There is no need to actively use the pokémon you want to EV train, with XP share every Pokémon in the team gets EVs.
Basically, if it gets XP from battle, it gets EVs, either from KOs or catching.
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Pokémon Sword and Shield |OT2| King of The Pocket Monsters
- Thread starter Xavi
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Basically, if it gets XP from battle, it gets EVs, either from KOs or catching.
Trading will be required. Here's a list of the Pokemon/forms exclusive to each version.
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I'm currently awaiting the release of Home to start a Sword playthrough.
I've prepped a shiny Ponyta to use in the playthrough and I hope to also have a shiny HA Cufant by the time Home is available. I only hatched a shiny non-HA Cufant so far...
Right, OK.
There are a few of those that I've seen at least, but I'm still missing a few. I did see Flapple and the big swirly marshmallow one from Gen VI in a raid stamp, bit like 99% of them, I couldn't join it.
Do I need a full caught Dex/living Dex for the charm?
Damn I reached the end of the campaign and totally forgot about Poké Jobs, how much have I been missing?
Also I'm kind of on the fence about getting an online subscription... How worth it is it for this game alone (tetris 99 would be a plus I guess) for the endgame? I've thought about finishing the campaing and see if I feel like going for the Dex completion and whatnot (competitive play doesn't really attract me).
Also I'm kind of on the fence about getting an online subscription... How worth it is it for this game alone (tetris 99 would be a plus I guess) for the endgame? I've thought about finishing the campaing and see if I feel like going for the Dex completion and whatnot (competitive play doesn't really attract me).
Every Pokemon needs to be registered as caught in the dex, so you need to have owned one at some point. You do not need a living dex.
Right, no problem, thanks.
I'm at like 170 so far lol: I've certainly been catching more than I normally do.
That sounds awful. Was this unearthed in the datamine? Seems like a huge oversight if it's not been fixed yet. Especially considering the article Pokémon uploaded themselves. Why would it only activate 3% of the time? 🤔
Wait, if I breed a Pokemon with 6 perfect IVs and its the wrong nature I can use a mint and the stats will level up in the correct "new" nature way despite the old nature still being displayed in the in the stats screen?
Can I now safely EV train and level my Pokemon up after using the mint?
Can I now safely EV train and level my Pokemon up after using the mint?
Yeah we found it in the datamine. Seems to be a result of the conflation of Shiny Calculations, Brilliant Calculations and Chain Fishing calculations
Oh that's sick. That's actually a really good colour scheme for it.
Got the shiny Dhelmise. I haven't been playing much either, so I'm surprised it happened already.
So this morning I was doing Surpise Trades, sending out Sobbles hoping for something I didn't have in my pokedex, and after a bunch of trades I got this:
It's 100% a cheat pokemon right? lol Can I still use it or will I get banned though. It's literally the first shiny I ever found (excluding red Gyarados).
It's 100% a cheat pokemon right? lol Can I still use it or will I get banned though. It's literally the first shiny I ever found (excluding red Gyarados).
probably an extra from the shiny raid exploitSo this morning I was doing Surpise Trades, sending out Sobbles hoping for something I didn't have in my pokedex, and after a bunch of trades I got this:
It's 100% a cheat pokemon right? lol Can I still use it or will I get banned though. It's literally the first shiny I ever found (excluding red Gyarados).
where does it say it was caught
The Hyper Trained stat makes me lean towards it not being a cheat Pokemon, but I might double check its history and OT for more clues.
Timid nature, hatched from an egg on Bridge Field, no ribbons, moves are Aura Sphere, Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse, Nasty Plot, ability is Inner Focus
hmm that's interesting then. sound pretty legit based off that. they either have a better one and felt like getting rid of this one or maybe they accidentally surprise traded it.
If trick room would be the standard, would it be worth skipping on a trick room user, considering 99% of teams will set it up for you?
How can they have a better one when this literally has perfect IVs in everything? hahaha I though about a mistake too, maybe that's it.
a counter to trick room is to use trick room to reverse changes, so not necessarily
Since it's a special set Lucario, a better one would have 0 IVs in attack
Highly likely it's hacked. You can make a fully legit looking pokemon easily. It's legal though, so you won't get banned.
normally yeah but it's build is based around it's special attack, it doesn't need good IVs in attack. the less ivs in attack the better, cause if it gets confused, it will do less damage to itself
If it was hacked they would have just given it 31 IVs in special defense instead of wasting a bottle cap and hyper training it, and given it 0 IVs in attack
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Can you hack a stat to look like it's hyper trained to cover your tracks?
