Doom doesn't know **** about Pokémon
 

As I've said elsewhere, I just recently bought SoulSilver. The only other Pokémon game I've ever played was Yellow, when I rented it from Blockbuster like 10 years ago. So I have no ****ing clue what I'm doing.

The biggest issue I'm facing is not knowing what to do when I'm faced with the option of forgetting a move in favor of learning a new one. I feel like I've already ruined my Quilava by forgetting two of the earlier debuff moves he acquired by leveling, Leer (-Def) and Smokescreen (-Acc). Now I should note, I rarely ever used those moves at all. My Quilava is 24 and that's usually at the very least like 5 or 6 levels higher than anything I've faced so far. The wild Pokémon I run into are still like less than 10. So I can pretty much just one-shot most stuff if I'm not trying to level up another one of my Pokémon. But I worry about how this might effect Quilava (or Typhlosion, as he will evolve into) as I get further and further into the game, only having attacks and no status effects or debuffs. He currently has Quick Attack, Cut, Ember, and Flame Wheel. I kept Ember and Flame wheel at the same time because one is physical and one is special, though they both revolve around fire. I figured there was some application for having each, maybe against a Pokémon with greater physical defense or special defense. Quick Attack lets you attack immediately, so that replaced tackle as soon as I got it. And cut is what will let me chop down those tiny trees on the field.

I'm not really sure what direction to go in after that. Like if I should seek out TMs that will give me other status/debuff attacks, or if I really don't have anything to worry about, as well as what I should try to pursue going forward with my other Pokémon,

A little piece of advice, unless you're planning on becoming a Poketard who counts EV's and spends hundreds of hours breeding and hatching Pokemon to make sure they get the perfect stats and egg-learned moves, just forget about any kind of deep strategy. At all. Buffs and debuffs have so few actual in-game applications in all but the most dire situations. In most cases, you're going to wipe out the strongest Pokemon you face in a hit or two if you're using the right Pokemon. Buffs and debuffs are almost a waste of time.

The actual game of Pokemon requires almost no strategy at all if you level different Pokemon types well enough. Learn the elements and their strengths and weaknesses and you'll have all the knowledge you need to be successful in the game.

If you're going to try and be competitive in actual human opponent battles at anything besides a basic level, well...you need to turn in your "life" card and quit your job.

Yeah, Peanut's right, but one thing I do is that if a move is an upgraded version of another, like how flamethrower is to ember, I'd just replace ember with it. But yeah, if you know your types and can cover them all, you'll be good.

Get me a Vulpix! Nothing else matters.

Pokemon is for ******s

I can see you have a bright future. Both on these forums, and in life.

You better get back to school before your parents catch you ditching class and jerking off in the basement.

Are we gonna start a Banning pool? How long? Who's wants "Less than an hour"?

That was quick.

I did it!!!

Got any matching IP's on that fellow? He sent PM's to some very specific people. We may have an alt account on our hands.

Apparently something of mine is a asterisk cluster that likes to eat asterisk clusters.

WHAT DID I EVEN DO?!

This is like we're ****ing CSI-ing this.....We're Batman, or those Ghost Writer kids!

My asterisk cluster is a gay power ranger, and he propositioned sexual favors from me. As well as my mother. I think.

Yeah, it was that Turo kid. God bless him.

Hahaha! Way to go Turo, you f*cking tool. You really are a child.

It couldnt be! Telepothead said he had relations with all of our mothers exactly 15 years ago, and Turo is only 14! IMPOSSIBLE! He has a concrete alibi.

Damn it, Brodie is right! Is this a conspiracy against that poor kid?

It must be the Origami Killer!

Fixed that for you.

Well, he DID try to warn us about some friend of his in a thread in questions/comments/bdhwjfbaj, I believe.

Totally agree. Pokemon really comes down to rock,paper,scissors and later "rock, paper, scissors, slide hammer, toilet brush, harmonica, radial tire, pipe wrench, umbrella"

Still fun as hell though.