Pokemon of the Week - Dragonite

Dragonite

Pokemon of the Week is here! On the 4th of July, nonetheless! Now there isn't really a reason that I chose Dragonite other than the fact that he's a favorite of mine, and he's underrated when compared to Salamence. I don't mean Salamence is bad, he's just really overused sometimes. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the Pokemon of the Week today, and have fun~! :3

Serebii.net - Dragonite Pokedex Entry

Overview:
Dragonite... Doesn't he look too kind to be a big, powerful Dragon? Well, why not both~? Dragonite boasts a very high Attack stat (one of the highest among non-Legends), and very nice stats all-around! While he may be horridly cast aside by the uber-popular Salamence, Dragonite makes of for the lower Speed and worse Ability. Dragonite has very nice bulk compared to Salamence, as well as a much more diverse and fun movepool. Is Speed really bothering you that much? Dragonite can learn ExtremeSpeed, a +2 Priority Attack~! :3 Try that on for size~


Base Stats:
HP - 91
Atk - 134
Def - 95
SpAtk - 100
SpDef - 100
Spd - 80


Movesets:
Dragonite @ Life Orb

Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 56 Atk, 252 SpAtk, 200 Spd
Nature: Mild
- Draco Meteor
- Flamethrower
- Superpower
- Roost/ExtremeSpeed

Dragonite can actually run a mixed set very well! With his incredible Attack and respectable Special Attack, this chubby powerhouse can take down a lot of Pokemon. One of the highest ranking uses for this is as a very nice wallbreaker, as he can take down very common ones like Blissey and even Tyranitar~ Draco Meteor badly damages anything that isn't Steel or Blissey, OHKOing many of them! Flamethrower will have enough power to take down just about any Steel-Type thrown at you. Superpower can OHKO Blissey and Tyranitar, while lowering your Attack and Defense, so watch out for a surprise revenge kill! For the last slot, a bit of thought may be needed~ Roost can allow Dragonite to live much longer, so the residual damage of Stealth Rocks, Sandstorms, and your own Life Orb won't kill you, when combined with any attacks your opponent may get in. ExtremeSpeed gives you another attack, and a +2 Priority one, at that! While not as useful as Roost is sometimes, it allows you to bypass Dragonites only big flaw: his lower-than-others Speed! It also allows Dragonite to be an effective lead and revenge killer~ Keep on your toes, and you can devastate your enemies with this set~!




Dragonite @ Life Orb

Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Atk, 4 Def, 252 Spd
Nature: Adamant
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake

Dragonite's typing gives it many resistances and an immunity, and his natural bulk gives him some stall time. Using this, Dragonite is a viable user of Dragon Dance. With Adamant and max Attack, this Pokemon reaches phenomenal Attack power, and enough to outspeed any nonboosted Pokemon with base 125 Speed, after just one Dragon Dance! For a Dragonite, that's incredible~ I chose Dragon Claw over Outrage as it is more reliable, and only a few Pokemon (such as Suicune) will need to be worried about without Outrage. Besides, a move lock and confusion can lay waste to your hard-earned DDs! Next, ExtremeSpeed lets you outspeed the Pokemon that you can't normally, and would give you problems (Flygon, anyone?). Earthquake nicely fits into the last slot and kills non-floating Steels that wall your other attacks. With these moves and all of your different boosts, the only Pokemon to completely wall you are Skarmory and Bronzong. Play this right and watch out for your counters, and you will annihilate all in your dragon's path~!




Well that's the end of that chapter~ Hmm? What? Too cliche? o3o" Whatever, anyway! I hope everyone enjoyed this, as I know I did! Well, except a couple formatting problems that really annoyed me... So, I guess that's it for today~ Stay tuned next time for another nice update!

Guten tag! Ja ne! Good bye~! :3

Pokedex 3D: How to Obtain New Pokemon

Pokedex 3D

Nintendo 3DS

Hey guys! Welcome to my latest post in the Pokemon Hive! The bugs bein' nice to ya'~? Anyway, I know a few people are confused about how to get new Pokemon in the free game Pokedex 3D for the 3DS. Well today, I will explain a number of thing. First, for those who barely received their 3DS or haven't downloaded the Pokedex 3D game yet, I will explain how to do so. Then I will go into the number of ways you can get brand new Pokemon! Here we go~

 Getting Pokedex 3D

When you start off, your 3DS will normally be missing a few things, such as even the Nintendo eShop (the 3DS equivalent of the Wii Shop Channel). In the package for the 3DS there will be a lot of documentation, and in there is a fold-out instruction sheet labeled something like "Set-Up Guide." Follow the steps in there to start up your handheld, and connect it to the internet if you have WiFi (Note: An Internet Connection is necessary for most of the  things in this guide, btw...). After that, perform a System Update (just like the Wii, this can be found in the Settings), and you will get the Nintendo eShop on the 3DS's Main Menu.

