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    Pikachu315111

    [1121]Mar 29, 2011
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    ericwashere15 wrote:
    If I received a hacked Pokemon over the GTS and bred it to produce an egg, is the offspring of the hacked Pokemon considered fake?


    Also, this doesn't count as double-posting does it?


    I would think so, however as long as there is nothing wrong with the hacked Pokemon or the offspring (in other words something which prevents you from using it or playing the game normally) then the only reason there would be a problem if you try competing with it but that falls more into morals rather then the actual game.


    And while what you did does count as double-posting as the previous post was also yours, I think it's okay as you post those two messages on different days.

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    ericwashere15

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    Does the guy on Route 13, the one who hands you an item once a day, does he stop giving you items during Winter? Same for the guy who gives you fossils?
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    Pikachu315111

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    ericwashere15 wrote:
    Does the guy on Route 13, the one who hands you an item once a day, does he stop giving you items during Winter? Same for the guy who gives you fossils?


    No, they give you items no matter what season it is, however remember to get to the Fossil Guy you have to take the Route 7 entrance into Twist Mountain and the Icirrus City entrance gets blocked off.

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    ericwashere15

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    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    ericwashere15 wrote:
    Does the guy on Route 13, the one who hands you an item once a day, does he stop giving you items during Winter? Same for the guy who gives you fossils?


    No, they give you items no matter what season it is, however remember to get to the Fossil Guy you have to take the Route 7 entrance into Twist Mountain and the Icirrus City entrance gets blocked off.



    That's odd. Cause they haven't given me anything since last Thursday. I haven't messed with the DS' clock any.
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    Pikachu315111

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    ericwashere15 wrote:
    Pikachu315111 wrote:


    ericwashere15 wrote:
    Does the guy on Route 13, the one who hands you an item once a day, does he stop giving you items during Winter? Same for the guy who gives you fossils?


    No, they give you items no matter what season it is, however remember to get to the Fossil Guy you have to take the Route 7 entrance into Twist Mountain and the Icirrus City entrance gets blocked off.


    That's odd. Cause they haven't given me anything since last Thursday. I haven't messed with the DS' clock any.


    Really? They're still giving me things. Maybe you should try at a later time and see if that works.

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    thec0mebackman

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    prepare to be bombarded with questions...

    what is the deal with the Wings in B/W? (Health Wing, Pretty Wing) what exactly do they do?

    everytime the game starts, I never turn on the "C-Gear Communication" thingymajig. will that make a difference if I don't? am I missing anything during gameplay. (does it also affect my DS's battery life if I turn it on?)

    where can I find a Luxury Ball in White?

    you can select any Pokeball when you get that Zorua right?

    after battling Reshiram / using Zekrom, I started wondering who exactly is the strongest Pokemon? I know that question seems so.... debatable. but I'm dying to know. is it Arceus? if it is, so predictable. how come the back sprites are pixelated? is it because they need room for improvement, that way when Gray comes out it will get better?

    (I'm beginning to become bad with names) but that FireAnteater and the SteelBug are rivals.... the same with Seviper/Zangoose. if I recall correctly, the anime did an episode with Scyther and Electabuzz as rivals, am I right? was that only Anime-based? what other rivalries between Pokemon are there?

    aha... sorry. I'm super curious.
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    Pikachu315111

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    thec0mebackman wrote:


    prepare to be bombarded with questions...

    1. what is the deal with the Wings in B/W? (Health Wing, Pretty Wing) what exactly do they do?

    2. everytime the game starts, I never turn on the "C-Gear Communication" thingymajig. will that make a difference if I don't? am I missing anything during gameplay. (does it also affect my DS's battery life if I turn it on?)

    3. where can I find a Luxury Ball in White?

    4. you can select any Pokeball when you get that Zorua right?

    5. after battling Reshiram / using Zekrom, I started wondering who exactly is the strongest Pokemon? I know that question seems so.... debatable. but I'm dying to know. is it Arceus? if it is, so predictable.


    6. how come the back sprites are pixelated? is it because they need room for improvement, that way when Gray comes out it will get better?

