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It's based on the number of cards you've flipped over. 0 or 1: back to level 1 2: back to level 2 3: back to level 3 etc...

Bear in mind that this is an ingame team for someone without Gen 3 games to import from (see the OP). Thus, Blaziken and Sceptile would be difficult to obtain. Those movesets are not very good. Electivire should get attacking moves, not a supporting moveset. He's too frail to use Thunder Wave and Rest. He should either be a mixed or a physical attacker, as his special movepool does not offer enough coverage, plus his special attack, although decent, is not anything to write home about. His attack stat is much better. Hence, Thunderbolt/Flamethrower/Cross Chop/Ice Punch or Hidden Power Ice, if you're lucky. Alakazam looks good, just give him Recover, not Future Sight, and maybe change to Life Orb or something that boosts Psychic Moves. Focus Blast is good instead of Shadow Ball too. Rhyperior looks good, just use Avalanche or Megahorn instead of Stealth Rock/Focus Blast. Why use a special move on a physical attacker? Plus you've already got a Fighting move, so Focus Blast is unnecessary. Snorlax is not a mixed tank, pure and simple. He's a physical-attacking special sponge. Give him Earthquake instead of Body Slam and you're set. Blaziken: If he's a physical attacker, why does he not have any physical attacks? Overheat/Sky Uppercut/Brave Bird/Bulk Up is a possible set. You may want Blaze Kick instead of Overheat. He would want a Life Orb or an Expert Belt, not Charcoal. Sceptile: Speed would mean no setup moves, such as Sunny Day/Solarbeam. Sceptile is pretty versatile, being able to run either a Swords Dance set or a special set, or, if you wanted one, a mixed set. And his item should be Life Orb or Expert Belt.

Bear in mind that this is an ingame team for someone without Gen 3 games to import from (see the OP). Thus, Blaziken and Sceptile would be difficult to obtain. Those movesets are not very good. Electivire should get attacking moves, not a supporting moveset. He's too frail to use Thunder Wave and Rest. He should either be a mixed or a physical attacker, as his special movepool does not offer enough coverage, plus his special attack, although decent, is not anything to write home about. His attack stat is much better. Hence, Thunderbolt/Flamethrower/Cross Chop/Ice Punch or Hidden Power Ice, if you're lucky. Alakazam looks good, just give him Recover, not Future Sight, and maybe change to Life Orb or something that boosts Psychic Moves. Focus Blast is good instead of Shadow Ball too. Rhyperior looks good, just use Avalanche or Megahorn instead of Stealth Rock/Focus Blast. Why use a special move on a physical attacker? Plus you've already got a Fighting move, so Focus Blast is unnecessary. Snorlax is not a mixed tank, pure and simple. He's a physical-attacking special sponge. Give him Earthquake instead of Body Slam and you're set. Blaziken: If he's a physical attacker, why does he not have any physical attacks? Overheat/Sky Uppercut/Brave Bird/Bulk Up is a possible set. You may want Blaze Kick instead of Overheat. He would want a Life Orb or an Expert Belt, not Charcoal. Sceptile: Speed would mean no setup moves, such as Sunny Day/Solarbeam. Sceptile is pretty versatile, being able to run either a Swords Dance set or a special set, or, if you wanted one, a mixed set. And his item should be Life Orb or Expert Belt.

@ Nikoc: Next time you're posting something that long, try putting it in [*SPOILER] [*/SPOILER], without the *'s. Also, when using that guide, remember there are other recovery moves than Rest, and it's for DP/Pt. Just looked up Ursaring. He can't learn Confuse Ray either. The pokemon look good, other than the fact that you have over 6 (more than can fit in one team...) Ursaring's really slow and frail, but he's got good attack. Kinda like Mamoswine, as I am discovering... You having a Swampert and a Lapras is a little bit redundant since they are running virtually the same moveset and accomplishing pretty much the same thing. Give Swampert Surf instead of Hydro Cannon and a Leftovers and you've got yourself a perfectly good defensive tank. Magmortar is primarily a special attacker, so giving him Flamethrower/Sunny Day/Solarbeam/Psychic or Focus Blast will make him more versatile. Don't expect him to soak up much damage, except not very effective hits. Fire, like Ice, is not a very defensive typing. Some offensive move types that are good (not necessarily necessary) to have on your team are: Electric, Fire, Water, Ice, Ground, Rock, Psychic, and Fighting.

