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explosivecombat) wrote2011-09-15 12:57 am
explosivecombat) wrote2011-09-15 12:57 am
Notes on Leveling Methods
Notes on leveling methods:
I'm aware that Kimblee's Pokémon are all leveling up at an alarming rate. He does have a massive amount of Pokémon and he's continually getting five levels a week out of the lot of them; I also understand that he's spending a lot of time in one place, which should render this sort of feat impossible. However, he and his batting partner, Frank Archer (determinator), are both well-known for insane/suicidal battle strategies and for obeying the letter of the law, if not the spirit; since their arrival in Mahogany Town, they've found ways to bend the rules, without breaking them outright.
Basically, they've stopped training against wild Pokémon and have been training solely against each other; as they have many higher-leveled Pokémon at this point, due to having been here for several months and level grinding like hell together, this makes getting the five levels per week for the lower-leveled members of their collection much easier - they simply allow the lower-leveled one to tap them to death (or Kimblee will force his Pokémon to KO themselves by using Explosion while Archer has his use Protect). They basically make the higher-leveled Pokémon they have commit battling suicide repeatedly in the name of getting levels.
There are a few restrictions in place, the most important being that they can only do this in the towns and not on the routes themselves; this is due to the expense of buying Revives and other medicine for the fainted Pokémon. It's simply impractical for them to train as they do when they don't have a Center nearby to revive their Pokémon for free, and they also can't get to a PC to switch their teams out to raise the ones that have been boxed. As such, all of their leveling pretty much comes to a screeching halt anytime they're traveling for more than a couple of days and almost nothing gets done during that time, if anything gets done at all.
This method of training is highly abusive; both players acknowledge this wholeheartedly, and their Pokémon do resent them for what they're doing. However, Kimblee and Archer are both members of Team Rocket, and bluntly put, they're also warmongering assholes. They simply don't care if their Pokémon hate them; as long as the Pokémon will remain loyal, they'll continue to beat the crap out of them.
The way they train is also the reason why Kimblee's starter is now unusable; the Electrode he started with was microchipped by Team Rocket, and as such its primary loyalty is no longer to Kimblee, but rather to the organization. It didn't take very well to the abuse, and almost sixty levels after the training from hell started, it decided that it had had enough and eventually turned on Kimblee. It's incredibly angry and human-aggressive, and now that it's very powerful, it's also completely uncontrollable by its trainer; Kimblee doesn't trust it in the least and ended up permanently boxing it in February of 2012. He doesn't discuss the incident; if anyone asks, he'll use technical truths and false reassurance to imply that his Mamoswine, Carlisle, was his starter.
If there are any questions regarding what's happening here in terms of leveling, I'll be glad to answer them; the numbers in regards to the levels his Pokémon are at are accurate, however, and I can do the math to verify this if requested, as I have saved the dates on which all of Kimblee's Pokémon were obtained.
I'm aware that Kimblee's Pokémon are all leveling up at an alarming rate. He does have a massive amount of Pokémon and he's continually getting five levels a week out of the lot of them; I also understand that he's spending a lot of time in one place, which should render this sort of feat impossible. However, he and his batting partner, Frank Archer (
determinator), are both well-known for insane/suicidal battle strategies and for obeying the letter of the law, if not the spirit; since their arrival in Mahogany Town, they've found ways to bend the rules, without breaking them outright.Basically, they've stopped training against wild Pokémon and have been training solely against each other; as they have many higher-leveled Pokémon at this point, due to having been here for several months and level grinding like hell together, this makes getting the five levels per week for the lower-leveled members of their collection much easier - they simply allow the lower-leveled one to tap them to death (or Kimblee will force his Pokémon to KO themselves by using Explosion while Archer has his use Protect). They basically make the higher-leveled Pokémon they have commit battling suicide repeatedly in the name of getting levels.
There are a few restrictions in place, the most important being that they can only do this in the towns and not on the routes themselves; this is due to the expense of buying Revives and other medicine for the fainted Pokémon. It's simply impractical for them to train as they do when they don't have a Center nearby to revive their Pokémon for free, and they also can't get to a PC to switch their teams out to raise the ones that have been boxed. As such, all of their leveling pretty much comes to a screeching halt anytime they're traveling for more than a couple of days and almost nothing gets done during that time, if anything gets done at all.
This method of training is highly abusive; both players acknowledge this wholeheartedly, and their Pokémon do resent them for what they're doing. However, Kimblee and Archer are both members of Team Rocket, and bluntly put, they're also warmongering assholes. They simply don't care if their Pokémon hate them; as long as the Pokémon will remain loyal, they'll continue to beat the crap out of them.
The way they train is also the reason why Kimblee's starter is now unusable; the Electrode he started with was microchipped by Team Rocket, and as such its primary loyalty is no longer to Kimblee, but rather to the organization. It didn't take very well to the abuse, and almost sixty levels after the training from hell started, it decided that it had had enough and eventually turned on Kimblee. It's incredibly angry and human-aggressive, and now that it's very powerful, it's also completely uncontrollable by its trainer; Kimblee doesn't trust it in the least and ended up permanently boxing it in February of 2012. He doesn't discuss the incident; if anyone asks, he'll use technical truths and false reassurance to imply that his Mamoswine, Carlisle, was his starter.
If there are any questions regarding what's happening here in terms of leveling, I'll be glad to answer them; the numbers in regards to the levels his Pokémon are at are accurate, however, and I can do the math to verify this if requested, as I have saved the dates on which all of Kimblee's Pokémon were obtained.