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
I’m at Gym 5, and my team so far is:
– Emboar (Strength, Heat Crash, Flame Charge & Brick Break)
– Seismitoad (Muddy Water, Bubblebeam, Uproar & Mud Shot)
– Sigilyph (Air Cutter, Psyshock, Psybeam & Hypnosis)
– Scraggy (ThunderPunch, Brick Break, Bite & Chip Away)
– Leavanny (Razor Leaf, Slash, Aerial Ace & Bug Bite)
All Lv. 36! I’ve got an underleveled pansage in my team too just because he knows cut, but I’ll be catching a Basculin ASAP to use as a HM Slave 🙂
Also, this is the first ever time I’ve played a Pokemon game & not just used my starter – going from training one pokemon to training 5 is hard work, but it’s much more fun 😀
I owe it to my cousin who got me 6 Lucky Eggs – I don’t ask how he got them, I just thank him 😉
Scraggy ftw!
My team is doing fine the members are
Serperior lvl 54
Darmanitan lvl 65
Gothitelle lvl 62
Swoobat lvl 45
Simipour lvl 29
Liligant lvl 28
Strings – Reuniclus
Talon – Unfezant
Katana – Bisharp
Neptune – Samurott
All level sixty.
Meh. My team before the Elite Four was:
– female Serperior (Fern)
– female Liepard (Nala)
– male Zebstrika (Light… yes, Death Note reference .< And holy Arceus, catching a Metang was a pain! XD
I’m in the middle of tracking down the Sages. LOVE this game so far!
My current team:
-Hydreigon – Lvl 65 – Levitate – Modest Nature
@Wise Glasses
Dark Pulse, Dragon Pulse, Work Up, Fire Blast
(Hydreigon was a pain. One of the first things I did after beating the Elite 4 was catch a Seviper to breed and get Dark Pulse. Then came the long lvling up from 1 to 64 to evolve Zweilous into Hydreigon. This is the first Pokemon game that I’ve actually put time into.)
-Golurk – Lvl 63 – Iron Fist – Adamant Nature
@Muscle Band
Shadow Punch, Earthquake, Telekinesis, Dynamic Punch
(Golurk is one of my favorite 5th Gen Pokemon. With the Iron Fist ability and Muscle Band, his punches are beastly, especially Shadow Punch, which gets STAB bonus. Gave him Telekinesis to make Dynamic Punch 100% accurate.)
-Elektross – Lvl 63 – Levitate – Jolly Nature
@Shell Bell
Wild Charge, Coil, Crunch, Thunder Wave
(As much as I loved the designs of most of the new electric types, none are really THAT great in battle. I decided to go with Elektross because the fact that he has no weaknesses intrigued me. He is still a little flimsy but he can take out a few Pokemon before he taps out. Gave him Shell Bell mainly to make up for the damage he does to himself when using Wild Charge.)
-Ferrothorn – Lvl 65 – Iron Barbs – Brave Nature
@Rocky Helmet
Curse, Gyro Ball, Toxic, Leech Seed
(Ferrothorn is the shít! With the Iron Barbs ability and Rocky Helmet, any physical attacker that isn’t fire is screwed. I start out with a Leech Seed and Toxic if the opponent has a ton of health and then spam Curse. The opponent has tons of his health going away, some of which is coming to me, and all the while I’m building up a monstrous Gyro Ball for the rest of the opponent’s team.)
-Carracosta – Lvl 66 – Solid Rock – Adamant Nature
@Leftovers
Shell Smash, Waterfall, Stone Edge, Sandstorm
(Carracosta is my pride and joy. Shell Smash is unbelievable. Can easily sweep most resistant teams after just two Shell Smashes. Sandstorm can help with the special defense loss that comes with Shell Smash.)
-Sigilyph – Lvl 65 – Magic Guard – Modest Nature
@Life Orb
Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Calm Mind, Air Slash
(Sigilyph is surprisingly good. Magic Guard is an amazing ability and goes perfectly with Life Orb. Add Calm Mind stat boosts and health regeneration from Dream Eater and you’re set.)
Pokemon 5th Gen: Pokemon’s foray into Generic RPGs!
