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Oh Crystal. Not the first game I ever owned, but it was the first game I ever played. Unfortunately for my siblings after they taught me to play, I was the little sibling who overwrote saves. Lots of nostalgia for this one, even if it's not the greatest. Er, maybe it was Gold or Silver, looking at those dates. I could've sworn I started playing Pokemon before I started Kindergarten. Maybe a month seemed longer then? Who knows. As for karma, it bit me in the rear end 8 years later when my brother deleted my active save on Crystal when I left my GBC in the bathroom. After that, my Crystal's battery went. Thankfully, HGSS came out that spring but still. Totodile was the starter of choice when I was a kind because CROCODILES  , but now I go with Cyndaquil because look at it's precious face!
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I've gotten Pokerus twice: once in Gen 3 and once in Gen 4. Once you have it it's pretty easy to keep around though. A Pokemon will remain infectious if you put it in the PC, so you can infect your team at will at that point. As for the rival, let's call him Shinji, since Paul was the closest thing to a Silver equivalent in the anime.
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Feb 25, 2016 17:35
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EDIT: I am a dumbass. Sentret has always had one of my favorite first route normal mammal designs (though I prefer the Zigzagoon line). It's a shame it's such a weak Pokemon. hopeandjoy fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Feb 28, 2016 04:16
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Trick Question posted:I think Jeremiah would be a good name for that 'mon. Nice. Jeremiah has my vote too.
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Feb 29, 2016 16:10
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Kikas posted:Spinarak might be weak, but is in a diffrent league then Ledyba, The Second Worst Pokemon In Existance. It evolves into Ariados which is a big, speedy spider. Yeah the birds are the same, but pokemon distribution is WAYYYYY better then in Gen 1. It will become very apparent soon, I think you can encounter like 30 diffrent Pokes before the second Gym, which is something the games will not repeat until I think B2/W2. Or even X/Y. That's because XY spreads the first and second gyms a million years apart.
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Mar 3, 2016 16:22
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:And then every other Gym City has one or two routes between it and the next Gym City. Excellent pacing, brought to you by the company that made the level curve in this game.
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Mar 3, 2016 18:01
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I like the night palette the best, but Espeon is my favorite Pokemon. I guess you'll be getting it anyway so it doesn't matter though.
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Mar 5, 2016 17:00
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Crosspeice posted:Espeon, which is also my favorite overall Pokemon, since I love purple and green and cats and Espeon is a purple/green psychic cat. Simple.  Espeon is my favorite overall Pokemon as well.
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Mar 7, 2016 16:11
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Lanturn is a Pokemon I've always wanted to use, but it always comes to late for me to add it to my team. Maybe one of these days I'll breed myself a Chinchou to actually use it.
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Mar 7, 2016 18:06
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RareAcumen posted:Let's talk about Badge boosts! I don't think I've ever noticed a difference with them! Does any non-Gen I/Gen I remake games even have the badge increases?
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Mar 11, 2016 03:51
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Solumin posted:No, the badges in Gen 1, 2 and 3 actually boosted your Pokemon's stats. Different badges give different bonuses. In Gens 1 and 2, it's a 9/8 multiplier, and in Gen 3 it's a 10% boost (or 1.1 multiplier). These bonuses are applied during battle and are really broken in Gen 1. Here's the article. Poor Dark Types.
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Mar 11, 2016 04:26
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Crosspeice posted:Noted. I know about bits and bytes and that, but I was mainly copying what Bulbapedia said, so blame them. Pokemon was brought to the west and began selling like hotcakes in 1997, so I imagine they assumed localization would happen even that early on. There are some sounds that can't be written in traditional hiragana. "v" for example. Distinguishing between "l" and "r" for another.
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Mar 16, 2016 02:36
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Funky Valentine posted:There was apparently a braille guide in the instruction manual for R/S/E, but no one reads those so I can't verify that. I did! ...but I lost the box and manual years ago, so I can't verify one way or the other.
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Mar 16, 2016 04:53
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Serperoth posted:That will teach me to post at 2am Katakana can also be used for onomatopoeia and emphasis. Or showing a character is talking robotically.
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Mar 16, 2016 18:41
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Solumin posted:You're right, I meant the manual. My guide is held together by hopes, dreams, and nostalgia. It has neither cover and the spine cover wore off.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:17
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Some Numbers posted:Imagine how many easier ways there are to make money once you have time travel. Investing in Google would be a good start.
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Mar 17, 2016 00:56
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It's really annoying because I like to use all new Pokemon for my first run of new games and it really limits my options. There are some Pokemon that I've always wanted to use but never have just because they always come too late in the game.
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Mar 17, 2016 02:33
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My one wish for Gen VII is not to only have 70 new Pokemon so I actually have options when I want to have a team of all new stuff. And not to stuff all the cool poo poo by the 6th-8th gyms.
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Mar 17, 2016 17:53
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Dr. Fetus posted:Then B2W2's story dives back into stupid again. I'M ABOUT TO UNLEASH MY RAGE! 
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Mar 17, 2016 22:38
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:We're all thinking it. Also N comes back to Unova and Colress exists. ...And I make a million movies, I guess.
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Mar 17, 2016 22:49
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BlazetheInferno posted:Lance was so full of Rule of Cool that they decided using dragons and being a region champion wasn't enough cool for him in the Anime. No, they needed to add MORE. Let's make anime-Lance a SECRET AGENT, TOO! YEAH! Not to mention he was such a cool secret agent that he'd be the one to respond to Team Magma and Aqua, not any Hoenn characters!  ...God, the Magma and Aqua arc was so bad in the anime.
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Mar 18, 2016 19:13
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MarquiseMindfang posted:
Re: anime talk, OK! is still my favorite opening, no matter how lame Johto was.
