Thread XXVII: Pokémon GO Recharge Your Phone!

[Spore]

Please do not abbreviate Sun and Moon as S&M. This leaves a rather weird association. In other new, Pokemon Generations shorts are awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeX5GzN03AU

[cobaltstarfire]

I've seen em. It was fun to see Pikachu go from an adorable naive greenhorn that jumps around randomly to dodge a string shot and tries to thundershock earth types, to stone cold badassing a fight against Volcorona where they prop up a stone panel as a shield and then volt tackles a semi-legendary into submission.

The pikachu was really cute.

I liked the magnemite in the second one using electrical resistance to melt a lock out of a door. That was pretty cool, I bet the magnemite was pleased with itself too.

[enderlord99]

Does anyone have a spare HA Exeggcute or Exeggutor?

EDIT: Preferably one holding a Starf berry?

[Mando Knight]

I could breed a Harvest Exeggcute (have a female in White), but I don't have the patience to grind out a Starf Berry.

[enderlord99]

I could breed a Harvest Exeggcute (have a female in White), but I don't have the patience to grind out a Starf Berry.

The berry part's less important, since I can get that on my own eventually. How does online trading work, and do you want anything in particular in exchange?

[Knaight]

It was just an atrocious design choice, and I'd lay LONG odds it was a dub only thing - bear in mind this was the first movie post 4Kids.

Those odds seem reasonable. Right after a studio renowned for their staggering ineptidute takes the helm quality drops precipitously. What a coincidence.

[Mando Knight]

The berry part's less important, since I can get that on my own eventually. How does online trading work, and do you want anything in particular in exchange?

Online trading in Generation VI is really easy. First, both players need each others' Friend Codes and enter them on the 3DS (the orange smiley-face box icon is your Friend List). Then in-game, switch to the Player Search System on the bottom screen, tap your Friend's icon (if they're online and in a Gen VI Pokémon game), and initiate the trade.

My Friend Code is 4742-9573-4652.

[enderlord99]

Online trading in Generation VI is really easy. First, both players need each others' Friend Codes and enter them on the 3DS (the orange smiley-face box icon is your Friend List). Then in-game, switch to the Player Search System on the bottom screen, tap your Friend's icon (if they're online and in a Gen VI Pokémon game), and initiate the trade.

My Friend Code is 4742-9573-4652.

Thanks!

Is a Mightyena with Quick Feet an acceptable trade? It knows Fire Fang.

EDIT: My code is 2423-3565 4649

[Mando Knight]

The Mightyena will be fine. I have the Exeggcute for whenever you're ready to trade.

[enderlord99]

The Mightyena will be fine. I have the Exeggcute for whenever you're ready to trade.

Thank you.

[Aotrs Commander]

What the actual copulating excrement is wrong with Brock's parents?!

'Cos I'm pretty sure Forrest isn't even old enough to technically have his own Pokémon, and CERTAINLY isn't old enough to be looking after eight younger siblings when the idiots decided to just swan off on holiday! I'm pretty sure negligence is a crime EVEN in POKÉMON!

What, precisely (aside from Team Rocket stealing all the Pokémon) would have happened if Brock hadn't actually shown up at that precise moment? It's not clear how long the two of them were gone, bt by FRAG.

Brock, mate, sometimes ou're too good for yout own good! Report the frackers, frack dammit!

Ye. Gods.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I might have agreed with you, right up to the point he was like "yes, I know what Manaphy wants to do, let's take it away from the mother it's bonded to, because it's not like IT should have any choice it what is does or anything."

Okay, you're right. That plotline/scene was weird. Especially since he doesn't talk to May about it, but to Ash. He asks him to help sabotage their bond. If May hadn't overheard the conversation (or they hadn't noticed her) that movie would have gone to a pretty disturbing place.

Scheming antiheroes can be cool characters in their own right, but it came out of left field for a pretty straightforward action man and it was not the best way to accomplish his goal.

