Pokemon Stories (only about the games)

[wordsmith]

My Bubbles... Vaporeon, had Hydro Pump, Surf, Ice Beam and BubbleBeam... I solo'd the Elite Four with it.

Flatmo, my Gengar... Hypnosis, Dream eater, Night Shade and Destiny Bond. I got through to the last member of the elite four, made it onto the last pokemon and he killed Gengar. Unfortunatly all I had in my party was low-level pokemon (EXP share + Elite 4 = quick leveling). I had 2 left in my party. Gengar got knocked out, I revived him as the guy knocked my low level out. I put Flatmo back in, used Destiny Bond. He used his special effective attack, and my Pikachu evolved from level 12 to level 31 in one fight xD

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Favorite story: In Ruby, I had to search almost nonstop for four days to get my prized Latios (finding that guy is a *****).
Least believable story: I caught the Platinum wild Moltres on the first try with one Pokeball without weakening him.

 

[rhyno435]

i remember red the most. i would always pick squirtle cause squirtle was the best in my opinion. i would always use it for fighting no matter what so that it would be overleveled. i would only catch other pokemon for the HMs like pidgey for fly. and by the time i got to the elite my squirtle, now a blastoise would be lvl 90-100 and the elite four would be incredibly easy. every other pokemon in my party would be between lvl 5 and 20 depending on what lvl i caught them. so yeah, thats my story

That's exactly what I did except I did it with the fire starter instead.

One thing I remember clearly was being scared of the song in one of the cities (forgot the name, but it had ghosts). I also never used any stat effecting attacks as I had no idea what the hell I was doing, so I kind of just powered my way through the game.

The scary songs were in Lavender town, and in the Team Rocket underground base in the casino.

Lavender town especially, those Mediums were creepy what with their "being possessed".

I did the same thing with never using stat affecting attacks and it seemed to work fine for me. It's when you actually play against real people that strategy starts to be needed.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Adding to the discussion of Lavender town, the scariest part was the tower. Where it was dark and there were all these people talking about how it was a burial ground and such... well I don't know about scary but it creeped me the hell out.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I got another one. In Emerald (yes Emerald), I took ol' Swampert to the Battle Frontier and got all the way to the Tower Tycoon without having to switch him out or fainting.

 

[Rob Sharona]

I remember putting so many hours in to Pokemon Blue that I had 8 level 100 pokemon. I was convinced that I would have all 150, all level 100. haha

When I store my Pokemon I am very anal about how i do it. I have my eggs, in one box. then i have my box for ones i intend to breed, then one for newborns, one for pokemon i have taught HMs to, one for pokemon i am genuinely building to have proper fights with, one for legendary pokemon, one for pokemon i intend to trade, and the remaining ones for all the others.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I try to level them up equally with the game. But my starter always ends up being some ridiculous level

 

[Rob Sharona]

I always think at the start 'i'm going to take the humble common birds and insects to the lofty heights of pokemon champion, but I always ditch them in the end

 

[Icingdeath]

I don't remember much from the first generation except the version I had was Yellow, that I had a pretty kickass Nidoking at one point(which disappeared, grrrr), and that I wasn't really good at the game.

I've always picked the grass-type for my starter,(I've always tried picking the coolest looking one and that's always been the grass-type for some reason), I've always kept my party around the same level, but I've always made sure my starter is the highest level of my party. My favorite generation so far is the Diamond/Pearl games(I had Pearl), once I beat the Elite Four the first time, I'd always try(almost obsessively) to complete the Pokedex, which I've come close to but never managed to do.

I believe my team for Pearl was(and their attacks):

Torterra: Crunch, Leaf Storm, Earthquake, and Frenzy Plant
Floatzel: Aqua Jet, Ice Fang, Waterfall, and Surf
Weavile: Shadow Claw, Ice Shard, Metal Claw, and Faint Attack
Staraptor: Aerial Ace, Brave Bird, Wing Attack, and Take Down
Medicham: Ice Punch, Thunderpunch, Hi Jump Kick, and Recover
Palkia: Water Pulse, Spacial Rend, Dragon Claw, and Dark Pulse

 

[cloudywolf13]

There's always one NPC in the pokemon games that tells you that can't win without a balanced party. They are dead wrong. I always beat the game by only ever using my starter, which is always a fire type.

 

[brainiac2]

My first pokemon game was Crystal. Sadly, I lost it almost immediately after I got it, so I never really played it. *sigh*
Next was Sapphire. My only concern then was to beat the elite four, so my team consisted of Blaziken, Sableye, Walrein, and Kyogre. The reason I didn't train any more was because my other two pokemon were HM slaves, and I assumed that once you got through victory road you couldn't change pokemon.
Then I played LeafGreen. I assembled a fairly powerful team by combining with my Sapphire, consisting of Blaziken, Venasaur, Ryhorn, Sableye, Lapras, and Togetic.
My first Gamecube games were pokemon channel and colosseum. I enjoyed both, and I still have yet to finish colosseum.
Diamond and Pearl were the reason I even bothered upgrading to a DS. (Bought the micro instead, horrible mistake.) Diamond was probably the first pokemon game I actually understood what I was doing. I organized a powerful team of mostly the pokemon you get from the start, and Quagsire.
Since then, I've played Emerald, Firered, Pearl, and Platinum over again, actually understanding what I doing and playing them properly.
I never properly appreciated pokemon battle revolution until it broke for mysterious reasons. Now I have to rebuy it. hmph.
I managed to fill up my pokemon ranch enough to get a phione. I then became very worried to lose all my pokemon, so I removed most of them.
Pokemon Pinball and Troezi remain my favorite games to relax to.
Not a big fan of pokemon mystery dungeon.
I watched the anime through the hoenn and battle frontier sagas. I loved them then.
Pokemon Special is awesome. You should read it. I hope we get more translations.
Only collected the cards when I was really little, never understood how the game works.
I now have almost every pokemon in diamond except damn raikou. I hope to region where I should have started my journey, johto.
So Yeah, I like pokemon. A bit.

