Who are your HM Slaves?

Started by Houndoomed December 21st, 2011 10:52 PM
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Houndoomed

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We all have those pokemon who are just destined to help us get around the region, I used to try to incorperate the hm moves into my top team but Surf and Rockclimb seem to be the only two moves worth using in battle.

I use the following when I go exploring what about you?

Steelix

Cut
Rock Smash
Strength
Rock climb

Tropius

cut
fly
defog

Wailord

Surf
Dive
Whirlpool
Waterfall

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Well I did have a Wailord like that in generation IV that had those same exact moves. I also have a Psyduck with Surf, Dive, Waterfall and Flash and the most commonly known Pokemon to be an HM slave: Bibarel (in both my Pokemon Platinum and Pearl versions) and she has Cut, Surf, Strength and Waterfall.


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Usually Gyarados, because most of the HMs are water typed. Makes for a nice Wildfighter, too.

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Well I usually hold them in PC and when I need them, that's when I switch one of my Pokemon who occurs to be a bit ahead in levels. I try to catch Geodude who can do the caves stuff, or water types like Gyarados or Lapras, whoever I can catch my eye on first to do all the Water HM's. Fly- Depends if I have a flying type in my party or not. If not, just any flying time I see in my box.

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In most of my games, Golduck served as a HM Slave while Fly is the reason I always have at least one Flying-type Pokemon on my team.

Bibarel, Swanna and Pelipper also make good HM Slaves.
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In Emerald, I'd have to say my favourite HM slaves were Linoone and Tropius. I can't really remember who my other HM slaves were in other games.

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I don't usually use HM slaves (I'd rather spread them throughout my team and just use the Move Deleter later), though when I'm forced to it's usually a Water type since there are so many water-based HMs and Surf is the only decent one.

Red Gyarados in G/S/C/HG/SS is a specific example. With them I'll usually just whip them out of storage to get me through a specific area, then box them when I get to the next town... I never have a "permanent" HM slave on my team as I prefer to train complete teams of six.

Which is why HMs mess me up in the first place. But I'd still rather have them on my main team as opposed to giving up a slot in my team for a dedicated HM slave.

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Currently on my Emerald run it's Nincada. He can learn Flash and Cut so I'm good. Usually it's whatever Pokemon I can catch early and that can learn at least 3 HM's. Usually they are Cut, Rock Smash, Defog, Waterfall, Dive etc Surf and Fly are the only HM's I'll allow my non-slave Pokemon to learn. :)









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I've never really used HM Slaves. The closest I came was teaching all the Water HMs in Sapphire to the Water critter I ended up using... but that's about it. I have a tendency, especially early in the games, to spread out the HMs so that it's not really a big deal that one move has been replaced by, say, Cut or something. When the Move Deleter comes into play, all the better! The idea of taking a spot out of a team just for a 'slave' just seems like a waste, even though I understand the underlying rationale behind it.
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I don't usually use HM slaves (I'd rather spread them throughout my team and just use the Move Deleter later), though when I'm forced to it's usually a Water type since there are so many water-based HMs and Surf is the only decent one.
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In Pokemon Ruby, I'd use my main team (a long time ago) until I found out about using HM Slaves. I mostly use Zigzagoon to do my HM chores now (I never knew it could learn Surf either!). In the Pokemon Diamond, I use Bibarel. In Pokemon White... Well, I used my main team again for HMs (since I don't know what Pokemon I should use as an HM Slave). I'm still frustrated how they kept the "you can't delete hidden moves" part, though (sorry if that was off-topic a bit).


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