Quick Question and Answer Thread / Breeding Questions

in a double battle, if a Pokémon holding a Focus Sash gets hit twice, will it faint? Example:
Weavile with Focus Sash. Gets hit and goes down to 1 HP. the opponents next Pokémon hits Weavile again. Does the Focus Sash hold or does it faint?
 
in a double battle, if a Pokémon holding a Focus Sash gets hit twice, will it faint? Example:
Weavile with Focus Sash. Gets hit and goes down to 1 HP. the opponents next Pokémon hits Weavile again. Does the Focus Sash hold or does it faint?

Focus Sash is going to resist the first hit.
 
What happens when I connect the Wi-Fi Union Room (Platinum) there are rooms that line up horizontal in different colors (e.g. yellow, then green, and now another that is purple lol, the first one was blue). It adds on after connecting so much. =\
Tis cause of how many people you have in your Pal Pad :3
If you have one page there will only be one "floor" (or "room"), if you have two pages in your Pal Pad then there will be two rooms, etc.
 
Ooh, serious. XP That's not a good nature at all. You should read the stickies at the top of the strategies and movesets forums, but here's a quick summary of what you should know:

Natures: Every pokemon has a nature. Natures raise one stat by 10% and lower another by 10%. For example, the Adamant nature rasies Attack but lowers Special Attack. A modest nature does the opposite. Serious nature, however, gives you no stat boost, and that is highly undesirable in your training.

If, however, you still want to use your Charmander, you could train it. Shiny pokemon are usually just as strong as normal pokemon, so unless you're striving for a really good pokemon, go right ahead and use it.

Now, EVs: EVs, or Effort Values(sometimes called EPs, or effort points) are given out by pokemon when you kill them. For example, killing a Starly gives you one EV point in Speed. Get four EV points, and your stat goes up by one. You can only get 252, or a +63 stat boost in a particular stat(at most) and you can only max out two stats in this way. There are items to speed this up, and a disease called Pokerus, but you can learn all about that and much more by reading the stickies.

Oh, and BTW, hatching an egg in Mt. Coronet doesn't increase your shiny possibilities. There is always a 1 in about 8,000 chance.


EDIT: These sites will be very helpful if you choose to continue:

https://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/charizard

https://serebii.net/
 
Ok, just went to stark mountain and beat team galactic there. Didn't catch heatran and checked back at the elite four and the yanmega was at lvl 65! So from what I can tell acquiring the national dex, and beating team galactic at stark mountain are REQUIRED to upgrade the elite 4. I'm not sure if you need to catch dialga/palkia( i did and the elite four still didn't upgrade), beat volkner/flint(did that too and no luck), or any other factors in order to upgrade the elite four because i never isolated thier variables, but for anyone who had the same problem as me (and i know some do because i checked online and there were no definitive answers other than get the national dex), get the national dex and do the stark mountain quest.
 
I was wondering if i had a level 100 chansey and i maxed out its happiness would it evolve?
 
Ok, just went to stark mountain and beat team galactic there. Didn't catch heatran and checked back at the elite four and the yanmega was at lvl 65! So from what I can tell acquiring the national dex, and beating team galactic at stark mountain are REQUIRED to upgrade the elite 4. I'm not sure if you need to catch dialga/palkia( i did and the elite four still didn't upgrade), beat volkner/flint(did that too and no luck), or any other factors in order to upgrade the elite four because i never isolated thier variables, but for anyone who had the same problem as me (and i know some do because i checked online and there were no definitive answers other than get the national dex), get the national dex and do the stark mountain quest.

Yeah. Once you unlock the trainer cafe (and upgrade the Gym Leaders), the Elite Four will get upgraded.
This is old news.

There are prerequisites anyway; you can't move on without doing the step before:
Beat the Elite Four > See all Pokemon > Get National Dex > Unlock Battle Frontier > Defeat Flint&Volkner to unlock Survival Area, Stark Mountain, and Resort Area > Defeat Stark Mountain to unlock Trainer Cafe.

I was wondering if i had a level 100 chansey and i maxed out its happiness would it evolve?

All Pokemon, barring trade and stone evolutions require a level-up to evolve.
 
You could always have someone *cough* change the nature.
But then people would flame you.

What the above poster did not mention is that there are also IVs (Individual Values), which are like EVs -- hidden values that determine the strength of a Pokemon's stats. However, unlike EVs, IVs cannot be changed.

IVs range from 0-31 and 31 is the highest your IVs can get to.
You can use a calculator to determine your Pokemon's IVs, but be sure to have it at a high level to get more accurate results. You can also use a data miner to mine your IVs out to get exact values (and if wanted, uh *cough* change them), but people will flame you for that too.
 
IVs range from 0-31 and 31 is the highest your IVs can get to.
You can use a calculator to determine your Pokemon's IVs, but be sure to have it at a high level to get more accurate results. You can also use a data miner to mine your IVs out to get exact values (and if wanted, uh *cough* change them), but people will flame you for that too.
He can also do a IV battle where you battle someone on Wi-Fi, and since Wi-Fi temporally sets your level to 100, you can write down your stats and use a Stat Calculator. A Stat Calculator can be found here (click). VM me if you need help using the calculator.
 
