Do you fight Koga or Sabrina first?

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Which do you do dude.

 

[kulade]

koga. to be honest, last time i played through, i totally forgot about sabrina until after i beat blaine. i was at giovanni's door knocking and it took me a while to realize that i forgot to go to saffron!

 

[Newbunkle]

I'll fight Sabrina as late as possible. Everyone knows psychic types are broken.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Same here, Koga is just so much easier. There's something about Weezings that just make them suck. A lot.

 

[Gooblah]

Always Koga.

It gives you some breathing room to level your pokemon up on higher-level but weaker opponents. Plus, it's a great place to train your Graveler and/or Kadabra. The former is weakened a bit in FR/LG due to the Levitate ability, but Kadabra still beasts. Plus, Poison isn't good against anything but Grass, right? And who chooses Bulbasaur? It sucks!

 

[Virote_Considon]

I man up and fight the harder one (Sabrina) first. Anyone who goes after Koga first is a .

EDIT: That word's censored? What the hell, man?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Poison is good against Bug, too, IIRC. But the only pure-Bug type you could possibly be using by that point is Butterfree, who is probably on its way out to pasture by that point anyway.

 

[Trajan12]

Sabrina was one of my favorite fights. I always looked forward to fighting her and other psychic gym leaders first.

 

[kulade]

i never found sabrina that difficult. nearly all the trainers in her gym have kadabra or mr. mime, a newfag player might think "OMG THER SAIKIK SO THEY HAVE LIEK NO WEAKNESSES" but the fact is although they have good typecasting, nearly all of them have low defense. just get a physical sweeper and lay them all down hellaquick. (gyrados is my fave, yo)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Yeah their defense is their weakness. A fast dude with a strong physical can deal with Alakazam in usually one or two hits. I gotta go with Dodrio on this one, off the charts in both categories.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Koga. I go afterwards to Saffron, Fix up everything, than go to Cinnabar Islands, and after that fixing up Cinnabar islands, I go to saffron, fight Sabrina, than afterwards Blaine. By than my Super Team can take on the elite 4, but still gotta go through Geovanni and Victory Road.

Bulbasaur is very good pokemon Gooblah. High defenses, good moveset, and in general a good pokemon.

I much prefer Charmander though.

This talk makes me want to download VisualBoy and start playing firered, or some hack. (like ShinyGold, which is GSC but based from Firered)

 

[TheLastOne36]

i never found sabrina that difficult. nearly all the trainers in her gym have kadabra or mr. mime, a newfag player might think "OMG THER SAIKIK SO THEY HAVE LIEK NO WEAKNESSES" but the fact is although they have good typecasting, nearly all of them have low defense. just get a physical sweeper and lay them all down hellaquick. (gyrados is my fave, yo)

This.

I cheated Absol in my game, and played with it from level 5 up, since it is my favorite pokemon.

Swords Dance
Aeriel Ace
Shadow Ball
Return

High Speed and EXTREMELY high Attack. Swords Dance makes it even higher and 1 hit kill when the opponent uses protect or some . If they lower my accuracy, I use always hit, very strong Aeriel Ace, Return is normal attack and get's very strong in time, something like 120 damage if it completely loves you. Shadow Ball is a strong attack as well.

They are also all Physical moves.

 

[kulade]

i forgot to mention that if you go to fuchsia, you can pick up surf and strength eariler, the only good move in saffron is psychic.

Bulbasaur is very good pokemon Gooblah. High defenses, good moveset, and in general a good pokemon.

bro is u playin' me? sure maybe bulbasaur is good for a grass pokémon, but that's not saying much at all. it's attack is near nothing and its special attacks are limited to grass. you could leech seed someone to death, but that's while you have to hope that they don't know any psychic, ice, fire or flying attacks all of which are relatively common.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The problem with grass types like Bulbasaur is not their quality, but that their roles can easily be filled by other types; Poison is of limited use, and Grass is better covered by Electric or Water, both of which have much more powerful moves and typically a stronger Special Attack to compliment it. The only thing they're uniquely useful for is status effects or if you have some weird lifesteal fetish.

