Pokemon Blue – Chapter 9: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

Now that I kicked Team Rocket out of Saffron, I can access the gym.

Trainers here are impossible to make a profit off of, thus they are skipped.

Guess what I’m thinking.

That’s not what I was thinking of… 😦

That’s… that’s not what I was thinking of either D:

This took an absurd amount of luck. Like utterly ridiculous.

First off, her initial Kadabra had to use Psybeam twice, if it threw in a psychic, I was dead.

That’s not so bad, the trouble comes with the critical hit mechanics in R/B/Y

Basically, it’s based on the Pokémon’s speed. Kadabra and Alakazam are VERY fast Pokémon, so they scored critical hits probably 1 out of every 5 times. So not only did Kadabra have to open with 2 psybeams, I had to get lucky and NOT HAVE ANY CRITICAL HITS.

That is an absurd amount of luck involved.

I really should have saved Sabrina for after Blaine, but I was here and figured I might be able to. Though even if I had beat Blaine first, I doubt this would have gone smoothly at all anyway.

And you know what? This was still easier than Brock…

I think you worked plenty hard, but the luck of the die favoured me enough to win.

Traded only of course.

Man, if Weedle disobeyed for being too high a level… D:

It’s crappy, mostly since its damage is unreliable. Basically it can do anywhere from half to 1.5 times the user’s level. So it CAN be slightly better than Night Shade or Seismic Toss, but it can also be worse. And also, like Night Shade and Seismic Toss it ignores weakness and resistance.

It’s also exceedingly rare outside of 1^st generation, where it’s of course a TM. Only 14 Pokémon can learn it by level up in Generation 5 and oddly, none of them are from R/B/Y.

Anyway, we surfed south from Palette Town to get to Cinnabar Island.

The gym is locked, so we’ll have to check out the building we landed by.

Annoying dungeon. Have to hit the right switches in the right order, and without repels this is a HUGE pain.

I forgot to capture his intro dialogue, but whatever, it’s not anything special, he basically just says “Oh I’m powerful, better have brought burn heals”.

Blaine was actually pretty easy, mostly because his first Pokémon only has ember, so it’s fairly easy to buff against.

MONEY

That probably would have been useful against Sabrina, but whatever, what’s done is done.

Fire Blast is mediocre IMO, it’s powerful but inaccurate, and I prefer the accurate Flamethrower over it.

Last off to Viridian.

Again, I forgot the intro dialogue. Also this is the same picture from the last update, he has 5 Pokémon in the gym fight.

This is what he says according to Bulbapedia:

“Fwahahaha! This is my hideout! I planned to resurrect Team Rocket here! But, you have caught me again! So be it! This time, I’m not holding back! Once more, you shall face Giovanni, the greatest trainer!”

I actually only had 2 poison stings to kill this guy with. Luckily I poisoned him with my first shot, otherwise I would’ve had to waste 40PP worth of String Shot… 😦

Ayup.

You know, Giovanni isn’t an asshole. Sure he’s trying to take over the world by stealing Pokémon and stuff, but he doesn’t even talk down to a kid. Maybe that’s why I like Team Rocket the best.

MONEY

Traded only of course, caught Pokémon will always obey.

Wouldn’t that be the hall of fame?

Indeed I can, so I shall head there soon.

Fissure’s actually really fun, especially if you spam X-Accuracys to make it hit reliably. >:)

And with that, I head off to the Pokémon League.

It’s time.

But first.

Yeah, yeah, it’s cheating, maybe, but I’m not duping Rare Candies or anything like that. I just don’t have the money to be able to afford enough X-items and potions to beat the elite four. I don’t think so anyway.

It’s not even like this is going to remove the challenge from the game. I am still going to die many, many times.