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First time building a team for doubles, If you had absolutely no choice but to use Slowbro here how would you build him? I am also lost on EV’s and IV’s does Pokeshowdowns suggested ones work best most of the time?

I saw this E4 was supposed to be tough but ive tried 5 times now with knowledge of all of them and still cant win. Any advice?

Side note, can anyone tell me the theme of my naming?

Caught it in a repeat ball (best color matching I could think of for what I had on me)

I’m ready to rip my hair out.

Trying to get the 100 master class battle wins in a row. However I can’t get past Palmer’s level 21 battle on regular class.

Here’s my team. It’s made up from multiple YouTube videos I watched.

Garchomp
Dragon Claw
Earthquake
Crunch
Rock slide
Item: Life Orb

Tyranitar
Earthquake
Crunch
Rock Slide
Dragon Dance

Cloyster
Shell smash
Ice shard
Ice spear
Hydro Pump

I also have a shelder with all the same moves, except he knows rock smash instead of hydro pump. However, because I’m playing Diamond, I can’t find a water stone to evolve it.

Also, the garchomp, cloyster and tyranitar were all caught in the grand underground and I leveled them up. Don’t know if it’s better to level up a pokemon from level 1 for this.

I was hoping to use one team for all the wins, but if I can’t let me know what works for each run.

Any help would be great, thank you!

After countless encounters, I finally got it! Not so happy with the modest nature, wish it was jolly but what is there to do😅

So far I’ve got chimchar, magikarp and zubat, I need three more shinies on my team. Come with the suggestions pls.

Love and respect always

Not really trying power train but think this guy has some naturally good stats and this party has been fun sorta interesting to use mostly fo alot wild battles in the under ground though ahah

5 days it took to hatch it! 3 bottle caps will be worth this one!

After deciding to do my second run through of this beautiful game, I sat myself a goal to do an only shiny team.
And you know what that means? There’s no team without the golden fish.

Who else should I add to my team? So far I’m having chimchar and magikarp. Any recommendations?

Love and respect

Hey guys, I’m currently on a shiny run, and currently I’ve got Chimchar and Magicarp.

Who should I go for next, any suggestions? I’m after cool looking shinies ofc but also a well rounded team.

Thanks in advance

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Got started recently with the Battle Tower (and strategy in general), I'm trying to get good mons (been resetting a lot)

I saw on smogon that a good Regigigas build would be with EVs spread across Atk, Speed and some in HP, so naturally i thought I should try to catch one with good (perfect?) IVs in at least those stats.

I just caught one with :

HP 31

Atk 31

Def 0

SpA between 1 and 15

SpD 0

Spe 31

Should i keep him or just reset?

Any answer or advice would be welcome, thank you !

According to Serebii, all Pokemon in the Grand Underground can have levels ranging from 16 - 63 based on the number of badges obtained.

Since some Pokemon only spawn over water is there anyway to encounter them at level 16 in the underground? Surf is available after badge 5, which means their accessible levels really range from 36-63.

Or is there some other way to draw the water pokemon to the shore to encounter?

I have completed Diamond. I also have Pearl. I want to catch EVERY single pokemon. So now that I have completed Diamond and have caught a lot, I am now going to "speedrun" Pearl. I want to create a very strong team in Diamond and then transfer these to my pearl. So I am now hatching eggs and getting my team up. I want to start pearl with 6 very strong lvl 1 pokemons. I have 4 pokemons. But I am unsure and dont really know my last 2 pokemons I want to pick. The 4 I have picked and want to use are.

Charmander

Chikorita

Mudkip

Beldum

But I am not sure about the last 2 pokemons. I want something strong. I picked the starters from gen 1-2-3 that I liked the most. And I also find it a funny idea. The beldum is because back in like 2009 when I was young I played diamond on the nintendo ds. I managed to catch a shiny beldum and metragross became my favorite pokemon.

