My mom will be shipping me Pokemon White today (THANK YOU), but I know a lot of people have been playing.
So today’s comments section is dedicated to them :] I wanna hear about some strategies, who’s on your team. Tell us if you’re having some difficulties. All of it.
<3 pokejungle
My Black team:
-Samurott
-Simisage
-Stoutland
-Sawsbuck
-Swoobat
-Zoroark
I just realized that, except for Zoroark, my entire team starts with S. That… was not planned. :p
S….Z…is it really that different XD
I got pokerus too my whole team has it, now if only I had a shiny klink
I’m in the middle of tracking down the six sages, my team is Samurott, Darmanitan, Scrafty, Cofagrigus, Excadrill, and sadly, Garbodor.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Garbodor, I like it’s appearance a lot, and I like poison types, but it’s TERRIBLE. It’s stats are awful, it has an even worse movepool, and an even worse ability. Weak Armor has messed me up plenty of times. Seriously, I really really REALLY wish I hadn’t used it. x_x
Weak Armor is good for making sure you get down two layers of toxic spikes – which is only helpful in competitive battling.
You should’ve gone for Stench instead. I used a Garbodor in my spanish run of Black and he was a reliable member of my team. The combination of the Sp Def lowering move and then Sludge (and subsequently more powerful poison attacks it kept learning) got me out of lots of problems. Also, stats depend on lots of things, so the one you found might not have been great. It happens.
I didn’t choose the ability, I just caught a Trubbish and went with it. It was the only Pokemon on my team I didn’t look into whatsoever, which was a horrible horrible mistake. x_x
I dont have the games yet, but when I do, I have had my team planned out for a couple months:
Pre-National Dex:
1. Serperior
2. Emboar
3. Samurott
4. Elecktross
5. Hydreigon
6. Gigalith
I am running a Snivy started game. I haven’t got a complaint about movesets though. Leech seed/Wrap/Growth/Leaf tornado is awesome for stall. As for the rest of my team, I have venipede, sawk, victini who I want to replace, tympole who I need to evolve for gym 4 and blitzle
My team consists of Serperior, Simipour, Archeops, Reuniclus, Volcarona and Mienshao. Honestly, I can only highly recommend these Pokemon to you guys. They are simply wonderful. Not only appearancewise, but in terms of in-game abilities. Use them people! You’ll not regret your decision! ^___^
My team at the moment is Percival the Servine Lv. 27 Sassy Nature Male, O’Riley the Herdier Lv. 27 Brave Nature Male, Infernic the Victini Lv. 27 Brave Nature, Storm the Zebstrika Lv. 27 Naive Nature Female, Pants Fall the Scraggy Lv. 27 Sassy Nature Male, and MightyDuck the Ducklett Lv. 28 Hasty Nature Male. Along with alot of Pokemon in the PC Box 1 such as a Venipede named Pendoraa, a Dwebble named Krustacia, a Deerling named Bambi, a Sandile named Shades, Redeye the Basculin (gotten from trade in Driftveil City) traded for my Mincinno named Sweepette (I caught it cause I thought it was a shiny), Cleopatra the Yamask, Archros the Archen, Cacthorn the Maractus, Male Nanny the Swadloon, Sinbad the Tranquill, Ferno the Darumaka, and alot more!
I’m currently in the midst of N’s Castle. Right now I have with me…
Emboar, L62
Simisage, L57
Swoobat, L54
Carracosta, L56
I also have a Golett with me because it knows Strength, and I forgot to drop it off before entering the Elite Four challenge. And my Larvesta Egg hatched while I was inside the Pokemon League, so I have her, too.
-Krookodile
-Liilgant
-Stoutland
-Sawsbuck
-Emboar
-Zoroark (shiny)
In the late 50’s
I’m at the end of Chargestone Cave, with:
Dewott – 31
Archen – 31 (AMAZING with Acrobatics (110 power 100 accuracy if you have no item? Yes please))
Darumaka – 31
Leavanny – 31
Excadrill – 31
Sigilyph – 32 (Just got him to counter my friend’s Conkledurr, but it’s pretty good at this point)
I’m going to swap in a Tynamo soon, and I’ll be getting Axew and Litwick soon as well, so my final team will be:
Samurott
Archeops
Chandelure
Haxorus
Excadrill
Eelektross
Agreed with the Archen comment.Archeops is even more powerful(even if that’s not necessary)
Team right now is at the 5th gym:
1. Seress (Servine) Lvl. 30
2. Nursow (Leavanny) Lvl. 27
3. Cryolitan (Vannilite) Lvl. 24
4. Chinchi (Minccino) Lvl. 25
5. Almonculus (Solosis) Lvl. 25
6. Vamphart (Swoobat) Lvl. 24
My final team with legendaries will be:
1. Seress (Serperior)
2. Nickname unkown (Zekrom)
3. Nickname unkown (Hydreigon)
4. Nursow (Leavanny)
5. Almonculus (Reuniclus)
6. Jellicent, Mienshao, Cinccino, or Elektross (leaning towards Jellicent)
If I wasn’t allowed legendaries, I would replace Zekrom and the Undecided spot with a Emboar and Samurott! 😀
Almost forgot to mention…
THE GAME IS FREIKING AMAZING!!!!!