Seriously, that’s kinda what my overall experience with Black has been. Like, if one says ‘All pokemon games are generic RPGs!’ then 5th gen is the most generic of the generics.
Stay away from plots, Gamefreak. You don’t do them well.
As for my team, so far I have Joltik, Pansage, Panpour, Sawk, Lilipup, and Darumakka. I’m on the fast-track of getting my 8th badge without evolving a single one. 4th Gen I had trouble if I didn’t evolve anything by the 4th-5th badge.
I don’t really think Pokemon will ever be generic, because I don’t know of many RPGs that are as customizable as Pokemon. You can pick however many and whatever team members you like, even your very first one at the beginning of the game.
Also, how was the plot not done well? The plot on paper was pretty bland, but the execution was phenomenal. Everything about the N’s castle scene was amazing in my opinion, but hat goes off to Gamefreak for the job they did. I’ve been of the opinion that Pokemon shouldn’t be plot based, but the end of B&W swayed me quite a bit in the other direction.
Umm…. cut-scenes? Cut scenes look pretty but they don’t translate to gameplay. Pokemon eventually got cut scenes but they’re still just mini-movies. They don’t really have much to do with the plot other than making certain scenes stand out by looking pretty.
My problem with the plot is that they tried to do a reverse-Team-Rocket plot but the overall execution falls flat on its face just by the sheer premise. Example: “Oh noes! Legendary Dragon has awoken and is going to destroy society if we don’t stop it! But first, have a gym battle.” Seriously the Champ tells you this when, under the threat of the world collapsing, he could just give you a by to help save the world and then continue on with your badge quest. If having all 8 badges did something other than be a signal to open Victory Road (when the Champ can come and go as he pleases) then I’d be a little less annoyed.
And before that: “Oh, I’m going to destroy the world by befriending this legendary pokemon. Here’s how you can stop me and where you can find me…”
The entire storyline and plot is fed to you, almost condescendingly so, since the first town. A friend commented, “Way to spoil the ending for me by telling me how it ends in the very first town” which goes back to my point of the entire concept being stupid to begin with.
On top of that, the game being extremely linear bugs the crap out of me. It seems that’s really the only reason the bridges exist is to keep you following the Plasma plot.
If people like this generation, hey more power to them. I only picked up my copy because I forgot I had gift certificates lying around that I forgot to mail out; spending about $15 for my copy. I would have been pissed at myself if I had paid full-price for this game. In my mind, arguably, this is the worst generation in terms of plot and general game-play changes that I don’t like.
troll: “Nostalgia glasses!” <- screw off. I'm entitled to my opinion just as you are entitled to trolling and spamming by posting unhelpful and cheap insults without evaluation of the arguments.
In short: cut-scenes are pretty, this game is pretty, but I don't like the poorly executed and spoon-fed plot. Even the "twist" at the end doesn't help save it for me.
Okay, fair enough. You gave me a very well thought out explanation as to why you disliked aspects of the game, and I completely understand your point, and we’ll have to agree to disagree. I don’t want to act like my opinion is important enough that you need to ignore your opinion and believe mine, so I’ll just say thank you for an intelligent non-hostile discussion.
No, thank YOU! lol
I’ve been following the games and have been discovering things on my own as I play Black.
I’ve listed my concerns about the games before and all I really ever got back was, “Oh you’re just one of the ones that say the older generations are better and the new ones suck so your opinion doesn’t count!” without people actually touching upon the changes that I listed.
Point: the change in mechanics of Thief and Pickup. Thief no longer keeps the held item that you steal from an NPC’s pokemon. I really believe the only reason this was implemented was because the developers wanted to give the bosses/rivals’ pokemon held-items and didn’t want the player to have a second or third leftovers, etc. -> which is a bad reason to change a game mechanic.
Same thing happens with the new Pickup mechanism where it copies a used held item. Wild Pokemon? No problem. But don’t expect that Oran Berry from copying Cheren’s starter’s berry at the end of battle. Why can’t we keep it? What’s wrong with that?
