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How do you play Pokemon in-game?

I always take my time going through the first time/game of each generation, usually training up a full team of 6. Generally I don't plot out a perfect team, and since the games aren't extremely challenging I often pick my favourite pokes (since competitively, some of these guys just never get a chance to do anything).

However... I sped right through HG when I got it and tried to beat it as quickly as I could. It was fairly boring to play since I'd already played Gold, Silver, and Crystal at least 20 times and had already memorized the fastest way through.
 
-SR for female starter with good nature.
-Don't give a a shit about EV's,IV's,till after the E4.
-1 Pokemon for contests(I mean,you need one Master Rank for your Trainer Card).
-Beat the E4 with the team you got during your adventure.
-Do everything else...

Then worry about EVs,IV's,and build competitive team. :)
 
I tend to use my starter the entire time unless I come across a pokemon that I really like, like a Gible or something. I tend to catch HM slaves to cover all the HM's, then any remaining spots I get cool pokes. I never EV or IV during until after the E4 and I don't think I've ever built a whole team of 6 until I build a competetive team.
 
I usually plan out the pokemon I'm going to use. I find all the HMs I need (Fly, Surf, Strength, Rock Smash, Waterfall, Rock Climb) From there, I find the best combination with the best typing and my favorite pokemon. I never use HM slaves because I never like to be walking around with only 5 good pokes.

I SR for a good nature starter (don't care about IVs)
Create a team with the pokemon I selected. Usually I trade over a weak pokemon so I can play through the game with a cool pokemon, but they won't be too powerful because they're at a low level (In platinum, I traded my turtwig for a level 1 totodile and a staravia for a level 1 duskull)
I rush to get the pokemon I planned out, then I go back and do the parts I skipped. (I never follow my plan anyway)
Once I beat the E4 and the rest of the stuff after the E4, I make another team from scratch, using pokemon that I can catch and breed since I have the National Dex. On some files, I have over 10 teams, each equally good.
I never go too far, though. i have no competitive teams on my files, and my highest level team is around 72 (all the rest are around 54, but my original team is usually around 60)
 
I've been doing the same routine since I was a kid. I pick my favorite starter, and it never leaves my team. I never even put it in the PC for a second. Never. Then, with whatever knowledge of the upcoming gym leaders I have, I start catching pokemon and train accordingly. Then my OCD kicks in and I raise a balanced team of 6, which is why it takes me so long to beat the main game. But it's worth it, and makes gym leaders easier ;).
When a next-gen game comes out, I always spoil myself silly, so I always know what the gym leaders are packing. But new pokemon and gym leaders are all I look at. It's refreshing to see whatever story elements there are and hear all the music of a new game for the first time. I'm not really into replays, though...
 
I generally just pick the starter I like the best (usually fire, but not the case with SS), leave that in the team the whole way through. Pick up a 3 evolution bird (pidgey/starly) which will be the pokemon that Flies me places. And then try making as balanced of a team as possible.

I generally have 4 main pokemon in my party who I keep there the whole time, and then two slots which are either switched between HM whores or situational type pokemon (ground if I'm having trouble with electric. Dark if Psychic, etc.) that aren't in my basic party.

Overall, I try to level up at the same pace. If one pokemon's 10 levels ahead of the rest of the party (like a water starter who just went through a fire gym by itself), I'll just go through each member of the party and take the time to get it up to snuff with that one high level pokemon. I also try to stick to 3 evolution pokemon if I can help it, because they tend to be more powerful that 2 evolution pokemon (with exceptions, of course)
 
We need a poll: How many Pokemon do you train on your main party?
I usually train 4, sometimes 3 (and occasionally 5), but I've also trained up to 8, keeping a rotation with my main party and PC Box 8.
 
We need a poll: How many Pokemon do you train on your main party?
I usually train 4, sometimes 3 (and occasionally 5), but I've also trained up to 8, keeping a rotation with my main party and PC Box 8.
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No more than 4 Pokemon until I get 6 badges, and even then, probably won't get 5 till right b4 badge 8.

