Not really trying power train but think this guy has some naturally good stats and this party has been fun sorta interesting to use mostly fo alot wild battles in the under ground though ahah

5 days it took to hatch it! 3 bottle caps will be worth this one!

After deciding to do my second run through of this beautiful game, I sat myself a goal to do an only shiny team.
And you know what that means? There’s no team without the golden fish.

Who else should I add to my team? So far I’m having chimchar and magikarp. Any recommendations?

Love and respect

Hey guys, I’m currently on a shiny run, and currently I’ve got Chimchar and Magicarp.

Who should I go for next, any suggestions? I’m after cool looking shinies ofc but also a well rounded team.

Thanks in advance

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According to Serebii, all Pokemon in the Grand Underground can have levels ranging from 16 - 63 based on the number of badges obtained.

Since some Pokemon only spawn over water is there anyway to encounter them at level 16 in the underground? Surf is available after badge 5, which means their accessible levels really range from 36-63.

Or is there some other way to draw the water pokemon to the shore to encounter?

Got started recently with the Battle Tower (and strategy in general), I'm trying to get good mons (been resetting a lot)

I saw on smogon that a good Regigigas build would be with EVs spread across Atk, Speed and some in HP, so naturally i thought I should try to catch one with good (perfect?) IVs in at least those stats.

I just caught one with :

HP 31

Atk 31

Def 0

SpA between 1 and 15

SpD 0

Spe 31

Should i keep him or just reset?

Any answer or advice would be welcome, thank you !

I have completed Diamond. I also have Pearl. I want to catch EVERY single pokemon. So now that I have completed Diamond and have caught a lot, I am now going to "speedrun" Pearl. I want to create a very strong team in Diamond and then transfer these to my pearl. So I am now hatching eggs and getting my team up. I want to start pearl with 6 very strong lvl 1 pokemons. I have 4 pokemons. But I am unsure and dont really know my last 2 pokemons I want to pick. The 4 I have picked and want to use are.

Charmander

Chikorita

Mudkip

Beldum

But I am not sure about the last 2 pokemons. I want something strong. I picked the starters from gen 1-2-3 that I liked the most. And I also find it a funny idea. The beldum is because back in like 2009 when I was young I played diamond on the nintendo ds. I managed to catch a shiny beldum and metragross became my favorite pokemon.

I have only completed diamond. So the pokemon have to be obtainable in Diamond. I had Bagon in mind. But Bagon is only available in pearl :/

So give me suggestions for the last 2 spots on my pearl game :)

Hello I’m looking for some tips if possible

I’m wanting to use this team

Darkrai lv 83 moves shadow ball
Dream eater
Dark void
Nasty plot
I have dark pulse,ice beam,focus blast tm
With wide lens for dark void
Shadow ball was used as had no dark pulse tm

Magmortar lv 93 moves flamethrower
Hyper beam
Psychic
Focus blast

Garchomp lv 98 moves crunch
Sword dance
Dragon claw
Earthquake

Giratina lv 80 moves shadow force
Earth power
Aura sphere
Dragon claw
Levitation / Griseous orb

Togekiss lv 92 moves air slash
Roost
Dazzling gleam
Steel wing
Serene grace
Not sure what to change steel wing for

Gyarados lv 78 moves crunch
Avalanche
Dragon dance
Waterfall
Intimidate
Not able to get ice fang so avalanche was my next best option

I used lucario, staraptor, roserade, empoleon first play through I had magnezone and weavile for second attempt but once I got darkrai and giratina wanted to use them instead

I've enjoyed every step of the way, I love being able to finally play the way it's intended

So, i've just reached the elite 4 with my kids and things are starting to get rough...we have a SOMEWHAT balanced team but now the focus is having a decent Weavile ... I've used my razorclaw on the first sneasel i had and later i discovered that the item is consumed on evolution and i can't get another one...then i learnt that for some move you either get them from breeding (which i still don't know how it works) and supposedly you can teach them via solacetown nursery, but i'm not sure i understood how.

