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[Arrowspate]

Don't do a Nuzlocke until you get the hang of the game, the game is not exactly easy, also, make sure to choose variety when forming a team. Certain Pokemon, of the same species, are harder to find than others, mainly the different types of Flabebe, the White Flower being the rarest with a 1% encounter rate. Anyway, that's the most advice I can give. Also, if you have a Grass type, don't use it against the second Gym Leader's first Pokemon, it is a Rock/Ice type with one Ice type move, albeit a week one, but it makes up for that by using it's ability to turn Take Down into an Ice type move

Good to know, thanks :3 and if someone else has advice I'm all ears

if you want to be good with the game, make sure you heal OFTEN!!!!! This game is hard if you have underleveled pokemon.

if you switch out all of your team members, and you don't have the EXP share, go to the route that matches their level. for example, if you have a level 25 Flareon (sorry, i like flareon.) you would go to route 12.

if you have EXP share, put them at the end of your party and, if you've gotten there, go to route 21 and victory road. the pokemon there are levels 28 (in hordes) to 59. making them the highest leveled pokemon being able to be found before you beat the champion.

and more: you can beat the Elite 4 as many times you want, and they give you 13,000 pokebucks (what is it even called?) each, so that is 52K if you don't lose. but you can't heal your pokemon at centers when fighting them, so make sure you have plenty of elixers, hyper potions and full restores. and they all have around level 66 pokemon.

advice for the champion? i'll let you take care of that. it'll spoil the game.

and ranma? i used my quilladin against grant, and he never fainted! but yeah furry, if you use a grass type against grant, you're gonna have a bad time against that 1st pokemon. but his second one? i actually did pretty good against that with Jordan the Quilladin. but yeah. you may want to try to find an axew in connecting cave, as his second pokemon is part dragon. try to get Dragon Rage, and if you can't find an axew, get charmander. he learns dragon rage at level 17, so that's good against his second pokemon.

believe me, i've beaten the elite 4 twice with only 1 legendary and that's a required one.

also, i've never experienced this, but you can find the gym leaders in the Battle Chateau. he still has the same pokemon, but evolved. the level will fluctuate.

[Nitro Indigo]

I just re-beat Explorers of Time. Temporal Tower was a lot easier than I remember.

[Midnight Tails]

I wouldn't say you need to heal often. If you get attached to your pokemon you're probably going to want to heal them to full health all the time because you feel like a bad trainer otherwise...but you can get through the game just fine with scattered visits to the pokemon centre. Just keep them in high amount of yellow if you can. Do keep a bunch of potions (super potions, hyper potions, whatever is worthwhile for your hp) on you if a pokemon centre is too far away though.
Status is important, so keep berries or items that can heal burns, frozen, poison etc.
In X the EXP. Share isn't a held item, instead a key item and working on all your pokemon at once. If you're experienced it can make the game too easy.

If you've played older generations (seeing as you were specific in saying you are a bit of a noob when it comes to newer gens) keep in mind psychics are not broken any more, and quite a few changes have been made in typing, new moves have been added, and other seemingly minor changes. I know it's jarring for me to play say, Yellow, just for example, and then play X/Y.
I'd recommend looking up each pokemon you want on your team online (Bulbapedia) so you can look at their moveset, and see how long you want to keep them at a certain stage to get specific moves.
Paying attention to what people say can stop you from getting lost.
Also, the taxi service in Lumiose City (basically the capital, or at least it's the biggest place in Kalos) is invalauble, because you really can get turned around in there, it is immense.
I'd say name your pokemon, as that makes the game more fun. ^.^

You'll experience a lot of new battle styles such as double, or triple battles (these were available before x and y, but sounds like you haven't played in a while), so at least have three capable pokemon on your team at all times in case you come across a trainer that battles that way. Otherwise you'll be disadvantaged in numbers. So I'd not recommend soloing it with just one pokemon. There's also hoard battles, where you get five wild pokemon at once.
They're a lot weaker than what you expect on whatever route you're on however you only vs those with one pokemon, so I recommend investing in some sort of move that hits all enemies at once. Hyper Voice is a good one for example.

