Pokemon Green on Miyoo Mini Plus

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I always started with Bulbasaur mostly because my favorite color is green but also because grass types absolutely obliterate the first gym. I also find poison/leech to be a fantastic combo for catching pokemon later. Really get em down to exactly 1hp if you want.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    That bad boy never left my team.

    Squirtle isn’t as good as Squirtle Squad, which would be peak. But it’s not an option.

    And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Hehe, I just left my starter pokemon at the front of my line up for the whole game. He ended up hitting max level, and none of the pokemon behind him ever really got to fight. He was one-shotting with “not very effective” moves. I also didn’t keep any of the buffs or debuffs, just attack moves. Since I was basically only using one Pokémon, he had to have a bunch of attacks cuz they would run out of uses. I wasn’t as young as you would hope for a “tactic” like that to be my solution to the game. But to be fair, it kept working… so was it really wrong?

    I assume it was pokemon blue, mainly cuz I picked blastoise. My level of creativity as a kid means I very likely wouldn’t have picked blastoise if I was playing pokemon red.

    • shikitohno@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You can do this with multiple different pokemon, soloing the elite four. Its more about attack variety so you can counter the wide range of pokemon types but ive done it with zapdos and also mewtwo.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I never really understood why people liked Alakazam, they never really impressed me that much. Like, sure, he can one shot things when he’s overleveled but so can a Gyrados or anything else

        • shikitohno@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Didn’t even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.

  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    3 days ago

    Your game must be glitched cause that’s not Squirtle. Or your title of the post got misspelled.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    I picked Bulbasaur because I was already a hipster at age 8 I guess. Everyone else picked Charmander (fire dragon!) or Squirtle (Blastoise has GUNS!!!), so I just had to pick the one nobody chose.

    Jokes on them though, Bulbasaur is probably the strongest pick. Or at least the one that makes the game the smoothest and easiest.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Yeap. I picked the grass turtle to cheese Brock and Misty fights. He can also learn cut.

      Then caught the lowest level magicarp I could find to slot 1. Gyarados with surf.

      Had maxed Gyarados for the Gary Chameleon.

    • mormund@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Never really played Pokemon, but I thought Charmander is the meta pick because the low level stuff is all mostly weak to fire?

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it’s really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
        If you’re really lucky, you’ll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you’re even luckier, you’ll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.

        In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
        And by that point you’ve fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
        Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a “neutral matchup”.

        After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.

        • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          In contrast, bulbasaur is weak to all the birds and bugs that are so common in the early game.

          To make it more difficult, Bulbasaur is the only one of the three starters to not learn a STAB move as their first move after the debuff at 5.

          Squirtle gets bubble, ember for Charmander. Leech seed for Bulbasaur. And while leech seed has uses late game when you’re tanky, it is mostly useless against wild pokémon.

          That is to say, both Charmander and Bulbasaur have a lot of trouble early game until you get a diverse team. But Squirtle will just stomp through it all (especially in original Gen1 when Special was imba, combined with its natural high defence state).

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        The first couple of gyms in Gen 1 are actually really good for Bulbasaur, and getting a strong early game is typically what you want from a starter as mid to late game you’ll have access to a bunch of other 'mons to cover what types you need.

  • Lycaon@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Good post op!! My first Pokemon game was FireRed and bulbasaur was my first choice too - one day I want to restart my save and soft reset for a shiny one!

      • Slayan@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Shiny were introduced in gen 2? The odd of a shiny in fire red was 1 in 8192. Fun fact: you could techically get shiny pokemon in gen 1 but the value for wild pokemon was bugged and i’m pretty sure they had no shiny sprite. Which mean they would only become shiny by trade.

        Just imagine it: your best pal whip out his new pokemon silver cartridge he got for christmas, sadly your momma didn’t have money this year for you, so you put your yellow one in and start semi playing while looking at your friends game. You begin some rando trade after his second badge , his team is getting wrecked by a cow…? bam! He show you the electrode you just traded, THAT DAMN INVERTED POKEBALL BECAME GREEN WTF!!

        Nowaday you would probably have to pay an extra dlc for that kind of stuff.

        https://bluemoonfalls.com/pages/shinies/gen-1-shiny-hunting

        • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Ok so it came with gold and silver

          But if you trade one it can have hidden shiny on it

          It makes sense, funny I only played gen 1 and then thought wait, I know everything about this game haha. This trivia was awesome, thanks!