Pokémon General Discussion

Yes, I do realize there is already a thread for Heart Gold and Soul Silver discussion, but this thread is purely for discussion of the series as a whole.

In this thread myself, and I'm sure many others, would be more than willing to help out anyone with their pokémon experience. You can discuss anything about the games, whether you want to reminisce about your first experience with pokémon, or discuss your current standing with your team, it's all welcome.

Some things I don't really want this thread getting to are obvious, flaming especially, if you don't like the series, or a specific pokémon, keep it to yourself please. There is no reason to make fun of another person's team, or for some, make fun of the game or players, we like the game, it's our opinion, no need to ridicule it.

Things I do want to see here, are resources, I'm gonna try to keep a resource list on the first page, starting with some I visit regularly. Other good things to do would be arranging battles and trades. Along with resources I will probably be keeping a friend code list on the front page, so if you want to battle with someone put up your friend code so you don't have to tell people over and over again!

Another thing is if you are discussing trades with another member, please move the discussion to visitor messages, it makes the thread look cleaner, as well as if someone was asking for help it doesn't push their post back a page where it is less likely to be answered.

Resources
Bulbapedia - A Wiki for Pokémon
Serebii - Pokémon information site for nearly everything pokémon
Psypoke - Another Pokémon information site
Smogon University
Marriland - Pokémon galor!


thanks to Ace for making this table.

Thanks to Orange for compiling this (It's on catching pokemon)

Spoiler

Chance of Catching Any Pokemon

a is the number we want to get
HPmax is the amount of max HP the target pokemon can have
HPcurrent is the amount of HP it has now
Rate is its catch rate
Bonus Ball is the pokeball used
Bonus status is status alignment; 2 for sleep and freeze, 1.5 for paralyze, poison and burn.

So for the example, ill use a Fearow. Lets say it's level 50. Roughly its HP will be about 149. So in this example you take it down to 15 HP left. You use an ultra ball. Fearow has a catch rate of 90.
(((3*149-2*15)*3*90)/3*149)*1) is the equation you'd use first.
You get a≈251. If this number is 255 or more you caught the pokemon no matter what.
Then you do this equation:

You get b=65329.604593004636973211464662236, or just b≈65330. If b is greater than 65535 then you get the pokemon no matter what.
Now for each shake of the pokeball it generates a random number between 1 and 65535; if the number is greater than the generated one the pokeball shakes. If it is more than the b the pokemon pops out. It generates 4 numbers. So to find the percent you do (b/65535)4, in this case you get 0.98752228163992869875222816399293 Turn that into a percent, ~98.75%. That is the chance of catching the said pokemon.

Friend Codes
Speed-e-Cake
Game: Platnium
Friend code: 3953 8961 0901

Randle Scandal
Game: (Platinum) Friend code: 5027-1109-1436
Game: (Heart Gold) Friend code: 4641-1232-4933

Klaydude11
Games/Friend codes:
Mitch/Pearl - 2750 7050 2295
HaloGuy/Diamond - 3523 4773 5901
Mitch/Platinum - 4296 8905 7819
Mitch/SS - 0002 5622 0283

Gr4phix
Game unspecified
Friend Code: 4898 8417 0084

V
Game:SS
Friend Code: 1763-4907-0660/Brian

Mischgasm
Game unspecified
2493 6598 6857 // Mische

Pigglez
Platinum
0989 7911 2065 // Zach
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Kudos for having the dedication to do that, I thought about it, but then decided not to after a while lol. I decided to train instead of fill the pokedex.

But seriously congrats, do you know what pokemon you need to fill it?

EDIT: On a different note, my Gallade is a total Team Rocket destroyer, all they have are poison and normal types LOL. (Gallade's combination of Psychic/Fighting destroys both with ease)

I love that pokemon so much.

 

Yeah I had the ROM while my copy was shipping (I wanted the pokewalker :3), froze a lot.

Also thanks for the website link, I added it to the list, as well as my Heart Gold friendcode.

 

ROM's are like digital copies of the game, you need an SD card and a DS card with a microsd slot to play them though. The HG and SS have an infrared spot on the cartridge that allows communication between the pokéwalker and the game, something you can't emulate with a ROM.

What I do when training is never skip a trainer, no matter how quickly you want to get through an area, it pays off a lot, and that extra experience is key.

It's sometimes expensive to train, go to a higher level city area with your pokemon and start fighting wild pokemon, they never have incorporated strategy so just keep battling them, it's slow, but it's a sure way of training. You'll have to bring lots of ethers and potions to keep them going, but you'll eventually get up enough levels. Other than that, before getting the Elite 4 etc. it's really difficult to train.

 

Or if you are lazy (and admittedly smarter..) and have a second DS then you can just trade your pokemon to your d/p/p and have them go through the Elite 4 or something.

 

Oh I was just planning on using the ROM but decided last minute that I would rather have the original copy, and by that time they had sold out completely, so I was out of luck lol, I had to order it.

My A Team, AKA the team I spent a shitload of time on are (All 100's)

Gallade (Shiny)
Zapdos
Gastrodon
Gliscor
Sableye
Weavile

I feel bad that Sableye's on there, because he's sort of meh, but I'm not gonna go and try to train another to fill in his spot, Garchomp used to be on there, but Gliscor replaced him.