Just thought we could use one. Applies to the games, manga, anime, whatever.>Reading Electric Tale of Pikachu>Sabrina is a yamato nadeshiko>One who is at war with a gigantic fucking Haunter with an army of ghosts at his disposal
>Reading Pokemon Special>"Whitney, Gym Leader of Cherrygrove City"
>Watch Pokemon anime before getting GB games>Get Blue and a GBC for a present>About to face Sabrina>Might as well get a Haunter to take on Sabrina>my face when Haunter is OHKO'd and the anime lied to me that ghost type attacks are effective against Psychic.
>>1605This is the same anime that said Pikachu is weak to water attacks.
>possibility of Pokemon board on 4chan>also the current state of /v/>also current state of 4chan in general
>>1613Aside of /v/, it seems fairly normal to me.
>>1614try /po/
>>1607they are
>>1617It's just that only two Ghost type attacks existed then: one is weaker than most good moves even when super effective (Lick) and the other (Night Shade) does fixed damage.Also, they meant to make Ghost's immune to Psychic attacks, but made them neutral to them, so the existing ghost types took double damage from them because they were all also Poison types.
>>1608Well, when you're ten years old and Pokemon was brand new back then... yeah. I mad.
>Pokemon Special in generalThis shit is amazing.
>>1607Haunter was part poison, that's why you got raped.
>Age 11>First playthrough of Blue>"Level up my entire team? Fuck dat I'm just gonna level up my Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard">Breeze through most battles with this strategy>Breeze through the Elite Four>Charizard is running out of PP>Rest of team is level 20 at most>Get ass beaten by Gary>I did not think that out well at all
>>1755Though ironically, if you just used a couple of ethers between Lance and your rival it really is easier than having a full, balanced party.
>Stealth Rock
>>1755I think that was the strategy of the kid that had the copy of LeafGreen I got used from Gamestop a few years ago, though he used Blastoise.
>>1755That was totally my strategy the first time I ever played Pokemon. I got my ass handed to me by Loreli until I realized OH YEAH HEAL ITEMS, RIGHT? Because I had honestly never used them before with my Charizard outleveling everybody by like, 20.My Gyarados is practically like that in Soul Silver, but that's only because I put him on my pokewalker every morning and I don't get much of a chance to play the game otherwise.
>>1935I did the exact opposite in Yellow, the first game I ever owned. I ended up overleveling all my other Pokemon and totally forgetting about Pikachu.When I realized they were all in the thirties and he was still level eighteen, I lost my shit and started apologizing to him profusely.
>>1755EVERY kid does that the first time they play Pokemon.>Realizing that I need a Dusk Stone to evolve my Murkrow.
> Catch a ditto early on in the game>BABEH TIEM
>train outside of Ecruteak>meet only Meowths and Raticates and the occasional Tauros>switch to train Flaaffy>MEET ONLY MAGNEMITES>my face
>Still naming the first bug with a cocoon form "Penis">Still hilarious
>>1989It will never stop being funny.>get whooper from girlfriend>she named it pooper>it knows mud shot and mud bomb
>>1989>>1998>Always name rivals "Dicks", "Faggot", or "Yancy."
>Trying to level up for Red>Nowhere to grind>Elite Four are too strong for me>I am so weak
>>1988Well, that's what Static does.
>>2029There's always a place to grind. The question is, how long do you want to spend doing it? ;)
>>2029Have you got the numbers of the gym leaders yet? Because the rematches with them are good warm up for Red.
>Swarm on Route 13>Get 5 Lucky Eggs.>4 of which I got after 11:00 PM
>>2454>Swarm on route 3>I HAVE NO WAY TO GET TO ROUTE 3
>>2454You lucky son of a bitch.
>>2029Seriously, just grind gym leaders over and over again in Saffron City.Also>Leveling up Larvitar>Realize it doesn't evolve into Tyrannitar until level 55.>so much grinding just to get the Johto Pokedex done.
>playing FireRed, evolve Tyranitar>realize Larvitar learns Hyper Beam at lvl 57>Tyranitar doesn't learn it until lvl 75>realize Larivitar learns it at 50 in GenIV>still no money for a DS
>ask for computer game of humans dressed as pokemon>receive game>its all little children oh god what the hell>wtf japan
>>2568What did you expect? It's not like the sprites really allow for incredibly tall, curvy women....And it's not like the game expects you to fuck them.
>>2569It just caught me off guard I guess. I was expecting maybe trainer-fusions, like the adult sprites edited to look like Pokemon. It's all good though.
>playing emerald>decide to take sidetrip and fill pokedex before e4>oh hey i haven't caught a zangoose or meditite yet>scour the entire fucking entirety of Hoenn>no zangoose or meditite>realize I don't have a Lunatone for that matter>ffff where do I find these fuckers>Not available in emerald>trade some over from sapphire save>zangoose is only in ruby>i don't have ruby
Think about it.
>>2460>Manage to get thereSeriously, Kanto is one big push over.
