Signomi

Age 32
Female
Britland (United Kingdom)
Seen 2 Weeks Ago
Posted October 10th, 2022
7,480 posts
17.8 Years
And when I say "beat the game" I do mean when AFTER you beat the Elite Four.

My experience with B/W is that I overlevelled before any major gym challenge and tackled the Elite Four after grinding, using Pokémon that I caught in the very beginning then evolved (Lillipup, Blitzle, Munna, etc.)

I'm just wondering if anybody out there at some point in the game grabbed a traded Pokémon and used them for the long haul. Would you say it was a lot easier than having to train all of your original team? Did you feel that the experience boost helped you a lot on your journey?

Or if, like me, you did not use any traded Pokémon and stuck with the ones that you caught originally, even swapped a few members of your main party with other Pokémon you caught yourself?

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Volroc

The Unpredictability Trainer

Male
Seen July 20th, 2015
Posted April 2nd, 2012
1,880 posts
13.1 Years
on my first go yep, but this time im hoping to get someone to throw me a larvesta egg before i get to the second gym, just cuz larvesta&volcarona have become my new most fav pokemon & i dont wanna wait til after my 6th badge to get it :)

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JP

wut?

Age 32
Male
USA
Seen December 13th, 2019
Posted February 27th, 2019
2,163 posts
14.8 Years
I usually try to "beat" the game by only using Pokemon I've caught in that specific game, and that's usually because I've just got no way of transferring them over. This time though, I really would like to trade over Pokemon from my previous games to complete the story and whatnot.

Livewire

Male
Sunnyshore City
Seen December 3rd, 2022
Posted August 2nd, 2019
14,091 posts
13.8 Years
I certainly did! I never use traded Pokémon during my first playthrough. I don't like having original owners listed on Pokémon that don't read as my name.
I agree, that Irks me too.

I don't plan on using any others than my self-caught Pokemon the first time through the game.

Elite Four Lucian

Elite Four - Psychic User

Age 35
Male
Sinnoh Region
Seen October 14th, 2022
Posted January 27th, 2020
381 posts
15.9 Years
Actually for the First time ever, I used pokemon I caught in the game and raised them from the beggining, my strongest is my Emboar which is level 54 and the rest are low 30's but they still helped me a lot, a lot of them are almost level 40 so I think I'm doing pretty good, usually in the past pokemon games I used other pokemon from previous generations to beat the E4, but this time I didn't I only actually used 2 pokemon to beat the elite four XD Krookoroc and Emboar XD. I must say that the E4 in Black and White are actually real easy, not much variation in types... A Ghost Type User, a Psychic Typer User and a Fighting Type user and Dark Type user, 2 of which can be beaten by a Dark Type, 1 can be beaten by Fighting and the other Flying.. Not much diversity.. But they are fun to battle.



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Oryx

CoquettishCat

Age 30
Female
Seen January 30th, 2015
Posted December 27th, 2014
13,184 posts
12.2 Years
My boyfriend is restarting his copy so I currently have his Herdier and Servine, and since they're a tad underleveled compared to my team, I'm trying to train them indirectly so he has a better team when he wants them back. But I'm not using them as part of my main team and I don't intend to.

Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
I used traded Pokemon :(

I used that Snivy that you traded me Siggy, and a Samurott I raised on my Black and transferred to White. Technically when it came to the Elite Four, I beat it with my -own-, being Samurott and Emboar. :D;

Alternative

f i r e f l y .

Age 30
Male
Adelaide, Australia
Seen July 4th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2019
4,258 posts
14.3 Years
I had traded over a Minccino and Petilil in their Eggs from a nice person, so that they would still have my Original Trainer. I didn't want to run through the game with those boosted exp things, so I got the Pokemon I wanted in eggs, and trained them instead.
Age 30
Male
Pesaro, Italy (GMT +1)
Seen January 23rd, 2017
Posted December 15th, 2016
684 posts
13.1 Years
I did all my way through the game until I reached Opelucid City, and when I was ready to get to the 8th Gym (Lv. 45-46 Pokès), I tried to do a GTS Negotiation, and I got an Oshawott with Night Slash, giving my Simipour. So I replaced my Stoutland (got bored of it) and trained Oshawott with 8th Gym trainers... Nearly reached the team's levels :D
Now I have a sweet Lv. 83 Samurott, thank you SAMMY!
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Currently looking for: Politoed, Weavile and Lunala Dex entries.
Male
That one place
Seen March 21st, 2011
Posted March 21st, 2011
9 posts
12.2 Years
I beat the main story with my own pokemon that I caught in the game. But now that I'm doing the post story all I have is an emboar that I traded with someone and the rest on my team are all still my own. It's really easy to train pokemon in black and white because of the new exp. system and the lucky egg item.