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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 21:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 6, 2009 21:39:45 GMT -5
That picture is... a wonderful... wonderful, wonderful thing. I wish it were official publicity artwork, but obviously not since the girl is Kris instead of this stupid-looking new chick they're bringing in to replace her for some reason. I always assumed I'd want SoulSilver, since Silver was my first video game evarz... But it turns out Phanpy/Donphan are only available in HeartGold. Oh NO. I will have to go for the SLIGHTLY LESS MANLY-SOUNDING OPTION. EDIT: Why not make this HG/SS discussion, though? Don't we already have a general Pokemon thread? Or a billion of them?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 21:50:28 GMT -5
It's not a HG/SS topic for that exact reason. I'm hoping that by making it "General", it'll allow people to keep the topic running instead of spawing eighty more Pokemon topics. Our Pokemon discussion is too decentralized, and that tends to hurt it, IMO.
The new girl, I'm guessing, is a brunette so that it matches the maximum number of female players. After finding that the characters who were less similar to the average appearance actually tended to be less popular overall, I'm guessing they went more generic with the main characters again. A bit of a shame, since Kris's one of my favorite designs for a lead trainer.
Bummer on the Donphan situation. Though you could always just get Silver and get a trade from one of the people who gets Heart Gold, provided you have Wi-fi. Since there's freely available Dittos, breeding a champion for a final party shouldn't be too hard.
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Post by Shrouded Wolf on Dec 8, 2009 0:46:34 GMT -5
I'm actually looking forward to those two games quite a bit since 2nd gen was by far my fav gen of pokemon, however, in a way, I don't want those to come out since I'm pretty broke atm...
But yeah. Lee is right. Dittos are pretty damn common. Hell, if you like I have a full set of max IV dittos in my ranch, so... If you want any, just let me know some time. I'll go looking for my copy of diamond/platinum and be glad to help out
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 18, 2010 22:28:37 GMT -5
So, I bought the game this afternoon. My party is Bellsprout, Unown D, and a Ledyba headlining. I'm ready to take on the world! Bring it oooonnnnn!
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 19, 2010 10:30:59 GMT -5
I got Heart Gold yesterday. I picked cyndaquil for my starter because I'm cliche.
I can't wait to have slowpoke lagging behind me.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 19, 2010 10:40:48 GMT -5
Slowpokes will keep pace with you. Even while running. Dang, you're slow.
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 19, 2010 10:49:16 GMT -5
it will lag in my mind
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Mar 19, 2010 17:33:42 GMT -5
I got SoulSilver yesterday. I started with Cyndaquil because that's what I started with in Silver.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 19, 2010 23:58:24 GMT -5
So, I screwed up saving (as in, fell asleep without hitting the Save button) and lost an hour of progress. I'm still in the first gym. But everything of mine is around level 14, so I doubt Falkner's gonna be much of an issue (even if my whole party, bar my Unown, is weak to flying by a large measure.)
I'm impressed with a lot of what they've done... Though I do wish what they had done with Sprout tower was a bit of an improvement, maybe an extra floor you could come back to later for some better battles.
As it is, it's like "Here's this immense tower where trainers fight hard enough to shake the very foundation!"
Then you go in there, and it's like five dudes with levels 3 to 5 Bellsprouts. And you're like, "Dude, I was expecting an immense skyscraper of pure, unadulterated battling fury, and I got the leaning tower of pussies."
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Mar 20, 2010 3:50:12 GMT -5
I want someone to explain to me how Whitney's Miltank can use stomp on my Ghastly.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Mar 20, 2010 6:13:23 GMT -5
Doesn't it have the ability that lets normal and fighting moves hit ghosts? I'm sure Kangaskhan gets it too. Let me check for you.
[serebii]
Yeah, it probably has the Scrappy ability.
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 20, 2010 10:39:12 GMT -5
I have a Bellsprout in my pokewalker.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Mar 20, 2010 20:06:53 GMT -5
I have a Wooper in mine >.>
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 20, 2010 21:09:47 GMT -5
i found a magby and now its in my walker
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Mar 21, 2010 2:08:02 GMT -5
I'll just keep training my team. I'll save up the watts for now.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 21, 2010 2:54:43 GMT -5
I'm planning on raising SOMETHING from level 1 to 100 in the walker. No idea what yet. But I think it'd be fun. Considering how much I walk, it's totally feasible that I could do it without trying too hard.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 21, 2010 2:58:56 GMT -5
Also, my party is now Ledian (Which sucks. I really need to do some Power-Breeding ASAP.), a Weepinbell, Voltorb, Krabby, and that loaner Spearow you get. I want to train the Spearow, but I'd live in constant fear of getting Shuckie mugged like I did in Crystal.
(I trained the loaner Shuckle to level fifty-ought, was medicine shopping in Cianwood, and ran into the guy, who immediately took back his Shuckle. And the VALUABLE item it was holding. And about two nights of training time. I coulda not saved, sure, but I was just disgusted enough that I gave up on that gen at that point.)
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 21, 2010 11:25:46 GMT -5
I found a slowpoke in my walker he is now my team lead. my party consists of slowpoke, cyndaquil, nidoran male, hoothoot, bellsprout, and machop. I don't go as crazy as Lee in using silly pokemon. Instead I just under level them all. Also, I never use nidoran, hoothoot, or bellsprout, so it'll be interesting.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 21, 2010 16:28:22 GMT -5
So, I've begun trying to breed an ideal replacement Ledian. And as a rule, the good ones are male, and the bad ones are female. Every time. And if there is a good female, it has Early Bird (also known as "Yeah, that REALLY helps me when I always use Safeguard"). I swear, I could hatch a hundred and never get an acceptable result.
Blood once watched me breed something like 60 Chinchous before I found an acceptable one. Not good, mind you, but just "Male, Volt Absorb, and has a personality that DOESN'T crap out its Special Attack."
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Mar 21, 2010 17:37:21 GMT -5
Didn't you abuse Ditto, Lee?
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Post by AngelicTragedy on Mar 21, 2010 19:59:01 GMT -5
Right now I have Feraligatr, Pidgeot, Ampharos, and Magmar on my SoulSilver. I'm aiming at catching a Swinub and Teddiursa in the near future.
I must say that the level of the pokemon in the wild is rather disappointing and Gym Leaders are a bit lacking as well. Besides the Roost on Pidgeotto in the first gym and the fact that the Scyther that I had in the second gym was a bitch he game has been a cake walk.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Mar 21, 2010 20:24:49 GMT -5
Whitney has almost always been a pain to me. Otherwise, I've had no challenge from gym leaders... My main complaint is that my pokemon is always getting hit by whatever secondary effect there is from a move. EVERY poison sting attack has poisoned me. Confusion nearly always confuses the opposing pokemon (except mine), and confuse ray and supersonic always work. As well as hypnosis and sleeping powder. (Again, except for mine.)
*Sigh* Whatever happened to those days when I could go around without carrying full heals?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 22, 2010 1:14:13 GMT -5
Level 12 Meowth with Taunt. Soloed Morty's entire party without being KOed.
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Post by Krazy Glue on Mar 22, 2010 6:48:25 GMT -5
HG/SS come out this Friday in the UK, I was going to import but for once europe didn't get screwed over with release dates so I really don't mind waiting a bit longer. I think its going to take a bigger chunk out of my productivity than my gf's new house, island paradise, and fris combined.
I still can't decide on a starter, I've never played through johto with chikorita, but at the same time, I completely abused one in pearl for the battle tower, doing a non-defensive meganium would be a strange concept...
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Post by ch00beh on Mar 22, 2010 21:36:27 GMT -5
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