>>2608Seriously, Kanto only has like one "broken bridge" to fix and that's the Snorlax. You can head straight from Vermillion to the Power Plant, then Cerulean Cape, the Power Plant again, Lavender Town, battle the Snorlax blocking Diglett's Cave and boom: the whole region is open without even a single gym leader battle.>>2578Funny, I just saw that movie like two weeks ago.>>2475>lucky son of a bitchI certainly am one now
>>2609Yeah, I just forgot that I needed to use the Pokeflute station.
>trade baby Chikorita with friend for baby Larvitar in Ecruteak>fuck getting him caught up is gonna take forever >battle a trainer, sending in Larvitar then switching him out>Level 10>go to grind in Burned Tower>forget about rival battle>level 10 Larvitar takes out half of rival's level 20+ team with no effort>realize I am the owner of a god>no reaction image could capture my joy
>>2568>MoemonHELL YEAH MOEMONI fucking love that game.
>>2648That's what my level 8 Magnemite felt like, I got him caught up to the rest of my level 25+ team in no time because nothing could kill him.
>>2650>Moemon>Entire team of digletts
>>2650ENTIRE TEAM IS BABIES
>>2650>playing through Moemon Fire Red >Nuzlocke mode >naming them all after friends >who watch over my shoulder and shout commentary while I play.>Butterfree named Mike dies.>It's okay, no one liked Mike anyway.
>>2679>Realize I can never have Tauros, Sandslash, or Magmar.
>Trying to get Lt. Surge's, Pryce's, and Jasmine's numbers>Keep missing them>Keep missing out on rematches>In general every time based event
>lost my starter in NuzlockeI DON'T DESERVE TO BE A POKEMON TRAINER ANY MORE!
>>2734WAIT. IT MIGHT NOT BE AS BAD AS YOU THINK.Which starter did you take?
>start new game, grinding a Mankey for first gym>tackle tackle tackle peck tackle tackle peck peck>down to 10 HP with less than half EXP bar filled>switch to train starter>tail whip growl leer growl leer tail whip leer>up 3 levels with only 5 HP lost>switch back to Mankey>peck critical hit Mankey fainted
>>2686>Can't get Erika's number>Work always schedules me during the two hours on Sunday...>Blue's number is too damn tedious to get.
>>2831You only have to do it five times!It's just the hour between 3 and 4.
>>2739It was my bayleef
>>2831change the calender on your DS
>>2931Do they have to be in a row?
>Congratlations! Sun Tzu evolved into GYARADOS!
>not EV training>not grinding>still winning and not giving a damn
>>2986EV training is only really necessary if you're battling other people who EV train. Or if the Pokemon you're using is just an absolute piece of shit otherwise.
Watching a friend do the Arceus event in SoulSilver.
>>3042And now you know where Eggs come from.
>Apply Moemon patch to FireRed rom>Download ShinyGold patch>Copy FireRed rom, apply ShinyGold to it>End up with Moemon ShinyGold rom
>>3050I would do a Nuzlocke run of that. In a heartbeat.
>>3050But...are there Gold/Silver Moemon sprites?Whaaat?
>>3112Only the ones that appear in FR/LG, so not the starters but the ones like Marill or Larvitar or Sentret and their evolutions, yeah.>>3103I'd give you download links but Google is being an asshole to me today :C
>Reading the archived /v/ thread about a guy opening up his Fossil card pack>Starts out innocently enough>Shows a holographic Kabuto card, says first person to post in doubles will tell him what to do with it>"poop on it :D">He does
>>3142That thread was fucking amazing, I remember the week before the same OP opened a Fossil pack and nobody could roll a double.
>>3142I hated that so much. And the worst part is he probably sold the card on eBay without telling the buyer what he did.
>>3148>Seller's description: i pooped on it because some guys on the internet told me to.
>camchat with friend from class I skipped today>research paper due tomorrow instead of monday>told him I was gonna "grind that fucker like a shiny level 1 Magikarp">his reaction
>Enter Bug-catching contest with my Pidgeotto>Get six new pokédex entries>Pidgeotto gains two levels>Catches a lv 14 Scyther with Technician>Win the contest, gets a Sunstone>Bug catcher in 2'nd place acts all buthurt
>find Light Ball on Pokewalker>HOLY SHIT FUCK>accidentally too far to the left
>Nuzlocke mode>attempting to level up Magikarp using switch out>Wild DIGLETT appeared!>DIGLETT'S ARENA TRAP prevents switching!
>>3313run fgt
>Grinding my 20-something party>Gets a random encounter>"Huh, the music sounds different why doe...">Wild RAIKOU appears!
>>3376>ARENA TRAP
>>3386>Did for some stupid reason not use ultra balls the first thing I did.Oh well, shit would probably get boring if I could just steamroll everything with a legendary just like that.
>DIGLETT used DIG!>DIGLETT dug a hole!>Foe VOLTORB used SLEFDESTRUCT!>My face.
>>3394You should grab some Fast or Quick Balls.
>>3394That's cool. Now that you've seen it you can track it with the Pokedex.
>use fury attack>hit 2 times>foe uses fury attack>hits 5 times>use fury attack>miss>foe uses fury attack >critical hit! critical hit! hit five times>use fury attack>hit two times>foe uses fury attack >critical hit! hit 4 times>faint
>>3523The computer is disgustingly in favour of itself.
