Pokemon Y - Day 1 Results.
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xyzzysqrlSo! I have been taking small notes and stuff. That's about it. That's... really all you're going to get I guess. This is gonna be boring if you folk hate pokemon or don't know what's going on. I'm really sorry. I hope I can make it kinda fun anyway.
Basically all the pokemon I'm catching, I'm naming after various Final Fantasy characters/places/items/bosses/references.
Catches on first route: Spriggan (Scatterbug), Star Marmot (Zigzagoon).
Shauna comes with me into the forest to healbot. Cool, it always helps to have a white mage around. PARTY UP. Accordingly I spend a lot longer than I really should wandering around, leveling up and catching things in an attempt to plug up any future elemental/type holes.
"Want me to heal your pokemon, Warrior Cat?" ... it is now dawning on me that yes people are gonna call Xao that for the WHOLE GAME. Oh what have I done? Sigh. Thank you for WHMing for me, Shauna, but I make poor life choices.
Jesus, the trainer battle music in this game is INSANE. Nothing screams INCOMING AWESOME like this tune, and nothing makes me giggle like the BIG CRESCENDO hitting as the enemy trainer sends out a level 2 weedle.
Catches in Santalune Forest: Bolt (Pikachu), Cindy, Mindy, and Sandy (Pansear, Pansage, Panpour), Ruby (Fletchling).
Route 3:
Aw that's adorable. Calem wrote down TEN TOP TIPS FOR TRAINERS. Rules to have an adventure by. Let's see.
1. How to open the menu.
2. Remember to save.
3. Use balls to catch pokemon.
4. But only when they're weak.
5. Fight a lot to level up.
6. Heal.
7. Buy "more items than you think you'll need". (Okay, THIS one I approve of. I'm the one who always has 99 potions in Final Fantasies...)
8. Talk to everyone.
9. You have a map.
10. Have fun with Pokemon! (You cannot have fun without Pokemon. This world doesn't work like that.)
Catches on Route 3: Landworm (Dunsparce).
Santalune City! I get a pair of roller skates which are, sadly, just a "super dash" and don't actually have momentum or anything... and then it's GYM 1 TIME. Gym 1 is full of bugs, which is bad for my poor plant-themed moogle buddy. It's okay though. Star Marmot knows Headbutt, so she clonks her forehead into things violently, and Bolt ... shoots Bolts. Of lightning. Together the two of them take the Bug gym (and Viola) by STORM.
"You and your zigzagoon have shown me a whole new depth of field!" Oh by the way Viola is a photographer. She also gives me a CD-ROM with "Infestation" on it. Which is a bug type move that infests enemies and makes them unable to flee the horror of tiny mandibles biting them to death. Ahhahahaha we are gettin' the fuck out of here and we're gonna boil ALL OUR CLOTHING.
Then Xao strolls out of the bug gym and HOLY CRAAAAAP skids wildly down the street and SLAMS into a nearby building. Right. Use the D-PAD, not the Circle thingie, because oh god roller skates are insanely fast. Who would ever WANT to move that fast?
On my way out of town, they just HAND ME a universal EXP Share. This gizmo means EVERY POKEMON IN MY GROUP gains experience every single time I fight a battle. Grinding? What's grinding? Oh my goodness I almost can't believe this. This is the generation that DOESN'T SCREW AROUND.
Catches on Route 4: Ragora (Budew), Stray Cat (Skitty), Final Sting (Combee)
I also take a detour onto Route 22: Dodo (Farfetch'd), Potion (Bidoof).
At this point a friend informs me she has an egg for me to hatch. So I grab Stray Cat and trade for the egg. The way eggs work is: You hatch them and get a pokemon. Except it's not a "traded" pokemon, so it doesn't level super-fast and leave you in the dirt. Anyway that's gonna hatch sometime later.
Onward down Route 22 to see what's over there. Victory Road is over there, and Xao can't help making faces at the jerkass gate guy who's all like "You need eight badges! Let's see how many you have... Oh, you don't have NEAR enough!" Look Jeeves, why don't you just let me in early, I'll grind for a couple hours, and we'll wrap this thing up right now.
No?
FINE. I'll be back. YOU BE WAITING.
End of day one as my 3DS runs near-out of batteries. Ack, I'm gonna need to plug in out here sometime. But... mmh, this is progressing nicely. One gym badge already. Maybe this won't take a whole month to finish! This is certainly a much more polite, time-valuing generation.
Basically all the pokemon I'm catching, I'm naming after various Final Fantasy characters/places/items/bosses/references.
Catches on first route: Spriggan (Scatterbug), Star Marmot (Zigzagoon).
Shauna comes with me into the forest to healbot. Cool, it always helps to have a white mage around. PARTY UP. Accordingly I spend a lot longer than I really should wandering around, leveling up and catching things in an attempt to plug up any future elemental/type holes.
