[Whats a good team for the Sinnoh story?]

You can buy them.

[Sinnoh's E4 Flint does not scale the Pokemon's level plus it heals you after winning..]

I stopped after beating E4 5 times but during those times it has been consistent.

 

I haven't done ANY content after beating the E4. So no I have not beaten Flint in the frontier.

[Sinnoh's E4 Flint does not scale the Pokemon's level plus it heals you after winning..]

How it currently is.

Flint's Pokemons are stuck at level ~50.

Spoiler

Also it heals you after the fight is done.

 

How it should be.

It should scale. After 4 rematches it's still level 50 when it should be 100.

It also shouldn't heal you.

[Game]

Maybe it's too cold.

[How profitable is farming currently?]

E4 just takes twice as long now. So when everything is on cooldown you can still do 2-3 E4 runs.

The strategy of me popping an Amulet Coin at the last fight of E4 then doing gym runs is still profitable for me.

[Unable to hold A during battles post update]

It work on my Wn7 computer but doesn't on Win10.

[Why was the Daycare nerfed?]

I agree.

EXP share gives 50% and while the daycare gave 10% more it costs money to do so. It was fair. I feel like 20% is so low for the cost, it's practically daylight robbery.

Either keep the 20% but make it free or change it back please.

[Sticky Web]

The game only goes up to gen 5.

[BP Update]

I wish they were more transparent on why they made the change. Was it because it was ruining PvP? Or was it because someone posted a video of them clearing E4 in 20-ish minutes so they wanted to nerf it? I'm betting it was the latter.

They could probably nerf Baton Pass if they added phazers in the E4 teams but that would mean more work than disabling it. Maybe once they're done with that they're going to make BP work properly again.

[Quick question?]

Sinnoh came out a few hours ago.

[Sweet scent PP usage]

It's intended. It stops people from using 6 pokemons with Sweet Scent to farm.

[BP Update]

You can always run E4 without using Baton Pass.

But yeah, this is a big hit for people that run E4 for money. However with the new Pokemons added we might find a new team that would work better, you never know.

[Is rematching the Elite Four profitbale at all?]

38 minutes ago, CHUCKunso said:

I am running Hoenn mostly and Metagross does the trick for me, should be the same for Kanto shouldn't it?

Maybe? I never tried. I know it also has a Shadow Ball but I think Metagross can survive a hit.

What moves do you have on it? Because you might just get walled by a different pokemon.

[Is rematching the Elite Four profitbale at all?]

2 hours ago, Caliginosus said:

What's wrong with Baton Pass in the Kanto E4?

 

27 minutes ago, CHUCKunso said:

that's why you always lead with SR to stop sashes and Dnites

Your rival in Kanto has a team that uses Magic Guard Alakazam with a Focus Sash. Because of that you will take a hit. And since people like to use Conkeldurr (since it's pretty strong and good move coverage) it will die in one hit against an Alakazam. I guess you can use a pokemon that has a multi hit move or someone that can survive an Alakazam but I haven't touched a Baton Pass team in a while so I don't know what works and what doesn't.

[Is rematching the Elite Four profitbale at all?]

Yes, it is possible. I've been doing Kanto E4 for a while now. I believe Kanto is one of the harder ones since you can't use a Baton Pass team to sweep through it. Try doing Hoenn and Unova with a Baton Pass team instead. Someone posted their teams and even a video of them doing it.

Also it is only 1v1, never 2v2 and more than 10 teams to choose from. I think I've encountered 22 Lorelei teams so far. Although you can always spot a pattern. If a team has a weather starter then they will always lead with that or if a pokemon uses a move you can usually figure out what other moves they have.

I think I spend 15-20k on healing items. And yes, doing E4 isn't ideal for making money, you should just focus on gyms. I do them because it's fun.

 

I would post what team I use but it's really not that good. It does take me a while to finish a run.

[Lower Encounter Rate]

6 hours ago, TheGreatMaya said:

Except when your doing story and have no access to those mons.

You only have to go through the Digglet Cave twice or something in the story. If you're only complaining about that specific point in the story and a place you will never have to go back to once you're done, then yeah, they won't change it.

[Since this is the Last PTS...]

5 minutes ago, Quakkz said:

so no xmas event this year?

The xmas event is the friends we made along the way.

[ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RAEN MONEY FAST BY E4?]

Impressive. I've also been playing around with Shedinja but I never can get it to work. I've never tried using it as a Baton Passer and mainly just used it as a pivot though, I might try it. However the main problem I have with Baton Pass team, especially yours, is a Magic Guard Alakazam with Focus Sash. It can KO your Conkeldurr and the only thing you have left would be Shedinja, which also gets KO'd by it. This could just be a Kanto thing though as I've never done Unova and Hoenn E4 extensively yet.

