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PRNG-abuse and messing with Black

RudolphMilotic — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:47:26 GMT

Until this point I decided not to talk anymore of PRNG-abuse because many people think of it as just another way of hacking, which is a plain wrong assumption because you don't even need to know your Secret ID No. to be able to use the programs that revolve around it to enjoy the experience.

As a breeder, sometimes I got sick of breed continuosly over weeks without getting the desired results, and I'm not that purist or strict when it comes to 'flawless' Pokémon unless it's a defensive one or a Hidden Power project, so that's where PRNG-abuse comes into help.

Lately, I have been playing BW (not as much as I would like) and kept toying around with my Platinum and HGSS, EV training Pokémon for some future teams. For example, I got finished two more Pokémon last weekend:

As you can view, both legendary beasts are from the Movie 13th-related promotion, with the OT クラウン and PRNG-abused by a Japanese friend of mine, which received them directly from the promotion. I think they were also likely cloned unless my friend didn't download the Wonder Cards for him (he traded me the three beasts) or bought in prevent more than three tickets to see the movie, 'cause you only had a chance to get one Wonder Card per ticket.

Nevertheless, I was happy enough to get all of them because my HeartGold file doesn't get many useful shiny correlations, though I would have preferred that Raikou was Timid or Naive. Shiny Entei is flawless (I gave him the EV spread 6 HP/252 Attack/252 Speed) and Suicune got 31-30-30-31-31-2 (Hidden Power Electric), which I guess was made to further make use of the Relaxed nature on a Trick Room team.

I trained Suicune in HP and Defense but I haven't decided which moveset it will have: currently it sports BubbleBeam/Hidden Power/Air Slash/Calm Mind but I'm thinking of replacing some moves. What could be useful for a Relaxed Suicune?

In HeartGold, I managed to complete Celebi's training:

Celebi has IVs of 31-22-31-30-31-30 (Hidden Power Fire) and I'll keep Leaf Storm, Recover and Nasty Plot on it until I found a better strategy or a free slot on some team.

On the other hand, I haven't decided what to do with these Pokémon:

Eevee has Hidden Power Electric and IVs of 31-27-31-30-31-31, while that my little and zappy (which you can easily confuse with 'sappy'), cotton candy lamb has Hidden Power Ice and the spread 31-27-31-31-31-2. They were abused because I didn't find anything else of interest when I was searching for a good (and of few flips) PV for a Timid male Pokémon with an ability class of 1. I was thinking of adding the ewe to my current Trick Room team, but with Eevee I'm not sure of how I should train it. Any ideas?

Finally, in Black I have made some progress to bring my Sazandra up to Level 100:

I guess that winning against both Cheren and Morimoto everyday makes up for the lack of Vs. Seeker, though it's a shame that Sazandra can't be gotten before or exactly at level 50. He knows Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse, Dark Pulse and Fire Blast, which have proven to make a good combination at least in Random Match and the Battle Subway.

Besides, I have been breeding Tesshiido:

If you don't know the Japanese names of moves, I can tell you that it has Bullet Seed/Seed Bomb/Stealth Rock/Leech Seed. I want a Sassy with a IV spread of 31/20+/31/xx/31/xx, but as of now I haven't had any luck, with the only good Tesshiido having 31 in the three defensive stats but of a Bold nature >_>.

My status on HeartGold - Part 1

RudolphMilotic — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:18:30 GMT

Yesterday I could play a lot of the game. Here are the highlights:

*Beat Gym Leader Pryce. Rudy Reno took down all of his Pokémon with Thunderbolt and Energy Ball.
*Saved the Radio Tower; Archer officially disbanded what remained of Team Rocket.
*Dundee and Beatlette got their second Shiny Leaf.
*Cameron took a photo of my team at the Ice Path.
*Transferred three Pikachu from the Pokéwalker (walked around 21,422 steps), one of them with Fly but a really bad nature (Lax). Got another Light Ball and two Big Root from it.
*Completed Warden Baoba's second test.
*Defeated Clair's annoying pair of Dragonair and her other Pokémon, and got the Rising Badge. The video of this battle can be viewed here.
*I can have now an ExtremeSpeed Dratini, though I decided not to receive it until I can PRNG-abuse for a good one.

= Rodolfo's Team =

ID No.: 52023.
Time played: 18 h 21 min.
Johto Pokédex - Seen: 150, Obtained: 38.

-Dundee (Feraligatr): Male, Adamant nature, Lv. 40
-Rudy Reno (Stantler): Female, Calm nature, Lv. 42.
-Kero (Houndoom): Male, Timid nature, Lv. 40.
-Beatlette (Heracross): Female, Adamant nature, Lv. 40.
-Kermit (Politoed): Male, Modest nature, Lv. 37.
-Airmd (Skarmory): Female, Serious nature, Lv. 27.

Game Freak made Super Contests too easy in Platinum

RudolphMilotic — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:20:06 GMT

After posting my thoughts about Pokémon Contests in this thread I decided to stop loafing around and win all the remaining Master Ranks I hadn't conquered in my Platinum version. As I didn't want to waste the high-quality Poffins I've made with friends, I went to the Veilstone Dept. Store basement to purchase some. To my surprise, they are actually pretty good on raising the condition of your Pokémon, and because of that, getting the Beauty and Toughness Master Rank Ribbons took me only about an hour and a half.

