Let’s talk about Pokemon

I think we need an all-purpose Pokemon thread since the Pokemon rumble in GD seems to have died.

So Diamond/Pearl are coming out in April. Discuss.

Also, I submit that the coolest Pokemon is Lapras. Discuss.

Coolest Pokemon is Dragonair

I personaly am not into the Pokemon any more and I didn’t know anything about the games…. And my favorite Pokemon would have to be Salamance…

Man, I don’t get why everyone always thinks dragon types are so cool.

I like Dragonite, and that’s about it… Salamence is really powerful but I can’t stand the ones that are all RAWR I’M BADASS LOOK AT ME. Plus almost all of the dragons are 4x weak to ice and with the amount of Pokes out there with ice beam it’s practically suicide to use any of them.

Lapras isn’t very cool at all imo.
just a big thing to ride on woop-de-doo

my favorites are like Allakhazam or Gardevoir and maybe Slaking like I said before I also like Jigglypuff a lot but that’s thanks to Smash Bros and not the Pokemon games. Of the new gen coming out in April I think Aruseus looks pretty awesome, as well as Naetoru (though apparently it’s confirmed as Turtwig for english which is TOTALLY LAME), and Yuxie. I also like Flygon, Kingdra, and uh Pidgeot and about 490+ more.

SO THERE YOU GO

What. Lapras isn’t "a big thing to ride on." It has awesome stats and a fantastic move pool, and is downright cool to boot. =/

Now Wailord, that is "a big thing to ride on." Good for nothing but surfing.

I think we need an all-purpose Pokemon thread since the Pokemon rumble in GD seems to have died.

wot si goign on Marc? ;_;

Man, I don’t get why everyone always thinks dragon types are so cool.

I like Dragonite, and that’s about it… Salamence is really powerful but I can’t stand the ones that are all RAWR I’M BADASS LOOK AT ME. Plus almost all of the dragons are 4x weak to ice and with the amount of Pokes out there with ice beam it’s practically suicide to use any of them.

It doesn’t matter whan my lvl 100 rayquaza (no cheats, lots-o-training) uses Hyper Beam on your ass and kills (excuse me; faints) you in one hit…

well they seem to be running out of pokemon ideas for Diamond and Pearl. There is a honeycomb pokemon. Its 3 honeycombs with wings and 3 faces. Its weird looking.

well they seem to be running out of pokemon ideas for Diamond and Pearl. There is a honeycomb pokemon. Its 3 honeycombs with wings and 3 faces. Its weird looking.

How many can you honestly have? I mean for christs sake there are celestial Pokemon… You gotta run out of ideas eventually…

i dont know half of the pokemon you guys are rattling off.
how many are there now a days

If we’re talking about good Pokemons, Vileplume is pretty underrated, Sunny Day/Clorophyle combo takes care of it’s speed problems

grass sucks.

It’s my favorite, but they’re not good.

I haven’t bought a Pokemon game since Red but I’ll probably indulge in Pearl once it comes out here (probably won’t import it, due to supposed Wi-Fi issues).

And I’ll go with the clich� choice and say Mewtwo.

It doesn’t matter whan my lvl 100 rayquaza (no cheats, lots-o-training) uses Hyper Beam on your ass and kills (excuse me; faints) you in one hit…

Legendaries are designed to be overpowered. They’re banned in competition and not particularly impressive. Everybody who owns Emerald has a Rayquaza. Any other legendary with ice beam would kill it. As would any non-legendary, powerful special attacker with ice beam who can outspeed it, of which there are plenty.

For the record, you might want to reconsider using hyperbeam in the first place. It leaves you vulnerable for a turn which means even something slow could come in and slaughter you with ice beam. And the fact is, you really don’t get that much of an advantage from it. Yeah, it’s 150, but Quaza’s base attack is already so high, half the time you’ll probably OHKO the same stuff with extremespeed, a move that always hits first (there you go, a solution to the problem of fast special sweepers with ice beam!). Or give it earthquake if you really want to fuck stuff up with physical damage. Hyper beam is basically suicide against a well-rounded team.

