The ILG Pokemon Thread

So! I've got Pokémon Pearl! Here are my pokéys, they're all around level 30:

* Monferno (evolved from Chimchar) (and winner of a Normal rank Cool contest!) - FIRE
* Luxray (just evolved from Luxio yesterday, originally a Shinx caught pretty much straightaway) - ELECTRIC
* Bronzor (a new addition to the team levelled up fairly rapidly) - STEEL/PSYCHIC
* Kadabra (from an Abra I caught fairly soon) plea: can someone please trade this Kadabra with me and then return him so he can evolve into an Alakazam?? He can't evolve any other way and I have *never* got an Alakazam in my entire pokémon "career"! haha I am such a sad case... - PSYCHIC
* Staravia (evolved from Starly) - FLYING
* Psyduck (named OWL, only pokey I've actually named!) - WATER

It doesn't feel right not having a grass pokémon but I simply haven't come across any great ones - I might try out a Roselia if I find one. But Budew is a bit meh and blah. Otherwise I think I'm fairly balanced enough. Bronzor is sort of a new tactic for me, he knows Confuse Ray and Hypnosis so he can Confuse and put other pokeys to sleep which is a) good for catching wild pokemon and b) will give me time to heal other pokeys whilst opponents sleep.

One problem I have is that none of these know Rock Smash - it's a crap attack in battle and I resent having to delete a good move in order for one of my key players to get through a dungeon - I had originally taught it to a Bidof - but when I realised my Bidof was like, 10 levels below the rest of my pokemon I realised I just wasn't going to keep the dude and put him back on the bench.

I just had to teach Staravia Defog and delete Double Team which wz irritating...

I LOVE POKEMON

I am trying to find out if there are any pokemans that I can teach four moves to, so I can only carry two stupid utility pokemon instead of, like, 3 or 4.

just ordered pokemon pearl. So excited.

On a side note, it's great i can actually use ilx with vista now.

Jim, I've added you to my 'pal' list! Are you reading?? Incidentally next Poptimism 29th June, BE THERE :) :) :)

I'll post up my ID number when I'm home, I deliberately left Pokémon at home today as I am really overdoing it on the darned game :)

will m, bidoof or whatever it's called can learn all four moves you need for victory road. it can't learn cut though, unfortunately.

I have added a SNOVER to my team, for his ph34rs0m3 ICE POWERS. Bronzhong has been 'cut' for the moment, as I already had a psychic in Kadabra, and his steel attributes weren't as impressive as I thought they could be (ie resistant to pretty much everything). Am currently climbing Mt. Coronet.

Srsly need to evolve Kadabra into an Alakazam. His HP and defence is p1ss p00r. Do any of you want to wi-fi trade? it will involve recieving my kadabra THEN SENDING HIM BACK TO ME at which point he turns into an Alakazam (I think)! Realised I had a Kadabra in my Elite Four team last time round as well, feel a bit grumpy I am using the same one again so that is ANOTHER reason he needs to evolve :)

Luxray and OWL (a Golduck) are the biggest stars of my line up so far - Infernape is good, but he only has one fire attack (???) and he's a FIRE POKEMON so that is a bit laayme. My Staraptor is quite a few levels below the rest of my team, but that was a conscious decision because her HP is already higher than everyone elses. Need to get some levelling up on her soon though.

Hello Sarah! Sorry, I've been away. I'm back now. And yes, let's trade! Most of my main team are around lv. 45-60 now, and I've opened up the ability to drag monsters from Pokemon Ruby, so that's taking up a lot of my time (It's SO nice to have Jirachi back in my team! I'm pretty much all done with the main game though, I've beat the elite four and travelled every route and got four of the legendaries. This is the point where I normally lose interest, so we'll have to see whether the online gubbins will keep me playing.

Anyhow, my current team:

Punch, a Lv. 55 SWAMPERT, my pokemon ruby water starter. He's replaced my old psyduck.

Bobo, a Lv 46 TORTERRA, my pokemon pearl starter. Like Sarah's monkey, this is a grass type with no grass moves, which isn't ideal. He may get dropped soon.

Charap, a Lv. 55 CHATOT. Not as strong as he was in the middle stages of the game, relatively, but still handy to have around.

Zilla, a Lv. 61 PALKIA. He's ace, and can get me out of any scrape. Almost makes the game too easy, but he's had a couple of beatings from other dragon types.

Jirachi, a Lv. 37 JIRACHI. Traded from the gamecube bonus disc via a GBA link cable, to my copy of ruby, then from there to Pearl. Not fighting much at the moment, but holding an exp. share and powering up rapidly.

Wordsworth, a Lv. 49 GROUDON, one of the legendaries from ruby. He's a bg meaty fire type with a really nice set of moves (fire blast, thunderbolt, earthquake, and a weak slash for gently slapping wild ones around)

Ooh ooh so exciting!!! Jim (and everyone else obv!) here is my friend code:

2320 2955 2670

:)

I've just caught Palkia, yay! Now I'm going to go after the Pearl legendaries. Need more MASTER BALLS (if you know what I mean). Used up about 15 Ultra balls on Uxie to no effect and then all my lovely pokeys fainted. Not good.

I'm at THE ELITE FOUR.

Came through yesterday, absolutely adoring it. I've never played Pokémon before so i have no idea how to be all l33t and stuff but i have a very nice looking penguin that has metal claws.

my ID is 5268 1006 4976 6000

Also, why would i ever want to stop my pokemon evolving? This is something i cannot understand.

i picked this up, yesterday. haven't played it yet, though. i'll post my friend code, soon.