You could always have someone *cough* change the nature.
But then people would flame you.

What the above poster did not mention is that there are also IVs (Individual Values), which are like EVs -- hidden values that determine the strength of a Pokemon's stats. However, unlike EVs, IVs cannot be changed.

IVs range from 0-31 and 31 is the highest your IVs can get to.
You can use a calculator to determine your Pokemon's IVs, but be sure to have it at a high level to get more accurate results. You can also use a data miner to mine your IVs out to get exact values (and if wanted, uh *cough* change them), but people will flame you for that too.

Oh yeah. Forgot about those little dudes. Yeah...don't use Serebii's IV calculator. Use the one Wolflare posted, and if that's not Metalkid's, use his too. EDIT: It's Metalkid's. Use it.
 
I was wondering if field abilities stack? Like if I have a fainted butterfree for the tinted lens ability (increases the chance of wild pokemon holding items) and a fainted abra/ralts for syncronize (increases the chance of the wild pokemon having the same nature) so I could for example find a poliwhirl with a king's rock and a certain nature at the same time.
 
Erm, is it possible to send a wonder card from diamond to platinum?

To my knowledge, the only way to share Wonder Cards is to "receive from a friend". As far as I know, the Secret Key event is currently the only one doing it at the moment, so I'm guessing no.

I was wondering if field abilities stack? Like if I have a fainted butterfree for the tinted lens ability (increases the chance of wild pokemon holding items) and a fainted abra/ralts for syncronize (increases the chance of the wild pokemon having the same nature) so I could for example find a poliwhirl with a king's rock and a certain nature at the same time.

Field abilities only work if the Pokemon is first in the party. So, no.
 
So here I was breeding a Charizard I traded from Red and a Snorlax I had evolved from Munchlax in Pokémon Platinum in an attempt at a Bellyzard build.

The offspring ended up being a shiny Charmander with a serious nature. Additionally, he was born at Mt. Coronet.

Is this commonplace? If not, I'd like to train him in a way that he'd reach his maximum potential. I've heard of something about EV? How could I use it to make my Bellyzard build more powerful?

I have so many questions, but I suppose the only necessary one would be how to train this rare Pokémon (unless it isn't) so he can be the best Charizard he can be.

By the way, he's level 1 at the moment. I await your replies with bated breath.

Regards,

CM

Never heard of EVs? I'm guessing you never heard of IVs either. Both IVs and EVs can make any pokemon deadly. Well first things first rebreed your Bellyzard (Strangely I have never heard of one before) Its nature pratically does nothing. Nature determines the stats of pokemon which mean it raises 10 percent of a stat and negates 10 percent of this one. For example: The brave Nature raises Attack by 10 percent but negates Speed by 10 percent. All the other stats have the 10 Percent boost but then the 10 percent loss in the other stat that the nature is supposed to negate. Again Nature is a huge big deal in EV training and IV breeding. Use this link for natures and builds: https://www.smogon.com/dp/natures/
Now I'm not going to tell you IVs since you only asked for EVs.

So EV training which stand for Effort Value. Every single pokemon and I mean every single one has 510 EVs. Use all of them up then you reached the EV limit. How do you use EV points? Well first you need a plan. EVs techinically lets you have control of your stats so if you train at Elite Four all your stats get mixed up. Also you only can use 255 EVs for each stat but only 2 types of stats max because you only can have 510 EVs Max. Yes you can split your EVs up For example: Hohoo I want to have HP and attack and maybe some defence. So you can split your EVs into 100 EV pts into health and 145 pts into attack and 10 EV pts into defence and the leftover EVs just do what the heck the build says. You can split your EVs into how many you want to, it is up to YOU or the Build. Example 2: Here is a random stat build I got from Smogon and this is how they seperated it: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Okay so 4 EV pts into HP and 252 into Attack and 252 into speed which turn out to be 508 EV points. Cool!

Now you are probably asking hmmm that is 508 where is the other 2 pts? Do I know. Nah but everyone tells me if you do it this way your EVs will be precise and will be a hell of a lot better than going all 510s.

How do you get EV points? Well you receive EV points by killing certain types of pokemon. Say like you want HP EVs then you kill Bidoofs except they give out 1 EV point for health from each one you kill, Kill 3 more or total of 4 bidoofs equal up to 4 EV Pts then that counts as 1 stat point (Which means 1 EV pt does not count as 1 stat point, it only counts as 1 EV point but 4 EV points count as 1 stat point.) Want attack? Kill a Machop they give off 1 EV point for Attack each and etc. Use this to find out which pokemons have what EVs: https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/attack.shtml (And don't be a newb and scroll above and you should see HP, Attack, Defence, Special Attack, Special Defence and Speed above and click those to see those pokemons with those EVs.)

