I wrote this because of the vast number of people who ask me why they're stuck in 4th gen with a team of Missingnos. Asagi's [Brief / Crappy / Made in M$ Paint] Guide to becoming a POKEMON MASTER How to begin your POKEMON JOURNEY In the top left corner, Click File > Open Teambuilder. Click Team. (You can also do some other fun stuff here but it made this is a brief guide, so I cut it out.) 1. Click Gen. 2. Click B/W (5th gen) since you probably don't want to make a 4th gen or Adv team, amirite? Select your lead Pokemon's species. You can either type the Pokemon's name in the box (circled) or click on the Pokemon's name in the list. 1. Enter your Pokemon's EVs here. 2. Select its Nature. 3. If you want to give it a nickname, type it here. 4. Select its Item from this list. 5. Give it moves here. You can type the name in each slot, or select them from the list. 6a. To get that window over on the right, click Advanced then click Side Window. (You can also select New Window if you prefer.) 6b. This is where you choose your Pokemon's Ability (smaller purple rectangle) and fun stuff like that. I'm not going into detail here. Repeat the above for each Pokemon on your team. (Click the tabs to switch from one Pokemon to the next.) ★ SAVE. Click this when you are done. Most important step. Back to your main window. Click File > Load team. You're done! Congratulations! What, you were expecting more? Update: WAIT, THERE IS MORE! How to Challenge In the Players list, right click the name of the person you want to challenge. Then click Challenge. The Challenge Window will pop up. This shows the player's name, trainer card, the tier their team is in, and sometimes their team. Click the box. Then select your choice. If you don't want to do Doubles or Triples, make sure the box says Singles! On to clauses. Clauses are special rules you can set for your battle. Hold your cursor over each box to see what each clause does. A description will appear in the tooltip. Challenge Cup means you will be given RANDOM POKEMON to battle with. If you want to use the team you just built, make sure this box is UNCHECKED. Click the box to choose your clauses. Click again to remove them. When you have the clauses you want, it will look something like this. Click Challenge and wait for your opponent to respond. You're done! Find Battle ★ Back in the main window. You can search for battles by clicking the Find Battle button at the bottom of your PO window. PO will automatically search for matches for you. This is a lot more efficient than randomly challenging people until you find an opponent. Spoiler This is especially useful because asking for battles in the main chat is against the rules on certain servers. (See that screenshot?) Use Find Battle before you ask! How to Change Tiers Tournament won't let you /join because you're in the wrong tier? Up at the top, Click Tiers. Click 5th Gen (or whichever Gen you need, but I'm betting you want 5th.) Click whichever Tier you need to switch into. Note that if your team breaks the rules for that tier, you won't be able to join. You will need to Load team first. (See Teambuilder instructions above.) Now you're well on your way to becoming a POKEMON MASTER! B) Good luck Trainer! [SECRET]I don't know if this is welcome here. I simply felt the Getting Started guide apparently didn't go into enough detail for...certain people. I didn't put it behind Secret for fear that the people who can't figure this stuff out on their own also can't figure out that they need to click Secret to see the guide. Feel free to change the topic title / fix it / format it / tell me I suck / whatever[/SECRET]
If you wanna make it more useful, perhaps add in some of the often overlooked tricks (right/left clicking nest to a stat to set nature, team importing, rearranging Pokemon by dragging them, maxing happiness for Return). Definitely do a bit about clauses and formats (how many people have been confused by getting singles battles in triples because they set it to singles...), and explain how to select a tier/set a team to a tier. Not bad though, could imagine this would help some people. And yea, tone down the "you are an idiot" stuff slightly :p
And to think, for once this is me [secret]not being a complete bitch. :O For real though, it's supposed to be snarky. Even then, the snarkiness is mostly excluded from the body of the guide.[/secret] This guide was originally aimed at those who needed a simple visual explanation to basic teambuilding since text explanations weren't cutting it, but that clauses thing sounds like a good idea too. I'll go make that real quick. Edit: Updated :3 Spoiler You can see more of my background this time, too <3 Vaporeon~
i like it, though i dont need it.. it can be useful to link newcomers to it, so they dont spam the main channel with crazy posts
A couple suggestions, put the Find Battle information before the Challenge information and make it clear that Find Battle is the primary way of... finding battles.
no it doesnt show any errors i go there and its blank and when i go to tiers it has no options and i put everything right soo idk i wanna play really bad anyone wanna help?
Sorry, this sounds like it has something to do with your firewall or virus software. Try to play around them if it works.
POKEMON BUTTONS FROZEN hey i have a problem! when my rival or I change a Pokemon my buttons freeze and i can't do something! please fix that bug! PLEASE HELP ME!
I'm sure this will help people out, but it's better if you can figure it out yourself(Like I did!). Nice thread nonetheless Asagi(Miss you girl)!
i have the same problem as daniel111. with me, i want to play so bad... but when it says "enter the password for your current name. if you dont have it, the name you have chosen might be already taken. Choose a different name. It is advised to use a slightly different password for each server. (the server only sees the encrypted form of the pass, but still... )" i dont know what to do... does it mean that i need to register.... or what do i need to do? please help me
That means the username you tried has already been registered. Try an unique name, many names are registered on the server.
Real nice guide for new users :) Sorry for the double post but i was scrolling and saw this. To fix that, turn the music off and see if it works. If not, redownload and install PO.
How do i get to the page!? Look i,m new and i don,t know what to do can anyone help me? I need help to make my pokemon team!Please... Is anyone gonna help me!? Hey can anyone help me with my problem please?
Whatever server you're on currently doesn't have tiers set up, so it simply displays "All". Tell the server owner (if it's not you), to update their tiers, they can use PO's tiers.xml it goes into the same folder as server.exe. Then they need to reload the tiers either through a command or by restarting the server.
can I have that pokamon! dusn't that mean we can have eny pokamon and at eny level we want if we do cool
Yes, you don't have to train or anything. Just make a team with any Pokemon, and any Level (100), give them moves, and use that Find Battle Button. I recommend looking a the tiers. You can look in the top for a link (under "PO server FAQs "
Just downloaded it, and I must say this was much easier than figuring it out myself. Thank goodness I at least knew what EVs are. :P
How do you register? Also, my chat isn't working so I can't join tournaments or any of that stuff. Please help me!
pnerd is doing it. Edit: http://wiki.pokemon-online.eu/view/Pokémon_Online/Teambuilder I'll replace this and the other thread once that is finished.