Just sharing a fun little project I've been on the past year. Going through all of the games, some for the first time, some playing again after many years. As I finished each one, I would dedicate a page in the binder to that one and collect a card for each Pokemon I beat that game with as a way to remember that playthrough.

I had never played Pokemon Platinum since I stopped after Diamond. It was so much fun.

My final team

Gredish the wormadam(grass)

Tradish the wormadam(trash)

Sadish the wormadam(sand)

Gloth the GLORIOUS SHINY mothim

Nutsvy the pachirisu

Gloopish the cherrim

Other pokemon I used(I used many)

Crueldy the honchkrow

Toothel the bibarel(not hm mule)

Smilk the skunktank

Wetpills the manaphy

Butthit the rampardos

SolidTime the SHINY dialga

Took me 84 hours(also shinies were obtained by rng manipulation)

Now I will play Pokemon pearl.........why do I do this.

Tried to raise one as part of my dex collection, wanting a change of pace from the main electric type team memeber.

I think I may have ended up on the worst possible new sinnoh pokemon to round out my team. Electvire can not take any hit for the life of it.

How was this Volkner's Ace?

This is my team. Do you see anything that could be improved?

I genuinely don’t know what to give Spiritomb and Gallade for their last 4 move slots, so I just put some filler moves there for now (Hypnosis and Thunder Punch).

Latias - Calm
187 HP
130 DEF
166 SpDef
142 Spd (213)

Empoleon - Calm
191 HP
128 DEF
147 SpDef
80 Spd

Lapras - Adamant
205 HP
150 ATK
132 DEF
115 SpDef
81 Spd

Around 12 hours passed since i fought in league ,still recovering from Cynthia.

I've been playing same diamond run like since 2023. Only that i cleared gyms and then hit barrage with xp grinding for like 2 years..damn vs seeker is so annoying to use.

That comes to how i came up with my team planning and which pokemons didn't make up to my final team.

I have to clarify all my pokemons were caught by not caring about their stats or natures at all . half ended up being more offensive than bulkier so it's not point me to showing those.

I planned to use dialga first on my team but already had empoleon for steel type coverage even felt that legendary pokemon would be too op. And my favorite legendary Darkrai is event locked

I wish i could've used toxicroak, almost replaced my vespiquen sadly didn't have any use for him. Between quagsire or Gastrodon they almost made it to my team.

now for the main:

Rapidash was just there to coverage fire type,

i didn't have many options because gen 4 it's what it is. I was thinking using Dusknoir with fire punch along with trick room set but it being postgame/trade locked didn't make in my team.

For tm i planned to use willowisp to replace ember, Again FOUND OUT it's postgame locked so ended up using solar beam instead (not a single use) . Didn't know nothing about Normal moves that were avaible for Rapidash tbh.

Before me telling about my bronzong pick:

I didn't have any knowledge of ev ivs physical /special attack etc. for short i am very casual player.

i looked up bunch of stuff on youtube discovering fear, learning about stab/ohko etc.

Even 2 days ago i did learn about split thanks to another worry to my list

Even came across one of the dear moderator daily pokemon/ move breakthroughs (i think since glalie post if i remember right, they were very helpfull and i got some nice ideas and gained bunch of knowledge out of them) .

Basically this inspired me to use some basic strategies which comes to me wanting to use & learn trick troom- move. this is where FNAF- five turn meme comes to handy

So I picked bronzong for trick room mainly. learning about it's levitate ability was also another reason to add it to my team.

(funny thing: I ended up canceling the effect against cynthia for instinct i forgot which turn i was in and forced me to recast trick room , nothing could've prepared me to get info about canceling the effect unless that point me to try and figure it out tbh)

vespiquen was very easy choice since i always liked her, favorite purposes tbh. i did heard her shiny was one of the rarest thing to counter along side spinda (idk rumours). i was just casually trying for it not shiny hunting , beside slabbing a honey onto trees constantly took it time i even recall countering Munchlax once , so ended up catching combee female. I tried to make her rain dance + thunder w luxray to work , ended up not using that at all , it's bug type came handy mostly. didn't use move roost at all

I ditched roserade along the way, she was at 44 level. Only learned too late that she would learn toxic spikes (for some reason i thought that it would evolve to gallade, does anyone else have pokemons like that when you mistaking type or evolution ? like for me medicham is one of those the grey color bait me to think it that it would be steel type)

Replacing her, i chose Abomasnow for it's grass type , ice moves was there to back up me (in case empoleon or bronzong faints). Abomasnow tankiness came out handy though his defence stats were very poor but my levels make up for that.

