| >> | I only raise and train pokemon from scratch on my older games, more for the zen than anything else. As far as fighting friends, I throw together movesets and EV spreads on pokegen and put um on the most current rom I have on my flash card (Black 2, right now). I like it because I can optimize them however I want, even purely aesthetic things like what pokeball they are in, where I met them, shiny, etc. , while still basing their setup on what they are legitimately capable of, like abiding EV limits, legal movesets, etc. If I want to tweak their performance, I can go in and do it by switching natures, EV's, or whatever, without having to discard them and start at square one. I spent more than a month when B&W came out EXHAUSTIVELY breeding a Deino for IV's, nature, & dark pulse, AFTER I had already raised TWO all the way to Hydregons. The end result was a truly gorgeous specimen, 30's & 31's for IV's in everything but attack, modest nature, all that. Poke judge said it couldn't be better. But even then it took me over a week to raise it up and get it's EVs how I wanted. When I finally used it though, it still wasn't fast enough, it's killing power was glorious but it was being outrun by things that really weren't even that fast. I realized that a timid nature would probably be better for sweeping, but it was too late. I wasn't about to go through all that shit again just so it could have a different nature. Really, I don't think cheating is that bad if all you're doing is saving yourself some time. If anything, you are being cheated out of time by trying to jump through the same hoops over and over. It's fun in the context of the game, but not that fun when you are trying to arrange teams in the post-game. |
