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Have you beaten the E4 with a non fully-evolved Pokemon on your team?
I had a Piloswine on my team in Soul Silver when I first beat the Elite Four, but aside from that I always tend to have a fully-evolved team by then. That is, if you don't count my brother's Diamond team where he had a Pikachu and Roselia still there when he beat the Elite Four there. |
Have you beaten the E4 with a non fully-evolved Pokemon on your team?
I beat Pokemon X with a Helioptile on my team. I'm pretty sure I used it for fodder. http://i.imgur.com/H0AyGbT.png |
Yes, though only twice. Once in Emerald with HM slave Zigzagoon, and in SoulSilver with a Kadabra, because I couldn't find anyone to trade evolve with. Nowadays I put "dead weight" Pokemon into the PC before the Pokemon League in order to have a full party of competitive 'mons, so that it's easier to cruise through the Elite Four.
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I do this all the time with Pokemon that I find super adorable, since as Minccino or Pichu (I brought the Spiky Eared Pichu in HG to the Elite Four :3) And I also almost always have my favorite NFE Pokemon on my playthrough team: Doublade. It's an amazing Pokemon when you give it an Eviolite ^^
Question of the Day Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough? |
Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough?
The first time around, yes. I'll usually swap the token normal/flying type for the mascot Legendary of the version I'm playing, or I'll leave a space in my team for it for the majority of the game. Although in subsequent playthroughs I may not, because the Legendary mascot is usually substantially below my squad's levels and it takes forever to bring them up to speed thanks to the slow growth rate. |
Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough?
I always use them on any of my playthrough, just using legendaries makes things easier to finish, but that's just the habit. |
I don't use legendaries because I would usually have to grind them to get up to the level mean in my party and besides, I don't love them as much to the point where I would use them to enter the Hall of Fame. I also prefer a challenge given how easy the games already are; I don't need another crutch, where is the fun in that?
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I don't use legendaries in my main play-through, but do when post-game. Though, most of it is for training purposes only, since some post-game areas (Battle Frontier, for example) don't allow us to battle with legendary Pokémon.
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Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough?
Unless if you counted my brief moment using Reshiram in Black (before I traded it to Black 2 and lost it in the corruption hahaha) and Xerneas in X, I never use a Legendary in a main story likely because I already have a full team by the time the Legendary is encountered. |
Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough?
It really depends on my team. If I've got space for one when I encounter it I'll usually be OK with using a legendary. But usually by the time I get a chance to catch legendaries my team is already full and I'm to just too attached to them to kick one and make space. One playthrough of Diamond I purposely wanted to use Uxie so I left a space for it the entire game until I caught it, but other than that I've never used one outside running around with them post-game. |
» Do you use legendaries in your main playthrough?
Nah. Because by the time I get to any legendaries, I've probably already gotten more than used to the team I've been using up to that point, and thus have little to no interest in switching one out for the new pokemon I just managed to catch. To the computer you go, sorry. Plus it just feels kind of "meh" to use them. I'm not sure why, maybe it is because they tend to be so powerful. |
Not really. Most of the time they can be caught in a state where they can one-hit-KO almost every opponent in the game despite looking underleveled. I like to keep a team of 3 or 4 during the story walkthrough because it tends to force you to think tactically to an extent, most notably when you are outnumbered against a strong trainer. (ie. the Elite Four)
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I'm on the same page with what most of you guys said: I don't tend to use them very often in my playthroughs. I generally tend to use a team of my favorite Pokemon in my playthroughs, and there's not a huge number of legendaries on that list (on the contrary, most of my favorites tend to be cute little first stage Pokemon :3) And there's the overpowered factor--zapping everything in my path with a super strong legendary just isn't as challenging.
Cresselia and Jirachi are two notable exceptions for me :3 |
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Pokémon with Flare Boost will have their Special Attack maximize, Pokémon with the Guts Ability will have their physical moves increased by 100%. |
Sluggish. Cuts speed drastically and lowers evasiveness.
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If you could create one new status condition to add to the games, what would it be? What effect would it have in (or outside of!) battle? Exhaustion. Attack, Special Attack and Speed are lowered by 2 stages, and there is a 50% chance Pokemon may not attack during this turn. Lasts between 2 and 5 turns, and cannot be healed by switching. Watch people rage over that one in competitive battling. But Pokemon get tired, too! |
If you could create one new status condition to add to the games, what would it be? What effect would it have in (or outside of!) battle?
Buffed/Beefy: Attack stats and Defense stats raise by 25%, but Specials will drops by 25% |
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Inspired by Blue Yvetal, Calm: Special Attack and Special Defense is raised by 25% while Attack and Defense drop by 15%. Also, Freeze Burn: Frozen while taking damage over time. This would be so annoying! |
Fear: The Pokemon's attacking stats, defending stats, and move accuracy (if applicable) are cut by 50%. Speed is increased by 50%.
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Do you use legendary Pokémon in your main playthrough? (I may come back to that current one later)
Well, I did use Xerneas against Lysandre the very first time I played X, but other than that, not regularly. I can understand why people use them, but it's not very fun watching them steamroll through opponents all the time. |
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For my choice of status condition, I'd go with Cold--sort of like a milder version of Freezing. When inflicted with it, a Pokemon can only attack every other turn, and their speed is cut in half. Question of the Day What's the hardest time you've had catching a wild Pokemon? |
Do you use legendary Pokémon in your main playthrough?
Absolutely. I have no issues with doing this. I used a Jirachi during my Emerald run. I used a Kyogre in my Diamond run. I used Lugia during the last part of my Soul Silver run. I used a Zekrom during an Alpha Sapphire run. It's great! |
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This is going to sound weird, but a Metang in White was the most difficult capture I've ever made. There was no way to weaken it because everyone in my party would knock it out in one hit; it was caught after using up nearly all 45 Ultra Balls I had in stock. It was very unusual because I have had much better captures on most legendaries compared to this. I have no explanation as to how a regular wild encounter ended up like this, because it happened when I was least expecting it. |
What's the hardest time you've had catching a wild Pokemon?
Possibly pseduo that is not fully evolved or wild abra trying to teleport it out. Luckily, I threw a great ball before it can teleport it out now I have a kadabra on my team :P |
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