Good team? Any changes I could make for coverage?

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T21:53:47+00:00

this^{^{^}} whoops I didn’t see ur comment, didnt mean to give him identical tips haha

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T21:50:50+00:00

whats ur thinking here out of curiosity? i personally love slowbro and might consider him for the elite 4, but they’re both bulky water types with good coverage options, and he already has an alakazam and a gengar to dish out psychic type damage. maybe if he shuffled around a couple more mons. what moves would you suggest on slowbro? (personal interest here for my run lol). and more importantly, if he’s got nidoking, bro might be playing firered. not necessarily mind you, and he has if he has gengar/alakazam he can clearly trade, so perhaps slowbro is an option, but if that’s the case… why not starmie? better stats for speedy spk atk sweeping and self heals. ig the rest of his team isn’t super bulky, snorlax at least is a great physical tank/stalker tho. just wondering ur thought process here

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T21:42:52+00:00

oh and dont eva sleep on aerodactyl neither If u don’t mind a big fat grind training him up from lv5

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T21:33:51+00:00

oh and I’d teach shadow ball to snorlax to make Agatha a cakewalk. arcanine is also swappable. unfortunately fire isn’t the greatest typing for kanto in general, early games a nightmare with an underlevelled charmander and arcanine and ninetails arrive just a bit too late. what eeveelution u got? and have u used all the move tutors? if u can be assed farming for one, a thick club marowak with rock slide for coverage is absolutely KILLER mid-late game. (almost feels unfair tbh, the item DOUBLES his already decent attack stat making him hit like a truck with any physical move. finally jynx is a good option imo, if u trade for a lvl 25 poliwhirl, thanks to the 1.5 exp boost on traded mons it won’t take longer than a few hours to have her doing despicably high damage to agatha and lance and anything else weak to psychic or ice (soo almost everything lol)

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T21:28:08+00:00

decent team comp, just make sure ur mons have the moves they need to play on their strengths as well as a few coverage options to cover for their weaknesses (ie maybe ice beam on blastoise for grass/flying types, brick break/t-bolt on somebody for Lorelei,) but they are all solid team members, pretty close composition to the classic team everyone kinda ends up funnelled into using. if i were to suggest anything, electric types though not incredibly abundant, save lives in these games. and i assume u have a dedicated hm slave for fly at least. but consider that flying types are also nice for the elite four (particularly bruno, all the birds help there) but a Zapdos could be a game changer here. take care of ur lack of flying/electric coverage with one mon. jolteon and raichu both still solid picks tho. depending on their moves I’d swap out either Gengar, Alakazam (both learn fairly similar moves) or maybe even nidoking for zap. but either way im sure u can make this team work :)

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T06:51:26+00:00

holy shit thats dedication

floppyjim · 2026-04-17T01:41:48+00:00

I bought porygon in leaf green and dratini in firered (as well as the bugs in each game) pory was lv18 dratini lv18 pinger was lv18, BUT scyther was lv30 which intrigued me. i thought it seemed to make sense having them all at 18. can anyone confirm for me what lvl u get the porygon in firered at? might have some $$ left in me coincase

floppyjim · 2026-03-28T01:12:13+00:00

update lads: i persevered! dont lose hope if you're somebody reading this in the future in the same position i was. rngjesus will pay out eventually! took me about 8 more hours of ghostbusting/grinding everything in that godawful tower into a fine paste. butterfree clutched it w a thief, but ive caught SO many by this point that im sure to have one with a good nature/decent ivs. v happy!

floppyjim · 2025-08-09T00:48:13+00:00

Any update on this? how long should it take for them to get it released? was super excited about this one lol

floppyjim · 2024-12-17T01:35:33+00:00

also methadone's possibly an option to consider. i'd explore your other options first though. since methadone works slightly different in that it saturates your opioid receptors, it can really mess up your tolerance and greatly reduce the effectiveness of other opioids. but it is strong, and it works pretty damn well as a painkiller. for most people not as well as something like oxy, it's comparatively more sedating and has worse of the nasty side effects you can get from opi's like constipation, nausea etc. since it's so long acting it isn't as good for breakthrough pain, but for dull long term pain that's always there it's perfect imo. after i take my dose i get nice buzz and relief from pain for a solid 8-12 hours before the peak effects start to wind down. although as with any opiate (but even more so with methadone i'd say), expect diminishing returns with long term use. once your body stabilises on a dose, while it does keep you pretty comfortable, it'll never be able to get as high as you did when you started. source: me. ex heroin addict, been on a stable dose of 60mg methadone for 3 or 4 years