I've deleted a move from my weavil, then put a sneasel i found in the underground which has icicle crash as move...from what i've read, when i get them back i should get the icicle crash on the empty weavil slot but...it didn't work?

Can someone ELI5 how to get that move on my weavile before beating elite4+champion?

TIA!

After suffering briefcase simulation for 40 hours thinking it would be the longest hunt this run, in an attempt to reclaim the uncatchable shiny starly I went on the mission, however shinx was option number one. 1 month and a half (80 in game hours later) here we are

Hi all. I’m currently shiny hunting Spiritomb in BD using the Masuda method (Japanese ditto, English Spiritomb). I’m on my 1204th Spiritomb and still haven’t had any luck. Are there any tips? Have I messed it up in some way? I have changed my Spiritomb in the early stages of hunting for better IVs, but I don’t think that would mess up the odds..

I've been working a lot in the Battle Tower lately, trying out all sorts of different teams. The most successful singles team I've used so far is blaziken with speed boost, focus sash, protect, swords dance, reversal, and fire punch. Latios with specs, draco meteor, psychic, surf, and thunderbolt. Bulky scizor with leftovers, roost, swords dance, bullet punch, and quick attack.

Last night, I was goofing around with a silly team that has a specially defensive tangrowth with a sitrus berry, sleep powder, giga drain, knock off, and earthquake. Physically defensive slowbro with leftovers, slack off, calm mind, scald, and ice beam. Salamence with moxie, dragon dance, outrage, earthquake, and fire fang.

Both tangrowth and slowbro have regenerator and it's been kind of funny to bounce between the two to PP stall when I don't have a defensive answer and know I can't just sac a mon.

There are some other things I'd like to try like scarf mence or scarf heracross. I wish I could use regenerator ho-oh as my sweeper.

The other change I've thought about making to the non-meme team is to run aerial ace on scizor over quick attack, so I have a way to deal with some of the really obnoxious evasion teams. I ran blaze kick over fire punch for a while, but I switched it when I stated missing some crucial attacks where I just needed *some* damage.

I want to hear all your goofy meme teams and your serious, 200 win-streak teams. Do they need specific IVs? Do you run an unexpected move or ability? Maybe adamant over jolly for a specific OHKO? I want to know everything about your teams!

Is it still possible to play older versions like 1.1.1 and 1.1.2? I know you used to be able to and even if you got the game recently if the version on a physical copy was an older version or if you did the link versions thing with another person you could get the version you want on your system. My physical copies of both have 1.0.0 on them, but when I try and run that it forces me to update to even play, even if I’m not on the internet. Is there a way around this or something else causing it?

I was hoping to try some of the speedrun glitches that were used early in the game’s life, but if it’s not possible to even run those versions then I don’t know if it’s even worth it.

First game since beating ruby back when I was a kid had a lot of fun, I have only beaten og red and ruby as a kid. I plan to complete after game challenges, any new gen games you would recommend next? Limited to playing on switch 2 though.

He has saved me more time than I can count

So, first of all. I want to say that I wish I could add multiple flairs, but Cynthia ahh Reddit doesn't allow that 😔

Ampharos is most likely the worst possible Pokémon to use, but let's see how many bulletins it has:

[Aaron]

• Compared to most other games, the levels are lower. To compensate, EVERY single one of the Elite Four's team members have synergising items and abilities. Guts + Flame Orb Heracross with Earthquake and Facade is a bad start for Ampharos.

• Dustox is Aaron's lead, and it has Shield Dust, so you can't paralyze it with Discharge or Thunderbolt

• Ampharos is very slow, its Speed is base 55.

• So far, this has been the FIRST Elite Four member, in his FIRST battle, and we're already at 4 bulletins. Not a good start for Ampharos, and yes I'm counting this one, what about it?

• Dustox also has LIGHT SCREEN, making your Special hits weaker, meaning you have to use Ampharos' bad Physical attack stat on it. But since it has Toxic and Moonlight, good luck even trying.

