Jesus!
Gaming Pokémon Strumfest
- Thread starter Snowjoe
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Caught Groudon with the first ultra ball.
Feels good man.
Feels good man.
Gaaar! Somebody stop me. I'm about to order some booster packs online. Haven't opened a set of cards in a long long time, have such a craving for that feeling of sifting through them rapidly to get to the rare card. Heck I even bought Sabrina's Alakazam on eBay earlier. I don't know what happening to me. I'm almost 24 years old, but Pokemon still has me in its steely vice and just won't let go.
Gaaar! Somebody stop me. I'm about to order some booster packs online. Haven't opened a set of cards in a long long time, have such a craving for that feeling of sifting through them rapidly to get to the rare card. Heck I even bought Sabrina's Alakazam on eBay earlier. I don't know what happening to me. I'm almost 24 years old, but Pokemon still has me in its steely vice and just won't let go.
DO IT
What ones did you get?To be honest, that's the exact response I was looking for. Thanks.
Started OR last night. Started soft resetting to try and get a shiny starter after seeing someone say they got one within 50 goes. Looked and the majority of videos are 1,000+ soft resets so feck that. Think I'll just go through the game 'normal' then once E4 is beaten I can work on getting shinies or whatever.
50 goes would be incredible luck.
Do all copies of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire come in those steelbook things or was it just pre-order ones?
Pre-order. Mine came in a regular case.
Mate feck SR I haven't got the patience. I'd rather try chain for something or even breed for it with the Medusa Method which is how I got my Shiny Druddigon. SRing is so dull.
Medusa method? Yep SR is very dull. Is the DexNav chaining thing true? Seen videos of someone getting four shinies through that
Oh
Masuda Method, breeding your mon with a foreign one, cuts the shiny rate over 75%, supposedly more this gen.
It's why everyone is mad for Japanese Ditto.
Yeah exactly. It's like 1 in 2000 instead of 1 in 8000.
I got a Japanese ditto on wonder trade, living the dream!
I got a few from Plasma Storm, Furious Fists and Phantom Forces. The last booster packs I bought were from the EX Deoxys and Fire Red/Leaf Green sets so the ones I ordered will certainly look a bit out of place in my collection. Shocked at the sheer volume of sets there has been since then. I see it's very hard to track down boosters from some of the classic sets of the past.
What are your favourites? Also, do you know of any reliable sites other than eBay that sell them?
Ah cool. Yeah it seems that some of them are a bit tricky to find, and expensive.
I'm not sure about favourites really. I go through phases of buying them and just get whatever ones I think look cool at the time
I know of this site - http://www.iguk.co.uk. I bought a few theme decks from there a few years ago, but I think that was the only site other than eBay that I used.
Thanks for the site. Already spotted a few cool things on there that I wouldn't mind purchasing. Will endeavour to stay away for a while at least! Resisting the temptation to purchase individual cards of some of my favourites on eBay is difficult too.
Can't wait to open my first booster in years. Some of the new holo's look incredible, but I think I still prefer the old designs. Particularly around the Neo era.
Can't wait to open my first booster in years. Some of the new holo's look incredible, but I think I still prefer the old designs. Particularly around the Neo era.
Yep, there are lots of tempting things when it comes to Pokemon cards It's been ages since I had any booster packs to open. Might have to get some next payday
From what I can remember I think some of my favourite designs were in the Team Rocket set. A specific one that sticks in my mind is a weird one, it's the Nightly Garbage Run trainer card. There's something about the picture that I love
It's been ages since I had any booster packs to open. Might have to get some next payday From what I can remember I think some of my favourite designs were in the Team Rocket set. A specific one that sticks in my mind is a weird one, it's the Nightly Garbage Run trainer card. There's something about the picture that I love
I have to admit, I wasn't expecting you to cite that card as one of your faves, but I can certainly see its charm.DexNav is an amazing thing. Just started the game, caught a level 2 poochyena and managed to catch a level 12 one in my first DexNav encounter right after that. Always made sense to have this sort of feature in the game
The DexNav is brilliant, actually makes the Pokedex useful. Perhaps a tad broken, picking up level 10+ Poochyena's with Fire/Thunder/Ice Fang, though!
Actually brings the Pokedex a bit in line with the cartoon, with Ash pointing it at bloody everything all the time.
Actually brings the Pokedex a bit in line with the cartoon, with Ash pointing it at bloody everything all the time.
I need a Charmander! Anyone have one to spare?
Hurry up and get back @Saskjoe I'm going for the whole pokedex and need someone to complete the journey with. It becomes boring as f.
Heard people talking about going for shiny Pokémon! The odds are a far shorter than they used to be in the first place. I believe it was something like half the original amount from X/Y onwards, but there's the Masuda method and the Shiny Charm (if you complete the National PokéDex) that cut it even further. I believe it ends up somewhere around 1/1000 chance. 'DexNav Chaining is also true. However, the easiest way I found was chain fishing
Currently soft-resetting for competitively viable legendaries on my Alpha Sapphire, got a pretty good Terrakion and Cresselia so far! (Individual Values determine how high each stat can be, ranging from 0-31).
Cresselia - 31 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 30 SpA / 31 SpD / 7 Spe - Relaxed Nature (Trick Room)
Terrakion - 29 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 29 SpA / 31 SpD / 31 Spe - Jolly Nature
Also done the Master Rank Contests in hope of being able to put the Contest Star on the Pokémon I use for battles haha
Currently soft-resetting for competitively viable legendaries on my Alpha Sapphire, got a pretty good Terrakion and Cresselia so far! (Individual Values determine how high each stat can be, ranging from 0-31).
