayer battles?
If it works, I got friends :-) So I can just run it in a doubles battle. But it was under my impression that the move "Sketch" couldn't be used in multiplayer.
Oh snap, it doesn't? That's a problem if true. Can someone confirm?
They pass their respective stat down from the parent holding them still, but the Destiny Knot is far superior. As of gen 6, the Destiny Knot passes down 5 IV's from both parents chosen at random, leaving the final stat up to chance.
Given that you can chain Ditto up to 4 guaranteed IV's in Sun and Moon quite easily, there's not much point in bothering with the Power items for breeding.
It was to pass a particular stat down for a Aegislash as I needed one with 27/28 IVs in Speed, however I noticed I already had a Snorunt with 31/31/31/31/31/28 so I didn't need to use a Power Item in the end.
Sketch might work but your team will be reset regardless after the battle, so you won't keep your move. Just like you don't lose the berries or theft items
Well that's a bummer. :/ I'm assuming the same is true for the Battle Tower. Looks like I'm gonna have to do this the hard way then.
There is a use of power items when breeding, as if you don't have the right nature yet and have two mons to breed, you can give one said power item and one a destiny knot to breed for IV's faster/go for all 6 IV's. Also good if you want to breed a pokemon solely for breeding, and want to breed it with another one with the nature you want (Ex: A male 6IV smeargle can pass any egg moves to field group, other egg move mons.)
Otherwise, destiny knot/everstone is the best option.
Got a question regarding S.O.S Chaining for Shinies. Does the increased Shiny rate reset when you hit over 255 allys called like IVs do? I have been pretty lucky with a lot of shinies since I have gotten them as low as 14 chains and on average have found 8-9 on chains of 25-45. However I'm currently in a chain of 130 and no Shiny yet.
Everything works on the same counter so yes, it would reset.
But if you can get to 255... what's stopping you from getting to 285 and having the highest chance for a shiny again? :P
PokeRus is at worst...nothing and at best absolutely amazing. Why would you want it gone?
(It should wear off after a few days)
Not really, as the Destiny Knot may still call upon the stat the Power item is to pass down. If you don't have the right nature yet, it's better to either look for a male in the same egg group or Ditto with the desired nature and breed it first along with desired egg moves.
Pokérus is nothing but beneficial. It's not a bad thing so you don't need to worry about getting rid of it.
How does Cute Charm work in SOS Chains? Does skill passing work in chains?
I tried using Sylveon (M) to Skill Swap Cute Charm onto a wild Salandit, then switched in Smeargle (M) and used Skill Swap again to get Cute Charm onto my Smeargle. But the 10 reinforcements the Salandit called in were male so the ability didn't seem to proc.
When I used just my Sylveon I did get 4 females, 1 male in 5 reinforcements, so Cute Charm did work for that.
I tried using Sylveon (M) to Skill Swap Cute Charm onto a wild Salandit, then switched in Smeargle (M) and used Skill Swap again to get Cute Charm onto my Smeargle. But the 10 reinforcements the Salandit called in were male so the ability didn't seem to proc.
When I used just my Sylveon I did get 4 females, 1 male in 5 reinforcements, so Cute Charm did work for that.
I know, guys. It's just that I'm one of those OCD people that see the Pokerus icon / smiley face on the summary screen as something bad aesthetically. I can live with having it in 1-2 Pokemon just in case I ever need it (likely never), but I want it away from any serious breed I come up with.
And yes, I've had that Pokerus Talonflame (the one who contracted it) for about a week and no smiley face yet. Now the Pokerus has spread to all my in-game team, leaving me unable to level up Pokes without them getting infected.
There are different Pokerus strains, some get cured after one day, some after up to four days. So you should just have it in your team for a few more days and everything should be fine^^ (Tho that talonflame looks a bit suspicious. I guess "about a week" might be less than 4 days?)
Then it must be going up to its fourth day. Let's see if it stops being contagious. I already made another team to beat the league that doesn't have Pokerus (Had to take some Tapus and stuff to complete it, but eh).
Having bred a Wingull with Keen Eye (both parents were Wingull), is it a 50/50 chance that it gets Drizzle on evolving? Or does Keen Eye always become Keen Eye, and Hydration becomes Drizzle?
Hydration becomes Drizzle when Wingull evolves. At least Ability Capsules are considerably cheaper this generation... (100 BP is still a lot, but better than 200 BP)
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