Well here’s my current team:

Charizard lvl 65
Raichu lvl 63
Dragonite lvl 60
Vaporeon lvl 55
Vileplume lvl 65
Kabutops lvl 57

Pretty unbalanced team i know, i’m playing Pokemon fireRed btw

Coolest pokemon is probably castform jftr. I love Clubwaks combined with Nijask (with Baton pass & substitute + leftovers sometimes). THERE YOU GO.

Also if anybody wants a pokemon from LG/FR/R/S tell me so I can like, reserve them for you or something (probably only really necessary with Legendaries?)

Also I can get leftovers for people but I WANT SOMETHING AWESOME like all ur starters.

ALSO JUST SO YOU KNOW, I will be getting a Lugia, Ho-oh, and the GSC starters eventually so I can get you some of them too dudess

I could use pretty much every FR/LG pokemon that isn’t obtainable in Diamond or Emerald. 😛

So if you could set aside like a Mewtwo and a Mew (if you have one?) that’d be super cool; that’s about all I’d want from there without having to resort to trading with other people.

Do you have Emerald or some other reliable way to clone, or what?

Mews can’t be gotten except if you get some special ticket from Nintendo from a contest or something. Shame ’cause it is way cooler than Mewtwo imo.

Mew and Mewtwo are pretty overrated imo, i never used a Celebi so i’d like to check one out someday

Mews can’t be gotten except if you get some special ticket from Nintendo from a contest or something. Shame ’cause it is way cooler than Mewtwo imo.
In the original versions, there is a glitch that can be abused in order to get Mew (link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_glitches#Mew_glitch)). You could also get him from official Nintendo events (like I did). They had a machine that you plugs your cart into and it put him in your party. Aside from the fact that he levels up really quickly and can use every TM/HM, he’s not that great. Mewtwo absolutely schools him 1 on 1.

Not sure about later versions.

I could use pretty much every FR/LG pokemon that isn’t obtainable in Diamond or Emerald. 😛

So if you could set aside like a Mewtwo and a Mew (if you have one?) that’d be super cool; that’s about all I’d want from there without having to resort to trading with other people.

Do you have Emerald or some other reliable way to clone, or what?

I don’t have a Mew and I can’t really get one, sorry. I tihnk Marc would be able to get one though, since he has a gameshark iirc.

But I will keep one of my mewtwo’s for you (I have two if anybody else wants one).

GORON MY PSYDUCK IS CRYING

I want to be the best there ever was.
To beat all the rest, yeah that’s my cause.

Electrode, Diglett, Nidoran, Mankey
Venusaur, Rattata, Fearow, Pidgey
Seaking, Jolteon, Dragonite, Gastly
Ponyta, Vaporeon, Poliwrath, Butterfree

Catch ’em, catch ’em, gotta catch ’em all
Pok�mon!
I’ll search across the land, look far and wide,
release from my hand the power that’s inside.

Venomoth, Poliwag, Nidorino, Golduck
Ivysaur, Grimer, Victreebel, Moltres
Nidoking, Farfetch’d, Abra, Jigglypuff
Kingler, Rhyhorn, Clefable, Wigglytuff

Catch ’em, catch ’em, gotta catch ’em all,
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon!

Zubat, Primeape, Meowth, Onix
Geodude, Rapidash, Magneton, Snorlax
Gengar, Tangela, Goldeen, Spearow
Weezing, Seel, Gyarados, Slowbro

Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, yeah!
Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, yeah!
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon!

Kabuto, Persian, Paras, Horsea
Raticate, Magnemite, Kadabra, Weepinbell
Ditto, Cloyster, Caterpie, Sandshrew
Bulbasaur, Charmander, Golem, Pikachu

At least 150 or more to see.
To be a Pok�mon master is my destiny.

Alakazam, Goldeen, Venonat, Machoke
Kangaskhan, Hypno, Electabuzz, Flareon
Blastoise, Poliwhirl, Oddish, Drowzee
Raichu, Nidoqueen, Bellsprout, Starmie

"Woo! We’re at the halfway point, doing great so far."
"We? What’s all this "we" stuff? I’m doing all the hard work!"
"Breaktime’s over, here we go!"

Metapod, Marowak, Kakuna, Clefairy
Dodrio, Seadra, Vileplume, Krabby
Lickitung, Tauros, Weedle, Nidoran
Machop, Shellder, Porygon, Hitmonchan

Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, yeah!
Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, yeah!

Articuno, Jynx, Nidorina, Beedrill
Haunter, Squirtle, Chansey (Pok�mon)
Parasect, Exeggcute, Muk, Dewgong
Pidgeotto, Lapras, Vulpix, Rhydon

At least 150 or more to see.
To be a Pok�mon master is my destiny.

Charizard, Machamp, Pinsir, Koffing
Dugtrio, Golbat, Staryu, Magikarp
Ninetales, Ekans, Omastar
Scyther, Tentacool, Dragonair, Magmar

"Whoa, catch your breath man. Shake out those lips."
"It’s downhill from here, just 24 more to go."
"Now it gets tricky so listen real good."

Sandslash, Hitmonlee, Psyduck, Arcanine
Eevee, Exeggutor, Kabutops, Zapdos
Dratini, Growlithe, Mr. Mime, Cubone
Graveler, Voltorb, Gloom

"We’re almost home!"
Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, yeow!
Gotta catch ’em all, gotta catch ’em all, huaw!
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon!

Charmeleon, Wartortle
Mewtwo, Tentacruel, Aerodactyl
Omanyte, Slowpoke
Pidgeot, Arbok
That’s all folks!

Catch ’em, catch ’em, gotta catch ’em all (oowww)
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon..
Catch ’em, catch ’em, gotta catch ’em all (oowww)
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon..
Catch ’em, catch ’em, gotta catch ’em all
Gotta catch ’em all, Pok�mon!

But I will keep one of my mewtwo’s for you (I have two if anybody else wants one).

thx dude~

If it were possible to trade from D/P back to Emerald, I’d gladly make copies of any.
As it stands now, since I used my master ball before I found about the Emerald cloning trick, I’m going to transfer the pokemon I want to keep to Diamond and then restart emerald for cloning purposes if anyone is interested.

In the original versions, there is a glitch that can be abused in order to get Mew (link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_glitches#Mew_glitch)). You could also get him from official Nintendo events (like I did). They had a machine that you plugs your cart into and it put him in your party. Aside from the fact that he levels up really quickly and can use every TM/HM, he’s not that great. Mewtwo absolutely schools him 1 on 1.

Not sure about later versions.

Yeah clearly Mewtwo has him outmatched in stats. Doesn’t matter, Mew is a lot cooler.

And I naturally wasn’t including cheats or glitches. There are a number of illegitimate ways to get one. I like my Pokemon uncheated for though.

Legendaries are designed to be overpowered. They’re banned in competition and not particularly impressive. Everybody who owns Emerald has a Rayquaza. Any other legendary with ice beam would kill it. As would any non-legendary, powerful special attacker with ice beam who can outspeed it, of which there are plenty.

For the record, you might want to reconsider using hyperbeam in the first place. It leaves you vulnerable for a turn which means even something slow could come in and slaughter you with ice beam. And the fact is, you really don’t get that much of an advantage from it. Yeah, it’s 150, but Quaza’s base attack is already so high, half the time you’ll probably OHKO the same stuff with extremespeed, a move that always hits first (there you go, a solution to the problem of fast special sweepers with ice beam!). Or give it earthquake if you really want to fuck stuff up with physical damage. Hyper beam is basically suicide against a well-rounded team.

I havn’t played Pokemon since Saphire/ Ruby; but my favorite has got to be Latios, he came in real handy…

lets see what I can remember about my Rayquaza…
Lvl 100
Attacks:
Hyper Beam
Extreamspeed
Fire Blast
Blizzard (?)
but yeah I’m sure Kyogre’s Blizzard attack could kill (faint) me in one hit…

And I never use Hyper Beam unless I’m on thier last Pokemon, or One on One…

Mews can’t be gotten except if you get some special ticket from Nintendo from a contest or something. Shame ’cause it is way cooler than Mewtwo imo.

… Game Shark for Pokemon Blue/ Red, I have one on Silver due to self trading…

… or Action Replay for Saphire/ Ruby…

Yeah Alakazam is one of my favorite, but I wish it didn’t take something so stupid as a system link to get one to evolve from Kadabra.

i fawking love this series. i still have the reciept of my very first pokemon game. RED VERSION YAY!! 1998. wow. has it rally been that long already? ^^

first of all. i hate people who use legendaries in their teams. actually. let me rephrase that. i’m sorry. i HATE how EVERYONE uses legendaries in their teams. there we go. it’s like everybody just copies eachother.

btw. i myself have a philosophy just like many of the pokemon trainers or gym leaders do in the tv show. except mine is just that i pick whichever pokemon looks cool/awesome to me and train it awesomely. i dont’ care about base stats, or move pools or shit like that. I just say "ooh, that pokemon is cool!!" check it’s element to see if i need that type of element, and then get it and train it into awesomeness. that’s my style. similar to karen’s from the elite four in silver/gold. i remember she says that’s her method as well. (she copied me)

my original team!

Charizard (obviously the coolest looking of all the starters in red)
Vaporeon (gorgeous!)
Golem (power!)
Alakazam (i named him MindReaper :p)
Raichu (not as awesome looking as pikachu, but i wanted the extra power :p)
Pidgeot (prolly the only cool looking flyer that can learn fly. all the rest look stupid)

that’s my team. i lvled them all up to 100 long ago. but while trying to clone mew for a "friend" my game got erased so i had to start all over. (now only 3 are lvl 100 the rest are like 9x) i get super bored trying to lvl so they been like that forever now. -_- so now i never clone on my red EVER. i use my extra copy of gold instead. luckily i have all the eevee’s and mews’ i could ever want still so i’m cool.

in silver i’m working on an all eevee team. i think i’ll make it a team of 5. i don’t want a 6th because he won’t match with my all eevee team. so i just use mew as a swiss army knive to get around when i need to. all my mew’s are max lvl anyway so it doens’t matter. they’re just tools.

but anyway. yah i’m totally hyped for pearl/diamond. i’m thinking of buying both since i own every other pokemon game in the history of pokemon. o_o

it’d be easier for me to list what i DON’T own cause i own so many. lol (i don’t own blue, the card game, and 99% of all the console games. i only have pokemon snap for console) so yah. i might get blue though for completion or clonings. always good.

i got pissed one time cause my yellow game was erased when i was testing my new gba gamecube adapter to play gba games on my tv. i got so fucking pissed. i’m glad i used yellow though and not red. now i’ll never plug any of my pokemon games on it. O_o

I’ve never encounted anyone using a legendary on their team. I guess I just don’t know lame people who play Pokemon.

Anyway all serious Pokemon competitions ban legendaries, unless it’s specifically designated a legendary competition in which case… people pretty much only use them.

Lvl 100
Attacks:
Hyper Beam
Extreamspeed
Fire Blast
Blizzard (?)
but yeah I’m sure Kyogre’s Blizzard attack could kill (faint) me in one hit…

And I never use Hyper Beam unless I’m on thier last Pokemon, or One on One…

I still think you’d be better off giving it earthquake instead. Why have a whole move entirely for a situation that specific, when you could have an extremely powerful attack with 100% accuracy that you can use consistently throughout the match?

I’m all about Psychic Pokemon to be honest. You have to love Alakhazam or Gardevoir with Psychic, Ice/Fire/Thunder Punch. They can win almost any battle.

I’m all about Psychic Pokemon to be honest. You have to love Alakhazam or Gardevoir with Psychic, Ice/Fire/Thunder Punch. They can win almost any battle.

Prefer ghost pokemon.

Pokemon Rulez! I Can’t Wait for Diamond & Pearl. 😎

I’m all about Psychic Pokemon to be honest. You have to love Alakhazam or Gardevoir with Psychic, Ice/Fire/Thunder Punch. They can win almost any battle.

