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i gots me a new team, and if anyone is wondering yesh they are hacked

The only thing hacked about them, is the fact that they're shiny. and where i caught em.

Cresselia, Lucario, Charizard, Empoleon (only non shiny), Nidoking, and rayquaza.

I normal raised those pains and high ev trained their stats. All lvl 100

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Kefka's Message of the week: Get off your couch noobs and get my new game Dissidia 012

I still use my same team:

Bronzong, Octillery, Slowbro, Cacturne, Rhyperior, Shuckle.

Haven't played in awhile, but I wouldn't be opposed to a match if I have some time.

Also, yes, you should buy it. Or wait until Pokemon Platinum to release (it wasn't released in the US yet, right?) and then buy that so you can capitalize on all the special features and additions. I will likely buy it even though I already have Pokemon Pearl.

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platinum? Whats up with that, is it like how they did with sapphire and ruby (Pearl and diamond) and Platinum is emerald style

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Kefka's Message of the week: Get off your couch noobs and get my new game Dissidia 012

Yup! There's a few other cool features included, which serebii.net covers on their Platinum page. You can check it out if you'd like:

Moar Platinum info!

All the pages are linked to on the right side bar. It basically is the same as D/P, but there are some minor added features that I will try to use justify purchasing it. I really just want an excuse to start a new file without deleting my old one.

...and to get another Focus Punch TM.

This post has been edited by Caesar on 17th October 2008 18:01

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Raichu Lvl. 100
Iron Tail
Grass KNot
Thunder Bolt
Focus Punch

Umbreon lvl.100
SUbstitute
Quick Attack
Confuse Ray
(Help with this move set)

Bastidoon lvl. 100
Ancient Power
Swagger
Take Down
Iron Defense

Poliwrath lvl. 100
Mud Shot
Belly Drum
Dynamic Punch
Hydro Pump

Staraptor lvl.100
Fly
Close Combat
Brave Bird
Secret Power

Garchomp-
Dragon Claw
Dragon Rage
Take Down
Rock Climb (will be removed)



Whatcha y'all think?

that looks like a good team to me, a variety of moves, not just all the same type, and a range of special abilities. most people max out their pokemon with moves of their type which do lots of damage (like my brother lol)and they wonder why they end up not doin too well. and lol are they level 100 or are they gonna be level 100? if they are then good job puttin the time in lol. ive got quite a few pokemon but i wouldnt say they are too good. ive got a bunch of pokemon who are powerful but dont use special abilities (palkia- aura sphere, aqua pulse, aqua tail, spacial rend, groudon- earthquake, fissure, solarbeam, eruption for example) and some who where like that but have been altered (lucario- aura sphere, detect, dark pulse, force palm). right now im trainin up a group of dark pokemon, but not all dark type. here they are:

weavile- icy wind, agility, feint attack, shadow claw (not sure if it is called chadow claw)
absol- perish song, shadow claw, mean look (still thinkin of its last move)
darkrai- dark pulse, dark void, nightmare, dream eater
gengar- hypnosis, dream eater, nightmare, shadow ball (shadow ball might change, as with nightmare)
mismagious- mean look, perish song, curse, shadow ball
mawile- crunch, iron head (just dont know with her lol)

what do you think? it looks good but i think its just mediocre

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@Clock Doc, your team looks good to me. Umbreon is a tough one in the move department, in my opinion. I usually teach mine psychic. Or if it doesn't have very good sp. attack, then maybe dig. Another good move to teach it would be toxic. I love that move!

@its me davey!!, let me see... I don't usually use Absol because I can never get one with good stats, but you could try teaching it something like ice beam, thunderbolt, flamethrower, water pulse, aerial ace, toxic... It has a lot of different moves it could learn.
As for the Mawile, it can also learn ice beam and flamethrower as well as toxic. I like to use Mawile, but I get stumped by moves too.
Overall, with the right moves, your team could be pretty good too. I find dark types difficult to be able to do anything with.

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When making movesets for Pokemon intended for competitive battling, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. First, they should never know HMs, with the exception of Waterfall or Surf, which are actually great attacks. Rock Climb, Strength, Fly, etc are not good at all in the competitive scene, and although they are necessary to play through the game, they should be dumped as soon as a replacement is found, in favor of better moves. I personally use Chansey as my HM mule. She can learn most of them, including Rock Climb, Strength, Rock Smash, and Flash.

