Banana Kid
Member
She's in the contest building, right? I just talked to her and she went back. It's that easy.biggyfries said:
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The Official Pokemon Platinum Thread of Catching Them All (Again)
overthehill99
Member
Finally got my copy 
Will play tomorrow.
Will play tomorrow.
I need to grind some of my Pokemon because I've got one at 36 and the rest are at 18 or 20.
Wal-Mart! woot woot
Yeah, she is there when you first walking into the contest building. I believe she's wearing purple to the right after entering the building.
Blu_LED said:Finally got my copy
Will play tomorrow.
Wal-Mart! woot woot
biggyfries said:
Yeah, she is there when you first walking into the contest building. I believe she's wearing purple to the right after entering the building.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PokeRemixStudio
For those of you playing this, heres something to listen to while playing through it. I discovered this guy's channel last night, theres some truly incredible remixes on there.
For those of you playing this, heres something to listen to while playing through it. I discovered this guy's channel last night, theres some truly incredible remixes on there.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Ha! I forgot how fun it is to walk into a gym with one pokemon and win.
TheGrayGhost
Banned
Someone earlier posted a chatroom where a bunch of SSBB and Pokemon vets get together and talk. May I be invited please?
Well, in fairness, we don't particularly stick to subjects. Except me, I guess. I typically spend at least four hours per week talking about--well:TheGrayGhost said:
Anyway: http://www.globalgamers.net/?p=webchat
After signing in with a name, type this: /join #gaf_wfc
I know you've probably been PMed and all, but it can't hurt for anyone else who's wondering how to get in here.
Urban Scholar
Member
Hey sorry if this was asked before and what not, but have the loading times been sped up? Also for those of you that have beaten the main game did the changes make it feel like a new journey?
biggyfries
Member
5 hours, 3 badges, and my 'mans:
Luxray, named AC/DC lvl 32
Monferno, named BackDraft lvl 28
Eevee from Bebe
Nosepass
Togepi
trying to go thru this game with as few as possible. Just need a water type, which Im holding out for Gyarados, or maybe xfer a piplup over from my other game.
Luxray, named AC/DC lvl 32
Monferno, named BackDraft lvl 28
Eevee from Bebe
Nosepass
Togepi
trying to go thru this game with as few as possible. Just need a water type, which Im holding out for Gyarados, or maybe xfer a piplup over from my other game.
DeathbyVolcano
Banned
Alright I think the dude who was gonna trade me a Charmander and Chikorita bailed on me. Is anyone else able and willing to help a brother out? I don't have much to trade, but I'd be sure happy that you did it for me!
Preferably low level, untrained, and even eggs.
Preferably low level, untrained, and even eggs.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
If you're going for "as few as possible," you shouldn't be using a full team of 6.biggyfries said:
In my playthrough of Pearl, I stuck to a Torterra+Mismagius+Rapidash combo and breezed through the singleplayer in no time flat. Enough attack variety to never be at a type disadvantage for the gyms/elite4 and only splitting EXP three ways.
Banana Kid
Member
Giratina was a bitch to catch. I twice managed to get him paralyzed, whittle him down to a pixel of health, and Double Team my Staraptor to make her basically untouchable (normal type=no ghost moves, maxed evasion=nothing else), then I threw Ultra Balls to no avail until he ran out of PP and struggled himself to death (first time) or I accidentally killed him (second). Thankfully, on my third try, I figured I'd fling my one Dusk Ball at him. It totally worked. Plus, now he has a badass shadow cloud when I call him out! Totally appropriate!
Team right now's Torterra, Giratina, Houndoom, Jolteon, Gyarados, and Kadabra (gotta trade him around for Alakazam, but no WiFi in my dorm makes getting online a pain in the ass.) Just gotta find a good place to grind my guys up a little for the eighth gym, then I'm beating this game.
Team right now's Torterra, Giratina, Houndoom, Jolteon, Gyarados, and Kadabra (gotta trade him around for Alakazam, but no WiFi in my dorm makes getting online a pain in the ass.) Just gotta find a good place to grind my guys up a little for the eighth gym, then I'm beating this game.
Crazymoogle
Member
Man, if I wasn't finaling a game right now I'd be much more active here.
I'm taking a different approach with Platinum, since I'm already 492/493 on Pearl. Trying to build a different team just to see how it works out - pokemon I've never really trained from the ground up. I'm also trying to avoid the usual crutch of electric/fire types.
Lv.9 Manaphy: Because he's a not-always-banned legendary that starts at lv.1. Tail glow!
Lv.7 Skorupi: I adore crithax. yay scope lens. My concession to previous games.
Lv.8 Riolo: Never bothered using him in Pearl. Damn he's weak right now though.
Lv.13 Turtwig: Probably drop him for Shaymin when I have the badges.
Figure I'll keep the rest open for catches, but thinking of getting a ghost and normal type to round it out.
I'm taking a different approach with Platinum, since I'm already 492/493 on Pearl. Trying to build a different team just to see how it works out - pokemon I've never really trained from the ground up. I'm also trying to avoid the usual crutch of electric/fire types.
