People talking shit like that usually have no idea about competitive Pokémon. Always use F.E.A.R. against those dudes for maximum humiliation.

I doubt it. I tend to train up stupid Pokemon like Fearow or Vivilion :lol

Which new item?

Destiny Knot. It isn’t really new (mistake on my part), but the effect of letting the parents pass down 5 of their IV's is, that was introduced with X & Y.

Ah. I figured that was the item. Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it to Ditto while breeding.

Well it can if the IV's of Ditto are bad ;)

Is it just me, or do the pokemon games not seem optimized for giving the tools for competitive play? Just having to do a bunch of crazy grinding and online research isn't very user friendly to me. I know X and Y have been getting better with that but still.

That's because Pokemon isn't intended to reach that level of competitive play. It is competitive by nature, but it was taken a tad too far.
IVs aren't meant to be simple and easy to understand, hence why calculating them is near impossible without tool assist and why perfect IV breeding is so tedious and difficult. XY only recently made EVs easy to get, but even then, that's only if you use Super Training, which is seen as inefficient in comparison to horde battles.

Hell, the steps Pokemon took in XY to make EVs more clear is a fairly large leap, going so far as to even tell you what your Pokemon's current EVs are and how close they are to maxing them out (Being nice enough to even alter it so you max at 252 rather than 255).

Well, it is HA, so I'm assuming it has good IVs since I probably got it from the Friend Safari

It gets annoying and you end up with quite a lot of Level 1 Pokemon that just sit there, but the first time you get that 5-6 IV Pokemon... It feel good and you love it all the more.

UglyBarnacle the Barbaracle was mine.

You can check it out, there's an NPC in every newer game that tells you if your Pokémon sucks or not ;)

I disagree.
I felt drained and burnt when I got my first (Larvesta, I think). It really pushed my limits of how far I was willing to go to train Pokemon, and I really don't have any intention on doing it again, not even for a perfect Milotic (...Maybe...)

Neat~

To be more specifiic, said NPC is in the Pokemon Center of the battle maison.

This is a bit worrying (emphasis mine):

Source: http://www.serebii.net/news/2015/04-August-2015.shtml
Original announcement in Japanese: http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/informatio...6-ddc42774ccc8

Okay... What are Rating battles and Battle Competions?

Hmmm. How do I put this? Think of it as Pokemon's version of matchmaking. Having ranked and unranked battles plus competitions that happen every once in a while that gives out either a pokemon, item, Pokémiles, or points for VGC (Pokemon's equivalent of MLG live events.)

And if my battling just involves passersby and you lot through the PSS?

Those don't count as Ranked Battles/Battle Competitions. Even casual battling on Battle Spot doesn't count. To be ranked you actually need to sign up for it.

And thus my worry dissipates.

Until you realize that they still intend on having some kind of harsher punishment for multiple offenders.

Yes, for the thing you have to sign up for.

You don't have to sign up for PSS and there is no mention of PSS.

My main concern is not for the fact that this emphasises Rating Battles/Battle Competitions. It's that I can't see how it will be possible to implement a strict penalties system without essentially punishing large swathes of innocent players.

Anytime you log online and trade, be it with GTS, or through Wonder Trade, you have already exposed yourself to the risk of getting hacked Pokemon. There is absolutely no way to tell the difference between a hacked but legal Pokemon, and a legitimate Pokemon. Even strict definitions of legitimate have to concede that somewhere down the Pokemon's breeding line there is a possibility that some hacking was involved in its ancestor.

There are many, many casual players out there, delighted that they suddenly got a lvl 100 shiny Rayquaza in Wonder Trade, who might not suspect or even care that their Pokemon have been hacked. I got a Cobalion once, I haven't bothered to check if it could be legit or not. Should innocent people be punished for the failings of a system along with hackers? What if this guy wants to use his Rayquaza on a Ranked Battle?

The only way to be entirely free of hacking is to never trade Pokemon, which effectively ruins a major point of the games.

No, beyond the thing you have to sign up for.

I want to say I'm totally fine with this, but know I've received hacked stuff via Wonder Trade before.. Hmm.. So yeah, I see the problems for those innocents out there.

I wonder if this also applies to Pokemon that were hacked in games prior to gen 6 but were passed over to the games just fine.

You fail to understand.
A first time offender is already banned from the system you sign up for.
That leads to the question of how much more worse can things get when you're already banned from the ranked system? After all, if you're already banned from the ranked system, what's the other system you have to worry about?

They somehow ban you from the PSS? I can't think of anything else.

Is it possible? I dunno.
I'm just curious, is all, since they plan a harsher punishment for multiple offenders than just banning from the ranked system, so it just may be something one would have to worry about.

Honestly I doubt that anything too serious will come out from this. It's just impossible to implement.

Think we'll ever get a male Kangaskhan counterpart?

That would be good. Would you like a Nidoking/Nidoqueen situation?

I was actually hoping for something with a bit more contrast, like a smaller, more nimble styled kangaroo.

Breloom is a nimble Kangashroom.

The mushroom part is what makes tying them together difficult, though :lol

Octillery, Probopass, Heatmor, Cradily, Skuntank, Flygon.

I took the time to play ORAS and somehow obtained a Milotic.
She's the weakest of my team. Clearly i do not know how to train one of these things.

Quite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRM0-FT0tUA
It's 2 years old, so it was likely posted already, but meh. I still like.

Expect a new game to be announced between now and this fall. Zygarde will be involved in the new Mega Evolution Act Special this fall.

http://www.serebii.net/corocoro9151.jpg

Corocoro has just leaked with pictures of the new pokemon. Also, Zygarde will be in Mega Evolution Act 4.
http://www.serebii.net/corocoro9151.jpg

Hey look! It's the Green Squishies!

Here's a translation of the scan and it says they'll reveal stuff about the new Pokemon and the shadowy one next month

They pretty much confirm that Zygarde is related to the new Pokemon and the Shadowy one too >_>

Man, I can't wait for the next set of games!
Oh, Zygarde? Neat. If this was last year I might've been a lot more interested.