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Look up Bearsfan092 on youtube for HG/SS. If you're not using HG/SS, just look up RNG DPPt or something similar and I'm sure you'll find something.
Athenodoros
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'hack games' would not be seen as legit ways to get pokemon for trading. You would need an official game, even if not necessarily an actual game cartridge.
Look under in-game on the Smogon main page. There are good articles there.
God something's wrong with me these days. I've been doing some RNG in Platinum for breeding pokemon. I know the IVs of both parents and the hatched pokemon. I'm supposed to "hatch my pokemon and narrow down its IVs enough to find out which frame I hit." I just can't seem to find the frame: I've gone all the way up to frame 2000 looking. To be sure, I've locked in the nature and ability, and when I boot up my game, the journal appears. I quit the journal, talk to the day care man to get the egg, hatch the egg, calculate its IVs, and then see what frame I've hit. I can't find it. Can someone please help me?
Athenodoros
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There are good guides to RNG abuse on site, which cover the use of the RNG Reporter. Look here.
Ask in the RNG help thread in the Wifi forum. Although I can tell you that in some games (not sure which, although I think it might be all 4th gen) opening the diary moves the RNG, so you will need to take that into account.
Athenodoros
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If you are having RNG trouble, then the best idea is to ask in the RNG help thread in the Wifi section. Although, to start with, make sure you have the latest version of RNG Reporter, and try just going by what the buttons say rather than where they are on the screen.
Anybody?
Moltres, maybe? And Exeggutor.
I'd say Sunny Day on Uxie. As far as sweepers go, I'd say Typhlosion and Vileplume.
Well for a lead I suggest something fast, something that can prevent your opponent from setting up (their own weather, in this case rain / Stealth Rock as most Sunny Day sweepers can miss that / ...). An example is Ambipom. Holding Heat Rock and a moveset of Fake Out / Taunt / Sunny Day /U-turn you'll have a solid lead to start things off with. Obviously you'll need a secondary pokemon that can set up Sun for your team later in the game. A good pokemon for this is Uxie. It's bulk allows it to set up sun multiple times if needed. It can also set up Stealth Rock and dual screens to add more team support. As for as sweepers go you'll most likely want to try a Cholorophyl sweeper and a powerful Fire type monster, as they both get boosted by the sunlight. Good examples are SD Tangrowth and Choice Specs Typhlosion (Specs Eruption can really devistate, this is why the prevention of Stealth Rock can help). They can both hit hard from a side of the spectrum. LO Exeggutor would make a fine late game sweeper with his ability to spam STAB SolarBeams, those who resist are hit hard by a STAB Psychic or a sun boosted Hidden Power [Fire]. Sleep Powder can give you that extra turn. Lastly you could use a pokemon that could benefit from the drop in power from Water attacks. A nice example here is something like Rock Polish / SD Rhyperior (also has Solid Rock to weaken it even more).
In NU you can use the same strategy but with different pokemon. Persian (or Purugly) would make fine leads. Tropius can be a decent SD sweeper (or you could try to put a Choice Specs on him and abuse Solar Power. Etc...
If I have a Scizor with pursuit and the opponent switchs is the power doubled before or after the technician bonus?
Thank you ^_^ you too Lucalibur
if i remember correctly then the everstone must be hold by the female pokemon. in ditto case he counts as the female so i suppose ditto MUST be the one holding.
unless of course this was changed in HGSS.
edit: athenodoros@ yeah i though so. would be weird if it had changed for no good reason.
unless of course this was changed in HGSS.
edit: athenodoros@ yeah i though so. would be weird if it had changed for no good reason.
Athenodoros
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It was not.
Competitively, if I have a Raikou with HP Ice 70, is that not desirable for the offensive booster set (CM/TBolt/Shadow Ball/HP)? I accidentally got HP Ice instead. Is it a viable option to keep this on him? Grass is mainly for Swampert right? I was thinking of pairing this with Rotom-C anyway
Also, Raikou is still wandering in my soulsilver so I could always catch that one with HP Grass and make this one into Substitute/CM/TBolt/HP Ice. But is that still any use in Gen IV?
Also, Raikou is still wandering in my soulsilver so I could always catch that one with HP Grass and make this one into Substitute/CM/TBolt/HP Ice. But is that still any use in Gen IV?
Although Grass is prefered, HP Ice still is a good option Raikou, because BoltBeam is a solid combination. The type you want depends on your team, or with which pokemon you might have problems with.
Although you might use Rotom-c Swampert isn't going to switch into or stay in against it, unless it is used as death fodder.
Since you can get another Raikou, you must also consider HP Fighting as an option to hit Tyranitar and the likes with.
Are you in the proper generation? Generations can be changed with the menu.
So what happens here?
Torterra(Male) that has Curse and EQ fucks Snorlax(Female). Does Snorlax get Curse and EQ?
Torterra(Male) that has Curse and EQ fucks Snorlax(Female). Does Snorlax get Curse and EQ?