What's a cool Poké Ball to catch Kyogre in? I'm thinking a Dive Ball :), but perhaps one of Kurt's balls would be cooler?
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Okay, just one question. I know that the pokemon metagame has been altered in many ways. Pokemon that aren't part of the game (like in the CAP project) have been incorporated into the metagame, pokemon like giratina-O, shaymin-s, and the rotom forms, who are otherwise unable to go on wifi, were able to enter the metagame via action replay. And who could forget the biggest revolution in competetive gameplay (in my opinion, the creation of shoddy.
What is the point of all this you ask? Rather than banning pokemon from the metagame, what if we altered the pokemon in a different way to balance out the metagame?? Say, changing a pokemon's movepool for instance.
What is the point of all this you ask? Rather than banning pokemon from the metagame, what if we altered the pokemon in a different way to balance out the metagame?? Say, changing a pokemon's movepool for instance.
I got a quick question. In the RNG reporter (I'm doing this for HG), I used the time finder to get a good time for a shiny egg. It says that it is on frame 11. When I call Elm 10 times to verify my seed, since I've got all the roamers, will those calls to verify the seed get my frame to what I need?
EDIT: What I mean by "I've got all the roamers" is that they are all caught and no longer roaming.
EDIT: What I mean by "I've got all the roamers" is that they are all caught and no longer roaming.
Hey I'm trying to finish a team in Heartgold. I have
Feraligatr lvl 67
Aqua Tail
Crunch
Ice Fang/Ice Beam (can choose either)
Return
Arcanine lvl 67
Flamethrower
Iron Tail
Extremespeed
Toxic
Tyranitar lvl 69
Rock Polish
Crunch
Stone Edge
Earthquake
Gengar lvl 68
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
Psychic
Electivire lvl 67
Fire Punch
Thunderbolt
Cross Chop
Hidden Power Grass
Im really up for any pokemon except ubers. Thanks everybody!
Feraligatr lvl 67
Aqua Tail
Crunch
Ice Fang/Ice Beam (can choose either)
Return
Arcanine lvl 67
Flamethrower
Iron Tail
Extremespeed
Toxic
Tyranitar lvl 69
Rock Polish
Crunch
Stone Edge
Earthquake
Gengar lvl 68
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
Psychic
Electivire lvl 67
Fire Punch
Thunderbolt
Cross Chop
Hidden Power Grass
Im really up for any pokemon except ubers. Thanks everybody!
Giratina-o, Shaymin-s and the Rotom formes are in the games, Shoddy is a replication of wireless battles, where all these pokemon are available.
I'm not talking about the fact that they're in the game. I'm talking about how we've altered the game to allow them to be used in competetive battles (action replay). My point here is, we've already altered the game in so many ways. If people are so concerned about balancing out the metagame, why can't we change the movepools of certain pokemon to help balance things out??
1. Yes
2. Reducing Life Orb damage in OU is a little bit pointless as you are only changing the damage loss by 1 or 2 HP. In LC however this is useful because of the drastically lowered HP. So in short you have to change the HP value to 19 instead of 20, because in Pokemon the damage rounds down, so you only take 1 damage from Life Orb instead of two. But still irrelevant to OU.
1. It is up to personal preference, of course Ice Beam has more PP and is more reliable if Hail stops for some reason, but in general I think you will appreciate the power Blizzard provides.
According to Serebii, it hits the last Pokemon that attacked.
Which comes first - healing from Aqua Ring / Ingrain, or damage from Sandstorm / Hail?
Weather damage first, then heal from leftovers, then Aqua Ring/Ingrain.
If heal came first, then Sandstorm and Hail would be easily nullified, so they made it this way I think.
On a similar note,
Aqua Ring or Ingrain alone easily reduces the recoil by more than half. Ingrain needs to be Baton Passed though, but together they completely negate the drawback and even heal you a little =D
Edit: Ninja'ed while on a toilet break XD
Every genderless Pokemon except Shedinja (since Nincada has a gender and egg moves), the early bugs (Caterpie, Weedle etc), Magikarp, Tauros, Wynaut and their families. I'm pretty sure that's it.
Personally, I catch all of my legendaries in Premier Balls. So classy. :3
Altered formes are permitted on local battles (DS to DS). That is what we emulate, and this way we end up not altering the game in any manner.
And to put it as simply as possible as to why we don't alter pokemon themselves, "we wouldn't be playing pokemon anymore."
Plus Rotom and metagross as I stated above. Thanks
Only Linoone with Extremespeed can't have perfect IV's
Aerodactyl is the fastest OU taunter available, the only non-banned poké to beat him being Electrode. He takes advantage of this to pull off a successful taunt on the opponent lead, rendering them unable to set up their Stealth Rock, while he puts up his on the next turn. That's all aerodactyl is meant to do. He only needs two turns to finish his business, and given his lousy defences, focus sash is the best item for him to use, as it will almost guarantee his success unless he get's spored to sleep, which is less likelier than being hit to death.
Choiced or explosive leads are not rare in the OU metagame, so it's best to play safe. It also saves you from those lucky critical hits.
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