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Thoughts on Super Contests...

Nadian
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:01 am

I just sent this to Aww Heck and I thought I'd save off the information here. Not sure what else I'd want to do with it.

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On Diamond / Pearl, to get the trainer card star you only need to beat the Master Rank on *one* of the categories. That makes things nice and simple since you'll only need to focus on one and then can do the others at your own leisure.

I'm not sure if any good guides exist. You could check GameFAQs. For what I did:

For the accessory contest, depending on the category they name, certain accessories will give you score. You can shut your DS when they name the category, decide which items you want to put on your pokemon, and then resume.

Dancing contest, it should be obvious that you follow the other trainers' dance steps. When you dance, you can increase the chances of throwing off your opponents by:

-Doing sudden dance steps (E.G. one right after the other)
-Doing some dance steps immediately at the start
-Not doing repetitive dance steps (change directions)

For the final contest, that comes down to which moves you choose and successfully choosing judges. (You get points for choosing a judge that none of the other contestants choose in that round.) I think these are the ideal moveset I used:

-One move that simply gives 3 points
-One move that gives 2 points and an additional 2 if you go first
-One move that gives 2 points and an additional 2 if you go last
-Probably one that doubles your next turn's score

Each round, the person that gained the least number of hearts on the previous turn will go first while the person that got the most will go last. (When it starts, since there was no previous round, it uses the results from the first two Contests, I believe.)

Your strategy is simple:

-If you're first or last, use the appropriate first/last move.
-If you're in the middle, use the score-doubler. (Hopefully, you'll get 0 points this round and go first the next round.)
-If you're still in the middle and used the score-doubler last round, use the 3 points move.

Note that when the move you use is in the same category as the contest you're doing, whichever judge you choose will have their charge go up by 1. This is important to know because, if you are the one to increase a judge's charge to 5, you'll get additional score. (Judge will be reset to 0.)

If that worries you, it might be feasible to sabotage the computers' chances at doing this by using moves from the wrong category, instead. (I don't think it hurts your ability to win...) If I recall correctly, it'll simply prevent the judge's charge from going up...

If you want to try out other moves in the judge portion of the contest, there's some nice-looking ones, but I find most of them to be far too risky.

To find out which moves do what for you, you can use either Serebii or Bulbapedia. On Serebii:

Beauty moves
Cool moves
Cute moves
Smart moves
Tough moves

On Bulbapedia:

Beauty
Cool
Cute
Smart
Tough

If you want to try out a pokemon with all moves of the same category you'll be participating in, you should probably try one of these in the Cool contest:

(They all learns these moves via level-up / heart scale. There were no pokemon that met these criteria for the other categories, but I could loosen restrictions.)

If you allow TMs, the following pokemon are available for Beauty:

The following are available for Cute:

The following are available for Cool:

The following are available for Smart:

Still none available for Tough, but if you allow egg moves:

I haven't updated with the moves that Platinum added, though, so there may be pokemon that I haven't considered yet.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:20 am

Looks like I actually didn't use the "Power 3" attacks. I used "Minus voltage" ones. Thus, my six Super Contest pokemon look like this:

Scizor (Cool), Red Scarf:
-Focus Energy (Cool) (Double Score next turn)
-False Swipe (Cool) (Raises Score if voltage low)
-Air Slash (Cool) (+2 if goes first)
-Metal Claw (Cool) (+2 if goes last)

Froslass (Beauty), Blue Scarf: (Only Master Rank winner)
-Blizzard (Beauty) (+2 if goes first)
-Avalanche (Cool) (Earns double the score on the final performance?)
-Protect (Cute) (Raises Score if voltage low)
-Ominous Wind (Smart) (Double Score next turn)

Proygon (Cute), Pink Scarf:
-Frustration (Cute) (+2 if goes last)
-Return (Cute) (+2 if goes first)
-Protect (Cute) (Raises Score if voltage low)
-Sharpen (Cute) (Double Score next turn)

Spiritomb (Smart), Green Scarf:
-Faint Attack (Smart) (+2 if goes last)
-Ominous Wind (Smart) (Double Score next turn)
-Taunt (Smart) (Raises Score if voltage low)
-Shadow Ball (Smart) (+2 if goes first)

Magcargo (Tough), Yellow Scarf:
-Acid Armor (Tough) (Double Score next turn)
-Ancient Power (Tough) (+2 if goes last)
-Lava Plume (Tough) (+2 if goes first)
-Protect (Cute) (Raises Score if voltage low)

Mew (All):
-Return (Cute) (+2 if goes first)
-Bulk Up (Beauty) (Double Score next turn)
-False Swipe (Cool) (Raises Score if voltage low)
-Rock Smash (Tough) (+2 if goes last)

Hmmm...

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