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cutekittenlady · 3 months

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Tumblr Plays Pokemon White 2 - Part 4

Well my overall philosophy of exploration bore fruit!

Always remember kids, in a good game you can find pretty good items you may otherwise miss if you just take your time and explore a little!

Regardless my training at the Virbank Complex was interspersed with a guy asking me to "fire up" some of his new employees. Needing to train my team anyway, I took him up on the offer.

After defeating the first foreman with Aries I got a great surprise;

Aries evolved into Flaafy! She also learned Charge!

This training session is already bearing some pretty great fruit!

As I was defeating the workmen I also saw this scientist guy walking around the complex. Talking to him and hearing what he had to say netted me an ether! An item that actually restore pokemons pp! Its harder to find in the early game so I think I may hoard this for now.

Reporting back to the boss nets me the tm for rock smash. I'm collecting a decent number of tms!

After leaving in the VIrbank Complex I head to the pokemon center and buy some healing I get a few potions and antidotes, as well as soem super potions juuuust in case. I also decide to buy one heal ball and one net ball on the off chance they come in handy down the line.

Now its prep time!

I decide to start off by replacing Bentleys tackle attack with return. I also teach the same attack to Molly as well. I consider teaching one of the team work up but it turns out none of them are able to use the move. I then give each of my team members a pecha berry to hold so they can heal themselves if they get poisoned at the gym.

With that prep work complete I head to the Virbank gym.

While the last gym was a school, Virbanks Gym is an underground rock club of sorts.

This is where we find Roxie, but she and her band are rocking out so hard that she cant hear us asking for a battle! Guess we'll have to beat her bandmates to bring the music down enough to start our gym battle.

I choose to start with the drummer on the left.

I start off with Molly and he sends out a grimer. Mollys intimidate takes down his attack a stage and i opt to start out with an ember. Unfortunately Grimer immediately uses disable rending ember useless. I have Molly use return (cant remember if grimer can have poison point) and it hits, but grimer hits back. I have molly use leer and grimer uses poison gas which sadly poisons molly. Thankfully she eats the pecha berry I gave her and heals up. With grimers defense lowered I have Molly use return again which hits Grimer down ino the yellow, but unfortunately Grimer uses poison gas again and poisons Molly. Not wanting Aries or Bentley to use their pecha berries just yet I opt to keep Molly in. Ember is still disabled so I take grimer out with a return.

Next the drummer sends out Koffing and I get a message that ember is no longer disabled. I have Molly use Ember and manage to get a burn on Koffing. Koffing hits with assurance and molly is hurt by their poisoning. Luckily though Koffing is also hurt by their burn. I use an antdote on Molly to heal her up. Koffing takes the opportunity to hit with another assurance but is again hurt by their burn. I have Molly hit with return but it doesnt do much. One more ember and a bit of damage from the burn damage is enough to take koffing out.

I use a couple of potions on Molly to heal her up before taking on the guitarist on the right.

Once again I send in Molly and hte guitarist uses venipede. I have Molly start off with Ember which, it turns out, is super effective and takes venipede out in one hit! It must be the bug typing. This victory levels Molly up to level 16.

There is now only Koffing to deal with, and remembering how the last koffing tanked return I decide to rely on special attacks here and have Molly use Ember which takes Koffing down to half health and burns it. Another ember is enough to take it out.

Molly is really the MVP of this gym! Tbh I was expecting it to be Aries. I dont even need to heal up with a potion before facting Roxie. However before I face the gym leader I do take Bentleys pecha berry and give it to Molly while moving Bentley to the front of the party. I then give Bentley the silk scarf in the hopes that it will power up his Return attack.

I don't expect Bentley to do much in this fight since grass is weak to poison, but given what a murder bean Bentley was at the start of the adventure I doubt he'd be content with sitting out.

With that I face off against Roxie.

Roxie starts off with Koffing naturally enough. I opt to Bentley start of with Growth increasing his attack. Koffing hits with a supereffective smog, and I have Bentley set up another growth. I'm hoping to get a very stron ghit here. Koffing hits with assurance bring Bentley into the yellow. I then make a critical mistake and misclick another growth rather than an attack and Koffing hits Bentley with another smog. Not wanting to waste al those growths I opt to have Bentley use vinewhip. even though it wont be very effective. Which it sadly is not. Bentley is then KO'd by Koffing.