 

[rhyno435]

There's always one NPC in the pokemon games that tells you that can't win without a balanced party. They are dead wrong. I always beat the game by only ever using my starter, which is always a fire type.

This is exactly what I do.

I have to train them at least 5 levels above the next gym/rival/Elite 4. It doesn't seem like much, but since I had to up about 10 levels with some pokemon, I played for about 50-60 hours without trying to beat the final gyn leader.

I would do this, except I would only level up my starter, and I would make sure they were at least 10 levels higher than the enemy, but they would usually end up higher than that.

EDIT: I also forgot another thing. In Sapphire (that was the only game where I tried to get all of the pokemon), I made it up to about 183, including all of the Regis, Feebas, Milotic, and other rare and legendaries.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Everyone seems to have their own stories about the Elite 4 especially. Which incarnation would you consider to be the most difficult of them overall?

I'd say the first version, solely due to Lorelei and Lance. But then I've never tried the later generations. Odd how Bruno is actually weaker in Gold/Silver.

 

[RemoteControlRox]

(EXP share + Elite 4 = quick leveling)

Ah yes, it certainly does. It's always fun to slap on the EXP share onto a <10 level and watch it shoot up to halfway through the teens with one win.

I went back and played Sapphire again recently, since I like the strategy aspect and the thought of sentient, superpowered critters that work for me. My team currently consists of
Ziggy (level 87 Swampert)
Loudmouth (Lv. 69 Exploud--Oh, and it has a Quiet nature. I shit you not.)
Shard (Lv. 72 Salamence)
Tarot (Lv. 68 Breloom)
which I've had for most of the game, and
Tusk (lv. 46 Walrein)
Nacho (lv. 37 Lombre that's in the party to be leveled up for evolution. I have a thing about getting past all the learned moves before evolving with a stone.)
An on/off member of the team is my Lv. 62 Kadabra, Lovecraft. And previously a Crobat (that's right, I raised a Zubat).

As for stories, I've caught every available legendary in Sapphire (that is, everything I can get without trading, since nobody has a version of Ruby anymore) without the use of a master ball. I accidentally passed the chance to get the thing by, and by the time I noticed, I'd already gotten pretty far along (also, aforementioned Quiet-natured Exploud makes it incredibly hard for me to consider restarting). So every legendary (Kyogre, Latias, the Regi- trio, and Rayquaza), caught without a master ball.

There was a lot of swearing and threatening on my part.

Oh, and I named Registeel Mr. Roboto. I'm not the only one who's done that, right?

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I once caught Mewtwo with 1 pokeball. It was asleep and at 1 health. But it was still AWESOME!

 

[kirocuto]

I just played thrue pokemon silver with a very balenced team that i loved to death
(all at 55)

Capt Falcon the Heracross - Reveral, Earthquake, Mega Horn, Endure
T Pain the Typholsion - Swift, Quick Attack, Flame Wheel, Ember
The Count the Haunter - Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Destiny Bond, Night Shade
Elmo the Espeon - Psych Up, Morning Sun, Psychic, Bite(psychic as dark also ftw)
Mudkip the Starmi - Surf, Thunder (using a water type as an electric FTW), Psychic, Recover
Dragonite the Dragonite - Dragon Breath, Wing Attack, Safe Guard, Fly

as far as epic stories, i have many.

First time fighting Gary as a gym leader, "Oh he'll be easy, i don't need to heal(all pokemon at ~75%)" walk in, Starmi vs Pidgy i use thunder, it misses, he uses MIRROR MOVE, hits, super effective, wipes the floor with me.

I also stalked that dam heracross for THREE DAYS!!!! almost non stop. So worth it.
And then I spent 3 hours in a dead lock of my haunter vs Red's Snorlax. He couldn't hit me with all normal type attacks, I couldn't do enough damage before he'd rest again.
It came down to me whittling down his his PP for rest until he could sleep no more. then hypnosis + dream eater Veanusaur while he was trying to Solar beam me(HA) only to be taken down by Charzard!

 

[oppp7]

To catch the wandering pokemon I trained a Smeargle for it. When this didn't work so well, I found out that they don't heal between sightings if they run from you, so I put them to sleep and incrementally False Swiped them. Then, so they didn't use Roost, when I ran into them I only used a Quick Ball.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

i remember the first time i beat the game in red version, I had a lvl 80-90 or so blastoise, 60-80 or so zapdos, 70-80 mewtwo and such (this was when I was like 8 so it's hard to remember) and then I decided to start over again because I didn't want to have the character as my own name >.<. Hey, I was young...

 

[rhyno435]

I also remember the worst part of Blue IMO. The safari zone, where you had to make it to the safe house in under 500 steps or something in order to get Surf.

Also, my cousins and I were young when we first attempted the dark cave in Blue. We didn't know where to get Flash, so I had to blindly make my way through, running into walls and random battles for around an hour.