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I PROTECC

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Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

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GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

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I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[scourge728]

Well, at this point it's easy because I'm horribly overleveled for everything that I'm facing. Not exactly sure how that happened, but sure enough.

Also, where do you get that item (whatever it is) that has Kirlia (male) evolve into that psychic-fighting type? It'd round out my coverage rather nicely. Well, almost- still need something that can properly handle grass types.

I can't tell you where, but I can tell you it's called a dawn stone

[scourge728]

An everstone will prevent them from evolving while they hold it, also the evolution is called gallade fyi

[umiman]

Ah. Well, I hope I stumble across it soon, because having to cancel their evolution is starting to get rather old.

One thing that has always been rather lacking for me in gen 3 is a solid fire type, aesthetically; at least, one that isn't a starter. I suppose, given the prevalence of fairy typing now, that I should aim for something that has either poison or steel as well as fire moves. Hm.

Gen 3?

Get yourself a Weezing. Until today still one of the best walls in the game (actually better now due to fairy-types).

It won't really do a lot of damage, but it will tank no problem. It also has access to fire blast while being poison. Not to mention levitate makes it immune to one of poison-types biggest weaknesses. Earthquake.

If you're talking about omega ruby then... you've got quite a few nice options:

1. Muk (poison-type, has fire punch, really tanky, has curse to hurt more)
2. Aggron (massive physical wall, terrible against special, fairies hate him because they tend to be light and heavy slam destroys them. Also has fire punch)
3. Camerupt (has mega form in omega ruby I think, hurts like hell, quite tanky, slow as molasses)
4. Seviper (can kinda do anything. Is a snake. Has moves to fight whatever.)
5. Metagross (pseudo-legendary for a reason, has mega form, punches really hard, fairies hate him, no fire punch for some reason)

[Rolan7]

Belated reminder that the Larvitar Community Day is currently happening in GO, for another 45 minutes here in the US.

[USEC_OFFICER]

From what I remember, it depends on the Pokemon. Some do need to be traded and some can simply level up.  A quick look at Bulbapedia suggests that neither is the case however. A Dawn Stone works the same as a Fire/Water/Leaf/whatever stone. You use it on the Pokemon to evolve them at any time, not have them hold it while leveling up.

[Sirus]

Remember, you can use the blank punching bags in Super Training to reset EVs.

[Sirus]

It's entirely random, but it seems to me that if you keep tapping your pokemon to punch a standard bag you tend to find a whole lot more of them.

[Akura]

Well, got a dawn stone through one of those super-training things. Sweet. Now, this is going to be a tremendously stupid question- you evolve Pokemon that require holding an item to evolve by trading them to someone while holding the item, right? I have vague memories of that being the method you used way back in the day. No idea if that's still true.

If you're talking about evolving Gallade, the Dawn Stone is just a normal evolution stone - use it on them.

As for the question, you usually do trade while holding the item. One exception I know of is Gligar->Gliscor, that evolution occurs by holding the required item(Razor Fang) and leveling up at night.

[DeKaFu]

Did someone catch a 100% perfect IV shiny Larvitar this Pokémon Go Community Day?
And evolve into Tyranitar it in time to get its special event-only move (Smack Down)?

Oh yeah.

It was me.

*dances*

[Rolan7]

Congrats!  Mine is "wonderful" but only rated at 85%, heh.  Still, it's quite powerful!
And I was fortunate enough to get a 78% shiny, which is at 2992!  Shinies are pretty common during these community days, but still.  Will look good in gyms.

Not my nearest gym though, oh no...  I have a new pokemon for *that* gym.  Milotic, move over for Wailord XD
(It's so massive that it hangs out the side, far from the other defenders.  It's great)

[birdy51]

If it helps, Ultra Moon will actually show you which moves are Super-Effective the first time you meet a new mon, but for now... Good luck!

[Rolan7]

Wow so, Pokemon GO is getting trading... "Later this week"!  https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/friendsandtrading/

To summarize, you build up "friendship" by sending "gifts" (from pokestops) to other players using their friend codes.  This gives you bonuses when raiding together, decreases the stardust cost of trading, and eventually lets you trade shinies and legendaries.  Trading seems to require proximity.

There's a bit more too it...  It seems like the trade will generate a little net candy, and also the pokemon's stats might change?  Even based on your friendship level, which seems really weird?  I'm mostly skimming, I'm sure it'll make more sense in practice.

I'm leery about grinding up "friendship" levels with people.  It's the kind of "keep your friends playing" mechanic which I grew to hate in other games.  But I guess we'll see.  I have 3 friends who play a lot, only one of which I see daily, and then a large group of local raiders.  So I'll see how this all works at those different levels.

[Telgin]

It's about time they added trading, but I can understand wanting to make sure they did it well when they did.  Sadly for me, I know nobody in person who plays the game so I won't actually be trading with anyone, but still, it's good that they added it.

The stardust costs to trade seem pretty extreme, though.  I guess it's one way to avoid people just loading up on everything immediately by trading with a veteran.

[Culise]

Beat the game and the after-game, and... agh dammit. Wasn't expecting the sudden "pick a gen 2 starter now!" thing, and I haven't saved. Picking a gen 3 starter is fairly easy, but gen 2? Much harder. God forbid they force me to pick a gen 1 starter...

Spoiler: Minor spoilers on Birch's woes (click to show/hide)

Hee. That's actually the only gen they don't give you the option for, since X/Y had that in-game event.  Otherwise, expect the same sort of surprise for Gens 4 and 5.

[umiman]

Beat the game and the after-game, and... agh dammit. Wasn't expecting the sudden "pick a gen 2 starter now!" thing, and I haven't saved. Picking a gen 3 starter is fairly easy, but gen 2? Much harder. God forbid they force me to pick a gen 1 starter...

You should try trading. It's super easy in the newer games. Then you don't have to worry about which starter.