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Radiating July 13th, 2017 8:01 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?

I had to trade to get my most prized Pokemon, the shiny Serperior.

Haileo July 13th, 2017 5:05 PM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?

I had the GC to GBA Link Cable, so yep. I traded my Distant Lands from both Gale of Darkness and Colosseum to RSEFRLG, and Pal Parked them. I obtained almost full sets of them.

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?

I already talked about my personal Shiny Manaphy, and I think the Shiny Manaphy Kaphotics gave me himself would be the same deal. So other than that, my most prized Pokemon would be... probably the Shiny WISHMKR Jirachi before Project Pokemon got a hold of it and uploaded it on their site. It was actually given to me for free because I was trustworthy.

sater10 July 13th, 2017 7:34 PM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
i got it. my first 6IV shiny Fletchling with HA. i'll love her so much and evolve her to majestic Talonflame. i bred it myself.

Haileo July 14th, 2017 3:12 AM


Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?


I don't really have a method. First few boxes are in-game catches throughout the story, a box to shinies, a box to legends, a box to Pokerus, a box to Dittos, a box to eggs/TSV eggs, a box to high IVs, a box to EV'd, many boxes to events. I never touch the wallpapers.

UberRoimel July 14th, 2017 3:30 AM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers? My boxes in Pokemon is cluttered. I am trying to do the same thing as Haileo ^^ but no matter how hard I try, It always ends up messy. I do not change the wallpapers.

Spyro July 14th, 2017 6:36 AM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers? Before trading I organized them by types. Now I have boxes for Eggs, Rareballs, Shinies with my OT, and pending trades. I change wallpapers as a means of organization, and for my boxes to be pretty

Keiran July 14th, 2017 7:00 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
It's hard to choose a most prize Pokemon, but I'm gonna go with a shiny Charizard that I masuda'd back in 2014 in XY. It didn't take very long to get it and it was Modest with its Hidden Ability, and an incredible IV spread of 31/0/31/31/31/31. Couldn't have been any better. I nicknamed him Rexflame.

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?

I have egg boxes with the Pokemons name as the title, so for example a box named "Bulbasaur" with a bunch of perfect IV/HA Bulbasaur eggs waiting to be SV hatched. I have a box of "Utility" pokemon - dittos, HM slaves, contest slaves, nature synchs, etc. I have several boxes of "parents" that I use for breeding. And I have boxes of shinies, perfect shinies, Pokemon for trade, trained Pokemon I use for battling. All of the boxes backgrounds match either the pokemons type or the theme of the box.

MechaMoth July 14th, 2017 10:10 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
I don't have any specific prized Pokemon. I guess shinies I've caught or bred myself are special to me. Some of my hard-to-find events are also pretty special. Overall, most of my favorite stuff has come from trading.

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
I have a very specific method. My Pokedex boxes are titled 1-30; 31-60; 61-90, etc. While my Shiny Dex is also numbered S1-30; S31-60; S61-90. My events are organized based on the generation the Pokemon are from no matter what generation they were released. It just makes everything much easier to find.
And no, I don't change the wallpapers; I just stick to what they provide me.

sater10 July 14th, 2017 6:30 PM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
i used to organize them by the place where they live like river, sea, mountain with corresponding wallpaper. however, i don't that again nowadays because i just want to make space for eggs on breeding.

UberRoimel July 15th, 2017 3:15 AM

Day 9 - Depends really. This week, I've only traded to one person

Haileo July 15th, 2017 3:29 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?

Definitely multiple times a week. Although this week I haven't really traded because I've been having a lot of problems, first with my laptop, now with my SD card.

Spyro July 15th, 2017 5:06 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week? About once or twice every day, but now I almost completely stopped since I got issues with my Powersaves

sater10 July 15th, 2017 11:33 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
once a week during WTW. more than that, done under some agreement.

Radiating July 15th, 2017 11:41 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?

At this point It'd be once every 2-3 months.

Haileo July 15th, 2017 8:32 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?

A million percent, and this is the reason why I really hate Reddit's trading scene, and part of Bisaboard's hack list. There's literally no difference between an uncloned Pokemon and a cloned Pokemon. Nothing, not at all. Unlike a hacked Pokemon, where you can physically pick apart what exactly makes it hacked (SID, IVs, etc), the clone is physically legit as long as the original was legit. I can't imagine event collecting without cloning. I stopped event collecting in February 2011, and one of the reasons why I never got back into it was because I had no way of cloning in 5th and 6th gens. Now that homebrew has been more widely available at the end of last year, I have the ability to clone in 7th gen, and I have gotten back into event collecting.

