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lestatdark on 23 March 2011
Smeags said:
lestatdark said:

I'll check what's the nature and ability of the scraggy that I caught when I get back home. But given the typing of Scraggy, wouldn't an Impish natured one be a better choice? The best fighting and flying attacks are physical attacks, and given that Scraggy has immunity against Psychic attacks, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone using a Special attack against a Scrafty.

Just as I read this, I got an Impish Scraggy with IVs in Special Defense, so it's the best of both worlds.

Now just reply how I'm going to catch a Modest Mewtwo and I'll be set.

Either you do a bajillion soft resest if you were lucky enough to keep a save in HG/SS prior to Mewtwo, or you're basically screwed



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Kamal on 23 March 2011
lestatdark said:
Kamal said:

Why haven't I got Pokemon White yet?

Lestat was wondering what do think of Shiftry as a pokemon (Competitive sense). Since he is one of my favs.

Well, Shiftry's are amongst one of the most weakness filled pokemon in the game. It has 5 2x weaknesses and one 4x weakness, and it's overall base stats (480), in my opinion, isn't that good as well, especially since it's a 3rd evolution pokemon. It has good Attack, Sp. Atk and Speed though, so with a bit of work you can get more out of him.

Considering that, a Jolly Chlorophyll Shiftry that's EV trained for Speed and Attack could have it's advantages. Paired up with Sunny Day, you'll get a massive boost to it's speed, allowing you to overcome most of the pokemon that could potentially use any weakness related move. Giving it any of the type super effective damage reduction berry to help you resist that first attack could also help you set up Sunny day, though the sheer amount of weaknesses would have you guessing which type of berry to use.

That seems like alot of work...... I think I may just stick with psychic pokemon.....



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lestatdark on 23 March 2011
Kamal said:
lestatdark said:
Kamal said:

Why haven't I got Pokemon White yet?

Lestat was wondering what do think of Shiftry as a pokemon (Competitive sense). Since he is one of my favs.

Well, Shiftry's are amongst one of the most weakness filled pokemon in the game. It has 5 2x weaknesses and one 4x weakness, and it's overall base stats (480), in my opinion, isn't that good as well, especially since it's a 3rd evolution pokemon. It has good Attack, Sp. Atk and Speed though, so with a bit of work you can get more out of him.

Considering that, a Jolly Chlorophyll Shiftry that's EV trained for Speed and Attack could have it's advantages. Paired up with Sunny Day, you'll get a massive boost to it's speed, allowing you to overcome most of the pokemon that could potentially use any weakness related move. Giving it any of the type super effective damage reduction berry to help you resist that first attack could also help you set up Sunny day, though the sheer amount of weaknesses would have you guessing which type of berry to use.

That seems like alot of work...... I think I may just stick with psychic pokemon.....

Well, just an heads up then. In the new games, there are a lot of new, powerful Dark Types. And the best Sp. Atk pokemon, outside a legendary, is a ghost type. And trust me it's strong. 

In my personal opinion, psychic pokemon have lost a ton of useability in the new games.



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SecondWar on 23 March 2011
lestatdark said:

Either you do a bajillion soft resest if you were lucky enough to keep a save in HG/SS prior to Mewtwo, or you're basically screwed

Considerably less if you've still got the Master Ball. Closer to that if (like Im doing/was doing with Lugia in SoulSilver, damn thing hardly stays in the ball).

All the Pokemon your saying a bad to train (ie Deino), is that in terms of the main game or online battling? lso why is Deino so bad to use?



lestatdark on 23 March 2011
SecondWar said:
lestatdark said:

Either you do a bajillion soft resest if you were lucky enough to keep a save in HG/SS prior to Mewtwo, or you're basically screwed

Considerably less if you've still got the Master Ball. Closer to that if (like Im doing/was doing with Lugia in SoulSilver, damn thing hardly stays in the ball).

All the Pokemon your saying a bad to train (ie Deino), is that in terms of the main game or online battling? lso why is Deino so bad to use?

I was just joking there, because it's pretty rare to get the actual nature that you want, especially out of legendaries

Deino is bad to train even during normal battles, all thanks to it's Hustle ability which makes it's accuracy unpredictable, and it's base stats make it equal to a Poliwag. Considering that you have to level him up to 50 to make him evolve to Zweilous and that a single Take Down from an Audino can almost OHKO you, you can see why it takes way too long to train him. Even when you evolve him to Zweilous, his base stats get a nifty boost to an equal level of Dragonair, but he'll still retain the Hustle ability and not so good defensive stats.



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Rainbow Yoshi on 23 March 2011

I was surprised to catch Volcarona at level 70, and yes I have completed the main storyline.



Rainbow Yoshi on 23 March 2011

Why do some of the backpackers speak French in the English translation?



Smeags on 23 March 2011
Rainbow Yoshi said:

Why do some of the backpackers speak French in the English translation?

Yeah, that was odd. At first I thought my game glitched on me and I freaked out. "Why are all these people speaking French?!"

*shrugs* Still doesn't make much sense.



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Mr Khan on 23 March 2011
Smeags said:
Rainbow Yoshi said:

Why do some of the backpackers speak French in the English translation?

Yeah, that was odd. At first I thought my game glitched on me and I freaked out. "Why are all these people speaking French?!"

*shrugs* Still doesn't make much sense.

Quebecois Canadians, if the Unova=Hudson Valley area is the correct interpretation.

Did anyone ever figure that one out, btw?



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Rainbow Yoshi on 23 March 2011
Mr Khan said:
Smeags said:
Rainbow Yoshi said:

Why do some of the backpackers speak French in the English translation?

Yeah, that was odd. At first I thought my game glitched on me and I freaked out. "Why are all these people speaking French?!"

*shrugs* Still doesn't make much sense.

Quebecois Canadians, if the Unova=Hudson Valley area is the correct interpretation.

Did anyone ever figure that one out, btw?

I hope you are correct, I cannot think of another reason.