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Pokemon Black and White In-Game Battle Guide

by Some Kid Next Door

[icon]162[/icon]Introduction

This guide is written for people who need help defeating Gym Leaders, Elite Four, and all those other major battles. I may eventually evolve this guide into a general game guide, I think. I am contemplating on that.

For a specific guide on how each Pokemon work in-game, click me.

For those who are curious, STAB means SAME TYPE ATTACK BOOST. That means a move that is the same type as your Pokemon will do 1.5x its amount. I will use this term a lot just for the people who are confused.

The general format will be:

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[icon]162[/icon]The Eight Robot Masters' Weaknesses

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[icon]162[/icon]The Eight Gym Leaders (for real)

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[icon]162[/icon]Off to the League!

Note: You may fight the following four in ANY order you want. This is the order I went, but do whatever you please.

At this point in the game, you should not solely rely on your starter unless you are doing the one Pokemon run or something. So when I write this I won't be speaking for the starters for the most part.

You should have stocked up a good number of Full Restores, Full Heals, and some Revives. You may want to have a few Hyper Potions at hand as well.

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[icon]162[/icon]The Champion

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[icon]162[/icon]The Champion... Again

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[icon]162[/icon]The Final Battle

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[icon]162[/icon]Post-Game: To Foil The Evil Plots of Gamefreak

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[icon]162[/icon]Coming Soon

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As always, please let me know if there are any mistakes or any contributions you would like to make. Thank you.

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Nice one Wraith! Especially Alder!

  wraith89 said:
I guess Lance and those trainers with Level 16 Raticates are not the only cheaters around.

Even Ash and his Badges -----> He does something good, he gets the badge.

All of us, ordinary trainers -----> No need to explain.

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  ScientificPikachu said:
Nice one Wraith! Especially Alder!

Even Ash and his Badges -----> He does something good, he gets the badge.

All of us, ordinary trainers -----> No need to explain.

Ha ha well... the level 16 Raticate and Lance were references to some illegal activities these trainers were having. For example, Rattata evolves at Level 20, not Level 16, but so many trainers in Red/Green/Blue had underleveled Raticates. In GSC you could find wild Level 16 Raticates at Route 38... but this is the same game with Level 7 Furrets in Route 1 and Level 7 Sandslash in Mt. Moon and all. Lance used a Dragonite with Barrier in Red/Blue, which is not legally obtainable (Yellow's Dragonite was Blizzard/Thunder/Fire Blast/Hyper Beam!) and in GSC Lance's two Dragonairs evolved into Level 47 Dragonites (49 in HGSS) and his strongest was the Level 50 Dragonite. Dragonair evolves at Level 55... and his Aerodactyl learned Rock Slide, something NOT possible during RBYGSC era. That was my reference... though you still see stuff like a trainer with a Level 24 Rapidash and all...

Anyhow thanks for reading my guide! Though I know it's completely outdated because I wrote this many months too late... but I can still salvage this for an upcoming third version hopefully :P

Added Morimoto... which I made in like one minute. I'm getting really lazy :/

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BTW this is a male Cofagrigus. Do you wonder, if the Pokedex description is true, who this Cofagrigus may have been in the past?

Didn't we have a chat about this at one point and ended up going D: D: D: "I really hope that's not true"...

Just a thought re that Hydreigon, though, if you can status it before it kills you (for me, that was a Zebstrika with Thunder Wave) then it'll give you an opening to get your Dragon/Ice type in and kill it because it outruns even Haxorus at Lv 55 (that might be my fault though because I didn't EV train and I didn't bother with natures either).

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Didn't we have a chat about this at one point and ended up going D: D: D: "I really hope that's not true"...

Just a thought re that Hydreigon, though, if you can status it before it kills you (for me, that was a Zebstrika with Thunder Wave) then it'll give you an opening to get your Dragon/Ice type in and kill it because it outruns even Haxorus at Lv 55 (that might be my fault though because I didn't EV train and I didn't bother with natures either).

Of course we did... but I forgot what kind of a warped up theory you came up with...

That's definitely a viable strategy; status. Paralysis works as long as you're not leaving that Hydreigon with 1 HP after an impact.

*Ghetsis used Full Restore*

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The original one, before we noticed it was male, had to do with the Cofagrigus being N's mother's soul...

.. then we noticed it was male and went "What if that's N's real dad?" (since I don't remember either of us being able to picture Ghetsis reproducing without brain breakage).

It was the best I had, which isn't saying much. I could have put Toxic on Seismitoad, but that wouldn't have stopped that Hydreigon since Poison doesn't affect stats... and I didn't want to sacrifice a slot on Emboar for Will-O-Wisp (plus Surf would have destroyed my hulk-pig anyway). Freeze, let's not even go there... Thunder Wave to slow it down and let me heal up Reshiram and Haxorus was my only option :/

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It's a viable strategy nonetheless. Burn wouldn't even cripple it because all it is using is special attacks, not physical, and poison is too slow to detriment offensive beasts anyways.

Now that I'm skimming over this guide, I'm wondering what kind of drugs I was on when I was writing this... doesn't look like the B/W game I was playing with bases and CAT and all...

