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A Pokemon Primer

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For anyone who has been out of contact with the world for the last decade, Pokemon games involve catching and training adorable little monsters. First you battle wild Pokemon, then you catch them in a pokeball. If the ball closes and they stay in, they are yours for the keeping.

On the off chance that some of you have spent the past 10 years trapped in an outer space vortex, allow me to take a moment to explain Pokemon and Pokemon games.

Pokemon, short for “pocket monsters,” are friendly creatures that you catch and train to enter in competitions. These sweet little creatures have elemental traits. There are water Pokemon, plant Pokemon, rock Pokemon, fire Pokemon, ghost Pokemon, psychic Pokemon and so on. There are also ridiculous Pokemon, but that is not an official classification.

Some Pokemon fit in two classifications. For example, Gyrados, a fire-breathing fish/dragon, is both water and fire. Water Pokemon are great at fighting rock Pokemon—water dissolves dirt, after all, but aren’t worth a bean against plant Pokemon. Since Gyrados has fire attacks, however, he’s great against rock and plant Pokemon.

The basic gameplay in Pokemon games has not changed much since the beginning. While there are always over 100 Pokemon for you to catch, train and evolve, you can carry only six with you at a time. You place the others in storage until you need them, then you walk around fighting other trainers and entering gyms where you can earn badges and new abilities.

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10 Comments on A Pokemon Primer

  1. Icauhghtem'all // June 30, 2007 at 1:27 pm // Reply

    pikachu..

    i giv ur team a………..6

    I would train them a little more

    look at my team plz

  2. Icauhghtem'all // June 30, 2007 at 1:21 pm // Reply

    If any one needs ANY sort of help i already beat it this is my team:

    Giratina97

    Heatran-95

    mewto-100

    crisselia-86

    rypheior-98

    Garidos-95

  3. POKEMON MASTER // June 29, 2007 at 2:13 pm // Reply

    this is to pikachu….

    your new tean is much better, but can still improve a lot, i’d give it a 6 maybe 7

    the trash cans are in buildings

  4. But pokemon master were are trash cans?????

  5. please rate my new team

    Raich100

    Heatrean70

    ICELV88

    IceLV69

    CharzardLV66

    GiratinaLV79

    PLEASE RATE IT=**=

  6. THANK YOU POKEMON MASTER your good

  7. POKEMON MASTER // June 27, 2007 at 6:54 pm // Reply

    this is to pikachu….

    you go to canalave and go into the house by the sailor and boats(the house will have a kid in the bed and his mom by him)talk to the kid then the mom then go talk to the sailor, he will take you to fullmoon island and you will see cressillia, when you talk to her she will run(like mesprit) and then you take the item she left and take it back to the little kid

    this is to j….

    you catch a boy burmy(in trees, or you can find the trash coated one in trash cans) and evolve at level 20

  8. ok pokemon master thank you but how do you get the lengendarey pokemon at fullmoon

    island? I show my friend it on my pokedex.

  9. how do you get mothim

  10. POKEMON MASTER // June 25, 2007 at 4:05 pm // Reply

    this is to pikachu….

    get rid of ethier both charizard or heatran(if you decide to keep charizard keep only one)

    get rid of one of the ice pokemon

    get a ground/rock like golem or rhyperior(slow but extremely strong)

    get a fighting pokemon, lucario or hitmonchan would be good

    and an extremely strong dragon

    thats a pretty good team and you can branch from there

    them team that you have now a give a 4 only because they are so strong, it has to many of the same weaknesses i could wipe it out with a strong water and strong fire pokemon

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