Cresselia - 31 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 30 SpA / 31 SpD / 7 Spe - Relaxed Nature (Trick Room)
Terrakion - 29 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 29 SpA / 31 SpD / 31 Spe - Jolly Nature
Also done the Master Rank Contests in hope of being able to put the Contest Star on the Pokémon I use for battles haha
Yeah, shinys are relatively easy these days. My Muk and Nidoqueen(near perfect IV's, complete random pop up too) gently weep.Heard people talking about going for shiny Pokémon! The odds are a far shorter than they used to be in the first place. I believe it was something like half the original amount from X/Y onwards, but there's the Masuda method and the Shiny Charm (if you complete the National PokéDex) that cut it even further. I believe it ends up somewhere around 1/1000 chance. 'DexNav Chaining is also true. However, the easiest way I found was chain fishing
Currently soft-resetting for competitively viable legendaries on my Alpha Sapphire, got a pretty good Terrakion and Cresselia so far! (Individual Values determine how high each stat can be, ranging from 0-31).
Cresselia - 31 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 30 SpA / 31 SpD / 7 Spe - Relaxed Nature (Trick Room)
Terrakion - 29 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 29 SpA / 31 SpD / 31 Spe - Jolly Nature
Also done the Master Rank Contests in hope of being able to put the Contest Star on the Pokémon I use for battles haha
If I wanted to get back into pokemon games and have a 3ds. WHat games should I get if I want to "catch em all"
You can get most of the legendaries in OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire.
Heard people talking about going for shiny Pokémon! The odds are a far shorter than they used to be in the first place. I believe it was something like half the original amount from X/Y onwards, but there's the Masuda method and the Shiny Charm (if you complete the National PokéDex) that cut it even further. I believe it ends up somewhere around 1/1000 chance. 'DexNav Chaining is also true. However, the easiest way I found was chain fishing
Currently soft-resetting for competitively viable legendaries on my Alpha Sapphire, got a pretty good Terrakion and Cresselia so far! (Individual Values determine how high each stat can be, ranging from 0-31).
Cresselia - 31 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 30 SpA / 31 SpD / 7 Spe - Relaxed Nature (Trick Room)
Terrakion - 29 HP / 31 Atk / 31 Def / 29 SpA / 31 SpD / 31 Spe - Jolly Nature
Also done the Master Rank Contests in hope of being able to put the Contest Star on the Pokémon I use for battles haha
Trying to complete the Dex now, think I've got about 200 overall so still some way to go. I really want to catch a shiny Horsea and hatch a shiny Charmander. Kingdra & Charizard.
If anyone wants to do a load of trades with each other to speed up the pokedex filling let me know!
Me and my friends would probably seem mad to you! Haha
My mate Jason has already turned down a shiny Tornadus, Cresselia, and Suicune in search of going for perfect stats instead.
My mate Jason has already turned down a shiny Tornadus, Cresselia, and Suicune in search of going for perfect stats instead.
I got a shiny 6IV Uxie (with the Kalos pentagon) from GTS a while ago, all I needed to give up was a Ho-Oh.
I'm so glad I'm not into stats, is it solely for competitiveness or is there an element of rarity too?
Stats is almost purely for competitive use. The odd non-31 IV here or there will probably never matter, but on the odd chance it does due to damage rolls, it's worth going for as good as you can get due to the high element of luck in this competitive game.
The other side is that other competitive players will clone their high IV and/or shiny Pokémon and only trade them for similar, so taking the time to get something perfect and awesome is probably going to net you a lot of trades for whatever you want.
The other side is that other competitive players will clone their high IV and/or shiny Pokémon and only trade them for similar, so taking the time to get something perfect and awesome is probably going to net you a lot of trades for whatever you want.
Hi, lets do it.
Building a 6 pokemon team in alpha sapphire is ridiculously easy with the early EXP Share now.
Anyone doing this?
Here's my to-do list:
I started a new Alpha Sapphire game just for this - and made my trainer's name "Santa".
The worst part about preparing for Christmas was the fact that you can't get evolutionary stones from natural objects in ORAS - so you have to grind Super Training.
All Pokémon are nicknamed. The Delibirds are given Christmas-themed nicknames.
- 10 Eevees holding Fire Stones
- 10 Eevees holding Water Stones
- 10 Eevees holding Thunder Stones
- 30 Eevees holding Lucky Eggs
- 30 Eevees holding something (not decided yet - probably more Lucky Eggs)
- 6 Onix holding Metal Coat (will farm more if I have time)
- 24 Delibirds holding Lucky Eggs
I haven't bred for perfect IVs, egg moves or anything like that - but my female Eevee did have 3 perfect IVs and Adaptability, so some of them will be OK. I haven't got a perfect Ditto in this game yet, anyway...
After all that is gone, during Christmas Day and Boxing Day, I'll probably be just breeding and Wonder Trading anything cool I get in exchange. If I only get stuff like Zigzagoons and Poochyenas... Well, I suppose there's always my starter.
Anyone doing this?
Here's my to-do list:
I might try breed for a shiny of a couple of cool Pokemon one box at a time and send the non shiny ones out to people. I also have a Cresselia and 2 Deoxys in gonna send out of Christmas.
My boy is getting Alpha Sapphire on Xmas day and is very excited. If there are a couple of eggs / wonder trades that people feel like doing over the following couple of days that would be brilliant.
If there's anything he desperately wants I'd be more than happy to sort it for him.