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Originally Posted by Fat SHUCKLE MAN

To be honest, limited coverage is something everybody learnt to tolerate back in the RBY days. Pokemon having usable non-STAB and non-normal-type moves was something quite notable (and when they did, they hardly ever learnt it by level-up). Some Pokemon like Voltorb and Goldeen had the most horrible level-up moves ever.

I honestly had hardly any problems playing with Bulbasaur. He makes the first 3 gym leaders embarrassinly easy, once you manage to get Leech Seed at least (even though it's weaker in RBY than later generations).

I have to admit though, Slash was amazing when I played with Charmander. Razor Leaf is amazing on Bulbasaur too. Towards the end of the game, when your team is like L40, but all the trainers are still using L25 Pidgey against you, you start even OHKOing the resists with Razor Leaf.

I think people forget how much simpler pokemon was back in the RBY games. I used Bulby and I was like 10 and didn't have any issue at all and he was always my highest leveled poke bc I used it so much