Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver (It's here :3!!!!)

[Night-san]

Your Treecko didn't have full EV's by the time it reached level 50...?!

How do you EV train your Pokemon?

-Terywj

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear on that before. xD I put in full EVs on it; I just never got it to level 100. Mewtwo I plan on following through with.

Rebattling the E4 for experience. Karen's a ***** the second time around. =_=

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Lol, I see. I was gonna say Night, you've been EV training pretty strangely, then.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

God how I hate that ***** Karen

I lost to her about 3 times before I got pissed and got an effective type on her ***.

I also remember Lance. Oh god those Dragonites

*shudders*

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I had a Mamoswine when I faced him first time around, so I used Ice Shard for safety reasons and swapped out to fodder as he brought his next one in to replenish my Mamoswine's health before letting it back in.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

My team had consisted of crappy pokemon...

Typhlosion
Sneasel
Starmie
Lugia
Raikou
Tentacruel

Tentacruel was my HM slave, I had just evolved my Quilava in need of a power house, I had just evolved Staryu to Starmie to face it up against Lance's Dragonites, Lugia and Raikou... I needed some back up in my team....

Yeah... I should've kept Amphy for Raikou

*facepalms*

Right now my team is:

Celebi (I'm so Mukking happy)
Typhlosion
Blastoise
Staravia (Staraptor here I come)
Dragonair (lol Extreme Speed Dratini evolved XD)
Charmeleon (lol here comes Charizard :D)

 

[Night-san]

Mewtwo is the one I'm training. He doesn't like Karen one bit.
And my team isn't very well equipped to deal with dark types in general, especially her pure ones. Umbreon, Absol, as much as I love you guys, I'm about ready to choke you.
At least I finally beat her again. -3-

Edit: Fighting Lance with the GB Sounds on is <3333333333333333333333333

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Serebii says the Elite Four buffs up after I beat Red. Does this mean they are unplayable until after Red or I can rematch them before Red?

-Terywj

 

[Mewter]

You can probably rechallenge them.
Just save, go in, and see if you can do that.

 

[Fuelbi]

Tell me there is a better strategy to this safari zone thing.

I swear I'm busting my balls for a Skorupi. I just spam balls, but it always gets out and runs away

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Use the mud, the mud! Or is it the food?

I forget which does which: the one which increases stay chance > catch chance.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

That would be the bait...

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Ahh, then I'd suggest using the bait. I don't really have any serious information / help as to why I use it over mud, but I take my chances and it helps me out decently, so yeah.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

Hmmm... ok

Btw, I JUST caught my Skorupi... FINALLY!

After 8 Skorupis (hard to come by btw) I finally got after just ONE ball through XD

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Good job man. Drapion is pretty cool beans.

I'm heading to Lavender since my Pokemon are too weak to take on Sabrina and Erika.

BTW Sabrina's sprite looks terrible.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

I know how you feel bro...

Now I'm busting my Poke Balls for a Manetric

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I've always overlooked it I guess, but it seems there are a lot more Pokemon you can find in the Safari Zone this time around.

-Terywj

 

[Fuelbi]

Yeah... sucks that you have to wait a number of days before a specific one appears.

Riolu and Metang each appear at 70 days

I'm happy my cousin gave me a Riolu egg though :D

I love how there's an unlimited amount of steps this time though

 

[Firus]

The new days system seems stupid...rather than adding replay value, it seems like that's just going to make people resort to trading or get bored and never complete the Pokédex. A week or two is reasonable, 100 days is a little more than a fourth of an entire year.

Anyway, progress:

I beat Brock, who was a combination of easy and hard. The first time, a combination of hax luck and doing a few things wrong caused me to begin to fail and turn off the DS. The second time I OHKO'd Graveler with Feraligatr's Surf, then swapped to Ninetales against Kabutops, survived a Rock Slide (NPCs never miss with that move, for crying out loud), Energy Ball'd it and OHKO'd it, then OHKO'd every Pokémon after with Energy Ball too.

Then I got the Rainbow Wing and headed to the Tin Tower (I'm still calling it that, screw this "Bell Tower" crap) immediately, which wasn't my brightest move considering my team is ~50 and I lack a status inflicter aside from moves like Discharge and Ice Fang which CAN inflict a status if I'm uber lucky.

Ho-Oh wiped out my team before I could catch it, since it's proving to be as obnoxious as the legendary dogs. I must've had zetta luck with Lugia to have caught it in one Dusk Ball. At least now I can Dusk Ball Ho-Oh.

Anyways, if all else fails I may have to train more / get a status inflicter and re-climb the tower.

 

[Fuelbi]

I know how you feel.

I was so happy to know you could get Riolu in this game because I need a trading slave, but I learned the hard way that you had to wait 70 Mukking days

I'm no way waiting that long

Anyways, I have most of the rare ones anyways. The only one that requires a long period of time to wait is Beldum, and I could just get my friend who has one or someone else to give me one.


Anyways, I'm pretty Mukking happy.

I had one Safari Ball left and I thought I would never catch Aaron on the first throw, but I did catch it :D

I also got an electabuzz, which I need to get an electivire.

Other than that, the rest pretty much suck and I'm only getting them for the dex entry

I can't wait for Saturday, when I can meet up with some friends again and trade because I'm itching to get more people to trade with me

 

[Bowser King]

The new days system seems stupid...rather than adding replay value, it seems like that's just going to make people resort to trading or get bored and never complete the Pokédex. A week or two is reasonable, 100 days is a little more than a fourth of an entire year.

Agreed, the idea is pretty stupid. Instead, I think a better idea would be to introduce more pokemon as you beat gyms. Since there are 16 gyms + E4 it would work perfectly. Plus, it would give you a reason to go back and check the safari zone.

 

[Firus]

Argh, I was working on Ho-Oh (I successfully stalled it out of all of its attacking moves and reduced it to like, 3 HP, so at that point it was just a matter of spamming Poké Balls until it was caught) and my DS was resting on the arm of the couch...it started to fall so I grabbed at it and when I saw the screen again, I had accidentally told Steelix to use Rock Throw. Ho-Oh died.

FFfffuuuuu

Why was Lugia so easy to catch? Argh.

EDIT:

Try #3 landed me with a 1 HP Ho-Oh pretty soon after the start, and I wasted all of my Dusk and Ultra Balls on it.

The battle ended when it got stalled out of all of its PP and Struggled itself to death.

I don't know WHAT they did to the catch rate in this game, but it's absolutely ridiculous. I don't like using Master Balls but I'm on the verge of using one on like, every legend.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Well, I've got to SR a good Ho-oh, Suicune, Raikou/Entei(probably won't care much), Mewtwo, Groudon, Rayquaza, and the three birds....

Before that I wanted to defeat Red, so I'm climbing Mt. Silver with Tyranitarlv66, Kingdra/Charizard/Gyarados/Golem all level 65, all 5 are Eved.

On a pokewalker note, I'm slowly making my way to all the routes...go.go..yellow route...

 

[Fuelbi]

I suck on the pokewalker...

the last time I got a new course was last friday...

Yeah... I don't do too much walking these days

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I exercise a lot. <.< I used to weigh 260, so I'm always paranoid about gaining weight, and I'm a guy. Lulz

 

[Moozle]

I had Lugia at like 5 hp and sleeping and it took me 18 dusk balls. I'm using my master ball on the next legendary I see, idc what it is :embarrass

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Telling you, Latios/Latias.... the only one worth it. <_< If you want to SR a good one, that is.

Can you ever challenge Red again?

 

[Fuelbi]

I think so... but like once a week...


Anyways, is Smeargle capturable in the Safari Zone?

I'm using the plains block and serebii says he's there...

 

[Firus]

SRing for a good legendary seems incredibly painful and unnecessary, but maybe that's just me...

Fourth Ho-Oh attempt...got it Paralyzed and at 1 HP, wasted almost all of my balls save for 2 Lure Balls, a handful of Quick Balls, and my Master Ball.

Struggled itself to death again. What the hell.

EDIT: I'm seriously considering trading over Master Balls. They really screwed the pooch with whatever they did to the capture rate.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

It's why I'm getting 9 masterballs and have Espeons of every nature... bwahahahah

 

[Mewter]

Red resets every time you beat the Elite Four, I think.

Shimazu, you lucky-

 

[Firus]

I have enough Master Balls, I've just decided they're cheap and take the fun out of the game.

But now NOT using a Master Ball is taking the fun out of the game. I did everything short of putting Ho-Oh to sleep or freezing it rather than paralysis, since paralysis doesn't increase the capture rate as much.

I'm going to give it one last shot. If it doesn't succeed, Master Ball time. Probably the same for the legendary dogs.

 

[Mewter]

You're probably better off with the Master Balls.
There's just an insane amount of legendary Pokemon with high catch rates in this game, so not using a Master Ball can spoil it really quickly.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Nice, Red Fails by the way. How are I lucky?

 

[Mewter]

Espeons of every nature, you have.
A winner is you!

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Oh, yeah... <.< I don't know ,my girlfriend decided to do it one day, so they are not really mine. It's just one of my several benefits....

Red is defeated, and I only used two items. (One to cure the frozen status of blizzard, one to revive a pokemon) And my team consisted of 5!

Why is Red such an *******? I won and he can't say anything?

 

[Fuelbi]

Man I'm stuck on catching Lapras in teh safari zone and the freaking catch rate for that thing HAS to be low

 

[Mewter]

Why don't you catch the Lapras in the cave near Azalea that appears on Fridays?

 

[Firus]

I gave it one last try and Ho-Oh decided to be a jerk. So I caught it in a Master Ball.

And yeah, give the Lapras in Union Cave a try. I'm a little disappointed they made it available elsewhere, though...doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of the special Lapras appearing there only on Friday nights if you can just go to the Safari Zone to get it? That was one of my more distinct memories of playing Gold, going to get Lapras from Union Cave while watching Nickelodeon (back when it was actually good).

Good times, good times...

[/nostalgic]

 

[Fuelbi]

I suck at schedules.

For example, I forgot I could battle Chuck today and I just remembered while writing this post...

Anyways I ended up catching it...


I don't have any idea how 1 level 15 lapras can make me waste 25 safari balls, but a level 45 lapras can make me waste 1 ball and capture it successfully


I have no idea what they've done to the catch rates, but they seriously screwed them up

 

[Firus]

The capture rate is my one complaint about HG/SS.

Other than that these games are masterpieces.