Pokémon General Discussion

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the guide is pretty good. i would replace overheat maybe w/ heat wave.

[The Host]

Gallade has high SpDef so it can't take a Physical Flare Blitz that has STAB coming off of 110 base atk... Gallade could definately compete with the SpAtk variant of Arcainine though...

Gonna go for Battle Hall again...

Do a Ditto review next... Moveset: Transform...

[Flipz]

@ everyone: wow, those stats are confusing...could someone give me a tutorial?  I've gotten by so far just by setting up my team based on elemental type...but after Jupiter nearly killed me...

Also, does anyone know a good spot to level-grind about 30 pokemon from ~lvl 5 to ~lvl 20?  (Keep in mind I only have the second Gym badge, and I just got my first Bike.)  In particular I need to get Magikarp to evolve (I just got him to lvl 16 by giving him an EXP share...).

BTW, anyone already know this trick: to give a pokemon experience without ever risking it in battle, set it as your starter.  As soon as the fight starts, switch it out, and hey presto it'll gain experience at fight's end.  Kind of like an EXP share, but your main pokemon get's attacked as soon as you send it out.

sorry, no, I don't have wifi.  Hopefully soon, but...

Why have I been ignored??  I don't understand a word you're saying!! 

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i don't think ur being ignored. if u need any help i can give it to u.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Why was Gallade brought into this?  It was being compared to Infernape, not Gallade.  And besides, for a Pokemon built to be a Physical Sweeper, it's pretty bad at it.  Forget Defense.  Speed is his downfall.  Defenses aren't that vital if he sweeps quickly and hard enough.  Gallade struggles to keep up in standard play.

Stone Edge. And yeah, which is why if there's any future item that doesn't stick to one attack and boosts speed, I'm using it for Gallade. >_>

flipz: Sorry, busy explaining to .~period here that Arcanine isn't better than Infernape. There should be overviews in the links on the first page, and Serebii.net has some good tutorials on the game mechanics. =)

!! The release date is revealed! Japan gets HG/SS on September 12/09! And... 0_o The price doesn't seem to have gone up. =O

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this is sorta an opinionated debate :-\

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Balanced doesn't get you anywhere usually in the competitive thing though. And in the review, BT mentioned how Thunder Fang could take out water types... Swampert isn't affected by that, and could probably last a little while against Arcanine's other attacks, and if he was able to use Stealth Rock or so, unless you had a rapid spinner on your team, he could easily switch out... Unless the opponent used a spikes-type move too =P

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i cannot do a wifi battle. i do have wifi, but i lost my good diamond on a roadtrip... it had my arcanine. now i have my pt and my other diamond. none even have the national dex.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Vs. seeker is before you're about to head into Mount Coronet for the first time officially. So he'd've had to finished up in Eterna first, IIRC.

Yeah, it is a surprise to me too, but all the better for me, since it means when it comes out here, I can definitely get it... or at least I hope... *Tries to save up for it now* ... *Tries to save up for it now after SF3 comes out next Tuesday* That looks better. =)

Anyway, onto something else.. What do you guys think that area to the left of Cianwood is...?

.: Aren't you up to the Battle Frontier on Plat? If so, you usually have to have the National Dex, if Diamond is any indication...(Sorry, I had gotten the ND by the time I got to Snowpoint City, anticipating that. >>

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@ blade: i still need uxie and azelf. and rotom... i m a little to lazy to catch them now...

[Dudebot5000]

Here I have a situation. I was breeding Turtwigs for my Competitive team, when I happened to get two Impish ones on the third round; the kind I was looking for. Since EV training them wouldn't help much in the long run, I looked at the IVs.

Turtwig 1:
HP-14
Atk-28
Def-29
SAtk-9
SDef-1
Spd-8

Turtwig 2:
HP-26
Atk-13
Def-6
SAtk-9
SDef-21
Spd-3

Which to choose... =/
(IV stats were calculated at Lv 100, no EVs.)

Quoted for reference. Still not sure whether to go with Atk/Def/Spd or Hp/SDef... =/

As for west of of Cianwood, it's probably a Battle Frontier, like he said.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

That's actually what I was figuring it was, and if it is, then this game isn't coming out of my DS for even longer than Plat. Oh, and I'll be disappeared from here for even longer than last time. =P

I'm just wondering, if it is a Battle Frontier, what's gonna be where the Battle Tower used to be, since they probably couldn't have two... Trainer Tower ala Emerald/FireRed anyone?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I've gone to the Battle Factory once or twice, and if I can stop swapping out Platinum for another game for more than a few seconds, I'll try and get further in it. Battle Factory guy appears on the 49th match for the gold fight, correct?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

'k, thought so. When's the other again, so I don't get caught off guard?(I need to pay attention during this... I think I lost once because I skipped past where it was saying who was up next)

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Ah, thought it was along those lines. =) Thanks =)

Are we gonna be holding the tourney this summer, or will we at least wait for the Japanese release to see if it's got the extended Wi-Fi featrues of the DSi's WPA and such? Just seeing if I should get to work on my competitive team or not.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

'k.

*Notices something on the HGSS site* What's the stuff about mobiles...? I assume it has something to do with phones, but why's it on the front page? A phone wallpaper maybe, from the image?

*Sees the Pokemon site and jumps* Uhh...? Remember that Rotom Secret Key event I had been telling you would probably repeat? It seems it's repeating already, and until July 19th. =O

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i m almost to the national dex. just need uxie and rotom...

[B~T]

@period - Rotom is pretty easy to catch despite having a catch rate of 45. I just chucked 7 Nest Balls at it in my old Diamond.

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i kno. i have had one in my good diamond (i lost that one) i caught it in a quick ball :p.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Don't remind me about catching Rotom. >_> It took a few restarts to catch it.