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I'm thinking of picking up one of these for my 3DS.
I haven't played a Pokemon game in years... not since Pokemon Yellow, unless you count the 64 games.
Tell me, is it still possible to get the pokemon that were available back in the misty depths of time? Things like Gengar and Snorlax, two of my favourites. Either way, I'm not sure whether I'll get X or Y. Probably whichever one I saw which had a red theme and some sort of bird pokemon on the box. (Yes, I am completely clueless about this.)

Haunter and Snorlax can both be found wild in XY. Snorlax is unavoidable and haunter has low encounter rate but it's there.

So I might be able to get hold of both games today, should the local Elgiganten have them.
My biggest regret however, is that I could not affoard Black or White 2 back when they were released..

You didnt miss out, B2/W2 werent all that good, yeah they were a really fresh new way of doing things, but...BW were better than B2W2

or Sould Silver & Heart Gold..

Now that you missed out bigtime.

XY are good though, they are what b2w2 could have and should have been.

Both Xerneas and Yvetal have 1 base capture rate. Same as Pidgey. Also you can't, NOT capture them as you won't be allowed to progress through the story until you do.

I also managed to get my hands on all three legendaries even though I still only have 7 badges haha. Haxorus is more popular than Xerneas apparently.

Yeah I noticed Xerneas isnt that popular, despite having such a powerful boosting move, but thats the fate of any mono-type pokemon.
And Yveltal is a nice dual type that we previously didnt have a legendary of.
And of course Haxours is more popular...thing looks like a Scythe with Axe heads on it, awesome design GF, and Xerneas is a deer.

Presumably the point of the luxury balls is Magic Bounce Espeon.

Actually the luxury ball is my "Mark" - if I catch a Pokemon, it'll be in a luxury ball, Espeon with Magic Bounce is only one reason I want a female with hidden ability.
The other reason is Sylveon with Pixilate and the final reason is to have both a Pixilate Sylveon and MB Espeon both hence why I want it to be female - so it has higher chance of passing hidden ability and special attack+ nature makes it better for both evolutions.
That and I wanna get every Eeveelution in a luxury ball but the non-hidden ability ones I can deal with at anytime.
EDIT: Hidden ability I want on Sylv and Espeon only. But I need a female (from the safari most likely) and that means that the user giving them has to be online in-game and then I get lucky.
My Gardevoir however has Focusblast and Thunderwave, so if a female shows up with anticipation, it'll shudder due to FB and then T-wave will aide the catching, and my Garde is modest with synch so...it's just a matter of luck and time.
And remember - if someone trades me a Female with anticipation I don't care what ball it's in. Lux only matters if I catch it myself.

O_o Did they turn the capture rate even further up for the Version Mascots this gen than they did in Gen V? I wound up catching Xerneas on my first throw using a luxury ball.

I've noticed that myself, since BW mascot legends have been easy to catch...In my case it's a bit more difficult as each lux ball is 5x the price a reg pokeball but behaves the same.
But yeah Xerneas had a really easy capture rate, strangely when i did catch Yveltal on my playthrough of Y, he was insanely hard to catch.

Is that the Hidden ability? If so, it might be as easy as going to the Friend Safari, though if you aren't that far yet, I'm sure there's one between us somewhere.

Yeah i just found the female myself, in safari, thanks though.

EDIT: dang it! it wouldnt stay in the luxury ball and and my one gamble to reduce it's hp was a crit KO.
---purposefully trying to catch it in luxury ball

EDIT2: and now the one giving Eevees is offline which means no hidden abilities, yikes...
What exactly I'm after: Is a female eevee - of any nature(prefer a spatk boosting one but doenst really matter) and IVs dont matter. What matters is that it's in a luxury ball(EDIT3 - if traded i dont care about ball type, but if i catch it myself, It'll be in luxury) and has it's hidden ability of anticipation. and all of my safari-useable pokemon are way to high lv to safely lower it's hp, quite the delima.

Are you saying other kinds of mp don't have causality?

Sorry about the typo(been fix'd), and nice pun btw.
But yeah, I like things Casual, I don't win often, no, but I'm okay with that.
"Use what you like. That way if you lose, you lose with Style!" - A good description of my mindset in multiplayer games

Ludicolo seems like a balanced pokemon in that it can kinda do anything, so I'd say go for it. Maybe you can have two, one with the swift swim ability for sweeping and another with rain dish for being a wall.

I wont be using rain much - I have two fire-types. EDIT: But if my foe so desires to use rain, Ludicolo can be a fine retribution for them to pay.
But i do see what you mean by it can do anything, so yeah thanks to: Reudh, neotemplar and uniman.
My new core team is:
Talonflame, Gardevoir, Blaziken, Scizor, Flygon, Ludicolo.
----I'll work on getting the last three catch/hatched evolved and Moveset and then hopefully find someone here to go into a test battle with, though that'll be a while as some of their moves are high-level learns.

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My core group for causal play in-game, is Talonflame, Gardevoir, Scizor and Blaziken.
I've trained all but Scizor(whom i need to breed of the one i got in GTS) for the proper stats and all, so they can be used in friendly Multiplayer battles. But even though I never battle for competition's sakes I was wondering if someone could suggest any pokemon to go with those four to cover their weakspots.
I want at least one Defender(any type) and one Ground type, but am lost as to who to choose since I normally don't use defenders or grounds.

Rotom W and Gogoat are now my favorite pokes who can take a hit.  Ground type IDK cause I don't much use them due to it being a bad defensive typing and loads of non ground types getting earthquake (Gogoat).

That's why i didn't suggest my Defender be Ground. However, as I am playing casually I'll take any defender really, as in casual, IG or MP, type doesn't really matter since you're not aiming to PWN the other PC/NPC/etc.

I do kind of wanna add a doublade in there though, things got good defense and typing and has okay atk.
But Doublade is a huge maybe and if so that still leaves the Ground-type, if no, that still leaves them both.

Bronzong could operate as a decent wall. I'm pretty sure it can learn toxic, and a gyro ball from bronzong isn't anything to laugh about.

Or even better, go with Ferrothorn. Rocky Helmet + Ferrothorn = ouch per turn. Plus besides being a usable wall, he can operate as a decent curse + gyro ball mon.

Steel/Psychic stinks now that steel no longer resists ghost or dark moves. I'm training a Metagross just for its sky-high attack and fairy killing meteor-mash, but I wouldn't use that type combo as my primary defense.

I agree with Weirdsound on this, I have never seen Steel/Psychic as a decent defensive type. Of course I'll be fair, Bronzong does has nice defensive stats. but in comparison to ferrothorn or Doublade, the defensive values and type resistance changes is a little lacking.

As for my Ground-type, I'm actually working on remaking my Flygon with a recently caught Trapinch, caught has terrible nature but i have a ditto with proper nature and all so yay on that.
However, I do still need to evolve the Scyther I hatched.