Breeder’s Cup Tournament

January 4, 2008 | 89 Comments

This month we will be hosting a Breeder’s Cup Tournament in the forum. Rules are as follows:

RULES:

1. No hold items will be allowed.
2. We will be using a Swiss system. If you do not know what that means the simple explanation is that one loss will not knock you out of the tournament so you must be able to commit to a full day of battling.
3. Participating members can not have more than 10 current infraction points against them.

POKEMON:

1. Because all Pokemon must be hatched by you this also means no legendaries.
2. Yes, I know Manaphy hatches from an egg but you can not breed a Manaphy, which makes it not legal for this tournament.
3. You can not have more than one of the same Pokemon on your team.
4. All Pokemon must be level 1.
5. All Pokemon must be hatched by you and have your trainer ID.
6. You will only use three Pokemon.
7. You must use the pre-evolved form of any Pokemon used. (Munchlax yes, Snorlax no).

PRIZE:

1. I have a level 3 shiny Zigzagoon named Lilly that I caught in my Ruby game several months ago. Never touched and I have no idea what her IVs are as she is still on my copy of Ruby.

DATE:

January 19 - 20, 2008

The goal here is to see who is the best at breeding a team for battle on site. All are welcome to join but you do need to be a member of the forum. The tournament is expected to begin mid January.

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Pokemon Nature and Characteristics Explained!

September 4, 2007 | 11 Comments

So, you just hatched a bunch of Pokemon and started to train them when you suddenly realize something, not all Pokemon are created equal. It is true, every Pokemon is a little bit different than other Pokemon of the same type.

Some Pokemon are Bashful while others are Bold. some Pokemon Often Doze Off while others Very Finicky. What does all this mean? Read on dear friend and I will educate you on the meaning of your Pokemon’s Nature and Characteristics.

Nature Attack Defense Special Attack Special Defense Speed
Adamant Rises quickly Rises slowly
Bashful
Bold Rises slowly Rises quickly
Brave Rises quickly Rises slowly
Calm Rises slowly Rises quickly
Careful Rises slowly Rises quickly
Docile
Gentle Rises slowly Rises quickly
Hardy
Hasty Rises slowly Rises quickly
Impish Rises quickly Rises slowly
Jolly Rises slowly Rises quickly
Lax Rises quickly Rises slowly
Lonely Rises quickly Rises slowly
Mild Rises slowly Rises quickly
Modest Rises slowly Rises quickly
Naive Rises slowly Rises quickly
Naughty Rises quickly Rises slowly
Quiet Rises quickly Rises slowly
Quirky
Rash Rises quickly Rises slowly
Relaxed Rises quickly Rises slowly
Sassy Rises quickly Rises slowly
Serious
Timid Rises slowly Rises quickly

Now that I have shown you the Natures that Pokemon can have you might be wondering how to use this to your advantage. Let me give you one very easy to understand example: Makuhita / Hariyama.

MakuhitaHariyamaThis Pokemn is a serious Fighting type Pokemon. Once he evolves into Hariyama his base Attack score will be 120 and his base Special Attack score will be 40. As you level him up all of his moves will be Physical and be based upon his Attack score. You have no need in raising his Special Attack score at all! Do you know what this means? It means if you can raise a Hariyama with an Adamant nature he will be one of the toughest Hariyama around!

Now that I have told you about a Pokemon’s nature and provided you with an example I’m going to tell you about a Pokemon’s Characteristics.

Rises Quickly Pokemon Characteristics
Hit Points Loves to eat, Often dozes off, Often naps, Scatters things often, Likes to relax
Attack Proud of its power, Likes to thrash about, A little quick tempered, Likes to fight, hot tempered
Defense Sturdy body, Capable of taking hits, Highly persistent, Good endurance, Good Perseverance
Special Attack Highly curious, Mischievous, Thoroughly cunning, Often lost in thought, Very finicky
Special Defense Strong willed, Somewhat vain, Strongly defiant, Hates to lose, Somewhat stubborn
Speed Likes to run, Alert to sounds, Impetuous and silly, Somewhat of a clown, Quick to flee

Unlike a Pokemon’s nature, a Pokemon’s characteristics only have a bonus. Taking our earlier example of Makuhita / Hariyama we can quickly see that a Adamant nature coupled with a characteristic of Proud of its power will make for a very formidable Pokemon!

So, how do you breed for these things?

When breeding, if the female Pokemon holds an Everstone it will pass its nature on to its offspring. Yes, the Pokemon will inherit the nature from their mother. As for characteristics, I do not know of any way to breed for them.

