Official Pokemon Thread

On July 20 2008 16:22 JohnColtrane wrote:
do you battle steven in meteor falls in emerald? must have really high level pokemon, on GBA they are all like 75

On July 20 2008 15:40 ydg wrote:
Why normal?

I hate normals, lol.
What do you use to kill annoying things like Marshtomp?

On July 20 2008 15:52 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Yeah Sceptile sounds a bit weak

Your Castform makes me wet myself; I'd recommend Blaziken for your Fire Pokemon probably, there are Torchics in the Altering Cave on Route..115 maybe? The one to the left of the Trick House.

I seriously recommend you get something a bit more reliable for your Ice needs; 50% of the Elite Four are weak against Ice :p (ok, made up number, but still)

On July 20 2008 16:37 evanthebouncy! wrote:

and combustichicks on route 121

On July 20 2008 16:37 Roffles wrote:
Fucking Diamond/Pearl is gay. So hard to find a good fire type Pokemon if you don't choose the fire-type starter.

On July 20 2008 17:25 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
204, wtf no. Look in the cave on Route 103.

(for Torchic)

Combusken is in the grass south of Mt. Pyre

On July 20 2008 18:03 imDerek wrote:
I liked GSC since you get to play in two regions

On July 21 2008 00:58 FragKrag wrote:


Dragon pokemon didn't really become overpowered since Gen 3. In RBYGSC, 1 good Ice Beam would completely destroy a fully evolved Dragon.

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

On July 21 2008 06:44 GTR-2-Go wrote:
Is an Articuno with Mind Reader and Sheer Cold really imba?

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 06:44 GTR-2-Go wrote:
Is an Articuno with Mind Reader and Sheer Cold really imba?

On July 21 2008 07:14 Jyvblamo wrote:
Man, with all this hardcore pokemon talk I feel like a complete newb. I've never actually played Pokemon other than on an emulator or EV trained or any of that stuff.
But kudos for the tips.

On a completely different note, is it just me or does Kingdra kick total ass with no weaknesses?

On July 21 2008 08:35 TarsTarkas wrote:
ShallowBay, I have another question: In Emerald 386, is our list actually right when it says that Kadabra/Haunter/Graveler/Machoke evolve into their respective evolutions through leveling up?

On July 21 2008 08:04 tulleh wrote:

Most people play with OHKO clauses

I like resttalk pokemon though, trying to train up a Resttalk garchomp

On July 21 2008 10:01 crazie-penguin wrote:

aren't there also other clauses, like you can't have more than two of the same pokemon in one team, and that you can't put more than one of your opponents pokemon to sleep? Oh, and Uber tier pokemon are usually banned right (for tournaments)? Can someone list all the "standard clauses and rules?

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

On July 21 2008 11:10 Umbrella wrote:


I hope you aren't serious. I was referring to garchomp but dragonite can OHKO pinsir with outrage so I would not switch in to one.

On July 21 2008 06:47 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


Slightly, yes :p

One of the best combinations I saw was an Arcanine with a White Herb as its item. White Herb restores lost stats, so the Arcanine can get off two fully powered Overheats. I thought that was a good idea

There's also the ever effective Rest + Chesto Berry.

On July 21 2008 06:51 Atrioc wrote:


yeah i've traded for some pokesav pokemon (for example a Blissey with seismic toss, since I dont have emerald and Blissey is almost 100% required for tournament play), but since I would have to pay $40 to get an actionreplay in order to use pokesav, i just train most of my guys up manually. With the EV-boosting items it doesnt take very long.

On July 21 2008 10:01 crazie-penguin wrote:
aren't there also other clauses, like you can't have more than two of the same pokemon in one team, and that you can't put more than one of your opponents pokemon to sleep? Oh, and Uber tier pokemon are usually banned right (for tournaments)? Can someone list all the "standard clauses and rules?

On July 21 2008 23:00 TonyL2 wrote:
Yay TLPD shows that there's over 386 progamer ids. I'm gonna catch and name every single pokemon after a progamer. Except I've done it in lower case, and everyone else's name is in caps :< like PROF. BIRCH, MAY, ZIGZAGOON.

