Do you fight Koga or Sabrina first?

[Gooblah]

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.

Super Fang takes out half of HP? That's like Curse, except without the fainting part. It's not THAT bad.

My Elite 4 lineup in FireRed was Charizard, Golem, Electabuzz, Dragonite, Alakazam, and Lapras.

The Golem was a beast, it could take three Hyper Beam hits from Lance's Dragonite and then fainted.

 

[Theige]

I'm a loser and have no clue what this thread is about.

No it is YOU who are the loser.

I'm glad I don't know what this thread is about.

 

[TheLastOne36]

My lineup is:

With Cheats:
Charizard, Venasaur, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Alakazam, Absol

Without Cheats:
Charizard, Pidgeot, Alakazam, and 3 of the following(depends on each game): Dragonite, Raichu, Dugtrio, Poliwhirl, and probably some others whom I forgot.

To bad Aerodactyl comes to late in the game, he could be fairly beast if I bothered training him from level 5.

 

[Azale]

Cheating is weak.

Also, I know why someone would use a Sudowoodo or Raticate. It's fun to play the game with unique lineups. Like, looking hard for a bug pokemon (besides Heracross) that's worth a damn. Or using poison types.

The new generations give alot more variety in different types though. GIVE IT A TRY!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The best lineup I can think of to use (and have) is:

Starmie
Dodrio
Golem
Magneton
Gengar
Flareon

EDIT: Oh I do it all the time, Azale, its what keeps the game interesting. I just found it odd that he talked about those two as if they were typical or...gulp...good.

 

[Azale]

The best lineup I can think of to use (and have) is:

Starmie
Dodrio
Golem
Magneton
Gengar
Flareon

The bolded are sexy. Starmie is a beast in all games, surprisingly. Magneton is cool (Magnezone is one of the best electrics). Gengar is so much fun.

Flareon has always been on the worst eeveelutions though. It never seems to get any of the good fire moves I suppose it can suffice just for the Elite 4, but I prefer Rapidash or Arcanine.

 

[Kennigit]

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

I mean, when I played as a kid, I always caught the first pokemon and played the game straight through. Since rattata is the first thing to show up, it's easy to level to a raticate.

Most of the time I would ditch out my early pokemon for better ones. You get the early parts of the game done fast, then ditch him out when you can just catch a level 40 pokemon in the wild. I mean, to beat the final four all you have to do is catch articuno with your master ball and use blizzard and pp restore? (I've forgotten the name).

Same thing with silver. Sudowoodo is just funny in general; moreover, you HAVE to go through him, so might as well catch him. I didn't care about my pokemon- all I wanted to do was play the game straight through. I caught maybe 10 pokemon total and didn't worry about my lineups

Over my school's winter break I'll probably replay and get some of the odd pokemon to use. Normally I don't try to catch any pokemon- my final lineup looked something like this in my last red game:

1)Dragonite- I bought my dratini from the gambling place
2) Charizard
3) Hypno- caught a drowzee in the grass in the one area early on. Probably a level 18 drowzee.
4) golem- traded to my other gameboy and traded back to get my graveler up In the future though, the geodude/graveler/golem sequence is the most hideous artwork. They are all so ugly!
5) Magneton
6) Probably just a pidgeot to fly around. Maybe some water pokemon. I know I avoided magikarp because dratini hogs so much xp to evolve, and I didn't use abra or ghastly because I wanted to use hypno.


EDIT: raticate really isn't bad. Sudowoodo sucks, but it's not like the games are hard. If you want to play against other humans, then yeah. But you can use ANY pokemon and win easily. Anything that gets earthquake is especially good against the pre-determined lineups of the AI.

And I did think most people just played the game quite fast. I'd grow very tired if I looked for a really cool lineup. I'd choose 1 or 2 pokemon that I'd "want" because of style (I started the game wanting to use hypno and dragonite) and fill the rest with the stuff you don't have to go out and try to catch. Sudowoodo and raticate fit those two.

 

[Annex]

My lineup is:

With Cheats:
Charizard, Venasaur, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Alakazam, Absol

Without Cheats:
Charizard, Pidgeot, Alakazam, and 3 of the following(depends on each game): Dragonite, Raichu, Dugtrio, Poliwhirl, and probably some others whom I forgot.

