Your Contest Pokemon

[Chris 2.1]

Hey, I've jus got Sapphire recently, and despite not liking the initial idea, I really enjoy the contests. So far I've entered using this guy:

Castform (f)
Hail
Blizzard
Sunny Day
Fire Blast

Appeal 1 - Hail
Appeal 2 - Blizzard
Appeal 3 - Sunny Day
Appeal 4 - Fireblast
Appeal 5 - Sunny Day/Blizzard

This moveset works wonders. I've obtained all ranks in Beauty with Castform.


What are your Contest Pokemon, and what are their movesets?

[Mew Master]

Gardevoir/Ariel (F)
Nature: Careful

Thunderbolt
Psychic
Dream Eater
Hypnosis

Catigory: Smart

Sharpedo/Jaws (M)
Nature: Rash

Crunch
Slash
Focus Energy
Surf

Catigory: Cool

And that's about it.... o.oU

[theniceguydk]

I used those on Serebii.net, and it really worked. Won all contests.

You can see it here:

Cool
Dodrio @Red Scarf
Peck
Drill Peck
Hyper Beam
(doesn't matter)

First use Peck, then Drill Peck, Peck, Drill Peck, and finish up with Hyper Beam. I'd advise raising your future champion as a Doduo first so that he learns Drill Peck earlier. You can buy Hyper Beam from the Lilycover Department Store.

Beauty
Medicham @Blue Scarf
Ice Punch
Fire Punch
Hyper Beam
(doesn't matter)

First use Ice Punch, then Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, then Hyper Beam. You need to use the Move Tutor in Fallarbor to learn Ice Punch and Fire Punch, which requires two Heart Scales. Steal them off of wild Luvdisc, which can be fished for around Ever Grande city with a Super Rod.

Cute
Pelipper @Pink Scarf
Water Sport
Water Gun
(doesn't matter)
(doesn't matter)

Use Water Sport, then Water Gun, Water Sport, Water Gun, and Water Sport. Alternately, you can use a Spheal with Rest and Snore. You need to use a couple Heart Scales to relearn Water Gun and Water Sport.

Smart
Castform @Green Scarf
Rain Dance
Weather Ball
(doesn't matter)
(doesn't matter)

Now the going gets a little tricky...use Rain Dance, then Weather Ball, Rain Dance, Weather Ball, then Rain Dance.

Tough
Regirock/ice/steel @Yellow Scarf
Curse
Superpower
Explosion
(doesn't matter)

This is my only moveset that doesn't rely on combos. Use Curse, then Superpower, Curse, Superpower, and finish with Explosion. You need to relearn Explosion, so get out another Heart Scale.

[Chris 2.1]

What other Tough Pokemon can be used instead of a Regi?

My Milotic won beauty, and got an amazing colour portrait in Lilycove Museum for it:

Milotic
Water sport
Water gun
Surf
Dive

Use in that order, and WS on turn 5. Excellente ^^

[Poryhedron]

There isn't really any such thing as a "tough pokémon". Species has zero effect in a contest, only moveset and contest stats (which are wholly species-independent.) Theoretically, a Metagross with good Cuteness moves and lots of pink pokéblocks could sweep the Cute Master Class.

[rinku]

Well... there *are* pokémon whose move pool makes them well suited for Toughness contests, particularly those who can get a really good combo. Here is one of the best:

Aron family
Harden
Takedown
?
?

Harden sets up a 12(!!) heart combo with Takedown. Not many others in RS can get a Takedown combo (Aron is the only one I know that learns it from level-up moves). Takedown is vulnerable to jams, so using a low heart move first sets it up to go late works a treat. If you're lucky you might even get the crowd to go wild (18 hearts!!!)

One of the classic Coolness combos is Quick Attack, Aerial Ace (i.e. Taillow!);
3 hearts in turn 1, 8 hearts on turn 2 (if nothing else modified the priority), which if everyone used Cool moves on turn 1 means the crowd going wild for another 6. Solid combo, and Taillow learns many other good Cool moves and combos.

Also, it's often a good idea to have a "cool down" move up your sleeve to sabotage the crowd going wild for an opponent. Fly is a good one for Taillow, for example, since it will often find itself at the top of the list and wanting to both protect itself from Jams and cool down the crowd.

Dive and Surf are a good Beauty combo (both combo with each other), and can be taught temporarily to almost any water type for no expenditure of money or Heart Scales. In fact, most of the HMs are pretty ggod contest moves.

Mud Sport and Water Sport are proabably the best Cuteness combo - both are 4 heart moves that combo with each other, so you have a very solid 4 - 8 - 4 - 8 - 4 heart return from the five moves. Filling turn three with a defensive move (say, Protect) is often a good move, giving 4 - 8 - 1 - 4 - 8 but much less chance of losing hearts to jams.

