At 6/23/10 12:01 AM, Swackman wrote: Anyway, I've been playing SS for the last 2-3 days, which is the first time I've played it since I bought it. Since then, I've realized that the stupid way I was going about EV training on Platinum took the enjoyment out of it, so I'm thinking of restarting it - that is, if one of you guys could hold onto my event Jirachi temporarily once I get a router? I'd rather not lose an event Poke if I can avoid it. Also, my Kadabra, since that'd evolve it anyway, and I got damn lucky with the Sp.Atk. IV's.

I could hold onto it for a while if you want. I've already got both of those anyway, so it's not like I'm going to steal them or anything...

Yeah, but it sounds slightly different than that; it says all secondary effects of the user's attacks are disabled, which would include stat drops - as they are secondary. I dunno', hard to say.

I doubt they'd let something that game-breaking slip by them. Besides, Clear Body ("Prevents the Pokemon's stats from being lowered") only works when the opponent tries to reduce stats, and doesn't protect the user from drops resulting from Superpower, Curse, etc.

Agreed. Please, let Gen 5 have that as a 3rd option - since I don't see Contests actually going away.

Pokeathlon better have not been a one-time thing before reverting back to those stupid Contests. I mean they could at least make Contests less annoying if they want people to actually try for the top of those.

There's another Jirachi event up for download. It's available to America, Europe, and Austrailia, for all of the Gen 4 games.

Welllllll, that's another event I missed. :/ Here's hoping they repeat the Pokewalker events like they do the other events (well, some of them, anyway).

More new Pokes, and............*drum roll*..............THREE-ON-THREE battles. That oughtta shake things up considerably. I hope to hell the tarantula is an Ariados evo; it has some extremely nifty moves (Spider Web, Toxic Spikes, Cross Poison, etc.), but shitacular stats.

At 6/27/10 02:25 PM, verycoolguy wrote: There's another Jirachi event up for download. It's available to America, Europe, and Austrailia, for all of the Gen 4 games.

Yeah, grabbed it the other day. It's the same one as was being given away here in Big W stores (and I assume, whatever stores they do the events in the US), so I couldn't get a second one on SoulSilver. But I did get one for each of my other three games, so with any luck I might be able to ransom them off to my mates for exhorbitant prices >:)

Luckily, my hopes of the sea otter looking more like a sea otter further down the evolutionary line were answered; I guess I can forgive Mijumaru's design now. And, much to many's delight, I'm sure, Tsutaja's evo keeps that same "smug bastard" look on its face. :P

Also, we may finally have an end to the Obligatory Zubat-Infested Cave O' Doom, as there's finally a new bat Poke............I think - its design in that pic is a tad hard to make out. Kinda looks like they turned DemiDevimon into a Poke, almost.

As far as my SS progress, I've beaten Bugsy finally.........damn, his Scyther is even more insane now with U-Turn; at least Fury Cutter couldn't do that much until after a few consecutive uses. Luckily, between Hypnosis & Curse, Gastly took it out pretty quick.

In speaking of that, I caught my first Gen 4 shiny - another Gastly. Unfortunately, Impish is one of the worst possible natures a Gastly could possibly get stuck with, so it's reduced to 'trophymon' status.

There's been plenty of new information on Black and White.

Read about them here http://serebii.net/blackwhite/

At 7/15/10 12:23 AM, verycoolguy wrote: There's been plenty of new information on Black and White.

Read about them here http://serebii.net/blackwhite/

Speaking of which, I'm rapidly becoming more and more distressed over the fate/integrity of the Pokémon franchise. As you probably all know, Nintendo has been upping the censorship more and more over the generations, the most famous culmination you guys probably all know about: Voltorb Flip. That's right, I can confirm this: in the Japanese versions of HeartGold and SoulSilver, there are slot machines in the Goldenrod and Celadon City Game Corners with a Smeargle motif; in the North American version, all the games were gutted and replaced with another game known as "Voltorb Flip" and you can no longer just mass-purchase coins and exchange them like you could in previous games. Now, with a whole new generation on the horizon, there's no telling how much fuckery they're going to get away with, what with the new "unhackable" 3DS.
I hate to say it, but this may be my swan song as a gamer...

Good; I was starting to get worried since there was all this B&W stuff revealed but no discussion/posts at all.......

