r/pokemoncrystal

In Gen 1, it's Articuno. In Gen 2, it's Entei. In Gen 3, it's Regirock.

What these Pokemon have in common is that they're widely considered the weakest members of their respective legendary trios, and by a significant margin. To the point where it stands out very clearly.

Was this just a coincidence or was it by design?

Out of the three mentioned articuno might be the least bad, and the least obvious case. But if you've ever played Gen 3 OU you'll notice that moltres is fairly commonly used. Zapdos is pretty much in every single team with thunderbolt, and hidden power ice/grass. There are also thunder wave / rest/toxic sets.

In Gen 2 entei is very obviously the worst. If you didnt know any better and were using this guy and someone told you that entei has an 580 BST youd be shell shocked. He feels so much worse. Raikou and suicine is widely used. Suicine is arguably the best setup sweeper in the first 3 gens (excluding box legendaries)

Regirock also feels way worse than what the BST would suggest, but not because of bad stat distribution (like entei has), but because of the rock typing. Being a slow and defensive rock type has to be the worst combination in the game? The only truly strong rock types in the first three generations appeared in gen1, and gen2, which is aerodactyl from gen1, and tyrannitar from gen2. Who succeed because they are massively offensive. Aggron suffer in a similar way (defensive + rock typing). Steelix is literally thanos compared aggron, immune to thunder wave and toxic), although most pokemon with several quad weakness is just generally not gonna be very good.

As someone who is a fan of regirock (think he looks cool etc), ill explain why this guy suck. His strongest move is 112.5 power rock slide with 90% accuracy (accounting for stab). He also got moves like earthquake, superpower and explosion (the latter two has higher power, but with very significant drawbacks). So his best move, just isnt that strong. Regirock also gets completely ruined by status effects. Will-o-wisp, toxic, and thunder wave completely ruin this guy. Donphan, a 500 BST pokemon is literally better than regirock in almost every single scenario. Donphan has a 150 power move (Stab eq). Can switch in on thunder wave/eletric moves. Shitstomps salamance (with hidden power rock), metagross and tyranitar (regirock also beats salamance/tyranitar but loses to metagross). Learns rapid spin. Can actually status and disrupt more efficiently. Has an easier time using Rest and switching in /out due to feeling more defensive due to typing. The only benefit regirock has over donphan is that he has an easier time surviving non-stab super effective special moves. So he can survive a special coverage move. Both of these fall over to stab super effective special moves. Ill admit that donphan definitely punches above its 500 BST weight. Its a very well optimized guy. But man if regirock had ground typing instead of rock, this guy would feel like a true legendary pokemon, and it would unironically be one of the strongest in gen3.

As for registeel and regice. If you've ever done the battle factory in emerald you know how increadible regice is. If you've ever played Gen3 OU you know how powerful regice and registeel can be. Registeel is probably the best regi, and without a proper check he can single handedly disrupt the entire enemy team. He's a bit worse ingame in a playthrough of emerald tho, since you wont really be using seismic toss and most likely wont be statusing as much either, but he can be made unstoppable with curse.

...Giovanni's son?

In FR/LG, it's heavily implied that Silver is Giovanni's son, due to the remark from the scientist that had stolen the Sapphire ("no, you can't be Giovanni's son, he has red hair").

It's made clear pretty early in G/S/C that Silver hates Team Rocket, that they pretend to be strong when together, but if you get them alone, they're weak. You meet him several times where Team Rocket is present (first in the Mahogany HQ, and then in the Underground of Goldenrod after Team Rocket takes over the Radio Tower). So it's clear he is after them.

Something I've also noticed is that Silver shares same overworld eye sprite as Team Rocket members (let's just call them "mean eyes"). In Gen I, Team Rocket members don't have the mean eye sprite...but Giovanni does. This might or might not imply a connection between Silver and Team Rocket in Gen II. Again, Silver might have those eyes because he's a bad guy throughout most of the main game.

So it's interesting to think about if they already had the idea that Silver was Giovanni's son back then, or if they only planned it from FR/LG.

I'm following the regular guide everyone uses for catching Entei and Raikou, and I've noticed something strange about the roaming behavior:

I was in route 32, moving in one section of grass, far from any transition or area change. I checked the Pokedex map when I entered, the Entei was there in the same area as me. After a few encounters (of which I ran from) and a phone call from a trainer, Entei moved to another route.

I'm struggling to find any info about a situation like this, could it be that common knowledge on this subject here is missing info? I'm not super into pokemon like some people, so forgive me if this is a super common thing.

Of course, this is no shade to the aforementioned game titles, as all of them are objectively seen as better games than crystal by most people.

And yet, the vibes, atmosphere and music in Crystal feels unmatched for me more than those games. I can't explain it. Is it Y2k vibes? Color pallete? The aesthetic? The music? All of the above or something else? It feels dreamlike and hypnotic that was never again repeated after Gen 2.

Hey all, I want to play crystal/silver/gold again. I love gen 2. I'm looking for a rom hack that is slightly less difficult than crystal kaizo, and sticks to the 251 gen 1-2 pokemon.

I have tried quite a few recently, but they really weren't that difficult. I dont want to be min maxing for every trainer fight, but I want the game to be hard and close to vanilla.

Please helpp.

I’m just trying to confirm my suspicion. I have the digital version of crystal. Since the shop on the DS is closed now, the only way I can trade would be to find another DS that already has a digital copy of gen 1 or gen2 on it correct?

Pain is missing a 100% accuracy attack 6 times in a row without your accuracy being decreased nor your opponent's evasion increased. The situation specifically was battling Red's Blastoise with my Electabuzz using Thunderbolt. As far as I can tell, the chance of this occurring is 1 in 4.8 billion. Technically speaking, that's actually a bug in Gen 1 where 100% accuracy attacks are actually 99.6% accurate, but it hurts just as bad for it to happen.

I stopped at the third gym because of the normal type gym but I might have stopped at the fourth

Quilava

Sudowoodu

Tentacruel

Pidgeotto

Hoothoot (HM slave)

And I forgot my other pokemon