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 Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:30 pm
Vickicat Yeah, I figure most of the people there are really serious. I don't bother with IVs and EVs because I'm too lazy and it's too confusing for me. I just like to play the game. The only reason I would go would be to get that shiny Milotic. I know I don't stand a chance in battle, but that isn't why I play the game anyway.
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 5:21 pm
[Philosophy In A Teacup] melikefood I'm doing a Rain Dance team. I breed for at least 30 in IVs. Although I'm kinda Lazy when it comes to EV training. 252/252/6 spreads are what I do most of the time. I don't really see why the tourney organizers couldn't use PBR to play all of the matches. It's got a level adjuster, the battles look exciting, and it might get players intrested in buying PBR. Then I'd be able to use my Zapados and Electivire combo. DisQuake Spam FOREVAR.
As for the battle environment, I can understand it. They're probably not using PBR because it has an outdated battle system compared to Platinum and DS-DS battles are probably easier to set up and maintain than DS-Wii-DS battles (I know when I went to GameStop's PBR tournament, we were something like a half hour late in starting because the clerks couldn't get the DS-Wii-DS interaction to work and some peoples' DSes still weren't getting recognized by the Wii). Plus, I imagine a good reason for holding the PVGSD to begin with would be to advertise Platinum and boost sales.
But I agree with them not using auto levelers. Those are some of the most lazy features in the game. Using them would mean no one would really have to level their teams (just make sure they were all EV trained) and it would allow Tyranitar and Dragonite into battle unconditionally. Removing all Tyranitars and all Dragonites save for TRU 'Nite helps bring about a more diverse range of strategies, instead of everyone just spamming EQing T-Rars or DD+Outrage+Persim Berry Dragonites.
Plus PBR royally sucks a**. Promoting Platinum over it is a better idea, since I have no met a single person who actually loved PBR and thought it was a great game.Right, I forgot about the fairly difficult set up. Garchomp is still allowed. Which is fairly worrisome for me. It's why I'm packing a Metagross. I thought the level adjuster only worked downwards. Like, if you sent out a 35 Ampharos, it'd still be 35 while a lv 55 Electivire would be knocked back to 50. Is it 50 to all in PBR?
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:18 pm
melikefood Right, I forgot about the fairly difficult set up. Garchomp is still allowed. Which is fairly worrisome for me. It's why I'm packing a Metagross. I thought the level adjuster only worked downwards. Like, if you sent out a 35 Ampharos, it'd still be 35 while a lv 55 Electivire would be knocked back to 50. Is it 50 to all in PBR?
And nope, auto-levelers work both ways and applies to all Pokémon in the battle. So if a L.50 AL was on, while that Electrivire would still be lowered to L.50, that Ampharos would be raised to L.50 as well. In fact, one of the most popular ways to test for IVs, I believe, is to throw a newly hatched Pokémon into a WiFi battle with the L.100 auto leveler on and then check it's stats.
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 2:45 pm
I went.
Didn't get to battle officially.
I got my Shiny Milotic and a few FC's
Pics coming soon.
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:40 pm
melikefood I went. Didn't get to battle officially. I got my Shiny Milotic and a few FC's Pics coming soon.
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:14 pm
[Philosophy In A Teacup] Fox Demon Shippo ....first off, there's a league for this? o.O
Also, Platinum-only pisses me off. Dx
As for Platinum-only, is sucks if you don't have Platinum, but it makes sense. Platinum has the most up-to-date battle system, so it only makes sense to use it. And allowing only Platinum is to keep the fairness; There were changes to the battle system between DP and Platinum (for example, in DP, Hypnosis has an accuracy of 70%, but in Platinum it was dropped back down to 60%), so it'd be a lopsided fight if DP was allowed, too. :C
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:20 pm
Fox Demon Shippo I never heard of things like that changing; I would understand for things like rotom's formes and such, but...they changed accuracies/etc?
Hypnosis was sucky enough at 70%. Dropping it down to 60% was not welcomed by my Hypnosis+Dream Eater Ninetales. >:[
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Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:26 pm
Ahaha, Smogon is dominating. Out of the three qualifiers so far, two (SanFran and Phoenix) have been won by Smogonners (and I think in Seattle, a Smogonner came in, like, second or third place.
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