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guardians_song) wrote2013-10-26 08:12 pm
guardians_song) wrote2013-10-26 08:12 pm
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*busts a gut laughing*
So I'm doing an undocumented no-Marts Nuzlocke of Pokemon Red. Thanks to the Turbo button, I'm pretty far - just got through Silph Co. (Would have done Fuchsia first, but I wanted Master Ball so I could catch Snorlax. >_> Being unable to use Marts makes you do strange things.)
Now.
Do you want to know how I utterly humiliated Sabrina, the Gym Leader that terrified me MOST on my Pokemon Blue run? And, incidentally, did the same thing to Gary's 'fearsome' Alakazam?
HYPNO.
I am not kidding you. This silly Pokemon singlehandedly beat the tar out of Sabrina's ENTIRE Gym, and beat her Psychics without a SINGLE Potion.
It was admittedly overleveled at the time, but if it hadn't been, it would have had similar results. As it was, the only irritation was that i had to literally put the Alakazam to sleep in order to break it out of its absurd Recover stunlock. (Which should tell you something. Alakzam, the Pokemon that terrified me so much in the initial run? Reduced to turtling to stay alive.)
The only impediment with Gary's Alakazam was that it WOULD. NOT. STAY. ASLEEP. Seriously, it awoke three times on the turn right after it was put to sleep. Absolutely bizarre.
The thing is, you realize it was designed as a Psychic-against-Psychics once you actually start using it. It has decent physical stats to back a strong physical attack, resists Psychic, and has enough of a Special stat to wall its Psychic foes. It even has an option to put them to sleep so they can't wall with Recover stunlock.
RIDICULOUSLY underrated in-game Pokemon. I wish I had actually taken the time to train Klakarton in the Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke... Would have made things a lot simpler...
Now.
Do you want to know how I utterly humiliated Sabrina, the Gym Leader that terrified me MOST on my Pokemon Blue run? And, incidentally, did the same thing to Gary's 'fearsome' Alakazam?
HYPNO.
I am not kidding you. This silly Pokemon singlehandedly beat the tar out of Sabrina's ENTIRE Gym, and beat her Psychics without a SINGLE Potion.
It was admittedly overleveled at the time, but if it hadn't been, it would have had similar results. As it was, the only irritation was that i had to literally put the Alakazam to sleep in order to break it out of its absurd Recover stunlock. (Which should tell you something. Alakzam, the Pokemon that terrified me so much in the initial run? Reduced to turtling to stay alive.)
The only impediment with Gary's Alakazam was that it WOULD. NOT. STAY. ASLEEP. Seriously, it awoke three times on the turn right after it was put to sleep. Absolutely bizarre.
The thing is, you realize it was designed as a Psychic-against-Psychics once you actually start using it. It has decent physical stats to back a strong physical attack, resists Psychic, and has enough of a Special stat to wall its Psychic foes. It even has an option to put them to sleep so they can't wall with Recover stunlock.
RIDICULOUSLY underrated in-game Pokemon. I wish I had actually taken the time to train Klakarton in the Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke... Would have made things a lot simpler...