KirbyMar 17
Playing pokemon blue for Reasons. I had forgotten how horrendously limited original gen 1 movesets were. Over five hours of gameplay and I'm still grinding in viridian forest before challenging Brock bc bulbasaur doesn't learn a damaging grass type move until level 14 and the rock/ground combo resists or ignores normal, flying, bug, poison, and electric moves which are the rest of what's available in catchable 'mons by level 14. (My team is level 12)
Show threadKirbyMar 17

On the other hand, I have remembered that poison type was once super effective against bug types, not just grass. Why did we nerf them by removing that advantage?

(On an extremely related note, poison also didn't resist poison in this game. So my beedrill is kicking ass in viridian forest against all the bugs

Show threadKirby6d ago
Update: the immediate post-Brock-fight save was at 7 hours of play time on the dot. Now 9.5 hours in and grinding before/in the first region of mount moon because of team updates and getting the newbies up to par with the existing team.
Show threadKirby6d ago
Partner's opinion is that the $500 magikarp before mount moon is a good deal actually because it evolves at level 20 and is otherwise available way before any water type besides squirtle. I'm not convinced, but that's less than three pokeballs of gamemoney and I wasn't super attached to my existing team. I'll see if I can evolve it by the other side of mount moon then probably swap for abra
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@kirbyderg I always bought the magicarp, and by religiously leaving it in the first slot & swapping to a different mon to split the xp, iirc it would evolve just before getting to Vermillion City, after Cerulean.

you don't necessarily want to be giving every goddamn zubat a free hit on bulbasaur, tho.

Mar 18 at 3:56amWeb
Show threadKirby6d ago

@emerald I've got a Pikachu in my party; zubat get a pitiful hit on him before dying immediately to thundershock.

On a related note, though. It seems that bug and poison were mutually weak to each other in gen 1 because nidorina keeps taking ~5 damage from the "super effective" leech life instead of the ~2 damage everyone else does because of their level difference over random zubat number 317.