    7. (I'm beginning to become bad with names) but that FireAnteater and the SteelBug are rivals.... the same with Seviper/Zangoose. if I recall correctly, the anime did an episode with Scyther and Electabuzz as rivals, am I right? was that only Anime-based? what other rivalries between Pokemon are there?

    aha... sorry. I'm super curious.


    1. Wings are a less powerful version of vitamins, but unlike them they don't have the a 100 EV cap meaning you can keep giving your Pokemon Wings over and over again.


    2. No, unless you try to connect with someone else's game the only reason to have your C-Gear on is that if you pass someone who's Pokemon Black/White version is also on it'll collect a "survey" from them for the Passerby Analytics HQ in Castelia City.


    3. You can buy them in the Pokemon League's bottom counter.


    4. No, you don't need any Pokeballs though you might need to have space in your party. But remember for Zoroark that you'll have to battle and catch it.


    5. On average Arceus is the strongest Pokemon with a total stat of 720 with all its other stats (HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, Speed) at 120 each. However many Pokemon have a specific stat which exceeds 120 (but that's usually because they are another Legendary or they have a certain gimmick, or both).


    6. I separated this question and answer as it didn't really fit in with the above question. The back AND front sprites are probably pixelated due to the sprites now moving and instead of making a sprite for each movement it looks like for some they just decided to make some parts of the sprite move while not changing shape at all which will cause that part of the sprite to pixelated at some points. Being they probably had to redo everyone Pokemon's sprite (despite some looking similar to what they did in previous games) so they could have also been pressed on time and maybe in Pokemon Grey the sprites and their movements will look more fluid.


    7. The Scyther and Electabuzz is purely an anime-based rivalry, no where in the games do they mention each other. As for other Pokemon the most well known rivalrys are (in no particular order) Zangoose & Seviper, Kyogre & Groudon, Cresselia & Darkrai, and Zekrom & Reshiram. Note these are only confirmed rivalrys in the game, there could be other possible rivalrys such as Pidgeot & Fearow, Pinsir & Heracross, and Karrablast/Escavalier & Shelmet/Accelgor to name a few.

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    thec0mebackman

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    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    thec0mebackman wrote:


    prepare to be bombarded with questions...

    1. what is the deal with the Wings in B/W? (Health Wing, Pretty Wing) what exactly do they do?

    2. everytime the game starts, I never turn on the "C-Gear Communication" thingymajig. will that make a difference if I don't? am I missing anything during gameplay. (does it also affect my DS's battery life if I turn it on?)

    3. where can I find a Luxury Ball in White?

    4. you can select any Pokeball when you get that Zorua right?

    5. after battling Reshiram / using Zekrom, I started wondering who exactly is the strongest Pokemon? I know that question seems so.... debatable. but I'm dying to know. is it Arceus? if it is, so predictable.


    6. how come the back sprites are pixelated? is it because they need room for improvement, that way when Gray comes out it will get better?

    7. (I'm beginning to become bad with names) but that FireAnteater and the SteelBug are rivals.... the same with Seviper/Zangoose. if I recall correctly, the anime did an episode with Scyther and Electabuzz as rivals, am I right? was that only Anime-based? what other rivalries between Pokemon are there?

    aha... sorry. I'm super curious.


    1. Wings are a less powerful version of vitamins, but unlike them they don't have the a 100 EV cap meaning you can keep giving your Pokemon Wings over and over again.


    2. No, unless you try to connect with someone else's game the only reason to have your C-Gear on is that if you pass someone who's Pokemon Black/White version is also on it'll collect a "survey" from them for the Passerby Analytics HQ in Castelia City.


    3. You can buy them in the Pokemon League's bottom counter.


    4. No, you don't need any Pokeballs though you might need to have space in your party. But remember for Zoroark that you'll have to battle and catch it.


    5. On average Arceus is the strongest Pokemon with a total stat of 720 with all its other stats (HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, Speed) at 120 each. However many Pokemon have a specific stat which exceeds 120 (but that's usually because they are another Legendary or they have a certain gimmick, or both).


    6. I separated this question and answer as it didn't really fit in with the above question. The back AND front sprites are probably pixelated due to the sprites now moving and instead of making a sprite for each movement it looks like for some they just decided to make some parts of the sprite move while not changing shape at all which will cause that part of the sprite to pixelated at some points. Being they probably had to redo everyone Pokemon's sprite (despite some looking similar to what they did in previous games) so they could have also been pressed on time and maybe in Pokemon Grey the sprites and their movements will look more fluid.


