The Official Pokémon Black & White Discussion Thread

[Mirby]

Oh crap, did I accidentally double post.. oops. My bad.

I still want a friggin' wombat Pokémon! A platypus would be cool too.

[borockman]

Oh I do realize, still can't stop me for speculating the fakes evolution though.

If that pokemon with the curly tail is not a pig or boar, I'll disappoint.

[Mirby]

You don't want a platypus anymore? D:

[Hypershell]

Typhosion

Typhlosion is the single Pokemon who most makes me miss the old "stat experience" system.  It made mixed attackers a lot more viable, and a Fire-type with both Thunderpunch and Earthquake could bust a lot of heads.  These days that's not practical anymore unless you use Flare Blitz as your STAB move, which means lots of recoil and, in Typhlosion's case, ignoring his stronger attack stat.

Yeah that's true but when AI don't ever switch it's pretty helpful especially when you use defense curl first.

You want to talk AI abuse?  Fighting against Blue, I had Jirachi wall his Exeggutor, soaking up enough Leaf Storms to send his Special Attack through the floor, then Flash his accuracy into nothing.  Switch in Dragonite, build up SIX Dragon Dances, and enjoy the destruction.

The *ONLY* reason that was not a clean sweep was two Intimidates and a Roar later (I was using Extremespeed for accuracy; didn't have Dragon Claw or Outrage).  Nevertheless, wiping up the broken pieces of his team after that was easy pickings.

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

*shrug*

Also, GameSaver found this:

Most convincing to me.

Something about that middle one scares me to no end.

[Blackhook]

Pedobear?

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

No, not that scary. It's as if it's pushing the borders of photorealism or something or other and forget whatever it is I just said.

[Sakura Leic]

Typhlosion is the single Pokemon who most makes me miss the old "stat experience" system.  It made mixed attackers a lot more viable, and a Fire-type with both Thunderpunch and Earthquake could bust a lot of heads.  These days that's not practical anymore unless you use Flare Blitz as your STAB move, which means lots of recoil and, in Typhlosion's case, ignoring his stronger attack stat.

Yeah I kinda miss how EVs and stats didn't matter as much as it does now.  I mean this is the very reason I'm training 10 pokemon, and possibly more when White comes out, so I can cover my weaknesses and such.  The only problem I'm having is that I don't have enough Special Sweepers I mean the only ones I have that emphasizes a high Special Attack stat are Lucario, Roserade and Gardevoir.  I mean that might be my only true weakness since the rest are mostly geared for Physical Attacks: Feraligater, Mammoswine, Absol, Salamance, Metagross and Salamance.  Blaziken and Lucario can go either way but I think it'd be better for them to work with the strengh they work best with. 

Another problem I'm having is that 3 of my pokemon are part fighting so, except for my Lucario and Gallade when it comes to Psychic attacks, they mostly have the same weaknesses.  And then there's Absol and Lucario together even though it was only for the GoRPM pokemon arc I'm never going to make that mistake again.

Plus I'm so insane that I'm going to train some of the same pokemon with a few alterations once I get enough dittos with certain stat and I think I'll mate 2 of them together soon.

Although I'm thinking that these pokemon can possibly beat Will Gallent's pokemon when I'm finished with them since I have 3 tanks and he only has a partial one which is his Metagross and I'll probably have to match mine against his since it'll probably be the only pokemon that can witstand his Explosion.  I hope I can beat him, his new team, and his rabid Eevees on EV steroids!

You want to talk AI abuse?  Fighting against Blue, I had Jirachi wall his Exeggutor, soaking up enough Leaf Storms to send his Special Attack through the floor, then Flash his accuracy into nothing.  Switch in Dragonite, build up SIX Dragon Dances, and enjoy the destruction.

The *ONLY* reason that was not a clean sweep was two Intimidates and a Roar later (I was using Extremespeed for accuracy; didn't have Dragon Claw or Outrage).  Nevertheless, wiping up the broken pieces of his team after that was easy pickings.

Huh it kinda reminds me of that one pokemon battle with Will and another one of my friends against 2 more of my friends.  Will and the other guy won with both of their Dragon pokemon using Outrage and Will's Metagross using Explosion.  All of them were out of pokemon except for Will who still had 2 pokemon in wait.  Oh and it might [acid burst] you off that Will's dragon type is a Garchomp.

