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Pokemon Green on Miyoo Mini Plus

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That’s a weird looking Charmander

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Everyone knows that Charmander was the starter of the bullies.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Look, if you don’t wanna get flamethrowered, stop being so flammable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I'll never forget the look on my brother's face after he was talking all kinds of shit about his level 100 venusor that he maxed out with duped rare candies when I one shotted it with my level 50ish Charizard

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Charmander was the flammable one!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

But was he inflammable

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Charmander: bully

Squirtle: likeable funny guy

Bulbasaur: bookish/nerdy type


And yes, bulbasaur is the best

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Bulbasaur is also the most interesting aesthetically (the whole evolution line)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

And also the most likely to allow you to effortlessly curb stomp everyone in the first two gyms, and be resistant to the hat worn by everyone in the third. By then you're likely to have diversified your team significantly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a bullied kid that back then just wanted a cool dragon, I protest that insinuation!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He said "cool" dragon. Which is gyarados

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oof. No wings or limbs, evolved from magikarp. I think you need to reassess cool dragons.

They are a cool fish monster tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

SpoilerI am aware and mostly shitposting but I want to thank you for your effort to educate me. People like you are good for the internet. Now back to shit posting.

So Gyro taste like sushi?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Evolving from Magikarp makes him objectively the coolest dragon. Started from the bottom now we're here.

The lack of actual Dragon typing does sting, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

They'd have been so good as water/dragon Q_Q

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nah, in my head he's a chinese dragon.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

show me on the doll where the dragon rage hurt you.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yup no question.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

I cannot lie, this attack against me was super effective

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

He’s the number one in the Pokédex and in my heart.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Charmander gang assemble! (to beat up Brock in an backalley)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Were you also extremely stubborn and killed geodude over and over until you were high enough level to scrape out a win on onyx?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Brock uses a super potion on Onyx!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool, I have the exact same miyoo mini plus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Great device!

(And great color!)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

More of a Squirtle guy myself, but no hate for the bulb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The bulb sends you his thanks.

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