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Manatee Cannon posted:I remember getting phanpy at the very beginning of the game by setting my game timer to morning and crawling through the grass at the little patch you can access that leads back to the eight gym city I can't remember the name of. Those Phanpy are a pain. They're incredibly rare, have a real bad catch rate, and will run if they break outta your ball.
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Ruggington posted:if it's a gen 4 game togepi is actually usable and becomes good i used it in gen 2 and it was good there too. but yes its especially good in gen 4
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Aug 28, 2016 07:09
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I'm sick of the hoppip hate in this thread. Its perfect and precious
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I love Jumpluff and its unique typing. Pangoro is a mediocre pokemon with an absurdly awesome movepool. Hope this helps.
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Aug 28, 2016 07:37
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Gen 2 has many strong designs and many weak fighters. You can get a Phanpy early in Crystal because it spawns on Route 46, but it doesn't spawn there in any of the other Johto games.
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Bongo Bill posted:Gen 2 has many strong designs Espeon and Tyranitar aren't "many"
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Wobbuffet and Shuckle??
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Here's a list of the good POkemon from gen 2 http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_index_number_%28Generation_II%29
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Ka0 posted:I love Jumpluff and its unique typing. Pangoro is a mediocre pokemon with an absurdly awesome movepool. Hope this helps. pangoro is a way more usable pokemon than jumpluff and had a mediocre movepool until oras gave it decent stab and coverage
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HoneyBoy posted:Here's a list of the good POkemon from gen 2 I've always been disappointed that Glitch Egg never broke out in a big way popularity-wise
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A pure ???-type are you serious? that would've broken the meta-game in half back in the day, some bans don't need to be justified
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pokemon variation in competitive is a lot better in singles than in VGC. in VGC you have like an absolute base tier that can't really be broken (nobody was winning worlds w/o utilizing both restricted spots and even then they're using one of the better mons not lugia for example) and then you get the weird meta choices that look super creative but in effect are often just as "rare" as a C-rank would be in say OU because of how often ppl realize it (raichu + hitmontop fit this). they seem like crazier choices but u have to remember theres no 100% viability score, things are viable based on the metagame around them to a degree. in a standard singles ladder (so say ORAS OU) theres pretty generally 3 tiers of what u can expect to find. low ladder is usually ppl playing with gimmick teams or people that know next to nothing on how to play (probably younger folks) so youll see straight nonsense often there. this is something like where u find 6 pretty rear end mons for the environment they're in (examples things like lapras or non-mega gardevoir, etc.) you'll see a ton of variation at this stage but its mostly ppl with no idea whats going on. the middle tier is where u see most of the standard stuff spammed a lot. folks who have figured out the game and understand how to play, have made a "good team" and it works for them better than previous attempts so they use it over and over and over. its also why you'll find a guy at like 1500 elo on the ladder with 1k+ games played, a terrible rank to be in at that place. he realized a sort of working formula and sticks to it religiously. at the top typically you will find good teams (so a lot of lando, ferro, etc.) with stranger things mixed in specifically in mind to counter other stuff or provide a threat that the other team didn't expect to account for. one i remember liking the best was when a friend of mine topped UU ladder w/ Ursaring, w/o appropriate support around it Ursaring is pretty garbage but he made it work. when u move past the ladder setting into the top of tournament play it starts to vary person to person. someone like cosine180 will use the most boring standard poo poo over and over and over and it will work bc he plays really well, so even if u come loaded with a counterteam he generally has experience playing vs that. someone like hellpowna, a really good DPP player, will bring something that looks like a gimmick team but functions well bc he's put thought into it. most people will fall somewhere between that spectrum, but remember the reward for coming up with a creative team is generally higher because even a slightly substandard mon in the hands of a good player is usually able to pull its weight. the relative ability of the players involved plays a big part in it too. most ppl that get annoyed with seeing the same stuff over and over think a lot about stall - aka spamming the "perfected" stall teams that counter as much of the meta as possible. you dont see stall too often in tournament play where the general level is high enough that anyone shoudl realistically know how to beat a stall team, and the stall team doesn't have enough options to outplay at that point so they're usually left playing catchup. this vids a bit long but goes into the thought process for playing vs stall and features some lesser seen mons (slurpuff, CM chandelure, mega sceptile) if you're interested at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0cG7v0ff2k
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Do wild Pokemon not run out of pp in gen 1? Took forever to catch a lvl 3 jigglypuff because it chain slept me 
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Rygar201 posted:Is there any in game reason to get this Z Ring thing? if you are a mom or a dad then sure but your kids would probably like one of those life-size pokemon pillows/dolls they have at pokemon center instead more
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The White Dragon posted:if you are a mom or a dad then sure but your kids would probably like one of those life-size pokemon pillows/dolls they have at pokemon center instead more I am a dad and I straight up can't wait for my oldest to learn to read so we can play pokemon together  She already 'plays pokemon' with me, my just pressing buttons on an old DS lite I have laying around
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AlphaKretin posted:Johto only has 100 new Pokemon, a decent chunk of which are evolutions/babies of Kanto Pokemon. You might want to rethink this run. I'm picking up ones that have new evolutions, like Onix and Slowpoke, and I got a Togepi as well.
