I am rethinking the average person's knowledge of Pokemon.

[SeventhSandwich]

I was looking over some of the everyboty websites and I found that a lot of people (Or just one person who posts a lot) have a really good knowledge of pokemon. Like a structural knowledge of all the Gyms and Towers and what every single attribute boosting attack does.

When I played Pokemon Crystal when I was like 7, all of my pokemon's attacks did damage and the rest of them seemed useless.

Am I overreacting to one person's posts or did I really just suck at Pokemon?

[Ad Bot]

[Fireboy]

I did that too when I was little, nothing strange.

[MegaScientifical]

I also only kept attacks that do damage. I found that if I wasn't doing damage as many rounds as possible, they'd have the lead on my health bar and kill me. Not that other attacks aren't useful, I'd keep them until I found a more powerful move to put in, and use these in extreme cases, but I just didn't see the use.

[Cybersix]

Attacks that change the status of the enemy Pokemon are very important, I don't know what you people are talking about.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

I always loved Thunder, Fireblast, Flamethrower, and Ice Beam because they did both - do tons of damage AND mess up the enemy.

[Skorpion]

I only cared if it damaged them or if they spammed a special attack so I couldn't loving hit them because they'd sprayed so much jizz in my pokemons eyes.

[Sheath]

Pokemon works for all ages, but I find the strategic values of the game are wasted on younger players. I myself used to be the kind of person that only used damage attacks as well, had no real tactical plan, and was often biased to using one or two Pokemon and seldom training, leading to great imbalance in my squads levels (a level 12 Pokemon paired with a Level 24 one haha).

I'm pretty sure everyone did a similar kind of thing when they were aged about 7 or 8 as well. It was only when I was 12 and older that I really appreciated training in the wild and learning more moves than just high powered attacks-- even though its less fun hehe.

[Dnitro]

I really never understood pokemon. I got a fire deck sometime when i was younger though, and I have a container of both pokemon and yugioh cards.

I did however play yugioh, but not very strictly, as I made my rules based on what the TV show said. I didn't have the rule where you had to sacrifice higher level monsters and I fuse other monsters into really powerful ones.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Pokemon works for all ages, but I find the strategic values of the game are wasted on younger players. I myself used to be the kind of person that only used damage attacks as well, had no real tactical plan, and was often biased to using one or two Pokemon and seldom training, leading to great imbalance in my squads levels (a level 12 Pokemon paired with a Level 24 one haha).

I'm pretty sure everyone did a similar kind of thing when they were aged about 7 or 8 as well. It was only when I was 12 and older that I really appreciated training in the wild and learning more moves than just high powered attacks-- even though its less fun hehe.

I had a level 100 and a level 87 when I beat Pokemon Emerald, the rest were down in the 50's.

I really never understood pokemon. I got a fire deck sometime when i was younger though, and I have a container of both pokemon and yugioh cards.

I did however play yugioh, but not very strictly, as I made my rules based on what the TV show said. I didn't have the rule where you had to sacrifice higher level monsters and I fuse other monsters into really powerful ones.

Not the cards, foo.

[Sheath]

Not the cards, foo.

Well, he did say he didn't understand. :P

I have a wealth of cards in my cupboard my brothers got bored of and gave to me. Bags of 'em. Never really used or cared for them though lol.

[james4115]

considering pokemon is targeted at kids, yes you can go through the entire story with the strongest pokemon you end up catching


they also make areas like the battle subway and online competitions for people that really read into it and find out how to breed strong pokemon, type advantages, weather effects, move combos etc.


so no the difference in gameplay between 7 year old you and 21 year old virgins will not be the same

[Proog]

Use the same move until you run out of PP?
Flawless!

[Vegetarian Zombie]

I find that when I see people yammering on about the new Pokemon that are in Diamond, Pearl, Black, White, etc., that I think that they are committing serious heresy.

I steal only really care about the Pokemon up to generation 3.

Use the same move until you run out of PP?
Flawless!

Aha, I remember getting my lvl 100 Sceptile and spamming Dragon Claw until whatever I was fighting died.

Good times...

[Sheath]

Use the same move until you run out of PP?
Flawless!

HAHAHA

... until you are left with Splash and have never used Splash before.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

HAHAHA

... until you are left with Splash and have never used Splash before.

Yay for Magicrap