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i have done a liberty and stolen information from past pokemon threads.

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum Friend Code list:
Kamikaze Dynamite - 4425-7349-1674
Zierant - 2234-9978-2688
MegaMan - 3137-2432-0289
SonicProject - 5241-7806-6234
Twistendo - 0602-4792-4992
Twistendo - 2836-6045-1152
Captain Flame Guy - 2063-4972-8094
Weirdestchild - 4125-0967-9394
Char - 1505-1626-5289
BanjoSonic - 1246-6047-1250
BanjoSonic - 2535-9489-5386
Parakarry - 2320-2606-8172
Techokami - 4640-4877-0074
Techokami - 0001-0058-9623
Jazz - 4382-8031-3293
General - 2535-9489-5386
artieyoyoyoyo - 0431-4268-9764
Fiddy Three - 2749-9821-1787
Draku - 1118-7832-1319
Lupo - 4254-1094-0419
Mewizkuit - 3910-3392-4737
Iceman - 1161-9338-8709

Pokemon Battle Revolution Friend Code list:
Draku - 1462-4695-7512
Anubis - 2149-5480-2847
Mewizkuit - 5070-1533-1380

This post has been edited by CrashMan on Oct 10 2009, 05:57 PM

I caught some pokemons so I could breed them and EV train them but I have no clue on how to EV train or how to tell whether or not a pokemon I bred will be awesome or not. Help?

If you have just freshly bred a Pokemon and have not gone into any battles with it at all, just put it as the first Pokemon in your team and ask someone to have an IV "battle" with you.

http://www.serebii.net/games/iv-calc.shtml

Check the Pokemon's summary and enter in the appropriate stats, nature, and other info. If a Pokemon has IVs that are very favorable for what it's for, I suggest keeping it and EV training it appropriately.

How to EV train: Every Pokemon battle you engage in gives effort points. The amount and type gained depend on the pokemon fought. Let's take a look at an example. Say you get into a fight with a Budew by chance.

http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/406.shtml

Scroll to the bottom, and look under "Effort Points from Battling it". It gives 1 SpA EV upon defeat to the Pokemon that downed it. That isn't too much. You'd have to fight 255 of these things just to max out your Pokemon's SpA. That's no good.

In order to boost gain, you can equip items such as the Power Lens. This will decrease Speed 50%, but will give you 4 EVs in SpA IN ADDITION to the EVs normally gained from killing an opponent. You'd get 5 SpA EVs just from killing a goddamn Budew. That's awesome! But it doesn't stop there. If one of your Pokemon gets Pokerus and spread it around your team, all EV gains are doubled. This includes the "Power ______" EVs. You can get 10 SpA EVs from killing a BUDEW.

You COULD train off of slightly more powerful Pokemon that give more EVs for a given stat, but the non-evolved forms are easier to grind off of with the Power _____ items cutting speed.

It sounds complicated at first, but it really isn't. If you want to know what some good sets and EV spreads for a certain Pokemon are, just visit Smogon and search for that Pokemon.

Ah cool. Thanks!

If you are unable to perform an "IV Battle", this IV calculator is also acceptable.

Is this set effective?

Gengar @ Focus Sash
Nature: Naive
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Atk
-Shadow Ball
-Hidden Power Ice 70
-Thunderbolt
-Explosion

In what role? I'm going to guess as a lead due to the Focus Sash being pointless otherwise due to Stealth Rock all over the place. If it's not a lead, It's not going to be that great due to the mentioned reason and Hidden Power Ice not proving as good of coverage as the usual Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, and Tbolt.

Taj (Dusknoir) (M) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP/252 Atk/6 Def
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Shadow Sneak
- Fire Punch
- Ice Punch
- Earthquake

this is an excellent lead

that lead is a real jerk D:

ruins any sort of suicide lead, only thing that it doesn't seem to kill from speccing you on shoddy is swampert leads

which... aren't that common anymore lol

also bought pokemon battle revolution, if anyone's up for a game let me know

What improvements do you want for the regions in Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver?

• Kanto gym leaders should present more of a challange than the Elite Four with higher level OU pokemon and more advanced tactics and strategies.
• Cinnibar Mansion should be explorable, but the level design should be altered because of the eruption. Wild pokemon would be at their fully evolved form and lv. 50-55.
• It would be awesome if the Unknown Dungeon returned, but the interior puzzles and structure was modified for more difficulty. Mewtwo would be at the bottom floor of the dungeon at lv. 70

This post has been edited by General on Jul 29 2009, 04:15 PM

This is very likely to happen, as they seem to be trying to make it so that DSi owners can get all of the Pokemon with Platinum and HG/SS.

kanto needs to be fully fleshed out in general

it was a freaking wasteland in the original gold and silver

they had a game boy cartridge's limitations. what did you expect? at least they put it in at all lol

Anyone wanna multi-battle at the Battle Frontier? I just breed the ultimate machine and am going to destroy every A.I. controlled trainer.

Sure, I'm up for it. I think I'll bring in my Weavile and Metagross, or should I use something else?

That would be great. Are you running CBgross, Agiligross, or a bulky defensive set?

Bulky CBGross.

getting online

Who should I put in first? Weavile, or Metagross?

I'm going to set up Stealth Rock, so probably Metagross.