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Topic: Think back to your newbie days...
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Cesar
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posted 11-27-2000 12:08 AM
Think back to the time when we were all newbies. The time when we had Ash's pokemon. Back to the time when Pikachu was great and Mewtwo was on every team. When Mewtwo had moves like Mega Punch and every one of them had Psychic, before the standards. The time when Slowbro's were considered weak and unpopular (Boy things have changed a lot since then ). So what was your FIRST team? Mine :laughs: was:Charizard level 55 Slash Strength Flamethrower Fire Spin Pidgeotto level 20 Razor Wind Sand-attack Quick attack Whirlwind Spearow level 18 Fly Take down leer Fury Attack Farfetch'd level 21 Peck Sand-attack Cut Body Slam Nidorina level 17 Growl Skull Bash Double team Thunderbolt Lapras level 16 Water Gun Surf Sing Toxic Thank you Azure! If it where not for you I would have still been continuing my Newbie ways ------------------ NidoGod- Earthquake, Amnesia, Ice Beam, Double Kick "Okay, you just bought yourself a 317: Pointing out police stupidity."-Wiggum
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Flareon
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posted 11-27-2000 12:42 AM
Whoo boy. Good thing I re-started my game five months ago, or I'd be ashamed to post my team here (I posted this team on a UPN board before I came here, I used to be RocketKate).Sandslash: Dig, Slash, Hyperbeam, Cut Fearow: Fly, Drill Peck, Mirror Move, Agility Vaporeon: Surf, Bubblebeam, Acid Armor, Mist Raichu: Thundershock, Thunder, Quick Attack, Reflect Alakazam: Psybeam, Psychic, Reflect, Recover Articuno: Ice Beam, Blizzard, Mist, Agility And although this isn't related to teams, I used to think, for some strange reason, that Eevee could learn Bubblebeam. I was so happy that my favorite Pokémon could learn such a cool attack that I e-mailed Pokémon of the Day Guy from pocket.ign.com and bragged about how powerful Eevee was even though it looked like a useless fuzz ball. Thank Goddish they didn't print it. Yeesh...I was a Goddish-awful newbie.  ------------------ Ash Ketchum got run over by a Stantler Coming home to Pallet Christmas Eve Some folks say there's no such thing as Santa As for Brock and Misty, they believe.
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Yay Porygon
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posted 11-27-2000 03:11 AM
Har!I have no recollection of my first team. Frankly, I was surprised I could get through Indigo Plateau. I had seen NO birds. I had had for a long while no idea how to get the last gym leader, since I couldn't get into Saffron (hey, the elevator didn't go all the way up!). Somehow I managed to raise a Dragonite, and the only two I remember clearly on my team was Venusaur, Muk (!) and Draggy. Draggy had Thunder, Surf, Strength and Fly (oy...) and Muk had stuff like Fire Blast, Mega Drain, Thunderbolt. I loved my Muk. He killed the E4, barely. Venusaur...well, I can only assume it was there, it might not ha' been. Heck, a few mere months ago my Moltreses had Fly and Peck and Fire Spin stuff! Just over last summer did I learn everything, learn about G/S, etc. And surprisingly I'm looked up to and sought after by lots of people to help with movesets (of which I learn my best from here ^_^). Crezzy...and no, I didn't have a Porygon on my team. I didn't know of such a critter. Took me a long while to find M2 and the Birds! Goodness knows I wouldn't go trying to BUY any. Chaa... ------------------ Oy.
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Lark84
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posted 11-27-2000 06:17 AM
Hehe... Boy, you sure brought back some good memories. I know my team sucked, but I still loved playing...Blastoise -skull bash, hydro pump, water gun, bite Zapdos -thunder, drill peck, fly, thunderschock (which I never used. "Paralysis? Hah!") Articuno -blizzard, ice beam, peck, mist (nerver used. "Doesn't do any damage. Sucks!") Vileplume -cut, sleep powder, poisonpowder, stun spore (Yes I switched Absorb for Cut, then evolved it before it even learnt Acid!) Mewtwo -freshly caught and never trained at all Some other pokémon I found good at the moment. I actually beat a guy with this team, but it was all because my Articuno froze his Mewtwo! Hehe! ------------------ "Why doesn't the magnet pick up this floppy disk?"
