The Pokemon Questions Thread Again!

[Wishing Star]

Fire/steel would have a 4x weakness to ground and water/rock would have a 4x weakness to grass...

If the x4 weakness isn't to a type that is in either of the trios, it doesn't apply.
In what we proposed at first, the 4x Ground weakness doesn't matter, but the Grass one certainly does... :/

 

[Morty05]

what is good nature for metangross? is hasty any good?

 

[ChaosBlizzard]

what is good nature for metangross? is hasty any good?

Standard Metagross is almost always Adamant. The only notable exceptions are Scarfed variants and Agilitygross, which are obviously Jolly, and any used in TR which would want Brave. Hasty is +Spd/-Def, which is obviously inferior to Jolly, but not completely detrimental. Depending on how the IVs look, you could go for one of the speed minded sets and probably be okay. Metagross' bulk is one of its selling points though, so that's an unfortunate nature if you're stuck with it. Definitely not the worst it could be though.

 

[Flippd]

I'm having a question.

I'm building a Rain team and the first Pokemon I need is Politoed, since it has Drizzle. But that's his Hidden Ability.
So I was looking and the Dream World has Poliwag, Politoed's first evolution. I now catched one.

If I evolve that Poliwag to a Politoed, does it have Drizzle or will it have Water Absorb/Damp?

 

[blaze boy]

I'm having a question.

I'm building a Rain team and the first Pokemon I need is Politoed, since it has Drizzle. But that's his Hidden Ability.
So I was looking and the Dream World has Poliwag, Politoed's first evolution. I now catched one.

If I evolve that Poliwag to a Politoed, does it have Drizzle or will it have Water Absorb/Damp?

If Poliwag has it hidden Ability, Swift Swim, then when it evolve into a Politoed it will have Drizzle.

 

[Candy Coated Gengar]

I don't want there to be hypothetical starters with types Fire, Water/Steel, and Grass/Rock. Throws off that balance!
Though it does make each first type neutral to what it would otherwise be NVE to (Fire being neutral to Water/Steel instead of NVE to Water), but eh, it doesn't really flow... :/

Well, that's already kind of the D/P/P starters in their final forms. Well, except it's a Fire/Fighting and Grass/Ground, but it's close.

And is the NVE really necessary for the teaching experience? As long as they teach Water beats Fire but loses to Grass, Fire beats Grass but loses to Water and Grass beats Water but loses to Fire, isn't the objective of the starter Pokemon achieved?

 

[Bionic Bread]

Will it be possible to get pokemon from B&W1 to B&W2 w/out trading them over 1 by 1?

I am completing my national pokedex on black and white and it would take forever to send the pokemon over to black and white 2 via trade. Does anyone know if they will have a solution for this. It would be nice if you could poketransfer from B&W 1 to B&W 2 or something similar.

 

[DMerle]

They have the Poké Transfer again.

 

[blaze boy]

I am completing my national pokedex on black and white and it would take forever to send the pokemon over to black and white 2 via trade. Does anyone know if they will have a solution for this. It would be nice if you could poketransfer from B&W 1 to B&W 2 or something similar.

Sorry trading is the only way to go.

It would be nice if Game Freak released a pokémon box to make sending them over quicker.

 

[Tuskie Tyrant Yoko Kurama]

Oh no, 345 Pokemon I have to catch in the wild on Black 2. :'(

 

[Wishing Star]

Well, that's already kind of the D/P/P starters in their final forms. Well, except it's a Fire/Fighting and Grass/Ground, but it's close.

And is the NVE really necessary for the teaching experience? As long as they teach Water beats Fire but loses to Grass, Fire beats Grass but loses to Water and Grass beats Water but loses to Fire, isn't the objective of the starter Pokemon achieved?

Yeah, it would. But I'm just saying that the reverse-cycle would be cool on those starter Pokémon.
Alternatively, there could be Pokémon with two stages or something with those types.

 

[Truly Deceptive]

It's worth it, though.

 

[Jonah the Slaking]

Unless you're using Hidden Power, IV's don't matter all that much. Granted, they help, but is 20 more points in a stat worth hundreds of hours of constant breeding?

 

[Frozen Ghost]

The dream world won't work for me, and I know why, but is it worth trading all my pokemon over to my other game and restarting just to get the dream world back?

 

[Indigoodra]

Unless you're using Hidden Power, IV's don't matter all that much. Granted, they help, but is 20 more points in a stat worth hundreds of hours of constant breeding?

(Is this a trick question?)

Of course, all the serious competitive people find shortcuts, so...

But really, if you're just playing casually (like PBR or Battle Frontier/Subway/Tower), it shouldn't matter much.

 

[Dangertrout]

The dream world won't work for me, and I know why, but is it worth trading all my pokemon over to my other game and restarting just to get the dream world back?

depends on why the DW isnt working for you. what's the error message you're getting?

 

[Frozen Ghost]

when i go to put a pokemon to sleep, it says it needs recharging, but its said that for a while now.

 

[Dangertrout]

ah, that's easy to fix. don't try to connect to the DW, don't change the clock on your DS and don't swap systems for a full 24hours. then it should work normally again

 

[Frozen Ghost]

The same message came up after a few weeks of not using it...

 

[Dangertrout]

hmmm, that's weird. I know the three things I mentioned will reset the recharge timer, but if you didn't touch your game for a week it should have been fine. unless the system you used a week later was different from the one you used before your break?