I've been obsessed with B/W's encounter design because of how there's so many pokemon yet there are so few routes that your team composition is very limited. Nobody's fighting the E4 with a team of Stoutland, Watchog, and Liepard. I'm also surprised how many encounters are locked behind repel cheesing. Maybe it's just because I don't nuzlocke B/W a lot but I feel like shit like Joltik is so rare just because you can only find it on one route.
Also as an EV autist this game gives out WAY too many Attack EVs.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I going insane?
>>43332587Absolutely. I really want to do more White runs with weird shit. I don't think I even nuzlocke this game much but this team feels so bog standard.
>>43334224Hell yes. Sand team for life.
>>43333735Eat the damn cheese. This game cheats, cheat back. Also I didn't know you could get Basculin, cool.
>>43334907Welcome to Platinum, where bosses actually have good coverage.
>>43335099Victreebel's a pitcher plant. They're basically jars of stomach acid that smell nice/look pretty to lure in bugs and other small animals. They're way cooler than flytraps and I'm glad pokemon agrees with me.
Also the Onix/Cloyster couple are from HGSS. Two things I'm good at? Basic biology and obscure pokemon trivia.
The birds are technically not your first encounter (unless you repel spam) so if you catch them you shouldn't use them. I usually ignore legendaries.
