The Top 10 Mistakes that New Pokemon Trainers Make
04. Failing to Leverage Resources
This is one of the most common mistakes that new trainers make - failing to make full use of the various resources in the game.
The most common failure in this most common of failures is not taking full advantage of the new combined Pokemon Center / Pokemon Stores.
Remember that any time you bring your Poke Balls to Nurse Joy they do not simply get their HP reset and any Status Ailments healed - they ALSO get their PP count reset for each and every move in their moves set.
Sure they may only be down 10 HP so it may not seem like taking the time to hit Nurse Joy up for a heal, but considering that you used more than half of the PP for Tackle there is no excuse for NOT using the heal facility!More than that though, new trainers should be making it a habit to avail themselves of the facilities whenever a Pokemon Center is within a stone's throw!
Ideally the habit they build will have them automatically hit the Center and heal up, then the Store to top-off their supplies. Each Trainer has their own comfort level in terms of supporting kit - for us that is a set number of Poke and Great Balls, a set number of Potions and Super Potions, and of course a set number of each of the utility objects (think Antidote, Awakening, etc.) because you never need that extra Antidote until you really NEED that extra Antidote!
A good habit to get into is to save your game before exiting the Pokemon Center so that it becomes automatic for you.
Another mistake that new trainers make that is related is avoiding contact with the NPCs of the world.
Sure it makes sense to assume that an NPC out in the wilderness is really just an NPC Trainer looking for a fight - but not always - and especially not always when in towns or buildings!
When new trainers avoid NPCs they are also avoiding free kit items, free Poke Balls, free (and often very useful advice), sometimes a Free Pokemon (in the form of an in-game trade) and more often than not a battle that is worth serious coin for the winning!
Food for thought and to wonder how it is that this mistake is so common?
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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