Pokemon diamond and pearl.

[quilava plush]

Oh, I'm definitely going after Vulpix and I'll aim to get multiple ones. I'm going to migrate my Modest Eevee from Fire Red and evolve him into Espeon (or just use a Timid Abra I have in store) then keep an Octillery or SI's Lileep with me so the Vulpixes won't try to Roar me out when I try to catch them (since I hear they tend to break chains by doing that). I don't know when, though, since I'm currently pulling through a rigorous work week and haven't had much time to play, but maybe over the weekend I'll get to work. :O

[Blastoise]

Got a 28/31/24/29/28/18 (speed last) careful Duskull after only two generations of breeding =D

[Loki]

In Ruby, got a a perfect ATK & SPATK in one generation. Then I worked on Speed and HP and personality since then. Not the best results, but I did get some shmexy ones IIRC. Especially now since I can transfer the Modest ones to be Specsmences.

[SulcataIxlude]

What would be a better filler attack move for ninjask aerial ace, or x-scissor?

[Loki]

Sadly, neither one is effective against Ninjask's main weakness: Rock.

Rock Blast will kill your Sub and then smash your face in before you can BP anything. If I had to choose a move though, I'd think about Bug Bite. It sounds dumb, but against the right opponent, you might take their Salac away and get 2 boosts in speed one turn to BP the next turn for sweeping. Or get a Liechi and not need to waste time with Swords Dancing. Hope it has Sub though. You can't really survive hits without it. Maybe Protect could work, but no guarantees or time to use SD.

Umbreon makes a good combo with Ninjask, as you can Mean Look someone (hopefully a Fighting type holding a CB) and BP before they hit Umbreon. Since NInjask is double resistant to Fighting, it will easily survive most fighting moves to then BP to your real sweeper some speed and if possible, attack boosts.

X-scissor is better. More power. Ninjask won't attack often, so go for the stronger move. Only reason I'd want to use Aerial Ace would be for that OHKO on Heracross, but why would Hera switch into Ninjask anyways.

Ingame is taking so long. I'm bored of retarded teams.

[Talon87]

Originally Posted by ichimaru

Ingame is taking so long. I'm bored of retarded teams.

Hahaha, you're telling us. I used the Battle Seeker last night on the route south of Solaceon Town, and the cowgirl north of the slippery-slope got excited. So I went over to talk to her. And guess what? She had five Bidoof, highest level was 18. -.- And I only got a few hundred dollars from her, too.

I got my longest chain last night -- 14 Sentrets in a row. Sentret's pretty cute. Really, so is Furret. Why must he be so bad!? ;_; Come to think of it ... I wish there was a way to get away with using cute unevolved creatures. ¬¬ I have this huge desire to put a Cleffa on my team, but I don't think I need to tell you why I keep telling myself not to. -_-;

[Loki]

How do I do the Emerald Cloning Glitch? I just beat Emerald the other day and everywhere I look, the 'how to' is somewhat different. One site alone had three variants >>;;

EDIT: I finally found a good IV Calculator that replaces Pokemon Forever's. Now I don't have to type in 1 level at a time and cross-check the multiple levels ~_~

http://www.metalkid.info/Pokemon/Online ... rs/IV.aspx

Emerald Cloning trick:

1. Save in front of the PC in the Battle Tower.
2. Deposit the pokemon you want to clone in an empty box.
3. Leave the PC and save again.
4. Go to the PC one more time and withdraw the pokemon you want to clone, the one that's in an empty box.
5. Talk to the lady on the far right, and she will ask you to join a Multi Battle.
6. Select Yes and choose any two pokemon.
7. When she asks if you want to save, select Yes.
8. If everything so far has been done correctly, the game will wait about one second before doing anything else.
9. It doesnt matter what you do from her, the One Second wait was the glitch taking place.
10. Turn off your game, and now the cloned pokemon is both in the PC and in your party.

Follow it step by step. If you do, you shall experience no troubles and have tons of everything.

I used Furret on my UU team once. Fucking owned the shit out of everthing. CB Double Edge off of a Furret might seem measly, but it 2hkos pretty much anything not resistant or named Hypno/Grumpig. When your done, trick that bastard wall with a cb and take his lefties. xd

BTW, I lied about Soul Dew. It still boosts both Lati@s's spdef and spatk. Just not in the battle towers.

And now Pikachu gets its atk doubled with lightball. jesus christ. :/

Got to the 6th gym now. I'm really tired of training. Imma just sweep with level 45s.

[Talon87]

People don't report any problems when trading cloned creatures or items over to D/P at all? I find that a little odd, considering how many kids I saw bitching in Serebii's D/P forum in under 10 minutes, all of them saying, "Yeah, I got a Dialga on the GTS, but it was cloned! D:" and stuff like that.