Does anybody else think there's probably a rarity chart hidden within the different egg distance groups? There's no way Lapras and Aerodactyl are the same rarity as Eevee. I've hatched mainly Eevee from 10km eggs, then a few Onix, and I think one each of Dratini, Kabuto, Omanyte, Jynx, Hitmonlee, and Hitmonchan.

Not just probably.

[SaintRidley]

Started a Nuzlocke in White. Prepping for the first gym. Almost considered going sans monkey, but that's probably suicide.

The current team, all level 10:

Packrat the Patrat
Woofles the Lillipup
Teh Pig the Tepig
Broccoli the Pansage


Still nothing on the Mawile shiny front in X, so that's annoying.

[enderlord99]

So, it turns out Clefairy won't be available to me for a long time, except via trade. Could someone help with that? I'm offering either a Swellow or my Latios (though I'd obviously prefer to give the Swellow.)

Preferably, it should have a minus-Attack nature.

Pipe-dreamishly, it should also have perfect IVs everywhere except Attack, which should be as low as possible.

EDIT: Also offering Castform.

[Alabenson]

So, it turns out Clefairy won't be available to me for a long time, except via trade. Could someone help with that? I'm offering either a Swellow or my Latios (though I'd obviously prefer to give the Swellow.)

Preferably, it should have a minus-Attack nature.

Pipe-dreamishly, it should also have perfect IVs everywhere except Attack, which should be as low as possible.

Quick question, do you have a swellow with Scrappy?

[enderlord99]

Quick question, do you have a swellow with Scrappy?

No, it has Guts. Sorry.

EDIT: Literally the only Pokemon I have ever had with a Hidden Ability is the Exeggcute that Mando gave me.

[Spore]

Started a Nuzlocke in White. Prepping for the first gym. Almost considered going sans monkey, but that's probably suicide.

The current team, all level 10:

Packrat the Patrat
Woofles the Lillipup
Teh Pig the Tepig
Broccoli the Pansage

You go. But remember, it's always the second gym leader who is the first really dangerous one in the games. Be it Misty, Whitney (okay, she is third), Brawly, Grant or in your case Lenora. Her Pokes having Retaliate should prompt you to have a tanky pokemon by then.

[Squark]

If we're doing trading, is anyone interested in Marill? I've managed to breed a second one with 31/31/31/x/31/31 stats, Adamant, Huge Power, and Belly Drum, Aqua Jet, and Body Slam, and I'd like to start building a team either for WiFi battles or the battle Maison. Shroomish and Fletchling (with HA) are the two pokemon I'm thinking of using alongside it at present, but I'd be open to other offers.

Started a Nuzlocke in White. Prepping for the first gym. Almost considered going sans monkey, but that's probably suicide.

The current team, all level 10:

Packrat the Patrat
Woofles the Lillipup
Teh Pig the Tepig
Broccoli the Pansage


Still nothing on the Mawile shiny front in X, so that's annoying.

I'd been toying with doing a similar thing after I finish Alpha Sapphire, since I picked up a used copy of white. Does anyone have any tips for a first try at a Nuzlocke?

[Mando Knight]

Make sure you get a Fighting Pokémon (Pignite, Timburr, Throh) for Lenora, since that Watchog can be a pest. Pignite probably has the best shot, as Flame Charge against Herdier lets it outspeed the Watchog and avoid its Hypnosis by knocking it out with Arm Thrust first.

[Alabenson]

On the trading front, I do have a pair of Jolly Rough Skin Gibbles with Outrage available as a result of breeding my Garchomp. One is a female with 31s in HP, Atk and Def, and the other is Male with 31s in Atk, Def, and Speed. If anyone is interested let me know.

[Spore]

I'd been toying with doing a similar thing after I finish Alpha Sapphire, since I picked up a used copy of white. Does anyone have any tips for a first try at a Nuzlocke?

