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This was following up on a claim on Bulbapedia, but what's the actual annoyance here? Is it that Light of Ruin has never been usable?

This is a hilariously bad "RNG" method and I'm shocked Game Freak didn't see the flaws in it.

Strength/Body Slam are preferred for most of the run, as Return doesn't max out until late game. (In addition, Strength is a required HM.)

This glitch was one of the main focal points of an old OM.

Meltan and Melmetal don't really have anything to do with this...

That isn't actually true, to the best of our knowledge. That was Chuggaaconroy unknowingly parroting satire. (Didn't think I'd be talking about Chugga any time soon...)

Yep. You'd likely want a Ghost out to avoid being hit by Take Down, and no Ghosts were immune to Sandstorm damage at the time.

Dexit being planned for SuMo is a reasonable assumption, because non-regional Pokémon barely appear in those games. If we assume that Island Scan and the Nugget Bridge homage were late additions, the only evidence against this theory is the stuff at the Battle Tree.

Or, from XY onward, Feint and Feint Attack.

To keep with the topic of Unovan first gyms, Striaton Gym is basically a check on "do you have the gift monkey from the Dreamyard", making it one of the worst boss fights conceptually. The only other thing it shows off is the rework to Pickup, which isn't really that relevant in-game with how...

Emerald's 212/213 discrepancy is either the second Lati or the second Moon Stone evolution. Because the second Lati in non-Japanese copies of Emerald requires record mixing, it shouldn't be included in the count.

By your logic, we'd also have to blame either all freezing moves or all thawing moves in Gen I on-cart play. (Yes, I'm deliberately invoking a fallacy to make a point.)

I feel it better for Gen 2 to add a desync clause to cover any future desyncs, despite the only current desync being on an unviable move. But that's not the point of this thread.

That's not an error. All five of those evolutions are naturally obtainable pre-credits without any trading, so the HGSS Johto Pokédex was expanded from 251 to 256.

The important part here is that Let's Go is noncanon.