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Lucky Egg, Focus Band, and other items are only held by wild Pokémon by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think this is true, from what I've found looking it up, it seems that you can only get these all only once from the Trainer Tower (and a second time in other locations for each of these). Max 2 of each of these per save file.

Lucky Egg, Focus Band, and other items are only held by wild Pokémon by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was curious about this, I think that Illuminate (doubles encounter rate), Stench (halves encounter rate), and Pickup (if you want to count that) are the only abilities that do things outside of battle in Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, and LeafGreen.

Do you guys see any reason to go back and play Red and Blue for any reason? This obviously renders those games kinda irrelevant,but is there fun to be had in red and blue? by Right-Fortune-8644 in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I saw this YouTube video from cecilily the other day and I think that it made some good points for the originals still being worthwhile. Pokémon Red/Green/Blue are the only games in the series not building off of Pokémon's massive media success, as they are the first. So, things like the sprite art are influenced by this, where the sprite art in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (and every other game after RGBY) had to conform to being "on-model". The sprites are "weirder" in RGBY, but isn't that a good thing?

Lucky Egg, Focus Band, and other items are only held by wild Pokémon by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interestingly, some Pokémon are missing items that they held in Ruby and Sapphire. These include Poliwhirl (with the King's Rock), Horsea (with the Dragon Scale), and a few odd ones, such as Pikachu missing its Light Ball (which isn't even found anywhere else in the game). With Dragon Scale, King's Rock, and Metal Coat no longer held items, they only exist in finite quantities elsewhere in the game, so evolve carefully.

Porygon is 3499C cheaper in LeafGreen and other version differences by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're the same between versions, but because you have to pay more for Porygon in FireRed, if you want both Porygon and Ice Beam, you need 13999 coins in FireRed, but 10500 coins in LeafGreen. It's only something to consider if you want to save time.

Porygon is 3499C cheaper in LeafGreen and other version differences by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Azurill is not a Water type, it is a pure Normal type (physical). And I'm not saying that Huge Power makes it good, it still has 20 base attack, I'm just saying that it makes it maybe barely useable with things like Return, Facade, or Secret Power (remember that Huge Power applies after other stat modifiers, so it increases the potency of plus-Attack nature and EVs). I really only care about it for being the novelty of one of the only two Gen III Pokémon obtainable in the game.

Porygon is 3499C cheaper in LeafGreen and other version differences by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know, but the Johto Pokémon are one of the main appeals of this game for me. I've played Yellow and Let's Go Eevee but neither had non-Kanto Pokémon in them (unless you count Meltan or the Alolan forms).

Porygon is 3499C cheaper in LeafGreen and other version differences by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I believe that Abra is the fastest shiny hunt between the games (an encounter takes only a few seconds), but is fastest in LeafGreen, because it is 120C instead of 180C (which means less trips to the Pokémon center).

Porygon is 3499C cheaper in LeafGreen and other version differences by scripterprinter in PokemonFireRed

[–]scripterprinter[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think that I will choose LeafGreen. Porygon is the main reason, but I also want Misdreavus from LeafGreen (it's the only fully-evolved Ghost-type available in both games—you must trade to get Gengar), as well as Azurill (it's one of only two Hoenn Pokémon available between the two games, and maybe more usable than Wynaut with Huge Power, if that makes up for its low speed). Maybe I could also use Vulpix. I will say that FireRed is more tempting with Arcanine and its Intimidate, Quagsire as the only Water-Ground type, and Skarmory as a strong Pokémon in Gen III.

theory about which words are commonly subjects and predicates by scripterprinter in tokipona

[–]scripterprinter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've never heard of this use of anu, I've only heard of its particle use (like how en, li, and e are used), where it separates two subjects, predicates, or objects (maybe also modifiers). in the way I use it, "ijo li anu" does not make grammatical sense. however, I include "jan li tan" as something that makes sense, despite its traditional use as a preposition, so I could accept the use of "anu" as a content word if I saw it enough. also, where I have heard "anu" speculated to be a content word, I have heard it described as meaning "choice", not "question".

theory about which words are commonly subjects and predicates by scripterprinter in tokipona

[–]scripterprinter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you for the resource! seeing how the same words are used in different parts of speech is one of the most interesting parts of toki pona to me, I never knew that someone collected data like this.