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I hope they make evolutions to Pokemon like Farfetch'd and Jynx. The former desperately needs one, but unfortunately it seems like Gamefreak hates this awesome bird. Very rare in games, being overshadowed by all the other birds, and having a low catch rate... this is one of those Pokemon that they seem to pick on (just like Flareon). He should become a Fighting/Flying Pokemon, but then again, everyone expects that. I realize Farfetch'd is based on those ducks that come from the wild carrying a leek offering itself to be eaten (in folklore), but still, if they're going to make a Pokemon, they should develop on it (the item Stick just doesn't cut it). Jynx wants an evo so she won't be an Ice/Psychic type Haunter with a different movepool. Plus her two rivals Electivire and Magmortar got evos, so why not her? I know she's the oddball of the three, but still, she wants an evo. Speaking of Electivire, he's one proof that Gamefreak indeed favors the Electric type so much. I mean really... one weakness, sweeper stats (usually) and most being top notch Pokemon makes me think the Electrics dominate the game. Now they can learn Magnet Rise to get rid of that one weakness. So unfair. Electivire gets Motor Drive as his ability, so I would expect Magmortar to get the same treatment, right? WRONG! He still retains his Flame Body ability (he doesn't even get Flash Fire!). I mean, how blatant can you get? Sure, Flame Body isn't a bad ability, but Motor Drive is definitely the better one... and Magmortar wanted something similar at least... I hope the next generation implements a Fire immune ability of some kind to Magmortar. Also, Magmortar wants Earth Power (Electivire gets Earthquake... AND ICE PUNCH! Come on!) Speaking of which, take a look at the legendary birds. What they did to Zapdos is just annoying. Why? Well, I'll bet you the Heat Wave tutor being able to be used by most birds (Articuno being a notable exception) was an excuse to get Zapdos to learn Heat Wave. I mean really... more blatant favoritism! Moltres is going to lose his job! Sure, Zapdos doesn't get STAB, but with Heat Wave, better typing (thanks to Electric's one weakness negated by Zapdos's Flying type), not being completely crippled by Stealth Rock... who wants to use Moltres? (besides me and all...) And Articuno remains completely forgotten. If anything, I hope there's an electric counterpart move to Heat Wave that can be taught to Moltres. Heat Wave Zapdos... yeah right. As for ice types like Articuno... maybe a TM for Hydro Pump won't hurt? (as long as the Electrics not named Lanturn can't learn it then I'd be fine with this idea.) We see Water types learning Ice moves and vice versa, but the problem is that water move the Ice type learns is usually Water Pulse... and who uses that (other than Technician Hypnoplotting Persians)? I'd like to see Articuno's movepool get better because all she's been doing all these time is pretend she is something she's not with those defensive stats... because of her awful defensive typing. Speaking of movepool increase... give Flareon Flare Blitz (I just remembered she got Zap Cannon in GSC)! I think Game Freak will do the logical thing and give Flare Blitz to... Leafeon! Or even Ice Beam to Zapdos! Heat Wave says it "breathes fire from mouth"... nothing about flapping wings to generate heat! This was definitely Gamefreak's excuse to make Zapdos even more broken... because most of the other birds that learn this cannot even use this properly (save Chatot and Togekiss, but the former is too weak to compete in standards while the latter has better things to do). And people wanted a weather condition removing Ground types of their immunity against Electric attacks? Their immunity is a gift from above... seriously... or else Electric types will be broken. I want my Tail Glow (or Calm Mind) Hydro Pump Articuno now! (watches as Zapdos gets Nasty Plot and Ice Beam and Hydro Pump... >:-( ) And about birds... remember Pidgeot? Pidge-who? Yes, Pidgeot, one of the original 151 Pokemon? Oh, that's right... you all use Staraptors now. You can see they seriously messed up Pidgeot... look at her stat distribution. 70 Special Attack? 80 Attack and 91 speed? And this is a Pokemon that evolved to its final stage? Look at stuff like Fearow, Swellow and Dodrio. They have MUCH better aligned stats and can STILL evolve if the designers wanted them to. Sure, Noctowl doesn't seem much better, but at least he still has a chance to evolve. And Pidgeot had Keen Eye as her ability... so in Gen IV they could have given her a cool ability to take advantage of, right? Wrong! Tangled Feet was all she got... ouch. There's only one hope for her... and it's what was given to other Pokemon. Remember those exclusive hold items that double someone's attack and whatnot (like Marowak's Thick Club)? I propose that Pidgeot gets a hold item that doubles her special attack or attack or something. For special attacks... all she gets are Air Slash, Heat Wave... and if you count this as usable, Ominous Wind, so she won't be too broken (unless they extend her movepool). They should call it Brightplume or something to address Pidgeot's wonderfully colored feathers. Maybe an attack doubling item could work too... but people will complain that's broken. Er... look at Marowak. He has the same exact base attack and no one's complaining. Yeah, that's because he's slow, they say, but 91 base speed isn't exactly what I'd be gloating over either. Plus Marowak is resistant to Stealth Rock and has some pretty high defense. All in all, I think that's the only solution Pidgeot has left because Gamefreak so wonderfully decided to screw another amazing bird up. Ok, maybe I should stop ranting... but now that that's out of my system...