Second, try not to use more than one more of the same type unless they are drastically different. Thunderbolt and Thunder are not drastically different, but Outrage and Dragon Claw are.

Third, try to cover your pokemon's main threats with your moveset. It is nice to be able to hit 14 types super effective with a moveset, but if none of those types are your main threats, then it is useless.

With those things in mind, I'll try to give some advice for the pokemon listed here:

@Clock Doc:

I like your Raichu. He has a pretty poor move pool to choose from, but that is pretty much the best you can do. Some people like to make him pure physical and others pure special. I think that your mixed sweeper set-up is nice. Tbolt and Grass Knot are really great moves for Raichu. Tbolt is the most reliable STAB move and Grass Knot stops Swampert from switching in, which he could otherwise do comfortably. Focus Punch hits Blissey who would otherwise wall you. If at all possible, I would switch out Iron Tail for Earthquake. It doesn't really matter too much, but I was just considering Infernape. A STAB'd tbolt will still do a lot of damage to him, and Raichu isn't fast enough to EQ him before Infernape EQ's him., which would kill. May as well keep his moveset.

Umbreon is typically used as a staller/wall. He has huge defense and special defense stats (110 and 130, IIRC), and a decent move pool to pull it off with. I've seen really effective Umbreons using mean look, baton pass, toxic, and some random attacking move. They can trap an opponent, toxic him if he's no threat, and then just stall him out with Faint Attack/Shadow Ball/whatever his attacking move is. If he can't stall out the pokemon, or if it's steel or poison type, just baton pass into someone who can. It's a really, really nice set up for him. Max defense/sp def EVs and leftovers will make him really tough to break.

Bastiodon is another wall. I haven't seen many effective movesets for him, but I know for a fact that he is not good at attacking. I've tried. It doesn't work. What I think would work for him is taunt and metal burst. Maybe thunder to hit gyarados, but metal burst is really going to do more damage. The other moves honestly do not matter. He basically becomes Wobbuffet. Do not give him any moves that take away his health, like take down, because he needs that health to take damage with. If an enemy comes in and you think he's going to try to kill you, use metal burst. It's counter and mirror coat combined, but with no speed priority added in. Bastiodon will always go last because he has like base 30 speed, IIRC, so that's no issue. Basically, he gets a free kill. If they try to use status on him, like will-o-wisp or something, or if they just intend to swords dance until they know they can one-shot him, just taunt and FORCE them to attack. I could see it working.

I don't know anything about Poliwrath, but I know that without a good item or a good plan to set up belly drum, he's going to get one-shotted. In the standard competitive battling environment, there are infinitely many faster pokemon than him, so even if he does get it set up, he'll get blasted before he attacks. I have never known how to set up belly drum, with the exception of abusing speed and substitute and holding a speed-boosting berry (Salac berry), but I don't think that will work with him because he's not fast enough to get the initial sub off. Either way, stay away from mud shot (EQ is much better) and dynamic punch because mud shot is weak and banned in competitive play (evasion clause) and dynamic punch is too inaccurate to trust. If he gets belly drum off, brick break will kill mostly anything if he hits them. EQ never missed, either. If he can learn waterfall, he should definitely have that, too. It might be possible to run waterfall, brick break, sub, and belly drum. You won't be able to hit Slowbro or some other really rare pokemon, but it might be fine. Give him Salac berry, too.

Staraptor. He is really fast and dangerous. All Staraptors should have close combat, but you have. Great idea. I think of Staraptors as glass cannons. They hit hard and fast but can't take hits. For that reason, brave bird is a good idea because the health loss won't matter much. Quick attack is decent for him, surprisingly, because it can actually do big damage and hits first. Return should be the final move, since it picks up a STAB and has like 108 or something power when he is at maximum happiness, which yours should be since you likely had it for the entire game. Staraptor is awesome.