[Mew Master]

How DO you get those pictures into the Lilycove Meseum?

[phaedrus]

you beat all ranks for a contest section, i.e. beatin all of the beauty ranks or tough ranks.

[Mew Master]

Done that...now what?

[rinku]

In order to get a picture painted, you have to win the Master rank, and win it well. Just scraping in a low-hearts win will not do it. Not sure of the exact threshold, but at least 2/3 of the appeal track needs to be filled, probably more like 3/4.

[Kari and Mewtwo]

heh..

Cool- Swellow

Appeal 1: Double Team
Appeal 2: Quick Attack
Appeal 3: Aerial Ace
Appeal 4: Double Team
Appeal 5: Quick Attack (or AA if youre in first)

Tough- Aron

Appeal 1: Harden
Appeal 2: Take Down/Double-Edge
Appeal 3: Earthquake
Appeal 4: Harden
Appeal 5: Take Dow/Double-Edge

Cute- Barboach

Appeal 1: Mud Sport
Appeal 2: Water Sport
Appeal 3: Mud Sport
Appeal 4: Water Sport
Appeal 5: Water Gun

Smart- Gardevoir

Appeal 1: Calm Mind
Appeal 2: Future Sight
Appeal 3: Calm Mind
Appeal 4: Future Sight
Appeal 5: Destiny Bond

Beauty- Milotic

Appeal 1: Rain Dance
Appeal 2: Surf
Appeal 3: Dive
Appeal 4: Surf
Appeal 5: whatever

[phantomness]

Actually, I used Skarmory with Fly, Double Team, Swift, and Air Cutter. I won Master Rank smart and cool with this.

[rinku]

Explosion or Self Destruct finishes off a contest nicely, as does Hyper Beam, or Teeter Dance. It doesn't usually matter what kind of contest either, considering the number of hearts gained/jams caused.

[Kari and Mewtwo]

Explosion or Self Destruct finishes off a contest nicely, as does Hyper Beam, or Teeter Dance. It doesn't usually matter what kind of contest either, considering the number of hearts gained/jams caused.

Dont forget Destiny Bond & Memento. Instant 8 appeals is always a good thing.

[Mr.E]

My BANETTE has all Ribbons. Therefore, I win the topic.

*receives the topic Ribbon*

[rinku]

My BANETTE has all Ribbons. Therefore, I win the topic.

*receives the topic Ribbon*

My Hariyama has all ribbons bar L100 Battle Tower. Your Banette got that one?

[Mr.E]

You daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn right.

[Chris 2.1]

Just a question, who learns Memento and when? I'm intrigued with these new RS attacks (heck, they're new for me ^^)

[phaedrus]

I don't know levels, but so far Weezing/Koffing are the only ones I know in 202 that learn Memento by leveling.

[theniceguydk]

Sorry for being off topic, but what is Memento!? What does it do?

[have a stammer]

Memento: pp:10 att:- acc:100
Lowers foes Attack and Spc. Attack 2 levels if you faint in battle.
for contest's it's a tough move that rewards you with 8 hearts, never used it but you probably can't make an appeal after it similar to Destiny Bond.

My contest pokemon is a Smart Cacturne, even though I didn't raise him to be a contest pokemon he breezed through all levels of contests.

[rinku]

Memento is naturally learned by Grimer, Muk, Koffing, Weezing and Latios.

Egg move for Ralts and Duskull.

(RS data only).

Memento (Tough), Destiny Bond (Smart), Explosion & Selfdestruct (both Beauty) all have the same effect in contests - 8 hearts and no further appeals allowed. Destiny bond is a combo with Curse and Mean Look. Both are useful tactical moves.

Hyper Beam & Outrage (Cool), Thrash (Tough), Teeter Dance (Cute) and Petal Dance (Beauty) all do 4 hearts and 4 jams but make you miss the next turn. Thrash is a combo with Rage, Petal Dance with Growth.

[Chris 2.1]

My water sport/water gun Pellipper just sweeeped the Cute contest.

I'm using harden/take down Aron for tough, then I need to do smart. I need a different Pokemon that I could use for Smart, because I have a Gardevoir on my team and don't fancy tweaking her moves just to win a contest (i'd have to get her to re-learn future sight).

Any other Pogeymans have good movepools for Smart Contests?

[rinku]

Most Poison and Psychic types are good for Smart. Natu/Xatu is another one that learns Psychic & Future sight naturally.

But if you have a good combo, you can win them anyway, even if the moves aren't the same as the contest (at least vs the computer).