Tyranitar is my favorite for being the first Dark type I ever got back in GSC. My second is a tie between Weavile and Absol. Third would be a tie between Umbreon and Spiritomb.

Unfortunately that would be a terrible move to use against an Electivire or Jolteon switching in O_O But against Zapdos at least you can cripple it.

I actually care a LOT about grammar... and not really. I have both but I seldomly use them. My Thunder Waver is one of my four Froslasses (who couldn't switch into Infernape's Fire attacks anyways). I also have a Thunder Waving Slowbro and Bibarel.

LOL. I meant he'd come in teams who did not expect him to crash the party. And of course, a Trick Room team would completely ruin him (although priority moves STILL work under Trick Rooms). I absolutely love to Thunder Wave Infernapes as long as I'm not at the wrong end.

44h 45h and 46h values for a hatched Pokemon were D0, 07, and 19 respectively for some hatched Pokemon in Platinum. I don't know what that means though. It should be level 0 as the beginning. The Egg is hatched at DayCareCouple (2000) so switch the "Met Place" and "Egg Hatched at" data. The Egg should also have a hatch date. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't PIDs not correlate with hatched Pokemon?

I like Dragonair too because she is beautiful aesthetically. Unfortunately, I tried bringing her in UU battles, but she was nothing more but a dead weight to my team. But in-game, she's not bad, but I don't get how that blue serpentine thing becomes an orange Barney with wings. Oh well, it's all in the minds of the designers I guess.

Hello. I didn't realize there was an introduction forum section here. I just joined today although I don't think there is much to say about me (if I did I would get carried away). So hello everyone, and I would like to say this website is very nice. EDIT: About me... I'm a random person with many different interests, although my primary interests would be theology, history (especially European), classical music and arts, and possibly literature. Oddly I am majoring in biology, and am wondering whether I should stay in there or not. Regarding video games, I play quite a lot, such as Fire Emblem, Starcraft, Pokemon, Megaman (mostly the classical series), Sonic (before it became 3D), and some others. Am I missing anything?

Empoleon may be more useful nowadays because of his resistance to that overly rampant Outrage. Empoleon has a LOT of resistances and takes neutral damage from only Grass and Fire ironically, but his only three weaknesses are VERY common (Electric, Fighting and Ground)... which is what turns people down from him. I use Agility with Empoleon to help his speed problems though and he can switch in to the other many resists he has to set up with that. Immunity to Poison and 4x resist to Ice isn't bad either, nor are his defenses terrible. I only wish he had a better support movepool. Infernape is just always ready to sweep and destroys unexpected teams, but I like Empoleon better. Infernape is just everywhere and boring.

In my first playthrough I picked Turtwig because my friend picked Chimchar and I wished to challenge him with someone weak to the other type. Now in Platinum I picked the water type as usual because I always pick the Water type (and occasionally the grass type), despite Water types being very abundant in-game. However, I realized something odd about the Sinnoh starters: all of them will eventually have advantage against each other. Torterra's STAB Earthquake can harm Infernape, although Infernape will almost always strike first and hit Torterra with STAB Flamethrower. Infernape will strike Empoleon first with STAB Super Effective Close Combats although Empoleon can Surf Infernape. Unfortunately for the Steel penguin, Infernape will almost always strike first, and against the Agility Set Infernape can Mach Punch. Empoleon, although he doesn't learn it naturally, can strike a 4x effective Ice Beam against Torterra and will almost always strike first. If Empoleon lacks Ice Beam, Torterra will usually beat Empoleon with STAB Earthquakes. For in-game, however, I realized that Turtwig is okay for the most part in-game, that Chimchar according to my friend will dominate, but Piplup will do considerably worse because his only STAB move will be the weak Bubble... and will not learn Bubblebeam until much later at around level 22 (I think) when he is a Prinplup. Yes he gets Metal Claw at level 16 when he is a Prinplup but Prinplup should not be a physical attacker and Metal Claw won't really help much for the remainder of the game. He is basically relegated to learning TMs and HMs in order to do well, such as learning Grass Knot (oddly), Ice Beam from the Game Corner (which is 10K coins!!) and Surf, which is basically almost always stuck on some Water type. Flash Cannon can be useful from Empoleon's STAB and killer special attack, but it lacks type coverage other than random Ice types, but it is usually not worth a moveslot. In order to get Empoleon's full special sweeping potential, one normally has to breed it with a Floatzel (provided you have a female Empoleon) to get Agility to fix the steel penguin's only but strange speed problem (a slow as Swampert penguin?). Some people I know run a SubPetaya set. Piplup is hard to train in-game, but if trained well, he will be a reckoned force in Wifi. Chimchar has a clear upper hand against the other starters owing to the fact he learns Nasty Plot at level 22 (if you did not evolve it) and can learn Calm Mind naturally as Infernape. He even has the stats put in the right places to dominate, both in game and competitively. That's why I don't like him... but everyone can use him and he is a VERY effective wall breaker. Oddly, he learns Grass Knot...