>>3573It just successfully used protect 3 times in a row...
>Waiting until the semester's over to get back into SoulSilver.>WAITING.
>>3573Especially when both you and your foe are confused, and you keep hurting yourself while your foe keeps attacking. Same thing with paralysis.
>Breeding starters, giving them dumb pun names>Putting them on the global trade for crap like Rattata
>Look up my Snorelax's nature>Naughty
>YELLOW FOREST>SURFING PIKACHU>F*&@ING FINALLY
>Can't find my Pokewalker
>>4709ME EITHER ;A;I HAVEN'T EVEN USED IT YET
>lost Pokewalker at work>oh god oh god nooooo>search for HOURS>---! IT WAS RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG
>Gengar vs. Chansey>can barely dent it>Foe CHANSEY used METRONOME!>METRONOME turned into EXPLOSION!>It doesn't affect Gengar...
>>4735Convenient!
>>Grinding
>Trying to find a Scyther at the bug catching contest>Swimming in Pinsirs
>>My Typhlosion is hardly doing any damage with its Flame Wheel move>>Gosh, he hasn't learned any new worthwile moves in a long while now. I wonder when it'll learn a new fire-type move to replace Flame Wheel.>>Check Serebii and find out it should've learned Lava Plume at lvl 35 when it was still a Quilava>>Think back a bit and remember this was a level it gained while walking with the Pokéwalker>>Put two and two together and realize that Pokemon don't learn new moves when levelling up after Pokéwalker strolls
>Starting a new game for the first time in every generation.
> Defeat the Pokemon League for the first time
>>Fight the Elite 4>>Breeze through Will and Koga easily>>Get to Bruno >>MASSACREDTHIS IS TWICE THIS HAS HAPPENED GDI I HATE YOU BRUNO
>>5044You mean you don't have one psychic or flying type move? At all?
>>5045I had a Farfetch'd. Currently grinding a Winner's Path Bronzor to replace him.
>Go to store to buy HeartGold expecting to pay 3000 pesos (65.53 dollars) for it>Discover that both HeartGold and SoulSilver sell for only 1995 pesos (43.57 dollars) each>Buys 'em both
>Grindan for Elite 4 on Victory Road>Rest of my team(with moves super effective on ground/rock)>Golbats everywhere>swap to Magneton>see only Donphan>my face
>Read Pokemon Special>GRAVELER AND ONYX ASPLODE INTO PIECES>Wut.Pokemon actually die in the manga?
>>5850They do, but this isn't one of those occasions. You see those Pokemon later and they're fine.
>>5850 Giovanni's Cloyster chops some Magmar up, and Blue's Charmeleon slices an Arbok right down the middle.
>>5863I vaguely remember the Arbok surviving, though...?
lolwut
>>5864Someone told me the comicverse rules say arbok regenerates anything cut off below the head.
>>5866Yeah, they do, as shown in the page here. The Arbok is shown safe and sound later on.Special has a knack for taking Pokédex entries too seriously.
>>5865http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mootSecond adjective definition.
>>5866>>5867Actually, that was stated to be a special power Koga's Arbok had because of the pattern on its hood and Arbok with different patterns had different powers... and Agatha could somehow change the pattern... and the powers stopped working if you covered the pattern of the hood. Yeah, that was a weird chapter, and I probably would have thought it was stupid if it didn't have that awesome thing Koga did (you'll know it when you read it).Either way, it was pretty clearly a retcon as part of the how the violence in the manga being toned down to be more in line with other parts of the franchise (in that same chapter Arbok was bisected there were also those Pokemon zombies with the rotting flesh).
>>5865You do know moot is a real word, right?
>>5869Oh, okay. I thought Agatha's Arbok could do it to, but then again it could change the patterns...But, yeah, seemed like a retcon to me when I realized that Arbok only showed up again during the Yellow arc.It still resulted in some awesome trickery from Koga though, which is nice.
>See thislolwut.
>>5881>>5881Could they have picked a better spot to hyphenate Jiglypuff? No, I think not.
>>5881Oh god. It's like breast enhancements you can use to attack people.......Now I'm wondering what would happen if I googled "Attack tits".
>>5881 Well you see any pockets on that girl?Where else is she gonna keep them and pad her bruised ego at the same time?
>>5889You get a bunch of links to terrible-sounding porno, if you imagesearch it with safesearch on, you get a Robot Unicorn Attack comic, if you do it with safesearch off, you get a few /d/ doujins and a lot of porn.You're welcome.
>>5891You're too late, I saw the IMDB link to a two hour long porno with a very disturbingly-named cast list.
>My original Gold version is still working properly, despite having almost twice as much time played as the other two.>Silver and Crystal versions have been dead for years
>>5910 I feel you. I bought the original Gold secondhand a few years back and the memory battery was completely fried.
> Raise team without focusing on natures> DECIMATE friend who EV and IV trains pokemon with one pokemon> Defeat anyone else on campus with my team>Who's NEXT?
lolwut.
>>Encounter Raikou>>Have no clue how he got paralyzed>> Use an Ultra Ball with no expectation it will work>> Bump Bump Bump Click>> FUCK YEAH!
>>5940Well now I'm just curious. What's your team? What has his team?