But again, thanks for an actual intelligent conversation and I respect your decision to agree-to-disagree. 🙂
It won’t let me reply to your comment, so I’ll reply to my own to reply to yours.
I think if you’re actually bothering to explain your reasoning, there’s no way I can act like you’re just a nostalgia-blinded non-fan.
Also, I automatically will listen more to someone on this site than a random non-pokemon-related forum because everyone here enjoys the series as a whole and doesn’t tend to feel everything needs to be compared to the first games.
yeah, odd commenting system.
Okay, I just found another change that pisses me off – using items in battle. One change is that after you use an item, such as a potion, it’ll allow you to use it again right away without having to go through the menu again. I accidentally used a rare candy this way. But the thing that pisses me off is I accidentally used a revive on an unfainted pokemon and it used up my turn in battle! It said the item can’t be used, it wasn’t deducted from my bag, but I couldn’t attack that turn and the opponent got a free turn in. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU CHANGE IT TO THAT!? THAT pisses me off big time that they’d change something incredibly stupid like that.
Yeah… gotta agree with that >_______>; They should’ve kept it as just a warning which does not let you lose items or turns.
For Pokemon White, Samurott, Chanderlure, Haxorus, Zoroark, Excadrill, and Archeops
I’ve been having a blast playing the White Version! I’m glad I didn’t read everything about this game and avoided the leaks, because it’s been so much fun to discover all these new Pokemon and attacks while playing. I was certainly amazed when my Woobat completely changed form when it evolved; it looks like a bat-dragon, and it’s really cool.
This is also the first time I’ve left my starter in a PC (for a short while; just brought it back out today). There are so many cool Pokemon in this game that I want to train all of them and see what they can do and what they could evolve into. I don’t think I’ve been this intrigued by a Pokemon game since Yellow (my first game).
The C-Gear has also been a great tool! I’ve noticed a fair amount people in my college are playing this game (a surprising amount chose Snivy for their starter), and a lot more people bought the White Version than I had expected. I was also surprised by how many students already had almost 40 hours clocked on their games. I hope even more people bring this game with them wherever they go — it would be fun to meet more people with the C-Gear. I can’t wait until I can get the ability to enter other people’s games and help out fellow players!
I’ve just defeated Burgh this morning, and Bianca shortly after. Dewott is back on my team, and the rest of my team is Pansear, Boldore (his Smack Down is such a cool move!), my freshly caught Lilligant, Whirlipede, and Tranquill. I’ve gotta say, going into this game with as little knowledge of the new Pokemon as possible was the best thing I’ve ever done. That alone may affect my opinion a little more, but I think this is the best Pokemon game ever, and I’m not even halfway through it! =D
My team at the moment (Just got the sixth badge a few minutes ago)
Serperior lvl 44
Unfezant lvl 43
Scrafty lvl 42
Carracosta lvl 42
Lampent lvl 43
(As soon as I get surf I’m catching my self an Axew)
P.S. Three of my team members are hardy nature -_- I kind of wish they were different, but whatever…
Something I forgot to mention, this may just be “OMG NEW POKEMON GAMES” excitement blinding me (I doubt it though now that I’ve had it almost a week), but B&W are definitely at the top of my favorites. I’d say it’d have to be a tie between gen V and gen III, but my love of gen III is mostly for the nostalgia and how many times I’ve played it. Gamefreak definitely lived up to the hype these games have had, and I think it might have the ability to reconvert some people who haven’t really been into Pokemon since older games.
Yeah, I think these games are at the top of my list. Personally, it only ranks below gen 1 (for familiarity’s sake) for pokemon. It makes me kind of sad that I didn’t pick up Black, too!
my team for the 4th Gym:
Dewott Lv. 32
Herdier Lv. 28
Pansear Lv. 30
Zebstrika Lv. 28
Tranquill Lv. 28
Boldore Lv. 30
btw: i caught a sigilyph. those things are huge. good thing i got those Ultra Balls from Professor Juniper. 😀 😀 White Is SOOOOO EPICCCC 😀 😀
I beat the Elite Four, and am gathering up some Unova Pokemon and evolving them. I love this game (White) so hard! Hahaha! The Transfer Lab is great fun!
