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Pokémon Black/White |OT2| International Edition

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shahkur

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Guys, should I keep on going with Pansage (Green grASS monkey)? He's too damn weak even though he's not underlevelled (Lv 20). Even when fighting normal trainers, one takedown (Damn dog pokemon) and he's either dead or red HP. He just learned Bite which is a nice change as his other moves weren't doing much.

Other than that, only my main fire pig seems to be the one doing all the damage.
 
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Dascu

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shahkur said:
Guys, should I keep on going with Pansage (Green grASS monkey)? He's too damn weak even though he's not underlevelled (Lv 20). Even when fighting normal trainers, one takedown (Damn dog pokemon) and he's either dead or red HP. He just learned Bite which is a nice change as his other moves weren't doing much.

Other than that, only my main fire pig seems to be the one doing all the damage.
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Pick up a Sewaddle or Cottonee/Petilil if you want a decent early Grass pokemon. The Pan- trio gets useless real fast.
 
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borghe

Loves the Greater Toronto Area
Zzoram said:
Aren't there tons of event unique Pokemon that once missed, you have no way of getting? Unless there are kind people out there breeding extras.
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not tons, but yes there are a bunch. However these are typically added at the end of the pokedex and while they are definitely counted as "catching them all" for the completists, someone just coming into the franchise shouldn't feel discouraged (IMHO) that they can't officially get pokemon that may never be offered again.
 
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Mafro

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Raxus said:
The monkies are worthless pokemon. Dump 'em ASAP.
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This. Put them up for trade in the GTS for one of the other female starters, then do some breeding and then trade one of them for the final starter (female again). Breed some more.
 
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Danielsan

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I like to take this opportunity to extend an honest fuck you to Nintendo for making the DS lite incompatible with Wireless WPA encryption. Once again proving that Nintendo is 10 years behind the curve when it comes to online.

The game is great by the way. It's more of the same, but very well done.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Danielsan said:
I like to take this opportunity to extend an honest fuck you to Nintendo for making the DS lite incompatible with Wireless WPA encryption. Once again proving that Nintendo is 10 years behind the curve when it comes to online.

The game is great by the way. It's more of the same, but very well done.
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DSi/3DS allow for WPA so they have caught up.
 
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Busaiku

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Is the Zorua event only linked to the specific event Celebis?
Or could I get another one?

It's really killing me that I couldn't get it...
 
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EvilMario

Will QA for food.
The monkeys are hardly worthless, given their good speed, attack, special attack, and Nasty Plot if you breed for it. They have decent move pools as well. It appears few people use them beyond the first gym though because of personal preference.

By the way, what the hell at this bulge;

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Roto13

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shahkur said:
Guys, should I keep on going with Pansage (Green grASS monkey)? He's too damn weak even though he's not underlevelled (Lv 20). Even when fighting normal trainers, one takedown (Damn dog pokemon) and he's either dead or red HP. He just learned Bite which is a nice change as his other moves weren't doing much.

Other than that, only my main fire pig seems to be the one doing all the damage.
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Fun fact: It's pretty easy to trade a Pansage for a Snivy on the GTS for some reason.
 
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Gravijah

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Can you start trading for foreign Pokemon before you get to the tower, or should I wait? As in, I don't want to waste time if I won't progress in the tower.

OMG Aero said:
For everyone saying the elemental monkeys suck, did you actually give them chance to get good moves?
My Pansage knows Acrobatics, Bite, Leech Seed and Seed Bomb and it is pretty awesome.
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When mine started getting OHKOd by normal moves without crits, I tossed mine.
 
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OMG Aero

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For everyone saying the elemental monkeys suck, did you actually give them chance to get good moves?
My Pansage knows Acrobatics, Bite, Leech Seed and Seed Bomb and it is pretty awesome.
 
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Gravijah

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Acrylic7 said:
did anyone else get a double battle glitch, where you cannot send out any more Pokemon?
I had o turn the game off.
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I thought I couldn't either, but you have to like... click one of your Pokemon, and shift it to the first slot, and then try to shift in the second one.

Did both of them die in one turn?
 
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Salaadin

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OMG Aero said:
For everyone saying the elemental monkeys suck, did you actually give them chance to get good moves?
My Pansage knows Acrobatics, Bite, Leech Seed and Seed Bomb and it is pretty awesome.
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Mine has been good to me too. I shouldnt have evolved him so early though.
 
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borghe

Loves the Greater Toronto Area
Danielsan said:
Once again proving that Nintendo is 10 years behind the curve when it comes to online.
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to be fair, the DS is 7 years old and DSL is 6 years old. B&W does support WPA/WPA2, but you need a DSi or higher.

but yeah, 7 years ago WPA was far far far from standard. Not even the PSP originally came with WPA support IIRC. If you want to think about it in a good way though, at least every 3DS game from the start supports WPA, and at least the more notable online DS games from the past year or so support it as well (on DSi or 3DS)

Busaiku said:
Is the Zorua event only linked to the specific event Celebis?
Or could I get another one?

