Wow... that cursed me... now I freeze in the middle of battle, ends of battles, and right after saving...

Anyways, this is just too easy... I already have a Lv 14 Quilava and a Lv 6 Gastly which I'm training. Then, when morning/day comes, I'll get myself a Mareep and train it before taking on Falkner. This music rocks... but I agree it is a little overwhelming... sounds more like they are celebrating many years of pokemon rather than having it in the game...

On the 3rd gym with a Lv 21 Quilava, Lv 19 Flaafy, and Lv 18 Gastly. Gonna be a challenge considering I haven't really trained them that much.

Champ, do you have the Arceus and Pikachu-colored Pichu? Because it would be very useful to me.

EDIT: After 2 revives and Whitney spamming Milk Drink/Rollout, I've won. Rollout is as hard as I remember... Plus she kept infatuating my Quilava... Now to heal my pokemon...

This is such a drag... I can't go into the Pokemon Center in Goldenrod! I've tried at least 20 times, but it freezes everytime. So, I decided to use the patch. Pretty awesome having some of it translated but it still freezes! Yes, I got the patch with both translation AND no freeze, so the freezing should have stopped... or at least been lessened... And I really need to get into the Pokemon Center... My Gastly needs to heal to train more...

EDIT: This just isn't my day... my microchip has now just stopped accepting Pokemon Soul Silver to be placed onto it... I can drag any other game, even ones with more MB and they copy onto the chip fine, but when I try Pokemon Soul Silver (even different files of it), it says not enough memory...

Thankfully, after getting a new micro SD card, it transfers perfectly. And I can now enter the Pokecenter!!!! The old one must've broke or something...

EDIT: I've been playing for an hour straight and still no freeze! Patch must've worked!

EDIT2: I've stumbled across the Pokethlon! The music is very work-out-like.

EDIT3: Whoa! You can survive poison?!?! Everytime I've walked with a poisoned pokemon, it fainted... but this time, my Quilava at 1 HP had a message saying "Quilava survived the poison. The poison has gone away." Since when has this been used in the games?

 Cool. I just beat Bugsy today, and have my Haunter, Ampharos, and Typhlosion are well into the 60's. As for Arceus, I think I have one, I'll check. The Pichu, I don't have any...yet...sadly, since I only have 1 Arceus I think, I'm not sure I'd trade it away.

TheChampIsHere said:

I see... wait... I think I have a solution... Create a backup save... Then trade Arceus to your Platinum. After, load back up the old save and Arceus should be there? If it is then keep doing this to create many Arceuses... or is it Arceii? Arceus?

If that works, then I plan on doing the same thing in order to get all 3 Lv 1 Dragons. Do event, trade, load up the old save... repeat...

EDIT: OMG! I got attacked by a Sudowoodo!!!!

EDIT2: Btw, both our teams are highly vulnerable to ground moves... I must find a water type... Hm... the only one I've come across so far is Wooper... and I don't like it... I'll probably trade over a Mudkip/Marshtomp/Swampert then...

EDIT3: Caught Sudowoodo!!! Only took 3 Pokeballs too! I remember it took me 30 Pokeballs and 11 Great Balls in Silver...

EDIT4: Got my first freeze but very minor and still working without freezes otherwise.

Yeah, just save often. I haven't looked for the Arceus in my Platinum yet, but I'll tell you when I do too see if I have one or not. I know I have 2 Arceus, 1 isn't the event, and the other, I'm not sure....I caught the Sudowoodo yesterday also....he sux...but he's a sudowoodo, so he'll stay on my team...

TheChampIsHere said:

Well, if it is the event one, if you make clones of it with my above strategy, that would be great.

Just got to Olivine and I realized I could continue no further as I had no pokemon that could surf! So, I traded over a Marshtomp Lv 45 to my Soul Silver. Now then... ON TO CIANWOOD!!!

EDIT: OMG! Just encountered Raikou!!! It was at Lv 40 while I was at Lv 27... see my problem? I managed to paralyze it before it ran away... so I should be able to Mean Look it next encounter and then proceed to weakening it. My Flaafy also evolved into Ampharos!!!

EDIT2: After being confused for a day, I finally found out how to get to Jasmine. In the lighthouse, you go to the 3rd story? (take the stairs, not the elevator) Now, what appears to be a dead end is NOT. Go to the right and jump out the window... yes, I just told you to commit suicide. You actually will now land on a platform outside the lighthouse... the 3D effects are AMAZING!!! Any how, go to the left, pick up a Rare Candy and Re-enter the lighthouse... there we go, case solved. I would've never figured this out if it weren't for my curiosity of why the window was perfectly horizontal to the character... I was like: No... It couldn't be... And what do you know... it was... xD

EDIT3: It may seem we are finally able to get Flying Pikachu! http://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/wifievents.shtml In the picture, there is a Pikachu with balloons attached... plus it says we can catch pikachu with an attack it doesn't normally learn... I'm going to say we have a good chance that this is the Flying Pikachu that many people have been waiting for... Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until the US release since we don't have Pokewalkers...

EDIT4: The Red Gyarados of Lake Rage has been caught! Surprisingly, it took me only 4 Great Balls.

