And the new dualist starter choice goes perfectly with Nintendo's new atmospheric geared towards a dark, tense, gritty melodrama, with two starting characters:

SNAKE
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A hard-edged Pokemon trainer raised by Beedrills, Snake spent his teen years bombing PokeCenters and kicking Rattatas as far as he could (his record is 145.8 feet). He eventually grew bored of Kanto and its petty criminal factions, Team Rocket and the Bikers, all of which he strangled before leaving. Now in a new world, he is the self-proclaimed leader of TEAM DARK. Though ruthless, he isn't really creative. Nintendo's new mini-game allows Snake to torture his pokemon when the user presses A on their sprites in-game, as opposed to the usual playing or praising of previous generations. Instead of running shoes and a bike, Snake receives a cigar and motorcycle. Nintendo has unveiled in a recent video a brand new "morality moment (MM)" where the user can press Y at the right moment in conversation to have Snake shank his rivals with a shiv, or bribe authorities with their own money.
Starting Pokemon: Tarmon, the Pitch pokemon of Darkness.





ANGELIE
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Angelie followed in her parents footsteps and helped on the family Lucky Egg farm. Since the pokemon did most of the work, it left Angelie plenty of time to help Bonsly out of trees and frollick with Pachirisu and Mime Jrs. After her mother took on a staunch environmentalist attitude and barred her father from any more Lucky Egg farming, for fear of adversely affecting local Chansey population dynamics, Angelie was forced to become a pokemon trainer to provide income for the family. Instead of random encounters, users playing Angelie normally just engage in a mini-game, controlling Angelie's hand to pet various adorable pokemon. Instead of a single sprite following Angelie, up to 18 can follow her, as long as they are sufficiently puppy-like. Since running would mess up Angelie hair, Angelie instead gets a basket of various freshly baked goods. Once per pokemon battle, Angelie can offer cookies to her opponent for a percentage chance of stopping the battle. Nintendo has also revealed exciting details about Angelie's eventual induction as a PokeCenter nurse about half way through the game's main plot. After that point, players can only roam between the hours of 2 AM and 10 AM real time. During other hours, Angelie must pull long shifts at the PokeCenter to help heal cute, sick little pokemon. A new conversation system allows Angelie to say things like "Hope to see you again REAL soon!" and "Hang on one minute, the healer-thing is jammed up, teehee!" Other possible side quests involve fighting labour boards for equitable wages among PokeCenter nurses, or using the power of love to stop Angelie's father from joining TEAM DARK out of desperation.
Starting Pokemon: As-yet unannounced adorable pokemon. Rumoured to be called "Daaaaawwwww"

I don't expect my Ghost type to save me in ANY situation right now. She's pretty useless against everything but the occasional Bellsprout. It's taking forever to level her up, because I'm always having to switch her out and let someone decent finish her fights for her.

I'm assuming the Ghastly will get better after it levels up and learns something other than Lick and whatever the random status effect thing it has right now, but so far I'm keeping her around for the cuteness factor and little else.


Sorry, I gotta go to work tomorrow so I probably won't be on much. Thanks though!!

Gastly's final evolution, Gengar, is HELLUVA good. It has one of the highest base special attack values in the game, has high speed, and has awesome special moves in its movepool.
My recommendation is to teach it Substitute, Pain Split, and whatever else for the last two moves (preferably Shadow Ball and Focus Blast for type coverage).

Whitney isn't quite so difficult if you bring in an all-female roster of Pokemon that resist Normal attacks, like Geodude. Or, get someone to trade you a Machop/Machamp, and abuse its Same-Type-Attack-Bonus Fighting moves (moves that share a type with the Pokemon that uses it gets a 50% boost to power).

Oh hey, have I ever told you guys my love for Blissey?

I'm sorry? It's just my gut feeling toward the issue that you guys were talking about.

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I could stand a battle. Maybe one that isn't against some dipshit's full legendary team.

Pants - 3910 9930 0613

Dear god, what have you guys done to Mauve!?

She came to us of her own volition.

:(

You can also get a machop from one of the early pokewalker routes, although stomp will still do a lot of damage, and can flinch you if your machop is slower than milktank.

I can't help but notice that I've gotten lazy with levelling over the years. My team gemerally barely meets the average level of each gym, or is even rather underlevelled (in the case of Cianwood my team was mostly level 21-24 while Chuck's pokemon were near or at level 30). I just can't be bothered. Thankfully I have my totally legit level 100 Arceus (honestly, it's legit, i got it from an event held not long ago) to cheese my way through gyms if I have to.