It's really killing me that I couldn't get it...
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I didn't re-enter pokemania until about two weeks ago. needless to say I missed out on all of the shiny legendaries..................... I feel your pain.
 
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Shed_a_Ninja

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Hey, did anyone get a "pornstar" vibe from Elesa during her "you can be anything that you want to be" speech? I mean, look at her-

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Definitely an anorexic compared to all of the other kankle-esque characters (although I'd still do Juniper).

BTW- any rule 54 of Juniper/Elesa?
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
OMG Aero said:
For everyone saying the elemental monkeys suck, did you actually give them chance to get good moves?
My Pansage knows Acrobatics, Bite, Leech Seed and Seed Bomb and it is pretty awesome.
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There are so few rock and water Pokemon, and so many fire, ice, flying, poison, and bug Pokemon in the early game that having a grass Pokemon seems more like a hindrance than anything to me.

But if you were going to have one Cotonee and Petilil seem like they have a much more rounded move pool that actually supports Grass-type's HP regeneration. Also, Leaf Storm w/o breeding.
 
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Gravijah

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So since you can get items from the dusty wiggly tile things in caves, what exactly can you get?

teeny said:
For those of you who have just entered Pokemon for the first time since the original games, like myself, this might help.

http://gts1.ceolbox.net/pkm?cancel=4

This allows you to download all of the event pokemon for Diamond, Peal, HG and SS. I guess some may consider it cheating, but for completionists playing a single player game, I dont see the problem.
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Aha, that has the newer GameStop Pokemon! And nah, that's in no way cheating. I don't consider clones of legit Pokemon cheating, either.
 
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teeny

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For those of you who have just entered Pokemon for the first time since the original games, like myself, this might help.

http://gts1.ceolbox.net/pkm?cancel=4

This allows you to download all of the event pokemon for Diamond, Peal, HG and SS. I guess some may consider it cheating, but for completionists playing a single player game, I dont see the problem.
 
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balladofwindfishes

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I'm keeping Sewaddle's evolution as my main grass type. I'm probably going to drop Pansage from my team, he's just becoming a liability.

So far my team is
Baconator level 24: Second form of the fire starter
Victor level 21: Victini, who is an amazing early game Pokemon, almost feels like cheating
Bumple level 23: The second form of Sewaddle. A good grass type with bug moves that can rip through the common grass, dark and psychic types that everyone seems to have.
Scout level 18: The saluting weasel thing. HM slave
Sparks level 16: The electric Zebra. He's my guy who's really fast so he can get a quick paralize in and make it easier for someone else to win

That leaves me 5 if I take out Pansage. I'm thinking of maybe using Swoobat, but I already have Victini as my psychic type, and fighting types don't seem very common anyway.
 
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Shed_a_Ninja

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balladofwindfishes said:
I'm keeping Sewaddle's evolution as my main grass type. I'm probably going to drop Pansage from my team, he's just becoming a liability.
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The simian trio have horrible stats. I think the devs just decided to throw us a bone for the first boss battle.
 
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Roto13

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teeny said:
For those of you who have just entered Pokemon for the first time since the original games, like myself, this might help.

http://gts1.ceolbox.net/pkm?cancel=4

This allows you to download all of the event pokemon for Diamond, Peal, HG and SS. I guess some may consider it cheating, but for completionists playing a single player game, I dont see the problem.
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How does this even work? :p
 
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Achtius

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VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH

/wrist

edit: Bleh, Only won because she wasted two hyper potion on the
Emolga
 
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Suairyu

Banned
teeny said:
For those of you who have just entered Pokemon for the first time since the original games, like myself, this might help.

http://gts1.ceolbox.net/pkm?cancel=4

This allows you to download all of the event pokemon for Diamond, Peal, HG and SS. I guess some may consider it cheating, but for completionists playing a single player game, I dont see the problem.
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Those that do will simply be the ones who happened to be there during the WiFi event. There is no practical difference between getting the event Pokémon this way or how you were originally meant to. This way is fair, damnit!

EDIT - list is missing Shiny Celebi, which was on the Shiny Entai, Raikou and Suicune distribution cart but never actually released.
EDIT 2 - I'm presuming Pokémon obtained this way also unlock the in-game events/stories that came with the Pokémon?
 
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teeny

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Suairyu said:
Those that do will simply be the ones who happened to be there during the WiFi event. There is no practical difference between getting the event Pokémon this way or how you were originally meant to. This way is fair, damnit!

EDIT - list is missing Shiny Celebi, which was on the Shiny Entai, Raikou and Suicune distribution cart but never actually released.
EDIT 2 - I'm presuming Pokémon obtained this way also unlock the in-game events/stories that came with the Pokémon?
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This is how I see it, too. I mean, its not like there is any real work involved with getting the 'mon in the intended way. :)

Im not sure about the in game events, yet. My preordered copy of white seems to have gone missing in the post :-(
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
Achtius said:
VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH VOLT SWITCH

/wrist
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Oh god that was annoying. First time I battled her, Volt Switch was every move. Second time, didn't use it once.
 