Lv.9 Manaphy: Because he's a not-always-banned legendary that starts at lv.1. Tail glow!
Lv.7 Skorupi: I adore crithax. yay scope lens. My concession to previous games.
Lv.8 Riolo: Never bothered using him in Pearl. Damn he's weak right now though.
Lv.13 Turtwig: Probably drop him for Shaymin when I have the badges.
Figure I'll keep the rest open for catches, but thinking of getting a ghost and normal type to round it out.
Ugh, it's times like this (the post-game) that I really resent My Pokemon Ranch. :/ I've got 290 Rare Candies, 78 PP Ups/PP Maxes, at least 30 of each stat booster, two Life Orbs/Magmarizers/Electirizers, four Focus Sashes, over a dozen Leftovers, one of each Power item, 11 Dragon Claw TMs, five Calm Mind TMs, eight Toxic TMs, seven Earthquake TMs--and so, so, so many other goodies.
But because of what is and isn't possible with MPR, I either have to use an enormous series of trades to transfer these to Platinum, which will take forever now, or I keep them in Pearl and make trades whenever I want to teach a move or hold an item, which will take forever later.
So annoying.
...And before anyone asks about the Rare Candies, I never use the things except for checking the stats of a freshly-hatched Pokemon (which is a save/reset job anyway), so I've built up a huge storage after playing Ruby twice, Sapphire, Colosseum twice, Fire Red twice, Leaf Green, Emerald twice, XD, Diamond twice, and Pearl twice, and had a dedicated team of Linoone/Meowth/Phanpy/Pachirisu that accompanied me on nearly every journey to pick up more of them. I think I got fifty or more just from attempting to hunt down a Feebas in R/S/E thanks to that.
Storyline: absolutely not.
Battles: sort of. In D/P the enemies utterly refused to use half-decent Pokemon straight until you hit Victory Road, while in Platinum they start doing it after the second badge or so.
Still not a new journey, though.
But because of what is and isn't possible with MPR, I either have to use an enormous series of trades to transfer these to Platinum, which will take forever now, or I keep them in Pearl and make trades whenever I want to teach a move or hold an item, which will take forever later.
So annoying.
...And before anyone asks about the Rare Candies, I never use the things except for checking the stats of a freshly-hatched Pokemon (which is a save/reset job anyway), so I've built up a huge storage after playing Ruby twice, Sapphire, Colosseum twice, Fire Red twice, Leaf Green, Emerald twice, XD, Diamond twice, and Pearl twice, and had a dedicated team of Linoone/Meowth/Phanpy/Pachirisu that accompanied me on nearly every journey to pick up more of them. I think I got fifty or more just from attempting to hunt down a Feebas in R/S/E thanks to that.
Environments: absolutely not.Urban Scholar said:
Storyline: absolutely not.
Battles: sort of. In D/P the enemies utterly refused to use half-decent Pokemon straight until you hit Victory Road, while in Platinum they start doing it after the second badge or so.
Still not a new journey, though.
D
Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
Jiggy said:
I feel you, dude. I've got a ton of awesome stuff in Emerald and FireRed, but I'm not going to spend ten hours trading it all over.
Nintendo, just release a Pokemon Channel already, holy cow.
kafka rock opera
Member
Im down to help if you still need a hand. Are you in IRC?Captain N said:
Banana Kid
Member
Cocopjojo said:
YOUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Anerythristic
Member
Does anyone have an EV trained Flygon ? I have a Naive Flygon at 100 EV split Spd/Atk with a dash of HP and it ONLY has 283 HP that doesn't seem right.
Amibguous Cad
Member
Firestorm said:
Smogon is also experimenting with unbanning Manaphy right now.
overthehill99
Member
Just started. Played for about an hour, and the game is noticeably faster. I'm really excited to dive into this baby. Just got the Poketch.
Well just got back with the game...still have to wait till the 5th (Platinum has been in short supply around here, and i've been itching to use that Toys R Us giftcard from RE5 :lol )
Ended up getting a Mow Rotom(my favorite out of the forms)insert, so that was kinda cool.
Code is 7W6O3M5 for the wallpaper at the site. I think you get some "rare" wallpaper or something after entering all 5 codes.
Ended up getting a Mow Rotom(my favorite out of the forms)insert, so that was kinda cool.
Code is 7W6O3M5 for the wallpaper at the site. I think you get some "rare" wallpaper or something after entering all 5 codes.
overthehill99
Member
Wait I'm confused, what is the code for? I thought once you get the Key, you can change Rotoms form whenever you want?Teknoman said:
Blu_LED said:
It's for a wallpaper at http://www.pokemonplatinum.com/#/rotom/
The actual in game stuff is still done via mystery gift wi-fi:
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Are we using this as the new trade thread? I'm hoping to find someone with extra Shayman and Regigigas from the TRU events. Have some mews from the long ago TRU event to trade.
