The OFFICIAL Pokemon thread ver 2.5

I finally beat the Eilte 4. Now I can try out the Battle Frontier. :bgrin:

hey same here! yes I choose both birds as my starters.

dodgers: ah i see, maybe i might throw all 3 starters in there like you and train them up for ingame. I’m on my 3rd badge so there’s still time.

I got my first Silver Print this morning by defeating the Arcade Star Dahlia! :bgrin:

The Battle Frontier and trying to catch all 493 Pokmon again have been occupying most of my time this weekend.

Just picked up Platinum, and by picked up, I mean am running it off a flash card, but don’t tell Nintendo! :o

Are the in-games changes enough to make someone want to play through in-game again? Since I never bought the third game of a generation before.

…which one are you using? I’m using an old M3 player for Pearl, but Platinum won’t save correctly (freezes). :shake:

I’m supposed to be getting an R4 SCHC in the mail pretty soon…

just turned down a Timid Giratina with 26/30/24/16/25/12 stats. I hope I don’t regret this but I just didn’t like the nature with such crappy speed IVs

Supposedly we should expect a G/S remake announcement next week.

I’ve been working on a Normal type team. 1-3 so far but they were all close matches… If only Ursaring was Bulkier =(

If somebody wants to clone it, you guys can have my Giratina. It was best Altered Forme Giratina available when I did a giveaway on Smogon a year ago (I’m not sure if it still is).

Relaxed (Lvl 70, no EVs)
30/17/29/31/30/30

uhm, what’s on your team?

there’s (competitive-wise)…

Snorlax
Blissey
Porygon Z
Togetic
Miltank
Tauros

Ursaring
Aipom
Slaking
Linoone (gimmicky)
Zangoose (gimmicky)
Smeargle (gimmicky)

so…how do you cover the glaring Fighting weakness? It’s Harrrdddddd…unless you use Flying Types like:

Dodrio
Staraptor
Swellow

I just won another hard fought fight. 2-3 overall now :slight_smile: I saved it and will record it later. It’s a pretty epic turnaround win.

His team
Infernape
Dragonite
Suicune
Heatran
Jirachi
Sceptile

My team is currently:
Milktank
Togekiss
Ursaring
Kecleon
Clefable
Regigaas

I won 1-0 from 1-3. CM+Lifeorb Clefairy is truth. :lol:

I can get around fighting moves by lots of T-wave, bulkiness and prediction. It’s impossible to ohko 4 of my pokes even with stab CC without some kind of boost. And once you know something is coming in specifically to kill you with a physical fighting attack you can beat it.

I’m still not sure about Ursaring here it dies hella quick. I’m trying Guts+SD+Flame Orb+Facade but maybe it needs another set for this team.

That looks really difficult, but it looks really fun and rewarding to play.

I’ve never actually seen or heard of anyone really using Kecleon, does color change give you STAB if you have a move to go along with it?

i stopped trading from diamond to platinum. I just noticed that my DS lite shuts itself off randomly…i’m damn lucky it never shut off during my trades. BUT THE HELL if i’m going to run the risk until i get another DS…maybe a DSi.

I don’t know when though :frowning:

also, i can’t hold on to my friends DS forever…this fuckin suck. I have great pokemon waiting on Diamond

EDIT: Right now i’m going for a shiny Giratina. I’ll work on this for 2 days tops before i give up and capture him

most definitely

you have the traded pokemon bonus EXP…and if you tack on a Lucky Egg…shouldn’t take too lonng to have all your entire team at the same level (3rd gym badge…about level 25?)

Holy crap, I forgot about Lucky Egg.

I knew grinding was taking unusually long this time around…

I don’t know what i’d do without it, lol

If I recall it does, but since Kecleon is so slow getting a moveset prioritizing STAB is somewhat difficult to do. Even with EV investment, Kecleon is a snail.

IIRC it was 30, but I already advanced and beat the water gym using only Garchomp. I do need to trade over my shiny fearow (i made it hm slave for some reason, just to get around like fly/defog/etc)

I’d say it’s worth it, just boring. You want to just get in and claim everything because you know nothing can stop you coming off d/p. Also, I don’t get “Looker” all that much.

I was hoping someone could help me out. I need a Razor Fang to evolve my freshly caught Gligar. I just need the item itself; I don’t mind trading throwaway Pokemon. Can someone help me out?

GAME: Platinum
NAME: Aria
CODE: 4898 2559 5128

I appreciate the help.

Also, for future reference, here’s my other code:

GAME: Diamond
NAME: Ari
CODE: 1462 2830 9036

If no one else is willng to give you one and you’re willing to wait until midnight when I get off work, I’ll trade one to you. My friend code is in my signature.

It does, but the problem is getting the move to go along with it. People with hit you with random stuff so your type will constantly switch, changing kecleon’s type and removing any potential stab. Substitute helps a little to remedy that… but you can’t Sub forever. I’m really liking kecleon it’s much better than I thought it would be.

The only problem I have with it is hitting stuff back. I’ve tried: Focus Punch/Sucker Punch, Nasty Plot/Swift, Screech/Shadow Sneak but none of those really works. Focus Punch/Sucker Punch is weak, Nasty Plot/Swift get screwed over by color change and Screech/Shadow Sneak lacks power so I’m looking at Sucker Punch/ Screech instead. Let’s see how it goes.