I LOVE the moving sprites, and all of the new types of Pokemon. But the Pokemon aren’t actually what won me over. It was the AMAZING camera angles and shots and-and-an….OOOHHH!!! I get goosebumps just thinking about it!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 (I wish there was a symbol for ABSOLUTELY ECSTATIC!!!)
Well, I should rephrase that again. The Pokemon are the main staple of the games (duh) and so I feel I have hurt my beastly friends by saying that some fancy schmancy electronics won over my darling Pokemon. I am sorry Pokemon.
How dare you insult my Pokeymans. I’m gonna sick my Serperior on you! D:<
In the middle of Celestial Tower on black.
Samurott LV 37 (The sea lion thingy ♥)
Stoutland LV 35 (I am sadface he got a modest nature D:)
Excadrill LV 35 (Double sadface, she got Timid)
Conkeldurr LV 35 (My adamant heraderp :])
Ferroseed LV 35 (Thought it would be cool, but like totally useless ATM. Hope it gets better when it evolves)
Litwick LV 28 (My pride and joy :3 Just caught like 2 mins ago)
Ferroseed is amazing (its evo) in competitive. Not so great in normal game.
I got Basculin, Zoroark, Klinklang, Simisage, Swoobat, and Emboar. Well, right now, Zoroark and Klinklang are chilling in my PC while I level up my EV-trained Volcarona and Haxorus.
The Volcarona I SR’d for in Relic Castle. I brought along a specific team for it. A Timid Espeon, for Synchronize purposes. A Linoone with Thunder Wave. A Garchomp with False Swipe. And, in a fit of bad planning, Shiftry (for Dig, in order to get out of there) and Swoobat. Not the best idea to bring stuff that doesn’t resist Fire or Bug when Volcarona gets STAB on both those types, has special attacks of that type, Quiver Dance, and a high Special Attack. Fortunately, I caught it before it wiped out my entire team.
As for Haxorus, anyone remember the Mystery Egg event in Japan, where you’d either get a Pidove, a Pansage, or an Axew? And the Axew would have a Naive nature and a Speed IV of 31? I got such an Axew off the GTS the other day. Yeah. Right now it’s a fantastic Haxorus, level 66, fully EV trained.
1.Serperior
2.Darmanitan
3.Haxorus
4.Excadrill
5.Archeops
6.Zekrom
I just got my fifth badge and I’m in Chargestone Cave doing some level grinding with my new Lucky Egg before taking on N and his cronies. (Thanks Prof. Juniper!)
Current Team:
Manfred “Manny” the Serperior (male, lv. 40; Hardy nature)
Darcy the Swoobat (female, lv. 36; Lonely nature)
Matilda the Excadrill (female, lv. 35; Gentle nature)
Jason the Tirtouga (male, lv. 32; Quiet nature)
Tera the Tynamo (female, lv. 28; Impish nature)
Right now my team is
1. Samurott – lvl 70
2. Darmanitan – lvl 70
3. Galvantula – lvl 69
4. Krookodile – lvl 70
5. Archeops – lvl 65
6. ??? dont have one yet, debating between Lucario, Scrafty, Bisharp, Amoongus, Venasaur, Mienshao, and Gengar. I already have these pokemon but dont know which to use, leaning toward Bisharp but I dont really like having repeated types.
I think you should go Scrafty, but that’s just me and my preferences. And Venusaur’s cool too.
Hmmm…Personally, I’d add Mienshao into your team.
The only downside of that Pokemon is that it evolves at Level 50. Otherwise, it’s an excellent, competent Fighting-type. With its Regenerator ability, combined with U-Turn, you’ve got one hell of a combo! 😀
My team is serperior excadrill swanna carracoasta darmanitan and galvantula. My team is kinda low leveled at 40-45 at N’s castle but usually when I have problems I resort to my excadrills swords dance earthquake combo. But I do want them leveled up a bit. At least to 50. Any ideas?
