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    pikastatic100

    [281]Dec 8, 2008
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    tenacon wrote:
    Is a pure natuaral flying a physical imposibity? (sic* girafaig*

    Well, Arceus with the Sky Plate is a pure Flying type, so yeah, it's possible. I don't see what Girafarig has to do with that question, though...
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    Pikachu315111

    [282]Dec 11, 2008
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    tenacon wrote:
    Is a pure natuaral flying a physical imposibity? (sic* girafaig*

    It seems like the Flying-type has been decided to be a type which always is paired up being that, so far, no Pokemon is naturally a pure Flying-type. This is probably because Flying is looked to be more of a skill rather then a type (like Fire, Water, Grass, Electric) or attribute (like Bug, Dragon, Dark, Ghost). Then again, it could be said Poison-type is more of a skill then an actual type/attribute itself, it seems like Flying just didn't get the luck of the draw. It should also be noted that Flying is always a secondary type, never a pure or primary type.

    However, under special conditions, a few Pokemon can become a pure Flying-type:

    Porygon/Porygon2/Porygon-Z - Using Conversion or Conversion 2.
    Kecleon - If hit by a Flying-type attack, its Ability Color Change will change it to a pure Flying-type for that battle.
    Arceus - Attaching a Sky Plate to it. It is the only Pokemon that can be a pure Flying-type outside of battle.

    Though one can consider a Normal/Flying-type to be the closest to a pure Flying-type, being that the only thing the Normal-type does is give it an Immunity to Ghost-type attacks and makes Fighting do normal damage.

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    tenacon

    [283]Dec 11, 2008
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    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    tenacon wrote:
    Is a pure natuaral flying a physical imposibity? (sic* girafaig*

    It seems like the Flying-type has been decided to be a type which always is paired up being that, so far, no Pokemon is naturally a pure Flying-type. This is probably because Flying is looked to be more of a skill rather then a type (like Fire, Water, Grass, Electric) or attribute (like Bug, Dragon, Dark, Ghost). Then again, it could be said Poison-type is more of a skill then an actual type/attribute itself, it seems like Flying just didn't get the luck of the draw. It should also be noted that Flying is always a secondary type, never a pure or primary type.

    However, under special conditions, a few Pokemon can become a pure Flying-type:

    Porygon/Porygon2/Porygon-Z - Using Conversion or Conversion 2.
    Kecleon - If hit by a Flying-type attack, its Ability Color Change will change it to a pure Flying-type for that battle.
    Arceus - Attaching a Sky Plate to it. It is the only Pokemon that can be a pure Flying-type outside of battle.

    Though one can consider a Normal/Flying-type to be the closest to a pure Flying-type, being that the only thing the Normal-type does is give it an Immunity to Ghost-type attacks and makes Fighting do normal damage.

    Nice. Is night slash or crunch better for drapion? (By damage factoring crit hits odds.)
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    Pikachu315111

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    tenacon wrote:
    Nice. Is night slash or crunch better for drapion? (By damage factoring crit hits odds.)

    With Drapion being part Dark-type, both moves will get STAB so taking that into account:

    Night Slash - will do 105 damage with a higher chance to be a critical hit raising the damage to 157 (It'll be rounded down).
    Crunch - will do 120 damage with a 10% chance to lower the defending Pokemon's Defense Stat meaning the more damage the Pokemon will receive as the battl goes on if Physical attacks are used against it.

    Personally I would prefer Crunch, as the "higher critical hit percentage" Night Slash offers is 12.5% to the normal 6.25% for attacks without it. In addition, is Crunch does a critical hit, you'll be doing 180 damage (though it is less likely to happen then a 157 damaging Night Slash, but not by much). So I would advise to take Crunch as it has a solid chance of doing high damage without doing a critical hit.

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    Pikachu_2121

    [285]Dec 15, 2008
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    Should I get diamond/pearl? I recently got a DS, and want to pick up some games for it. I heard you can transfer your pokes from other games to it, but I lost my emerald game, so I can't do that, lol
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    Pikachu315111

    [286]Dec 15, 2008
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    Pikachu_2121 wrote:
    Should I get diamond/pearl? I recently got a DS, and want to pick up some games for it. I heard you can transfer your pokes from other games to it, but I lost my emerald game, so I can't do that, lol

    Now that Platinum has been confirmed to be coming out in March 22, 2009. I would suggest waiting until then to buy a Generation IV game.