This ones on me not Bentley. Really could have played that smarter.

Wanting to save Molly for whatever pokemon Roxie has next, I send in Aries. Remembering that Koffin tanked return, I'm guess this guy must have high defense so Aries special attacks should do better here. Even so just to be safe I start off with a thunder wave to paraylze koffing and then use charge to power Aries up. Koffing hits with a tackle but it does barely anything. I have Aries use thundershock and its enough to take Koffing out in one hit!

Booyah Aries!

Roxie then sends out her next pokmeon, Whirlipede. If Whirlipede is a bug type like Scolipede was swapping in to Molly should be effective here. However I decide to leave Aries in. Her paralysis may be the best way to keep Whirlipede from using any moves that might poison my team.

So I do just that and have Aries use thunderwave right off the bat. Whirlipede gets paralyzed but still manages a pursuit. I have Aries use cotton spore to slow whirlipede down, and Whirlipede hits with venoshock for half of Aries health. Hoping to get lucky with paralysis I have Aries use charge to power up for an attack. Whirlipede used Venoshock again, but thanks to charge increasing Aries special defense it doesnt KO. Whilipede is paralyzed the next round and I have Aries use Thundershock which doesnt do as much as I hoped. I decide to use cotton spore again next round. If Aries cant beat Whirlipede i can at least make it slow for Molly. Whirlipede hits with another pursuit and I have Aries use another thundershock. Unfortunately Whirlipede uses protect and the damage fails to land. I repeat the same tactic next round but it only chips whirlipede. Whirlipede hits with another pursuit taking Aries out.

While two of my team members are down I'm not out. I send in Molly knowing Whirlipede is weakened alread and with Mollys intimidate its attack drops as well. Aries part comes through as Whirlipede is paralyzed and one ember is all it takes to beat Whilipede and win us the badge!

Thankfully Roxies a graceful loser and gives us the Toxic Badge for beating her. Now any pokemon up to level 30 will obey us. She also gives us the tm for venoshock.

yes they did Roxie yes did.

I'm fairly certain Bentleys disappointed he lost, but he'll rebound.

Immediately after we step off the stage a stranger approaches and asks us to go to pokestar studios. Mention of the place sends Roxie running off after her dad.

C'mon Roxie whats the worst that can happen here?

I head towards pokestar studios but stop at the pokemon center on the way to heal up my pokemon after that gym battle and head to the north of Virbank

So we walk in and the same stranger who talked to us back in Virbank Gym sees us and introduces us to the boss Mr... Stu Deeoh.

Stu Deeoh

I am not making this up.

Some parent out there really had the last name Deeoh and named their kid Stu. And that kid then proceeded to go into filmmaking.

I just.... what life does this man have?!

Be honest dude. Did your parents hate you? Are they dead? Did you kill them to inherent their money but mostly because they named you Stu Deeoh?

You and Alder must go to the same bar or something because you are dodging the question.

Well now I just want to slap your bald head.

I get a tour of the studio and meed Roxies dad in the lobby. Hes apparently just shot a film? Which was... fast? Are... are these cheap B movies? I hope its cheap B movies cause otherwise its something else and this is supposed to be a kids game.

So Roxies dad pressure me into watching his movie to get "acting tips" from a "professional".

Hahahah okay Pop Roxie MAAAAAAAYBE chill out a little? Yeah?

You've been in one low budget film shot in an open lot probably in front of a green screen. If your lucky its not something that'll make your daughter never wanna look you in the eye agian.

I don't gotta see your film, right talent seeker guy?

Arceus damn it!

UUUUUUUGH

Oh....

Oh wow...

You uh.... You okay Pop Roxie? Your knees okay?j

(missed my chance to screenshot this next bit so I got a screenshot from youtube. Original Vid here)

Wow man... tone death much?

Then Pop Roxie goes on this heartfelt speech about having always wanted to pursue his dream of being on the silver screen and being inspired by his daughter, and then he just... goes back to his ship saying he would return to the screen one day.

