where are you at in your heart gold/soul silver playthrough?

[Ayeun]

Bit of an update... Took to training against the league, as one does with HGSS and the money bank that is your mum...

First attempt though, all about the 50 mark... And I am the new champion. No items, no heals... WTF?

On a side note, Lance's team is WEAK against rock moves.

[Blademaster]

I did send him out first...and got knocked out by Iron Tail. Then I sent out Magneton and paralysed the damn thing, revived Nidoking, took it out with Earthquake...then got PWNed by Blastoise.

Whoo...

You need to properly train, son. Like I did.

By buying 50 Full Restores, Hyper Potions, and Revives, and 30 Full Heals. Not even Red can defeat THAT awesome strategy.

Bit of an update... Took to training against the league, as one does with HGSS and the money bank that is your mum...

First attempt though, all about the 50 mark... And I am the new champion. No items, no heals... WTF?

...I need to see a team before I can believe this. I can understand plowing through Will and Bruno with no healing, but Karen's a vicious bitch, Koga whores out status attacks like no tomorrow, and Lance... Eh, not so much tough as he is an Uber-abusing asshole that likes to pull random elemental bitchslap attacks out of his ass no matter what you send at him.

[Rossymore]

Training? That's what I'm doing. I was just seeing how quickly I could get decimated.

For me, Karen was the hardest. Umbreon was so...urgh! Lance was also a bitch as the only Pokemon that has an ice type move is Slowbro with Avalanche, which is a good combination as you know Slowbro will go second.

Other then that, the E4 wasn't that hard.

[Blademaster]

I know the pain. I used a team of Typhlosion, Slowbro, Ampharos, and Togekiss. My last 2 slots were held by HM users permanently so my team would level up faster. I usually use 3 or 4 Pokemon teams like that with no problem.

Until Karen. That fucking Houndoom. One Nasty Plot and its Dark Pulse was strong enough to bring down my normally nigh-immortal Slowbro, as well as Typhlosion, and it was even fast enough to char broil my Amphy and Togetic. I had to reset like 5 times before I got lucky and tricked it into Flamethrowering my Slowbro before I could take it out with Surf.

It survived.

[Rossymore]

Oooooh! That is just nasty. When Houndoom got up a Nasty Plot, its Dark Pulse just ripped my team apart. I only survived because of Magneton and parahax.

[Starry Might]

Yow @ the last several posts.

Well, I beat the gym, which was kind of a pain because...

(A) (Spoiler:) They just HAD to bring the "R/B/Y/ and "FR/LG" trash can puzzle back, didn't they?! >_>

(B) Explosion (I think) and Double Team.

I haven't done any more Kanto Gyms yet, though...I've kinda been crusing through the towns and doing stuff in them.

I'm in Cerulean City right now.

[Ayeun]

...I need to see a team before I can believe this. I can understand plowing through Will and Bruno with no healing, but Karen's a vicious bitch, Koga whores out status attacks like no tomorrow, and Lance... Eh, not so much tough as he is an Uber-abusing asshole that likes to pull random elemental bitchslap attacks out of his ass no matter what you send at him.

Team at the time:

Gabite - 46
Dragonair - 45
Metagros - 49
Dusknoir - 45
Scalamance - 52
Tyranatar - 56

[Blademaster]

Holy ballsack, cheap much?

How the heck did you get those monsters leveled up, anyway? Don't they each take like 800 battles to go up one damn level?

[Ayeun]

All of them are outsiders. See above posts... I traded them in at level 10, from the beginning. Wanted a challenge. Couldn't fly with salamance until I was up to Clair. One of my rules for the run through was no subs. Those 6 had to be able to do it, or I had to walk/go around/ect. Trained Pupitar in the Ice tunnel until it evolved, flew up to the league, to start training (My old trick is to send out somthing, and then sub a dark type in on Will. He usually opens with Psychic, so you get the split xp, 3/4ths if your using exp share, and then you own him with your dark type in the 2nd move.)

And yeah. As I said. Lance didn't seem to like Rock slide or Stone edge... Don't know why?

[DarkestLight]

Everything Lance uses (D-nite-Aerodactyl-Charizard-Gyarados) are all weak to Rock.

But uhhh how do you have a Metagross at lvl 49? They evolve at 50...

[Ayeun]

Metagross

45 mr DL sir.

[PancaKe]

I spend too much time in the casino and at pokeathlon to be winning badges lol

[Ayeun]

After getting schooled by Red a few times, Im going to wrap up and restart. A team of ubers is good on paper, but does not work so well in game.

[DarkestLight]

Oh its the learning of Meteor Mash on Metang. Ok ..

And you got schooled by Red with a Team of Ubers? Yer doing it wrong then xD.

[Blademaster]

VERY wrong...

[Darth CookieMonster]

SO SO VERY WRONG.



I had to im so sorrry

[Ayeun]

His snorelax raped through my dragons with ice punch, and kept sleeping my rock/ground/psychic moves. Shouldn't have unlearnt Hammer arm...

