The ILG Pokemon Thread

Was babysitting a kid recently who also had a DS, and when Mario multiplayer got dull, we swapped Gameboy Advance games for a little bit. I let him play Sonic Advance 3, and in return got to play a new-fangled GBA Pokemon game. It seemed pretty much the same as the old ones, but with fancy graphics. Quite fun, but possibly a bit too easy (as should be expected, really).

http://www.tenzor.cz/jolteon/images/pokemoni/psyduck02.jpg

This guy was my bad-ass.

My favourites are Evie and Graveller, who I chose this name partly because.

Is the GC 'proper' Pokemon game going to be any good?
I know nothing about this! Tell more!

So! I've got Pokémon Pearl! Here are my pokéys, they're all around level 30:

* Monferno (evolved from Chimchar) (and winner of a Normal rank Cool contest!) - FIRE
* Luxray (just evolved from Luxio yesterday, originally a Shinx caught pretty much straightaway) - ELECTRIC
* Bronzor (a new addition to the team levelled up fairly rapidly) - STEEL/PSYCHIC
* Kadabra (from an Abra I caught fairly soon) plea: can someone please trade this Kadabra with me and then return him so he can evolve into an Alakazam?? He can't evolve any other way and I have *never* got an Alakazam in my entire pokémon "career"! haha I am such a sad case... - PSYCHIC
* Staravia (evolved from Starly) - FLYING
* Psyduck (named OWL, only pokey I've actually named!) - WATER

It doesn't feel right not having a grass pokémon but I simply haven't come across any great ones - I might try out a Roselia if I find one. But Budew is a bit meh and blah. Otherwise I think I'm fairly balanced enough. Bronzor is sort of a new tactic for me, he knows Confuse Ray and Hypnosis so he can Confuse and put other pokeys to sleep which is a) good for catching wild pokemon and b) will give me time to heal other pokeys whilst opponents sleep.

One problem I have is that none of these know Rock Smash - it's a crap attack in battle and I resent having to delete a good move in order for one of my key players to get through a dungeon - I had originally taught it to a Bidof - but when I realised my Bidof was like, 10 levels below the rest of my pokemon I realised I just wasn't going to keep the dude and put him back on the bench.

I just had to teach Staravia Defog and delete Double Team which wz irritating...

I LOVE POKEMON

I am trying to find out if there are any pokemans that I can teach four moves to, so I can only carry two stupid utility pokemon instead of, like, 3 or 4.

just ordered pokemon pearl. So excited.

On a side note, it's great i can actually use ilx with vista now.

Jim, I've added you to my 'pal' list! Are you reading?? Incidentally next Poptimism 29th June, BE THERE :) :) :)

I'll post up my ID number when I'm home, I deliberately left Pokémon at home today as I am really overdoing it on the darned game :)

will m, bidoof or whatever it's called can learn all four moves you need for victory road. it can't learn cut though, unfortunately.

I have added a SNOVER to my team, for his ph34rs0m3 ICE POWERS. Bronzhong has been 'cut' for the moment, as I already had a psychic in Kadabra, and his steel attributes weren't as impressive as I thought they could be (ie resistant to pretty much everything). Am currently climbing Mt. Coronet.

Srsly need to evolve Kadabra into an Alakazam. His HP and defence is p1ss p00r. Do any of you want to wi-fi trade? it will involve recieving my kadabra THEN SENDING HIM BACK TO ME at which point he turns into an Alakazam (I think)! Realised I had a Kadabra in my Elite Four team last time round as well, feel a bit grumpy I am using the same one again so that is ANOTHER reason he needs to evolve :)

Luxray and OWL (a Golduck) are the biggest stars of my line up so far - Infernape is good, but he only has one fire attack (???) and he's a FIRE POKEMON so that is a bit laayme. My Staraptor is quite a few levels below the rest of my team, but that was a conscious decision because her HP is already higher than everyone elses. Need to get some levelling up on her soon though.