Well, I highly recommend at least level 50 for N’s castle, based on what kind of things you’ll have to deal with. It’s better not to take risks at the end game, you know.
As for your team, I’d say it’s fine. Neither Pokes are bad or anything, at least I like them and think they are beyond awesome. If you really, REALLY want to change it, I’d suggest taking out Swanna, though. By no means it is terrible, but it is just decent, compared to the awesome Carracosta. And, I would allow Braviary to take its place, a pretty standard Flying-type, with awesome speed and attack stats and a rather decent movepool.
However, this should be your choice entirely. I wish you good luck and a happy, successful playtime! 🙂
Yeah I getcha. Thing is I have black. And I can’t get bravairy. I would get it from gts but I would have to see it in battle first. Do you think you can trade me one? And how do you think I should handle the level problem?
Hm…Yeah. You cannot get a Braviary from GTS, unless you go to Undella Town, which is way after you beat N. However, seeing that I own the White copy of the game, I can easily catch you one! ^_^
But, I looked at your team again, and realized that not only Braviary would make an excellent member of it, but Sigilyph as well. It’s appearance is a bit strange (althought I actually love it), but don’t let that fool you. It’s a great Poke, statswise pretty fast (97 compared to Braviary’s 80) and decently strong (103 compared to Braviary’s 123) with a wonderful movepool. It’s certainly useable with such moves as Air Slash, Shadow Ball, Psychic, Flash Cannon, Energy Ball and Ice Beam. While I look for a Rufflet for you, you may want to give it a try, seeing I am rather unsure if your team has these moves. 🙂
As for leveling, there are various ways to handle that. My routine is beating the daily trainers (At Opelucid City there’s a house where you can battle on both floors with Ace Trainers and at Nimbasa City there are the stadiums and the ferriswheel), then beat up various Pokes at Victory Road, before getting bored and going for a grass-shaking grinding around Route 9 and 10 (It basically works like the PokeRadar from DPP, you use Max Repels while walking in grass and wait for a rare Poke to come to beat it up for a delicious amount of EXP). Also, Lucky Egg and EXP share are your friends. Especially Lucky Egg on your leading Pokemon. Hope that helped! XP
True about sigilyph. I’ll try to find one. And when you want to trade or battle my friend code is 2322 5420 5978 thanks for all the adivce 😀
You’re welcome and thank you. 😀
Well, anytime, lol? Try it out and do leave a comment here how you decided then. :3
Well the audino thing really is working. I feel sorry for all the audino though lol. But I haven’t really tried out my sigilyph but when I do I’ll tell you wether or not I want rufflet.
I feel the same. I personally love Audino, but that’s just what happens. It doesn’t die or anything, just goes @_@ until a fellow Audino heals it, thankfully. Lol, okay.
My Unova Team is
Samurott
Eelektross
Chandelure
Gothitelle
Mienshao
Hydreigon
My main team:DDD
Empoleon
Typhlosion
Togekiss
Mamoswine
Mienshao
Hydreigon/ Dragonite/ Kindra/ Tyranitar (alternates)
I’m a little slow because of school, but I’m having fun, and have a decent team I hope. I have a Dewott, Solosis, Petilil, Pansear, Archen and Levanny. I actually randomly found a female jolly levanny today in a shaking bush, which is 5% rarity so I was happy and switched it with Herdier. I plan on getting rid of Pansear and Archen later, for the ground ghost golem and mienshao, Im still brushing up on names. I’m also slow cause I train with proper EV and stuff, ugh, but its worth it.
I got…
Serperior lv.60
Excadrill lv.60
Unfezant lv.60
Scrafty lv.60
Jellicent lv.60
Scolipede lv.60
They all have insanely high HPs because of Audino and Speed because of Basculin. They are AMAZING targets!
Could anyone tell me if my team is any good or not. I haven’t actually got the game yet so this is just an idea…
Samurott
Zebstrika
Darmanitan
Haxorus
Mienshao
Golurk
Well done, my friend. I believe this is an excellent team!
However, if you really want to only use these Pokemon in the game…Well…It’ll be certainly challanging for you, seeing half of your team will be met late in the game and the first gym might give you problems. (Grass-type leader and you’ll have only Oshawott the cute Water-type against his grass monkey and normal dog.)
Thanks!