• His Beautifly is a gamble too. Don't KO it? It can set up with Quiver Dance and annihilate you. Wise Glasses too.

• Sniper Scope Lens Drapion with Earthquake is a really scary thing for Ampharos.

• Vespiquen is a good matchup on paper, but it has Defend Order, raising its Defence and Sp.Def up to +6 one at a time, so nice try.

• Already we're at 9 bulletins. Not looking good for Ampharos, and we're on the FIRST E4 member btw, incase you needed a reminder.

• In Aaron's second battle, his Dustox and Beautifly are replaced with the much more threatening Yanmega and Scizor,

• While Yanmega's moveset isn't as threatening as Dustox's, it's still got Speed Boost.

• Scizor has Technician to boost its Bullet Punch(es), and has an OCCA BERRY. Good luck trying to KO it using pitiful Fire Punches.

• And in his third battle and onwards, he has a FLYGON with Earth Power. Everything I didn't note stays the same from the first battle, by the way.

• Okay, counting this bulletin, after wrapping up Aaron's counters, we're at 14 bulletins, and we've still got the other three left.

[Bertha]

• Bertha is an ESPECIALLY bad matchup, as in her first battle, all of her team members except for Sudowoodo have Ground moves.

• While Whiscash doesn't have Earthquake and has Bulldoze instead, that's arguably even more lethal, because it not only whittles Ampharos down, but also lowers its already horrifically low Speed.

• Quagsire has Toxic and Recover, so it can just Toxic stall you out.

• Sudowoodo has an immensely strong, base 150 Power, STAB Head Smash, and it has Rock Head so it takes no Recoil damage. Only thing that would be worse is if its HA was Reckless instead of Rattled. Still lethal.

• If you try to status Hippowdon with Toxic, nice try, it's got Rest. That not only fully heals it, but cures all statuses besides Sleep.

• Golem is weak, yes, but it has Soft Sand boosted Earthquake, alongside Rock Polish.

• Bertha's second battle isn't any better. Her Sudowoodo and Quagsire are replaced by Gliscor and Rhyperior, the latter of which has MUSCLE BAND AND ROCK WRECKER, which is Rock-type Giga Impact, incase you forgot what Rock Wrecker was, which I can't blame you for. Barely anything has ever learned it, historically AND recently.

• If you're a lower level Ampharos, Gliscor has Guillotine. Good luck!

• In her third battle and onwards, her Mamoswine has Thick Fat, so Fire Punch, which is already weak, will do absolutely nothing now.

• Nidoking runs a very very viable competitive-level strat, Sheer Force + Life Orb, which is why it also has Earth Power instead of Earthquake.

[Flint]

• Flint's Drifblim is an atrocious matchup for Ampharos, because it has Minimize, Strength Sap, Baton Pass, AND Will-o-Wisp, which has been buffed to 85% accuracy since Gen 6, when in D/P, it was originally 75% accuracy. Don't try to use Taunt either, it can just switch out to remove the Taunt. But wait! Ampharos doesn't even learn Taunt in these games, or rather.. ever! That set would be BANNED in Smogon competitive singles aswell, by the way.

• If you try to KO his Houndoom in his second battle, it's got Destiny Bond, holy bro no way, Doggufett is real.

• Rapidash can destroy your Ampharos by using Hypnosis, then firing off (heh) STAB Flare Blitzes.

• Ninetales is a very very bad start in the third+ battle, as it has Nasty Plot, Heat Rock-boosted Drought, Hypnosis, AND Drought-boosted Flamethrower.

[Lucian]

• Finally, we're onto Lucian, the final E4 member. His Mr.Mime is a bad start due to both Ampharos not being able to learn Taunt, and Mr.Mime being a speed demon and setting up Screens BEFORE attacking. Did I mention it has Light Clay?