Is this limited to the dragons listed above? In that case, I pick Dragonite because while he is strong as Salamence physically (134 and 135 base attack barely make a difference) he is also bulky and has something called a gigantic movepool. Sure, as a physical sweeper he would be outclassed by Salamence now that the Outrage tutor made his way into Platinum, but there are other ways to play him such as support or a Light Screen DD sweeper EV'd to take hits and dish out tremendous damage to his opponents. Unfortunately, his HP is lower than some of the other dragons'. However, being one of the original 151 gives him the awesome factor.

That Milotic outsped my Gengar somehow... I don't know why. Back in D/P, the special sweeping Rhyperior OHKO'd my Salamence with Ice Beam. I went up to 14 but I got owned by a Quick Claw Guillotine Crawdaunt which hit me EVERY SINGLE TIME without missing. I think something's wrong in the Battle Tower.

Not to mention that Ponyta was the only Fire type available for you in Sinnoh in Diamond and Pearl if you didn't pick Chimchar as your starter. They added Houndour, Flareon, and Magmar in Platinum, but that's still not enough...

My favorite Fire type is Ninetales. She was always the different fire type that tried to play the role of a supporter, and has served me well in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. Now that she can use Nasty Plot and Energy Ball, she's even better for competitive battling! My second favorite would probably be Moltres... and my least favorite would be Infernape for being TOO strong :-/

But that's only after trapping them with Mean Look, right? Unfortunately, the birds can use Roost, which will quickly demolish their efforts, and neither Raticate nor Pachirisu can really stand much of a chance against the birds, although Pachirisu is somewhat defensive for an electric squirrel.

Indeed. I just checked Drifblim's base speed... and it's 80. That's not too bad actually for a balloon. One thing that quirks me about Drifblim is its in-game cry. Is it even audible?

Oh woops. I was only looking at the video links, not the other spoiler tag. My mistake. - Greencat @ 9:06 PM No problem. ^-^

The second Quick Ball I threw caught Giratina. I was very surprised, but that was the luckiest moment I've ever had.

It's all about the roles. Drifblim plays the role of bulky Subpasser, I think. Drifblim isn't meant for sweeping like Gengar, or else she would dethrone him immediately! Gengar is your #1 sweeping Ghost: quick, powerful, and unpredictable. Unfortunately, Hypnosis is now 60% accurate... so we won't see him using in much nowadays

Wouldn't those abundant Geodudes found in almost every caves make a good thing to train against for Defense? There are Gravelers in later caves which give 2 Defense. As for Special Defense, I am thinking of Tentacools which are ridiculously common in water. Those occasional Tentacruels (which are hard to fight against sometimes, I know) can give 2 SpD EVs instead.

Dugtrio's Arena Trap ability does not work for Flying Pokemon or Levitating Pokemon. Wobbuffet is a nice choice to use though, or you can try Mean Lookers. Don't bother with Spider Web Ariados. Unless he is overleveled, the birds overspeed him and can run away before you can say "uh oh". However, Smeargle with Spider Web can work as long as he has been trained in speed. However, I'd recommend either Wobbuffet or Crobat with Mean Look. Unfortunately for Crobat, he goes down very quickly no thanks to his typing. Ice and Electric moves strike him super effectively and Moltres is no pushover either. Another thing: if you were lucky and froze one of them or even put them to sleep, they can still run away despite that not making sense... yeah :-/ If Roost becomes a problem, have a speedy Taunter or a Heal Blocker so that they won't be able to Roost for a while.

Drifblim doesn't look hideous, although I admit Drifloon looks cuter. I brought her with me to Amity Park... until she evolved at level 28 and couldn't bring her in anymore. I got very disappointed. Drifloon is immune to Fighting, Ground, and Normal, but weak to Dark, Ghost, Rock, Ice, an Electricity, which are very common types. I definitely wouldn't use Drifloon as an HM slave because she is so cool! Besides, Bibarel and Tropius fit all my HM needs. My Drifblim is a Baton Passer with Substitute and Stockpile. I like how her HP is gigantic, but even that doesn't help her overall frailty too much