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Pokémon Games

DarkElf

For some reason it's always been seen as a stereotypical autistic interest (even before Satoshi Tajiri's diagnosis was public?) but does anyone here play the pokemon games? The main series ones not just Go (although I also play Go) or some of the other spinoffs. I've played them all now and I'm replaying Leaf Green, I've just beat the Elite Four with a Pinsir, Starmie, Exeggutor, Jolteon, Nidoking and Clefable, I don't like using the same Pokemon in multiple games so i tried hard to use ones I hadn't used before, they're all very good team members but Nidoking is 100% broken considering you get a moon stone before the second gym.

I'm thinking of playing the original Diamond next as I've never beaten that one, only Platinum. A lot of complaints about it so I'm curious as to how bad I'll actually find it. I'm in two minds on if to import a randomized team or if to just use Pokemon in the native pokedex (of which hardly any are that good sadly...well, if they are like Staraptor and Garchomp I've already used them all numerous times).

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  • Nidoking is totally badass. Almost always when I play a Kanto game I have either that or nidoqueen in my roster.

    I had a bad experience with Brilliant Diamond. I nearly beat the Elite Four but I had one mamoswine with minimal health and she had only garchomp left. I took out the garchomp with ice fang, but it defeated my mamoswine with ROUGH SKIN. So even though we both had our last pokémon faint at the same time, it counted as a loss for me. I haven’t had the gumption to pick that game back up and fix that loss yet.

    Also I feel like the biggest problem with diamond/pearl is actually its pokémon selection. It’s like you’re basically stuck with the same pokémon each run. I find that I prefer games after Black/White, since the variety of pokémon per route picked up from X/Y and on.

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  • Nidoking is totally badass. Almost always when I play a Kanto game I have either that or nidoqueen in my roster.

    I had a bad experience with Brilliant Diamond. I nearly beat the Elite Four but I had one mamoswine with minimal health and she had only garchomp left. I took out the garchomp with ice fang, but it defeated my mamoswine with ROUGH SKIN. So even though we both had our last pokémon faint at the same time, it counted as a loss for me. I haven’t had the gumption to pick that game back up and fix that loss yet.

    Also I feel like the biggest problem with diamond/pearl is actually its pokémon selection. It’s like you’re basically stuck with the same pokémon each run. I find that I prefer games after Black/White, since the variety of pokémon per route picked up from X/Y and on.

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  • in reply to profdanger

    BW2 and XY are still probably the best regional dexs. As for BDSP my fight with Cynthia went the over way, my Mew survived with one health due to that "pulling through" mechanic they added or whatever it's called. I've since sold it, good game, but Platinum still feels the best version of Sinnoh.