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rYnes
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5 Posts
April 16 2013 02:12 GMT
#1
I am playing leaf green from the start. My brother is playing fire red. We are doing 3 man teams. No legendary pokemon. What is the best teams and combos! And if you can.. Add an explanation of why. I am not very educated on combos. I just know that they are out there. THANKS! :D
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
April 16 2013 02:14 GMT
#2
On April 16 2013 11:12 rYnes wrote:
I am playing leaf green from the start. My brother is playing fire red. We are doing 3 man teams. No legendary pokemon. What is the best teams and combos! And if you can.. Add an explanation of why. I am not very educated on combos. I just know that they are out there. THANKS! :D

When I beat the game i used Vaporeon and it pretty much swept everyone by itself tbh.
I'd say like Charizard/Vaporeon/random electric maybe? here
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PedroBlanco
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada65 Posts
April 16 2013 02:20 GMT
#3
Definitely get an Alakazam because they are OP. Go for Arcanine/Rapidash and Dewgong/Cloyster for the other two.
Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
April 16 2013 02:23 GMT
#4
I think I've seen speedrunners do this on pokemon blue and it might still work for newer games. Get a pokemon with a 1 hit k-o move that rarely connects. Then buy a bunch of x-accuracy and use it on your pokemon in battle. In blue that gave it 100 percent chance to hit if I remember correctly. Seemed pretty good to me.
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-16 02:25:27
April 16 2013 02:24 GMT
#5
Are you allowed HM slaves? If not, I think it will be extremely difficult... with 3 pokemon you only got 12 moves, and you need to spend 8 of them for HMs....
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Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
April 16 2013 02:37 GMT
#6
Fire/Water/Grass is regarded as one of the best "defensive cores", in that a Pokemon of each of those three types can cover each others' weaknesses very well. You get one of those by default when starting the game, but my recommendation would be Venusaur. He gets great physical stats and the moves to use them, like Earthquake and Sludge Bomb, and he also has Sleep Powder and such to disable opponents. Venusaur can take quite a few hits, but Grass/Poison isn't an amazing defensive typing, so you may want to use Charizard instead (though he has his own set of problems type-wise). Blastoise is decent, but there are plenty of Water types that are better.

Now that you have a Grass-type, you need a Fire- and Water-type to round out your team. Gyarados is a fantastic option for a Water-type, since his Attack is through the roof, and his defenses are surprisingly good for a Pokemon with a 4x weakness to Electric. Another great choice is Starmie, who possesses great all-around stats and a really nice movepool. Either one is a superb option, but you have plenty of other choices, like Vaporeon or Lapras. Choose what you'd rather have more: a solid defensive Pokemon or a hard-hitting Pokemon.

Fire is more difficult to choose, since there are very few available when compared to Grass- and Water-types. Your best shot would have probably been Arcanine, who is similar to Gyarados with his great bulk and attacking stats. The problem with Arcanine is that despite his attacking stats, he simply doesn't have too many moves to take advantage of them with. On top of that, you can't even get Arcanine in LeafGreen. Therefore, a more support-oriented Pokemon like Ninetales is a good choice; her lack of defenses is made up for by her above-average Special Attack and Speed, along with her access to Will-O-Wisp.

This obviously isn't set in stone, so feel free to mix and match depending upon your desires. Happy hunting!
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Witten
Profile Joined January 2011
United States2094 Posts
April 16 2013 02:41 GMT
#7
Honestly you can just use one Pokemon and beat the whole game in most occasions. I've beat those games with a team consisting of only Pidgeot, only Lickitung, only (insert starter pokemon), only raticate, only nidoking, etc. etc.

If you want to challenge yourself choose some crappy pokemon to make it more difficult, like an unevolved Magikarp, unevolved Kakuna/Metapod, unevolved Ratata or vanilla eevee or any baby pokemon, shouldnt be too much.
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SoulTakerz
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada353 Posts
April 16 2013 02:45 GMT
#8
simple, starter + the two strongest none-legendary (Tyranitar and Dragonite)
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Horo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States351 Posts
April 16 2013 02:46 GMT
#9
Dugtrio:
Earthquake
Rock Slide
Aerial Ace
Slash
killa_robot
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada1884 Posts
April 16 2013 02:48 GMT
#10
On April 16 2013 11:41 Witten wrote:
Honestly you can just use one Pokemon and beat the whole game in most occasions. I've beat those games with a team consisting of only Pidgeot, only Lickitung, only (insert starter pokemon), only raticate, only nidoking, etc. etc.

If you want to challenge yourself choose some crappy pokemon to make it more difficult, like an unevolved Magikarp, unevolved Kakuna/Metapod, unevolved Ratata or vanilla eevee or any baby pokemon, shouldnt be too much.


