The Inevitable X/Y Playthrough Thread!

[jolteonjak]

Originally Posted by Talon87

Huh. How 'bout that.

hahaha! I'm so getting a Steel Wing TM when able just to teach my Elgyem in FB. Hell, I may get 2 to teach my eventual Leavanny.

[rotomotorz]

Originally Posted by Talon87

Huh. How 'bout that.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's pretty funny, If only they screwed up and gave Klinklang more useful moves like that

[Mercutio]

Its moveset is ok.

[Shuckle]

Wait, isn't that a Rock typed Klinklang?

[jolteonjak]

Are the Gen 1 birds and the opposite box legend and Zygarde needed for the completion of the Kalos Dex?

[rotomotorz]

Yes

[Heather]

So I'm having dangerous playthrough whims again. So I guess what I mean to ask is this: Does the technology exist to do Egglockes in Gen 6 as of yet? Because I really want to do one. I feel like it would produce the actual randomness of a Wonderlocke without ending up with a level 1 trashmon for a starter and everything else.

[Lil'twick]

So, since I need them, I'm curious if anyone can get online for friend safaris.

[Talon87]

Originally Posted by satosere

And I have a question about my 3DS Pokémon Y game- I want to evolve my Eevee into a Sylveon, but I don't know how exactly. My cousin said something about "getting 3 hearts on Pokémon Amie" but I didn't hear him quite well. Please can someone explain?

P.S.- Sylveon is my favorite Pokémon ever!

Feed Poffins to Eevee until it can barely force one down. Pat it on the head until it starts producing music notes. Switch over to the games section and play a game with Eevee. Rinse and repeat until Eevee's heart gauge is maxed out. Not only will it evolve into Sylveon but it will also receive other benefits from max affection like EXP boosts, random auto-cures of status afflictions, and random critical hits. If you don't want to max it all the way and your friend is right about the three, then just raise it to three hearts and call it a day there.

I recommend playing games on the third or fourth highest difficulties. Third highest gives the second best prizes but is very short. Highest gives the best prizes but to get them takes very long. Whatever your preference. Just avoid the easier games since their poffins have a low ratio of affection points to filling stomach points.

[Heather]

Also, It will need to level up whilst knowing a Fairy move after getting the hearts. Jsyk.

[SoS]

Read: Baby Doll Eyes.

[KamenAeons]

So basically the earliest you can level it without breeding it is Level 9, but if you've bred it with a parent that knows Charm, then you can evolve it right off the bat.

Pokemon Amie affection and friendship are also completely different values, so you really don't need to worry about Eevee evolving into anything else unless you level it near the Moss Rock or the Icy Rock.

[Talon87]

Did you guys know about this? Two years later and I am still learning new things about these games.

[Mercutio]

Yeah it's super useful.

[Heather]

Oh yeah! I noticed it by chance when I was doing my Egglocke of Y and was training my Sigilyph on Route 11, as she had Air Cutter at the time.

[Talon87]

Originally Posted by Missingno. Master

Kinda feel like I'm the only one who hatched Eggs in Y by rollerskating back and forth along Route 7, though. And it's worked pretty well for me, too- it's actually gotten me a Shiny Hoppip and Illumise by complete accident, when my thumb slipped on the circle pad. But I'm getting off-topic here- I like how Talonflame is alerting Serena to one of the Eggs hatching. That's cute.

I've never liked having "Route #" be my Pokémon's hatching location. I'd have no problem biking up and down Route 7 all the time if only its given name (Rivière Walk) were what showed up on their profile pages instead of Route 7.

Also, because of the breeding project I did with my Togekisses (all seven of them ^^; @[email protected]), I've developed the taste for hatching selectively in spots that suit the target species. So like ...

• I hatched all of my Togepi in front of Parfum Palace, because I feel like Togekiss is an elegant Pokémon and I fancy the idea of my Togekisses being royalty (sort of )
• I hatched all of my Starly in Lumiose City (whereby I discovered the Prism Tower lifehack), because I feel like Starly, as a common bird, is a "pigeon Pokémon" (along with more obvious pigeon Pokémon like Pidove) and thus is well suited to a backstory of being born in a city like Paris/Lumiose
• I hatched all of my Swinub and Smoochum in front of the ice cave in Kalos (forget the name ), because I wanted the snowy/cold connection
• I hatched the second half of my Oshawott in front of the Pokémon League, because I fancy the idea of Tomoe (my starter from BW2) being a champion destined for greatness, a fact that was preordained by her auspicious place of birth.

So on and so forth. I'll probably hatch my Goomy on the swamp route (despite my bias against route numbers), my fossils in Ambrette Town, etc.

What Game Freak really needs to do for Z and/or for Gen 7 is, they need to make a circular bike trail that goes around the Daycare. Then route number be damned, I and everyone else will be using that bike trail for at least 90% of the hatching time. (And while I'd quit for the final 10% to go and hatch somewhere else, others most certainly would not! )

[Ironthunder]

They almost did that at the ORAS Battle Resort, so it's feasible.

Other alternatives include an egg-hatching facility that can be flown to.

[Mercutio]

Fond memories of RSE breeding by trying to beat my 9:15 record with the Mach Bike.

[rotomotorz]

What's the highest you can go in ORAS?

[Ironthunder]

Originally Posted by rotomotorz

What's the highest you can go in ORAS?

Clarify pls. Highest as in trippiest, highest as in largest y co-ord on the map, highest as in furthest up the map...?

[Mercutio]

I assume he means what is the best speed record. I have no idea I got bored of ORAS quite early on.

[jolteonjak]

What's the Lumiose City lifehack?

[Raves]

JJ, it might be egg hatching around Prism Tower, which is a big concurrent circle that amounts to "Hold right until eggs hatch."

[Talon87]

Yeah, that's what I was referring to. Just pick a direction and go, holding down the D-Pad. First time in six generations we could do this.

[jolteonjak]

Ah yes. I've hatched dozens of eggs there myself.