Pokemon Thread

[Alexpop11]

Nature is very important, and is described here. Also, EV points vastly affect the stats of your Pokémon.

Somehow, i had a feeling they would sneak something like natures in :P

But what is EV?

 

An EV is an effort value. You get a certain amount of EV's for beating any pokemon, based on what that pokemon is good at (I think it's something like 1 special attack EV for beating a ghastly, 1 speed EV for beating a zubat, etc.). You can get the EV's doubled by having that Pokemon hold an item (won from the battle tower I believe?). One stat can have a max of 255 EV's, and a pokemon can have a max of 510. 4 EV's is one stat point increase sometime before that pokemon reaches level 100 (randomly added on when leveling at any point in time), so preferably the max EV a pokemon should have is 252, because 255 is meaningless.

 

Basically, let's say a hypothetical pokemon at level 100 had no EV training (99 rare candies directly from an egg), its stats would be 300 300 300 300 300 300. If you trained stat 1 and 2 for 252 EV's and stat 3 for 4 EV's, the stats would then be 363 363 301 300 300 300. If you trained the pokemon normally and got it to 510 EV's at random, it would look something like 322 321 321 321 321 321. A pokemon with a direct purpose would have an advantage over a pokemon with random EV's, especially if you don't use the stats you put EV's in.

 

Tried to make it as simple as possible.

 

 

And about your previous question, there are a few kinds of Pokemon. Walls, clerics, sweepers, support, wall-breakers, and probably more that I'm missing. Currently my team has a physical wall/support, special wall, special sweeper, wall breaker, late-game sweeper, and a "steel trapper"/special sweeper. If you're just starting out, you should try to make your team have a bit of everything and make sure there are no repeating weaknesses (like every pokemon with a weakness to ice type attacks would make anything with an ice type attack very hard to kill).

 

So just try to get two walls (pokemon with high HP and either high physical defense or special defense), one support pokemon (something that helps the team, like using wish and healing team members, baton passing stat boosts to a team member, laying down stealth rock, etc.), a wall breaker if you'd like (otherwise a sweeper) (a wall breaker is a pokemon with high special and physical attack that can kill many walls), and two sweepers (pokemon with high speed and high attack and/or special attack).

 

Watch youtube videos with commentaries if you'd like to see common pokemon/strategies, so you can see why people do what moves. A knowledge of a pokemon's base stats also helps so you can see what kind of pokemon something usually is.

 

 

Thanks for the words of wisdom man! thanks, makes more sense :P

Anyway, right now i have a sceptile, with 278 HP, 203 attack, 176 defense, 268 sp att, 185 sp Def, and 290 speed. Lvl 100

Does this sound like a decent pokemon? does he have the usual amount of stats for a lvl 100?

How much sould a lvl 100 pokemon have?

and is their any way for me to figur out how much EV my pokemon has?

[Buzzcut3]

http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/sceptile

 

The stats without EV training are 281 HP, 206 attack, 166 defense, 246 special attack, 206 special defense, 276 speed. You have a few stats above that, which would be the ones you EV trained, but 3 below for some reason...

 

You have a -special defense nature, which makes sense. But no idea why your HP and attack are lower than what they should be (although not by much). Competitively, it's not that great because you have EV's all over the place. You do seem to have a good chunk in special attack in speed, which is alright, but not what you want.

 

My advice to you would be to breed that Sceptile into a treecko (using a ditto and also assuming you're playing HG/SS/Platinum) and get a nature you would like (anything with a +special attack or +speed nature without lowering speed or special attack is fine to be honest), then you could EV train it in special attack/speed. There is no real way to check your current EV's while training, so you would have to count them manually or just get 255 in each stat (meaning you lose one stat point in another stat which isn't a huge loss).

 

Also, if you battle over wifi the game simulates what the pokemons stats would be if they were level 100 (it doesn't do this for local battles I believe), so you don't need to train a pokemon to level 100, just EV train and evolve the pokemon.

 

And this is all for competitive battling, in game that's a fine Sceptile to use and it may even be decent over wifi, but this is what you have to do to get the best advantage.

[Demoli]

OMG £§£ new starters and carachetrs announced!!!!! :thumbup:

 

Link to serebii.net

 

Grass one is a mixture of cyndaquill and trecko

 

Water is a otter version of piplup

 

Fire is the one that seems kinda new, but i seem to recall his face from somewhere...

 

Also, i lke the new trainers :thumbup:

[Buzzcut3]

"Remember, this information is NOT Confirmed as of yet and so it's quite possible that this information is indeed inaccurate. However, as the region name was accurate, it's also quite possibly real. We'll get confirmation as to whether it's real or fake when the rest of the scans come out. "

 

I think the official pictures come out in on Sunday for Japan (was Saturday night for me) so we'll see then.

[Demoli]

The images were way too detailed to be false imo, i'm betting those are real

 

[hide]Rules: Ladder Match, Sleep Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Evasion Clause, Species Clause, Strict Damage Clause, Soul Dew Clause

demoliboy2 sent out Hulk (lvl 100 Machamp ♂).

iRape sent out Ambipom (lvl 100 Ambipom ♀).

Ambipom used Fake Out.

Hulk lost 31% of its health.

Hulk flinched!

 

Ambipom used Aerial Ace.

It's super effective!

Hulk lost 58% of its health.

Hulk used Dynamicpunch.

It's super effective!

Ambipom lost 100% of its health.

iRape's Ambipom fainted.

