The ILG Pokemon Thread

man just seeing words like "elite 4" just brings me back

who are all these pokemon you guys are talking about?

black/white have all new pokemans – not a pikachu in sight.

i hopped off the train at like, crystal? mostly due to the fact that playing pokemon was no longer cool, though - my little brother and i would have "races" to see who could beat red/blue first on long car rides well into my teenage years

black/white have all new pokemans – not a pikachu in sight.

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011

;_;

peeka peeka

I finished the main game/Elite Four in Black last night.

Things I liked about this game:
- multiple-use TMs <3 <3
- completely new set of Pokemon
- STUNFISK!!! <3 make fun all you like, but I find this guy to be extremely versatile and reliable
- map that lists what's in each town
- season changes
- Nimbasa city
- the move away from having tons of throwaway water-based Pokemon

And yeah I also noticed the lack of grinding too... and actually [small spoiler coming up if you haven't finished the main game] I don't think anyone in any of the final battles has a Pokemon higher than Lv53, which is pretty low for final battle standards... pretty sure previous gens have gone into the high 50s/low 60s. I had a stunfisk, emboar, eelektross, jellicent, krookorok, and sawk (all Lv50) in my final battle squad, so the psy/dark/fighting/ghost trainers all went down pretty easily. Actually the only part of this game that's been challenging to me so far was the final main story battle.

I think I liked Pearl better, felt like there was more stuff to do, but I haven't done any post-story stuff so hopefully there are more caves and things to explore now.

http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/stunfisk.jpg

what

it's so ugly it's cute

i can't stop looking at it

http://nsider2.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/stunfisk_animated_sprite_by_devinwarriors-d38q4k7.gif
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgnvqBmZd1qclarso1_500.gif

can i just

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"Its skin is very hard, so it is unhurt even if stepped on by sumo wrestlers. It smiles when transmitting electricity."

I restarted my game in Black (because of the thing I mentioned in last revive where I totally fuckjed up hardcore). Started with Snivy this go-round instead of Oshawott. Also I guess Snivy is some new internets stoner icon now :O

http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/e/ea/Smugleafpkdx.gif

i'm feeling stunfisk

make sure you get a stunfisk, abbott

It's so long into the game before you get the rod iirc! (And especially very long before you get Surf!) Stunfisk needs the rod, yes? I like its baffling looks! Does it have electric powers? It's always confusing to me when a pokemon has two types and one is super effective against the other. A house divided!

lol emboar!

you don't need anything special to get a stunfisk... you'll stumble across them if you walk in the puddles along route 8 (I think route 8).
it's ground/electric type but its movepool is really varied, it uses moves from tons of different types. mine knows: revenge, payback (these ones are good because this pokemon is sllllooooowww and can take advantage of these moves), thunderbolt, and dig, but at various points it's also known sludge bomb and muddy water. it's not really the greatest attacker but mine's seen me through a surprisingly high number of battles. I have it hold the rocky helmet to help wear down foes.

also my stunfisk's name is EUGENE in case anyone needed to know

Rocky helmet is the greatest item. I've won loads of battles by just letting enemies smack Gurdurr around a bit.

http://i.imgur.com/b2guY.jpg

btw I finally got Pokemans Black

how are pokemans black

pretty good so far! I've actually never played a Pokemans before (lol @ me waiting until I hit 30 before I test the waters of this retarded nonsense) so I don't really have a frame of reference but I enjoyed the hour or so I played it before diving back into OoT 3D.

also my stunfisk's name is EUGENE in case anyone needed to know

― salsa shark, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:30 PM (3 hours ago)

i NEVER named my pokemon, i always thought that was a disgrace for some reason

If you name your pokemon then THEIR NAMES DON'T CHANGE WHEN THEY EVOLVE and that always really annoyed me.

Gregor Samsa didn't change his name when he evolved.

Kafka uses SAMSA!
But he's ineffective...

so much hate for giving pokemon names, wtf dudes.

Huh? 90% of the fun of pokemon (as with Game Dev Story) comes from giving them all rude names.

yeah, it's the game dev story effect

kind of feeling this
http://andriasang.com/comzor/pokemon_musou/

http://pokemonbattleroyale.tumblr.com/

151 artists draw all ("all") 151 pokemon

btw, anyone know how to download the old game onto my iphone? i know i need an "emulator" and a "rom" but i'm not good with this stuff

first step is to jailbreak your iPhone; def no game boy emulators in the app store

you might have less of a headache just buying a GBC and a copy of the game you want on eBay if this world is unfamiliar to you. Probably run you <$25 total.

That tumblr is the best thing I've seen since I looked at puppies for two hours on Saturday night <3 <3

you might have less of a headache just buying a GBC and a copy of the game you want on eBay if this world is unfamiliar to you. Probably run you <$25 total.

yeah, this p much. otherwise just search youtube for a tutorial on jailbreaking your phone and installing an emulator

is jailbreaking dangerous/bad for your phone in any meaningful way?

it voids the warranty?

hmmm

i bought pokemans black today to stave off power outage woes (naturally the power came back on like 2 hours later), any beginner ~protips~, i started with oshowatt

also is pokemans conquest any good? looks fun

Make sure you train some good ghost/psychic/dark Pokemon for when you get to the Elite Four, even though you don't need them to beat any of the gym leaders.

Ooh I am so mad at myself – I got to the Elite 4 and I have nothing – nothing! – good against dark, psychic, or ghost pokemon. What folly on my part, to go that long with leveling some up, assuming since they're not immediately needed, they'll never be needed? Will I ever even finish this game?

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Future players of pkmn black/white, all zero of you on this board, learn from my mistake.

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:41 PM (1 year ago)

I never finished the game btw

/diligently taking notes

i don't trust this professor juniper

http://i.imgur.com/6cWyi.png

don't know how it is where you guys live, but there's been crazy pokemon warnings here all summer—kids aren't even allowed outside by themselves

SQUIRTLE CROSSING

kids just need to stay out of caves and the tall grass