Granted, GTS cloning trick is different from Emerald cloning trick, but my point is, if kids can tell a clone apart from the real deal when they never even met the guy (e.g. "Eduardo in Venezuela" gave them their Dialga, so how the hell can they prove what Eduardo did to the Dialga unless their Dialga is glitchy somehow?) ... if these sorts of things hold true for the GTS glitch, I'd be a little wary of the Emerald glitch, too.

If it really is "proven to be glitch-free" and everybody's showering themselves in infinite Toxic TMs, I may be tempted to reset my Emerald and power-hour through it. I don't like replicating Pokemon, but replicating TMs is a must, since this game is hell to play with finite TMs for people as "I can't spend TMs because if I do I'll run out "-obsessed as me.

Cloning is a glitch. I understand that, but after using it multiple times since its release, I have not had one single problem on my cart. This proves that the glitch is harmless, but extended periods of time might do something, but after a year, it seems good. Also, you will never be able to tell the difference between a clone and the real deal. It is an exact duplicate. No way to tell WHATSOEVER. So those children at Serebii can go suck it because they have no idea what they are talking about.

The next thing, the GTS glitch is not a glitch based off of the GTS, but using the lag that is creating upon connecting to the internet. I'm pretty sure that Nintendo doesn't have a patch to fix lag. It doesn't do anything to your cart either. All it does is place a pokemon up for trade and keep that same on in your box. What makes this happen, instead of losing the pokemon all together, is the dual save memory thing in the game pack. One is your recent save, and then you have a backup save. By disconnecting the GTS at a specific time, you corrupt your recent save, causing you to revert to your old save, where you didn't place a pokemon in the GTS, but because the GTS is continuously running, it has taken your pokemon. So, what I'm trying to say is that there is nothing glitchy at all.

Ok, I may have sounded a bit harsh, so sorry about that. I just want you to understand that Serebii forumers are quite unreliable and most of them are there for attention. Take my word and try it. It'll make your life so much easier.

[Talon87]

*believed everything you said just now at face value*
*wasn't offended in the slightest*

Trying to figure out how/why I got pissed off last time? ^_^;

As for cloning ... what you're telling me is ... seeing as I still have all of the legendary dogs on Ruby (and they are in high demand on the GTS since a lot of people never got Colosseum), if I was to use the Emerald glitch trick, chances are low that I would lose them and chances are 100% that they would be exactly duplicated? Sounds interesting.

So here's a quick question -- if this GTS glitch is truly flawless (if you time it right), why haven't we seen more people being "good philanthropists" and going online and putting up effort-free shiny Dialgas in exchange for Any Level Any Gender Starly? You'd think we would have seen it by now. Especially since I've just begun to do the same myself, albeit on a much less grand scale. (Various starters, currently Piplup, in exchange for crapmon.)

GTS, however, unlike the Emerald, is MUCH more time consuming. Emerald glitch takes approximately 2-3 minutes max for 6 pokemon. GTS, however, can take various amounts of time for a single pokemon. If you get it off, you have to connect again, take the pokemon out, try to time it again, etc etc. Plus, trading is a business, right? It is human nature to want the highest possible value for any sort of material they are willing to offer. So, if they were to get 2 of a valuable item, that means they can get twice the items they woulda gotten for one, right? Same logic.

Plus, remember, pokemon is 98% children. You can't expect a 7 year old kid to be able to clone a pokemon, even if they knew how.

[Loki]

Thanks. I tried it about 6 times now so it looks like it's good.

I remember in 200 when Grumpig was OU to counter Regice.

EDIT: LAG! Needs to stop downloading porn.

I'm only cloning because:

A) I need 100 different Pokemon to access Pokemon Box and I'm too lazy to train things into evolution.
B) I realized my Emerald is the only one with TM 26 (EQ) ~_~; and the Linoone there is only L34.

I've been releasing almost everything after taking the item off of them. I don't need the clones for the most part. Maybe after I gain access to Box I'll use it for actual cloning of Pokemon.

Anyway, the main complaint of glitched Pokemon I've seen has been known because the Pokemon was likely hacked via Action Replay. People noticed by checking the Pokemon Met and see something fishy like "Dailga was met at Level 5" when we all know he's a L47 spawn. Or it'll say they met it at a special event even though it's catchable, which can be noticeable because special event Pokemon also come in a special event Pokeball.

[Muyotwo]

Originally Posted by Talon87

So here's a quick question -- if this GTS glitch is truly flawless (if you time it right), why haven't we seen more people being "good philanthropists" and going online and putting up effort-free shiny Dialgas in exchange for Any Level Any Gender Starly? You'd think we would have seen it by now. Especially since I've just begun to do the same myself, albeit on a much less grand scale. (Various starters, currently Piplup, in exchange for crapmon.)

