Catching all 151, er, 368, er ... a lot: The Pokemon Infodump Party!

Discussion in 'Fan Town' started by An Actual Bird, Feb 28, 2015.

  1. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    battling against roark (4th gen 1st gym leader), attempt 1: freshly lvl 17 turtwig after his onix and geodude are down, on 45/49 hp, -2 def from a screech. His lvl 14 cranidos hits for 27 damage with a non-critical non-stab headbutt (and then fries the last 18 hp with pursuit, at which point i ragequit)
    attempt 2: lvl 16 turtwig at 45/47 hp, +6 def from spamming withdraw at the geodude before absorbing hp back. lvl 14 cranidos hits with a non-critical, non-stab headbutt... for 3 damage.

    i should start paying more attention to those stat-altering moves.
     
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  2. liminal

    liminal I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me

    is anyone else counting the days until RBY is released on the 3DS shop? A few months before the announcement I was browsing the eshp thinking that was the only "retro" game I was super interested in playing.

    I already have a team in mind with my favorites but it's basically my Leaf Green from high school. I am not a very creative trainer....
    I feel like I should try something new and make a team with pokemon that are cool but I NEVER use. Like Venusaur, Dodrio, Dewgong, Sandslash...

    Or maybe challenge myself to do the one-pokemon challenge with an unevolved rattata...

    but playing the game without charizard would be a crime against my inner 7 year old.
     
  3. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    Yeeeessss :D I am definitely getting Yellow first, and then maybe Red later on since it's the only one I've never actually played. Come to think of it, idk if my real copies of Yellow and Blue still work. I hope they do, I liked my teams :c

    As far as team Yellow basically gives you 4/6 of your team(starters plus chu), but idk what else to get. Probably a flying type and then... Maybe a ghost type? Or a psychic type? I'm not really sure, if anyone wants to give suggestions.

    I really hope they end up doing this for GSC too, because the internal batteries on those, especially Crystal, seemed to die a lot faster. I mean ik we got remakes, but so did RBY, so who knows.

    Also I did a team based on what I though Peridot would choose(like magnezone, scolipede, etc.) which was all Pokemon I'd never used before and it was awesome! So definitely try doing a team full of mons you never use sometime on some game, it's a lot of fun.
     
  4. liminal

    liminal I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me

    But then I think of all my favs and can't imagine having a team without them! xD

    I am probably gonna just repeat my Leaf Green team on Blue version because I am weak... but potentially try something different on yellow.
     
  5. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

    Pokemon Direct tomorrow! It's at 10 AM EST, and it's quite possible that Nintendo will be announcing Pokemon Sun and Moon!
     
  6. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    Oh yeah, I was planning on saying something similar and forgot! Anyone have any thoughts/feelings about the possible new games? I think it could be interesting, but at the same time I'm sort of.... Idk, unimpressed? Maybe? Just because a big part of my childhood was playing Digimon Dawn and Dusk, so it seems too similar.
     
  7. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

    POKEMON SUN AND MOON IS A THING
    THIS IS NOT A DRILL
    THE HYPE TRAIN HAS FLOWN OFF THE RAILS
    SOMEONE HELP ME CALM DOWN PLEASE
     
  8. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    ooooh new pokemon game incoming?
    i should finish my nuzlocke runs before that... (at least oras and the i-ragequit-too-often-for-this-to-actually-still-be-a-valid-nuzlocke-run platinum run)
     
  9. liminal

    liminal I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me

    I am playing pokemon blue and I decided to go for "use pokemon that I like but I never use because of favorites"

    I have a bulbasaur named Rose. it feels like I'm betraying my inner child by not to using charmander lol. The ONE exception I'm gonna make is meowth/persian because they are my favorite kitty pokemon and the reason why I bought blue instead of yellow in the first place.

    So far I'm thinking Venusaur, Jolteon, Seaking, Dodrio, Sandslash, and Persian. I like to call it "team NEEDS MORE SPIKES"
     
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  10. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    Playing Yellow and forgot that once you leave mt.moon you can't go back until way later ://// so I'm stuck trying to level up in the tiny patch of grass outside Cerulean City lol. Other than that though I've been having a good time, training and naming my Pokemon dumb things like Sparky and Wormy.
     
  11. liminal

    liminal I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me

    I am currently leveling up and evolving caterpie and weedle just because easy pokedex entries... ORAS has ruined me because now I feel like I actually want to work on the pokedex instead of quietly ignoring it's existence like I have for the past 18-ish years.

    one thing that was slightly annoying at first is that it is completely monochrome. I know that's the way it looks on a gameboy but I always had a gameboy color! I distinctly remember the game being is various shades of blue. It was pretty easy to get used to though once I started playing for awhile. I heard these games have pokemon bank compatibility? I am wondering how that would work, like if I wanted to send my persian to the bank and then to a new pokemon game would it get an assigned gender and nature?
     
  12. Wiwaxia

    Wiwaxia problematic taxon

    CAFAPB?