OH Pop Roxie!

The guy then just... drags me to the studio to see the Boss.

Call me Dahling again and Alder and Pop Roxie won't be the only older men around here who need new knees.

I WILL NOT BE IN A POR-

.... Ah. Thats significantly less bad. Well... I guess Hugh wouldn't mind if I take a few hours out of my day to-

YOUR KNEES ARE MINE OLD MAN

Oh right sure. Get your Kung Fu star five pokedollar Brycenman look-alike phony out here to protect you. I have a murder bean, a lightning ram, and a firebreathing dog. I aint afraid of your security detail!

.... Holy shit you're... you're actually Brycen.

Shit, uh... well if you heard anything about knees just know it was a HUGE misunderstanding eheheheh.

.....

My mom has a picture of you in our fridge.

She kisses it good night.

For years I thought she actually murdered dad so she could- I MEAN SAME TO YOU MAN! SAME TO YOU!

Your knees are spared this day old man.

Actually will I be getting paid for this? Yknow like in cash money? Cause, like, moms been single a long time since dad died and we could really use the-

aaaand he walked away.

Shit.

#pokemon #tumblr plays pokemon #tumblr plays pokemon white 2 #pokemon poll #pokemon playthrough #pokemon white 2 #white 2 #pokemon black 2 #black 2 #b2w2 #pokemon b2w2 #pkmn b2w2

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splinteredthoughts · 2 months

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Alright! Time for a Nuzlocke doodle dump!

Unfortunately, right after beating Cheren, Moon lost Jeepers to a trainer’s Dunsparce on Route 20.

She had Jeepers from when she was level 3, and she fainted at level 11.

Soon after, though, Moon met a Koffing at the Virbank Complex and named her Detonator.

It was not to last, though, as Detonator was taken out by a wild Magnemite’s crit Thunder Shock. Detonator was only with Moon for levels 10-12.

Before Moon could recover from the shock, she lost Thomas to a Bide from a wild Patrat while training. Thomas was level 3 when Moon caught him, and fainted at level 12.

This leaves our team down to two, but I can thankfully tell y’all that Moon defeated Roxie with absolutely no trouble, bringing her gym badge total to two.

Watson and Sunny both evolved, and are determined to help Moon through this!

#Moon’s Adventure #We’ll just have to see how it goes!#Poor Moon is going through it #Scribbled Thoughts

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quillpokebiology · 1 year

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So a while back i rescued a growlithe from a trap near the outskirts of the Virbank Industrial Complex and the little guy hasn't left me alone since!

All my attempts at trying to discourage him have only fueled his determination and now he has taken up residence under my brothers porch! He's only left to follow me around when i go to work (or to eat the pokechow i leave out for him so he doesn't go hungry)

My bro thinks i should just adopt the little guy but i have no clue on how to take care of a growlithe!

Is there any wisdom you'd be willing to share for someone who hasn't had a 'mon of their own since their preteen years?

Growlithe are very loyal and trusting pokemon. Probably really happy you helped it, and wants to learn more about you! But, here are some Growlithe care tips.

Growlithe Care Tips

The Growlithe line has been domesticated for many years, and are great companions to humans. They're also an easy first Pokemon for beginner trainers or pet owners.

Growlithe require a lot of attention, and getting to know your Growlithe when you first get them is very important. They are really active Pokemon, and need a lot of walks and exercise. Having a large yard they can run around or or giving them a lot of toys is highly recommended.

In the wild, Growlithe are predators, but regular Pokechow, and Pokefood is good, but if you want to put them on a farmers dog diet, they sell Pidgey and Spearow meat at markets (they do eat other things like Pikachu and Jigglypuff in the wild, but those are illegal to hunt, so don't try and feed them that). Also, Growlithe are known to bring back dead Pokemon they caught to their owners as gifts, and you could get fined if they bring back a Jigglypuff or Pikachu.

Growlithe don't appreciate water much, but the water won't hurt them, and they tend to get dirty a lot. When bathing them, use warm water and dry soap.

