Quick Question and Answer Thread / Breeding Questions

[KrisTaline]

Everstones don't work with Pokemon that don't have your ID No.

Is this Platinum only or the entire trio of Gen 4 games?

Reason I ask is that on my Diamond, I've got a box full of Naive Trapinch I helped breed for this guy using a Ditto he gave me so it also didn't have my ID number but the Everstone trick worked.

Thanks Forci. ^_^

 

[KrisTaline]

Okay, so here is a question...what are my chances of getting a Shiny Adamant Nature 31 HP, Attack, and Speed IV Sneasel?

Cause apparently the only thing I got going for me is that one of the IVs comes from the Father, the other from the Mother, the third randomly selected from the two parents and the other 3 IVs are RNG set and the Masuda Method.

 

[Forci Stikane]

I kinda realized that 5 minutes after I posted. Pal parked and foreign Pokemon (like ^^ said) don't follow Everstone rules.

...Actually, Pal Parked Pokemon should still work with an Everstone. Only Foreign Pokemon should have any effect on it.

Okay, so here is a question...what are my chances of getting a Shiny Adamant Nature 31 HP, Attack, and Speed IV Sneasel?

Without being able to use an Everstone but with foreign parents and normal breeding, you have around a 1/53248 chance of finding a Shiny egg that also happens to be Adamant, and then a very slim chance of being able to soft reset for an egg that also has the desired IVs. Even if the three desired IVs are present on your parents, that leaves about a...1/64 chance that all three will pass down, assuming that the statement I heard long ago that a Pokemon with a 31 IV has a 25% chance to pass it to an egg was true.

 

[KrisTaline]

...Actually, Pal Parked Pokemon should still work with an Everstone. Only Foreign Pokemon should have any effect on it.



Without being able to use an Everstone but with foreign parents, you have around a 1/53248 chance of finding a Shiny egg that also happens to be Adamant, and then a very slim chance of being able to soft reset for an egg that also has the desired IVs.

Good thing I've got the patience of a Bhuddist monk normally. ^_^

So basically, the Shiny and Nature are hardwired the minute the guy gets the Egg to give you but the IVs aren't?

 

[Forci Stikane]

Good thing I've got the patience of a Bhuddist monk normally. ^_^

So basically, the Shiny and Nature are hardwired the minute the guy gets the Egg to give you but the IVs aren't?

Correct, which allows you to reset for its IVs once you somehow manage to find the desired egg, if you ever do.

 

[KrisTaline]

Oh I will, even if I have to release every Sneasel I get from Eggs.

I was originally going with Froslass but her bad Def IV is becoming her undoing.

 

[Inferno1]

MAybe u battle it up to level 15 and didnt notice lol like i did that in emerald once i trained my combusken 1 level to high and it did not learn blazekick when it evolved

 

[FreakyLocz14]

Platinum Sinnoh Dex Completion help

I need to SEE the following Pokedex numbers, I'll put the name if I know what it is:
52 (Dustox), 114, 117 (Wooper), 112 (Hippopotas), 146, 147, 148, 192 (Porygon)

 

[groudonlover]

check https://pkmn.net/?action=page&id=8582
the page is for DP, but i used it to get most of the Pokés in Pt anyways.
If you need to know where a certain Trainer is, check Bulbapedia for the Route
Glaceon is on the route to Snowpoint City with the Heavy Blizzard weather, not where it says in Pt

 

[SV 1N]

I am having trouble beating the frontier brains, are there any good teams that do not require Any use of one time TMs ?

If it helps my team is Infernape , Floatzel and Staraptor.