Ps. I will (obviously) catch and use other pokemon during the game, just these will (hopefully) be my elite four team
You’re welcome! 😀
Lol. That’s good to hear. Well I’d suggest you to try them out and keep whatever you like on your team. Who knows, you might change your mind afterwards. (I did too. XP)
Thanks to my Japanese version of White I now have TWO starters on my current roster which will go towards my final team.
(With nicknames)
(Also type positions)
Grass- Viper2nd the Serperior
Fire- Boarbeque the Emboar
Fire2- Darumasan the Darmanitan (male) or Zen the Darmanitan (has Zen mode) (female)/ Spectra the Chandelure
Water- Leatherback or Crush-2 the Carracosta
Electric- ion2 the Lanturn or Petrol the Mow Forme Rotom
Ground- TERRA2 the Golurk
I recently finished Black. These were my team mates:
Handyman the Emboar
Inflow the Carracosta
Amoray the Eelektross
Eloin the Sawsbuck
Roswell the Beheeyem
Shortsword the Haxorus
And now I’m starting White! So far I’ve got:
Regalia the Servine
Bushido the Dewott
I’m already post-game, but when I beat N my team was:
Pliskin – Serperior
Zekrom
Johnny – Scrafty
Biggarbag – Garbodor I never even used
Haxorus
Cobalion
xD Is that a reference to Johnny our chat mod??
Haven’t picked up the White version yet but here’s my planned team for the game:
Samurott
Liepard
Crustle
Reuniclus
Chandelure
Simisage / Ferrothorn
I can’t decide who I want for my grass-type slot. Who do you think I should pick?
Leavanny :>
Haha. Leavanny is nice, but Crustle has the bug slot covered. Thanks though.
Stunfisk :>
…nobody likes Stunfish :<
…or Stunfisk :<
I got a new user name!! (*happy*)
Please quit spamming:/
PJ and Leavanny, sitting in a tree…<3
Anyways, I think it depends on what you want for your team? I’ll try to cover up what you mentioned and I’ll make a suggestion myself, if you don’t mind. 🙂
Simisage is a little subpar in terms of stats and gets okay moves. I personally enjoy the monkeys, because they are rather fast and decently strong. It’s just you have to wait awhile to evolve them. You get the Leaf Stone quite early, but they get Crunch at Level 43, one of their best moves and they don’t learn anything new once evolved, so…Yeah…I think if you are patient enough and really want it, go for it. It will certainly suffice. My Simipour never betrayed me. 😉
Ferrothorn, on the other hand, is one of the best Grass-types available in Gen 5. It can be very annoying, since it can hit pretty hard with Gyro Ball and its ability is really irritating as well, that works like Rough Skin. The downside of it is that it is mainly a defensive Pokemon. It has abysmal speed (10/20 base speed!) and doesn’t learn a decent Grass-type move until it evolves. Definitally possible to use, if you want to. Just be patient with it.
And, my personal pick would be Lilligant. This Pokemon is not only adorable, but an absolute terror in-game. She learns Quiver Dance (This move boosts Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed stats), Petal Dance, a move with 120 battlepower, that combined with her ability, Own Tempo, pretty much shreds everything into pieces (Keep in mind that you are unable to switch for 2-3 turns, but who cares, when you are killing wildlife? :P). She evolves with a Sun Stone, but that should’t be a problem. So, I’d basically nominate this Poke for you.
Still, the decision is yours! 😀
Wow! Thanks for the advice, Marianne. Yeah, I was considering ditching Ferrothorn because of its low Speed despite its pros, which you mentioned (wicked high Def and Sp. Def, Gyro Ball) as well as its ability, Iron Barbs, in favor of Simisage, who’s decently fast.
I debated on this especially since I have another slow Pokemon, Reuniclus, on my team, whom I’m sticking by and would like to keep on my team. Basically I thought it’d be a liability to have more than one slow Pokemon in my roster.
But Lilligant, hmmm…she sounds awesome, too. I suppose the best thing I can do is to test out each of these three out when I get the game and then make my decision as well. Thanks for your input!
You’re more than welcome! 😀
Actually I wouldn’t suggest Reuniclus. If you want a psychic i would get Musharna. I had a Reuniclus on my team for my elite four beating team, but it is rarely used due to being weak, and was constantly knocked out.
Huh, okay. I’ll try and use Munna in the start and if she grows on me, I might use her on my team. But really, if I wasn’t playing the White version I would have used Gothitelle instead. Maybe I can find someone to trade with me?