So there you have it, one more bit of breeding wisdom to add to your collection!



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Pokemon Farming: Egg Moves - A How-to

September 1, 2007 | 10 Comments

Greetings everyone!

Unfortunately I’ll be out of town all day Saturday, so instead of a Pokemon to offer, I’m going to take you step by step through my efforts in my only major moveset breeding attempt.

Skarmory. My goal with Skarmory was to end with the following moveset.

  • Spikes
  • Brave Bird
  • Aerial Ace
  • Roost

Why these moves? Well because they were about the best set you could get. Spikes is a must have for any hope of competitiveness in Skarmory. Brave Bird is the most powerful flying move and it doesn’t take 2 moves to complete. Aerial Ace is a nice never-miss Flying move that gets the STAB bonus. Finally, Roost is the only healing move available to Skarm, and this helps recover from too many Brave Birds.

So now that I had my moveset figured out, I needed to decide how I was going to accomplish it. I started by checking my TM’s to see what I could get done the easy way. Aerial Ace was the only TM I had on hand. I needed to make sure that I had it all figured out to make sure my TM didn’t go to waste. So here’s how it worked.

Roost - Pidgey learns this naturally - which is important because I didn’t have the TM. And, because it is a TM move as well, it’ll move easily through breeding. Check

So I took a Pidgey and stuck it in the daycare with Ditto ( I only had a female) I bred 3 eggs and hatched them, luckily one of them was a male. Here we had the first step almost completed. Off to the Elite Four!

I use the elite four as an easy peasy way to level up pokemon. I used that method here until Pidgey had received Roost at Lvl 37. Move 1 down.

Next, I need to get Roost onto a Pokemon that will be able to naturally learn at least one of the other moves I need. Since I knew Aerial ace transfered easily to all bird types, I went ahead and taught it to this Pidgey. Now what would the next target be? The next move to look at is Brave Bird as it is the only move remaining. (Spikes must come from Skarmory itself)

Looking through the various Pokemon that learn Brave Bird the choices weren’t exactly thrilling, but there was a nice easy one on the list. Starly. One quick check shows that Starly is also capable of learning both Aerial Ace and Roost, so we’re all set! In goes Pidgey and a freshly caught female starly. This works perfectly. My Starlies all hatch with both Aerial Ace and Roost!

In this case, again, I needed to breed until I had found a male. It took about 5 I think before I had a male, but it eventually happened, and I was on my way. What’s next? Yep, the E4.

Here’s where I notice a mistake. Have you spotted it yet? I’ll give you some time.

Ok, my mistake was that Starly learns Aerial Ace on its own already, naturally so I didn’t have to use up my TM. Oh well. Lesson learned.

I level up the Starly (Nicknamed Google, by the way) until he reaches level 37 and learns Brave Bird. This Starly now knows Roost, Aerial Ace, Brave Bird and Wing attack. Not horrible eh?

Alright. Now I have 3 of the moves I need on a male Starly that will be able to breed with my Skarmor…..waitaminute. My Skarmory is a male. Oh well - minor setback. I throw Skarmory into the Ditto-ready Daycare and breed until a female is hatched.

After that setback, I put the Starly into the breeding business with the new female, all of that just to end up wanting a male again…who designed this system anyway?

Alas, I have what will eventually be the Father of all my perfect Skarmories. Male Skarmory with Roost, Brave Bird, Aerial Ace, and Peck. Excellent one last move to take care of and we’re in business. I quickly take this guy through the Elite Four and have him learn Spikes as soon as possible.

YES - I am done messing around! I place this guy who knows all four moves into the daycare with my original female Skarmory, then I get on my little bike and start pedaling away! One egg, then two, then three…soon my party was full and I was on my way!

Once the first egg hatched I had a bit of trouble deciding on a theme of nicknames, but then eventually settled on European Countries. I started naming, and checked his summary so that I could take a look at my first perfe…. waitaminute!

What did I miss this time? This new Pokemon didn’t know all of the moves it should. Which was missing? Spikes. Why was it missing it? I hadn’t the slightest clue…unless…yep, that was it. For naturally learned moves, BOTH parents must know the move in order to get their offspring to hatch with it. I took out the original Skarm and really lucked out. It was about 3 levels below where it would naturally learn Spikes. After I finished that up, I truely was all set and the rest of the new Skarms had everything they should. My mission was complete!

So, lets review what we’ve learned about egg moves.

There are 3 types of moves to transfer.