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Jumpman16
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posted 11-27-2000 03:42 PM
quote: Originally posted by Yay Porygon: Somehow I managed to raise a Dragonite, and the only two I remember clearly on my team was Venusaur, Muk (!) and Draggy. Draggy had Thunder, Surf, Strength and Fly (oy...)
*Wonders how Yay Porygon's Dragonite could have known Fly* ------------------ How did Drake's (Lance) Dragonite know Water Gun, Fly, Body Slam, Seismic Toss, Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam, and Ice Beam, and still lose? "Because it didn't know Barrier :)"-cfalcon E-mail: andrew@fas.harvard.edu AIM:TDAJumpman16
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Mewteos
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posted 11-27-2000 07:53 PM
What wonderful days they were when I was a newbie...Pikachu- Thundershock, Thunderwave, Thunderbolt, Thunder Blastoise-Bubble, Water Gun, Bubblebeam, Hydro Pump Charizard- Ember, Fire Spin, Fire Blast, Flamethrower Venusaur-Vine Whip, Mega Drain, Razor Leaf, Solar Beam Jolteon- Pin Missle, Sand attack, Thundershock, Thunder Flareon-Sand Attack, Tackle, Flamethrower, Fire Spin ...Or not. ------------------ ~Mewteos was here.
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mr k mouth
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posted 11-27-2000 09:13 PM
quote: Originally posted by Lark84: Hehe... Boy, you sure brought back some good memories. I know my team sucked, but I still loved playing...Blastoise -skull bash, hydro pump, water gun, bite Zapdos -thunder, drill peck, fly, thunderschock (which I never used. "Paralysis? Hah!") Articuno -blizzard, ice beam, peck, mist (nerver used. "Doesn't do any damage. Sucks!") Vileplume -cut, sleep powder, poisonpowder, stun spore (Yes I switched Absorb for Cut, then evolved it before it even learnt Acid!) Mewtwo -freshly caught and never trained at all Some other pokémon I found good at the moment. I actually beat a guy with this team, but it was all because my Articuno froze his Mewtwo! Hehe!
your team still looks like that. hey salad, wrong forum, that's aight though.
------------------ <kevin>here's me and marla's song (some sappy shit) <me> dude, your pathetic, you don't have a chance in hell with that girl <kevin> here's you and elise's song (cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort) <me> fuck you that's the story of me and kevin, to very horny teenagers who have no chance with the girls listed above.
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Footitch
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posted 11-27-2000 09:16 PM
Well my very VERY first team included a blastoise and a load of crap... my first legitimate team (still a newbie) was Charizard, Machamp, Electabuzz, Venusaur, Lapras, Mewtwo. Ahh, the memories...
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geese
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posted 11-28-2000 09:07 AM
Wow, I was gonna start a topic on this myself today. Yesterday I was just clearing out a few overcrowded boxes on stadium when I found some of my old (crap) pokemon. I found my first Alakazam (psybeam over psychic, err...), and then it happened. I found my original first tourney team. Now, before I went, I had no intention in taking part at all (I only went to get Mew and I hadn't received confirmation of my place). I managed to get in via the reserve list even though my team was a completely random collection of rubbish. Jolteon: t.wave, thunder, pin missile, double kick Articuno: peck, fly, ice beam, blizzard Gengar: night shade, hypnosis, dreameater, confuse ray Dragonite: hyper beam, blizzard, thunder, flame blast, Golem: Earthquake, strength, umm… Exeggutor: toxic, leech seed, psychic, solar beam (the only halfway decent set)The funny thing is, I actually got to the finals at the dome using this collection of jokers, even taking down some skilled players from this very board... None of my stats were anywhere near max (Jolteon had about 307 hp). I think that's why I love these one's so much. Even though they were criminally weak and badly thought out, they were my first winners and they performed when required. I now have a special n64 box dedicated just to these, my special cherished children. So umm... sentimental rant over with. Incidentally, with the more powerful pokemon that I played with at the dome, I lost miserably due to playing like a complete smack head. The moral, buggered if I can see it. ------------------ 'Come on!'