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GAH CANNOT UNSEE. Where did you find that picture?! Creepy as heck >_<

Yeah, that's true, I hadn't noticed/thought of that. Plus WoW/Toxic have low accuracy and in a situation like this that could mean Hydreigon sweep...

Another possible strategy, I guess, if you have Lilligant with Chlorophyll/Sun up, is to Sleep Powder it and then start whaling away. Leech Seed could also be helpful...

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Google seems to have everything...

Setting up works for the most part, especially on that Cofagrigus from the start; he's a set up bait for something like Excadrill especially. If not, those X items such as X Speed/Attack/Def/etc come in handy. I had to resort to that on my Level 59 Feraligatr in HGSS against Lance's Level 72 Salamence (those level spikes are insane...). Then the whole enemy fleet, erm I mean team, can be swept if pulled properly. If you're at the wrong end of a critical hit, reset .__.

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I actually never used Excadrill... I was too fond of my Moxie Krookodile >.> STAB Crunch works wonders on half the Elite Four, there's a reason why I always tried to catch a Moxie Sandile.

The Cofag was a problem because I usually chose to use the version legend, and of course Toxic/Protect spam *grr*

Well, you're chronically underleveled yet with incredible (incredibly bad?) luck, and on the other hand I grind so I never had much of a problem with massive level gaps, but I've never had to use X items... though I do admit I was close to using them on Clair and Whitney. -_- Hate them hate them hate them.

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Bad luck pushes me... certainly. But defeating Lance with a level 59 Feraligatr that turned to 61? I call that an accomplishment!

I didn't have much problem using Reshiram against Cofagrigus, but Zekrom on the other hand... 3HKO Fusion Bolt with Toxic stall is terrible. I never had an Excadrill, but in practice it certainly looks like the ideal set upper against Cofagrigus.

Small analysis regarding HGSS leveling system:

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Not putting down your achievement any. We all have our own ways of doing things, after all.

I do wish there had been better Steel types in BW though... 'cause Klink line and Pawniard line are frankly terrible. Not that they're necessary, a good Ground type basically is a necessity, but I disliked having to choose between Krook and Exca.

Regarding your analysis of the leveling system:

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Then again, they didn't fix things much in Black/White... look at the level jump between the wild Pokemon of Victory Road (Lv 42 ish if you get lucky in a dirt swirl) and the ones on the second half of Route 13 (Lv 59 Kangaskhan in the long grass O_o) That was just a bit too much and made me dislike a lot of the post-game stuff.

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Of course. Just stating :P

They had a lot of Bugs and Fighters this gen apparently, but Steels were plentiful but still limited. Escavalier's kind of cool but it requires a trade with a specific Pokemon and it's really slow. Klink is too limited and has an awfully creative name </sarcasm>, Pawniard evolves at level 52 (what the heck?!), Ferroseed is a troll I don't know why it exists. I didn't even use a Ground Pokemon, but Excadrill is just too broken even in-game. You get Earthquake as early as level 36, early Rock Slide, great Ground/Steel typing, amazing stats... seriously. Krookodile is jelly, though he is also amazing in his own rights. Ray used both... but I think he's a nut.

BW's level jump is ridiculous. You're fighting level 60 + right after the E4... then their second batch (which I'm writing up soon) are infested with level 7X! Isn't that crazy? Though most of the trainers with level 60s had something stupid like level 60 Zubat so I defeated them with level 43 Pokemon (yes, my Pokemon were that low)...

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Klinklang also evolves at ridiculously high levels and has no good moves to speak of. Ferroseed-- only for Swampert trollin'. Krook is my preferred one for in-game due to usable STAB, though.

I ground up to Lv 55 because of that stupid Hydreigon (full circle conversation) but I was irritated because they gave you no real way to train except for fighting in the long grass outside the Giant Chasm over and over and over and over, once you were done with the Trainers (which didn't take long 'cause some of them had like Lv 65 Ekans. -_-) . At least HGSS gave you the gym leader matchups to play with.

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Up to 55? Yikes I stayed at 4X... except Serperior who was like level 52.

It is only the 1st release of the game... if they ever come up with a Grey version or something, no doubt Gym Leader rematches will be available. And I'm sure the game will feel more complete (BW felt ridiculous aside from the story), though I don't know how they'll deal with the Reshiram/Zekrom question (which one will you get?) or how Lenora's signature Pokemon is Watchog (rematch version better not make that one her final)...

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I heard enough horror stories about the Hydreigon to want to make sure I was well prepared... Unova is the only region where I felt it was necessary to raise a Dragon because of a) that monster; and b) the lack of decent Ice types. Besides, you know I tend to grind.

I'm looking forward to Grey, though the story will change completely if they change the Reshiram/Zekrom thing... Maybe they'll make Kyurem the mascot and let you catch the other two later, with N wielding one and Ghetsis (?) wielding the other? That'd be fun.

Yeah the Lenora thing was a :/, Watchog is just... creepy. I'd rather her have a badass Herdier since I'm quite fond of that line. If they make a third version I also want Elesa to have a different lineup other than the Zebstrika and that -irritating- pair of Emolgas, because that battle was trollishly irritating and I really don't want to suffer through it AGAIN.

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