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Raichu going from a deep, sonorous "yeah I can Mega Kick you to death and I don't care who knows it" to a squeaky, high-pitched "but sir I'm just so cute" had a similar effect on me

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I've mentioned the Battle Hall rest exploit in a couple of my posts - has that been documented at all on here? Definitely should be if not. For anyone not aware, usually when doing any type in a single round in the Hall you won't get repeat species (e.g. if you fight Altaria at rank 6 Dragon...

In the thread about the Ice-type I mentioned that Ice would be poorly suited for the extreme earlygame since it has no meaningful resistances. Poison is quite often seen at the start of the game for a similar reason: it's weak and easy to beat. Most of the early exposure to Poison is via...

Fuecoco being included in this year's Lunar New Event because it's year of the horse and male crocodiles are bulls, HA checkmate atheists the zodiac theory can never be defeated

I'm onto a good pace with the Hall atm. A rummage through my PC produced a bunch of species for me to throw at the challenge, resulting in a wide spectrum of win streaks: Ivysaur 55 Fearow 49 Cascoon 43 Murkrow 88 Misdreavus 100 Trapinch 59 Lairon 34 Smoochum 34 Granbull 140 Swampert 48 Wingull...

Ah, I thought it'd probably be the same as RSE. Thanks. Also just remembered you can't actually change it in those games (as opposed to DPPTHGSS).

In FRLG, what determines the sprite a trainer will take on in the Union Room? (e.g. Bug Catcher, Cooltrainer) Seems like in every other title this is customisable in some fashion, but I haven't seen anywhere how these games do it.

TIL Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar had the monster symbol, that's a new one on me. Also I always forget just how many different menu icons Gen II had - it obviously introduced a bunch more "category" sprites like the animal, the humanshape psychic and so on, but it's funny how a bunch of random...

The mountain/volcano/desert biome is typically an area that comes much earlier in a region - Mt Chimney, Desert Resort, Wela Volcano Park - and even when that's not the case Fire-types are just generally easier to place into areas that aren't volcanic or tropical; think Vulpix and Growlithe in...

Looking at movesets again today and another slightly odd move has me contemplating it: Energy Ball. Gen III and IV were typically where a lot of older moves which weren't always explained in great detail got slightly more illustrative descriptions (Agility, for instance) thanks to their larger...

There's a level of charm you just can't match when you're doing a lot with a little. Sometimes constraints really can be one of the best assets for creativity. And imagination just needs so little prompting. One thing I've always liked about NPC overworld sprites in GSC, for instance, is that...

That's a weird one with Latias and Latios too. I suppose the (possible) reason is that she's more about trickery and deception in the moves she uses, and it fits the profile of a less direct, more defensively-minded fighter, but it's such a nebulous distinction given that Latios learns a whole...

Sneasel and Weavile can't learn Sucker Punch. What.

Finally found some time to get back into the Hall and continue my struggle towards an overall record of 10,000 and I'm coming in with a new record for a Pokemon not used before. I've a big Excel spreadsheet with dozens of tabs in which I've been theorycrafting the viability of numerous species...