Talk:Shuckle (Pokémon)

Berry Juice

Does anyone know if Berry juice can become a rare candy in generation III and IV? i read on another page that an oran berry will become berry juice.- unsigned comment from Kendai (talk • contribs)

-I suppose in regards to this little thing, I must wonder if we should keep the Berry Juice for the later gens up anymore, as it seems no one seems to know how you get it.- unsigned comment from Tsum (talk • contribs)

Power Trick

Shuckle learning Power Trick would make it really powerful atacking, combine that with a powerful move & ... -Theininen 17:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

However, it will have the crappest defence ever. TESHIGIGAS 18:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Always a drawback. TTEchidna 02:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

That's why you only use that trick in a Double Battle. In a Single Battle, you face the problem of Shuckle being one-shotted after it uses Power Trick if you don't do something to cripple the opponent. In a Double Battle, you can have Shuckle use Power Trick while your other Pokémon uses Trick Room; that way, Shuckle won't get slaughtered before it can attack. Diachronos 17:45, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Can someone confirm the damage maximum on that? It says 210,000,000 but my use of the formula shows a maximum damage of 71,298,684 Colbenik 16:24, 13 January 2009

You're missing a lot of factors. Let me list:

• Double Battle
• Item: Metronome (at maximum potential)
• Rollout hit: 5
• Defence curl used for powered up Rollout.
• Maximised Defence (+6 levels) prior to Power Trick.
• Power Trick Active
• Skill Swapped Pure Power/Huge Power
• Critical Hit
• Target defence reduced to 1 with defence down moves used on it (I.E. Screech)
• Helping Hand bonus
• Nature boosts defence
• Variance value at best

With this incredible list of factors, you should get much higher results. Gywall Talk 22:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I was actually trying to find highest single battle damage, so maybe I wasn't actually off...I had included all of the factors you listed except for Helping Hand and the Double Battle modifierColbenik 22:43, 13 January 2009

Just some trivia for the trivia: it takes 20 uses of the move for Metronome to get to maximum potential. Smogon also says that Metronome only boosts consecutive selections of the move, meaning it could take as many as 100 turns of using just Rollout to get both Metronome and Rollout to full power. (Statistically, it may be fewer since Rollout may not necessarily reach 5 strikes each use.) — Laoris _(Blah) 06:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

It takes from 40~100 turns.. true. As for the maximum for a single battle, it just cuts out a 50% Power boost. The maximum damage in a single battle is 142,597,348. That's factoring out the Helping Hand bonus only obtainable in a double battle. Gywall Talk 10:51, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

When Huge Power is skill swapped, the attack is halved! Why doesn't anyone else know this?!Pyles 17:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I've seen that it takes 10 uses of the move for Metronome to get to maximum potential on Smogon, but other sources say it takes 20 turns. Can someone confirm which one is true? And Pure Power bonus isn't affect by Skill Swap. The maximum damage would be 213,896,052 HP.

I can also add that having the ability Flower Gift on the opposing pokemon would also increase the damage.

Old conversation is old, but I'm positive that calculation is wrong. If Metronome only boosts 10 times (which I'm assuming), then you'll get 142,597,348 as many people have. If it boosts by 20 times, you'd get double the value, not 1.5, so someone clearly messed up. However, if you have Flower Gift on a partner Pokemon, it comes out to 213,896,052, so I guess it works out. I'll edit the Trivia with Flower Gift. MagicBarrier 02:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

DERP. Well, if Metronome activates 20 times, that IS accurate. Still, I found the link from Smogon that states that a Poke can only get a 100% boost from Metronome. Unless you can give me data to counteract this, I'm still editing it. MagicBarrier 03:18, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Just suggestion, but could someone change this to be accurate for black and white, because now their are triple battles, allowing another 50% more power with another partner Pokémon using "helping hand", making the new max damage 320,844,078 Npk1 01:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I have removed the trivia damage as it is incorrect. Please use Smogon's new B/W Damage Formula article to properly calculate before re-adding. Be sure to use modifiers when appropriate; you cannot have two instances of Helping Hand modifiers. Kaphotics 04:56, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Shuckle and Berries

I think some information must be clarified about Shuckle and Berries(or Oran Berries):

• Exactly how many time it takes for Shuckle to produce Berry Juice? And how is it measured: in steps, in real time, or when Shuckle level up?
• The same as above, for Rare Candy.
• And more important: is this feature still available on further generations? i.e., can Shuckle produce Berry Juice(and Rare Candy) on generations III and IV?

A little aside: I hope so. -- Professional Mole(Talk here) 23:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Has anyone actually managed to use a Shuckle to produce Rare Candy? I have tried for a long time with different Shuckle (traded, high leveled, low leveled, high happiness), and all I get is Berry Juice. Jacce 03:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Anyone? Jacce 09:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Damage Trivia

"Although the circumstances would be nearly impossible, a level 100 Shuckle can potentially deal the most damage in one single attack through the use of numerous stat boosters, Metronome held item, Power Trick, a Skill Swap to Huge Power or Pure Power, and the Defense Curl/Rollout combo. On the 5th impact of Rollout, if used against a level 1 Ledyba or Yanma that have been hit with negative Defense modifiers (such as Screech), it can deal over 210,000,000 damage."

