I like shorts, they're comfy and easy to wear!

[thistlechaser]

(Edit: I hadn't realized my image in my last post was so big! Sorry! Images never display accurately on my home PC, so I don't see their true size until I see the post on my work machine.)

I wanna be the very best... but I just don't like any of these pokemon.

For the first time in many years, I'm replaying a Pokemon game. Emerald (picked at random, if I had seen a Red or Blue rom I would have snatched that up instead). I'm having the same issue I have whenever I played any non-Red/Blue game: My team is tiny because I don't like any of the new pokemon.

I'm in my third gym, and I have a grand total of three pokemon.

Sableye. Dark/ghost. My first time ever using it, and I love it.
Swellow. Normal/flying. Meh. I'd much much rather have a Spearow/Fearow, but I'm going to need a flying and this is the only one I saw.
Wartortle. Water. My starter. If I had found anything I liked better, I would have replaced it.

I also have a poochyena, but it's level 15 and all the others are around 23. It was going to be my dark pokemon, until I tried the sableye. I also have some level 6 bug pokemon, just as a HM user.

I've been doing fine with just three so far, except this gym is electric. Water pokemon. Flying. Against electric. Worse yet, all the electric types must have some secondary type because sableye's ghost moves aren't effective (or ghost is weak to electric, I totally don't remember these things anymore).

I saw an abra once, but I had forgotten how to catch them and didn't Google it, so I wasted my try by attempting to fight it. (How can I have forgotten so much? But on the other hand, I think that's why I'm enjoying the game now. It's all new!)

I really should have found a Red or Blue rom, then I'd have a team of six and wouldn't have this issue.

Oh well, back to walking through the grass for me!

Edit: Oops, ha ha. I decided to try to find a cheat so I could use the pokemon I wanted. (Not changing levels or power or number of pokeballs or anything else.) Somehow it glitched my game so I encounter nothing but charmander in the wild! No other wild pokemon ever. Guess I'll find a Red or Blue and start over.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Somehow it glitched my game so I encounter nothing but charmander in the wild! No other wild pokemon ever

I don't see the issue here.

Also, after I read the first line of your post I immediately said, outload, "like no one ever was!" and then I hummed the rest of the song.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Also, no idea where one might get their hands on pokemon game roms. I mean, I most certainly don't have all of them lying around anywhere that I might just happen to upload somewhere... (http://www.mediafire.com/?g3def3e4ndzp3by)

I mean that would just be silly >.>

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! I downloaded a red one already, but grabbing that for future use! <3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I didn't see an issue for a while either! ...then I realized I still needed an electric pokemon. c.c

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

Highly suggest getting a FireRed or LeafGreen ROM. You don't see any of the new Pokemon until well after you beat the game, but it has the improved pacing and graphics (I cannot live without running shoes, huaargh).

Newer Pokemon really do grow on you as you continue to play the later games. I barely liked any of the Black/White (fifth generation, coming out March) Pokemon when I first saw 'em, but as I started playing the Japanese ROM I found myself growing pretty fond of a lotta the little bastards.

Because what's not cute about a four-inch tall electric spider hamster?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, hm, I think I might be playing just plain Red, not FireRed. I'll check when I go back to work on Monday! I'm still early enough that I can easily change.

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

SHAYMIN IS MY VERY FAVORITE.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

WELL THEN HERE'S ONE JUST FOR YOU!

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

In a game like Emerald, where most of the pokemon look dumb, fighting nothing but Charmander is a godsend!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Very true! I was so happy to restart on Red. Everything looks right! Sane! All the towns have familiar names!