Hello Sarah! Sorry, I've been away. I'm back now. And yes, let's trade! Most of my main team are around lv. 45-60 now, and I've opened up the ability to drag monsters from Pokemon Ruby, so that's taking up a lot of my time (It's SO nice to have Jirachi back in my team! I'm pretty much all done with the main game though, I've beat the elite four and travelled every route and got four of the legendaries. This is the point where I normally lose interest, so we'll have to see whether the online gubbins will keep me playing.

Anyhow, my current team:

Punch, a Lv. 55 SWAMPERT, my pokemon ruby water starter. He's replaced my old psyduck.

Bobo, a Lv 46 TORTERRA, my pokemon pearl starter. Like Sarah's monkey, this is a grass type with no grass moves, which isn't ideal. He may get dropped soon.

Charap, a Lv. 55 CHATOT. Not as strong as he was in the middle stages of the game, relatively, but still handy to have around.

Zilla, a Lv. 61 PALKIA. He's ace, and can get me out of any scrape. Almost makes the game too easy, but he's had a couple of beatings from other dragon types.

Jirachi, a Lv. 37 JIRACHI. Traded from the gamecube bonus disc via a GBA link cable, to my copy of ruby, then from there to Pearl. Not fighting much at the moment, but holding an exp. share and powering up rapidly.

Wordsworth, a Lv. 49 GROUDON, one of the legendaries from ruby. He's a bg meaty fire type with a really nice set of moves (fire blast, thunderbolt, earthquake, and a weak slash for gently slapping wild ones around)

Ooh ooh so exciting!!! Jim (and everyone else obv!) here is my friend code:

2320 2955 2670

:)

I've just caught Palkia, yay! Now I'm going to go after the Pearl legendaries. Need more MASTER BALLS (if you know what I mean). Used up about 15 Ultra balls on Uxie to no effect and then all my lovely pokeys fainted. Not good.

I'm at THE ELITE FOUR.

Came through yesterday, absolutely adoring it. I've never played Pokémon before so i have no idea how to be all l33t and stuff but i have a very nice looking penguin that has metal claws.

my ID is 5268 1006 4976 6000

Also, why would i ever want to stop my pokemon evolving? This is something i cannot understand.

i picked this up, yesterday. haven't played it yet, though. i'll post my friend code, soon.

You might want to stop a pokemon evolving if you want it to learn different moves. If you bring a pichu all the way up to lv. 100 without letting it evolve, it'll have picked up a different bunch of moves to those a Picachu would've learnt, which in turn would be different to those a Raichu learns.

I'm currently playing and replaying through the early stages of pokemon ruby, so that I can pick up all three of the starter pokemon, then transfer them all to pearl and evolve them there. It's a bit mental, really.

Fucking fucking bastard the Elite Four, fucking fucking evil bastards!! Especially Quagsire, Bronzhong, Alakazam, Girafarig and don't even talk to me about Cynthia's pokemon as I only ever got to her once! ARGH!

This is my own fucking fault for picking the fire pokemon at the start - but I never have before and how the HECK was I supposed to know he would be Fire/FIGHTING?? He is the only pokemon I have which is strong against Bronzhong but the Fighting part means he's weak to psychic so it's an automatic one hit KO! And he only has ONE decent fire attack - Fire Blast - which I had to teach via a TM AND it only has 5 pp!! ARGH! It's also got low accuracy so if that misses ANYTHING, you're fcked. Worst fucking fire pokemon EVER basically.

Haha omg I am really actually SO CROSS with this! I lost AGAIN on the journey this morning and SULKED for the entire tube part of my journey! I think people thought I was glowering at them and the packed train but really I was thinking FUCK YOU BRONZHONG FUCK YOU YOU BASTARD I HATE YOU ALL.

You know you can save after every battle, even with the eliste four? So you only need to get lucky with each one of them once, really. That's how I got past them anyway (although actually I only had to reload once, I guess I'd maybe just levelled up a bit more by the time I got there). Did you get Palkia?

Yeah but my pokemon are still only around Level 50-2ish, apart from Palkia who is L56 - and I have been trying desperately to bulk up an Abomasnow as I had no grass type, ARGHH. I really DO hate Bronzhong. Also Garchomp, and Infernape is such a poor fire type, he always gets knocked out before he can even get a hit in. But I don't HAVE any other fire types (even with all the other games I generally don't have a fire type by the end).

Are you coming to Poptimism on Friday Jim? :)

I am in my UNION ROOM right now!! Come and join me! Let's trade!!

I can't find my way up Mt. Coronet worth shit....I'm pretty far (ie to the hill w/a little split [art that has the choice either between the obscured cave or another Rock Climb trail). All the walkthrus say I should just go into cave and be all no problem. But the CAVE just has come crappy waterfalls and no way to get to the next door. I am so pissed. It has put me off playing the game for over a month now.

I did this with Ruby, too....I couldn't find Team Magma's super secret undersea cave. Well, I did, but I did something one tiny bit wrong and then got lost...I don't know what happened. I finally asked my boyfriend to see if he could do something about it, and he figured it out ASAP.

I'm gonna kill.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/wakingspirits/presidentalpokemon.gif

http://www.gamebrink.com/forums/imgcache/29655-scary-gamefaqs.jpg

Ahahaha there's no way that's real?!

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/monthly_07_2008/post-1452-1216620825.jpg

Right, at the risk of bumping an old thread and then being the only nerd posting on it,

I hate Hearthome City. Fucking Pokemon contests (I entered with a Bronzor called Bruce and won 'smart normal rank' but oh boy was it ever lame) and fucking Fantina with her stupid undefeatable ghosts and I can't use HMs strength or surf outside of battle until I beat her so I can't explore beyond what I've already explored :( :( :(

I am getting bored of trying to level up my Pokemon squad by wandering around in Meditite-infested patches of grass.

Hmm, I remember stopping playing Diamond, but can't remember why or where I was in the game at that point. I keep meaning to go back to it, but I think I was in one of those vague points where you don't really have any clear goal, so I'd probably be lost as hell when I went back to it. I remember doing the same with Sapphire; I went back after not playing it for a month, and there I was, in the middle of the ocean sittin on a pokemon with no idea what was going on. I never went back to it again.

omg the politics graphic above is so A+

i used to be v serious abt pokemon, played religiously up til the gold and silver, after which it wasnt cool to be playing as a teenager. i was a blue/silver guy fwiw. still think blue or silver is the best video game i've ever played, and i've got many memories attached to the franchise

http://www.mcafeeweb.com/hoga/pokemon/magikarp.jpg

i've been playing diamond for a week now, it's so nicely mindless.

Black/White, anyone? I'm guessing not.

I nerded out on Pokemon today and preordered the new game and downloaded a freebie shiny/exclusive dude using that 'Mystery Gift' thingee. I missed last week's, but for anyone who cares, this week and next week you can download free 'legendary' Pokemon via Mystery Gift (might only be available for Eurozone, not sure though).

the other day my bf came home from work wearing a pokéwalker

considered breaking up tbh

When is Black/White out? Pokemon is my secret vice. Except the most recent gold/silver remake kind of pisses me off.

Can I say Pokemon contests have gotten wayyyy too complex since Ruby/Sapphire? They could really be a game by themselves.

A shitty, irritating, confusing game.

pokewalker = awesome, don't know what you are sweating there lamp

It's out in another month or so.
I still don't like Pokemon contests (but not as much as I did on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:19)

I mean, I don't hate them as much as I did in one of my earlier posts on this thread. Work multitasking + ILG = wonky sentences.

What's new in black/white? Feels like a while since I've played one, could be tempted if it's not just going to be EXACTLY THE SAME OLD GAME AGAIN LIKE IT ALWAYS IS.

(note, I don't hate that, just not sure I'm in the mood for it atm).

well it's going to have a complete assortment of new pokemans to catch in the first part of the game (pre-elite-4). otherwise it'll probably be exactly the same! there will be, uh, 3-on-3 battles, I guess?

I dunno I want to buy it.

Jim - all new Pokémon! No rattatas! No zubats! It's going to be massively epic. And there's a goth pokemon! And once made from ice-cream!

