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The Official Pokemon Platinum Thread of Catching Them All (Again)
Been playing mostly all day, I don't like some of the dialogue they excluded, but overall, I'm glad to finally understand what everyone is saying (I imported the JP copy back in September when it came out).
I am also grabbing the guide book since it includes a thorough walkthrough for the game along with all the extra stuff, and a full Pokedex, to my understanding, and 624 pages is alot! The Pokemon Perfect Platinum guide from Japan is 927 pages.
I am also grabbing the guide book since it includes a thorough walkthrough for the game along with all the extra stuff, and a full Pokedex, to my understanding, and 624 pages is alot! The Pokemon Perfect Platinum guide from Japan is 927 pages.
TheGrayGhost
Banned
Can someone get me up to speed on the Battle Frontier? Why should anyone be interested?
TheGrayGhost said:
serebii.net platinum battle frontier section:
http://www.serebii.net/platinum/battlefrontier.shtml
Also co-op.
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Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
Why on earth is there not a Pokedex app for the iPhone?
Ravidrath said:
No kidding..I do think Nintendo needs to bring one out as wiiware so you can check it on your Wii as your playing on the DS.
I've got a few quick questions
Of the three Pokemon at the start of the game..which is best to pick?
I find myself just catching the first of any kind that I see..is this always best or will I know which ones to catch and which ones to leave behind?
theyre all pretty balanced. chimchar is the best at attacking, both on the physical/special sideCaptain N said:
turtwig will be able to dish out and take physical hits very well
piplup the same but moreso on the special side
chimchar is probably the best bet since the general lack of strong fire pokemon you have access to throughout the main game
Captain N said:
Fire Types are hella rare as usual, so Chimchar is a good choice, however being a better version of Torchic hurts its uniqueness.
Piplup has a terrible early movepool, but ends up being a wonderful pokemon eventually.
Turtwig is pretty good and pretty unique for a grass type.
My order is usually Chimchar>Turtwig>Piplup, but considering how easy it is to get the other two with all this online nonsense, it really doesn't matter.
Captain N said:
Reguarding the cacthing stuff. Your lucky since the first thing you run into would probably be a Starly. Probably the strongest region bird of any pokemon game once it evolves fully. Other than that you will tell what works for you and what doesnt. Also i recommend Chimchar it did the best for me during Pearl.
overthehill99
Member
Pokemon Ranch kinda says hi?Teknoman said:
overthehill99
Member
New page. Nobody has an extra one, or can at least answer the questions?Blu_LED said:
overthehill99
Member
Yeah, you can only transfer the Pokemon back onto the cart your transferred them from.mattso said:
I totally agree, we need some nice, slick WiiWare channel thats just filled with extra boxes and maybe a Pokedex. I'm dreading having to catch random Bidoofs just to trade my guys over from Diamond to Platinum.
overthehill99
Member
I really could care less at this point. I just need one.Ravidrath said:
PM me tomorrow when your ready.
Chimchar is the best starter. Turtwig is decent and Piplup I'd say is the worst. I remember Torterra being very useful in the Elite 4 with Earthquake + some grass attack + nasty plot + leech seed or synthesis. Empoleon I just remember using as a wall as I healed my other guys.
I've always used all three starters in my in-game party =)vhfive said:
Red Team: Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Raichu, Dragonite, Butterfree
Gold Team: Typhlosion, Feraligatr, Meganium, Scizor, Umbreon, Togetic
Skipped R/S/E
Pearl Team: Infernape, Empoleon, Torterra, Staraptor, Luxray, Bibarel (HM Slave)
"Competitive" Pearl Team: Charizard, Butterfree, Dragonite, Umbreon, Raichu, Milotic
I'm going through my diamond now and I've already found a bunch of pokes I want to use from the start
probably going to pick chimchar and plan on transferring:
elekid
pichu
tyrogue
bulbasaur
cubone
and the last slot will probably be a squirtle egg
I figure I want at least 2 pokes that will always listen to me...
still debating if I want both elekid and pichu but raichu was always one of my faves and I never used one in diamond
decisions decisions decisions...
probably going to pick chimchar and plan on transferring:
elekid
pichu
tyrogue
bulbasaur
cubone
and the last slot will probably be a squirtle egg
I figure I want at least 2 pokes that will always listen to me...
still debating if I want both elekid and pichu but raichu was always one of my faves and I never used one in diamond
decisions decisions decisions...
