How do you train?

[watergod]

The title says it all, when you're training you're Pokemon how do you do it? Do you go and fight the most powerful things you can find or do you go for an easy fight? Do you switch out when your Pokemon's on low health or do you leave it in until the end?
I personally go back to the beginning town, from here my method differs from game to game. In Leaf Green, I just cycle until I get to the first trainers you can use the VS. Seeker on, after Pewter City. From here on, I follow the routes along, going along every route in order and using the VS.Seeker on each person. I leave the Pokemon in until it faints.
On Sapphire, I check the Pokenav to see if any trainers want to fight, if they do I go to them without flying, then keep doing this untl there's no one else to fight. Then I will go through all the grass and water until my Pokemon has reached the desired level. Of course, when I get further in the game (I only have two badges) I will fight the trainers, then the Elite 4, ignoring the wild Pokemon.

 

[Another Fan]

Huh, I never let my pokemon faint. Barely use healing items. Go straight to story line or exploration, no training just to train. Don't use VS. Seeker. I'll do it once I beat the game. And if they beat me, soft reset. And if I am low or there is even the slightest chance of fainting a pokemon, I save and go to the pokecenter. And save after every battle, just in case.

 

[Darth-Vader]

Well, I train my Pokemon evenly, and I use EXP.Share. I always try to battle A Pokemon around 3 levels above it or lower!

 

[Jo-Jo]

First time through the game, I plow straight through without bothering to stop and train. Once I've completed it, I breed Pokemon for the right nature, EV train them, and then battle the Elite Four with EXP share over and over until they're at the level I want.

I tried something slightly new with FireRed, though - kept my starter Pokemon (Bulbasaur) at the top of my party at all times and only used it for battling. I sped through the Gym Leaders faster than ever before (Sleep Powder + Leech Seed made up for any type disadvantage), but was totally screwed when I reached the Elite Four because I always ran out of PP about halfway through. Even then, I got to the end of the game in about 1/3 of the time it used to take me back on Blue.

 

[Pieomon]

I used VS Seeker in Leaf Green/Fire Red because the Elite Four is toughest there (since they have the high levels of R/B and the smarts to actualy attack sorta effectivly), and my pokemon were underleveled for the job (and underpowered as I had a rather underpowering team). Otherwise my training is generaly elite-four runs. Another option is Colosseum's Deep Colosseum and XD's Battle Montian area 10.

 

[Jukain]

First, I train my starter poke to L:8 or so to beat my rival in the first battle for Silver and Ruby. On Yellow and FR, I just have to hope that my poke beats him up before he gets me. I've done it the last few times I tried. It is the one time I will have the Potion from my PC standing by if he does give me a really hard time. Anyway, I will continue from there, catching only whatever pokemon I need for my team and raise them to exactly the same levels as the rest of my team. I often use wild pokemon for this if I have no choice, but I will use trainers and Exp. Share/switch to a poke that can better handle it. When they reach the same level, I will just take on all trainers, no matter where they are, just for the exp. Usually when I reach a Gym leader, my levels will be substantially higher than theirs, or at least I will have powerful enough attacks to deal with them. I will clear the gym itself of all of its trainers as well. I will do this clear to the Elite 4. I cannot beat them on the first try no matter what I do, though. Just not powerful enough, so my latest idea was to train them as high as Victory Road will take them, and then just blindly charge at them, disregarding equal training until it gets through. After I beat them, it's a coin toss. I normally train using a combination of the unlocked area of high-level pokemon that comes after (Cerulean Cave, Mt. Silver, and Sky Pillar), the E4, and perhaps some trainers that want to battle with me from the Trainer's Eyes in Ruby or the Vs. Seeker for FR/LG. The trainers on Seven Island give the most exp. The last time I was just training to fill my dex with the evos of pokemon I caught, I went into the area of high-level pokes and used Exp. Share on them, using my real team to take down the pokemon. If that wasn't enough, I would go through the E4.