    7. The Scyther and Electabuzz is purely an anime-based rivalry, no where in the games do they mention each other. As for other Pokemon the most well known rivalrys are (in no particular order) Zangoose & Seviper, Kyogre & Groudon, Cresselia & Darkrai, and Zekrom & Reshiram. Note these are only confirmed rivalrys in the game, there could be other possible rivalrys such as Pidgeot & Fearow, Pinsir & Heracross, and Karrablast/Escavalier & Shelmet/Accelgor to name a few.


    THANK YOU. as for my #4 question about Zorua. I could've sworn I saw a video on Youtube where it shows that when you talk to the little kid who turns into Zorua, you can select which Pokeball to use to catch it. I just wanted to double check on here if that was real or not, which I'm sure it it... thanks again!
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    Yes, you can select what Pokeball you put Zorua in.

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    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Yes, you can select what Pokeball you put Zorua in.



    Sorry about the wrong information, I have yet to do the Zorua event and previous events didn't require you to select a Pokeball so I assumed the same went for this event.

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    lostfan111

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    Useless questions about the game/show


    1) Why are pokemon given hidden abilities in B/W. Isn't it more confusing because if you battle someone online you might think that kid was hacking and just run away from the battle.


    2) And why are certain pokemon given certain abilities? Like only Servpine is given the extra neat ability but not the other starters. People are going to use him opposed to one of the other grass starters now.


    3) I like TM's being unlimited but its not realistic for some moves right? What's the use of unlimited Sandstorm


    4) Is Iris the youngest gym leader? Or who would be? Whose the oldest


    5) Why did the writers make Dawn's Cyndiquil so powerful but Ash's Scaggy so useless.


    6) Why is Beldum seen floating in the anime?


    7) Why did the get rid of contests and add musicals? Shouldn't they just continue to do contests so people begin to like them and just expand and all that stuff. Does musicals have like ribbons and badges and you need to collect a certain amount


    Why can't the designers make Pikachu as powerful or near powerful as he's in the anime?

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    lostfan111 wrote:


    Useless questions about the game/show


    1) Why are pokemon given hidden abilities in B/W. Isn't it more confusing because if you battle someone online you might think that kid was hacking and just run away from the battle.


    2) And why are certain pokemon given certain abilities? Like only Servpine is given the extra neat ability but not the other starters. People are going to use him opposed to one of the other grass starters now.


    3) I like TM's being unlimited but its not realistic for some moves right? What's the use of unlimited Sandstorm


    4) Is Iris the youngest gym leader? Or who would be? Whose the oldest


    5) Why did the writers make Dawn's Cyndiquil so powerful but Ash's Scaggy so useless.


    6) Why is Beldum seen floating in the anime?


    7) Why did the get rid of contests and add musicals? Shouldn't they just continue to do contests so people begin to like them and just expand and all that stuff. Does musicals have like ribbons and badges and you need to collect a certain amount


    8 ) Why can't the designers make Pikachu as powerful or near powerful as he's in the anime?



    1. Why not? Honestly the Ability Mechanic needed something more to it besides just new Abilities. As for the hacking thing, from what I've seen for the most part the beneficial Hidden Abilites (some Pokemon Hidden Abilites are sometimes not all that useful) might help a Pokemon a little but nothing that'll break the game. And as long as you know about the Hidden Abilities if you ever question why a Pokemon has that Ability you can check on Bulbapedia or Serebii and they'll tell you if that Pokemon can legitimately have that Ability or not (normally or Hidden Ability).

    2. I'm guessing balancing issues and also for some Pokemon an already existing Ability just fits them better. Besides Contrary (Snivy family Hidden Ability), while useful, isn't all that great as first you or your opponent has to use a move which would normally decrease your stats (though it does make Leaf Storm a move any Serperior with this Ability should have)

    3. So you can teach other Pokemon Sandstorm (remember that like other weather moves that Sandstorm normally lasts for 5 turns). So if you have an team who overall would benefit with Sandstorm active all the time, then if you want you can teach all of them which can learn Sandstorm from its TM.

