Simple Questions and Answers Thread for BST! (Read First Post)

[SharKing]

Yes, you can grow berries in the Dream World. But I haven't heard about any of the Pinch Berries being found in the Dream World. And because you can't bring items from Gen. IV games, you won't have any Pinch Berries of your own to plant.

[AuraSoul93]

Is there a thread or discussion about Rotation Battles & strategies that go w/ them?

[SharKing]

No, there isn't. Sorry.

[F-22]

No. You could make a thread if you want, but I'm willing to bet that not many people have experience with them at all.

[AuraSoul93]

No. You could make a thread if you want, but I'm willing to bet that not many people have experience with them at all.

You think it's better to make one after B&W's release?

[F-22]

Yeah. There's no simulator that supports those right now and I don't think people with actual copies of B/W are focusing on them. If you're interested in 5th gen multi-battles, there's a VGC 2011 thread.

[AuraSoul93]

Yeah. There's no simulator that supports those right now and I don't think people with actual copies of B/W are focusing on them. If you're interested in 5th gen multi-battles, there's a VGC 2011 thread.

Kewl, thanks.

[lonewolf900]

what is the best way of training your pokemon? nature/characteristic or nature/ ev training + items?

[SharKing]

DEFINITELY EV training and items.

[lonewolf900]

so wat about nature/characteristic doesnt that help alittle?

[SharKing]

The characteristic is only there to tell the stat with the highest IV, rather indirectly. And you can't really tell exactly what it is by looking at the characteristic alone. For example, if your characteristic is "Likes to thrash about.", then your best IV is in Attack, but for all you know, it could be 31, or it could be as low as 1.

[lonewolf900]

then how do you know if ur pokemon iv? i been breeding lots of pokemon with adamant nature and been trying to likes to trash about characteristic still no luck!

[SharKing]

It depends on the IVs themselves, and those are only somewhat manipulable. And once you get them on a Poke, they don't change.

The best way to know your Pokemon's IV is really to get your Pokemon to a high level with a well-managed amount of EVs (if any at all), then look at an online IV calculator. (Google one up.)

[coolking503]

If you have about 6 rare candies you can use metalkids, so you can find out its ivs by the time its level 7ish and know if you should train it without giving it large amounts of evs before hand (wasting your time)

[F-22]

What I do is I take a lv 1 Pokemon, kill a high leveled Pokemon (you know, by sending the lv 1 out first then switching to something else that can kill the high leveled Poke), and just punch in the stats into Metalkid's calculator as it gains like 10 levels. You'll need an EV wipe berry for it afterwards, but it works for me. Alternately, you could go get an IV battle or use Rare Candies.