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My name is STEPHAN. I am 10 years old and yesterday I finally got to pick my first Pokémon!

When I had to choose a ball, I actually thought Torchick was the cutest, but I went with Treecko. I've heard that Torchick turns into one of those ugly Pokémon. Oh and my brother will pick a Mudkip when he's 10. That will be in a few weeks, so we can train together!

May is nice I guess. I don't really get girls, but she seems to be looking for friends. Hey, when I'm around, why not? I do feel a big rivalry towards her though... in our first battle I used a potion to make sure I would win! So it's a mixed feeling.

I captured a few other Pokémon, but I don't plan on training all of them. They seem pretty weak. At the moment I'm only training Treecko, Wingull (he's so cute!) and Poochyena. I wonder if that will be enough to defeat the first gym leader...

Oh, my mom is calling me. I went home for the first night, I was homesick! I'm such a baby.

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Wow, I love being a Pokémon trainer! I have caught about 20 of them so far. There are now 4 Pokémon I'm seriously training: Treecko, Wingull, Abra, Geodude. I'm holding back my Treecko's evolution so he'll learn Mega Drain at level 26. At the moment they're all around level 18.
I'm also training Poochyena and Nincada, just to get them evolved into the next stage. I hope it's soon, because they suck.

I've won 2 badges so far. The gym leaders were tougher than I expected. But I just leveled up the Pokémon that was strong against that type.

Oh, I traded a bunch of stuff with a trainer that wanted to quit. I got some of his rare Pokémon. After that we traded a bunch of items, that took so long!! Couldn't he just have given it to me instead of giving it to the PKMN we traded back and forth?
I did get a lot of useful stuff, like TMs and this really useful EXP. SHARE.

Seriously, starting out with an EXP. SHARE is bliss. When I get my own, I'll give my brother my old one.

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[Does anyone still read these?]

Today I have made fire. I mean, I have caught Kyogre. I didn't want to use my Master Ball for it, so it turned out to be a hell of a fight.

I decided to bring 3 pokémon I hardly trained, namely Oddish, Gloom and Cacnea. They were lvl 20-26, while Kyogre was 45, so it was dangerous.

• I first brought his HP to 1/4 using Grovyle.
• I switched to Altaria and sang Kyogre to sleep.
• I put out Cacnea and used sand attack to lower the accuracy. I managed to pull off 4 attacks before Cacnea got creamed by Hydro Pump.
• I sent out Oddish to put him to sleep. I tried to steal some HP by using acid, but it was way too slow.
• Pelipper brought Kyogre to just like 4% HP. Then it KOd, got hit by an ice beam.
• Oddish put it to sleep again.
• I threw the first net ball [3x effective on water pkmn], but it broke free right before the end.
• I decided not to damage him, but throw another ball right away. Tadaa! I caught Kyogre.

Now I can go to the 8th gym. :)

My dream team of Pokémon:
Grovyle lvl 41
Kadabra lvl 41
Geodude lvl 40
Charmander lvl 40
Altaria lvl 39
Pelipper lvl 41

I'm thinking about replacing Pelipper. No offense.

In other news: my brother also started his jolly journey! :) Last time I spoke him, he had 2 badges and was collecting pkmn quite enthusiastically!

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I just beat the Elite Four and the Champion. What a great last battle! His Pokémon were about 10 levels stronger than mine, but I managed with a couple of revives!

The last one standing, and therefore the one doing the final KO was Sceptile. My very first Pokémon, how epic.

They're all lvl 47 or 48 now.

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I need to pick up Diamond again.
I havent played since I lost to the champion of the final four.
So disheartening.

Is there a way to make money rather than fighting trainers or selling things?
I'm almost out of money and have no means to get more, really.

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Best way of making money is not dying. Or I think they changed it in generation IV, you don't lose half your money anymore, right?

I've never had a lack of money, in any game.

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You lose half your money still.

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Hm I really think I read that you now lose money based on which pokémon you were using last. Something like that. But it still could be a lot. :)

I'm currently working on a breeding chain to get Spheal Ice Beam without using a TM. And I'm going to train a Metagross, which should become mighty.