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Started by Sydian October 18th, 2009 6:39 PM
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Have you ever found a shiny?

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Aside from Smeargle, I don't believe there's any other Pokémon that could learn all those moves, sadly. Closet would likely have to be Parasect, which could learn about three of them, if I'm not mistaken (you might have to do a little research on that).

As for Mind Reader, it is said to ensures that your next move will not fail, so going by this, I'd say it'd indeed allow you to use Spore on grass-types and False Swipe (or any other normal attacks) on ghost. Hope you find this helpful!

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Are there any pokemon in any gen besides Smeargle that can learn all of these:

-False Swipe
-A sleep move
-Mind Reader
-Mean Look

For any gen, my main purpose of asking is to create the ultimate pokemon for catching. From my own research I can't find a single pokemon that can learn all of these moves, besides Smeargle and using Sketch to steal them from other trainers/pokemon.

Also, quick question: in gen6, will using Mind Reader and then Spore enable you to put a Grass-type pokemon to sleep? And will Mind Reader enable the use of False Swipe/a normal-type sleep move on a Ghost pokemon?
(sorry if this is the wrong forum since it isn't quite gen-specific)
As far as I know there isn't a Pokemon besides Smeargle that can have all 4 of those moves. Also, Mind Reader does not make it so Ghost types can be hit by Fighting or Normal attacks. When it says that it "ensures the attack will not fail", it just means that the next move you make will not miss. Immunities and whatnot still apply. Foresight is a move that lets Fighting and Normal attacks hit Ghosts. If you're gonna go with a Smeargle, Dark Void is your best bet as a sleep move, since nothing is immune to it type-wise.
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For some strange reason you can only fish up Gyarados in the Great Marsh with a Good Rod in D/P, but not Platinum. You can do it with a Super Rod though. Or catch a Magikarp and evolve it.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Great_marsh#Pok.C3.A9mon
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For some strange reason you can only fish up Gyarados in the Great Marsh with a Good Rod in D/P, but not Platinum. You can do it with a Super Rod though. Or catch a Magikarp and evolve it.
Well darn, I was hoping that wouldn't be the case... lol. Do you know when you get the Super Rod in platinum and after what badge? Is it really late in the game?

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only after the elite four unfortunately. from a fisherman in the fight area
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Hey everyone, is the best nature for crobat jolly, adamant, or another nature? I was leaning more towards jolly because of the speed increase, would this be ideal? Thanks! :)
From a competitive standpoint Jolly is the preferred nature here since it needs all the speed it can get, but in-game natures don't matter as much. It's usually competitive play where the natures really matter, but I'll just say go for the Jolly Crobat because it mainly wants more speed than attacking power.

However if you're just doing in-game and not competitive stuff, the nature won't matter there.
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Hey everyone, is the best nature for togekiss modest or some other nature and why? Thanks! :)
Depends on how exactly you're gonna use it. An offensive Togekiss (like a Nasty Plot set) would use a Modest nature, but a more defensive one (like a paraflinch type) would use something like Bold or Calm.
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Is a shiny pokemon just for show or is it stronger in some way, shape or form?
It's purely an aesthetic thing. Shiny pokes aren't any different from non-shiny ones besides the coloration. Though they do tend to be valued more because they're rare.
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That might be difficult if you're only going for only one game in each generation. I'm assuming you want each pokemon catchable ingame without needing to trade over wifi. The first problem I can think of is between Xerneas and Yveltal. If you both of them you'll need both X and Y as neither are in ORAS. I think that will be the case with many other version exclusive Kalos pokemon (Aromatisse and Slurpuff for example).

So I don't know exactly how you want to resolve the problem, but at any rate, this page should help you nevertheless: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Version-exclusive_Pokémon
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If I had to, I would do Wonder Trade and all that. I'm fine with that. I just don't have enough money to buy every single game at the moment so I want to start off with 1 of each. Also it it true that I can take a Pokemon from Fire Red and trade it all the way through the current game? Because if so that would be awesome.
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You can indeed do that but you'll need to have either a DS or DS Lite with a GBA slot in it. Then you can transfer your pokemon from 4th gen to 5th gen by using your 3DS is DS mode, and then you can get them to 6th gen by using Pokemon Bank.

If your willing to wifi trade, you shouldn't have many problems at all as apparently every pokemon is available between X/Y and ORAS. So between whichever two of those games you have, my advice you be too work from there and try and fill in the blanks backwards. White 2 has a bunch of pokemon available in it because of White Forest, so that might be a good place to start too.
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havent played Pokemon in a while....last time was when emerald came out, and I wanted to play some again but should I buy X/Y or OR/AS?
That's a very long time! How come you weren't interested no more?

On-topic: It's a hard choice, and I bet OR/AS are amazing games (haven't played them yet, i'm European), but I think X and Y are a better set of games to re-introduce you into the world of Pokémon.
ORAS is a remake, and since your last game was Emerald, it means that the latter wil not be an actual new experience for you. X and Y are a whole new experience, since it has a new region, new Pokémon and overall new characters you haven't seen before, whereas OR/AS have aspects that are familiar to you.

So all in all, go for X and Y. You can buy OR/AS later, but X/Y is such a new fresh to the series, you just have to play it. X/Y will probably be better introducing you to new features brought in Gen VI than OR/AS would do.
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That's a very long time! How come you weren't interested no more?

On-topic: It's a hard choice, and I bet OR/AS are amazing games (haven't played them yet, i'm European), but I think X and Y are a better set of games to re-introduce you into the world of Pokémon.
ORAS is a remake, and since your last game was Emerald, it means that the latter wil not be an actual new experience for you. X and Y are a whole new experience, since it has a new region, new Pokémon and overall new characters you haven't seen before, whereas OR/AS have aspects that are familiar to you.

So all in all, go for X and Y. You can buy OR/AS later, but X/Y is such a new fresh to the series, you just have to play it. X/Y will probably be better introducing you to new features brought in Gen VI than OR/AS would do.
Haha I was not interested anymore because I was busy with school stuff. But I have seen lets plays of X&Y and of OR/AS and Im more interested in Online Battling.

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If your last game was Emerald, you might feel a bit too familiar with ORAS and it won't feel entirely new to you. It's great, don't get me wrong, but if you are looking for a new experience, I recommend buying XY for now. But you should pick up ORAS some time after that! Familiarize yourself with new things that have happened since gen III with XY and then revisit Hoenn in ORAS after that. I think that'd be the proper way to get you back into the series comfortably. :)
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