Black 2 & White 2 Recent Happenings Thread

[Cutty]

Yes! Finally Keldeo is distributed via wifi too. I knew they would.^^

I haven't got any Keldeo, I live outside the game event areas/world.

Anyway, I'm still stuck in Driftveil city with my shiny hunt on US Black 2.

[Aquarelle]

A few weeks ago, I tried the Battle Subway on my White 2 since I hadn't battled there yet. I chose the single line and cleared it fairly easily. I plan to do the other lines some other time. In the meantime, I spent quite a bit of time leveling up some Pokemon, namely my Dragonite, Haxorus, and Salamence. I then took those three along with my Hydreigon to the Elite Four in order to get the Dragon-type Champ medal. I also cleared the Dragon type expert tournament. After that, I did some breeding for a Staryu and a Lotad. I EV trained them, leveled them up, and evolved them. I then went back to the World Tournament and entered them and 4 other Water types in the Water type expert tournament on triples. I lost in the final round on my first try to Juan's Sheer Cold spamming Walrein, but then I managed to win on my second try.

[jwla]

So, my White 2 restart has been going pretty well. I started with Tepig (named Bacon) who I thought, at first, wasn't going to hang around. I am thinking about keeping him. My second team member came from Route 20. A female Sewaddle named Mabel. She was followed up by a Psyduck named Drake. Mabel and Bacon really helped me make short work of the trainers in the Aspertia City Gym, and Cheren as well. I did some training on Route 20, and got the three team members up to 16 so Drake would learn Confusion. This saved me when battling Roxie and her band members in Virbank City. I caught an Elekid while at Virbank Complex. I named him Lecter. I am not so sure if he will be hanging around, we'll see. I finished with the PokéStar Studios thing, and am ready to head to Castelia City. I really want to catch a Sandshrew in the Desert Resort. He's going to be my next team member. As for the remaining ones, time will tell!

[Paladin of Arceus]

White2
Dis: Ranked absolutely nothing up in my Join Avenue.
Acc: No wasted points on rank 10 shops, though!

Black2
Acc: Got my Dojo to rank 10 and my Nursery to rank 9!
Acc: Seven rank 10 shops! One more to go!
Dis: Got two noobs asking for rank 10 shops. I didn't have the heart to misdirect them, this time.

[Zyon]

Black 2
DW: Average run, started planting berries to get Manor Island which is gonna take a while.
Join Avenue: Went up two ranks so now I'm 35. Got both my Florist, and Grooming shops to rank 10.

I've slowly been working on my pokedex, when I started I had
Seen: 294 and Obtained: 64

but now I've got in just three days
Seen: 451 and Obtained: 190

I'm going to be spending the rest of today catching/level/breeding to help fill it up so that I can get the shiny charm soon

[jwla]

I went to Castelia City, and helped Hugh run Team Plasma out of the Castelia Sewer. I caught a Woobat in Relic Passage, and named him Romeo. With Bacon's Flame Charge, Drake's Water Pulse and now Romeo's Gust, I was ready to challenge the Castelia Gym. I went through the gym rather easily. I even use Mabel's Bug Bite while battling a Swadloon. She evolved into a Swadloon, herself! After I left Castelia City, I faced Colress in Route 4. He fell pretty easily. I battled a bunch of trainers on the Route, including the two fisherman. After battling them Mabel evolved into Leavanny. That was a surprise, actually. She had only just evolved into Swadloon! I went to the Desert Resort after beating all the other trainers, and caught the Sandshrew I sought. I named him Chaco, and trained with him until he evolved into Sandslah. I got the TM for Rock Tomb, and taught it to him. I need something to battle Elesa's Emolga with! I plan on heading back, and clearing the Battle Company in Castelia for levels.

[Aurath8]

Went in to battle Roxie.
Koffing put up a decent fight against Frillish with Assurance. Reducing it to 10 HP before falling to Bubblebeam. Whirlipede managed to KO him as I switched to Magnemite. Seriously though, Magnemite turns Roxie into an absolute joke of a gym. Despite being 5 levels lower Pursuit was something like an 8KO while I only didn't 3KO him with Sonicboom at the start because I like the music. Anyway, got the Toxic Badge.