On July 22 2008 00:07 Jyvblamo wrote:
Make sure you name Snorlax after Julyzerg.
Or maybe Hariyama.

On July 20 2008 15:49 GTR-2-Go wrote:
I have uh.

Gardevior with Psychic, Confusion, Double Team (questionable, especially with this moveset) and Impression (Do you mean imprison??
I want to get all but Psychic, what are some good moves

My leet Castform with Blizzard, Fire Blast, Thunder and Weather Ball (LOL). Need to replace Weather Ball with something uber, does Hyper Beam work?
(Im not sure with a fairly low sp.atk that I would be using castform as a multitype sweeper. Blizzard is only 70% acc, which is super annoying when the move only has 5pp - I prefer ice beam myself which still has 95pwr and 100%. Even if you wanted that, why not stick that on your water type? You dont need back up sweepers. Same thing for fireblast and thunder, which again has horrible accuracy without rain dance)

Alakazam with Flash, Confusion, Psychic, Psybeam. Getting rid of it as soon as I get a good fire Pokemon (where are the starteeers).
(Oh god. This entire moveset is wow. 3 psychic attacks of various powers and the most useless HM flash. You only need psychic. have the others (too late now unless you want to waste heart scales) be calm mind (not safe in competitive, but the lack of hp wont hurt you too much in game) or recover or something, but 3 psychic moves is overkill)

Swellow with Aerial Ace, Fly, Steel Wing, Quick Attack.
(not a fan of swellow, and you gyrados means you have two flying pokemon weak to elec. This moveset isnt too bad, although you still have the two flying moves)

Gyrados with Surf, Dragon Dance, Hydro Pump and Hyper Beam.
(this moveset is ok, but generally with water types you want a water attack and an ice attack. Dragon dance raises you speed and attack. Unfortunately the attack boost only helps your hyper beam, so keep that in mind. Gyrados is also 4x vs elec which is scary. but its stats are really high, so its up to you)

aaand Sceptile with Cut, Rock Smash, False Swipe and Leaf Blade. What a shit Pokemon.

On July 22 2008 03:45 tulleh wrote:

Umm, Item clause (very rare I think) where you can't have same item on two pokemon. Sleep clause (can only put one pokemon to sleep at a time), evasion clause. Umm, think there's a few more, but I only ever play with Sleep, Evasion and OU tier.


Most people go for Cleric blissey:

Blissey @ Leftovers
Bold // Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
- Seismic Toss
- Softboiled
- Aromatherapy
- Thunder Wave / Sing / Ice Beam

On July 21 2008 13:26 tracer wrote:


Let me know if you need anything. R4 + Pokesav = time-saver.

On July 22 2008 04:31 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
That's what I'm doing! I kinda ran out of ideas really fast though, so I started naming them after like Mondragon and MidiaN >> <<.

On July 22 2008 06:37 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Those of you playing Pokemon Emerald 386, let's see your Trainer Cards!~
Mine:

and

On July 22 2008 06:31 Atrioc wrote:


not immediately cuz im still working out the moveset i want for my team but it would be really fucking nice to get ahold of a properly EV'd and nature'd Cresselia for walling.

On July 22 2008 00:43 wswordsmen wrote:


EVs, EVs, EVs, EVs? Nature? Item?

Yes they are that important go to the Advanced Trainers guide in Ruby or the competitive battling guide in Dimanod (both at GameFAQs.com) to learn what they are.

On July 22 2008 04:31 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


That's what I'm doing! I kinda ran out of ideas really fast though, so I started naming them after like Mondragon and MidiaN >> <<.


I named Snorlax after Julyzerg and I named Miltank iNcontroL LOL.

