Remember I took my sticker album and chose the most baddass Pokemon I could find haha, good old days. Also I discovered the Mew trick myself and managed to catch like 32 Missingnos and rip my file
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Hahaha, things got very wild when my 8-year old, barely literate ass used self-destruct (and subsequently Explosion) a handful of times before finally comprehending how the moves worked, and how to not let Pokemon have every new move they learn.
Also, both Nidos? A man of taste.
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That’s impressive, I only discovered it through some forum post or something a decade later.
Snorlax was the meta. Rollout. Sleep. Repeat
pokemon blue on gameboy color, good memories!
I do remember having a venusaur since I did the classic ‘‘only polay your starter’’ for the first 3 gyms.
I do remember having gengar, golem, rhydon, lapras and pinsir
0 tactical thinking, purely going off what I loved regardless of stats or nature.
I still do the same today whenever I play a pokemon game
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My gameplay and tactical approach in this game in a nutshell:
attack is “not very effective…”
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Same here! Brute forced my way through the elite four by spamming slash and flamethrower!
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Ima third this, did the same with Typhlosion for Silver hahahaha Lv.100
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I think the absolute very first time I played Red version I of course leveled my Charizard and no other pokemon so the elite four were brought down with just Charizard flamethrower spam and slash. Every other time I played through the game I chose squirtle though as water types are my favorite. I do have a memory of a very early elite four solo run with a rather special hitmonchan with the moves: fire punch, ice punch, thunderpunch and … mega kick.
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The first game I beat was Pokemon Emerald! I’m pretty sure my team was:
-Swampert
-Aggron
-Rhydon
-Flygon
-Tropius
-Espeon (Transfered over from XD Gale of Darkness, this may have been a different Pokemon, I just knew I had my Espeon in Emerald at some point.)
I do have a vivid memory of beating Pokemon Emerald. I was at a soccer game with a friend, and it was Wallace’s Milotic vs my Swampert. My Swampert tanked an attack from Milotic, and used Earthquake for the win!
Oddly enough, even though Treecko was my first starter in Pokemon Sapphire and Swampert won me my first Elite 4 Victory, Blaziken became my favorite Pokemon. Blaziken is just that cool!
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It was really fun to read all replies so far!
I have extremely few memories from first Pokemon Crystal playthrough, Totodile was surely the starter and I added at least Pidgeot, Lapras and Donphan in my team. I must’ve done enough extra training before entering E4 but battle against Clair was the hardest one, getting constantly paralyzed by Dragon Breath sucked and her Kingdra was absolutely nightmare fuel.
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Kingdra was lowkey so tough back then because of its Water/Dragon typing. Fairy didn’t exist at the time, so the only thing that could hit it for super-effective damage was a Dragon-type move, and it’s not like those moves were exactly common.
I would always usually just paralyze it (usually with Ampharos or something) before it paralyzed me.
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Something like this, back in Silver:
Feraligatr was the only one with serious muscle level-wise, and of course Lugia and the Red Gyarados.
Didn’t beat Yellow until much later despite getting it before Silver, I didn’t make it through Mt Moon because I was a stupid kid.
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Yeah, Kingdra was nasty, I too used Ampharos against it in Pokemon Gold.
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I feel your pain. I think I reset my first file in Pokemon Gold due to the sheer frustration of dealing with the sick Ampharos in the lighthouse. Thought I had a better chance at understanding it if I started over.
The next time I had an Ampharos at level 43 before fighting Jasmine (lol) because I accidentally attached an Everstone to my Flaffy, leveled it up to level 42 before I finally understood what the Everstone did and removed it. So infuriating trying to evolve it.
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I still say Ampharos is one of the most underrated Pokemon in history. Great special attack, good bulk (which is odd for an Electric type, as they are usually pretty frail) and a solid movepool (was able to learn all of the elemental punches). The only thing holding it back was speed (which is also odd for an Electric type lol). If it weren’t for that, it would probably be considered one of the best non-legendary Electric types.
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Except Ice Punch sadly. That and the presence of Dugtrio are the biggest drawbacks in ADV at least. Unlike Raikou, Ampharos can actually hurt Blissey with a sub+focus punch set, but alas no ice punch to punish Salamence and Flygon, and Dugtrio is just instant death.
In GSC, the problem is being completely outclassed by the 2nd and 3rd best Pokemon in the OU tier, Zapdos and Raikou.
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@mjs61290, Exactly, and aside from the stats, Ampharos is one of the few Pokemon to be both cute AND cool. Everyone loves Ampharos.
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Just spinning a bit further on this, I could see a potential moveset in Focus Punch/Ice Punch/Thunderbolt/HP Grass acting as a kind of swiss army knife on offensive spikes teams in formats without Arena Trap. You can hurt almost every switch-in, you destroy Swampert, defensive Jirachi and Celebi are bound to give you trouble, but you slap some heavy earthquakes and HP bugs on the team to deal with that. I can actually see a tiny niche for something like that.
Anyways, those of us that played Stadium 2 will probably remember how good Ampharos was in those kind of non-optimized conditions, just as it was in the storymode of GSC.
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Ampharos was a god in GSC. They had to nerf it and exclude ice punch because they knew if they had allowed this it would have been a legendary.
Will always remember picking up that Mareep and evolving it along the way and being so impressed by how amazing it was and how the design of all the evolutions was so superb.
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