The Top 10 Mistakes that New Pokemon Trainers Make
07. Failure / Refusal to Train
Personally I was shocked to discover how often this mistake is made by new trainers. It is probably part of the common pattern of mistaking the assembly of the first six Pokemon as a viable team, and perhaps partly not understanding why putting in the time and the effort is worth it...
There is also the tendency for new trainer to overly-rely on their Starter Pokemon, using them as their Chuck Norris Pokemon in the mistaken belief that the Starter will be able to carry the day for every critical battle including Gym Battles.
This is just not the case, though it is understandable. Most trainers (us too) keep their Starter as part of their team from start to end - and there is nothing wrong with that. But your Starter is not the magic bullet for every battle. That has to be understood early on!
Thanks to items like Experience Share you can very easily bring even the lower-level captures up to fighting weight in practically no time - and there is very good reason to do so, as we will now explain.Under optimal conditions you have obtained each type of Pokemon for your A-Team, and you are keeping them all at team level or better. The Team/Party Level is basically the target level for your next Gym Battle.
It is very important that you have six Pokemon (your party) able to participate in each Gym Battle because if luck goes against you or your understanding of moves and stats is not fluent just yet you may very well NEED all six of them!
It would be a very good idea for you to obtain a Type-Chart so that you can learn which Pokemon types are strong - and weak - against other Pokemon types.
What we mean by leveling the party for Gym Battles is simple too - each Gym will have Pokemon who are of specific levels. One of the prime reasons for doing the Gym Battles is because each Gym Badge ups the level of Pokemon you can successfully give orders to.
The Gym Level Guide and Level Targets are as follows:
Gym #1: Santalune City - Leader Viola - Bug-type - Pokemon Levels 10 - 12
Gym #2: Cyllage City - Leader Grant - Rock-type - Pokemon Levels 25
Gym #3: Shalour City - Leader Korrina - Fighting-type - Pokemon Levels 28 - 32
Gym #4: Courmaline City - Leader Ramos - Grass-type - Pokemon Levels 30 - 34
Gym #5: Lumiose City - Leader: Clemont - Electric-type - Pokemon Levels 33 - 37
Gym #6: Laverre City - Leader: Valerie - Fairy-type - Pokemon Levels 38 - 42
Gym #7: Anistar City - Leader: Olympia - Psychic-type - Pokemon Levels 44 - 48
Gym #8: Snowbelle City - Leader: Wulfric - Ice-type - Pokemon Levels 55 - 59
As you can see the levels vary but lack an y uniformity that is predictable in the sense that you can just level a set number between each gym. On the other hand, level requirements are relatively low for these gyms, which will certainly speed up your party/team building...
The Gym Badge Control Limits are as follows:
1 Badges - Obedient up to level 30;
2 Badges - Obedient up to level 40;
3 Badges - Obedient up to level 50;
4 Badges - Obedient up to level 60;
5 Badges - Obedient up to level 70;
6 Badges - Obedient up to level 80;
7 Badges - Obedient up to level 90;
8 Badges - All Pokémon are obedient.
Once you have obtained all eight Gym Badges in addition to the story play, you will be headed for the Elite 4 and the Championships...
The Elite 4 Level Targets:
The ultimate battles in which you prove yourself mean you will want to be well-leveled and pick the right team for ALL of the battles since you do them one-after-the-other and cannot change up your team or re-supply between them.
Elite #1: Malva - Fire-type - x4 @ Pokemon Levels 63 - 65
Elite #2: Wikstrom - Steel-type - x4 @ Pokemon Levels 63 - 65
Elite #3: Drasna - Dragon-type - x4 @ Pokemon Levels 63 - 65
Elite #4: Siebold - Water-type - x4 @ Pokemon Levels 63 - 65
Champion Diantha - No Typer Set - x6 @ Pokemon Levels 64 - 68
As you can see keeping your team diverse and properly leveled is more than just a good idea, it is absolutely necessary.
