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Regular (Regirock) @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP/6 Def/252 SDef
Careful nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Toxic
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake


is this a good lead
 
I personally just mass-hatch if I need a male parent.
If I need a female parent with the right nature, I set the nature/gender then start SR'ing. Then work from there and keep switching parents.
 
OLIE if u have time to post on this topic then go on ShoddyBattle and lets do our Strikeout Tourney match before the deadline, stop stalling
 
i have a female bagon with all the right iv's but a bad nature(sassy)

what can i do to make sure its atk, spatk, and speed iv's transfer over to its offspring?

if i gave ditto an everstone but the other parent is a female, would it be more likely to get ditto's nature?

my ditto has pretty bad iv's but a good nature while my bagon has the good iv's but bad nature
how can i get the best of both worlds?
 
also, how does a pokemon activate their berry after a third sub?
It happens only if the HP of that pokemon is divisible by 4.

i have a female bagon with all the right iv's but a bad nature(sassy)

what can i do to make sure its atk, spatk, and speed iv's transfer over to its offspring?
If you don't need egg moves then you can breed that female with a ditto.
If you need the egg moves you could try breeding without an everstone until you get the nature you want and SR the egg.
There is no way that you can be sure that atk. spAtk and Speed will pass always because it is chosen at random.
 
wat exactly is sr the egg
and how likely is it that any 3 ivs would be chosen from the bagon instead of the ditto?

and if its not too promising, would i be better off keeping my bagon, cus sassy could help it since its special defense is so bad but i just dont like the negative speed
this is the 10th bagon i caught and i dont feel like walking around 10000 steps for an egg like i did for my gible
 
wat exactly is sr the egg
and how likely is it that any 3 ivs would be chosen from the bagon instead of the ditto?

and if its not too promising, would i be better off keeping my bagon, cus sassy could help it since its special defense is so bad but i just dont like the negative speed
this is the 10th bagon i caught and i dont feel like walking around 10000 steps for an egg like i did for my gible

It would be best if you read all this guide first:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20655

There you can find all the info on how to breed, soft reset eggs, breeding probabilities, etc.
 
ok i guess it comes down to
in wifi, would you rather have a 28atk/31spatk/29speed sassy salamence
or an adamant salamence with all its iv's in the midteens
because i really dont feel like spending hours just breeding for a salamence

like sassy salamence would get outsped by neutral base (what) speed pokemon?
 
Regular (Regirock) @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP/6 Def/252 SDef
Careful nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Toxic
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake


is this a good lead

It depends on the rest of your team. Personally I don't like leading with walls, as you forfeit the momentum of the match to your opponent if they bring in a sweeper who can set up on you (like Curselax, for example).

What exactly is a Suspect Ladder

I'm just going to quote from the Suspect Ladder thread right on the first page of Stark Mountain. :|

"Ok, let's try this again. The last thread was utterly derailed by people who honestly don't understand what we're doing here. Allow us to be more clear.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat chaos
...nobody understands that its a TEST. The discussion thread should be about experiences with testing the new metagame, not theorymon on why Garchomp should/should not be banned. Etc.
Nobody has banned anything yet, lol. Over a dozen posts in the old thread were to the effect of "wow y ban garchomp, it's not that hard 2 stop" even after I explicitly warned people not to post stuff like that, and the sad part is that I am not even exaggerating (most of those posts were deleted). Right now, the Suspect Ladder is deviod of Garchomp and Deoxys-S, because both pokemon are Suspects. I have defined suspect as:


Any Pokémon, move or clause that respectively may benefit competitive standard or uber battle if moved or implemented elsewhere.


This statement applies to Pokémon, moves like Double Team and Stealth Rock, and Clauses like Species Clause and Evasion Clause. The Suspect Pokémon right now, by both popular and astute observation are: Garchomp, Deoxys-S, Manaphy, Mew, Darkrai, Latios and Latias. Right now, we are first analyzing the removal of Garchomp and Deoxys-S from standard play. We will play a "Suspect-Free" metagame for around a month, to see if any other pokemon reveal themselves as Suspects in this time period. After that, we are going to let those of you who achieve a certain rating (with a certain deviation) vote after these month-long tests on whether or not you feel the Suspect belongs where it does.

So, after determining what other Suspects there are besides, the aim of the Suspect Test Ladder is simple and is outlined in my Order of Operations thread and pasted below for convenience:


Stage 1: Analysis of a single Suspect in August 2008's standard metagame (since Garchomp and Deoxys-S are definitely suspects, this is all the wording that's needed)

Stage 2: Our assessment of Uber or OU for any Suspect's impact on a suspect-free August 2008 metagame, following the respective Suspect's completion of Stage 1.

Stage 3: Analysis of all the Suspects in July 2008's standard metagame with the knowledge of which are considered Uber and OU in the Suspect-free August-2008 metagame.


It's really straightforward when you think about it, or at the very least read my posts. Anyway, again, this threads serves to document your experiences with the Suspect Test Ladder. There is no way any of us can know if x pokemon is a Suspect until a considerable amount of time played on a "Suspect-free" ladder, so any such suggestions will have to be at least backed up with experience. I have seen that pokemon like Jirachi and Raikou have had an easier time sweeping without the threat of a pokemon with 130 base attack and a STAB EQ, with a Scarf or not ever looming. We still need quite a bit of time to determine whether this makes either of them Suspects, though. At the very least, this may necessitate the reconsideration of—and "remind" "us" of—Blissey with Seismic Toss as an option, but we will have to wait and see.

So finally, this thread isn't for theorymon, though: it is for questions, concerns, and comments about the Suspect Test process and experience you may have, after you have read this post and my threads in Policy Review about the process and how we will be better able to determine what is "uber" and what is not shortly." -Jumpman16
 
What is the correct HP for rounding down on Life Orb sets?
It depends on the base HP of the pokemon and the EVs you plan on investing in HP.
The correct answer would be: any HP stat that is 1 point less than the nearest multiple of 10 will receive less recoil from Life Orb than if the HP was higher.
The answer you are probably looking for is "29" if you meant what the people on the wifi forum call a "LO number". If you have an HP IV equal to 29 then you will receive less Life Orb recoil than if you had an HP IV of 30 or 31 only if these conditions are true:
- The base stat is a multiple of 10.
- You are not using any EVs in HP.
- This only works at level 100.

The formula for calculating the HP stat is as follows:
((( 2 * BaseStat ) + IV + ( EV / 4 )) * Level / 100 ) + 10 + Level

So for example if you are using a Lucario you get this:
BaseStat = 70
IV = 29
EV = 0
Level = 100
The resulting HP would be 279, since LO takes 1/10 of the HP on each hit you would receive 27.9 of recoil but the game rounds it down to 27.
On the other hand if the IV were 31 the resulting HP would be 281 and the recoil would be 28.1 which the game rounds down to 28.

You recieve ONE hit point less of recoil with each hit but you have 2 hit points less total, 3 hit points less if you planned on using a sweeper with an EV spread like 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe because you are forced to use the remaining 4 EVs in defense instead of HP to keep the "LO number".
In my opinion it is worthless to aim to get a "LO number" because the difference is barely noticeable and hardly ever matters.
 
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