Pokémans thread

[En_Fuego]

Well what if they use 3D for the pokemon? that might just ruin the series... but yeah, if they used a complete 3d engine for the game world, and mondo-awesome new graphics for the battle mode... (stll 2d) i think it could work... (if they pull it off right) Pokemanz still pwn. probably still be playing it when i'm 30 lulz...

Black and White is full 3D.

In battles, it showed that your camera shows the entire backside of your Pokemon, not just the top of its head.

 

[Duruka]

Black and White is full 3D.

In battles, it showed that your camera shows the entire backside of your Pokemon, not just the top of its head.

Yep, look at the pictures at the bottom of the page here; http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/More_fifth_generation_information_revealed

 

[The World Is Flat]

oh damn no. realy?

Wait- those are jsut good looking sprites in the battle pic, but i guess the non-batte stuff looks ok...

 

[Mystic_Revelation]

Honestly, Pokemon could use some 3D action. Some of you might say that it ruins pokemon, but I say the series need to grow, to "evolve" into something advanced. I'm tired of seeing and collecting paper-like sprites that are cut half-way through their bodies. This is a refreshing change. This is SPARTA. I like it, even if people say it ruins the "spirit" of pokemon games
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By the way, what is your strongest pokemon?
Legendary hax aside, I think mine is Porygon-Z.
Has adaptability, and holds item silk scarf.
Move set includes Tri Attack, Hyperbeam, Recover, Protect. I mentioned I love STAB.
Only level 62 at the moment. I know it's somewhat suckish, but still, non-supereffective attacks that can one-hit KO most pokemon on its level range is can be sexy.

 

[Billy the Cat]

3D doesn't sound bad if you ask me since the original games are from a point of view that should work well with 3D anyway. If the original games would be platformers where you see everything from the side (let's say Sonic/Mario) 3D might be a risky move though.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Effort points only need to be considered when a pokemon is approaching max level, as they can change as much as you want before then. Remember that they work in multiples of 4, and as 255 (max) is not a multiple of 4, you can cut the last few points and put them in another stat for more power.

Apparently you only ever need to breed 1 pokemon in the current generation inorder to max its stats due to the ability to manipulate the RNG.

 

[Tank-Commander]

The offer for shiny pokerus virus'd spinaraks had now been withdrawn as three days have past since the offer was made (I was origionally going to be keeping it going for 2 days but I put in one more incase anyone wanted one at teh last minute)

 

[Pyritie]

oh oh I want pokerus

 

[En_Fuego]

oh oh I want pokerus

pokerus is over-rated >>;

 

[Zypher]

How can you even say that

Pokerus can give you an awesome edge in any competitive battle, not my style but it's definitely not overrated.

Also, I hate Ho-oh, I've thrown about 40 ultra balls and 8 dusk balls at him now. Tryed putting him to sleep to. No success. Luck is not on my side.

 

[En_Fuego]

How can you even say that

Pokerus can give you an awesome edge in any competitive battle, not my style but it's definitely not overrated.

Also, I hate Ho-oh, I've thrown about 40 ultra balls and 8 dusk balls at him now. Tryed putting him to sleep to. No success. Luck is not on my side.

Other than double the amount of EV-yield, it does nothing.

 

[Billy the Cat]

What is pokerus? :O

 

[Tank-Commander]

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PokeRus

Just so you know, in 4 days I shall be offering another two shiny pokerus pokemon

next time the pokemon on offer: Shiny pokerus Cranidos

(I offer shiny pokerus for two days every week (Sunday and monday))

 

[ap0calypse]

Also, I hate Ho-oh, I've thrown about 40 ultra balls and 8 dusk balls at him now. Tryed putting him to sleep to. No success. Luck is not on my side.

Ho-oh has the same catch rate as nearly all legendary pokemon: 3.
I actually made a catch-rate-calculator on my calculator xD (gives the catch rate of a pokemon, you can insert which ball, which status ailment, catch rate, amount of balls etc...).
I really hated Giratina, took me about 70 ultra's :/ (while I caught Mesprit with 2 ultra's and Palkia with the first one I threw).

Other than double the amount of EV-yield, it does nothing.

True, but it's still very useful when trying to get your pokemon get the right EV's ^^
+ you can infect all pokemon you want to have with only 1 pokerus-pokemon.
Overrated: yes / useful: yes.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Tank-Commander, I wonder have you been manipulating the RNG to get so many shiny pokemon? or are you just damn lucky?

