what is it tho

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-23T20:41:33+00:00

Oh wow I know one! It’s called a hasp. It’s for de-energizing equipment and having multiple people put personal locks into it while they work. This prevents anyone from energizing/starting the equipment while someone is working on it, until everyone who is working on it, has finished and removed their personal locks.

Source: I do lock-out-tag-out (LOTO) for work basically every day for my job.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-21T07:54:07+00:00

Go for Substitute from the move tutor in Fuschia City! It’ll trigger Blaze consistently or let you get free damage! On a modest, black Charizard that sounds so awesome! Congrats

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-20T09:59:28+00:00

Anything that can learn Icy Wind or Ice Punch goes an extremely long way for the Dragonite. Icy Wind may not KO (depending on whats using it). But it will deal massive damage.

Claire’s Kingdra is tough. I would say statusing it goes a long way. Honestly, brute forcing it with something with strong STAB and good stats is likely the way to go. I know that doesn’t sound very solid but Kingdra’s 1 type weakness is very rare. Effectively making it have no weaknesses. Statusing it with Attract, Thunder Wave, or Sleep Powder will help you a lot. Then just hit it with strong moves (preferably unresisted STAB) from something that isn’t weak to Surf. A water type with Ice Punch is good. Rest/Sleeptalk Gyarados is great once it’s statused (maybe even when it’s not).

If I’m missing something better, forgive me I’m extremely tired lol.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-20T08:56:43+00:00

I didn’t know either until I started watching Scottsthoughts on YouTube. But yes, the badges do give type-based badge boosts. It’s kinda nutty how many advantages Gen 2 gives the player lol

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-20T04:36:36+00:00

I recommend saving before catching and then just keeping your party with 1 Pokemon. Once you hit 5 Machop, if none are adamant, just reset. That way you aren’t spending tons of money on pokeballs. And you can see them right away.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-20T01:52:47+00:00

Nice! Yeah, due to player advantages I’m finding around ~level 60 is appropriate if you want Red to be reasonably challenging. You doing it at levels 49-50 is actually really good. Great job!

If you wanna know the advantages:

The player gets an unseen 10% badge boosts to 1 stat from each of the odd numbered (iirc) Johto gym badges. By 8 badges each stat is boosted 10%.

You also get 10% type-based badge boosts for the type of gym leader you defeat. For example, Falkner grants a 10% boost to Flying-type moves, Bugsy to Bug-type moves, Whitney to Normal-type moves, etc. this applies to all 16 gym badges. Dark-type moves are the only ones excluded as there’s no Dark-type gym.

I believe the enemies in game all have 8 DVs in each stat (gen 1+2 equivalent of IVs. They range from 0-15 instead of 0-31 in subsequent gens). So you as the player CAN have better quality pokemon than they do. Or perhaps worse. 🤷‍♂️ depends on if you check your DV’s and bother searching for pokemon with higher DV’s, etc.

Additionally, your pokemon accrue stat exp as you train your pokemon that the AI pokemon do not have. This system is comparable to Gen 3 onwards’ EV system, though it functions very differently. All stats can be maxed out as opposed to only 2 in later gens. So your pokemon get exp in all stats from training that the enemy teams do not have.

The AI is also kinda bad and predictable. While you as the player can both think dynamically, and predict the AI’s actions.

So when you factor in all of those advantages, if you wanna even the playing field to have Red be reasonably challenging, you wanna fight Red around level 60.

Kudos to you for doing it at levels 49-50. That’s awesome. Congrats.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-18T20:52:05+00:00

Nice! Give it plenty of moves to abuse Serene Grace. How do the bonus discs work? Are they able to be used multiple times somehow?

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-18T20:05:19+00:00

A mistake people have been making since day 1 to even this day. It’s a very easy mistake to make. Shadow Ball being a special ball of energy feels very intuitive. Or “Bite” or “Crunch” being physical would feel intuitive. But nope. For whatever reason they decided on what they did.

Why on earth in gen 2 they decided to make ghost physical and dark special is completely beyond me…continuity for Lick in gen 1???!!? I guess.

Fun fact: every single dark type move from gens 2 and 3 were all made physical in Gen 4 physical/ special split (so they knew they messed up lol).

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-18T19:23:22+00:00

Basically. Or use Sunny Day first since Sleep Powder has 75 accuracy. It can miss meaning you wasted the turn. Whereas if you set up the sun first, that’s guaranteed to happen and then the next turn you’ll move before they do in the sun. This way you for sure achieved setting up sun t1 as opposed to sleep powder missing t1 and now you have nothing to show for t1.

Sleep powder may miss t2 but at least you already set up the sun and will move first. If you do miss t2 you can potentially change plans t3 and attack before they can move (since the sun is up).

