10/20/06 Cont'd
Sorry, my Internet went down. My first chance to finish the article from the sixteenth.
Now... we have the methods by which Aruseusu, Sheimi and Daakurai are obtained. Those are event Pokémon - the "get all the Pokémon for Aruseusu" thing was a false alarm. Now half of the people who read this will groan and the other half will cheer, but yeah, sorry. Not that everybody won't have them anyway by sharking.
Serebii has also posted the D/P items, which I've been eagerly awaiting, and lo and behold:
Sharp Claw
Raises chance of critical hit, Attach to Sneasel and trade to Evolve
As I mentioned on the first of this month, I had previously created an item named Sharp Claw which evolves a fake Pokémon I made. Ignoring the inconsistency between the report that Sneasel evolves by levelling up at night with this item and this claim that it's an ordinary attach-and-trade evolution, I did promise that I'd laugh if it raised critical hit ratio, and since it does...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Okay, now that's over with. To look at some of the other items, the Beautiful Skin is interesting; it will definitely be used a lot in competitive battling. We have Special and Speed versions of Choice Band now; we have a "Concentration Band" and "Wisdom Glasses" which just raise power of all physical/special moves (only slightly, I expect); we have a "Metronome", not the attack, which raises the power of a move if you use it consecutively; we have specialized Macho Braces which only increase EVs in one particular stat; we have an item that eliminates charging moves; we have some items that prolong certain effects that last a certain number of turns; we have a bunch of items which I can't possibly think of any benefit to (the Black Steel Orb lowers Speed and grounds flying/levitating Pokémon... the Flame Orb induces a burn to the holder, while the Toxic Orb induces poisoning, perhaps useful to activate Guts and prevent other status effects, but still... the Full Stomach Incense and Shining Tail make the holder always attack last, although that could be useful in some specialized situations...). Definitely some interesting stuff.
There's stuff about the Safari Zone up on Serebii.net as well... What I find most interesting is this part:
The grass in the Safari Zone is also incased in Mud, if you walk too slowly or close to grassless mud, you will get stuck in the mud and have to remove yourself, every time you get yourself out of being stuck, it counts as a step so be weary
They probably added that so people can't cheat the steps meter (see the R/S Tips and Tricks section on the main site). Neat idea - frustrating as it is for the player.
And yeah, that's all for now. D/P is more or less covered by now, so updates might become stray for a while.
Comments
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Iveechan
Powerful Herb may be one of the best attach items ever... it will be great for all those Fire types who can learn Solarbeam now. It will probably be very difficult to obtain, but no doubt it will be used a lot in cheaterlazybattle, I mean, netbattle.
I got the impression that Black Steel Orb makes the user's Ground attacks able to hit flyers and levitators, but if it makes the flying or levitating USER vulnerale to ground... then it is useless.
I like your speculative theories, gives me a chance to share my opinions without having to go into an overcrowded forum :D
Butterfree (Website)
I got the impression that Black Steel Orb makes the user's Ground attacks able to hit flyers and levitators
Hmm, perhaps, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that way, does it? o.o I mean, you holding some heavy orb thing, and suddenly earthquakes can affect birds? Ah well, a lot of things don't make a lot of sense in Pokémon...
I like your speculative theories, gives me a chance to share my opinions without having to go into an overcrowded forum :D
Heh, thanks. x3 I like being able to read your opinions without having to plough through overcrowded forums as well, because generally you have interesting points to make.
And if you couldn't tell, I just made a quote BBCode for the comments system. :D No quote author thing yet, unfortunately.
BirthdayPirate
Black Steel Orb and the like would absolutely kill with Trick...
Negrek (Website)
Yup, black steel orb is for tricking. Those items that make you go last, too.
Scythe claw is gonna kill with that one uber with the super-powerful fire spin attack. Metronome sounds fun to me for just messing around with fury cutter a bit. Extra-extra power after every consecutive use, eh? And the burny orb thingy/poison orb thingy are just begging for swellow to hold them.
Looks like some fun items this gen. I was looking at the Pokétore stuff, too, and it looks like I might be spending too much time just fiddling around with that thing. Ah, distraction...
Butterfree (Website)
Ah, yes, I forgot about Trick. Yes, those will be very evil with Trick...
The Unown Trainer
Don't forget the rocks- they increase the number of turns a weather effect occurs. Makes me think of sunnybeamers. Cough Castform Cough
Mr. Pelipper
And isn't there a move that allows you to throw hold items? And if mimiroru and mimiroppu can learn that move, then they can throw it, and during the turns that the item is held, it will have no effect! Hooray! A use for disuse!
Iveechan
In moveset threads I've seen Black Steel Orb being mentioned as letting the holder's ground moves hitting flyers and levitators, but they could be wrong also. It would be nice if descriptions on Serebii for these new items, abilities, and moves were more clear.
Larissa (Website)
Well damn. o_O Maybe you ARE Satoshi Tajiri, Fwee-fwee. ... ... XDDDDDDD
... I just noticed that line at the bottom (The CoST is in no way affiliated with Nintendo blah blah, unless there's something my friends haven't been telling me.)
You, my dear, are a total dork. xD
PinkDeoxys
Looks like Trick is going to have a lot more use in competitive blay. Trickorber, anyone?
Myra
Wow. First Firered and Leafgreen, then May, now this! Yeah, Butterfree it does seem like you're psychic, game freak is watching everything you do, or you're Satoshi Tajiri in disguise...
Dun, dun, dun...