 

[groudonlover]

You took those from your standard team right?
My Team is:
Breloom@Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
- Focus Punch
- Spore
- Seed Bomb
- Toxic/Fling/Dark-type move

Milotic@Leftovers
Ability: Marvel Scale
- Recover
- Hypnosis
- Surf
- Ice Beam

Third varies, but i usually use:
Salamence@King's Rock/Scope Lens
Ability: Intimidiate
- Fire Fang
- Thunder Fang
- Dragon Claw
- Fly/Aerial Ace


That team only uses TMs that you can get multiple times ;)

 

[SV 1N]

If I am EV training with power lens and I switch pokemon dose it get all five instead of just 1 if im training on 1 that give for example 1 ev in specail attack do i get all 5?

( Yanma Lvl 1(holding power lens) fights ghastly lvl 16 switches in infernape ,nape K.Os ghastly.)

dose yanmega get all 5 ev in specail attack even if i swicth out?

 

[Bradley]

Best Place To Get Ghost Pokemon?

Okay so I'm in Hearthome City and reckon I could do with some Ghost Pokemon for my Pokedex and to decently fight back. I really want a Misdreavus, and Haunter and Ghastly would be cool to get. Do any of you know where I can get them before doing the third Gym battle?

 

[Neutrino]

If you have wi-fi, I have a level 37 one up for grabs. Also, you'd have to trade from a pearl version to get one yourself, they aren't available in platinum, neither is murkrow, since they were counterparts. sort of.

EDIT:

When I try to get on games in the wi-fi plaza, even if I start them, and even if other players join, it just send me out and let's the others play. Why?

 

[Tinhead Bruce]

Okay so I'm in Hearthome City and reckon I could do with some Ghost Pokemon for my Pokedex and to decently fight back. I really want a Misdreavus, and Haunter and Ghastly would be cool to get. Do any of you know where I can get them before doing the third Gym battle?

Misdreavus can only be found in Eterna Forest and the Lost Tower in Pearl at night, no where else. Gastly is the only pokémon that will appear in the Old Chateau without a dongle, and Haunter is just the evolved form of Gastly.

If I am EV training with power lens and I switch pokemon dose it get all five instead of just 1 if im training on 1 that give for example 1 ev in specail attack do i get all 5?

( Yanma Lvl 1(holding power lens) fights ghastly lvl 16 switches in infernape ,nape K.Os ghastly.)

dose yanmega get all 5 ev in specail attack even if i swicth out?

Yeah. Yanma will get all 5 sp. atk EVs, but Infernape will only get one.

 

[World King]

If I am EV training with power lens and I switch pokemon dose it get all five instead of just 1 if im training on 1 that give for example 1 ev in specail attack do i get all 5?

( Yanma Lvl 1(holding power lens) fights ghastly lvl 16 switches in infernape ,nape K.Os ghastly.)

dose yanmega get all 5 ev in specail attack even if i swicth out?

Yes. If you send a Pokémon and switch it with another, it'll get EVs as long as if doesn't faint before receiving EXP. Also, any EV-modifiers it has will be applied. So in your example:

Yanma/mega (whatever) with Power Lens will get 5 Sp. Atk. EVs (which can be doubled if it had PokéRus) and Infernape will get 1 Sp. Atk EV. ​

 

[Genetics]

just wondering how is cacturne not hurt by sandstrom when it's grass/dark?

 

[Tinhead Bruce]

The Sand Veil ability nullifies the effects of the Sandstorm and gives Cacnea and Cacturne a 20% evasion boost in the Sandstorm.

 

[hunterzhorizon]

This is a purdy noob like question, but I'm tring to find a good IV guide.
I do not quite understand IV's.
I get EV's that is prudy simple, but IV's, just errr.
I need as much information you can give me on IV's, a site would be nice too.
Preferablely PM me about it.
Because i need it to understand witch Hidden Power move i get...
Thanks.

 

[Tinhead Bruce]

I personally think the Serebii IV Guide is nice. It's for the 3rd Gen., but it explains the same concepts that are in D/P/Pt. For Hidden Power, you're going to want to check out Smogon's Hidden Power page. It provides insight on how to get the Hidden Power you're looking for. I'll PM this to you as well in case you don't see this.