Pokemon Black and White

[Archem]

You can, but it's not recommended.

[SaiKar]

N is a fruity character in a series with a serious over-abundance of fruity characters. Geez. And you guys were really serious about the rivals never leaving your side.

At the second gym city now, but my team is kinda meh. Grass starter, water monkey, dark kitty, psychic metroid thing are the only ones I've put any leveling into.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Lillipup > Purrloin.

=/

[Valiere]

N isn't fruity (if by fruity, you mean flamboyant), just rather creepy and odd. I think they did a good job with his characterization, because he's the only character (besides maybe Cheren) that I'm actually interested in following.

Sai, you might wanna wander left of the town with the second gym and pick up a fighting pokemon.

I got the fire monkey but dumped it pretty quickly. Just wasn't cutting the mustard.

[Prpl_Mage]

Yeah the monkeys are rather useless. I dumped mine soon after the first gym. Got a Tympole instead, it evolves twice and gets a ground second type.

And Lillipup > Purrloin and Patrat any day. Mine passed 100Attk at lvl39. With the damage increase of Tackle and later learning Take down this guy gets some serious action.

At the second gym you can get your hands on Sawk/ Troh, Timburr, Blitzel, Pidove, Tympole and some others. Some better than others. And in that cave you only like entered once earlier you can find Woobat and Roggenrolla. You also get to the bug place shortly after the second gym with 2-3 differnt bugs to add as well as some grassers.

I recently defeated the last gym and heading for the league. So far I love what they did with the legendaries in this game, now I just need to push myself to actually climb the victory Road.
Too bad I have an exam to study for..

Also, Stoutland with Giga Impact = hawt.

[SaiKar]

I got the Woobat and Roggenrolla. I also have the lightning zebra and the audio thing. I think I'm doing halfway decent at collecting stuff as I go. Any of this any good?

And what did they do with the legendaries?

[X_marks_the_ed]

Just took out all of the Ground Gym with Lilligant, all of my Pokes are lvl 30+, and Scraggy rapes. Yet, Watchog still annoys me.

[Valiere]

I found both the ground and bug gyms extremely easy. The electric gym gave me some trouble because of jf'aljf'laskhfa'hfk EMOLGA. God, that thing is a terror. Weak to two of the only types that aren't represented on my team, resistant to way too many types, immune to ground, has Electric, Dark, and Flying moves for great type coverage, and the Emolgas that the trainers around the gym use just looooooove spamming Double Team.

[X_marks_the_ed]

The electric gym is the reason my Pokes are 30+. Before even trying it, I knew it'd be a pain.

[drenrin2120]

Timburr and woobat kinda suck. My team consists right now of Sawk (awesome) dewott, woobat, herdier, and roggenrolla. I love sandile, he's a beast, but I already beat white with him on my Team. I may get a tympole, he's got good types. There's not really any good fire pokes tho. I may get that chandelier pokemon. Ghost/fire sounds badass, but I'm unsure.

[Valiere]

Is anyone here actually pleased with their starter? I boxed the otter; he just wasn't working out for me.

[SaiKar]

Grass dude seems okay for now

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm quite happy with the grass starter. Leaf storm does decent damage, learns mega drain and leach seed, leaf bladelater on and slam. You also get the Grass Knot TM (Low kick but grass) pretty early in the game which is neat. Thing I love most about Servine-family is their balanced attack vs sp attack. Just as Tympole.

I didn't pick the fire starter simply because I knew it would become fighting. I picked Chimchar in diamond and won't fall for that one again. Psychic, flying and ground moves are far too common for Fire/Fight to be a successful combination.

I managed to evolve my Woobat around lvl 20-22, apparently it was affection based. Guess I did a good job. It gets speed and it gets sp attack, pretty much what I expected of it. Learns psychic later on as well as air slash and air cutter. And of course - you can fly on it.
Speaking of HM's. You don't really need them in this game, you can use them to unlock special places and items but so far I haven't even been forced to surf to an island. And to be honest - I kinda like that. No more geodude in the box with strength, rock smash and rock climb and a marril with surf, dive, waterfall and whirlpool. And cut of course.

Btw, I'm a White player so I get Troh instead of Sawk. I tried to level it a little but weren't impressed by the moves.

[drenrin2120]

I believe the difference between Sawk and Troh is that Sawk has great attack and Troh has great defense. Probably more than that, but high attack fighters are always a plus.

Is woobats evolution good? I'm worried the psychi/flying combo might be a big weakness.

[Prpl_Mage]

Swoobat is pretty neat, the stats increases - and that's about it.
Unaware is a great ability which just pisses on enemies using statsboosts, double team? No problamos, Amnesia? We don't care.

Weaknesses aren't that much of a problem. Few bugs, fighting, grass or poison pokés know electric, ice or dark moves.
And that's about the only thing I use Swoobat for. Covering my lack of firepower/pun.
Bug moves will deal regular damage since flying type dampens that.
Fighting pokés can't do much. Both flying and psychic will slay them.
Grass will deal crap damage.
And poison are as dead as dead can be.

So yeah, not a huge problem really. Unless you think it's wise to use it against something it can't really beat.

Ps. I just revived and Archen