Anyway, there seems to be a shitload of Psychic types for some reason - even the one-eyed bat thing is Psychic/Flying (I would've assumed Dark/Flying). Hopefully that'll be evened out with Coro Coro's August (September) issue. At least we finally have another Klutz abuser available.

I think they're trying to make up for all the bidoof hate this year; that chipmunk looks like it'll eat your soul & steal your wallet. :P

Not sure what to think about some of those revealed features; I'll need more to go on, but they don't sound too appealing. The 3-on-3 thing, though, is more than I expected, and it should be fun to see where this goes.

At 7/15/10 04:49 AM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:

At 7/15/10 12:23 AM, verycoolguy wrote: There's been plenty of new information on Black and White.

Read about them here http://serebii.net/blackwhite/

Speaking of which, I'm rapidly becoming more and more distressed over the fate/integrity of the Pokémon franchise. As you probably all know, Nintendo has been upping the censorship more and more over the generations, the most famous culmination you guys probably all know about: Voltorb Flip. That's right, I can confirm this: in the Japanese versions of HeartGold and SoulSilver, there are slot machines in the Goldenrod and Celadon City Game Corners with a Smeargle motif; in the North American version, all the games were gutted and replaced with another game known as "Voltorb Flip" and you can no longer just mass-purchase coins and exchange them like you could in previous games. Now, with a whole new generation on the horizon, there's no telling how much fuckery they're going to get away with, what with the new "unhackable" 3DS.
I hate to say it, but this may be my swan song as a gamer...

While I do like the Voltorb Flip, I agree with you. It's bullshit. I don't understand why the fuck they removed the ability to mass-purchase coins, esp. when the Voltorb Flip is seemingly more difficult than the slots on occasion.

i am actually watching the original season of pokemon online, i gotta say, team rocket looked so much cooler back then

At 7/15/10 09:37 PM, Machop90 wrote: Compared to... what? The last two seasons of the show?

I still miss seeing James with breasts that could easily outdo any other female member of the show's cast.

At 7/15/10 12:49 PM, Machop90 wrote:
Eventually, a 3DS emulator will come out. Download that, someone will find out how to work some Gamershark codes into it. They always have.

From the way things look now, there won't be one. Did you even read the article I posted? The PS3, which is supposed to be less state-of-the-art than the 3DS, has forced one of the most renowned hackers to give up.

Speaking of 3DS, that thing stole the fucking show at E3.

That doesn't bode well.

Salamence is Uber.

lol

At 7/15/10 09:37 PM, Machop90 wrote:

At 7/15/10 07:53 PM, deathofghosts wrote: i am actually watching the original season of pokemon online, i gotta say, team rocket looked so much cooler back then

Compared to... what? The last two seasons of the show?

no, the only time they looked cool was episode 2 and 4

then they went downhill

What!? Mence was voted Uber? I dunno............something tells me it won't remain there for long. However, this means that Dragonite can take advantage. ^_^

At 7/17/10 04:26 PM, Swackman wrote: What!? Mence was voted Uber? I dunno............something tells me it won't remain there for long. However, this means that Dragonite can take advantage. ^_^

Definitely an interesting development. Personally, I never really had much of a problem with Salamence as a whole, but I guess the fact that it works so well with Rayquaza was the main reason for it. Hopefully Dragonite can take this to its advantage though, since he wasn't getting much love prior.

Got a Mew today, so now I'm only missing Celebi.

Should have the lot before Black and White come out.

At 7/17/10 09:35 PM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 7/17/10 04:26 PM, Swackman wrote: What!? Mence was voted Uber? I dunno............something tells me it won't remain there for long. However, this means that Dragonite can take advantage. ^_^

Definitely an interesting development. Personally, I never really had much of a problem with Salamence as a whole, but I guess the fact that it works so well with Rayquaza was the main reason for it. Hopefully Dragonite can take this to its advantage though, since he wasn't getting much love prior.

Usage in Ubers has nothing to do with its tier status. It's all about how it does in OU. Since it breaks OU, it is deemed Uber. Besides, Scizor has much more usage than Salamence in Ubers, and it's almost always in the top 10 of most used in Ubers, and Scizor is not broken at all.

At 7/19/10 04:35 PM, TheMaster wrote: Got a Mew today, so now I'm only missing Celebi.

Should have the lot before Black and White come out.

How'd you get it?
My brother used an Action Replay to get me one.

