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Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 06:51:52 No.12522243 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12522272 >>12522477 >>12523377 >>12524263

ITT: The most difficult to level Pokemon you ever had to level in game.

Pic related. I'm doing it right now and it is really hard. Low defenses, so it dies quick, low attack and special attack AND low damage abilities. It's difficult as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 06:54:21 No.12522272 Report

Quoted By: >>12522287

>>12522243
You've obviously never used a Larvesta, then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 06:56:03 No.12522287 Report

Quoted By: >>12522318

>>12522272
No sir I haven't. Don't you get that Pokemon after the E4 anyway? I haven't played through Gen V yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:00:57 No.12522318 Report

Quoted By: >>12522366

>>12522287
Yeah, at level 1, with only physical moves and stats.
You should know why that's a problem if you've ever used Volcarona.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:03:53 No.12522335 Report

Quoted By: >>12522769

Apart from the obvious ones, I'd say it was the hustle darumaka I had. He kept missing every single move and got fainted so many times I trained him with an exp share until he became a darmanitan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:04:34 No.12522343 Report

Quoted By: >>12522509

Trapinch. Low defense and low speed is not a good combination. PITA until it evolves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:04:40 No.12522345 Report

Quoted By: >>12522509

Trapinch, although he actually had good moves in Gen 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:05:23 No.12522347 Report

Quoted By: >>12522368 >>12522403 >>12524263

What is magikarp

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:07:59 No.12522366 Report

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>>12522318
Larvesta has a high attack stat though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:08:35 No.12522368 Report

Quoted By: >>12522403

>>12522347
its fairly obvious magikarps the worst so just pretend it doesnt exist

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:09:47 No.12522379 Report

Quoted By: >>12522602 >>12524263

Wobbufet.
You have to take him to the Pokemon Center after every battle with a Pokemon of about the same level since you are going to have to take substantial damage to KO them in return unless you want to grind on low level weenies that don't even damage you enough for you to return damage in one hit and give pitiful experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:10:05 No.12522382 Report

Quoted By: >>12522496 >>12522875

Togepi.

>Metronome
>Explosion
FUCK
>Metronome
>Fling
>Topepi flung its Lucky Egg!
FUCK

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:12:35 No.12522403 Report

Quoted By: >>12522776

>>12522347
>>12522368
Even then, that's 15 levels, 19 from an egg.

Dieno (from an egg) is 50 levels of Hustle lowering your accuracy without giving you any boosts, base form stats, and then even getting Zwei, that's 14 more levels of hustle fucking you over until it evolves into something actually semi-useful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:12:35 No.12522404 Report

Quoted By: >>12522439

Exp. Share...?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:18:30 No.12522439 Report

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>>12522404
No challenge

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:22:55 No.12522477 Report

Quoted By: >>12522584 >>12524263

>>12522243
Like smashing your head against a brick wall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:24:59 No.12522496 Report

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>>12522382
I figured out the trick for Togepi. You have to max out the friendship for it before you get serious about leveling it up. Just give it a massage daily and keep it in your party for awhile and level it up a few times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:27:22 No.12522509 Report

Quoted By: >>12523486

>>12522345
>>12522343
That's funny, I am trying to train one right now in Black 2. They made it easy in this game, you get it at level 21 and then you face the Electric Gym.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:33:34 No.12522561 Report

Quoted By: >>12523425

Zubat in Liquid Crystal was fucking hard.

It had the defense power of a wet paper, his attacks did barely damage, it died so easily.

Now he is a Crobat, and he kicks ass and he was worth the effort, but I have to say when I found wild Golbats in the Union Cave/Slowpoke Well I was pretty tempted to catch them and ditch muh ZUbat

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:36:35 No.12522584 Report

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>>12522477
what's up with Blitzle?

The Borrego

The Borrego Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:38:33 No.12522602 Report

Quoted By: >>12524263 >>12524512

>>12522379
Agree, Wobbuffet is a pain in the ass and only for the cpu, using sand attack and other shit like attract or confuse ray, then switching attacks to make imposible the training. Sorry wobby, exp share to you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:41:45 No.12522624 Report

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beldum
take down sucks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:45:39 No.12522655 Report

Quoted By: >>12522724

Tynamo takes goddamn forever. Ended up just slapping an exp share on mine until it finally evolved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 07:57:34 No.12522724 Report

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>>12522655
it seems like a lot of the difficult-to-level pokemon are in gen v.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:02:57 No.12522742 Report

Quoted By: >>12522746

Bronzor is the only mon I've given up on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:04:38 No.12522746 Report

Quoted By: >>12522759

>>12522742
Why? it's not super strong but it isn't weak defensively, it learns extrasensory which is a strong attack and has decent coverage

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:06:12 No.12522758 Report

Quoted By: >>12525804

>take Pokemon to Daycare
>leave it in until one level before it evolves
>take out and use Rare Candy

There, now it isn't hard to raise anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:06:18 No.12522759 Report

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>>12522746
It was terrible. It doesn't even have good sp atk so it can't take down anything it neutrally effects.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:08:57 No.12522769 Report

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>>12522335
Oh god I hated that so much.
It raped so much face with sheer force boosted flare blitz as a darmanitan though, jesus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:09:59 No.12522776 Report

Quoted By: >>12522846

>>12522403
>without giving you any boosts

Except for, you know, all those physical attacks he learns like Bite and Crunch and Headbutt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:25:53 No.12522846 Report