Garchomp. You need to be really careful with this one because most people make sure they can one-shot Garchomp (or counter him) in any team they make. He is a huge threat and most competitive players know all his stats (max health, defense, maximum damage he can deal with each move) and have accounted for it in their own team. Anyways, there are a lot of great chomp builds. Some run choice scarf with EQ, Outrage, Dragon Claw, and Fire Blast. That's a great build. Fire Blast hits Skarmory for a lot of damage. Outrage should be used only when you know there are no more steel types on your opponent's team to wall you, otherwise Dragon Claw should be used. EQ can be used for a quick hit and run or revenge kill on someone who is weak vs. it.

I have not considered any kind of team synergy or anything in this case. I'm just listed some moveset improvements and general movesets that will work with any team, if you feel the need to switch them around at all.


@davey:

Weavile is a great pokemon. I would suggest a different build though. His attack stat is huge and he has high speed already, so agility and icy wind aren't too important. I have seen really, really scary Weaviles holding a focus sash and running swords dance, ice punch, brick break, and night slash. This build is supposed to be the lead pokemon. Swords dance as the focus sash soaks the first hit, and then sweep the opponent using strong, boosted STABs and great type coverage. If ttar is the opponent's lead, your plan is ruined, though. Just brick break, hope for a OHKO, and try to do something else to set him up if you want. Sandstorm ruins focus sash and ttar can definitely bring you down to 1 HP with stone edge, no question. Still, that's Weavile's best option, IMHO.

I have an Absol that absolutely dominates. You should abuse his really unique ability which grants him additional chance for critical hits. I gave mine a Scope Lens to increase that chance more, and then loaded him with moves that have high crit chance. My Absol has stone edge, night slash, psycho cut, and x-scissor (for some dark types that I can't hit otherwise, like Ttar). He is used with trick room support, so his speed isn't an issue, but otherwise it is. If he lands a hit, your opponent is dead. End of story. He has monstrous attack, and with that set-up, 75% of his moves have a 50% chance of landing a critical hit, which doubles the damage. Absol is really, really terrifying if used correctly.

I don't know about Darkrai because he's an uber.

Gengar is a really effective special sweeper, but he should never have dream eater. Nobody leaves a sleeping pokemon in play unless they have sleep talk, in which case you are going to get hit really hard. Most gengars abuse their huge speed and special attack stats and run hypnosis, shadow ball (for STAB), focus blast (to hit normal types super effective), and then a fourth move. That can be tbolt to hit gyarados or a physical attack like shadow claw or focus punch or brick break to hit Blissey. I think Focus Blast would do more damage, but you never know. Those first three are pretty much staples, though. Hypnosis on everything you can't kill (like Blissey!), and blast everything else with STAB'd shadow ball.

Mismagius is basically identical to Gengar. He can run the same moveset effectively. Using perish song/mean look works sometimes, but mismagius is too frail to pull it off effectively, in my opinion. I wouldn't use both him and gengar on the same team since they are countered by the same pokemon.

Mawile....I'm not a big fan of this one. Really poor move pool and bad typing considering how common fighting and ground moves are in D/P. Crunch, iron head, and swords dance are probably your best options. For the fourth move, I have no clue. Mawile cannot touch other steel types, and it can't learn EQ to hit them. Brick break can hurt some of them, but not the major threats (Bronzong and Skarmory). Idk. I don't know what to say for this one, sorry.

Ok. I hope that helps you two, and many some people reading this. Those are just the builds that I can see being most effective. Some others will work with very good prediction skills, but this are really consistent and effective builds to use.

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Quote (Caesar @ 18th October 2008 19:46)

or a physical attack like shadow claw or focus punch or brick break to hit Blissey.

I'd like to see a Shadow Claw hit Blissey.

But yeah, everything else there is pretty good. Though I'm pretty sure Raichu can't learn EQ. The fact Signal Beam has become an option for every special sweeper under the sun in Platinum is definitely an interesting one, as it gives Raichu an alternative to the innaccurate Focus Blast for sorting out Dark types, as well as a letting it get a super on those pesky Psychics.

Assuming the Darkrai is ALAMOS, rather than hacked, a good set to run would be Dark Pulse, Spacial Rend, Dark Void, and either Focus Punch of Focus Blast, to hit those Steels. Personally I'd go for Focus Blast, so I can max out Sp.Attk without worrying, though Focus Punch is good too if the foe is asleep, as they'll usually either stay asleep and get hit, or they'll switch, and whatever is coming in will get hit.

