#HeartGold and SoulSilver

[abeged]

my HGSSsona and her adorable baby.

[clarissasbakery]

hello soul silver shipping community im back

[reestallized]

Fear not, child. For the guardians will grant protection and immortality upon thee.

[lunart-06]

Preciousmetals shipping everyone?

[clanima]

This thing happened on one of the last pokémon masters event and I'm not over it😭🤧✨ They finally gave Morty a Ho-Oh😭✋ I always felt so bad for him in hgss so I'm glad he finally git what he wanted✨ And in top of that… Silver trying to console someone!?!? WHat!?

😱 Good job, script writers😏😌👌

[dragon--n93]

Issue 53 - March 2010

[pumkinethetrash]

I just wanna draw silver near the edge of insanity

[arthprototype]

Gouache practice. LUGIA.

[rainbowthedragoncat]

So, with the whole reddit business, my posts are most likely not going to be as accessible anymore. Which is fine for most of my stuff, but I want to preserve this one post in particular (with a few tweaks here and there).

HeartGold & SoulSilver grinding tips & resources

The johto games are infamously grindy, here are a few resources and tips to help make the grindier bits go much smoother.

Exp grinding

This guide is insanely helpful, and doesn't get shared nearly often enough. It tells you all the best spots to grind for the entire game (including kanto). Also, HeartGold usually has better exp yield than SoulSilver, due to the version exclusive pokemon in each game. This guide is genuinely a godsend.

Game corner coin grinding

https://voltorbflip.com

Voltorbflip.com. You just punch in the number of points and voltorbs in each row/column, and it determines the best card for you to flip. Make sure you put everything in correctly, if you input something wrong it could very well put you in a bad position, but it's still an incredibly useful tool.

Step grinding (Friendship, daycare, etc.)

Morty's gym. You can literally just hold up after you enter the gym and it'll walk infinitely, so you can do anything else with the absolute minimum attention paid to the game. Before that, you can run/bike up and down between Route 30 and the northwesternmost house in Cherrygrove.

P.S. remember you can call the daycare lady to check how many levels your pokemon has gained, to make sure you don't accidentally overlevel and lose out on an important move or something. If fly isn't unlocked yet, it's best to head there a level or 2 early, just in case the steps to get there end up leveling it up. Also, put your magikarp (and similar mons that don't learn anything useful pre evolution) in the daycare until they're at level 19 (or just before whenever you want to evolve them at), they don't learn anything important anyway

PP restores, berries, heart scales (Thanks to u/rayra2)

Use rock smash on the rock in Violet city (the city with the first gym). No encounter will spawn from breaking that one, and you will get shards to exchange with the guy who gives you berries, and also the other items mentioned.

[sleepi-mimzi]

a lil guy

[ryunumber]

the existence of spiky eared pichu - of which there is canonically only one - as an alternate costume in smash bros ultimate gives all of the pokemon and characters featured in pokemon heartgold and soulsilver a gacha ryu number of two, because there was a time-limited event to recieve the spiky eared pichu from gamestop stores as a promotional tie-in for one of the movies. sorry if this has already been brought up or doesn't fit the criteria for some other reason

As recent posts have demonstrated, Pokémon Ryu Numbers get a little weird if you grant that most of the Legendary/Mythical Pokémon are identifiably unique individuals. (Not all, of course, but most. Probably.)

So there's a case to be made that everyone in HeartGold and SoulSilver, such as Lyra, has a Standard Ryu Number of 2 just fine through Ho-Oh, who's a stage hazard in the Kalos Pokémon League stage.

All that being said, the path's still fine, so, hey.

Thanks for the submission!

(yes I know you can't see the wholly distinguishing, namesake spiky ears in the Ultimate half of the node, the formatting has its limitations, gimme a break)

[hellopuns]

SMH I just wanna be in front of the computer talking to someone while lying down like this on the bed

[silly4sillypoll]

SILLY4SILLY POLL

[reestallized]

What's upstairs

Unfortunately, the stairs don't talk

[lunart-06]

Warning: pokespe HGSS arc spoiler for those who hasn't read the manga

Below here is just some manga analyzing:

The panel where mary said that togepi and gold looks similar is when I fucking realised. It was intentional. It was a fucking clue.

Togebo as we see in the hgss arc in the manga was often being left out by gold HIMSELF and was said that togebo wasn't open up to gold. Saying their connection is still weak. But togebo WANTS to open up, but gold just kept on putting it as a bench warmer because it's still weak and gold is trying to protect it.

Don't you see??? Now look at the panel where mary said these two are similar. Pokepse *knew* and it was *intentional*

They intentionally wrote gold in the hgss seem more as a comedic relief because it's to invoke sense of being left out to us the readers, to connect ourself to what gold should feel But it's bevause gold acts so casual like his usual self makes it hard to believe that gold was actually bothered by it.

Until this panel showed up.. ironic isn't it gold?