Cloning expands your collection, and in order to be a collector of anything, you need to expand your collection. At this point, every single event has been cloned at some point, so there's virtually no way you'll be able to escape it. This is why I think it's incredibly pointless how Bisaboard lists clones in their hack list, and the only clones they list are the ones that popped up twice in their own forums.

sater10 July 15th, 2017 10:35 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
i can say for sure, yes. it's the only win-win solution for any trader. nothing to lose and everybody happy. i get most events clonned. i don't live in countries where you can get events live. i can only hope someone can trade with my clonned events for their clonned. i do agree with Haileo, i don't really like reddit in trading forum where clones aren't allowed. sites like smogon, PC, and Neoseeker are the best so far.

UberRoimel July 16th, 2017 1:44 AM

Day 10 - YES. You can get the Pokemon you want from others without actually losing something valuable. Its a win-win situation. It is really beneficial when it comes to Events, Shinies and such things that you can only get ones or rarely.

Spyro July 16th, 2017 7:07 AM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion? Absolutely. No one would want to trade their super rare Event or 6IV Shiny if cloning didn't exist. You can't even see the difference between a cloned or uncloned Pokémon. For me, breeding was made amazingly less of a pain by RNC and destinedjagold, because of the Ditto they're giving away. Without cloning, there's no way I'd ever have a 6IV foreign Ditto.
The only downside is that some very specific mass cloned Pokémon lose value. However, it's not all Shiny Mew that lost value, only E P P I E's Shiny Mew. If a Pokémon owner is smart enough, it'll never ever happen to their own Event/Pokémon. Luckily some people just want to help, and that's how a legit Shiny Mew became so widely available.

Haileo July 16th, 2017 8:49 PM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?

Definitely UT. UT has way more value than BR, and I'm not even saying that because I fell out of competitive battling in early 2014. BR Pokemon are also, on average, much more likely to be hacked, because competitive battling is filled with hacks. I hate trading for BR Pokemon, and I even don't really like trading for any touched Pokemon in general.

UberRoimel July 17th, 2017 1:40 AM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon? Depends, really. UT because of it's value in trading. BR for Battlewise collection

Spyro July 17th, 2017 5:49 AM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon? I prefer untouched Pokémon, in the eventuality than I want to train them myself. I almost never do however lol

MechaMoth July 17th, 2017 1:13 PM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
Usually 2-3 times. I have limited availability, so sometimes it will be with more people on the weekends.

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Yep. I clone because I like to keep my collection and add to it rather than sacrificing one thing for something else. It's also a lot easier to convince people to trade with you if they know you can clone their poke and trade back the original. It eliminates some of the uneasiness, especially for new people on the trading scene. There's virtually no difference between the clone and the original, so I don't see it as a problem.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
I don't really care too much. However, since I'm a collector, I prefer UT just because it increases the Pokemon's value in trading since people like to train the Pokemon themselves. I like the idea of battling, but I never really do it.

Radiating July 17th, 2017 1:17 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Yes, it gives more incentive to trade from the first owner, as they don't have anything to lose.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
Battle ready, only because I'm sometimes too lazy to train it haha.

Mikazuki July 17th, 2017 1:48 PM

Plays Catch-up

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
- Started trading back in Gen I when you actually needed the person to be in front of you, Red. I got into it because all of the kids in my neighborhood played.

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
- Traded a 5 IV speed boost Torchic for a Shiny 4 IV Ditto. Didn't ask for it, it's just what the dude gave me.

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
- Moltres, no.

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?
- Moltres, no I caught it.

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
PSS, going into festival plaza is annoying because you have to wait there after logging online. Inhibits my multi-tasking.

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?
Yuuuuuuup.

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
- My Loveball Shiny Moltres <3 Caught it myself after 8927364 (or so it seemed) SR

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
- Organize by whats in the boxes, so not really. It's controlled chaos. No idc about the wallpapers.

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
I used to trade A LOT, not so much anymore. Maybe once or twice a week.

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
- Personally yes I think so. It is incentive for me to trade the mon I worked so hard to breed for something on par or lesser. I can see how it could be a double edged sword because it makes harder to get Pokemon more commonly seen. IMHO events are a waste of time, the "hard-to-obtain" events are more easily accessible due to cloning. Shiny WELL BRED Pokemon are more valuable to me and considered more authentically "one-of-a-kind".

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
- Untouched, that's what I personally breed for people. It gives the opportunity for someone to customize the Pokemon for their play style.

Keiran July 17th, 2017 2:27 PM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
Zero. Completed my collection a few weeks after SM came out. I trade for the events which I cannot get on my own, but that's not at a weekly rate.


Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Beneficial in some ways. I don't think many people would trade events or legendaries without it. However I think it can get a bit out of hand when the market is oversaturated with the same flawless shinies.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?

Untouched!! I hardly ever use Pokemon in battle, and theres just something about having a collection of flawless lv1s.


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