The Pokemon Topic

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

It wouldn't be bad to reboot this Pokemon topic as well!

As always, we can talk about the Pokemon games of all generations, Pokemon teams you whipped up, accomplishments, and all of that other Poke-jazz here as well. Discussion of the Pokemon anime will go to anime board as usual. 

Was getting tired of seeing the broken text code. -- Foggle

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I still need to raise a powerful team between the Fire Red and Leaf Green Pokemon games (which includes 2nd generation Pokemon as being playable) by the end of Winter Break so that I can face off against a friend of mine at the beginning of next semester. Does anyone have any good suggestions of univerally useful Pokemon that I should have in my team? For right now, I'm only 100% positive that I'll have a Dragonite that knows Earthquake and a powerful electric attack. I know that my friend will have a Skarmory and a Tyranitar in his party, but that's all that I know for sure. He may also have a Scizor in his team, but I also plan to have a Scizor to use, with Sword Dance, Baton Pass, and Substitute.

[Dr. Insomniac]

From what I can recall, Arcanines might fare well, or you could just teach the Dragonite Flamethrower.

[Daxdiv]

So, Gen V is now scheduled to come out on March 6th, 2011, and with that we got some new names for the Isshu/Unova mons. Currently, this is what was revealed today:

Shimama is now Blitzle
Mamepato is now Pidove
Hihidaruma is now Darmanitan
Meguroco is now Sandile
Chillarmy is now Minccino
Gigaiath is now Gigalith
Gear/Giaru is now Klink
Munna keeps it's JPN name.

I personally like Bltizle, Darmanitian, Sandile, and Gigalith.

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

March 6th? Man Daxdiv, me and friends at JellyNeo forums (who also have a Pokemon topic over there) are Game Freakin' stoked about all of these great news!  

Here's my dream team for Pokemon Black/White, enjoy!


Daikenki (Water)


Wargle (Normal/Flying)


Warubiaru (Dark/Ground)


...or Sazando (Dark/Dragon)


Ranculus (Psychic)


Vaivanilla (Ice)


Urgamoth (Bug/Fire)

I'll configure proper movesets later on.

By the way, I was having trouble choosing between Warubiaru and Sazando when it came to Dark-types. Any recommendations?

[talonmalon333]

I LOVE the first two generations, with the first one taking the edge just barely. After them, I just got tired of it.

I still need to raise a powerful team between the Fire Red and Leaf Green Pokemon games (which includes 2nd generation Pokemon as being playable) by the end of Winter Break so that I can face off against a friend of mine at the beginning of next semester. Does anyone have any good suggestions of univerally useful Pokemon that I should have in my team? For right now, I'm only 100% positive that I'll have a Dragonite that knows Earthquake and a powerful electric attack. I know that my friend will have a Skarmory and a Tyranitar in his party, but that's all that I know for sure. He may also have a Scizor in his team, but I also plan to have a Scizor to use, with Sword Dance, Baton Pass, and Substitute.

That's first generation, correct? I can give you recommendations based off of my ultimate team from blue version.

-Dragonite
-Gyrados
-Arcanine
-Alakazam
-Venasaur
-Rhydon

It was nearly unstoppable by the end.

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

Bringing on the swell teams I see, here's my Battle Revolution Team that the guys at Jellyneo (especially 3est) were bad-mouthing on.
By the way, talon, your Pokemon Blue team reminds me of the rival's team back in the day.

Charizard
Flamethrower, Fly, Dragon Claw, Shadow Claw


Kingdra
Surf, Dragon Pulse, Ice Beam, Yawn


Exeggutor (mine's shiny)
Seed Bomb, Leech Seed, Psychic, Sleep Powder


Scizor
X-Scissor, Iron Head, Night Slash, Swords Dance


Rhyperior
Rock Wrecker, Earthquake, Poison Jab, Megahorn


Electivire
ThunderPunch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, Cross Chop

[Daxdiv]

If I had Pokémon Battle Revolution on me, I would like to battle you Neoking, just for fun really. Though considering the training I put my team through, I'm not sure how many of my mons you'll be able to defeat.

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

I'm surprised that no one has posted this yet.
The Shiny Legendary Dogs Distribution at GameStop starts today!

January 3 to January 9: Shiny Raikou
January 17 to January 23: Shiny Entei
January 31 to February 6: Shiny Suicune

As an added extra, there will be a Celebi distribution starting February 27 up to March 7 at GameStop.

By the way Dax, I'm currently making some more solid troopers to clash against your teams and the teams that my friends at JellyNeo Forums, The Daily Neopets Forums, and RetroJunk have whipped up.