I'm starting to really get into atypical movesets. I've currently got a Toxic Orb Clefable in the works, and I'm beinning to love the unpredictability of certain UU Pokemon. They're never seen, so the foe will rarely know what to expect, especially if its not the regular version of said Pokemon. Oh, and I'm half way through a Bellynoone. Gotta love Gluttony...

Hahaha, good call about Shadow Claw hitting Blissey. My bad.

You are entirely correct about Raichu not being to learn EQ, also. That's very strange that he can't learn that; almost every pokemon in this entire game can learn EQ. It's like...a fundamental physical move. Thanks for pointing that out, though.

I love the UU/BL tiers, also. The pokemon there are really fantastic and extremely effective if used correctly. They work especially well in my team since Trick Room negates all speed issues they have. Characters that were not really usable before, such as Crawdaunt, are now truly terrifying physical sweepers with TR support.

Three of the staples of my main team (Cacturne, Octillery, and Shuckle) are UU and Slowbro is BL. Rhyperior and Bronzong are both OU, but I need the latter and the former rounds out my team. For each of my UU pokemon, I actually have two builds, which I swap in sometimes if I have played my opponent previously or if I suspect that they researched my team before the battle. All three of them are extremely versatile, and the support of TR takes away their main weakness. They boast true power!

I never thought of Belly drum Linoone. That's a pretty ingenious idea! Let me know how it works out.

This post has been edited by Caesar on 21st October 2008 00:06

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TY guys!

My sister has been EV training a Tyranitar and she's kind of at a loss for a move set. If anybody has any ideas, it would be great.

Tyranitar lv. 85
HP 266 (it has a horrible IV)
Att 277
Def 270
Sp. Att 207
Sp. Def 186
Spd 133

Crunch
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Screech

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Ttar is an amazing pokemon because he can run so many different movesets effectively. You can give him choice band and crunch, EQ, stone edge, and some fourth move (maybe pursuit, maybe focus punch), and he will do very well. He can also run the "Tyraniboah" set, if you were EV training him in special attack: substitute, focus punch, dark pulse, ice beam/tbolt with leftovers. I have been hurt by that set before; it can do a surprising amount of damage, and most people will not expect Ttar to be packing so many special attacking moves.

There are a lot of other great sets with him that rely heavily on prediction or that require some egg moves (dragon dance, mostly). It is too late for the latter and the former is really tricky to pull of most of the time. I think if your sister just replaced screech for a fourth move of her choice and gave him a life orb, he'd do fine, to be honest. Pursuit, focus punch, or even fire blast would all be good choices.

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Thanks for the help. She's thinking about teaching it fire blast, even though she was EV training it in attack and defense. It's special attack IV is pretty high, so it should be able to pull it off.

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I hope all you Americans went to get your TRU Dragonites this weekend just gone. One of the annoying things about living in the UK is that we get one event a year, tops.

Quote (Wizwum @ 10th November 2008 14:27)

I hope all you Americans went to get your TRU Dragonites this weekend just gone. One of the annoying things about living in the UK is that we get one event a year, tops.

I have not heard of this event. What were they giving away?

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Lvl 50 (ie. usable in official Nintendo Tournaments, such as the Worlds which will be coming to the US and possibly other countries outside Japan soon after Platinum's English Language release) Dragonite, available at Toys 'R' Us stores in the US.

Lv50 Dragonite @ Yache Berry
Dragon Dance
Outrage
Thunderbolt
Draco Meteor

Quote (Wizwum @ 10th November 2008 15:27)

I hope all you Americans went to get your TRU Dragonites this weekend just gone. One of the annoying things about living in the UK is that we get one event a year, tops.

I've never been a Nintendo Event in my life, mostly because the closest place I know of where they happen is in New York, and I live in Nova Scotia. There is just no possible way to get there; I wish Nintendo would consider us people who live out in the middle of nowhere.

BTW, does Canada even get Nintendo events?

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This should probably go in a new forum topic titled: Pokemon Platinum... but it's generation IV data...

So I was playing Pokemon Platinum, and I didn't want to default to my flying pokemon being a Starly...

