Isle Evelup. The Lazy Patrician's Method of EV Training.

Matrixbeast wasn't arguing it isn't there, but rather that it's less convenient

Ash-Pikachu distribution info has been revealed:

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Distribution dates (Japan) are as follows:

April 15-May 1, July 19-31: Ash-Pikachu Original Series (Gen I + II) hat
May 3-15, August 2-14: Ash-Pikachu Advanced Generation (Gen III) hat
May 17-29, August 16-28: Ash-Pikachu DP Saga (Gen IV) hat
May 31-June 12, August 30-September 11: Ash-Pikachu Best Wishes Saga (Gen V) hat
June 14-26, September 13-25: Ash-Pikachu XY Saga (Gen VI) hat
June 28-July 17, September 27-October 9: Ash-Pikachu Sun/Moon (Gen VII) hat

Also if tickets for the new movie are preordered a code is given for the exclusive Ash-Pikachu Z-Crystal.

Not once you get the right setup. False Swipe, Adrenaline Orb, move of your choice on a Pokémon too tough to lose. With Pokérus, you can max out whatever stat you want in less than five minutes.

Isle Evelup is more for custom stat spreads than anything. If you can do basic division, you can set it and forget it, to have that perfectly balanced defensive spread that everyone's talking about.

Ev training in Gen 7 is one of those things that I would call a diagonal step forward. It's different, but I believe it's still improved.

Now if only breeding hadn't gotten some solid iron bars slapped on the front... I mean, I became crazy cat-man, but I still feel like that shouldn't be basically required. Just one free Destiny Knot, like you've had in literally every game since it's introduction. That's all you needed to do Game Freak...

Battle Tree cheated me again. This time an Accelgor wrecked my team and my way of beating it (Charizard) was already knocked out.

I need someone to trade me those mega stones 'cause clearly I can't get 'em myself.

And not removing PokéNav or the Friend Safari.

At least those had an, admittedly inferior in some respects, replacement. You may not like chaining, I don't mind it, but at least it exists.

I have a level 74 Persian because of that stupid yarn ball. Alongside the 4 other Pickup Meowths....

Yes, I evolved the one that found it, as a reward.... I'd gone a little bonkers at that point.

...As I asked before, are you EV training? Breeding isn't strictly necessary for the regular singles, thank God, but it would help.

...Wait, you have Moon version. Use Pheromosa, it's Uber for a reason. Bug/Fighting has pretty good coverage and it's obscene stat spread should win the day. I mean, if you caught all 4 of them, surely you've got a decent nature on one.

Speed Swap Pheromosa next to a Rampardos or Vikavolt.

I haven't leveled it up yet, I'm still working on getting every available Gen VII/Alolan Form Pokémon Shiny BEFORE I start the leveling up.

But that's doubles, last I checked Red is only in Singles.

...Although, I kind of dig the idea of abusing the shit out of that when I finally get around to the Doubles tree. I'm really terrible at rough drafts of teams, so I'm just going crazy trying to build a team for Super Singles and/or competitive in general.

And that's EVs, not levels. Do... do you know what those are?

Anyway, if you want to get through the battle tree, you're going to need to properly EV train a decent team. If you happen to get up to LV 100 in the process, which is not at all likely, you can even fix up bad IVs with Hyper Training.

What he said, Red is in Singles, you face Blue in Doubles.

And yes I know what EVs are, I Super Trained half my Pokémon before I brought them over. But since I already attempted the tree twice and failed miserably both times the risk isn't worth it. I'm better off trading for them.

Just trying to be helpful here, but I'm certain that you can get the stones yourself if you have the right team. Put a diverse team together with a wide range of coverage moves and a hand full of items and see what you can do. When I cleared the singles branch for the first time I used Xurkitree, Tapu Bulu and Buzzswole (Though my doubles team is far better nowadays)

If I can way in here, try putting in two ultra beasts (Pheramosa and Xurkitree are the best all out attackers) and one of the tapus (Bulu or Koko should work fine.) These are only suggestions though, but yeah I'll admit and say the battle tree is bullshit sometimes but that's just pokemon in a nutshell. If you wanna see real bullshit, playing against other people is full of it.

Thanks for the suggestion but like I said I don't have them leveled up yet because I'm still Shiny hunting right now.

It auto sets them to level 50. You don't need to level them up, just EV train them and give them a decent moveset.

The Battle Tree isn't THAT hard, it has the legendary Special Attacker Golisopod, after all.

Speaking of that, you might want to try an Imposter Ditto. I got a lot of good out of it when I was grinding for BP.

EDIT: lmao how did I fuck that up

Wrong thread, hon.

But yeah, that's why I always drink with food and good (read: accountability-holding) company.

Thanks for that lol

You owe me those stones!

I tried your strategy and I STILL got wrecked! This time by a Swampert that Earthquaked my team to death!

Movesets or be quiet.

Tapu Koko
Nature's Madness
Discharge
Aerial Ace
Dazzling Gleam

Pheromosa
Brick Break
Lunge
Bug Buzz
Ice Beam

Xurkitree
Signal Beam
Dazzling Gleam
Thunder
Charge Beam

In retrospect I should've used Tapu Bulu.

Yeah, that would of solved some of the problems.

