Pokémon Thread XXVIII: Get. In. The. BAG.

[noparlpf]

Are they special in any way or just to fill up the dex?

[Mando Knight]

Are they special in any way or just to fill up the dex?

They have Gold Bottlecaps on them, and the giveaway ones are paired up so it's the one you normally don't get in that game (i.e. Heatran can be found in Ultra Sun but not Ultra Moon, and vice-versa for Regigigas).

[noparlpf]

Eh, that's not fancy enough for me to care about it much. Here's another code then: A8A9W3SZRTMLF75F

[enderlord99]

Mirror Breaker (my Smeargle on Showdown's AG tier) now has a much better set than the weird transform gimmick it used to have. I baited that Marshadow BEAUTIFULLY, if I may say so myself.

Still really proud of this.

[boj0]

Haha that's awesome, almost makes me want to start recording Showdown matches again.

[Flickerdart]

For the Pokemon GO players - tomorrow at 4 PM Eastern, quests are going live. By helping the Professor with special research, you can get a chance to catch Mew, and there's a shiny version too!

[noparlpf]

For the Pokemon GO players - tomorrow at 4 PM Eastern, quests are going live. By helping the Professor with special research, you can get a chance to catch Mew, and there's a shiny version too!

Boy, sure would be nice if they hadn't dropped support for the iPhone 5 last week.

[Spore]

Incredibly fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95suid0t-IE

[Ogremindes]

You may like to know that Pokéthon, a charity gaming marathon, is live on Twitch, and will be for about six days. https://pokethon.net has the details.

[darksolitaire]

I just booted up VC version of Crystal and ended up with shiny Cyndaquil. I didn't reset or do anything special, is there increased chance to get a shiny or something? Looking forwards to using Celebi in a playtrough.

[Qwertystop]

I just booted up VC version of Crystal and ended up with shiny Cyndaquil. I didn't reset or do anything special, is there increased chance to get a shiny or something? Looking forwards to using Celebi in a playtrough.

I haven't heard anything about increased odds; I think you might just be really lucky.

[darksolitaire]

Dumb luck then, I can work with that.

Third team member of my Crystal run is...a shiny Cleffa? Ok, it can put things to sleep I guess. Fourth or fifth would have to be Jynx with Ice Punch to make dragons easier, since Sneasel doesn't quite cut it.

[tgva8889]

Assuming it's from the egg at the daycare, that one there actually is an increased chance of being shiny.

[Flickerdart]

A week later I still do not have Mew because Niantic locked it behind a number of quests including "get Ditto" and Ditto only spawns randomly, in disguise as a common Pokemon. So it's entirely RNG, almost everyone I know is stuck on this.

[tgva8889]

To be fair, for lore reasons I feel like getting a Ditto would be an important step in understanding Mew.

[Alabenson]

Out of curiosity, could anyone help me trade-evolve a couple of pokemon?

[Flickerdart]

To be fair, for lore reasons I feel like getting a Ditto would be an important step in understanding Mew.

Yeah, I just wish it wasn't so random. I ended up burning through a few lures (premium item that you get very few for free) for nothing before a coworker alerted me to a Ditto spawn near the office.

Then there are quests like "do ten raids" or "evolve Magikarp" that are not random but still tedious, and have nothing to do with Mew...

Also - Community day for Mareep was today! Got two shinies and (unrelated) caught a beefy Dragonair that evolved to a 3210 CP Dragonite. Way more meta-relevant than Dragon Pulse Ampharos.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Why are there next to no Woopers in Pokémon Go? One of my goals is to get an as good as possible Quagsire. Because it's one of the coolest mons, and it should really be the kind of mon with which you can do this sort of thing. It's just the kind of forgettable half decent monster that has no reason to be rare. Now this week there's an event where there are extra grass, ground and water Pokémon. Wooper is ground and water, so that's a double extra. I went out in the rain yesterday (well, in game rain, it was actually quite nice and sunny) which gives another boost to water types appearing, and what is the park full of, friggin supposedly rare mono fire typed Charmanders. Woopers don't even appear in eggs, so even that way I'm not getting any.

The event is still nice, you can never have too many Rhyhorns, and apparently one of the tasks for mew is

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to evolve a Magikarp, so this is another good opportunity for people to grab those candies

, but why no Woopers? Not one in the entire week so far. Just wait, ones I have the perfect Quagsire I will be the bane of all gym battlers ten levels below me who don't have any grass types! You can't stop me Niantic! (Okay, you probably can...)

[Flickerdart]

Wooper used to be very common until the release of Gen 3. Now I barely see them around. Wait for a Wooper Community Day, I suppose.

[enderlord99]

Spoiler: Here is my team for Doubles Ubers

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Comfey @ Fairium Z
Ability: Triage
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Impish Nature
- Floral Healing
- Aromatherapy
- U-turn
- Draining Kiss

Manaphy @ Focus Sash
Ability: Hydration
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Def / 76 SpD / 4 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Skill Swap
- Tail Glow
- Dazzling Gleam
- Toxic

Heliolisk @ Focus Sash
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 128 HP / 128 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psych Up
- Toxic
- Electric Terrain
- Parabolic Charge

Oranguru @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Telepathy
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Instruct
- Nasty Plot
- Toxic
- Future Sight

Kyogre-Primal @ Blue Orb
Ability: Primordial Sea
EVs: 252 Atk / 88 Def / 168 SpA
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Iron Head
- Origin Pulse
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Aqua Tail

Sceptile-Mega @ Sceptilite
Ability: Lightning Rod
EVs: 252 HP / 128 SpA / 128 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Steel]
- Laser Focus
- Energy Ball

And here it is in action.

What do you guys think?

[sonofzeal]

Why are there next to no Woopers in Pokémon Go? One of my goals is to get an as good as possible Quagsire. Because it's one of the coolest mons, and it should really be the kind of mon with which you can do this sort of thing. It's just the kind of forgettable half decent monster that has no reason to be rare. Now this week there's an event where there are extra grass, ground and water Pokémon. Wooper is ground and water, so that's a double extra. I went out in the rain yesterday (well, in game rain, it was actually quite nice and sunny) which gives another boost to water types appearing, and what is the park full of, friggin supposedly rare mono fire typed Charmanders. Woopers don't even appear in eggs, so even that way I'm not getting any.

The event is still nice, you can never have too many Rhyhorns, and apparently one of the tasks for mew is

Spoiler

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to evolve a Magikarp, so this is another good opportunity for people to grab those candies

, but why no Woopers? Not one in the entire week so far. Just wait, ones I have the perfect Quagsire I will be the bane of all gym battlers ten levels below me who don't have any grass types! You can't stop me Niantic! (Okay, you probably can...)

Yeah, woopers were common before Gen3 was released. I've started seeing more around my area in the past few weeks, but the months since Gen3 have been pretty dry for them.

I must say though, the animation when you evolve a Quagsire is one of my favorite in the whole game. "GONK!"

[enderlord99]

I did the Smeargle thing again. There's a reason he used to be nicknamed "Mirror Breaker."

[Turalisj]

Anyone happen to have a spare code for this months event? Nearest GameStop is almost an hour away.

[enderlord99]

I wonder when people will smarten up and my Marshadow-countering Smeargle trick will stop working?

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I'm currently playing a fanmade game, Pokémon Alchemist. It's very well made, I can recommend it. The mechanics are (mostly) gen 5. It follows the usual conventions, and then sets just a step outside it.

Spoiler: For instance:

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There is a gym leader who specializes in a type, as usual. But after you fight him you also fight his boss at the company where he works, and his boss has a diverse team of Pokémon that all in one way or another counter the type the gym leader uses. It's not a nasty surprise, you're even warned that that's what he has, it's just cool to see.

