Pokémon Games

For some reason it's always been seen as a stereotypical autistic interest (even before Satoshi Tajiri's diagnosis was public?) but does anyone here play the pokemon games? The main series ones not just Go (although I also play Go) or some of the other spinoffs. I've played them all now and I'm replaying Leaf Green, I've just beat the Elite Four with a Pinsir, Starmie, Exeggutor, Jolteon, Nidoking and Clefable, I don't like using the same Pokemon in multiple games so i tried hard to use ones I hadn't used before, they're all very good team members but Nidoking is 100% broken considering you get a moon stone before the second gym.

I'm thinking of playing the original Diamond next as I've never beaten that one, only Platinum. A lot of complaints about it so I'm curious as to how bad I'll actually find it. I'm in two minds on if to import a randomized team or if to just use Pokemon in the native pokedex (of which hardly any are that good sadly...well, if they are like Staraptor and Garchomp I've already used them all numerous times).

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  • I'll always have a soft spot for pokémon, I had red first time round and was probably the only one that was fully complete with the pokédex too. I took a break around black/white as I wasn't keen on the style of those games. And only played some of X and Sun. I had a big resurgence with Sword and completed that -though I don't play the battle tower, but did all the post game story.  

    That's not a bad team for leaf green, interesting combination (fire types were always hard to come by in that gen). Back then I had an attempt to beat the elite for with a 'cute' team of unevolved and no candies or boosts. Never quite did it without having mewtwo as a back up though, despite 300 hours on it before silver came out and I went on to that instead. (Poliwag, nidoran female, jigglypuff, pikachu, oddish. sandshrew).

  • I did a really fun run of Pokémon Shield where I only used status type moves. My final team was salazzle (ex. poison gas), ludicolo (nature power), venusaur (leech seed), clefable (metronome), cofagrigus (curse), and eternatus (toxic). Also, all of them - except eternatus - knew attract, which is totally broken in Sword/Shield.

    You can actually go the ENTIRE game without using a special or physical move by catching lots of wooloos in the beginning, training them by catching more wooloos until they learn copycat. Then you can slowly make your way through the beginning of the game by copycatting your opponents’ physical/special moves.

    I think it’s theoretically possible to do on Scarlet/Violet by catching a bonsly right away, since they know copycat.

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  • I did a really fun run of Pokémon Shield where I only used status type moves. My final team was salazzle (ex. poison gas), ludicolo (nature power), venusaur (leech seed), clefable (metronome), cofagrigus (curse), and eternatus (toxic). Also, all of them - except eternatus - knew attract, which is totally broken in Sword/Shield.

    You can actually go the ENTIRE game without using a special or physical move by catching lots of wooloos in the beginning, training them by catching more wooloos until they learn copycat. Then you can slowly make your way through the beginning of the game by copycatting your opponents’ physical/special moves.

    I think it’s theoretically possible to do on Scarlet/Violet by catching a bonsly right away, since they know copycat.

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