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Southperry Pokemon League. - KhainiWest - 2013-10-28
MetaSeraphim Wrote:Given that I am the Empress I get to be the retired champion who just takes on random challenges ala Red, right?
Or better yet I can be like Cynthia because Cynthia is love and be a former champion that just visits exotic locations.
When you get 3ds x/y you can be cynthia.
Southperry Pokemon League. - Marksman Bryan - 2013-10-28
I am hopefully getting a 2/3ds + pokemans on nov. 3rd and I will do this for the lulz
I have no idea what like 90% of these acronyms mean so I'm sure whatever I use will either be laughable and/or break the rules
is there a guide for "how to hardcore Pokemon"
Southperry Pokemon League. - Slaking - 2013-10-28
There probably is one, but here are a few things to help you. Each link takes you to a relevant page about it.
IV - Individual Value
Randomly generated value at the moment you catch or hatch a Pokémon. Can be anything ranging from zero (0) to thirty-one (31).
These values are generated for every stat (Hitpoints, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed) individually.
This value is not able to be seen directly, but you can calculate the range roughly by using an IV calulator. The highest values are usually the best.
EV - Effort Value
Values obtained by defeating certain Pokémon. Each Pokémon gives a different amount of EV's. Certain items can increase the EV gain per defeated Pokémon.
Note that you can only accumulate up to 510 EV points, and you can only invest up to 252 points in one stat. Four EVs increase your Pokémons stat by one (1) point.
Example: If you accumulate 252 EV points in Attack, 160 EV points in Defense and 76 EV points in Speed your Pokémon will get 63 extra attack, 40 extra Defense and 19 extra speed.
Since I do not own X or Y, I can't explain Super Training. Which is another way to increase your Pokémon's EVs!
Nature
Very crucial, and perhaps one of the most easy to adjust parts of breeding a good Pokémon! A Pokémon's nature influences its stats. It increases one stat by 10%, while decreasing another stat by 10%. There are also neutral natures, which leave the stats unchanged.
If you breed a Pokémon with Ditto, or with either of the parents holding an Everstone, it'll give a fifty percent (50%) chance to pass down the parent's nature!
[list of natures and their effects]
Example: If your Pokémon uses physical attacks only, you want that boosted. Since you're only using physical attacks, you won't be using special attack and thus that can be decreased. The nature that fits this description is Adamant!
(the opposite, boosting special attack and reducing attack is Modest!)
Base stat
Variable in-game that determines the maximum and minimum possible values for a stat. These are fixated per Pokémon species, and cannot be influenced. Overall the higher the base stat, the better the Pokémon. Though that does not always apply competitively.
Example: Slaking
Extra defenitions:
Stat boost/stat modifier - A move that increases a certain stat in-battle. [explaination]
Hidden ability - Ability that is not obtainable by regular encounter in-game. Can only be obtained through special events, the dream world etc. [explaination]
Tier - Used in competitive battling, defines which Pokémon can be used in a battle according to their tier (Ubers: Free for all, OU: Overused - all exept the really powerfull, BL: Borderline - all except the most powerfull, UU: Under Used - most not-so-good Pokémon, NU: Never Used - only the Pokémon who are otherwise brutally killed) [link to Smogon tier list for Black & White]
Useful sites
Bulbapedia - Pokémon Wiki, very in-depth about game mechanics
Smogon - Site dedicated to competitive battling, complete with strategies and analysis.
Serebii - Site dedicated to the Pokémon games. Useful to look up simple mechanics or basic Pokémon details. Probably the best alternative of the three if you don't want to get into competitive battling.
I'm not sure if I forgot something, feel free to add on to the list guys. And feel free to correct me.
Southperry Pokemon League. - ShinkuDragon - 2013-10-28
slaking covered it pretty much, all that would be missing for a true competitive team would be a talk about team synergy and about breeding IV's down.
Southperry Pokemon League. - Clamors - 2013-10-28
What's the deadline to join? I know it starts November 15th but do you have a specific day where joining is closed?
Southperry Pokemon League. - Corn - 2013-10-28
Slaking Wrote:Aw dang guys. If I only had the game I'd be up for it. I'm missing something here!