At 7/19/10 09:09 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote: How'd you get it?
My brother used an Action Replay to get me one.

Traded a Palkia for a 10th Anniversary Japanese one.

The first of the evos for previous-gen Pokemon has reared its fins. Look, say what you will about what Pokemon did or didn't need an evo, but if anyone dares to argue that fucking Luvdisc didn't need one, then you are a fucking idiot. This is a major step in the right direction, giving evos to the Pokes most desperate for them - and Disc was really fucking desperate.

/rant

I sincerely doubt anyone here would argue with that, though.

Crap............forgot to clarify: That post was NOT necessarily directed at anyone here whatsoever; it was just directed at the general public. So, nobody here come at me with pitchforks, alright?

That long-eared orange thing was confirmed as the Gen 5 Mew.........honestly, this one might actually be TOO cute for Legendary status......

It's also the first Poke to have the number #000 in the Regional Dex.

At 7/25/10 08:18 AM, Machop90 wrote: So is anyone psyched for Black and White? Cause I know I'm not! Although it seems better right now, and triple battles in interesting, I need to see other new features before I go and preach about them in the streets.

Some parts of it look great (esp. from the graphics standpoint), but other parts sound rather meh. Buuuuut, that last part holdd true for the other gens, too, so I consider that normal.

At 7/25/10 04:43 PM, Machop90 wrote: And 5th Gen Mew? Did each generation have their own Mew that I somehow didn't know about?

Each generation so far has had a Legendary with 100 for all of its base stats (BST 600) and is relatively hard to get: Mew for 1st, Celebi for 2nd, Jirachi for 3rd, and both Manaphy and Shaymin (Land Forme) for 4th. I guess that's what he meant?

i like the idea of a pokemon with the pokedex number 000, it sounds fun, are we getting it in america easily?

At 7/26/10 02:42 PM, Machop90 wrote: Well, the game doesn't come out in America until Spring 2011, so you'd have to get it imported,

Leave the importing to me, boys. I'm probably getting the Japanese version for my birthday and I'll buy the English version in the spring and compare them.

Plus with a copy if the English version, I can do all the wi-fi events and trade the legendaries over to other games.

but the Pokemon in question is only available through a WiFi event, so I'd suggest just waiting.

I think you still have to catch it though.

That is, until (of even if) someone hacks it and posts the Action replay version of the code.

Also a tip: if you trade Pokémon back and forth between two different language versions of the games (Platinum and above only), you can get the Pokédex data in that language. If anyone here has the Spanish, French, German or Italian versions of the game, I'm always game for trades; that is, when and if I can get onto Nintendo Wi-Fi (we have WPA security in my house, so I have to go elsewhere to connect.).

i love me some poke so sure ill join

At 7/26/10 09:30 PM, HibiscusKazeneko wrote:

At 7/26/10 02:42 PM, Machop90 wrote: Well, the game doesn't come out in America until Spring 2011, so you'd have to get it imported,

Leave the importing to me, boys. I'm probably getting the Japanese version for my birthday and I'll buy the English version in the spring and compare them.

Plus with a copy if the English version, I can do all the wi-fi events and trade the legendaries over to other games.

so, are you offering that pokemon to us??? because if you are... i'll take it, no matter what... but i won't have much to offer

ok, have you guys heard of the dream world thing they are putting into B&W?

so you use a port in any pokemon center or use a pokemons move and you can go online to a website and use wi-fi to play mini-games and catch pokemon... sounds cool

also, do you think there will be a pokewalker with B&W?

900th post!!! :-D

At 7/29/10 12:40 PM, deathofghosts wrote: also, do you think there will be a pokewalker with B&W?

No, I was going to say they'd let you use G+S but that;d be annoying to keep swapping the thingy.(Or somthing)

At 7/29/10 06:46 PM, Aci6 wrote: I sold my DS for a PSP but I think Ill still buy Black or White and then just play it on my sister's DS. I'm just bound to sick of it after I beat it, it happened to Gold with me. Anyway, I'm getting hyped for it, I'm really curious how the starters turn out and how the new graphics are implemented.

If Gold was your last game, then you should be aware the endgame has been VASTLY improved since them.

Personally, I don't feel the game even starts until you get to the Battle Frontier now. Battle Tower is the real challenge, not the gyms or anything. Still haven't gotten my 100 win streak on Platinum. Best is 42, if I remember right.