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Old habits in pokemon games
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Re: Old habits are hard to break, Mk. II
I always...
Nickname my Pokemon. I find it more fun and it makes my head develop little imaginary RPs. I dunno. It personalizes them and gives them more character. I used to do a scheme where I'd nickname my Pokemon on one version and leave them nameless on the other, but I stopped because that became uninteresting and I never finished my second version game anyways.
Press some combination of buttons when catching Pokemon. Well, not always, but frequently.
Use Butterfree when playing RBY or FRLG. For some reason, the idea that Butterfree is good against Brock is stuck in my head and forces me to train one.
Catch random Pokemon, especially if it's my first playthrough. If I'm planning on filling the Dex (which I never do), I'll do this frequently.
Catch Male Pokemon predominantly. I tend to have at least 1 or 2 Females though, and the balance has changed somewhat as of late.
Complete and play the hell out of the first version of a Gen I get and then ignore/do stupid things with my other versions. My Ruby clocks over 200 hours. The possible exceptions to this are Pearl (which I played through and then got lazy with) and Emerald (which I actually completed and attempted to play the Battle Frontier on).
Forget that I have items. In pretty much every non-E4 battle, I completely negelect any items I have, and generally don't buy them either. Not sure why.
Keep my starter around, even if I don't exactly like them. The only exception I can recall to this rule is during challenges and my first game on Gold. I ended up ditching my Crocnaw pretty early, actually, but my team turned out better because of it. I actually don't really like using starters since I think it makes your team seem generic.
Keep 2 to 3 of my first few Pokemon, even if I know that everyone uses them. I really like creative Pokemon teams, but that doesn't stop me from sticking with the first few I caught and trained. This generally applies to first runthroughs and a few monotypes, though.
Save twice, just to make sure. I don't always do this, but I tend to frequently because I save, look away and then look back, not sure if I've saved. It's a weird paranoia because I've never actually forgotten to save on a Pokemon game.
Among other things.
Yeah. I'm pretty quirky. >>;
I always...
Nickname my Pokemon. I find it more fun and it makes my head develop little imaginary RPs. I dunno. It personalizes them and gives them more character. I used to do a scheme where I'd nickname my Pokemon on one version and leave them nameless on the other, but I stopped because that became uninteresting and I never finished my second version game anyways.
Press some combination of buttons when catching Pokemon. Well, not always, but frequently.
Use Butterfree when playing RBY or FRLG. For some reason, the idea that Butterfree is good against Brock is stuck in my head and forces me to train one.
Catch random Pokemon, especially if it's my first playthrough. If I'm planning on filling the Dex (which I never do), I'll do this frequently.
Catch Male Pokemon predominantly. I tend to have at least 1 or 2 Females though, and the balance has changed somewhat as of late.
Complete and play the hell out of the first version of a Gen I get and then ignore/do stupid things with my other versions. My Ruby clocks over 200 hours. The possible exceptions to this are Pearl (which I played through and then got lazy with) and Emerald (which I actually completed and attempted to play the Battle Frontier on).
Forget that I have items. In pretty much every non-E4 battle, I completely negelect any items I have, and generally don't buy them either. Not sure why.
Keep my starter around, even if I don't exactly like them. The only exception I can recall to this rule is during challenges and my first game on Gold. I ended up ditching my Crocnaw pretty early, actually, but my team turned out better because of it. I actually don't really like using starters since I think it makes your team seem generic.
Keep 2 to 3 of my first few Pokemon, even if I know that everyone uses them. I really like creative Pokemon teams, but that doesn't stop me from sticking with the first few I caught and trained. This generally applies to first runthroughs and a few monotypes, though.
Save twice, just to make sure. I don't always do this, but I tend to frequently because I save, look away and then look back, not sure if I've saved. It's a weird paranoia because I've never actually forgotten to save on a Pokemon game.
Among other things.
Yeah. I'm pretty quirky. >>;
kunikida.
