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I can hardly wait for them!
 
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I'm sure there are some old poke-geeks around here.

So I started playing pokemon gold on my android using an emulator(nostalgia gaming FTW), and I literally remember nothing so I thought I might ask here for some advice on my current lineup and what pokemans to look out for.

Pokemon I have:
The grass starter, Chikosomething, now evolved to Bayleef. I seemed to remember the lamest looking starter was the best so I chose that one.
Geodude. Not sure if geodude is good later on but he sure seems like a beast so far. These two are my main guys right now.
Slightly lower level are Spinarak, which I think might be a mistake to have used as he seems worse and worse, and Goldeen which I have no idea wether is good or bad, his flying move sure was usefull in the bug-gym and surroundings though.
Unused but I still carry Togepi from the egg quest you get in the beginning, don't know if you need him for anything else after it hatched or if it's any good. Ditch him?
And I have a Paras which I caught just to use cut, dunno if he's usefull for anything.

Newly caught and stored in the PC are Drowzee, Poliwag and Unown that I also need advice on. I think they might be good?

So what should I do with those guys and what are some good pokemon to look out for or seek out? What type should I try to get next? A fire dude? Preferably something thats not too uncommon or difficult to get.

How much fun this game is makes me wonder why people waste their time on stuff like Angry-birds.
 
Get Abra and get him up to Kadabra/Alakazam level. You can teach him various elemental punches, and that combined with his ridiculously high special attack and speed means he rips through all the late game gyms.
 
Bayleef/Meganium and Geodude/Graveler are quality.

Goldeen/Seaking is useful enough, but there are better Water types out there - I'd go with Wooper/Quagsire or Poliwag/Poliwhirl/Poliwrath instead to be honest.

Spinarak/Ariados is kind of junky.

Togepi is okay but honestly it's best for just filling up the Pokedex (friendship evolution to Togetic) - it's got a kind of unconventional moveset.

Paras/Parasect is almost totally useless if you have Bayleef/Meganium.

Your team isn't very balanced. I'd recommend dumping Spinarak, Paras, and Togepi in favor of a Psychic-type (Drowzee/Hypno or Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam), a Fire-type (Growlithe/Arcanine), and a Flying-type (Pidgey/Pidgeotto/Pidgeot or Hoothoot/Noctowl). Goldeen should probably also go in favor of an eventual Poliwrath (to get those sweet, sweet Fighting-type moves).

You can get an Abra and a Growlithe on Route 36 (between the National Park and Violet City) and pretty much all of the early Routes are lousy with Pidgeys in the daytime and Hoothoots at night.

Chikorita's probably the toughest starter to pick in GSC, because equivalents to it are pretty easily found, whereas it's significantly harder to pick up a strong Fire-type or Water-type early.

Out of curiosity, where are you? It sounds like you're somewhere around Goldenrod City.
 
ugh why are people recommending tryhard pokemon like kadabra ugh

you should run with an ariados/togetic/parasect core; pokemon games aren't very hard and the AI is stupid, so you can pretty much run through with anything as long as you're sufficiently leveled
 
Kraznaya said:
ugh why are people recommending tryhard pokemon like kadabra ugh

you should run with an ariados/togetic/parasect core; pokemon games aren't very hard and the AI is stupid, so you can pretty much run through with anything as long as you're sufficiently leveled
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Yeah, and you should leave your starter in the PC and use Rattata instead. It worked for Youngster Joey AND IT CAN WORK FOR YOU TOO
 
Dachs said:
Yeah, and you should leave your starter in the PC and use Rattata instead. It worked for Youngster Joey AND IT CAN WORK FOR YOU TOO
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Hey, not just anyone can make that strategy work. Youngster Joey's Rattata isn't like other Rattata. His Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattata.
 
Thinking of starting a Silver game over again. 2nd Generation is still the best IMO. I appreciate the late-game revamp that SS/HG and B/W have, but it's still kind of boring. Grinding up into the mid-70s to fight Red's obscene team, or Cynthia's slightly less obscene team, is tiring.

azzaman333 said:
The Fire Starters are always the best.
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True story, with the important exception of Infernape. Empoleon just blows him out of the water.

