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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:17:07 No.18540598 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>18540688 >>18540869 >>18543483 >>18547969

How did competitive Pokemon work before DPPt and Shoddy? Was everyone just on Netbattle? Or maybe, if you got lucky, you were friends with a group of people who played competitively with you IRL? Can't quite imagine what it was like. Didn't Japan already have online battling since Crystal?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:25:19 No.18540659 Report

Quoted By: >>18540816

>Netbattle

Megaman pls

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:28:52 No.18540688 Report

Quoted By: >>18540744

>>18540598
>Didn't Japan already have online battling since Crystal?

They do and don't.

Don't because most Japanese kiddies at that time didn't need or afford a mobile phone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:36:31 No.18540744 Report

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>>18540688
Are you sure? It was already a time when they were pretty trendy...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:38:06 No.18540758 Report

Quoted By: >>18540776 >>18543172

IRC bots. IRC bots everywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:40:13 No.18540776 Report

Quoted By: >>18542818

>>18540758
This is relevant how?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:45:40 No.18540816 Report

Quoted By: >>18540822

>>18540659
I want you to know I chuckled and choked on my Buffalo Wild Wings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:46:20 No.18540822 Report

Quoted By: >>18540832

>>18540816
Epic.
Epic for the win.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:48:48 No.18540832 Report

Quoted By: >>18551578

>>18540822
*tips Fedora *

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE Tue 18 Mar 2014 05:54:08 No.18540869 Report

Quoted By: >>18540937 >>18543499

>>18540598
Netbattle kinda kickstarted it.

The official competitions, back when Yellow was a new thing, helped plant the seed of the idea that Pokemon could even BE a serious competitive endeavour. I remember Nintendo Power would post the teams of top competitors... One guy had a Tauros, Dragonite, Starmie, and some other stuff... But I remember the Tauros with Earthquake, Rock Slide, Hyper Beam and Substitute and I was amazed at the thought put behind it.

Netbattle just gave a lot of us oldfags a way to finally practice what we'd dreamed of doing for a long time. In America, competitions were only in the few main cities, and there were like 100 kids for each spot on the list; you get my meaning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 06:04:10 No.18540937 Report

Quoted By: >>18541034

>>18540869
That's kind of neat, thanks for the information.

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE Tue 18 Mar 2014 06:16:19 No.18541034 Report

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>>18540937
Any time, friend.

I think the Battle Tower in Olivine City in Crystal version was another big wake-up call. That crap was near impossible and it really challenged you to do better.

I will say that by the time Ruby and Sapphire came out, I was old enough to drive around to friend's houses, so we'd trade and battle that way. Man, back when the people who actually cared about getting good IVs were either cheaters or literally mentally unbalanced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 13:49:38 No.18542818 Report

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>>18540776
They were pretty common for competitive Pokémon stuff before NetBattle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 14:53:58 No.18543172 Report

Quoted By: >>18548488

>>18540758
I used to play GSBot in IRC before Netbattle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 15:38:45 No.18543483 Report

Quoted By: >>18543499

>>18540598
This is what we used back then to play online. The very first online Pokemon simulator.
http://porygon.math.miami.edu:7137/

>Tauros with Earthquake, Rock Slide, Hyper Beam and Substitute
>Tauros without Bodyslam
You're kidding right? I strongly doubt this thing could be anything near competitively useful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 15:40:17 No.18543499 Report

Quoted By: >>18544546

>>18543483
Meant to quote
>>18540869

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE Tue 18 Mar 2014 17:39:52 No.18544546 Report

Quoted By: >>18544840

>>18543499
Maybe it was Body Slam. It was some powerful Normal attack. I remember the other 3 attacks, though.

I mean hey, the kid won a Gen 1 tournament with his team, how can you argue with success? Oh wait this is 4chan nvm.

Wasn't Normal-type STAB added in in Yellow version? Or was it added in in Stadium 1 (Stadium 2 Japan)?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 17:46:59 No.18544619 Report

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There were IRC bots as early as RBY days. There were also competitions held in various places. I went to one, but only to get Mew. I remember the guy who won used Chansey, Zapdos and Alakazam.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 18:11:37 No.18544840 Report

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>>18544546
I just found it hard to belive that someone wins a Gen1 Tournament who uses a Tauros without Body Slam. Really, that's as exotic as using Talonflame without any fire and flying type moves.
Tauros usually has an undisputable standard set in: Body Slam, Hyper Beam, EQ, Blizzard. With Bliizard being the only one that might be replaced by Thunderbolt or Substitute.
But maybe that were Stadium rules, I don't know much about competitive stadium.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 22:22:39 No.18547969 Report

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>>18540598
damn Whitney is officially hot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 23:07:36 No.18548488 Report

Quoted By: >>18552647

>>18543172
>GSBot

Shit, now I feel old. I was too young to really "get" most of GSBot when I found it, but I did manage to make a (shitty) team and fight a few battles. I had an umbreon and a dunsparce, I think.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Mar 2014 02:52:51 No.18551578 Report

Quoted By: >>18554449

>>18540832
*tips fedora*

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE

Aniny !guyK6p/mWE Wed 19 Mar 2014 04:07:14 No.18552647 Report

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>>18548488
I forgot all about GBBot. I mostly just did mIRC with the Serebii people. Ended up meeting Purple Kecleon back then. I hear she became very odd. That's pretty off-topic, though.

For battles, I just waited 'til Netbattle.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Mar 2014 07:57:08 No.18554449 Report

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>>18551578
We could take this to another room, if you want?

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