VGC Pokemon Black/White Thread

[lestatdark]

Mr Khan said:

lestatdark said:

SmokedHostage said:

lestatdark said:

SmokedHostage said:

I feel very behind.

1 badge, party of Purrlion, Panpour and Snivy.

I like quite a few of the little things like the box system and the inventory.  Don't like the new experience system though.

I haven't noticed anything different in the experience system. What's new about it?

That has me worried..  You seem to get less exp for being the same Pokémon of the same level if you're a higher level.  For instance, say your Snivy is level 10 and beats a level 5 Patrat.  If you beat another Patrat at level 5 and your Snivy is now level 12 you get less experience.

Ahhh yes, that thing. Yeah I had noticed that, but I didn't give it much thought. More pokemons to fight to level up = more EV's that your pokemon gain, so that can't be a bad thing.

So long as they actually havge Pokemon that stick to your level. There needs to be a Final Fantasy 8-style dungeon in Pokemon games, one where wild levels are relative to your own (not equal as that would be too hard, but scale with you)

 

Anyway, i was wondering about which starter to pick, so two questions:
A: Which one type-matches with more of the gym-leaders (especially early in the game)?
B: Is there a severe deficiency of one of those three types of Pokemon in Unovo? (i.e. there were next to no Fire Pokemon on the Sinnoh dex, which came back to bite me around Elite 4 time, though otherwise i was quite happy with Empoleon over Infernape)

The level scaling is as it always was for every other pokemon game. Each route/area has it's own pokemon and their fixed levels as well. I'm actually fond of this system in Black, as I've been gaining far more EV's than in the past games.

As for your questions:

A - For the starter gyms, the best pick would be Tepig, as it's evolution becomes Fire/Fighting, which will allow you to take on the 2nd Gym (Normal Gym) with ease and the 3rd Gym (Bug Gym) with ease as well. You can find some good Fighting types early on (Like Sawk, the blue fighting pokemon that I've got on my White team, it's one of the best in the game), but there's almost no Fire pokemon in the Unova region

B - I kinda answered this question on the previous line. There's an abudance of Water and Grass pokemon, even from the start of the game, but Fire pokemon are really, really scarce. Other than Pansear, which you'll only obtain if you pick Oshawott as your starter, there's Darumaka, which you'll only see after Castelia City (3rd Gym) and Litwick (A Ghost/Fire type), which you'll only see on Celestial Tower, before you reach the 6th gym. 

Edit - I forgot to add, there's also the Larvesta egg (Bug/Fire), that you can get after you earn the Surf HM, but it's not worth using it until you beat the Elite Four. It's evolution is one of the best pokemons in the game, Volcarona, but you'll only reach it at Level 59. Also, it's over 10K steps to hatch the egg, and with no Magma/Flame Body pokemon (Larvesta will be your first, if you hatch it), it will take a lot of time to hatch it, trust me >_<.