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Rain Dish Blastoise and Water Absorb Vaporeon... Set up Rain with Damp Rock 'Toise, Toxic Typhlosion... Blastoise sets up aqua ring too so 1/8 hp healed/turn. Proceed to surf everything which heals Vaporeon while it just sits there taking hits left and right being the defensive monster it is with Wish || Protect and Water Pulsing time to time enemies when it felt safe. Vaporeon died on last Ninetales when it decided to solarbeam it but that let Blastoise set up another rain, and finished the thing with EQ from Flygon... I actually took 5/6 pokes down with just Vaporeon and Blastoise. I really like these implemented fields, especially when some tactic is working better than expected due to it happening. Was confused for a second when super heated field turned to rainbow one due to me rain dancing after drought. Worked better than intended :-)

Can't recall where is move deleter, can someone hint it to me (ended up teaching HM to poké just to avoid running back to pokemon center, now I just want to change it)

Well, I did use Rain Dance, actually Vaporeon and Blastoise took the whole team down besides the last Ninetales that managed to energy ball my Vaporeon that wasn't wanting to risk double protect. Was kinda lucky tho, since I more than once lived with sliver of health on either of those and managed to recover and somehow those dual solarbeams always targeted my Protecting Vaporeon on turn 'Toise was Rain Dancing. But man, Surf || Rain Dance || Aqua Ring Special Defensive Rain Dish Blastoise and Standardish Wish/Protect Vaporeon work beautifully in tandem, with emphasis on word beautifully due to rainbow field effect. And the fun when Vaporeon Wishes, lives 1st hit with second coming to end its battle just to see Blastoise outspeeding and giving that Water Absorb Surf support. :-)

Hmm... is there anything you have to do for helioptile to notice you, need an electric type and would love to breed that thing as a 6th gen representative for my team. Found it but it just isn't noticing me as it takes sunlight...

If you can, Sash Alakazam (although being good in competitive battles) is kinda bad lead for him due to how AI works with restoring items. He just ends up wasting all potions on it if you happen to have some pokémon that can one shot it (which is quite many due to Kazams paper thin defense..). Also, Sucker Punch would be nice to get fixed, Dark type Extremespeed is fun to abuse tho...

For some weird reason, the last one brought me trouble. I now have seen some other secreen shots and I know exactly why: Look, I happen to have some models switched (I Finished it) but there is a Rook in place of a Bishop threatening my King which made the last one very hard for me. Apart from that one getting a bit frustrating, I liked the puzzles as I have played chess quite a lot in my life. :-)

"[...]and you only see one outside a gym, ever (and it's just Grant)" I am pretty sure you also see Korrina and Wulfric outside their Gym before battling for the badge. And all the E4 members and gym leaders appear in Battle Chateau once you have been promoted to higher rank (Marquis/Marchioness for Gym Leaders and Duke/Duchess for E4 members, Grand Duke/Duchess for Champion). But their teams have been kinda demoted, gym leaders have only 2 pokes and E4 members 3 and Diantha 4. Levels are for gym leaders 40 and after you are duke/duchess 50, 55 for E4 and 60 for Diantha, unless you have Writ of Invitation going on in which case the levels are increased by 5 with Writ of Challenge, 10 with Red Writ of Challenge and 20 with Black Writ of Challenge... Nevertheless I just use them to farm XP and cash and am not very impressed...

I actually like this one most.

That sigilyph was very unlucky, died after 1 cosmic power on my Noctowls 1st turn crit Shadow Ball...

Hey, I would like to know if there is anything to do plot-wise after earning the 8th Gym Badge, as I am on that point now and the whole black out and Cain's rambling didn't give any sort of hint (or at least I didn't recognize any)? And what the heck do we do with Yuriyu Key? Is it for future stuff or is it something that I can use right now (ie is the door/thing for it already included, so I don't waste time for searching nothing?) So far I have enjoyed the current episode, still got at least to figure the way to get deeper into forest through those spider webs and tree trunks that aren't so obviously placed. :-) Radomus was easy, but the 1st pokémon*, although competitively viable, was rather just annoying (and bad design since he just wasted all the potions on it if you happened to have something that 1 shots it). Only hard time was due to me being greedy and trying to set-up on that one pokémon** which just crit-haxed me all the way after having received burn, until I decided to just kill it instead of wasting anymore max revives (all praise Pick-Up). Also there were this one pokémon*** launching un-STAB thunderbolts on my Mismagius which eventually let me set up a nasty plot and then OHKO remaining pokés with a mere Shadow Ball. :-P

Although haven't seen any of those, I am pretty sure you can find at least Heracross in there, Pinsir and Scyther too, otherwise some puzzles I see don't make sense. I mean I have theorized how to get through those spider webs and some tree trunks and thus implementing those pokémons some way seems quite obvious. :-P E: my theory most likely is right but apparently I can't catch a Heracross I just fought. It just keeps knocking my balls off (pun intended).