You might want to stop a pokemon evolving if you want it to learn different moves. If you bring a pichu all the way up to lv. 100 without letting it evolve, it'll have picked up a different bunch of moves to those a Picachu would've learnt, which in turn would be different to those a Raichu learns.

I'm currently playing and replaying through the early stages of pokemon ruby, so that I can pick up all three of the starter pokemon, then transfer them all to pearl and evolve them there. It's a bit mental, really.

Fucking fucking bastard the Elite Four, fucking fucking evil bastards!! Especially Quagsire, Bronzhong, Alakazam, Girafarig and don't even talk to me about Cynthia's pokemon as I only ever got to her once! ARGH!

This is my own fucking fault for picking the fire pokemon at the start - but I never have before and how the HECK was I supposed to know he would be Fire/FIGHTING?? He is the only pokemon I have which is strong against Bronzhong but the Fighting part means he's weak to psychic so it's an automatic one hit KO! And he only has ONE decent fire attack - Fire Blast - which I had to teach via a TM AND it only has 5 pp!! ARGH! It's also got low accuracy so if that misses ANYTHING, you're fcked. Worst fucking fire pokemon EVER basically.

Haha omg I am really actually SO CROSS with this! I lost AGAIN on the journey this morning and SULKED for the entire tube part of my journey! I think people thought I was glowering at them and the packed train but really I was thinking FUCK YOU BRONZHONG FUCK YOU YOU BASTARD I HATE YOU ALL.

You know you can save after every battle, even with the eliste four? So you only need to get lucky with each one of them once, really. That's how I got past them anyway (although actually I only had to reload once, I guess I'd maybe just levelled up a bit more by the time I got there). Did you get Palkia?

Yeah but my pokemon are still only around Level 50-2ish, apart from Palkia who is L56 - and I have been trying desperately to bulk up an Abomasnow as I had no grass type, ARGHH. I really DO hate Bronzhong. Also Garchomp, and Infernape is such a poor fire type, he always gets knocked out before he can even get a hit in. But I don't HAVE any other fire types (even with all the other games I generally don't have a fire type by the end).

Are you coming to Poptimism on Friday Jim? :)

I am in my UNION ROOM right now!! Come and join me! Let's trade!!

I can't find my way up Mt. Coronet worth shit....I'm pretty far (ie to the hill w/a little split [art that has the choice either between the obscured cave or another Rock Climb trail). All the walkthrus say I should just go into cave and be all no problem. But the CAVE just has come crappy waterfalls and no way to get to the next door. I am so pissed. It has put me off playing the game for over a month now.

I did this with Ruby, too....I couldn't find Team Magma's super secret undersea cave. Well, I did, but I did something one tiny bit wrong and then got lost...I don't know what happened. I finally asked my boyfriend to see if he could do something about it, and he figured it out ASAP.

I'm gonna kill.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/wakingspirits/presidentalpokemon.gif

http://www.gamebrink.com/forums/imgcache/29655-scary-gamefaqs.jpg

Ahahaha there's no way that's real?!

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Right, at the risk of bumping an old thread and then being the only nerd posting on it,

I hate Hearthome City. Fucking Pokemon contests (I entered with a Bronzor called Bruce and won 'smart normal rank' but oh boy was it ever lame) and fucking Fantina with her stupid undefeatable ghosts and I can't use HMs strength or surf outside of battle until I beat her so I can't explore beyond what I've already explored :( :( :(

I am getting bored of trying to level up my Pokemon squad by wandering around in Meditite-infested patches of grass.

Hmm, I remember stopping playing Diamond, but can't remember why or where I was in the game at that point. I keep meaning to go back to it, but I think I was in one of those vague points where you don't really have any clear goal, so I'd probably be lost as hell when I went back to it. I remember doing the same with Sapphire; I went back after not playing it for a month, and there I was, in the middle of the ocean sittin on a pokemon with no idea what was going on. I never went back to it again.

omg the politics graphic above is so A+

i used to be v serious abt pokemon, played religiously up til the gold and silver, after which it wasnt cool to be playing as a teenager. i was a blue/silver guy fwiw. still think blue or silver is the best video game i've ever played, and i've got many memories attached to the franchise

http://www.mcafeeweb.com/hoga/pokemon/magikarp.jpg

i've been playing diamond for a week now, it's so nicely mindless.

Black/White, anyone? I'm guessing not.

I nerded out on Pokemon today and preordered the new game and downloaded a freebie shiny/exclusive dude using that 'Mystery Gift' thingee. I missed last week's, but for anyone who cares, this week and next week you can download free 'legendary' Pokemon via Mystery Gift (might only be available for Eurozone, not sure though).

the other day my bf came home from work wearing a pokéwalker

considered breaking up tbh

When is Black/White out? Pokemon is my secret vice. Except the most recent gold/silver remake kind of pisses me off.

Can I say Pokemon contests have gotten wayyyy too complex since Ruby/Sapphire? They could really be a game by themselves.

A shitty, irritating, confusing game.

pokewalker = awesome, don't know what you are sweating there lamp

It's out in another month or so.
I still don't like Pokemon contests (but not as much as I did on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:19)

arceus was really good, i should go back and finish it. will continue my staunch refusal to play a new mainline one though