User:Dimenticare

The one important thing I learned in Italian class is that my username means "forget."

Oh, and I'm somewhat of a Pokémon nerd. Yes, "Pokémon," with the fancy accent mark. Not "Pokemon."

And here, I edit stuff. Mostly things like forgotten punctuation or taking a hammer and nails to sentences that are probably easier to read backwards. Once in a blue moon I'll actually add some information to an article.

Teams

If you can't tell, I haven't been playing Pokémon for very long.

SoulSilver

This wasn't supposed to be a Typhlosion solo run, but it turned out that way after I learned that it's even more impossible to train a Tentacool than it is to train a Magikarp. Don't ask why I caught Skarmory. I don't remember the exact movesets, and they changed after finishing with Red.

File:HGSS Ethan.png Pokémon Trainer Michael Ecruteak City SoulSilver Pokémon Trainer and Professor Michael Oak Ecruteak City SoulSilver Reward: $(-1)1/2

Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Keen Eye Held item: None Skarmory♂ Lv.27 Fly Flying Physical   --       Spikes Ground Status   --       ??? ??? Physical   --       ??? ??? Physical   --       Types: Normal Flying Ability: Serene Grace Held item: None Togekiss♂ Lv.30 Rock Smash Fighting Physical   --       Fly Flying Physical   --       ??? ??? Physical   --       ??? ??? Physical   --       Types: Water Poison Ability: Clear Body Held item: None Tentacool♂ Lv.15 Surf Water Special   --       Waterfall Water Physical   --       Whirlpool Water Special   --       Cut Normal Physical   --       Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Blaze Held item: Amulet Coin Typhlosion♂ Lv.100 Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Eruption Fire Special   --       Strength Normal Physical   --       Rock Climb Normal Physical   --

HeartGold

Benching someone for an HM slave drives me crazy, since I always choose the team member who'll probably be the most useful on any given Route, so I just throw all of my useless Cut and Whirlpool on team members. In other words, I had 14 Gym Badges before having someone with Fly.

Magikarp, Growlithe, and Dratini felt like they were throwing their EXP into black holes for most of the game. Getting Youngester Joey's phone number saves so much time, believe it or not.

They all have pretty lousy movesets aside from the HMs, though. Working on that.

File:HGSS Ethan.png Pokémon Trainer STOOPID Ecruteak City HeartGold Pokémon Trainer and Professor STOOPID Oak Ecruteak City HeartGold Reward: $(-1)1/2+5

Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: Soft Sand Meganium♂ Lv.? Cut Normal Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Magical Leaf Grass Special   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Type: Electric Unknown Ability: Static Held item: Magnet Ampharos♀ Lv.? Power Gem Rock Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Rock Smash Fighting Physical   --       Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Intimidate Held item: Sea Incense Gyarados♂ Lv.? Waterfall Water Physical   --       Surf Water Special   --       Whirlpool Water Special   --       Dragon Dance Dragon Status   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Synchronise Held item: BlackGlasses Umbreon♂ Lv.? Mean Look Normal Status   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       ??? ??? Physical   --       Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: Charcoal Arcanine♂ Lv.? Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Strength Normal Physical   --       Rock Climb Normal Physical   --       ExtremeSpeed Normal Physical   --       Types: Dragon Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: Dragon Fang Dragonite♂ Lv.? Dragon Dance Dragon Status   --       Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Fly Flying Physical   --       Aerial Ace Flying Physical   --

Not sure about ExtremeSpeed on Arcanine. Umbreon's last move depends on which Legendary I go after.

Magikarp was caught on Route 32 and evolved after taking down Whitney's Miltank. (With lots of X item spam, evasion n00b via Flash, healing items, and a PoisonPowder courtesy of Meganium.)

Black

In sharp to contrast to HeartGold, this team entered Victory Road with only four members and was severely overleveled for most of the game.

I didn't know Archeops could learn Fly, since Archen couldn't, so (again) I didn't have anyone who could use Fly until I was almost done with the aftergame. And, since I didn't have a Gyarados until (first) the Magikarp Salesman or (second) Undella Town via Dream World, I didn't have anyone with Surf until then, either. Fortunately, there are fewer useless TMs in this generation.

I like to find a way to get a Gyarados on my team, in any game.

File:BW Hilbert.png Pokémon Trainer STOOPID Lacunosa Town Black Pokémon Trainer and Professor STOOPID Oak Lacunosa Town Black Reward: $(-1)1/2+5

Types: Fire Fighting Ability: Blaze Held item: Flame Plate Emboar Lv.71 Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Rollout Rock Physical   --       Defense Curl Normal Status   --       Types: Grass Unknown Ability: Gluttony Held item: Meadow Plate Simisage♂ Lv.71 Leech Seed Grass Physical   --       Seed Bomb Grass Physical   --       Cut Normal Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --       Types: Electric Unknown Ability: Lightningrod Held item: Zap Plate Zebstrika♂ Lv.71 Charge Beam Electric Special   --       Flash Normal Status   --       Thunder Wave Electric Status   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Types: Flying Rock Ability: Defeatist Held item: None Archeops♂ Lv.71 Acrobatics Flying Physical   --       Rock Slide Rock Physical   --       Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --       Types: Dark Dragon Ability: Levitate Held item: Draco Plate Hydreigon♂ Lv.71 Crunch Dark Physical   --       Strength Normal Physical   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Hyper Voice Normal Special   --       Types: Water Flying Ability: Moxie Held item: Splash Plate Gyarados♂ Lv.71 Bounce Flying Physical   --       Surf Water Special   --       Waterfall Water Physical   --       Dive Water Physical   --

The first time around, the Magikarp/Gyarados from the salesman had Intimidate and DD instead of Bounce.

By the end of the game, I'd basically given up on training the Zebstrika (no Special Attack and I forgot about Wild Charge until recently) and used it mainly for catching Legendaries.

White2

A friend and I plan to do a blind playthrough/walkthrough/LP/Let's Play/whateveryouwanttocallit for Black2 and White2 the day they come out and upload it to YouTube, as in with little or no prior knowledge of the games aside from the official trailers. Some ideas . . .

• Started = Oshawott
• Apparently, there's wild Riolu and Eevee running around Unova now, both of which I'll try and catch.
• It would be nice if you can obtain a Gyarados in the main adventure.

Should be fun.

By the way, I'm pretty disappointed in humanity for getting their hands on an English ROM the morning that it was first released in Japan. Do you WANT Pokémon to go out of business, or something? Buy the games like normal people in October.

Things I'd like to use on an in-game team but probably never will

In no particular order.

Pokémon	Reason
Porygon-Z	You have to trade to evolve it.
Zapdos	Even though it's a Legendary, Dragonite and Hydreigon are statistically better; the problem is you don't find it until extremely late in the game.
Machamp	You have to trade to evolve it, and it's slower than melting glass.
Magikarp	Total 200 base stats speak for itself.
Ninjask	Zero defense.
Shuckle	Zero offense.
Vanilluxe	Yes, I would use the ice cream cone Pokémon if Ice wasn't such a lousy type.
Scizor	You have to trade to evolve it.
Arceus	That's not a team, that's a one-man sweep of a continent. Wait, I've already done that with Typhlosion.