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Quick Question and Answer Thread / Breeding Questions

SquirtleGirl: Typically, Espeon is better than Flareon..

Espeon
- faster
- higher and useful special attack
- more moves to complement its special attack (e.g. Psychic, Shadow Ball, Grass Knot, Calm Mind, and Signal Beam if you have Platinum)

Flareon
- bulkier
- higher but useless attack
- limited physical movepool (e.g. Return, Fire Fang, Superpower, unless you want to go special but that stat's base power is 95, which is not too terrible...)

As for items, both are decent (Spooky Plate powers ghost, Odd Incence powers Psychic, so I would go with the latter for Espeon). Another option is Leftovers, which always helps. So, Espeon appears to be more useful than Flareon.

However although Sinnoh lacks any good Fire type Pokemon besides Chimchar... If you have DP, your only choice may be Ponyta (Route 210). If you have Plat, I believe you can catch Houndour early.. or not, I am not sure, haha. Also, it depends on what the rest of your team looks like.

Regardless, use your favorite! If you train either, they should be useful. ^__^


lollypop1997: Press start when you see Giratina. Next, hold down the B button, Select button, and Up on the D-Pad at the same time. Then, it will ask you if you want to delete the current file.
 
Panfisha said:
Anyone know why it was sparkling snow in snowpoint city today? (even though its 7 minutes into sunday)
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I noticed it too =/ I think this is Diamond Dust, that appears every january 12 in DP, DPPt and HGSS... But I have no idea why it occured now. Ah well.
LittleShinyDrifloon said:
Can anyone explain how to trade TMs over WiFi?

PM me if you can help me with this!
X3
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As Fire Wolf said, just let them hold it. As easy as that ^^
Professor W. said:
I was in the game corner, and when the Clefairy came out, the tips of it's ears were green-blue, giving it the colors of a shiny Clefairy. Is this rare or not?

~Prof. W.
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Oh yes, let's see here... There are three dirrefent Clefaires that can come out from the Pokéballs at the Veilstone Slots: Clefairy-faking Ditto, Regular Clefairy and Shiny Clefairy. This changes the probability to repeat the bonus stage rounds. Say, if you get this shiny one, the chance is bigger that the bonus will continue for a while, than if it'd be the Ditto. Hope I helped XD
SquirtleGirl said:
Right I have my Evee from Hearthrome after beating the League.

My dillemma is I want a fire type, but I also want a psychic type [Chimecho is just not fitting the bill on my team] Also I visited the Solaceon ruins and got the Odd Incense and the Spooky plate [Actually help on which of these is better would help too :P] so that would be useful for Espeon.
But I don't have a fire type.
I know how to get a fire stone and I know how to evolve it into Espeon. But the question is which is better?
I suppose I could breed one from a Ditto but I dont have the patience to catch one with the Pokéradar. But I don't really have room on my team for two Evee evos.

Help!
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That's completely up to you. They're good in different ways. I think I'd prefer Espeon of the two, but I can't decide what you should do to your team.

...Or just check the post above. There's some tips for you. (You're playing DP, as in Platinum you get the Eevee before national dex. In DP there sure is a lack of good fire types, when there are for example Hondour and Magmar in Plat. But as you already beat the league, that doean't relly matter.
 
Arceus2117 said:
i suck at chaining and i dont have ar so can someone give me some
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If... You're looking for someone to give you a shiny Pkmn, then this is not the right place. Check out the Wi-Fi section instead.

Otherwise, the only way is to find one randomly or chain.
...Or get HGSS and catch the Red Gyarados XD
 
Arceus2117 said:
i suck at chaining and i dont have ar so can someone give me some
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There are several legitimate methods to obtain shiny Pokemon.

Chain method: You can learn how to chain from this basic guide and this advanced guide. When you have a chain of at least 40, the chance of finding a shiny Pokemon is 1/200.

Masuda method: Breed international parents (e.g. English Charizard with a Japanese Ditto) and the chance of hatching a shiny Pokemon is 1/2048.

RNG method: I would teach this, but you do not appear to have a shiny already... You need your Secret ID, calculated from the information from your own shiny.
 
TwilightBlade said:
SquirtleGirl: Typically, Espeon is better than Flareon..

Espeon
- faster
- higher and useful special attack
- more moves to complement its special attack (e.g. Psychic, Shadow Ball, Grass Knot, Calm Mind, and Signal Beam if you have Platinum)

Flareon
- bulkier
- higher but useless attack
- limited physical movepool (e.g. Return, Fire Fang, Superpower, unless you want to go special but that stat's base power is 95, which is not too terrible...)

As for items, both are decent (Spooky Plate powers ghost, Odd Incence powers Psychic, so I would go with the latter for Espeon). Another option is Leftovers, which always helps. So, Espeon appears to be more useful than Flareon.

However although Sinnoh lacks any good Fire type Pokemon besides Chimchar... If you have DP, your only choice may be Ponyta (Route 210). If you have Plat, I believe you can catch Houndour early.. or not, I am not sure, haha. Also, it depends on what the rest of your team looks like.

Regardless, use your favorite! If you train either, they should be useful. ^__^
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Well I guess I've already beaten the league so I',m not in desperate need of one anyway.

I think I got ,my plates mixed up. It says it powers psychic moves so I think it's another one. Oops :L
I think I will go for Espeon. I just need to make it happier now! Thanks You, and to Pokestick too!

Also, where do you get Leftovers? :)
 
AutumnLynnxLove said:
How do EVs and IVs work..?
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Serebii will be your best friend. ;)
EVs
IVs

The two links above tell you about EV's and IV's and how they work. If you have any further questions about it, visit the DPPt FAQ and see if you can find where they talk about the two. Happy Training!
 
what is an IV battle for?
Also, how do i obtain high IV, Does it work if i just have 2 high IV parents and breed them? with patience of course ;)
 
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Can anyone explain how I could do lets say the monotype challenge, and get the pokemon I want with only one ds? :/, Like if I wanted pokemon that you can't obtain early in the game, would it be possible to trade from here, and trade with what I have on my current save, and then I clear my save file, and then they trade me the pokemon I want? o_O Like they give fillers for my stuff, I remake, then I give fillers for the ones I want? Is that possible? :/
 
I know this is probably a dumb question but where would a Shedinja learn Swords Dance?
 
Hey, I have a question. Ok, so my friend last week said he needed to borrow my Platinum for trading purposes. Guess what he does? HE GETS AN ACTION REPLAY AND SETS ALL THE ITEMS TO 999!!! I AM PISSED OFF AT HIM!

Now, can anyone tell me how to delete these items? THANKS in advance. D:
 
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