Finally, go into the Nintendo eShop. Scroll along their list and you will easily find Pokedex 3D, which absolutely free to download! Follow the instructions there and congratz! You have Pokedex 3D~! When you start off, you will have a free 16 different Pokemon~

Obtaining New Pokemon

A photo of my AR-scanned Gigalith~ Awesome~!

 

Spotpass

First is the easiest and most efficient method, but possibly the only method. If you don't know anyone else (explained later) with the 3DS and game, you must rely on this method. Every day, rolling over at 12am midnight (though for some reason it happens around 10pm for me), you will see a dot next to the Pokedex 3D menu icon. This means you have received a new Pokemon's data! Enter the game and it will ask you if you want to download it, so choose "Yes." After that, exit the game or press the Home button on the 3DS, then re-enter the game. In the top right, it will say you have another new Pokemon, so tap it and select "Yes" like before. Finally, repeat that one more time for your 3rd and final Pokemon of the day~! And there you have it, 3 brand new additions to your game~

A couple notes here. You can only get 3 Pokemon total per day, no more. If you choose "No" to downloading it, it will ask again after 30 minutes. Also, these 3 Pokemon will always be ones that you don't already have, so don't worry~ Oh, and finally: you may have to go into Options and turn Spotpass on for this to work, but I think it asks you when you start up your game, as well.

Trade with Friends

Ok, it's Pokemon. Did you really not see this coming? As usual, you have the ability to "trade" Pokemon with your friends, and some Pokemon will actually require this to be obtained. If I am correct, each game has a unique "set" of Pokemon that cannot be gotten in your game (think of them as Version-Specifics). These must be traded with other to get yourself. I think these mostly include the Pokemon with different forms, like Frillish and Deerling.

Anyway, what you do is select the Pokemon in your Pokedex that you wish to trade over, then go to the Options on that page. Next, you'll want to select "Give" to send the data (you don't lose anything). Your friend will want to choose "Get" and will receive the Pokemon that you just sent~ Now you can do this back and forth for whatever Pokemon you each need!

Note: This must be done in local~! You cannot trade over WiFi~! (I noticed other guides weren't noting this...)

AR Stickers

This isn't necessarily a way to obtain new Pokemon, but a way to complete the game fully. Every time you get a Pokemon, you will see a little black and white square symbol on its page. This is their AR Marker. When you scan these with the AR Viewer (found in the Options again), you will register it in the Sticker Book (same place). If you have the Pokemon already when you scan a marker, you will see it pop out into reality! If you've played the AR Games on the 3DS by now, you'll know what I mean... Anyway, this will register the Marker as a full Sticker, and the Sticker Book will put the Pokemon's image over the Marker~ When the Pokemon pops out of the Marker you scanned, if you take a picture of it, it will register the Pokemon's Photo Sticker as well~ So each Pokemon has both a Pokemon Sticker and a Photo Sticker. Think of this as your Pokedex or collection, per say. So get on collecting! It won't be easy!

Oh, before I forget to mention! If there are Pokemon that you have scanned the AR Marker for but don't appear in your Dex already (they won't pop out of the Marker like others do), then those Pokemon have a higher chance of being one of your 3 new Pokemon in Spotpass! Use this to influence who you get! I got Volcarona, Krookodile, and Cubchoo in one day~

Well, that's all I have for this issue/post/whatever. I hope you guys enjoyed it and found it useful~ So stay tuned as usual, and see you next time!

Guten tag~ Ja ne~ :3

Nintendo 3DS

I got it finally~!

Hey~ It's a Mii of me~

Hallo, all~! I know I haven't updated a lot lately, but i wanna change it. I don't want this to become a blog of Pokemon of the week~ ^^" I hear of these bloggers who say you only have to update maybe once or twice a week to get the people happy, and I'm not sure if it works or not, but it just seems too little, to me... o3o"

Anyway, back to the main topic! I finally got a 3DS! I got the Aqua Blue version >:3 I normally would wait a while as I see no reason to pay $250 for a game thingy, but this was my graduation present (I graduated from high school almost 2 weeks ago), and I really wanted the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D~!! It's the remake of my favorite game of all time, so i was excited about it.

