Just finished the main story.. The end of the game is ridiculously epic, it's a huge improvement over all of the previous games and I've been very satisfied with the game in general. Now to see how the endgame holds up.

@ballkirby1: You should be able to catch a Darumaka around that point, he's one of my favourite new Pokemon and he's very helpful later on, thanks to learning a few fighting moves. There's also Litwick (fire/ghost) a little later on and Cubchoo, if you do want to go with an ice type.

Good lord, man! How do you have all these level 40 pokemon already?

I use the Lucky Egg for the stronger ones I want to level up and the Exp.Share for the weaker ones. Most of the wild Pokemon around the point I am give out a massive average of 600 exp for every time I defeat one. Also does anyone recommend Cryogonal? He's located in the cave I am in.

My team at this point:

Slithers - Servine - Grass-type
Chimpansea - Simipour - Water-type
Stripez - Zebstrika - Electric-type
Grilla - Darmanitan - Fire-type
Crocrunch - Krookodile - Ground/Dark-type
Birdino - Archeops - Rock/Flying-type

All around level 60.

Archeops has the worst ability ever. Lossing half of both attack stats's power when its health is below 50%. What is the point of that?

He is very powerful at full health.

Archeops can be pretty devastating when it's at full power so you will not really notice it through most of the quest. Actualy, I wasn't even aware of this until now.

BTW, here's a nice little tip for Black and White players: Wondering how to evolve Shelmet and Karrablast? Trade them... with EACH OTHER. Only then will they evolve. Interesting idea if you ask me. With the GTS and a few hours of patience it can be accomplished easily.

Truant is much worse, and Slow Start is an even worse ability.

I kinda understood Truant. Slaking had an enormous attack so they had to compensate for it. But Slow Start seems pointless.

I didn't notice it either until reading it on bulbapedia. (I use an Archeops in my party as well) They have terrible defense anyway. Usually when its health is below 50% it isn't going to be around much longer anyway.

It's not really a bad Pokémon but its Kanto cousin, Aerodactyl, is simply far better.

Yeah can't wait to get my Aerodactyl into this game...(and all my other ones as well, lol)
And I haven't encountered it yet, but where's this ice cream thing? I like ice cream. xD

Check the grass around the cold storage . I think its rare-ish to encounter it there but that's where I caught mine!

EDIT: Also, I'm so proud of my team!
-Crockorock(Crock): Lv 32
-Sawk(Kickz): Lv 32
-Gothorita: Lv 32
-Dewott(Oshey): Lv 32
-Scolipeded(Sting): Lv 32
-Minccino(Chiramii): Lv 34

You got to check the Dark Grass in Cold Storage for an easier time finding one. But I warn you, they are very hard to train.

Why's that? I got one, seems like it has a hard time going first...and dies easily. I'm sure it'll be helpful against the last gym though....Maybe, lol.

When do you get the Exp. Share? It would make things easier for me...

I may be wrong, but I think you get it for defeating all the people on floor 55 of the Battle Company building in Castelia City. I haven't actually done that myself yet so I don't know for sure!

OK, another day, another team update:
Servine (Dragoon) Lv. 29
Scraggy (Rusty) Lv. 29
Tranquill (Pidgey) Lv. 29
Solosis (Rhizopoda) Lv. 28
Tirtouga (Koopa) Lv. 28

Just beat the 8th gym with the team listed in my signature. It only took 19 hours, too. That's pretty short considering this is a Pokemon game in all.

Not really. I beat Pokemon Emerald, had a level 100 Swampert, and a Latias at only 12 hours into the game. First playthrough too.

yeah, pokemon games aren't that long for RPGs, compared to 50hr FF games xP