Pokemon BDSP - Recent Happenings Thread

[PrinceOfFacade]

I finally got Spiritomb!!!

I am now taking him across Sinnoh battling all the trainers I skipped, to level him up. Once he reaches Lv. 41, it's off to Snowpoint City.

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

I've trained my entire team to level 70-75 and decided it was time to battle the League again.
The Elite four was a cakewalk at that level, but I was a bit afraid of Cynthia, mostly her Garchomp.

I basically sweeped the rest of her team, only Spiritomb and Milotic taking two turns, but then it was time to face the dreaded Garchomp again.

It set up swords dance and again outsped everything despite the level differences, but since I've trained not all my mons were instantly ko'd. So after quite some attacks and some full restores from Cynthia, I finally managed to beat the thing and finally see the victory screen.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1464958597561942020

The fact that you did it with a Lumineon, an unevolved Gligar, & a Carnivine is impressive in & of itself

 

[Pokefan_1987]

Found Cyndaquil and a Torchic in the same fire theme cave by digging on route 224. Fire types are my favorites.

 

[Tsukuyomi56]

Arrived at Celestic Town, obtaining Surf TMs from Cynthia's grandmother after chasing off a Team Galactic grunt planning on doing not so pleasant things. Return back to Hearthome City for my Gym Battle against Fantina, agruably her Mismagius got nerfed foregoing Shadow Ball for Phantom Force for its STAB move. Will be exploring the areas now accessible with Surf next.

Current team:
Infernape (Sun Wukong)
Staraptor (Dagr)
Luxray (Simba)
Manaphy (Neptune)
Gastrodon (Katsuyu)
Jirachi (Jinn)

In rotatation:
Roselia (Viridi)
Clefable (Titania)

 

[Drake Pokétrainer]

The fact that you did it with a Lumineon, an unevolved Gligar, & a Carnivine is impressive in & of itself

Thanks. I wanted a bit of an unconventional team. I've used things like Luxray, Floatzel, Staraptor, Roserade and Garchomp way too much. So I wanted a team with pokemon I've never used before, aside from my starter.

Already thinking what I'm gonna use for my Shining Pearl playthrough. Even though I wanna complete my dex in Brilliant Diamond before that though.

So that's what I've basically been doing now, going to the grand underground and filling the dex. Also evolved my Gligar since the Razor Tooth is postgame, even though Gligar did hold its own during the league, especially against Aaron and Cynthia's Roserade. I've grown to love the move Acrobatics and don't get why I didn't use it much before.

I also got the Pokéradar, so I'm planning to do some shiny hunts after filling the dex some more. I never got around mastering it or even catching any shiny with it during the original P/D so I'm hoping to change that now.

 

[Pokefan_1987]

Does anyone think the game is lacking in costumes including platinum style and not unlocking more after beating the elite 4 ?

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Does anyone think the game is lacking in costumes including platinum style and not unlocking more after beating the elite 4 ?

Sort of. I mean I really like the outfits we’ve gotten but I sort of wish we could change hair and eye colors whenever we wanted and had a few more outfits inspired by Team Galactic, Rotom, Jirachi, Mew, and a Miner look.

 

[PrinceOfFacade]

Currently got my Spiritomb up to Lv. 34, and I'm running out of trainers suitable enough for battle.

I may have to trek Route 216 with Spiritomb alone; this might be the only way left to get it to Lv. 41.

 

[Pokefan_1987]

Sort of. I mean I really like the outfits we’ve gotten but I sort of wish we could change hair and eye colors whenever we wanted and had a few more outfits inspired by Team Galactic, Rotom, Jirachi, Mew, and a Miner look.

Sword and Shield has that. It was heavily upgraded in terms of what Alola and the 3DS games experimented with. However Ultra Sun and Moon's special Kommo-O outfit was ridiculous. The price of 2.400.000 was absurdly high. I don't know if Rotom-Discount could lower clothing prices.

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

I don't know if Rotom-Discount could lower clothing prices.

They couldn’t. Trust me, I tried several times -_-

 

[KingMinun]

Started my second game, this time we’ve got Diamond. So I’ve made it Pastoria city, currently my team is complete (although may use a couple of reserves like last time, I love the Sinnoh region and Pokemon what can I say).
I’ve just defeat Crasher Wake, with Monferno, Kricketune, Roselia, Whishcash, Magneton and Gligar!
liking this team a lot, even Kricketune is providing to be a valuable member of the team.

 

[PrinceOfFacade]

With my full team of six complete, I've solidified my type specialty team by giving each member a Ghost-type move. It's mostly a recurrence of Shadow Ball, Hex, and Night Shade. There's a Shadow Claw in there somewhere. lol

In other news, I got pummeled by Candice's second two 'mons after taking down the first two easily. Had to soft reset to keep from having my pokemon hate me. lol

Current Team:

Embrace, Lv. 41

Enamour, Lv. 41

Condemn, Lv. 41

Petrify, Lv. 41

Devour, Lv. 41

Annoy, Lv. 41

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

even Kricketune is providing to be a valuable member of the team

Is Kricketune really that good this far in the game? I've been debating on keeping mine since it's sort of been the powerhouse of my team so far, I'm just not sure because of its abysmal reputation in competitive battles

 

[Ophie]

Does anyone think the game is lacking in costumes including platinum style and not unlocking more after beating the elite 4 ?

There may be DLC later on. Sword and Shield had them, albeit they were mostly different Ball Guy shirts and they stopped several months in.

The fact that the Platinum Style outfits were added to this game, however, is evidence that the game allows additional clothing because they've already done so once.

Sword and Shield has that. It was heavily upgraded in terms of what Alola and the 3DS games experimented with. However Ultra Sun and Moon's special Kommo-O outfit was ridiculous. The price of 2.400.000 was absurdly high. I don't know if Rotom-Discount could lower clothing prices.

I think that was supposed to be a long-term thing, getting the clothing items bit by bit. I closed the girl, so she got the Luran set, which I liked a lot better.

 

[KingMinun]

Is Kricketune really that good this far in the game? I've been debating on keeping mine since it's sort of been the powerhouse of my team so far, I'm just not sure because of its abysmal reputation in competitive battles

He appears to be working out well for me, heard a few other people say that it’s been a powerhouse for them too. Not sure how it’ll fair at the E4

 

[ebevan91]

I'm trying to rebuild my post-game team into a Platinum based team. I spent pretty much all day yesterday in the underground and then finally went to Stark Mountain.

 

[Flamer]

Started my adventure over the weekend. Chose Turtwig as my starter, having gone with Chimchar in Pearl and Piplup in Platinum. Got my Pokedex from the Professor and made my way to Jubilife City, where I was given a Poketech. Doesn't have any apps yet, but like how its been moved to the R button.

After exploring Jubilife as much as I could, I headed East towards Oreburgh City. Battled my rival again and won with relative ease. Still haven't added anyone to my team yet. Been trying to find a Shinx, but no luck yet

 

[janejane6178]

I havent played in 2 days... Was busy with work and stuff:/
Today I will play this wonderful game

 

[Kangaflora]

So far, I had deliberately stayed around the town before Veilstone City, just so I could battle the joggers on Routes 209, 210 and 215. And I took a cheeky trip to the Trophy Garden to catch Pichu, whom I've nicknamed PiPikaRai.

 

[Prince Amrod]

My lone Infernape has successfully fought all the way through to the elite four by himself. Hopefully my Berry trees will produce enough to finish fixing his EV's to allow for maximum speed given unknown IV's and sub optimal nature. They finish the growth cycle in a few hours so I should be able to take the league on tonight.