Anonymous
7/17/2025, 10:10:15 AM
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It's not worse than Chikorita piss, and I say piss in the context of starters, where even bad ones are pretty okay, but it's not GOOD in gen 2. Its Special Attack kinda noticably sucks, its moves kinda suck. It IS probably the most consistent Whitney, assuming Geodude has been banished to the shadow realm, and then it runs into Blastoise syndrome super fucking hard, where every single water type that becomes available when you get Surf and water routes shits on it. For Blastoise, this at least happens near the end of the game, though, so you're unlikely to make up the difference in stat exp. For Feraligatr, this is like, the halfway point. As someone mentioned, Lapras is way, way better, Starmie is ludicrously, ridiculously better, fukkin, Mantine is probably better. Tentacruel is definitely better. Suicune is better, but unreasonable. Slowbro... might be better. Being THAT slow sucks, you're getting statused and debuffed to fucking oblivion. Poliwrath... eeeeeeeeh maybe Gatr is better than Poliwrath. And Vaporeon. God, Vaporeon sucks.
Lanturn... might be better? I know I'm always disappointed by it in fangames/romhacks, so maybe not. Dewgong is probably better, but I legit forget where the fuck Seel is in gen 2. I don't think it's in Ice Cave? Maybe it is.
And Gyarados fucks it hard, is available even earlier, and even if you don't want it then, Red is there when you get Surf, too.
Feraligatr is almost unique as a starter, in just how much stuff suddenly shows up to directly outclass it. I think only BW2 Tepig has it worse, where Growlithe is available a few minutes after starting the game, and beats the shit out of Emboar in nearly every conceivable way. Grass types in general kinda have this, there's almost always a bunch of early grass types, but those usually suck dick, too, and tbe starter grass probably at least gets a move.
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It's not worse than Chikorita piss, and I say piss in the context of starters, where even bad ones are pretty okay, but it's not GOOD in gen 2. Its Special Attack kinda noticably sucks, its moves kinda suck. It IS probably the most consistent Whitney, assuming Geodude has been banished to the shadow realm, and then it runs into Blastoise syndrome super fucking hard, where every single water type that becomes available when you get Surf and water routes shits on it. For Blastoise, this at least happens near the end of the game, though, so you're unlikely to make up the difference in stat exp. For Feraligatr, this is like, the halfway point. As someone mentioned, Lapras is way, way better, Starmie is ludicrously, ridiculously better, fukkin, Mantine is probably better. Tentacruel is definitely better. Suicune is better, but unreasonable. Slowbro... might be better. Being THAT slow sucks, you're getting statused and debuffed to fucking oblivion. Poliwrath... eeeeeeeeh maybe Gatr is better than Poliwrath. And Vaporeon. God, Vaporeon sucks.
Lanturn... might be better? I know I'm always disappointed by it in fangames/romhacks, so maybe not. Dewgong is probably better, but I legit forget where the fuck Seel is in gen 2. I don't think it's in Ice Cave? Maybe it is.
And Gyarados fucks it hard, is available even earlier, and even if you don't want it then, Red is there when you get Surf, too.
Feraligatr is almost unique as a starter, in just how much stuff suddenly shows up to directly outclass it. I think only BW2 Tepig has it worse, where Growlithe is available a few minutes after starting the game, and beats the shit out of Emboar in nearly every conceivable way. Grass types in general kinda have this, there's almost always a bunch of early grass types, but those usually suck dick, too, and tbe starter grass probably at least gets a move.