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2012-10-14, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
Just finished filling out my Unova Region pokedex.
Now starting on catching all of them (currently about 2/3 of the way there. 180 out of 298). I'm worried about running out of box space. Why are there only 8 boxes in this game? I thought 16-20 was the standard.If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-14, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-14, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-14, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I picked White 2 because I want Latias.
I'm actually staying away from both modes. Once I'm done with the story, I'm transferring all my important pokemon from Black and kicking all NPCs in the crotch with a lv 100 Garchomp.
Rant:
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The story is really not as gripping as Black/White Original, and so far hasn't made me want to replay it at all. I don't even know if New Team Plasma has done anything besides halfheartedly threaten to TAEK OVER THA WURLD with the power of TEH DARGONS (I'm at Opelucid City atm, and it feels like a badge grind like from gens 1-4), but no - the big thing the game keeps screaming in my face is OH HELLS NO THEY STOLE A PURLOIN. I think maybe advertising the whole "Whoa! Unova is half-frozen over!!" thing Nintendo did was a bad way to go about the story to B/W2, considering it -still hasn't happened- at Opelucid gym. Oh yeah, and if Purloin wasn't the most ridiculously useless piece of crap ever.
This isn't including the horrible inclusion of triple battles as random trainers. So, what, I get to scramble to rearrange my team because I wasn't given any indication of a triple battle, while they get a free turn to set up/KO some ****? Every triple battle I've encountered has made me rage in this exact same way, especially since my team is pretty much terrible at triple battles (Earthquake? Surf? Abndfuiodfcdc). All of it adds up to a rather aggravating experience. For those playing Blind Nuzlocke, I feel very sorry for you. You will lose many pokemon on the way to Opelucid and the Elite 4 after that.
Oh, and Hugh is the most annoying rival. EVER. He's all like "Rawr! I'm out for revenge!" and...that's as deep as he gets! Every time I meet him he's like "Where did Team Plasma go, Gwen??" The whole reason he started was to find Team Plasma and get his sister's cat back and prove himself to be a man.
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2012-10-14, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm only at Mistralton (terrible weekend work-wise) but yeah, I agree with
Spoilerthe return to cartoonish villainy. Cartoonish in the take-over-the-world sense. And I noticed a lot more people talking about the bonds between people and pokemon, or trainers always talking about how much fun your pokemon and their pokemon had battling. It seemed as if Game Freak was trying to tell the kids who played the last game that they shouldn't feel bad about making their pokemon fight because they like it. Then I realized something:
I had been talking to a friend about how Team Plasma's antics probably set back any legitimate pokemon welfare groups in the universe by years; if there was an actual pokemon welfare movement then Team Plasma would have completely delegitimized it. So while some of the people you talk to and trainers you fight have been genuinely thoughtful the past couple of years about how to better pokemons' lives, many of them are probably just trying to justify their actions even more, because Team Plasma's extremism and Ghetsis' Complete Monstery turned them off from then entire movement.My webcomic!
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2012-10-14, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-14, 10:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-14, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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This time...
This time, I WAS PREPARED, GHETSIS.
Yeah, that's right. I read about you having your hax Hydreigon again.
And I prepared for it.
Conkeldurr says SUP
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2012-10-15, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm also doing this, having just moved a couple of my SoulSilver pokemon up to my black 2. I must say it was highly amusing watching my Shaymin sweep all of Colress' post-game team. I'm also currently brainstorming on what to put together for my Battle Subway team. How does Terrakion/Metagross/Dragonite sound?
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"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." - Mewtwo
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2012-10-15, 12:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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I just realized that I have no pokemon with any ice moves.
And also, in fact, no pokemon that can learn surf, either. Whoops.
(Not that that matters for Drayden)
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2012-10-15, 12:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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My bit of advice. Save up 70,000, then go grab the Blizzard TM from Lacunacosa town. You'll thank me.
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"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." - Mewtwo
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2012-10-15, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Looks like I'm going full-on neutral damage for this gym. None of my pokemon can learn any ice moves at all
Current team:
Natrix, level 48 Serperior
Lee, level 47 Riolu (need to evolve him...)
Neji, level 49 Lucario
Siligyph, level 47
Marcus, level 45 Cinccino
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2012-10-15, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sigilyph can learn Icy Wind from one of the move tutors, it's what I tried using. (As it turned out using neutral damage probably would have been more effective, but thought I'd point it out anyway)
But your levels are probably fine for the gym. You're more or less matching Dray's levels.If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-15, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Shugenja (3.5 Base Class, Redux, Mostly Complete, Orders and Extra Material WIP)
Planar Thaumaturge (3.5 Prestige Class, Complete)
Event Horizon (3.5 Discipline, Mostly Complete)
Reposting the Martial Compendium (All the material I could recover from the old Wizards forums)
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2012-10-15, 10:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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For ten Red Shards at the Driftveil Move Tutor, by the way.
