End of a journey

Did I mention that I was on a Pokemon journey? :P

I started playing Pokemon Emerald in Kuantan about two months back (I played Blue and Yellow and maybe Crystal - if I remember correctly - when I was in secondary school), since I had nothing much to do. My game was put on hold each time I came to Penang. Until this final trip here when I brought my laptop with me, and I could play...though not as much as in Kuantan...because, shall we say, living in someone else's place demands that you pay more attention somewhere other than your computer screen. :P

Anyway, now that I've got my own room (I "technically" don't have to "pay attention elsewhere" if I don't want to), I can play more...except that I'm working. :P So it leaves weekends to continue my game. And this weekend it's done! I am the Pokemon League champion of the Hoenn region! (lol...albeit with a lot of "save-and-load"s, so it's a little cheating :P Darn, my pokemon just aren't strong enough)

So enough with the background info, here's my team!


Though Pikachu and Marill were there only to get me through the cave (Victory Road). Pikachu for its Flash (lighting up the cave, consider it my torchlight battery) and Marill to smash rocks blocking the way (it might look small and cute, but it's really strong! lol). But I'm sure glad Pikachu was there! :D

The other four make up my "real" fighting team...I was determined not to train too many Pokemon this time round because I didn't want to waste too much time walking around battling wild pokemon for extra training (which is also why I had to use the "save-load" tactic :| )

For those interested but not in the know (if you're not interested you probably have your eyes glazed over by now, reading the few previous paragraphs; you can stop now, I don't mind :P ), my team consists of Torchic (my starter pokemon), Wingull, Mightyena and Breloom (top row and the bottom-middle one, in reading order). Level 52 for all of them except Wingull who's at level 55 (after the Elite Four match). I didn't set out to especially train Wingull, but it's easily the most versatile of my Pokemon, it is flying and water type but it can learn Shock Wave and Ice Beam as well! And when I'm surfing on water it is so easy to just shock any wild pokemon that comes disturbing me ;)

Those "in the know" might have noticed that I didn't let Torchic and Wingull evolve...that's because I like my Pokemon cute :P So much so that I also battled to the end with a Pikachu in both the Blue and Yellow versions...even though that's hardly the best choice :P WW said "Don't you understand that Pokemon isn't about cuteness?" I beg to differ...haha.

Oh, and there's a second part to the Pokemon game...I haven't started that yet, I might leave that for a while.

I'm also wondering, now that I've written this...have any of my readers played Pokemon before? :P