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[Culise]

What would be the best Pokemon and moveset to catch another Pokemon? I know False Swipe and a status effect move that induces Sleep. Would Sleep Powder be the best? Synchroniser ability may be handy too...

Hmm, Breloom and Parasect get Spore + False Swipe (100% effective on non-Grass), while Gallade gets Hypnosis + False Swipe (60% effective, but more general).  Ghosts can be trickier; I don't think anything gets a Sleep move, a Foresight/Scrappy variant, and False Swipe all in one, though I could easily be wrong with that.  Unfortunately, also, nothing gets both Synchronize and False Swipe as far as I can tell, but a fainted Pokemon at the front of the party still gets its field Ability effect unless it changed in Gen 6 (useful also for farming items by combining the abilities Compound Eyes and Frisk). 

EDIT: I'm completely silly, because I forgot the ultimate ideal for movesets: Smeargle.  Spore + False Swipe + Foresight/Soak = Ideal Swiper. 

[RekkaAtsuma]

Ah Blaziken, First starter to ever make itself Uber with it's lovely Speed Boost, and now everyone hates it.
Just goes to show why I'm such a a fan of Hoenn Pokemon - They be good Pokemon.

This wonder tournament sounds fine (though i don't have the free time to deal with tournaments in PKMN MP) but i'd have to say Rule 4 contradicts the idea, yeah it allows for a second chance, but lower it to two free trades, 3 is half a team and half your team can make a much huger difference compared to 1/3rd.

[Urist Imiknorris]

What would be the best Pokemon and moveset to catch another Pokemon? I know False Swipe and a status effect move that induces Sleep. Would Sleep Powder be the best? Synchroniser ability may be handy too...

Hmm, Breloom and Parasect get Spore + False Swipe (100% effective on non-Grass), while Gallade gets Hypnosis + False Swipe (60% effective, but more general).  Ghosts can be trickier; I don't think anything gets a Sleep move, a Foresight/Scrappy variant, and False Swipe all in one, though I could easily be wrong with that.  Unfortunately, also, nothing gets both Synchronize and False Swipe as far as I can tell, but a fainted Pokemon at the front of the party still gets its field Ability effect unless it changed in Gen 6 (useful also for farming items by combining the abilities Compound Eyes and Frisk). 

EDIT: I'm completely silly, because I forgot the ultimate ideal for movesets: Smeargle.  Spore + False Swipe + Foresight/Soak = Ideal Swiper.

Absol. It doesn't have sleep, but it gets False Swipe, Thunder Wave and a huge Attack.

[UltraValican]

Just my luck. I choose the version with the physically attacking Zard, and I get a Charmander with perfect Spec Attack IVs.

Also, I really regret selling my destiny knot for peanuts. Who would've guessed it would actually be useful.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You can get another one.

[Knirisk]

Ah Blaziken, First starter to ever make itself Uber with it's lovely Speed Boost, and now everyone hates it.
Just goes to show why I'm such a a fan of Hoenn Pokemon - They be good Pokemon.

I liked the Hoenn generation, too, but then again, I also skipped several generations from R/S/E to X/Y, so I may be a bit biased. It would be cool if I could get Latias back in my game again, but I'm not sure if the 3DS can use a link cable, hahaha.

[Aklyon]

To get your latias, you'll need to trade it up through games until you reach into black and white (or their fourth version), and then use poketransfer/pokemon bank when it comes out in december to get it into X/Y. This will require a DS lite ( or original ds), pal park, a 3ds, and one game each per missing generation.

[Knirisk]

To get your latias, you'll need to trade it up through games until you reach into black and white (or their fourth version), and then use poketransfer/pokemon bank when it comes out in december to get it into X/Y. This will require a DS lite ( or original ds), pal park, a 3ds, and one game each per missing generation.

I like Latias, but I don't like Latias that much. That's just a bit too much of a hassle. Oh well.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Or you could get White 2, catch it in the Dreamyard, then transfer it from there.

Also, remember how I recommended Absol as a monster catcher? I had Absol on the brain because I was trying to get one with a good nature for that very purpose. Lo and behold, the one that does is a shiny. It has been named DIS*, and I predict it will do extremely well.

[Calech]

My breeding project has been an interesting learning experience, mostly about not polluting my nicely eugenics-approved gene pool with random outside influences.

Oh, this is about Pokémon, by the way, just in case you thought otherwise

Got a bunch of Marill bred to 5 perfect IVs, but then realised it might be a good idea to breed moves in too; this diluted the gene-pool down quite a lot, but diligent breeding has led to my first successful 5IV Belly Drum + Aqua Jet Marill.

It even got the right ability (Huge Power), which is a relief - the first set I was breeding got Thick Fat, which is not quite as helpful.

Hopefully I can get a second of a different gender, then breed them together for much better odds of 1/6 of getting all 5 IVs passed down using the Destiny Knot.

Then I can just sort out my boxes (I have about 5 boxes full of Marill of varying degrees of not-quite-perfect right now), cause a minor ecological disaster by releasing all the unsuccessful breeds around Kiloude City, and then send some of the 4 and 5 perfect IV specimens out via Wonder Trade to see what I get.

That last step still seems a long way off though.

Even so, I've learned from this project that although breeding 5IVs in first is not a great idea, my intent was to breed to pass the IVs on to other Pokémon - taking advantage of existing species with good IVs to breed better Pokémon of other types more quickly. So hopefully I can streamline the process a bit for the next one.

[umiman]

Holy Jeebus, I didn't realize friend safari gave you safaris of the friends that don't have X and Y. I have 47 safaris hahaha... It's going to take so long seeing what's available.

I hope one of these has a ditto. Then I can breed up a 5 IV Ditto and make monster pokemon of unparalleled power.

[Drakale]

You can't breed ditto's though, you have to catch that perfect one.

[umiman]

Aww... Well so much for that plan.

[Ultimuh]

Can still breed OTHER Pokemon with Ditto.
Unless they changed that?

[Kanil]

Yeah, but you only need a perfect Ditto once to spread it's IVs, otherwise you'll need pokemon in a bunch of different egg groups.