The Top 10 Mistakes that New Pokemon Trainers Make
09. Tunnel Vision Team Building
This is the most common mistake that new trainers make - they start the game with their Starter Pokemon naturally enough, and as they progress through the first zone they capture an additional five Pokemon to make up their first team - and then fail to adjust and change it.
We call that Tunnel Vision Team Building.
Part of this is a natural comfort with what you know. The game is new and unfamiliar, you picked up these great Pokemon, and they are working out for you! You are leveling them up and you feel justifiably proud of that.
The problem is that your team consists of your Starter - let's say a Fire-type, three Grass-type, a Normal-type, and a Flying-type.You may have leveled them up nicely, and you may know their moves inside and out, but that is not a balanced team and eventually you are going to run into a Gym Battle in which you get the floor mopped with your team.
Total KO! Badness personified.
Nothing sucks like discovering that your killer team is less than lethal. So what do you do?
Both X and Y come with 18 different types of Pokemon, including the new fairy type, and each and every one has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. More to the point, each is valuable in and of itself!
The best approach is to test the waters with the different Pokemon you have captured and added to the Storage System at the Pokemon Centers - and find one or more of each type that you like and then keep them leveled to your teams base level.
Yes that is a lot of work, but the dividends are enormous. For one thing you will be in a position to reform your team to meet the challenge of every Gym - and the different Legendary encounters you may have. What is more, you will have the right stuff for battling other trainers too!
As a trainer it is your solemn duty to learn which types are strong against other types, and conversley which are weak - and to NEVER put your Pokemon in a battle in which they are at a severe type disadvantage - because that is not fair to your Pokemon - who will literally battle to the death to defend you if called upon to do so.
Remember, loyalty up, loyalty down -- it only works when you know what you are doing.
And of course this mistake is the partner to the first one above - since failing there will cause you to fail here!
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
yea cool.........[color=red][/color]
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.
[quote][/quote]