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Bryce

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  1. I like how the ability description is the only thing English up till Ausweglos.
  2. The cost of Contrary Spinda is greater than the cost of every Halloween Alpha minus Spiritomb, COMBINED. Look do what you want man. I tried a similar method to yours and the problem was Spiritomb would keep healing to full, getting rid of my status, and eventually Struggled itself to death. If you want a 500k + investment that will still require trial runs and RNG be my guest. If you want to literally buy a guaranteed way to catch the most difficult Alpha the barrier to entry is 11k - 67k. I don't care to argue with you. This is for the people who want a 100% success rate and don't have the tools or time to do it your way.
  3. Here's what you're not taking into account... Contrary Spinda, at the time of this writing costs about 480k on GTL. The Zoroark I mentioned above, depending on if you need both TMs and need to relearn Imprison costs 67k at most and 11k if you only need the mon and Focus Sash. Now Spinda is good for catching every Alpha except this one. That is partly because it is 20 levels higher than the others and has both a physical and special attacking move and even with the stat debuffs will do quite a bit of damage against anything that doesn't actively resist it. It also heals whatever status you apply to it and fully recovers its health whenever it feels like resting because "hax" so you have to find a way to FULLY prevent if you want your damage to stay so you don't waste dozens of Timer Balls. Also your Breloom strat requires something to Soak Spiritomb so False Swipe can even hit it and Substitute doesn't matter because Alpha Spiritomb has Infiltrator. Spore is also pretty useless because it can still Sleep Talk and will Rest when it feels like it, as mentioned above. The method I have listed above costs 11k - 67k and requires no training and has a 100% success rate outside of running out of balls and letting it Struggle to death. Your method requires 480k + whatever the cost/time investment of a level 100 EV trained catching mon along with the same Timer Ball RNG while you try to stay alive. Take your pick.
  4. BUMP Got it done, here's how I did it in case anybody is frustrated: Zoroark Focus Sash Imprison Rest (TM) Payback (TM) Whatever you want I bought one on GTL and just gave it the moves. No EV training, no special IVs, no special nature, just bought off GTL at "base" level which is 41. Mine outsped the Alpha Spiritomb so Focus Sash is also optional, but it's there in case you don't move first. Basically you Imprison Rest and Payback, leaving it Sleep Talk and Psychic which can't do damage to you while you slowly chip away at its health with a free move or just start spamming Timer Balls and pray. I used a level 100 Jellicent with Nightshade to bring it just under 50% HP and Taunt to prevent it from using Rest. Payback kills Jelli and I bring in Blissey to Thunder Wave before that too dies to Payback (use Focus Sash if yours is low level and will get outsped). Then I just bring in Zoroark to Imprison and did some chip damage with Payback before spamming Timer Balls. Anything outside of the Imprison Zoroark is entirely optional, but will make it more likely that you'll catch it before it starts Struggling itself to death.
  5. I mean I could try Imprisoning Rest after Contrary stat drops start kicking in, since the Imprisoning mon has to stay on the field and not die. But can it do the same "cure all" BS that it does with Paralysis and Rest?
  6. Strategy is removed from this... Contary, Thunder Wave, chip it down. Doesn't matter...it just cures Paralysis and Rests to full HP over and over and over again. I literally just lost because it eventually Struggled itself to death. How am I supposed to develop a plan of attack for this thing when it just cheats its way out of situations? I feel like I just have to get lucky with Timer Balls, which is a stupid excuse for "difficulty".
  7. And how do you get it to survive doing this multiple times when the turns rack up?
  8. Wanted to bump this in case anybody came up with some last-minute strategies since I realize I only have 2 days to catch 4 more alphas (Chandelure, Drifblim, Dusknoir, Spiritomb). I WAS going to do with the Contrary Spinda strat, but those things are selling for more than these alphas are worth combined...so I'm checking in to see if anybody discovered a better/cheaper strategy to get this done with minimal headache.
  9. Recall what the ones from 116 were? I don't remember you posting a bunch prior to the Shed.
  10. I'm surprised you didn't find any shinies on the way to catch those 10k. Or while leveling them.
  11. I was about to try the Contrary Spinda method, but my god...these things cost more than the alphas I'm trying to catch. Is there a way to breed one of these maybe?
  12. Yeah Gengar was easy. I just Imprison + Giga Drain on my Smeargle and eventually got it with a Timer Ball. This is more aimed at the other stuff since I don't have the luxury of only having to disable one move.
  13. How do you get this one? No matter where I enter Amity Square the only 2 teleporty houses I have access to just bounce me between the both of them.
  14. Does Skill Swap prevent the omniboost or do I have to use it AFTER it's started scaling?
  15. I asked a similar question not long ago, the answer I got was "Timer Balls" which is valid. However, I built up a Light Screen/Thunder Wave/Minimize/Softboiled Blissey with HP/SpDef EVs specifically for this and it simply does not matter. Eventually these things "build up wild might" and just have to connect 1 move to start one-shotting everything on my team if my Timer Ball RNG isn't immaculate. So I understand the preferred way to catch these things is Timer Balls, but how do you stay alive long enough for them to work? With Gengar I used an Imprison Smeargle with Giga Drain and eventually caught it because it couldn't do any damage. But if Blissey is getting smacked this easily then Driblim will be similar and I don't even have an answer for Dusknoir to deal with the physical damage. Hoping for some ideas here.
  16. Gonna try Disabling Giga Drain with a Smeargle. Hopefully that works.
  17. Sure is fun having a 1 HP sleeping Gengar break out of your pokeballs enough times that it starts one-shotting your team with ramped-up Giga Drain.
  18. You seem like the kind of person that would really love to hear what they did with the shiny rate.
  19. Is it easier to download iOS 16 and download it that way versus what you described? I had issues with the computer connecting part, presumably because Windows computer Apple phone, and has issues with iTunes.
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