Pokemon Platinum: Battleground Trainer Roark

An addition that was added when Platinum was made was the Battleground. This is THE area for gym leaders and battle partners to hang out. Depending on what day it is and who you've partnered up with, you will have a different selection of trainers to fight. For this article I am going to focus on the Gym Leader Roark.

Pokemon:

Lv. 62 Moves: Stone Edge, Earthquake, Aerial Ace, Dragon Claw





Lv. 61 Moves: Earth Power, Stealth Rock, Discharge, Stone Edge




Lv. 63 Moves: Head Smash, Zen Headbutt, Avalanche, Earthquake




Lv. 65 Moves: Stone Edge, Crunch, Aerial Ace, Fire Fang




Lv. 61 Moves: Stone Edge, Earthquake, Brick Break, Flamethrower

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Elite Four: Aaron

Aaron is the first of the Elite Four that you need to fight in Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. His specialty is bug-types and he has one Pokemon that is not a bug type.

Aaron's Pokemon are as follows:

Dustox:
Lv. 54
Types: Bug and Poison
Item: Sitrus Berry
Attacks: Bug Buzz, Toxic, Light Screen, Double Team
Ability: Shield Dust

Beautifly:
Lv. 53
Types: Bug and Flying
Item: None
Attacks: Bug Buzz, Psychic, Energy Ball, Shadow Ball
Ability: Swarm

Heracross:
Lv. 54
Types: Bug and Fighting
Item: None
Attacks: Megahorn, Close Combat, Stone Edge, Night Slash
Ability: Swarm

Vespiquen:
Lv. 54
Types: Bug and Flying
Item: None
Attacks: Attack Order, Defend Order, Heal Order, Power Gem
Ability: Pressure

Drapion:
Lv. 57
Types: Dark and Poison
Item: Sitrus Berry
Attacks: Cross Poison, X-Scissor, Aerial Ace, Ice Fang
Ability: Battle Armor

To defeat this member of the Elite Four having a level 55+ fire Pokemon would be a good idea to have. With your fire type you should be able to beat the first four Pokemon pretty easily, and four Drapion, you should get a similarly leveled fighting type. I would recommend Lucario because it has a steel type too, and Drapion's Cross Poison attack will be made ineffective and the other moves will only do half as much damage.

Overview of Pokemon Crystal

It's been a while, but here's my coverage on Pokemon Crystal.

Stats: This game came out in the second generation, being the third game after Gold and Silver. It came out on July 29, 2001 in the US and sold 1.65 million copies. It is the first game you are able to choose between playing as a boy or a girl.

Version Exclusives: Crystal Version does not have Vulpix, Ninetales, Mankey, Primeape, Mareep, Flaafy, Ampharos, Girafirig, Remoraid and Octillery and needs to be traded be traded over from Gold and Silver versions.

Storyline:
You walk down from your room and your mom stops you from walking out the door and gives you your Pokegear, your radio, map, phone and watch. She then tells you about how Professor Elm is looking for you. You walk over to his lab and he gives you your starter, Cyndaquil, Totodile or Chikorita. Elm sends you over to Mr. Pokemon's house to get a breakthrough discovery.

You make your way through Cherrygrove and go to Mr. Pokemon's and you meet him inside and he gives you a pokemon egg and then Professor Oak notices you and gives you the latest version of Pokedex.

When you leave Mr. Pokemon's house you recieve a call from Professor Elm saying that one of his precious pokemon was stolen. So on your way back to help the Professor, you come across a young man with long red hair and one of the starter pokemon. You fight him and afterward he tells you his name, which you later tell to a police man investigating the theft. Elm tells you what happened and then you give him the egg and he is ecstatic from this news. He then suggests that you go take the gym challenge and become stronger.

From there you catch and train many pokemon and fight tons of trainers to become stronger and ultimately beat the elite four and champion. Also along the way Team Rocket is trying to do more evil deeds and you need to stop them.

