I was looking at the team posted in kelvSYC's Elite Four post, and the
thought occured that it looked a lot like my team, which is still at
the low twenties with two badges.  That seemed like an odd
coincidence, except that these are all Pokemon found early in the

Does anyone know how Evasion and Critical Hit Rate are derived and
implemented in battle?  Are they standard, or unique to each Pokemon
and Technique?  I'm trying to write a program that simulates a Pokemon
battle.

Right now (and I seem to have this problem for all Pokémon games) I
have all eight badges in my Pearl game, yet my team is about 10-15
levels underpowered for the Elite Four (I'd like my team to be in the
high 50s).  My team is the following right now:

... That if you tap the button on your Poketch in rapid succession,
the screen remains dark and numbers appear in the upper right corner?
... That if you bury two spheres of the same color in the exact same
spot, they combine into one, larger sphere?

So, for how many generations have we not been able to destroy grass
with Cut?
-Andrusi &&
Sanity not included.

I know that the true purpose of the for loop is to do something to each
member of set, so whenever I use it simply to do something x number of
times, it seems wrong and unpythonic.
Yet I don't know if there's a way to do write this function any other

I was playing my old yellow version when I attempted the Mew trick on
a girl outside Fusischa City on that long path. (she uses grass
types). when I beat her and flew to Lavender town, A wild missingno
appeared but it said "missingno is trying to learn..." over and over

I remember there being an episode of Pokemon with these two giant
Pokemon, a Kadabra and a Gengar.  The Gengar was going around
swallowing people, so they had to release the Kadabra from an ancient
"PokeBall" (it was more like some bauble unlocked with a special spoon-

I'm about to start Diamond as soon as I'm done posting! :)
But first a question: I read in the manual that you can only set up as
criteria for a trade (in GTS) pokemon that are already registered in
your pokedex. So this raises two questions:

I just got a DS Lite last week and only now discovered I had the clock
set wrong. I forgot it was a 24 hour clock, so I had it set for noon
instead of midnight, etc. I didn't notice as first that in the game was
daylight while I was playing at 1am. :)