Glen-i

Well, that Spiral Mountain finish was amazing!

Yeahhhh. Nope.

Room's open now.

I look forward to seeing you next year then.

Well, that was entertaining! Same time, next year?

Ah, it's too late now. Continue.

ABORT! @BowserBasher START AGAIN!

Oh right, @Dcubed should be joining as well. Normally with 7 players, we wouldn't have CPU's on, but just to make this night even worse, keep them on @BowserBasher

OK, @Hero-of-Time, I'm gonna head online now, when you're ready to give me that Sobble and Dreepy, give me a shout with what code you're using. While I'm at it, if @Blade is around, than you can get a Sobble off of me. Or a better one off of @Hero-of-Time Whatever works. EDIT: Huh... Didn't realise the server was undergoing maintenance right this moment. Never mind then.

9:15 tonight. Stamina Matches this week.

Next League Night: Tonight 8pm Room 1: @BowserBasher is host @Glen-i @BowserBasher @viceview51 @martinist @RedShell @S.C.G

I might as well take one of those as well. Cheers! I'm still focusing on completing the Pokédex, so it'll be helpful to get a boost start on my competitive teams.

Nah, it's cool, thanks anyway. Dreepy's evolution has insane Speed and really good Attack, it's an amazing glass cannon. It'll struggle against Fairy types, but that's what U-Turn is for. I also like the design, which is always important.

Gonna have to correct you there. Mold Breaker ignores abilities, not typing. You're thinking of Scrappy, which lets a Pokémon hit Ghost types with Normal or Fighting moves. Pangoro has one as its hidden ability. I'm not sure how you get a hidden ability in this game, let me try and find out.

Calling it now, Zacian fight will be Duck Hunt Duo with a Beam Sword/Killing Edge. Zamazenta will be the same, but with a Back Shield.

Those berries are how you reset EV's. I think one of each will do the job. The quickest way to train those EV's back up would be to shove vitamins down your Pikachu like the drug dealer you've always wanted to be. 1 Calcium gets you 10 Sp. Atk EV's. The maximum each stat can have is 252. Each Pokémon can have a grand total of 510 EV's shared between all stats. So most people choose 2 stats, max them out and then put the rest wherever they feel it's appropriate. So for Pikachu, I'd recommend maxing out Sp. Atk and Speed and then put the last bunch of points in HP, seeing as you plan on Dynamaxing it. Another way of EV training is battling certain Pokémon over and over. For example, say if you beat a Rattata (I know it's not in this game, just roll with it), you'd get 1 Speed EV. Of course, beating 252 Rattata is insane... And kind of cruel. Luckily, there are certain items known as the "Power Set" I can't recall where you get them. I think it's the BP shop in Hammerlocke. If you equip one of these on your Pikachu, then it gets an extra 8 EV's for every Pokémon it beats. So put on a Power Anklet, beat that Rattata and you get 9 Speed EV's instead of 1. If you can't be bothered with that and don't have the dosh for drugs, then you can use Poké Jobs. You should have some jobs that raise base stats, one for HP and so on. Give your Pikachu a Power Anklet, send it on the job that raises speed for the whole day and when it gets back, that stat will be maxed out. Rinse and repeat for Sp. Atk (Make sure you change the Power item to the lens), and finally, give it a HP Up to finish the job. There, you've EV trained your Pikachu in 2 days with almost zero input. As for IV training, Hyper Training is how you do that, but your Pikachu already has perfect IV's so it doesn't need to do that. Hope that's easy to understand. If you don't get something, let me know. I'll gladly take one of those if you're giving them away. I should be available from 6pm to 7:30. Do you need anything in return? I've got Shield in case you need some version exclusives. In order to get the Gigantimax version of any Pokémon, you need to catch that Pokémon in a Max Raid Battle where you fight against the actual Gigantamax form. Nothing else will do.

I can only imagine how blindsided people get when you roll in with your team and proceed to far outperform what is expected from a Pokémon that most people wouldn't have above level 20. You know, I think you could get some good use out of a Pokémon using Eviolite if you decide to dip your toe into competitive fights. Sure, you'd need to find a Pokémon you like that is already quite tanky (Shame Chansey isn't in this game, really.) and you'd only be able to have one on your team, but it's worth a look. Once I finish the Pokédex, I plan on building a more competitive team and I'd be happy to help with any Pokémon you might want to get. Oh, and @Sméagol, I'll take you up on that second Dreepy tomorrow evening. Things are stupid rare and it'll be much quicker just to get one from you.

Whenever someone is trading Level 1 Pokémon over surprise trade, 99% of the time, it's someone hatching hundreds of eggs in order to get a shiny/Perfect IV one. I should know, I've been there. I want a Dreepy for myself, I hope it's good enough to be viable in a competitive match. It's strange. The best way to get to Level 100 is not to fight the highest level trainers over and over, but to do max raids and shove candy down your Pokémon's gob. Considering that's how you get TR's as well, I suppose it's a good thing, but it's odd. Expect to see me constantly starting Max Raids over the weekend, so feel free to join in.

Also Zacian, but the box legendary was pretty obvious, anyway.

Actually, it did, but in order to actually connect with your friend, you had to both go to a certain menu option at the same time, then you go through another 3 menus that I still can't figure out without randomly clicking stuff and then maybe that person will appear. If they used a different name to their 3DS account, then good luck figuring out who it is. Somewhere in the Sun/Moon thread, there's a whole page dedicated to 2 poor members trying to figure it out.

In that case, no-one working on this game won, because Sun/Moon outperforms it in sheer awfulness. It's a shame too, because X/Y had really good online features. I found I had decent success with playing some Raid Battles last night with @Ugh first aid and @Sméagol when I was just running around starting raids. Just gotta make sure you filter by Friends so it doesn't get lost in all the other stuff.

If you haven't got Sobble by then, @Blade, I'll be back on Thursday.

Dayum! @RedShell! Nice find! I think that's a Gigantamax one! EDIT: Argh! Didn't catch it, oh well.

Not yet, but once Pokémon HOME comes out, you'll be able to transfer some Pokémon through that.

Sorry, not sorry. @RedShell and @Sméagol. Too funny! Won't do it again.