"Want me to heal your pokemon, Warrior Cat?" ... it is now dawning on me that yes people are gonna call Xao that for the WHOLE GAME. Oh what have I done? Sigh. Thank you for WHMing for me, Shauna, but I make poor life choices.
Jesus, the trainer battle music in this game is INSANE. Nothing screams INCOMING AWESOME like this tune, and nothing makes me giggle like the BIG CRESCENDO hitting as the enemy trainer sends out a level 2 weedle.
Catches in Santalune Forest: Bolt (Pikachu), Cindy, Mindy, and Sandy (Pansear, Pansage, Panpour), Ruby (Fletchling).
Route 3:
Aw that's adorable. Calem wrote down TEN TOP TIPS FOR TRAINERS. Rules to have an adventure by. Let's see.
1. How to open the menu.
2. Remember to save.
3. Use balls to catch pokemon.
4. But only when they're weak.
5. Fight a lot to level up.
6. Heal.
7. Buy "more items than you think you'll need". (Okay, THIS one I approve of. I'm the one who always has 99 potions in Final Fantasies...)
8. Talk to everyone.
9. You have a map.
10. Have fun with Pokemon! (You cannot have fun without Pokemon. This world doesn't work like that.)
Catches on Route 3: Landworm (Dunsparce).
Santalune City! I get a pair of roller skates which are, sadly, just a "super dash" and don't actually have momentum or anything... and then it's GYM 1 TIME. Gym 1 is full of bugs, which is bad for my poor plant-themed moogle buddy. It's okay though. Star Marmot knows Headbutt, so she clonks her forehead into things violently, and Bolt ... shoots Bolts. Of lightning. Together the two of them take the Bug gym (and Viola) by STORM.
"You and your zigzagoon have shown me a whole new depth of field!" Oh by the way Viola is a photographer. She also gives me a CD-ROM with "Infestation" on it. Which is a bug type move that infests enemies and makes them unable to flee the horror of tiny mandibles biting them to death. Ahhahahaha we are gettin' the fuck out of here and we're gonna boil ALL OUR CLOTHING.
Then Xao strolls out of the bug gym and HOLY CRAAAAAP skids wildly down the street and SLAMS into a nearby building. Right. Use the D-PAD, not the Circle thingie, because oh god roller skates are insanely fast. Who would ever WANT to move that fast?
On my way out of town, they just HAND ME a universal EXP Share. This gizmo means EVERY POKEMON IN MY GROUP gains experience every single time I fight a battle. Grinding? What's grinding? Oh my goodness I almost can't believe this. This is the generation that DOESN'T SCREW AROUND.
Catches on Route 4: Ragora (Budew), Stray Cat (Skitty), Final Sting (Combee)
I also take a detour onto Route 22: Dodo (Farfetch'd), Potion (Bidoof).
At this point a friend informs me she has an egg for me to hatch. So I grab Stray Cat and trade for the egg. The way eggs work is: You hatch them and get a pokemon. Except it's not a "traded" pokemon, so it doesn't level super-fast and leave you in the dirt. Anyway that's gonna hatch sometime later.
Onward down Route 22 to see what's over there. Victory Road is over there, and Xao can't help making faces at the jerkass gate guy who's all like "You need eight badges! Let's see how many you have... Oh, you don't have NEAR enough!" Look Jeeves, why don't you just let me in early, I'll grind for a couple hours, and we'll wrap this thing up right now.
No?
FINE. I'll be back. YOU BE WAITING.
End of day one as my 3DS runs near-out of batteries. Ack, I'm gonna need to plug in out here sometime. But... mmh, this is progressing nicely. One gym badge already. Maybe this won't take a whole month to finish! This is certainly a much more polite, time-valuing generation.
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Date: 2014-02-23 10:40 pm (UTC)I want Comet Punch.
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Date: 2014-02-24 07:37 pm (UTC)Is it just me, or is getting basically a diploma from a Bug gym without using bug Pokemon missing the point?
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Date: 2014-02-24 08:11 pm (UTC)Because of the way things are set up, I suppose the ultimate test of using bug pokemon would be a fighting dojo, or a rookery, or maybe some combination of the two.
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Date: 2014-02-25 07:49 pm (UTC)Then again, Ash frequently does the impossible (aka 'cheats like a mofo')....including totally ignoring the RPS element thing the world runs on and taking down an opponent that should have been *immune* to the attacks he was using...
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Date: 2017-07-17 01:59 am (UTC)... I'll take that Infestation TM if you don't want it. *cough*
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Date: 2017-07-17 02:01 am (UTC)Be infest'd!
Put the TM to your chest!
Feel the tickling squirming bug parade crawl up inside your vest!
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Date: 2017-07-17 02:37 am (UTC)