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posted 11-28-2000 12:16 PM
This was my team the first time I played through the game:Raichu (Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Flash) Hypno (Confusion, Psychic, Hynosis, Dream Eater) Vaporeon (Body Slam, Water Gun, Hydro Pump, Surf) Dugtrio (Slash, Toxic, Dig, Earthquake) Articuno (Peck, Fly, Ice Beam, Blizzard) Alternates: -- Hitmonchan (Strength, Mega Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch) -- Charizard (Ember, Flamethrower, Slash, Cut) ------------------ "I like to do politics with people from the East. Joe Clark and Stockwell Day are from Alberta. They are a different type. I'm joking. I'm serious. Uh..." -- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
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Atma
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posted 11-28-2000 05:25 PM
The first team I beat Elite 4 with...Charizard level 60 (66 by the time he beat Blastoise) Cut Flamethrower FireSpin Slash Graveler level 39 Earthquake Rock Throw Seismic Toss Mega Punch Pikachu level 33 Thundershock Quick Attack ??? Clefairy level 21 ??? Dratini level 17 ??? Jigglypuff level 16 ??? I don't remember the attacks on the last four, but they didn't have any TM attacks... ------------------ "My name is Atma... I am pure energy... and as ancient as the cosmos. Forgotten in the river of time... I've had an eternity to ponder the meaning of things... And now I have an answer..."
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Porygone
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posted 11-28-2000 10:54 PM
Charizard - Fire Spin - Strength - Flamethrower - Fire BlastArticuno - Ice Beam - Blizzard - Fly - Mist (Later replaced by Substitute, only becuase I had bought the TM, and couldn't find a use for it) Zapdos - Thunder - Thunderbolt - Fly - Light Screen Mewtwo - Psychic - Reflect - Recover - Swift Vileplume - Cut - Solarbeam - Sleep Powder - Petal Dance I THINK....maybe Vaporeon - Hydro Pump - Surf - Bubblebeam - Water Gun Back then, I decided the best Pokemon knew all the attacks that matched their element. I only used Thunderbolt because it was better than Thundershock, and only used Surf because I needed it. Oddly enough, I only lost with this team ONCE, when my cousin's Articuno used Blizzard and froze my Mewtwo.....his Mewtwo moved in and killed my remaining team...... ------------------ "The Devil has no inner child. It's sad really" - Lewis, The Drew Carey Show "We are not crazy! Stop staring, or we will kill you all!" Jack Malloy, Unhappily Ever After
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Jumpman16
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posted 12-01-2000 12:11 AM
Looks like you have to change you sig now, spunman...
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MewtwoSama
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posted 12-01-2000 05:33 PM
First 6 L 100's:Parasect(Spore,Leechlife,Slash,MegaDrain) Onix(toxic, bind, Earthquake, RockSlide) Scyther (Slash, DoubleTeam, HyperBeam, Swordsdance) Slowbro (Amnesia, Psychic, Surf, Strength) Electrode (Thunder, Screech, Explosion,Toxic) Dragonite (Toxic,Wrap,HyperBeam,?) Eventually, I added Chansey and Mewtwo ------------------ I love, lttle girls, they make me feel so good! I love, little girls, they make me feel so, BAD!
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Lark84
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posted 12-02-2000 03:41 AM
quote: Originally posted by MewtwoSama:
Parasect(Spore,Leechlife,Slash,MegaDrain) Onix(toxic, bind, Earthquake, RockSlide) Scyther (Slash, DoubleTeam, HyperBeam, Swordsdance) Slowbro (Amnesia, Psychic, Surf, Strength) Electrode (Thunder, Screech, Explosion,Toxic) Dragonite (Toxic,Wrap,HyperBeam,?)
Umm... Three toxics? You were smart enough to duplicate your TM's, I wasn't, so when I was gonna assemble the "ultimate team" all my good TM's were used up! And mr.K, my team does not look like that! Not anymore! But I *did* beat a guy with it! ------------------ "Why doesn't the magnet pick up this floppy disk?"
