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no special and physical moves were based on types
Special moves included: fire, water, grass, electric, dark, psychic, ice, and dragon types moves
physical moves included: ground, rock, ghost, bug, steel, normal, flying, fighting, and poison type moves
What happened to the Indigo Plateau? I am not a fan of this.
Only a few threads were active in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd gen forums at a time so they probably thought it would be more efficient to just merge them.
Kind of makes things confusing.
Merge the boards, fair enough. However, it would probably be better having each generation with their own sticky. Otherwise, people asking questions on one generation, might get their posts overlooked in responses to another generation's question.
Merge the boards, fair enough. However, it would probably be better having each generation with their own sticky. Otherwise, people asking questions on one generation, might get their posts overlooked in responses to another generation's question.
So, I was playing Ruby, doint a Mono-Ground run, training my Nincada, fighting an Electrike, when something really weird happened.
I used Fury Swipes, the last hit activated Static, paralyzing my Nincada. Then immediately after that, Electrike got paralyzed as well, with the default status message.
Can someone explain to me what the heck hapened there?
I used Fury Swipes, the last hit activated Static, paralyzing my Nincada. Then immediately after that, Electrike got paralyzed as well, with the default status message.
Can someone explain to me what the heck hapened there?
Sorry, we should probably have posted something!
Ruins of Alph is the first board to see the implementation of prefixes. Rather than divide up our communities into smaller and smaller sub-groups, we'd like to provide better filtering options. We're still not done working out all the kinks but here's the advantages of this "merge".
- Filterable Prefixes still allow you to only view topics of one particular generation (click the Gen 1 / 2 / 3 tags at the beginning of a thread) like in a sub-forum
- People can scan through the board and see all older generation topics in the order they were last updated in
- This can increase the amount of people checking out generations they don't normally look into as it may catch their eye if it's actually there
We're trying to decrease forum sprawl with this move. It's not finished yet. Hopefully soon the prefixes will appear on the main board index underneath Ruins of Alph much like the subforums used to. We've also noticed people don't know that the prefixes are clickable to filter, so educating people on that will also be something to look into. I understand it's annoying being the guinea pigs, but you have to understand that it's a lot harder to test this on a board like Stark Mountain with a bajillion threads and active users!
PM me if you have any feedback.
The one negative of the prefixes is the stickies can get overwhelming. I do not think posts will get overlooked when questions are asked at the rate of about 1 - 2 per day.
well, obviously nincada has synchronise. Duh. (JK)
I think you might have missed a move or something, since there is no way fury swipes paralyzes you and even if it did it would induce paralysation before the effect of static (I think)
Well when you guys cut yourselves off of any other community, Smogon members probably think RBY has reached an end, so no questions are ever asked.
There is still a sizeable chunk of the Smogon community that are active in the old gen metagame, but the fact of the matter is that a greater majority have shifted their interest to newer games. People have the freedom to choose what their interests are here and we should respect that.
Of course, but that chunk gets smaller if the players don't believe people are still playing the older generations.
So you don't allow them to know of places that are more specific to their possible interests?
@t3h Icy: No one's disallowing you from doing anything lol, people are aware there's a Ruins of Alph forum here and they'll visit if they're interested, if you want to get the word out about old gen metagames, eg starting an old gen tourney, then by all means do it.
@Nenloth: you can't find Salac Berry ingame in R/S/E
@Nenloth: you can't find Salac Berry ingame in R/S/E
You can get it from either:
1. Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness
2. Pokewalker Treehouse route
3. Pokemon Battle Revolution
1. Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness
2. Pokewalker Treehouse route
3. Pokemon Battle Revolution
I'm not talking about Smogon, lol. WaterWizard offered a link to our RBY community since Indigo was merged with everything else. Our place is almost entirely about RBY, and certainly more developed than Smogon is. I'm arguing that his link always gets taken down since Smogon won't allow it.