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- Pronoun
- she
Re: Old habits are hard to break, Mk. II
I always nickname my Pokemon. If you went through all my boxes on all my games, all my Pokemon would be nicknamed. Sometimes they'll be named after the Anime charecters who own that certain Pokemon: Pikachu- Ash, Blastoise- Gary, Weavile- Kidd, Kadabra- Sabrina, Onix-Brock, ect., etc... Or I'll just nickname the Pokemon out of random: Furret-Cherry, Espeon-Samantha, Umbreon- Nikola, Aggron- Justin, etc., etc... And sometimes they're named after other anime charecters:Houndoom- InuYasha, Scyther-Naruto, Persian- Kagome...( I nicknamed Houndoom InuYasha because of the dog demon thing, Scyther is nicknamed Naruto because of it's ninja-like movements, and Persian is nicknamed Kagome because of the jewel on it's head and Kagome senses the Shikon jewel shards.)
I try and guess what Pokemon is coming up by it's cry in the wild or in a battle (with the exception of MD)
I always call out the name of my Pokemon and command them: "Nikola, use your Bite attack!", even in a restraunt, or on a bus, or in the car, or in the store, but when I'm in public, I do it quiter than usual.
Pressing the B down when I'm getting ready to get knocked out.
When Pokemon are confused, I always say something like "Come on girl, don't let that Cloyster beat you!" or when infatuated, "You're not hurting it if you do hit it, you're hurting me if you don't hit it!" and that always works!
Try as hard as I can to catch all females. I still have quite a few males. Wah.
That's pretty much all of my habits. I do them every single time. Yeah.
I always nickname my Pokemon. If you went through all my boxes on all my games, all my Pokemon would be nicknamed. Sometimes they'll be named after the Anime charecters who own that certain Pokemon: Pikachu- Ash, Blastoise- Gary, Weavile- Kidd, Kadabra- Sabrina, Onix-Brock, ect., etc... Or I'll just nickname the Pokemon out of random: Furret-Cherry, Espeon-Samantha, Umbreon- Nikola, Aggron- Justin, etc., etc... And sometimes they're named after other anime charecters:Houndoom- InuYasha, Scyther-Naruto, Persian- Kagome...( I nicknamed Houndoom InuYasha because of the dog demon thing, Scyther is nicknamed Naruto because of it's ninja-like movements, and Persian is nicknamed Kagome because of the jewel on it's head and Kagome senses the Shikon jewel shards.)
I try and guess what Pokemon is coming up by it's cry in the wild or in a battle (with the exception of MD)
I always call out the name of my Pokemon and command them: "Nikola, use your Bite attack!", even in a restraunt, or on a bus, or in the car, or in the store, but when I'm in public, I do it quiter than usual.
Pressing the B down when I'm getting ready to get knocked out.
When Pokemon are confused, I always say something like "Come on girl, don't let that Cloyster beat you!" or when infatuated, "You're not hurting it if you do hit it, you're hurting me if you don't hit it!" and that always works!
Try as hard as I can to catch all females. I still have quite a few males. Wah.
That's pretty much all of my habits. I do them every single time. Yeah.
Time Psyduck
I can see the ending
Re: Old habits are hard to break, Mk. II
I always keep my starter at least as high as the rest of my team, and if something passes it i will catch the starter up to it. Also two equivalent pokemon must be kept at the same level is possible. I always use a water and flying type. I always level the pokemon up in an order, stating with the starter, then usually other starter traded for, psyduck/golduck (if on team), others and HM slaves last. I always use poke/great/ultra balls (rather than the specialist ones) if possible.
That's it (for now at least)
I always keep my starter at least as high as the rest of my team, and if something passes it i will catch the starter up to it. Also two equivalent pokemon must be kept at the same level is possible. I always use a water and flying type. I always level the pokemon up in an order, stating with the starter, then usually other starter traded for, psyduck/golduck (if on team), others and HM slaves last. I always use poke/great/ultra balls (rather than the specialist ones) if possible.
That's it (for now at least)
Time Psyduck
I can see the ending
Ahouji
Back from the bloody dead
Re: Old habits are hard to break, Mk. II
Um.
I tap the A button almost obsessively, even when it's not doing anything-- over wifi this REALLY annoys people, but it's just a habit.
Nicknames. Even if I'm just renaming it with a species name [for instance, if I catch, say, a pidgey I never intend to use, I'll at least give it the nickname "Pidgey"-- I never let it be caught without a nickname.
Only train my starter until I beat the Elite 4, then get my team together later. I really wish I could stop doing that-- ever since I restarted Sapphire I've been trying not to do this by juggling all six members of my team, but it's hard. (And the fact that my monotype game leaves me with ONLY my blastoise for a good, LONG time).
