4th Gen Strange Way to Play

BattleBeastEXP said:
I agree with most of that statement, but he does state it's his sister, last I checked, sisters were girls :p Anyway, Ooka is right, there are some Pokemon you can't kill with just your starter.
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You can kill anything if you just power level your starter. The reason being that your starter ends up being twice the level of everyone till the endgame where your still usally 10 levels ahead. You end up OHKOing almost every NPC pokemon in the game. Just as I have done in every generation.
 
I'd have to agree with you, the starter's always get to strong, but if you keep them ALL equal, you'll end up like I did, and have a bunch of level 30s fighting dialga :p

So, goods and Bads

LaurenLOVESTONED said:
my brother does it all the time. he thinks hes like a Pokemon master and i'm like "you're such a n00b"
i think its more fun to raise your team equally and have a strong, well balanced team
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Lately for in-game I've been using two or three Pokemon only. This strategy works well since, rather than only having one Pokemon with excessive training and serveral type matchups that destroy it or a team of six evenly-trained but low-levelled Pokemon, you have enough Pokemon to easily keep them even in level, and at the same time balance out type advantages/disadvantages, AND by the time you get to the E4 they're between Lv.50 and 60. However the only way it works properly is if you battle EVERYONE you can. Like all in-game long term strategies, it takes time to keep your Pokemon in shape so that you aren't doomed at the last Gym or Champion.

In FireRed I used Blastoise, Nidoking, and Raichu. In Pearl I used Torterra and Toxicroak. See how it works out? If the Pokemon you choose are well balanced in types, move types, and stat-related abilities, it works even better. A Physical attacker and a Special attacker, a Defensive tanker and a Speedy sweeper... Sometimes it helps for backup to add a main legend in the back of the team for the E4 just in case. Works well for me. :D
 
Usually I hate having full teams in-game, and I only have around three or four Pokemon on my team. It's mainly my starter and some others as HM Slaves. And I play exactly like your sister, considering I don't feel like training Pokemon that will end up to be crap in the end anyways.

This year, though, I felt a bit different, so I just had to get a whole team. :P
 
I just train my starter and just have the legendaries the whole way through but once I do all the events I train my whole team
 
I always train my team equally and I usualy train the ones I likes.=] Like Garchomp for instance and Salamance and any other dragon.
 
I usually start out with either the water-type or the fire-type starter. Then I start catching 1 or 2 of each Pokemon available until I have a decent amount cramped up in the PC. I then just go to a Pokemon Center and make up a team based on type and whatnot.

I make teams of the Pokemon that I like later on, since most of them are not available from start.
 
Well, seeing as equally training or training only your training your starter is a matter of preference, i think we should glance at which method begets more success.

I personally think that it depends on what you do for experience. Most new trainers to the pokemon franchise try to go around trainers and skip pokemon battles, however i believe you are only crippling yourself in later more important battles since your pokemon wont be as strong as you expected them to be. So which method works, is most likely a matter of your own personal playing style.
 
Training a team equally is the way to go.

I've got 5 out of 6 (all but Dialga) all caught at under level 10, and now they're all going into the 70's, as a team.

People who just train their starter are usually lazy and to train others and want to breeze through the games, (AKA little kids) or they LIKE to play that way (and get raped online).

I usually nag people to train others until they do, and I always think, "Man, they're such a n00b."
 
yeh thats what i always did, even up to diamond, but that changed when i replayed fire red three times to get entei and suicune. It works rather well
 
My Experience with leveling

I Played like that back with silver.. Ended up with like lv. 84 Typhlosion fighting Red whilst everything else was like 60s

I Ended up training nothing but my starter till i got 6 for a full team then spread out the training on diamond.

Recently got a Fire Red (for migrating to help with dex). Trained whole team evenly. now beat every gym leader and all my team are rather weak. everything below lv. 40 + Fire Reds E4 being hardest yet = Pwnage of my team....
 
I use my starter the whole. Maybe using the flying pokemon of that generation, but other than that I really don't use anything else. I want to say Empoleon was around Lv. 70-75 by the time I got the E4. I had no problem what-so-ever with just using my starter, and I've done it every single time since red/blue. I catch one of everything on the way, putting the higher leveled one / ones I like better in my party, every now and again I bring them out. I don't do wifi battles / battle tower, so it works for me.
 
Who cares? If your sister wants to train her pokemon like that, then by all means let her do so. Of course, she wouldn't last a minute with all of the obsessive kids here, but that's her problem. No sweat off my back. :]
 
I usually plan my team out before I start playing the game so that I can get 8+ types
I then try to get each pokemon to have 4 different move types and always have them within 5 levels of each other
 
For me, I think its harder to win the game with a full team.
You have to train all of them and that takes longer.

I just use the fire starter for each game except r/s/e i used treecko because blaze is ugly
And by the time im at the E4 my pokemon is lvl 70-80 and i sweep through them
then i finish the game. And Then i breed like theres no tomorrow to IV train :D
 
Generally equally, for myself, I raise a team. Everyones all got levels within 5 levels of each other. My starter is generally a couple of levels ahead of everybody else.
 
Normaly I only use my starter up to the second gym then I dump it because I think starters generally suck (Blasiken is an exception because he is cool :) )
 
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