Eredar Warlock
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So, I'm attempting to go through a playthrough of Pearl version. In all games, I have a particular formula for which I create my team.
1. The Starter. The starter I keep in my team pretty much forever unless I somehow manage to phaze it out early (As I did with Chikorita/Bayleef/Meganium in G/S). Sometimes fulfills multiple roles in the party.
2. The Psychic Powerhouse. Usually an Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam. In Generation 3, this became a Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir (Or Drowzee/Hypno in FRLG)unless I could manage to find a way to arrange trades. Psychic types are consistently my favorite type, and thus always has a place in my team.
3. The Hydro. Sometimes fulfilled by the Starter. I ALWAYS keep a Water type on hand in order to make use of Surf. Trained with the others, and usually strong.
4: The Bruiser. Any Type, though the first is often a Fighting or Normal type. In the case of a Starter fulfilling multiple roles, there are several Bruisers.
5. The Flyer. Always a Flying type to make use of Fly.
6. The HM Whore. In 4th generation, this is Bidoof. After a while, it is benched to room another Bruiser.
Later, 7. The Legend. Self explanatory. sometimes also a Flyer.
In my Diamond team, my Starter was Piplup, who later became my Hydro. I was able to arrange a trade and so my Psychic became Alakazam. My Bruiser became Lopunny (Through high affection and the use of Return and Strength). Flyer is Staraptor. Second Bruiser is Lucario. Third Bruiser is a traded Infernape, though it had been a Golem.
With Pearl, I am presented a challenge. I am unable to fill the role of Psychic because I am not able to really arrange a trade for Alakazam, and Kadabra doesn't seem to have Alakazam's utility and sheer power. Also, there aren't any other early Psychics I can chase. I try to have different versions use different starters, and given the choice of Infernape/Torterra, neither make my choosing easy. Torterra makes several gyms rather easy to go through, but lacks in any strength until it actually becomes Torterra. Infernape is a difficult choice because several gyms are made harder.
Trying to assemble my Pearl team has proven extremely difficult. I may have to abandon my usual formula altogether. Can anyone offer me advice on how to assemble a team, as in, what kind of pokemon should I try for early on that I can use for the remainder of my playthrough? D/P doesn't quite give you the quality early level Pokemon that Generation 3 had. Note, this is just for playing through the game. Doing all the endgame training and such I usually don't worry about until I start on the Elite 4.
My current Pearl team is irreparably broken and I'm going to start from scratch. I shudder to think how I'm going to move past Fantina, who proved to be a real problem in my Diamond team.
EDIT: Please move this to the appropriate forum. I didn't see the subforum there.
1. The Starter. The starter I keep in my team pretty much forever unless I somehow manage to phaze it out early (As I did with Chikorita/Bayleef/Meganium in G/S). Sometimes fulfills multiple roles in the party.
2. The Psychic Powerhouse. Usually an Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam. In Generation 3, this became a Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir (Or Drowzee/Hypno in FRLG)unless I could manage to find a way to arrange trades. Psychic types are consistently my favorite type, and thus always has a place in my team.
3. The Hydro. Sometimes fulfilled by the Starter. I ALWAYS keep a Water type on hand in order to make use of Surf. Trained with the others, and usually strong.
4: The Bruiser. Any Type, though the first is often a Fighting or Normal type. In the case of a Starter fulfilling multiple roles, there are several Bruisers.
5. The Flyer. Always a Flying type to make use of Fly.
6. The HM Whore. In 4th generation, this is Bidoof. After a while, it is benched to room another Bruiser.
Later, 7. The Legend. Self explanatory. sometimes also a Flyer.
In my Diamond team, my Starter was Piplup, who later became my Hydro. I was able to arrange a trade and so my Psychic became Alakazam. My Bruiser became Lopunny (Through high affection and the use of Return and Strength). Flyer is Staraptor. Second Bruiser is Lucario. Third Bruiser is a traded Infernape, though it had been a Golem.
With Pearl, I am presented a challenge. I am unable to fill the role of Psychic because I am not able to really arrange a trade for Alakazam, and Kadabra doesn't seem to have Alakazam's utility and sheer power. Also, there aren't any other early Psychics I can chase. I try to have different versions use different starters, and given the choice of Infernape/Torterra, neither make my choosing easy. Torterra makes several gyms rather easy to go through, but lacks in any strength until it actually becomes Torterra. Infernape is a difficult choice because several gyms are made harder.
Trying to assemble my Pearl team has proven extremely difficult. I may have to abandon my usual formula altogether. Can anyone offer me advice on how to assemble a team, as in, what kind of pokemon should I try for early on that I can use for the remainder of my playthrough? D/P doesn't quite give you the quality early level Pokemon that Generation 3 had. Note, this is just for playing through the game. Doing all the endgame training and such I usually don't worry about until I start on the Elite 4.
My current Pearl team is irreparably broken and I'm going to start from scratch. I shudder to think how I'm going to move past Fantina, who proved to be a real problem in my Diamond team.
EDIT: Please move this to the appropriate forum. I didn't see the subforum there.
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