My problem with this game is the FREQUENT wild battle encounter. Seriously, it's so frequent, that it's hard to get out of a patch of grass or even get through a cave- even at a steady pace without a Pokemon leaping at you. Unless it's just me and may have something to do with my Trainer's Nature (which is Hardy)...

lol...yeeeaaah, I've noticed that too. runs away from battle
Me: Oh, yay! The exit to get out of this large cave! takes one step, wild encounter
Me: ...Ugh.

(true story. >_>)

At least there are no Geodudes and Zubats

Yea I got one too with my Celebi.

Anyone know some good places to train before the Elite 4?

I thought of a good combo with Whimsicott. (The guy in my avatar).
Get one guy with Reflect and Mean look. Switch out to Whimsictott then set up leech seed, use light screen, and just use giga drain. lol

Going to get my 6th bage soon, everything looks good so far.
Team update:
Samurott, Darmanitan, ConkelDerp,and Cofagrigus.
Just found a Tynamo, I'm going to go train that now.
anyone have any good tips for training a Tynamo.

Has anyone noticed that you're supposed to be able to trade Celebi from HG/SS/Pla/D/P. But the pokemon from Black and White are brand new? Does anybody know if you are able to trade 5th gen pokemon to any of the former games?

I have Eelektross, it's final evo. There's a thunderstone in Chargestone Cave, you'll need that to evolve it. My advice is to train Tynamo to level 39 to evolve it and use the Thunderstone to evolve it again, unless you want it to learn powerful moves like thunderbolt. (your better off waiting till you get the wild charge tm)

You don't trade Celebi to B/W, you transfer him. And you can't trade to the former games.

I'm guessing you can't buy Tunderbolt T_T
I have the Thunderstone, same place where I got Tynamo.
Wouldn't be bad if you evolve it too fast? wouldn't hurt it's stats?

7 badges

I can't wait to get Kyurem and Genosect.

well I know its out there...probably hidden fairly well with all the great movies like EarthQuake and whatnot. xD

Anyways, I highly doubt I'll run into anyone with this game, but...I dunno, how exactly does Black City work? How do you "reset" it so you get new battles? The boss there said for me to try and win 20 battles...

GOT A LARVESTA EGG!! It's evolution is beast! It's on route 18

Another team update:
Serperior (Dragoon) Lv. 39
Lampent (Kirby) Lv. 41
Reuniclus (Cellulose) Lv. 41
Scrafty (Rusty) Lv. 40
Carracosta (Koopa) Lv. 39
Unfezant (Isane) Lv. 37

How do you even get to the middle of the Unova region...? And how about Anville Town in the north west? I dare not go to Serebii or Bulbapedia as spoilers will come up. Rather have someone point me to it.

Isn't the center of the map Entralink?...I dunno...I think Anville is after you deal with the E4 and the final battle.

The middle of Unova is just the Entralink. You get to it by tapping 'Wireless' on the C-Gear and then selecting 'Entralink'. You go there to either connect with another player to use the Entralink and visit their game's world to do missions or catch Pokemon from the Dream World in the Entralink Forest. (Although, obviously, the Dream World isn't active yet.)

As for Anville Town, I know you get there on one of the trains from the Battle Subway station in Nimbasa City, and you can do it as soon as you get there - you don't have to have beaten the Elite 4 or even have a certain number of badges. I haven't been there yet (University assignments are more important than Pokemon, sadly...) but my sister has and she says that people show up in Anville town on certain days to trade items.

Go there on Saturdays. You can get some good stuff sometimes.