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Started by Hiatus June 3rd, 2014 9:08 PM
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I've gotten up to battling the Frontier Brain in Castle once, but wasn't able to get her defeated; she might not have been to difficult to reach, but she, herself, is quite tough. I've had a strategized (not precisely a word, but you know) Togekiss with me alongside, with Serene Grace ability, competitive EV spread, and the moves Air Slash, Roost, Thunder Wave, and Ominous Wind; it didn't seemed to have helped much, unfortunately. Though, I shouldn't have given up. I'm sure I could have had her defeated if I'd tried a little more hard.
did you mean Darach, the Valet - the guy with a F.E.A.R Staraptor? or perhaps Kate, the 1v1 lady?

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did you mean Darach, the Valet - the guy with a F.E.A.R Staraptor? or perhaps Kate, the 1v1 lady?
Oh, it must have been former--Darach. Since they're both in the same sprite, it becomes kind of confusing so to who I'm actually battling and whatnot, haha.

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I do remember getting all the Silver symbols in Platinum, but sadly none of the Gold symbols, as I never got far enough to even see any of their rematch teams.

But I have all four trophies for the Battle Maison in X, and am sure i'll get to them again in Omega Ruby eventually. And someday i'll get the Double Battle trophy for the Battle Subway in White 2, as well... I never did in White before I wiped the save on that but I did win in singles in both games.
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I've wanted to get a hold of gold symbols in the past, but was never able. Getting silver ones are tough on its own, at least to me, so anything higher than that are sort of a no shot, unfortunately.

Also, I've finished battling Wallace in my second run of Omega Ruby few days ago, and he seemed to have been pretty tough. I already knew about his team and whatnot as I'd battled against the guy once previously, but his Pokémon in general were rather difficult to get around; regardless of how tough I've trained my team, he always seemed to have found a way to have me defeated.

Thankfully, I've managed to get this guy beaten eventually. He's got to be one of the most challenging Gym Leaders I have faced in a while, that's for sure!

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Thankfully, I've managed to get this guy beaten eventually. He's got to be one of the most challenging Gym Leaders I have faced in a while, that's for sure!
He was really easy for me. Mega Scepile absolutely destroys him. It's actually kind of unfair :P
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Have you guys ever took a pause from Pokemon games? In a year and a half, if not 2, I've been constantly playing Pokemon (Yellow- Crystal -Firered - Emerald - Platinum - Soulsilver) including PMD Darkness and Pranger Shadows of Almia.

I now have White prepared for when I am done with Soulsilver, and just recently got PMD Sky and Pranger Guardian signs.

Do you guys have any suggestions on what I could do?

I defintely want to make a short break from the main series. Maybe like, one week entire break. Then new Ranger, and then White, or?
Idk what to do, I want some advice lol.

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Wanted to share a bit of an odd Pokémon dream I had last night. (Posting this in General and Gaming DCCs)

I was playing a game that looked like it was between Gen I and Gen II. I'm about to cross some lava and apparently I needed to use Fly to successfully cross. None of my Pokémon can learn Fly except Nidoking (what the heck), so I go to teach it and instead of asking me what move to delete, it just bumps the first move away and teaches it Fly (think the way they learn moves in the day care). Very odd how that worked. Clearly my subconscious doesn't know how Pokémon works.

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I remember playing some ROM hack before which would allow me to teach almost any TM and HM to any Pokémon we choose; if I remember correctly, I wound up teaching Typhlosion the move Surf. It was weird, but also rather helpful, as it lent a hand on it defeating ground-types, which fire is super-effective against.

As for Pokémon game-related dreams, I've definitely had one before, that's for sure. In it, I was at a picnic with few of by buddies. There, I was playing Emerald version on my phone (via an emulator, most likely).

It's kind of weird as to how we dream of video games of all things, haha. I understand that anything is possible when it comes to this, but still.
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I have beaten all the Johto gyms so now I have 16 badges. my journey is coming to an end.
LOL NO, my journey is never ending, I am, however about to battle Red. I just discovered how awesome it is to rebattle gym leaders in the fighting dojo.

Currently I am training Arcanine, I bet Erikie is having so much fun playing with my Arcanine.
After that I'll be training Gyarados against Blaine and others.
I'm planning to get rid of Venosaur, and possibly Pikachu and Snorlax with Arcanine, and Gyarados should be able to get rid of Charizard, plus Lapras and Blastoise since I taught him Thunder. Haunter and others should be supporters. Probably while I revive the main players.

It's been almost 2 years that I have consistently been playing Pokemon games, it has been a good marathon ride till now :D

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I'm planning to get rid of Venosaur, and possibly Pikachu and Snorlax with Arcanine, and Gyarados should be able to get rid of Charizard, plus Lapras and Blastoise since I taught him Thunder. Haunter and others should be supporters. Probably while I revive the main players.
That powerfull Thunder comming from a base 60 Special Attack stat {XD}
Fun Fact: a fully invested Special Attacking Gyarados using Hyper Beam doesn't do nearly as much damage as fully physical invested Furret using Return

I've been playing OR for like 20 full hours and I only have 5 badges so far. So much for the new games being too short. Then again I haven't been using the EXP Share and I caught almost every Pokemon I came across in this game.
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^ I beat Omega Ruby (at least to Steven) in just over 25 hours and I didn't use the Exp. Share at all, and there were specific backtracking areas I did in the game.

