Quote Originally Posted by i_amtrunks View Post
Training in HG/SS is a pain, have you switched out your starter, because I found that it is usually at good levels for the game as long as you have it in your team fairly constantly. If you have D/P/Plat, why not trade over and train them on that game?
One Ice Pokemon should be enough to help you get through that gym.
Switching to Diamond and using the trade training advantage was my plan (or trading over my advanced pokemon from that game to fight that gym battle), but I've got to wait until I can borrow my sister's DS to do the trade and since I don't see her that often I kind of gave up and moved on. My Totodile is still one of my most powerful pokemon in my party, but I think I had Pokemon with Ice moves (like Gyarados) rather than Ice type pokemon.

Quote Originally Posted by i_amtrunks View Post
As for B/W, not sure which I'll get and I dont really like any of the starters, I normally go grass, but Snivy is weak and boring, the grass has such a tiny movepool and is slow as anything, and the water stater is just very average in everything.
I kinda like the look of the Tepig, and I've never had a Fire Starter before. I've used Water in Silver, Diamond and HeartGold (and Electric in Yellow but I didn't have a choice )