Pokémon General Thread

Playing through Emerald. Defeated Norman. Yayz. It was tough, but not a battle I couldn't win in first try. Dat Slaking, tho.

Slaking's Attack is higher than Mewtwo's Special Attack. Let that sink for a bit.

Stopped in its tracks by literally anything with Protect.

Because Protect is so common in the campaign.

Torkoal, Pelipper, Marshtomp*, Aron*, Dustox, Volbeat and Anorith all learn Protect before level 32 and can be caught before Norman.

• ORAS only.

edited 10th Oct '17 4:22:42 PM by Oazard

Mons that learn it by level up in Gen III: Mudkip line, Dustox, Pelipper, Aron line, Volbeat, Torkoal, Corphish line, Anorith line, Snorunt line, Shelgon

Of those, it's unbelievably easy to have Dustox or Pelipper by the fifth Gym. Dustox in particular learns Protect at level 17.

@ dRoy

Good going for you.

And most of those you probably won't use in your team for your playthrough, leaving only Anorith in Emerald, which is lost forever if you choose Lileep.

edited 10th Oct '17 4:24:53 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

If you know what Norman's packing, it's far from dumb to keep a Protector hanging around in your party.

It's also kind of a cheesy tactic to bring into the mid-point climax of the game against your own father.

Listen, if my father is dumb enough to be packing a 'mon with Truant in Singles then I'm going to ram his ass into the ground without regrets.

Wake up, old man, ya dipshit.

Since we're talking about Norman and all, here's a tangentially related animated video that contains that fight.

I just wanted an excuse to share this.

edited 10th Oct '17 6:49:40 PM by Karxrida

I think you can get Dig by then as well. Though I think in my Sapphire run I ended up using my Mightyena... Slaking kept trying to use Focus Punch or whatever it is... I just kept attacking. P:

@Zelenal - Oh god, that post made me spit out my drink.

I already had Gardevoir and Manectic by the time I faced Norman and I imagine it made the fight go a bit easier.

After successfully paralyzing Slaking, it was a lot easier. My pokemons did keep getting knocked out before paralyzing it and I had to use revive three times though.

Revives are THE one item that I feel is kind of cheap.

Personally I feel they(and the like) should only be usable outside battle. Not within. Or maybe have them unusable in trainer battles, like pokeballs. Even within the context of the game's world they feel kind of unfair.

Hey are you using swellow at all? I remember it being surprisingly decent much of the game.

edited 11th Oct '17 12:50:02 AM by Vertigo_High

You know what would be nightmarish? A major enemy trainer that spams Max Revives.

A trainer with Revives, a mega and a Z move. Gimme that.

Anyway, Slaking needs Feint. And a Mega with the same stats, but Vital Spirit.

At the very least, it is better than Regigigas.

Lol a guy just got mad salty because he couldn't beat megaeye. He even started stalling the timer then complained I was being cheap.

@ dRoy

Good thing that the game only allows the trainer characters to only use potions, or that would be trouble.

MIND = BLOWN

Disable is actually supposed to be the pokemon inducing sleep paralysis, as the Japanese name is the term used to refer to as such(kuro mind fact checking this?). Seems like a lot of pokemon who learn it level up are either able to use natural sleep inducing moves(jigglypuff, drowzee) or occult like since sleep paralysis was believed to be caused by supernatural creatures sitting on your chest or holding you down.

It also makes the sleep talk workaround it a nice case of Fridge Brilliance.

Bulbapedia tells me the JP name for Disable is "Temporary Binding".

Disable sounds more precise in my opinion.

So this comic made me ponder.

You know what would be a mundane but absolutely frightening motivation for a Pokémon villain? Changing the Pokémon Center system so that the centers would charge the trainers for healing pokemons.

Pfft. That's so unrealistic. Only a cartoon villain does that. No real person would even think about it.

I honestly wouldn't mind. You pay for inns in basically every other RPG in existence and there's yet to be a Pokemon game where you're not rolling in money at basically any given point (barring certain circumstances).