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Astinus September 11th, 2010 11:41 AM

How long ago did you plant them? Oran Berries (those are the ones you planted, right?) take sixteen hours to grow to a tree, with four hours for each stage.

So figure out when you planted them, and work from there.

ltsang September 11th, 2010 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Astinus (Post 6146818)
How long ago did you plant them? Oran Berries (those are the ones you planted, right?) take sixteen hours to grow to a tree, with four hours for each stage.

So figure out when you planted them, and work from there.


lol I don't know when I plant. I plant them sometime last month.

Amore September 11th, 2010 1:27 PM

Oh. You must be going on your DS at the time when they've shed their berries and reverted to a seed again. So, if they haven't even sprouted yet, you just need to go on your DS about 2-5 hours earlier, and you should see a full-grown plant with berries ready to pick.

Hope that makes sense, and helps you

mrunner4home September 11th, 2010 5:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ltsang (Post 6146753)
I recently plant some orange berries in the pot and they have not yet grown. Why?

you mean oran berries? it's oran not orange.

if the berry grows into a berry plant and you don't collect the berries within a set time limit, the plant will go back to a berry and the growing stage starts over. but I think after too many times of the plant regrowing it just dies and doesn't grow back (not totally sure, but on diamond I was using my berry app for my poketch and the plants I had in places that I never went back to disappeared after a while and didn't come back). so if as you said you planted a month ago, the times you had gone back to check on the berries might have happened to be the times where it reverted back to berry. in other words, you took too long to collect the berries. and the berries might have died completely by now...

now I bet the plant has regrown so many times that it just died. not too sure about that, though. is there a berry in the soil? if yes then it didn't die. if no then I'm right about it having been regrown too many times


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I'm about to give up on connecting my ds to my wii message thing for the gts trades... no one will help me. if someone wants to help a guy please pm me or reply to this post...

ltsang September 12th, 2010 6:29 AM

Today I decided that I want fight in the battle tower with my level 80 pokemon. I got creamed. I entered dragonite, amaphrose, and houndoom. That bug that the fat guy use on me killed 3 of my pokes. So I was wondering if they're pokemon are ev'ed trained and what level are they do you know? The tower I was in was never loose! keep wining. The one with the shining glass floor. I need help. Thanks.

jkriall September 12th, 2010 6:39 AM

I dont think they are ev trained, but why are you using ampharos? theres way better choices for battle tower.

ltsang September 12th, 2010 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jkriall (Post 6149000)
I dont think they are ev trained, but why are you using ampharos? theres way better choices for battle tower.

Ampharos is my only electric pokemon for now. I haven't had time to train another team yet. I'm still working on my first team.

Gavrillo_AK September 12th, 2010 12:44 PM

OK after finally someone actually helping me and pointing me to the right section, I have found where this belongs.

I have been considering a team for HG and after much process of elimination I have kind of decided a team, but I would like to hear of any flaws from you people. (I apologise if this isn't in the correct place, I'm new here).

Meganium
Umbreon/Espeon (I don't mind which, I won't force it to evolve into any form, either will do).
Starmie/Lapras I'm not sure which to have, Starmie is part psychic and has really high sp. atk, but Lapras is a tank.
Ampharos
Fearow
Arcanine.

Could anyone suggest maybe a better flying type? I've never really liked playing with Fearow, but his statistics seem quite good.

I would love to hear any more suggestions. :3

Hmm, I'm considering now including a Heracross. Opinions? Also, I'd really like a Houndoom, I've never used it, but I'm not sure if I can find it fairly early on.

Fushigidane-Chan September 12th, 2010 2:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Gavrillo_AK (Post 6149916)
OK after finally someone actually helping me and pointing me to the right section, I have found where this belongs.

I have been considering a team for HG and after much process of elimination I have kind of decided a team, but I would like to hear of any flaws from you people. (I apologise if this isn't in the correct place, I'm new here).

All things considered, it's a very fine team. If you do decide to go with Houndoom (although I prefer Arcanine), I'd replace Arcanine and make sure Eevee evolves into Espeon (though Espeon is a better choice in-game over Umbreon, period). Heracross could potentially replace Ampharos or Espeon/Umbreon, although they're all great Pokemon.

