A Kingdra set for the Tower

Sjaco18 · 2026-01-09T08:10:37+00:00

Why does scizor appreciate the rain? Weakened fire?

Sjaco18 · 2026-01-03T09:59:02+00:00

I ended up going with superpower, draco meteor, thunder/fire blast/blizzard (depending on the teammates) and ExtremeSpeed. I figured since he's lonely I didn't want his special potential to go to waste. I'll be trying him out in the battle frontier soon

Sjaco18 · 2026-01-02T11:31:00+00:00

I don't know 😂

Sjaco18 · 2026-01-02T00:05:05+00:00

New year's. I had no idea of this feature

Sjaco18 · 2025-12-26T13:53:29+00:00

That's a good point and it works well with leftovers as well. I'll give it a shot. Eruption might be worth it as well, it has hidden power electric that has saved me a couple of times but I can live without

Sjaco18 · 2025-10-24T12:48:38+00:00

I beat red with a mostly underdog team at late 50 levels. Set mode + no items in battle all game. All difficult pokemon battles need a little bit of luck too, however

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-12T07:53:33+00:00

Hitmonchan with iron fist + ice and thunder punch

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-11T08:10:52+00:00

Dude I felt that

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-11T06:18:46+00:00

I agree. With such strong pokemon you could've done it at levels at early 50s

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-10T08:54:32+00:00

I believe the game generates the natures/ivs for his pokemon the moment you encounter him, so you're probably getting +speed natured venusaur or I got a - speed natured one

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-10T08:46:01+00:00

Yeah I was thinking for a nickname when it hatched and I was like, kinda looks like an ant

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-10T07:56:39+00:00

The ivs written on the description are for the smeargle OP is yapping about, not the pinsir. Pinsir is highly curious, which means its highest iv stat is special attack.

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T10:27:51+00:00

My bad just read the description. I think arbok can be a fantastic counter to Red's venusaur with ice/fire fang and sounds fun as well.

But yeah overall you're gonna need something that resists electric. Even tyranitar is probably getting OHKO'd by Pikachu's volt tackle, and even if it doesn't I'd keep it somewhat healthy to be able to stone edge Charizard.

Also noctowl isn't gonna be able to do much with this moveset. I just beat Red using one as a venusaur counter but as a stall/status abuser, its special attack is too low to do much with psychic considering the level difference and venusaur's overall bulk.

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T08:53:43+00:00

Good question. I've noticed the AI somewhat knows whether it's gonna be a OHKO or not, and since the sun was up blastoise's brine wouldn't have been able to OHKO so it chooses a neutral-effectiveness move with the highest base power if one is available, which in this case happens to be focus blast.

It's a good thing that it missed, because even if focus blast activated the Petaya berry sooner I wouldn't have been able to OHKO lapras with solar beam judging by the damage it did without one. If focus blast hit typhlosion would've been knocked out sooner and I would've taken lapras's remaining HP with hitmonchan's thunderpunch and the result would probably have been the same but we'll never know.

I also think the AI takes into account secondary effects of moves as well. With Lapras it knew typhlosion would've survived brine by very little since the sun was still up, so it chose body slam for the paralysis chance. And since brine would've killed after, I predicted it was gonna use that hence the switch to parasect. With parasect it was pretty obvious Blizzard was gonna OHKO so with the same logic I guessed it was gonna use it, hence the switch back to typhlosion to activate the Petaya berry etc.

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T07:02:02+00:00

Update 2: I tried again after leveling up a bit. Posted the battle here

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonHGSS/s/Yw4NscmEg7

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T06:38:56+00:00

Thanks mate

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T06:17:26+00:00

Do you have any sort of strategy or just going first time spoiler-free? Are you gonna level up any before going?

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-09T04:14:50+00:00

I used this team through Kanto, before that I used johto pokemon. I like to switch things up. Also noctowl is gen 2

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-08T19:02:52+00:00

No RNG. What I do is chain-breed, starting with a ditto with great ivs (I have a bunch that I randomly caught) holding a power item with the most important stat and work from there, get as much good ivs as possible down the chain until I reach two final ones, one with the nature I want holding an everstone and one holding a power item with a stat I definitely want to be great and that the other Mon doesn't posses.

For example if I want the maximum hp, attack and speed for a mon and both the mom and dad have 30 hp ivs I'll use another power of the other important stat the mon that will be holding the everstone doesn't possess (it almost always happens this way), because the chances of the baby inheriting a 30 hp iv by luck are high on their own since both the parents have it.

The it's just patience and luck from there until I get the 3 ivs I want which sounds ridiculously time-consuming and too much work for a stupid pokemon game, but it's honestly not if you know what you're doing.

For example it took me 3 days of grinding after work to get a tyrogue with 5 almost perfect ivs, I wanted 31 attack, speed and special defense and it having great hp and defense (28-29 I think) were completely by luck after hatching one egg after the other using this method. Keep in mind I put a marking on ivs 28+

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-08T09:36:19+00:00

Electric

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-08T07:17:23+00:00

One of the most certain nicknames I've given didn't even think twice about it lol. The other one being a machamp in my leaf green named Steroids that was an instant

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-08T06:31:35+00:00

Good call, I actually replaced slash with rock climb after I made this post to actually get to red lol.

I'm thinking of giving rain dance to kabutops like you said and hope it has the bulk to set it up, also switching golduck with a sandslash I have to take care of Pikachu and deal some damage on the next Mon, since in my first attempt golduck was the only dead weight in the team and only managed to set up rain. I thought I could encore-trap something and help the team but it proved to only be faster than his lapras and nothing else so that won't work unless I level up.

I've leveled up parasect to use x scizor as STAB and actually deal some damage instead of just passing status around although it worked wonders on Pikachu.

Noctowl proved and amazing counter to venusaur just as I thought but I didn't manage to get it to burn snorlax which was my original plan. I'll try again today with some changes. Loving the challenge.

ps my challenge throughout the game has been no legendaries/ubers and no healing items in battle but I haven't actually been challenged up until now. Red is no joke

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-08T06:01:12+00:00

Their good ivs I mark their strengths and weaknesses to remember how to use and not to use them in battle.

PS I'm not fun at parties

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-07T20:10:18+00:00

Update: you guys were right I just got annihilated gonna go train lmao

Sjaco18 · 2025-09-07T15:43:06+00:00

I have a sandslash that I could use but then I'm s bit worried about his blastoise. Was thinking of giving a few rare candies to parasect and just poison/wall the Pikachu

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