PokePoindexter

Cilan/Chili/Cress: I wouldn't call any of these hard. You can beat their respective monkey with whichever one you get in the Dreamyard, even if you don't level it up at all. Lenora: Herdier is annoying with Intimidate, but you have access to three different fighters close by who can all lay the hurtin' on her whole team. You should have no problem with Watchog if you can take care of Herdier. Burgh: Definitely not one of the easier ones; Venipede can have Poison Point, which makes it risky for someone like Darumaka or Pignite, who are both more physical-based, to hit him effectively. Dwebble is always going to take at least two hits thanks to Sturdy. Leavanny is 4x weak to Fire and Flying, but it's fairly fast and powerful, so it's probably going to be able to bully your NFE's a lot before dying. Elesa: Those Emolgas are real pieces of work. Fortunately, you can get a TM39 (Rock Tomb) in the Desert Resort. Zebstrika is slightly less annoying in my opinion, but it hits like a truck at this stage. Just bring someone with Dig (also in the Desert). Unfortunately, neither attack is very powerful, so you might need two hits to bring them down. Clay: Any Grass-type walks over Palpitoad, Krokorok and Excadrill both take massive damage from Fighting attacks. Skyla: If you have any Electric Pokemon on your team, you'll sweep her whole gym. Even just catching a Zebstrika on the outlying route will decimate this place. Easiest gym in my opinion. Brycen: Every Pokemon in this gym is a pure-Ice-type. Anything that can hit a Cubchoo super-effectively will hit everything here. Drayden/Iris: Hidden threat to the team: Cryogonal. With a 105 Speed stat, you can outrun Haxorus and slip in an Ice Beam from a Special Attack stat of 95. Failing that, if it's Winter, you can catch Beartic in the Double Grass outside the Dragonspiral Tower. If you can get it up to Level 40 before fighting the leader, you should be able to handle their Pokemon.

Here's the complete rundown of mine: Speed Course: 503 (Starmie, Gallade, Ninetales) Power Course: 551 (Ursaring, Umbreon, Steelix) Speed Course: 499 (Ninetales, Meganium, Umbreon) Stamina Course: 516 (Umbreon, Ursaring, Dodrio) Jump Course: 476 (Golbat, Skarmory, Starmie) Hurdle Dash: 79.7 (Starmie, Ninetales, Dodrio) Pennant Capture: 45 (Ninetales, Dodrio, Meganium) Circle Push: 66 twice: (Meganium, Starmie, Umbreon) and (Gallade, Umbreon, Ursaring) Block Smash: 142 twice: (Meganium, Umbreon, Ursaring) and (Umbreon, Ursaring, Steelix) Disc Catch: 90 (Golbat, Skarmory, Umbreon) Lamp Jump: 554 (Starmie, Honchkorw, Togekiss) Relay Run: 17.4 (Starmie, Ninetales, Dodrio) Ring Drop: 200 (Umbreon, Starmie, Vulpix) Snow Throw: 56 (Ninetales, Gallade, Honchkrow) Goal Roll: 15 (Ninetales, Umbreon, Meganium) Collective Trophy: 10 Trust Trophy: 5 Potential Trophy: 9 Friendship Trophy: 9 Current Score: 4,364 points

This here: I think Umbreon is more fun to use now, but the aforementioned one is definitely the most memorable in my opinion.

If you're using it for your own entertainment or for experimental purposes, knock yourself out. I do it sometimes myself - I PokeSav'd an egg containing a Timid Vulpix into my Platinum version once and used it to beat the game. But don't do it if you're going to be battling people on Wi-Fi. I do not feel any obligation to battle your army of six Shiny Lv. 4 Exploding Igglybuffs with 999 in every stat.

Yep. Female Eevee + Male Smeargle that knows Curse and/or Wish (Found in Ruins of Alph) = Eevee with Curse and/or Wish. Thanks for the tip about the sprites.

My favorite Pokemon for each type: Bug: Dark: Dragon: Electric: Fighting: Fire: Flying: Grass: Ghost: Ground: Ice: Normal: Poison: Psychic: Rock: Steel and Water:

My first time playing Black, I managed to catch Cobalion with the first Poke Ball I threw at it (a Dusk Ball, specifically). Then I managed to catch Virizion on a Critical Capture Quick Ball immediately after. I also have to give credit to getting my Drought Ninetales to help me beat Ghetsis by ramming 4 of his Pokemon with Fire Blasts and SolarBeams (His Eelektross, Bisharp, Bouffalant, and Seismitoad, respectively).