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N-Man
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posted 12-02-2000 05:35 AM
Yes the "good" old days...Venusaur: Tackle, Cut, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf Charizard: Slash, Flamethrower, Fire Spin, Reflect Blastoise: Bite, Hydro Pump, Surf, Bubblebeam Mewtwo: Psychic, Psywave, Recover, Blizzard Zapdos: Thundershock, Fly, Thunder, Agility Articuno: Peck, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Agility Everyone said I had a great team... Until last summer. I discovered Azure, editted my team and never lost a link/Stadium battle agian (Not counting the R-2 Masterball Prime Cup Gambler...) ------------------ Behold my graceful ball dexterity! - Juggler Irwin in G/S
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posted 12-02-2000 02:38 PM
Wow... Way back when... -Zapdos (Drill Peck/Thunder/Fly/something) -Moltres (Fire Blast/Fire Spin/Sky Attack/Peck) -Articuno (Ice Beam/Blizzard/Fly/Substitute) -Mewtwo (Psychic/Amnesia/Swift/Recover) -Venusaur (Tackle/Sleep Powder/Solarbeam/Razor Leaf). A funny story... I was a big newbie, but this trainer that otherwise easily beat me (his L:69 Blastoise beat my L:70 Venusaur because of its Surf/Hydro Pump/Ice Beam/Blizzard) thought that Amnesia was a useless move. When I restarted, I used Blastoise/Dugtrio/Gengar/Pidgeot/Hitmonchan on my team. I still use that game... ------------------ Porygon2 and Farfetch'd: The Two Duck Pokemon
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Muku
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posted 12-16-2000 11:45 PM
Way back when my Charizard was the strongest guy on my team, i was facing the E4 with a L54 Charizard, some other crap, and a few L3 Pidgeys. My prized Charmander (named Flamesy) was the only guy I trained. After I had gotten gameshark, my team looked like this: Charizard Venusaur Lapras Alakazam Zapdos Kidoking I learned bigger was never better. My Alakazam had Hypnosis and killed all my friends and my little brother so many times. All my PKMN then had moves according to their type. (Water Gun and Bubble for Lapras) Those were the days. I won't bore you with the stages of PKMN growth I went through after that. Grr.
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Brayze
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posted 12-17-2000 05:53 AM
Hoo boy, this was like a year and a half ago... lemme see.... I hated the starters, so I used....Tentacruel Barrier Hydro Pump Surf Acid Arcanine Bite Fire Blast Roar Double Team Kingler Strength Stomp Crabhammer Guillotine Tauros Stomp Double Team Fury Attack (I think) Rage (oh boy, now you see the crap emerging) Primeape (okay, this makes no sense at all) Rest (WHAT?) Thrash Karate Chop Seismic Toss and, the coup de grace.... Weezing Toxic Substitute Smokescreen Sludge If I knew what I was thinking I'd tell you. I knew no one else who played, and had never talked to anyone about it or checked anything.
In fact, I used the blizzard TM on Arcticuno as soon as I got him, and the Thunder TM on Zapdos. ...and I used Psywave on Mewtwo.... Swift on Electrode... bubblebeam on Starmie.... solar beam on exeggutor... oh my... [size=-1]ice beam on marowak...[/size] ------------------
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abz1986
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posted 12-17-2000 07:19 PM
ooo lets see, here was my team until January 2000(all L-100s)Lapras - Surf, ice beam, bodyslam, hydropump Venusaur - cut, megadrain, razor leaf, solar beam charizard - Slash, strength, flamethrower, fireblast Blastoise - bubblebeam, hydropump, bite, skullbash Mewtwo - Psychic, metronome, swift, recover I don';t really have a last member
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posted 12-23-2000 08:37 PM
When I first started playing, I didn't know HMs couldn't be deleted, so I taught it to Charizard (who was, of course, the ABSOLUTE coolest! Well, even I never thought that in my newbie Days).Charizard: Slash, Fire Spin, Flamethrower, Cut Then there was my first tournament (Nintendo's famous tour where everyone received a Mew). I did the Poke-Cup. I remember my awesome team... Cloyster: Spike Cannon, Ice Beam, Withdraw, Clamp Raichu: Thunder, Swift, Thundershock, Quick Attack Mr. Mime: Confusion, Psywave, Barrier, Substitute I was actually able to beat a kid with Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise. I still remember how it went: Go, CLOYSTER! Go, CHARIZARD! CHARIZARD used FLAMETHROWER! CLOYSTER used ICE BEAM! CHARIZARD used FLAMETHROWER! CLOYSTER fainted! Go RAICHU! RAICHU used THUNDER! CHARIZARD fainted! Go, VENUSAUR! RAICHU used BODY SLAM! VENUSAUR used RAZOR LEAF! RAICHU used BODY SLAM! Critical hit! VENUSAUR fainted! Go BLASTOISE! RAICHU used THUNDER! BLASTOISE fainted! I was soooo happy that I won. Unfortunately, I had lost before that to a wicked hot 14-year old girl with Lapras, so I wasn't qualified to get picked to face a Gym Leader. And that's what I remember. What fun! ------------------ "Your cheeseburger used TRI ATTACK!"
