Recent content by Ernesto

The most annoying part about Corphish is that you can catch Carvanha in the same route you get the Good Rod, and that is miles better better (outside of the bad exp group) because it gets Crunch as early as level 22. It's even frailer but I'd argue the much higher speed is more important than...

I haven't played the tier in a decade so obviously my opinion shouldn't be considered much but I wanted to say I wholeheartedly agree retiering BL entirely is the best way to go, same as I felt last time it was brought up. ADV UU was a tier I fell in love with once old gen UUs got new life...

More like Mewtosis amirite. (Sorry, I had to do it)

I came up with another one: I think everyone remembers that Team Rocket guy from RBY with the underleveled Raticate, right? That got changed in FRLG, presumably because it was considered too strong (similar to Emerald changing the Milotic trainer in the rain route to a Kecleon). Well, in Route...

I'm currently doing a LeafGreen run (I never actually played that game the whole way fsr) with Bulbasaur and the early Sleep Powder is definitely amazing, can't believe in Gen I it was only learned in time for like Mewtwo—which obviously makes no sense because who in their right minds would...

Feels like they realized they had to go back to the roots to Gen I's (almost) always-critting Razor Leaf. Anyway I still find ingame Grass-types very useful mostly because of their resistances, they aren't Water- or Flying-type levels of auto-include but still pretty high on the list.

Notable that Misdreavus was extremely rare in Gen 2 (only in Mt. Silver at night and with no trainers using it afaik), it was gonna be very rare in RSE with a 2% encounter in a small patch of grass in Mt. Pyre and they decided to remove it altogether. Then the following generation it became much...

Grass/Ghost went from being unused the first five gens to overcrowded (first with the Pumpkaboo and Phantump lines in XY, then Decidueye and Dhelmise in SM and now the Bramblin and Poltchageist lines in SV), it's remarkable how they make those decisions. It'd also be cool if they went back to...

I just finished reading your very thorough post and I agree with all your rankings but I wanted to mention a couple things, in particular that Tenta is more efficient against Bruno if using Sludge Bomb (pretty sure it 2HKOs Chan and definitely does Lee), particularly with a Bitter Berry to take...

This is what I was referring to here Misty's Starmie in theory has everything to absolutely wreck you if your only option is Pikachu (either the starter or the Viridian version) due to easily tanking Thundershock and doing a ton with BubbleBeam but due to poor AI there weren't thousands of...

Yea, I don't think game designers really wanted you to skip her (not skip her à la Brawly since you need her badge to Cut trees obviously) and go south because it's not super evident that the way through the Dig house opens up after helping Bill, rather they mostly went "Look, in this patch of...

You bring an interesting point with Starmie, someone's prolly already mentioned it in the thread but RBY Misty does tend to get overlooked as one of the hardest bosses. She uses a solid OU mon with a really high speed tier (which means increased crit rate), high Special with a strong STAB move...

For the record if this was an Emerald tierlist I'd agree that 1% is immediate E-tier (and 6% is much better since 1 in 17 >> 1 in 100) but since it's not I'd say it's fine to argue for them in their own merits. I used Shiftry in Ruby and it was honestly pretty great, even alongside monsters...

Suspicious Derivative it was very interesting to read your thoughts about a game I still (with all of its noticeable flaws) hold dear to my heart. Just a minor comment to add to what QuentinQuonce said: I agree that he's not really all that as a rival (Blue does a much better job at being a...

Huh I was expecting Slowbro to rise back up to RU after Slowking returned to UU last month, surprised it got so little usage when it used to be a staple. Slowbro-Galar still dropped to PU but at least that didn't happen right as its cousin left NU. Also Boulder dropping to UU is crazy, the tier...