Oh, I ditched Dusknoir. Decided (really REALLY late) that it sucks.

[Starry Might]

Okay, I've been doing Gyms and stuff now.

I've beaten Saffron Gym (Sabrina's Alakazkam = EVIL, BTW), Celadon Gym (it looks nice, but it's hard to navigate!), Cerulean Gym (Misty's Starmie kinda annoyed me with Confuse Ray), and Fuchsia Gym (now I can get Falkner's phone number next Monday! ).

Anyhow, I've got a couple of questions?

(1) How exactly do you wake up Snorlax outside of Diglett Cave?

(2) What did you guys think of the Pokefan who has a Level 65 Magikarp on his team?

[DivineAll]

To Starry Might:

1. Make sure that the Power Plant is up and running again, get the Expansion Card or whatever it's called in this version from the Lavender Radio Station, go to where Snorlax is sleeping, set your radio so that the pointer is set at the top, and prompt Snorlax.

2. As funny as the Level 65 Magikarp is, I still think that they should include mid-battle evolution because of some trainers like that.

[Starry Might]

To Starry Might:

1. Make sure that the Power Plant is up and running again, get the Expansion Card or whatever it's called in this version from the Lavender Radio Station, go to where Snorlax is sleeping, set your radio so that the pointer is set at the top, and prompt Snorlax.

2. As funny as the Level 65 Magikarp is, I still think that they should include mid-battle evolution because of some trainers like that.

(1) Oh, you mean set the radio's pointer at the very top ("North Pole", so to speak) of the sphere? I'll try that later today.

(2) Hey, that would be cool!

[Jeff]

Yup. The Pokéflute doesn't have a button for it on the radio, so you have to manually tune into it. Pretty easy since it's in an easy spot though.

[Darth CookieMonster]

It sounds weird but im only at the 8th gym in Johto! Ive been catching like a crazy person, working on the dex, so i have been evolving the pokemon i caught and it has been takling alot of time.. but i have done a number on my dex already, so intend on prgressing now.

[Little_Pikachu]

I'm just busy leveling up for the 8th gym in Johto, my Pokemons are all about level 34 - 38. I've had the game for a few weeks, should be further on than I am for the amount of play time I've put in, but I had great trouble getting past the parts in and around Goldenrod, including the Team Rocket radio tower take over as everytime I walked past it I had to go play the Voltorb card game :x

I actually became pretty pro at it though.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

(2) What did you guys think of the Pokefan who has a Level 65 Magikarp on his team?

Hm? I have a level 79 (or something, I forgot) Magikarp in my Pokemon Red and it beats Chanseys in Unknown Dungeon pretty bad.

*dodges tomatoes*

[Darth CookieMonster]

I just beat the Elite four, now working in Kanto, trying to get Ericas badge

[ChobiChibi]

After a little hiatus, I finally showed Clair who's boss :3 In the end, it was my Charizard that took down the Kingdra... She ran outta hydropumps XD Hyperbeam as a last resort was no good.

I was training my Jirachi for funsies earlier. Managed to do like 10hp damage to Raikou when I ran into him, which was immense...

My banner is not up to date. I have Charizard now... And I'm going through the Dragon's Den.

[Link]

In Heart Gold: Beat Red, got up to Kyogre, caught it, got the kanto and sinnoh starters from Stephen Stone.

In soul silver: Got up to Lt. surge with my team of feraligatr, lugia, sudowoodo, red gyarados, and like two others (i forget who, lol).

[Darth CookieMonster]

HeartGold: cerulean City, bout to catch Suicune Hey ChobiChibi, think if i gave you my info, u can make me one of those banners?

[Starry Might]

Hm? I have a level 79 (or something, I forgot) Magikarp in my Pokemon Red and it beats Chanseys in Unknown Dungeon pretty bad.

*dodges tomatoes*

LOL, seriously?

Actually, last night, I was in the Viridian Forest...and well, I think that Bug Catcher Stacey and his high-level Metapods rival the Level 65 Magikarp guy for various reasons, which also include his confusing me for a Venonat.

Anyhow, first of all, thanks for the advice, DivineAll! I got Snorlax!

Also, I beat the Pewter Gym (mostly easy - Brock's Omastar proved to be harder to take down than I thought, mainly due to Full Restores on his end ), and I beat Blake (my rival) at Mt. Moon.

Oh, and I just realized that I forgot to mention last time that before I did the Cerulean Gym, I took care of the Power Plant problem and made the last Team Rocket guy "bye-bye a go-go".

Anyway, I'm currently heading to Pallet Town right now, but actually, the first thing I'm gonna do when I play later today is fly to Celadon to get Falkner's phone number.

[Darth CookieMonster]

Im REALLY confused right now. Apparently, once i walk into the Cerulean Gym, im suppossed to see a Rocket Grunt... where is he. I havent seen him. At all.

[Poryhedron]

Im REALLY confused right now. Apparently, once i walk into the Cerulean Gym, im suppossed to see a Rocket Grunt... where is he. I havent seen him. At all.