My team is:
Usogawa (Samurott), Lv. 57
Dylan (Simisear), Lv. 57
Herman (Crustle), Lv. 57
Ceasar (Sawsbuck), Lv. 57
Roswell (Beheeyem), Lv. 57
Tik-Tok (Golurk), Lv. 57
In Relic Castle. Team is:
Samorott lv 40
Stoutland lv 40
Darmanitan lv 41
Duosion lv 40
Axew lv 36
I’m not having any trouble as no one has more than 3 pokemon on their team, usually just one. It is fun though and I have already devoted 45 hours of my life to it. Also, should I switch out Duosion with Zebstrika? Duosion has a really bad defense and spends a lot of time fainted. It’s only use is for the fighting types, but once I get my Braviary I won’t really need it as much. So should I saify out Duosion for Zebstika?
I think you should try out Blitzle if you’re not exactly fond of the Solosis line. You’ve got nothing to lose from it. 🙂
Have you evolved Duosion? I suggest giving that a try for a few levels; if you’re still not satisfied then by all means swap out. IIRC mine spent a lot of time fainted too, but it gets a nice HP boost upon evolving that might help- I know mine certainly became a powerhouse (…then again, she also has a nice hidden power ground that I needed oh-so desperately).
Best of luck deciding what to do!
Thanks! I kept it and once it evolved into Reuniclus it was great.
Glad I could help. ^^
I just got my 8th badge on Black. My team is:
Samurott – Lvl 48
Shiny Sandile – Lvl 36
Leavanny – Lvl 36
Joltik – Lvl 35
Ducklett – Lvl 34 (Often swapped with Darumaka – Lvl 34)
Gurdurr – Lvl 33
I’ve barely started White, so I won’t bother with that.
We are pretty close. I will battle you if you want. My friend code is 1678 3011 6549
I’m at route 5 and here is my Black team :
Dewott= 28 =Razor shell=Water pulse=Water Gun=Rock Smash
Simisear=24=Flame burst=Bite=Cut=Incinerate
Tranquill=25=Gust=Air cutter=Work up=Quick Attack
Herdier=23=Leer=Strength=Take down=Bite
Sandile=25=Mud-slap=Torment=Sand tomb=Assurance
Just got the National Dex and I have logged in 72 hours of play. Ill put up my full review of the game later too. Anyway team is:
Rufflet lv. 50
Darmanitan lv. 53
Reuniclus lv. 48
Smurott lv. 51
Stoutland lv. 49
Haxorus lv. 53
Samurott ♂
Simisear ♂
Cinccino ♀
Archaen ♂
Sawsbuck ♀
Reuniclus ♀
This is my team :3, they are at Lv. 70~75
my team samurott,big zebra,axew. little eagle ….im stuck whitch ones beter crafty or mienshao…oh and i have krokorok
I would go with Scrafty cuz mine took out the elite 4 by itself
First post ever 😛
– Jett (Samurott) lvl 41
– Gulliver (Stoutland) lvl 41
– Sobek (Krookodile) lvl 41
– Heath (Darmanitan) lvl 40
– Archie (Archeops) lvl 40
– (eventually) (Zekrom)
A bit late cause i haven’t been on in a few days cause I’ve been busy playing, but i still wanted to share.
Oh and if I couldn’t use Zekrom I would use Galvantula.
Welcome to the league of commenters :3
Well apparently my team decided it would start to suck after the 7th gym so my new team is
Samurott
Stoutland
Simisear
Haxorus
Beartic
Scrafty
I changed my team but i kept my Haxorus and my Scrafty XD
seismitoad
haxorus
braviary
zebstrika
scolipede
serperior
i think theyre all around lvl 63. lol.
idk if this is a good team but it works for me.
ehh its hard training when you beat the pokemon league and all the trainers. -.-
My elite four winning team:
Bisharp level 53
Samarott level 52
Victini level 50
Druddigon level 51
Galvantula level 51
Vullaby level 52
After defeating the elite four, I decided to go back to route one with a new team but the same save data
New team (all level one):
Tepig
Snivy
Oshawott
Axew
Zorua
Mienfoo
Open for suggestions