In honor of Gen 2 coming to Pokémon Go, lets have a
What were they thinking? Thread: second generation edition
Why didn't Morty have Misdreavus in the original Gold and Silver? You literally go through the entire game and beat all 16 gym leaders before you even see a wild Misdreavus. What were they thinking?
misdreavus is a girly poopmon gengar 4 lyfe
I need gen II on vc asap. My nostalgia is so strong recently. Despite its flaws its comfy a f, and my best memories are associated with it rather than Gen I despite it being my first game
>>31838866
Also, Karen in the Elite Four should have had Tyranitar. You go through the whole game without even seeing a Larvitar, Pupitar, or Tyranitar until Mt Silver
>>31838881
>>31838866
Agreed. I think they try, however it is, to get NPC to have regional Mons rather than previous gens' mons.
>>31838866
gen 2 was shit but it has so many nostalgiafags that it's considered good
also in terms of design most of the entire generation was a disaster and it added nothing but shitmons
>>31838866
why did they give an airheaded valley girl a cow?
>>31838910
Also, neither the fighting or bug gym leader have Heracross. They just have previous gen mons.
>>31838910
Her Miltank whooped ass, but there were so many other normal mons introduced in gen 2 that would have been more fitting
>>31838910
If they ever make re-remakes, she will be a Fairy type trainer.
Also miltank is literally just gen ii's version of jigglypuff and chansey.
>>31838919
One could, say the same thing about Forretress and Scizor.
>>31838910
>>31838993
>>31839036
MILTANK IS PINK AND CUTE YOU STUPID BITCHES
>>31839039
Good point. Why did they give Forretress, a bug and steel type, to Koga, a poison type trainer?
>>31839049
Koga should've had a Qwilfish instead.
>>31839047
That's what i said.
>>31839055
That would have made so much sense!
>>31838866
Why the hell did Claire have three Dragonairs and Lance have three Dragonites? It made them seem very amateurish as trainers.
Sure there was a lack of dragon types back then, but they could have mixed things up a bit like the following:
>Claire: Dratini, Dragonair, Seadra, Kingdra
>Lance: Ampharos (aka Denryu aka Electric Dragon), Gyarados, Dragonair, Charizard, Aerodactyl, Dragonite
>>31839119
Replacing a Dragonair with a Dratini makes her seem less of an amateur?
Literally stop posting.
Where the hell is GSC VC release?
Is Nintendo stupid or something?
>>31839130
Okay, maybe replace it with a Gyarados or something like they did for her in HGSS.
Still, three of the same mon in a row was a bit silly.
>>31839119
Each one of Lance's Dragonite had at least one move of the three main elements of RPGs, with exception of the third one that had Outrage instead of Blizzard.
Falkner should have had a Noctowl instead of a Pidgeotto. His Pidgeotto was seriously underleveled anyways. Also why did he give out the TM for a ground type move?
>>31839182
Nope.
There was one with Thunder, one with Blizzard, and the last one had Fire Blast.
>>31839190
I feel like a more attack looking bird like Skarmory would've fit better.
>Gen 2 added 4 Steel-types and retyped the Magnemite line to Electric/Steel giving the total of 6 Steel-types
>Steel-type Gym Leader uses 2 Magnemite and 1 Steelix
>don't even uses a Skarmory to not be easily defeated by Ground-type Pokémon
As much as I like Jasmine this was pretty stupid
>>31839393
Dude didn't even think of this but agree 100%
Johto gym leaders are just complete ass in general. It's amazing how they improved in HGSS, like how Bugsy uses Metapod as a bodyguard for his U-Turn Scyther.
>>31838910
She probably borrowed one from that nearby farm and didnt raise it herself
>>31839393
I thought it was a joke
2 magnemitre and a steelix
2 balls and a dick
>>31839234
his ace SHOULD be Skarmory, but from a game design perspective a bulky Steel type in the first gym is absurd. At least Noctowl is a Johtomon, is fully evolved, and exemplifies the day/night mechanic by making you see one when you otherwise wouldn't.
>>31839190
He had mud slap to counter the geodude or onix you probdbly were using
>>31839805
You can't even get Onix before the first gym.
>>31839856
Wrong.
>>31838866
Yea, I replayed Silver a while back and was surprised he didn't have one.
>>31838881
This too. Also don't see houndour until well into Kanto. And Murkrow.
>>31839856
trade for bellsprout in violet city. his name is rocky
I still can't believe it introduced only one new dragon type and only one new ghost type, the two most sorely lacking types of all at the time.
Evem crazier, Lugia could have been a dragon type and we would have had the first true legendary dragon before they became too common. I think Ho-oh is described as a dragon bird by one npc.
>>31838881
Tyranitar is too good for an E4 member, they always give pseudos to the champs.
I agree that the gym leaders like morty could have used weaker new Pokémon, but larvitar seemed like a hidden reward available to the player after beating the game
Lore wise, only champions can get into Mt silver anyways. So she wouldn't have gotten one
Not every new Pokémon needs to be used all the time by trainers, leave some for the player to find
>>31839036
No she won't be. Miltank is her ace, if anything they'd give her a jigglypuff instead of clefairy
>>31838873
Fuck you Misdreavus is great.
>>31838881
>yfw you realize she would have had a tyranitar, if not for her philosophy forcing her to run that shitty Murkrow
>>31840016
At least it turns into Honchkrow in the remakes.
>>31839978
Lance had a pseudo in gen 1 and he was only an E4 member, not the champ. Also the dragon dude in gen 3 has Salamence. I understand reserving the pseudos and letting people discover Pokémon, it just seems dumb that you don't even see any form of Larvitar until the game is already over.
>>31840282
He didn't get his pseudos from some exclusive champion's only area . His pokemon were either from the safari zone or dragon den
>>31839967
Back then dragon and ghost both had an aura of specialness in them so it's still made sense to limit the number of those types
>>31839689
Totodile and Cyndaquil would both be able to beat a Skarmory. The whole game is stacked against Chikorita anyway so who cares.
>>31839650
>dick hard as steel
>balls of steel
>>31839650
jasmine has two balls and a penis.
is jasmine a hermaphrodite?