Just beat Claire, now in the Dragon's Den... After which, I'm going to Ecruteak to beat the Kimono Sisters and then to the Whirl Islands to catch Lugia!

EDIT: Just beat the Kimonos... phew... they were tough! And this round, you cannot switch pokemon in between! So you are stuck with probably at least 1 weakness when facing them. My Typhlosion was no match for Vaporeon... had to switch to Ampharos... who fainted upon entering thanks to that Surf... so I used Swampert to take it down...

EDIT2: Wow... the cutscene for Lugia is awesome! And I'm loving the music too. Now, my focus is too catch it... Whoa! Got it to red hp on one hit with Discharge!

EDIT3: After it took out 3 of my top pokemon, I caught Lugia in my 13th Ultra Ball! Talk about (un)lucky! xD

EDIT4: Lol, Lugia's so big that it can only follow you outside. Inside, I have no pokemon following me.

EDIT5: It's been confirmed that it is possible to get Flying Pikachu! http://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/pokewalker-area.shtml Go to the Yellow Forest section.

How many spaces does Lugia take up? My friend wants to know, because he is obsessing over having a Wailord follow him.

TheChampIsHere said:

4? I think...Anyways, Karen of the E4 is being a b**** to me... Her Umbreon is about to die, so she switches to Houndoom. I used Flamethrower which boosted its fire attacks. Great. I switch to Swampert and use Surf. She then switches to Vileplume and my next Surf does virtually nothing. I use Ice Beam but it survives by a sliver... then uses petal dance and kills me... I use Typhlosion to finish it off. Lugia with Extrasensory just finished off Gengar... now to re defeat Umbreon...

EDIT: Beat it, Typhlosion wants to learn Rollout... yes or no?

EDIT2: Said no. =P Onward to kill Houndoom...

EDIT3: Killed Murkrow with Discharge from Ampharos! On to Lance!!!!!!!!! That hacker!!!! He cannot have a Lv 40 Dragonite (He has one when you battle with him in the Rocket base in Mahogany against two rockets in a double battle)

EDIT4: Beat Lance. His 3 Dragonites were a pain... Every time, my Swampert got each down to like 1 HP with Ice Beam... Why couldn't you OHKO them Swampert? Why?!?!

EDIT5: OMG! I love the credits music as well as the scenes! Music is nearly unchanged keeping that retro feel and the scenes are all the characters being awesome and walking their pokemon (gym leaders, team rocket (lol, one was falling behind in the line), rival, E4, semi-rival, mom, you, then it ends with that big THE END and has music box music!!!

EDIT6: On to Kanto!!! I'M ON A BOAT!!! Love the music. And the 3D effects of the boat leaving are awesome.

EDIT7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwJ8eoXYCk&feature=sub I can't wait until I reach Celadon!!!! Even the new routes and places that didn't exist in GSC have music in GB form!!!

I had beaten Misty, restored the Power Plant, and gone to the radio tower... but I couldn't find how to play the pokeflute... So after a day, I finally mess around with the radio and I found that the top star is the pokeflute. Time to battle and catch Snorlax and get to Pewter!!!!

EDIT: Caught Snorlax! I was a bit worried at first because I accidentally burned it... but I managed to catch it right before it was about to die with my 6th ultra ball.

EDIT2: Beat Brock. Easy... too easy... All that's left is Blaine (Grrrr, seafoam islands... hate caves...), Jasmine, and Green... then Red... Gonna be a sweet fight... But I'm only in the high 50's and low 60's... needa get to Lv 80...

Beat Blaine... Only ones left are Jasmine and Green. I also found Articuno! And OMG!!! This is unbelievable! I used all 24 of my Ultra Balls, all 8 of my Great Balls, and a Quick Ball. I cannot catch it. I'm about to reset my game but throw a Pokeball first for laughs... 1....2........3...............CAUGHT!?!? WTF? Unbelievable... Well, gotta restock on Ultra Balls now... and maybe Pokeballs since they are so lucky... xD.

Card_Breaker said:

So...I'm the only person on the planet who exclusively uses Pokéballs for everything? I hate Great/Ultra/Master/Quick/random capture spheres ¬_¬

P.S - It took 137 Pokéballs to catch a shiny Rayquaza on 2% health, but only 2 to capture a Mewtwo at full health...

Trothael said:

Lol, I tend to use Ultra Balls as soon as possible not for the capture rate, but for the design... I like it...

Of course, anything I use competitively online is in a pokeball because I rather A) breed or B) take the time to catch it in one (legendaries basically because pokeballs look more professional and not something like "Ooooohhhhh! Lugia! Go Masterball!!!!" like some little kid or something).

Since I'm really just quickly going through the game to beat it, I'm not really going for legendaries right now... just any I happen to stumble across. Heck, even though I knew Articuno was in there, I hadn't purposely tried to find it. I just happened to go down a ladder and found it sitting right across the water. Plus I like to give cool english names but seeing as 5 characters = limited, I'm gonna wait until the US SS to continue with my competitive training.

Anyways, I'm going to fushia... but gotta do homework first... -__-.