Justin Wrote:I believe for most pokemon the female to male ratio is 1 to 8... females are pretty rare when you're actually trying to get them

案山子 Wrote:It's actually 50/50 for most Pokemon, with some exceptions. Starters are the lowest though and have always been like 12.5:87.5 female to male.

Sephie Wrote:Anyone else disappointed with how easy this game is?

I mean, it's either easy or Black was too hard. Like, Black/White Elite 4 was soooo brutal with such hard types to counter, but even then most of them have great coverage of their counters. The entire X/Y Elite 4 is pretty much countered by 2 Starters + 1 Fairy or Fairy move. And then the Champion... What the hell, is Gardevoir really that threatening? In Black 1/2, I had to beat a pineappleing Life Orb Hydreigon with Draco Meteor! God damn that was painful. I had to pull out every single Max Revive I had, rethink my team composition, and backtrack for some useful TMs. With X/Y, I just rushed past everything because I was tired of fighting trainers that can't ever hope to put a dent in any of my 3 Pokemon...

I'm kind of disappointed with how the pacing was near the end... I blame this on Exp Share and the fact you can get Swords Dance TM near the beginning of the game.

Dredragon Wrote:[COLOR="#0000FF"]I contemplated turning off the exp share, knowing what I was getting in to.

But holy pomegranate this game has so many pokemon, that with using exp share, I could level up the pokemon in my team, then put them anyone over-leveled in the box and level up other pokemon I wanted, then swap back. Near the beginning it was still slightly hard to be over-leveled, but later on with all the side tracking with catching pokemon, battle chateau grinding, cafes, etc, my team was always a bit high. So because of this, I got to box tons of my pokemon and see the evolutions for new pokemon, as well as trying out older pokemon I haven't used or really like.

I've never wanted to catch em all and complete a dex before, but this game just makes it so much fun to do. Part of the reason might've been because I feel like for once my team isn't restricted to 6 like every other game. In this game I had 6 pokemon in the first route and felt free to use all of them. I used a zigzagoon for like the first time and it was awesome (dat zigzag attack pattern <3). No more "if I use this guy too much he'll steal all the precious trainer exp that my actual team needs". No more "if you're not gonna use it, box it"

Well this is my view at least, and why I think the exp share was such a nice idea, especially with the amount of pokemon in the game.[/COLOR]

Mute Wrote:I need to stop getting distracted trying to level up random pokes.

案山子 Wrote:You say it like it's a bad thing.

Sephie Wrote:Maybe they wanted the players to pull an Ash and encourage you to ditch your entire team every time you come to a new area with the exception of your starter.

Though, for people looking for any kind of difficulty, I highly recommend turning off EXP Share or shuffle your pokemon frequently.

Mute Wrote:When they're weak to Rock? Yes.
Like, I have a ****ing Flareon and Jolteon, and trying to get a Sylveon and I forgot to teach it a fairy move, so here I sit with a useless ESPEON. >_>

Worthyness Wrote:I beat the gym with an all fire type pokemon team. You should definitely be able to do it with a level 30 braxien!

Jedward Wrote:You tried really hard to come up with something to peach about in this game.