On July 22 2008 20:20 sundance wrote:
My current Pokemons (Pokemon Emerald)
Swampert Lvl. 60, Migthyena Lvl. 25, Swellow Lvl. 40, Hariyama Lvl 31, Azumaril Lvl. 53, Torkoal Lvl 31, Sandshew Lvl. 38 , Seviper Lvl. 22, Castform Lvl. 27, Kecleon Lvl. 32, Wobbuffet Lvl. 30, Xatu Lvl. 29, Girafarig Lvl. 25, Rhyhorn Lvl. 27, Sealeo Lvl 37, Clamperl Lvl 24

My Current Team:
Swellow
Hariyama
Torkoal
Seleo
Azumaril
Clamperl

On July 23 2008 03:44 holy_war wrote:
I've heard that wobbufett is amazingly good. Is that true? I always thought he was a joke when i played.

On July 22 2008 22:41 ToT)MidiaN( wrote:


sick which pokemon am i?

On July 23 2008 08:23 Fangster wrote:
My current (stall) team:
Skarmory - Toxic, Spikes, Roar, Drill Peck
Gengar - Will-O-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Perish Song, Mean Look
Dusclops - Focus Punch, Will-O-Wisp, Pain Split, Seismic Toss
Blissey - Softboiled, Seismic Toss, Aromatherapy, Wish
Breloom - Spore, Focus Punch, Leech Seed, Substitute
Gardevior - Thunderbolt, Psychic, Hypnosis, Calm Mind

Currently working on a baton pass team. I am using vaporeon, jolteon, umbreon, ninjask, and scyther. No idea what is gonna be my 6th.

On July 23 2008 08:23 Fangster wrote:
My current (stall) team:
Skarmory - Toxic, Spikes, Roar, Drill Peck
Gengar - Will-O-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Perish Song, Mean Look
Dusclops - Focus Punch, Will-O-Wisp, Pain Split, Seismic Toss
Blissey - Softboiled, Seismic Toss, Aromatherapy, Wish
Breloom - Spore, Focus Punch, Leech Seed, Substitute
Gardevior - Thunderbolt, Psychic, Hypnosis, Calm Mind

Currently working on a baton pass team. I am using vaporeon, jolteon, umbreon, ninjask, and scyther. No idea what is gonna be my 6th.

On July 23 2008 10:10 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


For your Baton Pass, do a Mawile with:
Baton Pass
Swords Dance
Iron Defense
Brick Break

Sick moveset I found online.

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 24 2008 03:20 Amber[LighT] wrote:


Your Cloyster example is good, but spikes doesn't affect Dragonite. Last I checked (a long time ago, haven't played in a while which was emerald on an emu) spikes can't do damage to flying types. I usually loved stacking my roster with dragon heavy types, so I would probably have Dragonite + Kingdra as well. Kingdra is a great dragon to have since it has no weaknesses as it's a water + dragon type. This may have changed since I used to do this in Crystal once again ages ago.

Sorry this thread just made me feel really old. I did like to play when I got bored with SC for a while. The single player can be a bit exciting especially the first time around, especially GSC bc of the 2 regions detail.

On July 23 2008 17:31 Scaramanga wrote:
OMFG stupid emrald 386, i got to the end, all my pokemon were lvl 65 and then it says the save fucks up and i cant go exploring, fucking gay
anyone got links for other pokemon roms?

On July 24 2008 07:34 0cz3c wrote:
Shallow, where do you find a larvitar in Emerald 386 o.o

On July 23 2008 18:04 NeoIllusions wrote:


Subbing ninjask would carry SD. Vaporeon's acid armor is a far better def boost than iron defense. Mawile isn't as good on an OU BP team.

On July 24 2008 07:38 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


After you beat the Elite Four go to the Fossil Maniac's house in FallArbor town (it's at the far West) and go into the Cave at the back; they're in there.



Subbing Ninjask carries Speed doesn't it, unless SD is short for Speed and not Special Defense? Also, I'm confused as to why Acid Armor is better than Iron Defense when they both have the exact same effect.

In fact, from what I know Acid Armor's Defense boost doesn't apply if the enemy gets a Critical Hit. Is this the same for Iron Defense?

