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Jack Surge January 17th, 2008 8:15 AM

How do you play up through the Pokemon League?
 
Well, I was wondering. How do you play through the games? After you get your starter, what do you do? Do just train your starter and try to wipe out the gyms, or do you try to train a balanced team of six, or maybe just a group of three pokemon? Do you participate in contests on the way to the league, or do you wait until after to compete in contests?

Me, I enjoy mixing things up. I always train more than just my starter. Most of the time, I train a balanced team of six. After I got into Diamond, I got a Pearl, where I trained a team of unusual pokemon. I had a Yanmega (hatched from an egg from Diamond) Mismagius (nicknamed Mage) a Staraptor, and a Roserade. I usually wait for contests until after the League.

Olz. January 17th, 2008 8:22 AM

Well... I normally get my starter.. Train it to level 10.. Catch a Shinx.. And train it up :). Then balance out ym team so i dont have like a level 60 andd 5 level 20 odds xP

ktn January 17th, 2008 8:51 AM

well my pokemon sucked when i beat the leauge i was sooo weak.my team was
starraptor lv 45
palkia lv 53
infermape lv49
two lake pokemon lv50
and a rosearade lv 40

msdmario January 17th, 2008 8:55 AM

I try making a balance of 6 Pokemon for beating the game. I used to play the game with only my starter and a bunch of HM slaves back in Blue version but I stopped doing that because it gets boring using the same old Pokemon for every battle.

BakingBluePotatoe January 17th, 2008 9:02 AM

typical order of Pokemon:

keep Starter the whole game, and keep the bird from early on for most of the game.
catch the rat as an HM slave, and if that doesn't work, I'll catch a secend one.
for about until the first gym, I'll use the bug/s

Play through the game with the Starter and the bird most of the time, an various other Pokemon to help beat other gyms.

I only beat the Pearl E-4... I used mainly my Infernape and a Roselia. and Uxie was for healing

Shiny Umbreon January 17th, 2008 9:03 AM

I use basic Pokémon (Staraptor, Graveler, Roserade, Luxray, Alakazam, Empoleon) and just fight every trainer in the game. I don't need to train them much because the CPU players lack intelligence anyway. And for everything else, I wait until I beat the game (that includes the League and the Battle Island).

Dark Destiny January 17th, 2008 9:25 AM

I always have a pack of 6 =)
i tried completing it with one or three, never suceeded =(

Dialga450 January 17th, 2008 9:26 AM

What I do I just train a balanced team of six (which I am doing in emerald version) then i go to victory road and fight from there before i go through victory road i get a lot of hyper potions and when i get to the elite four buy some more revives hyper potions etc... Then in the elite four i heal between battles and before the champion room i heal. Then beat the champion.

Nicku January 17th, 2008 10:22 AM

I make RPG character out of my games 8D So i try not to catch too much Pokemons i dont need, and i choose some "special" Pokemon, keep them, and train them so their level isn't too diffrent ..
But well, thats is more my way of choose my teams Pokemon .. Isn't it .. ? xD
Until now i've always keep my starter, but i think that is about to change .. I'm a little tired of the starters now .. (I dont hate them, i just need to train something else) owo

Or something XD

- Nicku

WaluigiRedclaw91 January 17th, 2008 10:23 AM

well, me and my brother start one of our ames over and over agian so we both have all the starters. Then I catch an electic pokemon in pearl shinx, and then a flying type, starly, and I dont use any others unil after the elite four. Then, i train my fire starter to be a beaty contest pokemon and the others as battlers for Wifi and battle tower.

smile! January 17th, 2008 10:43 AM

I searched for what I want to keep in Pokedexes, then start training. Usually I overtrain at the beginning, then begin to get lazy near the end. I defeated Gardenia with a lv 28 Prinplup and also lv 28 Vespiquen. When I was at the league, all my Pokemons were around 52.. :p

Ayano Katagiri January 17th, 2008 5:40 PM

I use Pokemon of mixed types which are easily obtainable around the start of the game and just train them all up evenly. But I made sure my starter was female so I could do breeding without having to go find a Ditto later on. And then I just beat the E4 with a pretty even team of around Level 50s.

KNIGHT_OF_ARCEUS January 17th, 2008 5:51 PM

I prefer a balanced team
so that if one strong pokemon faints you don't automatically lose

YoungAngel January 18th, 2008 10:36 AM

Ive made a terrible habit of training up 1 pokemon so hard that i have to depend on it for everything and i feel ive wasted my time because i have to train all my other 5 to the same level. Funny enough it usually isnt the starter pokemon. like in my pearl game my Stari (staraptor) is my best pokemon and my starter pokemon Piplup -> Empoleon is much much younger...its crazy but i wouldnt change it....My stari is the mummy of the group lol

try covering the whole of the area and you wont really have to come back for anything

I used my staraptor, empoleon, luxray, golem, palkia, and rapidash, for the pokemon league which i didnt really use, staraptor pretty much did everything...lol
they were roughly levels 60-80

Supreme Dirt January 18th, 2008 1:40 PM

I get myself a Feebas/Milotic from the GTS and own the entire game with Milotic, since it levels up REALLY fast (600,000 XP for level 100)

