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Kevin

I said found a Shiny Vulpix. This was a mistake. I hatched a Shiny Vulpix.

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My own messages will be signed as Butterfree, with the Admin label below my name. If someone signs as Butterfree without that label, it's probably not me.

Dex
Commenting on: My Journey

Congratulations on getting such a standout IV spread on the first go. It must be thanks to all the Pokeblocks you lovingly handcraft from scratch every morning. (Thank you for the coupon codes, I use them regularly! But my attempts never turn out as good as the ones I see on PokeTok…guess I should just try more products!)

Happy 6 months to Caterpie. <3

Anon
Commenting on: My Journey

Went to this site for layout inspiration (as usual) and got jumpscared by the motherhood site theme. Very effective prank

nunya
Commenting on: My Journey

It's not April 1st here yet, so I had to stop for second when I first read Caterpie. But it gets more obvious after that lol

Matt

Yomp

Altissimo
Commenting on: My Journey

OMG I was thinking about whether I wanted a Caterpie and I'm glad to say this blog has made up my mind for me! You make it sound so wonderful 😊😊😊😊 But what should I do if mine has poor IVs or is (God forbid) Adamant?? I'm worried I won't be able to love them as much 😰

Butterfree
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Commenting on: R/S/E Roulette Mechanics
In response to: post by pokeknight

I think it looks pretty intentional; it defines both the Service Day and non-Service Day values right there together, and elsewhere in the code it uses checking that the minimum bet is 1 as a way to check if we're on the low-bet table. I guess they just thought of the low-bet table as a practice table and the high-bet one as where you actually go to win coins. But of course, I can't divine the developers' intent for sure.

pokeknight
Commenting on: R/S/E Roulette Mechanics
In response to: post by Butterfree

Ah, I missed that looking at the scripts and constants. Do you think this was intentional or a simple oversight? I really appreciated your article, and agree with the other commenter that this is far too complicated for a sidegame of a sidegame.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: R/S/E Roulette Mechanics
In response to: post by pokeknight

In the pokeemerald decomp, it's defined in the sTableMinBets array. In the InitRouletteTableData function, it picks out the value at index [tableId + isSpecialRate*2], i.e. 1 for the first table and 3 for the second if isSpecialRate is 0, and 1 for the first and 6 for the second if isSpecialRate is 1. sRoulette->minBet is set to this value, and in Task_PlaceBet, we subtract sRoulette->minBet from the player's number of coins. Am I missing something?

pokeknight
Commenting on: R/S/E Roulette Mechanics

Looking through the decompiled code, there doesn't seem to be a reason that the Service Day increased wager should only apply to the rightmost Table 2?

Scott
Commenting on: FR/LG VS Seeker

There's a Bird Keeper in Route 13 named Robert that after beating the Champion has 2 Pidgeot and 2 Fearow which gives a fast 10 Speed EVs in his final rematch.

Justin Han
Commenting on: The Secret Link
In response to: post by Justin Han

WAIT I DIDNT READ THAT THIS WAS A COMMENT

Justin Han
Commenting on: The Secret Link

Justin Han

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: Pokémon Genetics

This article is by me, like all other content on this site unless it specifically notes otherwise. You can refer to me as Butterfree, Dragonfree or antialiasis, with a link to the page.

João Bosco
Commenting on: Pokémon Genetics

I would like to know the name of the author of this post, so I can use it as reference for an activity I am developing.

kasper

I'm lowk kinda shocked to find out my zodiac pokemon is liepard of all of them.. makes sense tho

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Tyler Willett

The Switch FireRed is a port of the same game, so this is indeed the correct calculator you want for that! Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, on the other hand, are Gen VIII remakes and have Gen VIII mechanics; you want this calculator for those.

Tyler Willett

does this work for also the modern remakes like bdsp and the switch fire red

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Mystic

That would be the difficulty modifier, which makes it a lot harder to catch Pokémon that are a higher level than your Pokémon until you’ve gotten all eight badges. The calculator links to the full explanation of the entire formula at the top.

Mystic

Hi! I had a question about how the calculator makes its calculations. For Gen VIII, Maractus level 31 at 35% p and using a pokeball, the catch rate based upon what level of pokémon i was using went from Lv 30 18% to lv 32 80%. I didn’t realize that such a small difference in the level of pokemon i was using could affect the catch rate, and was hoping for more insight on it because this whole calculator fascinates me :)

Magikarp the gathering
Commenting on: Magikarp: the Gathering

Sure hope I'm doing this right!

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