Miss times whem pokemon was an yearly franchise

>every Pokemon game is exactly the same
>Pokefags won't just play the same game over and over
>they need the new game, which is the same game

>>715772897 (OP)
Nigga, it’s a children’s game. You aren’t the target audience. Grow the fuck up, you fat manchild

>>715773539
No fuck you you can go back to suck Miyazaki dick or whatever dick you usuallly suck

>>715773621
At least his games graphics don't suck ass

>Playing Platinum
>Only using my starter because I have a team in mind and they're mostly lategame mons
>My starter winds up at level 53 by the time I fill out my team, they're all level like 25 at max
>Have to griiiiiiind them all out to level 40 before I take on Mt. Coronet
>Nearly get my ass kicked by Cyrus
>Keep grinding my team, make it through Victory Road
>Nearly get my ass kicked by Barry in the Pokemon League lobby
>Realize this means I can't rely on my team for the Elite Four and especially against Cynthia
>Have to go back into Victory Road to griiiiiiiiiiiiiiind everyone out to level 55 before taking on the Elite Four

>>715773841
Well yeah, that's normal in the games without exp share, especially with starter
Honestly this is why it was added in the first place

>>715773997
I actually have a lucky egg to make it go faster and it's still not helping that much. I was able to bypass most of this in the previous gens because of rare candy duplication, but here I can't and it's tough.

>>715772897 (OP)
>back when pokemon was a yearly franchise
>posts the first gen not to get a third game
shut the fuck up. xy were fucking shit

>>715775362
Better than 5th gen, lmao

>>715773841
>My starter winds up at level 53 by the time I fill out my team, they're all level like 25 at max
What the hell is the rest of your team, Lucario and 4 Ice types? Most of the good shit you get early-mid game togepi, gliscor, gible, eevee, shinx, houndour, ralts, etc
>>715774081
Lol I bought a Japanese Pearl just because it has an exclusive item cloning glitch, but that was more for the Battle Frontier

>>715775686
Milotic, Chatot, Mr. Mime, Spiritomb, Drapion, Torterra. Skorupi wouldn't evolve until level 40 too.

>>715773841
If you have a 3DS, you can use CFW to export and import your saves from DS games, allowing you to just add low level versions of the mons you want from the get-go using a save editor instead of suffering from trying to play level catch-up on a bunch of mons with bad XP curves.

>>715776071
Yeah I'm not injecting. That just takes the fun out of the whole thing and will make me feel like my playthrough is tainted.

>>715775782
NTA, but
>Chatot AND Mr. Mime
My condolences. Maybe you should have looked these guys up first.
>Spiritomb
You could've had one right after your third badge
>Milotic
Once it evolved after the berry grind you shouldn't have had a problem. Milotic levels up very quickly.
>Skorupi evolves at 40
Okay, and? I used Skoripi in Pearl and it was great. Drapion is a very good pokemon.

You could have had four pokemon in the late 40s, which is more than enough to handle the the E4 in Platinum. Milotic is borderline cheating against Cynthia.

>>715776142
Nevermind Mr. Mime. I forgot you can also catch one on route 218.

Losing with that team is on you, anon.

>>715776121
nigga grind those fishermen with your lucky egg and vs seeker
how the hell were you cloning candies in the previous games before the postgame anyway

>>715773841
Use the VS Seeker for grinding.
Get the Thief TM, teach it to a Yanma with Compound Eyes, go into the route with Chanseys, keep using Thief on them to get Lucky Eggs.
>Have to go back into Victory Road to griiiiiiiiiiiiiiind everyone out to level 55 before taking on the Elite Four
The best way to grind for the Elite Four is ironically the Elite Four themselves. If you don't mind losing, just keep challenging them and beating their highly leveled Pokemon over and over. Whatever money you lose is easily made up by the Amulet Coin.

>>715776121
The alternative is you play with a normal team of okay mons you caught along the way that isn't the team you want, maybe avoiding as many trainers as you can so that you can feed their xp to the mons you do want later. Feeding everything to your starter just means you'll be so over-leveled you'll be disincentivized to actually use your other mons, even if you've only got neutral attacks against the pokemon you're fighting.

>>715772897 (OP)
>pokemon was an yearly franchise
Since when?

>>715776142
>Maybe you should have looked these guys up first.
I did look them up first. Chatot is one I've wanted to use for a while and I've got Mr. Mime up with dual screens and Psychic support. Chatot also can spam Sing.

>You could've had one right after your third badge
I did, it was pretty easy. It still came with not great moves until I taught it Shadow Ball.

>Once it evolved after the berry grind you shouldn't have had a problem. Milotic levels up very quickly.
I evolved it at level 20. That's still a 20 level grind.

>Okay, and?
Skorupi's stats and attacks suck so it was a grind to get it to evolve and be useful.

>>715776256
Where did I say I lost? I ALMOST lost. Cyrus' Gyarados countered just about everything on my team and Weavile is fast and strong with Ice Punch and Night Slash. I taught Drapion Thunder Fang specifically to deal with more Gyaradoses and Pelippers and such. Barry's Infernape is the same way, it's fast and strong, my team is much slower. But I still beat both.

>>715776324
Old Man glitch in gen 1 for infinite rare candies, Pokemon cloning glitch in gen 2 with mons holding rare candies. For gen 3 I toughed it out through the Elite Four, then cloned Pokemon holding rare candies in the Battle Tower.

My team are all level 53-55 now, everyone has decent stats and between the Rock-types and Floatzels grinding is pretty easy now, if not monotonous.

>>715772897 (OP)
i miss when they made good games

>>715776864
SV was great and everything fans(especially fans of older games, pre bw) wanted from pokemon game...

>>715776750
Actually thinking back on it when I started this I wanted to use Trick Room, that's why I have Mr. Mime and so many slow Pokemon. But then I forgot.

>>715773306
I fucking I wish it was exactly the same and we got comfy 2D pixel art adventures every year.

>>715775665
if the only thing you care about is dex size and online features, I guess you're right. everything else xy does sucks ass compared to bw2

>>715777183
Well, if the only thing you want from pokemon is cinematic experience and less exploration and gameplay, I guess you would prefere bw2, yeah.
But outside of 5th gen, no other game in the series pandered to you, so you should taken the hint long time ago

>>715776750
>Old Man glitch in gen 1 for infinite rare candies, Pokemon cloning glitch in gen 2 with mons holding rare candies. For gen 3 I toughed it out through the Elite Four, then cloned Pokemon holding rare candies in the Battle Tower.
i seeeee. i dont play Gen 1 and 2 as much as their remakes and the only cloning glitches in Gen 3 and 4 doable before the postgame that I know of are only in japanese versions of rs and dp

>>715777874
The Old Man glitch is important because it also gives you the stats needed to make the Mew glitch work properly too. That's how I filled out the Pokedex, I used that glitch to catch the version exclusives I couldn't normally get, saving myself more playthroughs.

>>715777676
not even gonna waste my time pointing out how retarded you sound