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Pokémon Black and White Version 2 Japanese |OT| A New Masuda Method
- Thread starter ScraftyDevil
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Wasn't this a only wireless thing?
ScraftyDevil
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The English-language Black and White 2 site has just updated with Achroma's official name, Colress (as opposed to the original erroneous name of Corless). Whether it's an improvement or not is up to you.
ColtraineGF
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Yah, the trailer just played with that name a few days back.
I guess it was a bit much to expect kids to get achromatic, heh.
I guess it was a bit much to expect kids to get achromatic, heh.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
I bring you good news about the upcoming Black & White 2 album. A partial tracklist, credits, and more clarification on the album's contents have been posted on the JP Pokemon webpage for the album. I'm in shock. There's practically no mention of Kageyama in the track credits, and it seems like Ichinose was responsible for many more tracks than I'd previously thought.
Furthermore: the liner notes and album extras look very interesting. A big collection of concept art, which is definitely much better than a bunch of pages detailing the game itself (which is what the album's have had for the longest time, though these BW albums are changing that).
We are on the eve of this glorious release, my friends. Keep watch.
Furthermore: the liner notes and album extras look very interesting. A big collection of concept art, which is definitely much better than a bunch of pages detailing the game itself (which is what the album's have had for the longest time, though these BW albums are changing that).
We are on the eve of this glorious release, my friends. Keep watch.
I always thought I was the only one.....
ScraftyDevil
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Necessary questions:
Who are you starting with/anticipating using in your team? What did you name your character/rival?
less laughter
Banned
Hugh
This topic has been bumped at a rather opportune time, since Serebii has just updated the Join Avenue page with EV specifics. It's a really nice system, allowing you to wipe all EVs from a stat and go up as few as 4 at a time and as many as 64 (not perfect, but still good) if I'm reading correctly.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Ignore. I thought you were posting spoilers in the community thread for some reason, lol.
Electivirus
Member
So this is pretty much the most convenient thing ever.
Not exactly. From my understanding, getting Join Avenue set up correctly will take a bit of effort and apparently you can only buy the same item from most shops once every 24 hours (with no way to go to 252 EVs in one shot). However, set-up should only occur once per game and hopefully you can manipulate the in-game clock if you want to fully EV train a Pokémon. The base cost of a level 64 boost is 96,000 yen but the page also says you can get up to a 40% discount if your Join Avenue level is 50 (which I assume applies to the listed prices) so you can eventually get the training even less expensive than vitamins.
So it is the most convenient way to EV train a Pokémon yet and a far cry from the old "rebattle certain trainers" or even "battle wild Pokémon over and over" that we had in the past. They're slowly streamlining the EV training process over the course of the games but we still aren't at a point where a single button press maxes EVs.
Exterminieren
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Have you fought Cheren yet? If not, I'm fairly certain you go to Alder's house in the second town, battle two kids and then head back to Cheren's gym in the first town.
EDIT: You have to find a Herdier on the ranch that Team Plasma made off with, first.
Oh, okay. Thanks.
Should be sleeping but I found a place with Riolu and now I need to catch one~
The Bankslammer
Member
The hiker blocks your path until you get the first badge.
Before you can challenge the first gym, you have to:
1. Find Herdier in Sangi Ranch
2. Defeat the trainers in the school place that Alder shows you in Sangi town
Then you just go back to the first town and the gym is in the back of the school near the Pokemon Center.
MuddyDonut
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It's still there.
Exterminieren
Banned
Yeah, it is. If you stick around the ranch, you can find Audino or Dunsparce in the shaking grass.
I haven't seen any shaking grass even after running back and forth for a whole minute.
I think with this game they're trying to appeal to the audience that didn't really like the style of Black and White (me), and are throwing in a ton of fanservicey classic things. That's not the only reason, but I think it's one of the reasons.
I remember in B/W shaking grass doesn't start appearing until you beat the first gym, so maybe that's why? :O
Exterminieren
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I caught one.
Exterminieren
Banned
Good girl.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I've never encountered a patch of shaking grass in White. I hope my poor run of luck doesn't continue in the sequels.
You have to run back and forth.
tiggerkiddo
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I know. And I did it for 15-30 minutes, even trying it around both short and long grass too. No luck.
That's... not possible.
Exterminieren
Banned
Wha...
tiggerkiddo
Member
I'm sorry, I don't know how that happens. It was really ticking me off too because I wanted to level grind some and I couldn't encounter a single Audino.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
That's exceptional bad luck. I can't empathize, but I can sympathize.
Shaking grass was probably just appearing behind a sign post or somewhere where you couldn't see it.
Shaking glass is relatively easy to find: The problem is the water thing. It was quite a pain getting one to show up in Route 1. A helpful note: I noticed you can only have 1 phenomena happening in the area, so it's possible you got things like shallow water, etc, and ignored it trying to find shaking glass, which wouldn't be possible.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Yeah I've noticed the water things quite a few times but I'm still waiting for the shaking grass.
anotherVegan
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You have a higher chance of catching a rare Pokemon. This was present in B/W. It's how I caught a Milotic on Route 1!
Exterminieren
Banned
I thought my game had glitched when I fished up a Dragonite outside Dragonspiral Tower in BW.
They're doing a wifi tournament in japan using only the Unova Dex Pokemon in BW2.
http://ja.pokemon-gl.com/about/sp/bc2012/
Mostly linking because they also show the C-Gear they'll be making available for download during the World Championships next week. Last year anyone could grab it off WiFi using the code.
http://ja.pokemon-gl.com/about/sp/bc2012/
Mostly linking because they also show the C-Gear they'll be making available for download during the World Championships next week. Last year anyone could grab it off WiFi using the code.
Nocturnowl
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Guys, Question time: I have Pokemon Black, which one would you recommend me to get? Black V2 or White V2? I regret getting Black instead of White, don't want to make the same mistake again.
Well surely this depends on why you have regrets in the first place.
I like Zekrom better, and White Forest always looked more interesting than Black City to me.
Do W2 and B2 have some kind of exclusive locations as well?
Nocturnowl
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Just to be a pain the legends have swapped games so Zekrom is in Black 2 but Black City and the old exclusive pokemon remain in that version.
And then there's a bunch of small visual differences.
Coming to think of it now i'm not sure which version I want, I had Black and was going to go with Black 2 but White 2 might make more sense for me.
Exterminieren
Banned
Well, Zekrom is catchable in Black 2, not Reshiram.
Black City is in Black 2, but if you have a friend with White 2, he can trade you a key that gives you White Forest instead after a certain point.
Black and White 2 have slight differences in areas (Opelucid City is still different between versions, Route 4 is bustling in B2 and dilapidated in W2, and Rebirth Mountain is watery in B2 and full of lava in W2, and the progression through Victory Road is slightly different), but not much else major, I don't think.
Bear in mind that Black 2 gets you access to Challenge Mode, as well.
Is that exclusive to Black 2? :\
I want White 2 because Kyureshiram, but I prefer everything else from Black 2 (I played Black 1).