    4. That is a hard one to call as they never give the ages of Gym Leaders (or any characters). I would say the youngest is either Janine, Bugsy, Tate, Liza, Maylene, or Iris. As for oldest I'm pretty sure its Pryce though Drayden and Brycen look to be high up there in age.

    5. Plot convenience. Also Dawn got Cyndaquil rather late in the Sinnoh Saga, I believe she had 4 Ribbons at that point so they didn't have time to show Dawn train it up. However Ash got Scraggy very recently in the Unova Saga, so we have plenty of time for Ash help it develop. Also Cyndaquil's and Scraggy's attitudes are completely different as Cyndaquil was calm and willing to listen to Dawn while Scraggy is a bit wild and though its now listening to Ash it's stubbornness will still make it a bit difficult to train.

    6. That's how it gets around, it and its evolutions uses magnetic forces to levitate.

    7. It's just what they decided to do. My guess is that they wanted to further themselves away form previous regions (you know, that whole fresh start thing) so got rid of Contests and to fill the void added another similar yet different side thing to do (though one must wonder if the reason they chose Musicals to be it due to the popularity of "High School Musicla" (gah)).

    8. Because that would be making it game breaking and its evolution, Raichu, completely useless. Also when Pikachu is holding a Light Ball it doubles its Attack and Special Attack which would make those stats higher than Raichu.

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    lostfan111

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    You think since the show is becoming more accurate to the games, Pikachu will be less awesome as the show goes on? He's not breaking as many rules as he did.



    You think they'll get rid of Volt Tackle or possibly have Pika hold light ball



    Despite Misty/Iris having the same personality, why is Iris just a lit more annoying? Why did Cilan decide to join Ash?



    N, Z.

    What. They can't think of names so they're running letters of the alphabet?

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    lostfan111 wrote:


    1. You think since the show is becoming more accurate to the games, Pikachu will be less awesome as the show goes on? He's not breaking as many rules as he did.


    2. You think they'll get rid of Volt Tackle or possibly have Pika hold light ball


    3. Despite Misty/Iris having the same personality, why is Iris just a lit more annoying? Why did Cilan decide to join Ash?


    4. N, Z.What. They can't think of names so they're running letters of the alphabet?



    1. Though Pikachu does once-in-a-while win battles a typical Pikachu shouldn't (Latios anyone?), over the seasons the writers have been making Pikachu less of a deus ex machina and limiting it to fit in the situations that its put in (though then again there are times when Pikachu loses even though its probably thos battles it should be winning *coughPanpourcough*).


    2. Pokemon in the anime never hold items, at least not like in the games. And Volt Tackle is the signature move of the Pikachu family, there is no way they'll be getting rid of it though because of the recoil damage it causes it might be pushed back toemergencyuses instead of an everyday battle.


    3. Many see Iris more annoying because shecriticizesAsh for doing things which sometimes isn't because he's young but rather he's new to the Unova region (also the fact she does so by calling him "a kid" despite her also being a kid kind of annoys people). Also Ash is an experienced trainer and, though it doesn't look like it, knows what he's doing in battle yet Iris treats him as a novice trainer when in fast she's the novice trainer and doesn't let Axew battle due to her not wanting to lose a battle.
    As for Cilan, he decided to journey with Ash because the writers need a Brock replacementhe wants to travel around the Unova region to see how people from all over bond with their Pokemon so he could become the greatest Pokemon Connoisseur.


    4. Z? Where did Z come from? Anyway as for N, in order to understand where it comes from you have to use his full name: N Harmonia. N Harmonia comes from "enharmonic".

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    lostfan111

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    1) Why do the writers insist on making Pikachu lose to things it can win against? Is it just for pissing off fans. It would make less people angry with Pikachu losing to a Latias instead of a Panpour, ya know.


    2) Yea, if Pikachu was given an item, Ash could hold it. Pikachu would be even faster and his new move would prove useful.



    3) People say Pikachu learned a new move every region except Sinnoh. What new move did he learn in Johto?



    4) So Cilan is excatly like Brock despite having a different job description.



    5) . Lol, I was thinking of Hunter J xD The N name still doesn't technically make sense. Why N.......why so sort. Why not Ean/Ena. N sounds like sometime you'd name your rival because you pick one random letter because your in a rush to start the game and don't wanna give a "proper" name.