 

[Wazzz]

Neither. He's just really skilled

Mind you, while it does come down to luck, I think once he got the Pokerus virus he would have deliberately transferred it across when breeding

 

[Tank-Commander]

I breed about 60-80 pokemon a day (on days I'm bored I breed up to 200), and release pretty much all but the shinies, all my ledgandary shinies have been gained through trade.
it took me about 400-500 spinaraks to get the 9 shinies (don't remember exactly)

and atm I only have 1 shiny cranidos, gonna hopefully manage another for four days time

I guess I'm lucky in the fact that it doesn't take me 8000 pokemon to get 1 shiny, I have encountered about 15 shiny wild pokemon randomly, 30 using that scanner thingy-ma-jig, the rest are breeded.

Edit: I got pokerus from one of the elite four's pokemon and I did delibratly spread it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Seriously, I advise reading up about the RNG abuse. It could save you so much time to get perfect pokemon.

 

[Joe-black-5]

I once had a pokemon with that pokerus in silver >_<
I got him from a trade and didn't know what in hell it was
I locked him away the poor thing.

 

[The World Is Flat]

hahahaha lol.

 

[Wazzz]

Yo, Tank-Commander, you ever played Shoddy Battle? We should definitely play some UU against each other some day ;P
I'll show you a few tricks in OU as well :3

 

[Billy the Cat]

I once had a pokemon with that pokerus in silver >_<
I got him from a trade and didn't know what in hell it was
I locked him away the poor thing.

I think I've had the Pokérus message at a Pokémon Center too once in Silver, but never heard of what it is till now.

My Silver is dead now anyway.

Is Tank-Commander using some kind of tool to get that many shinies?
I got my first shiny in Silver after 500 hours of gameplay (not counting the red Gyarados) and that's the only one I ever saw.

 

[Tank-Commander]

Well, not an external tool such as gameshark or AR, but catching shinies in the wild can be done much easier via use of the pokedar.

Using a pokedar in the grass some bits of the grass shake, walk onto one and a battle occurs, then after the battle more grass shakes, and it's likely to be the same pokemon again, the higher you chain pokemon the more likely you are to encounter a shiny.

Breeding shines takes hours and I wouldn't recommend it tbh, but hey I can't use pokedar for sea faring pokemon like wailmer for my wailord

Also, they upped your chances of obtaining a shiny in the more recent games. random encountering 15 took something like 300 gaming hours, but I'm oddly lucky in games and unlucky in rl as far as situations.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can breed pokemon with perfect stats by abusing the RNG in the game cause it is update with time and actions instead of frames. There are 100s of guides how to do it.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I remember the first time I saw a shiny in Gold version, it was in my first play through when I was going through the cave after the first Gym, it was a shiny Zubat. As a rule I never catch them because I don't like how slow and inefficient their strategies are so I just ran away even though I saw the star thing in the beginning. When I later learned what a shiny actually was I was pissed

 

[Duruka]

I remember the first time I saw a shiny in Gold version, it was in my first play through when I was going through the cave after the first Gym, it was a shiny Zubat. As a rule I never catch them because I don't like how slow and inefficient their strategies are so I just ran away even though I saw the star thing in the beginning. When I later learned what a shiny actually was I was pissed

Heh, the first shiny I saw was a Zubat too, in Sapphire. I just ran away because I didn't know what a shiny Pokemon was.
And the first time I had poison and was walking around in Red, I thought it was a glitch and turned off the game...After going through Mount Moon, and the trainers on the bridge.

 

[Wazzz]

The very first Shiny I encountered was Red Gyrados lolzorz

Much later I encountered a Shiny Hariyama in Pokemon Emerald

Mind you, I'd only really capture them as a collector's item, as I really don't care if they're shiny or not lol (I'd prefer something like PERFECT IV'S and PERFECT MOVES LISTS lolzorz)

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Besides the Red Gyrados, I only caught a Golden Spearow, who later on evolved into a Green Fearow.

 

[Pyritie]

I found a shiny oddish but I killed it by accident.

Later I found a shiny electrode in battle tower >___> damn trainer-owned

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Thats the only Shiny you've found in the battle tower? I'm assuming it was online, but when I played Battle Tower online almost every person I fought had the same Black Charizard.