Theme-naming... for my main team, more recently, I've been theme-naming them, even if it IS just, say, in one certain language or something (my new Sapphire team are all named after J-rockers from my 3 favorite bands and my FR monotype team are all named after anime characters).
I prefer to only catch male pokemon... except for certain species (I prefer to have female vaporeon and pikachu, for example).
Oh!
And I always, always choose the reptile starter if I can. (I got all 3 in Yellow because they're all reptiles, Totodile in Crystal, Treecko in Sapphire, and Turtwig in Diamond.)
Um.
I tap the A button almost obsessively, even when it's not doing anything-- over wifi this REALLY annoys people, but it's just a habit.
Nicknames. Even if I'm just renaming it with a species name [for instance, if I catch, say, a pidgey I never intend to use, I'll at least give it the nickname "Pidgey"-- I never let it be caught without a nickname.
Only train my starter until I beat the Elite 4, then get my team together later. I really wish I could stop doing that-- ever since I restarted Sapphire I've been trying not to do this by juggling all six members of my team, but it's hard. (And the fact that my monotype game leaves me with ONLY my blastoise for a good, LONG time).
Theme-naming... for my main team, more recently, I've been theme-naming them, even if it IS just, say, in one certain language or something (my new Sapphire team are all named after J-rockers from my 3 favorite bands and my FR monotype team are all named after anime characters).
I prefer to only catch male pokemon... except for certain species (I prefer to have female vaporeon and pikachu, for example).
Oh!
And I always, always choose the reptile starter if I can. (I got all 3 in Yellow because they're all reptiles, Totodile in Crystal, Treecko in Sapphire, and Turtwig in Diamond.)
Munchkin
is NOT edible. Unless you're a vampire.
Re: Old habits are hard to break, Mk. II
-When catching Pokémon, I first glare directly into its eyes, then at the Pokéball button until it is caught. It probably does nothing, and people may think I'm a nut for doing so, but in my mentality, it increases my chances of catching the Pokémon.
-I always nickname my Pokémon, but in all-caps. In Emerald, I've named every last one of my Pokémon after some sort of food or drink. My pair Pokémon (Illumise+Volbeat, Plusle+Minun, etc.) have matching names. Milk and Cookie, then Salt and Pepper, for instance.
-I always plan out my team at the beginning of the game. And sometimes refuse to catch any Pokémon other than what I had planned until I have a full party of six.
-I arrange my Pokémon by HP, lowest first to highest last. My starter is always last, unless that's the one I'm currently training.
-I always train all my Pokémon to a satisfying level that's a multiple of five, though my starter is at the next multiple up. For example, Before I'd battled Flannery in Emerald, I wanted all of my Pokémon at level 35 and my starter at level 40. And I always make sure to train all of my Pokémon by at least five levels between gyms.
-I never pick the Water starter. It's not that I don't like them, I love Water-types, but I guess it's a habit. I usually pick the Fire starter and catch anything that knows Surf, provided it fits in well with my planned team.
-I save every time a Pokémon levels up and whenever I walk out of a Pokémon Center. And most of the time, I save before trainer battles.
-When catching Pokémon, I first glare directly into its eyes, then at the Pokéball button until it is caught. It probably does nothing, and people may think I'm a nut for doing so, but in my mentality, it increases my chances of catching the Pokémon.
-I always nickname my Pokémon, but in all-caps. In Emerald, I've named every last one of my Pokémon after some sort of food or drink. My pair Pokémon (Illumise+Volbeat, Plusle+Minun, etc.) have matching names. Milk and Cookie, then Salt and Pepper, for instance.
-I always plan out my team at the beginning of the game. And sometimes refuse to catch any Pokémon other than what I had planned until I have a full party of six.
-I arrange my Pokémon by HP, lowest first to highest last. My starter is always last, unless that's the one I'm currently training.
-I always train all my Pokémon to a satisfying level that's a multiple of five, though my starter is at the next multiple up. For example, Before I'd battled Flannery in Emerald, I wanted all of my Pokémon at level 35 and my starter at level 40. And I always make sure to train all of my Pokémon by at least five levels between gyms.
