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Your choices are Magcargo or Houndoom (post game only lol), maybe Magmar if you count Magby. There's also Entei and Ho-Oh e: Might I recommend teaching an Ampharos Fire Punch as an alternative? Scholtz fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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Depends on how far in you are. Slugma isn't great but serviceable (gets better later). Magby-Magmar if you're playing Crystal can pop out of the free daycare egg and is an ok slot in Eventually Entei or Ho-oh are gonna be your best bets. Flareon exists but since it's Gen2 you're probably gonna want one of the "new" evos Type diversity was a weak point in the early games. It's nice that they have a menagerie of options to field whole teams early on now
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Jan 8, 2024 03:05
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Scholtz posted:Your choices are Magcargo or Houndoom (post game only lol), maybe Magmar if you count Magby. Or just bite the bullet and grab a Growlithe or Vulpix, evolve your Eevee into Flareon or wait a bit and get a Ponyta.
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Jan 8, 2024 03:07
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In the remakes you can get a slugma egg pretty early on iirc
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I think the only regions where the player absolutely needs to make a team using Pokemon introduced in the same generation are Gen 3 Ruby and Sapphire and Black and White in Gen 5. In other regions I think its optional to ignore them entirely and make teams of just older Pokemon.
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Jan 8, 2024 03:12
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Muscle Tracer posted:Good. It's been too long since I logged into a raid with three Iron Hands. Maybe Miraidon. Resists Brave Bird and Flare Blitz or whatever other Fire move he's likely to have. Metal Sound + Reflect or Charge Beam + Parabolic Charge + Electro Drift with a Magnet or Shell Bell or Air Balloon? Only move I'd be worried about is Close Combat (though that has its drawbacks) or Earthquake/Bulldoze. Nanigans fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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Jan 8, 2024 03:46
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think I’m just gonna bring that Azumarill I made November 2022
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Zuzie posted:I think the only regions where the player absolutely needs to make a team using Pokemon introduced in the same generation are Gen 3 Ruby and Sapphire and Black and White in Gen 5. Well yeah but it’s more fun to use guys from that Gen imo. Keeps you from using the same folks over and over.
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Jan 8, 2024 05:36
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Zuzie posted:Or just bite the bullet and grab a Growlithe or Vulpix, evolve your Eevee into Flareon or wait a bit and get a Ponyta. I just got a Vuplix outside Ecutreak, I am having issues killing my rivals Bayleaf it's so bulky thats why I wanted a fire type. I don't have bug, poison and my flying type is a hoothoot which tends to be defensive as well and can't punch through bulky poo poo. I got Ekans/Nidorina and Paras but I don't think I'll train them so Vulpix it is since im on SS version. So far I been beating the rival with Ghastly's curse and most gyms I struggled with I used Ghastly as my trap card. Croconaw learns Ice Fang so that is useful but you need to put Bayleaf to sleep to get in. Ulio fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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Jan 8, 2024 06:03
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Support-wise this looks like a jorb for Armarouge with Reflect, using Clear Smog to void buffs, Lava Plume for its high +Burn rate and SpDam, and maybe run Iron Defense too. Might wanna consider Trick to plant an item on them if the Flying move they use is Acrobatics
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Ulio posted:I just got a Vuplix outside Ecutreak, I am having issues killing my rivals Bayleaf it's so bulky thats why I wanted a fire type. I don't have bug, poison and my flying type is a hoothoot which tends to be defensive as well and can't punch through bulky poo poo. I got Ekans/Nidorina and Paras but I don't think I'll train them so Vulpix it is since im on SS version. Since you're in ecruteak i think you can make it to the lapras in union cave (on fridays). It'll take super effective damage but Lapras is tankier and higher damage than bayleaf, especially if you got ice beam.
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Jan 8, 2024 08:23
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Theres probably like a dozen poison pokemon available too, like the nidos and koffing. Bug/poison and grass/poison are quad resist to grass and both types should be easily available in ariados, bellsprout and i believe venonat is in the forest?
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Ulio posted:Whats a good fire type in gen 2 if you don't take cyndaquil? Do you mean gen2 as in literally playing GSC or just Pokémon introduced in gen2? Because you can get Slugma/Mancargo as early as Violet City in HGSS and he works great in that game. Otherwise every other Johto Fire type is either a legendary or post game only. If you’re playing actual gen2 and any mon goes Arcanine and Ninetales are right there at the start and are the best you’re going to get barring Entei.
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Actually don't you get u-turn from beating bugsy in gen 4
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Nihilarian posted:ice beam and flamethrower are available at goldenrod gamecorner It never occurred to me until now how wacky it is that GF decided a Lapras would have a weekly schedule. Tuesday - poker with the guys, Wednesday - brunch with Miltank, Friday - swim around aimlessly in a cave
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Hammerite posted:It never occurred to me until now how wacky it is that GF decided a Lapras would have a weekly schedule. Tuesday - poker with the guys, Wednesday - brunch with Miltank, Friday - swim around aimlessly in a cave Didn't they keep doing this? I seem to remember DP having a whole cast of characters that only showed up on certain days of the week.
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Muscle Tracer posted:Didn't they keep doing this? I seem to remember DP having a whole cast of characters that only showed up on certain days of the week. what I mean is, Lapras is an animal. Exceptions exist, but animals typically aren't aware of what day of the week it is.
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Hammerite posted:what I mean is, Lapras is an animal. Exceptions exist, but animals typically aren't aware of what day of the week it is. 