When Black Friday comes, maybe you and I can get it Q_Q.
Southperry Pokemon League. - Kunagisa - 2013-10-28
Can we switch our 8 Pokemon after we get our badges? Like to fight the E4? Or do we need to use the team that we got our badges with?
I'd volunteer to be fairy gym leader, but my sleep schedule is probably reverse of every Southperrian here.
Maybe ghost leader would be more fitting. You can only face me at the dead of night. Ghosts are my favorite after all. Why couldn't Mismagius be ghost/fairy?
Southperry Pokemon League. - Icedemontrihorn - 2013-10-28
[COLOR="#008080"]I'll probably be more of an observer rather than a competitor.
Like I said, I am kinda new to the whole competing scene when it comes to this game so I want to make my team synergy just right for me before I do anything in SP. (The SP community seems to have really strong competitors so I am probably shying away from all this but watching the battles are fun!) [/COLOR]
Southperry Pokemon League. - Malthe - 2013-10-28
Icedemontrihorn Wrote:[COLOR="#008080"]I'll probably be more of an observer rather than a competitor.
Like I said, I am kinda new to the whole competing scene when it comes to this game so I want to make my team synergy just right for me before I do anything in SP. (The SP community seems to have really strong competitors so I am probably shying away from all this but watching the battles are fun!) [/COLOR]
As a challenger you can have a varied and balanced team, gyms stick to a single typing
It's for fun too! I can only recommend joining in.
Southperry Pokemon League. - KhainiWest - 2013-10-28
Clamors Wrote:What's the deadline to join? I know it starts November 15th but do you have a specific day where joining is closed?
There is no deadline for sign up really. It's going to be open ended, but because there are prizes involved I'm giving everyone two weeks.
Kunagisa Wrote:Can we switch our 8 Pokemon after we get our badges? Like to fight the E4? Or do we need to use the team that we got our badges with?
I'd volunteer to be fairy gym leader, but my sleep schedule is probably reverse of every Southperrian here.
Maybe ghost leader would be more fitting. You can only face me at the dead of night. Ghosts are my favorite after all. Why couldn't Mismagius be ghost/fairy?
-You will have to use the 8 pokemon, if you choose to switch any of them out rather than rotate you have to reobtain the badges
-All gyms e4 are currently taken right now
Southperry Pokemon League. - TheTempest - 2013-10-28
Icedemontrihorn Wrote:[COLOR="#008080"]I'll probably be more of an observer rather than a competitor.
Like I said, I am kinda new to the whole competing scene when it comes to this game so I want to make my team synergy just right for me before I do anything in SP. (The SP community seems to have really strong competitors so I am probably shying away from all this but watching the battles are fun!) [/COLOR]
I'd say just join and compete just for the experience, or at least that's what I'm doing. I have never played Pokemon competitively, just created theme based teams to battle with my cousins.
Southperry Pokemon League. - KhainiWest - 2013-10-29
Updated. The gym leaders/e4/Champion will be given avatars as soon as they are ready. The avatar's will give hints towards the gym leaders strategy, the e4/champions will not give that away as easily.
Southperry Pokemon League. - ShinkuDragon - 2013-10-29
TheTempest Wrote:I'd say just join and compete just for the experience, or at least that's what I'm doing. I have never played Pokemon competitively, just created theme based teams to battle with my cousins.that's the spirit! of course, our teams will be pretty competitive, but being bound by types for example is quite the handicap. there's a good couple of pokemon that played smartly can murder my whole team on their own.
Icedemontrihorn Wrote:[COLOR="#008080"]I'll probably be more of an observer rather than a competitor.you don't have to participate, so to speak, in the same way ash doesn't have to become the champion to have fun/learn about pokemon, i just recommend trying the challenge for kicks.
Like I said, I am kinda new to the whole competing scene when it comes to this game so I want to make my team synergy just right for me before I do anything in SP. (The SP community seems to have really strong competitors so I am probably shying away from all this but watching the battles are fun!) [/COLOR]
Kunagisa Wrote:I'd volunteer to be fairy gym leader
NO
and i'm pretty much gonna work like you want, most of my free time is late at night. i suggested using a bigger pokemon rooster, but in the end everyone settled for 8 pokes for the whole thing in a way it's so that people try to find the weaknesses of their team and how to cover them. fighting gyms who are forced to be monotype is also a way to see how enemies synergize. using your fairy example, using something like steel/fairy to block poison super effectiveness, and then counter.
