[DS] Pokemon Black and White 2

[BaroqueSieben]

And now in other news, I learned some vital info about EV training. Turns out you will have to earn double the EVs if you breach level 50. So instead of 4 per stat-up, you need 8. I was wondering what was up with that. There's also nature, but that's a whole other level of witchcraft that I'm not going to discuss at the moment.

Now where'd you hear this about EV's? As far as I was aware, the stats still grow at a rate of 1 point per 4 EV's acquired.

As for Nature, it's not as deep magic as it seems; Natures cause one core stat's potential to increase and another's to decrease, though HP is never affected by Natures. More info here, but ignore that 'Battle style' section if you don't care about the Battle Palace's hands-off battling.

It all boils down to what would benefit your Pokemon most. (For example, that Musharna would probably benefit from Modest or Calm nature -- both decrease physical ATK, but Modest boosts Special ATK while Calm boosts Special DEF.)

[Helios Leinheart]

It was in a guide I looked up. It looked pretty legit.

I have another problem. Surprise. Let me just go through the steps of what I did. That might help find out the problem.

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1: Bred Eevees til I got the right nature.
2: Used a ton of Special ATK and Speed feathers on it. (I like collecting them while waiting for eggs to hatch.)
3: No change in stats. Whut?
4: Frustrated already, I thought maybe I have to battle real quick to make the stats show.
5: Battle. Eevee levels up to about eight with Power Band on it. No change in stats.
6: I punch the wall. Stats still don't change.

So at this point I was pretty f**king flustered. I thought "Ok, well maybe I just have to evolve it." I was getting deseperate.

7: Went into Twist Mountain, found that ice boulder, battled, leveled, and evolved to Glacion. (I should note that every time Eevee has fought up to this point, he never landed a hit on an enemy before switching out. If that matters)

8: Special ATK stat goes up to 60 something. I'm not sure if the effects of the feathers have shown yet or not.
9: I start EV training speed by fighting Basculin, which are supposed to give 2 speed EVs. Which means with a Macho Brace, each fight should net 1 speed. It's not happening. In fact, speed isn't going up at all. I thought I had this figured out. Why is the game being such a f**king troll?

[Pokemonaces]

Well if your trying to level it up based by speed and SP attack, first, I can't exactly guess how many feathers you used that focused on the two stats you were aiming for, but remember using 4 of those will equal only one stat gain. Also you mentioned that it evolved to Glaceon (SP attack specialist and semi moderate speed) And focused on speed first. Macho brace doubles the amount of EV's so you get. Basculin give 2 EV's normally so you should be getting 4. Odd

[Flare]

You might have maxed them out using the feathers.

[Mac_Green]

It's also possible that the level ups just aren't reflecting the increase in the stats -yet-. It's happened to me before. Sometimes though, I've done that and a level up nets me a +7 increase in a stat (or something like that) that I'd been EV training in. It may just take a while before it shows.

[Helios Leinheart]

I'll be patient with it for now.

[Kaijin]

I'm a lucky dastard... Hohohohoho


That nature, that ability, that attack stat, that shinyness... I've just won the game (again) <3

I'm gonna train this little creeper until it catches up to the rest of my party. (It's a nice replacement for my Crobat)

.P.S.: Man... even as a Skorupi I'm badass...

[Kaijin]

After a massive Audino genocide (I've spent hours, killing millions and millions of those pink trap-Chanseys) and wasting every Rare Candy I've found along the way I finally assembled the most devastating thing I could have in mind:

-Fafnir (Serprerior, lvl.86, Male) [Leaf Blade, Frenzy Plant, Coil, Dragon Pulse]
-Ouka (Lucario. lvl.86, Female) [Aura Sphere, Shadow Blade, Close Combat, Thunder Punch]
-Juno (Lapras, lvl.86, Female) [Surf, Ice Beam, Psychic, Thunder]
-Oliver (Drapion, lvl.86, Male, Shiny) [Cross Posion, Night Slash, X-Scissor, Crunch]
-Flannery (Arcanine, lvl.86, Female) [Flare Blitz, Heat Wave, Outrage, Crunch]
-Tiamat (Flygon, lvl.86, Male, Shiny) [Earth Power, Dragon Claw, Fly, Rock Slide]

My fingers are sore like hell... That Drapion suffered the biggest level leap ever made by me so far (55 levels since I found it this morning)... x_x

[Flare]

You know, if you get the workout gym in Join Ave., you can pay about 14k and you can get your pokemon leveled up? Works exactly like a Rare Candy too.

