Since XY (and onwards) have such a massive pool of encounters I feel like this is probably the best time to go back and play a few older games before moving on to gen 6. At least that's my excuse for wanting to play Crystal and breaking my previous intent to play 1 game of every region.
Rolled a Cyndaquil as my starter so that's already neat. With Golem and Crobat already champs I decided to give myself 5 chances to find a Teddiursa or Dunsparce in Dark Cave before the encounter was lost. I found Teddiursa on the 3rd encounter, but I completely forgot it can flee until it did. Since I think that's a bullshit mechanic though I allowed myself a second chance and managed to put it to sleep and catch it.
Rest of the team is pretty standard for early Johto I guess. Decided to write a short personality for them because the box looks so empty without nature or ability.
Lost Vermin the Rattata because I was fastforwarding through Sprout Tower, which turned out to be a mistake.
Falkner was no problem, honestly kinda funny how low level he is in these games.
What's the consensus on encountering fleeing mons? Would you consider the encounter lost?
>>54876556Nice job man! Her Torkoal can be a real killer, especiall if she gets the sun up. I usually prepare myself for at least 1 death. Hariyama and Golem should pull through on Norman.
>>54876535That's some dedication. Unless switching would've been death I probably wouldn't reset for that lol.
>>54876512Pretty clever names. I just call them the first thing I think of.
>>54873095Good luck on the run! Lenora's Watchog is a devil, fuck that thing.
>>54870969Good to see you back! Thanks, I really liked that final team. Any team where Crobat is the weakest link has to be pretty good.
Not quite ready to move on from sprites yet, so I'm just gonna play whatever I feel like first. RIP to Marisa btw, that Scyther is surprisingly nasty if you get a bit unlucky.
