The Top 10 Mistakes that New Pokemon Trainers Make
03. Hacked Pokemon
File this under 'Really don't see the attraction?'
Actually that is not entirely accurate - in a way we do see the attraction. After all the way that the system is set up you have to not only stay aware of what is going on in terms of Event and Legendary Pokemon give-aways, but you have to BE there for them.
Nothing sucks worse than having missed a distribution by days, especially when it was an e-distro in which all you had to do was remember to use the game to log into the Internet server and collect that Pokemon.
Eventually, that happens often enough - and you see your mates having Pokemon you don't - that you start thinking to yourself, well, I would have had that if I had remembered. And besides it is not really cheating since it is a Pokemon that they gave away anyway. So what is the harm in getting one from one of those guys online who offers to custom-generate Pokemon for you? For free? For the asking?No harm right? Despite the fact that it is understandable it is still a significant mistake.
The reason for that is simple enough - walking through this door slowly eats away at you. The hacked ones are not worth as much as the ones you earned and the ones you got legitimately. It is not something that you decided - it just is the way it is.
Sadly the one thing that they don't tell you, and you don't get warned about, is that the presence of those illegitimate Pokemon taint the game and game play experience.
They color it in a negative way and in the end that free Pokemon ends up forever altering what was once one of the pleasurable parts of your gamer existence.
That's just the effect on normal players. The impact it has for competitive trainers is far worse.
For that level of player there is real risk involved - and not just because if it ever gets out that they're using hacked Pokemon it costs them their reputation. Walking down this road requires them to develp a healthy measure of paranoia!
Part of the reason is very simple: they cannot use a hacked Pokemon in tournament play.
What is worse, they have to ensure that the cartridge they are using for tourney play does not have any tainted Pokemon on it - because the organizers have a system for verifying the legitimacy of each Pokemon that is registered for battles and, even more harmful they will flag and ban an entire cartridge when a single hacked Pokemon is found on it.
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The serious tourney trainers who opt to choose hacked Pokemon as their shortcut usually make the choice in order to complete their Pokedex, never having any intentions of using a hacked Pokemon in tourney play - or even allowing a hacked Pokemon anywhere NEAR a tourney.
What they do is obtained the Pokemon that are required to complete their Dex and then they either delete the Pokemon - in the case of Legendary ones that cannot breed, or they breed it with a Ditto to create a legitimate Pokemon and then delete the original hacked one to destroy its tainted trail.
That way the one on their cart has the proper creds. Using hacked Pokemon to add the Dex entry also pays dividends in that it then permits the trainer to search for trades for legitimate ones of that type.
Bottom line is the mistake that New Trainers often make is not so much getting Hacked Pokemon as it is keeping them - which is a very big mistake and the reason that it lands at Number 3 on our Top 10 Countdown of Mistakes New Trainers Make!
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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