SE++ Pokemon Thread: EVEN MORE FIGHTING SPIRIT

Dichotomy

Strong pokemon. Weak pokemon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with the pokemon they love best.

Pokemon. Go out into the wild, capture monsters, and pit them in battle against each other and your friends. Why? Because.

Right now, the SE++ Pokecommunity is all abuzz about the triumphant release of HeartGold and Soulsilver. What are those? DS remakes of Gold and Silver, the best pokemon games ever made.

Wanna battle some? It's easy. Check out Bulbapedia, a wiki project seeking to compile all the information possible about everything Pokemon. Or check out Smogon, but don't take it too seriously: we're here to have fun, after all. Or hell, just ask someone in the thread: this place is full of people who'll help you with almost anything, so long as you're courteous.

Once upon a time, SE++ had its own gym league: with the release of HG/SS, the League is somewhat defunct, although many gym leaders and challengers are still around and willing to battle. While the league doesn't seem to officially exist for the time being, the rules are maintained here behind the spoiler. Will the League return? Perhaps, one day, if you are good and honest and believe in the good things of the world.

Spoiler:

- Personal preference is paramount. Don't build a team of perfectly trained supermonsters with optimally balanced types and as devastating a moveset as possible: fight with what you like. This might mean bringing a Tropius into battle, or a Magcargo. Who the fuck cares? Losing ain't that big a deal, and winning with your favourites is the best victory.

- Gyms can be challenged in any order.

- Challengers may have two teams for challenging: an A team and a B team. That is two sets of six Pokemon with which you must gather all the badges: no switching between teams or subbing new guys in once you've started the league. It's fucking hard to build a solid team out of all one type, and you challengers gotta be nice.

- Once you've got all eight badges, you're the Champion. Nice work. Of course, anyone who has all eight badges can be Champion: if you've got eight badges, you can issue a formal challenge to the Champion, and each of you will fight with teams of your choice. The victor is crowned the Champion, old or new.

- Gym Leaders may be challenged. Assemble a team composed all of the same type as the gym leader, issue a formal challenge, and meet on the battleground. The winner becomes the Gym Leader, old or new, and can change the type of the Gym he runs provided it is not the same as another Gym. The new Gym Leader in this case will have a week from his or her taking control to assemble a team of that type to defend his badge.

- Formal challenges may only be issued twice a week. If you battle a Gym Leader three times and win the third: sorry, no badge.

- We got some banned dudes. No legendaries, duh. The bird trio, Mewtwo, Mew, the dog trio, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Regirock, Registeel and Regice, Latias and Latios, Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, Cresselia, Darkrai, Manaphy, Heatran, Regigigas, Shaymin, and Arceus.
Phew.
Also, no Wobbuffett, Blissey or Garchomp, because they are no fun to fight against.

Here's a list of participating Friend Codes: PM me if you want on the list.

These codes are for Diamond or Pearl or Platinum I dunno they're old and stale
Beasteh - 2148-5707-0343
Kuribo's Shoe - 2836-3844-8086
Unintentional - 4898-6355-9244
Dichotomy - 4855-7158-7540
Speed Racer - 2694-6498-9606
Worthless Lurker -
Diamond: 2063-5537-2900
Platinum: 4684 0363 5042
Faynor - 1849-2088-3935
Marshswellow - 4983-9781-7146
Nerdgasmic - 1333-0236-8007
Melding - 0387-5403-7737
Kay - 4253-9422-6181
Squall - 3653-2402-0865
Daisuke Spoon - 0002-2940-9674
Munkus Beaver - 2320 2630 5407
InvisibleInk - 1419-2587-1159
Kickhopper - 2621-8909-8485
Sir Red of the Manti - 5197-9807-5111
Silence1186 - 1419-7303-9802
Eeveelution - 4726-9455-2619
Jars - 1333-6616-9851
Goose! - 4039-7879-9538
Terrendos - 3437-0107-2915
TunnelRunner - 1591-5067-6103
Unlucky - 0603-8220-8794
Yukira - 2407-7036-7130
STATE OF THE ART ROBOT - 2321 8156 7355

I know these are Heart Gold / Soul Silver codes, they are fresh and exciting
Belruel: 2708-3821-1622
The Far Side: 2708 3857 7649
Worthless Lurker: 4727 0130 2964

unintentional

So how far are people into HG/SS? I'm at sabrina's gym

Dichotomy

I am just in front of victory road but taking it slow to avoid pokeoverload

can't have too much of a good thing

I Win Swordfights

NO PRE EMPTIVE THREAD MAKING

Wimble

your head is pre. empty!

I am sorry swords, I am just grumpy that I can't play this until march 26th. Stupid release dates

Munkus Beaver

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

NO PRE EMPTIVE THREAD MAKING

Whoops, you upset Swordfights, Dichotomy.

Looks like you have to shut it down.

undeinPirat

unintentional wrote: »

So how far are people into HG/SS? I'm at sabrina's gym

just about to head into union cave

man i'm slow

rather enamored with the nostalgia and sadly don't have enough time to pokebinge as i would like

unintentional

undeinPirat wrote: »

unintentional wrote: »

So how far are people into HG/SS? I'm at sabrina's gym

just about to head into union cave

man i'm slow

rather enamored with the nostalgia and sadly don't have enough time to pokebinge as i would like

to be fair I've been basically bedridden most of the time

Vann Diras

aw yeah cyndaquil

fuckin' some shit up at level 8

take that caterpie

BugBoy

I'm fighting my Rival in the Rocket Hideout. School cancellations helped tremendously with my progress.