There isn't much caution for raising them, minus the fact that their fire types. But Growlithe are good at controlling their fire and temperature, so that isn't much of an issue. They're actually really good Pokemon to cuddle up to when you're cold. But young Growlithe might start flames on accident, and there have been instances where they bring flaming sticks to their owners, which has been an issue when it comes to Pokeparks (unless they're service Pokemon). Because of this, many regions have special Pokeparks dedicated to fire types (the person who originally created the park idea was a 17-year-old boy who said he really just wanted to take his Growlithe with him to Pokeparks, and he made them for all fire types for the same reason. )

Either way, if you think you can handle it, I think you should adopt the Growlithe!

#quil awnsers #quill pokecare #quill pokefacts #pokemon #pokemon irl #irl pokemon #rotomblr #pokeblog #pokeblogging #pokeblr #rotumblr #pkmn irl #pokemon roleplay #irl pkmn #growlithe #fire type pokemon #dog pokemon

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yankee-in-wyndon · 2 months

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Him <3

[a photo of a Boldore in the Virbank Complex. He is resting near one of the storage tanks.]

Palmer evolved!

#yankee yapping #pokemon irl #rotomblr #pkmn irl

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crispinthecookofblueberry · 3 months

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Hey Crispin, I was wondering, was your Blaziken a gift from the Academy? It seems a lot of trainers have regional starter pokemon at your school despite the Biomes not including them before Florian/Juliana shows up.

Nope! Actually my first pokemon was my Magby Braise! I caught it at the virbank complex with my, erm, dad's growlithe. I alternate with blaziken to throw challengers off.

#pokemon irl #i also headcanon crispin has a growlithe because he reminds me of a puppy also they are both fire types from virbank city #rotomblr

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critterbitter · 4 months

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SUBMAS MASTERPOST

Hello, my name is Crit (he/them.) Welcome to my SUBMAS art blog, @critterbitter! It is sfw, but please take care if you are a minor, as I’m Old. Thanks! To reach my main blog, please direct your attention to @proxycrit .

This is a masterpost of all the art and comics I’ve done for the funny train men so far. Feel free to browse and definitely feel free to comment!

(Here’s my kofi as well! If you wish to tip.)

All work can also be found under #myart.

Comics/Art List:

A SUBMAS spotify playlist-- Post Hisui Muppet Council

Emmet and eelektross— you and your dog get sent to feudal japan

Ingo and lady sneasler— you weigh like a bag of grapes

Emmet, meet volo

tynamo and emmet’s first meeting (they become friends instantly)

Litwick and ingo’s first meeting (they become enemies immediately)

Aftermath of training

The starters perform care on full grown men

Committing war crimes on both eel and man

Submas kids— the Snack that smiles back, litwick edition

Box shenanigans (caricatures of the children)

Emmet and litwick come to a deal

The difference in starter relationships boggles the mind

Good morning, litwick (good night, lady sneasler.)

Ingo fights his inner envy demons with the communication stick

Coat flapping

You are Beloved, Lampent. That’s all.

A jackie at gear station

Tynamo evolution blues (this is funny)

The imposter syndrome sets in (it is no longer funny)

Library blues (elesa should be paid for carrying books)

Sassy night light

Happy eel dog

The joyful ordeal of evolution

Eelektrik boa (a gold standard!)

Lampent discovers discourse. This becomes everybody's problem.

Nimbasa trio walk and talk

Couch party (it's poll time!)

SUBMAS AU: Conventional Starters

Lampent is an umbrella, if you squint

Happy Holidays!

Eel-esa outfit (cause, you know, she dresses like an eel. Get it? Get it?)

Scheming

Master of manipulation.

They left Lampent in a Deino's Parking Lot

"These are our Exoskeletons, Elesa."