That's it for now. I can't write any more. Have a great week

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Gym Leader: Maylene

In Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl Maylene is the third Gym leader. Her main type of Pokemon is Fighting. I think that if you train your Pokemon to lv. 25-30 you will be alright while facing against her.
Maylene's Pokemon are as follows:

Lucario:
Lv. 30
Type: Fighting and Steel
Item: Sitrus Berry
Attacks: Drain Punch, Force Palm, Metal Claw, Bone Rush
Ability: Steadfast

Machoke:
Lv. 27
Type: Fighting
Item: None
Attacks: Brick Break, Leer, Foresight, Rock Tomb
Ability: Guts

Meditite:
Lv. 27
Type: Fighting and Psychic
Item: None
Attacks: Confusion, Meditate, Detect, Drain Punch
Ability: Pure Power

Pokemon types that would be beneficial to your fight are Flying and Fire types. Psychic would be all right for Machoke, but not Lucario or Meditite.

My Current Save Files on Pokemon Games

For this Sunday, one week since this Blog's birth, I've decided to tell all of you my names, Pokedex, badges and time of all of my games. So here they are.

Pokemon Red- Name: Sage, Badges: 0, Pokedex: 2, Time: 0:12
Pokemon Yellow- Name: Porter, Badges: 0, Pokedex: 1, Time: 0:13
Pokemon Crystal- Name: GOLD, Badges: 2, Pokedex: 7, Time: 3:05
Pokemon Emerald- Name: Eagle, Badges: 3, Pokedex: 3, Time: 2:02
Pokemon Firered- Name: RED, Badges: 1, Pokedex: 3, Time: 0:54
Pokemon Diamond- Name: Rusty, Badges: 8, Pokedex: 464 Time: 247:56
Pokemon Pearl- Name: Zelda, Badges: 0, Pokedex: 0, Time: 0:00
Pokemon Platinum- Name: Nelson, Badges: 1, Pokedex: 38, Time: 5:59

I don't think anyone cares too much, but I just wanted to see it all laid out like that. If you couldn't tell my most played game is Diamond.

Thanks for reading for this past week! It's been real

Pokemon Emerald Battle Fronteir: Battle Pike

I've decided to write about the Battle Pike in Pokemon Emerald. It is one of the easiest, and also one of my favorites.

First things first, you get to choose from three Pokemon to go with you through the Battle Pike. Once you start the round, you will be given a choice of three room to go into. The rooms are as follows:

1. A Single Battle.
2. All of your Pokemon are healed
3. A Double Battle
4. A Trainer who doesn't fight
5. A maze-like room with wild Pokemon
6. A room where 1-3 of your Pokemon can be afflicted by a status condition
7. One to all of you Pokemon are healed.

After you go through 28 rooms without a fail, you are able to fight the Pike Queen Lucy. At this meeting her Pokemon will be Seviper, Shuckle, and Milotic,

When you've gone through 140 rooms, you will get the chance to fight Pike Queen Lucy again. This time her Pokemon will be Seviper, Steelix and Gyarados.

Pokemon Battle

Something that is in every single Pokemon Game is the Pokemon Battle. This has been the main focus of all the Pokemon games. I'm going to just tell you about the basics of this function of the games.

Before a Pokemon battle starts, the Pokemon at the top of your list in RBY and GSC, or the top left of your list in FRLG, RSE, and DPPt, is the one that will be sent out automatically. After this you get the choice of four Menu Items:

• Fight
• Pokemon
• Bag
• Run

Fight: When you choose this option it shows the list of attacks that your current Pokemon knows, they will have up to four.

Pokemon: This option allows you to switch out for other Pokemon in your party and view any stats or attacks they might have.

Bag: Your bag is full of handy items you can use during your Pokemon Battle. They range from Potions, to restore HP, to X(stat)s which help boost your Pokemon's certain stat for the duration of the battle.

Run: You can't use this option when your in a Trainer Battle, but when it's against a wild Pokemon, you can discontinue the fight.