Saryka January 18th, 2008 2:04 PM

I beat the game with the crappiest team ever, and really crappy movesets. I just zip through the game, beat the E4, and the rebuild a whole new team AFTER the game... when you get the National Dex. :)

I beat the E4 with these Pokemon
Skuntank - L. 48
Floatzel - L. 50
Torterra - L. 50
Staraptor - L. 66
Gengar - L. 66
Luxray - L. 50

That's how pathetic the E4 and Cynthia are. The Staraptor and the Gengar didn't even show up much in battle. I used the Skuntank the most. No lie. :)

MasterWGS January 18th, 2008 5:00 PM

My starter will always be the 'best' of my team, but I let the rest of the team keep up pretty evenly, save for one...

My HM Poke will usually be whatever level it was when I caught it.

Saryka January 18th, 2008 5:14 PM

My starter actually ends up being the lowest leveled of my team (except for Swampert, who just plain rocks ~.o). I end up tearing up every battle with a really crappy-leveled Pokémon with horrible stats (which shows you how good the AI of all the in-game trainers are >.o)

Ryu Hoshi January 18th, 2008 6:03 PM

I dont really think about it that much because by the time im done doing everything in the whole game my Original team is gone anyways.well not gone but left in my PC.Usually peoples teams by mid game if they dont grab outside help is mid forms of either piplup or chimchar because turtwig seems like the least popular one out of the three,well atleast to me anyways.Mid form of starly obviously because hes the pidgey of the game.Bidoof or barbell because hes a HM slave.I use another word other then hm slave but this is a kids freindly place so i'll keep it to myself.Kadabra or haunter,because people always seem to feel comfort in those guys.ooops minds wandering off again. * goes off to do more ev training*

El Gofre January 19th, 2008 3:54 AM

Azelf+Uxie+Infernape, all i needed
*Send out uxie, yawn and stealth rock set up.
*Send out appropriate sweeper
*Switch back to uxie when anything dies
*Heal while uxie walls
Switch back in, carry on

I got through the elite for with that :)

Ársa January 19th, 2008 5:45 AM

lol, everytime I reset It's always the same.

Starter
Luxray
Staraptor / Honchkrow
Alakazam / Gengar
Gyarados
Lopunny / Mismagius

~T_S

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandella (Post 3258192)
I get myself a Feebas/Milotic from the GTS and own the entire game with Milotic, since it levels up REALLY fast (600,000 XP for level 100)

nice, considering you have to see the pokemon before you can get it off GTS... o.0

~T_S

El Gofre January 19th, 2008 5:53 AM

He may have got to the elite four, got to milotic and lost lol

Kirioroshi January 19th, 2008 6:05 AM

Well he said he owned the entire game with milotic. Most people think that they finished the game after they beat the elite four..

BassFace January 19th, 2008 6:41 AM

In my Pokemon games, my team generally builds slowly. For the first while in Pearl, I had Piplup only. Then, I decided to catch Shinx. It was a while before I got my third Pokemon, Ponyta, and Bronzor came even later. I only recently added my fifth Pokemon, Drifloon. I'm currently going for my fifth badge, and my sixth slot is still wide open.
Well, not exactly wide open - one of my HM slaves is currently occupying that spot (I have 3 HM slaves). When I need a certain HM-user, I have to go to the PC and swap out, since I carry all five members of my main team at all times. If I ever get to a point where I need more than one HM slave at a time, I'll probably just go to the PC and temporarily deposit either my highest-leveled Pokemon (i.e. the one who needs experience the least) or the Pokemon whose type would be least useful at that point in the game.

Whenever I catch a new Pokemon for my team, the first thing I do is go to some place where you can find wild Pokemon, and start training it up. When its level starts getting close to the levels of the rest of my team, I start using it to take on AI trainers.

I also try and keep my team balanced. I'm thinking of putting a Grass type, such as Roserade, in my sixth slot. In one game, I raised a team of all fire Pokemon... biiiig mistake.

My current team is:

Azuria (Empoleon) - Level 36
Raye (Luxray) - Level 38
Fiora (Ponyta) - Level 35
Iore (Bronzong) - Level 35
Ciela (Drifblim) - Level 31
<insert random HM slave here>

One thing I don't usually do, but did in Pearl, was nickname every single Pokemon on my team, including my starter. In most games, I either leave everyone's name alone, or give one or two party members a nickname.

Another thing that always seems to happen, unintentionally, is that my team's gender ratio begins to lean heavily to the female side. Though I always try to balance out the males and females, by the time by team has six members, there are always more females than males. I really don't know why it happens, but it happened to me in Red (three females, two males, one genderless), Crystal (four females, no males, two genderless), Fire Red (four females, one male, one genderless) and Emerald (five females, one male). The same thing seems to be happening in Pearl - even if my sixth Pokemon is male, there are still going to be more females overall, since I currently have three females and one genderless Pokemon. The only exception to this is my Gold version team, which is 100% male except for my starter.

As for the Contests and all that optional stuff, I usually leave most of that stuff for after the Elite Four.


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