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Come to think of it, I could use a Corsola. I’ve been waiting for them to swarm forever and I’m losing hope.
I have 2 lvl 1 Gibbles. A female that only knows tackle, naive nature, and a male, brave nature, that knows Dragon Breath and Dragon claw. Which would you like? You can have both if you’d like.
I’m looking for a male lopbunny, delibird, sneasel that already knows Ice Punch so I can breed that into my own future Weaville.
I’ll take the male. I’ll take both, though, just to fill out the trades.* 
I don’t have any Lopunny, but I have a male Bunneary that you can evolve yourself (or, if its too much trouble, I can do it; I have the berries). If I don’t have a Delibird, I can get one; the only question is do you want a lvl 1 or whatever I caught it as? And for the Sneasel, it may be a little tricky. My only Pokemon with Ice Punch is a Hitmonchan, but I don’t know if he can breed with Sneasel. I’ll play around and see what I can do.
*- I’m stocking up on ‘junk’ Pokemon for My Pokemon Ranch for Wii. Once you get to a certain number of stored Pokemon, you can trade for a Phione and later a Mew. Its only 1000 points and I had some leftover points from X-Mas, so its a decent deal.
This Sneasel thing is going to be tricky. Delibird doesn’t learn Ice Punch, you’d have to breed that into him.
Hmm…doing more reading it seems as if it is going to be more difficult to get Ice Punch. Don’t worry about it, I was able to get him Ice Beam, so I’ll just have to work on Sneasel’s special attack.
When would you like to trade for the Gibble?
ETA: Actually, if you have a spare Burmy laying around I’ll take 'em. If not, don’t worry about it.
Sometime tomorrow okay with you? Just give me an idea of when you’re around tomorrow and I’ll check back in in the morning.
Tomorrow’s not good for me, actually. I’ll be gone all day.
I’ll have to get back to you. I’m not sure of my schedule this weekend.
Bricker Jr says:
It’s not very easy to get a Weavile with Ice Punch. Here’s how I did it: caught a male Meditite in Mt. Pyre in Ruby. Traded it to Emerald, evolved it into Medicham. Got enough battle points at the battle frontier to pay the move tutor to teach him Ice Punch.
Then I Pal Parked him into Platinum. Then I put him in day care with a girl Lopunny and got an egg. Egg hatched into a boy Buneary who knew Ice Punch as an egg move.
Then finally I put that Buneary in day care with a girl Sneasel and I got an egg. I hatched it and got a Sneasel that knows Ice Punch!
Also added: if you get a girl Buneary instead of a boy, it won’t work. Keep trying with more eggs.
That’s actually good, since I think I’ll be out tonight. Just tell me whenever.
Has he considered a career as a Pokemon Professor? Professor Oak, Professor Rowan, Professor BrickJr…
I’m assuming that Meditite has the same moves in Generation 3 and 4, if not can Hitmonchan breed with Sneasel? They’re both kinda humanoid. (Then again, Wailord can breed with Skitty. That creeps me out.)
He says: Meditite doesn’t have exactly the same moves. He can learn Trick, Signal Beam, Vacuum Wave, and Zen Headbutt in Platinum but those moves don’t exist in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. And there are even some differences in level-up moves. But Ice Punch is the same in both.
Hitmonchan cannot breed with Sneasel, because they are in different egg groups.
My addition: it’s very amusing to be on the phone with my son and have someone come in to my office as I’m repeating, “…Hitmonchan cannot breed with Sneasel, because they are in different egg groups.”
I’m free all day Monday, would that be good for you?
Can anyone explain to me Hidden Power? I’ve looked at that one website and, as a suggested moveset, they’ll say, “Hidden Power [Ice]…” why did they put Ice in brackets?
The typing and attack power of Hidden Power is based upon the IVs, I think. In order to get Hidden Power Ice, you would have to breed the pokemon until it would get the ice variation, and even then, it might not be powerful enough.