    #i'm so sorry
     
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  13. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    Yeah, the dexnav is the reason I actually completed a living dex ;u; but without it I'm not so inclined to go catching and evolving all the things, just grabbing the things I want(like mew! I'm going to try the mew glitch :D )

    No one knows how the bank is going to work, especially since there is no move deleter in RBY so there's no way to get rid of potentially incompatible HM moves. But, that update isn't out yet so I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
     
  14. liminal

    liminal I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me

    speaking of assigned genders, I remember as a kid I'd RP my trainers (before crystal was released) as a girl, but she had to go undercover as a boy because only boys were allowed to have pokemon trainer license and become official trainers. You have no idea how excited kid me was to have a pokemon game you could play as a girl, because up until fairly recently, games where you could play as a girl were basically a novelty and it was really annoying and it made me feel left out because it's like they didn't think about girls playing games too!

    Now I'm just like "haha fuck it I am gonna name my trainer my (extremely girly) name."

    (apparently though they did have plans to have female player characters from the start but it wasn't until crystal that they could actually pull it off)
     
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  15. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    Hey! V. important! If you have Amazon prime you can preorder Sun/Moon and get a 20% discount($8 bucks off :D )
     
  16. Leegle

    Leegle Electric Beagle-loo

    So I don't really know how it happened but within the last month I've gotten back into Pokemon.

    Like, really back into Pokemon.

    I started a game of Black, which I never got past gym 5 on when I first had it, and so far I've sunk 47 hours into it (and bought an Nendoroid of N, who is suddenly my favorite character from the series).

    I bought a copy of White, which I'm going to play soon.

    I started over in Platinum, started a new file in Soulsilver, and, most shocking of all, FINALLY GOT AROUND TO TRANSFERRING 200+ POKEMON FROM A 12 YEAR OLD FILE ON A RUBY GBA CARTRIDGE.

    This speaks nothing of my efforts to have a living Pokedex in my bank, which I am so far doing quite well at because I've been obsessively breeding and training Pokemon in Black to complete it there despite the fact that it's a six year old game and that will achieve nothing.

    Oh, I have Black 2, and now that I've finished the story in Black, I'm about to start that, as well.

    Basically, I'm in Pokemon hell at the moment and it's wonderful and I obsessively check Serebii every day to see if there is any news about Sun and Moon and cry a lil when there isn't.

    Please send help.
     
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  17. Alska

    Alska Well-Known Member

    *bangs fists on the table and chants* one of us, one of us! :D and in bw2 getting a complete pokedex WILL get you a shiny haxrous if you go to the nature preserve. So do that if you can.

    Platinum is also a wonderful game and definitely my favorite of the 4th gen games- i started mine over awhile but only recently got around to trudging through the mountain lol.

    For Sun/Moon, i think we should be getting some news soon- iirc the next issue of Corocoro comes out at the begining of the month, and that's where most new game info comes from. Also serebii is great for just news but the pokemon reddit is actually good and chill for the most part, and a lot of the discussions are pretty interesting.
     
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  18. Leegle

    Leegle Electric Beagle-loo

    Oh man. I might have to save my Pokes instead of transferring them all over, then... Or not, doing it manually through trades is a madman's task. I'LL NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT. Either way, I broke 400 owned in Black last night; I'll need to go and get some Pokemon I'm missing from other games to send them over, and I don't have a single Gen IV file with a lot of Gen IV Pokemon on it, so I'll need to play through it... I'm really excited to experience Platinum, though, especially that I've got enough 'mons that I can transfer over some eggs of my favorites and have a baller team.

    And oh yeah, I heard that. I remember there was some big thing about how they said they were going to have some info in April's issue, but then they didn't, and people were disappointed. I do check the reddit very frequently, too, though, because POKEMON IS LOVE. POKEMON IS LIFE.
     
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  19. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    You know what would be cool? A pokemon game with a day/night cycle that doesn't only ever affect what mons appear, but also npcs and events
    certain events triggering only during day or night (fakeedit: @IvyLB just reminded me of the police officers in gen2)
    shady people and other night owls out and about but you cant meet them during the day
    and depending on whether you play day or night, you might get different story lines?
    that way lies madness especially since i could technically make that game
    the story unfolding differently depending on which road you take, maybe even the legendary mon you get depends on whether you were about the day or the night
    (or both)
    (maybe youre looking for someone who's always out and about during the other time of day)

    thoughts?
     
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  20. Kittenly

    Kittenly Just Squish That Cat!

    @whimsicalobservant basically a more rpg-y Pokemon game. I could definitely see some branching paths depending on whether you play at night or something, or at least access to different information because different people like shady people, some police officers, and more experienced trainers are going to be out at night. It could even be sort of an optional hard mode, since kids and easier trainers wouldn't be out and about.

    I kind of have an idea for a Pokemon RPG that involves a special bond with your partner. Kinda like Pikachu in Yellow, it would stay out of it's pokeball, but also have in-game effects, maybe a slight power boost, and the fact that you have a partner you're so bonded to is a central part of the story. I've got this headcanon that all the great trainers have such a deep bond with their partner pokemon that they sort of have a single identity together. It's not common to find people who have that sort of bond, but it is found in every single Great Trainer. Like every Champion, E4 member, possibly gym leaders... And it can make people a little crazy, or at least come off that way.
     
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