PureChaos said:
I'm generally a calm person and it takes a lot to annoy me but there's one thing in games that REALLY pisses me off, random chance. I'll give some examples:
I had Pokemon Blue all those years ago but it broke a few months ago so I bought LeafGreen. One of the causes of annoyance is is the Nature of a pokemon. There are 25 natures and each one will increase a stat by 10% and decrease a stat by 10%. In order to put that to my advantage I look at what moves my pokemon will have and then try to catch one with the best Nature, like Hypno has all special attacks so i get one that is Modest which increases special attack by 10% and decreases attack by 10%. seeing as he has no physical attacks, it doesn't matter that he has decreased attack. HOWEVER, which Nature a pokemon has is down to random chance so there is a 1/25 chance that the caught Hypno will be Modest. BUT, because the game hates me I get all other natures, some of the i've had 4 times, with no Modest. I'm currently trying to get a Modest Vulpix, it has a 20% appearance rate BUT I can have 10+ battles without seeing a Vulpix, then when I catch it I haveget bitched about with the Nature and it usually takes AGES. sure, I could just catch one and whatever Nature it has I just go with but I'd rather have the boost where it is needed.
The other example is when i was playing Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, there was a weapon i wanted that was the rare drop from an enemy. Given the drop rate of the item and the number of the enemy fought in the quest, it would take an average of 35 runs to get the weapon. 50+ runs later and it STILL hasn't dropped. other rare items dropped 3 or 4 times but the one i actually wanted? NO! i ended up trading with someone to get the weapon. i don't mind having to do a few more runs than the average but when you do LOADS more runs and still nothing? the game's taking the piss.
TL;DR, when something I want is achieved through random chance it will take longer than it should do because games hate me.
Anyone else have that happen?
Okay ,'let me impart some pokemon breeder knowledge , if you mate a pokemon with a ditto at the day care , the pokemon will almost always have the same nature as the ditto . So if you have a modest ditto and a jolly drowzee , when the egg hatches more often than not it will hatch as a modest drowzee .
Whats tedious is actually catching the ditto nature you do want , but once yOu do , youcan get almost any pokemon ( thats breedable ) to have any nature you want .
Breeder knowledge number two , ditto counts as the female . So what i said above applies to the female versions of pokemon . Say you have a jolly female pigey and you mate it with a male serious pidgey , the egg when it hatches is most likely to be jolly .
Now if you want to know more. Let's talk about IV . The IV (0-31 ) is based on the characteristic . Say i want my gengar to have a special attack IV of 30-31 , i would want his characteristic to be mischivous ( this means that his highest IV is in sp attack ) . How would i go along breeding a pokemon and having his characteristic being mischivous? Same thing as with nature ( remember the pokemon that hatchs keeps the females nature) but with the male. What this means is , if i have a female modest abra that is quick to anger and i mate her with a adamant male abra that is mischivous , the chances that the egt hatches into a modest abra this is michivous is VERY high . This would mean your new abra has a 10% boost to sp atk , a 10% reduction in attack , and has an IV of 30-31 in sp attack. Meaning you are well on your way to have the highest possible sp atk on your abra ( and eventually alakazam ).
I won't get into EV training because that has less to do with actuall breeding .
Have fun hopes this helps, if you have any questions let me know.