 

[The World Is Flat]

I woder what its going to be in black and white... and isn't it supposed to be the last pkmn game on the DS? Or will this be on the new nintendo device?

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

When you say DS you mean DS in general or like for specifically for the DS and not for the DSi?

 

[The World Is Flat]

is it only for the DS? what i meant by DS is the DS line... DS DSi DSi XL ect...

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

No, I was found that odd. The DS line could last a good while longer, long enough to facilitate another Pokemon game on it after Black and White. For them to say that it will be the last on the DS line seems like their underestimates their system - h311, they have no competition in the hand-held market anyways (I would say PSP Go marks the death of the PSP line, Sony just hasn't offered enough support to keep their handheld alive).

Hmmm, I wonder what the future of Nintendos handhelds will be like? Nintendo TS?

 

[Duruka]

Hmmm, I wonder what the future of Nintendos handhelds will be like? Nintendo TS?

Nintendo TS? As in Triple Screen? That would be weird, I hope they don't make something like that.

 

[Pyritie]

Thats the only Shiny you've found in the battle tower? I'm assuming it was online, but when I played Battle Tower online almost every person I fought had the same Black Charizard.

This was way back in ruby, so there was no online play back then.

I woder what its going to be in black and white... and isn't it supposed to be the last pkmn game on the DS? Or will this be on the new nintendo device?

From what I've heard it's gonna be one of the first games on the 3DS, which is supposed to be a new generation. Like from GBA -> DS, not like from DS -> DSL.

 

[En_Fuego]

Pokemon Black and White have been confirmed for the 3DS handheld. They also mentioned that Black and White would be backwards compatible with the DSLite, DSi, and DSXL (not the original DS though).

 

[Pyritie]

why not the original DS fat :0

 

[Panda]

(Off-Topic) - Look at meh cutie pokemon :3

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Why would it not work on the normal DS if it works on the DSlite? The DSlite is the exact same system, just slightly slimer and a waste of a few more dollars for the same exact product (on a sidenote, anyone remember that mini gameboy advance they put out right when they started selling DSes? I wonder how many people actually bought that, it was definitely a waste of money).

 

[Coolty44]

Why would it not work on the normal DS if it works on the DSlite? The DSlite is the exact same system, just slightly slimer and a waste of a few more dollars for the same exact product (on a sidenote, anyone remember that mini gameboy advance they put out right when they started selling DSes? I wonder how many people actually bought that, it was definitely a waste of money).

You mean that flip GBA that had a backlight and looked like a colored tin? Hated 'um, a total waste of money, and to my knowledge they had a lot of problems with people flipping them open to hard and D/C 'ing the screen right off.

 

[Pyritie]

Heh, I had one of those ages ago

I forget what happened to it but I don't have it any more

 

[Dr Super Good]

The DSI and later DSes have additional hardware in them. I say it is most likly the pokemon game uses some form of camera or extended memory element which is the reson behind it not being fully backwards compatible.

 

[En_Fuego]

The hardware on the DSlite reads the gameware differently. That's why some flashcarts work for the DSlite and not the DSphat.

Idk if it'll work on the DSphat or not, I was just saying that they didn't say it would work on it; meaning no comment.

 

[Joe-black-5]

I once had a pokemon with that pokerus in silver >_<
I got him from a trade and didn't know what in hell it was
I locked him away the poor thing.

There !! that is the poor bastard I was talking about
he scared the shit out of me with his pokerus (poke-virus)

 

[Pyritie]

Oh that's the thing that's gay for me

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

You mean that flip GBA that had a backlight and looked like a colored tin? Hated 'um, a total waste of money, and to my knowledge they had a lot of problems with people flipping them open to hard and D/C 'ing the screen right off.

Lol, I had one of those (the back light was actually useful), nah there was an even later more forgettable Gameboy

Gameboy Micro

I don't know a single person who bought one of these

 

[Duruka]

Some more Pokemon black/White at the top of this page if anyone cares:

http://www.psypokes.com/

 

[The World Is Flat]

Wait, i have a DSlite, will it work with that?

 

[Duruka]

"The games are slated for a 2010 release date on the Nintendo DS". - from Psypokes.
So I think it'll work on the DSlite. I hope so, because I don't want to buy a DSi. I heard they're not worth it.