On July 24 2008 07:43 NeoIllusions wrote:


Ninjask has speed boost, so by default, jask nulls jolteon's role in a BP team. TL is obviously not Smogon, so I'll cut back on the abbreviations, my bad. SD = Sword Dance.

Iron defense does boost by 2 levels. I thought it was 1 level for some reason. If it was one, then obviously acid armor is better.

On July 25 2008 19:39 Scaramanga wrote:
People, who should i choose at the start of gold, i chose leaf but idk

On July 30 2008 06:10 SIUnit wrote:
Quick question, for the one time only transfer of pokemon from Emerald to D/P, I heard you have to do something like transfer, and then catch the transfered pokemon in a special area with peusdo-master balls.

What I want to know is, does your transfered pokemon keep their level, IV, EV, and held items? I want to play D/P (or wait for plantinum, seems I always get the compilation game in the series >_>) but am too lazy to redo all that IV breeding/EV training.

Also, for those of you that play emerald version, check out the item cloning trick, it's very useful. I'm cloning tons of master balls/rare candy/berries/left overs for my team building efforts, which is another reason I want to know if held item transfer over from emerald to D/P, cuz I want those master balls and rare candies to transfer over to D/P to quickly rebuild my team to account for the new special/physical attack split w/o needing to put another 300 hours into it.

On July 30 2008 07:24 MyStiC_Chaos wrote:
Hey all, favorite Pokemon? Just your FAVORITE Pokemon. No other things.

Mine = Dragonite~ I like how friendly he looks but can demolish.

He's like level 71 in my Pearl game.

On August 11 2008 22:03 GenericTerranPlayer wrote:
i just got hooked on Emerald. I play it with VBA now and its taking time away from my SC practise

it's pretty fun to roll through emerald using only older pokemon.. i gamesharked my game to get my faveourite 6 pokemon from GSC and RBY. and i don't mean legendaries either. guys like ariados and marowak. people who use all legendaries are missing the point of the game. it's about your faveourite pokemon not how many guys in your team have 500+ sp atk



Breloom is my fave pokemon. spore focus punch for great hilarity

On November 03 2011 00:45 meowmeow- wrote:
Can I circumvent this somehow?
Since I'll use an emulator, I can't really trade with anyone, can I?
Gengar is just my favourite PKMN

On November 03 2011 00:45 meowmeow- wrote:
Can I circumvent this somehow?
Since I'll use an emulator, I can't really trade with anyone, can I?
Gengar is just my favourite PKMN

On November 03 2011 00:13 zeehar wrote:
3. yes, you still need to trade to evolve haunter. nothing's changed in terms of evolutionary requirements for gen1/2/3 pokemon.

On November 02 2011 23:52 Kupon3ss wrote:
In terms of the main quest, it'd be Gold/Silver (or HG/SS) that'd probably have the most content since its the only games with 16 badges (but then again, you can beat silver in 3 hours anyways)

On November 13 2011 05:09 meowmeow- wrote:
Hey,

playing SS right now.

Beat the Top and the Champion, killed 2 Gym Leaders in Kanto and flew back to kill the Top 4 again.

Now how do I get back to Kanto?
I can't fly there (the Pokeballs on the Map are grayed out, why?).
I can't take the ship, it only drives on Mondays and Fridays.
I can't use the train, it's not there yet.

Do I have to wait till Monday to play on? Oo

On November 13 2011 05:09 meowmeow- wrote:
Hey,

playing SS right now.

Beat the Top and the Champion, killed 2 Gym Leaders in Kanto and flew back to kill the Top 4 again.

Now how do I get back to Kanto?
I can't fly there (the Pokeballs on the Map are grayed out, why?).
I can't take the ship, it only drives on Mondays and Fridays.
I can't use the train, it's not there yet.

Do I have to wait till Monday to play on? Oo

On November 24 2011 07:13 Kipsate wrote:
Soulsilver or Heartgold.

On November 24 2011 07:36 Orcasgt24 wrote:
So how many different Pokemon can Eevee evolve into now? Last time I played a Pokemon game the answer was 6.
My Vaporeon was the king of Gen 1/2 against my friends.