Gonna be starting a Pokemon Platinum LP with Turdterra!
I actually really like the title screen with its eerie music. It's so surreal how it doesn't play the Pokemon theme unless you see the opening demo.
Rowan is actually pretty cool.
I did a thing. I like Barry though. He has a decent arc and I don't think he needs to be a jerk to be a likable character.
I loathe saving a lot of data. They really should have fixed this from DP.
A lot of earlygame stuff later we give Skipper the Piplup the Quick Claw. Also, yeah we caught a Bidoof for HMs. We beat up the rival in a really boring Withdraw fest.
We grab a high-level Geodude from Oreburgh Mine with Rock Head and add it to our team. Wanted to try it out because people seem to overlook this guy in Platinum. We give it the Quick Claw. A little later we get Rock Throw and it's really strong, we almost OHKO a Shinx with it.
In fact, Geodude's performance against early Trainers is darn good. Takes nothing from the prevalent Tackle and hits hard back. Earlygame foes aren't that fast too.
I actually really like Oreburgh Mine's music, it's nice and low-key.
Roark is weirdly difficult for a first Gym Leader if you chose Piplup because 20 BP Bubble is one of the moves of all time.
No really, I mean it, Bubble is weaksauce.
Yup. Two Magnitudes later and he folds. That being said, Cranidos's Headbutt really hurts off 125 base Attack, I think it 3HKOs the starters.
We got Prinplup and our first badge.
Pokemon Dash?????
Rowan is funny. Too bad this is last scene for a long time.
LMAO I CRIT DAWN'S CHIMCHAR TO DEATH WITH MAGNITUDE
What's weird is Geodude can just OHKO Grass types with Rock Throw. It's... pretty hilarious actually. We give it Selfdestruct over Rock Polish.
I want to help this little girl out, but I think we need another team member first...
Yup, that's right, we're using Pachirisu! We'll name it later. Adamant nature isn't as bad as you think, 45 offenses are so awful anyway, but it does boost Spark which will help early on. This thing's gonna be a support party member anyway, and this one rolled Pickup. The offenses are incredibly dismal though: it takes six Quick Attacks to kill a Buizel LMAO
The four levels to Spark took literally a solid hour. You can get a level 11 Pachirisu from the grass too but that's a total crapshoot with a 10% encounter rate and wanting Pickup so I did it the hard way (I crit two separate level 11s to death and was fed up). Even with Adamant against wilds your damage is trash.
Let's dance.
This is STAB Spark. Pretty middling even by earlygame standards. We head to the meadow and at least we 2HKO Stunky shortly after, so that's something I suppose! We then beat up some Grunts in the Windworks.
Honestly, I love Team Galactic quite a bit in this game. Great battle themes, threatening presence, the only real weak spot is the Commanders have mostly interchangeable personalities. Real talk, the Galactic Commander battle theme is one of my favorite battle themes in all of Pokemon.
Pachirisu actually OHKOS Zubat and we send in the sacrifical Bidoof to avoid Fake Out.
Charm is pretty helpful.
Heck yeah we got the para!
!!!
I thought we'd miss that range (turns out we would have killed it upon later inspection) so we use a Potion, Purugly nicely got paralyzed.
Not bad, mouse. And yes, I know I could have used Bide cheese but hey, this was more fun.
Pachirisu S tier when
So we save the Valley Windworks. That all said, this leads me into my main gripe with Platinum. If you don't use Starly and the like, the game can get pretty hard very fast. They throw fully evolved Pokemon at you long before your team can reasonably handle it, and I think they went a little tryhard.
Next time we continue toward Eterna City and give Pachirisu a nickname!
Also, this is apparently my 1,000th post on Smogon. I really need a life, huh...
I actually really like the title screen with its eerie music. It's so surreal how it doesn't play the Pokemon theme unless you see the opening demo.
Rowan is actually pretty cool.
I did a thing. I like Barry though. He has a decent arc and I don't think he needs to be a jerk to be a likable character.
I loathe saving a lot of data. They really should have fixed this from DP.
A lot of earlygame stuff later we give Skipper the Piplup the Quick Claw. Also, yeah we caught a Bidoof for HMs. We beat up the rival in a really boring Withdraw fest.
We grab a high-level Geodude from Oreburgh Mine with Rock Head and add it to our team. Wanted to try it out because people seem to overlook this guy in Platinum. We give it the Quick Claw. A little later we get Rock Throw and it's really strong, we almost OHKO a Shinx with it.
In fact, Geodude's performance against early Trainers is darn good. Takes nothing from the prevalent Tackle and hits hard back. Earlygame foes aren't that fast too.
I actually really like Oreburgh Mine's music, it's nice and low-key.
Roark is weirdly difficult for a first Gym Leader if you chose Piplup because 20 BP Bubble is one of the moves of all time.
No really, I mean it, Bubble is weaksauce.
Yup. Two Magnitudes later and he folds. That being said, Cranidos's Headbutt really hurts off 125 base Attack, I think it 3HKOs the starters.
We got Prinplup and our first badge.
Pokemon Dash?????
Rowan is funny. Too bad this is last scene for a long time.
LMAO I CRIT DAWN'S CHIMCHAR TO DEATH WITH MAGNITUDE
What's weird is Geodude can just OHKO Grass types with Rock Throw. It's... pretty hilarious actually. We give it Selfdestruct over Rock Polish.
I want to help this little girl out, but I think we need another team member first...
Yup, that's right, we're using Pachirisu! We'll name it later. Adamant nature isn't as bad as you think, 45 offenses are so awful anyway, but it does boost Spark which will help early on. This thing's gonna be a support party member anyway, and this one rolled Pickup. The offenses are incredibly dismal though: it takes six Quick Attacks to kill a Buizel LMAO
The four levels to Spark took literally a solid hour. You can get a level 11 Pachirisu from the grass too but that's a total crapshoot with a 10% encounter rate and wanting Pickup so I did it the hard way (I crit two separate level 11s to death and was fed up). Even with Adamant against wilds your damage is trash.
Let's dance.
This is STAB Spark. Pretty middling even by earlygame standards. We head to the meadow and at least we 2HKO Stunky shortly after, so that's something I suppose! We then beat up some Grunts in the Windworks.
Honestly, I love Team Galactic quite a bit in this game. Great battle themes, threatening presence, the only real weak spot is the Commanders have mostly interchangeable personalities. Real talk, the Galactic Commander battle theme is one of my favorite battle themes in all of Pokemon.
Pachirisu actually OHKOS Zubat and we send in the sacrifical Bidoof to avoid Fake Out.
Charm is pretty helpful.
Heck yeah we got the para!
!!!
I thought we'd miss that range (turns out we would have killed it upon later inspection) so we use a Potion, Purugly nicely got paralyzed.
Not bad, mouse. And yes, I know I could have used Bide cheese but hey, this was more fun.
Pachirisu S tier when
So we save the Valley Windworks. That all said, this leads me into my main gripe with Platinum. If you don't use Starly and the like, the game can get pretty hard very fast. They throw fully evolved Pokemon at you long before your team can reasonably handle it, and I think they went a little tryhard.
Next time we continue toward Eterna City and give Pachirisu a nickname!
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