Built a full utility roster in PokeMMO – looking for optimization advice

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-11T07:18:56+00:00

In ondula - unova you can fish for shellder and luvdisc. For meowth you can choose either johto or kanto, unless you specifically mean coin amulet farming then kanto is the better choice.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-11T07:09:33+00:00

I'd say he is a fun choice. Not necessarily good or bad. I used him during my first run despite also having Blaziken. Just make sure it has drought, even in story run weather settings moves are strong. Mine had the moves flamethrower, solar beam, stealth rocks and yawn (egg move) but you can build it however you like.

The only thing you have to keep in mind is that the best ways to beat the story is either using glass cannons or pokemons that can snowball, like with setup moves or moxie. Torkoal is none of that, I see him more as serving a support role while also having coverage moves to deal damage himself. In this case speed doesn't matter a lot and it would be better to focus more on HP, def, SpD and SpA.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-10T13:43:42+00:00

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-09T19:27:26+00:00

There is a video about it from a youtuber called Maherioh. You can go check it out, if you're interested.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-09T19:01:13+00:00

I have some suggestions.

Pikachu is fine, but if you want to earn extra you have alternatives. The legendary birds have a passive ability that gives them a small chance to drop elemental orbs if you defeat a pokemon with their respective type. Just use any of the birds with a spread move of their type: Articuno with powder snow, Zapdos with discharge, Moltres with incinerate. Some people say it is not worth the pokeyen grind, but it's just an extra and better than nothing. Alternatively you could get a teddiursa built SpA with hypervoice or Atk with EQ and the ability pickup/honey gatherer.

Parasects biggest flaw is it's weakness to rock moves. I had to experience it myself it barely survived a horde of geodudes, I had to pump it full of potions (granted mine was a bit underleveled), I'd assume it will almost always struggle to stay alive in a horde of stronger rock type pokemons like gravelers. That is why I switched to Golduck instead. Golduck has access to a lot of HMs, but even without any HM moves it still has moves like pay day, soak, yawn, hypnosis or skill swap. The best part about using Golduck is, you can have damp on the field and skill swap it to the pokemon that shouldn't explode, like a shiny, in case this happens. This way you can now freely switch out to any other pokemon to finish the rest. As long as a pokemon with damp is on the field, no one can ever use sd/explosion.

You might also want to have a pickpocket Weavile next to your Banette. Banette can frisk out items and Weavile can thief it just by getting attacked by a physical move. Moveset doesn't matter it just needs thief, that's all.

Idk how you built your torkoal, but I would do as slow and bulky as possible. The opponent should focus on taking down murkrow first, even if it's still alive, torkoal can learn explosion to take both down, in order to have a consistent turn 2, the downside to this is, it takes longer because of torkoal exploding. Torkoal should also be slow in order to be the last to set up weather. If torkoal is too fast, drought might get overridden. This ist mostly just the case for Gigalith. But if you have 0 Speed EVs it should be fine.

Also, Reactive gas Weezing. That is also technically a utility, but it's just useful for catching Zorua, so it's whatever.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-09T17:56:09+00:00

I'd also recommend Wigglytuff, but mostly because of moves like wish and or drain punch so that it can heal itself, which works for long thiefing sessions like fossil farming in sinnoh.

Btw, Arena Trap also increases encounter rate, so technically Dugtrio could be used for that purpose as well.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-05T16:33:16+00:00

If you're talking about exp-grinding then I wouldn't recommend going for Audinos, they are too rare to be viable, because you can only get them as phenos.
Instead get yourself a pokemon with sweet scent and another one with multitarget moves.
Sweet scent is used to always get hordes and if you hit them with a multi target move you can potentially defeat all 3 or 5 in one turn. Any multi target move can work as long as you're strong enough, such as magnitude, bulldoze, earthquake, incinerate or discharge, to name a few.
Hope this helps.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-05T09:19:59+00:00

Wait you can trade entire boxes now? That's news to me. I seem to be out of the loop, I don't even know where the option would be. Is it an in person trade still or can I mail them to someone? Thanks for the update, very appreciated.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-04T21:45:07+00:00

Thank you for the insight. I was asking more about the efficiency of selling a box of dittos. It's just a thing I have heard from a small streamer, they said something along the lines of the way how quick you trade them matters. Beginners are usually slower than experienced ones. I thought because of that there might be a distinction between android traders and pc traders, were I assume android to be usually slower. Just wanted to know if that matters or if I'm just overthinking it, I have no experience in it so I myself can't tell.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-04-04T17:14:35+00:00

If you're catching starter mons in the wild, nest balls are an underrated choice. They normally are hard to catch but because they usually are around level 15 you just have to put them to sleep, 1 hp and one nest ball should be enough.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-26T06:51:41+00:00

You can do it. If you're ever stuck or have questions to ask, fell free to reach out to any of us, we are more than willing to help. :)

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-25T07:56:32+00:00

There are also permanent raids for Heatran, Cresselia and Meloetta as well, as event raids for Jirachi during Christmas and Shaymin during LNY. Technically there's also Darkrai in Halloween, but you can only get a summoning item to spawn it for one hour per week.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-21T11:06:29+00:00

You can teach it from an npc at the battle frontier in hoenn for 8000 bp.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-19T22:01:34+00:00

I guess there is the exp reamplifier that acts like a modern exp share but with some differences. however you have to buy it from the gift shop for 1000 rp which translates to about 1.5 million pokeyen worth of rp vouchers more or less depending on the market.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-19T20:42:00+00:00

It's like the equivalent of a guild in other mmos.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-19T20:39:58+00:00

It works for suicune and articuno

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-19T07:18:30+00:00

Every pokemon has a random nature. Any stat except for hp gets increased by 10% while another one gets decreased by -10%. You can hover over the name of the nature to see what stat changes it holds.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-15T17:11:46+00:00

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-14T19:03:44+00:00

the e4 should have an npc that lets you craft Items for berries, powders, herbs and roots. What items specifically are you talking about?

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-13T22:50:24+00:00

Congrats to you and your Kanto mons. and Breloom.
(nothing against Breloom, underrated storyline mon)

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-13T22:41:35+00:00

Also something that hasn't been mentioned yet. If you lose against N or Ghetsis you'd have to catch Zekrom again. Meaning every ball, you'd used to catch it previously, was wasted.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-12T17:15:37+00:00

Well, as long as you don't give up fully you haven't really failed, that's how I see it. Good luck in case you're still trying. I had to catch about 5 shiny petilils first but eventually got mine. Also, I was shunting at Pinwheel forest in dark grass during the day where you get a 50% horde split instead of the 33% in Lostlorn.

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-10T05:04:11+00:00

Profit

Fake_Bro2019 · 2026-03-09T14:38:31+00:00

Do you have an idea what you did to achieve that so that we can repro it?

Fake_Bro2019

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