Pokemon Black and White

[Valiere]

Sawk is pretty amazing, especially very early on. It one-shots almost everything.

[X_marks_the_ed]

I tried Sawk for a bit, but swapped him for Scraggy because of better type coverage, and the fact that I swear he's basically a gangster with a derp face. I abandoned Servine for Petilil/Lilligant because it has more Sp. Attack at small speed loss.

Anyone else find the Ice Gym stupidly easy?

[Valiere]

All the gyms seem stupidly easy. I wish they'd kept them ridiculously hard like they were in DPP.

[Prpl_Mage]

Anyone else find the Ice Gym stupidly easy?

That must be the criticism I have of this game. Beside the normal gym and the dragon gym I really didn't have much trouble. 3 pokés don't really make a leader and they don't have a special case with TM moves like in Platinum. Servine took out the ground gym pretty much without damage. Electric gym was taken care of by a ground poké - sure they used Aerial ace and stuff but it nullified their switch tactics. The bug gym was ridiculously easy compared to the normal gym before it. And so on.

I hope the E4 will offer us more of a challenge, or something like that.

[SaiKar]

I'm having a lot of trouble getting into this game. I look at my team and I look at the comments and everyone is like "yeah you should switch out everything you have" and I probably should, but ugh, all that freaking grinding. I think I might be Poke'd out.

Someone tell me of some cool part of the game that happens after the 2nd gym and breaks the monotony. Like, um, similar to the times in DPP when they paired you up with an NPC trainer. That was pretty neat.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Someone tell me of some cool part of the game that happens after the 2nd gym and breaks the monotony. Like, um, similar to the times in DPP when they paired you up with an NPC trainer. That was pretty neat.

Rotation battles? Dress-up (yes, they haven't learned from D/P)? Other than that, there's not much. I'm just pushing myself to get to the other Pokes. I'm sure if I had been able to go through with a Clefairy or a Honchkrow I might not have stopped for that period a while back.

[drenrin2120]

That must be the criticism I have of this game. Beside the normal gym and the dragon gym I really didn't have much trouble. 3 pokés don't really make a leader and they don't have a special case with TM moves like in Platinum. Servine took out the ground gym pretty much without damage. Electric gym was taken care of by a ground poké - sure they used Aerial ace and stuff but it nullified their switch tactics. The bug gym was ridiculously easy compared to the normal gym before it. And so on.

I hope the E4 will offer us more of a challenge, or something like that.

I have pretty much the same citicism. Though the Elite four offer a bit more challenge, it's depressing you have to wait that long to get it. My biggest gripe about this game is that you can't shake the feeling someone's holding your hand the whole way through it. It's the most linear game I can remember playing. Even after you beat the Elite Four, there's only one direction you can go.

I don't know. I really like this game. And then I really hate this game.

[Prpl_Mage]

Directly after gym 2 is a pretty slow part of the game. There's this town where pretty much nothings happen.
Then there's a new area where you can side track a lot and even end up with a fossil. The battle station comes up then, musical contest, sports arena. Later on you get a bunch of story thrown at you, but nothing out of the ordinary.

And I don't really know a lot about the pokés I haven't been using yet. Purrloin might get good moves later on but the one I trained didn't learn anything useful. I mean, assist? Really now?
Pidove? It didn't look like it could compete with Starly at any point in history.
Watchog is so annoying, hates battling it but the Lillipup family is still a lot stronger, and I'm more of a power trainer than supersonic + hypnosis.

I lost interest in that all way back in red/blue when I kept failing with everything I did.
Confuse attacks missed and when I succeded it lasted 1-3 turns and they hit themselves once. I guess everyone already knows what happens the moment one of your own pokés get confused.
Sleep, same thing. The wake up 1-2 turns after. And it takes more turns getting it to work.
I've traded debuffs and status problems for buffs and raw damage. That's how we roll.

[Archem]

Status moves piss me off. They always work for the enemy, and they always seem to work perfectly, every turn, for as long as possible. For me, they never hit, never work, never actually take effect, and end in a heartbeat. I rarely keep them, since they seem to be fixed to work against me.

[Valiere]

Leech Seed is your pal.

[Archem]

One of the few, and not even a very good one.

[Valiere]

No way, man. Leech Seed is sick, especially on a "wall" grass type like Tangrowth.

[Prpl_Mage]

Sometimes I prefer stuff like ingrain and aqua ring over leech seed. Leech seed is good when you succeed first try, too bad it doesn't work on everything though.

When it comes to sleep moves I refuse to use anything beside spore and yawn since they actually have 100 acc. And sleep isn't even a good status problem when we use it.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Oh my... I flew through most of D/P's gyms.  These ones I'm getting beat left and right.  It took me 7 tries to beat the bug gym.  I'm at the western gym leader guy.  I currently have:
L.V. 24 Vanillite
L.V. 25 Deerling
L.V. 31 Boldore
L.V. 27 Pansear
L.V. 29 Zebstrika
L.V. 27 Dewott

I've also got a L.V. 25 Herdier and a L.V. 26 Gurdurr

[Prpl_Mage]

The platinum version had way harder gyms than D/P could ever imagine.

Anyway, I'm amazed that you're still using pansear and haven't used a stone on it yet.
Boldore rocks and the rest of the party looks okay. I'm just sensing a lack of flying power here. But then again you have a fire poké unlike me.

My Serperior at lvl 50 have the most even stats I thought was possible. around 104 attack and sp attack, 98 def and 110 sp def, 137 speed. 145hp or something. It works for me, it learned giga drain later on and I wished I hadn't been a fool to neglect Leaf blade like I did.  Only now realized that the attack stat was as good as the Sp.

Btw, the Elite four are pretty tough. Gotta grind some before attempting them again. I beat 2 of the 4 elite four people but the other 2 don't have any types of which I have advantage.