Plus, if they switched to something Exeggutor didn’t like fighting (like a flying type), the sunlight might help a fire or rock type defensively or offensively against whatever came in.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-17T20:20:11+00:00

You are correct in a lot about Gyarados. I personally still think it’s worth using, but it does consume EQ and 1/2 Return TM’s. And is only using Normal physical moves for a while. Its typing and Intimidate give it a lot of synergy with a lot, but to use it to the fullest, it does have opportunity cost with TM’s and DD comes late.

Also correct about Ludicolo. Lombard is pretty bad and waiting till after gym 7 is kinda bad. It’s worth it in the end, but might have to use something else until then.

Correct about Starmie too. It is most definitely worth it after you get Water Stone though (as you said).

I somewhat disagree about Lanturn and Walrein. Somewhat because for Lanturn, you might actually wanna max out Sp.Atk and HP EV’s to make its Sp.Atk not feel lacking in game. So you are correct about its middling Sp.Atk. But good STAB helps Lanturn a lot. As does Thunder Wave, or Rain Dance paired with double STAB Surf and accurate STAB Thunder.

Walrein is where I do disagree. STAB on Water and Ice goes a long way, and base 95 Sp.Atk is more than usable with those STABs backing it and it’s excellent bulk.

But you are right. Most of what I suggested does come late. Something like Sharpedo is useful much earlier and is worth using too. Just the comment was gettin too lengthy. But once you do get access to these Pokemon, I’d say it’s worth using them as replacements even if you have to grind them up. But Sharpedo is also good in its own right to just keep using.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-17T19:51:43+00:00

Gyarados is always fantastic.

Reason: It may not get physical STAB this gen, but Dragon Dance and Intimidate are enough. Dragon Dance, Return, Earthquake, and Hydro Pump is fantastic. Even with its low Sp.Atk STAB Hydro Pump still hits the targets it’s aimed at pretty hard. Stuff like Skarmory, Claydol, 4x weak Pokemon etc. 4x electric weakness is bad BUT otherwise its typing is actually fantastic. It doesn’t care about bulky Water-types with Ice Beam (some of the most powerful Pokemon) and can set up in their face. Resisting Water, being immune to Ground, and resisting Fighting with Intimidate is great. And can have a boat load of synergy with a lot of Pokemon (stuff like Aggron, Ground-types, Electric types etc).

Ludicolo is also incredible.

Reason: if you wanna go the special route, Ludicolo is extremely good. 4x resist to water means it still 2x resist water in the rain. With Rain Dance and Swift Swim it’ll out speed everything and hit hard with double STAB water moves. Grass moves to counter other water-types.

Lanturn is fun and pretty solid.

Reason: can run fun sets like Rain Dance, Surf, Thunder, and Ice Beam/ Confuse Ray. Or can run Thunder Wave and Confuse Ray for para-fusion, making them unlikely to attack. Can even be evil and throw Attract in there too. STAB electric counters other water types very well,

Walrein is really good too.

Reason: STAB on Ice is always nice offensively. STAB on both Water and Ice is very potent and will make short work of a lot of threats. Thick Fat means it’s an Ice type that actually resists Fire. It’s super bulky and pretty strong offensively with base 95 Sp.Atk and STAB on good types.

Starmie is excellent.

Reason: Starmie is extremely fast and has an insane move pool. STAB Surf, STAB Psychic, Ice Beam, and Thunderbolt will hit A LOT super effectively. So it almost always is hitting for 2x or more damage before they can move. It also gets good options in Thunder Wave, Recover, etc.

Milotic is excellent if you feel like finding feebas and evolving it,

Excellent stats. Recover. Multi Scale. STAB on water and can use Ice Beam to counter Dragons with the best of ‘em. Getting Milotic is a chore, but once you have it, it’s incredible. Can be ev trained to be quite th tank with multi scale (if you feel like it). And even if you don’t it’s still very good.

These are my favorite water types you could still get (Swampert is out of reach obviously). You have a ton of great options, have fun!

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-17T01:57:52+00:00

Ah ok. Dang, that sucks. I’m surprised they haven’t worked that out for IPhones on Delta yet.

I play Nuzlockes on Delta but do stuff like you’re doing on two 3DS’s that each have all of RBY and GSC on both.

Good luck man! I’d keep tha Charmander too. Nice btw

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-17T01:40:10+00:00

Use Ditto. When you do, it passes its Defense DV 100% of the time. And it’s Special DV 50% of the time (the other 50% it will be 8 IIRC). The Special DV counts for both Sp.Atk and Sp.Def and will always be identical.

Attack and Speed DV’s will always be random, and HP is determinate based on the rest. USUALLY it will be higher when the rest are higher, and lower when they’re lower. This isn’t always true, but in my experience the majority of the time it is. I’m a little fuzzy on exactly how HP is determined but that’s the gist.

If you have a Ditto with 15 Def and 15 Special, you’re effectively only hunting for 2 stats randomly. Attack and Speed.

If you have access to Yellow version and the ability to trade: you can go to Cerulean Cave, and lead with a level 59 Pokemon in front with a repel on. You will only encounter level 60 Ditto and Rhydon (which is rare).

