The Original Starters return for 'Pokemon X' & 'Y'

Now that I've beaten GTA, and I have no desire whatsoever to touch the WiiU, I started playing White again. Started over. Probably going to have the same team as last time since there's only about 8 good characters in this game.
 
Play HeartGold or SoulSilver. Best Pokemon games of all time. I got really far into SS then dropped it for months for a reason I'm not sure of. Guess I lost interest. But once you beat the Elite 4, you get to go to Kanto. Which is the original location. Then all the Gyms have like lv50+ Pokemon from the start, and it makes it a lot harder. Finally get a challenge.

My team:

Blastoise lv70 fully EV/IV trained for HP and Defense.
Alakazam lv47 fully EV/IV trained for Special Attack and Speed.
Garchomp lv50 fully EV/IV trained for Attack and Speed.
Gengar lv26 fully EV/IV trained for Special Attack and Speed.
Luxray lv52 fully EV/IV trained for Attack, Special Attack, and Speed.
6th slot for HM slave.

I might drop Alakazam or Gengar, since they both fill the same role in the group. I might use the team builder to come up with a good plan. Maybe train up my Ivysaur and use him as a wall. Leech Seed, Toxic, etc.

http://www.marriland.com/tools/team-builder
 
Watch this if you want. If you're still confused, I can explain.


and since you can't directly alter your IV's... my idea of "IV Training" is just breeding until I get a Pokemon with high IV in a stat or two that I want.
 
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I lol'd. Too much to handle? It's not that complicated actually. Hopefully I can explain it..

Let's start with an example. Just this lv1 Ditto I caught in the wild and Nicknamed "Whore" because Ditto can breed with any Pokemon.

Stats (the normal ones you see in-game)
HP: 12
Attack: 5
Defense: 6
S. Attack: 6
S. Defense: 6
Speed: 5

EVs:
HP: 0
Attack: 0
Defense: 0
S. Attack: 0
S. Defense: 0
Speed: 0

They always start at 0. Now if you were to win a battle using Ditto, it would gain a certain number of EV points. What you get towards your stats depends on the Pokemon you defeat. I believe Machop will give you 1 EV towards Attack. You get the EV towards whatever stat that the Pokemon you defeat is highest in. I think Machop is highest in Attack. So you get 1 EV towards attack for defeating him. For every 4 EV points towards one stat, you will get an extra +1 when you level up. Let's say you level up now with 0 EV in Attack. It will just go up +1. But if you were to defeat 4 Machop and get 4 EV in Attack, when you level up from now on it will go up by +2. Basically having more EV towards a stat will increase that stat by a higher degree upon level up. In current Pokemon games, you can get up to 252 EV points towards one stat. Usually people max out EV in two stats. I maxed out my Blastoise with HP and Defense. He's a tank. Basically the more EV points you have towards a stat, the faster it will grow.

IVs
HP: 8
Attack: 0
Defense: 23
S. Attack: 30
S. Defense: 24
Speed: 14

Now we get to IVs. You cannot adjust these. They are given by "birth." Looking at these... this Pokemon would be destined to be really good in Special Attack. Since there are 0 IVs in Attack, this Pokemon is destined to be horrible in Attack. These numbers are randomized. They can go from 0-31. It's possible to have all 31 IV stats, but the chances are about 1 in 8,000 or something like that. Now let me generate this Pokemon to be lv100 just for demonstration purposes. Keeping the EV's at 0 though.

lv100 Stats (the normal ones you see in-game)
HP: 214
Attack: 101
Defense: 124
S. Attack: 144
S. Defense: 125
Speed: 103

Now you can really see how IVs come in to play. If the IV was 31 in Attack instead of 0, it would have had an attack of 132 instead of 101. Now if there was 252 EV's in Attack as well as 31 IVs it would have an attack of 195. 101 to 195 is a big difference.

To sum ALL OF THAT up.... Having high EV/IV will make your Pokemon significantly stronger than it would be otherwise.
 
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Outside of competitive battle there's no reason to do it.
You'll do just fine with a Blastoise that has terrible Evs.
 
That would be nice if there was a way to make the game more difficult. The only way you can really do it now is by player-made challenges. Like a solo run.
 
There is only one save file so they can get more sales. They won't admit it, but it's true. That's also why they do multiple versions.I remember when me and my brother only had one game. He had the save. I would play it sometimes but not save the game. I would also start a new game and also not save. I've beaten the game without saving before. haha
 
Hard setting should remove the ability to see who your opponent is switching into.
Maybe remove the ability to use nonheld items outside of wild and gym battles.


Beating a pokemon who's type is super effective to yours should earn a small xp bonus.
 
One more week till I get my X copy! Getting on release date at 12:00 at gamestop I pre-ordered dat so I got it on lock. I am hearing rumours that there is only 70 new pokémon hahaha sounds like a lie.
 
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