You got to hand it to Professor Oak though. He only has a level 5 starter pokemon and he manages to get through Victory Road after you beat the Champion. That takes some skill.
Actually, since I took his Charmander, and Douche took his Squirtle, all he had was a Bulbasaur. Then again, he is a scientist. A famous one. Probably has crates of Rare Candy. I did play the game loads with all the starters, but Charmander is best starter.
You guys should read the "It's Super Effective!" comic series. It's epic lol and this is just one of many pages! XD
I've played with each starter and beaten the game. However, I normally choose the grass one in any generation because there are hardly any good grass pokemon compared to the amounts of good water and fire pokemon (Gyarados and Arcanine FTW).
i usually pick fire types. Actually, have you noticed how useless grass types actually were in Gold & Silver. None of the major battles had any real disadvantage against it. Also, there's only 1 fire type to be caught in the wild in G4, and that's Ponyta. Infernape is really the only good fire type G4 has until you beat the E4, after which you can catch more kinds of pokemon.
I still ended up picking Torterra in G4, which left me with Ponyta/Rapidash. But at the first opportunity, I got a Growlithe. And I've recently played Pokemon Gold. I couldn't decide so I picked all of them (I don't usually use glitches but I couldn't choose between Totodile and Cyndaquil). I'm not too keen on Chikorita.
I remember finding a duplication glitch in Gold. Don't know if it's documented. Maybe. Anyway, you get a pokemon, say Cyndaquil, give him the item you want to dupe (Rare candy much?), put him in your PC, switch box. As you are switching the box, turn the game boy on and off again and you will have 2 of the pokemon, and 2 of the item. You can put multiple ones in at a time of up to 6. I remember the days before kids could just GameFAQs it.
Actually, i think that glitch was in Emerald, not Gold. Maybe it was in both, idk. The Missingo glitch in red/blue was far more effective though. People say it caused the game to get screwed up, but as long as you don't catch missingno, you're fine. You just needed to encounter it and run.
I think the duplication glitch was in both. The Gold method was pretty similar to how I got all three starters. You end up standing before the lab, but you have the other starter pokemon in your box. Fun fact: The Missingno was actually the pokemon that the old man catches when he teaches you how to catch pokemon. The game needed to put the data for that pokemon somewhere so they chose that little strip of water next to Cinnabar Island. I have no idea why it gives you lots of items though.
Honestly I don't know. They probably wanted the players to have some fun I guess. I also don't understand how the Mew glitch worked. But I'm not exactly complaining. Who does't want a level 100 Mew?
Nope, it's real. I've done it and it works: [video=youtube;FPrWwcuiQhU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPrWwcuiQhU[/video] Although when I do it, I fly away from the boy in the grass above Cerulean, not the gambler. You don't just have to battle the Slowpoke kid either. If you do it with other trainers, you find different pokemon. That's how I found a Pinsir and Magmar in Red, which would be impossible otherwise.
I had a mew, I cloned it for my friend. Best part was that mine got deleted in the process. He refused to clone it to me. I've also only seen one shiny. I've played every game to completion but white and black. I've only seen one shiny. I failed at catching it too. My box was full. When I told the story of a red golbat no one believed me. -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
I've seen a handful of shinies over the years. caught most of them, but i didn't really care. When i first bought FireRed, i started playing and it turned out the charmander i picked was shiny. :derpe:
No way. I've wanted a shiny charmander forever. I...i...i... *cries* -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