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Mar 27, 2016 17:46
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:You know, I've always wanted to use a Slowpoke. Maybe if I didn't keep going with the water starter I'd remember to do it. I used a Slowbro in my X Psychic monotype and it's actually quite good. I bet the Physical/Special split and increased moveset over the years helps though.
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Mar 27, 2016 19:14
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Silegna posted:Courage for my vote....I use to think bugsy was a girl. So did Gold in the manga. 
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Mar 27, 2016 21:07
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I find monotype challenges also help. I used a bunch of Pokemon I hadn't before in both my Psychic and Water monotypes.
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Apr 13, 2016 18:47
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Roro posted:I usually do a run of the game with some of my favourites and some new, then a run with a completely wild team. Doing this has taught me that Lilligant can be a loving beast when she wants to be. In Omega Ruby, she wiped the entirety of the Elite 4 AND Steven on her lonesome. Lilligant is one of my favs because she's a beast in game. I even managed to win a few OU games online with one because of shocked opponents despite her fragility. I probably would have had no idea if I hadn't caught one with Own Tempo when I was first playing through Gen V in Japanese.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:43
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apokaladle posted:Until this moment I assumed everyone loved it! It was one of the better minigames in the whole series, along with the 3rd gen contests that nobody else liked either. I also like the movie minigame. I wasted like 2 hours there on my first W2 playthrough. And I'm one of the few people perfectly happy to see the Game Corner gone because it was such a pain in the rear end. I hate slot minigames, and I also hate that RSE gated the Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, and Ice Beam TMs behind coins.
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Apr 16, 2016 06:01
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Spatula City posted:I like Voltorb Flip because it only took me two hours to grind enough coins to get Flamethrower for my Togepi (because Togepi gets Extrasensory off the bat in HGSS and has decent special attack, it becomes eminently usable). I love the Togepi line and that's probably because of gen 4. I almost always end up with a Togekiss in HG.
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Apr 16, 2016 17:43
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Miltank was a huge roadblock for the 5 year old me. I think my brother managed to take the game back from me a couple of times when I asked him to beat Whitney for me though, so good for him. Whitney and Elesa are easily my least favorite gym fights.
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Apr 20, 2016 19:04
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apokaladle posted:...is that still in the later gens? How have i played Pokémon games for literally thousands of hours and not known that? Status immunities are now based off of the status itself rather than the type of the move that causes it, with exceptions like Grass types being immune to powder moves. All Fire types are immune to burn, Ice types cannot be frozen, Electric types cannot be paralyzed (Ground types can if hit by a non-Electric paralysis causing move), Steel and Poison types cannot be poisoned, and all types can be put to sleep now in Gen VI. The newest edition is Grass immunity to powder moves and Electric immunity to paralysis. hopeandjoy fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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Apr 21, 2016 04:38
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I cheesed the Slakings by using Protect on the turn they attacked and then attacking on their Truant turn.
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Apr 21, 2016 18:21
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SkyTalon2314 posted:Oh lord, those things, yeah. I forgot about them. Yeah, I used a Pelipper which isn't exactly the strongest, but it wasn't that much of a fight of attrition. But since it was ORAS, I had access to Brine.
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Apr 21, 2016 21:08
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GilliamYaeger posted:While we're on the subject of overpowered Miltanks that abuse Rollout, I found this video...  That's... That's dedication there. At least to put up with all the switching."..." indeed Red, "..." indeed. hopeandjoy fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Apr 23, 2016 |
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Apr 23, 2016 03:32
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SkyTalon2314 posted:
Yeah I fainted her Gardivoir in one hit, so I'm not sure about this, dude.
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I am trying to find somewhere that corroborates this short of me cracking open my copy of X and going back to fight her myself. Which I might just do. My friend and I were taking her on at about the same time and noticed an odd number of crits, but the most telling thing was her M-Gardivoir dodging 100% accurate attacks like Thunderbolt. Then again, it's been a couple years, so yeah. I'm going to go back and refight her, see what I can see, and report back. I haven't transferred over everyone to Alpha Sapphire, so I should still have a good team.
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Kikas posted:And then with Fairy typing and Play Rough it's a literal dragonslayer Azumarill is the MVP of my water monotype in ORAS. Helps that I stuff even Protein I find down its throat though.
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Apr 29, 2016 12:26
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Each of the Professors studies different branches of Pokemon, right? Like Elm doing evolution? Elm is eggs, Rowan is Evolution, Juniper is real world evolution (Pokemon origins), and Sycamore is Mega Evolution. I think Birch is habitats and Oak is everything? I can't remember.
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May 1, 2016 21:22
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Blaze Dragon posted:Platinum is actually fun, although after D/P I can't blame anyone for not wanting to play it. D/P nearly made me leave the franchise, and the same happened to a few of my friends. What terrible games. Gen II's level curve is poo poo, but it's still better in every way than Gen 1. So I wouldn't say all the even Generations are bad. Or rather less good; I don't think there's been a truly "bad" main series Pokemon game yet (in the since that it's a bad game period ), even though I dislike Gen IV too.
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May 3, 2016 17:49
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AradoBalanga posted:I will never understand why the fake tree Pokemon is considered a rock type and not a grass type (or even a grass/ground type). ...Because it's a fake tree, not a real one?
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May 4, 2016 01:13
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Yorkshire Tea posted:Archeops in BW was awesome because its stats are completely ludicrous and balanced by Defeatist. But it's incredibly rare that you'll ever end up with it below half health, given you can use potions and the like. Yeah it's useless in multiplayer because Defeatist, but in game it's fantastic.
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Qwilfish! The Pokemon so bland I forgot about it for a good two years when I was a kid.
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