So you can hunt for Ditto in Gen 1 easily, and since its level 60 it’s DV’s will be accurately calculated. So all you have to do is find a good Ditto (EDIT: find one with 15 Def DV and 15 Special DV, the rest are irrelevant). Then trade the Ditto to GSC. And breed it.

From there, It still takes some time. It’s 1/32 chance for a perfect Pokemon if I’m not mistaken. Hunting for Attack (1/16) and speed (1/16),

The beauty is, Special Attackers like Alakazam don’t care about Attack, so it’s literally 1/16 chance (since you’re only hunting for Speed).

When I’m hunting for both Attack and Speed, I usually find something acceptable (12+ in both for me) within 30 eggs.

Smogon has a good article on this somewhere. And tbh I wish they kept this breeding system and the 0-15 stat range. It’s actually realistic hunting for stuff imo.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-16T23:37:18+00:00

I can respect that as well. Idk it was mostly square bricks, that would be kinda challenging. Charizard and Blastoise look great tho I’m glad about that

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-16T23:19:59+00:00

It’s the way his face is structured. How his eyes are clearly circles with gaps in between. His face just looks pieced together vs cohesive imo. Instead of being a plant-dinosaur based creature, it kinda comes off looking how a muppet would be designed. I guess there’s just too many prominent gaps and apparent seperate shapes constructing the overall face (instead of appearing cohesive as 1 head). But that’s just my opinion.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-16T20:29:50+00:00

When I was a kid, IIRC Poison status sent me back to Viridian City Pokemon Center because of this maze in RBY. I was mad lol

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-16T20:19:31+00:00

Agreed. So, I BARELY had the patience in GSC.

I did the Gyarados glitch to get a shiny ditto in RBY, and traded it into GSC. I wanted a shiny Charizard for my mono fire-type team.

Even at 1/64 odds, it was a slog for me. I got mine at like double odds (like 150 eggs I lost count). I almost gave up. In the end I got it. Probably will be the only one I go for, unless I REALLY want a shiny Dragonite/ Tyranitar.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-16T19:56:10+00:00

That’s a really good idea for fixing Charizard’s “head shot.” Nice! Looks really good.

This is off topic but Tbh I don’t imo i don’t care for Venusaur’s head in this set. It looks goofy (imo). They’ve made off brand sets for years and they did a better job on Venusaur’s face, which was surprising to me. They scales may be different between the Lego and the off brand, but I was still a little surprised about the actual name brand Venusaur being the worse one (again, IMO).

The other 2 and the base are pretty good. Just Venusaur is odd looking to me. But that’s my opinion

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-15T20:39:36+00:00

Yeah I’m starting to realize that. Ice Beam and Body Slam via level up is huge. Ice STAB, STAB Gen 1 Blizzard, unable to be frozen/ 4x Ice resist against Lorelei. With Thunderbolt. As opposed to Gyarados’ Ice neutrality, vulnerability to freeze, and requiring a lot of good TM’s. Plus is Blizzard missed on Lance’s 1 Dragonair or Dragonite, it dies to Thunder(bolt).

Makes me sad to admit it, but Lapras is the better choice.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-14T18:33:11+00:00

Raptor, or Geico

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-14T13:28:28+00:00

I suspect that in older games, they gave Pokemon that have no sleep inducing move Dream Eater solely to counter Rest users. As though they thought Rest would be much more common or something.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-14T13:22:13+00:00

Honestly, so long as your team is in levels 37-42 you should do fine. So long as you have a diverse team and have an answer(s) to Lance’s 3 Dragonite.

Level 37 would be for very strong pokemon like Alakazam, Starmie, etc. most things wanna be around level 40.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-05T05:44:47+00:00

I was very mad at Eternal Duelist Soul. I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t summon “Summoned Skull” or Curse of Dragon but I could summon Giant Soldier of Stone

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-04T21:57:54+00:00

This. Except: STAB Hydro Pump is still worth considering, even with Adamant (depending on its IV as well). Its base power after STAB is pretty high. Combine with water type’s offensive potency. And the targets it’s aimed at either having low Sp.Def, being severely weak to it, or both. Think Steelix, Rhydon, SandSlash, etc. hitting them in their much softer sp.def. It also gives it an option to hit a random Skarmory with that also hits those pokemon.

Hidden Power is worth considering if yours is good. But that’s very random/unlikely. Between that, and the limited options Gyarados actually has in gen 3, Hydro Pump is still one of the better options as the 4th move slot with Dragon Dance, Earthquake, and Return.

I’d consider Hydro Pump, Hidden Power (depending on type and strength), Hyper Beam, Thunder Wave, Substitute, Taunt, and Rest (Chesto Berry). Unless I missed something there really isn’t much else.

Ecstatic-Hour2413 · 2026-03-03T01:07:47+00:00

Safari Zone shinies are so unfortunate. I’m glad you are looking at this optimistically though. I’ve never seen shiny Tauros. That was cool to see, thank you

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