Not exactly. Anything tankey with a high special resistance would mop the floor with Alakazam, for example. It’s easy to sweep the computer with Alakazam but it’s not so easy against a human opponent with a balanced team.

That’s what’s really so great about Pokemon imo. There is nothing that can win "almost any battle." Everything has a wide variety of possible counters, so what really wins the game is having a supremely balanced team to respond to as many situations as possible.

TK I NAMED MY SQUIRTLE SHAQ

Damn. The latest Pokemon game I played was Saphire, which I traded in for Crystal. So I have like, no idea what some Pokemon you guys are talking about are.

In other words, my favorite Pokemon was one that I created myself. He looks like Nidoking, but he’s a rock, steel, and psychic type. Yeah, none of my friends could beat him. Gameshark is fun. Okay honestly, my favorite was Lugia. Don’t know why but I thought he was cool.

Umm, Ruby/Saphire/Emerald is the most recent wave of games, so you should be pretty much up to date there, actually.

Well a good trained Sableye will really make battles hard for you opponents then. He has NO weaknesses at all. He’s also the only pokemon that has no weaknesses, and you can get two STAB attacks with him. (Same Type Attack Bonus, i.e. you use Faint Attack which is dark and dark is also Sableye’s attribute, you’ll get a 50% increase in damage). So it makes him one of my favorite pokemon out there.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m still a huge fan of Pok�mon. I have these editions: Yellow, Blue, Silver, Gold, Crystal, Fire Red, Sapphire, Emerald, Pok�mon XD and Pok�mon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team. The Second Generation is still the best, IMO. xD

I don’t care what people think, these games were a big part of my childhood and they’re actually pretty awesome RPGs.

My favorite POK�MON:

http://www.serebii.net/potw/evolution/Parasect.gif

Breloom pretty much outclasses Parasect with its 40+ speed and type combination, but I still prefer Parasect.

Well a good trained Sableye will really make battles hard for you opponents then. He has NO weaknesses at all. He’s also the only pokemon that has no weaknesses, and you can get two STAB attacks with him. (Same Type Attack Bonus, i.e. you use Faint Attack which is dark and dark is also Sableye’s attribute, you’ll get a 50% increase in damage). So it makes him one of my favorite pokemon out there.

He isn’t the only pokemon with no weaknesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikaruge

Geez, not all of us have become acquainted with the new ones as of yet. ;;

Scizor is one awesome pokemon.

Rayquaza Pwns all, second up is charizard. I’m a sucker for anything that flies and breathes fire.

I seriously begining to think that I’m the only one who has ever used Parasect for competitive battle.

http://www.animewolken.nl/pokemon/images/pokedex/parasect.gif

Parasect:

Spore + Sword Dance + Aromatherapy + Sludge Bomb, kills a lot of things.

Or

Sunny Day + Solarbeam/Giga Drain + Stun Spore + HP Ice/ Growth.

Spore is its main trait though.

Charizards Flame Blast= your li’l bastard dead.

LOL, I would never use Parasect against a Fire Pok�mon to begin with. I could just switch it out if it should ever happen, and I have.

Yes but parasect towers In fear of my Beastie.

Not really, since HP Rock could undo his greatness within seconds.

What about Tyranitar? he’s as hard as nails.

No because as soon as I get into battle , I choose the fly attack and flying damage is critical hit.

No because as soon as I get into battle , I choose the fly attack and flying damage is critical hit.
LOL, what is Fly doing on Charizard to begin with?

What about Tyranitar? he’s as hard as nails.
Tyranitar is an Uber, and I rarely allow battles with Uber Pok�mon.

What do you mean by Uber?

LOL, what is Fly doing on Charizard to begin with?

Tyranitar is an Uber, and I rarely allow battles with Uber Pok�mon.

Charizard can learn fly. Mine did, I’m not sure what version but he learned it.

Pok�mon(s) with gamebreaking power. Uber or 00ber Pok�mon are not necessarily Legendaries; Wobbuffet and Blissey are widely considered to be Uber as well.