Seriously, just chill out and attack it calmly. Even when you fail, you'll at least be able to figure out your mistakes... Although, why you have Brick Break AND Lunge on Pheromosa, as well as Charge Beam and Thunder...

I'd recommend at least swapping out the Charge Beam for Tail Glow. Set-up with a +3 and wreck anything that gets in your way. Probably change Thunder out for Tbolt, just to guarantee damage.

Pheromosa had decent ATK so Brick Break was actually doing pretty well, especially when Beast Boost kicked in, plus I was facing a bunch of Fighting-weak Pokémon so that helped too.

Sorry, I'm a bonehead. I forgot Lunge is bug-type. Although it still raises the question of why you've got Bug Buzz as well. Probably should replace that with Poison Jab for Fairy coverage, as it resists both your Stabs. You might also want to change Lunge out for U-Turn so you can switch and deal damage.

Yes that would be the better choice. If you have a good team from X,Y,Ruby,or Sapp you would have better chances of winning. Also sometimes it the luck of the draw to win you know critical hit or super effect moves. Try trading I sure it could be a bit of help.

Well I could ditch Ice Beam for Poison Jab on Pheromosa, but Lunge is doing pretty good too.

I'm done. I give up.

Someone please trade with me or else I'm gonna resort to hacking for them.

No one's going to trade one of a kind items, especially ones that are highly valuable in competitive battling and have to be earned through post-game content.

I mean, frack, I lost count of how many times I failed in the tree before I got them.

Go ahead and hack them if you're that desperate, no skin off anyone else's nose.

Whatever, Plan X it is then.

Hate to say it man but this really is your fault. For one, you haven't been clear if these guys were EV trained
Second, why are Taku Koko and Pheramosa both mixed attackers? It's better to focus on just one stat
Third, what items did they have if any? Items are very valuable in the Battle Tree
Fourth, why does Xurkitree have both Thunder AND Charge Beam? Same goes for Pheramosa having 2 Bug moves
Fifth, Tapu Koko's most commonly used as a hard hitting special attacker, why is Nature's Madness there?

Well first off, I got them off GTS. I wasn't gonna waste time training up my own guys.
Second off, they're mixed attackers to exploit more weaknesses.
Third off, Only Tapu Koko had its Z-Crystal (Tapunium Z)
Fourth off, Thunder worked really well thanks to both its STAB and Beast Boost and the 2 Bug attacks on Pheromosa are also for STAB and to counter its Psychic-Type weakness.
Fifth off, Nature's Madness was for the aforementioned Z-Crystal.

That still doesn't tell me if all 3 were EV trained. You can check that by pressing Y during the summary screen
Then I'm afraid you don't really understand it as to exploit more weaknesses, the better thing to do is type coverage
Wouldn't an Electric Z-Move be better? The Tapu's Z-Move always does 75% of what the enemy has and Tapu Koko's the kind of mon that would rather OHKO as it's not too bulky but still fairly strong
Almost every Psychic type has pretty low Defence so Lunge should be good enough
Again, I don't see the point of having this move as it's got a fixed amount of HP which doesn't really complement Koko's stats

Tapu Koko
-Get rid of Nature's Madness, the only Tapu it's good on is Fini
-Replace Aerial Ace with Brave Bird
-Give it a Life Orb(Found in Resolution Cave where Guzzlord is found)
-Go to the Daycare and check if it has Hidden Power Grass or Ice, it it has either, teach it Hidden Power over Nature's Madness.
-Give it Thunderbolt over Discharge

Pheromosa
-Give it a Focus Sash(From a Hula Girl in Poni Wilds on the beach)
-Ice Beam is fine for a mixed set, but you already have Koko basically mixed because of Brave Bird.
-Replace Brick Break with High Jump Kick(You can even give it the Fighting Z-Crystal if you want to avoid missing for one turn)

Xurkitree
-I would replace this with something else. You already have Koko for Electric coverage
-If you can't replace it, teach it Energy Ball(Found in a cave accessed from Lush Jungle)
-Give it the Psychic Z-Crystal and teach it Hypnosis. Z-Hypnosis will raise your Speed by 1 stage and will allow you to set up a Tail Glow allowing you to most likely wipe out the entirety of your opponents team
-Teach it Tail Glow
-Replace Thunder with Thunderbolt

Got the Stones. I was actually able to find someone willing to trade.

I still appreciate all the help you guys gave. I have been wanting to play competitively so maybe I'll use your tips for VGC.

I don't know if this happened to anyone else here but it's happening to me now, the night before I was on the GTS attempting to chain trade for a Shiny Dhelmise and I ended up getting softbanned. More than 24 hours later, still unable to trade.

How long before I sue Nintendo for my pain and suffering?

Probably because you hacked the game, it loses the possibility to connect to the internet, same with genning pokemon every now and then. It's why some tubers like HoodlumScrafty and DuncanKneeDeep have multiple version of the game and multiple 3DSes each

I didn't hack at all. I was legit trading when this happened.

Editing Pokemon is fine as long as you make them look realistic and you shouldn't get banned for that.

However, if you edit items or anything about your trainer(Money amount, name etc) that will get you banned from online, especially if you have that game connected with the Global Link.

Edit: If you didn't hack like you claim, you probably got a badly hacked Pokemon someone put up for trade on GTS.

I don't know, all I know is it was a Mewtwo I was trying to trade for before I got the communication error that led to this softban.

Finally able to trade again!