>giving HM moves to your starter
>>24790434
All STAB Attacking Moves
No Status Moves
No Coverage
>>24790434
>water starter
>pre-scald surf
>Losing to gym leaders who aren't Whitney
Surf and Waterfall are fine.
Strength is decent in-game since you tend to get it around mid-game when you're still playing around with base 60-80 power moves
>>24790434
>surf
>strength
>fly
come on, these HMs are actually good
>>24790443
>status moves for a playthrough
>not having one strong STAB move with low pp and one moderately weaker one with higher pp (fire blast and flamethrower)
>>24790454
I actually lost to Brock during in FireRed. Shit's hard if you pick Charmander.
I teach HMs to my starter because I hate having to carry HM slaves. Plus the game is easy enough that you don't need a full moveset.
>>24790454
losing to whitney too is a thing bad players do
>>24790434
>Bad players
Lel. There is no correct way to play through the main game.
>>24790496
FireRed/LeafGreen is brutal for the Char-line since they fixed slash getting a crit 99% of the time
>>24790454
>losing to Whitney
>>24790522
Whoops, meant for >>24790485
>>24790510
How about this:
>runs Mega Rayquaza
>>24790434
Recently I've found that playing the game using all the HMs without any HM slaves adds a nice little extra layer of challenge, also it helps to immerse you a little bit because the concept of HM slaves has always been lame as fuck anyways.
>>24790434
I was desperate you bitch
>>24790434
Well I boxed samurott anyway
>>24790454
>excluding Whitney
>>24790434
Cut.
>>24790542
Reminder to report this underage nigger whenever you see him.
>>24790434
>Not teaching Waterfall to Samurott
>Not teaching Waterfall to Feraligatr
Bro, Waterfall is actually really good. You're a moron if you think Aqua Tail is better, especially on fast stuff where the Flinch might actually happen.
>breeds special attackers without 0 attack IVs and keep saying that special attackers only need 5 IVs
>breeds
These are more competitive oriented since there's no wrong way to play the main games, all of them are piss-easy without some self-imposed challenge.
>Using Ambipom without Low Kick (most faggots do fake out, U-turn, knock off, return/double hit)
>Thinking Low Kick is a shitty move
>Using 2-Turn moves without a Power Herb.
>Using Geomancy when I have an Encore user out (Liepard, Smeargle, and Wobbuffet, usually)
>Using Hyper Beam after Gen-1
>Using Roar of Time, ever
>Using Toxic Spikes against Mono-Flying
>Using favorite shitmon in ubers and whining when it dies
>Complaining that people use too many legendaries in ubers
>Believing Phione and Regice should be banned for being "OP Legends"
>>24790434
Damn, its like i didnt want to have two water mons on my team just to have a surfer.
>inb4 bidoof
>>24790510 is correct.
>>24790485
compare it to yellow when your starter is completely useless instead
>>24790464
Im talking about having
Flare Blitz, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Fire Spin on one Pokemon.
>>24790800
>>Using Toxic Spikes against Mono-Flying
Holy kek. Has soeone done this?
>>24790800
>using ambipom at all
>>24790454
I beat Whitney in HGSS using a cyndaquil that knows rock smash. What does that make me?
>>24790454
>Whitney's Miltank
I've replayed GS multiple times and I've never had trouble with Whitey's tittymon.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pu-289198459
Letting a Chimecho rape his whole family
>>24790434
Depends how broad your definition of "bad" is.
>>24790434
>Not giving your Water starter Surf.
>>24791147
I always feel forced to catch and evolve a fucking Caterpie/Metapod in Yellow. Such a shit design.
>>24793302
>Not catching nidoran and raping Brock with Double Kick
>>24790434
>using an HM slave
>>24793851
And hit Onyx with a physical attack? I rather train Butterfree to lvl 10 and Confuse the shit out of Brock than Nidoran to 12 and do slightly better than just Slamming it.
>>24790800
>not running Taunt on Ambipom
>>24793917
Worked for me. I just sent out a suicide Rattatta against Geodude to spam tail whip waited for him to kill my rat, and sent out Nidoran. Than I did the same thing to his Onix, because that same Nidoran knew Leer, spammed Leer to cut his defense while he used Bide like a moron, and one-shotted it. Best part is, I had both male and female Nidoran, both with Double Kick, so I had another one to kill him with in case the first one died.
My buddy did something similar involving suicide Rattattas and Mankey (he caught it on that little path to Indigo Plateau near Viridian), , except he had a team of, like, Pikachu, 4 rattattas, and Mankey and he used that team up until the third badge for some reason.
>>24794361
Well, of course it worked, the AI is extremely dumb. I've beaten Brock with Pikachu and Slam. The thing is, Butterfree is just so much better in terms of ease of training, effectiveness and availability, that I get the feeling I'm gimping myself by not getting one.
>>24790485
Losing to Brock is acceptable.
>>24791144
You only say that so you can get away with your eviolite luvdisc, faggot
>Minmaxing
>Picking pokemon only because they're cute.
>Fire starters
>Pokemon named Blaze
>Pokemon named something Naruto-themed
>Pokemon named something edgy.
>>24790800
You forgot
>Using Outrage when your opponent still has fairies up for battle
>Using Non-STAB Outrage
>still training wild Pokemon after post game
I hate to be that faggot but my college has too many actual retards that think the trash that got them through the game can hold any ground against a competitive team.
>>24795403
Aren't all pokemon wild?
>STILL liking golem
>>24795403
desu, if you manage to hold your own without iv breeing and ev training you might actually be a good player.
>>24795458
Most competitive Pokemon are hatched or events.
The only competitively viable wilds are stationary legends.
>>24795610
I can maybe get IV breeding (especially since things like babies come with 3IV and so do legendaries, while natures are really easy to get on those)
But not EV training is full retard when the game gives you like 5 different ways to do it and 3 different ways to remove EVs to start over.
>>24795379
>taking the game too seriously
>not taking the game seriously enough
You just have a problem with everything, don't you?
