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Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 14:01:02 No.57963884 View View Reply Original Report

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marshtompbros did we ever recover from this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 15:01:16 No.57963998 Report

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>>57963884
No, but Grovyle did with Absorb

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 15:28:04 No.57964056 Report

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>>57963884
The ultimate retard filter that made thousands of kids shit themselves in anger and reset their games to pick the correct starters that are not Chudkip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 15:47:06 No.57964092 Report

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>>57963884
I'm usually still rocking Taillow at this point from fighting Brawly with it, so Grovyle isn't really an issue here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 16:10:55 No.57964138 Report

Quoted By: >>57965921

liquid ooze gulpin solos the grovyle

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 16:11:47 No.57964144 Report

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>>57963884

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 16:35:36 No.57964205 Report

Quoted By: >>57964304 >>57966109

>>57963884
Yes, it's called not being a dumbass who relies exclusively on his starter.
Dustox, Beautifly, Zubat, Taillow, Gulpin, Oddish, all are viable options for dealing with Grovyle and two of those come from the very route this battle takes place on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 17:14:36 No.57964304 Report

Quoted By: >>57964527 >>57966131

>>57964205
didn't give a fuck about all this crap as a 6 year old desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 18:14:38 No.57964493 Report

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>>57963884
I did, because I captured a Electrike and saved me with Thunder Wave.
That day I learned status moves are very helpful as a second choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 18:24:05 No.57964527 Report

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>>57964304
Why are you playing gen 3 when you're six?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 18:26:28 No.57964534 Report

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>waaaahhhh i was a stupid kid so this battle is actually difficult!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 18:30:17 No.57964543 Report

Quoted By: >>57967766

>>57963884
>Not having Shroomish
>Not having Taillow
>Not having Beutifly
>Not having Dustox
>Not having Zubat

Being bad at video games must really suck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 18:48:05 No.57964597 Report

Quoted By: >>57966460 >>57967793

>>57964527
NTA, gen 3 was 2002, twenty three years ago. If anon was six on release he was born in 96 and he's almost thirty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 19:18:27 No.57964659 Report

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>>57963884
marshchads were immediately reimbursed by having the hardest early game fight be trivialized

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 20:16:38 No.57964832 Report

Quoted By: >>57964847 >>57967598 >>57967795

>pick Torchic
>send Oddish out against Marshtomp
ez

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Jul 2025 20:22:01 No.57964847 Report

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>>57964832
>oddish
???

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 02:49:02 No.57965921 Report

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>>57964138
No human being has ever intentionally used a gulpin their first playthrough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 03:08:02 No.57965983 Report

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>>57965921
I did, I thought swalot was cool for some reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 03:11:47 No.57965996 Report

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>>57963884
I over leveled my starter so that I had Swampert before I got past route 113 on ruby.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 03:32:07 No.57966033 Report

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>>57963884
Has anyone from GF ever explained why so many of the major battles in Emerald were made so much harder?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 03:42:36 No.57966051 Report

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>>57966033
It was directed by Morimoto, the main guy behind the battle system. He's never addressed it specifically but given he playtested Gen 1 with Exeggutor and it's really good, I'll assume he's got a problem some developers have where they play the game so much they don't know what really easy is anymore. Of course you can overcorrect, look at ORAS or half of the shit Masuda has done. The bigger question I have is why Ohmori's first real game, SM, actually has hard Totem fights when no other game he's directed has anything remotely close to that, it feels like a mistake which given the island trials were developed during debugging it could just be Morimoto again since he'd be the final pass and nobody had time to check his work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 04:13:52 No.57966109 Report

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>>57964205
>Xe has to pull his deadweight starter out and switch to some cockroach because it keeps getting hit by leaves and grass
OVER

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 04:29:29 No.57966131 Report

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>>57964304
I never understood this. When I was 6 I wanted to use as many pokemon as I could, not because of team balance but because why the fuck not? I never got why so many kids just solo'd the game with their starter, did you guys just not want to use all the other mons? If your mom let you eat as much candy as you wanted after dinner one night, would you as a 6 year old have just eaten a single kitkat and nothing else?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 04:32:24 No.57966135 Report

Quoted By: >>57966409 >>57966432

What’s the starter that has the easiest time with this battle?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 04:42:33 No.57966151 Report

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>>57966131
Some kids would ignore most of the candy and eat two pounds of nothing but kitkats, becoming sick of them for the rest of their life. There's probably some analogy that can be made to pokemon here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 05:29:06 No.57966245 Report

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>>57966131
You're conveniently glossing over the fact that raising a team of six in pokemon is an absolute miserable task that would turn off most people, myself included. (not counting the new games where it's a forced exp share for the entire team or whatever).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 06:53:47 No.57966404 Report

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>>57966131
Grinding in Pokemon isn't fun. If your main goal is to beat the game, then only using the starter is the most efficient way to achieve that. It's amazing how 6-year olds in 1998 figured that out but 35-year old manchildren on /vp/ still throw a tantrum about it.

