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Poliwrath swept half of Blue's team so I'm happy that I made it into my starter. Hypno and Raichu were about what you'd expect, Raticate was surprisingly decent when it could manage to get a Guts boost, and Aerodactyl flinched things to death and got AncientPower boosts at just the right times - swept Lance by getting 2 in a row. Arbok wasn't exactly shit (except when it was an Ekans and hadn't learned Bite yet), but it never really did much in any important battles. Too weak to KO most things and not bulky enough to tank their attacks, and I never found myself needing Intimidate to weaken some rampaging physical attacker like I expected.
Who decided to put the Sludge Bomb TM at the end of the fucking postgame quest, in the games where nearly a quarter of the regional dex is poison-type? You can get Psychic, Rock Slide and infinite Boltbeam/Flamethrower/Shadow Ball/Brick Breaks before the fourth gym, but apparently Arbok's going to break the game if it's using any STAB move stronger than fucking Acid (at Lv38, I might add) before the E4 rematches? Suck my dick.