Edit: Yes, but Fly is a very poor choice as it takes two turn for it to work; if you must use a Flying attack, use Aerial Ace or HP Flying. Both are stronger, and they both gain STAB as well.

Wobbuffets counter makes training a breeze.

MAN ONE TIME I USED LIKE MEOWTH SANDSHREW EEVEE SQUIRTLE PIKACHU STUFF IN MY PARTY TO MAKE IT COOL PARTY THAT WAS COOL

Wobbuffets counter makes training a breeze.
Yeah, except for the fact that he knocks you out 90% of the time. To be honest, I find Wobbuffet a bore. He always causes a tie, and it’s just so predictable when you go up against him.

Charizard can learn fly. Mine did, I’m not sure what version but he learned it.

My charizard learned Dig, Fly, Slash and Flamethrower, it was awesome.

T Zulu : Fly may take 2 turns to work, but your pokemon is invinsible on the first turn, which makes a great way to dud the powerful charge attacks of other pokemon like Solar Beam.

You’re right, except for the fact that an attack like Solarbeam hardly does any kind of damage to a flying Pok�mon. It most defintiely can’t knock it out. Fly is a must in-game to get around more easily, but a complete no-no in competitive battle.

Personally, I like Pokemon. But, its been so freaking long since i’ve looked at the cards in my closet….lol. Oh, BTW, Mewtwo will forever be the king of Pokemon

You’re right, except for the fact that an attack like Solarbeam hardly does any kind of damage to a flying Pok�mon. It most defintiely can’t knock it out. Fly is a must in-game to get around more easily, but a complete no-no in competitive battle.

Wingull/Pelipper.

i think parasect was in my party in my yellow game that got erased. i wanted to make sure i dindn’t have any pokemon in yellow in my team that i had in my red version. it was actually tough finding cool looking pokemon that i liked though after i took all the aewsome looking ones in red.

so in yellow i had

pikachu (never evolved unlike in red where he’s raichu)
starmie (psychic, water, lightning, and i think he could learn a fire move too. )
Parasect (sleep ownz)
flareon or vulpix i don’t remmber which i had :p
psyduck
i think instead of giving in and getting an ugly fearow, i prolly got another pidgey. -_- i don’t know. any other pokmeon that can learn fly just looks so lame. i wish zubat can learn fly. or even his evolved forms but NOOOO. -_-

You’re right, except for the fact that an attack like Solarbeam hardly does any kind of damage to a flying Pok�mon. It most defintiely can’t knock it out. Fly is a must in-game to get around more easily, but a complete no-no in competitive battle.

It’s just an example of when you predicted your enemy getting ready to launch a big attack in the next turn.

Hey

how do you

get Pikachu

on a train?

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Poke him on lol.

Tyranitar isn’t an uber. Or at least I’ve never heard it regarded as one amongst any pokemon community. And Blissey isn’t really either. Even Jirachi and Celebi are usually allowed in tournaments.

As for fly, I mostly agree with Zulu. There are a few instances where fly can be useful, but in general I don’t think they are nearly common enough to warrant using up a whole move slot on it.

I have busted out my Pokemon game the other day, played it for a bit.

In our area cards have appeared in stoores again, I thought what the hell I will buy some, I spent 10 bucks, and got a Salamence EX from Dragon Frontiers and an Aggron EX froom Crystal Guardians. Sold them on ebay for 100 bucks each 😀 😀 😀 😀

Mate did the same and got 120 for Latios EX and the evolution of Swablu as an EX card too.

We both made an easy profit from printed cardboard 😀

What FG% for 3P? If it us bad a I recommend better mid-ranger game or just be a slasher if you can’t handle that. Otherwise get out of the L.

wot si goign on Marc? ;_;

It went past the first page and I forgot about it.

I have been thinking of reviving it.

I tihnk Marc would be able to get one though, since he has a gameshark iirc.

I only have a gameshark for roms. ;(

Oh man 🙁

I will probably end up buying a gameshark now.

I have been thinking of reviving it.

do eet.