also he's complaining that everything is high level and heating his four pokemon he is bothering to level when he would literally carve through the place if he leveled his goddamn bird
it's especially infuriating, I forget who it was, but their decision was to use their low levels as simply switch in fodder in pinches. Rather than know, try to make them decent. (It was mostly the beginner stuff like caterpie and rattata, but...still)
When I was playing as a kid I ended up with a Raticate that just dominated every fight and one shot basically everything. It was still holding its own late game.
I'm not a huge fan of Raticate but they are okay I guess. But yeah I thought part of the appeal of Nuzlocke (and also randomizer) was using Pokemon you otherwise probably wouldn't
Transient Anus
: iirc RGB raticate broke the nets because crit % was based on Speed and it had one of the highest speed stats in the game so it just DEMOLISHED CITIES
MNK Zoomies
: it IS. And I forget if itโs just from Gen7+ or in gen6, but if you donโt let Caterpie evolve until level 9 into Metapod, it learns Bug Bite which is a strong bug type move it will get STAB on going into its evolutionary cycles
honestly this is why I get so annoyed when a nuzlocker is like "oh [x] is trash tier--" like ok fam if you wanted to optimize you coulda played a different ruleset and also like 99% of the time you can make it work lmfao
YEAH, I always try to get a Butterfree if I can |D. Confusion is so good for early coverage (or in the later versions where it gets that and gust), plus all the status effect options...
I had a friend who scoffed at the idea of using rattata/raticate and I ended up having to tell her that that was one of the most powerful pokemon I'd ever used.
MNK Zoomies
: YUPPPPP. Butterfree is a monster early game. Confusion/Gust, All the status moves, and Compoundeyes to boost its accuracy so it actually HITS those status moves
I should note that I'm like, way behind on pokemon games because for a huge chunk of my life I could not afford new handhelds. Now that I sort of can I lack the focus and motivation to really catch up. At least, not quickly.
Yeah I could just hop in on the latest gen but I wanna experience everything I've missed.
I'd regularly kick her ass in battles too.
I never bother optimizing: too much work.
Yeah I could just hop in on the latest gen but I wanna experience everything I've missed.