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Suairyu

Banned
teeny said:
Im not sure about the in game events, yet. My preordered copy of white seems to have gone missing in the post :-(
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No, I mean the in game events that came on the Gen IV carts. Like, with the Celebi event, it unlocked an entire new plotline concerning Giovanni in HG/SS.

EDIT - I really need to pick up SoulSilver. I'll do it once I've maxed out the White Pokédex as much as I can while I wait for Grey.
 
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Watch Da Birdie

I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I remember seeing a similar program someone made for the Gen IV games that allowed you to basically create ANY Pokemon you want and send it to your game through a similar method...

Although, I don't quite agree with that. Getting one-off event legendaries is alright, but I think taking the easy route to give yourself a super-strong perfect IV Pokemon is a bit cheap, especially if you're a person who spent actual in-game time raising them.

Speaking of which, I really want to do some EV training once I beat the main game...I'm not going to go with perfect IVs, and I'm going to use Smogon's advice for EV spreads and move-sets, but I just want to train some of my favorites to use in WiFi and the Subway without getting totally smashed...

Druddigon is first up, since I've already breeded an Adamant one with Rough Skin to create the "Hot Stove" set (Crimgan armed with a Rugged Helmet, Fire Fang, Glare, Dragon Claw, and Earthquake) and I find him cooler than simply training the super-powered Dragon Pokemon like Hydreigon and Garchomp. People who got a Druddigon from me might notice that it has Fire Fang and Glare...although, out of the 30+ Druddigon I bred, only TWO were Adamant, and only one was Adamant with Rough Skin.

After that, I think I'm going to train some older dudes first before jumping in to the new Pokemon...I'm thinking Cloyster (Skill Link Set!), Cradily, etc.

Anyway, the only EV Pokemon I have so far are Medicham, Hariyama, Hypno, and Stantler...I've used the first three in a few online battles in Black and they did pretty good, but I need to diversify my type spread a bit. Ghost Pokemon totally DESTROY them, such as the Golurk I ended up facing.
 
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teeny

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Suairyu said:
No, I mean the in game events that came on the Gen IV carts. Like, with the Celebi event, it unlocked an entire new plotline concerning Giovanni in HG/SS.

EDIT - I really need to pick up SoulSilver. I'll do it once I've maxed out the White Pokédex as much as I can while I wait for Grey.
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Oh, right, I didnt realise. I picked up SS today, so I will find out soon enough.

Im basically blasting through Platinum and SS whilst waiting for White, then when I am done with all three, Im transferring everything to White in an effort to complete the pokedex. Perhaps it wasnt so wise to start three adventures at once, but I am determined :-D
 
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Suairyu

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I never had a problem with Volt Switch.

"Why didn't I think of that?!" strategy below:
Just throw Blitzle up front. His Lightning Rod ability nullifies any lightning attacks made by the opponent, converting them instead into a buff for the special attack stat. So every time they did Volt Switch, Blitzle's Fire Charge ability grew stronger. Took only a few turns to get to the stage where it was one-hit KO. Had my Blitzle had the other possible ability, Motor Drive, it would have been a simple speed buff instead of a special attack buff. Would have taken slightly longer, but still pain free.

ELECTRIC HORSES ARE AMAZING

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teeny said:
Oh, right, I didnt realise. I picked up SS today, so I will find out soon enough.

Im basically blasting through Platinum and SS whilst waiting for White, then when I am done with all three, Im transferring everything to White in an effort to complete the pokedex. Perhaps it wasnt so wise to start three adventures at once, but I am determined :-D
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Yeah if you could check relatively soon that'd be amazing and I'd be very grateful. I mean, the official Nintendo distribution ROMs are easy enough to come by if the website version only contains the Pokémon alone, but if everything (shiny Celebi aside) can be done from one source, that makes life much easier.
 
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MatthewB92

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That was fun. Nice ending to the credits.
First pokemon game ever though that I didn't lose a single battle :D

I want a sequel to this story like G/S/C. It would be fun I think.
 
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teeny

Member
Suairyu said:
I never had a problem with Volt Switch.

"Why didn't I think of that?!" strategy below:
Just throw Blitzle up front. His Lightning Rod ability nullifies any lightning attacks made by the opponent, nullifying the damage and converting it instead into a buff for the special attack stat. So every time they did Volt Switch, Blitzle's Fire Charge ability grew stronger. Took only a few turns to get to the stage where it was one-hit KO. Had my Blitzle had the other possible ability, Motor Drive, it would have been a simple speed buff instead of a special attack buff. Would have taken slightly longer, but still pain free.

ELECTRIC HORSES ARE AMAZING

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Yeah if you could check relatively soon that'd be amazing and I'd be very grateful. I mean, the official Nintendo distribution ROMs are easy enough to come by if the website version only contains the Pokémon alone, but if everything (shiny Celebi aside) can be done from one source, that makes life much easier.
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Sure thing. Ill post back here and PM you as well tonight when I get a chance.
 
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