Sooo... I'm late to the FC party, but I want to get into this Safari Zone thing and random Passersby are somewhat hesitant to become more than acquaintances.
My code is 3668-8305-2950, and I have no idea what my own zone contains.
Also, I managed to catch the Pokerus like 2 days into the game. I of course backed that stuff up on some permaboxed Pokes for further spread. But I guess Pokerus is obsolete now, what with Super Training and all?
Pokerus is hardly obsolete; it takes about an hour - hour and a half to EV train a level 1 pokemon with Super Training (having done it three or four times now), whilst using appropriate Power Items, Pokerus, and hordes, you can fully train a party of 5 pokemon (assuming they're level 1s being carried by a high-level lead) in about 10-11 battles, as long as you aren't going for an unusual spread of EVs (if you are, it should only take marginally longer). Since a battle against a horde that you can one-shot all of takes... a minute tops? You can fully EV train 5 pokemon in about 15-20 minutes or so that way, and as a bonus they will pick up some experience too. (This is of course slightly offset by having to obtain the BP for five copies of the relevant Power Items
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Source link on Smogon with reference for all the relevant hordes by EV gain.
Pokerus is therefore still highly valued - Super Training is a nice diversion, and is still handy for piling up Evolution Stones (from the Secret Super Training), but ultimately it's an inefficient way to train.
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(edit) Finally got a 6IV Scraggy. It's male, which is what I was hoping, but picked up the wrong ability (and since I was aiming for the Hidden Ability I can't even fix it with the Ability Capsule). Gah. Well, he'll just have to enjoy his retirement being used as breeding stock, whilst I use a 5IV version with the right ability for battle.
On the plus side this means I can get on with the other breeding projects I had planned.