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2012-10-17, 05:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
Well, checking in on finally getting around to playing B2.
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Game was going fine until he showed up. I mean, I knew it was inevitable that I'd be forced to admire his implied awesomeness given how much I had to do it last time around, but sheesh, will someone please kick him straight in the nads!?
My battle against Cheren was basically the opposite of the normal gym in BC. Instead of my fighting pokemon getting knocked out and Snivy picking up the slack, I switched Smugfro in expecting to finish things up only to get a critical one-hit KO. Humorously enough, Lucarifro the Riolu walked away with exactly 1 HP left. The finishing move? Counter."Okay, so I'm going to quick draw and dual wield these one-pound caltrops as improvised weapons..."
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."
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2012-10-17, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
R.I.P ComfyCoat the Level 14 Sewaddle, to a Zubat's Wing Attack in the sewers in the first time you go in (with your rival/ally). I'm not counting this first entrance for the "catch first poke you see" because having an ally stops you from catching.
EDIT: And one step after the guy left, I got in a battle. Hello, Tiny the Rattata.Last edited by Qwertystop; 2012-10-17 at 01:30 PM.
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2012-10-17, 01:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
So my match against Burgh was hilariously quick; flame charge Swadloon, rollout against Dwebble, with hit number 5 crushing his Leavanny. Why didn't I use Tepig in black 1?
Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.
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2012-10-17, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've been finding Emboar's Flame Charge is hilariously effective. If you have a Tepig, when all else fails, Flame Charge.
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2012-10-17, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
My Burgh match:
Growlithe uses Flame Whee,l it pwns Swadloon!
Dewott uses Razor Shell, it pwns Dwebble!
Growlithe uses Flame Wheel, it pwns Leavanny!
The Dewott might've been my Leavanny using Razor Leaf, maybe. I doubt it, given it was the bug gym and... well...
Similarly hilarious was my crushing the electric gym with an underleveled Trapinch. What's that? Emolga's immune to Ground Attacks? Rock Tomb!
I love my Trapinch... Can't wait for it to evolve up to Flygon...
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2012-10-17, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Also, I cannot catch a decent Cobalion. I've gotten two Modest ones, and the ones with decent-ish natures have terrible IV spreads. Finally settled on a Mischievous Brave one with modest Attack, HP, and SpDef IVs and low Def and Speed ones.
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2012-10-17, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Did a quick search through my other DS games and discovered while I was breeding Timburr in B1 I boxed an Adamant Sheer Force one. While in 1 that was decent at best, in 2 that's incredible as all I have to do is tutor thunder/ice punch and have an utter powerhouse at my disposal.
Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.
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2012-10-17, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Great. New pokemon for Relic Passage or whatever it's called: Timburr. And then I promptly lost my wierd-psychic-bird-Unown-thing-I-never-remember-the-name-of to a Roggenrolla.
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2012-10-17, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
And even acceptable is damn hard to get somedays.
I count myself fortunate - for once - that my Dialga in diamond had not only a +SA nature, but max SA IVs. (Timerender made my primary team, not something I normally do for legendaries! Okay, yeah, I did use Victini for the first up-to-E4 hald of B1, but then again, by the end, poor Glorious was starting to be outclassed by the rest of the team, and when Wytchfyre, my Modest, max SA Chandelure took over...!)
That, incidently, was one of the other precious few times I lucked out, as that was the first one I caught (And I spent ages catching more of 'em, because I didn't know better, before I finally twigged I literally couldn't get a better one!) On the other hand, I have been trying to get a decent Frillish for YONKS, but I cannot get one with a decent +SA and above average IVs; it's either good IVs or a good nature, and never the twain shall meet...!)Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2012-10-17 at 05:23 PM.
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2012-10-17, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just finished White Tree Hollow...
SpoilerShiny Dratini Get!
Now, if I use the Unova Key thing to get Black Tower, do I get the Shiny Gible as well, or is it only for the first one you beat?
That aside, I'm 8 away from completing my Unovadex. Mostly just happiness Evos, but still short the 3 items from before.
That's not counting Zekrom and the three genie looking things which aren't obtainable. Are you required to trade those in for completion credit, or are legendaries excluded?If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-17, 08:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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That moment when Colress almost volt-turns me to death.
I had accidentally let one of my Lucarios faint before fighting this battle, and the other one had only about 12 hp. (I don't use healing items out of battle except for the elite 4).
