Old Pokemon General(RIP)

[Prof Gallows]

Yeah, primary and secondary type placement play a big role in what sort of pokemon it is.

Though there aren't any dark pokemon with grass as a secondary yet.

 

[Officer Berri]

I never thought of doing that before.

Then again, I'm terrible at strategy when it comes to pokemon games. Luckily I've never played against anything but the NPCs. I barely ever have a move that isn't an attacking move after my pokemon are fully evolved. -.-;

 

[Quiggy]

Having 1 or 2 sleepers on your team is generally a good idea, though I've never been a big fan of false swipe users. As convenient as it can be to have false swipe on something when catching legendaries, i find it to be a waste of a move slot or a waste of time training something for only that specific use.

 

[Prof Gallows]

You'd be surprised how useful those stat boosting moves are.
Competitive battling isn't for everyone, and that's okay. Now a days, Pokemon is more than just battling and collecting.

 

[SockHead]

I like to have one or two pokemon dedicated to catching other ones. Pokemon that have a pretty good defense and know moves like false swipe, sing, ice punch. Freezing a pokemon is seriously annoying, but I think it's the best way to catch them.

Though sing and false swipe tend to be my main method. Put them to sleep and false swipe, so even if it crits, it still leaves them with 1HP.

I use a Bisharp for catching Pokemon to help me with the pokedex and sometimes I shiny hunt but I've still never found a random encounter shiny ever since ruby. The moves I use for catching are False Swipe, Thunder Wave. I put cut on him too just in case I have to use cut for an area where a pokemon could be. Then finally there's Swords Dance but I rarely use it. When I do it's usually against someone with high defense, because false swipe isn't the strongest move in the world lol.

Also I named my Bisharp: DarkKnight. Because.. He's dark type.. and steel type.. and he looks like.. a... knight..

 

[Prof Gallows]

Bisharp is a pretty decent pokemon. Not a whole lot of weaknesses and a pretty good amount of advantages.

The only pokemon you'd really have a problem with are fighting, ground, and fire.

edit: Not rock. Had to double check. lol

 

[Juicebox]

I can understand where you're coming from. I guess it is pretty nice to have an interesting story to tell about the final four/champion fight.

Another story I have is catching Lugia in Soul Silver. I had to restart this battle over 100 times. I was convinced I'd end up seeing and fainting a shiny lugia before I ended up catching the dang thing. I even had pokemon to paralyze it or put it to sleep. It's HP was in the lowest of the red. I threw literally all my poke/great/ultra balls at it. Nothing. Every time. Then on another attempt I threw another ball. I forget which. First one. Got it.

I would have thrown my DS if I weren't so happy I finally caught it.

One time I was battling Dialga, and I threw a normal pokeball at it while it had full HP. Caught on the first try.


Another capture story: I was trying to catch Rayquaza, and it refused to get into a ball. He was down to 1 HP, and I had tossed all my ultra, great, poke, and timer balls. All I had left was a dive ball, so I went for it. It caught it, and now I have a dive ball Rayquaza.

 

[Quiggy]

One time I was battling Dialga, and I threw a normal pokeball at it while it had full HP. Caught on the first try.


Another capture story: I was trying to catch Rayquaza, and it refused to get into a ball. He was down to 1 HP, and I had tossed all my ultra, great, poke, and timer balls. All I had left was a dive ball, so I went for it. It caught it, and now I have a dive ball Rayquaza.

In one of my older Heart Gold runs, my first encounter after releasing the 3 dogs into the wild was Entei. Had 1 pokemon in my backpack and i caught him. I think i caught Virizion on my last Black 2 run with 1 net ball as well.

 

[Princess]

I use a Bisharp for catching Pokemon to help me with the pokedex and sometimes I shiny hunt but I've still never found a random encounter shiny ever since ruby. The moves I use for catching are False Swipe, Thunder Wave. I put cut on him too just in case I have to use cut for an area where a pokemon could be. Then finally there's Swords Dance but I rarely use it. When I do it's usually against someone with high defense, because false swipe isn't the strongest move in the world lol.