-I never pick the Water starter. It's not that I don't like them, I love Water-types, but I guess it's a habit. I usually pick the Fire starter and catch anything that knows Surf, provided it fits in well with my planned team.
-I save every time a Pokémon levels up and whenever I walk out of a Pokémon Center. And most of the time, I save before trainer battles.
Kaito
painting on a pre-made canvas~
- I almost always pick a team of the following types: Water, Fire, Grass, Electric, Flying, Dragon/Psychic. Probably the most generic you can get, but it was my very first team in Red and it served me quite well. So I did the same in Gold, and then in Ruby, and yeah.
- I never nickname my Pokémon. I never have and probably never will.
- I order my Pokémon from lowest level to highest level, and constantly switch them around so that I train my weakest first, and always have an equal balance of levels. No Pokémon too strong, and none too weak.
- I cannot leave an area unless I have found every single item, talked to every single trainer, and battled every single Pokémon. This can drive me absolutely mental, especially when there's an item I can't get to yet, but can see. When this happens I write down the Route somewhere, and the second I get the right TM I run back there to get it.
- Despite battling every single trainer and Pokémon in an area, I manage to rush through the game and usually have to go back and train before a gym leader or the Elite 4.
- I press A and down whenever catching a Pokémon. I know it doesn't work but I do it without thinking anymore.
Nostalgia143
I am safe within my mind!
- Pronoun
- they
This dates back to GS. I always rapidly press A and B when catching a Pokémon, even though I know it doesn't affect it. I only thought it did for about a month before I figured out, via internet, that it did nothing. But, it had become habitual by that time...
I always have a team of six, and I constantly switch them around to train my weakest in it.
I actually play the game to be underleveled. I skip all trainers I can, I run from most wild battle et cetera. Cynthia was hard with Pokémon ranging from Upper Fourties to Low Fifties.
I buy both versions, so I can simultaneously play through the game as a boy and girl.
In FRLG, I always go through the Gyms in a very odd order. I go in the order of: Brock, Misty, Koga, Blaine, Erika, Sabrina, Lt. Surge, Giovanni.
I usually name my rival Jr. or Junior, because the always have someone to name the after. Green - Oak; Silver - Giovanni; Pearl - Palmer.
I have a habit of planning out my team well before starting the file. I knew my DP team, before it's US release.
I always have a team of six, and I constantly switch them around to train my weakest in it.
I actually play the game to be underleveled. I skip all trainers I can, I run from most wild battle et cetera. Cynthia was hard with Pokémon ranging from Upper Fourties to Low Fifties.
I buy both versions, so I can simultaneously play through the game as a boy and girl.
In FRLG, I always go through the Gyms in a very odd order. I go in the order of: Brock, Misty, Koga, Blaine, Erika, Sabrina, Lt. Surge, Giovanni.
I usually name my rival Jr. or Junior, because the always have someone to name the after. Green - Oak; Silver - Giovanni; Pearl - Palmer.
I have a habit of planning out my team well before starting the file. I knew my DP team, before it's US release.
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- Pronoun
- she/her
I name every pokemon obsessively. Including my Grotle Frosty and my boyfriend's Pikachu Fellatio.
I usually repress the urge to call my rival something ridiculous, except that one time on Gold when I called my rival'Shitface' no, it was 'Shitmon'. That's right.
Lately I've been collecting every ghost 'mon on the game.
I usually try and catch a pokemon for each type on my team, like fire, water, grass, flying, electric, ground or something.
I always press B when my opponent is confused so it hurts itself. The trick is to do it when the birds go around it's head. Works for me, anyway.
I never get the fire starter except charmander. All the other ones (to me) suck, even though Charizard has a 4x weakness to rock. Most of the time it's the water starter. (Woo, Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup!)
I usually neglect grass-types. I'm not sure why.
I fail at the E4. I had to get my boyfriend to beat them for me on FRLG.
I usually hardly buy anything, then go to buy a pokeball or something and realise I have about 25k in Pokedollars.
I usually repress the urge to call my rival something ridiculous, except that one time on Gold when I called my rival
Lately I've been collecting every ghost 'mon on the game.
I usually try and catch a pokemon for each type on my team, like fire, water, grass, flying, electric, ground or something.
I always press B when my opponent is confused so it hurts itself. The trick is to do it when the birds go around it's head. Works for me, anyway.
