Recent content by SwinubToupée

I considered C&C but the other LC guides were here rather than there. It'll be easy to update this if grammar is the only area of contention. I expected more trouble from a year-old document!

(Eric has asked me to dust off this guide from the Little Cup Forum. I'm a bit out of touch so I'll need the community's help bringing it up to code!) Introduction The legality of Pokémon is an occasional hot topic in a world where hacking and simulation make anything possible. Facing an...

If we believe that the Japanese Mimic glitch is legitimate or are simply unconcerned by what Pokémon can legally be acquired in the original software we must ask ourselves why we have made a not insignificant effort to define every unobtainable variation of every Pokémon. Are we saying that...

That's not necessarily true. Nintendo could release something as simple as a Belly Drum Psyduck and eliminate the illegality of Aqua Jet/Belly Drum Azumarill. There's no guarantee that Arceus will be legal earlier or later than any other currently unobtainable Pokémon.

Banning Arceus is not unlike banning Aqua Jet/Belly Drum Azumarill. Looking at the game's data a hacker would find both of those moves in Azumarill's family tree and see no problem with using them. Playing the game itself, on the other hand, prevents the combination from occuring. We can't...

World of Goo is brilliant. Hopefully it does well and the developers follow up their success with a level pack or sequel. There are quite a few exotic goo combinations that are not explored during the game and it'd be unfortunate if they remained untested.

According to Gastrodon's entry in the illegal moveset thread Stockpile and Mirror Coat are not allowed together with or without counter. You're right.

The box trick is simply storing a Pokémon in the PC and taking it back out again to gain the benefits of recently gained EVs without leveling up. It works because when a Pokémon is boxed the game remembers a minimum amount of information about it. The software records that the Pokémon has EVs...

Durations of 185 Additional Encores:7,8,5,5,8,8,6,5,6,5 7,4,5,4,5,5,7,8,6,4 5,4,8,6,4,5,7,5,5,8 8,8,5,7,4,7,5,7,7,6 5,7,8,7,5,7,6,4,7,4 6,8,6,4,4,5,5,4,5,8 6,4,6,8,8,4,7,4,4,5 4,7,7,6,8,4,5,5,5,8 8,7,4,6,6,7,5,8,7,5 5,6,7,4,6,7,4,8,8,4 5,6,8,5,5,4,6,7,8,5 6,7,7,4,4,6,5,7,4,5 4,7,6,7,7,6,5,8,8,7...

On closer examination the Clefairy family required more significant revisions. Here's the whole group:Cleffa: ~Magic Guard + Mega Punch, ~Magic Guard + Mega Kick, ~Magic Guard + Body Slam, ~Magic Guard + Double-edge, ~Magic Guard + Counter, ~Magic Guard + Seismic Toss, ~Magic Guard + Softboiled...

The Hoothoot family had several sets involving Mud-slap and Swift that should not have been there since the Platinum tutor makes those moves legal with anything. The post has been corrected. Thanks to Wild Eep for pointing it out!

Snover and Abomasnow receive Mist as a level up move so it shouldn't be illegal with anything. These species have no illegal movesets (Tropius covers every egg move that isn't also learned through tutoring or leveling up.) EDIT: There are a few more overlooked problems in Garchomp's family...

That's a good catch. I removed "Acid + Teeter Dance" and added "Acid + Teeter Dance + Magical Leaf".

Self Destruct Check Continuing with Check #4: Selfdestruct XD Tutor. Done! Apparently we didn't miss any Selfdestruct tutor opportunities. Well done, everyone!

Great, so no worries about Memento and Technician! I completed the Nightmare tutor check on the previous page. The families seen to be missing Nightmare were Clefairy's, Meowth's, Dunsparce's, Shedinja's, and Roselia's. Everybody else incorporated Nightmare or didn't need to (Gengar and Hypno...