>play pokemon Red when I was young>catch magnemite>oh it looks like a ball.>even though it's a magnet>get magneton>AWESOME EXTRABALL>realize magneton is a magnet>call my Electrode extraball instead>continue to do this up to this day>realize extraball is slang term for multiple sexual intercourse in one sitting just today
>Turn on Boomerang>IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD WE LIVE IN! POKEMON JOHTO!
>>6026And it's the episode where Charizard gets left behind for training.
>>6026That's still less recent than Justice League Unlimited or The Batman.
>>6028 I remember being pissed that he never evolved the Cyndaquil he replaced it with.
>>6031Knowing how market-based the anime is, it's because Japanese kids wouldn't buy Quilava merchandiseWhat the fuck, Japanese kids?
>Trying to find a Thick Bone on a Marowak/Cubone in Fire Red so I can Thief it away with my Fearow.I swear to God, it must just not exist. I've tried over 40 different Marowak/Cubones, and I'm coming up with NOTHING.
>New starters
>>6036Try CompoundEyes!
>>6036Only 5% have them, so even after 40 tries the chance of you finding one is only about 87%.
>>6050I don't think that's how statistics work. It doesn't accumulate, it's always a five percent chance. It's not like there's a set amount of Cubone, Marowak, and Thick Clubs.
>>6039I WAS!It would really help if there was a pokemon with Frisk available in Fire Red. However, after I gave up, I ran into a Machoke who was holding a focus band so I stole the shit out of that and gave it to my Cloyster (nicknamed Monologue, har har)
>>6051I know that, when I said that I meant his chances of all his tries put together getting one.I calculated it based on what his chances of failing to have something that has a .05 chance of happening (.95) 40 times in a row (.95^40), then found the difference between 1 and that number to find his chance of succeeding at least once.So his chance of find at least one trying 40 times finding one is 1-.95^40 which equals about .87
>Nuzlocke mode>Starter dies
HAUNTER IS SO FUCKING WEAK GODDAMNIT
>>6695Get the fuck out.
>Find a Pokemon Diamond cartridge in my closet.>It's for GBC.>Start it up.>It's telefang.
>Using CB scizor for the first time
Well, he HAS a point there.Haunter gets oneshotted easily.
>Finally reaching Lavender Town after trudging through the Rock TunnelEVERY FUCKING TIME. I hate the Rock Tunnel so fucking much.
>Clair.>You bitch.
>Sand Attack spam>Enemies using Whirlwind or Roar before the final blowGrinding is a bitch.
>Facing off with Ho-oh in HeartGold. He's Lv 45, I've got 35-37.> After about half an hour, down to ONE Pokemon: it's Victreebel.> Sleep Powder, Ultra Ball, three wiggles, done.I may actually have to grind for once.
I have Soulsilver.>Face Ho-Oh>Get it down to a red hp bar>Put it to sleep>Throw Hyperball, din´t work>Woke up>One-shotted my haunter>Rest of the team goes tooPokemon are ungrateful shits.
>>Manage to get pretty far in the Battle Hall with my Choice Specs Lapras>>Me: "Let's do a ghost type this time. Haven't beaten one of those in a while.">>Opponent sends out Shedinja>>Realize I have nothing that's super effective against it
>>7497"Any Pokemon can compete" my ass. That happened to me, too, with my Gyarados. From then on he always had Stone Edge.
>HOLY CRAP JUST CAUGHT A SHINY SUICUNE
>>7503That's neat. Not a big fan of Shiny Suicune, though, but good for you.
>My Kangaskahn knows surf.
>>7503Whoa. Congrats!
>>7505...wait wat.
>>7509Kangaskahn can learn surf. I found this out yesterday.
>hey, this Trainer House thing looks pretty fun! I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard!>lose instantly
>decide to buy a wifi adaptor so I can get yellow forest> Notice cheap one called "wifi max", wich apparently also works for psp and wii>"FUCKING SOLD! What could POSSIBLY go wrong??">Turns out the damn thing is a piece of shit>wasted £17 AND missed out on a fucking surfing pikachu>Couldn't return it either>NOTHING BUT HATE
>>7516Don't worry. The Yellow Forest event ended May 5th. You couldn't get it now even if your WIFI worked.
>>7516You can still get Yellow Forest through a cheating device like an action Replay though, I mean if you want to waste another thirty dollars or so getting a Flying Pikachu I mean.
>Surfin' around on a Garchomp
>>FINALLY get a "!!!" Encounter in Yellow Forest.>>Land a Critical Hit>>Take a Hit>>Land a Critical Hit
>Officer Jenny nailing criminals with Bowling Balls> PULLS A DIRTY HARRY BLUFFOH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE OF POKEMON EVER!http://www.chia-anime.com/pokemon-diamond-and-pearl/watch-pokemon-diamond-pearl-580-stealing-the-conversation.html
>>7853I can't watch this.Kid, they've been chasing you down for over ten years now. How do you STILL not know that's Team Rocket in disguise?
>>7866The same reason they never noticed it was Team Rocket in the beginning, despite the disguises being paper thin?
>>7868Because then they might have to hire plot writers?
