>>53723663I lost to Mars's Purugly a lot during my first playthrough of Pearl.
Many many years later when my friends and I went to revisit the series with Platinum, I didn't take the first fight against Cyrus in Celestic Town seriously and ended up getting swept by his Murkrow spamming Night Shade and Drill Peck. I was pretty taken aback because I thought I had a good handle on things by that point in the game.
>>53723744It's almost hard to imagine it now, but Team Rocket really didn't fuck around in the original release. Between that one Raticate, and other Grunts using mons like Kadabra in the generation of absolute Psychic Supremacy, they had a degree of menace that was never really recaptured by any other title.