I got a Dream World Staravia in my game and used that to dominate the first part of it (leading up to the fall of...that awesome place). Failing that, if you're patient enough to find Sigilyph (at the Desert Resort), I'd suggest that one. It has excellent Special Attack and Speed and learns Air Slash through level up. Plus, Magic Guard prevents residual damage, so you don't need to worry about status conditions (although they're not overly common in the Elite Four). Plus, I think it's more worthwhile than trying to get a Woobat's happiness to max out.

I'd recommend Galvantula. Bug/Electric is a good offensive typing, and it can learn good moves like Bug Buzz and Thunder (through TM25). It's also very fast, so it can outpace plenty of things, and if it has Compoundeyes (its other ability is Unnerve), you get boosted accuracy on several less-accurate moves (hence why I mentioned Thunder instead of Thunderbolt).

I am pleased to see that I am not the only one whose favorite is Umbreon, and that Jolteon and Espeon are well-liked too...but also disheartened that Flareon only has two votes.

Yep, I just posted a thread about how to do it. Link: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?17912-How-I-solved-my-problem [edit by evandixon: added link]

If you read my last thread, you might have seen that I was trying to figure out a way of playing VBA save files on the original cartridges. Well, I finally figured out a method that works, and I hope it helps anyone else who wants to do this. I'll try to be as clear as possible. What you need: *Nintendo DS or DS Lite (NOT a DSi or DSi XL). If you spent $170 on a DSi to play GBA games, I hate to break it to you, but you wasted your money. Lame jokes aside, you need to be able to play the GBA game normally on your DS system. *Action Replay DSi or DS. I haven't tried this with the original ARDS, so I can only guess if it'll work or not, but maybe it will. It definitely does with ARDSi, though. *A MicroSD card (2 GB works fine; GBA files aren't very big) *A cartridge of the game you want to backup files on (I used Pokemon Emerald) *An SD Card reader if your computer can't read them by itself (you can find versions that connect to USB ports at Best Buy for about $15-20) *GBA Backup Tool (Can be downloaded here) *DLDIrc (Can be downloaded here) What you DO NOT need: *A flash card of any kind. After downloading everything, set up your DLDIrc by installing various components. Make sure you check the ".gba" and "DS Icon for .nds files" boxes. Next, a list of flash cards and other hardware will pop up. Click on "Gmtf.dldi : Datel Games 'n Music (MicroSD)". This is basically the Action Replay DSi. If you want to read the readme file, you can. Otherwise, you've finished setting up DLDIrc. Now comes the patching. You'll need to open two windows. First, open your folder containing the GBA Backup Tool, then open the DLDIrc folder (found under C -> Program Files -> DLDIrc). You'll need to patch the tool, so drag it over to the Gtmf.dldi file in the other folder. The command prompt will open up. Press any key and it should patch itself. Then press any key again to exit. Next, plug the MicroSD card into your computer and open the folder. Drag the GBA Backup Tool over and place it in the folder. You're done with the SD card for now, so you can pull it out and put it into your ARDSi. Put the ARDSi into Slot-1 and the GBA cartridge into Slot-2 of your DS (Lite). When you open up GBABT, you'll be prompted to insert the cartridge if you haven't already done so. Press A whenever you're ready. On the top screen, the name's code will appear and the save size (which, for Pokemon Emerald, would be POKEMON_EMER_BPEE00). At the moment, this turning on the program is just for the purpose of collecting that information. Next, go back to your computer and open the VBA save file you want to play on your cartridge. Go to File -> Export -> Battery File, and save it by the name mentioned above to your desktop. This converts the SG1 file to a SAV file. Reopen your MicroSD card folder and you'll find that a new folder has been added for GBA Files. Open it and you'll find your original SAV file there. If you don't want to play it anymore, just drag and drop the new file you exported there and have it Copy and Replace. If, however, you want to save both files, copy the original file to a reserve folder before replacing it. Back in GBA Backup Tool, after getting to the main menu, press R and then A. Confirm, yes, you want to "restore" the SAV file. After completing it, remove the ARDSi from Slot-1 and test out your GBA game. If you've done everything right, you should be able to load the same file on your cartridge that was formerly on your VBA. Feel free to post comments or questions.

Thanks, but it's irrelevant now since I managed to figure out how to get it to work anyway without a flash card.

I've been looking around to try and find info for this, and it seems like I need a flashcard in order to backup save files. I have all the other things (e.g. MicroSD card, GBA-Backup, etc.), but: 1) Is there anything that can be used besides that or ARGBA? 2) If not, can someone direct me to a site that sells this stuff and doesn't require me to use a credit card to buy it (since I don't have one)?