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Spatula City posted:ooof, yeah, you basically have to use some Gen I Pokemon if you want to not have a Bad Time in the early going. Well, or you start with Cyndaquil and grind quite a bit, because you'll need some HP to tank a U-Turn (if we're talking HGSS). Where the gently caress do you get Slugma that early
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mabels big day posted:Where the gently caress do you get Slugma that early http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Primo#Generation_IV
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Ka0 posted:I love Jumpluff and its unique typing. Pangoro is a mediocre pokemon with an absurdly awesome movepool. Hope this helps. yare yare... you've really pissed me off now... / 
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Ka0 posted:I love Jumpluff and its unique typing. tropius and skymin cough nervously
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mabels big day posted:Where the gently caress do you get Slugma that early http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Primo http://www.filb.de/games/tools/aikotoba?l=en
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mandatory lesbian posted:tropius and skymin cough nervously rowlet hoots softly
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wait wait wait wait hold the gently caress up psyduck is not psychic type?? ??????????????? 
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Phweengee posted:A couple of rapidly expiring Darkrai codes. Please enjoy. The actual codes themselves don't expire til November. The cards are just gone from stores.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:wait wait wait wait smh if you don't have all gen one typings memorized by now
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when i was a young boy i had the pokemon field guide and it said golduck was water/psychic and i was incensed by it i'm pretty sure it was an official nintendo thing too lol, i remember it was green and had all 150 pokemon in it
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i had no clue that guy actually gave you anything worthwhile. never bothered with him. weird that he gives mareep and wooper, i'm pretty sure you can catch those before the first gym anyway
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oddium posted:which one the one in the middle
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mabels big day posted:i had no clue that guy actually gave you anything worthwhile. never bothered with him. weird that he gives mareep and wooper, i'm pretty sure you can catch those before the first gym anyway It's an RPG, you should always talk to everyone until you exhaust their dialog
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pik_d posted:It's an RPG, you should always talk to everyone until you exhaust their dialog idk, I never liked the NPCs who ask you to tell them something, especially in gen 3 when they had you choose from that list of words to come up with a "trendy saying". I thought it was something like that and I didn't want to try and figure it out
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mabels big day posted:i had no clue that guy actually gave you anything worthwhile. never bothered with him. weird that he gives mareep and wooper, i'm pretty sure you can catch those before the first gym anyway slugma is the only one worth getting, well, the only one you can't get immediately after the first gen anyway, slugma isn't exactly amazing
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mabels big day posted:the one in the middle 
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Nethilia posted:The actual codes themselves don't expire til November. The cards are just gone from stores. Nope. You're thinking about the Arceus cards that were just given out. The Darkrai cards were given out back in May. On the back it says the codes expire August 31. tom bob-ombadil fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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mandatory lesbian posted:when i was a young boy i had the pokemon field guide and it said golduck was water/psychic and i was incensed by it I remember how badly the official guides were written back then. The one I had for G/S claimed Magneton got worse between R/B/Y and G/S because when it got the steel typing it lost speed so Electrode was what you should be using.
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When Kurt wants you to wait a day, is that an arbitrary amount of in-game time, or a real world 24 hours? Because I've got him making me five Heavy Balls and I gave him the apricorns about a week ago, but haven't played HGSS since then.
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Zodack posted:When Kurt wants you to wait a day, is that an arbitrary amount of in-game time, or a real world 24 hours? Because I've got him making me five Heavy Balls and I gave him the apricorns about a week ago, but haven't played HGSS since then. Fairly sure just a real world day, because imagine having to play or keep the game running for 24 hours every time you wanted to craft new balls
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