i've been trying for awhile to appropriate a thick club for my marowak with my sticky pawed meowth. the annoying thing is that FireRed/LeafGreen doesn't have pokemon that learn thief naturally available, so i had to waste the TM.
oh, for those unfamiliar with what i'm talking about:
pokemon are allowed to hold one item each. the move 'thief' allows the user to steal the held item of the opposing pokemon if the user is not carrying anything. it also deals some damage (very little really).
some items are rare and can only be found held by wild pokemon. there are two ways to go about taking this item. a) thief and b) capture said pokemon. now i can't be bothered to fill my pc boxes with failed attempts, not to mention that each pokeball costs $200+.
thick clubs are one of those special pokemon-specific items. it DOUBLEs the attack of the CUBONE, or the evolved form MAROWAK, that is holding it. needless to say, that is generally a good thing. thick clubs appear only on a small percentage of wild cubone/marowak. there is also no indicator on the screen to show whether a wild pokemon is holding an item or not. thus it gets tedious. in addition, the only locations i have access to cubones or marowaks have them appear very infrequently.
compounded to this is meowth's pickup ability, allowing it to 'pick up' items while walking around. sometimes if i'm not paying attention and a marowak shows up, i try to switch to meowth only to find her holding an item already. this can be easily rectified by letting meowth evolve into a PERSIAN, who no longer has the pickup ability. but pickup has its uses and i'm too stingy to catch another meowth.
in other news, i caught a chansey (very rare!) in LeafGreen on the first foray into the Safari Zone, with only 1 safari ball (very lucky!). on top of that, it was carrying a LUCKY PUNCH (raises chance for critical hits by chansey)!! pokemon players reading this will curse me liberally for my good fortune. just like they cursed and revered that guy who caught MEWTWO without battling and with just a GREAT BALL or the guy that caught a chansey without trying on the first safari ball carrying a LUCKY EGG (doubles gained experience points)!!!!!!!!.
"Pujols has to be the worst name ever. might as well be named Anus." - Herman, on Albert Pujols' terrible last name.
17.10.04
meowth used thief!
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Cheers, mate :)
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perhaps that is what he changed his name from.
I want fire red/leaf green so bad!
But should I play Sapphire/Ruby first? I'm still playing crystal but its wasted on my SP which is too sexy for a non-advance game.
that was danielle btw!
ah, you've come to the right place.
ruby and sapphire are completely different from their predecessors. completely new list of available pokemon, rewritten game mechanics, some new moves, and cool stuff. old pokemon players will find it slightly hard to keep up with all the new stuff (like trying to thunderbolt a swampert, but it's part ground! fool!).
FRLG is just the old pokemon red and blue set in the RS game environment and is some cause for nostalgia.
depending on your preference, i'd say jump to FRLG. which one to pick? do you like arcanine/arbok/oddish (RED)? or vulpix/sandshrew/bellsprout (GREEN)?
Im kinda bored with the old system, so you think I should try playing sapphire/ruby to shake it up a bit?
-danielle
FRLG is under the new system too. and it has a lot of extra adventures to undertake and new places to explore. also the chance to catch some johto pokemon (larvitar!). all three legendary birds, mewtwo, ho-oh, and one of the legendary dogs (depending on your starter choice) are available, if you're into the legendaries.
but then again, RS is completely different. and the stats skew towards a hit and run style of battling.
either way, i have the roms =) email!
My boyfriend has a flash card, so I'm not going to PURCHASE it, :D
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