While playing it I stumbled upon a new concept: An honorary HM slave. I really like Rhyhorn and Rhydon, but within the kind of team I wanted to do the ground-rock double typing simply has no place, it's too weak to everything that all the other mon are already vulnerable to. So I took Rhyhorn as an HM slave that currently knows headbutt (for finding mon in trees), rock smash and strength (the other move is still a regular move, currently bulldoze). The plan is to give him surf, but Rhyhorn can't learn surf, only Rhydon. So I need to level him up. Which would usually be way too much trouble, but since I like the mon I don't mind. Using experience share and such I keep him maybe a few levels behind the main party, and it turned out he can actually be situationally very helpful, as he proved when kicking the crap out of a flying type gym (he learned bulldoze during that fight, before that it was a rock move). Most areas in a Pokémon game don't actually require a nice balanced party. they're easier with the right type of lopsided party. So I switch between my seven main mons (I need to ditch either Slowbro or Polywrath to make it six again, hard choice), a few recent retirees coming back for one final round and my honorary HM slave. I kind of like this setup, I think I'm going to take the concept with me. Instead of hating that I ruined my perfectly good Gyarados by installing 3 or 4 water themed HM's on it, (I need what now? I have whirlpool and dive, can't I use those skills to somehow swim up this waterfall? This is the dumbest Pokémon game ever!) I should in that situation level up a Magikarp specifically for those HM's, don't count it as a member of my main team and think it's cool when the thing becomes useful after all. Like maybe take it along for the desert route. It feels more like another cool Pokémon I have now, and less like a thing I'm being forced to do with a stupid unevolved rodent. (Or, you know, with my starter, because I'm a monster.)

Also, on a Pokémon Go note: Adventure week! Fossil Pokémon everywhere! Weeeee!

[enderlord99]

There was a guy on youtube who beat Brawly in Emerald with his HM-slave/party-mascot.

I think most of you know exactly who I'm talking about.

[Spore]

There was a guy on youtube who beat Brawly in Emerald with his HM-slave/party-mascot.

I think most of you know exactly who I'm talking about.

No, I don't and I do not know what you are hinting at. But I am curious now.

Most areas in a Pokémon game don't actually require a nice balanced party. they're easier with the right type of lopsided party.

I know it is obvious but I am used to a "main party". Back when TMs were single use, XP shares did not magically create XP out of thin air and pokemon XP was independant from the battler's level, it was harder to raise different pokemon.

Maybe my Pokemon sun run will be more enjoyable once I just accept that my main roster will included 10-12 pokes.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I know it is obvious but I am used to a "main party". Back when TMs were single use, XP shares did not magically create XP out of thin air and pokemon XP was independant from the battler's level, it was harder to raise different pokemon.

Maybe my Pokemon sun run will be more enjoyable once I just accept that my main roster will included 10-12 pokes.

The fastest way is always to just go with a single Pokémon. It will automatically become overleveled and blast through everything. I'm kind of doing a "no rush" run on this one. I haven't been very serious about good movesets and such, so i'm still around the same level as a boss when I beat it, but I am enjoying the journey.

(I'm also using only ground, rock, water and ice Pokémon, so for something like a grass gym I need to improvise a little bit. )

P.S. I'm curious too.

[enderlord99]

No, I don't and I do not know what you are hinting at. But I am curious now.

Chuggaaconroy had beaten Brawly's machop easily enough, and had lowered his makuhita's HP to red, as well as poisoning it. His last "real" team member got knocked out, so he had no choice but to send out Slavinator, the level 3 zigzagoon. Then the poison damage activated.

Slavinator grew all the way to level 7 from that.

I wasn't sure where to put the word "technically" in my previous post, so I just left it out.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Chuggaaconroy had beaten Brawly's machop easily enough, and had lowered his makuhita's HP to red, as well as poisoning it. His last "real" team member got knocked out, so he had no choice but to send out Slavinator, the level 3 zigzagoon. Then the poison damage activated.

Slavinator grew all the way to level 7 from that.

I wasn't sure where to put the word "technically" in my previous post, so I just left it out.

That is pretty cool.

Mine had a sort of similar story. A trainer with a Chansey stalled me out with minimize/soft boiled/I think maybe defense curl but probably not shenannigans, with double slap tacked on for damage. My team was pretty worn out already, but luckily I had a guy that resist double slap with rock smash, which doesn't do too much damage, but does lower defense. I think it gained 5 to 6 thousand xp and 3 levels or so, maybe 4. It was somewhat underleveled at that point, and Chansey's base xp rate doesn't hurt either.