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Things that grind your gears!

Sunset Star

The DS Gamer
I feel like nicknaming a Pokémon some contraction of "Equivalent Exchange" and putting it on Wonder Trade now.
 

Disaster_Lord

Sad Bayleef is Sad.
Wt is to farm pmiles i receive something and then i trade it back...i honestly dont really care about it bar the ppups i can farm of it.
 

Urrnge

A Dandy Guy in Space
Greninja used Ice Beam!
The Blastoise froze!
The Blastoise thawed out!
Blastoise used Hydro Pump!

Every single time a manage to get a freeze off.

And wonder trade, I don't get why people get pissy when others send bad Pokemon out. You sent out a Togepi with 5 IVs and egg moves? That's cool. You got a Bunnelby in return? That's kinda sucks, but don't get upset over it. You're not entitled to good Pokemon. I mean you could deposit your Pokemon in GTS or something if you want a decent Pokemon. Most of the time, new people are trying out wonder trade, so they put in that Pidgey they caught to try it out. I mainly use it to send out stuff I got when hatching eggs. I really wanted a good Cheruubi, and when I got one that was close enough, I just wonder trade the other stuff. I get more Honedges, Charmanders, and Froakies then any other Pokemon. Quite frankly, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Honedge. Charmander and Froakie are still cool though.
 

((JAWS))

Johto Boy
Yeah whining about Wonder Trade is a little silly. With a system like that what do you expect? A level 100 shiny Garchomp with maxed out EVs and IVs? I mean come on people be realistic here. Of course people are going to send out Zubats.
 

Cradily17

Well-Known Member
Carnivine is known as the Bug Catcher Pokémon, yet it is weak against BUG-type moves. Seems legit.
 

xerxes

ようこそ!ワタシの音楽工場へへへへへ
I find it weird when the whiners try to justify themselves by saying that they send out MM extras and the likes. They're basically just trading off something that's trash to them and would otherwise get released anyway, what difference does it make if they end up releasing someone's Zubat instead of their 387th Bagon? You give them your trash and they give you theirs. Sounds reasonable to me. If the other person likes it, great! But I doubt you'd know anyway.
 
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ABaz202

Member
Carnivine is known as the Bug Catcher Pokémon, yet it is weak against BUG-type moves. Seems legit.

Awesome. Bravo.

I find it weird when the whiners try to justify themselves by saying that they send out MM extras and the likes. They're basically just trading off something that's trash to them and would otherwise get released anyway, what difference does it make if they end up releasing someone's Zubat instead of their 387th Bagon? You give them your trash and they give you theirs. Sounds reasonable to me. If the other person likes it, great! But I doubt you'd know anyway.

Can you imagine the complex that those 387 Bagon have? It's like a factory. Nope, not shiny, see you later. The Zubat feels much more special.
 

Huhadude

Banned
Yes I agree. Wonder trade shouldn't be messed with. People are not gonna trade away their legendaries. They're gonna trade Pokemon they don't need.
 

Disaster_Lord

Sad Bayleef is Sad.
Hey i wt 6 shinny pichus i got while trying to get a 30 31 30 31 31 31Naive pikachu with volt tackle and hp ice. I hope i made some random guys happy.
 

poke-man

Pokemon collector
I wonder traded a shiny riolu, 2 batches of regi's (I was speedrunning emerald for a while so i could get multiple regigigas...ended up trading most of them for the gen 5 legends i missed ) and some other cool stuff....i didn't care about what i got since i have nothing to do but lotto anymore, and those ID's help...only haveroom for 20 more pokemon in my boxes....still have millions of money left....so bored that i may just make everything lv100....


Speaking of boredom, something that grinds my gears: I restarted my fire red copy today, and when I was on my way to get oak's parcel I encountered a shiny pidgey....obviously that means I have no pokeballs.....damn, first shiny i've encountered in a pre-gen4 game.
 

ebevan91

Well-Known Member
Fluent English speakers who call Pokemon by their Japanese names and expect you to know who the hell they are talking about.
 

Sunset Star

The DS Gamer
Fluent English speakers who call Pokemon by their Japanese names and expect you to know who the hell they are talking about.
Off-topic, but people using Japanese anime titles in general. Oh, My Anime List, couldn't you have waited for AnoHana to get licensed before you added it...?
On-topic, it's hard enough to memorize 700+ names in one language, but memorizing 700+ names in multiple languages...
 
Too many...but off the top of my head:

•People who only like to use sand attack.
•Encountering shinies and running out of Pokéballs. Happened to me with the first shiny I ever saw.
•Trolls who give awesome pokémon the stupidest names and put them on GTS. I'm never using my shiny "Chartard" in battle again for that reason.
 

Tokimiya

snow queen.
Ugh right now I can name a few:
-Hatching male eevees (That's inevitable but umm.... A FEMALE MORE FREQUENTLY?)
-People sending over Froakies, Scatterbugs and Fletchlings... at least make an effort to send a pokemon you're hatching. STOP catching lame pokemons in the wild and wonder trading them.
-Had like 5 Roselia Hordes now that Munna (Who I'm EV Training) has Pokerus, I only eno****er Psyducks and Hoppips
 

bolter1

Swampert Trainer
When people leave an Unrated Random Battle on PS when they start losing. If you're playing to win, why are you playing Unrated? There is no ladder for you to be climbing or falling so just battle!
 

katelia

Graceful Elegance
Ugh right now I can name a few:
-Hatching male eevees (That's inevitable but umm.... A FEMALE MORE FREQUENTLY?)
-People sending over Froakies, Scatterbugs and Fletchlings... at least make an effort to send a pokemon you're hatching. STOP catching lame pokemons in the wild and wonder trading them.
-Had like 5 Roselia Hordes now that Munna (Who I'm EV Training) has Pokerus, I only eno****er Psyducks and Hoppips

I know your feels...
Seriously why is the gender ratio of Eevee 75/25 anyway? Does it really look THAT macho? :/

I'll add one I've encountered a few days ago.
A trainer challenging you with 6 Arceus.
Talking about creativity.
 

Disaster_Lord

Sad Bayleef is Sad.
I know your feels...
Seriously why is the gender ratio of Eevee 75/25 anyway? Does it really look THAT macho? :/

I'll add one I've encountered a few days ago.
A trainer challenging you with 6 Arceus.
Talking about creativity.

Eevee is very macho my friend. It doesnt have fur its all just a single moustache.

And 6 arceus is rofl if you have cscarf ditto.
 
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