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I’m at 253 hours. Still working on my Pokedex. I’m at 612 seen, 578 obtained. I spent about a week in Black rounding up all the previous generation non-legendaries that aren’t in Y. Now I’m breeding and evolving them.
Is it just me or is this game much more generous with shinies? I just got my third wild one this weekend. That’s two more than I saw in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/Soul Silver/Black/Black 2 combined (~1500 hours). And these are all random wild encounters, not using Pokeradar chaining or Masuda method breeding.
It is hard to get the evolutionary stones. The prize is based on the number of super-effective moves you land minus the number of not-very-effective moves you try. You need between 7-9 to get a stone. The problem is how to land that many super-effective moves without winning the battle early.
The only times I’ve managed to do it was when he threw out his Golurk or his Steelix. In those cases, I just whacked away on it with False Swipe, which is super-effective against Ghost, Rock and Steel, but doesn’t knock it out. Do not try this if he throws out his Gourgiest; that thing is holding a Rocky Helmet. Every other time, I ended up with Sitrus berries.
This would be a good time to renew my request for different Vivillon patterns. I have boatloads of Modern, Elegant, and Ocean. I need Icy Snow, Sun, and Continental, and I will trade Modern, elegant, or Ocean for those or any others.
The level shouldn’t make a difference. Some Pokemon are tougher to Super Train than others – the different type/colors of balls that the Pokemon shoots are a guide:
Black – Average speed, faster shooting, average size
Blue – Fastest shooting, average power, small size
Green - Highest power, average size, slow firing speed
Orange - Large size, average firing speed, low power
Yellow – Low power, average speed, small, fast shooting
Registration starts July 3 and is limited to the first 50,000 applicants!
I would love to participate - I have already started breeding some sweet Eevees. However A) I’m still sick, and that is slowing me down and B) I do not think I’d be available the entire weekend. The 11th would be doable, the evening of the 12th not so much. Boo.
Even if I do play, I fully expect to wash out in the first round or so.
But still, guys! All Eevees! All the time!
I better go lie down; I think I’m getting feverish again. :o
My final record at the Eevee Friendly Online Pokemon Tournament (which is wrapping up about now):
5 wins
20 losses
However, it was a success as far as I’m concerned, considering:
I’d never played versus actual people before
I tried something new, and when my results were not stellar, I was still pleased
Things I learned during the Eevee Tournament:
Umbreon can heal itself with Moonlight. Good to know :smack:
Trick Room plus Facade is particularly devastating for some reason
The bonuses Calm Mind provides are stackable (OUCH)
The Psychic move does A LOT of damage, despite the fact that only Umbreon is weak to psychic
Wish, Draining Kiss, and Leftovers can save your team’s butt
Teaching your entire team Echoed Voice and spamming your opponents with it may win you matches, but not friends. :mad: (I lost to this combo. It was cheap, effective, and painful. It’s a darn good thing I’ll never meet that trainer in reality.)
My left wrist is now killing me, so I’m probably done with gaming for this evening at least.
Not sure if I’ll do a tournament again, but it was a good experience overall.
Yep. There are other recovery moves – I’m a fan of Roost when playing any of the birds.
Um… no. All Trick Room does is reverse the order of moves. Normally, the highest Speed stat goes first with any priority move, then his slower opponent’s priority move (if picked). Then normal priority moves by the speediest Poke, then the slower one. And last would be lower priority moves, again speediest Pokemon first.
So even the slowest Pokemon’s Quick Attack (priority move) will happen before a faster Pokemon’s Tackle – but if two Pokemon in a battle both use Quick Attack, or both use Tackle, the faster Pokemon goes first. (A Pokemon can increase his speed stat in battle with Agility, and decrease his opponents’ speed with Cotton Spore, among other moves).
Trick Room retains the concept that high priority moves go first, but within each tier of moves, when Trick Room is in effect, slower Pokemon hit first.
As a general rule, harder hitting Pokes are slower, all other things being equal, to keep balance in the game, and everyone in battle is interested in training up their Poke’s Speed stats to gain the crucial advantage of moving first. But in a team designed to use Trick Room, slowness becomes an advantage.
