All the nostalgia itt so far is the same for me. I really miss how good a lot of pokemon used to be (psychic or not) and now a lot of OU mons back then are less useful these days because Nintendo/GF likes to whore powerful Dragon-types. I mean, I know they don't give a flying fuck about Competitive mons, but do we really need that many overpowered Dragons? There are too many pokemon too, 251 was a reasonable amount and I remember in GSC there was 100 more and I was like "HOLY FUCKING CHRIST 251 POKEMON WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE!!??!??!" and now there is like 493 and counting. Slow it down yo. I am starting to forget some pokemon even existed lol. The sprites were also better back then, I think pokemon was intended to have a "monster-ish" feel to it (hence pocket monsters??) but now they are just like stupid (art and sprites). Too cute and loveable, not that I don't love cutemons, I love ampharos etc. but I liked Hypno's Green sprite and some of the others that looked like they would fuck you up.
I liked how it was cool back then too. There were like 5 people in my whole elementary school that didn't play pokemon and I think that was because they played digimon or some shit. Now you talk about pokemon and people try to pull out the "I never played that" bs lie. Fuck you liar, yes you did, everyone did. Idk I wish people would just realize its a game they play(ed) and grow the fuck up sometimes. -.- I'm also suprised nobody mentioned how broken Freeze was yet, but I loved that too.
I guess pokemon is a better game (not really) with the more advanced mechanics and stuff, but its kinda lame that we have to actually test shit because with the right Typing/Movepool/Base Stats anything can be a force now. I suppose EVs/IVs/Natures made the game more "fun" in a its-more-complex-and-has-more-strategy kind of way but it kinda sucks that stuff doesn't depend on typing anymore (fuck you GF for the Physical/Special split) like it used to. idk sometimes i wish we could go back to the old days. DP would be really fun with even adv mechanics. Sorry for the long rant-like post.
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wing attack WAS normal. Sky attack was the only flying move aero learned
Wing Attack was Flying and Aerodactyl could also learn Fly.
oh and I agree with that guy who posted a few pages back about too many HMs. Seriously RSE sucked because you basically needed to HM slave an entire water pkmn. And fuck Defog.