Have you already visited the Power Plant? You have to before he shows up.

[Darth CookieMonster]

yeah i did, and the generator is back online. and misty isnt at the cape, and i never ran intoa grunt.

[ChobiChibi]

Darthy, PM me what you want, including trainer sprite (I'll use the boy sprite by default otherwise) and I'll get on it :3

I beat the Kimono Girls. Took two attempts, since the Jolteon just NEVER missed with Thunderbolt :/ And my only pokemon with any ground type move was Poliwhirl... Went into Vapoureon with just Meganium, who Aurora Beamed my ass :/ But then second time I beat them like a boss.

I went straight to Whirl Islands. I forgot it was dark in there... Had to take out me 'Zard and sub it for my HM Slowpoke... And got my Drowzee out in hope I might be able to hypnosis the big bird. Think I left Pikachu behind, for some reason it doesn't know thunderwave... I blame the Pokewalker for that. Anyway, forgetting it was dark is a very bad thing, since I jumped over a ledge and can't get back out LOL. Oops~

Nor did I prepare for catching. I'm such a fool. I hope I've got an escape rope...

Also just leveling up now. Need Pikachu to get to level 45 before I evolve her... Shame really, she's quite slow for a Pikachu O_o Need to get myself a waterstone for Poliwhirl and play a bit more of Platinum in order to get myself a Razor Claw for my Sneasel... All at level 37, with the exceptions of Sneasel and Pikachu that are at 38 :3

[Poryhedron]

yeah i did, and the generator is back online. and misty isnt at the cape, and i never ran intoa grunt.

...um...if the generator's back online, then you've already met the Grunt. There is no way to restore the generator without running into the Grunt, unless you somehow cheat your way into obtaining the Key Item Machine Part without doing it the proper way.

Just to clarify: you did give the Power Plant Manager the Machine Part and he thanked you by giving you a TM?

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Today I battled Red for the first time. I've had the Rock Climb HM for a long time, but after using Bill's Grandpa's Water Stone to evolve my Staryu, it took forever to get my hands on a second Water Stone so my HMer Poliwhirl could learn Rock Climb.

I loved it when Red (Spoiler:) appeared with his cap over his eyes and then lifted the cap's brim. Very cool. Also, I can't believe they had the (Spoiler:) final battle happen under the Hail weather effect. That just completely threw me.

Pikachu went down pretty fast, and (Spoiler:) Red's new Lapras didn't last particularly long, but then Venusaur tore my whole team a new one. Which was fair, as my team was only level 63 and I hadn't done any real optimizing. I wasn't expecting to win this time; I was just exploring. Now, though, I'm really looking forward to my real battle with him.

[Rossymore]

How the hell do you get Blue's number? His sister is being really unhelpful. I know she's got to massage one of your Pokemon seven times, but she won't let me.

Still need to get a Mudkip from Steven now that I know where he is. After that...there's not very much to do. I could go to the Battle Frontier, but my team is really ingame. The Factory isn't being very nice to me either.

Hmm...looks like I'm gonna prepare for October.

[Starry Might]

How the hell do you get Blue's number? His sister is being really unhelpful. I know she's got to massage one of your Pokemon seven times, but she won't let me.

Why not?

Anyways, I got Falkner's phone number on Monday and I beat the Seafoam/Cinnabar Gym.

[Darth CookieMonster]

Ya i gave him it, and I got Charge Beam.. but Misty is NOt at the Cape D:

[Ayeun]

Ya i gave him it, and I got Charge Beam.. but Misty is NOt at the Cape D:

I think your problem here is -

There is a trainer in the town that you have to talk to who tells you that the cape is a good spot for dates. He also mentions that Misty likes to go there sometimes. If you don't talk to him about it, she wont spawn.

Also, if you triggered the Suecune event thingi BEFORE you did the generator, you have to capture it BEFORE you can battle trigger Misty. Since that section is used for two events, you have to do them in order.

[DarkestLight]

How the hell do you get Blue's number? His sister is being really unhelpful. I know she's got to massage one of your Pokemon seven times, but she won't let me.

Still need to get a Mudkip from Steven now that I know where he is. After that...there's not very much to do. I could go to the Battle Frontier, but my team is really ingame. The Factory isn't being very nice to me either.

Hmm...looks like I'm gonna prepare for October.

You use the same Pokemon right? After the 5th time (you only need to do it 5 times) she'll give you the number

#1) You didn't time travel right (turn internal clock ahead?) you wont get her number until you reach the date which you turned time up to again.


As for after Steven...you can go to teh Embedded Tower (on Route 42 , like if yer going to teh SAfari Zone, but you pick the down ladder) to get Kyogre/Groudon.

[Rossymore]

Got Kyogre and she hasn't massaged any of my Pokemon because she just won't. I know you have to use the same Pokemon, but do they have to be at max happiness beforehand? I may have reduced the happiness using Revival Herbs against Red...a lot of them.

Alright, I'll just see if I can increase happiness. To Vermillion City!