Anyway, the only significant Pokémon playing i've been in on recently has been on Black 2 for my Chandelure challenge, and I did complete my Hoenn Dex in Omega Ruby last Saturday. I will go for the National Dex eventually, but right now i'm not as motivated for that.
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That powerfull Thunder comming from a base 60 Special Attack stat {XD}
Fun Fact: a fully invested Special Attacking Gyarados using Hyper Beam doesn't do nearly as much damage as fully physical invested Furret using Return

I've been playing OR for like 20 full hours and I only have 5 badges so far. So much for the new games being too short. Then again I haven't been using the EXP Share and I caught almost every Pokemon I came across in this game.
Don't mock my Gyarados! lol
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Cool guys. Kinda makes me want to play all the new games but I gotta follow The Order. {XD} discovered new smiley woot!

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I've gotten around to finishing off my second run of Omega Ruby a couple of weeks back!

To be honest, I loved going through it both times; I loved original Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, and have been wanting to see remakes for them for a decently long time. Being able to finally happen was a dream come true. I'm not sure if I'll be heading towards a third play-through, but it's likely that I will; regardless of how many times I do play, I'm not sure if it'll ever grow tiring in my eyes. Hoenn is great.

If I do go for another run, I'll start on it after I get myself a new router, so that I would be able to connect online and whatnot. My current one doesn't seem to be cooperating with any of my Nintendo devices, unfortunately. I wish this weren't the case!
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I've gotten around to finishing off my second run of Omega Ruby a couple of weeks back!

To be honest, I loved going through it both times; I loved original Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, and have been wanting to see remakes for them for a decently long time. Being able to finally happen was a dream come true. I'm not sure if I'll be heading towards a third play-through, but it's likely that I will; regardless of how many times I do play, I'm not sure if it'll ever grow tiring in my eyes. Hoenn is great.

If I do go for another run, I'll start on it after I get myself a new router, so that I would be able to connect online and whatnot. My current one doesn't seem to be cooperating with any of my Nintendo devices, unfortunately. I wish this weren't the case!
Just wanted to agree on this. Hoenn is so awesome, I honestly cant wait till I get my hands on a 3DS and Alpha Sapphire ^^

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Don't mock my Gyarados! lol
Well you can see my team in my signature, if you have any suggestions feel free to suggest :P


Cool guys. Kinda makes me want to play all the new games but I gotta follow The Order. {XD} discovered new smiley woot!
I honestly like that team quite a bit. I feel like they're not super powerful Pokémon, but they're very balanced.

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Just wanted to agree on this. Hoenn is so awesome, I honestly cant wait till I get my hands on a 3DS and Alpha Sapphire ^^
I'm sure you'll enjoy it, since Hoenn really became eye candy with the 3D graphics. The camera angles in certain areas are more dynamic than they were in X/Y, especially at Mt. Pyre and Mossdeep City as far as I've seen.
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I honestly like that team quite a bit. I feel like they're not super powerful Pokémon, but they're very balanced.
Really? Thanks :D
lol, well, as for the types, they arent very balanced. There are few types that are really hard to beat because my team doesnt cover it, starting with water type.
Other then that they do really well. I was able to beat the entire game excluding Red with all of them being 52 or less. Umbreon is such an awesome tank, Dragonair with Draco meteor and Dragon rush deals with most of enemies. Arcanine and Gyarados help, Haunter is the speedy one, and Pidgeot deals with Fighting Pokemon.

They are definitely not competitive, especially since I prefer Dragonair and Haunter over their evolutions, but they are a good team, good enough to beat the game {XD}

I'm sure you'll enjoy it, since Hoenn really became eye candy with the 3D graphics. The camera angles in certain areas are more dynamic than they were in X/Y, especially at Mt. Pyre and Mossdeep City as far as I've seen.

I still havent played X/Y so pretty much anything I see in 3D is an eye candy lol, cant wait ^^

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While Umbreon and Pidgeots aren't very strong, Gyarados and Dragonite are pretty strong in HGSS with the physical/special split. But in the original GSC, Gyarados was terrible as it had no good physical moves (at least in RBY it had decent Special Attack, but that was tossed out the window in GSC).
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They are definitely not competitive, especially since I prefer Dragonair and Haunter over their evolutions, but they are a good team, good enough to beat the game {XD}
Did you, by any chance spam X and heal items? At least that's the way speedrunners beat Red, since they mostly end up with only Typhlosion being strong enough to beat him (and with strong enough, I mean around level 65, the other ones being around lvl 20).

And yeah, the Special split in gen 2 nerfed quite some Pokemon for the worse, like Gyarados, Ninetales and Flareon.
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Did you, by any chance spam X and heal items? At least that's the way speedrunners beat Red, since they mostly end up with only Typhlosion being strong enough to beat him (and with strong enough, I mean around level 65, the other ones being around lvl 20).

And yeah, the Special split in gen 2 nerfed quite some Pokemon for the worse, like Gyarados, Ninetales and Flareon.
I havent used X item (if you mean items like X defend/attack or whatever they are called) once in my gaming carrier. (maybe once, just to realize I dont need it lol)

I do use a lot of revives. I let my tank deal with the enemy hwile I recharge my entire team, or at least a part of it. Still, at all of them being 52 or less, its still a good deal if you ask me :P

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X items are more than that - they come in quite handy, because not only can you use them before the opponent attacks (as to if you were slower and would have to take a hit before using, say, Calm Mind), but they don't take up a moveslot. So in reality they're borderline game breakers, yet nobody thinks they're any useful.

But I don't use them in challenges nowadays, except in HGSS (particularly with Red), mostly because I don't use any items in most challenges anyway.
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I'm too lazy to use any item cos I just think "I would have hit twice by the time I use that item and hit after it". Basically I start the battle with the intention to just wreck the enemy and get done with it. Maybe when I get into competitive battling I'll use other items more often but for now, I'm fine with not using them.

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