This weekend (and next weekend in London at least) there are Celebi giveaway events for those who have no qualms about their addiction.

I'm currently playing FireRed. My aim is to catch all original 151 (after I got a Mew last year).

Not being able to connect my DS to my wifi connection really sux when trying to catch 'em all :( (my wireless is kind of iffy anyway, and I can't lower the security settings without it breaking entirely, and ugh so tedious why won't it WORRRRK. The 3ds had better have it working. But do I WANT it working, and updating my system with cr4p all the time? Ramble ramble).

Just beat the fourth gym in Pokemon Black. Who else is playing this on ILX? Let's get some chatter going. My current team is all basically in their 20s, and my current lineup is Pignite, Blitzle, Yamask, Drilbur, Pansage and Palpitoad. Drilbur + Yamask were the most recent additions and I'm not totally sold on them yet.

Ho ho ho my lot are in their 40s, because I ground an awful lot with those Audinos (and have pretty much played the game constantly and need to tell myself to put it down).

I've got: Serperior (regal grass snake! he is so great but am miffed he can't go in musicals anymore), Seismitoad (poor thing is so hulking and ugly, I am fond of him but he does himself no favours by constantly shaking those warts, oh man), Zebstrika, Simisear, GURDURR and Stoutland.

Yamask is great against pokémon who only have physical attacks as nooothing can hit it - I used a Yamask in a battle with my friend last week and she was getting infuriated with it. Its evolved form is also pretty funny - a jazz hands coffin!

one thing I'm really enjoying about this pokemon is that it doesn't feel like I have to grind so much. maybe it's bc there are more trainer battles between gyms so I don't have to supplement xp with random encounters, or maybe it's bc the gyms are just better spaced/designed.

I agree with you!

I ground because I had a picking in my brain to do so, curses! :)

want to play this but will first need to buy a new DS, as mine's got a big crack in the bottom screen and a cracked hinge. and my psp works fine and there are a lot of nice psp games. so it may be a while. i will return ilg pokemon thread!!! against my better judgement!!

My DS hinge cracked a week before the 3DS came out! Opportune!

My copy of this is on its way now. I won't know which version it is until I open the mail, which is mildly exciting, but it's arriving at the same time as Okamiden so I might have to put off playing Pokemon until that's done. Pokemon is a massive timesuck for me and it's unlikely it'll leave my DS for a few months once it goes in. eek!

Ooh I am so mad at myself – I got to the Elite 4 and I have nothing – nothing! – good against dark, psychic, or ghost pokemon. What folly on my part, to go that long with leveling some up, assuming since they're not immediately needed, they'll never be needed? Will I ever even finish this game?

Future players of pkmn black/white, all zero of you on this board, learn from my mistake.

I scraped through against the Elite 4, mainly by having a billion revives and potions. Then I go through to the next area, and every trainer is 20 levels stronger than the Elite 4. That's what you need to watch out for.

man just seeing words like "elite 4" just brings me back

who are all these pokemon you guys are talking about?

black/white have all new pokemans – not a pikachu in sight.

i hopped off the train at like, crystal? mostly due to the fact that playing pokemon was no longer cool, though - my little brother and i would have "races" to see who could beat red/blue first on long car rides well into my teenage years

black/white have all new pokemans – not a pikachu in sight.

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011

;_;

peeka peeka

I finished the main game/Elite Four in Black last night.

Things I liked about this game:
- multiple-use TMs <3 <3
- completely new set of Pokemon
- STUNFISK!!! <3 make fun all you like, but I find this guy to be extremely versatile and reliable
- map that lists what's in each town
- season changes
- Nimbasa city
- the move away from having tons of throwaway water-based Pokemon

And yeah I also noticed the lack of grinding too... and actually [small spoiler coming up if you haven't finished the main game] I don't think anyone in any of the final battles has a Pokemon higher than Lv53, which is pretty low for final battle standards... pretty sure previous gens have gone into the high 50s/low 60s. I had a stunfisk, emboar, eelektross, jellicent, krookorok, and sawk (all Lv50) in my final battle squad, so the psy/dark/fighting/ghost trainers all went down pretty easily. Actually the only part of this game that's been challenging to me so far was the final main story battle.

