Recent content by ToxicWyvern

To be fair a Pokémon getting a STAB move at all back then was more of a luxury than a guarantee back then but jeez, they did Phanphy so dirty. Stuff like this make me think they were trying to lower the power level of Gen 2 to make up for how broken certain things in Gen 1, but over corrected in...

Early Fire Punch and Flamethrower are huge for Charmander, but I've seen some people do GSC playthroughs comparing the two and apparently the two are so close it doesn't matter or Typhosion ends up ahead by the slightest of margines. The overall raw power and bulk of enemies is low enough that...

That's likely, but if razor leaf worked like it did in Gen 1, Game Freak likely wouldn't' have let Chikorita get Razor Leaf so early.

tbf regionals are functionally not much different from branched evos and in-verse are just recolored cousins, and many have specific lore about how a specific Pokémon adapted to a specific environment, so not getting one isn't too much of a snub. Meanwhile Megas genuinely elevate the Pokémon...

This. If they're going for regional forms or even alternate evolutions all together then not using Cyndaquil makes sense, But why two Johto starters when no one in the Sinnoh stater trio got anything,

Considering there was a hard limit to the amount of pokemon that could be coded in, they were probably "trimming the fat" on as many 3 stage families as they could before completely removing too many families. True, balance wise Ponyta screams second stage. The issue is Ponyta is already so...

79 special attack is OKish for in game, though iirc Gatr doesn;t get many strong special coverage moves anyway. As for why is doesn't seem as good in practice, I haven't played HGSS my understanding is despite Gen 4 introducing physical water moves Gatr doesn't get access to any physical STAB...

I think you mostly have it correct. Everything about H-Decidueye is spot on. I'd argue that Charizard and Typhlosion are either equal or Typhlosion being better. The main thing Zard has over Typh is the ability to run sets other than Choice items, but those sets are really lackluster and only...