Official Pokemon Thread - Page 3

On July 21 2008 01:19 Atrioc wrote:
poor noob already said it, but yes go to www.smogon.com and test your teams out on shoddy battle because EV training them and such on diamond and pearl is a huge hell so you need to have it planned out before hand.

On July 21 2008 02:35 TarsTarkas wrote:
I started playing Emerald 386, and I find it to be lots of fun - the added pokemon are done well, and the higher leveled trainers make the game more interesting.

However, I cannot seem to find a good list of what is where. The list I am using can be found here:

http://www.freewebs.com/bikdiponabus/Emerald 386 locations.txt

This seems to be quite erroneous. For example, with Tyrogue it says that you get one by breeding one of its evolutions with a ditto. However, I found it in the cave on Dewford Town. Magby/Elekid/clefa-whatever are also supposed to be available only through breeding, but they are all in the Whismur cave. Bulbasaur seems to be nowhere to be found in Petalburg woods.

Is there something I am missing, or is there a much better list somewhere out there?

On July 21 2008 04:24 ydg wrote:
Where can I get a Relicanth? I've been searching the bottoms of Sootopolis for like, ten minutes and all I find are Poliwhirls and the occasional Chinchou and Clamperl

On July 21 2008 04:59 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


This is the list I'm using, and yeah it is a bit out of wack. If you want to know where something is, ask me; I've probably seen it :p

On July 21 2008 05:29 TarsTarkas wrote:



Thanks for the response/offer.

I do have a few questions - where are the 9 starters? I could never actually find Bulbasaur in the petalburg woods, so I am suspecting the others of being erroneous as well.

On July 21 2008 05:00 Umbrella wrote:
Yes ice beam does counter dragons but would any decent player let their dragon get ice beamed? Most likely they will switch out to something that will take ice beam or they switch their dragon into something that can't do crap against them. When they do switch in, either you switch out to your dragon counter and let your switch in take loads of damage, or you still stay in and get killed. Most ice beam users are slower than dragons as well so this makes it incredibly hard.

Now that dragon moves can by physical, most garchomps pack dragon claw/earthquake/fire fang or fire blast (depending if you are more scared of bronzong or skarmory) and some other random move. Nothing resists the dragon/fire combo other than heatran and that gets killed by earthquake.

On July 21 2008 05:31 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


All 9 starters are in the Altering Cave.

Go North from Slateport until you hit the Trick House; from there, head West until you find a cave. It's on Route 103 I believe.

He's not in Petalburg woods :p

On July 21 2008 02:04 tracer wrote:
I hear Pokesav works wonders. You know, for those of us too weak to handle cruelties of the Pokemon world.

On July 21 2008 00:25 poor newb wrote:
your teams are terrible, learn how to really play pokemon here:
http://www.smogon.com

On July 21 2008 05:35 TarsTarkas wrote:


These are good points, but the switching tactic definitely has faults. For example, I sent a Cloyster out to counter your Dragonite. I know you will switch, so instead of using Ice Beam, I put down a layer of spikes. Switching just got a whole lot less fun, didn't it?

Or what if I send out something that doesn't obviously have an ice move? For example, I could use Alakazam or Gengar, both can learn Ice Punch and have awesome special attack and speed.

I've never played the newest games, but in my experience, Dragons are not difficult to counter - they just scew you over if you are unprepared. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to beat them other than using Ice.

On July 21 2008 06:18 Umbrella wrote:


Well they are much harder to counter now :X they were much easier since they had no real good stab but now that they have physical dragon stab, it's much harder to switch in. Your cloyster example is good but not many pokemon can switch in anymore.

How would you switch in alakazam or gengar on a dragon? Or why would they switch a dragon in on alakazam or gengar? <_< I hope you mean hidden power ice since ice punch is physical now. And even if you manage to switch in them, it would be pretty obvious you had an ice move since you switched in on a dragon.

In ruby/sapphire they couldn't 2HKO many things but now they can.

On July 21 2008 06:18 Umbrella wrote:


Well they are much harder to counter now :X they were much easier since they had no real good stab but now that they have physical dragon stab, it's much harder to switch in. Your cloyster example is good but not many pokemon can switch in anymore.

How would you switch in alakazam or gengar on a dragon? Or why would they switch a dragon in on alakazam or gengar? <_< I hope you mean hidden power ice since ice punch is physical now. And even if you manage to switch in them, it would be pretty obvious you had an ice move since you switched in on a dragon.

In ruby/sapphire they couldn't 2HKO many things but now they can.

On July 21 2008 06:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


Man, wouldn't you be pissed if I randomly switched in a Pinsir and Guillotined your Dragonite :p