Pokémon General Discussion

[Ddude The Insane]

Nice guide B~T.....but i think your definition of Synchronize at the top was confused with Pressure. And when i get back on Pokemon(been kinda bored with it lately,too many new Mario games coming up and beat most of Plat) Alakazam is a definite maybe on my team. The HP problem with it alwats kinda annoyed me though......

[B~T]

@DarthT - Thanks for pointing that out. I copied off Dusknoir. >_>

[Ddude The Insane]

2 prints, Battle Hall and Battle Castle. One day i just decided i didn't feel like there was any challenge in the game anymore (I know there are 3 other prints,but i was revamping my team,kinda hard to battle those guys with level 20s) and quit. But don't worry, i still love Pokemon. I'm just trying to revamp my training style to be more statistical. Before i used gut instinct,if a POkemon of my was struggling,i'd fix it, now i'm trying to learn to make use of EVs,IVs, Natures,etc-which i used to ignore,i didn't even know about E/I Vs uuntil a month ago.

[The Host]

@Anyone: where can I find Choice Specs? (the other Choice items are in the Battle Frontier, but I didn't see specs there...)

@BT: thanks for the Limbo, BL and Wynaut thing...

As for Wobbufett: I hate that pokemon. It's not good, and IMO is somewhat easy to beat, if you baton passed into it. In the actual game none of the trainers (specifically the lady with green hair and a Blissey) use it properly. I'm sure this is a different story in wi-fi battles, but since I don't have wi-fi or an AR, or any Gamecube Games, I don't have many Uber pokemon, so entering would not be likely.

I currently have one print(Castle, silver)... Still working on Battle Hall(for some reason I cannot beat that one. Currently trying to find a good pokemon to use there(possibly my Porygon-Z)). I'm gonna go in a clockwise order when I do decide to challenge for prints, and I hope to have at least the silver prints from each place before HGSS gets here...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Battle Hall's the one Pokemon only one right? I crushed Silver on that a few times with my In-game team. =P I've really gotta get training on my Competitive team >_<

[Ddude The Insane]

@Yup Blade,its the one-Pokemon one. My Electivire took out Argenta's (is that her name?) Registeel in three turns. Also,as for competitive battling,that's the thing i forgot to mention in my post. I never battled competitivly much,now,as HG/SS are likely to let me acess wi-fi,i need to take competitive battling seriously. Which includes dumping my style of only teaching my Pokemon attack moves and ditching moves like Taunt.

[The Host]

Yeah, 1 pokemon. First time I did that I beat all ten levels of rock(with a grass pokemon) and then discovered there were only ten levels and I should have gone with harder stuff first... Plus there was a Slowbro that knew Flamethrower(or some water pokeomn with a fire move that destroyed Leafeon...)

Only non attack moves I teach my pokemon are stat boosting and recovery and status inducing... okay that's a lot, but I don't use Taunt and Torment much, but I can see their uses(although having a sweeping team with subpar defences does not like taunting opponents...)
I need to get physical and special walls trained for my team... and I'm gonna avoid Blissey entirely...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, those tend to decimate me quickly... What's a strong Pokemon with little to no weaknesses? =P

[Ddude The Insane]

Blissey? I guess.....but i always have a tough fighting-type,like Lucario and Infernape,so i decimate THEM pretty quickly......

Well,we know Kanto is in HG/SS....but i wonder how much time you spend there BEFORE battling the elite four? A few Kanto pokemon might not be so bad.....

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Probably the same amount of time as in the originals... Maybe a little more, but we probably won't be able to get Pokemon outside of the new Johto dex, like we couldn't in FR/LG... R/S/E(Okay, maybe not R/S/E... I forget if you could get Non-ND Pokemon before the ND in Emerald.)... D/P/Pt... Though technically you could get Non National Dex Pokemon in D/P/Pt if you traded I guess... But they didn't appear in the wild naturally without the National Dex.

[Ddude The Insane]

*shrugs* I guess so....

@Anyone-who do you think the strongest non-legendary fire type is? A lot of people say Charizard,but......well,i find Charizard a litlle lackluster.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Infernape. =P There's probably stronger, but I like Infernape. Plus, anyone who looks like SS4 Goku is fine by me. =P

[Ddude The Insane]

I was a Blazekin fan back in the R/S/E days. Heck,i was 4 when they started,my first game was Ruby. I remember spazzing out because i didn't know how to get out of Littleroot town at the start =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

xD Nice.

Actually, come to think about it, Sapphire was technically one of my first mainstream games(I had Stadium for a while before that, but Sapphire/FireRed were the first I actually got for my then new GBA SP, yet Ruby/Sapphire was the first I actually played because I rented it. Sapphire was the one I got further in, so I decided I wanted Sapphire. I'm not fully sure why I chose FireRed over Leafgreen though. =P)... But it was pretty cool at the time, but HGSS will blow everything away. =P

[The Host]

Infernape is definately one of the strongest and best fire pokemon, however, Magmortar is also pretty strong specially. There aren't actually that many fire pokemon, but the top fire pokemon IMO are:
Infernape, Magmortar, Blaziken and Houndoom... Blaziken is much stronger than Infernape, but his speed is pretty bad. Magmortar is a beast in special attacking, but again, speed makes him not great. Houndoom has a nice typing(dark is always a plus for me...).
Charizard can't be used too much due to his 4x weakness to Stealth Rock.

On the subject of starting games, mine was Yellow(as I've said previously). I didn't know that PCs were all connected, so when I put my Butterfree in the PC in Pewter, then went through Mt Moon I didn't know I could take it out in Cerulean(sp?). Red was my next game, and getting infinite Rare Candies was fun(I had a level 90 Butterfree lol).

A strong pokemon with only 1 weakness is: Foretress, Scisor and Electivire(Fire, fire, ground). Foretress is strong defencively, while Scisor and Electivire are both phsyical sweepers(Motor Drive Electivire is pretty fast, and Bullet Punch Technician Scisor is a beast to anything that doesn't resist it(BP goes up to 90 Base Power after STAB and Technician, and Life Orb/Choice Band powers it up even more. One Swords Dance sky rockets its power...)

My upcoming team(still thinking of a few more. Please comment on switches that should be made):
-Scisor
-Porygon-Z
-Breloom/Machamp
-Gyarados/Salamance
-Alakazam
-Bronzong/Dusknoir

Still up in the air. Dynamicpunch No Guard Machamp is nice, especially if Trick Room is in effect, but Poison Heal Breloom is something I'd like to try out. Dusknoir has great defences, but a low HP isn't nice to have. The Gyarados vs Salamance is better defences vs faster and stronger. Salamances 4x ice weakness isn't nice, but neither is a 4x elec weakness...


He said what I was gonna say for the most part...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Question; Wouldn't Ice Punch take out Shedinja, who is a Bug/Ghost Pokemon? I thought Ice was Super Effective 'gainst Sheddy.

[The Host]

Well, Sheddy is Bug Ghost, but Ice is neutral against Bug. I thought for the longest time that Ice was 2x against bug, but its neutral, which is why the common boltbeam combo doesn't scare Sheddy, and also why he can appear in Ubers...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

*Twitches eye* I see.... What does Ice effect that Fire doesn't? Is it to take out those Pesky Dragons?

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i didn't kno this was a topic. :p

imho the best fire pokémon is arcinine (sry for the spelling error)

[The Host]

Ice kills ground, dragon and flying, which fire hits for neutral or 0.5 damage only.
Ice and fire both murder grass
Fire beats ice, bug and steel, which ice runs away from...