Sure, I think I have 5 or 6 Timid HA Eevees w/ those stats anyway in storage. :-P E: And even if I happen to trade them all I can easily breed more as a happy owner of 5IV Bold Water Absorb male Vaporeon and 5IV Timid Magic Bounce female Espeon... :-)

I have been hatching Eevees, got Timids and Bolds w/ and w/o HA (all 31/x/31/31/31/31) and all wish bred. Also Sassy 31/31/31/31/31/x w/curse&wish, I believe this was the one McMc was looking after?

In Reborn it is totally random since Torchic has only two abilities the bug relating to 3 abilities doesn't affect it. So if Speed Boost doesn't pass down on 1st try just keep going until you hatch one with it.

And back to the business: Eevee, Sassy, Run Away, 31/31/31/31/31/x, Curse || Wish Just contact me for a trade. :-D I guess we have FCs exchanged if you posted into safari thread? If not: 3DS FC: 5455-9491-6478 IGN: Erika

Ok, I am at the moment hatching more and more of them. I keep this Eevee on me and use it to try hatching one w/o HA, will get back once I am ready. (I have use for Inner Focus to by bass some fake outs and serene grace paraflinch abusers... especially now that steel isn't resistant to dark anymore (bye bye Trollrachis)).

I found a shiny Whismur in a horde while EV training but I noticed it after I had already chosen EQ them all to the oblivion. :-E

I just hatched 31/31/31/31/31/x Sassy Anticipation Eevee w/Curse&Wish for McMc if you still wish to have it.

This is by my experiments and the fourth is the only one I don't really have experience with (that's why serebii reference) as I usually just swap the HA female in after I get one just to be sure. But at least I haven't managed to hatch any HA babies with only HA ditto and regular pokémon, either the chance is non-existentially small (1% or something that shouldn't be taken into account anyway since it is a lot easier just to catch said HA from horde or friend safari and go from there) or I have had bad luck, in which case excuse me for that error. If someone have managed to do so just share with us. Oh and I tried that female passing down egg moves, so far I hatched 4 Eevees from Curse Male Torkoal+Wish Female Espeon and all had Wish+Curse making me to think that it is 100% guaranteed to female also pass down egg move, but the sample is so small that those 4 Eevees fit into the marigin of error.

I have achieved the last rank - Grand Duchess. It allows you to send black writ of Invitation raising levels of opposing pokémons by 20, EG. E4 members have lvl 75s if it is activated.

And now that I read discussion about hidden abilities, let's make this clear (serebii and over 700 hatched eggs in Y) HA (m/f) + Ditto = possibility for HA Non-HA (m/f) + HA-Ditto = no possibility for HA Non-HA + (f) HA = possibility for HA HA (m) + (f) non-HA = no possibility for HA (this may require testing, just according to Serebii). Only way to find HA Carbink is from the hordes as pokémons in those may have HA. Same goes with eg. Gligars and Murkrows since there apparently isn't safaris for those two, you have to spot them from hordes (very hard especially on case of murkrow)

HA or non-HA? atm I got both females and males w/wish and either HA or non-HA IVs 31/x/31/31/31/31 (although I have one Eevee with attack 31 but lacking in speed I think). Curse... hmm, maybe from Torkoal is easiest way. Shouldn't be hard or take long to breed whatsoever.

Walls? I got spare Bold 5×31 Eevees w/ or w/o anticipation and wish bred. Vaporeon anyone?

Oh god, mega shuckle... even my contrary shell smash shuckle toxic stalls out everything that isn't immune to poison. One doesn't simply hit super effectives especially after being crippled by power split... Yea story wasn't as interesting, required more depth (you know like they make some animes suitable for children but having some deeper stuff for adults). Also some characters would have needed more back story and stuff to make me really care about them (like AZ, who was after all the cut scenes and stuff still pretty random), also the "friends" were more annoying for me than interesting, although as a concept really potential. Team Flare... well it almost got to annoyance of level of Team Rocket in anime, I really would have wished them being more menacing and also hard battle wise (what's with admins and scientists having mostly 1 pokémon each). Also the EXP share functionality is nice for post-game when there is mainly just leveling up for filling pokédex and getting level-up moves for competitive team, but during main game it was quite over-kill. I turned it off at one point but quickly noticed me leaving behind levels, alas, while it was on I just over leveled most of the trainers by almost 10 levels... Maybe it could have had that functionality upgraded on it after league? And of course I made mistake difficulty-wise to receive Torchic, Speed Boost Blaziken is too OP in-game especially with that level-up rate. But I kinda feel that this gen (or at least X&Y) was more to show off new functionalities in which it excels, rather than strong and long, even extended run á la GSC. Wish they wont swap or remove around some really nice features like Power Training, Horde Encounters, Friend Safaris, PSS, new breeding functionalities (I really don't feel the need of something like Pokésav since breeding competitive pokés is like thousandfold easier).

BW kinda depends on when you consider the game finished and post game beginning. I personally think when you catch Reshiram/Zekrom and beat that team Plasma's mastermind the game was storywisely finished and post game begins. But I also understand that if you think that one finishes the game on point where you beat the Champion (the second time you go up against E4). I think the former one and thus post game of BW was huge seconded only by GSC post-game (oh how I wish they made a game that long again). Personally never bothered with BW2 (found Unova quite boring anyway) so can't say anything about it.