You said that the merge of Indigo and the other two generations doesn't matter as questions are rare for RBY, but I'm saying that it's rare because Smogon is cut off from any other community (hence why RBY in particular is underdeveloped). GSC however is still fine here since Borat frequents here, but that's not what I'm addressing.
Also I tried to host a tournament for RBY awhile ago and I wasn't allowed to, not that I would want to again at this point.
You aren't allowed to advertise other websites here. If you're linking to information on another site, that's fine of course (and encourage! don't steal content!). However, you can't use Smogon as a place to advertise your website.
RBY is a part of the Smogon Premier League and will be a part of the Smogon Tour again soon. During Generation IV, our supported simulator didn't do older generations so we couldn't have official tournaments for them. Shoddy's successor will. Also, Smogon does allow older generation tournaments so you were likely rejected for another reason.
RBY is a part of the Smogon Premier League and will be a part of the Smogon Tour again soon. During Generation IV, our supported simulator didn't do older generations so we couldn't have official tournaments for them. Shoddy's successor will. Also, Smogon does allow older generation tournaments so you were likely rejected for another reason.
I'm trying to build a team for battle tower in emerald. currently it looks like this:
metagross @ lum berry
adamant / EVs: 252hp/252atk/4speed
meteor mash
shadow ball
earthquake
agility
Swampert @ shell bell
Adamant/ Evs: 252hp/252atk/4sp. def.
earthquake
surf
brick break
mirror coat
Blissey @ leftovers
Calm/ Evs: 252hp/252def/4sp. def.
Ice beam
Thunderbolt
softboiled
toxic
So far this team has performed well but I have trouble when facing flying and fighting types (specially breloom and heracross) or counter users with focus bands (they always activate lately >.< ). I'm thinking about adding skarmory to form the skarmbliss combo but I'm unsure about who to take out. =/
metagross @ lum berry
adamant / EVs: 252hp/252atk/4speed
meteor mash
shadow ball
earthquake
agility
Swampert @ shell bell
Adamant/ Evs: 252hp/252atk/4sp. def.
earthquake
surf
brick break
mirror coat
Blissey @ leftovers
Calm/ Evs: 252hp/252def/4sp. def.
Ice beam
Thunderbolt
softboiled
toxic
So far this team has performed well but I have trouble when facing flying and fighting types (specially breloom and heracross) or counter users with focus bands (they always activate lately >.< ). I'm thinking about adding skarmory to form the skarmbliss combo but I'm unsure about who to take out. =/
No, it definetly wasn't a nonexistant Synchronize. As I said, I got the default status message, like the one Thunder Wave gives.
I wasn't paying that much attention, as I was doing mindless grinding, so my impression of the wild Electrike getting paralyzed immediately after the Static activation might be wrong. Still, after I came to my sensed from the WTF-ness of the moment, I still observed the status on the Electrike, knowing full well that it was impossible.
It was a random Electrike for the grass patch north of Slateport. If I recall correctly, they have Thunder Wave, Howl, Leer and Quick Attack. My Nincada had Scratch, Leech Life, Cut and Fury Swipes, and was holding a Silk Scarf. In that scenario, it was impossible for Electrike to get paralyzed, yet it happened. Is my Ruby getting messed up, is it possessed by some kind of spirit (Rotom?), or perhaps I'm going insane and the hallucinations are just some of the first symptoms?
Perhaps multi-hit moves take the Static and pass it back?
you could replace blissey with something like ddmence or cbmence if you want something really offensive, breeding for hp flying is kinda annoying though. i always like to be really offensive in bt and swampert/bliss kinda take that away. skarm could be used over pert though if you are still considering that. its been a while since ive done adv battle tower though, so i dont really remember what you face xd
I saw something really weird the other day, I'm not sure if this has happened to other people before, and if it's normal, or a glitch.
I was in the Battle Factory in Pokemon Emerald, playing Open Level Doubles. The opponent switched out their Breloom, and switched it straight back in.
I was in the Battle Factory in Pokemon Emerald, playing Open Level Doubles. The opponent switched out their Breloom, and switched it straight back in.
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