BUT WHEN THE HELL DID THEY ALLOW ZUBAT TO LEARN FLY!?!?

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Wow, Zubat can fly? That is awesome! I am going to have to catch and raise one of them now instead of the classic starly. I never liked Staraptor, but Crobat is awesome!

I should really sit down and play that sometime. I am at like Oreburgh, which is disappointing. I should be much farther, considering I've had the game for two weeks.

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I decided to give myself an unfair advantage, and I bred a new baby Charmander with Flamethrower and attached an Old Amber to him, and traded him from my Diamond to my Platinum. I'm battling Gardenia as I type, and my Charmeleon will not listen to me, and my Aerodactyl doesn't know any Flying moves, because they got trumped out by Bite, Scary Face, Roar, and Agility . So now I have to wait til I can get to a move tutor, or get Areal Ace before I have any luck with STAB flying mover on my Aero.

Also, I was reading, and apparently the Gen I Legendary Birds are catchable in Platinum! They hop around in the same fashion as Mesprit and Cresselia!

Woot for One more Articuno!

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I wish I could trade over some newly bred pokemon. That'd be ideal. If I EV trained them on Pearl before transferring, they'd still be at a low level (depending on what trainers I use), and then I could just level them as I play through. This would be good for some of those Poke's that are just plain annoying to level up, like Relicanth.

On the other hand, if I force myself to only use pokemon I get in Platinum, I get to see how dominant I can make a Bibarel. Simple + Curse + Super Fang + Waterfall = dominance (maybe?).

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Lol... oh EV training...

I didn't even think to EV train until I got to Jubilife (I think that's the name, brain lapse... ). At this point, I thought: "Well, I always EV train my pokes in speed at the path up north on the Zubats, so maybe I'll do that."

I get there, and run into nothing but Psyducks for 20 minutes! My how the appearance rates have shifted! So since I decided to go for Turtwig to start, I decided a water buddy would be a good idea (although I was considering waiting for a Wingull... Me likey water birdies!), plus that saves a slot on my team that would normally be filled by the Abra I trade for in the first gym's town... gotta love that speed leveling!

I did some half-assed EV training on the few Zubats that would appear by switching in my Charmander, as a speedy Charizard is a force to be reckoned with. And even at lv 2, Flamethower kills!

But as I've said, I went with a revived-in-platinum Aerodactyl (So it obeys and levels slow! And is "Mine") and a traded Charmander with Flamethrower (pwnage) Currently making my team as:

Grotle
Psyduck
Luxio
Aerodactyl
Charmeleon
Onyx

I wanted to experiment with a more Rock and Ground based team, as these are elements I traditionally ignore and desire later, and I wanted to see how I'd fare if I held off on my Gyrados-out-of-the-chute, as, if you recall, I'm one of those tenacious types that buys the "overpriced" Magikarp and raises it usually.

Definitely breaking all my rules, and making the game difficult, as Gardenia was a beee-otch when Aerodactyl knew NOTHING helpful, and Bite NEVER CAUSED A SINGLE FLINCH, and Charmeleon listened only once every couple of turns at level 17, as you get your > lv 10 outsider control from the 2nd gym, giving me 10 more levels until he stops listening again.

But I rant... and digress, I'm at work, and should get back to it!
Also, I have to figure out how to break my poke-addiction to my girlfriend without her running away screaming now... thanks Nintendo...

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...& Heart Gold & Soul Silver?



EDIT: Yes, Caesar, they're DS remakes of Gold and Silver, announced a few hours ago.

This post has been edited by laszlow on 8th May 2009 03:46

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Uhhh. I am guessing that those are remakes of Gold and Silver like FireRed, LeafGreen, etc were? That'd be awesome!

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Raichu Lvl. 100
Iron Tail
Grass Knot
Thunder Bolt
Focus Punch
Umbreon lvl.100
Substiture
mean look
Confuse Ray
dig
Typhlosion (zomg i love him)
Rockslide
Seismic punch
eruption
Flamethrower
Nidoking lvl. 100(gets 90% of my kills)
Megahorn
Shadowball
Bodyslam
Earthquake
Staraptor lvl.100
Fly
Close Combat
Brave Bird
Secret Power
Garchomp-
Dragon Claw
Dragon Rage
Take Down
Swords dance

This post has been edited by Clock Doc on 8th May 2009 06:09

Also, Id like to see someother peoples teams. Id like to see whats new in the world (Lawlz), since I havent played in a while.

