Pokemon Black and White (Spoiler Warning)

[choknater]

if you have the lucky egg, it just depends on how well you can sweep the e4's pokemon with that one pokemon lol. it should only take a few runs. my chandelure happened to be able to sweep shauntal, caitlin, and marshal (survive sturdy sawk's stone edge) pretty easily. then either on alder or grimsley i'd lose on purpose just so i could quickly go back to them and sweep again.

also, exp share can get a pokemon from level 1 to 70+ after only a few runs. of course, you'd probably wanna ev train that poke first

 

[Smasher89]

Add in the entralink 2.0 exp power, traded pokemon, pokerus and lucky egg and it actually takes like a few hours to get a lv 100 pokemon (did this with my first RNG'd pokemon from lv26-100 an afternoon).

 

[choknater]

does traded + lucky egg stack? pokerus adds exp too?

 

[Smasher89]

Yes, tried this method on a traded smoochum and got it from lv1>41 against a lv50 audino with using luunatoone/solrocks explosion =) (I wonder which level it gets against the lv 65 trainer Audino, since facing a trainer I think heigthens it by 1.5 more.

 

[E123-omega]

I swept the psychic elite 4 person with a level 40 zoroark disguised as a blaziken, taking down a level 70 musharna with fury swipes is so fun.

 

[choknater]

so my best super single battle subway run so far has been...

lum machamp lead - dpunch, stone edge, icepunch, bullet punch
gyarados - dd, ice fang, waterfall, fireblast
ferrothorn - curse, gyro ball, power whip, leech seed

on my 20th battle, i lost to a slaking whose giga impact defeated my machamp and gyarados....... and then critted my ferrothorn.

gonna replace gyarados with cloyster once i get enough points to buy focus sash

edit: woo! just got that focus sash. my team is now machamp, cloyster, ferrothorn.

my most recent run... 42 wins! i lost to a rapidash + toxicroak.

rapidash flare blitz
machamp stone edge
rapidash fainted

toxicroak cross chop
machamp fainted

toxicroak cross chop
cloyster shell smash
toxicroak sucker punch
cloyster fainted

i'm thinking maybe i should've just icicle speared here... instead of setting up. idk if it would've made a difference though, not sure if full health toxicroak would've survived the unboosted spears or not

toxicroak cross chop
ferrothorn gyroball
toxicroak cross chop
ferrothorn fainted

had a good run haha.

 

[E123-omega]

Fighting people in random matchup mode is so infuriating, it's not my fault your scizor's bullet punch didn't kill my zoroark and you lost because I hit you with flamthrower, but that's no reason to disconnect.

 

[choknater]

do u not get a win if they disconnect?

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Unless they changed it, no.

 

[Masky]

Pokemon Black/White is literally the most despressing game ever.

Bianca just wants to be a strong trainer and a strong person and she tries her best but she never becomes strong. The worst is when N literally says that it's impossible for some people to become stronger... man wtf

 

[Daddy Ash]

I thought the story for Black/White was amazing, it was a lot darker than previous gens but I have two faults with it. Firstly the game was advertised as your hero finally being older, yet almost everyone in game called you a kid still :/ and the story was very undeveloped and not taken as far as it could have, exploring the darker side of capturing and battling pokemon.

 

[Mic_128]

I'm hoping that gets expanded on more in Grey, much like the story in all "third" games being extended.

 

[Daddy Ash]

me too mic, they never really delved into the ethical implications of the story, understandably it's a child friendly game but could still drop more hints into the ethics of capturing pokemon etc.

 

[Masky]

They definitely did talk about the ethical implications, did you not listen to the conversation in Chargestone Cave between Professor Juniper and N? I don't know what else you would want them to talk about

 

[Vlade]

Who's got a Tornadus I can borrow?

 

[Daddy Ash]

one conversation between two characters throughout the entire game does not really fill out the story enough, the story started good until that conversation, then seemed to slowly revert back into a typical pokemon story, apart from ghetsis' rants throughout , catch a legendary - check, beat elite 4 - check, stop the bad guys - check, story end-game :/.
Well that's my opinion at least, and I don't really think that finding the sages after really adds much to the story, except for them saying they're sorry and the hero was right all along.
Just hope they address the story better in grey.

 

[Masky]

You didn't pay close enough attention to the game then. It was all there, just wasn't dumbed down.

