The Pokemon Thread

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Got his points almost straight away with a rush by my Deoxys (he used cosmic energy) and then knocking out his Shuppet before hurdling a Deoxys of his.

He then kept moving backwards and forwards with his 2 Deoxys across the line so I kept moving my guys up. He'd occasionally hit 'Mons I put next to him but it was mostly me hitting him and then him choosing which Deoxys to defend with. Gyarados then slapped him twice with Hyper Beam and it was done.

No idea why he didn't hit my runner before I got other 'Mons involved, he'd have walked him.

Spent 40 to get an 11 streak box.

Umbreon, Weezing, Slakoth and Zweilous.

Ugh.

I think I'm done with this event at about 82 wins or so. I got one Lucario EX (fed straight into my other) but nothing else of note and getting some shitty Ingots isn't worth it.

I do have 400 or so Gems which if I spend in 2 booster things will put me close to affording 2 x Reuniclus so that's a consideration.

I also got 5 Booster Singles for my monthly ranking and that turned into a Wigglytuff and a bunch of shite. Shame you can't use them for the Quadruple.

They're not in material exchange are they?

Wasn't showing up when I sorted for Psychic 'Mons.

Edit: Or even Poison which is what I had selected :\

Yea he is there for 1800.

A 24 hour booster gave me the Pokemon I wanted most in the game, Empoleon.

Going to put Prinplup in as it's essentially the same Pokemon only without a gold move. Just have to decide if I drop Articuno or Keldeo but I didn't overly miss either of them in the event. Probably Articuno.

Opened 4 Quad boxes to get me a second Reuin and got 2 Reshiram's and 1 Zekrom. They don't look too bad but wait 9 is pretty fucking horrible.

Basically to use them you need to play defensively for 9 turns to then get them out so they can remove Pokemon.

I think I'll stick with a team of 2 Reuin, Mew, Gyarados, Shuppet and Greninja.

I've got every single star it is possible to get in Quest mode. You get nothing for it.

Doesn't feel like there's much more to do really. I may build a 2nd deck as it's so hard for a non water type to get into my water deck.

1-4 in league matches today.... (2-4 if you count the jobber deck) what a load of shite. The amount of times I need to survive one move to win and they hit the only combination that can kill me is ridiculous.

So gave this a go and I have no fucking clue what I'm doing :D

I did buy a few gems to get a 4 pack booster and pulled EX Garchomp so I've won a few games with him but I still have no clue what to do here.

You can earn a ton of free gems through log in bonus, daily missions and the story mode but for a while you will just need to save up gems to buy boosters while also focusing on time boosters and locked boosters to get more EX Pokemon and build a stronger team.

My team finally clicked today and despite facing some really tough opponents we went 4-0. Not sure what is out there that could break in but my team for the foreseeable future will be:

Greninja EX
Manaphy EX
Keldeo EX
Blastoise EX
Shuppet UC
Prinplup C evolving into Empoleon EX

So having just said nothing was going to come into that team in the near future... I pull a Palkia EX. He has to come in. Just a case of who to drop....

As much as Greninja is the "weakest" I don't want to drop a runner for a 2 MP mon at this stage. I like the balance we have there.

That leaves really only Blastoise or Empoleon. I like both and Palkia's ability is a little bit annoying but not a deal breaker. Decisions, decisions.

I've had such rotten luck on this game recently, the amount of matches I have where I only have to survive one turn to win and my opponent ALWAYS gets the perfect roll they need and I end up losing in the end. I reckon a lot of people use the AI, and the AI gets more "luck" than human players because whenever I use AI ridiculous stuff happens and I win.

Opened a Magmortar today.... may have to consider building a 2nd deck to use him.

Got almost 900 gems without spending a penny because there's been fuck all to use them on.

Got a third Reuin in a locked booster a few days ago so I'm running with:

Mew
Shuppet
Greninja
Reuin x3.

It's pretty fucking beastly.

I don't see much worth in Greninja in a non-Manaphy deck. Most of the time he does 20-40 damage and that just isn't going to cut it. He works for me because his minimum damage is 41 and it increases from there.

I like him, he's done so much for me it just feels wrong to drop him.

I just got a frogadier so my Greninja will now do 31 (1 cl) for each gold attack.

Despite playing almost 1000 duels I just made a move that I don't think I'd ever thought about before, and it paid off.

