Thread by @atepasta, pokemon platinum thread, i somehow never got around to play this game [...]

pokemon platinum thread, i somehow never got around to play this game before

choosing chimchar for my team, i wouldve chosen piplup but there are already a lot of good water types and not that many good fire types

barrys piplup is literally just spamming growl and my level 5 chimchar is doing nearly nothing

i lost the first fight because of this, why does he literally just only spam growl at the beginning

caught a starly which i plan to keep on my actual team, and a bidoof for hms

got a shinx which is also going to be on my main team, im glad i get a lot of my main team pokemon right away

finally got an evolution on my chimchar

monferno just kinda soloed the first gym easily with mach punch

my starly and shinx evolved and i caught a buizel which ill also be using for my main team

there seems to be quite a bit of space between gyms, i still havent gotten to the second gym but im going to stop playing for now. i grinded out buizel a bit just so he can actually fight on his own without needing to be switched out

monferno killed the entirety of the second gym and nearly took no damage

buizel evolved and now hes killing everything, i also got gible which ill be keeping on my team

i got ralts and thats pretty much my full team already

3rd gym was kinda easy, both ralts and gible evolved and gabite just beat nearly everything

went gambling and got a few tms including psychic which was really useful for the gym, however the gym was still decently challenging

I also finally got fly

got luxray and beat the water gym, everything that wasnt able to be hit by electric was hard but other than that it was fine

got gallade and he is so busted, i also got one of the heart scales so i can put leaf blade on him

beat the 5th gym and had to go into a cave where riley attempted to give me an egg but my party was full

thing is i really don't wanna go back all the way through the cave to get that egg so i'll probably just ignore it

my team is nearly set, just gotta balance the levels a bit more and evolve gabite and im good

magikarp

i just realized bidoof cant learn strength so im probably just gonna put it on gabite

the ice gym was actually challenging but i was able to beat it second try

why does team galactic have so many flying teams, luxray carried the hq and cyrus fight

the distortion world is easily one of the coolest things in pokemon

fighting cyrus was unreasonably hard purely because luxray was not on my team since i had to have bibarel for strength

i was only able to beat it because return on staraptor is busted and i had a lot of potions

finally got giratina, had to end up going back to save states multiple times because i would either die or giratina would struggle to death

beat the last gym, gabite and staraptor carried though im also severely underleveled so i'll probably have to grind for a bit

I just got to the pokemon league and started grinding everyone to level 45, i got gabite to level 47 then used a rare candy so he evolved and now my team is pretty much finalized

I also got garchomp to level 38 so i can replace him with bibarel for victory road

I just beat barry, his fight was pretty easy. I also decided to grind everyone up to level 50 and I replaced aerial ace on staraptor with brave bird

all the elite four were decently challenging but not too hard, except the last one

the last one nearly screwed me over, I had to use so many revives and potions including my only max revive

beat cynthia on my second try, extremely hard fight but i had a fair bit of luck on my second run with crits/flinches and I also used a lot of revive/potion spamming

also i put razor claw on infernape before i entered the pokemon league and that helped a lot

i still will continue this thread for a bit, I plan to catch all the legendaries and do the second run of the elite four

unfortunately though ill have to try to find a way to fight arceus

also out of the pkmn games ive played, platinum is probably the second best behind black/white

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