@H0ly: When I first played, I used only one Pokemon, never caught another Pokemon except for to make into an HM slave (I'm looking at you, Krabby), and was face-rolling everything by the third gym.
The very first time I played Pokemon, I only used two Pokemon. A Swampert and a Kadabra.
And that is why I never got past the first three Elite Four members.
Haven't we all? My first time in Red, I was the proud owner of a Ember-Fire Spin-Fire Blast-Flamethrower Charizard that was 30 levels ahead of the rest, hehe.
@Guest: the face on the left is based on my real life self, but I'm not surprised that you've made that comparison, people have said that to me only once, twice if you count yourself.
PTSDAtty must still be hung up on the Fish incident. The only good pokemon he has against electrics is Plant, but that's more of the enemy's disadvantage than Atty's advantage.
On the note of over-leveling Pokemon, nothing brings better joy than a super-effective-critical-hit by the enemy doing almost nothing to your pokemon. I remember getting really frustrated with my starter ignoring me, not knowing about the whole hey-guy-i'm-too-powerful-to-be-dealing-with-your-commands rule.
@Tallest Skil: Actually it can happen with your own Pokemon, it was just difficult in the first few games to get your Pokemon to high enough for them to stop obeying you before you got the next badge that upped the level unless you ONLY used that one Pokemon or trained excessively. If you were rotating a team each Pokemon was pretty much always under the limit, but if you weren't... it's entirely possible.
I believe the exact limits were 30, 50, 70 and 100.
And yeah, in Ruby I actually made this mistake myself in a second playthrough with my starter while training up a different Pokemon. It accidentally got over level 50 before I'd gotten the next badge. XD
FireRed in a nutshellBy the end of my Pokemon FireRed experience, I had a level 100 Charizard. My second strongest pokemon was a freshly caught Marowak from Victory Road at level 47, I think. I beat the champion by switching to my marowak to revive my Charizard when it inevitably fainted.
Indeed Atty. The one pokemon with so much ENERGY and has a ELECTRIFYING personality. Yes, the one that would SHOCK all others. Of course I am talking about... Wait, did Atty ever named ther Oddish yet?
First time I played Yellow, I taught my Pidgeotto Rest. This was back when I didn't know anything about anything. When I learned that Rest fully healed Pidgeotto, I started using it and nothing else. Skip ahead to Viridian Gym, I had a level 60 Pidgeot, level 30 Snorlax, level 28 Tauros, level 14 Pikachu, level 10 Bulbasaur, and level 10 Squirtle. Never got past Giovanni, seeing as his Rhydon knew Rock Slide.
@Merrsharr: Which is why he must catch a new pokemon! It's pobably gonna be a drowzee or something.
Btw *technically* weed does have an advantage (they resist electricity but aren't super-effective against it) but it's not much of one.
Also tfw your second strongest pokemon is SOMEONE ELSE'S ODDISH.
Atty trains his Pokemon the way my sister did in Silver. Level 80 Meganium, everything else level 20. Boy was she mad when I taught my Feraligatr Ice Beam.
U know if Atty uses Rat there is probably a 75% chance the gym leader will use a Jolteon with Volt Absorb and Rat's one moment to shine will get crushed or an Electabuzz with psychic will take out Weed.
Ah, Pokémon. Give me a starter, give me the first legendary I come across, and give me 4 HM slaves. Why no, I never switched to any pokemon other then my starter or legendary, why do you ask? Well, except in the case of "Oh crap they fainted come out HM slave I need to sacrifice you to res my actual fighters!"
Good times.
I also stuck to charizard for the whole first game.
It worked pretty well, until the pokémon league happened and his PP kept running out.
I remember barely beating Lance with my last remaining level 27 haunter, because his aerodactyl only had normal moves. Then the champion happened. I was not amused.
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