Pokémon General Thread

One thing I always thought was neat is that there are actually random wild Phione in the third Pokemon Ranger game.

TODAY ON SANKAKU COMPLEX: Slow news day. People rediscover that HM 01 CUT can be used to clear away Tall Grass in all games before Gen 4.

And in Emerald, the Hyper Cutter ability increases the range of grass you cut with it.

Wait what was the point of that though?

in case you didn't want to fight random battles, you could instead go into the menu, use Cut, take a step forward, go into the menu again, use Cut, take another step forward, and wonder why the hell you were doing this when it didn't even save you any time because of all the menu navigation.

Also because Repels exist.

Cute little feature, though.

The best part was that in Emerald you needed to Cut the extra-tall grass on certain routes twice to clear it all out.

It's a shame they didn't add in a tiny sidequest that had you do this just to show it off.

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Sep 1st 2019 at 1:07:26 AM

I remember doing that as a kid in Red, but that was back when stuff like Missingno was all over and just about every neat trick and gimmick was rooted out in search of more stuff like it. Not surprised they'd remove it in the 3-D games but it's weird that it was cut from Gen 5.

"...cut from Gen 5." I see what you did there.

i suppose it could have a use if you want to grab an item that's near the edge of the tall grass and don't want to waste a repel, but really, it's probably still easier to just run in and grab it.

Not surprised they'd remove it in the 3-D games but it's weird that it was cut from Gen 5.

No... the last game this interaction existed in was Emerald

Was never in OU and he had an steep decline over the years, but he was decent in the tier it was in.

could probably be improved a bit with a +10 to Atk and Def?

He was a decent VGC until the Tapus and Incineroar became a thing.

I've never raised a Tyrogue, but I'm thinking getting a Hitmontop instead of a Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan would be difficult.

It's a hassle.

A minor hassle involving EV tables.

just feed it the EV raising items then spam rare candies?

Getting that damn thing was such a pain because there was no way of knowing how to get Tyorgue in Gen II. I think I found it by accident by just exploring Mt. Mortar when I was extremely bored

My experience has been that getting anything but a hitmontop is difficult unless you have the right nature or feed it an item to increase stats in the direction you want.

I've never had much problems getting a hitmontop, but what's annoying is being at level 19 and getting a dreaded +2 instead of a + 1 to either attk or def when leveling to 20. Happened to me before and I was not happy about that lol.

I remember Hitmontop being super helpful for me on PWT. It had technician with fake out, low sweep and two other things I forgot. It was legit though.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Sep 1st 2019 at 10:44:35 AM

is there even anything you can do about that? would an EV drink fix it?

I think that's what I did, either that or I bred another one and started over lol.

I guess if I needed a Hitmontop for competitive, I'd just leave Tyrogue in the daycare until he hits level 19 and top it off with a Rare Candy.

Eh, adamant Tyrogue with full I Vs and no E Vs has 27 attack and 25 defense at level 20.

You need to leave it in the daycare until level 19, then, give it 4 Irons and a Rare Candy. THEN, reset the defense E Vs and just raise it normally.

Hitmonchan requires 6 Irons for the same approach.

Ah, and seeing Hitmontop is usually Impish, it goes the other way: 4 protein and a rare candy after being daycare'd to level 19.