    6) Why are the Striaton brothers missing from all the major events in the game?



    7) Does it seem like the encounter rate is higher in the game? Ever 2 steps, I get a battle.



    Why didn't they add more triple battles/rotation in the game? And why are the pixels so huge. All of them are moving left and right @_@



    9) Is the no weakness electric snake thingy good to train and battle out of game. What about the Bug/Fire thingy



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    lostfan111 wrote:


    1) Why do the writers insist on making Pikachu lose to things it can win against? Is it just for pissing off fans. It would make less people angry with Pikachu losing to a Latias instead of a Panpour, ya know.


    2) Yea, if Pikachu was given an item, Ash could hold it. Pikachu would be even faster and his new move would prove useful.



    3) People say Pikachu learned a new move every region except Sinnoh. What new move did he learn in Johto?



    4) So Cilan is excatly like Brock despite having a different job description.



    5) . Lol, I was thinking of Hunter J xD The N name still doesn't technically make sense. Why N.......why so sort. Why not Ean/Ena. N sounds like sometime you'd name your rival because you pick one random letter because your in a rush to start the game and don't wanna give a "proper" name.



    6) Why are the Striaton brothers missing from all the major events in the game?



    7) Does it seem like the encounter rate is higher in the game? Ever 2 steps, I get a battle.



    Why didn't they add more triple battles/rotation in the game? And why are the pixels so huge. All of them are moving left and right @_@



    9) Is the no weakness electric snake thingy good to train and battle out of game. What about the Bug/Fire thingy


    1) Because it's a long runner series, rather than having Ash be a boring invisible hero all the time they let some pokemon at the start of the region also beat Pikachu. A good deal of the fans are little kids who don't follow the series all the way.


    2) Well, pokemon in the anime don't hold items, so yeah.


    3) As far as i recall, none. I think that the Thunder that was commonplace by Orange Islands was replaced with Thunderbolt, though.


    4) And no chasing the girls gimmick, but yeah he's the team mom.


    5) N not only comes from Enharmonic, but it is also likely related to the N in Algebra, N being a common letter used for a variable quantity, specially in integration, since N does speak a lot about mathematical formulas and it keeps with the mysterious and undecided character he is most of the game.


    6) Fan-theory: They are the shadow Trinidad. No in-game reason other than just not being there.


    7) Not really. Maybe a little more but it's pokemon, wild pokemon show up when most annoying for you.


    Because they're insanely fast and probably wanted to ease trainers into them, third version might have much more of them.
    8.b) Because there are at least 750 different moving battle sprites. Which is a crap load of sprites compared to anything.


    9) None for Eelektross. Water and Flying are X2 on Larvesta/Volcarona and Rock is X4.

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    lostfan111 wrote:


    1) Why do the writers insist on making Pikachu lose to things it can win against? Is it just for pissing off fans. It would make less people angry with Pikachu losing to a Latias instead of a Panpour, ya know.


    2) Yea, if Pikachu was given an item, Ash could hold it. Pikachu would be even faster and his new move would prove useful.


    3) People say Pikachu learned a new move every region except Sinnoh. What new move did he learn in Johto?


    4) So Cilan is excatly like Brock despite having a different job description.


    5) . Lol, I was thinking of Hunter J xD The N name still doesn't technically make sense. Why N.......why so sort. Why not Ean/Ena. N sounds like sometime you'd name your rival because you pick one random letter because your in a rush to start the game and don't wanna give a "proper" name.


    6) Why are the Striaton brothers missing from all the major events in the game?


    7) Does it seem like the encounter rate is higher in the game? Ever 2 steps, I get a battle.


    Why didn't they add more triple battles/rotation in the game? why are the pixels so huge. All of them are moving left and right @_@


    9) Is the no weakness electric snake thingy good to train and battle out of game. What about the Bug/Fire thingy



    1. Well technically Pikachu tied with Latios... though it still lost to Panpour. My only guess to why they did that was to advertise the games. The only Pokemon which won in that Gym Battle were Generation V Pokemon (Tepig, Panpour, & Oshawott). The mostaggravatingthing though is that Panpour did have another reason it could have won: it knew Mud Sport. However for some reason it only used it at the end of the battle but not to reduce Pikachu's electrical attacks though more to trip Pikachu (sure it tripped out of a Volt Tackle but still when Pikachu was zapping out Thunderbolts Cress chose to tell Panpour to dodge instead of use the move which would help ease the sting if one of those quick lightning bolts hit in.