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Did you also, during this while, forget about the prohibition on double-posting, sir? -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 8th May 2009 10:21

Well, now that other people have posted, I'll write what I've been wanting to add for weeks now!

For one: Gold and Silver remakes = Obvious Choice for Nintendo to pursue, and yet another game to have to buy.

My favorite part of this story so far however, is that I finally told my girlfriend that I play pokemon, and she decided to sit down and play my file for a bit just to see what it was like.
So she would wander around until she got into a battle, and they say, "Hey! What to I do?" And I would tell her what attacks to use and she'd win and be happy. We've done this a couple of times now, but the downside is, she really likes my DS now, and has been borrowing it and playing The New Super Mario Brothers and Polarium on it. So I haven't been able to play as much as I'd like to.

Since I have beaten the Elite Four now, not a simple task with my team of lv 50 and lowers btw, I have unlocked the battle tower, so I have new things to say about the game...

1: They increased the number of pokemon initially available in Sinoh from 150 to 210, making for a lot more interesting combinations, including MORE FIRE POKEMON! In Platinum, rather than needing to get Chimchar or catching a Ponyta, there are wild magmars, wild houndours, and eevee is obtainable pre-national-dex, so Flareon is available. Some of the other changes include things like, if the pokemon had a new evolution in D/P/Pt, those pokemon are now available for capture early now. Electivire, Magmortar, Gallade, The eevees (like I'd said), Gliscor, Togekiss, etc... All of that is available right away. Now what this all means is...

2: The Elite Four is a lot tougher! Aaron got rid of Beautifly and Dustox, and replaced them with Yanmega and Scizor. Bertha got rid of Quagsire and Sudowoodo and swapped in Gliscor and Rhypherrior, FLINT REALLY IS A FIRE TRAINER NOW! Using Rapidash, Infernape, Flareon, Magmortar, and Houndoom, Lucian took out Giraffarig and Medicham, and replaced them with Espeon and Gallade, and Cynthia SUCKS! She has a very well built Togekiss now, only needing to sacrifice her Gastrodon to switch it into her lineup.

<<SHABLAM! WALL OF TEXT!>>

3: The battle tower is absolutely the most funnest (yeah, I said funnest) thing I've ever done in a Pokemon game. They have a new place where you can engage in a special form of "Single Battle" where you pick one pokemon, and then you get a choice of what type of pokemon to pit it against. There are all 17 elements represented, and they all start at rank 1, meaning a weaker opponent in the element of choice. You go one on one against a poke of that element (but it will strategically pick dual element pokes to mess with you) and if you win, you move on. The rank for that element increases, and you get to pick the next element to battle. It's SO MUCH FUN! I ran my Charizard through there equipped with Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse, Air Slash, and Earthquake (<- How about that for a well rounded Charizard Caesar?) and dominated just about everything thrown at me. Just to tempt fate, I picked a rank 1 water battle, and it threw a Sharpedo at me that Water Pulsed me into Confusion, and I ended up winning that battle with a crappy 33 hp remaining . Then, when I decided to pick a Rank 1 Dark pokemon to fight, IT THREW ANOTHER FRIGGIN SHARPEDO AT ME! So yes, you pick one element, but it can obviously pick a second to add. Don't believe me? Count how many pure Flying types there are. At the 50th round in a row, it sent the "Owner" of the Battle tower out, and we 1-on-1ed and she pulled a Rhypherrior. I did an EQ, and it squeaked out MAYBE 10% of his HP on a super effective hit. His stone edge ended up finishing me off on its second try, so I don't know what you get for a perfect 50 streak, but it was the most fun I've ever had seeing how well rounded my pokes are. The majority of my first battles were against Bugs and Dragons, as Dragon Pulse is FTW there. However, by rank 9 even the dragons were starting to make me nervous. I ended up cleaning up on Bugs, because, if I didn't want to use Flamethrower, I would just use Air Slash... poor Heracross...