The bottom line? Refusing to level and train your party/team is the fastest way to fail at the game. Another point that should be clear is that leveling is also the primary means for obtaining the natural new moves for each Pokemon. You want to level your team and their moves and you want to learn the most effective methods for employing each.
Finally you should bear in mind that training is absolutely required if you really do plan to Catch 'Em All since you will need to move each Pokemon through their entire evolutionary stage.
ash is WAY dumb. he catches like 10 pokemon per generation has caught no ledgendarys only shiny is a shiny noctowl lets pokemon go for no reason or stupid reasons and can never reconize team rocket.
I only keep my pokemon that i use in battle and AFTER i defeat the champion i return to these areas to catch the pokemon there!You won't die of You don't catch them immidiately sheeeesh!
did they get dum because no such thing in rill life and ant rilly rill and no biddy should carr rilly they shoudent i woudent butt evudenley they are dum enughf to play to get dum dont know why butt dont carr
Half of this stuff is stuff that people figure out while playing the game, and the other half is telling people that there's only one way to play this game, and if you don't play that way you're wrong...
Psychic cant touch dark type not the other way around
Wait... people don't heal their pokemon at a pokecenter often? Why? I heal up almost religiously whenever I can and whenever I see a pokecenter. This is like pokemon 101 right here. If you don't realize you should heal up early and often, then there is no hope for you. I mean, I am pretty sure a NPC tells you this at the very beginning of each game.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an HM slave, or in the later games, 2 HMs slaves in your party at once. This article is talking about not being able to use them in combat... You are completely missing the point of the HM slave then. You are NOT SUPPOSE to use them in combat. They are on your team to take up the crappy HMs that you need to successfully navigate the world without making a main battle oriented pokemon learn them. I don't know of any good HMs for use in combat... maybe Surf? Why would anyone even want to use an HM slave in battle? I don't get it.
I rarely have HM slave exactly because they can't be used in battles. You have to carry them around, and that makes you lose one slot in your team. Most of the time I bitterly and painfully sacrificed a move from the pokemon I considered as weakest in my team and squeezed in the most commonly needed HM. If more than one is needed, I'll just sacrifice another move from another pokemon. Really not that bad, since I still get to keep my full team.
1. Toxic is WAY worse than a burn...
2. A burn also halves your attack stat...
3. Your pokemon still defend's while frozen...
4. Most of these could be switched out of, which is a huge factor in the game...
5. Pokemon fall asleep immediately, not after a turn, unless Yawned at...
how many pokemon is their? how many pokemon chraners is their and what is their names? and we love them they chriy hard and we do to and they are all smart to and th e pkemon is to and we wish them good luck to pokemon and firend and they never give up to and we will cherr for them to because they do alot of hard work to and we do to and we are their pokemohn firends to we dont carr what stops us we dont give up we cherr for team ash and because their good hip hip pray to the pokemon to and them to
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Page five says psychic is immune to dark,I know you meant the other way around but it might need to be fixed
Who is this avalanche of knowledge meant for? The people new to pokemon who hate reading the manual and/or in game tutorial bits? You think they're gonna read all of this instead? I'M failrly interested and even gave up after just one page.
Half of this stuff is something that should be bleeding obvious and the other half is best (and most fun) to find out yourself. "use awakening to wake up your pokemon" "always have enough antidotes" wow thanks.
Well, I fit in to a lot of these categories, and now I'm going to change my ways, so it worked for me. The weird thing is, I'm not competitive, but I have been playing for like three years.
While playing Pokemon FireRed, I found that the Best HM Slave is Rhydon (IDK The Number) which can learn Cut, Surf, RockSmash, Strength, and a few other HMs. And the Rhyhorns are easily available in the Safari Zone, which can be levelled up quite easikly, and that nmakes it easy to obtain. My Rhydon has Surf, Cut, Rock Smash, and STrength, which makes it quite good in battle too!
That is not at all good in battle. Its only move that it can actually use for damage is Strength. Rhydon is actually a pretty good Pokemon, though, it would be more than worth training one for real.
This page was helpful.
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