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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
- Thread starter ThatObviousUser
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Yes. Starmie was my water poke in my SS playthrough, and it was such a beast. Surf, recover, light screen/reflect, psychic. Shit was so cash.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Starmie in the anime was so cool, with it's beeping jewel whenever it fainted rather than the usual dumb swirly face. Man, what a weird Pokemon.
Dr.Palutena
Member
Starmie is kinda cool I guess, for a water pokemon.
Professor Beef
Banned
Better than Piplup.
Excuse me?
Professor Beef
Banned
Hi, Wiseblade!
Dr.Palutena
Member
Hey piplups cool man, i almost wanted to pick him as my starter the first time around, almost.
How dare you.
Dr.Palutena
Member
Panthalassic
Member
I went to that store I was talking about today. No DS games but they did have Sapphire. I could probably have bought a GBA and Sapphire for ~$30 but I really want to play Explorers of Sky. The first PMD gave me a lot of feels and the second one is "worse" apparently. I just can't find it anywhere for less than full price. ;(
That's why you pick the fire starter, duh. Sucks they've all been shit since Charmander.
Dr.Palutena
Member
Exterminieren
Banned
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Cool your jets; Cyndaquil and Chimchar still exist.
You.
Fixed.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Can we all agree Bayleaf was lacking?
Yes. Grass starters usually suck. Cept Tortera and Sceptile.
Fixed again.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I've been running an exact copy of the current Battle Subway record holder's team from Smogon and I'm having trouble making up my mind as to whether he was the luckiest person in the world to manage 500+ with this team or whether I'm the unluckiest, as I've yet to break 35. Or maybe I'm just terrible and should be meticulously going through all of these CPU team spreadsheets on every turn to calculate every decision.
Ugh, I just want to pass the 49 mark and call it a day.
Ugh, I just want to pass the 49 mark and call it a day.
You better watch your tongue boy
spyhunterzero
Member
My torchic and cyndaquil beg to differ my good sir
Dr.Palutena
Member
No it is you who must hold his tongue , and he's not your boy kid!
Nocturnowl
Member
Because that would have been good, perhaps they didn't want to infringe on the other new flying types Xatu and Murkrow by not using the more obvious choices of part Psychic or Dark.
And there's also the fact that Noctowl serves as the common flying type for the game and a prime example of the new day/night feature so they kept it normal as to not make it too powerful for the early game.
Even so I would much prefer it to have different typing, the fact that it learns tons of psychic moves by leveling up only makes me question the normal typing further.
It's concerning when a normal/flying type has more Psychic moves than a Psychic/Flying Pokemon.
Normal / Flying means that it had actual use (especially in game) against things like Gengar. Insomnia made it immune to Hypnosis, and it was immune to Shadow Ball. If it were Psychic, it would only gain a mediocre attacking STAB. Although I guess 4x resistance to fighting would have been nice.
Dr.Palutena
Member
Making it normal flying when we already had a psychic/flying that gen would be redundant and as evilmario said he is a key player towards battling ghost pokemon.
Dr.Palutena
Member
It depends on what you mean by "in ages" . If you want to catch all of them by yourself not including event pokemon, then you need at the least all/most of the 4th gen games and B+W. With others helping you, you could probably catch them all with Platinum, HG/SS and B/W.
upaandaway explains it better below.
Pretty sure that's impossible right now. Without event-only Pokemon you can do it though (or if can trade with other people)
Assuming no trading, leaving out event-onlys, but having 2 DS's, there are only 6 Pokemon that you can't get if you combine both HGSS and Platinum.
4 of the 6 Pokemon are split 2 and 2 for Diamond and Pearl though, and I think the only way to get Manaphy and Phione is through that Rangers game.
So basically you need every mainline gen4+gen5, and Rangers. And that's assuming you actually want to fry your brain on the frustrating bonus games like Safari Zone and Pokewalker, otherwise you'll have to get Emerald.
Normal / Flying means that it had actual use (especially in game) against things like Gengar. Insomnia made it immune to Hypnosis, and it was immune to Shadow Ball. If it were Psychic, it would only gain a mediocre attacking STAB. Although I guess 4x resistance to fighting would have been nice.
Fuck I just noticed my Hoothoot doesn't have Insomnia...
Dr.Palutena
Member
lol. I hope you aren't attached to it already, or are willing to deal with cheating gengars cheating hypnosis that's far more accurate than it should be.
it's just a fucking hoot hoot!! no one cares about that, same as rattata, but that at least has joey to take care of it.
ThatObviousUser
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tiggerkiddo
Member
I'm guessing you mean Unova Route 18? Or Kanto Route 18?
I didn't even think of that lol.
Unova! It's ok tho I found this map in one of the 50 odd tabs i opened to try and find something!
http://faqs.neoseeker.com/Games/DS/pokemon_bw_17.gif
Exterminieren
Banned
Pretty decent, too. Closer to the Celebi/ Lucario end of the movie quality scale than the Deoxys/ Zoroark end.
Exterminieren
Banned
Keldeo reveal incoming; Coro Coro's started to leak, with a Keldeo silhouette in the first images.
dont even know what that is
ThatObviousUser
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My Little Pokemon: Catching is Magic
Exterminieren
Banned
Fourth member of the World-Famous Musketeers.
Not famous enough if I never heard of them until now.