I guess you would naturally think that i was planning to use it against cynthia's garchomp with ice stab or atleast few people did in my previous post but that job was for my empoleon to do with his ice beam

Luxray is just there for favorite mon reason , Bite came handy

Did i already breakdown my Empoleon ? well beside ice beam he was my hm slave and starter powerhouse. Oh piplup is my favorite gen 4 starter so that too! I had to give up on flash cannon for ice beam , i learned that you can't teach over hm i wanted to replace on waterfall originally.

I did look up diamond walkthrough beforehand so i would try to match Cynthia's pokemon levels knew nothing about her moves, besides that the other elite trainers i faced blindly. Already knew about Aaron somehow

Elite trainer battles:

Aaron

I entered the battle using rapidash as my lead using fire blitz to take out dustox and vespiquen

> used bounce against heracross

most challenge here was Drapion because i was thinking it'd be ground or rock/poison tyoe so i went with empoleon *embarrassiing*

> used 1 ice beam and blasted Hydro pump .. down

>Luxray Thunder fang against beautifly

Aaron was lightweight compared to the upcoming trainers.

Bertha

Okay, Bertha was someone i had 0 idea what types she would lead with ( i was thinking dark , ghost or psychic type since she kinda reminds me of Lorelei from kanto)

Glad It was something simple as Ground. just means more ground type training against big c's garchomp

I lead with Vespiquen using u-turn to swap Empoleon used Waterfall and ice beam to take out quagsire

> Abomasnow with blizzard and ice shard for sudowoodo

> Used grassknot to take out hippowdon

> gigadrain to golum

> grass knot against whiscash and finished with ice shard

Bertha was easy mode also

Flint

he was already familiar from the dp anime , i was prepared to face Infernape so i lead with empoleon to test grounds

> facing rapidash him using bounce glad i didn't paralyze , i used surf swept rapidash

> leading to Flint's Infernape

Im using hydro pump but.. Infernape outspeed me with THUNDER PUNCH.. hear me out nothing could've prepared me for that move! could've seen that coming miles away! gladly i left with alive 13 hp im already 1 level above infernape >>>> hydro pump cast and infernape is down.

Flint sends Lopunny , i send bronzong

i already knew i would've been in a pinch lacking fight type moves against normal

I end up using earthquake for 2 turns and 1 gyrobal

Flint uses full restore

I use earthquake and toxic

> i swapped to luxray using thunder fang , lopunny faint from poisoning

> i sent Rapidash against steelix obviously , one shotting with blitz

Now Drifblim here was most suprising one

I send vespiquen against that Drifblim , tbh forgot about ghost weakness shouldve guess fly )

I use u turn , sending luxray

> used crunch , missed

2nd turn used crunch, missed , got

burned by willowisp

>my luxray dies with ominous wind+burn

>Abomasnow with gigadrain and finishing with ice shard

I would say by far Flint was the most challenging to me. might be hot take harder than Cynthia , personal opinion

Lucian

I should've guessed that i was going to face him eventually since i had just recently watched Lucian episode in dp anime

His 2d view looks nothing a like , so i had no idea who he was or what mons he would use until battle started

> i went in with vespiquen against mr. mime

> attack order made mime faint

im still keeping vespiquen on field

> Lucian sends medicham

my vespiquen faints to ice& fire punch within 2 turns

Rapidash goes to field , takes out medicham with bounce

>Kept Rapidash on the field against bronzong

used flare blitz 1 turn , that wall still has hp left .. 2nd turn fire blast and Lucian's bronzong is down

>next is girafagir , sending my luxray in

i used crunch leaving girafagir low hp

lucian use full restore

Second crunch

> lucian shadow ball , my crunch , Girafagir faints

>keeping luxray on field for alakazam

>Alakazam outspeeds my luxray with psychic , luxray faints

> i take down alakazam with 1 earthquake & gyroball

well Lucian wasn't much a challenge though he took 2 my pokemons down

Cynthia

This is why im here for, Cynthia that woman everyone fears at the point i even overleveled my Pokemons

I didn't expect the match start right away cynthia walking towards me !