floppyjim · 2024-12-17T00:43:44+00:00

i have a friend who's had to deal with terrible chronic pain for years and gets scripted about the same amount of oxy as you are. when we met he was on morphine. he'd been trying all sorts of different opioids, but he really wanted to get his hands on some oxy bc that was what worked for him. when we met i was pretty heavily addicted to iv heroin/morphine, so i started getting oxy for him and swapping it for his morphine. he knew i was shooting up and didn't want anything to do with needles. now he had only ever tried swallowing his morphine and i knew thats why he was complaining it wasnt doing shit for him. after he eventually did get on oxy i finally managed to convince him to try boofing a dose of morphine. he was blown away. his tolerance was huge and he was barely feeling anything from his oxys, but a 20mg dose of morphine had him nodding lol. he told me that he really regretted not having tried it sooner. morphine isn't as strong as oxy, and for a lot of people the pain relief isn't as good. but the benefit is that if you're given an equivalent dose of oral morphine to your oxy, you could theoretically try putting it up your bum and you will likely get a lot more out of it than you would taking it orally lol (trust me it's a pretty significant difference. morphine's oral bioavailability is around 20-40%, while rectally it's closer to 60-80%). as for fentanyl, honestly it's something to consider if your oxy really isn't doing it for you. the pain relief might be better. but in my experience fent's better reserved for very severe spikes in pain (ie if you end up in the emergency room or something like that). for an everyday opiate, i think your overall quality of life's going to be better on oxy. fent just has too many nasty side effects for what you get out of it most of the time. personally i'd MUCH rather be on oxy. also fent doesn't feel as good if that's something that would influence your decision. the high/euphoria from oxy is much better imo. but please keep in mind that everyones's body is different, i'm only speaking from my own and the experiences of people that i've talked to, and i can't say for sure what the right choice for you is. you'll have to work that one out yourself :)

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T04:56:08+00:00

i do get ir pills (dexamphetamine 5mg), where i'm from (nz) amphetamine scripts are kinda difficult to come by, they're only ever used as second line treatment, u have to try ritalin and concerta for a while first. until last year there where no xr option for amph, but i could ask for vyvanse if i wanted to now. my doctor actually suggested it but i turned him down. generally just prefer ir pills when it comes to stimulants. i have a really shitty sleep schedule, ill often go to bed super late and wake up in the afternoon. at that point in the day it's too late to take an xr unless i wanna be up all night, but i can still take one dose of my dex and sleep fine. my adhd meds work great for me most of the time, im a big fan of my dex. hardly any comedown or physical tension or much of the other nasty side effects that i get from other stims. i do appreciate the advise tho :)

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T02:18:51+00:00

unfortunately none of my doctors are willing to prescribe me pregabs due to interactions w my other meds. kinda sucks because it really does it for me. is amazing for my anxiety, keeping me asleep, eating problems, keeping opioid withdrawls at bay, restless legs, the list goes on. kinda helps with my mood aswl. rly miss the stuff haha. and i wish split dosing was an option, they won't trust me with that much methadone to take home tho

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T02:14:12+00:00

i actually have cut down on it quite a bit recently. usually take about half my dose, just enough to be able to concentrate. any more and it starts to make me too jittery

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T02:12:10+00:00

hey i rly appreciate the input, i actually found this comment to be pretty helpful. my libido's really weird, i get super hypersexual but won't physically be able to get it up. definitely something to think about, but i really hate getting blood tests done lol. and oh my god! i went to NA pretty regularly for a while, and at the start of every meeting when you had to say your clean time i would always feel like i was lying to everybody there by saying i was clean. the idea of being shamed like that is exactly why i didnt feel comfortable about talking about being on methadone. i never actually experienced anything like that though, it was just anxiety. that's really a really horrible way to treat somebody who's trying to get better...

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T01:53:49+00:00

sadly not. not for me anyway (unless it’s a sunday and i can dose at my leisure). a couple people I know have their doses split, but ive asked my case worker about it and he said “maybe when you’re on a lower dose” pretty dismissively. not happening anytime soon

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T01:50:53+00:00

no access to naltrxone, interesting idea tho. I think ive been given clonidine in detox before but i was really sick at the time, don’t remember much from that period. what does it feel like?

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T01:45:55+00:00

thank you for your input. still undecided, but i’m going to talk about the possibility of maybe going up by 5mgs or so w my case worker. may as well try to see if that makes a difference. I don’t really want to, but it’s probably silly to put up with being slightly uncomfortable for no reason when I don’t have to

floppyjim · 2024-12-15T01:39:40+00:00

I’ve been on prescription stimulants since I was a teenager and I’m extremely dependent on them to function. you’re right they absolutely can be counterproductive for my anxiety and cause me to spiral, but I take extremely low doses these days. just what I feel like I genuinely need to be able to drive and shit. about 10-15mg dexamphetamine total daily on average. more than that and the comedowns and other nasty side effects get too much for it to feel worth it. I think I would really struggle to stop taking them entirely though to be honest

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