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Started by Squirrel March 27th, 2015 7:47 PM
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Not really, it isn't like there's that much story in a Pokémon game, certainly not if you compare it to Final Fantasy for example. I can't play a game like that twice, because I know the way through dungeons and the whole story.
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That's cool. I dont think I could replay it just off the bat. Especially not 20 times lmao.
I am the hero adventurer first,everything else second. Therefore I really squeeze out everything the story has to offer, and replaying just isnt as enjoying tbh lol.

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Yyyyyup, what sven said^

Also I forgot Jirachi one of the best Star pokemon. And so did everyone else D:

But I do love challenges. :0 I love the Random Pokemon Challenge, currently got a team of Bibarel, Staraptor, Steelix, Rapidash, Mothim, and Weavile in Platinum. :D The Mega Evo is pretty nice too, and so is The Ones That Got Away.
But very little can beat the feel of a nuzlocke~ Me and a friend started a randomized nuzlocke through FireRed together, and I lost Latias and my starter Combuskin(was a Torchic). ;w;

Speaking of nuzlockes, what's the worst way to lost a buddy in one? My answer is LOSING THE SAME POKEMON IN THE SAME WAY.
My Combuskin I was talking about got hit by a Confusion from a Metagross and got confused, then hurt himself in the same turn and died. That happened on my firat emerald nuzlocke with my other starter Combuskin, although he died against Maxie on Mt Chimney. I flipping hate this. ;A;
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With Pokemon I like training new Pokemon or using some Pokemon with other Pokemon that I haven't used them with yet. I can do this competitively but I suck at that and challenging the gyms is always fun to do. After a point with a lot of the gamesI actually stop paying attention to the plot and just plow through it hahaha.

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I think the difference is that I kind of just ignore the story and focus on training/catching Pokémon and beating the challenges (gym leaders etc), I just spam A on the stories to try and get through them as quickly as possible :D Sven tries to be the hero each time, I just let the world burn ;)

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But but but don't you guys like stories? ;A; The main thing I loved about Gen V was the huge storyline to follow. XD Even though in White I was severly undertrained because I wanted the story to progress without grinding lol.
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Up until the third gym, most pokemon games are kinda zz at the start but get more interesting later on. Also welp, I don't even know how to underlevel. What levels were your pokemon throughout the game?
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@Flare I do like stories but I also find them very easy to ignore once you've completed them! That's something I like about the Pokémon games, the stories can either be very immersive or really ignorable based on how much attention you pay them. One play through you could be setting out to destroy the evil Team Rocket and destroy the world, the next play through you could be training your favourite team and randomly killing these guys that keep challenging you - it's really easy to ignore the story if you want to but it doesn't ruin the story for when you actually want to play it haha.

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Up until the third gym, most pokemon games are kinda zz at the start but get more interesting later on. Also welp, I don't even know how to underlevel. What levels were your pokemon throughout the game?
I agree completely how hard it is to get an underlevelled team, you really need to skip parts of the game, like not going to Pacifidlog in Hoenn, but instead directly heading to the Victory Road, but even then you catch up quickly.


Also, check out Pokémon Choice Quest, a new game here!
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10. I will definately be checking that game out!

@Aslan Ehh about 5-7 levels under is what my team usually is when I skip training. XD Grinding just isn't that fun to me lol I have 3 of Kanto's badges in SoulSilver and level 46s for a more recent example. XD

@Squirrel I think I see what you're saying, and if it is what I think then I agree. XD I do love the storyline for maybe three palythroughs then by the fourth I'm done but still have to make up stories for each character. In my little group of friends everyone thinks I'm weird for making up personalities for my teammates and character in every game, but I call it over imagination~ XD
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lmao up until sixth gen i was always underleveled for the elite four because i hate grinding and loved avoiding wild Pokemon 8)

and speaking of 'stories and characters' i love doing character runs by naming myself after a character and then having Pokemon they would have if they were in the Pokemon world. So much fun. ♥

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Being underleveled by 1-5 levels doesn't change too much but I started up B2 the other day only to rematch the Elite Four and realise my pokemon were about ten levels lower. Needless to say, I was out of revives by the time I reached Iris. :(

I love doing those as well! I did a playthrough of HG using Gold's team from Pokespe once. I wasn't expecting his team to be that strong but I found some new favourites through using Togekiss, Sudowoodo and the like. Maybe I should try one for the other Johto dex holders next!
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10 or so levels under actually sounds like the norm to be in the past gens cry.

Oooo that one sounds like it was a blast! PokeSpe wise I partially completed one with Red's team and one with Ash's Unova team but didn't complete either. Red's because I was lazy and Ash's because.... I was lazy. Though for the latter it was because I found it too troublesome to actually train up nine Pokemon because I was trying to replicate him. Managed to get to my least favorite place in Unova before I went "...nah".

I do plan on doing his Hoenn team eventually! Probably when I finally start watching Pokemon again and get to Advanced Generation. And then when XY finishes I definitely want to see about doing an XY team run.
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I usually go with very underleveled cos Im lazy like all the posters above but I rarely grind and just find a way to beat them all.
One time I wasnt underleveled.
Soulsilver >:)

Oh what was that Red? You dont like my...legitely trained Level 99 Arcanine?

Too bad, you probably wont like my Arcanine gaining it's last level on your Venosaur and your defeat either lmao!

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For me it was a matter of levelling up my whole team to be on par with the Gym Leaders, now I can get away with a few levels under. Regardless though, all my team has to be the same level, or near enough. ;;

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I'm kind of OCD in terms of training Pokémon but not to a massive extent - basically I will use a Pokémon until it gains a level and then use each of my other Pokémon in turn until they also gain a level, but I don't base the levels they 'should' be at on anything, I just stick to "don't use the highest level" until they're all equal haha. I usually end up under-levelled but I think that's often a good thing in the Pokémon games, they're too easy otherwise!

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I try to keep my Pokemon on the same levels too or at least 3-5 within the same levels. Which also causes me to be underleveled especially because I usually don't grind but like Ozzy said it makes the game harder and thus more enjoyable. c:

Well........ for the most part haha.

I definitely try to keep a team these days unless I'm purposely doing a solorun (in which I pick a Pokemon that isn't too popular like Furret). Otherwise the game just isn't asfun tome???

Lycanthropy

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I normally have no more than three levels between my highest and lowest team member. Exception is here at the time of a Gym battle. Pokémon with type advantage are easily trainable fighting the Gym trainers and then the Gym Leader, but that balances out very quickly after.
But at the Elite Four there's not really a time after to balance out and as the levels get higher with each member, Pokémon having advantage against the first two members have a level advantage compared to the other team members against the third and fourth.

In soloruns I'm like Sora, I did my first one with Swampert, but that thing just destroys everything with ease, no challenge at all. The others, Raticate and Linoone, we're more fun too.
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My favourite solo run was with Pachirisu - it was in Pearl (no surprise there) and he was surprisingly strong! With a mixture of confusing the enemy with Sweet Kiss, Discharge for para/damage, chunking 1/2 HP with Super Fang, and Grass Knot to take down Ground-types like Cynthia's Garchomp, Pachirisu ended up being quite the fighter and managed to win the entire game alone. I was so proud of him ♥

Lycanthropy

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We miss a few regulars, Ozzy only just got back, Revise said to be active again, but isn't for some reason and Flare is absent for unknown reasons.
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Squirrel

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I think everyone is busy with exams and stuff right now haha. I've just got over the huge bulk of mine so I'm back for a while but I've got two more coming up in the next two weeks so will still be a little bit scarce til then! Things will pick up again once everyone gets back :D