Tuesday, March 19, 2013

White2 at last

So I've finally started White2, after letting it sit in the bag since October.

So far I've got 4 badges and 61 Pokémon in my 'Dex (though, as in Sinnoh, Pokémon you've merely seen count for 'Dex purposes) .  Current team is:

-CarterQ: my starter Tepig, who's at lvl 27 T the moment.  I'll want him to replace Ember with Flamethrower at lvl 33 before evolving to Pignite.  After that he doesn't learn anything I want him to have until Flare Blitz at lvl 52.  I might have to evolve him fully before that.  We'll see.

-Bandit:  a lvl 26 Patrat, one of my first catches in the region.  She'll learn Hyper Fang at level 28, but since she already has Crunch which has the same power and is a good off-type attack, I'll want to skip that one.  And since the only useful attack she has yet to learn would be Slam, I can probably just let her evolve and put her away.

Only thing is, she's got Cut, which I don't really want to teach anyone else.  Unova doesn't seem as bad for needing HM moves just to move around the landscape, but I will still need Cut occasionally.  Likely I'll just have to pull her out of the box now and then.

-Tesla: my Mareep, currently at lvl 28 I think.  He needs to get to lvl 32 and replace Thundershock with Discharge before I'll. let him evolve.  I'm not sure yet if I'll be keeping him in the final team; I'd kind of like to beat the E4 with an all-Unova team.

-Clary: the good thing about Petlil is that they're one of those stone-evolvers that don't learn much, if anything, after evolving.  So I don't have to worry about an accidental evolution,just keep going until she learns Leaf Storm at lvl 46.

-Clyde: lvl 28 Sandile.  He's going to learn Dig at lvl 31, and after that the next major move is Earthquake at lvl 43.  Since Krokorrok learns Earthquake at lvl 48 - just a five level difference - I might as well let him evolve right after learning Dig.

-Tallow: lvl 28 Litwick, newly traded from my dear sister.  I might actually like the moves he already has...Hex, which does heavy damage to a status-inflicted targe, works very nicely with Will O' Wisp. Flame Burst is a decent Fire-type move, and you can't go wrong with Night Shade.

But keeping those moves means passing up Shadow Ball, and later he can learn Inferno, which inflicts a burn AND does damage.  Only thing is, it also has an abysmally low accuracy of 50.  I'd have to give Tallow some kind of item that significantly increases accuracy to even consider that move.

And from there...I'm not sure.  I missed my chance to catch my Braviary on Monday, and that was my planned Flying type.  However, I did catch a Sigilyph to give me something to teach Fly to in the intervening week.

Though really, I should consider a Ducklett/Swanna instead, if I can manage to catch one;  they're Flying/Water which would help balance out the slight Fire/Ground bias that my team is leaning towards.  ...Heck, if I was actually planning for the E4 I should just train that Sigilyph.  The Unova E4 is Ghost, Dark, Psychic, and Fighting, so a Sigilyph would probably be more useful. Choices, choices.

Of course, I'd based my team planning much less on what makes sense, and much more on which Pokémon I could stand to look at.  ;)

So next up is trying out the many facilities of Nimbasa, then trying to figure out which direction to continue in.  The road kind of forks from there - I can go to Driftveil, or towards the Marvelous Drawbridge ( which is where I might be able to catch a Ducklett), or maybe even take a train for Anville Town.

Whichever way I end up going, Unova awaits!





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