There are tons of better Flying-types than Fearow, including Crobat, Dragonite, Togekiss, Yanmega, Honchkrow, Skarmory, and Gliscor (although Gliscor can't learn Fly).

I've used both, and personally, I find Starmie much more useful than Lapras, although they're both great. However, if you do decide to use Starmie, teaching it Ice Beam through PM should be a priority.

ltsang September 12th, 2010 4:33 PM

I just recieved a pokemon with a meaning of pkrs in white and purple letters. So what does that mean? Pokerust. That's what I been hearing that people are trying to get. The pokemon I got is a female licklicy.

Does anyone know how to solve the puzzle for the ho oh in the ruins of alpha? I've tried but I couldn't figure out the pieces. Any guide for it. Let me know thanks. I really want to catch the rest of the unkowns.

mrunner4home September 12th, 2010 4:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Gavrillo_AK (Post 6149916)
OK after finally someone actually helping me and pointing me to the right section, I have found where this belongs.

I have been considering a team for HG and after much process of elimination I have kind of decided a team, but I would like to hear of any flaws from you people. (I apologise if this isn't in the correct place, I'm new here).

Meganium
Umbreon/Espeon (I don't mind which, I won't force it to evolve into any form, either will do).
Starmie/Lapras I'm not sure which to have, Starmie is part psychic and has really high sp. atk, but Lapras is a tank.
Ampharos
Fearow
Arcanine.

Could anyone suggest maybe a better flying type? I've never really liked playing with Fearow, but his statistics seem quite good.

I would love to hear any more suggestions. :3

Hmm, I'm considering now including a Heracross. Opinions? Also, I'd really like a Houndoom, I've never used it, but I'm not sure if I can find it fairly early on.


meganium: my least favorite starter evolution lol but ok it's fine.

umbreon/espeon: espeon is better than umbreon in general. umbreon has lower attack and better defense, but isn't really a defensive pokemon because it's not that much higher. plus with the lower attacks, and the fact that it doesn't learn any good dark moves really (STAB) make it pretty weak.
>> espeon however has high sp atk and speed so you'll be able to attack quickly and strongly enough for the lower defenses not to be any problem (ie making the opposing pokemon faint before it ever gets to attack you).
so I'd say espeon

starmie/lapras: well you already have a sp. attacking psychic type on your team (espeon) so it's kind of a waste to put it in. if you put lapras in, you'll gain an ice type to your team and, like you said, it's a tank so you'll gain that too. good for switching in during battle and such when you need to switch and don't want the one you're switching to to be instantly killed. you can base your movesets for your team accordingly. so I'd say lapras

ampharos: sure why not.

fearow: that's a tough flying type. it's very fast, and has very good attack, which, as said above, makes a very good combination, but dodrio seems to be better. even better attack, and slightly better defense, too. I'd say go with dodrio instead of fearow.

arcanine: well houndoom is good too. they're both good pokemon. arcanine has slightly better stats, like defenses and...well that pretty much it, but houndoom has the advantage of being dark-typed. that makes it immune to psychic, but also weak against fighting. well, arcanine is generally more powerful but houndoom just as good if you want to get it. but houndour is on route 7 (kanto)... there's always trade though!



for heracross: it's mainly fighting, so having one on your team would be good against normal, rock, steel, ice, and dark. arcanine covers ice and steel, and lapras/maganium covers rock. but normal and dark you have nothing super effective against.

- you can take out maganium. the types that grass is super-effective against are covered by other types on your team. so it really has no advantage besides being your starter who you love. note that meganium has high defenses while heracross has really high attack power. choose which one you want for your battle style.

- you can't take out espeon. too many type advantages lost if you did

- same with lapras

- you could take out ampharos. flying is covered by lapras and water would be covered by meganium. those are the two types electric is supereffective against. this would be better than meganium...

- if you took out houndoom/arcanine that would mean...well, nothing. everything is covered. but fire is good and these pokemon are powerful...

