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Haha, Ghandi. You made the 2000th post ^^

yeah, bloodghoul. Probopass is an awesome UU Special Wall. specially in Sandstorm.
 
Here's something I've been wondering for the longest time and have been quite frustrated about it oftentimes: I have 2 parents where their IVs are both 31/31/x/x/x/31 and in this case, the father is a male rhydon and the mother is an adamant kangaskhan holding everstone. I would only do IV battles where the offsprings were adamant and had level 1 stats of 13/7/6/x/6/7 and at least alert to sounds or likes to thrash about or similar flawless description. To make a long story short, I've lost count of how many IV battles I've done involving these, but it seemed to take forever where the kangaskhan I was checking had 31/31/x/x/x/31 at least. In most cases it was x/31/x/x/x/31 at least but the HP stat seemed like it was behaving randomly even in most other cases where there was at least one flawless attack or speed IV.

Could it be that the HP IV is not affected based on either parent, or just a harder random?
 
Expert Evan said:
Here's something I've been wondering for the longest time and have been quite frustrated about it oftentimes: I have 2 parents where there IVs are both 31/31/x/x/x/31 and in this case, the father is a male rhydon and the mother is an adamant kangaskhan holding everstone. I would only do IV battles where the offsprings were adamant and had level 1 stats of 13/7/6/x/6/7 and at least alert to sounds or likes to thrash about or similar flawless description. To make a long story short, I've lost count of how many IV battles I've done involving these, but it seemed to take forever where the kangaskhan I was checking had 31/31/x/x/x/31 at least. In most cases it was x/31/x/x/x/31 at least but the HP stat seemed like it was behaving randomly even in most other cases where there was at least one flawless attack or speed IV.

Could it be that the HP IV is not affected based on either parent, or just a harder random?
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HP and Defense IVs are harder to inherit from the parents than the other IVs. This is different from the other games (see RSFRLG IV breeding), where each IV has the same percentage of being transferred to the baby (16.67%). The percentages for Emerald (and DP) are as follows (considering also the fact that the random IVs generated for the baby can end up to be the same as that of one of the parent's IVs):

HP: 8.02% chance of being inherited
Atk: 19.55% chance of being inherited
Def: 13.78% chance of being inherited
SpAtk: 19.55% chance of being inherited
SpDef: 19.55% chance of being inherited
Speed: 19.55% chance of being inherited

This means that in EDP, the Attack, Speed, Special Attack and Special Defense IVs have a better probability of being passed to the baby than in RSFRLG, while the HP and Defense IVs have a worse probability of being passed to the baby than in RSFRLG.

SUMMARY: Emerald, Diamond and Pearl
1. The baby’s IVs are created at random.
2. Then a random IV is passed from one of the parents to the baby. The previous IV is overwritten.
3. Another random IV from Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed is passed from one of the parents to the baby. The previous IV is overwritten.
4. Finally, another random IV from Attack, Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed is passed from one of the parents to the baby. The previous IV is overwritten.
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That's an extract from the breeding guide in the Contributions section.
 
Thanks Zephyrman as that was exactly what I was looking for. Making HP harder to inherit in EDP cetainly makes breeding harder as HP is often a stat that is required to be at a certain level, and in some cases, flawless.
 
I think 31/31/x/x/x/31 is like 1 in 65 Eggs with triple flawless parents, You'd have to be quite lucky to get that with good defences.
 
forbidden said:
I think 31/31/x/x/x/31 is like 1 in 65 Eggs with triple flawless parents, You'd have to be quite lucky to get that with good defences.
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That's why it's better to breed for one of the defenses and to try to get HP at random.Breeding with 3 easy-to-pass stats results in 1 in 23 eggs to get the 3 flawlesses.
 
Because I'm nice....

Check IV's Hold down Start+Select when going into the summary. Go to TM's. They will show IVs in the order, Hp/Atk/Def/Spd/Sp.atk/Sp.Def.
94000130 fdff0000
52067638 e0ee0ec4
0206763c 88809800
02067640 0fc40740
0206763c 47004800
02067640 02000101
62000100 402e1c26
e2000100 0000003c
4f0bb4f0 687f683f
193f4c0a 20006934
0eed06e5 1d3f807d
1c400964 d1f72806
9800bcf0 07408880
4d030f44 47282c00
021c4d28 00000bec
02067645 00000000
d2000000 00000000
 
Djengo said:
this can be checked to a degree using psypokes, it has a chart down the bottom that shows the lvl 50 and 100 stats of it with nature and other stuff

Edit: Also how are hack tests done?
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Thanks, does anyone know another way because some of the pokemon I need to check are not going to be lv 50.
 
SO CONFUSED

my horse has the ability swift swim, when it evolves into seadra, it has poison point, but when it evolves into Kingdra....BAM it gets sniper

WTF is going on!
 
SWChill said:
Thanks, does anyone know another way because some of the pokemon I need to check are not going to be lv 50.
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Nobody apart from the Hack Checkers themselves know how it is done.
If they let the information out, and a hacker found out, then everything hacked would look perfectly legit, you know what I mean?
 
Ambitions said:
SO CONFUSED

my horse has the ability swift swim, when it evolves into seadra, it has poison point, but when it evolves into Kingdra....BAM it gets sniper

WTF is going on!
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Perhaps the game recalcs the value determining the abillity when a pokémon from an ADV game evolves.
Try evolving your Horsea in the game it came from and evolve the Seadra in DP.You could also just get it evolved in your ADV game.
 
shadow knight, thanks

chip fox, i personally think a choice scarfer should be able to out speed a timid jolteon, or speed + nature pokemon with base 130 speed.

unless your worried about electrode, or other scarfers, 395 is the speed to aim for
 
Ambitions said:
SO CONFUSED

my horse has the ability swift swim, when it evolves into seadra, it has poison point, but when it evolves into Kingdra....BAM it gets sniper

WTF is going on!
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You know that pokémon bred in Advance with an evolution and two traits might get the second ability upon evolution in the D/P games, right? That's pretty much what happened with your Horsea. In the game, it had Swift Swim at first. However, when it came to D/P, the game recalculated its trait, and gave you Poison Point. Now, when it evolved to Kingdra, the trait changed again simply because Kingdra has Sniper instead of Poison Point (thank God, by the way).

If you want to get your Horsea to keep Swift Swim until its last form, evolve it to Kingdra in your Advance game.
 
Is this a usable Lopunny set?
27/29/28/31/27/31

Lopunny (Klutz)
Jolly @ Sticky Barb
252 HP/ 48 Atk/ 28 Def/ 180 Spd
~ Encore
~ Toxic
~ Switcheroo
~ Drain Punch
 
1. Where is a good site to get an avatar for Smogon?
2. If I want to put a link to my trade thread in my signature, how do I change the link from the URL to another name?

Thanks in advance.
 
1. arkeis.com
2. type the word, highlight it, click hyperlink button, insert URL

Can someone hook me up with the IV check code for AR? EDIT: Nvm, Melon posted it a couple of posts earlier. For reference:

Check IV's Hold down Start+Select when going into the summary. Go to TM's. They will show IVs in the order, Hp/Atk/Def/Spd/Sp.atk/Sp.Def.
94000130 fdff0000
52067638 e0ee0ec4
0206763c 88809800
02067640 0fc40740
0206763c 47004800
02067640 02000101
62000100 402e1c26
e2000100 0000003c
4f0bb4f0 687f683f
193f4c0a 20006934
0eed06e5 1d3f807d
1c400964 d1f72806
9800bcf0 07408880
4d030f44 47282c00
021c4d28 00000bec
02067645 00000000
d2000000 00000000
 
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