Dachs said:
Yeah, and you should leave your starter in the PC and use Rattata instead. It worked for Youngster Joey AND IT CAN WORK FOR YOU TOO
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Only if he wears shorts.
 
I've been playing through Emerald for the first time on my phone lately. I don't know much of anything about this generation's pokemon so it's pretty fun. I pretty much play whenever I'm watching TV, the game is easy enough that I can play it while only paying a small amount of attention to it so it works out pretty well. So far my main party is Marshtomp/Graveller/Sableye/Gyrados/Swellow/Vigoroth. Vigoroth is filler, he has both Cut and Rock Smash so I'm basically using him as an HM bot.

Would like to find a decent electric type and fire type, those are the only two things I'm really missing right now. Coming up to a place with loads of fire types soon but good electrics seem hard to find in this game. I have Plusle, Minun, and Electrike but none of them have wowed me while leveling them.

Favorite catch so far is shiny Zigzagoon (Linoon now since I leveled him to 25). Only other shiny so far was an Oddish, bleh, not a fan.
 
Wolfbeckett said:
Would like to find a decent electric type and fire type, those are the only two things I'm really missing right now. Coming up to a place with loads of fire types soon but good electrics seem hard to find in this game. I have Plusle, Minun, and Electrike but none of them have wowed me while leveling them.
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Those are, in fact, the only Electrics in Generation III. Electrike is nothing to sneeze at once you evolve it into Manectric - it's about as good as a Raichu, statistically, with nice high Sp. Atk and Speed - but it's not quite the one-Pokemon wrecking crew that Ampharos was in Generation II.

Out of curiosity, why are you using Marshtomp and Gyarados and Graveler? Seems like overkill to me. Also, what's wrong with Oddish? Bellossom and Vileplume are pretty solid.
 
The contrast between Ampharos's awesomeness in the situation you get him in in game and his competitive uselessness has always amused me; of course, I still love him because he's emblematic of Generation II design superiority.
 
I'm using all 3 of them for now basically for lack of anything better. I might replace Gyarados with my Kadabra and will likely replace Graveller with whatever fire type I end up choosing to keep. My main problem with Oddish is that I don't like his move set very much. He is a lot more useful now that he has Acid and can actually damage guys that aren't weak to Absorb, but still, he doesn't get a decent grass move until level 44. Stat wise he's fine, moveset wise I'm not a fan.

I guess I'll give Electrike more of a chance, he's only 1 level away from evolving so he should become decent soon. Might rework my crew to be Marshtomp/Electrike/Kadabra/Swellow/Fire Type/Vigoroth, but I can't wait until I can dump Vigoroth. He's pretty beast right now but when he hits his second evolution he gets that stupid special back that makes him only able to attack every other turn so once I'm done with Cut and Rock Smash he won't be missed terribly.
 
You could always just not evolve Vigoroth. :p
 
Eh, whatever.

On the subject of Oddish/Gloom/Vileplume/Bellossom, you can always teach it Giga Drain - a significantly stronger version of Absorb - with the TM on Route 123. That ought to give it enough punch to last until you get Petal Dance at level 44.
 
I would honestly not even bother with Petal Dance. I would evolve him as soon as he learns Acid, then load him out with TMs: Solarbeam, Sunny Day, Giga Drain, and Sludge Bomb, as you come upon those TMs. The stat loss of keeping him a Gloom until 44 is not worth the move you get. Although if you want it that badly, I seem to recall Bellossom learning Petal Dance significantly earlier, like, in the late 20s.

I play the same game with Weepinbell. Evolve before 30, and he will be a serious contender for highest Attack in your party, unless you grab an Uber.
 
Both Vileplume and Bellossom can learn Petal Dance at 44 in Generation III, IIRC. (EDIT: Yup.) Pokemon that evolve via stones or trades usually learn moves at the same rate as they would if they didn't evolve (assuming they learn the moves at all once evolved, of course).
 
Man Emerald has way too much backtracking. I need Fly already, it's getting ridiculous (just got the 4th badge).
 
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