Agreed. Also the part around Lenoras gym can become tiresome and dangerous because of Roggenrola. You either have a special attack by then or someone tanky to take a few hits. Super effective attacks on rock types would be a smart choice.

[Mando Knight]

Agreed. Also the part around Lenoras gym can become tiresome and dangerous because of Roggenrola. You either have a special attack by then or someone tanky to take a few hits. Super effective attacks on rock types would be a smart choice.

Arm Thrust, again, is a decent move if your Pignite is high enough level over the Roggenrola, since multi-hit moves get around Sturdy.

[noparlpf]

Man, jailbreak detection is a pain. Even if you don't actually have any tweaks for a given app installed you get locked out. And it's not like it's even worth the effort by the companies because people just write patches to get around it. But now it looks like something in the updated xCon or Poke Patch for PoGo is messing with tsprotector, which is the one I use to access Pokémon Shuffle (although Shuffle only blocks jailbroken devices from ranked multiplayer events). So now I basically have to uninstall the PoGo patches to try to get an Alakazite, then reinstall them to play PoGo, and cycle throughout the day.

[enderlord99]

So, as I asked earlier: Does anyone have a spare Clefairy? I don't have any requirements beyond species, but I also don't have anything substantial to offer.

[Icewraith]

If we're doing trading, is anyone interested in Marill? I've managed to breed a second one with 31/31/31/x/31/31 stats, Adamant, Huge Power, and Belly Drum, Aqua Jet, and Body Slam, and I'd like to start building a team either for WiFi battles or the battle Maison. Shroomish and Fletchling (with HA) are the two pokemon I'm thinking of using alongside it at present, but I'd be open to other offers.

I'd been toying with doing a similar thing after I finish Alpha Sapphire, since I picked up a used copy of white. Does anyone have any tips for a first try at a Nuzlocke?

Speedy, fragile pokemon will eventually die.
Critical hits will be your nemesis.
Consider how your death rules will work in Double Battles- do they still apply, because rules; or do they not apply, because double battles are cheap and lethal and you've usually got a friendly NPC healing your pokemon up after every single battle, so them dying really doesn't make sense.
Flash+Thunderwave Audino is a monster... until you start running into Pawniard.

Be really, really careful with pokemon that are 4X weak to something. Newer pokemon especially often have decent coverage moves in their standard learnset, and so will not only be found in gym battles, but trainer battles and wild encounters as well.

About mid-game, you'll finally catch something really cool that you want to replace one of your core team members that has been around since nearly the beginning. You'll start training it up on local pokemon roughly appropriate for its level. It will be way weaker than you expected and probably die horribly to something your other team members handle nicely. Why? 1) Next to no EVs. 2) There were no evolved pokemon in the first few routes, and now there are. "Trash" pokemon like Raticate and whatnot evolve ten levels or more ahead of their eventually-more-powerful higher tiered bretheren and levels 20-40 or so are their time to shine. And prey on your newly caught temamates. (Also watch out for pokemon that don't evolve, they're just as bad.)

[Kuroten]

So, as I asked earlier: Does anyone have a spare Clefairy? I don't have any requirements beyond species, but I also don't have anything substantial to offer.

I don't have any pokébred clefairys but I can catch you a HA female from my friend safari in X/Y. Don't need anything special in return...

[enderlord99]

I don't have any pokébred clefairys but I can catch you a HA female from my friend safari in X/Y. Don't need anything special in return...

Thank you for the offer, but I kind of... sort of... got one from reddit.

[Kuroten]

Thank you for the offer, but I kind of... sort of... got one from reddit.

No problem :)

[SaintRidley]

By the time I get to Lenora, I'll be hoping the coinflip between Woobat and Roggenrola at Wellspring Cave gives me the rock. Currently have the crew to level 11. Once they're 12 we'll be going through the Striaton Gym.

[Maryring]

Spoiler: Relevant comic

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