Oh gosh the Pokestar Studios cutscene is long. After taking the full tour including watching a movie I made the first Brycen-Man film and collected 5 Lemonades from my first fan.
Team Plasma got in the way again and I still have no idea what exactly they do. Still, they have an epic battle theme and it's always a pleasure to see Hugh unleashing his rage.

Got the boat over to Castelia city. I forgot just how large the city is, took me an hour to get through it all, collecting valuable TMs and hold items. I headed up to Route 4 to catch my 5th team member. The very first pokemon was Sandile, and after beating it riolu evolved into Lucario! I taught it Return considering it has full happiness now as well as replacing Snivy's Tackle with it. I got lucky here, the first Darumaka I caught had a Naughty nature meaning it went straight into my team complete with Hustle boosted Fire Fangs.

I explored the Castelia Sewers after catching my new team member. I hope there are more Plasma double battles as that music is epic! Also exposed the Relic Passage area if I ever want to train there. On the way out my Snivy evolved into Servine. I am getting a bit worried now, as Lucario and Braviary will pull away from the other team members as they all evolve in the 30s. Darumaka in particular as he has to put up with Hustle.

Ah, well I've got some training to do as my plan has worked. Burgh's team is lvl 22-4 while I'm still at 16/17 because me early game team is so large and the exp has been spread between all 5 members. This of course makes the game much harder while I can employ a wide range of strategies to overcome my level difference. I only have sympathy for those who trade over entire teams as eggs. I also need to head back to Virbank to make a movie sometime...

I should probably note all this happened in the space of 3 hours. I've done so much yet so little.

[jwla]

After much decision, I decided Bacon wasn't going to stay on the team. While I need a Fighting-type, I am not too keen on Fire-types. I tried to think of some worthy Fighting-type replacement, when it came to me: Scraggy! So, I set off on a search, and found one in the Desert Resort. I named him Iggy. Now Mabel the Leavanny is the head of the team, with Drake the Psyduck, Chaco the Sandslash and Iggy the Scraggy as her back-ups. Trying to think of some other Pokémon to help my team out. I am thinking about Skarmory, when I get far enough in-game. For my sixth slot, I am still not quite sure. I'll have a Bug/Grass, a Water, a Ground and a Dark/Fighting (then possibly a Steel/Flying), so I am not sure what I need in the scheme of things.

[Nibbles4Ever]

I'm almost done getting my team to lv 45 finally and I have to say. Lairion just evolved and I absolutely love aggron's back sprite and animation. It's probably my favorite in the whole game ^^

[masaru3]

I just beat Drayden with my Eeveelution team on Challenge mode. Wasn't too hard and my pokémon are underleveled, but that's fine 'cause I like it when my favorite games get a little harder

[TheBattleFrontierAsh1]

I was finally able to open up my Nursery in Join Avenue, but sadly it has no visitors. Also I went out and breed for a Adamant/Shadow Sneak/Telepathy Male Ralts. Which is now Gallade, not running max EV's because EV training is hard and tedious. But he has a Smogon movepool, which is great.

[goldensteambun]

We are finally going to have Keldeo ! I wonder if it can be shiny though ? o v o;;

[Violent Red]

Had maybe my worst ever day in a Pokemon game in my 10+ years of playing them.

Whilst I have been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue came out my wife has only been recently introduced to the games by me.

We'd sat down a couple of days before and planned out a team of her favourites - I'd recently deleted my White 1 file so she could play through the story - and then we set about on my games breeding them.

She had decided on Butterfree, Ninetales, Espeon, Milotic, Altaria and Froslass, and I thought this was a great, albeit girly team

She wanted them all to be female and I wanted them to have beneficial natures to make the game easier for her on her first try. Caterpie, Vulpix and Swablu were really easy to breed, and I got them Modest, Modest and Adamant in the first batch of eggs.

I already had a level 2 Modest Milotic that I traded over to her so things were looking good but that's when our night turned a bit sour.

Eevee only has a 12.5 chance of being Female which isn't a big deal normally, I've bred literally thousands of Pokemon, I've even bred for shinies before.