I didn't even bother to change the moveset of the Pokémon, so for people who think that 'competitive' Pokémon can't participate in Contests, I guess this is proof you're somewhat wrong (my Pokémon have good natures, IVs -maybe except for Salamence- and are EV trained). The hardest part was to remember which accessories earn the highest score for a given theme, but as I got the most common ones (The Natural, The Colorful and The Flexible), it wasn't an issue.

Returning to the topic about Poffins, the Veilstone ones are so cheap it seems that Game Freak actually thought that people had problems cooking them (or they didn't care about the feature) that decided to include a quick way to raise conditions, highlighting the purpose and not the cause of attending Super Contests. Though I enjoy making Poffins, and I was pleased the first time I found out that the Wi-Fi Club in Platinum was expanded to do it online.

Anyway, if someone was wondering how many condition points the Veilstone Poffins give, each one has exactly 32 in two flavors, with a smoothness of 20 and there is one for every flavor combination; the following calculations show how many Poffins you need to raise the condition of your Pokémon before its Sheen value is maxed out, depending whether the Pokémon condition is hindered, favored or unnafected by a given flavor:
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-Sh:  Sheen.
-CV:  Condition value.
-Pf:  Poffin.
-lf:  Liked flavor.
-df:  Disliked flavor.
-Dt:  Distribution.

·Maximum no. of Pf = ( 255 Max Sh / 20 Sh ) = 12.75 ~ 13.
-Maximum CV (lf favored and df hindered)  = ( 35 lf * 8 ) + ( 32 * 13 ) + ( 28 lf * 5 ) = 836 ~ 810. Dt: 255-255-160-140.
-Maximum CV (lf hindered and df favored)  = ( 35 lf * 5 ) + ( 32 * 13 ) + ( 28 df * 8 ) = 815 ~ 814. Dt: 175-255-160-224.
-Maximum CV (lf favored and df favored)   = ( 35 lf * 8 ) + ( 32 * 10 ) + ( 28 df * 8 ) = 815 ~ 799. Dt: 255-160-160-224.
-Maximum CV (lf hindered and df hindered) = ( 35 lf * 5 ) + ( 32 * 16 ) + ( 28 df * 5 ) = 827 ~ 825. Dt: 175-255-255-140.
-Maximum CV (lf favored, df unaffected)   = ( 35 lf * 8 ) + ( 32 * 18 ) = 856 ~ 830. Dt: 255-255-160-160.
-Maximum CV (lf hindered, df unaffected)  = ( 35 lf * 5 ) + ( 32 * 21 ) = 847 ~ 845. Dt: 175-160-255-255.
-Maximum CV (lf unaffected, df favored)   = ( 28 df * 8 ) + ( 32 * 18 ) = 800 ~ 799. Dt: 224-255-160-160.
-Maximum CV (lf unaffected, df hindered)  = ( 28 df * 5 ) + ( 32 * 21 ) = 812 ~ 810. Dt: 140-160-255-255.

At last I decided to catch a Shining Cresselia

RudolphMilotic — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:59:33 GMT

Hi!

Messing with the clock in DPt is a little unfavorable if you're growing berries or frequently use the Pal Park to transfer Pokémon from Generation III games. Sadly, if you're into PRNG manipulation that's the only way you pretty much have to catch Pokémon with the characteristics you want, i.e. shininess, gender, nature, ability, and so on.

A few hours ago I was trying to decide between nine different IV spreads of the same nature, Bold; Cresselia is mainly used as a defensive support Pokémon, but I found the one with Hidden Power Fire too tempting to be overlooked. Scizor, Jirachi and of course Metagross will have a hard time trying to set up while they're hit with a super effective-strong attack almost out of nowhere.

IVs: 30-18-23-26-23-18
Hidden Power (Fire): 70 base power.

Now the real pain will be catching the Lunar Pokémon...with a Dive Ball.

My first entry

RudolphMilotic — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:14:05 GMT

Eh, I'm not that into writing blogs, let alone one in English (Spanish is my first language), but nonetheless I'll do it scarcely when I want to share with others some stuff I like. I do acknowledge that my grammar and syntax aren't perfect, but I'll try to do my best.

Well, I was playing My Pokémon Ranch today and I decided to take a few snapshots of my shiny and event Pokémon:

Japanese Faraway Island Mew carrying a Shiny Porygon

The eyeglasses Mii is Kenshin, one of my best friends I met when I visited for the first time the Pokémex Network site.
And about Mew, I got it from the GTS in the early days after the release of Diamond and Pearl; unless its internal data is wrong, everything I know so far about it is legit.

Sort of a totem pole with Eevee, Makuhita and Elekid

I wanted to position Makuhita at the top, but she preferred to take the lead and show off her outstanding toughness.

Lapras taking a nap

This shiny Lapras is from a friend that got it using the method of 'soft-reset' in a FireRed version. My Psyduck (random encounter on my first day in Diamond) is as watchful as always.

A careful Treecko

Yep, this Treecko has a Careful nature. It was hatched in Emerald by one of my college friends.
Talking about the trio of Darkrai in the background, one is from the Surf glitch of a Japanese Pearl I own, other is from the promotion of Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (thanks to an online friend) and finally one is from the ALAMOS event.
The curly-hair female Mii is based on my mother (is Peppermint Patty watching her?).

There're quite a good number of Pokémon I want to write about, but for the time being I think it's good enough. I hope you liked my Pokémon. See you!