Also I named my Bisharp: DarkKnight. Because.. He's dark type.. and steel type.. and he looks like.. a... knight..

LOL!!! :^)

 

[Treasu(red)]

One time I was battling Dialga, and I threw a normal pokeball at it while it had full HP. Caught on the first try.


Another capture story: I was trying to catch Rayquaza, and it refused to get into a ball. He was down to 1 HP, and I had tossed all my ultra, great, poke, and timer balls. All I had left was a dive ball, so I went for it. It caught it, and now I have a dive ball Rayquaza.

That's awesome!! I also had a moment like this. I caught Giratina on the second poke-ball!!! But other pokemon, like Rikaou (which I had to keep going between two routes to try and get his icon on the same route as me, took... a few days actually. I had it paralyzed, would put it to sleep, and it would run away asleep. It took me so long just to safely whittle down it's hp. >__<

 

[oath2order]

I think I got Kyogre with a dive ball.

 

[VillageDweller]

Yeah, primary and secondary type placement play a big role in what sort of pokemon it is.

Though there aren't any dark pokemon with grass as a secondary yet.

It does? O_O
I never knew that. I just thought it didn't matter. lol

 

[Treasu(red)]

I think I got Kyogre with a dive ball.

That's pretty epic. Did you run out of Ultra Balls?
I vaguely remember catching a legendary with a timer ball b/c it went forever, don't remember which tho.

 

[Officer Berri]

This reminded me of my early pokemon days. Pokemon blue, before my cousin taught me the magic of Missingno. I was in Cerulean Cave. At Mewtwo. I didn't have my master ball. My pokemon were not nearly leveled well enough for this fight. Charizard was the only one I ever tried to level up that much at this point. Luckily, I knew Mewtwo was there because my cousin was nice enough to inform me of that. I only had around 15 pokeballs over all.

Saved before the fight. Lost all my pokemon but charizard. I spammed my healing items to keep him alive as I whittled down Mewtwo's HP. When it was in the red I started throwing my pokeballs. All of them. So I had to turn my system off and try again. I did this so many times I've completely forgotten how long it took to actually catch him. I remember when I finally caught him. I squealed and ran around and cheered.

...I miss that save file.

 

[Officer Berri]

Yeah, primary and secondary type placement play a big role in what sort of pokemon it is.

Though there aren't any dark pokemon with grass as a secondary yet.

That's what made me realize that the primary and secondary types make the two combinations totally different. I saw there were no dark/grass pokemon and I was like "Wait what about Shiftry- oh wait that's Grass/Dark." xD

 

[Prof Gallows]

It does? O_O
I never knew that. I just thought it didn't matter. lol

The primary type is normally the "natural" type of the pokemon.
Like Slowpoke. It's water/psychic. It's habitat is in and around water sources, so that fits with it's primary type.
Secondary types are more what the pokemon is capable of. Slowpoke is naturally a water type, but is also psychic type allowing it to use psychic powers.

I hope this makes sense. lol

 

[Prof Gallows]

Speaking of Mewtwo, I have a Mewtwo in a premier ball.

Even though the premier balls are pretty much recolored pokeballs, I like trying to catch my legendary pokemon in them. =p

 

[Officer Berri]

Ooh yeah the premier balls. I have a tendency to buy pokeballs in groups of ten now so I can always get one!

I can imagine trying to catch legendary pokemon with them. Since I have issues with using my 'rarer' items I would throw the ball and if it didn't catch them I'd turn the game off and try again. xD

 

[Officer Berri]

That makes sense to me! I never gave it that much through before.

 

[VillageDweller]

The primary type is normally the "natural" type of the pokemon.
Like Slowpoke. It's water/psychic. It's habitat is in and around water sources, so that fits with it's primary type.
Secondary types are more what the pokemon is capable of. Slowpoke is naturally a water type, but is also psychic type allowing it to use psychic powers.

I hope this makes sense. lol

Ohhh ok yes that makes sense.
Sorry I thought you meant it like affected the actual Pokemon themselves, as in damage dealing and stuff.
Makes more sense how you described it now.