Facade is a normal priority move; it doesn’t get more or less powerful with Trick Room.
But Facade does get super-powerful when the Pokemon using it has a status condition: Sleep, Burn, or Poison. (Technically Frozen is also a status condition, but a Frozen Pokemon can’t use any moves until it thaws).
So Facade gets used typically by Pokemon that can retain a status condition and not get hurt: Pokes with the Guts ability are particularly useful here, because Guts raises Attack 50% when you have a status condition, and Facade doubles in base power when you have a status condition. So it’s not unusual to hear that those two together are particularly devastating, but I can’t think of any reason Trick Room and Facade help each other.
Yes. If you let an opponent ramp up their Calm Minds a couple times – especially an opponent with a strong Special Attack to begin with – they can be well-nigh unstoppable, especially if they’re fast and can move first… or if they’re really show and Trick Room is in effect.
Um… huh? Umberon is immune to Psychic. Umbreon is pure Dark type; Psychic cannot touch it.
Psychic is highly damaging against Fighting and Poison, but there are no Eevee-lutions of those types. Psychic does normal damage against every other Eevee-lution.
Absolutely. This is called “stalling,” and it generally involves burning or poisoning your opponent and then recovering your HP while they slowly wither away.
No Eevee has the Soundproof ability, alas.
The key to beating this is having some way of forcing the Pokemon to switch out – the first instance of Echoed Voice is only 40 base power, barely a tickle. You need to have someone with Whirlwind (not possible for any Eevee-lution to learn) or Roar (learnable by about half the Eevee-lutions). You get hit with one Echoed Voice, and simply Roar out the opponent. In fact, you might imagine doing a Calm Mind yourself first – that ups your Special Defense against Echoed Voice’s Special Attack, and you keep the defense boost while your opponent is Roar’d away and the power count for Echoed Voice resets itself.
Thanks for explaining how Trick Room works. I never use it or Facade, personally.
Now that I know Calm Mind stacks, I may have to learn to use/abuse it myself.
About Umbreon - Derp, you are right. That was my bad. Umbreon is weak to Fairy/Sylveon. I misread my notes. :smack:
I need to pay more attention to Wish, Draining Kiss, and Leftovers - They don’t look powerful at first glance, but they can help more than I’d thought.
Good advice on how to deal with Echoed Voice. I was too busy getting repeatedly spammed by it to come up with a strategy to beat it.
Upcoming Tournaments:
BATTLE OF LEGENDS ONLINE COMPETITION: Registration starts Thu July 17
SUPER SPEED DOUBLE BATTLE ONLINE: Registration starts Thu July 31
My son crafted a strategy in which he used a Walrein with Ice Body, holding Leftovers. That walrus knew Substitute, Toxic, Protect, and Avalanche. He also had an Abombasnow on the team, which he’d send out first. (This was in Gen 4 and 5 where Snow Warning’s Hail effect was permanent).
So: he’d Toxic you. His next move was “Protect.” During that turn, nothing hurts him, and he regains 1/16th HP from Ice Body in Hail, and 1/16th HP from Leftovers. Then he does “Substitute.” It costs 1/4th his HP, but ensures he can’t be damaged beyond that. And of course, he gains 1/16th HP Ice Body and 1/16th HP Leftovers.
So… At the end of two turns, he’s lost 1/4th HP in making the Substitute, but gained back 1/16th plus 1/16th plus 1/16th plus 1/16th … 1/4th, in other words.
And that’s how it goes. You slowly expire from the poison, and he just does Substitute and Protect back to back.
There is speculation that the move raises friendship. Now, why you would waste a move during a battle to do that instead of giving it a Soothe Bell and massages, I don’t know.
And if you want to be an awesome dad, next month the World Championships are in your neck of the woods. August 15-17 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC. We’ve gone when they were held in Anaheim and San Diego, and it’s always been a blast. We even made it part of a family vacation when they were in Hawaii, and one of my kids got into the Tournament via the Last Chance Qualifier. He went 2-4, but still got a nice swag bag.
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