Pokémon Black and White News

[Taser9090]

The music is better than expected too. I love the dynamic scores. Accumula Town is my favourite, with the piano and drums. The melodies are generally better than in D/P as well.

You should hear Village Bridge. At first it seems dull, but if you talk to certain people, the song sounds amazing. It's one of my favorite spots to train my stronger Pokemon.

[Shadoninja]

Even though I'm gonna evolve it? Wouldn't it be Fire/Fighting then? So I guess the second one would be best as I've already got 131 EVs on Attack.

Typing means nothing when determining EV spreads.

[SlowPokemon]

zuruzukin(scrafty) will always be badass to use in any team ever.

I didn't get to it in Black since I was training Krookodile (for a period of time anyway) and I didn't want another Dark-type...I will definitely be using it in White though, along with probably Swoobat.

EDIT: Umm...what?

[Shadoninja]

pokemon trading card game online is win. I can't wait till we can build our own decks and battle peoplez

[Roz~]

Haven't tried it yet because of school/work, but it really looks awsm.

[Jub3r7]

Too bad it's offline right now.  

[Roz~]

Wouldn't have tried it right now anyway, I'm too tired. Plus I need to concentrate on catching my Reshiram.

[SlowPokemon]

Reshiram and Zekrom are ridiculously easy to catch for some reason...maybe because you HAVE to.

[Shadoninja]

well they do have a capture rate of 45 which is pretty average.

[Dude]

Isn't it supposed to be Winter in-game by now? It still says Autumn for me...

EDIT: Nvm, I just needed to go in somewhere and go out.

[Cobraroll]

Oh my god. Accumula Town is by far the worst song in the game, next to Nimbasa City...what is wrong with your ears? xD

Perhaps it is, but I still LOVE how the dynamic music is integrated in it.

Anyway, the routes do line up. You only get to visit the western region of Unova pregame, and the eastern side post-game. It goes in a circle. The routes near Route 1/Accumula Town are so named because they are optional/you can't visit them until after you obtain surf. It's kind of how Route 24/25 are at the beginning of Red and Blue.

That's not what I meant, though I can see that it could be interpreted that way. What I meant is that some routes are depicted entirely wrong on the town map, such as with Accumula where Route 2 goes west for a while before turning north, but the map depicts it as going straight north out of Accumula. Route 6 too goes more north than west, but the map shows it going linearly northwest. Similarly, Cold Storage is so close to Driftveil that it should count as part of the city, yet on the map it appears to be a fair distance away. Same goes for most other off-route locations.

[SlowPokemon]

Well, even so, you enter it from the west and it's just a straight path north... but now I know what you mean anyway.

And btw there are tons of cities and stuff with instruments that you can activate by talking or going near people. (Ex. in Nacrene City the guy with the accordion)

Have you figured out yet that on routes, while walking the drums can be heard in the score, but not while motionless?

[Winter]

I have no internal clock on my DSi, so it';s been spring this whole time.

[Cobraroll]

Seeing as everybody else uses the, you know, news topic for this kind of questions, I thought I'd have a go myself:

I just trained my pathetic Pansear to lv. 43, taught it Crunch and evolved it. Coincidentally, that happened to be just ten minutes after I got my Litwick in Celestial Tower. Pansear's capabilities have struck me as mediocre at best throughout the entire game, while Chandelure seems like a beast.

Though, here I am with a lv. 43 Simisear with Fire Blast and Crunch, vs a lv. 28 Litwick with one third of Simisear's stats and Flame Burst. Would it be better to keep Simisage in my team for now, then wait with Litwick, or should I drop Simisage and train Litwick, who eventually will become Lampent, instead? Mind you, I'm thinking on a relatively short term basis here. I will eventually get a good Chandelure, but I'm just not sure if now is the right time to start training one.

[SlowPokemon]

Definitely chandelure--it's a little frail but its sp. Atk beats even Porygon Z. Will also serve well against the elite four.

Anyway nobody even mentioned the inconvenience of having pokeballs in the same pocket as items...

Anyway I finally have a team. Here it is currently:

Serperior Lv58
Chandelure Lv58 (I love its modest nature)
Carracosta Lv58
Eelektross Lv58
Haxorus Lv59
Krookadile Lv59