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Let's talk elekid. There is maybe one available in Crystal at goldenrod. It's top tier all the way if you get it (access to the punches immediately), but the odds are slim. Deserves a mention at best.

"Hold its own" doesn't actually mean effective, and I guess this exercise favors the overly offensive and Grass types as a whole have a big disadvantage of not being effective offensive types. I get that they're good against water types, and water types make up a majority of the game, but there...

It still sees its uses in ecruteak, but after a while you really just stop using it and since we have a team size of more than 3 in an effective run you're not using geodude against any of the late johto gyms save for Jasmine (and by then you have access to other options that are much more...

I'm a little unsure of what the first post means by "effective run," so I'm probably going to be wrong in this argument to put geodude in the top-mid tier, and my argument is based on its convenient typing and availability in the early stage of the game, but it also grounds itself in the idea...

I really like the story of the second generation. I a lot of the merit I see in those games have to do with them being designed as a real sequel to the first generation, so while my real answer is "the first and the second," if I only had to pick one I'd say that I really value the way GSC...

New poster here, trying to figure out if I'm doing this right, but Krabby is available at Olivine City and makes good use of its attack and defense to be an interesting choice. Lack of special attack stat is a shame due to his special at-the-time signature move, but is enough to deal with...