The ILG Pokemon Thread

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.

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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

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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)

I mean, I don't hate them as much as I did in one of my earlier posts on this thread. Work multitasking + ILG = wonky sentences.

What's new in black/white? Feels like a while since I've played one, could be tempted if it's not just going to be EXACTLY THE SAME OLD GAME AGAIN LIKE IT ALWAYS IS.

(note, I don't hate that, just not sure I'm in the mood for it atm).

well it's going to have a complete assortment of new pokemans to catch in the first part of the game (pre-elite-4). otherwise it'll probably be exactly the same! there will be, uh, 3-on-3 battles, I guess?

I dunno I want to buy it.

Jim - all new Pokémon! No rattatas! No zubats! It's going to be massively epic. And there's a goth pokemon! And once made from ice-cream!

This weekend (and next weekend in London at least) there are Celebi giveaway events for those who have no qualms about their addiction.

I'm currently playing FireRed. My aim is to catch all original 151 (after I got a Mew last year).

Not being able to connect my DS to my wifi connection really sux when trying to catch 'em all :( (my wireless is kind of iffy anyway, and I can't lower the security settings without it breaking entirely, and ugh so tedious why won't it WORRRRK. The 3ds had better have it working. But do I WANT it working, and updating my system with cr4p all the time? Ramble ramble).

Just beat the fourth gym in Pokemon Black. Who else is playing this on ILX? Let's get some chatter going. My current team is all basically in their 20s, and my current lineup is Pignite, Blitzle, Yamask, Drilbur, Pansage and Palpitoad. Drilbur + Yamask were the most recent additions and I'm not totally sold on them yet.

Ho ho ho my lot are in their 40s, because I ground an awful lot with those Audinos (and have pretty much played the game constantly and need to tell myself to put it down).

I've got: Serperior (regal grass snake! he is so great but am miffed he can't go in musicals anymore), Seismitoad (poor thing is so hulking and ugly, I am fond of him but he does himself no favours by constantly shaking those warts, oh man), Zebstrika, Simisear, GURDURR and Stoutland.

Yamask is great against pokémon who only have physical attacks as nooothing can hit it - I used a Yamask in a battle with my friend last week and she was getting infuriated with it. Its evolved form is also pretty funny - a jazz hands coffin!

one thing I'm really enjoying about this pokemon is that it doesn't feel like I have to grind so much. maybe it's bc there are more trainer battles between gyms so I don't have to supplement xp with random encounters, or maybe it's bc the gyms are just better spaced/designed.

I agree with you!

I ground because I had a picking in my brain to do so, curses! :)

want to play this but will first need to buy a new DS, as mine's got a big crack in the bottom screen and a cracked hinge. and my psp works fine and there are a lot of nice psp games. so it may be a while. i will return ilg pokemon thread!!! against my better judgement!!

My DS hinge cracked a week before the 3DS came out! Opportune!

My copy of this is on its way now. I won't know which version it is until I open the mail, which is mildly exciting, but it's arriving at the same time as Okamiden so I might have to put off playing Pokemon until that's done. Pokemon is a massive timesuck for me and it's unlikely it'll leave my DS for a few months once it goes in. eek!

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?

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

I scraped through against the Elite 4, mainly by having a billion revives and potions. Then I go through to the next area, and every trainer is 20 levels stronger than the Elite 4. That's what you need to watch out for.

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

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can i just

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