>>7853I genuinely liked this episode until Team Rocket said they liked being stupid or whatever.I mean really, god.
>My face when I have to beat the Elite 4 to fucking get to Kanto.Seriously, why can't I just bum around Kanto for a while, and THEN beat the Elite Four?
>>7866Because Ash clearly has some sort of mental disability.
>Trying to complete Johto Pokedex>GTS trading for evolving Pokemon>Breeding Eevees like crazy>Trade away one for a Poliwhirl>no King's Rock
Because kanto´s common trainers are on E4 niveau.
>Empty my backpack after working like a dog for about six days straight.>Finally pull out my DSi XL>Trade Pokemon over to hacked Diamond, start grinding.>Mom comes downstairs.>Put down DSi, look right>Look left.>DSi is gone.>One week later, still cannot find DSi XL>Made sure to check under cat this time.>You can not possibly fathom how pissed I am right now.>Seriously, I'm having a stroke here.
>decide to attempt competitive battling>spend about an hour building a decent team>go on shoddy>realize i know nothing about countering other people's strategies>LOSE EVERY BATTLE
>Finally beat red>No items used>Get Kanto starter from OakFuck yes
>>7498>Play Battle hall with my Pidgeot>Play only against bug-types>WinIT TAKES FOREVEREEEEER
>>7989Don't forget you can get a Hoenn starter from Sylph co, and one of the Hoenn legendaries from Mr Pokemon.
Just beat Lance wooooo!On a related note, I finally realised that status enhancing moves are your friends.
>>7994Well, technically Mr. Pokemon only gives you the ability to catch the Hoenn legendaries yourself.
>Beat Red>Beat 2nd Elite 4>Beat all the Gym leaders in rematches in a gauntlet stile event>Catch legendaries and get new starters>Realize I have nothing to do
>Doing Battle frontier>Singles in the Battle Hall>Well I only need one more for 10 wins, and I still haven't done rank 1 ghost, my water attacks can hit ghost>Select ghost>My attacks are: Surf, Waterfall, Slash and Ice fang>FUCKING SHEDNINJAGOD DAMNIT
>>8017Is Ice not super effective on Bug?
>>8018It is but Shedninja is also part ghost, so Ice isn't super-effective to him. Fire, Rock, Dark, Flying and Ghost are good vs. him.
>>8018>>8019What? No. What?Ice is totally neutral to both Bug and Ghost.
>>8018you are thinking of grass
Why can Shedinja learn rest by TM? Isn't that just taunting the poor ghostbug?
>>8042So you can start up a double battle, have your Mew transform into your own Shedinja, and then really start having some fun.
>>8042I was going to say it can just use Rest to prevent secondary status effects, but it can't even do that, can it? Because it's always at full HP. And it learns Sleep Talk, too.Also:>Fight Red>Use Shedinja
>Gen 5
>>8046>Mew transforming into a Shedinja>Transform does not change HP>Shedinja with 100 base HPAh, well one actual attack will still probably kill the thing, but now it can at least survive entry hazards, weather, and damaging status effects.
>>8093>All of this is news to me
I am still kicking myself for trading away my red Gyarados in a moment of impulsivity so I could get my Graveler to evolve through the GTS trick.
>Confronting Lugia>50 Ultras, 25 Greats, 10 Poke, 25 Fast>Start with Thunder Wave, then Flash until its attacks miss, whittle it down, then False Swipe>Every attack Lugia makes is a critical, and it still lands very damn often>Used up all my balls at least twiceWhat the fuck am I doing wrong.
>>8154>50 ultrasWell there's your problem.I always bring at least 80 ultraballs to a legendary fight, and it usually takes 60-75 to get them.
>>8154>>8156Also, sleep>paralysis. IT makes it much easier to catch something when it's sleeping.
>>8156>>8157My system still worked on the fourth retry, so suck it.
>>8154>no dusk ballsWell THERE'S your problem.
>>8154 Sleep > Freeze > ParalysisJust so you know.
>>8194When it comes to catch rate, sleep is 1/3 better than everything else (which are 1/2 better than no status effect), but all other status effects are the same.
> accidentally baton passing without using any stat raising moves because i wasn't paying attention
>>8217Even worse, passing a ton of stats to a Pokemon holding a Choice item. Then your opponent switches in a mon immune to the move they were using.
>oh FUCK, suddenly remember at 11:50pm about the shitton of steps racked up in Yellow Forest>!>battle>!>battle>!!>battle>!>battle...>!!!>get it down to a single bar and throw a Pokeball>wild Pikachu escapes and flees>midnight
>Suggest a Stealth Rock Clause on a shoddy server.>Permabanned from that server.>Fuck Stealth Rock.
>>8631They permabanned you just for making a suggestion?
>>8631 >Fuck Stealth RockSeconding this statement like never before.They're probably afraid of an Ice-type coming in and wrecking their dragons' shit.
>realise all my Pokemon on my team are traded from Plat and raised from they were eggs>not using any pokemon I caught in the game
>>8670Same here.Except for Typhlosion... I love heeem~<3
>>8637Yeah.>Eighth time being six-oh'd because of stealth Rock"You know, there should really be a clause for stealth rock...""lol you cant ban a mov. use a rapid spinner nube.""What are you talking about? There are moves that are banned.""O rly? Name one.""I'll name you four: Sheer Cold, Fissure, Guillotine and Horn Drill.">You have been kicked and banned for the following reasons:>-tourneyfag nigger.>-Being a faggot.Suffice to say, I go to Pokemon-Online now.
