Ellron
We Rise from the Ashes to Begin Again
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Just play Emerald, it's the superior of the 3 and merges plots of Ruby and Sapphire together. For a starter, pick either Torchic or Mudkip, never choose grass-types as starters, save for few exceptions, they suck. Pure Grass-types have:
* lots of weaknesses, few resistances, no immunity
* plain move set
* bad stat distribution
* also Sceptile's signature move is Leaf Blade (a physical attack) despite the Pokemon having higher special attack
For Swampert and Blaziken, Swampert is a great wall/tank while still having a very decent offense, while Blaziken has better offense but is more fragile. But in a battle, Swampert defeats Blaziken, so overall, the best Hoenn starter is Mudkip.
I agree with this. Emerald I always saw as the best Pokemon game of the series. And as far as starters go, you can't go wrong as long as you do not pick Treecko. I picked Treecko once and could not beat the second gym!
Alternatively, get Treecko, then get Taillow. As long as its at least Lv 13 (so it knows Wing Attack), it should be able to take care of Brawly's Pokémon fairly easily (even more so if you train it up to the same level as his team).
Also worth noting is that, in Gen III, all Grass-type moves were Special, so Leaf Blade does work off of Sceptile's stronger stat.
Actually, unless your Taillow is incredibly powerful, you'll need to get it to Brawly's levels. None of the Starters really fare well against Brawly's heavy hits, in my experience. Marshtomp might be best because he can handle them better, but overall it's best to have a Flying-Type to help with him.
I'd like to mention that I've never had issues with Sceptile--at least, no more than I've had with any other starter.
Well, I WAS a lot younger when I played the game with Treecko as my starter. Maybe I should try using him when ORAS come out.
Of course, I'm a bit biased since Treecko is one of my favorite Pokemon ever xP It could be that I just don't notice his faults that much. Or I might have conveniently happened to have good 'Mons to back him up. I don't know
Okay, so I have been doing some poking around on the internet looking for a good copy of Pokémon Red Version, for the Gameboy, or course. I had played all three of the Generation I games ad nauseam on my Gameboy, but I lost Red quite a few years back. While looking I noticed something different about some of the cartridges. Some of them, on the bottom-left of the label where it displays the ESRB Rating, or "The Big E" as I called it as a little kid, the E is solid black. But on other pictures of the cartidges, the big E is white with a black outline on it. In case this description is too vague, I have attached two pictures showing what I mean. My old Blue Version cartridge has the solid black E on it, and so does my Yellow. Can anyone tell me if the ones with the black outlines are fake, or a different variation of the cartridge?View attachment 95166View attachment 95167
Well I know that I have two Yellow versions, one with the black 'E' and one with the white one. As far as I know, they're both completely legitimate.