So I'm about to beat the Elite 4 and I'm looking to put together a team for the Battle Frontier and (very) random battles with friends and/or people from forums I frequent. Since I'm not going to be competing in anything serious, I'm just using Pokemon that I find interesting and fun, but they will be EV/IV trained and have good movesets and items - I'll have to actually figure out what those consist of, but that's another story. Anyway, I'm hoping to pick my team out of this list of my favorites, and would appreciate the advice of any more-experienced battlers.
The list:
-Infernape
-Octillery
-Electabuzz/Electavire
-Alakazam
-Drifblim
-Scizor
-Garchomp
-Mamoswine
-Honchkrow
-Heracross
If there's a type/role that can't be filled with one of the guys on the list, I could probably find a Pokemon to fill it. Thanks!
The list:
-Infernape
-Octillery
-Electabuzz/Electavire
-Alakazam
-Drifblim
-Scizor
-Garchomp
-Mamoswine
-Honchkrow
-Heracross
If there's a type/role that can't be filled with one of the guys on the list, I could probably find a Pokemon to fill it. Thanks!
Wii Will Rock U
Banned
cdyhybrid said:
From that list, I'd go with these six:
Infernape- Fire/Fighting
Mamoswine- Ice/Ground
Drifblim- Ghost/Flying
Scizor- Bug/Steel
Electavire- Electric
Garchomp- Ground/Dragon
That way you have 10 types covered, a FANTASTIC variety, and all of your Pokemon will be powerful.
Wii Will Rock U
Banned
Tyranitar can be OHKO'd by pretty much any fighting move. Garchomp can be OHKO'd by pretty much any ice move but the majority of ice-move users are much slower than Garchomp and so it wouldn't really matter. Tyranitar on the other hand, is slow and has a hard time.jman2050 said:
EDIT: Sorry for the double post.
jrricky said:
It's the reason why people spend hours, and hours chain breeding.. basically a 'hidden' value
for every stat ranging from 0-31.. giving extra points to that stat, the higher the IV (31 being tops). It makes a huge difference in competitive play, and can even help you significantly in the Battle Tower.
http://serebii.net/games/ivs.shtml
Nope. Most Ice Beams won't kill him actually as a lot of the types that use Ice Beam are defensive water types that can't get past his ridiculous stats. I remember my Milotic had a 0% chance of OHKOing him so I had to use an Expert Belt over leftovers just for that.Wii Will Rock U said:
My girlfriend bought it for me as a birthday present, and I've just got my first badge.
I'm thinking of breeding on Pearl for IVs and transferring them over to Platinum to train for EVs. Would the transfer have an impact on the EV stats?
Also, any hints for IV breeding and EV training? I haven't done it before, but I enjoy this kind of thing.
And finally, is there a list of recommended accepted Pokemon for battling? I've never really played Pokemon too seriously before, so I'm seeing Platinum as an opportunity.
I'm thinking of breeding on Pearl for IVs and transferring them over to Platinum to train for EVs. Would the transfer have an impact on the EV stats?
Also, any hints for IV breeding and EV training? I haven't done it before, but I enjoy this kind of thing.
And finally, is there a list of recommended accepted Pokemon for battling? I've never really played Pokemon too seriously before, so I'm seeing Platinum as an opportunity.
The only things Garchomp truly fears are Will-O-Wisp, Ice Beam, Weavile Ice Punch, and Mamoswine Ice Shard, and not even always those last three if it was carrying a certain berry. That's pretty much the extent of it, as users of strong Dragon moves are going to be slower than Garchomp anyway unless they're holding Choice Scarves.jman2050 said:
Tyranitar, on the other hand, is outsped by just about everything in the Pokemon world unless it gets a Dragon Dance in or is carrying a Choice Scarf. It can be crippled by Will-O-Wisp like Garchomp, but unlike Garchomp it can't switch in on Thunder Wave for free. Psychic immunity is much less useful than Electric immunity overall. Its strongest STAB attacks are Stone Edge (100 power, 80% accuracy) and Crunch (80 power, 100% accuracy), while Garchomp gets Earthquake (100 power, 100% accuracy) and either Dragon Claw (80 power, 100% accuracy) or Outrage (120 power, 100% accuracy, locks in), which is a better scenario for Garchomp no matter which way it goes.
And as for what moves Tyranitar fears: Close Combat, Focus Blast, Earthquake, Seed Bomb, Power Whip, X-Scissor, Bullet Punch, Brick Break, Superpower, Aura Sphere, Megahorn, Waterfall, Meteor Mash, Gyro Ball (if using Dragon Dance or Choice Scarf), Mach Punch, Vacuum Wave, Choice Band U-Turn to an extent (how large the extent depends on the Pokemon, but Scizor's going to mean a lot of pain). A much greater list of weaknesses.
MichaelEM3
Banned
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/Michan said:
The OU (overused) Pokemon, primarily. Though it's not like some UU (underused) and Limbo Pokemon can't shine in the OU metagame.
Just keep in mind that the Uber Pokemon can't be used in the OU metagame (which is what most people play). And OU can not be used in the UU only metagame.
Pureauthor
Member
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Day/Night system?
Because I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE, HATE, HATE the Day/Night system.
Because I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE, HATE, HATE the Day/Night system.