[NPC's Thick Fat ability does not show when using fire move.]

6 hours ago, Munya said:

This is intentional, its not supposed to.

Can I ask why hiding Thick Fat is intentional but not Levitate?

 

[NPC's Thick Fat ability does not show when using fire move.]

Right now when fighting against NPC's Pokemons that has the Thick Fat ability it does not show up on.

Spoiler

 

This is against Lorelei, Kanto E4 rematch.

I don't know for certain if this Hariyama has Thick Fat or not but I did try using a damage calculator and the only way Volcarona can do ~15% damage (it shows 12% damage but it did heal with Leftovers so I'm rounding up), is if Hariyama has Thick Fat and invested everything in HP and SpDef.

Spoiler

 

I thought it should work similar to Levitate, like when using Earthquake or a ground move on a Pokemon that has Levitate it would tell the player that it has Levitate as an ability.

I did not test it against wild Pokemons that have Thick Fat, only against NPCs.

 

EDIT: I also think Heatproof acts the same. I'm not sure since I haven't tested it as much.

[Nerf E4 Rematches]

1 hour ago, Spxter said:

- i only spend 10k for e4's and in worst case 20k if I fail and need revivers, u just need to play it more and then u get used to it

Only 10k? That's impressive.

What team are you using?

[Pokemon abilities?]

5 minutes ago, Vallial said:

But if the Pokedex doesn't state that the Pokemon has a second/third ability can we still get them with the pill?

No. If the pokedex only lists one ability then that Pokemon only has one ability.

[Pokemon abilities?]

That post never said anything about hidden abilities.

If a Pokemon has multiple abilities, that's not a hidden ability, you can buy an Ability Pill from the NPC that sells breeding items. They're 35k.

[Couple questions from a noob]

14 minutes ago, Beastemis said:

Arent some parts of the game taken from the ROMs?  Like followers are taken from HGSS, Im surprised they wouldnt take other battle scenes from other ROMs

Probably because HGSS doesn't have Gen 5 pokemons in them. So if you use something like Jellicent in Hoenn it would use the BW sprites and they most likely wanted to avoid that since it would look weird and stuck with BW sprites as default.

[Nerf E4 Rematches]

What exactly are you having trouble with? I've never spent more than ~30k on Kanto E4 rematches.

 

Out of all the times I fought the Kanto E4 only 2 teams gave me trouble. Lorelei's team that has Vileplume because it has Sleep Powder, Giga Drain, Moonlight and Sludge Bomb, anything that switches in on it can get poisoned or put to sleep. Not to mention it has 2 recover moves. Lorelei's team that has Chansey because of Toxic and Softboiled, plus it can set up Stealth Rock. It's difficult for me to OHKO without a fighting move so I spend 3-4 turns trying to KO it. By then it would have poisoned me and made switching harder because it used Stealth Rock. Another thing is that the team that has Chansey in it also has a Vileplume in it, so double annoying.

And maybe a third team which is my rival's team that has a Magic Guard Alakazam with Focus Sash. I can't break it with Stealth Rock or Spikes so it always gets an attack off which usually KO's one of my pokemon. But that's the last battle so I don't really care.

 

You're supposed to build a balanced team to beat the E4. It's difficult to sweep your way through it. What I found extremely helpful are recover moves since it saves potions and Protect to scout moves. Having Protect means you can scout a move then switch your pokemons to counter that move. Gengar using a Focus Blast? Switch in Chandelure then use Shadow Ball against it to OHKO it. Magnezone using Thunderbolt? Switch in Excadrill and use Earthquake.

 

Also a lot of people claim that the AI can predict your moves. That's wrong. I've seen Bruno's Steelix spamming Stone Edge on my Skarmory, when I used Roost, even though it has Earthquake. Roost removes my flying type so if the AI was able to predict what moves I will use then it should have used Earthquake to hit me for super-effective damage instead of a not very effective damage. I wish I saved a screenshot of it for proof.

 

If your strategy doesn't work then don't be afraid to change it. Yeah, it sucks that you have to breed and train more pokemons just to test it out against the E4, and even then it might not work. That sucks, but it's part of the game. I've bred 16 2x31 and 3x31 Pokemons and trained them before finding a strategy that works for me. And I don't plan on stopping, I have plans to breed 3 more 3x31s to see if another strategy might work. Just have fun with it.