
Originally Posted by
strype mcclaine
empoleon, great choice of moves, if possible i would heart scale away waterfall for aqua jet. Drill peck may be a bit unnecessary, earthquake is better, return for the water/normal combo, but during the game, a great choice.
you are not the first person that told me i should teach empoleon earthquake. But now that golem and quagsire are off my team, i guess i should teach him it. As for return, i don't want to mess around with friendship cause i trade pokemon back and forth between pearl oftenly. Aqua jet, while its power is cut in half, will benifit on empoleon beause its slow.
ah crobat. Crobat. In the game, aerial ace is better than advertised for sake of the spammy evasion type moves, other than that, why not hypnosis to assist in capturing of d00ds. I'm sure fly is there only because you need a flyer.
you are correct. I have to keep fly on him because i move around alot in-game. My crobat is male, and i don't a ditto, so i can't breed hypnosis on him. Even if i did have ditto, i caught my zubat in oreburgh mine on the first day of launch, and i have a bad habit of creating bonds with digital characters.
stealth rocking torterra, is not that good in game, at all. I would recommend curse as an option (instead of the dance), leach seed (maybe synthesis, but only if curseing), wood hammer, and maybe even stone edge. However any choice of moves, is rather decent.
if i get 2 more spare heart scales underground, i'll definately consider curse and leech seed. As for wood hammer, the power difference from seed bomb isn't all that much (in fact, only 10 i think) and with seed bomb i'm deprived of recoil.
and we all must ask "hidden power what?" shadow ball, wish, fake tears.... Seriously, this is the biggest waste of space on your team. It needs to be put to better use.
i'm not sure, but i think hidden power is... Steel >_< water pulse gets an almost equal, if not stronger hit on rock types. Yeah, your right, i should replace it with shadow ball. Sand attack was there when i got it over the gts at level 7, and its still there cause i can't think of anything to put there.
monkey, monkey monkey..... As soon as you can, close combat, maybe stone edge or uturn, consider the upgrade to flare blitz
let me get this strait- i hate recoil moves, unless the mentioned pokemon has rock head. Infernape's defenses are low enough, so i really have nothing to lose with close combat, except the reason i choose brick break is because is has an extra 10 pp- pp is a bigger issue in-game. Plus i would need a third heart scale. Uh, stone edge, good idea.
another thing just sitting there, doing nothing. Chatter and hyper voice... Chatter can cause confusion (based on what the sound is) but hyper voice is better. No confuse hacks, but just better. Now then, mimic and hidden power.... Mimic itself, does nothing. How about heatwave? Yes. It can learn it! Now then hidden power what? If its a good one, keep it. If not maybe the combo of encore/nasty plot.
Perhaps ominous wind?
Its move pool is shallow as the kiddy pool in the middle of december, but there is no reason to have two moves that do the exact same thing.
nasty plot+hyper voice+heat wave+chatter= win. I knew it could learn heat wave, i just didn't have enough shards. I certainly did want to replace mimic.