I think I liked Pearl better, felt like there was more stuff to do, but I haven't done any post-story stuff so hopefully there are more caves and things to explore now.

http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/stunfisk.jpg

what

it's so ugly it's cute

i can't stop looking at it

http://nsider2.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/stunfisk_animated_sprite_by_devinwarriors-d38q4k7.gif
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgnvqBmZd1qclarso1_500.gif

can i just

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"Its skin is very hard, so it is unhurt even if stepped on by sumo wrestlers. It smiles when transmitting electricity."

I restarted my game in Black (because of the thing I mentioned in last revive where I totally fuckjed up hardcore). Started with Snivy this go-round instead of Oshawott. Also I guess Snivy is some new internets stoner icon now :O

http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/e/ea/Smugleafpkdx.gif

i'm feeling stunfisk

make sure you get a stunfisk, abbott

It's so long into the game before you get the rod iirc! (And especially very long before you get Surf!) Stunfisk needs the rod, yes? I like its baffling looks! Does it have electric powers? It's always confusing to me when a pokemon has two types and one is super effective against the other. A house divided!

lol emboar!

you don't need anything special to get a stunfisk... you'll stumble across them if you walk in the puddles along route 8 (I think route 8).
it's ground/electric type but its movepool is really varied, it uses moves from tons of different types. mine knows: revenge, payback (these ones are good because this pokemon is sllllooooowww and can take advantage of these moves), thunderbolt, and dig, but at various points it's also known sludge bomb and muddy water. it's not really the greatest attacker but mine's seen me through a surprisingly high number of battles. I have it hold the rocky helmet to help wear down foes.

also my stunfisk's name is EUGENE in case anyone needed to know

Rocky helmet is the greatest item. I've won loads of battles by just letting enemies smack Gurdurr around a bit.

http://i.imgur.com/b2guY.jpg

btw I finally got Pokemans Black

how are pokemans black

pretty good so far! I've actually never played a Pokemans before (lol @ me waiting until I hit 30 before I test the waters of this retarded nonsense) so I don't really have a frame of reference but I enjoyed the hour or so I played it before diving back into OoT 3D.

also my stunfisk's name is EUGENE in case anyone needed to know

― salsa shark, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:30 PM (3 hours ago)

i NEVER named my pokemon, i always thought that was a disgrace for some reason

If you name your pokemon then THEIR NAMES DON'T CHANGE WHEN THEY EVOLVE and that always really annoyed me.

Gregor Samsa didn't change his name when he evolved.

Kafka uses SAMSA!
But he's ineffective...

so much hate for giving pokemon names, wtf dudes.

Huh? 90% of the fun of pokemon (as with Game Dev Story) comes from giving them all rude names.

yeah, it's the game dev story effect

kind of feeling this
http://andriasang.com/comzor/pokemon_musou/

http://pokemonbattleroyale.tumblr.com/

151 artists draw all ("all") 151 pokemon

btw, anyone know how to download the old game onto my iphone? i know i need an "emulator" and a "rom" but i'm not good with this stuff

first step is to jailbreak your iPhone; def no game boy emulators in the app store

you might have less of a headache just buying a GBC and a copy of the game you want on eBay if this world is unfamiliar to you. Probably run you <$25 total.

That tumblr is the best thing I've seen since I looked at puppies for two hours on Saturday night <3 <3

you might have less of a headache just buying a GBC and a copy of the game you want on eBay if this world is unfamiliar to you. Probably run you <$25 total.

yeah, this p much. otherwise just search youtube for a tutorial on jailbreaking your phone and installing an emulator

is jailbreaking dangerous/bad for your phone in any meaningful way?

it voids the warranty?

hmmm

i bought pokemans black today to stave off power outage woes (naturally the power came back on like 2 hours later), any beginner ~protips~, i started with oshowatt

also is pokemans conquest any good? looks fun

Make sure you train some good ghost/psychic/dark Pokemon for when you get to the Elite Four, even though you don't need them to beat any of the gym leaders.

