Recent content by Ernesto

Ngl I blanked that Wally used it but my point still stands that it became so prevalent in Sinnoh that it would be a reasonable mistake to make (I remember using it the first time I played Ruby and thinking Magical Leaf had a really cool animation, if it had evolved at the time it would've been...

Obviously Meditite was used by Brawly there but it doesn't help that they were unavailable in Emerald, so I really couldn't blame anyone for thinking Roselia is from Sinnoh. While I generally don't have issues with the old gens because I was super involved with Pokemon during Gold and Silver...

I had a successful mono-Water run in Emerald (I didn't want to use Swampert because I'd already decided to try DD Gyara and they competed for the EQ TM but I still had to use Marshtomp for Wattson; my "starter" otherwise was Lotad who ended up being cool outside of the really late evo and the...

I saw it mentioned before so I just wanted to give a small correction: the only Fire-types that get SunnyBeam in Gen 2 are Houndoom, Entei and Ho-oh, most others only got it in gen 4 (except for Rapidash in FRLG, I thought Moltres also got it but apparently not). Anyway, I agree that Gen 2 was...

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...