/vp's most remarkable Thread! All about contests in the anime and games. -> Farm berries -> Raise your team -> Participate in tournaments -> Roast your rivals -> Aim for Master Rank / the Grand FestivalShow off your teams and achievements anons!
Ah yes, the feature only 5% of Pokemon players use. Great thread OP
>>57061160It's nice to finally see a contest general! I was wondering about this after the idea was discussed yesterday.
I unironically really liked contests to bad they aren't in the new games and before you ask BDSP contests are worse than in the original diamond and pearl
>>57061169There's actually a lot that can be talked about regarding contests, like what OP listed and more. There's also already communities for other aspects of the franchise, one that comes to mind is how there's a noticeable community around Ribbons which this would have some overlap with. I remember we used to have Ribbon threads on this board, so this contest general could be good.
>>57061169According to GF only some "small part" of the Emerald playerbase ever tried that Battle Frontier, doesn't mean it should have been removed in ORAS.
>>57061253Completely agree with you there. The BDSP contests are so far removed from the original idea of contests that it bothers me that they still technically count as contests at all. I unfortunately think it's highly unlikely we'll see contests return to the series, which makes it annoying to me that BDSP might be the last we'll see of contests, the ORAS contests would have been better as the last version of contests if they really don't ever plan on bringing back contests.
I guess the best way to start this off is to discuss exactly what kinds of stuff we'll be talking about here.
Post what contests you've done and what Pokémon you did them with.
>>57061160My ribbon journey on this Emerald save starts with my Manelectric for the Cool category Iron Tail Thunder Wave Roar Thunderbolt No issue whatsoever. Manelectric has been fed with some pokeblocks to raise his stats Next stop the Super Rank Contest for the Cool category =)
I have nothing really to contribute, but though your new general could use a bump until it starts picking up steam
>Still stuck with gen4 contests because I figured it'd be fine with these stats.
>>57061895Cool contest with RoseradeBeauty contest with a male FeebassEvery contest with Cherrim
>>57064345Rayquaze not having 100& beauty by default is kind of blasphemy
>>57064345Got to be careful with the Sheen. Once Sheen reaches max, contest stats can't be increased and there's no way to lower Sheen.But in gen 6, Sheen is ignored, making it much easier to max out all five contest stats in gen 6.
>>57067088NTA but It's insane how needlessly complicated the whole Gen 3 system for pokeblocks was. Nothing was ever explained in necessary detail in the games
>>57067088I enjoyed the contests but was awful at battle frontier D:
>>57065311>>5706708810 years ago I was limited to a DS lite, if I remember right and whatever berries I still had available.Worst part was when I bought that copy of emerald the previous save was on mirage island next to the Liechi berry but I didn't have the hardware to trade it so I foolishly started over.
>>57067425>Nothing was ever explained in necessary detail in the gamesYep. That's just like many other things in this series.
>>57067885At this point, I would probably just be PkHex edit my inventory to give me the berry back. You basically already had it. I never had the opportunity to get Liechi berry, it's just out of scope random to see Mirage Island
>>57070452Getting Mirage Island is random but it is based on the Personality Value of all the Pokémon in the Party. So based on that there should be some ways to increase the odds of being able to go there. One thing I can think of is simply having lots of Pokémon and trying them out to see if one lets you go on a given day.
How does everyone here go about getting and using Berries for their Pokémon?
Post the movesets and strategies you've used for contests.