- flying...supereffective against fighting, grass, and bug. these are covered already. flying isn't really that good so this might be the one to take...

well, of the above, the best ones to take out for heracross would be ampharos or dodrio. dodrio has good atk and speed (good combo!) but ampharos has a better (sp)attack power (though bad speed...), better defenses, and better hp. also lapras is better with water than ice so if you were to take ampharos away you'd be losing strength anainst flying-types. I'd say take away dodrio.









FINAL TEAM:
- meganium
- espeon
- lapras
- ampharos
- heracross
- arcanine (or houndoom if you're willing to trade or wait till route 7 (kanto))

Sydian September 12th, 2010 4:41 PM

I'd like to argue that statement about Umbreon. I have one on level 52 that withstood attacks from a level 75 Lugia. So it's not a bad defensive Pokemon, if you'd like to have one on your team, that is. Most people don't seem to like having a defensive Pokemon for just in-game playthroughs, though. Just thought I'd say something to give poor Umbreon some justice.

mrunner4home September 12th, 2010 4:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ltsang (Post 6150421)
I just recieved a pokemon with a meaning of pkrs in white and purple letters. So what does that mean? Pokerust. That's what I been hearing that people are trying to get. The pokemon I got is a female licklicy.

it's not pokerust, it's pokerus. like virus.

it's a rare disease that pokemon get. but it's not bad. it's actually very good. it doubles evs. so in other words, you only need to battle two geodudes (+1 def ev) to gain a point in defense, instead of four. pokerus makes ev training MUCH easier. you can get it with a 3/65,536 chance (1/3 the chance of getting a shiny), so it's VERY rare and VERY valuable. providing you didn't cheat to get it of course

when a pokemon in your party has pokerus, all of the other pokemon in your party will get it too after a short time (battle and stuff. after like 3 battles they'll all have it).

NOTE! at midnight, each pokemon in your party that has pokerus will heal. it will lose the pkrs letters, and will show a smily face on the infected pokemon's summary. the pokerus will no longer be spreadable from that pokemon. --but-- the pokemon will still get double evs.

to prevent losing pokerus, put at least one pokemon with pokerus in your pc. when midnight comes, pokemon in your pc that have pokerus will keep it. it only goes away for your party members. put simply: pokemon in the pc don't lose the pokerus (but also can't spread from the pc. you have to put it back in your party to spread the pokerus). so infect a random pokemon (just catch a random ratata or pidgey off the street) with pokerus and keep it in your pc always, and only take it out for spreading purposes. you might want to keep a few of these spreaders just in case you accidentally leave the spreader in your party at midnight. trust me it happens.

Xatumi September 12th, 2010 4:56 PM

Hey all, I just recently got my game HG version. And I was wondering, is there a place where you can remember moves? Like in platinum for exchange of a heart scale. I need to teach my togekiss some moves, but I don't know how. Please and thank you!!

mrunner4home September 12th, 2010 5:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Xatumi (Post 6150482)
Hey all, I just recently got my game HG version. And I was wondering, is there a place where you can remember moves? Like in platinum for exchange of a heart scale. I need to teach my togekiss some moves, but I don't know how. Please and thank you!!


yes, there is. he's in blackthorn city, in a house left of the pokemon center and mart. the move deleter is there, the move tutor (you need heart scales in this game too. I know you can get them as pokeathlon prizes, don't know where else), and two other tutors. one teaches dragons draco meteor if they have full happiness, and the other teaches fully evolved starters their signature moves (frenzy plant, blast burn, etc I think) if they have full happiness.

Astinus September 12th, 2010 7:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ltsang (Post 6150421)
Does anyone know how to solve the puzzle for the ho oh in the ruins of alpha? I've tried but I couldn't figure out the pieces. Any guide for it. Let me know thanks. I really want to catch the rest of the unkowns.

There's a Youtube video on the Ruins of Alph that I didn't make (so I'm NOT just advertising the video) found here. If you go to 7:45 into the video, you'll be right in time for the Ho-Oh puzzle. It's the only way to actually guide you through the puzzle aside from "Spin those pieces around and hope for the best."

Because really, that's all one could say on it without a video or a really long walkthrough.

