Do you use X items?

[Peachy]

I don't. I usually sell them all at the Pokemon League to buy Max Revives and such.

Also, if there is already a thread like this feel free to close this.

 

[Ghetsis-Dennis]

Heck no, they bring no use to your Pokemon's benefits once you outlevel your opponents.

 

[DarkLordKitten]

No, X Items are just money to me

 

[The Twilight Knight]

Nope. I never have used a X item. They are useless to me, well, I do sell them.

 

[RainbowSylveon]

Nope, never have. I feel like using them is a wasted turn.

 

[ZMT123]

No. They seem useless. They're only good for selling.

 

[Hidden Mew]

Nope. They don't really seem all that useful in a battle and it seems more like it's wasting a turn to use the item. I usually either keep them or sell them if I really need the money buy the more expensive items like Max Revive and Full Restore.

 

[Proxima Centauri B]

Nope, I never use X items. You have to waste a turn and they aren't that great in my opinion. I either just keep them or toss them.

 

[Almonds]

I never use them. I sell them whenever I get one. Seriously, the turn you use the X item you could just use something like swords dance instead.

 

[Anser]

No X') They're so useless... I only sell them for a few extra money.

 

[Milotic7]

I only used them once on my Excadrill while I was facing Cynthia in Black to increase its speed because it was underleveled... otherwise no.

 

[Infinity Mk-II]

I won a battle thanks to them.

Basically I was poison-stalling Bugsy's Scyther with a low-level Chikorita. It got to one turn to live, but Reflect wore off and Chikorita wouldn't survive the next Fury Cutter without it.
So I used an X-Defense and it actually worked.

Now I always carry them and try to do unusual set-ups.

 

[GatoRage]

Nope. I normally just sell them.

I did use them once though, when I was battling Wattson in my Normal monotype Ruby run. I used X Attack on my Loudred to make it easier to take down his Magneton.

 

[FinalArcadia]

Definitely not. Using them feels like wasting a turn to me.

 

[Meyneth]

They don't ever seen to come in handy, so no.

 

[Bouffalant Herdier]

Yes, I always buy a lot, especially for unusual challenges or runs. You never know when you might badly need a boost to one of your stats, and they can quickly turn a bad situation for your team into a full enemy team sweep.

 

[Zesty Cactus]

i never did. doesn't really work well with my battle style.

 

[mwetwe]

Very rarely. I have never really found them useful so I tend not to use them and toss them.

 

[Infinity Mk-II]

I guess the Wonder Launcher should be mentioned here, too.

Reason being the upgrades to the X items there, which are far more useful in battle and allow for plenty of strategies. In particular things like X Special 3 are very useful, given the lack of distribution of moves to sharply (or drastically, which only two pokemon can) raise that stat. This gives a new edge to special sweepers they didn't have before.

Of course, this is a battling system with Max Revives and Full Restores, but these upgrades absolutely makes the X items more attractive.


I always wondered though if they would've done better in-game if they had the second upgrade, where they'd sharply raise stats instead... but that would've made them too broken. (And given they aren't really needed in-game much, pointless) So if anything they'd have been find-only items.

 

[Dragonfyre]

Never. They're not worth the turn, IMO. I just end up selling them.