> I send my rapidash in facing her spiritomb

using flare blitz and spiritomb is down

> Cynthia sends in gastrodon

Im sending abomasnow

> i use Grass not leaving gastrodon low hp

(my abomasnow 7 lvl advantage , kinda expected ko )

gastrodon faints due hail

>Lucario is on the field

I send my bronzong in using trick room

>lucario uses psychic doing nothing , twisting dimensions

> my bronzong with earthquake leaving lucario like 1hp

> i panick clicked poison not thinking poison resist -_-

Cynthia uses full restore on Lucario

>at this point i.. unknowingly wear effect off with another trick room -_-

> earthquake takes lucario down

Now it's Garchomp turn ! im shivering

>sending my empoleon in

garchomp dragon rush misses

1 ice beam from my empoleon like planned

>leaves like 20 hp , garchomps citrus berry activates..

> Garchomp giga impact misses

>Garchomp goes down with my ice beam

and i think it's over

Cynthia sends roserade

> Im following with luxray

using thunder fang

>2nd thunder fang leaving roserade paralyzed

>using advantage i panic click hyper potion on ... RAPIDASH instead luxray rahhhhhhh! maybe this is karma for me being bi** and using potions mid battle..

> cynthia uses full restore

I back away , swapping to rapidash

flare blitz takes roserade down

> Cynthia last pokemon Milotic is in !

i swap back to Luxray

> outspeeding milotic with thunder fang , leaving it like 20hp

>Luxray dies to ice beam

i send in vespiquen with u-turn , taking down milotic

Battle is over!

I would say i had hard and easy time against Cynthia , i didn't expect Garchomp at turn 4. Thinking it would be her last pokemon to deal with. The AI completely suprised me overall.

I planned my team for beating Cynthia at the point i trained them to be almost at 70(though i did get 1-2 lvls from previous trainers before Cynthia) didn't give me much advantage. At least barely contributed anything for speed or i didn't manage to one hit

I like to be well prepared why i entered to league all in. It didn't make my experience less funnier. hell im even yearning for more! the league fights were so much fun than normal gyms. Sure i had my expectations before entering league. i had taken notes and stuff and bunch.

I have so much to learn. for instinct still don't understand some simple things like using protect/screen or sword dance instead damaging move

I have seen people complaining about them having hard time in league even having more level than mine on their team. Some clearing with unown using hp only , well that's impressive ! at least i like to think

but that's not me, im not that good yet haha

That's where the versality to pokemon games comes to where you can completely choose how you approach gameplay , was it nuzlocke or going full dex completion , shiny hunting yada yada.. well heck. do all at once!

Overall Diamond was 10/10 experience , soundracks were great , gyms gave some good and hard time.

Downsides are lack of fire pokemons and maybe Barry isn't the best rival imo.

I would say sinnoh games are overall easy to start begin with if you're first timer

Maybe my love towards gen 4 comes from anime.

I had already experience from platinum, never reached league and played heart gold when i was younger never did league in that.

I think im doing chronological order from fire red to silver and hggs next. I have so many fun teams planned for platinum and others maybe nuzlocke at somepoint.

if you reached this far ,thanks for reading. have a nice day /weekend 🤙

Drapion was my eq user and did that quite well. he also was surprisingly fast.
Honchkrow was worse than when I tried him with other teams bc he had to be the major used pokemon to defeat fighting types which was quite hard.
Houndoom‘s damage of Flamethrower was really valueable and the shredded through aaron.
Even tho Absol comes quite late he‘s sooo good againsr lucian. If you ever need a pokemon for him use Absol. Set up 3 sd and suckerpunch all beside bronzor which you can ohko with nightslash.
Spiritomb was quite disappointing. brought him into the e4 over umbreoj but he lowk did nothing.
Weavile was as good as I expected icl.

Doing a challenge run only using Pokemon found nearby each gym (areas on the compass rose on Bulbapedia for each gym location) for that gym. Level caps and no battle items allowed. Roark was easy, Rockchop swept with Focus Energy and Karate Chops/Low Kicks. Anybody else do similar runs before?

I got this zubat and gardevior from gts when i was sifting through the boxes BOOM real pokerus

humble first encounter kricketot:

I absolutely can't explain how FKING PROUD I AM OF MY BRONZONG, "Bloodzonge" (mix. with "Bloodborne").

Hi, i'm Mateo and a few weeks ago I retook a Pokemon Platinum nuzlocke I started months ago since I neved finished the game, last time I got to the 7th or 8th medal (and not nuzlocking) and now I finished this. MANY of the Pokemons I got fainted and I was left with only this team for the Pokemon League: Torterra, Gastrodon, Crobat, Garchomp, BronzonGOAT and Giratina (which took down quickly Spiritomb and died to Cynthia's Garchomp), all surviving the Elite Four and barely Gastrodon n Garchomp surviving.

