Poll: How do you play Pokemon?
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I only care about having a superior team and beating my friends. It's the only reason I still buy the games.
For me, I've always done it the same way with each generation. I catch as many pokemon as I can, but I mainly catch them to build my team. I do a lot of training and sometimes I catch and train them until I get to the 7th or 8th gym battle before I'm happy with the current team I'm using at the moment.
I do everything I can possibly do in a pokemon game, then I do another run through and try a different team. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I do everything I can possibly do in a pokemon game, then I do another run through and try a different team. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I focus on having a balanced, versatile team since 99% if my play style focuses on elemental weaknesses. The other 1% is badassery.
I have two very different strategies depending on the point in the game I am at. Up until the elite four (the first time), I catch and train and improve my party, never letting one fall behind in terms of levels, constantly replacing Pokemon when I find new ones I like. My team going into the Elite Four is always extremely well balanced and only invariably contains a few set pieces: someone with Fly, my starter, and someone with Surf.
Once the Elite Four are beaten, however, things change. Ever since I learned how EVs and IVs work, I can't NOT take them into account. With the help of a calculator and spreadsheets, I carefully select six Pokemon that I both really like and are battle-viable and breed the shit out of them until I get ones I like. For the rest of the game, these (though there are often more than six) will be my party.
One of the main reasons I do this is that my brother and I spend a lot of time in the Battle Tower (or equivalent) and once you get to the upper numbers of battles, properly bred Pokemon go a very long way.
There is, of course, no correct way to play Pokemon, but this is mine.
EDIT: Almost forgot. My #1 rule = Catch Them All. If I see it in the wild, I do not leave the area until I've caught one. No exceptions.
Once the Elite Four are beaten, however, things change. Ever since I learned how EVs and IVs work, I can't NOT take them into account. With the help of a calculator and spreadsheets, I carefully select six Pokemon that I both really like and are battle-viable and breed the shit out of them until I get ones I like. For the rest of the game, these (though there are often more than six) will be my party.
One of the main reasons I do this is that my brother and I spend a lot of time in the Battle Tower (or equivalent) and once you get to the upper numbers of battles, properly bred Pokemon go a very long way.
There is, of course, no correct way to play Pokemon, but this is mine.
EDIT: Almost forgot. My #1 rule = Catch Them All. If I see it in the wild, I do not leave the area until I've caught one. No exceptions.
Build a super effective (harhar) team for PvP over wifi. I still get totally owned by almost anyone with a pulse though.
I usually get a balanced team and train 'em all up so equally that it bugs me if one's a different level from the rest.
That said, it almost hurts when I can't catch a pokemon I haven't already got. Y'know, no pokeballs or it's too weak to do just a little damage to.
That said, it almost hurts when I can't catch a pokemon I haven't already got. Y'know, no pokeballs or it's too weak to do just a little damage to.
You catch little creatures, make them stronger by killing other other little creatures, beat the gym leaders, beat your friends, then repeat for however many Pokemon games there are.
Bonus question!
Do you ever bring over your pokemon from older games? And if so do they basically become your main ones for the recent pokemon game you're playing?
So, if you brought over a Dragonite for example and it was your main in previous games would it become your main also in the new one.
Do you ever bring over your pokemon from older games? And if so do they basically become your main ones for the recent pokemon game you're playing?
So, if you brought over a Dragonite for example and it was your main in previous games would it become your main also in the new one.
I am the exact same. Ever since a few years back when discovering a very nice simulator online for r/s/e/fr/lg I've always looked into the stragety of pokemon.Soluncreed said:
It is one of the most indepth games stragety wise. I found myself chopping and changing which pokemon I used throughout the current Black just out of effectiveness.
In regards, a Chandelure with flashfire and a Subseeding Ferrothorn is now one of my favourite things...
I normally do this with most games however I have deliberately stopped short for the current Pokemon Black cos it seems... well I think they coulda done a hell of a better job.RAWKSTAR said:
Otherwise I have a Rain dish-dancin leech-seed loving Ludicolo who has been stalking me ever since saphire. And a Crobat. They might not be the best but damn are they effective at pissin people off.
Just like the pokemon themselves, my play style has evolved over time. At first I only leveled up my starter pokemon and power housed through the whole game with other pokemon only being in my party to be HM mules.
However as I got older I thought it would be fun to try something different and have a full party of 6 and keep them evenly leveled. I found it was a lot more satisfying that way so that's how I've done it ever since.
But those first few years of only using my starter pokemon still has a lingering effect; my starter is always like 10 levels ahead of everyone else even though I try to keep them all even. And if I get bored enough I might just go back to the old way and only use my starter just for the lulz.
As for catching them, again I have changed over the years. At first I wouldn't be satisfied unless I captured every single pokemon I saw, the first time I found it. Over time I stopped caring as much and now I just pretty much only capture pokemon that I consider adding to my party. (The absurd amount of pokemon there are now probably has something to do with this)
However as I got older I thought it would be fun to try something different and have a full party of 6 and keep them evenly leveled. I found it was a lot more satisfying that way so that's how I've done it ever since.
But those first few years of only using my starter pokemon still has a lingering effect; my starter is always like 10 levels ahead of everyone else even though I try to keep them all even. And if I get bored enough I might just go back to the old way and only use my starter just for the lulz.
As for catching them, again I have changed over the years. At first I wouldn't be satisfied unless I captured every single pokemon I saw, the first time I found it. Over time I stopped caring as much and now I just pretty much only capture pokemon that I consider adding to my party. (The absurd amount of pokemon there are now probably has something to do with this)
Special attackers. That is pretty much the majority of my team. I'll stick a physical attacker or two in, but it's pretty much just kill everything with specials. This unfortunately often involves my team being nothing but glass cannons.
In the campaign I use 3-man teams of Pokemon for each area/gym I visit, I gauge what types I'll be fighting in saaaaay Veridian Forest for example where I will be fighting many Bug and Poison types I would take a Charmander, Pidgy and Geodude (to get the random Pikachu that might appear as well)
This way, by the time I get to the Elite Four, I usually have several Pokemon of every type at a decent level ready to fight!
This way, by the time I get to the Elite Four, I usually have several Pokemon of every type at a decent level ready to fight!