So I've recently gotten into competitive pokemon battling, although I used to play the old school games back in the day. Anyway, I realize I have no experience when it comes to battling actual humans and very little in effective team building, and I know that the tutor program is in place for this, but seeing as how the current rounds over my simple question is if any generous smogon-goer would mind maybe teaching me a few things, ala the tutor program but without the big tourney at the end.
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does lucky chant effect your pokemon by prevent ch on them or prevent the foe from landing ch?
You can join the next round of Tutoring program and the Tourney is not a must, you can be tutored and you can write that you dont want to join the tourney.
I realize that, but as stated before I'd like to get started now, and I feel that with just a bit of guidance I could get better faster than I would be able to just battling on Smogon with a carbon copy team.
Heh heh you kind of said the same thing twice.
Prevents critical hit for 5 turns on YOUR pokemon
How many times do I need to rebattle a Trainer before they are at their highest level?
It depends on who the trainer is. Some trainers take 3 or 4 times, but some just take one.
I guess the highest the Twins on route 210 (south) only go up to level 44, unlike the level 60 Clefable and Raichu. Can anyone else confirm this?
Pretty sure you need to trade if you don't want to battle them.
Or, as legends reappear in Platinum, you might be able to KO them and reset later.
Hey guys. So I heard about these 2 rumors on the web that:
1. You're able to have another at catching Giratina again by going back to Turnback Cave if you didn't before.
2. I heard word on the web that in Platinum, you're able to re-battle every legendary until you catch them. I've read somewhere that this has been confirmed as true for the Legendary Trio, but not sure about the other legends in the game.
Can anyone confirm if either of these are true? I want to SR for Legendaries, especially for the ones that I missed out on in my diamond cart because I never thought to SR for them @ the time. And in the case of Giratina, I would rather wait until after beating the league to catch Giratina than to do it before since at that point I'b be able to import Master balls from emerald.
1. You're able to have another at catching Giratina again by going back to Turnback Cave if you didn't before.
2. I heard word on the web that in Platinum, you're able to re-battle every legendary until you catch them. I've read somewhere that this has been confirmed as true for the Legendary Trio, but not sure about the other legends in the game.
Can anyone confirm if either of these are true? I want to SR for Legendaries, especially for the ones that I missed out on in my diamond cart because I never thought to SR for them @ the time. And in the case of Giratina, I would rather wait until after beating the league to catch Giratina than to do it before since at that point I'b be able to import Master balls from emerald.
is lagging tail missing on shoddy, or is it like one of those extended clause items?
I saw a vid where a Ninjask kept using Protect after each Substitute, was it haxy or does the chance of using Protect go back to 100% after a substitute?
I know that rumor #1 is true, but I'm not sure about #2.
not an extended item, as it is available in the game.
it goes back to 100%
after any move after protect, the % goes back to 100
% only goes down when u use protect/detect multiple times in a row
can anyone trade me low levels of the 3 original starters to my platinum game?
Thanks! I never thought of it that way, like duh, lol! Now with that being said, how many swords dances can Ninjask usually pull off? And should swords dance be used before or after Substitute? My plan is to get at least 1 swords dance up and then use Substitute/Protect to stall for SPD boost and then Baton Pass, my only concern is setting up that swords dance.
You're supposed to make those kinds of requests here.
Swords Dance raises Atk two levels. The maximum level is 6, so you won't get any effect after 3 Swords Dances. Substitute should generally go first, as it eases prediction.
For the record, I'm pretty sure Detect, Protect AND Endure are the same in that you can't just spam them over and over to be invincible.
Thanks but that doesn't really answer my question, I allready knew how many times Swords dance stacks. What I'm asking is, how many times can a Ninjask usually pull it off before dying. I don't wanna swords dance 3 times if I die on the third turn and make my stradegy useless by not being able to Baton Pass.
haunter
Banned deucer.
Ninjask has paper defences, so if you can set-up a single SD and baton pass it, it's already enough. Usually you should try to SD when behind the substitute (hoping for your opponent to switch or miss) and then baton pass the boost in the turn your opponent breaks the sub (hoping that he\she doesn't pack a pseudo hazer).
31 hp- 30 atk- 31 def- 30 sp.atk- 31 sp.def- 30 spd
Neither Pokerus nor Macho Brace affect EVs gained from Vitamins.
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