To bad Aerodactyl comes to late in the game, he could be fairly beast if I bothered training him from level 5.

I liked Aerodactyl, so I would usually start training him as soon as I could.

I mixed up my lineup each time, though I would usually keep using Snorlax, Pigeot, and Blastoise.
Skull bash and hydro pump is beastly.

 

[PiMan]

I always beat Sabrina first, as I seem to recall that officially she is the fifth gym leader, holding the fifth badge.

As for the starter pokemon, I choose Bulbasaur because grass is super effective against more of the gyms in R/B/FR/LG, including the first few.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Cheating is weak.

Also, I know why someone would use a Sudowoodo or Raticate. It's fun to play the game with unique lineups. Like, looking hard for a bug pokemon (besides Heracross) that's worth a damn. Or using poison types.

The new generations give alot more variety in different types though. GIVE IT A TRY!

No, it's for enjoyment, as I have beaten all the games numerous times without cheating.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The bolded are sexy. Starmie is a beast in all games, surprisingly. Magneton is cool (Magnezone is one of the best electrics). Gengar is so much fun.

Flareon has always been on the worst eeveelutions though. It never seems to get any of the good fire moves I suppose it can suffice just for the Elite 4, but I prefer Rapidash or Arcanine.

You gotta TM him Flamethrower early-on. Easy enough in the newer games.

Incidentally, this also make Arcanine 1000x better, since you don't have to wait until Lv 50 for him to not suck, you can just evolve him at like Lv15 or something and TM him Flamethrower.

 

[Azale]

You gotta TM him Flamethrower early-on. Easy enough in the newer games.

Incidentally, this also make Arcanine 1000x better, since you don't have to wait until Lv 50 for him to not suck, you can just evolve him at like Lv15 or something and TM him Flamethrower.

Arcanine is almost too good, stats wise anyway. I don't break my "no legendaries" rule if I use him, but I still feel a little dirty.

 

[Virote_Considon]

The first starter I chose was Bulbasaw, for the reasons PiMan gave. Then I chose Blastoise, and so on and so forth. My most recent game (quite a while ago ), I chose Bulbasaw, for the nostalgia.

I generally have a different squad in each game. I have R/B/Y/G/S/C. I normally end up with the same monsters per game, such as a Haunter, Raichu, Venesaur in red, or a Scyther, Golem in Crystal. I tend to shy away from legendaries, although I have a soft spot for Articuno, and in my first copy Silver, I had a Celebi which someone had traded me, although that went through the wash (along with many of my favourites )

 

[Earthling]

My answer is Sabrina - it always has been, from the first time I played it through as a kid and on later replays, maybe once I did it the other way. But none of the original gym leaders were hard, the only possible real challenges were coming across your rival unexpectedly (the rocket takeover of Silph, right before Sabrina, was kinda fun. Then again I was always pissed that from the very early rocket guy you meet on the Cerulean bridge and offers to let you join Team Rocket...but you can't )

No real comment about lineups - I always just played the games through pretty quickly, not spending forever or building uber-teams to battle other human players, (never played past 2nd generation, by then I was too bored/into other stuff) and the games themselves were pretty easy. But by far the most useful catch of R/B/Y is Articuno - he can pretty much do the rest of the game for you, solo a couple of the elite four, and all that.

 

[Virote_Considon]

(the rocket takeover of Silph, right before Sabrina, was kinda fun. Then again I was always pissed that from the very early rocket guy you meet on the Cerulean bridge and offers to let you join Team Rocket...but you can't

This. I even once called my character "Rocket", in hope of being able to join, but to no avail

 

[Munch]

Probably Sabrina, just cos she's in the right place at the right time.

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

Too many weaknesses, and slow. Knocked out before it can launch an attack.

That was one of the problems with R/B I think, bad balance. It's not like they really fixed it later on but at least they fixed ice moves being effective against fire/flying.

TM him Flamethrower.

IIRC moves are more powerful if you learn them rather than using a TM.

 

[Kyriakos]

Pokemon?

You people need to grow up

 

[Kyriakos]

I dont play Civ either, or any other game. Nice try though

 

[raketooy]

I'll do Sabrina first because I love her. That way it won't be such a quickie.

 

[ParkCungHee]

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

There's everything about weezings. They just sucked all over. I was so dissapointed when I got one.