I had Greninja and Keldeo locking down his corners and Manaphy somewhere on the field (he's irrelevant). He had Blastoise on his goal and Charizard and Yvetal next to Greninja and Keldeo. He attacked Greninha with Charizard and span 200 but I span dodge. I then figured that Charizard Vs Greninja was his best move, even if he could get something off the bench.... and that he was going to initiate that fight regardless of my move, so I may as well be in a position where I win if he fails. I moved up next to Blastoise, giving up the corner, and when Charizard missed I'd won the game. It doesn't sound that anything abnormal but I'm normally VERY reluctant to give up corners once I have them but the realisation that Greninja was probably dead anyway so I may as well go for it worked out perfectly.

Upping the energy needed to 30 is a cunt move.

Both my Gym matches so far have been epics. In the first I seemed to be banged to right as he had a Latios on his goal (I had a shuppet on one corner but that wouldn't help...) and he had both my corners locked down by Zekrom and Flygon with only Keldeo and Rauquaza defending for me. I moved Raqquaza out of the way which meant he could try surround Keldeo if he wanted but he didn't try it and let Rayquaza hit Flygon.... he got fly and left my corner. I was then able to get other Pokemon onto the field and he made some awful decisions such as fighting me Palkia Vs Palkia (Manaphy broke the tie for me) and Shuppet Vs Shuppet (11 vs 10 again to me). I was eventually able to lock down both corners for the win.

My second match my main threat was the time. My opponent had bad connection issues which seemed to effect my clock and not his.... and I was soon down to 20 seconds Vs his almost 3 minutes which was a farce. Fortunately I had both corners locked down (albeit one by Manaphy who can only move 1) and he only had 2 defenders and a Zekrom on one corner. His Zekrom went for it but Manaphy tipped the scales to Palkia to save us from defeat. Manaphy concluded his MVP performance with a well time Hurdle Jump that caused a double surround (RIP MVP) and then when he moved to block the goal it was easy for me to take his other corner and force him to forfeit as the corners were now locked down by Keldeo and Greninja so he couldn't move. :cool:


My deck to start with in the event is:
Greninja, Manaphy, Shuppet, Keldeo, Rayquaza, Palkia

However, I'm considering putting in Salamence over Greninja. He'll do 70 damage as a standard instead of 21 (41 with Manaphy on field) and an extra 21 for each spin, plus a small chance of 60 (boosted to 80). Just seems 70 is more reliable and will be better most of the time, and the Fly can win games straight off. I'd be tempted to put in Double Chance as well to get Fly when I need it, but wouldn't be sure what to drop (1 hurdle jump or a Goal block). For now I'll go with "If it's not broke...." and keep it as it is as I'm 4-0.

Edit again- Just had the best duel of my life to the point where I would have reached out to the guy if I could. It was a league match so I put my water team back in and came up against a team of 2 x Poliwhirl, 2 x Magikarp/Gyarados, Manaphy and Greninja. It was an absolute war. In the end, through necessity, I had Manaphy next to his goal (on the side where you can't instantly surround him) and he had Manaphy on his goal. I was trying to use Manaphy to move his but he cottoned onto it and put a Gyarados the other side. With nothing I could realistically do to Gyarados (unless his Manaphy died) I just kept hammering Manaphy and kept moving Gyarados away but he kept moving it back. If I had my usual 2 Hurdle Jumps I could have picked up an easy win but without it I couldn't get in. He got a stroke of luck with a crucial kill on Shuppet who would have won it the next turn for me and I lucked out BIG time when he span Manaphy song and didn't notice he could have moved Empoleon off my goal and walked in. In the end he stupidly decided to attack Manaphy with Gyarados while his other Gyarados was out of position and when I span Manaphy Song I moved Manaphy and walked in. Actually drained after it.

Oooh, a new gym finally.

I'm going with:

Mew
Xerneas
Kirilia/Gardevoir
Rayquaza

I can't decide between Reshiram and Zekrom or Salamence and Giratina for the last two spots.

The latter unless you have the plate to make the former viable.

Round is stupidly over powered in this.

I've got the plates.

I've sadly only got 2 round Pokemon.

Same here, one Sylveon and one wigglytuff.

Got a long flight ahead of me so I bought a 3DS and Sun.

I haven't played a Pokemon game since Crystal. :cool:

I'm having really bad luck.

I'm either coming up against round decks or getting super shit rolls. I'm struggling to maintain a win streak.

I seem to keep getting to about 4 and then losing. My deck feels good but not great.

People who use Runner Deoxys with no other Deoxys are my favourite opponents. So easy.

This guy made me defend by using his runner and then switched it with a Moltres. Moltres with Double Chances was eating me alive and KO'ing every turn but I was able to get enough defenders in place and then when he ran out of cards to power it up and started hitting Roost/Flame Charge I was able to make a break for it and murder his shitty Deoxys for the win.

