BananaHands
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Demographics: Starting Pokémon
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Me either. I watched the anime once in a while.
blotsfan, I wish I could have also given you a Love it and a funny. A brofist will have to suffice.
Hells yes squirtle. Why?
Because he evolves into the goddamned Blastoise, that's why.
Hells yes squirtle. Why?
Because he evolves into the goddamned Blastoise, that's why.
My Charizard will shit all over your Blastoise. Besides, Gyrados is an objectively better water Pokemon.
*Puts on nerd glasses*
Gyrados is double weak against electric types and can do nothing to defend against them.
Squirtle can be taught Dig, to both defend and attack against electrics, and blizzard, giving him the upper hand against grass types. A Blastoise with Dig, Blizzard, Surf and Hydro Pump will seldom let you down.
Gyrados is double weak against electric types and can do nothing to defend against them.
Squirtle can be taught Dig, to both defend and attack against electrics, and blizzard, giving him the upper hand against grass types. A Blastoise with Dig, Blizzard, Surf and Hydro Pump will seldom let you down.
BananaHands
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I mean, I'd vote for the Squirtle Squad, but not every squirtle gets in there.
Surf AND hydropump? Overkill, and hydropump is unreliable. Swap hydropump for skull bash for a normal type move. Also, dig makes you too predictable, swap for earthquake.*Puts on nerd glasses*
Gyrados is double weak against electric types and can do nothing to defend against them.
Squirtle can be taught Dig, to both defend and attack against electrics, and blizzard, giving him the upper hand against grass types. A Blastoise with Dig, Blizzard, Surf and Hydro Pump will seldom let you down.
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My thinking is that neither Surf or Hydropump has very high PP, and you're still best off matching types, so naturally you want your water type to have a good sized water arsenal. As for dig being too predictable, perhaps, but unlike earthquake it serves a defensive purpose, which helps prevent 1 hit KOs when matched up against an electric type.
I would say that if you use dig, they're just going to switch in a gyrados with thunderbolt.
BananaHands
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You all know what I picked.
North_Ranger
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Yyyyyeeeeaahhhh... Bye.
My pick is Thermonuclearmon
All its attacks look like this:
But then you have to go catch a new one.
All its attacks look like this:
But then you have to go catch a new one.
It sure is cool over here in my corner. Alone. Yeah. Yeah.
...Yeah.
...Yeah.
No link cable?
He has one. He uses it to trade with himself.
... That's how I caught them all
In the 15 or so years since the North American release of Red and Blue, having also played through Gold and attempting Ruby Red (I'm still not even sure why this one sucks so much. I mean all of them are pretty much the EXACT same, and yet this one blows in comparison), and the god knows how many new games I've started on Red, I've never managed to catch them all. The last time I started a game, I spent like a whole day choosing starters over and over again, playing through to the first PokeCentre I could find, and trading them to one of my roommates, then starting a new game. Over and over again, so that all three of us had all three starters super early in the game.He has one. He uses it to trade with himself.
... That's how I caught them all
Also I named all the Pokemon (Not just the starters, but all the Red only pokemon I traded for blue only pokemon) going to one friend after parts of the penis, and all the pokemon going to the other after parts of the vagina. Because I'm super mature.
Squirtle was okay to deal with, especially in Fire Red/Leaf Green. Bite was a Dark move by then and it would destroy Misty's Starmie and Staryu, while still being strong against most of her attacks.
And yeah... Charmander was the only real choice in those games. You had TONS of great Water and Grass Types, so you really didn't need another of them. But fire? It was basically Charmander, Vulpix, or Magmar.
BananaHands
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Fighting type Pokemon were great. On red you had a chance to catch a Manky early on and just waltzed through the first two gyms with low-kick.
Ahem. Growlithe.
In his day, they didn't catch Pokemon. They just threw rocks at dinosaurs.
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