For HG/SS pokemon, here are some suggestions: -Typhlosion: Substitute's good, go for a special-oriented set -Togekiss: May take a while, but if it's got Serene Grace, go for an Air Slash/Aura Sphere/Thunder Wave/Roost/Wish set. It destroys. -Slowbro: A tank, but good: Surf/Ice Beam/Slackoff/whatever else is the general set alternatively Slowking: Nasty Plot and the above set -Heracross: Pure win: Close Combat (or brick break)/Stone Edge (if you can get your hands on it )/Aerial Ace/Megahorn. You can put Bulk Up in there for a setup move; it'll make it even better -Murkrow/Honchkrow: Physical attacker with Super Luck and high critical hit moves will be awesome, I guarantee. -Scizor (with Technician ability): Bullet Punch/X-Scissor/Brick Break or Wing Attack (either one is good)/Swords Dance is the set that's generally used. Pick and choose, I suppose. Brick Break is only found at the Battle Frontier, so Wing Attack is useful in its stead, what with all the fighting/bug pokemon you'll be encountering over the course of the game -Scyther (with Technician, if you're not a fan of Scizor): X-Scissor/Wing Attack/Swords Dance/(Quick Attack/False Swipe/Pursuit/Brick Break, whatever strikes your fancy) -Gengar: Shadow Ball/Thunderbolt/Hypnosis/(Focus Blast/Energy Ball/Sludge Bomb. Whichever you need) -Misdreavus: Almost as good as Gengar, so run Shadow Ball and other such special attacks. You can even breed for Nasty Plot -Red Gyarados (because it's shiny 8D): Dragon Dance/Waterfall or Aqua Tail/(two of: Earthquake, Ice Fang, Stone Edge/Rock Throw)<-- I suggest a Rock move for opposing Gyarados if you don't have an electric to deal with them. Ice is good against the various dragon users in the game -Mamoswine: Ice Shard/Earthquake/(Two of: Ice Fang/Rock Throw or Stone Edge/Avalanche, or anything else that may make sense. Remember he's a physical attacker, though) -Weavile: you get it late in the game, but a strong physical attacker Dark/Ice/Fighting moves on him are quite good. -Dragonite (you can get one in the Dragon's Den from the old guy): Pick and choose what you need. It's got more than just a few moves, let me assure you. --Eveelutions (that are worth using, at least) -Vaporeon: Surf/Ice Beam/Toxic/Protect is pure evil. Especially when it gets leftovers -Jolteon: Awesome special attacker -Espeon: it's a good special attacker My suggestion: Go with what you like. Keep in mind these aren't ALL the pokemon you can possibly get. Mainly, go for coverage for an in-game team. Try and get moves that can boost your stats on pokemon that can use it. Something like Weavile, it being fragile like a china vase, won't get many chances to use a Swords Dance. Gyarados, being quite bulky, will use Dragon Dance quite well. Stuff like that. A couple warnings about that team: Shedinja is not very good. Being one-shotted by anything that's super effective and there being WEEEEEEEEIRD movesets in-game, you can bet that it's going to get OHKO'd more than a few times. Plus it's impossible to find before beating the Elite 4 without trading. Torterra. Swampert and Lucario are in the same boat as Shedinja for availability (ok, you can get a Riolu in the safari zone after about two months, but...), except that they're extremely good if you can get them. Torterra: physical attacker, Swampert: mixed tank (think Surf/Ice Beam/Earthquake or the physical/special variants of either one. Slightly weaker on the special side, though) Lucario: mixed, better at special (think Aura Sphere/Shadow Ball/Psychic/something or Close Combat/Crunch/Extremespeed/Stone Edge or Rock slide or a variant of the two. He's got a huge movepool, like Dragonite) Swampert AND Quagsire on a team? Urm... go for a different pokemon, they're pretty close to the same, in-game.

