The Pokemon D/P Thread

[Anderian]

How many hours did the shading on your avatar take?

Umm... and hour or so? Just got Wacom Graphics Tablet (a very tiny one) and I made that avatar in few hours to test it. I'm not that good at shading / coloring, because I usually just do line art.

Holy shit, you're a god.

Thanks... uhh, unless that was sarcasm.
I had a lot of time to waste... had some time off (month or so) before going back to work. Now I practically got no free time at all. I'm working from 1 PM to 9 PM, which usually turns in to 11 PM, after which I get home, eat, go to sleep and hope I manage to get out of bed before ten so I can get at least something done.

[Killgannon]

How many hours did the shading on your avatar take?

Umm... and hour or so? Just got Wacom Graphics Tablet (a very tiny one) and I made that avatar in few hours to test it. I'm not that good at shading / coloring, because I usually just do line art.

woooooooooooooooooosh

http://imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ please go view this movie

[Shadida]

PM me if you wanna battle :O

[Deejay]

Holy shit, you're a god.

Thanks... uhh, unless that was sarcasm.

No no I was being completley serious, thats really cool. :D

[Royal]

Any place really good to level up around 30? Barely beat the 6th gym because of an unlucky shot by that 39. Am I supposed to be around 7 lvls lower than the gym leader?

[poland]

nice pokemon noob

[Insanecyclone]

In b4 shitstorm

[Priran]

Any place really good to level up around 30? Barely beat the 6th gym because of an unlucky shot by that 39. Am I supposed to be around 7 lvls lower than the gym leader?

Uh, in most cases my highest level pokemon exceeded or matched the gym leader's, and the rest weren't far behind.

You should probably consider leveling your pokemon a lot before the next gym. The 6th leader is really weak offensively, and the 7th is super effective against a lot of your pokemon (namely your starter, Golem, Gengar, and Noctowl).

[Jimmayus]

wow GTS was finally useful; Feebas for Turtwig 4tw

[Royal]

nice pokemon noob

Picked a bad starter I guess. Only use noctowl because it can fly. Ponya is the only fire type I've seen so far besides the starter so I use that. I guess Golem isnt that great but Alakazam and Gengar aren't bad imo. I could always be wrong though.


And to Priran, thanks for the info.

[Kyreth]

Any place really good to level up around 30? Barely beat the 6th gym because of an unlucky shot by that 39. Am I supposed to be around 7 lvls lower than the gym leader?

Taking a look at your 6 in the sig, it looks like you ended up with a lot of early evolutions- you jumped them up forms ASAP.

That helps base stats, but shortchanges some Pokemon early on for moves. Geodude picks up it's last move (Stone Edge, and it's a good one) at 39. Golem doesn't pull it off till 49 (and if you're below 33, he doesn't even have Earthquake yet, a staple). Alakazam evos don't have that problem, but Gengar does lag a bit if you don't train him up when he's a Gastly- you may be missing a few attacks as a result there, too.

Poor Ponyta's just going to get maimed- it's really not properly workable till the 40+ range, since it won't evolve to Rapidash any earlier. D/P lacks in good Fire types till much later in the game- you may want to consider boxing Ponyta for something else that's able to keep up, even if you want a FIre type on the team.

As for Noctowl- teach it Hyper Beam. It's based off of Special Attack, gets a STAB bonus from Noctowl's Normal typing, and might give you a little extra punch where it's weaker Attack-based moves won't, since a lot of Noctowl's normally learned moves are self-damaging (Hello, Take Down) and/or use it's weaker stat. Pick up the TM at the big multi-level department store.

Edit note: What's the Torterra got? Early evolution may have given him a few problems, but you can also use the Heart Scale tutor eventually to pick up Wood Hammer.

[Parshias]

Any place really good to level up around 30? Barely beat the 6th gym because of an unlucky shot by that 39. Am I supposed to be around 7 lvls lower than the gym leader?

Taking a look at your 6 in the sig, it looks like you ended up with a lot of early evolutions- you jumped them up forms ASAP.

That helps base stats, but shortchanges some Pokemon early on for moves. Geodude picks up it's last move (Stone Edge, and it's a good one) at 39. Golem doesn't pull it off till 49 (and if you're below 33, he doesn't even have Earthquake yet, a staple). Alakazam evos don't have that problem, but Gengar does lag a bit if you don't train him up when he's a Gastly- you may be missing a few attacks as a result there, too.

Poor Ponyta's just going to get maimed- it's really not properly workable till the 40+ range, since it won't evolve to Rapidash any earlier. D/P lacks in good Fire types till much later in the game- you may want to consider boxing Ponyta for something else that's able to keep up, even if you want a FIre type on the team.

As for Noctowl- teach it Hyper Beam. It's based off of Special Attack, gets a STAB bonus from Noctowl's Normal typing, and might give you a little extra punch where it's weaker Attack-based moves won't, since a lot of Noctowl's normally learned moves are self-damaging (Hello, Take Down) and/or use it's weaker stat. Pick up the TM at the big multi-level department store.

Edit note: What's the Torterra got? Early evolution may have given him a few problems, but you can also use the Heart Scale tutor eventually to pick up Wood Hammer.

Early evolution is the only way to go for Torterra because if I remember correctly he learns Earthquake at the very first level he evolves into Torterra, so holding off on evolution really screws him without a Heart Scale.

And definately go for Hyper Beam if you have your game set to the switch style of battling. Hurray for one-shotting something with Hyper Beam and then swapping Pokemon to avoid the recharge turn. Makes the move actually useable for the regular game.

[Anderian]

How many hours did the shading on your avatar take?

Umm... and hour or so? Just got Wacom Graphics Tablet (a very tiny one) and I made that avatar in few hours to test it. I'm not that good at shading / coloring, because I usually just do line art.

woooooooooooooooooosh

http://imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ please go view this movie

And I should've caught that from one line, instead of assuming that someone was actually interested in my avatar?
Okay, fuck you too.

[Priran]

Torterra's best grass attack is Wood Hammer. I lol every time I see a Torterra with Frenzy Plant or Leaf Storm, its Sp.A is absolutely shit.

[Kyreth]

Torterra's best grass attack is Wood Hammer. I lol every time I see a Torterra with Frenzy Plant or Leaf Storm, its Sp.A is absolutely shit.

It doesn't really get jack-diddly outside of Earthquake for decent Ground moves, either- even a good HP Ground would be relatively stinky thanks to low stats. Does Big Root boost Leech Seed damage? (I know it boosts the Drain moves, but as noted Torterra has crap for Sp. Attack)

[Wilimac]

If anyone would like to battle PM me or IM on yahoo; mailto:[email protected]

[Edgie]

Is it can it be battle times now?

[Priran]

Edgie, the friend code you have listed isn't correct

[Not Kuno]

Its 6824, not 6821. >.>

[Edgie]

lol Kuno knows... yeah i dun fixed it for furture (insidejoke) purposes.

till on for battles btw

aim rzoredgy

msn rzoredgy @hotmail.com