Plus my gym battles latly seemed to be me fighting againsted them with unEv trained pokemon, under leveled, and making their strongest pokemon run out of PP for their strongest moves and healing them with a vast supply of potions.

[Tickle Buffalo]

I mean this is the very reason I'm training 10 pokemon, and possibly more when White comes out, so I can cover my weaknesses and such.

Shouldn't you focus on making an actual team of 6 first? It'll be a lot easier to see what you need to replace when you've actually had some experience with how your current guys work.

[Sakura Leic]

I know that I mean I already have the bare basics for my normal teams with one slight diference: Fire, Water, Ice, Flying, Dark, and Grass instead of Electric.  That means that my main team would proabably be Blaziken, Feraligater, Mammoswine, Salamance, Absol, and Roserade.  Then if the situation calls for it I'll switch if I know the team ahead of time or just switch one of them out with Metagross to cover all angles.

[Klavier Gavin]

lol fake [parasitic bomb]

[Mirby]

Now I'm annoyed by the small font... I'm not sure what to make of this...

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

lol fake [parasitic bomb]

Oh, but I like this one.

[Black Mage J]

......

[Akamaru]

You gotta love speculation. It just goes to show which of us are slowly breaking apart trying to figure out the starters.

I know I am...

[Archer]

i haven't really even thought about it

i'm content to wait

[borockman]

Lol at those mutant Bidoof.

[Black Mage J]

it wouldn't be a pokemon thread without Bidoof, apparently..

[Dexter Dexter]

Heheheheheheheheheh, gene-spliced Bidoof. [/Peter Griffin]

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

YOU... YOU TRIPLE DERP.

[VixyNyan]

New region is called Isshu. イッシュ



:3c

[borockman]

So it's a lizard, pig bunny and otter eh? the cutest one is the lizard oddly enough. That otter is just ugly imo.

I love the heroes though, the hero looks like Judai and the heroine looks like Poplar from "Working!".  

You gotta wonder how the evolution will be though.

Lizard -> frilled lizard with leaves as frills?
Pig -> boar?
Otter -> Giant badass otter?

[Klavier Gavin]

DA HAIR ON DAT FEMALE TRAINER

I think I'm gonna pick the lizard looking one as my starter. TREEKO MK II

Also, the main characters are not children... According to PokéBeach anyway.

Posted on: May 12, 2010, 07:02:14 AM

Before the scans came out, some new information was posted on 2ch including the region name which turned out true, classifications matching the Pokémon's appearance and the aforementioned possible Pokémon names. This information detailled some attacks, classifications, Zoroark's ability and the special event from the beasts. I have decided to post it with thanks to yaminokame for translation. Remember though that the following information is NOT confirmed yet.

    * The Grass Starter, Tsutaja (ツタージャ) is the Grass Snake Pokémon
    * The Fire Starter, Pokabu (ポカブ)is the Fire Pig Pokémon
    * The Water Starter, Mijumaru (ミジュマル) is the Sea Otter Pokémon
    * Zoroark has an ability called Illusion (イリュージョン) which will allow it to transform into various Pokémon. How it differs from the move Transform remains to be seen.
    * Two new attacks have been announced;
          o A move called Trickery (イカサマ) seems to allow the attack to be calculated using the opponent's stats
          o Another move called Claw Sharpen (つめとぎ) raises the user's Attack and Accuracy stats
    * The special event activated by the special Raikou, Entei & Suicune given with the upcoming movie; Phantom Champion Zoroark has been detailled. In this event, when you bring the beasts (it is unclear if it's all three or just one)to the game, a special battle will occur. This battle is against a Level 25 Zoroark which will transform into the various Pokémon. At many points, it will break its transformation to allow you to capture it.

Remember, this information is NOT Confirmed as of yet and so it's quite possible that this information is indeed inaccurate.

From Serebii.

[Gaia]

Looks like we have three mutant pokemon. I'm starting with the Excalibur-looking one then.  

(Water - Grass - Grass - Grass for three generations for teh win)

[Protoman Blues]

POKABU?  I LOVE THAT NAME!