| Mike Tyndall 2004-09-22, 12:51 am |
| > Mike said he wanted more action round here and so would I! Thought I would
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> post some stuff tonight...
> Anyway, while looking through the latest edition of Nintendo Power, it
said
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> that if you are patient enough to raise your magikarp (I think that is
what
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> it is called) to a level 20, you will have a really good pokemon!
> I bought this one for an outrageous price from a guy in a house... I am
> slowly raising him, but his attacks don't do anything and the attacks I
can
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> add will not work on him!
> I guess I really have to have patience!
At level 20, Magikarp evolves into Gyarados, which is one of the more
powerful water Pokemon IIRC (though it has a double weakness to lightning).
If you're having trouble raising its level, use the "swap" technique:
1) Put the Magikarp in the lead, so that it starts the battle.
2) Swap it for a stronger Pokemon to handle the fighting (the swapped
Pokemon will take a hit).
3) If it's a trainer battle, swap Magikarp back in when the enemy is dead,
so that he'll also get experience for that one (it should ask you whether
you want to).
This way Magikarp gets half the experience in all the battles without the
constant struggle to keep it alive. You'll probably do this a lot. For
now, though, I'd recommend putting Magikarp into storage until you can
increase its level more quickly. That's just IMO though 
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//mike tyndall
C++ programmer and game designer (not professionally)
See my 329-game collection:
http://users.ign.com/collection/MikeTyndall
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