This battle tower makes me curious to how neat it would be to run a Shedinja in there. Since just about everyone everywhere can learn Areal Ace, it's very dangerous, and it could pair Flying with many of the other types you pick, But it would be interesting to see for sure.

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Oh! Also, during my EV training at the Ravaged path, I got myself a Shiny Psyduck, which I caught very low level with a Pokeball because I was EV training my "Catch-things-easier" Scyther with False Swipe at the time. So I Tagged him and Bagged him!

Also, My current team, which will probably only last me until I get the national dex"

Lucario (which will stay in my lineup)
Torterra
Charizard (Which will stay in my lineup)
Luxray (Which I'm getting REALLY tired of)
Golduck (Which if continued to be used, will be swapped for the Shiny)
Aerodactyl (Which will PROBABLY stay in my lineup)

My Aerodactyl at level 45 was out-speeding Cynthia's level 60-something Garchomp.
Luxray is a waste, and I'm tired of using him. The Spark attack he learns at level 7 is the best electric he'll learn, because Thunder fang actually has the same power, but only 95% accuracy. And I didn't want to trade 5% of my hits for Flinching.
There is a move tutor in Platinum Post-National-Dex that can teach my Torterra Seed Bomb, Making him useful, so I'm not giving up on him just yet. Right now I have EQ, Crunch, and Razor Leaf, and I just move deleted Rock Climb off, I'm trying to decide on a 4th move for him, and I'm thinking of tutoring back Leech Seed for the moment...
Lucario... Needs... Work... He resembles my old Charizards at the moment: Aura Sphere, Close Combat, Flash Cannon, and... um... rock smash... He is trained however, perfectly in Speed and Special Attack EVs, and I think I gave the last few points to HP.

This post has been edited by leilong on 8th May 2009 16:09

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If internal struggles were as enjoyable and glamorous as the self conflicted wars within video game characters, we would all be statues, reveling in perpetual self war. -Me

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My sister is all over these games. She has a Nitendo DS. I don't I have the SP. I have little interest in getting a DS right now but if I ended up with one I would be loving these games f'sure.

Wow... this is turning into my personal Pokehistory blog...

Oh well... update:

I didn't want to miss azelf and uxie, so getting the national dex took longer than expected. I took the most rag-tag group of miscreants I could in retrospect.

My first poke for theese undertakings was Pichu. Yes, Pichu. He was my highest level pokemon (at level 23) that knew ThunderShock, sad, but true, and Torterra doesn't learn Stun Spore. It took a few restarts to trigger the Paralysis, as Azelf would switch between starting with Nasty Plot (Para-win), Future Sight (Para-win), and Uproar (Para-Fail). If he did the first 2, I would follow up with Scyther X-scissor-ing him to about 1/8 of his life. (yay for lvl 41 out-speeding an uber with EV training!) I hit him twice with False Swipe after to ensure the whole 1 HP thing. Then it was a waiting game of "Will he Catch?" as he dwindled out my pokes. It took about 8 tries for Azelf.

Uxie went smoother, as I went ahead and EV trained a Bronzong in Def and SDef for these capturing purposes (there's still Mesprit, Cresselia, Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres to get, so I figured it wasn't a waste to have a tank). But anywho, Pichu still at lvl 23 triggered Paralysis when Uxie yawned him, only to ko him next turn, Scyther Stepped in and X-scissor + False Swipex2 down to 1 hp (the x2 is me being neurotic and wanting exactly 1 hp), and then balling him until scyther was dead, and as he couldn't drop Bronzong. After I got the paralysis to hit, it was one try (no having to restart) to catch him. Those were 209 and 210 for my dex.

Also, FYI to anyone rushing through Platinum because you already played Diamond and/or Pearl: Elekid and Happiny are in the dex, and it wasn't until after I went out and caught a male and female Electabuzz and bred and hatched an egg did I realize that there is a trainer who has an Elekid and Happiny just West of the Milk Bar North of Solaceon. Those were 207 and 208 for me.

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If internal struggles were as enjoyable and glamorous as the self conflicted wars within video game characters, we would all be statues, reveling in perpetual self war. -Me

Play me on Rock Band 2, GH-WT, or any other Xbox GH!
Xbox Gamertag-MeanJerry