I never get the fire starter except charmander. All the other ones (to me) suck, even though Charizard has a 4x weakness to rock. Most of the time it's the water starter. (Woo, Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup!)
I usually neglect grass-types. I'm not sure why.
I fail at the E4. I had to get my boyfriend to beat them for me on FRLG.
I usually hardly buy anything, then go to buy a pokeball or something and realise I have about 25k in Pokedollars.
Worst Username Ever
(laughs)
I hold B on the two first wiggles when catching a Pokemon.
I try to skip all the trainers I can.
I don't care about stats and stuff. I sell all "X Speed", "X Attack" and the like.
I only use damaging and status condition-inflicting moves. (And stuff like Sunny Day for Solar Beam)
I try to skip all the trainers I can.
I don't care about stats and stuff. I sell all "X Speed", "X Attack" and the like.
I only use damaging and status condition-inflicting moves. (And stuff like Sunny Day for Solar Beam)
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zaxly100
Oh! I like Glalies!
I always run. I get a bike, and i don't use it, unless hatching an egg.
I press A continuisly (sp?) because i thought you had a better chance at catching a Pokemon.
I NEED to have a Water, Flying, and Psychic type Pokemon on my team. In my diamond game, my water and Psychic types were never used before. They're an Octillary and Girafarig.
I only catch the Pokemon in my team and HM slaves. There's an exception to that in my diamond game, because when i made it to the first gym, i had a Chimchar, Staravia, and Bidoof. I caught a Budew, trained it up, beat Roark, and shoved it in the box. I will never use it again.
I don't nickname my Pokemon unless i want to. If i do, they have to be unique and they have to be very odd. Example: I named my Charmander in my LG game Akoya.
I don't catch the legendaries. I murder them. I hate legendaries with my guts.
I don't care about natures, EV's, IV's or try to breed pokemon for egg moves, unless i really want to. I don't need to EV train, as the only person i can battle is my n00by brother. Wi-fi's busted, and when it's fixed, i will EV train so i can kill you all! Muah ha ha ha ha! Sorry.
I press A continuisly (sp?) because i thought you had a better chance at catching a Pokemon.
I NEED to have a Water, Flying, and Psychic type Pokemon on my team. In my diamond game, my water and Psychic types were never used before. They're an Octillary and Girafarig.
I only catch the Pokemon in my team and HM slaves. There's an exception to that in my diamond game, because when i made it to the first gym, i had a Chimchar, Staravia, and Bidoof. I caught a Budew, trained it up, beat Roark, and shoved it in the box. I will never use it again.
I don't nickname my Pokemon unless i want to. If i do, they have to be unique and they have to be very odd. Example: I named my Charmander in my LG game Akoya.
I don't catch the legendaries. I murder them. I hate legendaries with my guts.
I don't care about natures, EV's, IV's or try to breed pokemon for egg moves, unless i really want to. I don't need to EV train, as the only person i can battle is my n00by brother. Wi-fi's busted, and when it's fixed, i will EV train so i can kill you all! Muah ha ha ha ha! Sorry.
Zeph
from up here the sky is my thoughts
- Pronoun
- he
This.
And this.
Sort of this.
And most of all, this. Assuming, of course, that the 'unless I really want to' is referring to breeding for egg moves.
Koori Renchuu
Always look for the heart in things!
Sapphire
Some random new user.
I always press Down + B when trying to catch a Pokémon.
I talk to every NPC I see, even though I know most of them don't have anything useful to say. Also, I check everything.
I swear at foes when they're about to knock out my last Pokémon. Really.
My team's levels must be equal. Always. Seeing "22, 24, 23", for example, pisses me off.
I'm obsessed with breeding since GSC. I breed like crazy until I get the right nature, and the right IV's. I probably have over 20 Pichus with Volt Tackle on my box in Diamond..
That's it, I guess.
I talk to every NPC I see, even though I know most of them don't have anything useful to say. Also, I check everything.
I swear at foes when they're about to knock out my last Pokémon. Really.
My team's levels must be equal. Always. Seeing "22, 24, 23", for example, pisses me off.
I'm obsessed with breeding since GSC. I breed like crazy until I get the right nature, and the right IV's. I probably have over 20 Pichus with Volt Tackle on my box in Diamond..
That's it, I guess.
Worst Username Ever
(laughs)