Ooh I am so mad at myself – I got to the Elite 4 and I have nothing – nothing! – good against dark, psychic, or ghost pokemon. What folly on my part, to go that long with leveling some up, assuming since they're not immediately needed, they'll never be needed? Will I ever even finish this game?

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Future players of pkmn black/white, all zero of you on this board, learn from my mistake.

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:41 PM (1 year ago)

I never finished the game btw

/diligently taking notes

i don't trust this professor juniper

http://i.imgur.com/6cWyi.png

don't know how it is where you guys live, but there's been crazy pokemon warnings here all summer—kids aren't even allowed outside by themselves

SQUIRTLE CROSSING

kids just need to stay out of caves and the tall grass

These Pokemen are expensive. After this thread's revival I thought I should get Black/White as I haven't played one in a long time, but it's still basically full price. Thought I'd be able to pick it up for a tenner or so by now. :(

you can barely get used game boy advance games for $10 on eBay. Nintendo shit holds its value new and used for a long time.

not sure i'm comfortable with this evil pokemans liberation front storyline in black. it's a little dark knight rises.

x/y y/n?

yes! except I forgot when it was due to come out and only just placed my order for it a few minutes ago :$

as expected it slays

seriously so dumb that it's 2013 and i can't just play this on my iphone as an app. fuck going to my mom's house and busting out my game boy

it does slay

I've been playing for about a week now. The new graphics are nice but I don't think it's a huuuuuuge step up from Black/White.

Random things I like about this game: Hawlucha, Restaurant Le Yeah's triple battles (it made it so easy to get my team levelled up between the 30s/40s without grinding), the storyline giving you a few really decent Pokemon in the first half of the game, new moves, new 'fairy' type, being able to see distribution of EVs, Pikachu's voice acting

Dislikes: only Pikachu gets voice acting, poor camera angling and lack of any on-screen map when in lumiose city, 'horde battles', that some of the ppl who challenge you to battles are a bit freaky/zombie-like in their 2D drawings, too many challengers with fighting types, two dimensional Stunfisk.

you take that back, flat Stunfisk is hilarious

flat stunfisk is so puzzling! I know it's supposed to be flat-ish but surely not two dimensional! I honestly thought my game was glitching the first time I encountered one :/

it's got a little bit of thickness, I thought, but I haven't encountered one since a Battle Maison match a few days ago so I could be mistaken. I think it's supposed to be one of those fish that hides from predators in the sand. I love it

you guuuyyyyss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YMD6xELI_k

I found a Stunfisk in my hometown :3

http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/21/6052553/how-to-catch-every-pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5mRvkAePU

my girlfriend got me pokemon pearl and a DS for our anniversary, after hearing me complain about how much i missed playing pokemon. as someone who last played silver something like 10 years ago, i was happy with how similar the gameplay is relative to the old ones (though i guess pearl is pretty old at this point). not really a huge fan of the double battles, and i'm uninterested in all the berries/pokemon contests and stuff, but the plot is still pretty good. my only real complaint would be the lack of cool pokemon to raise, though i guess i just made some bad choices. i had always gone with the water starters, so i chose piplup, but he doesn't really learn any cool moves. the other 2 i've had for a while are machop and luxio.

finally playing pokemon x!!
why won't it let me name my pidgey 'burrows'?? what am I missing here?

naked lunch i guess?

this merch is pretty damn cute
http://www.pokemoncenter.com/Pokemon-Fennekin-Items-Collections/b/10676406011

Moon and Sun! Moon and Sun! Moon and Sun!

this thread missed like 3 games but scarlet and violet! scarlet and violet!

Sword Shield was underwhelming in a lot of ways but its new pokemon and region specific types were great. I'm not far enough into Scarlet Violet to judge it yet but the changes/updates so far are promising.

Pokemon - which are your fav'rits?

feeling dratini lately

Pokemon games - which is best?

gold and silver in a walk

Did you catch 'em all?

no

arceus was really good, i should go back and finish it. will continue my staunch refusal to play a new mainline one though