Which mons are people generally using to set TR? Hatterene? I'm trying out Runerigus since it seems bulky enough.
Hatterene in combo Follow Me Indeedee-F was the most common sight in the early Sword & Shield meta, followed by Mimikyu. Then everyone started adding Duraludon to their teams to shut that down, leading to a rise in usage of Oranguru, Gothitelle, Dusclops, Bronzong and Chandelure (the latter strictly as TR-resetter). Runerigus has shown up, too, on occassion.
With Galar Newcomers deleting all of the recently favored setters, I expect Hateedee to get another day in the sun, so hold onto your Duraludon or make plans to counter it, depending on what side of the trick room war you stand.
I see, that's good to know.
Been trying out my team in ranked (just starting out) and I'm at a 4W 2L so far. Still at the lower ranks so I'm sure I'll lose more later, but so far the biggest threats have been special attackers with wise/choise specs, so now I'm thinking of fitting a Grimmsnarl in there for screens.
I really hope that the GTS is not locked behind Pokemon Home. Having to look up codes to trade specific pokemon is a pain. It's so frustrating that it's missing from Sword/Shield right now.
So, I just master balled a Corphish by mistake, last time I saved was a few hours ago and in the mean time I caught and evolved a bunch of pokemons I need to complete the dex (Corphish beign one of them).
On one hand, I really like Corphish. On the other, I wanted to keep my master ball :\
On one hand, I really like Corphish. On the other, I wanted to keep my master ball :\
So I finally caught a second Antique Sinistea, after 3000 years. But, I still can't get the Chipped Pot to evolve it T__T
I've been checking, literally, ever day with that man at the store, and he never sells it to me. The same items keep coming and coming. Is there any kinda of trick or exploit to make him sell me the Chipped Pot?
I've been checking, literally, ever day with that man at the store, and he never sells it to me. The same items keep coming and coming. Is there any kinda of trick or exploit to make him sell me the Chipped Pot?
I've been doing Battle Tower for a bit. And at least I'm winning! My scrappy, flawed team seems to be working okay, so that's reassuring. Especially this stalling Mimikyu I've got. In doubles especially, nobody was able to defeat it and I made it to Great Ball tier. Makes me want to see how a strat that forces switches outs would fare if I run Curse, Yawn, and Stealth Rock/Toxic Spikes. There's so much potential!
Hatterene, dusclops. Mimikyu or Chandelure to reverse it.
can always get another one from the lotto. course that is going to be pretty luck based. better surprise trade like crazy for trainer ids.
Just noticed this problem too.
Strangely enough, the DLC character in the Slowpoke cutscene has a name label, so they probably messed up with something.
How hard is the single player Battle Tower at its highest rank? Do you need to do some pretty heavy breeding/IV/EV training to get through it all? My daughter started it yesterday on Rank 1 and just blew by most of the people using the two legendaries.
If you're able to finish ALL of the Battle Tower, does that team translate pretty well to being able to be competitive online against randos? Or are you still going to get absolutely destroyed?
If you're able to finish ALL of the Battle Tower, does that team translate pretty well to being able to be competitive online against randos? Or are you still going to get absolutely destroyed?
If you lose in Battle Tower do you get to rematch against the same trainer? Or is it random every time even after loses?
It seems hard to strategize if you're getting random trainers after a loss? Otherwise are you just using the same 4 Pokemon in every battle, since you don't get an opponet preview or anything?
Full shiny teams are plausible enough for me to believe they are legit , if they are 6iv with HA though.... then I doubt its legitimacy
Referring to aDrive? In his case probably no. He has a big YouTube channel mostly dedicated to shiny hunting.
Battle Tower isn't that hard. A team full of legendaries or strong Pokemon can roll through BT. You can use a BS team for BT, but a BT team might not necessarily be good in BS.
This is the main difference between Battle Tower and Ranked, besides the competition online being tougher than against the AI. In Ranked you get a preview of your opponent's team and then can pick your own three or four pokemon that you think match up well. In Battle Tower you just bring the same overall strongest set of pokemon everytime.
Another big difference is that, with one exception, you are the only party dynamaxing in Battle Tower, which gives you a huge edge that is gone in Online Ranked where foes will make use of the same tool.
The in-game rentals are a pretty good hint to the investment required. The featured pokemon have a strategy and solid move and item choices to facilitate that strategy, but no care was spent on nature and EV distribution. They're good enough to get you through Battle Tower, but not good enough to see much success in Ranked without further optimization.
what made it extra funny was back in the 3DS era, the screens shown stuff like the number of eggs hatched. so many people with perfect shinies and 0 eggs hatched