@pokepal148

I can probably hook you up with most or all of those. What does your Sunday evening (EST) look like?

Slurpuff is the only one I really need help with.

@pokepal148

Slurpuff.... the mightiest of all the Pokémon!!

Turns out I misread it, I have scolipede and jumpluff now but I need Roserade as well.

On that note I love how there's a evo stone shop with such a limited selection it doesn't even sell a thunder stone.

And I filled the central dex while keeping around 89's in the other two, and now I'm trying to get nosepass evolved in route 13, full disclosure here, they seem to have designed that route to be as painful as possible to get nosepass/magneton leveled up by basically making everything there a ground type.

Thought I would revive this and make a request. My GameStop Jirachi will not make it through the filters for PokéTransfer. Which means, quite sadly, it will never live beyond Gen 5. So, this means I need a Jirachi to keep my dreams of a living dex alive!

Does anyone have a legit Jirachi they would be willing to part with? I have a Mewtwo, a Celebi, (I think) a Victini, and some shiny Wingulls and Mareeps that I could part with in exchange! As well as any normal 'Mon that you may want me to breed for you. Thanks in advance!!

Oh event Pokemon are their own can of worms in the whole ev/iv system.

Let's use the bank celebi as an example.
My criticisms of the celebi distribution said:

Q. Can this Pokemon be bred?
A. No.

Q. Can this Pokemon be obtained through normal ingame means.?
A. No.

Q. is there any way to reset if you don't like the iv set you got?
A. No.

Q. Then is there any reason that that pokemon shouldn't be distributed with 6 perfect iv's.
A. No.

I got lucky with a gentle nature(+sdef -def) to go with the calm mind set I'm working toward (a calm calm nature would have been better but eh,) and the special def and speed I.V's don't hurt but for some godforsaken reason it's third perfect iv is in Attack.

Oh well, I mean I can't reset to get another one but at least I can breed another on... fuck you Game Freak.

This is what's wrong with the iv system. You go into these events and literally draw a straw and hope to get a good one. E.V's can be changed, pretty easily now in fact but in terms of I.V's you are on your own.

@pokepal148

But .... that's only the perspective of someone who cares about literally nothing else other than how to use this PKMN, not just to battle for fun, but to win. It ignores the collection appeal, the visual design appeal, the novel battle experiences appeal, the new digital pet appeal. I'm not saying you have to appreciate any of those yourself, but you do know there are those out there who feel this way, right?

@NinSage how does the I.V. system in any way enhance "the collection appeal, the visual design appeal, the novel battle experiences appeal, the new digital pet appeal" or any of that other stuff,

@pokepal148

Oh no, I wasn't listing those as justifications for the IV system. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. Those are just reasons why event PKMN that are otherwise difficult to attain are enjoyable. However, the novel battle experiences and illusion of a "real" digital pet would actually be enhanced by that system.... just not primarily.

Hmm. Somehow I doubt that people playing just for fun are going to compare stats on their Celebis. Part of me agrees with Pokepal but I don't know how much. It'd be cool if there was some end game content that let you eventually change the IVs or nature of a legendary or something. You can totally get screwed by the current system.

@PogueSquadron

Who said for-fun people would compare stats? If you think it was me, we have another misunderstanding on our hands =)

@NinSage idk my 'novel battle experience' if anything seems to have been damaged from by getting @#$%^& over by the I.V. system on celebi.

@NinSageoh I was just saying that the people who don't follow that stuff wouldn't be affected by it anyway :)


I think I saw Pokemom Black 2 on sale somewhere. Is it worth getting for Move Tutor stuff? Or is there any other way of getting Hyper Voice Gardevoir and Ice Punch Primeape?

Maybe you should get that stupidly rare Colosseum bonus disc so you can get a jirachi and be able to teach it body slam in fr/lg.

@pokepal148

Well, novel just means new, unexpected, or unique. If that's not what you're looking for, if instead you're looking for consistency, reliability, and predictability with a certain purpose in mind, novel might not actually be what you want.

I would rather be given a more blank canvas to make something novel in terms of moveset and items then be forced a certain randomly generated canvas that doesn't work for what I want.

NinSage said:

@PogueSquadron

Who said for-fun people would compare stats? If you think it was me, we have another misunderstanding on our hands =)

then who are you referring to?

Also xy, Congrats, you've made it incredibly difficult to catch a tailow.

@pokepal148

I meant I don't think anyone was saying that, myself included.

.... do you need a Tailow? =) I wanna say Route 8 has Swellow hordes. Bring a PKMN w/ Sweet Scent there and you'll get one horde after another. Apologies if that info is wrong.... including the PKMN names.... I tried to do that all of the top of my head =P

Took me a hell of a long time to get an Ekans as well.