PDD: oh hey, dustin changed his mind to 10, that's team and 2/3's, not too shabby gym leader wise
oh, also just got informed that while you can't change pokemon, you can change items as much as you want, so that pokemon needs more speed? take the life orb away and slap a choice scarf, need to survive a hit to be able to wreck that leader? take the choice band away and give it a focus sash. items alone can change your whole strategy.
Southperry Pokemon League. - TheTempest - 2013-10-29
ShinkuDragon Wrote:that's the spirit! of course, our teams will be pretty competitive, but being bound by types for example is quite the handicap. there's a good couple of pokemon that played smartly can murder my whole team on their own.
I'll probably be using a mono type team just because I love playing with themes. I have been using PO to see what I need to work on before I start making my team.
ShinkuDragon Wrote:PDD: oh hey, dustin changed his mind to 10, that's team and 2/3's, not too shabby gym leader wise.
Does having 2 of the same Pokemon with different movesets count as 1 slot or do they each take up a slot? Like for example in one battle you use Pokemon A1, and for the next battle you want to use different moves/items/ev spread on that so you use Pokemon A2, not sure if it makes sense. And if it does take up 2 slots are you allowed to change moves after each battle, sort of like items?
Southperry Pokemon League. - Razmos - 2013-10-29
TheTempest Wrote:Does having 2 of the same Pokemon with different movesets count as 1 slot or do they each take up a slot? Like for example in one battle you use Pokemon A1, and for the next battle you want to use different moves/items/ev spread on that so you use Pokemon A2, not sure if it makes sense. And if it does take up 2 slots are you allowed to change moves after each battle, sort of like items?If the 2 pokemon are of the same species, then it's not allowed.
Southperry Pokemon League. - TheTempest - 2013-10-29
Razmos Wrote:If the 2 pokemon are of the same species, then it's not allowed.
So if I have 2 Scizors, 1 is in the team of 6 and the other in the bench of 4, I can't use the 2nd Scizor to battle someone else after swapping places with the 1st Scizor?
For example:
Battle 1:
Team [X X Scizor1 X X X] Bench [Scizor2 X X X]
Battle 2:
Team [X X Scizor2 X X X] Bench [Scizor1 X X X]
Hope that makes more sense.
So can we teach them new moves between battles, or are we stuck with the same moveset we started with?
Southperry Pokemon League. - ShinkuDragon - 2013-10-29
TheTempest Wrote:So if I have 2 Scizors, 1 is in the team of 6 and the other in the bench of 4, I can't use the 2nd Scizor to battle someone else after swapping places with the 1st Scizor?
For example:
Battle 1:
Team [X X Scizor1 X X X] Bench [Scizor2 X X X]
Battle 2:
Team [X X Scizor2 X X X] Bench [Scizor1 X X X]
Hope that makes more sense.
So can we teach them new moves between battles, or are we stuck with the same moveset we started with?
can't say about the scizors, i wouldn't mind it but i'm not the one that says. and i'm pretty sure that you can't change your moveset, gotta quote [MENTION=4235]KhainiWest[/MENTION]; so that the sucker becomes aware of your issue btw.
Southperry Pokemon League. - KhainiWest - 2013-10-29
You can do that as long as both scizor's are not on your team at once.
Southperry Pokemon League. - Reako - 2013-10-29
I've got a fun little surprise up my sleeve too. I'm hoping it'll be effective. I should mention, from Nov 10 to 16 or so, I'll be away in Florida, but I'll also have a vacation from work, so... if I somehow haven't finished putting a team together by then, I should definitely have it.
Southperry Pokemon League. - Bomber - 2013-10-29
Kunagisa Wrote:Maybe ghost leader would be more fitting. You can only face me at the dead of night. Ghosts are my favorite after all. Why couldn't Mismagius be ghost/fairy?
You cant like it more than me.
It's just not possible.
Find a new job dammit.