Vic

When I checked out Heart gold and soul silver, I took a long hard look at the starters and early pokemon. And I was not pleased. I am not sure why, but I have absolutely no wish to have any of those bastards in my team. So basically I have been gathering and slightly EV-training some pokes to transfer in at the first possible opportunity from platinum. So far I have:

Pikerchu, a Magnezone
Brobro, a Slowpoke
Bahamut, a Dratini

I'd like to get a Tyranitar but swarm pokes are pretty hard to get.

BugBoy

You can find a larvitar in the safari zone, shortly after the fifth gym.

Dichotomy

you don't like any of the gen II starters?

banned

Eeveelution

BugBoy wrote: »

I'm fighting my Rival in the Rocket Hideout. School cancellations helped tremendously with my progress.

I'm at school, (going for IT, All the microsoft certs, a cisco cert ect) playing with my pokewalker as a nervous twitch thing, not really ashammed at all to be honest.

I wish I had brought my DSi However, as I'd be playing it right now while waiting instead of being one of the cool kids typing on the forums.

Squall

gonna get destroyed by whitney

my team is around level 15

BugBoy

I really can't wait to have the GameBoy player. All that old music is great.

Kuribo's Shoe

I'm farting around before I go to mahogany town

BugBoy

Vic wrote: »

When I checked out Heart gold and soul silver, I took a long hard look at the starters and early pokemon. And I was not pleased. I am not sure why, but I have absolutely no wish to have any of those bastards in my team. So basically I have been gathering and slightly EV-training some pokes to transfer in at the first possible opportunity from platinum. So far I have:

Pikerchu, a Magnezone
Brobro, a Slowpoke
Bahamut, a Dratini

I'd like to get a Tyranitar but swarm pokes are pretty hard to get.

Also, you realize that you can get a Dratini, Slowpoke, and Magnemite pretty early on in HGSS, right?

Vann Diras

aw yeah level 9

learn ember you fuck

unintentional

damn you sabrina

BugBoy

Oh my god. My Rival just asked me "Why so serious?"
A team Rocket Grunt also said "Hey, punk! Do you feel lucky?"
Translation Team <3

unintentional

where is she getting all of these Full Restores

Vann Diras

wait the other thread isn't even locked yet

what silliness is this

Vic

BugBoy wrote: »

Vic wrote: »

When I checked out Heart gold and soul silver, I took a long hard look at the starters and early pokemon. And I was not pleased. I am not sure why, but I have absolutely no wish to have any of those bastards in my team. So basically I have been gathering and slightly EV-training some pokes to transfer in at the first possible opportunity from platinum. So far I have:

Pikerchu, a Magnezone
Brobro, a Slowpoke
Bahamut, a Dratini

I'd like to get a Tyranitar but swarm pokes are pretty hard to get.

Also, you realize that you can get a Dratini, Slowpoke, and Magnemite pretty early on in HGSS, right?

I did not! On that point though, what badge do you need to control pokes of up to level 40?

Eeveelution

Squall wrote: »

gonna get destroyed by whitney

my team is around level 15

Get a rock type, geodude will save you... specially if he knows explosion.

Watch out for attract.

BugBoy

Vic wrote: »

I did not! On that point though, what badge do you need to control pokes of up to level 40?

The fourth.

Magnemite can be found outside of Ecruteak (fourth gym)
Slowpoke can be found in Slowpoke Well (near the second gym)
And Dratini can be won from the game corner (near the third gym)

Vic

Thank you sir. Awesome to know that about Larvitar by the way, I stupidly assumed that the Safari Zone would not be available until after you beat E4 like in generation 4.

Kusuguttai

this IS gen iv, and in diamond/pearl the great swamp was available well before the e4

Beasteh

new thread smell

Dichotomy

be warned though, you can't actually catch larvitar in the safari zones until a few badges after you gain access to it

BugBoy

The new safari zone is incredible. It has shops and a pokecenter around it, so it's like a town. This means you can fly to it, and there are more pokemon there than ever before.

Kusuguttai

i need my dragon dance / rock slide / earthquake larvitar from marsh

because i love that thing and it took me FOREVER to breed dragon dance onto it

I Win Swordfights

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS WHO IS DISOBEYING ME

BugBoy

Sorry, but you need more Gym Badges before you can control Dichotomy.

Vic

Kusuguttai wrote: »

this IS gen iv, and in diamond/pearl the great swamp was available well before the e4

Yeah but there is also a Safari Zone called Safari Zone, or at least I think so.

BugBoy

No, the Great Marsh was the only safari zone in D/P/Pt

Vic

I guess I was thinking of Pal Park or something then I guess.

Viscount Islands

Why is a Lucky Egg so hard to get? >[

Kay

Dichotomy is slacking off!

Dichotomy used New Thread!

Dichotomy is ignoring your orders!

Kusuguttai

the fuck where is my extremespeed dratini

Butler For Life #1

To get the Dratini, you need to answer all of the Elder's questions correctly.