The point is that I found Bronzong in Mount Coronet and trained it for Pok. League, only used it on this point of the adventure and HOLY SH1T IT TANKED AND DEMOLISHED BY HIMSELF GARCHOMP! First time using this absolute goat and one of the only times I've felt so proud of a Pokemon. Greetings to everyone and sorry if this is too long!! 😊

My first older Pokemon game I fully played through. Sinnoh had ways been one of my least favorite regions but going from Legend’s Arceus to this, it’s definitely one of my favorites now. Great Dex, great story, great region design, great characters. I CSNT wait to play pearl on the DS.

This is Pearl but the plan is to transfer them to Platinum. Anyone ever done this? I'm missing quite a few.

Team was alright, it allowed for some pretty unique challenges

As a teen, I couldn’t get a DS, so I never played past Gen 3. Been replaying Gen 1-3 on Delta Emulator for maybe a year now & decided it was time.

Man…this game might be better than Emerald. First playthrough & had a core team of 4. Wanted to keep it strictly Gen 4 mons, & was never a fan of having a 6 mon team. Had I found out sooner about the cool little electric ghost Rodom in the TV, I would’ve added it to the squad. Also started the game with pkrs. That alone motivated me to finish lol

The story is actually pretty great. I found myself buying dozens of max repels because my team was overpowering each gym, and I was unsure about finding out what to do at a few points, so I did a lot of running & biking.

I tried not to use TMs as much as possible in case I came across a mon that needed it. So Empoleons moveset wouldn’t have had bubblebeam or metal claw, but they still got the job done.

Also didn’t realize I had the HM for Fly until after I beat the 6th gym leader 🤣

My team was perfectly leveled by the time I made it to the champion. I was lucky to get not one but two lucky eggs early in the game. I thought I’d be somewhat overpowered but Cynthia was a beast. I was one move away from losing Garchomp, but luckily her attack missed 😮‍💨

Found a lv 74 & 79 Magikarp 😭

The legendaries were interesting. 3 Dragons?! And somehow, they were fairly easy to capture after paralyzing & beating them down to low health. Even caught them in regular pokeballs.

As for the others, I was most interested in Darkrai (awesome design) so I learned I had to “cheat” to get the member card. Cresselia was the most difficult to capture. & I also added an action replay cheat to get the azure flute for Arceus. Still have my one master ball too.

I’ve read the 3 legendary birds are roaming so I may go search for them. Then there’s battle frontier, but what else is there to accomplish? I also want to do a run with infernape. I see how much of a difference a fire Mon can make.

this was really fun to do,i know my team is not the best but i thought since im doing a full shiny team, might as well fill it with my favorites.

i also hunted for shiny giratina and it took me a few days to find and and i panicked,tried to click "bag",and accidently ran :(
i was frustrated that i ended up catching a normal one and calling it failure

i must admit i did it on an emulator with couple of windows opened simultaneously, still full odds but you may count this non legit

Nice story and cool characters, but dunno is post-game worth it ? Or shall I move to the next game ?

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I was kinda tweaking because i wasn't sure if theres an pc after waterfall right before entering castle and i couldn't teach fly for vespiqueen almost had to train my crobat (first time everything). I fought Barry and got luxray at 65 , real challenge begins !

Also if anyone could recommend me what playthrough to do after this one since I don't realy care about post game for gen 4.

I have played bw2 , all gyms cleared so i have to grind levels only , im realy looking forward to re-challening Cynthia tho

also started fire red run when nintendo Switch thing was trending this or last year. im kinda stuck on cinnabar island. I did defeat blaine and more lvl training

I could start Silver , though i might do chronological order so after fire red 😆

i send out infernape. he sends out yanmega. he double teams. i swords dance. i miss a fire punch. he double teams. i miss a fire punch. he hits an air slash. i live and pop sitrus berry. he air slashes again. infernape is down. u get out gliscor. i swords dance. he double teams. i miss an ice fang. he hits air slash. he does very little. i finally hit an ice fang. yanmega lives on like 3 hp. aaron full restores. i roost since im below half, but i can live an air slash. crit. i send in staraptor, who somehow gets taken to half by airslash before koing it with return. 2.5 pokemon down to this stupid double teaming jerk