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Lapras I'm pretty sure are explicitly stated to be intelligent enough to understand human speech, so one should be able to know days of the week. also it's not the same Lapras every time. Probably they just know that Friday is when humans tend to come visiting, so that's when a Lapras that's interested in making a human friend chooses to pop by. It's a social animal, it can't afford to be hanging around a random cave every gosh drat day.
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Jan 8, 2024 14:17
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Drifloon is at the Valley Windworks on a specific day too haha
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Hammerite posted:It never occurred to me until now how wacky it is that GF decided a Lapras would have a weekly schedule. Tuesday - poker with the guys, Wednesday - brunch with Miltank, Friday - swim around aimlessly in a cave That loving Lapras was my bane for a while, because I would make a note to go catch it on Friday, forget on the day, make another note, and repeat while getting distracted by other games.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:Drifloon is at the Valley Windworks on a specific day too haha Yeah that's the one I was thinking of. I guess I assumed there were more, one for each day of the week, like the family that gave you type-boosting items in GSC.
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galagazombie posted:Do you mean gen2 as in literally playing GSC or just Pokémon introduced in gen2? Because you can get Slugma/Mancargo as early as Violet City in HGSS and he works great in that game. Otherwise every other Johto Fire type is either a legendary or post game only. If you’re playing actual gen2 and any mon goes Arcanine and Ninetales are right there at the start and are the best you’re going to get barring Entei. I should have reworded, I didn't mean gen 2. I am playing Soul Silver so Gen 4 but I don't believe in these remakes they had many new mons from even gen 3 or 4. I caught a Magmar which seems better off the bat than Vulpix which has poo poo moves and I have to train. I know someone said you can buy flamethrower at golden rod, I need to look into that as well. But usually I do prefer to use pokemons from that region I am playing in but its not a strict rule.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That loving Lapras was my bane for a while, because I would make a note to go catch it on Friday, forget on the day, make another note, and repeat while getting distracted by other games. if you think that’s bad try evolving Ursaring into Ursaluna in Pokémon Go, lol. I kept forgetting when the full moon was and then I like…had to wait for nightfall when I’m usually busy etc
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Lapras isn't an animal it's a boat
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Nihilarian posted:ice beam and flamethrower are available at goldenrod gamecorner I started Totodile so would it be much to have Lapras with another full water type? I also got ice fang on it.
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Ulio posted:I started Totodile so would it be much to have Lapras with another full water type? I also got ice fang on it.
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PokemonTV will be shutting down by the end of March 2024, and the various Pokemon seasons will be scattered to the winds of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and more https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/pokemon-tv-to-discontinue-in-march-2024
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Genuinely loving laughing that the core of the anime is spread over 7 loving streaming services. Seven.
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If they don't respect you, you don't have to respect them either.
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Reoxygenation posted:Genuinely loving laughing that the core of the anime is spread over 7 loving streaming services. How does this happen? Is every single season considered a different series with different rights ownership?
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I assume either incompetence, or just more profitable for them to license streaming rights to several platforms.
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Portland VGC regionals was a fun watch this weekend btw. got me wanting to train up my Chien-Pao
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I’ve already looked around, but does anyone know of a real paper book/pamphlet that breaks down battle mechanics for kids? There are all sorts of guide books I’ve gotten my son for minecraft, but all I can find for pokemon is the pokedex style, which while somewhat useful for looking up enemy types doesn’t have jack or poo poo about actual game mechanics. Kiddo is way to young for internet self-research, but would gobble up a book that goes over things like “what are PPs, what does burning an opponent due, how long does sleep last, what is a critical hit, what are physical and special attacks, etc, etc. I’ve already printed out and laminated the type chart for him, but kinda shocked there isnt some sort of guidebook floating around. Ahh the good old days of prima guides…
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SpaceCadetBob posted:I’ve already looked around, but does anyone know of a real paper book/pamphlet that breaks down battle mechanics for kids? I mean, I remeber having the Prima guide for Red. I wonder when they last printed one? Aside from Tera, not much has changed with the formula since like gen 4, so a Prima Guide for something like Pearl Version should be mostly accurate mechanics-wise.
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Muscle Tracer posted:I mean, I remeber having the Prima guide for Red. I wonder when they last printed one? Aside from Tera, not much has changed with the formula since like gen 4, so a Prima Guide for something like Pearl Version should be mostly accurate mechanics-wise. Apparently, Prima stopped printing physical guides in 2019 during SwSh's time. They still exist online (now owned by the same people as The Escapist) but are really just like any other online tips website. Really sad cause I still have some of them too and they were great overall.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:I’ve already looked around, but does anyone know of a real paper book/pamphlet that breaks down battle mechanics for kids? From what I could gather from about ten seconds of googling, they do still make physical guides...but only in Japan. So if you're looking for guides for the most recent games, you'll have to get your kid started early on his JSL. Prima was bought out in 2021, so they still made physical books all the way up until Sword & Shield as far as I'm aware. As for what's in 'em? No idea, haven't owned one of these guides since Gen 3. Man, those guides were cool as heck...
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Scholtz posted:Lapras isn't an animal it's a boat Reading this, my brain instantly went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0m-PJozWo
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:Drifloon is at the Valley Windworks on a specific day too haha Drifloon was quite literally targeting kids out to play at the end of the school week.
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Reminder that the SV Epilogue event drops this Thursday (though apparently an entire playthrough of the story portion is already out on YouTube), seems like aside from maybe some extra development for the Paldea trio all it really adds is one new pokemon and unlocks the remaining Special Coaches after the fact. Also apparently you don’t start the story portion from the school for once and instead need to visit a shop in Kitakami I’ve also seen a few rumblings online about this revealing some “secret” regarding Nemona as well (maybe they’ll finally tell us where she originally came from or something) Larryb fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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