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Its cool all the goals people are setting for themselves! Anyway I haven't actually really started on any of my goals (procrastinator for life). I'm planning to start the underlevelled goal tonight, which is basically just to go through a Pokemon game without grinding. It'll make the game way harder and more enjoyable, since in pretty much every game, I tend to level grind and it just becomes boring after a while. But yeah I haven't actually decided on what game to do it on yet. Emerald? Yellow? I dunno, I'm open to suggestions so if anyone has any ideas, I'll hear them out. Right now I'm thinking Sapphire. :p
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Apart from Gen 5 games, I've only ever played Emerald. It was pretty much a blind nuzlocke, but I blacked out at Norman's gym. It got really boring with all the grinding to be honest, and I hated losing the Pokemon I liked the most, so maybe I'll restart it and try a normal run, or a different challenge.
So my vote goes to Emerald, but only because I've never played the other games, like I said. Sapphire would be pretty similar though, right? |
Username: Urugamosu
Your Goals: I'm trying to complete my Pokédex within 2 weeks in emerald! |
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In other news, yesterday I EV trained my team of Terrakion, Zoroark and Sigilyph and took on the Johto Leaders tournament again. I thought we were goners on our last match, with Morty's Gengar putting to sleep both Sigilyph and Zoroark and then disposing of them. Terrakion was down to 2 HP, but in an unexpected turn of events, he managed to take out Morty's three Ghost types with Stone Edge. So with that, all Leaders Tournaments have been won, woo! Afterwards I tried out the newly unlocked Rental Master, where I try to use Pokemon I've never used before. The most interesting I got was Vespiquen with Toxic/Protect/Heal Order. So fun to use it, even though I'd imagine it'd annoy your opponent if it were an online match. Craziest part, though, was being down to Vespiquen against a Venusaur with a couple of hit points left. Given its immunity to Toxic, I just had to stall it until it was out of PP and forced to Struggle. I was lucky that it had Earthquake and Roar, so I wasn't forced to use Protect that much. Given Vespiquen's Pressure, the battle went down in no time. Used my last Toxic on Hariyama, who was also nice enough to Belly Drum half its HP, and that was it. I'd definitely be training a Vespiquen at some point, for in-game battling only though. |
Club ownership transferred to MIAU, enjoy <3
Quick update on the Floatzel - he's level 70 now and I'm somewhat happy with him! He's still not great by any means but he's doing some decent damage with his new moves and I've tried to streamline his EVs to make him a decent fighter. I hate having to do that for in-game Pokémon, but when needs must haha. I'm still not certain if he's doing well based simply on level or because of any trait unique to Floatzel, but all I can say is never again. ;) Honestly I've always found the best way to learn CSS is to take a pre-made code and edit it yourself to see what happens. For example, use this basic code [cd="height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: red; padding: 5px; border-size: 5px; border: solid; border-color: black;"]HI THIS IS TEXT[/cd] and it becomes: HI THIS IS TEXT Then try changing around some of the values. For example I'll change 'height: 100px' to 'height: 30px' and 'background-color: red' to 'background-colour: blue' to get this: HI THIS IS TEXT Or you can change the padding from 5px to 25 px to get this: HI THIS IS TEXT And then just try editing some numbers or fields until you start to see what different things do. Then once you've gotten the basics of editing CSS down, take a look at a thread like this to see other fields that you can add in, such as linking a background image for the CSS. And of course you've got a whole community here to help you if you get stuck so don't hesitate to ask if you need help understanding something. :) |
I just swept a fire team using Jumpluff! I'm really excited and here's the battle:
http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/oumonotype-42302794 I'm afraid that was just a fluke as that team didn't have Heatran or Ninetales. Well congratulations Miau! If anyone here deserves it, it's you. |
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And you've been really patient with your Floatzel, it's nice to see that patience is finally paying off. What made you stick to training, and even EV training him, though? Quote:
And thank you too :) Here's a question inspired by Ozzy's Floatzel actually, hehe. What do you do when the Pokemon you're training is not living up to your expectations? Do you give up on it, or try a different approach, e.g. EV training, new moves? Also, don't forget to keep us posted on your adventures, guys! We'd love to hear how you're coming along with your goals! |
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In my first play-through of Black 2, I realized that my Muk was beginning to be dead weight on the team and I dreaded bringing him out in battle because I knew it wouldn't work out. Instead of switching him out immediately, I took at look at him and realized that I had put nothing but special attacks on the physically attacking Muk. I switched out some attacks and Muk quickly became one of my most powerful pokemon, even sweeping Grimsley in the Elite Four.