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Originally Posted by mrunner4home (Post 6150559)
I know you can get them as pokeathlon prizes, don't know where else)

Heart Scales can be found by Rock Smashing in these locations: Cianwood City, Dark Cave, Route 19, Rock Tunnel, Vermilion City, Victory Road, Tohjo Falls. It can also be found with the ability PickUp and on the PokeWalker course Beautiful Beach.

TheBestOne September 12th, 2010 7:22 PM

So, I'm about to get my 4th badge in HG - and all my Pokemon are above level 30. I've only got 4 pokemon in my party thus far: Slowpoke (Water/Psychic), Slugma (Fire), Ampharos (Electric), Bayleef (Grass)

I was wondering what would be a good pokemon that will know the move FLY to put in my party?

DarkAlucard September 12th, 2010 8:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Naykd (Post 6150815)
So, I'm about to get my 4th badge in HG - and all my Pokemon are above level 30. I've only got 4 pokemon in my party thus far: Slowpoke (Water/Psychic), Slugma (Fire), Ampharos (Electric), Bayleef (Grass)

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Originally Posted by Naykd (Post 6150815)

I was wondering what would be a good pokemon that will know the move FLY to put in my party?

Well, i always have a rough time picking a flying poke, almost all the times i stick with Dragonite but i can recommend you Honchkrow or Pidgeot.

EDIT: or you could try Togekiss =D

TheBestOne September 12th, 2010 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkAlucard (Post 6150869)

Well, i always have a rough time picking a flying poke, almost all the times i stick with Dragonite but i can recommend you Honchkrow or Pidgeot.

EDIT: or you could try Togekiss =D

Looks like you've read my mind :shocked: I am indeed planning on getting a Dratini from that cave. But then I realised that it will take a while before it gets to Dragonite :\

I've got a Grass Type, Water Type, Psychic Type, Grass Type, Electric and will have Dragon Type. Just need a dark type

bblord September 13th, 2010 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Naykd (Post 6150815)
So, I'm about to get my 4th badge in HG - and all my Pokemon are above level 30. I've only got 4 pokemon in my party thus far: Slowpoke (Water/Psychic), Slugma (Fire), Ampharos (Electric), Bayleef (Grass)

I was wondering what would be a good pokemon that will know the move FLY to put in my party?

In terms of immediate availability, choices are kinda low. You can get a Murkrow from the pokewalker, and then trade for a Dusk stone (or do the Bug Catching Contest after national dex) to evolve it into Honchkrow. Of you can catch the spearow/pidgey family at this point in the game, but they aren't really strong endgame contenders. But its good for now to faster traveling with Fly. Between the two, for the levels you're probably dealing with at that point (around 25-30ish), Fearow sticks out as the better choice...its got better speed and attack than Pigeotto, and learns Aerial Ace by then too, and can help against Chuck (as a back up for Slowpoke).
If you are willing to train and raise happiness for a pokemon, then you can add Crobat to the list, which I personally would pick over fearow/pidgeot any day.

Further in the game, the legendary birds are always an option, as is Dragonite, and the other birds (including the Hoenn and Sinnoh based ones once the national dex is obtained).

DarkAlucard September 13th, 2010 1:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Naykd (Post 6151145)
Looks like you've read my mind :shocked: I am indeed planning on getting a Dratini from that cave. But then I realised that it will take a while before it gets to Dragonite :\

I've got a Grass Type, Water Type, Psychic Type, Grass Type, Electric and will have Dragon Type. Just need a dark type

Umbreon or sneasel shoul be a great Dark pokemon, i'll probably vote for Tyranitar but since you want a Dragonite, is almost imposible have a full tyranitar because raise levels is so hard =S

lilninjapig September 13th, 2010 2:52 AM

When can I start trading downstairs in the PokeCenter? Everywhere I read, it says as soon as I have the Pokedex - well, I have that but it's still unaccessible. Do I need to defeat Falkner?

