Matoka

99% of time 5x31 pokemon on GTL will cost MORE than they would cost to breed with braces etc and buying components because it takes time to do the breeding process. Your example doesn't make sense because now, if you start with a female OT poliwag as your base not only does your end result become OT, but it ends up being cheaper to create. There is an exception to this where they sell an unwanted cheap 5x31 poliwag for cash and don't care about making a profit, however, in that case you have no right to complain because you just got a raw bargain and saved money, you can then re-sell it for higher and make bank.

It is entirely possible for you to have an own OT 6x31 natured pokemon. You just need to make sure that the female used in the beginning is your OT as the female determines if it is your OT or not. eg: [spoiler] Female OT Matoka (modest nature) + Male OT Unknown 31 Sp. Attack =(Gender confirmed)= Female OT Matoka Modest 31 Sp. Attack Female OT Matoka Modest Sp. Attack + Male OT unknown 31 Sp. Attack, 31 Speed =(Gender confirmed)= OT Matoka Modest 31 Spatt, 31 speed. etc etc [/spoiler] Following the spoilered process, going by normal breeding you will be able to always have your own OT comp pokemon! which I'm sure you are pleased about :)

That still requires you to obtain a female EV, which is 12.5% chance of occurring naturally. In that case then yes it does allow you to swap the OT. but this requires you to still have that OT Male rattata and to purchase the Female Eevee, both of those are not easy to do. The OT does not add to a shiny Shiny Ditto would be used I imagine in cases for genderless pokemon shinies mostly, or for some very very rare shinies, but for more common shinies the OT thing is fairly saddening just.

The new OT system makes perfect sense when wanting to prevent people from copping out of catching pokes by breeding it with one from GTL, and it does this well, however this makes me feel kinda sad since it was paired in the same update as shiny breeding. My only OT is a Shiny Persian, and it is male. Ideally if it was female I would make a Meowth so it has pickup unlike it's evolved form however that is besides the point, no, that is the point actually Why would I want to breed my male OT pokemon with a female non-OT pokemon other than if my OT happened to have a 31 in a stat or if it was able to pass on some egg moves, Eg Fake Out from Persian --> Pikachu (holding lightball) for comp moveset shiny pika. The OT /is/ pointless in this regards, but, considering to me an OT shiny is so valuable in sentimental value since it is my only ever, I really do not want to lose that "useless tag" otherwise I would take pride in breeding it with something to get an interesting move on another pokemon or to get an OT field pokemon that I do not own. Just my thoughts, I just think that the new OT mechanic shouldn't be used for shinies if one of the Shinies is your OT.

I support this. With the edition of hordes, and generally having the ability to EV train all stats efficiently and to obtain anything through breeding. The only reason I fish anymore is in Icefall cave in shallow dreams of finding a shiny Poliwag/Whirl for my fav shiny: Politoed. If this was added it would help my sanity and make me feeling like my dream is possible, after the persian incident.

After this update I scurried online to see if my Shiny Persian was female or male, hoping it was female (it wasn't) If it was female I would have made an adamant or something Meowth and level 100 it for paydaying purposes. On a side note, why does the OT mechanic have to work the way it does? If it was so you don't breed a chansey someone else is the OT of to get a chansey for your pokedex, why can this not be an exception for shinies? Its just overall discouraging for me with my Male persian, there is almost 0 reason to use it in the new breeding unless I want an egg move like Fake Out etc on something. oh well. Edit: Male Shiny Smeargle's value just went up a lot as the objectively best egg move passer to other shinies.

Devs, we have all these neato offensive items from gen 4, Can we have a defensive one like Focus Sash? Pretty please? I'm blatantly testing my luck but apparently that worked for that one guy and life orb so why not. [spoiler] Just whatever you do do NOT implement eviolite because that means we have to put up with 2 months of Chansey on steroids before usage is updated and it is banned to ubers forever [/spoiler] But yea, Focus sash is probs my fav gen 4 hold item. I AM BIAS.

Its the same rarity as Ralts isn't it? I know Ralt's grass patches are more traveled than Mt. Pyre summit but still, I wonder if there are shiny hunters trying this very moment for it, or if they can't be bothered.

Shiny Chimecho hasn't been found yet? I'm surprised that shiny hunters aren't trying for it. It's a super pretty shiny too.

Only asked for a "chance" at it, dw, I understand you can't make promises. Would be super neato tho.

If I had to choose a few from the list that I think should be prioritized if any are added at all would be: Teleport Payday Explosion Tri-Attack Zap Cannon Will-O-Wisp False Swipe

I was not aware this was a thing, does it continue to give more and more the higher your streak? any info on wins in row = what number of points?

Every other time it has been 500? am I missing some part of the feature? was something changed in a patch I missed???

Can I just query, is there a chance that the winner could get the honor of having their winning entry used as the battle theme for that legendary whenever it gets added to the game I think it would be rad. Plus I am 99.9% sure it is doable for devs.

May I ask what nature the kecleon is just out of curiosity?

Can I just find my shiny poliwag, please. ... game please, wtt persian for poliwag ._.

Any chance you can tell me how you did it? also respect for the nestball choice, I use nest ball on all my pokes.

Yay bringing attention to a niché min-max method for farming, in the process also presenting infront of devs making it x4 super effective to the nerf bat! but in all serious, interesting set idea. not sure how... necessary it is or anything but its certainly neat.

The set I was thinking of running on smeargle for fun is: Spore / Lovely kiss (Lovely kiss if I keep getting grass type swap ins since it affects them) Substitute (To survive a hit and hopefully re-spore / sleep) Spikes (to hopefully get them up) Memento (Gonna die next turn? got up my spikes? memento out into my sweeper.) So i asked how to get memento. so Axx, in your example you sketched Smog, does that mean we can't get memento or...???

Have your first pokemon in your party hold a Jumpstone, increases odds of finding a shiny by 5% Omg kill me i just found a shiny persian as of this edit, the gods have smited me for memeing with this trash tier shiny as my first OT ;~;

Ah, i see now. What a convoluted way to get Memento. Also isn't move deleter not implemented?

Would sketch not fail as there would be no target, as memento will happen, pokemon will die, smeargle will sketch (no target) then the pokemon (My smeargle) will come in?

Is it even possible? If it is possible I can't think of how I would go about it, could someone enlighten me?

IGN: Matoka

as mentioned, if Suicune is added, water absorb pokemon may get run more often, so Vaporeon would probably go up a tier. Politoed may become UU too. would be interesting.