I'm glad I'm not Nuzlocking.
Beat him with the second Lucario at 3 hp, though.
Only event legendaries get a pass. All the other ones have to be gotten.Last edited by Forrestfire; 2012-10-17 at 08:42 PM.
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2012-10-17, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
I once tried to nuzlocke Black with the additional stipulation that no healing items- classified as any item stored in the 'medicine' or 'berry' pocket- could be used at any time, in or out of battle. The game is still saved right before the E4, but damn was it tough to get that far.
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2012-10-17, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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That little area at the top of the stairs from the sewers? With the tree and the grass?
Good news and bad news:
Good news: I didn't lose a poke within minutes of getting the new one from the new area.
Bad news: The new poke is Ears the Audino. I mean, seriously.Last edited by Qwertystop; 2012-10-17 at 09:18 PM.
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2012-10-17, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've always thought that it'd be awesome to catch an Audino on Route 1. They're so much better than everything else you can catch there, and especially in the early game they'd be fantastic tanks. Personally, I play with the rule that Audino cannot be caught. My reasoning is that the pokemon god clearly made them with the intention of them getting pwned by every trainer that comes along, and thus catching them upsets the natural balance of things.
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2012-10-17, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.
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2012-10-18, 12:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
More B2 Playthrough Notes.
SpoilerWell, I don't like Roxie's taste in pokemon, but her gym music was quite enjoyable. True to what I said earlier in the thread, I opted not to get a Magnemite. I was looking for a nice, interesting new pokemon to add to my team beforehand, but the Dream Radar gave me Munna and Swablu... Both of which I've kinda had my fill. I wasn't feeling it for Growlithe, and Magby's yet another annoying evolution, so the only new guy to the team is Koffing. Yes, I've never really used Koffing. Sadly, outside of Smugfro evolving, the whole gym was soloed by Riolu, so it wasn't really necessary.
Really missing my bicycle."Okay, so I'm going to quick draw and dual wield these one-pound caltrops as improvised weapons..."
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."
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2012-10-18, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
Oh yeah! Our may be inefficient, but I just pulled off an awesome combo on Burgh's Swadloon.
Step one: Magnemite paralyzes it, waits for it to use strong shot.
Step two: Get it to low health so he heals out instead of attacking.
Step three: send in Contrary Shuckle with Encore.
Edit: And Burgh is down! Current team:
Shuckle, level 18 Dream Shuckle.
Upnose, level 17 Servine.
Ears, level 17 Audino
Amalgam, level 18 Magnemite.
Tornadus, level 17 Therian Tornadus
Genesect, level 17 Genesect.
Standbys are:
Tiny, the level 14 Rattata
Lumbar, the level 15 Timburr
Two level 5 Munnas from the DR.Last edited by Qwertystop; 2012-10-18 at 08:44 AM.
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2012-10-18, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!
So can someone give me a brief explanation for how the Dream World thing works? I signed up on the web site, but when I try to connect from the game, it says something about how a pokemon needs to be dreaming first. I have no idea where to go to make it work.
If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-18, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-18, 10:10 AM (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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2012-10-18, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Doesn't matter.
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2012-10-18, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks for the help, I got it to work. Though I was only able to bring one pokemon back from the Dream World (wishing at the tree lets you pick one, and then after that you can't go back to the island until you've sent that pokemon on it seems). It seems like you should be able to get more since there's slots for 10 pokemon when it says what it's sending back, am I doing something wrong?
If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-18, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, later on, the type of Pokemon may modify the chances of what area of the Dream World you get. (E.g., my black game has enough dream points to have unlocked the Sparkling Sea, so I generally use a Blastoise (brought through from gen III...!) to sleep, as that gives me more chance of accessing that location and hopefully eventually of finding a female DW corphish... (Female because the males can't pass down the hidden ability.)
And for ages before that, I was using a Purrloin I'd been DWing since the start, and was getting more and more frustrated that I seemed to never get anything but the Spooky Mansion, until pokethread informed me that they'd implemented relating type to the location chances...!
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2012-10-18, 12:01 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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2012-10-18, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's probability-based, not a direct 1-1 correlation.
Also, Drayden. Besides the EPIC BEARD, has things which have been passed down in his family for GENERATIONS. Why they didn't make him the new Champion I don't know...