VGC Pokemon Black/White Thread

[lestatdark]

Mr Khan said:

lestatdark said:

Mr Khan said:

lestatdark said:

Galaki said:

All the EV, IV, DV and WTFV are way too complicated.

It's only complicated when you learn about it the first time. The only true hard thing to control are IV's, other than that, it's pretty manageable.

Even then, with good breeding, you can get very good IV's rather fast.

IV's i've never bothered with precisely because i don't think i've ever made a Pokemon egg once since they were introduced, though i've been IV-screwed a few times from Pokemon of a strong species that could never quite keep up

I've only bothered with them starting from Platinum, as before that I couldn't give a damn as well. Egg moves, IV's, EV's have, since then, become a priority in structuring my team, and given the improvements given to the EV formula this gen, I've finally decided to make the most out of them.

That's why most of my Dragon team has maxed EV's in their best stats and IV's of 31, after careful selective breeding, and have Egg moves to maximize their moveset, like Hydreigon's Dark Pulse, Garchomp's Outrage, Arcanine's Flare Blitz/Trash/ExtremeSpeed combo, Kingdra's Outrage, etc.

It took me quite a lot of planning and selection to achieve it, so I acknowledge that a lot of people just skip that part of Pokemon.

It's the fact that you need to spend in-game time to get them to breed and hatch that gets me. Hell, even if you could hatch via Pokewalker, that would work out much better

That's true. Even with all the kinks that you can work out to reduce the time needed to breed, hatch, level up and select pokemon, you'll still end up spending a lot of hours to do so. Heck, getting my Arcanine in it's current shape took me over 10 hours >_>. 

It's a shame they dropped the Pokewalker for Black/White, though with it's limited uses it wouldn't do much for this gen. If only they had a way to hasten the Dream World server launch.