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VirtualKaraokeCircusAct said:
Do I need a pokemon that knows surf?
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The game's trying to stop you from losing your only Pokemon with a copy of a HM move so you can't do something retarded and get yourself stranded somewhere. Most well-known example would be not getting any rods, and ditching your only Surfer and Flier at Pacifidlog. You'd be trapped there with no way out except trading in a Surfer or Flier.
 
I'm not sure about the catch rates on Gen 3 onwards (I never bothered with looking at the mechanics there), but I know the gen 1 & 2 catch rates are identical. I don't see them changing them for the balls that have existed in all of them.
 
The best way is just to go to the pokemon league and battling with amulet coin. You can also go to the -i think they are called slot machines in english- if you feel lucky
 
I'm not sure who learns it, but you could use Pay Day on a boatload of trainers. And oh, make the pokemon hold an amulet coin.
 
TRb said:
How do you get a Marowak with both Rock Slide AND Swords dance?
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This involves a breeding chain and trading back to RBY.
Get a male Tyranitar with Rock Slide and breed with a female Charizard to get a male Charmander with rock slide. Then trade back to RBY and teach it swords dance via TM, then trade it back to GSC and breed with a Marowak and you'll hatch Cubone with both Swords Dance and Rock Slide. I actually did all this earlier this week, but I'm still hatching them for a maxgene, since I incorporated a ditto into the mix that gives me perfect Defense and 50% of the time perfect special.
Oh, and FTR one of them is only an egg move in Crystal, so you need to do the breeding for the Cubone there.
 
The damage formula is very similar if not the same. but I don't know how the catch formula is

And one question. Can ice-types get frozen in RBY?
 
Hipmonlee said:
Actually I prefer Ice punch. Basically just because it can freeze..

Have a nice day.
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Hm, never saw your reply until now, Hip. And to give a reply to that, I'd rather still go with ThunderPunch over Ice Punch mainly because ThunderPunch can go over Thunder Wave if you want a more offensive Alakazam.

With ThunderPunch having a 10% chance to paralyze something, it's still worth considering and to also 3HKO the Psychic-/Water-type Pokemon who laugh at 'kazam's unresisted STAB Psychic (but it becomes neutral due to +STAB -resistance, clearly) and having a slight chance to paralyze them as well during the 3HKO process (only if they're at full health, that is).

The 10% chance to freeze also sounds nice, so Ice Punch is still worth the consideration. It's really up to the user if s/he wants to give it a fun twist to Alakazam and have a surprise factor on it and use either ThunderPunch or Ice Punch on the opponents Pokemon. Or if they for some reason go all-out offensive late game sweeper Alakazam, I suppose it can have a Abra-Pokemon-Stadium moveset: Psychic, ThunderPunch, Ice Punch, Recover/Seismic Toss.
Crystal_ said:
The damage formula is very similar if not the same. but I don't know how the catch formula is

And one question. Can ice-types get frozen in RBY?
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I would believe they can. There is no true Ice-type in RBY. They all have an extra type, which is mainly all Water, other than Articuno and Jynx who have Flying-type and Psychic-type with their Ice-type. (I think if there was a true Ice-type Pokemon, maybe it wouldn't be able to freeze, but that's just a what-if/what-could happen thing, since it doesn't exist.)

I can't confirm that I've seen them being frozen, but when I use to play Stadium as a kid, I remember freezing both of those Pokemon. I also have frozen a Cloyster once when battling on NBS. So, if I could freeze those Ice-type Pokemon, then I'm sure the others can freeze as well.

~ Aether Nexus
 
I have a question for Emerald Breeding RNG abuse. I heard on the guide for it that you can save before getting an egg because the nature, gender, and ability have already been determined. Then, once you have the correct n/g/a, you can SR for the correct IV's. So that means the game makes two RNG calls at two different times - one when the game determines that you have an egg, which creates the n/g/a, and the other RNG call after you recieve the egg, which creates the IV's. Is this correct?
 
CBshuckle said:
I have a question for Emerald Breeding RNG abuse. I heard on the guide for it that you can save before getting an egg because the nature, gender, and ability have already been determined. Then, once you have the correct n/g/a, you can SR for the correct IV's. So that means the game makes two RNG calls at two different times - one when the game determines that you have an egg, which creates the n/g/a, and the other RNG call after you recieve the egg, which creates the IV's. Is this correct?
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Yes, this is correct.
 
Crystal_ said:
OK, problem solved. Ice types CANNOT get frozen even in first gen.
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And how'd you come to this conclusion? Hm, I would have sworn I remember freezing an Articuno once. And I know I've seen a frozen Jynx before too, but that was from like a picture during the Stadium 1 days.

~ Aether Nexus
 
If you cant have the time to get a Tauros with hidden power ghost and you dont want to use sleep talk would Iron Tail and Hyper Beam (along side with Return and Earthquake)work? This is for the emerald frontier and my other pokemon are metagross and starmie, also im wondering what would items be for each of my pokemon?

Thanks in advance to who answers!
 
Iron Tail is questionable at best with its shaky accuracy, especially for the frontier. Although getting HP ghost can be a hastle, do not use hyper beam. The only pokemon that hyper beam isn't completely useless on in the 3rd gen is slaking. I say this because max attack adamant choice band hyper beam is effectively a OHKO on anything that doesn't resist it. Even so, it isn't the best option because you can't switch. I actually used a slaking on my old frontier team (it was an in-game one so it had a bad nature/iv's/ev's, and even so hyper beam could still OHKO a large number of enemies) and it was decent, although I basically would just send it out to OHKO something.
 
Yep, the problem is outside NB, I mean in-game (i also tested this in NB before).

And lol Ice Punch Hitmonchan is the best Cloyster counter as it 4092356HKOes it lol
 
Well, if anyone wants to give it a test run on NB, I'm all up for testing it if you need someone to sit there and keep battling you to test if this really happens.

Also, if this continues on, best we make a thread of it so we don't pollute the SQ/SA thread.

~ Aether Nexus
 
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