One thing you just have to do is play regularly with your pokemon in pokemon aimie. It's in the touchscreen section, and it's just positively adorable to be able to feed them and play with them. ;u;
Plus once you're over three hearts your pokemon start interacting with you in-battle!

I hope you don't mind the walls of text... :c
Just trying to help and all. Hope you enjoy!



@Nitro Indigo
I got the same feeling when I re-played that part! I was so suprised. Perhaps we knew how to be better prepared, or knew how long the dungeon is the secound time around or something?

[Shinryu]

Don't do a Nuzlocke until you get the hang of the game, the game is not exactly easy, also, make sure to choose variety when forming a team. Certain Pokemon, of the same species, are harder to find than others, mainly the different types of Flabebe, the White Flower being the rarest with a 1% encounter rate. Anyway, that's the most advice I can give. Also, if you have a Grass type, don't use it against the second Gym Leader's first Pokemon, it is a Rock/Ice type with one Ice type move, albeit a week one, but it makes up for that by using it's ability to turn Take Down into an Ice type move

Good to know, thanks :3 and if someone else has advice I'm all ears

Personally, I don't think that XY are difficult to beat, but I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.
A lot of things also depend on how much you wanna learn from outside sources.
You can, for example, go and look up the gym leaders and their teams online, to prepare yourself for what you will be facing off against. Same goes for the bosses.
You could look up the locations of various Pokemon to save yourself the work of figuring out where to get what, and to plan your team in advance.
You can overlevel your team to make up for potential weaknesses.

Or you could go for the surprise experience of walking through the game without looking up stuff about what to expect from it.
Personally, I always do my first playthroughs without looking anything up.
At most, I check the list of which Pokemon are available in which edition, but that's just to help me decide which one to buy.

If there's one piece of advice that I do have, it's to make good use of Pokemon-Amie.
Go play with your Pokemon and get the affection level maxed out, as it'll reap you benefits such as
- extra Exp
- chance of your Pokemon surviving hits that would KO it
- chance of your Pokemon breaking through status conditions
- increased chance of critical hits

I don't remember my whole team from the first X playthrough, but it included Greninja, Furfrou, Espeon, Absol, and Ampharos.
Possible that I just used the sixth spot for rotation. My first Hall of Fame entry had Xerneas in it, and I don't usually include legendaries, so I guess that was it.
This team was kind of remarkable for me, because it's the first time my main team didn't include a Flying type.
But the point is, I just went and caught what I liked, and used that. No thought at all put into teambuilding xD

But yeah. Like I said, I don't know if I found X easy because I've been playing Pokemon for 14 years, of because it's easy.
I don't think it is any harder than the other games, though if you're new to the latest generations, that might mean you wanna brush up on your knowledge about type effectiveness and battle mechanics, since so many things changed between Gen I and VI.

Most of all, though, have fun! ~

[Arrowspate]

I wouldn't say you need to heal often. If you get attached to your pokemon you're probably going to want to heal them to full health all the time because you feel like a bad trainer otherwise...but you can get through the game just fine with scattered visits to the pokemon centre. Just keep them in high amount of yellow if you can. Do keep a bunch of potions (super potions, hyper potions, whatever is worthwhile for your hp) on you if a pokemon centre is too far away though.
Status is important, so keep berries or items that can heal burns, frozen, poison etc.
In X the EXP. Share isn't a held item, instead a key item and working on all your pokemon at once. If you're experienced it can make the game too easy.