>>8680That's why I avoid the main chat at all costs, no matter what server I'm on.Also Minimize and Double Team are banned.
>>8683I knew Double Team was banned, but I forgot about Minimize.Which brings me to two questions:1. Should there be a clause on Stealth Rock?2. Bones, where do you go? I'd like to have a stupid match against you some day.
>>8688 Yes, there should. Eliminating four popular types completely from the scene just because of one stupidly strong move is some serious bullshit.
>>8680Wow, racist AND homophobic...That server was run by some real champs...
>>8688I play on Smogon U in the wee hours of the day, when it's not packed to capacity.When there ARE 499 people hanging out there, I take my game to Team Uber instead, though the few number of players can get boring fast.
Also Stealth Rock isn't a big deal for me, because I don't like many of the Pokemon of the afflicted types anyway.Clefable doesn't give two shits about ANY entry hazard, for that matter.
>>8711I wouldn't find Stealth Rock a problem myself, if it weren't for the fact that I keep getting six-oh'd by the same exact reason.>Tyranitar used Stealth Rock!>Tyranitar has fainted!>Smeargle Used Spore!>Smeargle used Substitute!>Smeargle used Ingrain!>Smeargle used Whirlwind!>Smeargle used Whirlwind!>Smeargle used Whirlwind!Empties whirlwind, promptly Baton Passes to a Brightpowder'd Cacturn>Fyrus has fainted!>Cacturne used Focus Punch!>Trilobite has Fainted!>Emptiness has fainted!>Spiral has fainted!>Van Gogh has fainted!>Teridax has fainted!
>>8718Oh man, I once got into a battle where a guy Cosmic Powered up some Pokemon(maybe a Smeargle, I dunno, it was ages ago), passed it onto a Skarmory, who then set up every entry hazard, and started Whirlwinding. Finally KO'd Skarmory. Next up? Roaring Suicune. His team literally revolved around entry hazards. Least fun battle ever.
>>8721Skarmory can't set up Toxic Spikes, though.Now, Forretress has access to all three entry hazards. Plus Rapid Spin to blow away opponents' hazards, and even Gravity to make Flying and Levitating Pokemon prone to Spikes and Toxic Spikes. But he lacks instant recovery and doesn't have much in the way of Special Defense.
>>8723Really? Maybe Smeargle set up the Toxic Spikes, then, cause I was definitely getting poisoned.
>WiFi Adapter is malfunctioning>Totally discontinued so I can't get a new one>"That's fine, I'll just make a manual connection.">Things seem to be working out okay.>ROUTER BRAND IS COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE WITH NINTENDO WFC MOTHERFUCKNo more online for me for...ever. Hooray.
>capping reaction images from recent anime episodes>misnaming them
>>8733WELCOME TO MY WORLD MOTHERFUCKER!
>>8733eBay?
>>8733Email me your address. I have an old you can have.
>>8733Oh man, I'm sorry, I didn't realize it'd be so flimsy when I sent it to you.
>>8765Don't worry about it. I'm not about to complain about a free product....I mean, I already did, but...>>8757Thanks very much, bro. It really means a lot that you'd offer me this.
>>8766It's nothing man. I know how much those things piss people off.
>>8718See, that's why I stopped online battling during the NetBattle days.
>Oh, that's right, one of the Gamefreak characters gives me something if I get all the Kanto badges, let's see what useless item he'll give me.>GB PLAYER>MY FUCKING FACE
>>Tate and Liza slaughtering my team>>Switch in Gardevoir>>It traces Levitate>>Calm Mind and Double Team the fuck up>>She slaughters 3/4 of their Pokemon by herself
>>Cave at the bottom of the sea>>There are Zubats in it
>Pokémon Online>Realize my teams are entirely void of third or fourth gen.
>realizing after years that ice is not super effective to waterGAMEFREEEEEEAK
>>9773If Water-types are vulnerable to low temperatures, how the hell could they live underwater? There are quite a few types of fish which have antifreeze in their blood.
>>9775Granted, but Hail is way overpowered. Ground, Steel, and Rock resist Hail, but only Ice resists Hail? Bullshit! Water, Fire, and maybe Steel and/or Rock should resist Hail as well!
>>9789But then Ice has NOTHING going for it. The ONLY type it resists is itself. It is literally worse off than Normal defensively, and Hail's all it has that makes it worth having on the battlefield.
>talking to co-worker about the leafs>guy is trying to convince me Toronto's a playoff team now>The trend says, after spending so much time as the magikarp, it's our turn to be the gyarados>my facethey're still going to be a lottery team. sens 4 lyfe
>finally trading out my main man Meowth for an Ampharos>...s-sob.
>>10224If it breaks your heart that bad, don't do it.
>>10228I love Amphy and I needed an Electric type.Stillsad.;3;
>>10229Couldn't you teach Meowth thunderbolt?