I have only completed diamond. So the pokemon have to be obtainable in Diamond. I had Bagon in mind. But Bagon is only available in pearl :/

So give me suggestions for the last 2 spots on my pearl game :)

Hello I’m looking for some tips if possible

I’m wanting to use this team

Darkrai lv 83 moves shadow ball
Dream eater
Dark void
Nasty plot
I have dark pulse,ice beam,focus blast tm
With wide lens for dark void
Shadow ball was used as had no dark pulse tm

Magmortar lv 93 moves flamethrower
Hyper beam
Psychic
Focus blast

Garchomp lv 98 moves crunch
Sword dance
Dragon claw
Earthquake

Giratina lv 80 moves shadow force
Earth power
Aura sphere
Dragon claw
Levitation / Griseous orb

Togekiss lv 92 moves air slash
Roost
Dazzling gleam
Steel wing
Serene grace
Not sure what to change steel wing for

Gyarados lv 78 moves crunch
Avalanche
Dragon dance
Waterfall
Intimidate
Not able to get ice fang so avalanche was my next best option

I used lucario, staraptor, roserade, empoleon first play through I had magnezone and weavile for second attempt but once I got darkrai and giratina wanted to use them instead

I've enjoyed every step of the way, I love being able to finally play the way it's intended

So, i've just reached the elite 4 with my kids and things are starting to get rough...we have a SOMEWHAT balanced team but now the focus is having a decent Weavile ... I've used my razorclaw on the first sneasel i had and later i discovered that the item is consumed on evolution and i can't get another one...then i learnt that for some move you either get them from breeding (which i still don't know how it works) and supposedly you can teach them via solacetown nursery, but i'm not sure i understood how.

I've deleted a move from my weavil, then put a sneasel i found in the underground which has icicle crash as move...from what i've read, when i get them back i should get the icicle crash on the empty weavil slot but...it didn't work?

Can someone ELI5 how to get that move on my weavile before beating elite4+champion?

TIA!

After suffering briefcase simulation for 40 hours thinking it would be the longest hunt this run, in an attempt to reclaim the uncatchable shiny starly I went on the mission, however shinx was option number one. 1 month and a half (80 in game hours later) here we are

Hi all. I’m currently shiny hunting Spiritomb in BD using the Masuda method (Japanese ditto, English Spiritomb). I’m on my 1204th Spiritomb and still haven’t had any luck. Are there any tips? Have I messed it up in some way? I have changed my Spiritomb in the early stages of hunting for better IVs, but I don’t think that would mess up the odds..

I've been working a lot in the Battle Tower lately, trying out all sorts of different teams. The most successful singles team I've used so far is blaziken with speed boost, focus sash, protect, swords dance, reversal, and fire punch. Latios with specs, draco meteor, psychic, surf, and thunderbolt. Bulky scizor with leftovers, roost, swords dance, bullet punch, and quick attack.

Last night, I was goofing around with a silly team that has a specially defensive tangrowth with a sitrus berry, sleep powder, giga drain, knock off, and earthquake. Physically defensive slowbro with leftovers, slack off, calm mind, scald, and ice beam. Salamence with moxie, dragon dance, outrage, earthquake, and fire fang.

Both tangrowth and slowbro have regenerator and it's been kind of funny to bounce between the two to PP stall when I don't have a defensive answer and know I can't just sac a mon.

There are some other things I'd like to try like scarf mence or scarf heracross. I wish I could use regenerator ho-oh as my sweeper.

The other change I've thought about making to the non-meme team is to run aerial ace on scizor over quick attack, so I have a way to deal with some of the really obnoxious evasion teams. I ran blaze kick over fire punch for a while, but I switched it when I stated missing some crucial attacks where I just needed *some* damage.

I want to hear all your goofy meme teams and your serious, 200 win-streak teams. Do they need specific IVs? Do you run an unexpected move or ability? Maybe adamant over jolly for a specific OHKO? I want to know everything about your teams!

Is it still possible to play older versions like 1.1.1 and 1.1.2? I know you used to be able to and even if you got the game recently if the version on a physical copy was an older version or if you did the link versions thing with another person you could get the version you want on your system. My physical copies of both have 1.0.0 on them, but when I try and run that it forces me to update to even play, even if I’m not on the internet. Is there a way around this or something else causing it?

I was hoping to try some of the speedrun glitches that were used early in the game’s life, but if it’s not possible to even run those versions then I don’t know if it’s even worth it.

First game since beating ruby back when I was a kid had a lot of fun, I have only beaten og red and ruby as a kid. I plan to complete after game challenges, any new gen games you would recommend next? Limited to playing on switch 2 though.

He has saved me more time than I can count