Comment on Best starter hands-down
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hehe, I just left my starter pokemon at the front of my line up for the whole game. He ended up hitting max level, and none of the pokemon behind him ever really got to fight. He was one-shotting with “not very effective” moves. I also didn’t keep any of the buffs or debuffs, just attack moves. Since I was basically only using one Pokémon, he had to have a bunch of attacks cuz they would run out of uses. I wasn’t as young as you would hope for a “tactic” like that to be my solution to the game. But to be fair, it kept working… so was it really wrong?
shikitohno@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
I never really understood why people liked Alakazam, they never really impressed me that much. Like, sure, he can one shot things when he’s overleveled but so can a Gyrados or anything else
shikitohno@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Didn’t even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
Maybe that was my problem? I always evolved to Alakazam asap so his speed wasn’t what it needed to be.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You can do this with multiple different pokemon, soloing the elite four. Its more about attack variety so you can counter the wide range of pokemon types but ive done it with zapdos and also mewtwo.