Closing in on that Dragonite EX.

Rayquaza with 2 MP is just :drool:

I've also got mine at clvl 1 so his gold does 121. He's beaten a fair few Reuins because of it.

He is amazing, shame it'll be fucking useless after the event.

I have literally no idea what just happened in my match. With a few figures on the board each I was forced to use a Goal Block because he put a Flygon in an awkward position. I goal block with Rayquaza and the idiot double chances and attacks him. I spin Gold so Flygon is dead no matter what. He spins purple and then respins into a 40. The minute the move lands it comes up WIN on my screen. No "forfeit" just the word WIN. I'll take it, but what?

My main deck was unstoppable for 2 days and went back up to the 2500s but went 0-5 today (not including 2 jobber wins) to crash back the low 2300s. Pretty much every spin was a miss. Utter shite.

Having more luck in the event where I'm up to 60 wins. I want those 2 EX cubes.

Some proper idiots on this morning :drool:

One guy I faced I went first and put Keldeo 2 spots in. He then brings out Deoxys 4 spots forcing me to block his route to the goal with Salamence. His obvious move is to advance with someone else or block a corner. Instead he uses X Attack (boosting his attacks to 50 and 70) and attacks Salamence who does 72 most of the time. What a moron. Deoxys goes down and Keldeo takes the corner for the win.

Another guy I faced I was in a situation where Salamence could hurdle jump his Squirtle to land one away from the goal but he could hurdle jump me back and land on the goal. Instead I played defense until he used his 2 hurdle jump and then did it. His only hope was to hit Salamence with Squirtle and pray for a miss Vs his attack or a Fly Away Vs not his blue move. Even if the latter happened I had a 2nd Hurdle jump but he could live to fight another round. What does he do? Uses X-Attack (why?) and moves to the other side of me before attacking. In the end it didn't matter as he hit Blue anyway, but had he got the Fly Away from there I could have just walked back to where I was and made him do it again. Such a bad move.

If anyone was keeping score, Manaphy won our race to 1000 games :drool:
Manaphy- 1023
Shuppet- 973
Greninja 956
Lapras 568
Keldeo 551


Greninha was 50 ahead of anyone before the event but losing his place in the event team has crushed it. He's still in our main team, though for how much longer I don't know. I hope they release Kyogre or Suicune soon.

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Originally Posted by Browning

I have literally no idea what just happened in my match. With a few figures on the board each I was forced to use a Goal Block because he put a Flygon in an awkward position. I goal block with Rayquaza and the idiot double chances and attacks him. I spin Gold so Flygon is dead no matter what. He spins purple and then respins into a 40. The minute the move lands it comes up WIN on my screen. No "forfeit" just the word WIN. I'll take it, but what?

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I had something like that in a battle with my daughter. We were testing her new deck and suddenly it said that she had won, even though it was my turn and I was about to move my Deoxys on her goal.

I could feel my last opponent's rage as he quit, and I don't blame him. I swear the spinners are all or nothing.

I had my 5 pokemon all in a line on the line in front of my goal with Shuppet in the middle. He had a similar set up and there were no good match ups either way really so I was just moving Manaphy along the back, daring him to make the first move, and he was doing the same with Charizaard. Eventually he does and attacks Keldeo but it went neutral and so Shuppet got the surround KO on whatever mon he used. He then attacks Shuppet Vs Greninja and spins a miss so Shuppet KOs him. I move Shuppet in front of his Deoxys (Attack form) and he hits Shuppet but spins Dodge, allowing Shuppet to move to the other side and surround his Reshiram. He then attacks Shuppet with Zekrom but I hit WIll-O-Wisp and burn him. I advance to his corner with Salamence and he hits Shuppet again, the burn causing a miss and Zekrom goes down. At that point Shuppet had KOed a Zekrom and a Greninja in battle and surrounded two others. He rage quit despite Deoxys and Charizard still being there. :cool: Shuppet you beast.

Spent a bit to get 11 wins and was rewarded with a Magmortar and Yvetal.

Nice, although I already have MAgmortar. Not bothered with any streaks.

Got 1 of the 2 EX cubes on offer but no idea who to use it on.

1 win away from that final EX Cube, but still not sure who to use them on.

A 2 win booster (I open after 2 every time now) yielded a Manaphy. The temptation to run Manaphy x 2, Tentacool x 3 and a runner is very high.

I also have 4000 material, but there's nothing I want. I'll save them for whoever owns the next event, or whatever they add next that's good.