 

iRape switched in Starbucks (lvl 100 Jirachi).

Starbucks used Charge Beam.

A critical hit!

Hulk lost 12% of its health.

demoliboy2's Hulk fainted.

Starbucks's special attack was raised.

 

demoliboy2 switched in Thor (lvl 100 Dragonite ♂).

iRape switched in PoSeiDoN (lvl 100 Kingdra ♂).

Thor used Dragon Dance.

Thor's attack was raised.

Thor's speed was raised.

 

Thor used Dragon Claw.

It's super effective!

PoSeiDoN lost 100% of its health.

iRape's PoSeiDoN fainted.

 

iRape switched in Starbucks (lvl 100 Jirachi).

Thor used Dragon Dance.

Thor's attack was raised.

Thor's speed was raised.

Starbucks used Psychic.

Thor lost 21% of its health.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Dragon Claw.

It's not very effective...

A critical hit!

Starbucks lost 50% of its health.

Starbucks used Substitute.

Starbucks lost 25% of its health.

Starbucks made a substitute!

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

Starbucks's leftovers restored its health a little!

Starbucks restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Dragon Claw.

It's not very effective...

The substitute took damage for Starbucks!

Starbucks's substitute faded!

Starbucks used Charge Beam.

Thor lost 8% of its health.

Starbucks's special attack was raised.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

Starbucks's leftovers restored its health a little!

Starbucks restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Dragon Dance.

Thor's attack was raised.

Thor's speed was raised.

Starbucks used Psychic.

Thor lost 33% of its health.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

Starbucks's leftovers restored its health a little!

Starbucks restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Dragon Claw.

It's not very effective...

Starbucks lost 34% of its health.

Starbucks used Psychic.

Thor lost 31% of its health.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

Starbucks's leftovers restored its health a little!

Starbucks restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Roost.

Thor restored 50% of its health.

Starbucks used Psychic.

Thor lost 29% of its health.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

Starbucks's leftovers restored its health a little!

Starbucks restored 6% of its health.

 

Thor used Dragon Claw.

It's not very effective...

Starbucks lost 21% of its health.

iRape's Starbucks fainted.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

 

iRape switched in KiRa (lvl 100 Gengar ♂).

Thor used Dragon Claw.

KiRa lost 100% of its health.

iRape's KiRa fainted.

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

 

iRape switched in RoAR (lvl 100 Gyarados ♂).

RoAR's Intimidate cut Thor's attack!

Thor used Dragon Claw.

RoAR lost 77% of its health.

RoAR used Bounce.

RoAR bounced up!

Thor's leftovers restored its health a little!

Thor restored 6% of its health.

RoAR's leftovers restored its health a little!

RoAR restored 6% of its health.

 

iRape has left the room.

demoliboy2 wins!

[/hide]

 

I love the underrateds, they kick so much [wagon]

[Orpheus]

That guy you were playing against was terrible. Where was the Ice attack at?

[Maleficus1055]

Got a legit event Shaymin off the GTS which i'm pretty happy about, I don't use hacked Pokemon, i just trade them back. Time to do some intense training on it :)

[Riku3220]

Unlike most people, I'm excited about the new Water type starter. It looks look we'll finally have a Water/Ice with some good stats all around.

[krimi]

The new fire type looks a bit like spoink/grumpig.

[doomy]

Bad effort on the water one, but who knows thats only 1 form.

I'm guessing Grass/Dark (maybe Grass/Flying, not grass/dragon like alot think).

Fire/Psychic (looks like spoink/grumpig)

Water/Ice or maybe water/fighting.

[Kill_Life]

Playing SoulSilver here:

 

- For EV's, does Exp. Share work as you would normally battle or does it work as a Rare Candy?

- How do you get rare pokemon over the GTS? Such as Mew for example. Because you need to see them first before you can get them, right?

[Orpheus]

-Exp Share gives full EVs to both the battler and the wielder of the Exp. Share. So if an Abra gave off 1 SpAtk EV, then both pokes would get 1 SpAtk EV.

-You have to see them first, although I do have cloned events to pass around if you need the pokedex entries.

[PoorLepRecon]

Riku, have you already done your match with A_Local_Guy? If not, we need it done. If so, I can move it on to the next round.

[Riku3220]

Yes we did. I won. Page 104.

[PoorLepRecon]

A_Local_Guy vs. Mckinzy5

Riku3220 v Kcdragon8116

Demoliboy 2 - no battle

Zaaps1 v TtanT

[Alg]

Whenever you're ready Mck

[Zaaps1]

Ditto at TtanT. When are you free?

 

Best time for me is Sunday morning (EST).

[Maxingmck]

Mckinzy5 lul not mckinzy7

 

K alg

[Riku3220]

I'm ready whenever you are Kc. I'm free all weekend.

[Alg]

Mckinzy5 lul not mckinzy7

 

K alg

Meant to see what time you'd be available at, sorry :lol:

[PoorLepRecon]

I'm ready whenever you are Kc. I'm free all weekend.

 

We'll do it sometime tomorrow.

[Demoli]

*stretches arms*

 

Looks like i'm free this round :mrgreen:

[Maxingmck]

I will be on any time because I have no life so if u are ready tif pm me with ur name and wat server

[PoorLepRecon]

I beat Riku. He beat me in our fun match afterwards though. :ohnoes:

[Riku3220]

Kc won the official round and then I beat him in another match. Weird how 1 status effect will change a game...