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Dragonite21
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posted 12-25-2000 04:15 PM
I still have my first ever squad saved on my brother's Mega Memory cartridge! I trained them all to level 100 by going through the Elite 4 again and again, I insisted on having every pokemon in the squad with a HM, and I always lost to Squall in our Mewtwo vs. Mewtwo fights! The squad was:Blastoise Strength Bubblebeam Bite Hydro Pump Raichu Flash Thundershock Swift Thunder Sandslash Cut Dig Earthquake Rock Slide Articuno Fly Peck Ice Beam Blizzard Dragonite Surf Wrap Dragon Rage Hyper Beam Mewtwo Psywave Swift Psychic Recover  ------------------ -Dragonite21 O_O
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Brayze
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posted 12-27-2000 10:42 PM
My First Team... almost 2 years ago *sniff*.Tentacruel (Octo... so lame....) Surf Barrier Lscreen (I think...) Hydro Pump (He won me all my battles, period. Max special helped him out.) Arcanine (Kest) Bite Fire Blast Double Team Hyper Beam (offense ho!) Exeggutor (Dormamu) Hypnosis Solar Beam Psychic Stomp (Stomp, eh? I kept him because he's got almost max stats, except for attack, down by about 4. He was the first I ever caught, and I was under the impression that all Exeggutor had super-high stats. Nope, just him.) Weezing (Choke) Smokescreen Rest Toxic Substitute (???) Dragonite (Romulus) Rest Strength T-wave Double Team (I thought I invented this, I still have him too because he's got max stats except for speed) and the coup de grace... Mewtwo (Disaster) Psychic Psywave (ugh...) Recover T-bolt (the game said psywave was powerful. The game was wrong. My mewtwo sucked anyways.) Ah... those were the days... No wait, no they weren't. ------------------
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posted 12-29-2000 03:59 PM
Ugh...my first team...I had no Mewtwo due to the fact that I thought that legendary PKMN can only be caught by Master Balls.So, I went on a rampage and knocked them out.Gengar(Phanto) DoubleTeam Lick Night Shade Confuse Ray Alakazam(Psy-Master) Psychic Psybeam HyperBeam Recover Charizard Slash Flamethrower Dig Fire Spin Raichu T-wave T-bolt Thunder Swift Dragonite(Bahamut) HyperBeam Slam ThunderWave -something- Lapras(Nessie) BodySlam IceBeam Surf Blizzard
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posted 12-29-2000 11:37 PM
I remember how simple it all seemed... ahhh. I still have my Venusaur from way back then I think my team was:Venusaur: RazorLeaf SleepPowder DoubleEdge Cut I loved this thing, RazorLeaf almost ALWAYS got a critical hit, and I remember how annoyed I was that Cut would not go away! It is the only thing I trained pretty much until it reached 100. ButterFree: Whirlwind(???) MegaDrain Psychic StunSpore TV show inspired... Kangaskan: CometPunch Rockslide Earthquake Bite Still one of my favorites, but it took me SO long to capture one in red. Articuno: IceBeam Mist(Had NO idea what it did) Fly Blizzard Amazingly enough, I caught it pretty easily with an UltraBall (I threw away my first MasterBall-I seriously didnt know what it did, and I needed room in my computer, so I thought "I only have one of those" and tossed it...) Gengar: NightShade SeismicToss Psychic Metronome I really liked the way SeismicToss's animation looked.And Metronome was what I thought to be one of the coolest attacks! Jolteon: Thunder ThunderWave PinMissle ThunderBolt I think Thunder's animation looks better in R/B/Y than now.Also, I never knew Paralyzation slows down a Pokemon until I got Stadium. Well, thats it, ahh.. the good ol days. I remember getting it like two weeks after it came out just thinking it would be cool to get a new RPG for gameboy. ------------------ *Femme Fatal Dragonite*: Wrap*Attract*HeadButt*ThunderWave-Try it!You know you wanna! ;) ------------------ Proud Member o' the Houndoom Haters Club
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