Wouldn't a Choice Band Ho-Oh with Huge/Pure Power and a maximum attack stat and attack modifiers do more damage to a Level 1 Dry Skin Paras with negative defence modifiers with an attack such as Sacred Power? Besides the point, it seems like a weird thing to put in trivia. --EmpoleonDynamite 14:19, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

• Agreed. It's highly impractical as well, since that situation is way too hard to reproduce anyway. I do enjoy trivias, but this is just ridiculously specific. -- Professional Mole (Talk here) 02:05, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Ho-Oh max attack is 788 with Pure Power (against 1,228 for a Pure Power and Power Tricked Shuckle) and Sacred Fire power is 100 (960 for a Defense Curled Rollout on the fifth turn). Anyway, maximum damage would be 26,807,962 HP for Ho-Oh, against 213,000,000 for Shuckle. - unsigned comment from EnteiFire (talk • contribs)

Don't know but shouldn't it say that rollout would do over 1,000,000,000 damage? ShinyGlaceon 03:18, 17 February 2010 (UTC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXiR4uz5znk So, legitimate damage?

This might be considered completely unimportant, but I was wondering if anyone else though the trivia should be reworded to not say "it can deal 213,896,052 damage." Not sure if anyone else cares, but as far as I'm concerned the max damage that attack can deal is 12, and the max damage any attack can deal is 714. Basically what I mean is, is there a better word than "deal" that anyone can think of that refers to hypothetical damage, rather than damage actually done? jas61292 06:26, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Location?

From simple testing in HeartGold, shuckle doesn't seem to be avaliable from boulders in all areas, unless its encounter rate is ridiclously low.

Memory from the original Gold and Silver tells that it was only avaliable from the rocks in cinawood and olivine, can anyone confirm this?- unsigned comment from Parallel (talk • contribs)

Actually you only get it from the Pokemaniac in Cianwood since he fears Silver. ShinyGlaceon 16:03, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

No, you can catch them wild aswell, by Rocksmash. - unsigned comment from Parallel (talk • contribs)

It's only Rocksmash in Vermilion City and Cianwood City. (Yaminokame 17:26, 17 February 2010 (UTC))

shiny artwork

OK, instead of teasing us by saying that there exists official artwork of a shiny Shuckle, could someone maybe find and upload it? Or at least provide the address? I already checked- if someone had uploaded it to the archives, it's not under the "Shuckle" category. - unsigned comment from Missingno. Master (talk • contribs) 22:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Sea in Pal Park?

Shuckle can caught in the sea? Is that right? And if, why?--Empoleon96 16:11, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Shiny Artwork

Echoing the comment above, can someone please upload it? I've looked, but I can't find it anywhere. XVuvuzela2010X 13:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Gen II Moveset

I changed the moveset page for gen II, as I noticed that Bide and Wrap were switched for some reason. I have a Shuckle on my team in a Gold version file that I've been working on currently, and it definitely learned Bide at level 28 and knew Wrap when I caught it at level 15. However, it's possible that it may have been switched for Crystal? I don't know. It wasn't noted as such on the page. Frezgle 03:21, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Power Trick (revisited)

I'm revisiting the old discussion up there ^, and saying I updated the math for when used in a Triple battle, but is it possible that the third Pokémon could have another ability that could contribute on top of the second with Flower Gift? --LimeGreenCharizard-- 21:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I changed the number because I worked it out using the formula and got the 28, however I have found a way to get an even higher amount of damage, so I'll post the new formula here when I've calculated it. Pikiwyn ^talk 22:37, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Basically the same as before, except Shuckle Mimics Me First, one of the opposing Pokemon uses Rollout/Defense Curl, on the fifth hit Shuckle Me Firsts it, while another opposing Pokemon Tricks Shuckle a Choice Band. I found the formula here [1], it has pretty much every possible scenario.*
(((((((100 x 2/5) + 2) x (2160 x 7368/50)/1)) + 2) x 2 x 1,5 x 1,5 x 4 x 1,5)

=360,949,532 Pikiwyn ^talk 22:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

That's great, but my question still stands. I can't think of any other abilities that could help, but am I missing something? --LimeGreenCharizard-- 05:43, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

According to the damage formula site on Smogon there's nothing else, and I looked through the Gen V abilities and couldn't find anything, so I don't think so. I'm not sure if Metronome works on Me First, but that could get a higher amount of damage. Pikiwyn ^talk 12:15, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Gen2: berry to rare candy, a mere legend?

I tried to test the idea that shuckle turns berry's to rare candy on a ROM by giving one to Shuckle and artificially speeding up time. i can usually force time based mechanics to do as i wish, but i never managed to replicate this claim empiracally. after the passage of two days and several thousands of steps, nothing changed. i tried to level the shuckle up to level 50; still nothing. after doing research, i didn't find so much as a single person claiming to have sucessfully pulled this off. i'm guessing it's just a legend.

--Crubs 18:10, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Name

in the article it says its name is a combination of the words shuck and turtle, but to me it seems to be a combination of shuck and chuckle because the word chuckle means to make a short laugh or smile and to me it seems as a joke since it never smiles in the game does anyone else agree?It just seems more likely and i think it should be in the name origin.VENUS,MEGA,SCEPT,TORTE,SERP 20:48, 28 May 2012 (UTC)