In other words, I'd rather work things out rather than switch things out. Replacing pokemon is a last ditch effort for me. |
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Ralts is just such a sweetie pie.
Though I might start training Whismur as well, the Moemon version is just toooo cute! |
[b]Username: Normal Spirit
[b]Your Goals: To fully EV train my team and raise them to level 100. I also want to be a successful trainer even with not fully evolved Pokemon. Nice to meet you all and I am looking forward to getting to know all of you! I hope to build some close relationships :). |
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I'll admit I usually evolve my Pokemon as soon as I can, so keeping an NFE sounds like a challenge, maybe I'll do that at some point and train the world's strongest Pikachu, like a certain ageless boy we all know and love. Today I played a bit on the bus, on one of the rare occasions I take my 3DS out, and explored Twist Mountain in the winter. Caught Cubchoo (Rt 7), a couple of Beartic, Durant and Cryogonal. The veterans there were pretty tough too, since I didn't have my main team with me, so my Pokemon got a good training session as well! |
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Haunter can be really tough depending on how you use it. In the NU tier it's one of the deadliest ghost types around and checks a lot of other pokemon that would otherwise sweep teams.
The story of struggle and triumph is what Cradily is all about for me. I started using it on my grass team and I had no idea how to use it. I liked its defenses and tried a lead set meant to set up entry hazards, but it never quite worked out. I was just about to switch him out when I tried one last set. I fully invested in Cradily's special defense and gave it the move curse to add to its defense and attack. Little did I know that I would get countless sweeps and rage-quits from a pokemon that I never see used by anyone. In all the battles I've been in I've seen two other Cradily, neither one using the sweeper set I came up with. Unfortunately it was always a question if I could get Cradily set-up between physical fighting moves before I could set up curses, or focus blasts. Eventually I had to switch it out, but I made room for it on my NU team where it still commonly sweeps to this day. I'm proud that I made up a set that actually does well and Cradily now makes it in the top ten of my favorite pokemon. That post was a little longer than what I wanted it to be, but oh well. |
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Have you always liked the grass-type? Why have you chosen it? I'm a Normal & Ghost-type trainer myself. |
I'm guessing, since I'm not 100% sure, that grass is my favorite type because Serperior was my first pokemon. The nostalgia value went over into the typing and grass became my favorite. That, or I like the challenge of using the type with the most weaknesses.
I find that most grass trainers that I meet only started with grass types because they wanted to be gym leaders on online leagues and that was the only type open. I used to be a gym leader on one of those leagues, but that's a long story. I normally do very well against normal teams and I suck against ghost teams. Those other STABs like Gengar, Chandelure, and Froslass get me just about every time. I've won three tournaments so far, so I'm managing the weaknesses fairly well. How have you done so far, any notable battles? |
Username:Macguyver16
Goal:To complete my National Pokedex for Platinum, to get my brother into Pokemon, and to have enough money by October to purchase Pokemon Y. |
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I hope to battle you one of these days! Do you have online battles often? |
Only on simulators as I don't have reliable internet (think of a cell phone data package without the unlimited data option since I live out in the country) so I can't do wi-fi battles. I'm currently working on replicating my grass team on my DS though.
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All this talk about monotype teams makes me want to finally give it a try at the type experts tournament at the PWT, and the challenge medals for defeating the E4 with monotype teams. It's gonna be a lot of fun to chose and train my teams, because I've always been careful not to have duplicate types on my team, though somehow I always end up with a couple of Water types in my party. Maybe I should start with a Water team then, hehe. |
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