560cool. September 13th, 2010 3:00 AM

A question regarding Pokewalkers.
I just got a SoulSilver copy. However, I have no need for the Pokewalker included, so I wanted to link it up with my HeartGold.
This is where the problem comes : my HeartGold already has a Pokewalker registered.
So... how do I link with HeartGold ? :/

Mimikyu402 September 13th, 2010 3:41 AM

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Originally Posted by lilninjapig (Post 6151412)
When can I start trading downstairs in the PokeCenter? Everywhere I read, it says as soon as I have the Pokedex - well, I have that but it's still unaccessible. Do I need to defeat Falkner?

to use the trade downstairs you need the 1st badge, to use the trade upstairs in the union room for local trading you only need the pokeex


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Originally Posted by 560cool. (Post 6151422)
A question regarding Pokewalkers.
I just got a SoulSilver copy. However, I have no need for the Pokewalker included, so I wanted to link it up with my HeartGold.
This is where the problem comes : my HeartGold already has a Pokewalker registered.
So... how do I link with HeartGold ? :/

you can only have 1 pokewalker registred per game

Gavrillo_AK September 13th, 2010 8:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mrunner4home (Post 6150429)
meganium: my least favorite starter evolution lol but ok it's fine.

umbreon/espeon: espeon is better than umbreon in general. umbreon has lower attack and better defense, but isn't really a defensive pokemon because it's not that much higher. plus with the lower attacks, and the fact that it doesn't learn any good dark moves really (STAB) make it pretty weak.
>> espeon however has high sp atk and speed so you'll be able to attack quickly and strongly enough for the lower defenses not to be any problem (ie making the opposing pokemon faint before it ever gets to attack you).
so I'd say espeon

starmie/lapras: well you already have a sp. attacking psychic type on your team (espeon) so it's kind of a waste to put it in. if you put lapras in, you'll gain an ice type to your team and, like you said, it's a tank so you'll gain that too. good for switching in during battle and such when you need to switch and don't want the one you're switching to to be instantly killed. you can base your movesets for your team accordingly. so I'd say lapras

ampharos: sure why not.

fearow: that's a tough flying type. it's very fast, and has very good attack, which, as said above, makes a very good combination, but dodrio seems to be better. even better attack, and slightly better defense, too. I'd say go with dodrio instead of fearow.

arcanine: well houndoom is good too. they're both good pokemon. arcanine has slightly better stats, like defenses and...well that pretty much it, but houndoom has the advantage of being dark-typed. that makes it immune to psychic, but also weak against fighting. well, arcanine is generally more powerful but houndoom just as good if you want to get it. but houndour is on route 7 (kanto)... there's always trade though!



for heracross: it's mainly fighting, so having one on your team would be good against normal, rock, steel, ice, and dark. arcanine covers ice and steel, and lapras/maganium covers rock. but normal and dark you have nothing super effective against.

- you can take out maganium. the types that grass is super-effective against are covered by other types on your team. so it really has no advantage besides being your starter who you love. note that meganium has high defenses while heracross has really high attack power. choose which one you want for your battle style.

- you can't take out espeon. too many type advantages lost if you did

- same with lapras

- you could take out ampharos. flying is covered by lapras and water would be covered by meganium. those are the two types electric is supereffective against. this would be better than meganium...

- if you took out houndoom/arcanine that would mean...well, nothing. everything is covered. but fire is good and these pokemon are powerful...

- flying...supereffective against fighting, grass, and bug. these are covered already. flying isn't really that good so this might be the one to take...

well, of the above, the best ones to take out for heracross would be ampharos or dodrio. dodrio has good atk and speed (good combo!) but ampharos has a better (sp)attack power (though bad speed...), better defenses, and better hp. also lapras is better with water than ice so if you were to take ampharos away you'd be losing strength anainst flying-types. I'd say take away dodrio.









FINAL TEAM:
- meganium
- espeon
- lapras
- ampharos
- heracross
- arcanine (or houndoom if you're willing to trade or wait till route 7 (kanto))

Wow thanks for your great response.

I've decided to edit my teams a bit, the following is my team, their nicknames, and where to first get them.

Typhlosion - Chilli
Espeon - Marmaduke - Goldenrod City
Lapras - Laplace - Union Cave FRIDAY
Ampharos - Tesla - Just below Violet City.
Fearow - Bravebird - Before/after Union Cave.
Heracross - Alphonse - Headbutt trees.


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