The main purpose of a Pokemon battle is to try to knock out the other Pokemon, or make them faint. You do this by using damage-inflicting attacks that your Pokemon may have. The stronger the Pokemon the more damage it will do, but if the other Pokemon is also stronger, the less damage it will do.
You can also use stat-changing moves. These can change a Pokemon's speed, lower their attack, or even heighten their defense. It all depends on the specific move.
The last kind of move is the status inflicting move. These are some of the best because they can burn, poison, paralyze, freeze, confuse and cause the other Pokemon to sleep.

Those are all the very basics of the Pokemon Battle. I hope you've enjoyed this.

June Coro Coro Pokemon HGSS

Today there have been some images scanned of the newest issue of CoroCoro, a Japanese gaming magazine. These images are of the yet-to-be-released games of Pokemon, HeartGold and SoulSilver. Not being able to understand Japanese, I looked www.pokebeach.com, who had all of the pictures translated. Below this paragraph the pictures are shown and underneath those is the translation from www.pokebeach.com
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New scans from July's issue of CoroCoro have surfaced on Japanese image boards. More scans should be coming in today or possibly later in the week. According to Heerosferret, the first scan featuring the silhouettes of Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza states that once you defeat the Elite Four in HeartGold, Kyogre will appear in the wild, whereas when you defeat them in SoulSilver, Groudon will appear. When both legendaries are brought together in the same game, Rayquaza can be encountered as well.

The second scan just shows off Professor Elm's lab, depicts Silver holding a Great Ball, and shows a Team Rocket grunt. Nothing new is revealed from what we can tell. The third scan featuring Cynthia states, "Witness the birth of Arceus and Legendary Pokemon," though we have no idea if she is referring to Platinum's Arceus legend, these two remakes, the 12th movie, or what.

The fourth scan, which shows Arceus and Cynthia together in HeartGold and SoulSilver, features someone saying that they were "given the right to choose one life out of three." It is unclear if Cynthia or Arceus is speaking the line or who the line is referring to. It could be in reference to Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, as there are three symbols on the floor and Arceus rules over those Pokemon. This scene is most likely a hidden event, as it would be hard to imagine Arceus or Cynthia appearing in the timeline of the second generation. Perhaps if you trade the Japanese movie Arceus to the two games, you will unlock an event where you can capture one of the Dragon Trio, thus "saving" them. This is just speculation of course.

There might be another post from me today, so just enjoy this one until that time.

Overview of Pokemon Red

Something I'd like to do here is tell about a specific game in the Pokemon Series. Today I'm focusing on Pokemon Red Version.

Stats:
This was one of the two games that debuted in the US in 1996. Ever since then it has made an imprint in peoples' hearts both young and old. In its first month since it's release it sold 265,000 copies with Pokemon Blue Version. It also featured the original 151 pokemon.

Version Exclusives:
Ekans, Arbok, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Mankey, Primeape, Growlithe, Arcanine, Scyther and Electabuzz. Ones could only find these in Pokemon Red and had to be traded over to Pokemon Blue.

Storyline:
You start out as a ten-year-old kid going on a Pokemon Journey. On your way to start out, Professor Oak stops you and takes you to his Laboratory to get you started. You're able to choose from Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur as your starter Pokemon. Your rival also chooses one of these three and a battle ensues.

After a short while you are delivering a parcel from a local Poke Mart to Professor Oak. Once you give the parcel over to him he asks you and your rival to achieve his dream for him: to complete the pokedex, an electronic encyclopedia on Pokemon.

Not too long after you start out, you come across Team Rocket, and have to stop them from accomplishing their evil schemes! There are plenty of their Team Members around, trying to stop you from stopping them.

From there on out you are on your own, catching and training Pokemon, battling gym leaders to eventually get the chance to fight, and hopefully deafeat the Elite Four, the toughtest trainers around.

That's it for our Pokemon Red coverage!