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I ATTAC

8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Squill]

I feel like I have not been progressing nearly as much as other people, I'm just having too much fun screwing around. On that note, I wish that I could bring more than 6 pokemon with me, mostly because there are several I want to use.

[umiman]

Haha, I'm at almost 60 hours and I still only have 5 badges.

Take your time. I don't understand the guys who feel the need to rush through the entire thing.

[MagmaMcFry]

Okay the EXP Share is so awesome. This is the first game where I actually get enough experience to use a full team of six for the storyline (currently Greninja, Venusaur, Blaziken, Vivillon, Doublade and Aurorus lvs. ~40) instead of rushing through with just my starter. I'm not that much higher leveled than the trainers where I'm at, but this is in fact an awesome and enjoyable thing.

[penguinofhonor]

The EXP share is awesome, though that combined with Affection bonus EXP has my Pokemon regularly being 5 levels above gym leaders and bosses, and 7-10 levels above normal trainers.

Right now I have six badges and I'm about to enter this mysterious ice cave.

[Culise]

I just got challenged to my first random link battle ever.  Holy devil, I know everyone else already knew it, but Aegislash is simply amazing.  Running my in-game team with only seven badges, I managed to one-shot Mewtwo Y with a single unboosted Shadow Claw and swept around half of my opponent's team one after another, and thanks to a lucky pick of leads (Jolteon runs circles around almost everything), I discovered that Speed Boost Blaziken can't do much of anything when paralyzed.  I was actually nervous going in when I saw he was running both Blaziken and Mewtwo, but Aegislash...oh, dear, that thing is so going to ubers, isn't it?

EDIT: And the other reason I wanted to post was just this little helpful tip sheet on becoming stylish in Lumiose.  Getting Mega Evolution stones for 10k instead of 1000k seems like a pretty good deal. 

[umiman]

My battle box has a Wobuffet that I use only when the enemy decides to bring in legendaries and especially Mewtwo. If they want to be lame, I can outlame them. I'm planning that once I finish the game, I'll put a choice band on my Ferrothorn and use Gyro Ball to one shot every single Mewtwo.

Though I get a lot of nice matches too. Every time I see people running no legendaries, I feel happy and we have a nice battle. It almost always comes down to the wire.

Edit: Also found out that Gyrados can use Thunder no problem. So that's one problem solved.

[Culise]

My battle box has a Wobuffet that I use only when the enemy decides to bring in legendaries and especially Mewtwo. If they want to be lame, I can outlame them. I'm planning that once I finish the game, I'll put a choice band on my Ferrothorn and use Gyro Ball to one shot every single Mewtwo.

Though I get a lot of nice matches too. Every time I see people running no legendaries, I feel happy and we have a nice battle. It almost always comes down to the wire.

Edit: Also found out that Gyrados can use Thunder no problem. So that's one problem solved.

Heh, that's a pretty neat idea; I might have to borrow it.  ^_^

Mmm, only thing to watch out for with Thunder Gyarados is that it's running that attack off a 60 base Special Attack.  That plus the Thunder nerf (110 power) is going to affect how much you can hit with it effectively, though it does certainly have the element of surprise.  Oh, but I just checked since it was suggested, and Sliggoo actually can learn Thunderbolt.  It seems probable that its evolution should be the same, and Thunder as well if you use rain at all (*cough* Hydration), and Goodra has a 110 base Special Attack.  Only problem is its speed; Greninja is going to outspeed Goodra and swap out its type for something else with Protean, but that's a general problem.  Greninja is faster than literally every single Dragon out there except Noivern (and Noivern only beats it by 1 base Speed), and I don't know if Noivern gets any answers to Greninja.  Maybe something that can wipe out Protean would help; Mega Ampharos becomes a Dragon with Mold Breaker, as are Haxorus and Druddigon, which will suppress Protean.  Amphy gets all sorts of Electric attacks, and Haxorus has Fighting via TMs/tutors to target Greninja's Dark side.  Of course, Mega Amphy is only worthwhile if you aren't already running another Mega. 

[umiman]

Yeah, I was looking up ways to deal with Mewtwo online and one of the recommendations was Ferrothorn. Since I have a really well built up Ferrothorn anyway, it makes things easy.

I'm also going to try out your Aegislash strategy too. Ghost + Steel sounds awesome!

Greninja only annoys me really and everyone seems to have one. No one ever gives him ice moves (can he even get any?). He's pretty squishy and like Lucario, I've been able to one shot him with Fly on Salamence. Not to mention because no one ever gives him ice, he barely does damage to my dragons. I've had huge problems with other water types like Lapras and the like with ice beam or blizzard. Those absolutely rock me.

Though with the thunderbolt (sorry, not thunder) on Gyrados now, I don't have to worry about the other water types with ice beam and what not. After all, ice and water does nothing against Gyrados and he's pretty fast. I was worried about his shitty special attack like you mentioned, but so far it's done well against the water types it was meant for. I don't need to one shot the water types when they can't do any damage to me. Mostly I find when people see my Gyrados rocking thunderbolt, they hide their water pokemon until it's the very last one as they themselves have no way to deal with water. Not to mention if I get really lucky, I can give the pokemon they switched in paralysis.

Now I have to figure out how to deal with Megaevolved Lucario with Dragon Pulse...

[Heron TSG]

Dragon Dance is a pretty good move for getting your dragons to go fast.

As far as I know, Greninja does not learn any ice, dragon, or fairy moves. (I'm still researching egg moves, though!)

[Grakelin]

Had success against my roommate using a Raichu/Lucario combo. Raichu would slip in while the other four were battling to use Nuzzle. Then, when everybody was paralyzed, Lucario came in to Power-Up Punch. Swept the whole team, it was insane.

I called it the Domestic Dispute Strategy.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

I am wondering what's the sales figures for each X and Y version. I got Y thinking X would be more popular.

[umiman]

I like red more than blue so I got Y.

But almost everyone seems to have the X legendary in battles.

[Heron TSG]

I got Y for the giant red devilbird.

[Sirus]

Just picked up my copy of X!
Gonna check it out later.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Just found out about the Friend Safari.

We need to like, share and share alike with all of our friend codes, if you're ok with that.
I've heard that my particular FC gives Steel, Poison, or Bug types, but the guy didn't remember which of the three.

Spoiler: My FC (I'm playing as "Derya") (click to show/hide)

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