The Pokemon Thread

**LCBetz** · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 883 Location: Eau Claire, WI

The only Pokemon I could find that learns all three of those moves is Smeargle, so it looks like your out of luck there. You could try a Mean Look/Perish Song combo though. Just switch out when the Perish Song count reaches one. The Blissey will have to stay in the turn you switch out, and will faint immediately after its move. If you want to stick with the Leech Seed/Substitute combo, you could give this a try:

Breloom w/ Leftovers
- Leech Seed
- Substitute
- Focus Punch
- Spore

Focus Punch will take out Blissey in one shot, but you can't prevent switches. However, a switch into a focus punch can deal some damage out of a base attack stat of 130. If you can anticipate a switch to a ghost or psychic type, use Spore instead (what's not to love with 100% accuracy sleep?). Once put to sleep, another switch is likely, so use focus punch when they switch. Also worth noting: if you have a substitute up, a focus punch is guaranteed to hit because the opponents attack will hit the substitute instead.
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**Carbonatedasian** · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 145

Hey, would anybody be willing to trad me 3 different types of Burmy over Wifi? I cannot catch them for the life of me, and now that I am EV training, It would really help to cut down the fights.

Advice on how to catch Burmy would be accepted as well.
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**thegibbonator** · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject:

I suppose I could afford to lose Substitute, so I'll take a look for Pokemon with both a trapping move and Leech Seed. Either that or I could use this excellent looking moveset:

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**CorpusCollosum** · Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 1823 Location: San Francisco

Wow, reading through the last few pages of this thread, I have absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about. What game are we referring to anyway?

I think I'm just a bit old-fashioned when it comes to Pokemon. I still love my red version, and, to be honest, lost interest after the slew of new Pokemon succeeded the original 151.
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**TopGearFTW** · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject:

I have no idea what all this technical talk is about...

I only have Ruby and Fire Red, and all I do on Ruby (the one I play most) is charge around with my level 70-something Swampert killing everything... I beat the elite four using just that and a few low level pokemon I happened to have in my group so I could revive Swampert if needed.

It worked surprisingly well. I don't bother with move set planning or whatever, if I am trying to learn a move that is basically an upgraded version of one I know, I'll replace it. E.g Mud Slap eventually becoming Muddy Water (well that's what I did anyway :P)
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**thegibbonator** · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

Pokemon is great. You've got plenty of logic involved with the movesets and team building, enough mathematical equations to keep even the biggest maths nerd (read: me >_>) happy, and best of all, has more than enough bright colours and sparkly effects to keep the childish side of me entertained!

I got hold of a Breloom with some decent IVs, by the way. Of course, now I'm going to find out I needed to breed one of the moves or something. >_>

The Elite Four in all of the games is pretty easy once your Pokemon are reaching level 60, maybe level 65. The second generation of games (Silver/Gold/Crystal for those who don't know) did at least add a few extra challenges in the form of Red at the top of Mt. Silver (level 80-something Pikachu FTW

), but the other generations had nothing. The addition of Wi-Fi battling opens up the game so much more, you have to actually plan everything out to win. No longer can you take six level 100 Dragonites into a battle and expect to win no matter what you do. No longer can you expect to get by with movesets consisting of four attacking moves (usually Hyper Beam, which is a terrible move if you think about it). You have to actually know what you're doing to be able to win. Whoever decided to add in Wi-Fi battles is a genius.

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**Kerrang** · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 945 Location: West Midlands, UK