Bricker Jr says: when a Pokemon learns Hidden Power the move can be any one of the 17 types. Which one it is depends on the Pokemon’s IVs. In Platinum there is a shortcut to finding out what Hidden Power type your pokemon would have. Go to the Game Corner prize room, and there is a guy in the corner. Talk to him and he will tell you, “If this Pokemon learned Hidden Power, it would be type Ice.” (or whatever it would be).
In Diamond and Pearl you have to experiment. I use Hidden Power against a bunch of different types and make a chart. Against a fire type: super effective. Against a bug type: super effective. Against a fighting type: not very effective. Against a poison type: regularly effective. And so on. In that example the Hidden Power is Rock.
There is NO WAY for a Pokemon to change its Hidden Power. You haveto catch or breed a new one to get a different Hidden Power.
Bricker Jr also asks me, “Do you think he understands what IVs are?”
He is willing to explain but not if you don’t need him to.
That’s good, I’ll wait until your afternoon, is 8est/4pst good?
I’m bringing a lvl 1 Elekid and lvl 1 Delibird, correct? (I haven’t bred the Delibird yet, so you can have one in the 30s if you want. For the Elekid, since I don’t have any of the evolution items for Electabuzz, I gave it a ground-resist berry.)
What’s Jr’s opinion of the utility of Hidden Power? For me, its too much of a pain to figure out its type and to rarely get the attack bonus. Does he ever use it/keep it just in case? If so, does he have any suggestions for making it more useful?
That sounds good. I’ll be trading you a male and female Gible.
No one answered my questions from the first page of this thread so I went ahead and picked up Diamond and Pearl used for me and my daughter.
Question though.
Both games, at least so far, appear to be identical. Are they identical all the way through? What is the difference? We even have the same Pokemon right now. The dialog is all the same too. Why did they make 2 of the same game? I don’t get it.
Did too!
When I looked to see if someone answered it, though, I missed it the first time. 
The games are almost exactly the same, except for which Pokemon you can catch. For instance, near the end of the game, Dialga can only be caught in Diamond and Palkia only in Pearl. Here’s a list of what can be only be caught in each version. (Note the first 2/3 or so of the lists aren’t available until you beat the Elite 4 and get the Poke Radar.) You’ll be able to see all of the Pokemon in the Sinnoh Pokedex, but you won’t be able to catch the ones not on your list.
To trade, you just go to the upstairs of a Pokecenter. Pokemon gain experience at an increased rate when traded (+50% the first time, more with subsequent trades), so its probably in both your interests to trade what you can so you can level up faster.
Ah so you did. I missed it on my scan through.
So is it worth it to take back the Diamond or Pearl and get the Platinum? It appears that there are characters that can’t be obtained in Platinum that are in Pearl/Diamond. Or are all the Pearl/Diamond chars in Plat?
Thanks for the info!
(Oh, also, do you have to exchange friend codes to do any online trading in this game? I hate that shit…)
Here are the Pokemon that are not available in Platinum. Personally, if I had to choose, I’d take back Diamond and get Platinum. If you have both Diamond and Pearl, you can afford to dump one and get the superior version. Later in Platinum, you’ll be able to catch some legendaries (read: rare, really good) that you’d otherwise have to have the GBA games for. For the Pokemon you miss out on, there’s always the Global Trading System (GTS) in Jubilife City. You need a Wi-Fi connection to access it, but you can trade world wide*.
For trading, there are 3 ways. First is GTS. Second is via Wi-Fi: trade Friend Codes, register in the Pal Pad, then go to the basement of a Pokecenter and connect. The third, and easiest way, is just going upstairs in a Pokecenter and using the DS’s wireless. Everyone in range is automatically put into a room where you can trade and battle. The first two methods require Wi-Fi access, but offer a huge pool of potential traders; the third is only everyone within 20ft or so but is quick and easy.
*- You deposit a Pokemon and specify what Pokemon, gender, and level you want in return. You can also search for anything you’ve seen previously and, if you have whatever the person is requesting, instantaneously trade.
ETA: GTS doesn’t require friend codes, in case I was a little confusing