I'm not ready for the gym yet...let's grind!!

Timbjerr

Timbjerr

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    [PokeCommunity.com] I'm not ready for the gym yet...let's grind!!
    [PokeCommunity.com] I'm not ready for the gym yet...let's grind!!


    So I'm sitting here, playing through the beginning phase of my second White playthrough, and I'm grinding my Tepig and my Pansage up a couple of levels before taking on the Striaton gym...as is a typical compulsion of mine to have to be equal in level to the next gym leader.

    Now I seek assurance that I'm not truly insane. XD

    Do you ever stop the plot in a Pokemon game to grind up some levels?
    -If so, how often and to which goal? Have you ever been rediculously overlevelled by the end of the game?
    -If not, have you ever ended up cripplingly underlevelled by the end of the game?
     
    I only did the grinding thing right before the Elite Four, so all my Pokemon were at their level. I was no more than 5 levels behind on each though, so it wasn't a big deal.
     
    My Pokémon always end up Under leveled apon reaching the E4, some higher some a little lower but all below the E4's levels so I just grind.
     
    I am a habitual level grinder. I like to be a good 5 levels or more higher than the Gym Leader so I can pulverize them. I basically play every game "semi-Nuzlocke" (which means I just follow the "Don't let your Pokemon faint" rule, so 5 levels ahead usually makes me feel reasonably comfortable that I won't have one of my team picked off.
     
    I am EXACTLY the same as you, Timbjerr. In previous games, I would level up EVERY Pokemon in my team to the level of the highest level Pokemon of the Gym Leader; nowadays I just level up the main Pokemon that I'm going to use against the respective Gym Leader, but end up training the others to a slightly lower level just in case something horribly wrong happens during the Gym Battle. The same strategy is also used with regard to the Elite Four, but by this point I'm probably using all my team at least once, so they're all a pretty high level.
     
    It depends. If I know I have a significant advantage even while being underleveled, I'll relinquish the grinding. However, the other case is far more common, this is also one of the reason why I prefer having the ability to play at insane speed, just so I won't have to literally grind forever.
     
    I grind a little bit every time I come to a new area (where exploring is still interesting), adding 1-3 levels onto each Pokemon. Combine that with trainer battles, and I'm usually good to go.
     
    I always do that before going in a huge gym battle. My starter and three of my Pokemon are pretty high level (give or take 5 levels higher than normal), because I just want them ready for the battle than just having to face the unexpected (and get wiped out by the first Pokemon that comes out from the leader). So, yeah, I agree with you. It's better to do some "level-grinding" before facing a challenging battle. It increases your gameplay time too. xD
     
    Do you ever stop the plot in a Pokemon game to grind up some levels?
    Yes. 8D;

    If so, how often and to which goal?
    Usually to have all my Pokemon at or above the highest level of the next gym leader/boss/rival battle.

    Have you ever been rediculously overlevelled by the end of the game?
    55 in HGSS is a tad overlevel right? :< Never ridiculously overlevel though.
     
    On most of my games (from second gen or so on), I've been far too obsessed with grinding. Of course, to make matters worse, I frequently can't narrow down my Pokemon collection to a single team, so I just train everything. I still haven't beaten LeafGreen yet (finally got to the islands, though!), but every Pokemon on my game is on level 53.

    While I realize that it's probably less time-consuming to rush through the game and then train later against higher-level foes, I enjoy training as I go along and keeping ahead of the level curve, even though I probably don't really need to. Of course, I haven't paid as much attention to gym leader levels in B/W, so I haven't found myself quite as overleveled as I normally am, but I still have more high-level Pokemon than I probably should partway through the game.
     
    Do you ever stop the plot in a Pokemon game to grind up some levels? Only all the time. I like being at least two levels ahead of the gym leaders strongest Pokemon.
    -If so, how often and to which goal? Have you ever been rediculously overlevelled by the end of the game? ^ At least two levels ahead as stated above. However, if I can put up with the tediousness of grinding long enough... I'll train till I'm up to 5 levels ahead. Generally speaking, I'm using overlevelled compared to the NPC trainers and the gym leaders. However, annoyingly enough, I always find I'm underlevelled for the Elite Four and the champion. Seriously, am I the only one who thinks they jump like 10-20 levels between the 8th gym and the league and am I the only one who finds it impossible to train those 10-20 levels between the final route and Victory Road. Ridiculous D:
    -If not, have you ever ended up cripplingly underlevelled by the end of the game? Not cripplingly. Usually I'm only about 10 levels underlevelled. Which (amusingly) can be solved by grinding in Victory Road. That usually means hours of grinding, though. :'D
     
    Do you ever stop the plot in a Pokemon game to grind up some levels?: Yes I do.
    -If so, how often and to which goal? Have you ever been rediculously overlevelled by the end of the game?: Yes, at my HeartGold game, I didn't stop grinding at Victory Road until Dragonair and Pupitar evolved, making my team, not counting the starter, 5 levels above Lance's 3rd Dragonite.
     
    Do you ever stop the plot in a Pokemon game to grind up some levels?
    yes after every gym leader i will spend a couple of hours grinding my team

    -If so, how often and to which goal? Have you ever been rediculously overlevelled by the end of the game?

    by the end of the game no matter how hard i try i always end up underleveled even tho i try for the opposite. i get bored. lol

    -If not, have you ever ended up cripplingly underlevelled by the end of the game?
    yes in my diamond. i was so underleveled i just gave up and restarted the game
     
    Yes I have stopped the progression of the story to grind my team. I do it practically before any gym.

    I'm overlevelled in Black right now and in white I was always underlevelled. I played white first so I know what to expect on Black.

    I have ended up underleveled and had to force feed my pokemon revives and hyper potions against the E4 a lot of times.
     
    In White, I grinded my team to Lv30 or so for Nimbasa Gym, expecting the gym to be around 32. The game didn't catch back up to me until Opelucid Gym.

    Other than that, I try to be about two levels below the next important battle.
     
    I only really grind when I catch a pokemon that evolves in to something decent for example Caterpie> Butterfree and Magikarp>Gyrados
    WHenever I do have trouble with a gym I jsut keep retrying it with the pokemon I want to use to beat it until it does in particular with E4 in the earlier games a Lapras or Gyrados with Thunderbolt repeatedly beating the first couple of Lorelei's pokemon until it's leveled up enough to beat them all easily
     
    I'm a little OCD about my pokemon... I try to keep them at the same levels, whatever I have before the first gym I try to get to 15, then I go 5 levels more with every pokemon in between each gym, which means about level 55 or so by the time I get to the elite 4...
    It's a very long process, but I've done it since I started as a kid on Red, I didn't want any of my team to be weak when I needed them most.
     
    I overlevel my Pokemon by seven+ levels before each gym. For Clay I'll have Lv40s. I have a new love for Audino, because before the 5th Gen it took so long.
     
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