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Trade Chains

M

Mr. Marowak

was wrong about Gen6
Ever notice how you tend to get stuck trading, and going in an eventual loop? Yeah, me too. I just HATE those situations! You barely ever accomplish anything!

It's like...
Reuniclus for a Gothitelle, for an Akakazam, for a Medicham, for a Gallade, for a Steelix, for a Meganium, for an Empoleon, for a Lanturn, for a Marowak, for a Tropius, for a Sigilyph, for a Reuniclus...

It goes on forever! Discuss now.
 
...I can honestly say that that's never happened to me. You could probably accomplish your goal more easily in the trade forums.
 
Happened to me a few times before I started training competitively, trying to get shinies.

They usually were taken before I could get to them, but I did get a shiny Slokoth before. It also shows no signs of being hacked, so I feel like it's a legal one.
 
This wasn't a big one, but once I traded my friend my Reshiram for a Shiny Salamnce. I regretted it, but he wouldn't trade back; he hated that Salamance as much as I did. So, one day I meet this kid, so I trade him the Salamance for a Bastiodon, and I traded that to get Reshiram back. I'm not really sure who got the worst end of the deal...
 
Cooe233 said:
This wasn't a big one, but once I traded my friend my Reshiram for a Shiny Salamnce. I regretted it, but he wouldn't trade back; he hated that Salamance as much as I did. So, one day I meet this kid, so I trade him the Salamance for a Bastiodon, and I traded that to get Reshiram back. I'm not really sure who got the worst end of the deal...
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Your friend got the worst end of the deal. The other guy got the best deal.
 
This happens to me more times than I bother remembering.
 
Cooe233 said:
The Salamance was the hackedest Pokemon I'd ever seen.Trust me, it was screwy.
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Heh heh, I remember a friend of mine used a whole set of hackers on me, and I still kicked his butt.

This didn't really happen to me before. There was one time where I traded a Latios for a Lv 100 Bisharp, for something else, for another thing, for a Lv 100 Arceus from the Dream World in Japan. Then onto another guy it went because I got it for them...
 
I can't really remember specific ones because I haven't done one in a while, but I've used this technique to help in my GTS goal (in my sig). Since my boxes were getting so full, my main goal was to trace something back until I found a trade I could do with a pokemon I already had.

Example:
-find a Pignite I want, for a Dewott
-find a Dewott for a Servine
-find a Servine for an Unfezant
-find an Unfezant for an Altaria > *ding*, I've already got an Altaria

Something like that. More commonly I'd find a trade where I'd need to evolve something, so I'd trade for the unevolved poke for the exp boost, then evolve and trade it for the target, so its only a 2x chain.
 
Back before 5th gen, during 4th gen, I would scour the Global Trade Center, constantly trading pokemon, getting better ones, and trading for weaker ones to get the ones i need for better ones, then the one i wanted eventually getting taken.
It got EXTREMELY annoying. (eventually i got every legendary, a few in japanese, i transferred them to a pokemon black, wich then got stolen <.<" but that's a different story...)
 
shadow_zoroark said:
Back before 5th gen, during 4th gen, I would scour the Global Trade Center, constantly trading pokemon, getting better ones, and trading for weaker ones to get the ones i need for better ones, then the one i wanted eventually getting taken.
It got EXTREMELY annoying. (eventually i got every legendary, a few in japanese, i transferred them to a pokemon black, wich then got stolen <.<" but that's a different story...)
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Yeah, I know! So annoying, which is why I stick to trade forums now.
 
I think i'm good at trade chaines
My most recent one was tepig for japanese charmander for tyrantitar for hardy kyreum for doccile mew for a decent iv bold celebi all depositing on the gts
 
Yes the wonders of trading have always interested me. Someone should make a little youtube show of how two players both get a Bidoof and they get a month to see what kind of pokemon they can get from just a Bidoof.

Like someon trades there Bidoof for a Drilbur, the person will keep trading, or making a trade chain, in order to get something good, like a shiny.
 
Way back in the third gen. I tried this but it was getting redundant and annoying so I stopped. Not planning to go back to that anymore, that's for sure.
 
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