>>10231M-Meowth j-just is-isn't strong e-enough as a M-Meowth.;A;
>>10232Whatever happened to the GRINDGRINDGRINDGRINDGRIND Jazz I would argue with in LPs?
>>10239>Jazz>Meowth>GRINDGRINDGRINDThat's an odd coincidence...
>>10232So, he's your Meowth, you just can't abandon him just because he's weaker than an Ampharos. He's stuck with you up to this point, always there ready to help and support you, and you're just gonna through him away like he was nothing. I'm ashamed of you.
>>10239;3;She wanted to have fun.... grinding wasn't fun. ;A;>>10254I actually caught that Ampharos before I traded over my Meowth......butstill.bawwwwwwwwwww
>So much pokemon and types I want and only 6 slots
>life stabilizes>know where I am going to be for a solid year...o-oh... I... I guess that means I can restart my LP... if you guys will take me back, I mean...
>>10416How about a "hell yes!"
>>10416>Nurse starting her LP>Immediately look for the best reaction image I can find.>Oh wait. I'm getting my compy checked out over a loose fan.>I moved everything out>Literally no reaction image for what I am feeling.In other words: Hooray!
>>10416
>>10416Yaaaay~
>>10416I don't know, Nurse. You've hurt me so much in the past. I just don't know if I can trust you again.
>>10516;A; MINDWIPE, BABY, I CAN CHANGE! You know I never meant it, dollface! It woulda never happened if you would have just made me my goddamn sandwich!
>>10416Of course! You do really good LPs.
>>10416SHIMON!!Don't you DARE give up! Reach down, deep inside yourself, and find the burning spirit you need to go onwards!Find your drill, Nurse! And then watch this metaphor collapse while you continue the LP!
>set foot in Vermillion City>holy fuck, I can Fly back to Johto from here!>didn't go inside the Pokemon Center first
>>10647>oh wait, you just have to stop at Indigo Plateau between regions
>>10650Yeah, I don't see why they don't just let you fly to anywhere from anywhere. The slight inconvenience isn't going to keep the Magnet Train from being useless because now you have like two minutes of cutscene whenever you use it.
>>10650You mean they didn't fix that?
>Voltorb Flip over here tooThis will probably be the last time I go to Celadon City.
>my face when I keep seeing Pokemon I want and then find out they were only available via an event that I've missed
>Fifth time in two days the save file on my Platinum ROM has suddenly disappeared for no reason.Why? Why does this keep happening? I'm not doing anything to it, it'll suddenly just bitch about the sound, shut off, and then sometimes it just doesn't come back.
>Just noticed the joke within the names of the Gen I legendary birds.>Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres.
>>10823>Learned this from Nintendo Power>13 years ago
>>10826That's why I went with Skelepoke. No living Slowpoke was sufficient to express my slowness.
>go to the pokemon board on 4chan>click on the "Looker = Tenth Doctor" thread>So....Beautiful. Tears of pure joy fall from my eyes.
>>Foe Golbat used Bite>>Dynamo flinched!>>Foe Golbat used Bite>>Dynamo flinched>>Foe Golbat used Bite>>Dynamo flinched!>>Foe Golbat used Bite>>Dynamo used Thunder>>Dynamo's attack missed!>>Foe Golbat used Bite>>Dynamo flinched!>>repeat that last part a couple more times (I think it hurt itself in confusion a few times somewhere in there too)>>Dynamo used Thunder>>finally fucking kill the thing
I don't have any special stories, i just wanted to post this pic.
Then again;>Trying to train Wobuffet>Battle Hiker>Hiker does nothing except having his Onyx use curse and rock polish
>Ash vs. Paul finale.
>finally got HeartGold
>Battle Frontier>One of the most tedious things I've ever done in any video game>Those fucking prizes thoughThe trainer house DOES allow me to get some easy BP, but ever since I lost my Pokewalker, I can only reel in 3 a day. Still, 3 in 10 minutes is better than going through an hour for just 2.
>Seeing some of the more risque fanart for the female main characters >Remembering they're all supposed to be 10
>>11888The Battle Frontier would be so much more pleasant if there was some kind of checkpoint system, and the computer wasn't actively cheating on the tail end of long streaks.
>>11897I'd just be happy if they actually gave you a fair amount of BP for going through any of the challenges, or if the stuff you had to buy wasn't so damn expensive. It's like going through the Labors of Hercules and getting a $5 coupon to Friday's as a reward.Definitely agree on the checkpoints and pretty obvious cheating though. Hopefully Black and White's Battle Subway or whatever they call it will be better.
>>11404>ThunderEnjoy 50% accuracyit says 70% but its really 50% but computers have 90%
>>11852AW YEAH.
>>trying to find Latias (in Gen III)
>>11946>Got Latias almost instantly after Elite Four>Wasn't looking for it nor cared about it.
>>find first shiny ever, during pursuit of aforementioned Latias>>It's a Zigzagoon
>>Found a shiny Oddish after 3 hours of gameplay.
>Brother has gotten almost 10 shinies, not including his Red Gyarados, event, or traded pokemon, without cheating.>I've only gotten one.>But it's a Machoke, now Machamp, and it looks like the Hulk.