Quoted By: >>12522961 >>12524308 >>12526272

>>12522776
Because if you're breeding, you'll definitely want to replace that Dark Pulse you worked so hard for in exchange for the Bite and Headbutt which will be so useful with your 125 special attack

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:30:11 No.12522868 Report

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Anything with low Speed. Though for some reason I didn't have much of a problem with Roggenrola back in Black.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:31:06 No.12522875 Report

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>>12522382
Togepi you cheeky bastard

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 08:49:57 No.12522961 Report

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>>12522846
Well you didn't mention that. They can also serve as what you level-up with while Dark Pulse and Dragon Pulse wait on the back-burner until you have Hydreigon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 09:57:10 No.12523263 Report

Quoted By: >>12523276 >>12524289

Has anyone here actually levelled a drifloon while playing through the game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 10:01:39 No.12523276 Report

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>>12523263
I did in one run through in platinum. Drifloon's a pain in the ass but Drifblim is great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 10:36:41 No.12523377 Report

Quoted By: >>12524325

>>12522243
For some reason i had no problem with leveling Drif ingame when playing randomized (and it started from lv2). For now Happiny was my greatest pain - urge to drop his training was greater than urge to have Blissey on e4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 10:36:49 No.12523379 Report

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I honestly think that I gave up on having a drifloon on my team because I caught one at the lowest level imaginable, and.. Ugh
Probably the hardest Pokemon for me would be Shelgon.. It just lacks a certain umph for me, and it doesnt have amazing attacks until after level 40, which takes a while.
It takes even LONGER to get it to Salamence after that.
So basically its because of its poor attacks until a high level, and although Dragonbreath has STAB, it isnt overly amazing :P

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 10:56:28 No.12523425 Report

Quoted By: >>12523851

>>12522561
I lost my save for some reason and had to start over.

No mistakes this time, now I'm getting a Golbat straaaight from the Slowpoke Well

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 11:28:58 No.12523486 Report

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>>12522509
Try raising one in Emerald, where he gets no good attack moves until he evolves

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 13:31:51 No.12523851 Report

Quoted By: >>12523875

>>12523425
just get a zubat?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 13:37:34 No.12523875 Report

Quoted By: >>12523916 >>12523923

>>12523851
Do you have any idea of the horror that is training a Zubat at low levels? Having to spend level after level relying on Leech Life and Astonish while being OHKO'd by any moderate gust of wind, and onyl learning the decent Wing Attack at Lv 21?

No way, I'm not going throught that hell again, I'd rather spend 30 minutes looking for a Golbat that to train one of those things from the groudn up again

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 13:47:03 No.12523909 Report

Quoted By: >>12524263

koffing
In black 2, he gets somewhat of a boost having access to venoshock/sludge, but in older games, he was really a pain in the ass to train

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 13:48:33 No.12523916 Report

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>>12523875
bite makes it somewhat easier to train
I remember the terrible feel when I learned I couldn't get a crobat in fire red.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 13:49:28 No.12523923 Report

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>>12523875
I've done it before, nowhere near as bad as Drifloon man

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SonicAnon 0433 6275 1411 !vGHp/TseBg Sun 02 Jun 2013 14:48:24 No.12524263 Report

Quoted By: >>12524512

>>12522243
>>12522347
>>12522379
>>12522477
>>12522602
>>12523909
>2013
>Not using EXP share

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 14:52:09 No.12524289 Report

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Many of the gen 5 Pokémon I made use of on my team in White/White 2. I was almost through with Pawniard by the time it finally evolved into Bisharp.

>>12523263
Drifloon/Drifblim was my Flying type many a playthrough of Platinum.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 14:54:47 No.12524305 Report

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doing a run with abomasnow and froslass

fuck they suck

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 14:55:02 No.12524308 Report

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>>12522846

You do know that the game is made for kids, right?

You don't need to go 100% MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY I COPY ALL OF MY SETS FROM SMOGON mode to even finish the game, let alone level one pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 14:56:41 No.12524325 Report

Quoted By: >>12524688

>>12523377
OF course, at level 2, there are almost exclusively Normal-type mvoes that can't touch Drif. Pretty easy to level him then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 15:23:47 No.12524512 Report

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>>12524263
>quoting someone who explicitly said to use the exp. share
>>12522602

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 15:43:58 No.12524688 Report

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>>12524325
Not when you play randomized. There are plenty of early bubble/ember/vine whip/poison sting/lick etc. users.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 17:16:06 No.12525537 Report

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A LOT of Gen V pokemon are guilty of this.

Tynamo
Solosis
Joltik
etc...

These pokemon are fucking WORTHLESS, even with Eviolite held. I still don't understand why GameFreak felt the need to fill the generation with dead weight pokemon that require the exp.share to raise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 17:40:52 No.12525804 Report

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>>12522758
but then they'd have one less topic to start a shitty thread about.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 18:15:37 No.12526204 Report

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Zubat.
It's pretty tough going for those first few levels.
Leach life sucks, Supersonic likes to miss more than it hits.

thankfully it learns Bite and Wing attack in the mid to high teens, so that helps out. but it's a pain to get it to those levels.

Ralts is also somewhat difficult

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 18:21:58 No.12526272 Report

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>>12522846
>worked so hard for

Isn't Dark Pulse a Move Tutor move now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 18:25:01 No.12526313 Report

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FUCKING
PINECO

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Jun 2013 18:37:28 No.12526433 Report

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shedinja, due to dying all the time
any sort of utility/wall, since things like spreading status and laying down entry hazards aren't conducive to killing lots of wild pokemon and gaining experience.

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