 

[LightningTopaz]

I'll poke around looking for Pokemon, then when I find one I want to build up, I pull the ol' bait and switch manuver in trainer battles (if it's a lower leveled Pokemon that I want to build up), plus tussle with wild Pokemon

 

[Strawberry Delcatty]

You will ALWAYS find a Meowth/Persian and Skitty/Delcatty on my team. The other four depend on my mood.

Anyway, I raise my Pokemon team with even levels.

 

[firetamer]

I use the VS Seeker to get into double battles and I use EXP.Share.

 

[~AntonioBIO~]

I use the VS Seeker to get into double battles and I use EXP.Share.

I also use the VS Seeker, and also, I battle the Elite Four tons of times to get my Pokemon stronger. Before I could beat the Elite Four, I would just try to find as many trainers as possible and battle them to raise my team. I also look for a wild area that I think has the highest-leveled Pokemon and train my team that way, too.

 

[cold_katanagirl]

I normally train mine evenly and I have a tendency to overtrain. Or say I overtrain but my levels are like millions below gym leaders.

I've tried saying "I'm going through with the starter", but I end up catching a full team and start the nasty training habit.

I've tried "Going through without training and just beating the crap out of everyone" approach. I end up training before I get to Pewter.

All in all, I'm a training freak. There will be times I'm waaaay overleveled, and others where I wonder where the heck all my level advantages went.

Pokemon seems to be the only game I train like a nut in. Which is odd, because repetitive battling drives me insane, unless it's ToS or Kingdom Hearts because the battle systems aren't as grating as picking "FLAMETHROWER" two hundred times.

 

[firetamer]

I also use the VS Seeker, and also, I battle the Elite Four tons of times to get my Pokemon stronger. Before I could beat the Elite Four, I would just try to find as many trainers as possible and battle them to raise my team. I also look for a wild area that I think has the highest-leveled Pokemon and train my team that way, too.

Some of my freind's say that I should go to a place in the USA called Houston for the Journey Across America so I can enter and see if I can win with my team, I haven't even finished training my Pokemon yet. If you want to know, I read about Journey Across America on pokemon.com

 

[~AntonioBIO~]

Well, good luck on training your Pokemon and going to The Journey Across America (I want to go, but I can't. Oh well!), but why did you quote me? I was just talking about how I train my Pokemon. :ksmile:

 

[OkashiraShinomori]

After my first game, I've always kept my Pokemon at the exact same level. As soon as I catch a new one that I intend to use in my final team, if it's not up to par, I train it until it's the same level as the rest of my team, then add it to the end of the cycle I use for training. As soon as my lead Pokemon gains a level, it goes to the back of the line, then the second starts training. So on and so forth until it restarts itself.

 

[Trainer-c]

I tend to go through the story as quickly as possible. I try never to use the same team twice. I do my best not to let my Pokémon faint. (Even if it's being used as cannon fodder)
I always use the starters, and I will fight even if under-leveled for that battle. I never ev train during the quest, I always do that post E4.

 

[Avalon]

I usually keep my pokémon from fainting, but I usually don't use curative things unless I'm trying to get them to like me or I have to fight someone strong. My basicy strategy is this... I train one to three really strong pokemon and then go back with some more near the end of the game to get them stronger, then beat the game. Then once I'm not limited by story mode I basicly keep one or two of those strong pokemon and raise new teams (which is why, in my other post, I have level 20-and-so pokémon)

 

[KuribohChamp]

I usually EV train any pokemon I'm serious about using before leveling it up. If it's strong enough for the area where the EV providing pokemon of choice lives, I'll slap on the macho brace and send it out. I never use healing items more expensive than berries on them...most training areas are close to poke centers anyway.
Usually by the time the pokemon is done EV training, it's ready for some fast leveling by heading off to places like Sky pillar, the sevii islands or unknown dungeon.

 

[firetamer]

Well, good luck on training your Pokemon and going to The Journey Across America (I want to go, but I can't. Oh well!), but why did you quote me? I was just talking about how I train my Pokemon. :ksmile:

I'm not going, I only have the monny to go to Tasmania and do nothing but work for monny so I can get back, plus I need to train my Pokemon alot.

 

[Zap]

i just vs gyms