    2. I'm going to guess you say this due to Dawn being given the Everstone so it would prevent Piplup from evolving. Well another reason I don't think they used Held Items as it could be looked upon as cheating by giving it an item which increases its stats, do damage from getting hit by a physical move, making it immune to a certain type, etc.. Everstone just prevents a Pokemon from evolving, it has no effect in battle whatsoever so I guess that's why it's allowed. Also Light Ball only increases Attack and Special Attack, not Speed.


    3.Apparently in Johto Pikachu was shown to know Tackle in EP118 "The Double Trouble Header" and Leer in EP150 "Hour of the Houndour". However those are the only episodes which it used those attacks (successfully) and even more interesting is that the Pikachu species can't learn those moves in the games.


    4. Sadly yes, otherwise we'd spent 3/4 of the Unova Saga having Ash complaining about being lost and hungry (though Iris does seem to know her way around and can gather food). Speaking of Iris, Cilan is also being used to counter Iris's hyper activeness and insulting attitude by providing a calm, clear mind about things and serving as the mediator, mostly between Ash and Iris but if the character-of-the-day also needs it he can provide there too.


    5. I suppose they wanted to have him stand out, you wouldn't really have payed that much attention to him at the beginning of the game (at least until Nimbasa City on the Ferris Wheel) if he had a normal name but a one letter name strikes youimmediately as something if off about this character so you pay attention to them.


    6. Well the only major event you can "blame" them for missing is when the Gym Leaders confronted 6 of the Seven Sages. Its revealed after the game this is because by the time Bianca got to the brothers you had already beaten N and Ghetsis thus the conflict was over. Also in post story if you go back to talk to the brothers one of them will apologize for not being able to have come and help at the Pokemon League. And if you like conspiracy theories, one popular one going around is that they are actually the Shadow Triad which is why Bianca wasn't able to find them, they were already in N's Castle but they're helping the other side.


    7. I don't know if the encounter rate has changed at all, you could just be unlucky. Remember, this is why Repels exist.


    8. Yeah, you'd think one of the major new battle mechanics they advertised as one of the main selling points would be used moreprominently.However this was the same problem in Ruby & Sapphire as they advertised Double Battles yet there weren't really that many. However this was fixed in Pokemon Emerald meaning that they might add in more Triple Battles and Rotation Battles in Pokemon Grey.
    And what do you mean by huge? The pixels are no bigger then they are in the a normal battles.


    9. Eelektross has a good Attack and Special Attack stat but is slow. I prefer Zebstrika myself as it's faster and has good enough Attack and Special Attack to do what I need it to do (though in competitive play I suppose Eelektross would be your best bet as it has good enough defense while Zebstrika will fall if you hit it with a stick).
    And as for Volcarona, its good if you just plan of having it use Special Attacks though its Attack and Defense isseverelylacking and its weak to Flying (2x), Rock (4x), and Water (2x) and those types are somewhat common so it's very much a situational Pokemon.

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    SPDShadowRanger

    [1138]Apr 13, 2011
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    We are not the creators of the games and shows, we don't know the reasons to every little thing they do so stop asking.
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    lostfan111

    [1139]Apr 13, 2011
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    I clearly wanted his opinions to those questions. Zebra is good when it comes to speed but its so useless when you take it out of game right? One Earthquake and its down

    Volcarona seems so awesome in the game. It'd be brutal to use it off game.

    Is there one none legendary that really stands out from this game?
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    edmasterchaos

    [1140]Apr 13, 2011
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    lostfan111 wrote:
    I clearly wanted his opinions to those questions. Zebra is good when it comes to speed but its so useless when you take it out of game right? One Earthquake and its down

    Volcarona seems so awesome in the game. It'd be brutal to use it off game.

    Is there one none legendary that really stands out from this game?
    There is no joke i can think of to describe just how many powerful mons are shaking the competitive aspect, so, just to keep it short plenty, if you bother to check them for more then five minutes.
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