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New Guy Anonymous 02/02/15 (Mon) 03:40:18 No.7858

Fairly new. So I'm playing through FireRed and I really want some help.

I get massive anxiety with something like catching and training pokemon because I afraid it would all be a waste of time as soon as I find something better.

How can I know exactly whether a pokemon is a good catch or if I should just pass it by? Is it purely about which moves it can get? I don't care too much for EVs and IVs and natures. I just want to have good basic knowledge of whether something is worth catching or not. Is there some site that tells me if a specific pokemon is good?

Sorry if these are stupid questions. If I'm going about it wrong just tell me.

If I get obsessed enough with it then I will probably start looking into natures and all that technical stuff.

Anonymous 02/02/15 (Mon) 05:53:17 No.7859

if you're playing casually then you don't need to worry about your party, as long as you have somewhat of a balance in typing

Anonymous 02/02/15 (Mon) 20:38:38 No.7886

Decided to just research it on my own. Heres what I came up with.

Pokemon worth picking up in Fire/Leaf

Abra
Articuno
Gastly
Zapdos
Clefairy
Cubone
Diglett
Staryu
Lapras
Snorlax
Male Nidoran
Female Nidoran
Machop
Exeggcute
Rhyhorn
Pikachu
Growlithe
Poliwag
Jolteon
Geodude
Electabuzz
Vaporeon
Moltres
Mankey
Tentacool
Magnemite
Doduo
Shellder
Dratini
Jynx
Hitmonlee
Hitmonchan
Mr. Mime
Oddish
Spearow
Voltorb

Anonymous 02/03/15 (Tue) 02:42:37 No.7887

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>>7858

Choose 6 that you think are cool beforehand, don't worry about "better" or "worse" for PvE.

Usually, it's pretty late game by the time you get the 6 you were after, which leaves plenty of room for dicking about with 'mons you wouldn't usually bother with.

This gives you enough experience to know what's good or shit in the future, and should leave you with a pretty solid team come the E4.

In summary, calm the farm and save the autism for competitive play.

Anonymous 02/03/15 (Tue) 05:32:18 No.7889

One thing you could consider is that you rarely ever really 'waste your time' with any particular mon, especially if you're autistic enough to start breeding later on.

That lv 76 Weepinbell you dedicated the entire main story to? Well, now it can pass on Gastro Acid and Leaf Storm to other Grass types.

Don't worry too much about it - you can even teach it a 3rd gen tm or two so it would at least have a unique moveset it can use/pass on as you move it up the gens.

Anonymous 02/03/15 (Tue) 12:02:26 No.7890

>>7859
>>7887
This. There might be better mons in terms of movepool or stats, but that honestly doesn't matter for in-game. With a multityped team and some grind any trainer can be overcome.

Anonymous 02/06/15 (Fri) 21:35:18 No.8012

A sufficiently level Weedle can solo the entire game.

Step it up.