Chance meeting

Forbidden Lore Unlocked

Introducing Elesa, the New Kid from Sinnoh

Elesa and Blitzle

Outside the crowd

Volume Control

COLLAB: Forgiveness is Electric

Volume Control (Reprise)

Food Exchange

Electric starters

Homesick

Metaphorical and Literal Rat Children

Trouble starters

Snapshots: Route 3

Snapshots: Castelia City

Snapshots: Virbank Complex

Snapshots: Desert Resort

Snapshots: Route 8

Snapshots: Nimbasa City

Snapshots: Celestial Tower

Snapshots: Pinwheel Forest

Snapshots: Route 18

Snapshots: Anville Town

Snapshots: Undella Bay

Snapshots: Flocessy Ranch

Snapshots: Route 10

Snapshots: Driftveil City

Snapshots: Twist Mountain

Snapshots: Relic Passage

Snapshots: Route 6

Snapshots: Opelucid City

Snapshots: Chargestone Cave

Snapshots: Dream Yard

Snapshots: Route 1

Snapshots: Striaton City

Snapshots: Black City

WORLD BUILDING

Giratina and Arceus

#submas #critterbitter #pokemon #myart #masterpost

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roadway-mercenary · 6 months

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it’s halloween!

i know some folks who’d be real proud of me for making it today. anyways! the virbank complex is giving out candy 5 to 9

no age limit on trick or treating we aren’t fuckin’ losers so we’d love it if you stopped by!

#pkmn irl #pokeblogging #rotomblr #halloween post #//yeah he probably begged the foremen to let them give out candy-

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quibbs126 · 4 months

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So I’ve decided to pick up White 2 again, I’m at Virbank Complex and I’m having a debate, do I use Elekid or Magnemite?

I have a Tepig so I need an Oshawott counter, and Electric seems the better choice. I’ve never used either Elekid or Magnemite, so using them would be a new experience for me either way, I’m just not sure which one I want. Or maybe I should wait for a better option, like Joltik or something

Magnemite’s probably the better option, but I think Elekid seems cool too, and probably more powerful in terms of attack

#I can replace either with a Joltik or Tynamo if need be #actually I think I may have been planning to replace my Sewaddle with a Joltik once I get there #which would be killing two bird with one ston #but still #pokemon #pokemon b2w2 #elekid #magnemite #questions

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virbank-vibing · 5 months

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[Image: A picture of Ollie in Virbank Complex taken from afar. He's crouching down, petting a Growlithe.]

I'm holding my phone

thats not me who the furret is that

#pkmn irl #pokemon irl #pokeblogging #rotomblr

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cutekittenlady · 3 months

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Tumblr Plays Pokemon; Castelia Sewers and Empty Lot

After Virbank City we'll eventually find our ways into the Castelia Sewers! This is one of the two areas we'll have access to to get new pokemon before the Bug Gym!

Now previously I linked the whole of Virbank Complex together as one area in terms of pokemon availability. And I'm going to do the same here with the Empty Lot. Although the empty lot is completely different from the sewers both in terms of tone and in pokemon available, the fact that the small park is ONLY accessible via the sewers makes me choose to count it towards the "all one area" rule.

I'm not sure if I intend to give the upcoming route 4, desert resort, and relic castle the same treatment, but its a tempting thought.

Anyway with that sorted out here is the team thus far;

And with these three we have the grass, electric, and fire types all covered marking out all pokemon of those types in this and future areas.

Note: in the empty lot its possible to catch evolved forms of some of the pokemon available there. I'm going to make the exective decision of excluding those pokemon for now and may carry on the ruling that, later in the game, that if a lower evolutionary level of a pokemon is available in an area than its that pokemon we need to catch first.

With all that in mind, here are the reposting of the rules;

Can only catch a single pokemon from every route.

Can only catch a single member of each evolutionary family. (Not team of all eevees)

Can only attempt to catch each species of pokemon ONCE. If I fail we don't get a second chance. (Can't catch pidgey on route 1? NO pidgeys on the team for the rest of the game)

Can only have a single pokemon of every type.

No repeat natures.

Any HM slave/mule will be a permanent member of the team and count towards all previous rules.

Outside of the pokemon there are two additional options; Randomize will mean choosing a pokemon based on the results of a random number number generator. Choose this if you want a pokemon but don't care which or otherwise just want to cause a little chaos. Abstain will mean skipping the route without catching any pokemon. Choose this if you want to reserve the catches and typing for the pokemon on another route.

#pokemon #pokemon white 2 #tumblr plays pokemon #b2w2 #pokemon b2w2 #pkmn b2w2 #pokemon poll

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