I'm now totally convinced that the spinners are not random at all. I faced a guy with 3 Shuppets and my Greninja went up against them and span Dodge SEVEN TIMES in a row. Fucking seven times. If I've done the maths right the chances of that are 0.017% or something ridiculous like that. I did eventually get the yellow attack I needed at the eighth time of asking and went on to win, but there's no way in hell that wasn't rigged. Funnily enough the Shuppet KO I did get left me in a position where he had to kill Greninja to stay in the game... and you can guess what happened there. :D

It seems to me like every match I either get all the luck or fuck all luck whatsoever. There doesn't seem to be any medium. It's to a point where if I get one bad spin, I'm reluctant to do any more fights.

Nevertheless, I got to 100 wins and got a 2nd EX cube. Event done.


Edit- This guy I just beat :D He starts with Blastoise, I start with Salamence. He attacks Salamence with Reuniclus and dies, I move to his corner so he has to goal block with Blastoise. I move Keldeo into position where if he doesn't kill me, I can jump to his corner. He decides to bring out possibly the worst Pokemon in the entire game he could bring out in that scenario.... Wobbuffet. :D Idiot.

Holy shit... Rayquaza can destroy Cosmo Energy? Why oh why is he going back to 1MP soon :(

Fight I just had took the absolute piss for my opponent:

First fight: Shuppet Vs Xerneas, Shuppet inflicts the burn (barely effects him as his dodge is tiny)
2nd fight- Shuppet Vs Xerneas- Shuppet KOs him.
3rd fight- Salamence Vs Latios, I get the fly over putting me in position to win if he can't stop me.
4th fight- Salamence Vs Latios- Fly Over Vs Dodge would win me the game, however he used double chance and at the 2nd time of asking lands Psychic, making me fly back over him.
5th fight- Salamence Vs Latios- He would have died but he used an X-Attack which tipped it to him.
6th fight- Palkia Vs Latios- Latios dies.
7th fight- Shuppet Vs Greninja- Greninja spins a miss and dies.
8th fight- Palkia Vs Zapdos- Zapdos dies giving me the win.

So in 8 fights the only 2 that went his way were the two he used cards on, and both of those went my way originally. I'm not complaining because I'm a 'victim' of this, it definitely goes both ways, but it really, REALLY feels like it picks a winner at the start and they get almost every spin go their way. I feel bad for that guy, I really do, particularly for the 2 KOs Shuppet got.

Latios in a 2 win streak box :drool:

Latios is shit though. Latias is where it's at. I used Latios for a while but he's a liability.

Just played a league match with someone who has an attacker Deoxys and he was dicking me.

He made a break for my goal (it was just him and one of my Reuin's on the field) but I was closer to his so kept going. He obviously pulled back, attacked and he rolled dimensional slip to give me the win.

So satisfying.

Just 2 pokemon on the field? What is that shit?

I got relegated yesterday for the first time ever. :( A 6-2 record since then has put me back in Master League, but that was bollocks.

More had just been knocked out/best move was to keep using rather than adding more onto the field.

The guy I just faced was obviously a noob but it was funny. I stupidly hurdle jumped to his corner which gave him a clear run to my corner which would have forced a Goal block. Instead he used Pokemon switch (putting Yveltal on his goal) essentially wasting the turn. I blocked his route off and he only had Yvetal on his goal who he couldn't move and Dratini roaming around. Eventually he decides to attack Keldeo who spins 52 Vs 80.... then my 52 went up to 62 and then 82 to kill him and end the game. He must have been fuming. That Pokemon switch literally cost him the game as without it would have been 72.

Magmortar, Yveltal, Delphox, Latios, Infernape, Aggron, Lucario and Mewtwo.

That's my haul of EX's from this cup. Not too shabby.

The new Pokemon look pretty shite.

That new plate though murders Deoxys.

I'm thinking of changing my deck completely from what I normally use in league, I'm bored of Reuins.

Zekrom
Reshiram
Xerneas
Mew
Latios
Yveltal.

Xerneas and Mew are locked as I love them, I just want something different to mess about with.

I'm tempted to put Mew in for Greninja as he's superior in almost every way but the one draw back is I can't move him around with Manaphy.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Fire/Ground event as I'll probably build a completely new deck for it. First time I won't be using Manaphy since I got him.

Fire/Ground would work pretty damn well for me.

Magmortar
Zekrom
Infernape
Charizard
Ho-Oh
Delphox.

Lacking in ground but I think that would work.

Yea I would go with something similar, the only one I don't have is Zekrom.

I'd probably use Pupiter and X Attack it for an early kill to get Tyranitar. Maybe.

I would love a Moltres for the event but I'm not spending 4000 on it.

Tyranitar is Rock not Ground.