>Wild GROWLITHE's INTIMIDATE cuts TYRANITAR's attack!
>>12025>Wild SHINX's INTIMIDATE cuts DIALGA's attack!
>>12026>Wild Snubbull's INTIMIDATE cut Darkrai's Attack!
>Battle hall>Using Wobbuffet>Normal Rank 1>Ditto.
>>12031>Battle hall>Trainer sent out SHEDINJA!
>>12037>Battle Hall>Slaking used GIGA IMPACT!
>Pokefarm
>Playing Platinum>First time in the Fight Area>Mandatory 2 on 2 Battle against Volkner and Flint>Accidently kill Rival's Snorlax with Roar of Time
>>12050Speaking of that, when did Surf start affecting your partner in double battles?
>>12063> Generation IV>Same as the previous generation; however, in a double battle, Surf will hit all other Pokémon battling, including the partner.
>Nuzlocke Run>Want a Mareep to use against Falkner.>First Pokemon of the route's a Bellsprout.>Every other encounter's a Mareep.
>>12074Maybe try for an Elekid from the Pokewalker?
>>12075It's a Nuzlocke Run.Pokewalkers are off-limits.
>>12076Anyway, I ended up beating him with my Geodude.So now, I needs pokemoney.ROCK SMASHING TIME~
>>12074That's rather inconvenient...But keep that Bellsprout alive. I have Weepinbell in my Leaf-Green run and holy shit, RIP AND TEAR. It's like my best offensive mon besides Blastoise, and it hasn't even evolved yet.Also, I'm pretty sure depending on how you play it, catching a PokeWalker poke is okay so long as it's the first one you see in the walker. Of course, that rule varies from person to person.
>Bones repeatedly kicking my ass at Pokemon-Online
>Consistently beating Jazz at Pokemon Online
>>12448>>12449>people lose to Gentlemen bones at pokemon online?
>trying to find a damn Feebas
>>12458I know, right? I'm pretty knowledgeable, but somehow I'm a terrible battler.
>Voltorb FlipWell, I'm not getting Substitute any time soon....
>almost losing to a baby team Its like I'm really not a Pokemon trainer
>>12474Oh man, that shit gets addictive, though. I needed like, 3000 coins to get a TM and was thinking "Shit, this is going to take forever to do," then I checked my coins and I had around 9500. I wasn't even playing for coins in the past, I just play because I tried it once and got hooked.
>>12496I-I'm not the only person who enjoys voltorb flip?!
>>12498There's at least three of us.
>>After playing Platinum for only a few hours, find a shiny...
>>12511>>...Bibarel.
>>12512Fuck you, Bibarel is fun. Unless you're just upset because his shiny form isn't very different from his regular one.
>>12498I enjoy, I just think it pays way too little to be the only way to get coins.
>>12514Little of Column A, little of Column B...
>Growing alot of Berries in SS>Buying mulch>Can't buy it in large quantities >The fucking lady has to keep reminding me it's Pokemon dung while yakking about a bunch of other inane shit.>Takes me forever just to get 20 bags.
>>Spiritomb's "base" is an Odd Keystone
>people that pirate B/W won't get XP.Game Freak are master trolls for the time being until there's a patch
>>13079...You only just noticed?
>>13120It's not obvious from its D/P sprite, so I just assumed the nebula face was on a stalk until I fought Cynthia's in Platinum...
>Refuse to use more than 1 of every type in my team>Mondo Mole is Ground/Steel>Mega Croc is Ground/Dark>Kamen Rider is Dark/Steel>CAN ONLY PICK ONE
>Practicing my UU team with Bones earlier today.>Countering Bone's Clefable by spamming Acupressure on my Shuckle.>Attack plus 6 (416)>Defense plus 6 (2180)>Speed plus 4 (136)>Special Attack plus 6 (200)>Special Defense plus 6 (1984)>CLEFABLE USED THUNDERBOLT!>IT'S SUPER FUCKING EFFECTIVE!>SPORE FAINTED!>Rage for like five minutes.>Optimus was sent out!>Thirteen: I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!>Optimus used Explosion!>A critical hit!>Clefable Fainted!>Optimus fainted!>Bones: You...>Thirteen: AHHH HAHAHAHAHA>Bones: YOU MONSTER
>>13182>had same issue in D/P>problem just keeps getting worse.
>>13182Maybe it would be easier if you just about the types they're weak to.Like, it would be okay to have Ludicolo and Swampert, because Swampert is only weak to Grass and Ludicolo is only weak to Poison and Flying.
>>13206>THEY'RE ALL WEAK TO FIGHTING TOO
>>13220This is what happens when I don't think before offering advice.
>>13206this happens to me. I manage to choose different types and yet my team has some glaring weakness to ice or fighting or ground or something.
>Brother fights me in double battle with an intentional troll team of OUs and an Uber>Beat him with Blastoise, Electvire, Blaziken, Gengar, Scizor, and Venusaur
>>13362
>Nuzlocking Gold>Have had a shiny-clause in all my other Nuzlocke runs, but never had to enact it.>Don't really care about shinies in this run because I can't transfer them to my main game anyway>See a shiny Wobbuffet while grinding for Clair>My face