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

[Tina]

TwinNeedle's a Bug move, not a Poison move >_>

I'm pretty sure that the only way Steel-types can get poisoned is by TwinNeedle or Poison Point.. I could be wrong.

[Wiilio]

Or a Normalize Toxic (Delcatty). Other than that, those are the only ways.

[cocowoushi]

Do Intimidate and Rivalry cancel each other out? Meaning, say, if 2 male Luxray go out at the same time in battle. One has Intimidate and the other Rivalry. Is the boost gained from Rivalry able to cancel out the decrease from Intimidate?

[No Prophet]

My Moneys on Whichever one was sent out first. I doubt it stacks.

[No Prophet]

TwinNeedle's a Bug move, not a Poison move >_>

I'm pretty sure that the only way Steel-types can get poisoned is by TwinNeedle or Poison Point.. I could be wrong.

Eh eh eh. Have you tried Poison Point, Effect Spore and Poison Orb?

[Squitle]

I know that Hail lasts five turns as a move (or seven with item).

If I use Abomasnow as my lead, how long would it last if left uninterupted?

[adiosToreador]

I know that Hail lasts five turns as a move (or seven with item).

If I use Abomasnow as my lead, how long would it last if left uninterupted?

Throughout the battle, because Abomasnow activated Hail through an ability, not a move. It's like Kyogre's Drizzle, or Hippowdon's Sand Stream.

[Cheesus Is Lord]

Do Intimidate and Rivalry cancel each other out? Meaning, say, if 2 male Luxray go out at the same time in battle. One has Intimidate and the other Rivalry. Is the boost gained from Rivalry able to cancel out the decrease from Intimidate?

No. Rivalry boosts the power of moves to 5/4, whereas Intimidate reduces your attack power one stage, or to 2/3. Thus, you will only be hitting at 5/6 power against an opponent. However, Rivalry affects both physical and special moves, whereas Intimidate only hits the physical side. So if you attack specially, you can hit with the full rivalry boost.

And I am sure they stack, since everything else except weather stacks in Pokemon.

[all4game]

Hi everybody. I'm new to this forum, so sorry if this is the wrong place. I'm trying to get together some good pokemon for the Battle Tower in diamond. Here's what I have:
Lvl 50 Gyarados
Jolly, Life Orb
Ice Fang
Aqua Tail
Earthquake
Dragon Dance

EV trained in Attack and Speed, but I didn't do it perfectly, I think I accidentally killed a wooper or something. Gyarados is my absolute favorite pokemon in diamond so I'm not replacing her. Although I might take out aqua tail for waterfall. Also, this gyardos has some pretty bad IV's, but I didn't realize it until it was too late.

What I'm probably going to get:
Lanturn
Timid, Leftovers
Ice Beam
Surf
Thunder/Thunderbolt
Rain Dance/Thunderwave

The choice of the move depends on what the last pokemon will be, I'm considering getting something that would benefit from rain, since gyarados and lanturn both obviously do. I think lanturn covers Gyarados's weaknesses really well, since it's immune to electric, and gyarados covers its weakness to ground.

For the last pokemon I have a few options.
My first pic was Scizor with bullet punch and swords dance.But then I realized I have no way of getting scizor since I can't get the GTC to work, and apparently you can't get bullet punch on diamond. So now I have no idea what to pick. Any ideas?

[Wiilio]

Not positive, but I'm pretty sure this could be made into a new thread.

[freddie515]

Is this a good moveset for yanmega ?
protect
detect
toxic
double team

Simply use toxic at the start and rotate between detect and protect ... use double team when you feel its necessary =)

[Wiilio]

A Detect after a Protect works just the same as a Protect after another Protect.

[The Outrage]

Also Steel types don't care about your poison.

[Mukubird]

All I can say is enjoy being Taunted.

[The Outrage]

So now that we basically pointed out all of the flaws, except maybe the fact that ti would be a bit easy to force a switch out and with Stealth Rock on the field, it means its killing itself....

....Trick Room, it always goes last, but what about if your holding a Custap Berry?