One of these days... I'll have a perfect Pokemon team to clash against anyone.

[Veggie]

I'm way too excited for Black and White. Right now I'm debating between getting Snivy or Tepig, though I'm leaning towards Tepig.

Anyway, I recently discovered that Azumarill can surprisingly be devastating in competitive play. Adamant nature + Huge Power ability + Max Attack EVs+ Choice Band = RAPE EVERYTHING

[Neomysterion X. Prime]

I'm way too excited for Black and White. Right now I'm debating between getting Snivy or Tepig, though I'm leaning towards Tepig.

Anyway, I recently discovered that Azumarill can surprisingly be devastating in competitive play. Adamant nature + Huge Power ability + Max Attack EVs+ Choice Band = RAPE EVERYTHING

...and I thought that Wobbuffet would of pwned everything with its counterattacks. I wonder if anyone else knew about Azumarill's true power. o_0

Therefore, Pokémon Black and White's release will only be less than two weeks! I still have plans on getting both versions, but I'd keep my main 5th Generation file in the White Version... which has better exclusives (no offense).

[gunswordfist]

Hmmm, my dream team? I only got around to doing that in gen one (I'm undefeated on Red/Blue    )

Let's see:

Blastoid
Dragonite
Mewtwo
Venusaur
Charizard
Arcanine (I think?)

The memory of my dream team is fuzzy since I switched members all the time. I do know that Pokemon that can't learn Hyper Beam are NEVER on my fucking team. I think Golem and one of the legendary birds was on my last team.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Alright, I'm almost done playing through Fire Red, and after that I'll end up scrapping the team which I currently have and use some cheats to start raising the real Pokemon that I want from scratch, maxing them out in the right EVs and making sure that they each have the right nature for the particular purpose I intend to use them for in my team. I'll only be using generation 1 and 2 Pokemon, and I'm preparing for a match against one of my friend's at college. I'm already positive that I'll have a Gengar in my team, but I'm not sure if I also want Alakazam or not, despite the fact that he's a great special attack sweeper. I was considering using a Venusaur with sleep powder and leech seed, but then I figured that it'd be too easy to counter by just using a powerful fire, ice, or psychic move from a Pokemon with high special attack stats, so I may scrap using Venusaur after all. I may end up trying to use him as a physical tank, though.

Other than that, I'm not too sure who else to include in my team. I'm highly consider a Garrydos with Dragon Dance and Taunt and a Snorlax with Curse and Rest, but if I pick either or both of them, then I'll need to put a lot of thought into how to choose for the rest of the team to complement those types of Pokemon that I have already chosen, to make my team well-balanced overall. The most important thing is to have a team that can counter a wide variety of different Pokemon teams with each having different abilities. The only Pokemon that I know my friend will be using for sure is Skarmory, and I know that he'll include both Spikes and Roar in its moveset, so I'll need a good fire or electric type Pokemon to deal with him, or at least a Pokemon that can use either fire or electric attacks and has relatively good stats for special attacks.

The more I think about it, the more complex it seems. At any rate, after having some fun getting re-aquainted and overall familiar with the first 2 generations once more, I'll probably move onto generation 3 with Ruby and Sapphire.

[Daxdiv]

Pokémon Black and White is amazing, everyone should be playing this if they have a DS. There is no excuse. I love the freshness this game brought. I'd still say that creating a new eco-system where you can't catch the old guys was the best move ever. Especially considering that whenever I play a new game, I always use the newer monsters, and with over 150 new ones, the possibilities are endless. Also, the fights flow more naturally and play really fast. As for the new EXP system, I like it when I'm training a low level monster, but later in the game I have to go hunting for wild Audino, which are basically this game's Chansey as they reward you with more EXP than any monster. They sure helped me when I was grinding my team for the Elite Four.

Also, due to this I plan to rebuy a Pokémon Blue Cartridge to play, just to say how far we really have come in the world of Pokémon.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

How are the starters in the new game? Do any of them evolve into really useful Pokemon once they reach their final form and learn their proper move-sets with their specific abilities?

From what I've played of the Pokemon games, generation 3 (Ruby and Sapphire) has the best starters, since they all evolve into really good Pokemon with tons of useful abilities and tactics that you can use each of them for.

Also, how are the Pokemon designs in that game? I personally felt that the designs got kind of lazy after generation 2, with some definite interesting and even some really good ones and R&S and D&P, but there were also a lot of designs that looked pretty unappealing to me in those generations. I'm curious to know how interesting most of the Pokemon designs are for B&W.