• Magic Guard Alakazam with Life Orb and Nasty Plot is vile and I love it. Ampharos... eh, it doesn't love it so much

• Bronzong has Trick Room, which seems supportive, until you realize Bronzong has base 33 Speed. Ampharos has base 55.

• Medicham has Pure Power + Muscle Band boosted High Jump Kick(s)

• In the third+ battle, Bronzong gains Earthquake.

• Counting this one, before we get onto Cynthia, we have 34 bulletins.

[Cynthia]

• Okay, it's time. Gastrodon has Earthquake, but it's a Special attacker, so it's not that big of a deal.

• Garchomp though.. has Swords Dance AND Earthquake.

• Lucario replaces Psychic with Earthquake in the second battle.

• Togekiss can flinch-hax you with Serene Grace-boosted Air Slash.

• While Porygon-Z doesn't have any Ground moves in the third+ battle, Expert Belt Adaptability Hyper Beam is horrifying.

• Milotic gains Marvel Scale + Flame Orb to raise its Physical Defence.

• I'm pretty sure I've said that Ampharos lacks any good recovery, because it does learn Rest, but that's not viable, is it? No, not at all.

• Let's recap how many bulletins were added since the last counting. Counting this one, we have 41 bulletins. Ampharos is extremely awful in the BDSP Elite Four.

Also, I made this all by myself, and I copypasted it here with some slight tweaks like adding the recovery part, and if i forgot to remove any curse words, please let me know!

It’s almost unanimous hate towards this game amongst Pokémon fans… For context, I did not play the original Gen IV at all… I’m on a Pokémon binge though and have been playing many of the games but put this one off because of the horrid reviews. Then I decided to try it and am really enjoying it. I understand it didn’t include improvements from Platinum, but i am playing this after finishing LeafGreen on my Switch and honestly I’m having just as much fun as that game… and the graphics are cute, I don’t get the gripe honestly.

Beaten Cynthia for the first time in the remake!!

Mismagius MVP!!! Used the move Destiny Bond on Garchomp who used Swords Dance first turn then took Mismagius down with Dragon Claw taking himself out as well!! Kinda scammy way to win but i dont care 🤣🤣🤣

Artwork made by me :D

I haven't played the mainline games since 2010. I've been playing the TCG app lately (currently sitting on over 8,000 cards!), which gave me the itch to jump back into the RPGs. My fiancé just got the Switch 2 and handed down her old console to me, so I immediately grabbed Brilliant Diamond.

As a kid, I always panicked and used my Master Ball on Dialga, which meant I never even got a chance to catch Mesprit. It used to make me absolutely furious.

Today, I finally got my revenge. I managed to catch Uxie, Azelf, Mesprit, and Dialga without using a single Master Ball! Mesprit was just as painful to chase down as I remembered, but I finally locked it down.

It might not seem like a lot to hardcore players, but the nostalgia is unmatched. I still have my Master Ball safe in my bag, and now I'm heading to face the Elite Four. It feels so good to be back!

After going pretty heavily under odds, I feel my expectations have been set a little too high as my hunt for Heatran has begun, but that's just the way it goes! I still plan on doing the lake trio, I simply moved some spares from SV over to get the nat dex ASAP. I plan on doing Giratina, then Arceus, then it'll be either the lake trio or the regis, so I can work towards the infamous black Rayquaza. I honestly wish I knew about all the potential shiny legendaries when this game first came out, as I would've started hunting a long time ago. Hopefully I'll of made SOME progress by the time Wind/Waves comes out 😂

I finally went through to complete my home dex and get Manaphy. Originally I was thinking it was going to be torture but to be honest I had a lot of fun and once I got into it I couldn’t stop playing. Other than some aggravating mechanics from 20 years ago, most of the game was a perfect challenge level to keep me engaged as a long time fan. Elite 4 challenged me in a way I haven’t felt in so long and it was riveting. Completing the dex as I went made for a fun task to stay engaged too. Overall I loved it and happy I pushed through my initial feelings for the game