A couple of people on this board have experience with my team. I used it in both tournaments I hosted here.KimiSan said:
I've wrote up logs for three of them:
Everything in this battle went right and shows how my team works
VS EBCubs03
VS Jiggy
I can never stick to a fixed team of six and just rotate between twenty-five or so Pokemon. Probably makes me a bit of a weaker player than just about any truly serious player, though, since my perpetually-in-flux setups won't allow me to perfect a given team.
Edit: That and I have a tendency to over-panic about how a battle is going, as you'll probably see in that Firestorm match log where there were, what, maybe three times within just the first ten turns that I was dead convinced he'd already won the entire match.
At least it helps check Gyarados and Salamence, though.
Edit: That and I have a tendency to over-panic about how a battle is going, as you'll probably see in that Firestorm match log where there were, what, maybe three times within just the first ten turns that I was dead convinced he'd already won the entire match.
Gotta nerf those Fire- and Bug-types.Firestorm said:
At least it helps check Gyarados and Salamence, though.
I know I said this to Firestorm once in IRC, but I wish GameFreak would be a little more open about actually changing base stats of pre-established Pokemon instead of just tweaking moves and abilities.
If reducing stats would be an issue, then at least buff some underused stuff. It's clear that they knew a lot of Pokemon needed some boosts to see any use since there were so, so many evolutions that took relative losers like Sneasel, Yanma, Togetic, Misdreavus, and Murkrow several steps higher than where they'd been. (Though why'd they do all that while neglecting even weaker things like Luvdisc and Delibird, I don't know.)
But for Pokemon who already have three forms or run on stone evolutions, they can't or won't do add further evolutions, which leads to too many things that'll probably forever be underused. Charizard, Typhlosion, Ninetales, Raichu, and so many others...
If reducing stats would be an issue, then at least buff some underused stuff. It's clear that they knew a lot of Pokemon needed some boosts to see any use since there were so, so many evolutions that took relative losers like Sneasel, Yanma, Togetic, Misdreavus, and Murkrow several steps higher than where they'd been. (Though why'd they do all that while neglecting even weaker things like Luvdisc and Delibird, I don't know.)
But for Pokemon who already have three forms or run on stone evolutions, they can't or won't do add further evolutions, which leads to too many things that'll probably forever be underused. Charizard, Typhlosion, Ninetales, Raichu, and so many others...
Little Green Yoda
Member
Firestorm said:
XFD at the D/C
Props for using Bellyzard + Butterfree in a SR heavy environment
Crazymoogle
Member
Crap like Firestorm's Bellyzard is why I built an all explosion team with trick room. :lol
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Apparently Pokemon Platinum is frequently bought together with Pokemon Platinum
shykyoichi
Member
Teknoman said:
They're still underused though.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I forgot that this was coming out today. I might go out and get it soon but I'm still kind of on Pokemon burnout from my recent unfinished run through Fire Red. (I soft-reseted on Mewtwo at least 500 times trying to get one with good enough speed to outrun Darkrai, with no success. ò_ó )
Give it a few weeks at least so that people have time to get through the singleplayer.Balb said:
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
No, I don't think so. Starter Pokemon from previous versions can't be caught. They'll be easy enough to trade from someone else though if you don't have Fire Red or Leaf Green.mjc said:
Legendary Pokemon from previous versions couldn't be caught in Diamond/Pearl, but some of them have been added to Platinum: Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and the Regi trio from Ruby/Sapphire.