What if the words gold felt about togebo here is actually what gold always think/felt himself as?

Don't you guys see???? POKESPE KNEW AND THEY WROTE GOLD'S CHARACTER TO BE UNSATISFYING SO IT INVOKES A FEELING LIKE BEING LEFT BEHIND AND UNIMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT GOLD FELT ALL THESE TIMES. THE HC WAS NO LONGER AN HC. IT'S C A N O N (NOT REALLY MUCH BUT IT IS TO ME). GOLD ACTUALLY HAS INSECURITIES AND ISSUES OF OPENING HIMSELF UP TO PEOPLE AND POKESPE SHOWED IT THROUGH PANELLING AND WORDS GUYS IM NOT CRAZY!!!! /LH

[silver--linings]

future project snippet

a crumb. for y'all. i'm not dead i promise

context: soulsilver nuzlocke with custom rules, set from the perspective of silver. snippet is from the Ecruteak gym battle

cws: detailed discussion of death, visceral body descriptions (including burns, mention of needle-like sensations), panic, horror elements, and a smidge of unhealthy coping mechanisms (nothing explicit)

i'm not sure why its like. not adapting the text color. um. lemme know if it doesnt work on dark mode im on goth/rave and its legible but ykno

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Silver blinked away the static at the corners of his vision, dimly aware of the blood coating his upper lip. His breath caught in a cough, the strange atmosphere of the Ghost gym clogging his lungs and enveloping his body like an unwelcome embrace. Hazy red eyes blinked in the fog, and he could hear Ruby’s ragged breaths as she tried to stay standing. 

They both knew the stakes if she were to fall. 

The cloying smoke made it hard to speak, but he pushed through it, feeling needles slide down his spine with the effort. “Ruby – confusion!” 

The Slowpoke seemed to need no instructions, and he could see her outline in the fog generating a cloud of pink energy. He readied a super potion, knowing she’d need one soon. He watched as her frame launched the attack–

And then… nothing. 

Where…? Silver, all at once, became aware of the pure, utter silence in the arena. The fog did not move, not even in the flickering of the candlelight. He tried to look up from Ruby’s silhouette, to look at Morty, but every cell in his body buzzed with one instinct: 

Play dead.

There was a sudden explosion, forcing him back into the present as he was flung backwards from the spot he’d been perched at. His back smacked against a pillar, forcing the breath out of him, but the energy continued past him, rattling the remaining structures within the shrine. He let out a few coughs as he forced his aching joints to rise, and he put a hand over his chest. 

Something wasn’t right. He could feel it. 

Maybe it was the static in the air, or the lack of cackling. Maybe it was the dust kicked up from the center of the arena, mixed with the gym’s natural fog. Maybe it was the sudden heaviness of the pokeballs Silver kept securely tucked under his coat. Or maybe it was the familiar sensation of a ghostly spike stabbing through his brain, forcing him back to his knees, head in his hands. 

Silver forced his hand down, ignoring the bits of hair that went with it. He shoved himself up, propping up against a pillar. It didn’t matter. His pokemon could survive a critical hit, even a super effective one. They weren’t weak. 

The sentence rang hollow in his head. 

He just had to find Ruby and heal her. League rules stated that Morty couldn’t attack again until the gym leader verified his safety. She just had to last out to finish out the battle. Distantly, he felt Beryl’s pokeball rattle, but Silver shushed him. 

Silver tried Ruby’s recall, but her ball stayed dim, the center blinking at him, as if it were confused. Figures. With a huff, he approached the main arena. Even if he flew, she was sturdier. 

The center was decimated. With how fiercely Citrine, Beryl, and Ruby fought, it was a given. But… his eyes flicked around. He went to take a step, but he stopped short. To his right… 

Silver felt himself lurch towards her, tripping over his feet. He readjusted, but still all but collapsed as he knelt before his pokemon’s prone form. Gently, carefully, he gathered her into his arms, mindful of her stump out of habit. Her body was unnaturally warm, burnt from the strength of the spectral energy launched at her. 

Beryl broke from his pokeball as Silver lowered his head over her cradled body. The Croconaw let out a grunt, likely feeling his own injuries, but he stared down the Gengar in Silver’s stead. He didn’t need commands. Morty wouldn’t stop, anyway.

The sounds of the two fighting hardly registered in Silver’s mind.  All he could focus on was the dull feeling of his Slowpoke going cold in his arms. 

–

Ruby was buried behind her well. It took hours to walk back to Azalea town, hours that his screaming body did not want to handle. His living team had, of course, been healed at the pokemon center, but… he had to keep going. He couldn’t stop.

Only weak things couldn’t continue. That was why… 

He shook his head. Her final resting place was to lay alongside her favorite flowers. He didn’t know why he cared. “She was weak,” Silver murmured, and Beryl leveled him with a look. He was too tired to try and understand, though. After a moment, the Croconaw grunted, tugging his sleeve.

Time to go.