Pokémon General Thread

I admit I don't have very much knowledge of Zinnia, I still don't have ORAS. (Broke college student, ahoy!)

That being said, I never had Platinum, which is where I think Looker first showed up (I pretty much wanted nothing to do with Pearl's postgame, either)

So I'm up for Zinnia coming back.

The iceman returneth

My lovely, wonderful Ice team. How I adore it.

I still have to finish Platinum, Heart Gold, and actually start playing Black and Black 2 before I can go near X, Y, the third version or ORAS.

It's really frustrating with those first 4: I've had platinum since 2012, and the other three since 2013. After a while I just stopped, and haven't gotten back into any of them. It doesn't help that I've been playing a lot of other games as well.

I don't know how much longer I can deal with being so horribly outleveled by all the bosses and trainers in Dark Rising. I have 4 Pokemon in their 40's and now everyone's in the mid 50's to early 60's. I just arrived in Salem after going through Mystic Cave.

I'm thinking of starting an ice monoteam myself...any tips?

Shell Smash Skill Link Cloyster is your best friend.

Noted!

Try Sturdy Avalugg with Mirror Coat for a laugh.

I can also recommend Jynx

Jynx, definitely, even if the video is blocked at school. There's surprisingly few Ice types not weak to Fighting.

So there's her and Froslass, Cloyster, Weavile, Mamoswine...maybe Mega Glalie or M-Abomasnow...? Or I could do Avalugg for a joke, yeah. :P

Frosslass is great.One of my favourites.

So I decided to say fuck it and use rare candies to get my party up to level 50 each. I also now have a Rufflet and Milotic.

Grr... Soakninja.

edited 26th May '15 12:40:25 PM by RhymeBeat

Ugh, Dark Rising has Fakemon after all. I'm fighting this Conarp thing now. And it has fucking Wonder Guard.

edited 26th May '15 1:04:58 PM by VeryMelon

If I were to hypothetically make an Electric monoteam, what mons should I use?

All this Monotype talk made me want to make a Dragon team, and so I did...sort of. Still working on it.

It's hyper offensive with DD Mega Altaria, Stealth Rock Garchomp, Choice Band Tyrantrum, Choice Specs Dragalge, and Life Orb Defog Latias. Still looking for a final member; considering Band Dragonite for that lovely Extreme Speed, but at the same time I could use a Scarf user or a backup sweeper to go with Altaria.

Raikou is a pretty good choice; it's strong, fast, and reasonably bulky (especially if you give it Assault Vest). It does kind of have a limited movepool, though.

edited 26th May '15 1:31:24 PM by Yomegami

Magnezone is tied with Aegislash for most resistances (11, I think. And an immunity.) and has 130 Sp At, and 115 Def. It's not too fast, though.

,Thanks.

Should I give one Rain Dance?

edited 26th May '15 1:36:23 PM by BaconManiac5000

If you so desired.

Actually, that reminds me that you could also use Heliolisk. It has Surf to smack Ground types, and pretty decent coverage otherwise. Plus if you do use Rain Dance it has Dry Skin to take advantage of that.

YES

-dances-

So with Raikou, Magnezone, and Heliolisk, I'm wondering what else would go on the team?

Would Lanturn, Galvantula, and Zapdos fit well?

Are you playing on a Smogon simulator or is this for ingame?

Well, I'm not really playing anything, atm.

But if I were going to, I'm wondering what would work.

But it would be competitive, yeah.

edited 26th May '15 2:22:24 PM by BaconManiac5000

So I've been watching more of Chuggaconroy's LP of Gale of Darkness.

If Chugga's opinion of the Poke-spots is shared by others, then I can see one flaw to the game.

That being said, I really think they could easily do a console Pokemon game with some effort, but I know that's never gonna happen. Game Freak is convinced it's fine as a hand-held series, and I gotta admit, I'm not sure they are wrong.

It's annoying, but that's how it goes.

Slowpoke to Slowbro

edited 26th May '15 3:15:37 PM by rmctagg09