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    ebilly99

    [287]Dec 15, 2008
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    what move combo are super effective against sableye
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    pikastatic100

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    ebilly99 wrote:
    what move combo are super effective against sableye

    Sableye is a Ghost/Dark type, so no type of move would be super-effective against it.
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    Pikachu315111

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    ebilly99 wrote:
    what move combo are super effective against sableye

    There are 3 wat to make a hit Super Effective against Sableye and Spiritomb, two involve an Attack combo and the last involves an Ability. However even after doing this only one type can do Super Effective damage, and that type is Fighting-type. Wait a second, being half Ghost-type, aren't Sableye and Spiritomb immuned to Fighting-types? Technically yes, but there are always exceptions to the rule:

    Foresight - A well known attack of Ash's Noctowl, Foresight's effect is one of the vein of all Ghost Pokemon. Foresight allows Normal- and Fighting-type Pokemon to hit Ghost-type Pokemon. With the immunity to Fighting-type which the Ghost-type part of Sableye and Spiritomb gave them gone, Sableye's and Spiritomb's Dark-type will make any Fighting-type move used from then on Super Effective. And just incase the Ghost Pokemon's evasiveness was a problem, Foresight also lowers the evasiveness down to 0 meaning you'll hit the opponent mostly all the time unless the Attack you use has the chance to miss already.

    Odor Sleuth - Guess what? It is the same above except it can be learned by different Pokemon and was introduced in Generation III (Foresight was introduced in Generation II).

    Scrappy - An ability introduced in Generation IV, it has the same effect as Foresight and Oder Sleuth except you don't have to waste a turn to activate it (once a Ghost-type Pokemon is out the Ability will activate) and it doesn't decrease the opponent's evasiveness. The only problem is that Scrappy is only known by two Pokemon: Kangaskhan and Miltank, both of which could also have a chance of knowing a different Ability. However both Kangaskhan and Miltank can learn pretty good Fighting-type attacks so the only thing you won't be getting is a STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus).

    Incase you're wondering, using any of the 3 above methods will also make Normal-type attacks do normal damage. And if you want to use a Psychic-attack on them, Miracle Eye does the same thing as Foresight and Odor Sleuth except it is used to make Psychic-type attacks do normal damage to Dark-types.

    Edited on 12/16/2008 11:23am
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    arryjan86

    [290]Dec 16, 2008
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    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)
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    Pikachu315111

    [291]Dec 16, 2008
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    arryjan86 wrote:
    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)

    You can find Oddish on Route 229 and 230. They are common and around the low 20s so bring a Pokemon around that level.

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    arryjan86

    [292]Dec 16, 2008
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    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    arryjan86 wrote:
    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)

    You can find Oddish on Route 229 and 230. They are common and around the low 20s so bring a Pokemon around that level.

    but dude..you can only get to those routes after you've beaten the elite 4 right?and I want a good pure grass type before I start my battle with the elite 4:-s

    gddamnit..should've wrote it down..I swear it was in the great marsh that I ran into one..is that even possible?

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    pikastatic100

    [293]Dec 16, 2008
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    arryjan86 wrote:
    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    arryjan86 wrote:
    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)

    You can find Oddish on Route 229 and 230. They are common and around the low 20s so bring a Pokemon around that level.

    but dude..you can only get to those routes after you've beaten the elite 4 right?and I want a good pure grass type before I start my battle with the elite 4:-s

    gddamnit..should've wrote it down..I swear it was in the great marsh that I ran into one..is that even possible?


    Um, Oddish isn't a pure Grass type; it's a Grass/Poison type. You can catch a Budew on Route 204, they're Grass/Poison types, too.
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    arryjan86

    [294]Dec 16, 2008
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    pikastatic100 wrote:
    arryjan86 wrote:
    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    arryjan86 wrote:
    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)

    You can find Oddish on Route 229 and 230. They are common and around the low 20s so bring a Pokemon around that level.

    but dude..you can only get to those routes after you've beaten the elite 4 right?and I want a good pure grass type before I start my battle with the elite 4:-s

    gddamnit..should've wrote it down..I swear it was in the great marsh that I ran into one..is that even possible?

    Um, Oddish isn't a pure Grass type; it's a Grass/Poison type. You can catch a Budew on Route 204, they're Grass/Poison types, too.

    Like I said before:

    I want oddish cause I've got a sunstone and want to train it into a gloom and then evolve it into a bellossom.

    Don't like roserade..plus i can't turn a roselia into a roserade because I'm playing pokemon diamond on my computer(as roselia only evolves into roserade when it's traded..right?)

