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Oh, I know that (and have spent many hours soft resetting for legendaries) but my question is, if I fight and beat victini over and over for its 3 HP EVs, will it have different stats and natures each time it respawns or will these be determined the first time i fight it and locked for each...
If you fight and defeat an interaction legendary, do you lock its stats for each time it respawns?
I ask because using victini for EV training seems like a pretty sweet deal, but at the end of the day I'd rather catch and keep a well-statted out victini. If I use it for training, will i be...
so I CAN save it for later? I wasn't sure if I would "miss" the event that spawns the legendary by just going on to the e4, or if it might just spawn on its own (with potentially crap IVs)
Re: catching Tornadus / Voltlos
I've just got the 8th badge and I can now trigger the wandering legendary, but I want a good one. Are its nature and IVs "locked in" when you are invited into the old lady's home or earlier than that? Can I put off soft resetting for a good one until after the...
I don't really know where to ask this, so it goes here!
I've decided my next breeding project will be a Gliscor- and as hard as it is to breed for perfect IVs AND the Ability I want, which two IVs should I pay most attention to while breeding?
I've decided I want to breed a Jolly one for the...
I'm currently replaying Platinum for the chance to catch Registeel again- I've transferred my event Regigigas onto the card, and have just reached iron island, but cannot activate Registeel yet! I'd heard somewhere that you didn't need the national dex to catch the regi trio, but that looks like...
In-game, What do I need to do to trigger the high-level trainer rematches? I've cleared Stark Mountain but not caught Heatran (because I'm not set up to camp for a good one yet). Do I need to catch Heatran before the rich couple on route 212 will start using their level 60 pokemon?
I originally posted this here, then decided it was perhaps too complicated for the simple questions thread, then was told it belongs in here! So, my question:
I've read the Registeel analysis and the article on defenses, but I'm still more than a little confused!
After a few hours of camping...
Next, I'm working on choice band scizor, built on the fact that a slow u-turn coming from something sturdy enough to do it more than once is probably a tremendous asset in switching a team around freely. That being the case, my question is this:
Should I try and run something close to the...
I've been looking hard at Slaking, as I'm really tempted to use the thing for a revenge killer. It seems built for the role. It comes in and hits HARD even if it doesn't do much else. Mostly because it looks like a good laugh to use though.
I'm curious why Hammer Arm isn't considered viable in...
I think I want to start up a LeafGreen game in order to, among other things, catch a suicune. My question is this: I know that, once you've seen it and permanently thereafter, Suicune's (or other wandering legendary) nature and IVs are locked. when does the game decide this? At what point should...