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2012-10-15, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, using Magnemite against Roxie felt... wrong. It was far too easy, especially since I was about 4 levels lower than everything she had. I haven't roflstomped a gym with a fresh Pokemon since Surge with a Diglett.
In other news, laptop cord has a short so thankfully I got a new video up before my computer ran out of juice and died.Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.
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2012-10-15, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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breeding in this game seems different. If I am constantly switching out who I breed, I hatch an egg before a new egg comes available. But if I stick with the same two parents, I get a new egg like every 500 steps or so, to the point that I can't pick up anymore.
Has it always been like this, or is it a new thing?If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-15, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's kind of luck based, and also based on the pairs' OT/species. If the OT is the same and the species is different, the pair has a small chance of producing an egg (let's call it "1"). If they have different OTs, it's "2", and if they have different OTs and the same species, it's "3" (assuming they can breed with the same species - if any of these factors makes them unable to breed then it's always "0"). At 1, you have a ~25% chance to generate an egg every 255 steps; at 2, it's closer to 50%, and 3 is about 70%. I wish I could remember the exact numbers, but they're somewhere around there...
I'm fairly certain it's been like this since Gen2. Unless B2/W2 changed it, but I haven't actually noticed a difference yet...
Oh yeah! ~~beat the elite 4~~
Jellicent was a BEAST against the Champion. Will-o-wisp neutered half their team and let Jelly tank almost the entirety.Last edited by Derjuin; 2012-10-15 at 10:46 AM.
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2012-10-15, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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So here's some cool news for everyone:
This year for Pokemon League, players will get the chance to get all eight badges from Black and White 2...as physical items.
You order a free badge case through your Play! Pokemon account and have it shipped where you go for Pokemon League. Throughout the seasons you'll be eligible to get these badges.
...I'm certainly glad I play the TCG now! ^^
Here's a link:
http://pokebeach.com/2012/10/pokemon...d-a-badge-caseLast edited by Mindfreak; 2012-10-15 at 11:05 AM.
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2012-10-15, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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I guess luck has just been really weird. Like I said, I've been consistently getting 3000+ steps to get the first egg, then 250-500 steps per egg after that. If I switch pokemon in the daycare, it starts over. (I've been spending the last day or two breeding out all the pre-evolutions I don't have for Unova Dex. 224/298 pokemon obtained as of now)
Speaking of, any idea how I could get my hands on a magmarizer? Serebii says it's available in Black City, but A) I can't go there, and B) On the black city page it doesn't list it as for sale. I guess I could grab one on Heart Gold and trade it over on a dummy pokemon, but that seems like a lot of effort for something so simple. Why would they make the Magmarizer/Electerizer so impossible to find? Rare like the stones would be fine, but this is literally "You get one item per 2 games" what the hell. (It doesn't help my Brother, who got black, somehow missed the Magmarizer on his playthrough, so I can't even use his for pokedex completion)
Oh yeah! ~~beat the elite 4~~
Jellicent was a BEAST against the Champion. Will-o-wisp neutered half their team and let Jelly tank almost the entirety.
And really, I'm, surprised Jellicent held up so well. I have a Jellicent, and I really don't see what the fuss is all about. It honestly feels like one of my squishier pokemon, despite its supposed tanking abilities. I know mine has a bad nature for tanking, but even that shouldn't make THAT huge of a difference to the point of instead of being my most durable pokemon it's getting curbstomped.If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-15, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actually, you can't trade between Gen IV (HG) and V; best you can do it get to the Poketransfer, and use it to bring in the requisite Pokemon from a prior generation (as you can't send items.)
What's available in Black City is highly dependant on how much you play with someone else on White, whether you're lucky enough to get that one trader who you can buy it from (and if you're lucky enough to get anyone at all; as Nintendo did the remarkable stupid thing of penalising you if don't complete the game quickly (in terms of real time, not game hours played) and play constantly; when I got to Black City it was completely empty.
If you can't locate how to get one from Bulbapedia aside from Black City, best bet is see if anyone here had got a spare one to trade.
The short answer is Gamefreaks seem to take a perverse pleasure in being fracktards sometimes (e.g. not giving you the difficulty settings at the start of the game, and putting hard and easy mode in different games and then saying can only even unlock them via DS to DS link...)
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2012-10-15, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-15, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-15, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well worth it, in my opinion. And since Lucario's part steel-type, he'll be resistant to dragon-type moves (disclaimer: I'm only halfway through Reversal Mountain; I don't know Drayden's full moveset). If Lucario's got Swords Dance, then he should be able to survive a one-turn setup and sweep his entire team. And if not, it's still Lucario with Ice Punch. If you're still in trouble, does your Serperior still have Leech Seed? You could put a layer of that down; he's fast and bulky enough to survive a Dragon Claw.
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2012-10-15, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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My webcomic!
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