    Edited on 12/16/2008 3:38pm
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    crzyazn_9399

    [295]Dec 16, 2008
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    No. Give it a Shiny Stone.
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    pikastatic100

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    arryjan86 wrote:
    pikastatic100 wrote:
    arryjan86 wrote:
    Pikachu315111 wrote:

    arryjan86 wrote:
    help!when I played pokemon diamond before I was able to catch oddish BEFORE battling the elite 4..point is, back then I didn't need the little raddish as I had turtwig as my starter..but now I do need him but I can't find oddish:S:$ please help me!I didn't remember where I caught it though I suspect at the great marsh or around pastoria..but since I've already looked my butt off trying to find it I hope someone here has usefull tips. need oddish as I want a cool pure grass type(in bellossom)

    You can find Oddish on Route 229 and 230. They are common and around the low 20s so bring a Pokemon around that level.

    but dude..you can only get to those routes after you've beaten the elite 4 right?and I want a good pure grass type before I start my battle with the elite 4:-s

    gddamnit..should've wrote it down..I swear it was in the great marsh that I ran into one..is that even possible?

    Um, Oddish isn't a pure Grass type; it's a Grass/Poison type. You can catch a Budew on Route 204, they're Grass/Poison types, too.

    Like I said before:

    I want oddish cause I've got a sunstone and want to train it into a gloom and then evolve it into a bellossom.

    Don't like roserade..plus i can't turn a roselia into a roserade because I'm playing pokemon diamond on my computer(as roselia only evolves into roserade when it's traded..right?)


    Like crzyazn said, Roselia will evolve with a Sun Stone. But if you really only want an Oddish, the only way is to do what Pikachu_315111 suggested, or migrate one over from one of your GBA games. (which you apparently can't do since you're playing the game on your computer)
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    Pikachu315111

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    You can't get Oddish in the Great Marsh. I don't know where it occured, but you couldn't have gotten Oddish before the Elite Four because it isn't in the Sinnoh Dex (Neither the one in Diamond & Pearl or Platinum). Are you sure you didn't mistake the Oddish for another Pokemon or maybe had this happen in another game?

    Anyway if you're looking for a pure Grass-type, you have the choice of Cherubi/Cherrim or Carnivine (and if you have Platinum this list also includes Leafeon and Tangela/Tangrowth). All the other Pokemon are Duel-type.

    If I could give out a word of personal choice, when I versed the Elite Four I took an Abomasnow and used it mainly against Bertha's Pokemon and Cynthia's Gastrodon and Garchomp. Take out Bertha's Quagsire, Sudowoodo, Whiscash, and Hippowdon with Wood Hammer and her Golem with Blizzard. Now make sure before you verse Cynthia to use an Ether on Abomasnow's Wood Hammer attack. While battling Cynthia, take doen Cynthia's Gastrodon with Wood Hammer and take down her signature Pokemon, Garchomp, down with a Blizzard. Just don't use Adomasnow against Flint, for obvious reasons.

    And crzyazn_9399, what would a Shiny Stone do? It only evolves Togetic to Togekiss and Roselia to Roserade.

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    pikastatic100

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    Pikachu315111 wrote:
    And crzyazn_9399, what would a Shiny Stone do? It only evolves Togetic to Togekiss and Roselia to Roserade.

    Aaryjan was saying that he thought Roselia evolved by trading, and crzyazn was just correcting him.
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    arryjan86

    [299]Dec 17, 2008
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    I'm kinda picky..want a pure grass types because I've got this line up:

    -monferno

    -drifblim

    -clefairy

    -quagsire

    -skorupi

    ..if skorupi evolves..I will have 2 pokemon who are weak against ground types..adding a grass poison type or a grass flying type will disturb my balance.

    therefor a pure grass type is what I'm talking about.

    shame...perhaps it was a glitch, cause I'm sure I caught it.

    isn't cherrim superweak btw?

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    Pikachu315111

    [300]Dec 17, 2008
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    arryjan86 wrote:

    I'm kinda picky..want a pure grass types because I've got this line up:

    -monferno

    -drifblim

    -clefairy

    -quagsire

    -skorupi

    ..if skorupi evolves..I will have 2 pokemon who are weak against ground types..adding a grass poison type or a grass flying type will disturb my balance.

    therefor a pure grass type is what I'm talking about.

    shame...perhaps it was a glitch, cause I'm sure I caught it.

    isn't cherrim superweak btw?

    Cherrim (and Carnivine) are only a little bit weaker then Bellossom but still have decent stats. Here are the stats for Cherrim, Carnivine, and Bellossom to compare with:

    Cherrim:

    HP: 70
    Attack: 60
    Defense: 70
    Special Attack: 87
    Special Defense: 78
    Speed: 85
    Total: 450

    Carnivine:

    HP: 74
    Attack: 100
    Defense: 72
    Special Attack: 90
    Special Defense: 72
    Speed: 454
    Total: 454

    Bellossom:

    HP: 75
    Attack: 80
    Defense: 85
    Special Attack: 90
    Special Defense: 100
    Speed: 50
    Total: 480

    Edited on 12/17/2008 11:51am
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