@ Mewmart: Yeah, it's definitely pretty easy to beat him with pokemon around level 60. Max potions are your best friend. Oh, and that Snorlax that you find? It's a good sponge for his overplentiful blizzards. Don't expect it to do much damage, it just gives you time to use a couple potions/revives. @ Wraith: True, making it a Johto game does kinda limit the possibilities. I'm surprised that they didn't give Falkner a Delibird, just for kicks At least Brock had a lot of pokemon... 5 or 6 if I remember correctly. Maybe they were going by looks rather than actual usefulness. Ryhorn, in HG/SS looks really good, so we should look at it more than at Rhydon. Makes sense, right? My favourite trainer along the stretch to Victory Road is the Bird Keeper standing on the island with nothing but a Farfetch'd to his name. Maybe he flew there, because his Farfetch'd certainly couldn't learn surf and whirlpool to get him to that little island. I think I had it easier than you against his Gyarados; I have a Stone Edgeing DDdos. I look forward to his rematch team, though. That looks interesting. Especially the Machamp. . . I'll make sure to send out a male pokemon in case he tries to attract at me. I guess Fling is in case a ghost/psychic comes out. I was quite surprised at his Pidgeot. I was feeling pretty good at having a challenging gym leader when, all of a sudden, for his last pokemon, he sends out his Pidgeot. A Pidgeot? A... Pidgeot...? A PIDGEOT?! I was thoroughly confused. I think if they'd kept his Gyarados on him, there would've been too many Gyaradi in the game at that point. Lance, Claire and him would all be using them. OD on Gyarados, I think. Cynthia was kinda the model of what a champion should be to me. She was actually good, had a good team and was really, really tough. Wouldn't it be fun in the AI switched/predicted more? 8D

Dragon Attack ~ Queen

I found that Blue was one of the few gym leaders that actually challenged me. His team was nice, but I didn't like how he had unevolved stuff like a ryhorn. That's probably just me being overleved again :3 It'd be nice to have a few more gym leaders like Blue: actual trainers with balanced teams rather than specific type-oriented trainers. Especially the champion (I'm looking at you, Cynthia. You were good). Make it a bit tougher. But that would mean that, unless you had planned your team in advance and had gotten good stats/natures/moves and whatnot, you would find it difficult... it's a tradeoff, I guess. Also, I'm always surprised at the trainers that have made it to Victory Road. The only gen when I saw decent-ish teams was R/S/E, despite the fact that you would have had to have beaten all eight gyms, or at least the last gym to get there. Shouldn't they be about as good as you are...?

Shunkashuuto ~ Hime Ichigo

Fighting Karen right now. Her Umbreon's a bit of a pain when it gets a couple curses down

I use Marriland's Stat calculator to find my IVs. I know there are a few others out there. I know I was ridiculously overleveled by Cianwood, so I'm probably no judge, but I found the level curve to be pretty low. I was Lance's level by the time I got to the Elite 4. I always find Whitney to be the hardest, for some reason. Her Miltank just walks all over my team...

Just a clarification, to get Steven and Oak to give you the different starters I think you must defeat Red, on top of Mt. Silver.

Hrm... I was thinking about this recently, actually. I think it was either tetris on the gameboy colour or warcraft 2: tides of darkness (yeah, I started on the expansion... I figured that out several years later ) when I was about 8. I remember watching my brother play tetris on a cruise and I was so amazed by it

Freezing is really based on luck; sleep is better since it's a little more reliable and it provides the same bonus.

I think I OD'd on it yesterday... I'm really starting to think about the new Shin Megami game... But, besides that, I'm working on getting my pokemon somewhere around Lance's dragonite, then I'll go see how Red's doing on top of Mt. Silver. Also, training on my dragonair, shiny crobat and togetic will be starting soon, if I feel a bit more energized. A choice band will be one of my next targets. I'm not sure if I should try and let my mom buy it or if I should actually go to the Battle Frontier.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor soundtrack

I've had mine 9 days and so far, I've got 59677 steps and 2189 Watts.

Cleaned up the Elite 4 for a second and third time, almost losing to Lance, though. Lance got tough really quickly. On a side note, it's very easy to stall out Lance's dragonite. Snorlax+Houndoom with Flash Fire=stall city. Kinda fun for a while, but then it gets boring. Right now I'm trying to get my shiny golbat and my togepi to evolve. Cycling road, here I come!

Dude (Looks Like A Lady) ~ Aerosmith

Beat Brock and I'm about to move south to Cinnabar. Levelling up my Houndoom so it's about even with Scizor, Mamoswine and Gyarados. After Blaine: Blue. Then to the elite 4!

HG Battle Theme

Please ~ Miss Saigon (Schondberg and Boublil)

granted, but you don't have any staples. I wish that tomorrow would come faster.

Tie Your Mother Down ~ Queen

Grenada ~ Placido Domingo