First, they may be but they're gone before you can see. Second, since you can only have one pokemon on GTS it makes it hard for you to get a pokemon you actually want. Also, as Ichi said, the GTS glitch takes a long time, meaning you have to go through a lot of effort just to put up one Dialga or whatever on GTS, wait for that one to get traded, then do it again.

[Blastoise]

Yeah, just because people can clone shit don't expect to get Palkias and Dialgas for free. The best you can hope for is that they'll relax what they'll accept (say, a legendary for a hard to raise/rare Pokemon like Garchomp/Salamence/Tyranitar...why in holy fuck's name can't you access Gible until near the end of the game?) than expect the charity of strangers. Moreso if the Pokemon has good IVs due to breeding/dumb luck.

But then this doesn't bother me too much because I'm taking advantage of the seller's market. HORDES OF CLONED EMERALD LEGENDARIES FOR RARE SHIT GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

[Loki]

Is it worth restarting in hopes to catch a better Dialga? Cause I caught it five times now and they were all pretty shitty >>

And the last few I tried to catch have all been OHKOed by CH EQs from Torterra or random Criticals from something NVE @_@;;

EDIT: I gave up trying to recatch them and settled with one that had okay stats.

[SulcataIxlude]

Thanks Loki and Ichi for your tips for Ninjask. I'll most likely give him x-scissor, since he won't be attacking often, and I don't need aerial ace to counter heracross due to gallade and azelf on my team (both can damage heracross decently... well at least the in-game ones. XD)

[Lady Kuno]

Question about berries and battling:

How do the "reduces damage from the super effective move" berries work? I see them used in battle tower alot and they seem to make a big dent in attacks. How much do they lower the damage by?


Also: Do berries go away when used in wifi battles? I'm pretty sure they vanish in game but I want to use a berry and not have it wasted cause I didn't bother getting more. >.>

[Blastoise]

Originally Posted by Holy Emperor

Question about berries and battling:

How do the "reduces damage from the super effective move" berries work? I see them used in battle tower alot and they seem to make a big dent in attacks. How much do they lower the damage by?[/quotes]

Halves the damage, so a 2x attack would do normal damage, 4x would do 2x instead, etc. However, they only work once and for one element, unless you use Recycle (lol).

Single-use items are replaced at the end of any player vs. player/Battle Tower battle.

[Lady Kuno]

Interesting thing happened on the GTS today. I was bored and looking for guys I was missing for 'dex and seeing if any were legitimate trades. I found a skuntank for a larvitar of any level and gender. Having a box full I picked out one and traded for it.

So far so good right? Well I checked it out and saw it was at level 51. Not bad. I check its info and.. it was caught with a masterball? At a route you don't find wild skuntanks? -.- Apparently someone hacked a skuntank and put it on GTS. Now my question is this.. why the crap would anyone do this? Why not just hack a larvitar of your own? Hell.. larvitar is found in the fking wild in diamond. I'm completely confused.

[Talon87]

I don't think we may ever know for certain why he chose Skuntank to be his decoy, but I think his plan might have been something like this:

1 - "I'm a kid who uses Action Replay! Oh boy!"
2 - "But I'm also a kid who wants to play people in tourneys!"
3 - "Oh noes! People are telling me they can tell AR creatures apart from legit ones!"
4 - "Hmm ... I really want a Tyranitar on my team. ¬¬ But I don't want to have to go to Route 224 to get one."
5 - "I know! Using my handy-dandy Action Replay, I'll put a juicy Diamond-exclusive creature up on the GTS for some newb to grab and ask him for a Larvitar in return! "

Maybe. This is the only thing I can come up with at the moment. Seems sort of unbelievable, though. So ... we could always revert to Theory #2 .......

1 - "I'M AN IDIOT. "
~fin~

[Lady Kuno]

Route 224 is where it was hacked from. I just think he didnt want to level it up and wanted the XP bonus or something. That's all I can think of.

[Talon87]

I've never hunted for Bagon on Pearl (seeing as I've imported two from Ruby and Emerald), but according to Serebii, I'm wrong about both Bagon and Larvitar. Looks like Larvitar is found on Route 207 with the PokeRadar and Bagon is found on Route 210 with the PokeRadar. Funny. I could have sworn I'd read earlier that they were both found on Route 224 ... in fact, I know I must have heard that SOMEWHERE because that was what motivated me to beat Battle Island so quickly (because I thought that once you did, you'd get ferried across the sea to Route 224 or something). And once I did manage to make it to Route 224 (via Victory Road), I was disappointed to find nothing but really shitty Pokemon at high levels. iirc ... Bibarels and stuff. -_-;

Anyway, it is weird. Just delete it if it bothers you. Try again for another.

[Muyotwo]

Poor, poor Bidoof/Bibarel. We still love you guys.