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Remind me, does Seel get a good stab water move not called surf upon purification?

Seel's purified moveset is Helping Hand, Surf, Safegaurd, and Ice Beam...

starting to rethink choosing Vaporeon as my evolution.

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Yeah, but Surf is like EQ in XD, I think.

It hits both Mons on the field.

So, if you have something like Gligar out, it get mauled.

Anything with low sp def as a teammate gets mauled, so IDK if I want it.

Starting to think that Zubat may be worth it in XD

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I'm pretty sure surf only affects the enemy pokes. Just checked, serebii says both oponents for gen 3 surf.

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Hoppip

Makes those Shadows much easier to catch, and supports Numel with dat Sleep Powder and Ground immunity

Butterfreeee

I'm gonna use Espeon.

Psybeam+Bite and I think it gets hypnosis and the TWave move tutor.

Nope and nope. My god, Serebii is like, 5 clicks away. Literally.

Remind me, does Seel get a good stab water move not called surf upon purification?

No, but why would you need something other than Surf?

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Butterfreeee

Comes a bit later.

Nope and nope. My god, Serebii is like, 5 clicks away. Literally.

I wasn't on a PC when I typed that.

Surfing the web takes a chunk of phone battery

I was going off of memory, and turns out that I was thinking of the gen 4 surf

No, but why would you need something other than Surf?

Ok, so I made a mistake.

Yeah, Vaporeon would be good.

Access to Aurora Beam and stuff on level up isn't shabby.

As for Jolteon, I think it's mediocre here

I can see Roselia getting picked, for powders+Magical Leaf.

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Comes a bit later.

No shit, that was just an offhand suggestion because Butterfree does have a 97.5% accurate Sleep Powder in this game - which is pretty much the only reason to use Butterfree in any context.

Yeah, Vaporeon would be good.

Not when your strongest move is a non-STAB Ice Beam until Hydro Pump (well OK technically Blizzard but no one likes Blizzard), because Surf doesn't exist in this game. It's slow to boot.

I can see Roselia getting picked, for powders+Magical Leaf.

Roselia has no powders without using the move relearner, only a very unreliable Grasswhistle.

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No shit, that was just an offhand suggestion because Butterfree does have a 97.5% accurate Sleep Powder in this game.

Not when your strongest move is a non-STAB Ice Beam until Hydro Pump (well OK technically Blizzard but no one likes Blizzard), because Surf doesn't exist in this game. It's slow to boot.

Roselia has no powders without using the move relearner, only a very unreliable Grasswhistle.

Mental note:don't argue with dondon.

Yeah, but the way we're drafting.

We only have 8 picks.

Butterfree comes just before Citidark

We may not just go and capture everything on Citidark.

Alot of Citidark Shadows has effective moves on Butterfree.

It's only saving grace appears to be fairly accurate powders.

As for Vaporeon, I get the point.

As for Roselia, I can't remember everything offhand, so I messed up

I can see Tangela/Butterfree being late picks for sleep utility.

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Hoppip's evolutions are faster, it comes earlier, and it gets Cotton Spore/Leech Seed for even more support. And of course it does get STAB on whatever Grass move I get it. (I can deal with the lesser accuracy)

Butterfree'd be a nice secondary sleeper, though

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Well, I've started, and so far I blitzed to Numel and caught all of the Hexagon Brothers' Pokemon. No detailed stats since I'm posting from my 3DS.

Numel (M) Lv. 15, Serious nature

Espeon (M) Lv. 16, Quiet nature

Teddiursa (F) Lv. 17, Impish nature

Teddiura picked up an ULTRA BALL of all things!

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By the way, I have a favor to ask of all of you:

If Teddiursa gets something via Pickup, can you please tell me what item he picked up at what level? Thanks. I'm guessing that XD uses the same table as Emerald, but since there's no use for the Repel or Escape Rope, I'm wondering what items are substituted.

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Unless I fail really hard at reading, Snivy picked Ledyba.

Why do I keep think its Reins turn when the OP is in another tab :facepalm:

C'mon Snivy, I see you here

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Kon was right. I did choose Ledyba.

Yes

it is your turn now

Rein picked for Dark Elf/Banjo/Racer.

No really, it's your turn Snivy, then CR

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