If you've played older generations (seeing as you were specific in saying you are a bit of a noob when it comes to newer gens) keep in mind psychics are not broken any more, and quite a few changes have been made in typing, new moves have been added, and other seemingly minor changes. I know it's jarring for me to play say, Yellow, just for example, and then play X/Y.
I'd recommend looking up each pokemon you want on your team online (Bulbapedia) so you can look at their moveset, and see how long you want to keep them at a certain stage to get specific moves.
Paying attention to what people say can stop you from getting lost.
Also, the taxi service in Lumiose City (basically the capital, or at least it's the biggest place in Kalos) is invalauble, because you really can get turned around in there, it is immense.
I'd say name your pokemon, as that makes the game more fun. ^.^

You'll experience a lot of new battle styles such as double, or triple battles (these were available before x and y, but sounds like you haven't played in a while), so at least have three capable pokemon on your team at all times in case you come across a trainer that battles that way. Otherwise you'll be disadvantaged in numbers. So I'd not recommend soloing it with just one pokemon. There's also hoard battles, where you get five wild pokemon at once.
They're a lot weaker than what you expect on whatever route you're on however you only vs those with one pokemon, so I recommend investing in some sort of move that hits all enemies at once. Hyper Voice is a good one for example.

One thing you just have to do is play regularly with your pokemon in pokemon aimie. It's in the touchscreen section, and it's just positively adorable to be able to feed them and play with them. ;u;
Plus once you're over three hearts your pokemon start interacting with you in-battle!

I hope you don't mind the walls of text... :c
Just trying to help and all. Hope you enjoy!



@Nitro Indigo
I got the same feeling when I re-played that part! I was so suprised. Perhaps we knew how to be better prepared, or knew how long the dungeon is the secound time around or something?

about the Taxi service, if you don't have enough money to pay for the Taxis, they will battle you, which, of course, will give you XP, and pay you. so BUY MORE KEYCHAINS!!! lol jk. but buy as many Ultra balls as you can. this way, you'll get some XP, be able to catch a lot of pokemon, but the taxi guys have level 33-66 pokemon, so there is a risk of dying and losing all of your money.


i like healing them at centers because it also heals PP, status, and revives them without paying, so it saves money. and if you have an Abra, Kadabra, or Alakazam, you can automatically teleport to the last center you went to, but i'm not sure about what happens if you don't visit a center and healing pokemon with berries only, so i'll look that up.


NOTE: using teleport without going to a center will cause it to fail. it will also fail if wrap, mean look, or other trapping moves are used, or in trainer battles, or if the enemy has arena trap or shadow tag, unless if the pokemon is holding a smoke ball. or using a Poke Doll.

[Feral Fangs]

Another thing that makes Lumiose City fun is that as you do things like spend money at the Poke Ball Store and the Stone Emporium, you gain Style, which allows you to get extra haircuts, better but more expensive clothes, and more trims for your Furfrou

[Nitro Indigo]

Strangely, I only ran into one monster house in Temporal Tower. And I prepared with loads of Foe-Hold Orbs! Maybe Dialga was easy because of my team's Dig+1 and Mirror Move combination.
My current team is Meowth and Torchic, by the way. I got Meowth while boredly resetting a few months ago because I like seeing what the personality quiz will give me and I don't think I've ever gotten it before. Come to think of it, in all of my restarts I don't think I've ever gotten Chimchar or Munchlax.

EDIT: Female Combee is happier than male Combee!

[Naala]

Since ORAS I started to plan my team before really starting the game. Means that I look which pokemon I want, which moves they should learn and than I also breed them with good IVs, because I'm often disappointed with the stats of my pokemon game if I don't breed so I can't use them for online battles (which I find a sad thing and I actually dislike the IV-system).

[SoulKnight]

This is an amazing group!

[Aaron✦]

Hee~! Thanks to Skritnaja, I have a Manaphy now and I am happy~!

~

On a different note though...does anyone know of any, like, Pokemon breeding services here on CS? Specifically ones that breed Pokemon with good IVs and specific Natures and Shininess in exchange for pets? I, uh, may have a strong desire for a number of difficult to breed Pokemon given my lack of patience and IV knowledge... >_>

☁xxx If you still need them I can do you perfect 5 IVs with specific natures c: