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That is a fair take but the attitude of "why not, Cacturne has nothing better to do with its fourth moveslot" is not exactly painting Growth in a good light, right? Granted other moves in this slot will likely have a similarly small impact as Growth, but then again, it could also use a physical...

Seedot is not good but I wouldn't go as far as saying it is unusable. It is not nearly on the same level as stuff like Nosepass or Slugma. Shiftry is legit solid to good against the last two gyms, several Elite Four members and Champion Wallace. A Pokemon with a performance like that doesn't get...

My run with Cacturne is a long time ago by this point. I don't remember everything super clearly, so take what I say with a grain of salt. You do easily outspeed Phoebe's Dusclops. But from what I remember Faint Attack was no 2HKO, even with Black Glasses. And while Dusclops has very middling...

I like Cacturne a lot but unfortunately it has some issues. Its strengths are in the late game, but that is also were its low speed and bulk start to really matter. It can only take one, maybe two, decently strong neural hits before going down. That makes it hard to use options like Growth...

I just finished my first run with a Regi trio member. Regirock was on team#18. Currently on team#19 with Registeel. See the counter in the OP for the progress. You only need to able able to use Dive to access all the Regis. So you can get them after gym 7. And you really should since there is...

Oh, no worries. Go right ahead and make a thread for your in-game playthroughs too. No need to credit me. I am sure you will be putting your own spin on it. I actually intend to replay Black and White as well as Black and White 2, as well at some point in the future. I never finished those games...

Thanks! I am glad to hear that. You have to plan out some things but until about the halfway point I mostly just went along with the flow. Only towards the later teams I had to reshuffle some Pokemon, so that i have somewhat equally viable teams that don't cause sudden dips in playthroughs...

Team #15 I already wrote about Torchic before. I talked about Taillow here before. Barboach is the Mudkip at home. Pretty much worse in almost every regard. But if you need to be a bad copy, then its better to be a copy of one of the best Pokemon in the game at least. You can get...

More write-ups. D-Rank is now almost entirely done as well. D rank: E rank: F rank:

Team #14 I already wrote about Treecko here. Graveler is still good but in contrast to Kadabra, who was already plenty strong, you do notice the difference in stats between Golem and Graveler. The loss in attack power and bulk is significant, and while Golem is not fast by any means, the...

Team #13 I already wrote about Treecko here. Nosepass is simply unusable. It is the gen 3 version of Onix, as it is the ace Pokemon of the first gym leader, who specializes in the Rock type. And as horrible as Onix is, an argument can be made that Nosepass is somehow even worse. At...

Team #12 I already wrote about Torchic before. Marill is good. Among the physical Water types of Sharpedo, Crawdaunt and Gyarados with no actual physical STAB moves, it is most likely the best physical attacker out of them. Of course we are only talking about Huge Power Marill here...

Might seem weird that Pokemon like Poochyena and Zigzagoon come up so late but I moved the Pokemon I had the most interest in using towards the top. Also I have to keep some early game Pokemon in stock for the later teams, otherwise I need to solo the entire early game with my starter before I...

Team #11 I already wrote about Treecko here. Poochyena is bad. I don't think that is coming as a big surprise to a lot of people. It is one of the main Pokemon of the two evil teams, and was made bad on purpose because of that. Even so, you probably will still be shocked how not a...

Even if the Day Care is very early in Emerald, trying to breed useful egg moves is still a huge time investment. A Lotad egg takes around 3750 steps to hatch and with just a 20% chance for an egg to appear every 256 steps, there is a good chance it will take over 4000 steps to get a level 5...

Yeah, some gen 3 level-up movepools are ... special. But clearly Mud Slap is a powerhouse that you have to lock to higher levels. That is why it costs 24 BP in the Battle Frontier, right?

Is Shedinja's matchup against Wattson even good? I didn't even try to use it against him in my run, because early game gate keeper Magneton takes a ton of luck for Shedinja to overcome, when one self hit from Supersonic knocks it out and its best attacks at this point are Cut and Fury Cutter.

Team #10 I already wrote about Torchic before. Oddish is an early game Grass type. And while that isn't saying much, because most Grass type, outside of Breloom, are pretty mediocre early on. And that is almost entirely because Grass moves are so terrible in gen 3. But as far as Grass...

I was not aware of that, thanks for letting me know. That certainly gives some more passive mons a real opportunity to sweep in major battles. Even if it still requires a decent bit of support and time. While Skarmory really does have a respectable attack stat, I have found its damage output to...

I maybe worded that poorly. By stalling I just meant that Pokemon like Skarmory need to slowly chip down the opponent with its weak attacks while it takes hits and needs some amount of healing items. I didn't mean stuff like Rest or Toxic. I agree that those don't really have much of a place in...