Rarely run 6 Pokemon b/c that makes it harder to keep them all evenly leveled, and your Pokemon will end up falling behind on levels....
 
I find 4 to be a good number to speed through the game. 5 is ok but takes a lot of grinding and 6 takes a TON of grinding. Three actually makes the game too easy. I recently went through FR / LG on a Venusaur, Nidoking and Alakazam through something like 5 badges and they were all reaching the upper level 40s blasting through pokemon 10 levels lower than them.

I'm buying HG / SS pretty soon and for that I already kno I'm going to try to do 4 pokemon and make it semi competitive for in-game.. then trade over a double battle squad, a OU competitive squad, uber cometitive squad, and a battle tower squad then just have time actually battling and being a real trainer. I'm not much into grinding for IVs and EV training and shit so I just rely on legal hacks.. no time for that shit.
 
I do this thing where I try to fill in my Pokedex as much as possible by only using Pokemon (except my starter) until they're fully evolved and then ditching them for other ones.
It's just a habit I got from playing blue, where you naturally got stuff for having your Pokedex reach certain amounts at certain points, or the time I restarted Ruby, where Box RS won't let you send Pokemon into it until your Pokedex is at a certain amount. I think 100?
Makes me kind of underleveled, though.
 
During the playthrough I get the starter and 6 other pokémon and train them equally so I have an even team. By about the 4th gym I start to relocate and get a better all-around team for the E4. If my team isn't good enough then I train in high-level areas until I can take the E4 on. After that I go for legendaries and I try to fill up my Pokédex along with getting shiny Pokémon
 
I usually play a game thoroughly. Even if Its a replay. I check all the houses, talk to everyone, and don't care about natures/Evs/ivs.

I usually base my teams on type coverage. I don't trade any pokemon over until after I beat the Elite four. Actually right now I'm replaying my Ruby Version and my Platinum.
 
I usually plan ahead on my teams deciding a certain theme (monotype, anime based team, Region based, etc) and always play the games thoroughly the first go around.

For HG, I said I'll make a Shiny team with random shinies I've encountered or SR for. As it turns out I got a shiny chikorita by SR for 5 hours and brought others shinies from previous games to complement her. I'm leveling/Ev training all at the same time, and so far satisfied with going about the game in this new way.
 
When I play pokemon, I grab the coolest looking pokemon, give my character the coolest name, catch the coolest pokemon, dont give a crap about Ivs and Nature
(I should know, I played through, with a Brave Alakazam)
If catching a rare pokemon takes too long (Gastly), I transfer from my other Game.

I never use my good TMs, and I always nickname my pokemon.

I also commentated my own matches against Gym Leaders and Elite 4, it gives me tempo and momentum :)

I dont talk to every person, I have the patience of the Rival in DP
The coolest pokemon join my team till I have 6, if I find something cooler, I box the least coolest and the new one joins my team
1) I never ever ever ever ever, purposely plan a team to beat the crap out of the Elite 4

My HG Team
-Jolly Typlosion
-Naughty Gengar
-Brave Alakazam
-Hasty Steelix
-Impish Magmortar
-Adamant Raichu

To prove that I dont give a damn about Natures ingame
 
I actually got interested in speed running before the thought of getting competitive crossed my mind. I still have a pretty smokin' 8:32:18 Ruby clear saved on the cartridge.

What I did with Platinum after borrowing it from my little brother: I went crazy. I talked to peeps, I caught the sorts of monsters I wanted with no attention whatsoever paid to natures, EVs or IVs, and once I got the hang of it, I managed to polish off Cynthia after 25-26 hours (Garchomp and Milotic were huge hang-ups, however, because I was making it a point to not use Giratina).

As for the Battle Tower: I managed to make it all the way to Palmer's 1st appearance on my first try with a Torterra/Garchomp/Staraptor team. I'll leave it to you guys to figure out what was proven horrendously wrong with that lineup.
 