The process seems long, No Problem! Try using power items and Pokerus and Vitamins. Vitamins we always thought just made your stats go up? Well now you know EVs. For each vitamins you feed to your pokemon it gives out 10 EV Points. So feed 10 HP UPs then you have 100 EV points in HP and feed 10 Carbos again 100 Speed and etc. WOW that just made your life a whole lot easier. You can use up to 10 vitamins max for each stat (Try feeding 11 Vitamins? Hah nice try like I said 10 vitamins max for each stat and try feeding 11 it will not let you.) Now, wtf is Pokerus huh? Well Pokerus is a really rare disease your pokemon gets, but somehow it doubles the amount of EVs So I'd call it like your friend in EV training and it does not do ANYTHING AND I MEAN ANYTHING Bad to your stats or to your pokemon it only makes EV training faster, that is all. EV training faster Period! So again Kill Bidoof he gives off 1 EV point well coolio you get 2 instead because of your friend Pokerus which is initialed PKRS. And power items give a +2 boost in EVs. So 4 EV points when you kill a bidoof. Here are the power item names: Power Weight, Power Bracer, Power Band, Power Lens, Power Belt and Power Anklet. They are not too rare, in fact you can just get them at the rewards store in the Battle Park and exchange it for Battle Points: 16BPs for each. Now Pokerus you think you'll never get it? Well you will eventually but best of all. Its Pokecommunity. Lots of generous people here that are willing to lend their pokerus Pokemon to you! Now here are which power items help with which EVs: Power Weight = HP, Power Bracer = Attack, Power Belt = Defence, Power Lens = Special Attack, Power Band = Special Defence and finally Power Anklet = Speed. Okay I'm done right? No once you finish EV training you rape it with rare candies which I recommend you hack 999 for yourself with action replay IF you have friends at school. Other than that if you don't then you trade your pokemon to a friend online at pokecommunity and kindly ask him to.

Now here are a couple of warnings. When you start EV training I'd suggest you save each time you finish a stat you are supposed to raise. If you mess up either you start all over or there is no turning back. Also Pokerus. It wears off in 24 hours I believe or if you heal the pokemon. So if you healed that guys bidoof with PKRS because of your newbness and he lent it to you then he might be pretty pissed if that was his only pokemon with PKRS. So be extra careful. Also when PKRS heals don't freak. The Double EV effect from Pokerus Stays with your pokemon FOREVER! That is all I know about EVs and I think that is all the important thing anyone needs to know about EVs. Make sure you use those links I gave you because they are extremely helpful and a whole lot better than spending all day asking what pokemon gives HP and what nature is this and then wasting your time on waiting for an answer. Goodluck and have fun EV training. P.S: If you have power items, Vitamins and PKRS and know what you are doing, EV training should take 45 minutes or less. (That much time is not too bad, back in the day it used to be like 3 days or maybe even more.)





Well, if the parents had good IVs, then there might be a chance that your Feraligatr(s) inherited those good IVs since IVs are passed down. This describes the situation I'm talking about. Might also be that you're just lucky.
(Seriously, 5 hours a day for 5 days? That's only 25 hours! I could only get slightly decent IVs in that amount of time ;_;)[/QUOTE]

Wait just to make sure my new Totodile does have perf IVs for attack? And better IVs for every stat than the old one?

Can a Bronzong breed? If so how? Or can it just be bred with a ditto.
 
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To my knowledge, the only way to share Wonder Cards is to "receive from a friend". As far as I know, the Secret Key event is currently the only one doing it at the moment, so I'm guessing no.



Field abilities only work if the Pokemon is first in the party. So, no.

Was hoping them being fainted would loophole this, but thanks for the answer. Even though the answer makes me extremely sad.
 
Thanks for that post DeathofBlades. I think I understand the concept of EV's now- it's the IV's that are still a little confusing. So the the IVs are determined from your initial encounter with the pokemon right?, and cannot be changed? Would you just have to randomly encounter a pokemon with good IV's then? It sounds like searching for a needle in a haystack...:C

And how do you go about getting the nature you want? Do you just have to breed? It seems kinda daunting to get the nature, and IV spread that you want.

I stopped at gen 2, so im doing some 'cathcing up' if you will:D
 
Thanks for that post DeathofBlades. I think I understand the concept of EV's now- it's the IV's that are still a little confusing. So the the IVs are determined from your initial encounter with the pokemon right?, and cannot be changed? Would you just have to randomly encounter a pokemon with good IV's then? It sounds like searching for a needle in a haystack...:C

And how do you go about getting the nature you want? Do you just have to breed? It seems kinda daunting to get the nature, and IV spread that you want.

I stopped at gen 2, so im doing some 'cathcing up' if you will:D

Zeh. Parents with good IVs have a chance to pass those down to their progeny.
Natures can be passed down by giving an Everstone to ze parent.
 
Uh... my game is acting weird. It seems to have reset at least some of the trainers that I'd battles before, possibly all. Trainers that yesterday could run into me and not care are now coming over to battle. I haven't used cheats, and AR, anything. Is this normal? =\

EDIT: Okay, thankfully it just seems to be a few.
 
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