>>57966151
The analogy would be the manchild ate one to two pounds of six different kinds of candy each.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 07:00:16 No.57966409 Report

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>>57966135
Answer retards

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 07:26:11 No.57966428 Report

Quoted By: >>57967800 >>57970042

Most kids got filtered by the May battle.
I got filtered on how to progress Slateport City. I figured it out eventually.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 07:31:31 No.57966432 Report

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>>57966135
probably combusken, since it doesn't have a 4x weakness to marshtomp

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 08:04:57 No.57966460 Report

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>>57964527
>>57964597
I just realized that fits me.
Fuck, I'm almost thirty

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 10:51:19 No.57966692 Report

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>>57963884
Yes, by not being a speedrunner cuck and catching a Zubat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:16:45 No.57967534 Report

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>>57966432
Grovyle doesn't have any 4x weaknesses either

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:33:33 No.57967586 Report

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>>57967534
>grovyle
It has the worst attacks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 18:37:26 No.57967598 Report

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>>57964832
For me it was Breloom, or Shroomish, I can't remember if he had evolved by that point

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:38:56 No.57967765 Report

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>>57967586
But it's also the fastest and most likely to outspeed your pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:39:20 No.57967766 Report

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>>57964543
I didn’t use any of those. I just picked up Gulpin from the exact same area.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:41:26 No.57967770 Report

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>>57967765
It doesn’t matter. Combusken resists everything Grovyle can throw at it at this point outside of cut (lol) and rock tomb. Meanwhile at least Combusken can do heavy stab damage against Marshtomp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:43:23 No.57967772 Report

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>>57966131
curiosity is a quality of high-iq individuals, the anons itt that don't get this are clearly lacking

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:46:57 No.57967779 Report

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>>57967770
Combusken is slow and weak. Just kill it with quick attack.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:52:43 No.57967792 Report

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>>57966131
Going to a pokecenter logging into the retarded computer and exchanging Pokémon was a hassle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:53:06 No.57967793 Report

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>>57964597
>gen 3 was 2002
we're not Japanese nigga

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:54:28 No.57967795 Report

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>>57964832
>send Oddish out
were you a little gay boy?
wtf has a oddish??

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:56:38 No.57967797 Report

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>>57966109
b-b-b-but le mudkip is le best hoenn starter...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:57:39 No.57967800 Report

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>>57966428
this was indeed a tricky scenario

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Jul 2025 19:58:56 No.57967803 Report

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>>57966131
switching is bitchmade

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 08:42:11 No.57969337 Report

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>cartoon animal
>is shit even for a playthrough
Wow, who would've thought that trash was infact trash?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 15:42:37 No.57970042 Report

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>>57966428
the most open world hoenn got for a second. I remember going back and forth on the boat quite a bit trying to figure out what I needed to do next.
Now boating is a core memory for me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 17:17:12 No.57970269 Report

Quoted By: >>57970932

>>57963884
My Grovyle was thankfully over leveled. This was my final team for ruby. I did choose Mudkip on emerald and I grinded on route 201 getting Swampert before even getting to Petalburg city.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 22:33:17 No.57970932 Report

Quoted By: >>57970969

>>57970269
>four water types

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Jul 2025 22:48:32 No.57970969 Report

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>>57970932
And a trumpet type

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jul 2025 01:37:13 No.57971411 Report

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>>57963884
Post the video

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jul 2025 01:52:29 No.57971435 Report

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>>57963884
for me it was the third gym, i got so angry i kept throwing and stomping the cartridge and destroyed box and manuals
then i chose mudkip

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jul 2025 12:16:30 No.57972288 Report

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>>57963884
My Swellow or Crobat could handle her Grovyle easily.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Jul 2025 12:23:20 No.57972296 Report

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>>57963884
Who the hell doesn't have a flying type by this point?

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