marshtompbros did we ever recover from this?

>>57963884 (OP)
No, but Grovyle did with Absorb

>>57963884 (OP)
The ultimate retard filter that made thousands of kids shit themselves in anger and reset their games to pick the correct starters that are not Chudkip.

>>57963884 (OP)
I'm usually still rocking Taillow at this point from fighting Brawly with it, so Grovyle isn't really an issue here.

liquid ooze gulpin solos the grovyle

>>57963884 (OP)

>>57963884 (OP)
Yes, it's called not being a dumbass who relies exclusively on his starter.
Dustox, Beautifly, Zubat, Taillow, Gulpin, Oddish, all are viable options for dealing with Grovyle and two of those come from the very route this battle takes place on.

>>57964205
didn't give a fuck about all this crap as a 6 year old desu

>>57963884 (OP)
I did, because I captured a Electrike and saved me with Thunder Wave.
That day I learned status moves are very helpful as a second choice.

>>57964304
Why are you playing gen 3 when you're six?

>waaaahhhh i was a stupid kid so this battle is actually difficult!

>>57963884 (OP)
>Not having Shroomish
>Not having Taillow
>Not having Beutifly
>Not having Dustox
>Not having Zubat

Being bad at video games must really suck.

>>57964527
NTA, gen 3 was 2002, twenty three years ago. If anon was six on release he was born in 96 and he's almost thirty.

>>57963884 (OP)
marshchads were immediately reimbursed by having the hardest early game fight be trivialized

>pick Torchic
>send Oddish out against Marshtomp
ez

>>57964832
>oddish
???

>>57964138
No human being has ever intentionally used a gulpin their first playthrough.

>>57965921
I did, I thought swalot was cool for some reason

>>57963884 (OP)
I over leveled my starter so that I had Swampert before I got past route 113 on ruby.

>>57963884 (OP)
Has anyone from GF ever explained why so many of the major battles in Emerald were made so much harder?

>>57966033
It was directed by Morimoto, the main guy behind the battle system. He's never addressed it specifically but given he playtested Gen 1 with Exeggutor and it's really good, I'll assume he's got a problem some developers have where they play the game so much they don't know what really easy is anymore. Of course you can overcorrect, look at ORAS or half of the shit Masuda has done. The bigger question I have is why Ohmori's first real game, SM, actually has hard Totem fights when no other game he's directed has anything remotely close to that, it feels like a mistake which given the island trials were developed during debugging it could just be Morimoto again since he'd be the final pass and nobody had time to check his work.

>>57964205
>Xe has to pull his deadweight starter out and switch to some cockroach because it keeps getting hit by leaves and grass
OVER

>>57964304
I never understood this. When I was 6 I wanted to use as many pokemon as I could, not because of team balance but because why the fuck not? I never got why so many kids just solo'd the game with their starter, did you guys just not want to use all the other mons? If your mom let you eat as much candy as you wanted after dinner one night, would you as a 6 year old have just eaten a single kitkat and nothing else?

What’s the starter that has the easiest time with this battle?

>>57966131
Some kids would ignore most of the candy and eat two pounds of nothing but kitkats, becoming sick of them for the rest of their life. There's probably some analogy that can be made to pokemon here.

>>57966131
You're conveniently glossing over the fact that raising a team of six in pokemon is an absolute miserable task that would turn off most people, myself included. (not counting the new games where it's a forced exp share for the entire team or whatever).

>>57966131
Grinding in Pokemon isn't fun. If your main goal is to beat the game, then only using the starter is the most efficient way to achieve that. It's amazing how 6-year olds in 1998 figured that out but 35-year old manchildren on /vp/ still throw a tantrum about it.

>>57966151
The analogy would be the manchild ate one to two pounds of six different kinds of candy each.

>>57966135
Answer retards

Most kids got filtered by the May battle.
I got filtered on how to progress Slateport City. I figured it out eventually.

>>57966135
probably combusken, since it doesn't have a 4x weakness to marshtomp

>>57964527
>>57964597
I just realized that fits me.
Fuck, I'm almost thirty

>>57963884 (OP)
Yes, by not being a speedrunner cuck and catching a Zubat.

>>57966432
Grovyle doesn't have any 4x weaknesses either

>>57967534
>grovyle
It has the worst attacks.

>>57964832
For me it was Breloom, or Shroomish, I can't remember if he had evolved by that point

>>57967586
But it's also the fastest and most likely to outspeed your pokemon

>>57964543
I didn’t use any of those. I just picked up Gulpin from the exact same area.

>>57967765
It doesn’t matter. Combusken resists everything Grovyle can throw at it at this point outside of cut (lol) and rock tomb. Meanwhile at least Combusken can do heavy stab damage against Marshtomp.

>>57966131
curiosity is a quality of high-iq individuals, the anons itt that don't get this are clearly lacking

>>57967770
Combusken is slow and weak. Just kill it with quick attack.

>>57966131
Going to a pokecenter logging into the retarded computer and exchanging Pokémon was a hassle.

>>57964597
>gen 3 was 2002
we're not Japanese nigga

>>57964832
>send Oddish out
were you a little gay boy?
wtf has a oddish??

>>57966109
b-b-b-but le mudkip is le best hoenn starter...

>>57966428
this was indeed a tricky scenario

>>57966131
switching is bitchmade

>cartoon animal
>is shit even for a playthrough
Wow, who would've thought that trash was infact trash?

>>57966428
the most open world hoenn got for a second. I remember going back and forth on the boat quite a bit trying to figure out what I needed to do next.
Now boating is a core memory for me.

>>57963884 (OP)
My Grovyle was thankfully over leveled. This was my final team for ruby. I did choose Mudkip on emerald and I grinded on route 201 getting Swampert before even getting to Petalburg city.

>>57970269
>four water types

>>57970932
And a trumpet type

>>57963884 (OP)
Post the video

>>57963884 (OP)
for me it was the third gym, i got so angry i kept throwing and stomping the cartridge and destroyed box and manuals
then i chose mudkip

>>57963884 (OP)
My Swellow or Crobat could handle her Grovyle easily.

>>57963884 (OP)
Who the hell doesn't have a flying type by this point?