 

[IsmaR]

I can hook ya up, Vlade. Got one off the GTS for a random Budew, I did.

 

[Daddy Ash]

I did play close attention to the game, but a lot of the conversations was 'i'd be sad if I had to let go of my pokemon' blah blah *cry* or 'How do I become stronger'. The only good part of story after the chargestone conversation came from N actually beating the champion, without the gym challenge, first time I remember a villian being the champion of pokemon. I just felt that they could have went so much deeper with the story if the game was aimed at an older audience and did justice to exploring the themes more.

 

[Spelt]

So, is the battle subway fun?
I miss the battle factory. They better bring it back in the next game...

 

[M.K]

So, is the battle subway fun?
I miss the battle factory. They better bring it back in the next game...

It's alright. Insert hax shenanigans here, bring a Fire type and the first 9 are Water types, switch to Electric and you face all ground types...same old Battle (insert thing here) hax-y goodness.

Today I was in Super Singles and it was down to my Special Togekiss vs. Blissey w/ Attract/Thunder Wave/Aromatherapy/Heal Pulse.

My Aura Sphere probably did 1/10th damage, and it was holding Leftovers, I was Attract'd and Paralyzed.

....I won when Blissey Struggled to death.

 

[Spelt]

That doesn't sound fun.

 

[IsmaR]

Super Singles requires you to think 3 times as much, and will **** you over eventually. Reg is a watered down Battle Tower.

 

[asianaussie]

reg subway gets swept by every pokemon with 500+ BST, and a lot below that

also, bianca gets level 65 or so Pokemon after the E4, so she's reasonably strong imo

 

[M.K]

Super Singles requires you to think 3 times as much, and will **** you over eventually. Reg is a watered down Battle Tower.

This is so true.
I was killed on my last set of seven (right before the Subway Boss) by a Dynamicpunch'ing Machamp that I swear must have been Scarf'd, because it outsped my entire team.

 

[IsmaR]

I get reverse trolled on regular singles so much, it's not even funny. Things like Giga Impact missing after my last Poke was just paralyzed for 3 turns straight let me win forever.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Super Singles requires you to think 3 times as much, and will **** you over eventually. Reg is a watered down Battle Tower.

No. This is how I see it.

4th Gens Battle Tower Battles 1~21 = Singles in general...
4th gen BT 21+ = Super Singles.

They just cut out the random 21 **** battles of prevos and crap.

 

[Mic_128]

Haven't touched singles, doubles all the way, *****es!

 

[asianaussie]

landorus and thundurus

earthquake discharge all day

such skill necessary

 

[Mic_128]

Only if you're lame enough to use legendaries. Haven't touched a legendary after using Mewtwo in Stadium 1.

 

[choknater]

landorus and thundurus

earthquake discharge all day

such skill necessary

i approve of this strat

 

[JOE!]

I still need thunderus to get meh landorus

 

[Mic_128]

Ironically since Nintendo's announced an Aussie Poke tourney that's doubles I'm now concidering that strat. >.<

EDIT: Any idea why a terrakion whimsicott combo would be so strong?

 

[Daddy Ash]

where you hear that about terrkion & whimsicott mic? the only thing I can think of the top of my head is type coverage, but there are better cover pokemon to terrakion's typing than whimsicott.

 

[asianaussie]

lol

Whimsicott uses Beat Up. Terrakion gets +4 Attack boosts. Terrakions lols about with Rock Slide and Close Combat (and EQ, if you're silly). He can also Wide Guard and Rock Polish if you feel lucky.

Whimsicott can also Charm, Encore, Taunt, Memento and generally piss everybody off. Trick Room and Tailwing are dumb when you have -2 Atk/can't stat-up.

 

[choknater]

hehe that sounds legit

i've seen quite a few vgc vids and i think the amoonguss + jellicent combo is really solid.

 

[Daddy Ash]

thanks for the info asianaussie, I never knew whimsicott had such a wide range moves of available.
That combo sounds very solid and many possiblities on whimsicott's movesets.

 

[Psychoace]

and their all priority thanks to prankster.

 

[choknater]

whew, haven't been able to play the game lately

really crunch time in school

i'll get more into it soon though

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I'm on Super Singles. Gengar, Scizor, and Ononokusu. I'll win in due time. Nothing beats bullet punch!