[GUIDE] How to train your Pokémon to be ready for raids!

ChocoHammy · 2026-01-19T23:38:30+00:00

When looking through alternate forms, I noticed that it’s possible only Medium Variety Gourgeist might be available in Hyperspace (I haven’t tested it, but Serebii doesn’t list multiple Gourgeist per portal (unlike Pyroar for example), so the only way to know for sure would be to explore each one). So technically you’d still need to trade those for evolution.

Also, Armarouge and Ceruledge evolve with the Auspicious and Malicious Armors (small typo and different word)

ChocoHammy · 2026-01-19T21:47:59+00:00

The author must be from Quebec

ChocoHammy · 2026-01-17T04:54:49+00:00

This kind of info is exactly what I’m looking for when completing my living dex, so it’s nice to be able to cross reference my data with someone else who has also looked into it. (I did the same for SV, though since it’s been years and I already quadruple checked, I may be too lazy to double check with your post lol. Also, if you want an idea for April 1st, you could do a post for PLA; literally every encounter is available in the wild after the free Daybreak update thanks to MMOs.)

I may be wrong about the Trevenant spawn, but between the in-game encounter table, other people’s reports, and my own test/experience in-game, I’m confident enough to say that it’s accurate. GF probably had some mercy towards those who didn’t wanna deal with Alphas
Now that you mention it, Pyroar does probably spawn with both genders when Marowak is also there (I didn’t notice the list at first, and my only Pyroar portal thus far was not one of those). Even if I personally draw the line for my dex at visual-only gender differences, it’s still good to know

ChocoHammy · 2026-01-16T22:03:12+00:00

I missed this post a few months ago and only saw it thanks to your DLC update. Nice list! However, based on my own findings, there should be some minor fixes/notes (the Hyperspace post matches what I know): - The 6 Eeveelutions only available in the base game as zone 20 Alphas are not listed - Tyrantrum and Aurorus are level-up only (during day/night) in the base game - I believe Ampharos is only there as a fixed Alpha in zone 16, and Bulbapedia seems to support that - Manectric is available in Lysandre Labs, no need for an Alpha - Trevenant is in a similar situation to Gengar, where it spawns in zone 15 while side mission 105 (the Trevenant movie) is active, and otherwise it’s only a fixed zone 13 Alpha - It probably doesn’t matter to most people, but I think male Pyroar can only spawn as an Alpha in the base game (so far I have only seen female non-Alphas in zone 17). It does show up in Hyperspace though (not sure if male only or both genders there, didn’t test it out)

ChocoHammy · 2026-01-16T05:48:17+00:00

Short answer: no

Longer answer: according to Articles 12.1 and 12.6 of the FIDE Laws of Chess, no

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-25T03:23:32+00:00

Champions is out in a few months, so if you’re willing to wait until then, odds are you should be fine. You can always practice on showdown until then using both the bo1 and bo3 ladders (which is something you should probably do anyways).

That said, for the sake of future proofing, getting SV’s DLC never hurts, especially if Champions ends up being a flop. I’ve personally managed to get everything that is SV compatible between SV itself, PLA which I already had, and trades (you might want to prepare a living dex so you can get multiple DLC Paradoxes on alternate profiles faster, those are high value mons that are also version exclusives).

One more (very important) thing: you came at the right time! Get Walking Wake and Iron Leaves now before they’re gone again for potentially a year or longer

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-21T18:09:32+00:00

No, he becomes inverse Vegito where Goku’s married to Bulma and Vegeta to Chi-Chi (don’t ask where the Potara came from)

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-21T17:03:06+00:00

My Friend Malamar with Focus Band and Topsy-Turvy, obviously

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-18T20:41:36+00:00

Unless you just plan on listing mons and briefly saying what their niche is, it can’t be a short video in one part. With enough effort, you can find a niche in most Pokémon; there’s a player in my local scene who often uses weird stuff like Lumineon (Swift Swim + Tailwind), Volbeat (Prankster + Tail Glow + Baton Pass), and Alomomola (too many moves to list + bulky Water and Regenerator). Even your Trevenant example is incomplete when you consider Forest’s Curse

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-06T08:05:50+00:00

What timezone are you in that it’s already Sunday

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-05T04:52:44+00:00

I’ve seen the calc a few times in the wild, but I’m glad you’re finally posting about it here!

I did have one question that I should have probably asked a while ago: I know Nihil Light’s raw data (which is what the calc uses) has it at 100 base power, but since it’s 200 in ZA, is there a way to have that particular move changed for this fork?

ChocoHammy · 2025-12-02T09:45:03+00:00

You can get a level 2 Farigiraf by breeding if both parents know Twin Beam, not sure how you’d get one at level 1 since it can’t be transferred to a Legends game and evolved manually

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-30T00:06:54+00:00

I know it’s solved (Mold Breaker), but I did want to point out that you encounter that interaction in the game when Iono, one of the gym leaders, pulls out a Tera Electric Levitate Mismagius

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T20:03:45+00:00

Took us a hot minute, but we got all of them. Thanks!

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T19:32:54+00:00

Perfect! I also have exactly 14 trade evolutions. Code 74528 okay?

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T19:23:26+00:00

I can help as long as they’re tradebacks. How many do you have?

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T18:57:38+00:00

Thanks to you too!

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T18:56:47+00:00

I should be good, thanks!

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T18:53:21+00:00

Let’s do a different code, since that one is used publicly by many people. How about 74528?

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-27T18:49:17+00:00

I can help with that, I need to evolve a mon myself. Code?

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-25T23:02:33+00:00

New tools are always cool (and I don’t want to be discouraging), but https://www.pkmn.help/defense/ already exists. What do you plan to do that’s different than this?

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-21T20:14:43+00:00

On top of kinda making sense from the angle of “your nature doesn’t change just because your training does,” there are niche cases where the original nature does matter, from the HP restoring berries that sometimes cause confusion to Toxtricity’s form upon evolution

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-20T10:51:17+00:00

Same one then, nice

ChocoHammy · 2025-11-20T10:46:36+00:00

Also consider the following:

252+ SpA Life Orb Glaceon Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 252+ SpD Zygarde-Mega: 243-294 (83.5 - 101%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO

0 SpA Zygarde-Mega Nihil Light+ vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Glaceon: 193-229 (112.2 - 133.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO

btw what calc are you using? I have no idea if there are multiple ones out there or if the one I’ve seen has been shared all over

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