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
Show threadKirby6d ago

However in modern games where all teams have broad move-type coverage, I am firmly against having mons on my competitive team that have a double-weakness to any one type. Like gyarados (water flying) which will take 4x damage from electric. At least in original gen 1 I can just keep him away from lt surge's gym and it'll mostly be fine.

(yes I rejected meowscarada for the double-bug weakness even though I adore sprigatito and the dark type in general)

Show thread Emma!6d ago

@kirbyderg trying to remember if *any* npc has a strong electric move in gen 1 — Surge's Raichu knows Thunderbolt, I don't think you encounter anything that knows Thunder… maybe rival's Jolteon? no electrabuzz in blue

oh, bruno's hitmonchan should have Thunder Punch

other than that I think it's literally just Magnemite's Thundershock & that's probably less threatening than Sonic Boom, given Gyarados's (& water types in general) good special stat

Show threadKirby6d ago

@emerald in yellow, rival's eevee could become a jolteon, but serebii is telling me that in blue, rival's elite four team was pidgeot, alakazam, rhydon, and a fire/water/grass triple from among exeggutor, gyarados, arcanine, and their starter.

So really just avoid the electric gym and be careful with bruno's hitmonchan, but the physical/special split hadn't happened yet so H's elemental punches were all still nerfed bc they had shit special.

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@emerald oh and obv prepare a team without gyarados when I want to go to the power plant to catch zapdos. But yeah that's basically it for electric threats in the whole map.
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