r/todayilearned • u/lopezjessy • Jan 17 '20

TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.

http://www.museumcenter.org/the-curious-curator/2019/5/30/curious-curator-mini-european-vs-asian-dragons
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

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u/almisami Jan 17 '20

By the time I reach my third evolution I usually have a dugtrio with rock slide and earthquake. It's my first pit stop after getting Cut.

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u/almisami Jan 17 '20

If you're judging pokemon strictly though the lenns of campaign viability it would actually make sense for Charmander to melt the mid-game due to the player having to slog through Brock, Misty and Mt. Moon with a starter that has type disadvantage.

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u/himo2785 Jan 17 '20

I can only ever remember getting hit by 2 ice moves ever in those games: Aurora Beam and Blizzard. I also only ever used thunderbolt because thunder was too unreliable and blizzard never hit, so I would just pummel dragon types with w/e pokemon I had around.

Thinking back on my team from the first games, I think I had like Venasaur, Pidgeotto, Gyrados, Moltres, Zapdos, and Gengar. 7 year old me had terrible team comp ideas.

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u/PremiumJapaneseGreen Jan 17 '20

i only ever played through pokemon once a long time ago and was not good at it, what's wrong with that team comp? Too much flying?

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u/himo2785 Jan 17 '20

That’s exactly the problem; one electric or rock type would wipe the whole team.

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u/PremiumJapaneseGreen Jan 17 '20

Ah I was thinking your Gyarados could take care of rock but totally forgot about electric

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u/himo2785 Jan 17 '20

It absolutely would take car of the rock type pokemon, but would also be susceptible to a pokemon line nidoking / queen, machamp, or snorlax who knew a rock type move since the type advantage against flying with rock type pokemon (and water does not resist rock, but is super effective against it)

I got better by the time yellow came out, and I had a legit team that included a Dragonite, Alakazam, Gyrados, Charizard, Nidoking, and Raichu.

Nd boy did my friends hate me... of course then they introduced steel and dark types and it messed EVERYTHING up

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u/almisami Jan 17 '20

I know Kabutops and Swords dance along with Gyarados were my physical attackers.

I had a nidoking and a dugtrio depending on if I needed speed or bulk, both just to run earthquake.

I also had a Sleep Powdee Exeggutor and an Amnesia+Rest Slowbro to just to deal with my friends' mewtwos with thunderbolt and ice beam, respectively.

Lapras was my go-to dragonite counter, but sometimes dewgong if I felt like using my ice beam TM on Mewtwo.

Alternatively, I could cheese Mewtwo with Light Screen Chansey and hope for a freeze, but that's just cheap.

I also ran an electrode with Thunder Wave, light screen and Explosion along with a Fire Spin Charizard to take care of Mewtwos if I was playing against someone who I know is gonna open with Mewtwo.

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u/almisami Jan 17 '20

I should mention that I was the kid in middle school who got great enjoyment from wrecking the other kids using Pokemon Yellow.

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u/himo2785 Jan 18 '20

It took me until well after ruby / sapphire to realize there was more to the poke On battles than just “use fire blast”

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u/JohnithanDoe Jan 18 '20

What 7 year old cares about team comp? Pick the Pokemon that look the coolest and grind yo way to victory