  • Moves that a pokemon will learn naturally.
  • Moves that can be taught by TM.
  • Moves that are ‘Egg Moves’ for the target Pokemon type.

We all know that the mother of a given egg will determine which species the pokemon is, and the Father has some major input on the moves it will know. Here are the rules that I’ve discovered in this process.

  1. In order to transfer a TM, only the father needs to know the move.
  2. In order to transfer an Egg Move, again the father only needs to know this move.
  3. In order to transfer a move that the Pokemon will eventually learn on its own, both parents must know the move.

Once you get the hang of these rules, you should be able to plan out even the most complicated of movesets!

Best of luck in your future breeding endeavors!

Whit

P.S. - I’ll be back next week with some genetically altered freak of a Pokemon!



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Hatching Eggs: The Fast and Easy Way!

August 14, 2007 | 25 Comments

So you have a big batch of Piplup eggs you’re itching to share with friends or use for a bargaining chip in a trade. Hatching the eggs is simple, just walk around with the egg in your party until it hatches. In normal game play that can take what seems forever, but as Pro Egg Hatchers, we farmers have all the tips to get those eggs hatched in the simplest, easiest way.

First off, you know you have to do some stepping to get results, some 5,000 to hatch one little Piplup egg. Some eggs even take upwards of 10,000 steps to hatch. You can cut this step count in HALF by having a Poke just in your party at the same time as the eggs with one of two abilities:

Magma Armor - Prevents Pokemon from getting a Freeze condition

Flame Body - Afflicts opponent Pokemon with a Burn condition 30% of the
time when it attacks Pokemon directly

These guys act kind of like an incubator. These include

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  • Magby/Magmar/Magmortar (Flame Body)
  • Slugma/Magcargo(Flame Body or Magma Armor)
  • Camelrupt (Magma Armor) *it can also have Solid Rock as an ability so double check for the right one

Now, if you want to knock down a big batch of eggs fast you can’t really do it in normal game play, you need to get a lot of steps done in an efficient manner. One way is to hop on down to Solaceon town with your incubator of your choice, jump on your bike, set it to the ‘fast’ gear and work your way up and down route 210 and 209, until you are stopped by a line of trees or a mountain. If you lined it up right you should go up two of the muddy ramps and walked about 123 steps.

Another trick for a lot of steps fast is go to Fuego Ironworks, where you walk on tiles that send you places. There are certain tiles that send you back against a wall, so if you set it up right, you can just press the d pad toward the direction of the tile that will send you back to a wall for as long as you press it, racking up steps. You can just tape down the button and leave the game alone if you like, and wait for the hatching! (This is really nice for when you want to raise happiness too!)

So, with these tips in hand, you should be able to churn out babies like the best of us!

Thanks to Farmer Bott for lending some good info on the abilities!



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Pokemon Breeding Tips: Baby Evolutions

May 15, 2007 | 12 Comments

If you like Pokemon then you are probably aware of the baby evolution Pokemon that exist in the games. The thing about these Pokemon is that they are not always easy to breed for or catch in the wild. In fact, the Pokemon in this article all have one thing in common; they need an item to make an egg.

Baby evolution Pokemon were added to the game when the Silver, Gold and Crystal games came out for the Game Boy. Unlike their more evolved forms, baby Pokemon are not known for being fighters as much as for just being cute. Because of this their abilities and move sets are not geared towards winning battles but are instead aimed at avoiding damage.

Another important thing to understand about baby evolution Pokemon is that they can not breed. Think about it, they are babies not full grown Pokemon!

    Not all baby evolution Pokemon require one of the parents to hold an item but these do:

  • Azuril (Sea Incense)
  • Bonsly (Rock Insense)
  • Budew (Rose Incense)
  • Chingling (Pure Incense)
  • Happiny (Luck Incense)
  • Mantyke (Wave Incense)
  • Mime Jr. (Odd Incense)
  • Munchlax (Full Incense)
  • Wynaut (Lax Incense)

One thing to consider when breeding for baby evolution Pokemon is why. Why do you want the baby evolution? If you are looking for a power team of Pokemon for the Battle Tower you might want to avoid going through the baby evolution stage. It’s a well established fact that the higher the evolved form the better the ability scores. Skipping the baby step can provide you with a much tougher Pokemon in the end.

On the other hand, if you are going for contests, you should probably go with the baby evolution Pokemon. What they lack in power they make up for in cuteness. There is also the case that some moves can only be learned while a Pokemon is in its baby form.

I hope the information in this articles has helped you in some way. Feel free to leave a comment or question below.

Posted by Jolly | Filed Under Tips