Pokemon news discussion 2: Spoiler Tag Boogaloo

I caught a Binacle, and I want to name it Conan, like Conan the Barbaracle or Conan O'Binacle. It says I'm not allowed to use that word? What? Why? Any other name suggestions?

Edit: I mean, I guess there's a censored word in there, but I dunno.when I tried to name a Meditite "WeightWatchr" it wouldn't let me because it has a very British swear word in it. But what's in "Conan" that's so offensive???

Edit2: in other news, due to the capture of Sashimi (:mspa) the Binacle, my final team is complete. It will consist of, once everybody evolves:

Blaise the Delphox
Ballestra the Aegislash
Sashimi the Barbaracle
Cool Dude the Malamar
MDR the Mega Blastose
Flavio I the Yellow Florges (this is supposed to be read as "Flavio the first")

Cc: sorry brah I could've told you all of that stuff about Florges a while ago! Whoops, my bad. But I can help with the stone: if you have a fully (EV) trained Pokémon, you can farm for stones (dunno about the Sun stone, haven't found the appropriate cup for that yet) in the Roserade Balloon Super Training session. It's how I got mine. Hydreigon gives moon stones and predictably Aegislash and Ballade give their appropriate stones too. I'm assuming Stunfisk gives Thunderstones, not sure though. Likewise for Probopass and the sun stone.

Pokemon distributions change markedly depending on grass colour. This was confirmed by GF a while ago. 

So guys, who's left to add me as a 3DS friend? I want to get good Bargaining Powers so I spam 50% off sales occasionally. Good for clothes shopping. Or Charizardite I guess.

Oh god, guys. Guys. On Route 5. Behind the Thorny bush. The kid is stuck there forever. He can't escape. This is legit the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in a pokemon game.
It's like I Have No Cut, And I Must Escape

Also, I'm loving these attention to small details; There's a connection between Unova and Kalos. Excellent. )

Also, why does pokemon always have an Elite Club with members who only have a Hoppip??? I mean, I guess at higher ranks they will have more?! But come on, this is an ELITE CLUB.

Also also, I don't think I have Captain's code?! And anyway, currently I only have 4 actual pokepal. :I

My copy should arrive later today, guys! You have no idea how excited I am but I have to get to Chemistry now.

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT GRANT' AMAURA KNEW THUNDER WAVE
HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT

Yeah his Amaura is surprisingly tricky if you can't safely switch in a super effective move user. Packs a punch.

Still totally a curbstomp though. That's about as difficult as this game gets unfortunately. Le sigh. My entire team is about 12 levels greater than the nearest strong trainer. This game throws easy levelling at you like nobody's business. Apparently places to level up post-game are pretty sparse though. I guess we all got used to Stadiums (stadia?) MD Audinos. And rival rematches I guess.

GUYS IT'S HERE IT'S HERE MY COPY IS HERE

well shit, buddy. join us!

What the crap is Sycamore doing speaking in French oh wait it's Poké-France I guess it's okay. Also that opening cutscene.

d_what wrote:Yeah his Amaura is surprisingly tricky if you can't safely switch in a super effective move user. Packs a punch.

Still totally a curbstomp though. That's about as difficult as this game gets unfortunately. Le sigh. My entire team is about 12 levels greater than the nearest strong trainer. This game throws easy levelling at you like nobody's business. Apparently places to level up post-game are pretty sparse though. I guess we all got used to Stadiums (stadia?) MD Audinos. And rival rematches I guess.

"Easy training."
Do you call trying to train a Binacle on a route filled with grass-types and Sigilyphs that have whirlwind "EASY?!"

*eyetwitch*

cephalopodAscendant wrote:GUYS IT'S HERE IT'S HERE MY COPY IS HERE

:!
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cephalopodAscendant wrote:Also that opening cutscene.

I know, right?

Edit: woah, that was strange. For some reason, when I tried posting this post, the forum stopped me and said somebody posted a post. But that post was this post. I somehow ninja'd myself.

probably posted as the minute rolled over, that's my guess.

My brother
Caught a golett
With pokerus
And he's two gyms ahead of me
put me out of my misery.

Your brother
Caught a golett
With pokerus
And he is n-1 gyms ahead of me
I'm happy cause I found candy in my pocket.

Anyway, does pokerus work with Training? Because if not it's probably gonna become redundant in this gen anyway.

Hanky Panky wrote:probably posted as the minute rolled over, that's my guess.

could be

's far as pokerus is concerned

I have plenty of pokerus mons in my old gen games. Just waiting for pokemon bank to come out.

I'll be happy to spread it to you guys later if you want.

My fossil came with pokerus if you guys would like it sooner rather then waiting for the bank app to come out. Just let me know and I'll spread it around

(Also, I just realized that every Inkay I've caught--about 5--have Suction Cups. Am I just being really unlucky or is Contrary rarer?)

Unless they've changed how Abilities are determined for individual Pokémon, it should be a 50/50 chance. I'd say you're just unlucky.

My Inkay has Contrary, and it's the only one I've got. Bad luck, i guess.

ilikeoctopus wrote:(Also, I just realized that every Inkay I've caught--about 5--have Suction Cups. Am I just being really unlucky or is Contrary rarer?)

Here's a tip: when searching for Inkay, keep something with a stat-lowering move like Growl or Sand-Attack at the front of your party. Use it at the start of the battle, and if it doesn't raise the stat, just run away. That's how I found mine.

muffinz wrote:Here's a tip: when searching for Inkay, keep something with a stat-lowering move like Growl or Sand-Attack at the front of your party. Use it at the start of the battle, and if it doesn't raise the stat, just run away. That's how I found mine.

Thank youuu! Timesaver x1000.

So Nintendo stealth-updated the official site with some information that most of us know by now but probably merits mentioning anyways. A lot of it was in this most recent Coro Coro. Categorized and spoilered just in case.

Mega Evolutions:

New Pokémon:

Characters:

I have a question about some Megaevolutions:

Spoiler:

Yeah, we know that for a fact, OJ. It annoys me too.

Yeah, I figured we knew that, I just wanted to be sure.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's annoyed by it