 

[Gooblah]

Poison is good against Bug, too, IIRC. But the only pure-Bug type you could possibly be using by that point is Butterfree, who is probably on its way out to pasture by that point anyway.

According to this chart, it's only good against Grass, which makes sense. Otherwise, one would never be able to train a Caterpie due to the prevalence of Bug Catchers fielding the Weedle evolution tree.

i never found sabrina that difficult. nearly all the trainers in her gym have kadabra or mr. mime, a newfag player might think "OMG THER SAIKIK SO THEY HAVE LIEK NO WEAKNESSES" but the fact is although they have good typecasting, nearly all of them have low defense. just get a physical sweeper and lay them all down hellaquick. (gyrados is my fave, yo)

Yeah their defense is their weakness. A fast dude with a strong physical can deal with Alakazam in usually one or two hits. I gotta go with Dodrio on this one, off the charts in both categories.

You both are right, it's honestly force of habit that makes me hit Koga first. I've done it since I accidentally did it in my first run-through of Blue a decade ago (damn, it's been that long?). But I usually don't have a sweeper around Saffron and Silph Co. I don;t have much experience utilizing a strong speed + physical attack type. Charizard is about the closest I've come to that. I really should invest in leveling up an Arcanine or something (Extremespeed + elemental moves), but I dunno.

Koga. I go afterwards to Saffron, Fix up everything, than go to Cinnabar Islands, and after that fixing up Cinnabar islands, I go to saffron, fight Sabrina, than afterwards Blaine. By than my Super Team can take on the elite 4, but still gotta go through Geovanni and Victory Road.

Bulbasaur is very good pokemon Gooblah. High defenses, good moveset, and in general a good pokemon.

I much prefer Charmander though.

This talk makes me want to download VisualBoy and start playing firered, or some hack. (like ShinyGold, which is GSC but based from Firered)

Interesting strategy. I always save Blaine for last, as it gives me an excuse to find and train some water-types. Bulbasaur doesn't really get anything outstanding. High HP, but not much else; and it's element combo makes it weak to a lot of elements: Flying, Fire, Psychic, Ice, Ground. That's worse than Charizard (Rock (4x), Electric, Water) and Blastoise (Electric, Grass).

 

[Azale]

Same here, Koga is just so much easier. There's something about Weezings that just make them suck. A lot.

You take that back!

I go to Sabrina first, she was the only challenging Gym Leader in R/B/Y in my opinion, and it was more challenging if I went earlier.

btw squirtle is the only choice as far as starters go.

 

[Kennigit]

Is this R/B/Y?

Eh. I can't remember. But I don't skip any gyms, so whichever town I come in first. It's easy to beat all the gym leaders.

Last time I played red though (I believe in the winter), I did lose to misty the firs time though :/. Something about charmander as my start, choosing not to get a rattata (tired of raticates), not doing the normal weedle->beddrill-> ditching it forever, and II think I had) geodude had me lose to that freaking starmie. I only beat her because I got lucky when my cruddy pidgey got off some key sand-attacks, let charmander scratch that starmie.

Only other time I ever lost to a gym was when I played silver over the summer. It must have been my second time playing it all the way, just because I had forgotten about it completely, but I owned it- meaning I had once played it. I went to the final four, said "I should probably buy a bunch of items to be safe," walked to a door and went in, then finding myself in the final four....and without having saved for probably an hour. I lost to the final one and lost half of my buttload of cash .

I guess I also lost to red? at the end of silver the first time. I didn't expect him to have such a strong line-up. But, after losing to him, I knew his order of pokemon, so it's easy to beat (sudowoodo earthquake gets that little 80 pikachu no problem).

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

You have a strange taste in lineups. Sudowoodo? Raticate?

 

[Gooblah]

Wel, Raticate isn't too bad. It's Normal type, but Super Fang and Hyper Fang deal a ton of damage and it has a high speed stat. Not sure about its HP though.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The only reason I can see for using a Raticate is Super Fang, because it always takes half their remaining health away, no matter what.

So in other words I see no use for Raticate. There are far better Normal types out there.