Not only this, but in line in Luigi's Mansion 2 (announced in E3 2011), Mario Kart 3D, and the one to be released in 2 days, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 3D!! I really wanna try them, and the things built into the 3DS are awesome! Honestly though, it's worth the price, but only if you have a few games to play on it as well. I was only able to buy a game when I bought it because I've had a $40 Best Buy gift card for almost 2 years! xD

Anyways, I'll update more on this, as well as Pokemon of course~ I got PokeDex 3D and am waiting to recieve more Pokemon to learn how it works, exactly. ^^" I'll keep posted!

New Pokemon Game!

Super Pokemon Scramble!!

 

Hey, everyone! I got big news! Following the recent update of the new Pokemon game, Pokedex 3D, there is now confirmations of a second new Pokemon game, also for the 3DS! Released info leaked by 2ch and caught by Serebii again, so credit goes where credit is due.

This new game is named/dubbed Super Pokemon Scramble, and is the supposed sequel or follow-up to the popular title for WiiWare, Pokemon Rumble~!

For those of you who don't know, Pokemon Rumble is a kind of top-down view Pokemon game where you control one Pokemon at a time, and it gets up to 2 attacks to choose from~ You take these Pokemon through wild areas (sometimes battle arenas) and actually control the Pokemon's movement as you attack and defeat enemy Pokemon~! Overall there isn't a whole lot mor to explain, to keep it simple. But in short, I'd really recommend this game! :3

Anywho, Super Pokemon Scramble has the same mechanics as Pokemon Rumble, and shares many similarities. Besides the obvious difference from console to handheld, there are a few other changes. First of which, Super Pokemon Scramble also holds the ability to use and find the new 5th Generation Pokemon, just like any other. Also, the game orbits around its usual single player mode, but also offers you a 2-Player Co-Op Mode as well, so to speak~ This alone can add replayability and a lot more fun to the game! That, by the way, is local play. As Serebii states, there is currently no information about any WiFi modes, though as it is from Nintendo, it is highly possible that one will be implemented in~ ^^"

So as of now, there isn't much else to talk about this, but I will try and give you guys more information as I find it, ok? I hope you all stay tuned, and return to the sanctuary of the Hive!

Catch you all next time! (not a Pokemon pun) Guten tag~! Ja ne~! :3

Pokemon Pokedex

Pokedex 3D

Pokemon Pokedex of the new Nintendo handheld system!! 

Hey, guys! I'm here with another update! This one won't be as big as my normal ones, probably, as compared to other sites such as Serebii, I'm probably more or less late... >> Well regardless of that, I am here to present you with new of a new Pokemon game! It's like the usual Pokemon Pokedex that you see in every game, but it has more... functionality, I guess you can say?

This game gives us a semi-interactive Pokedex (I would assume so from screenshots that Serebii has conveniently and awesomely been providing us with as the information has been released) that lets us view the entire Unova Pokedex. New Pokemon given to us in the new Pokemon Black and Pokemon White games are displayed here using the 3DS's console-style 3D platforming software, and shows us what it's really made of!

The purpose of this game is to give us fully detailed Pokdex entries of the new Pokemon. I would hope these are more like Serebii and Dexter kind of entries, not the typically small Pokedex in-game entries. Anyway, it is mostly used to find out about these Pokemon, and help with training them within the new games. Personally, I think this can be really useful! And fun to see some Pokemon in 3D display~ |'3 (still waiting for a Pokemon Battle Revolution game with updates in the Pokemon) What? Those games are fun to play! X3

For access, the Pokemon can be gotten through various methods, as the site states. They can be gotten with QR codes, downloaded from SpotPass locations, or downloaded when connecting to "Street Pass"-active players. The game also has a feature known as the Augmented Reality feature, which if I am to correctly believe, is substantial in how far gaming has come today! If my guess is correct, this uses actual cards that you place on a surface such as a desk (the 3DS connects to these, I guess...) and uses the 3DS's camera to display it as if the Pokemon were there on the desk/cards! This is on the screen, of course, so no holograms included...~ *sigh* Maybe next time~ ;3

Anyway, for more information, you can check Serebii's Pokdex 3D page for more information, if I missed any here!

Have a great day, a good night, and I'll see you all later! Gute nacht! Ja ne! See ya' back in the Hive~!