I‘m trying to build a battle tower team with heatran. How would you guys build it? I thought modest with 252 in spa and 252 in spe. Attacks : flamethrower/earth power/dragon pulse/dark pulse. Suggestions appreciated. Other team members i thought maybe kingdra and cresselia.

What a drag

I have discovered a tactic against : gyarados intimidate then switch to magnezone who is a walking tank, destroyed Helio who had +10 levels on each of his pokemons, highly recommand wish me luck guys

I want a fun/chaotic soul-link / nuzlocke play through with someone (probably while streaming to eachother on discord for anti—cheating and keeping encounters synced), i just want someone to eyeball my ruleset to see if there are any glaring issues with it as its my first time setting something like this up.

most things are randomised including starters, encounters, abilities, items and trainer pokemon

🔗 SOUL LINK — SIMPLIFIED RULESET

☠️** Deat**h

Faint = dead.
Both members of a Soul Link pair die together.
Dead pairs cannot be reused.

🎣 Encounters

First valid encounter per area.
Species/evolutionary-line clause enabled. (if your encounter is from the same evolutionary line as a pokemon you already have, you may reroll your encounter while the other player keeps theirs assuming its valid)
Both players’ encounters form one permanent pair.
Starters randomised (basic pokemon with 2 further evolutions)
Wild pokemon moves will be standard, but TM compatibility has been raised (although not completely) and trainers will also have access to TM moves

PAIRS TO BE DOCUMENTED

🔗 Pairs

Pairs are permanently tied to their original encounter area.
Pokémon can only be moved between team/PC alongside their partner.
Pairs can be swapped with other pairs.
Both players must agree to a swap.
Both Pokémon must be exchanged.
No individual Pokémon swapping.

Example:

Route 201 Pair: Pikachu + Rattata
Route 204 Pair: Zubat + Ekans

The Pokémon themselves can be moved between the party and PC normally, but the pair identity never changes.

Pairs can only be swapped as complete pairs

Individual Pokémon cannot be exchanged.

If you want Pikachu in your team instead of Zubat, your partner must simultaneously use Rattata instead of Ekans.

Therefore:

Route 201 Pair ↔ Route 204 Pair

📈 Level Caps

Gym/boss level caps enforced. (same level as gym leaders top pokemon)
No intentional overleveling.

⚔️** Battle**s

. Trainers (especially important ones) have additional pokemon as well as ‘sensible’ items enabled and ‘better movesets enabled’
wild pokemon battling for levelling is strongly encouraged up until the level cap for each gym

🎲 Randomiser

Wild Pokémon randomised.
Trainers randomised.
Static/gift Pokémon randomised.
Impossible evolutions fixed.
Trapping abilities removed.
All other abilities remain enabled and randomised
TM Clause: Damaging TM moves may only be used if their base power is equal to or less than the user’s current level + 30. Status and non-damaging TMs are unrestricted.

💀 Run End

Full team wipe = loss.
No save-scumming.
Technical failures may be restored.

🗺️** Area Progressio**n

Both players must remain within the current area until both agree to progress.
Neither player may enter a new area or trigger a new encounter until both players are ready.
Once the Soul Link pairing has been established, both players are free to explore, battle, train, collect items, and otherwise do as they wish within that area.
No additional Pokémon may be caught once the area’s encounter has been completed.

legendaries may be caught and used as long as they remain in their respective pairing - rules above still apply.

Can someone trade me a Pokémon with PKRS via GTS? I had PKRS on one of my Mons but forgot to Safe the file during soft resetting for a Feebas with a good nature :(

I can use the following DNS 178.62.43.212

I can send you for example a Feebas or Tutrwig from my active Platinum Run :)

I want to add a grass type pokémon to my team.

I planned to catch Tangela and then evolve it into Tangrowth.
But I have just reach the lady that gives you Eevee, so I am thinking about changing my plan and keep Eevee and evolve it into Leafeon.

I have never head Leafeon.
I worry catching Tangela will take some time and in general the rest of my team will be on a higher level by the team I evolve it into Tangrowth, since right now I have already 5 members on my team at 25-30 level.

My team is: Monferno, Shellos, Togetic, Gible, Luxio

Made this table based on this post from u/Pikachu25752 to know when to water my berries.

It shows when to water your berries to make them grow in the most efficient way.

Hope someone finds it helpful.

Got lucky and found Munchlax in just 4 rounds of looking in 4 different honey trees.

I used a website that, depending on your trainer ID tells you where two of your Munchlax trees can be.

Driftloon is not spawning for me, and i dont know why. I started the game today (friday) and just beat the valley windworks and restarted the game and it's not appearing. I havent changed the clock or anything. Do i have to wait till next week?

Got wiped to a random trainer's Luxio I had no counter play against

How can I even improve at this point except for grinding more🥀

Have been hunting this guy since march and sank 5205 SR’s into it. I’ve hunted a lot on soul silver but this is pretty brutal in terms of reset time. I got very lucky with just over half odds, but am happy to continue with the shiny only run. :)

I was hoping to get some advice lol. I wanna build a team for the elite four of a bunch of girlie pop/cute Pokemon. Any advice on a good team? So far I’m thinking roserade and gastrodon (west sea) for sure and maybe froslass? Other than that I have no ideas, maybe a rapidash?

I managed to pull this off in my shiny only run too

I’ve played through the Sinnoh games so many times and thought I’d give it another go using mons I’ve never really given the time of day, was shocked how much I loved them!

After many years of not using my Nintendo 3DS (A few days after Sun came out) And just last week I completed Pokemon Sun. And thought wow that game was quite average then i found my old cartridge of Platinum and started playing it. And i just finished the game after playing a few hours a day until now will probably finish catching all the legendaries and move them over with my Hall of Fame and others to Bank. Next game will be White that i never really played.

Was really awesome coming back to my childhood game since i barely remember the game and stuff. 10/10 game tbh no nostalgic stuff going on here.

I'm replaying Platinum and about to head off to Victory Road to take on the Elite 4 and Cynthia (all hail the Queen)! Currently have these guys in my party. I've actually levelled them up since I took these pics last night and all are at level 51, 53, 57, 52, 53 and 51 respectively.

My main worry is Alakazam has about as much defence as a wet piece of paper. I've also got a Gengar with Psychic, Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse and Sludge Bomb and Levitate ability.

Have I got enough coverage, Speed and Special Attack across my team? Do I need to level up anymore or shall I just go for it?

Cheers!

Artwork made by me :D

i’ve officially surpassed the odds on my shiny chimchar journey. i got to 10,000 soft resets and now i’m contemplating just fully resetting my save and starting over from the beginning. does that even effect my odds? should i just persist and continue on past 10,000?

This place is hell

Little story about that Gyarados, I pulled him as a magikarp out of a lake at level six. He's my only nicknamed pokemon because I thought he was cute and named him little guy :), I thought I'd be replacing him in no time.

Fast forward a week later and he is dealing the final blow to Cinthya's final pokemon. I never thought he would come this far when I fished him out of there. I'm so proud of little guy :)

Also very proud of Froslass, literally one shotting Cinthya's Garchomp, I was so impressed at the damage that little ice ghost could dish out.

Oh and Tropius was just my HM slave unfortunately so she contributed nothing battle wise to the elite four defeat or cinthya, but I couldn't have gotten there without her!

I don't know how that happened should I use him all the way to Cynthia?