Same lol. Beat everything with a single Pidgeot.
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
April 16 2013 02:58 GMT
#11
Charizard

Fly
Flamethrower
Cut
Earthquake

Alakazam

Psychic
Psybeam
Flash
Seismic Toss

Gyarados

Waterfall
Surf
Thunderbolt
Strength
ok
CeriseCherries
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
6170 Posts
April 16 2013 03:11 GMT
#12
well since play from start, shit like tyranitar is gonna be like oh fuck the game is almost over.

id go charizard/gyrados/gengar. you can get gyrados by the time you can fish which is vermillion and gastly/haunters are catchable at lavender town which is pretty much right after that. that gives you the time to train your charmander up until you get magikarp, and gives you space for magikarp to level up.

gengar is liek one of the sickest special sweepers in the game, give it shadow ball, thunderbolt, and whatever the fuck else.
charizard to cover for typign and because its your starter, and venasaur is shit in like every generation except right now and blastoise gets outclassed by gyrados
gyrados is strong physical sweeper with great stats and albeit a mediocre learned movepool, you can get dragon dance->waterfall going
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Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-16 03:19:09
April 16 2013 03:16 GMT
#13
On April 16 2013 12:11 CeriseCherries wrote:
well since play from start, shit like tyranitar is gonna be like oh fuck the game is almost over.

id go charizard/gyrados/gengar. you can get gyrados by the time you can fish which is vermillion and gastly/haunters are catchable at lavender town which is pretty much right after that. that gives you the time to train your charmander up until you get magikarp, and gives you space for magikarp to level up.

gengar is liek one of the sickest special sweepers in the game, give it shadow ball, thunderbolt, and whatever the fuck else.
charizard to cover for typign and because its your starter, and venasaur is shit in like every generation except right now and blastoise gets outclassed by gyrados
gyrados is strong physical sweeper with great stats and albeit a mediocre learned movepool, you can get dragon dance->waterfall going

This is LeafGreen, so Waterfall is a special attack. Dragon Dance isn't too helpful with that move. Shadow Ball is also physical in LG, so Gengar can't really use that.
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wptlzkwjd
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1240 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-16 03:20:36
April 16 2013 03:20 GMT
#14
My friend once beat crystal using just his starting totodile that he called fellatiogatr xD
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rYnes
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5 Posts
April 16 2013 03:20 GMT
#15
Here.. Let me reiterate. This is not a speed run. This is a 3 pokemon battle in 2 weeks from now. We are allowed to have HM slaves or anything we want. We just get to pick 3 pokemon on battle day. So I can get tons of pokemon and train them.
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
April 16 2013 03:23 GMT
#16
If you don't really feel like using the Fire/Water/Grass core, then Snorlax is an absolute beast. Fantastic defensive and offensive capability, an enormous movepool, and impossible to predict. You can't go wrong with Snorlax.
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wptlzkwjd
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1240 Posts
April 16 2013 03:23 GMT
#17
On April 16 2013 12:20 rYnes wrote:
Here.. Let me reiterate. This is not a speed run. This is a 3 pokemon battle in 2 weeks from now. We are allowed to have HM slaves or anything we want. We just get to pick 3 pokemon on battle day. So I can get tons of pokemon and train them.


Get a Snorlax with leftovers, Lapras/Jynx with blizzard or ice beam to counter almost everything, and Primeape to do fast fighting damage. Open with the Snorlax.
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Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-16 03:28:24
April 16 2013 03:27 GMT
#18
On April 16 2013 12:20 rYnes wrote:
Here.. Let me reiterate. This is not a speed run. This is a 3 pokemon battle in 2 weeks from now. We are allowed to have HM slaves or anything we want. We just get to pick 3 pokemon on battle day. So I can get tons of pokemon and train them.

Ah, see I didnt know you could have HM slaves. In that case:

Charizard
Earthquake
Flamethrower
Fly
Fire Blast? (maybe something else in place of this)

Alakazam
Psychic
Psybeam
Thunderpunch
??
(Insert another special move)

Gyarados
Surf
Thunderbolt
Hyper Beam
Ice Beam
ok
Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37014 Posts
April 16 2013 03:29 GMT
#19
On April 16 2013 12:20 rYnes wrote:
Here.. Let me reiterate. This is not a speed run. This is a 3 pokemon battle in 2 weeks from now. We are allowed to have HM slaves or anything we want. We just get to pick 3 pokemon on battle day. So I can get tons of pokemon and train them.

You need 2 weeks to prepare 3 Pokemon?
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ffadicted
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3545 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-16 03:39:25
April 16 2013 03:34 GMT
#20
Jolteon's STAB'd with thunderbolt will hit almost every time first turn will dominate almost half the game/elite four
Starmie with Psychic/Thunderbolt (depends on jolteon/alakazam use), Surf, Ice Beam and Recover is the most overpowered regular pokemon
Alakazam's STAB'd psychic and recover along with his speed is pretty nuts too
Gengar with hypnosis, giga drain, thunderbold and elemental punch is an extremely well rounded pokemon
Snorlax is a fantastic physical powerhouse and tank to round out your team as all the above are weak to a special wall

Pick any three of the above. Don't use alakazam and gengar. I've done it with just starmie and alakazam myself, I'd pick jolteon as third for going through the game in blazing speed. Not sure how this does with HM, I allowed replacing one pokemon with HM slaves when going through mazes

EDIT: wait, this isn't beating the game with 3 pokemon? You just need 3 pokemon for a battle? In that case there are countless strategies... Impossible to say best three, only starmie from above is obvious choice. Starmie with thunderbolt, Gengar with above moves, and a curse Snorlax would be my choices
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