Diamond; Pearl; Platinum 1-A (Friend Codes; Online Discussion; Trades, Battles, etc.)

Coffee shop? I've never tried using a DS at one, but I suspect it would work. Hey, that sounds like fun! Maybe that'll be my afternoon break!
 
[quote name='UltimoRey']they now charge to use DS's.[/quote]

Do they? I just know none of my local McDonald's were identified as partner sites. Hell they weren't even listed as hotspots on the WFC website.
 
Supposedly in the June Marketing Kit

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6/20-6/22 and 6/27-6/29
 
I can't believe I missed getting my Darkrai! I completely forgot! ARGH!!

I'm hoping to check out Pokemon Ranch tonight when I get home.
 
[quote name='RynoZebz']I can't believe I missed getting my Darkrai! I completely forgot! ARGH!!
[/quote]

I did too :cry:

Although I hear Gamestop will be offering Deoxys at least, later this month! (See post above you)
 
Yea, I'm going to definitely have to remember that event. I completely forgot about the Toys R Us event. Bleh. Maybe someone can breed one for me or something. Heh.

In regards to Pokemon Ranch... this really feels like it was for the kids and I'm not sure that it offers any real benefit unless Haylee will give me some of her Pokemon in trades that I don't have yet. So far it's been kind of boring... but might serve as an interesting box on my Wii at least. This would have been better if it had come with Battle Revolution as a downloadable channel from the disc, I think. But I guess I need to mess with it more. Maybe you guys know more about it then I do. Feel free to fill me in!
 
I'll be getting Deoxys for sure

Anyone have their own poke team?

I wanna start competitively battling and need battle partners

SIDE NOTE
option is da man
 
I'll be up for battling with you or anyone for that matter tonight.

Again, a great tool is shoddy battle.

Basically you can create a pokemon team without need for training and battle with other people online. It's a great tool to help build your actual team in the game. It'll help to alleviate having to EV train all kinds of pokes, and what not.

And of course there are resources like smogon, serebii and psypokes.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']You can get Phione and Mew from PKMN Ranch.[/quote]

I think thats pretty cool. Is this game really ten bucks? The pricing is kinda whack but I guess it's a step up from Pokemon Box, which had limited availability.
 
Pokemon Ranch is well worth it if you're a big pokemon fan. I love it.

And depending on what my time is like tonight, I'll be able to throw down some battles and trades.
 
I have a shiny Buizel that's been sitting in my PC for a bit. If anyone is interested in it, I'd be willing to trade! (Does anyone care about shiny's here???)

In fact, I'd be willing to trade in general. I still don't have anything that amazing, for you all who've been playing a long time, but I'd be willing to trade this and that anyway. LMK if anyone's up for it sometime soon.
 
I fucking love shinies. As documented in this thread, I haven't been able to get online yet. I suggest you keep it and drive a tough deal whoever you trade it with.
 
Serebii would probably be a good place to trade. They have their own irc channel dedicated to that.

Then there are a multitude of other pokemon forums with their own trading section like smogon, psypokes, or marriland.

As for battling, those same websites have their own battling irc channel or forum.

Again, I would recommend shoddy battle for battling. The shoddy battle client has a chat room and auto-battle feature.
 
Serebii was what i would recommend too. They also have thread for chaining shinies usign poke radar, which read like disertatoins, because they are so indepth.
 
I'm up for one. I'll be on tonight if anyone is willing. Just message me on AIM or MSN if anyone is interested, I'm realy hankering to battle.
 
option, I noticed your team changed again in your trainer card. Just curious, how often do you change your team up? I have a box of all different kind of EV trained pokemon, so I use them pretty much at random. I'm currently trying to build a respectable water team.

Also, do you run any kind of "theme" teams?
 
Yeah, I'm really undecided when it comes to teams. They usually are halted by a specific pokemon I encounter in online battles. This team though, I'm starting to like. I can still run my other team, but it gets manhandled by certain pokemon. Also, with shoddy battle and pokesav, I can try out many different combinations of pokes without having to EV train, which eliminates any wasted time EV training pokes I hardly use.

I try to make themed teams, but they usually end up in failure because I can't really cover all the weaknesses, and they usually have a common one. I've made an eeveelution team once, funny thing is, the matches would end in the other player disconnecting for some reason... Usually because my team took ages to set up... :p

I'm still learning though, and coming up with pokemon teams is certainly fun. Running into pokes though that can counter my whole team certainly isn't... :(

I was thinking of making a rain dance team too, but I'm thinking I should try to tighten up the team I currently have. I've found though that Bronzong is a great Rain Dance starter if you can't use Kyogre for whatever reason.
 
ah yes, I remember your eveelution team. Well that's cool then, you seem really knowledgeable with everything so I was just wondering about your thought process and how you do things.
 
Hmm, what goes through my mind is basically to start with a pokemon, usually the one that is going to start, then see what counters that pokemon. Then I put in a pokemon that can handle that counter and hopefully others, just so I can cover my bases.

As for themes, I mainly focus on what counters that theme, and what I can do to accommodate that.
 
[quote name='option.iv']I've made an eeveelution team once, funny thing is, the matches would end in the other player disconnecting for some reason... Usually because my team took ages to set up... :p[/quote]if you used baton pass, that's probably the reason. many people hate those.
 
[quote name='banpeikun']if you used baton pass, that's probably the reason. many people hate those.[/quote]
Well, it's easy to counter, just roar or haze it. Or if you're fast enough, just taunt before they BP.
 
[quote name='option.iv']Still owning up those 6th graders suko? I can barely beat those damn 1st graders.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, and I'm beating them at their turf too! :)

Actually, I forgot how that joke started.
 
[quote name='mcelfour']I have a shiny Buizel that's been sitting in my PC for a bit. If anyone is interested in it, I'd be willing to trade! (Does anyone care about shiny's here???)

In fact, I'd be willing to trade in general. I still don't have anything that amazing, for you all who've been playing a long time, but I'd be willing to trade this and that anyway. LMK if anyone's up for it sometime soon.[/QUOTE]

Is there any trick to catching shiny Pokémon? I got a Bellsprout once in Silver and the Red Gyrados that everybody caught as part of the storyline, but that's been it. :cry:

I'm almost to the second gym. This is going to take a while.
 
[quote name='Nohbdy']Read the smogon.com forums.[/QUOTE]

Is there anything in particular you'd suggest looking at? After spending ~15 minutes stumbling around, I found one thread out of the thousands that came up in the search that actually was about shiny Pokémon instead of trading for them, and it started off by talking about things like "chaining" and wasn't exactly friendly to anyone who's new at the game like I am.

I need a Cliffs Notes version. :cry:
 
[quote name='banpeikun']try this:

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=19695

Basically you have to have the pokeradar already, and by using that to fight the same type of pokemon over and over, you raise the shiny appearance rate from ~ 1 in 8,000 to something like 1 in 200[/QUOTE]

Thanks. :D

It's going to be a while before I get the Pokéradar at the rate I'm going, so it looks like I'm going to have to wait.
 
[quote name='option.iv']Anyone up for a couple battles tonight?[/quote]

I'd be game, though I have a team that is probably pitiful by most people's standards here.
PM'ed option.iv.

EDIT: Alright, the baby isn't ready for bed yet...I'll be up hopefully by 8:30 central.

EDIT again: Feel free to check my profile, and skype me for battling whenever tonight (before 10 PM central).

EDIT for the last time: pwned twice by option.iv. then pwned once by his little bro, lol. YOU FAILED ME TEAM OF UNOWNS!!!!
 
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