[Kaijin]

I'm playing it via emulator (I don't have a DS... Well there's actually one in home but it's not mine...x_x), so I can't play online and thus I can't get to develop Join Avenue (it happened the same to me on White 1 and the White Forest).

Besides a Pokémon's growth differs vastly depending on how you get them to level up (a Pokémon that has leveled up via battling will usually have higher EVs than a pokémon who leveled up by eating a rare candy).

[Flare]

It doesn't matter, I can't get online with mine and I still got it.

[Kaijin]

Now I see what you meant, but still it's not a good method for a level grinding (It's too expensive and too scarce, you can't only level up once per day). But still could serve well for happiness related evolutions (combined with Join Avenue's Salon).

On a side note... I just beat White 2's main arc and boy what a let down...
I fully know that was overleveled as hell (slightly underleveled for Volt White 2's E4 though XD), but still... It's the first time that I felt that I could have breezed through the E4 underleveled... Even the champion was a disappointment (in every possible aspect I might add), to the point that post game Alder's battle (who has more or less the same levels as the champion) posed a way harder challenge.

Oh well... Now I'm not sure if I should focus on the post game or starting a new run on either White or Heart Gold (other than PWT, Benga and maybe Pokéstar BW2's post game doesn't seem that alluring to me).

[Feathers]

Thanks to a sweet DNS changing trick on the DS, I was able to acquire the JPN version of Meloetta.

Maybe I was behind on things, but I was pretty excited to get my very own Meloetta. I can still connect to the GTS and it wasn't a cheat or hack so my game is still "clean" too.

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[Jinouga87]

Does she have Relic Song?

[Helios Leinheart]

Now I see what you meant, but still it's not a good method for a level grinding (It's too expensive and too scarce, you can't only level up once per day). But still could serve well for happiness related evolutions (combined with Join Avenue's Salon).

On a side note... I just beat White 2's main arc and boy what a let down...
I fully know that was overleveled as hell (slightly underleveled for Volt White 2's E4 though XD), but still... It's the first time that I felt that I could have breezed through the E4 underleveled... Even the champion was a disappointment (in every possible aspect I might add), to the point that post game Alder's battle (who has more or less the same levels as the champion) posed a way harder challenge.

Oh well... Now I'm not sure if I should focus on the post game or starting a new run on either White or Heart Gold (other than PWT, Benga and maybe Pokéstar BW2's post game doesn't seem that alluring to me).

The good old Elite 4 aren't quite as hard as they used to be, but that's probably because a lot of kids play Pokemon. And we all know how kids react in the face of a hardcore challenge.

That's why there is a challenge mode. I dare you to take the same Pokemon you just fought them with and try again. You might be surprised.

[Feathers]

Does she have Relic Song?

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[Kaijin]

That's why there is a challenge mode. I dare you to take the same Pokemon you just fought them with and try again. You might be surprised.

1. I've seen runs of B2/W2 Challenge's mode and if they spice things up quite a bit, they don't seem THAT hellish (on the other hand Blaze Black 2 and Volt White 2's Challenge Mode...).
2. I've beat my way through Gen I to Gen IV with a ONLY Magikarp... I'm not easily scared.

.P.S.: White Treehollow and Black Tower actually do pose quite a bit of a challenge (They kinda remind me Tri-Ace game's extra dungeons in a way) and the reward for beating it is utterly alluring (shiny dragon) <3

[Jinouga87]

I'm waiting on Nintendo to make a Pokestar Studios game.

[Drazzimyr]

I know no one has posted here for a while, but Gamestop will let you download Meloetta from March 4 to March 24.