Oh lawd, first post since I signed up last week LOL.

Anyways, just like with any game I play I never speed run as it will cause me to run into problems later on in said game, plus I have this compulsive need to speak to every NPC in the game encase I get an item or important information (am I the only one?). I try hard to get the hang of how the game plays and try make the smart choices the first time around and will fix them if I mess up.

When I first got my hands on HG most recently, I did the same thing I did in pretty much ever version, I look around in the bushes of the first 2 or 3 towns where I started and caught the most diverse team of Pokemon as I could because I realized a long time ago everything you need to make it through the game was easy to catch and readily available in those areas if you look.

Special Pokemon, Legends, Ubers etc. don't interest me and I won't use them for anything but filling up the dex because I feel it kind of ruins the game if you catch a Ho-Oh for example and whipe out the E4 with its insanely strong moves. I dunno about the rest of you but theirs nothing like catching a Spearow, raising it with a decent moves etc. that allow for stab and coverage and slaughtering whatever come your way. I also never changed my team throughout the game, the first 6 Pokemon I get should provide enough coverage for my rival, enemies, GL's and E4.

My HG Team, E4 Debut (Catch Order)
Meganium - 46 - Defensive
Fearow - 45 - Sweeper / Revenge Killer
Graveler - 45 - Rock Polish Sweep / Suicide
Quagsire - 46 - Physical Wall / Phazer
Ampharos - 47 - Sweeper
Scyther - 47 - Sweeper / Revenge Killer

Took me about 18 hours to beat the first time, played when I could but I did have work/classes.

Once I beat the E4 and do most of the events, I just start catching everything I saw along the journey and train/breed them.
 
I check all houses/people (including hidden items in caves!) and just go through the game with my starter. I actually felt sort of bored when playing through my SS version with my grass starter.

I guess anybody would get bored when they've been repeating the same process for four generations...
 
I get cool Pokemon, lol,
I train them at even levels (when one reaches a certain level, and is the highest at that level, I rotate the Pokemon first in the party to another one at a lower level)
Example
45,45, 45, 45, 45 (Levels of Pokemon on team)
After I level up the first Pokemon to level 46, I'll rotate to the next Pokemon until they're all at the same level again to keep my team balanced, (;
Once I reach a hard part in the game, I train at random places that give out a good amount of exp. points.
 
Ericcc said:
I get cool Pokemon, lol,
I train them at even levels (when one reaches a certain level, and is the highest at that level, I rotate the Pokemon first in the party to another one at a lower level)
Example
45,45, 45, 45, 45 (Levels of Pokemon on team)
After I level up the first Pokemon to level 46, I'll rotate to the next Pokemon until they're all at the same level again to keep my team balanced, (;
Once I reach a hard part in the game, I train at random places that give out a good amount of exp. points.
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that sounds exactly like the way I play lol
 
I play much the same way as SJCrew and Ericcc. I guess the only thing I'll toss in is that I try to cover all weaknesses with each Pokemon I catch. That way, I can get a decent all arounder team. As I really haven't played HG/SS and DPP enough, I'll just say that with Pt, I tried to make my team balanced (Though it has a horrible Flying type weakness...)
 
I tend to play the game very thoroughly if it's my very first time, battling all the trainers, exploring everywhere, as with the above posters, i tend to keep all my party around the same level but I never really have a set team of six, I always switch in and out between some randoms. After the Elite 4 and all the extra aftergame stuff is done thats when I start to "try" to ev train some pokemon for fun, cause I love the satisfaction of having a pokemon with good stats. =)
 
Lately, I've been playing differently than in the past. Used to be that I played much the same way that cunt does (and boy, is that an awkward thing to say), but now I've been moving away from that.

I have an HM slave, maybe even two, as part of my training; if I make it through the game with only three usable Pokemon, it trains me into the mindset I need at the Battle Frontier. Other than that...yes, I battle every trainer, catch at least one of every Pokemon in an area, keep my levels balanced, etc.
 
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