Well, about 2-3 hours and 150-200 Eevees later we hadn't got a single Female, which is disgusting and totally not typical.

We both felt a bit disillusioned, especially me, as I was trying to do something nice for my wife. Anyways, I finally got a Female but it was Lonely which was infuriating but we kept it.

Then I realised I couldn't get Snorunt on any of my Gen V games, nor my Heart Gold file.

I had to go to Lake Acuity on my like 6 year old Pearl file and use the PokeRadar for a 12.5% chance to get Snorunt. After spending 3 hours without a single female Eevee with the same encounter rate, I was a bit apprehensive, but I found a Snorunt after like 7 battles which sounds about right.

I still can't believe the Eevee fiasco.

Anyways, I transferred it over and bred it then traded it over to her and she finally got on her way and is having fun with her team, which makes it all worth it.

Still, it was a lot more effort than I expected it to be.

I have the day off today and so will be playing my B2 playthrough at some point I expect.

Cheers all.

[Mays]

Apparently Keldeo event is live, guys.

[WaterMasterDD]

The Keldeo event is live, I've just got it... However, I'm confused as to where this "opening in the trees" is "near Floccesy Town". I can't find it!

Edit: Never mind, found it! It's behind Alder's school in Floccesy Town.

[dirkac]

Apparently Keldeo event is live, guys.

I just got it. My very first Keldeo :3 now I need to go get the other Swords Of Justice. Right after I beat the League.

[Mays]

I just got it. My very first Keldeo :3 now I need to go get the other Swords Of Justice. Right after I beat the League.

Mine was lax nature, but I have Black 2 as well as White 2 so I'll go get another! Yeah as someone has said, it's behind Adler's "school".

[jwla]

I am not feeling the loss of Bacon on my team. Pignite isn't a bad Pokémon, but the weaknesses of a Fire-type just weren't working for me. I am just not a fan of Fire-types. Today I took on the trainers on Route 6, and then the trainers in Clay's gym. I leveled Drake until he evolved into Golduck. We took on Clay, and did really well. I was worried about his Excadrill--this Pokémon usually kicks my butt!--but Chaco (my Sandslash) handled Excadrill with ease. I went to the World Tournament, and also used my Red Shards to teach Iggy (the Scraggy) to use ThunderPunch), then ousted Team Plasma with my rival and Cheren. I am going to head for Chargestone Cave, then move on to Mistralton City. I am worried about battling Skyla, because I don't really have a good plan for her gym. Chaco can use Rock Tomb, but that's about it... o_O

[Copie]

Big day today.

Started by using Pal Park in my Pearl version to transfer over my first Gen III female starter (Treecko). While none of these games are Black 2, I do intend to ultimately move female starters from Gen III and Gen IV over to Black 2. This was step one, and the first time I had used Pal Park.

After that, I reset Ruby about seven or eight times until I finally got myself a female Mudkip. Even luckier, the nature of the Mudkip was Relaxed, which is exactly what I'm looking for in the Swampert I ultimately want to breed for my own team. Couldn't be happier. Went very well, and this Mudkip will be transferred over to Pal Park tomorrow.

After that, I decided it was time I put an end to Team Plasma. Defeated Ghetis and his black Kyurem. I actually found the Ghestis fight to be a nice challenge. It wasn't too hard,but it wasn't as easy as the rest of the game has been. I'm very much looking forward to giving the Elite 4 a shot, although I think I want to train my full team (which is in my signature) to level 55 before taking them on. I'm not particularly worried, but I do want to be prepared.

And, to end the day right, I arrived at a Pokemon Center and collected my Keledo. I gotta say, I've been playing Pokemon since I was seven or eight, and I've never had a legendary that isn't capture-able in the game. No Mews... no Celebis... no Deoxys' or Shaymins or Arceus'... this is quite a big deal for me. I was disappointed with the nature (Careful) but it was pretty cool to get my hands on Keledo. Just having one should be great in the future, especially if I'm looking to make some solid trades in X and Y.

Ultimately, a great day.

[SajiNoKami]

Crap, I missed winter.. it was autumn when I left.. now spring... argh.
grabbed Keldeo