Where are you in your Black or White playthrough?

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Finished everything in desert and picked up a Yamask! Then proceeded through Nimbasa to Driftveil where I caught myself a Ferroseedin Chargestone Cave. It even twirls as an action! Look at it go!

Now, I reached the flying-town and did some training with my new obtained lucky egg and everyone evolved to it's final stage, yay! Cleared out the Gym after that and just received Surf. Gonna do some surf-catch-up first.


Boris (Emboar) l.40: Flame Charge, Heat Crash, Arm Thrust, Hammer Arm [Blaze]
Todd (Seismitoad) l.40: Muddy Water, Flail, Dig, Rain Dance [Swift Swim]
Hei (Sygiliph) l.40: Air Cutter, Mirror Move, Reflect, Light Screen [Magic Guard]
Cogg (Cofagrigus) l.40 Will-o-wisp, Hex, Shadowball, Night Shade [Mummy]
Xxiva (Ferrothorn) l.40: Curse, Gyro Ball, Power Whip, Metal Claw [Iron Barbs]

Also, Iron Barbs + Rocky Helmet = win. As is Curse + Gyroball. Only Emboar needs a better moveset for now. Sygiliph gets Psychic and Air Slash within the next five levels, so yay again.

[Bear]

Just wait til you can get Reckless Emboar from Dreamworld. Head Smash? Y/Y?

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I'm playing *coughromscough* so no pokes that need linking, no dreamworld, nothing

Gonna get payed soon, though and thinking 'bout buying a DS.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I added a new teammember and reached Icicurus City! Everyone is level 42, but Haxorus is 49 Yeah, I totally like this dragon a lot. It's so different from the other dragons. No wings, no nothing. Badass design too. My first dragon I really like ('cept for Altaria who's not really a dragon in my eyes).

Gonna rock Bryce like a madman.

Boris (Emboar) l.43: Flame Charge, Heat Crash, Arm Thrust, Hammer Arm [Blaze]
Todd (Seismitoad) l.42: Muddy Water, Flail, Dig, Rain Dance [Swift Swim]
Hei (Sygiliph) l.40: Air Cutter, Mirror Move, Reflect, Light Screen [Magic Guard]
Cogg (Cofagrigus) l.42 Will-o-wisp, Hex, Shadowball, Night Shade [Mummy]
Xxiva (Ferrothorn) l.42: Curse, Gyro Ball, Power Whip, Metal Claw [Iron Barbs]
Haxorus (Haxorus) l.49: Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, X-scissor, Taunt [Mold Breaker] <= It's adamant too

[Link]

Haxorus is an awesome pokmon to have, nice team, also. Haxorus rocks with its cool image!

[DarkestLight]

Was never a Dragon person my self. Then Flygon came out and I was halfway interested...then Garchomp came out and that was sex on steroids and power wheels--but Haxorus seems uuuh, I dunno. Halfway lame again?

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Finished the league, N and Ghetsis. Decided to dump Sigilyph, it wasn't working out. I could've used him though!

Boris (Emboar) l.57: Flame Charge, Heat Crash, Head Smash, Hammer Arm [Blaze]
Todd (Seismitoad) l.52: Muddy Water, Flail, Dig, Rain Dance [Swift Swim]
Cogg (Cofagrigus) l.53 Will-o-wisp, Hex, Shadowball, Night Shade [Mummy]
Xxiva (Ferrothorn) l.52: Curse, Gyro Ball, Power Whip, Iron Head [Iron Barbs]
Haxorus (Haxorus) l.53: Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, X-scissor, Rock Slide [Mold Breaker]

Started a new game already Gonna do E4 stuff later, if I feel like it.

Worst member of the team: Even though he got me almost everywhere and he's the highest leveled I gotta say Emboar. A tad to slow for me, although the killer HP makes up for something.

Best member of the team: This time it's pretty hard. Haxorus is the only Dragon I really like (Altaria too, but she's more of a Flying type to me) so he gets a plus. Raindance-swiftswim-Seismitoad gets a mention too. It's not that good of an offensive type, but it's defenses are almost just as good, it's got killer HP and the rainboost makes Muddy Water (or Surf or Hydro Pump) a load heavier. Cofagrigus is a cool pokemon, but I need Calm mind and Energy Ball to really get the best out of him (it's up in late game I know). So since I summerized all my pokemon you know that Ferrothorn gets the trophy! Seriously, it has awesome defenses a good attack stat, great typing and it's worst stat (speed) gets a postive turn with Gyro Ball. Curse really adds up to it's tanking (and pwning-gyro-or-powerwhip-) skills. Iron Barbs + Rocky Helmet is also the best form of secondary damage.

Gonna try some new ones in a jiff

[Dryk]

Wow, a bunch of yall are ahead of me. I beat the E4 first time, but now I'm trying to acquire the power items to be able to ev train a few poke's. I'm just hopin to be able to play more this weekend, cuz I haven't had much time.

My team:
Gurdurr
Emboar
Cofagrigus
Gothitelle
Bisharp
Cobalion

[DivineAll]

Ugh... post-game training is annoying and arduous... Thank the programmers and creators for Audino.

[classy_cat18]

I thank them for the trainers in the Big and Small Stadiums, as well as the Rotation/Triple Battles in Opelucid City.

[DarkestLight]

I'm in Route 6. Winter!!!!!! Time to rock all the items I couldn't grab before! Woot

[Gary Oak]

So, a bunch of you have 8 badges huh? Well I already have 10!

[Blademaster]

Big deal. I have 16.

Deal with it.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Beat the third gymleader.

Team:

Ishi (Dewott) l.30 (Torrent): Razor Shell, Return, Revenge, Water Pulse [Sassy] @Quick Claw
Lee (Swadloon) l.27 (Leaf Guard): Return, Razor Leaf, Bug Bite, Protect [Careful] @ Sooth Bell
Fran (Krokoroko) l.29 (Moxie): Dig, Crunch, Swagger, Retaliate [Lonely] @ Eviolite

So far so good.

[DarkestLight]

just working on my Unova Dex. When I get a 3ds it'll only be a matter of shipping everyone over, so I already got that covered. Also now seriously considering who the hell is gonna be on my training endeavor. Side note, anyone got their Hidden Eeveeloution yet?

Double Side note: The wings you find on the drawbridge-do they act exactly like vitamins?

[Blademaster]

Just got my Jet Badge.

Team right now consists of Emboar, Galvantula, Cofragigus, Boldore, Unfezant, and Simisage the HM whore.

I am in DESPERATE need of a Water type, but cannot find a single one. They're in every fucking game en masse when you DON'T need them, but this time I am running out of time to find one and the only one I've come across is that tadpole thing that is fuck-ugly.

WHERE IS MY GODDAMN SURF HM OR FISHING ROD?! I NEED ME A FUCKING FRILLISH OR DUCKLETT OR SOME DAMN THING.

[Jeff]

Side note, anyone got their Hidden Eeveeloution yet?

Where!?

Blade: You can get a Ducklett in one of the dark spots that appears on the Driftveil Drawbridge. Also, if you picked the Cover Fossil, you can get Tirtouga in Nacrene City.

[DarkestLight]

o.O ::Links Jeff to what he just finished to get his Magic Bounce Espeon::

http://www.pokemon.com/us/fun-zone/o...-a-pokemon_fg/

Stupid mouse kept messing me up, but It was either Espeon or Leafeon. This makes life MUCH easier.

[Poryhedron]

You can get a Ducklett; they fly over that one bridge where you can sometimes hear flapping wings above you. Stand under the bird's shadow and you might attract its attention.

You can also pick up a Cover Fossil from the Ancient Castle, bring it to Nacrene Museum and re-animate a Rock/Water turtle called Tirtouga. Very useful HMer.

Then, too, all three of the monkeys can be found in shaking grass in the depths of Pinwheel Forest, including the water-type Panpour.

[Jeff]

o.O ::Links Jeff to what he just finished to get his Magic Bounce Espeon::

http://www.pokemon.com/us/fun-zone/o...-a-pokemon_fg/

Stupid mouse kept messing me up, but It was either Espeon or Leafeon. This makes life MUCH easier.

Ahh, finally got a Leafeon from that. Yeah, would have been much easier if the paddle didn't stop every time the mouse cursor left the game window.:/

[Blademaster]

Blade: You can get a Ducklett in one of the dark spots that appears on the Driftveil Drawbridge. Also, if you picked the Cover Fossil, you can get Tirtouga in Nacrene City.

Nay, I went for the Archaeopteryx because it's AWESOME.

Then, too, all three of the monkeys can be found in shaking grass in the depths of Pinwheel Forest, including the water-type Panpour.

Fuck that, those monkeys are ugly...

So I guess I'm gonna be doing some level grinding for awhile... Goddamn it.

[DarkestLight]

Yeah I'll get Leafeon/Chlorophyll later. That's the other interesting one I'd want.

[DivineAll]

Augh... hard post-game training is hard. Also, half the team I'm planning to use for post-game E4 is weak to Ground and Water. Will watch out for that when facing certain E4 members.

[classy_cat18]

This is the first Pokemon game in which I don't have a water-type Pokemon in my main team. I have my Tirtouga for Surf but...I don't know where to put him.

I have no idea which six Pokemon I should use for the Elite 4. Which makes it worse when I found out (Spoiler:) I have to take one out to make room for the legendary when I catch him for my battle with N. I only have room for six, but I'm training about eight and if I decide to train Tirtouga, that will just add to it.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

To decide which pokemon to keep (or add) I always go with this rule: if the match-type was set to 'no switching', which pokemon woud cover eachother? Like say your electric type, you need a flying type to catch Earthquakes, etc. Ghost for normal and fighting, or just a good resistor (like Ferrothorn or other walls/sponges).

Leavanny is awesome.

[Blademaster]

I just discovered that the awesome-as-fuck Gigalith is unobtainable because I can't trade it.

I'm this close to restarting this damn game. I love it, but Jesus did I pick a crappy team.

[Cynder]

Completed Black, and I'm up to iccirus city on White. I'm taking white slower than I did black, I mean I had completed the game by the next weekend! (Then I went out and bought white. Go figure.)

In case anyone's interested, I thought I'd post my teams :3

Black:
Samurott, Victini, Lilligant, Reshiram, Zebstrika and Krookodile. (Victini and Reshiram are replaced by Charizard and Mienshao in battles where legendaries aren't allowed)

White:
Serperior, Litwick, Carracosta, Axew, Swoobat and Scolipede. (Current team)

[DivineAll]

I have no idea which six Pokemon I should use for the Elite 4. Which makes it worse when I found out (Spoiler:) I have to take one out to make room for the legendary when I catch him for my battle with N. I only have room for six, but I'm training about eight and if I decide to train Tirtouga, that will just add to it.

Actually, (Spoiler:) it turns out using the version-exclusive Legendary is optional against N. I should know. I took it down with my awesome Seismitoad. True, I had problems with Ghetsis the first time around, but it was a small loss of money and items. Plus, (Spoiler:) you don't have to re-catch the version-exclusive Legendary if you have or haven't or rebattle N.

In the meantime, I'm going to find new training spots for level 50+ Pokemon because training against Audinos isn't going to really cut it at 50+.

[Blademaster]

Just got the 8th Badge. Barely. Fucking Swanna can't learn ANY Ice moves prior to the E4? Really?

I'm probably gonna restart this game once I clear the E4. My team was just too shoddy and switched a lot to be really effective... Next time, I'm probably going to go with a more pre-planned team... Maybe Samurott, Swoobat, Scrafty, Emolga, Haxorus, and Chandelure.

[DarkestLight]

Is Swoobat really useful? Really?

I just beat the E4 again. Realized I could level grind with them finally up until lvl 77 or so. No Idea how I'ma get them to 100 in a reasonable amount of time. Found those bastard sages too..finally got my Hone Claws. Now its on to complete the Pokedex! Meaning i need a 3ds..

Seriously, why does everything evolve at such damned high levels-.-

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

No it's not (Simple would help, but that's a Dreamworld ability). I do think it's a really cool looking pokemon with great attacks, stat-boosters, etc.

Gonna pick one up for ASB I think

[Blademaster]

Is Swoobat really useful? Really?

No it's not

"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best."
~Karen

I need a Pokemon that can learn Fly, anyway. Swoobat's Psychic typing is also useful since there are so many Fighting Pokemon in this game.

And yes, I know Sigilyph also fits those criteria, but that thing fucking creeps me out.

[DarkestLight]

Don't quote that bitch to me, I'm prolly the only one here still rocking Watchog :/ Fair enough, I've learned that Unfezant is SHIT compared to every other bird this game has EVER offered. I just asked if it was useful :/

[Blademaster]

I like Unfezant a lot.

(Spoiler:) It sucks compared to Staraptor and Pidgeot, Noctowl... I think even fucking SWELLOW was more versatile.

EDIT: Nope, Swellow is still the worst. Unfezant at least has Sky Attack. But other than that, yeah, sucky bird.

[classy_cat18]

Unfezant has Super Luck and Air Slash. That definitely puts it above Swellow.

[DarkestLight]

:/ Endeavor-Guts Swellow what? Swellow has Air Slash as well. Dun follow you. :/ Sky attack-bred on move for Swellow? Really dun follow you.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Unfezant could usefull, it's not terrible at all. It just has no movepool to work with.

Also, Air Slash is special, which doesn't really add up to Unfezant physical strenght.

It needs another generation to give it some usefull TM's, Movetutors, new level up moves, whatever. It'd rock Acrobatics.

And Sky attack is useless. Two-strike moves, bleg.

My Archen is sweeping White now, it's almost gonna evolve ^^

EDIT:

Just got out of chargestone cave and did a little Audino-training on Route 6.

Current team:

Ishi (Samurott) l.37 (Torrent): Razor Shell, Return, Encore, Aqua Jet [Sassy]
Lee (Leavanny) l.37 (Leaf Guard): Return, Leaf Blade, Bug Bite, Protect [Careful]
Fran (Krookodile) l.40 (Moxie): Bulldoze, Crunch, Swagger, Retaliate [Lonely]
Al (Archeops) l.37 (Defeatist): Acrobatics, Dig, Crunch, Rock Tomb [Jolly]
Cam (Lampent) l.41 (Flame Body): Flame Burst, Hex, Will-o-wisp, Night Shade [Rash]

[Blademaster]

I deleted my last save. Time to start over and get a better team....

[Link]

Good luck, Blade. I am almost done with White and it was a chore to get through Victory Road.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I just learned that Crygonal is the only genderless pkemon (besides Mew) that can learn Attract.

Kewl.