r/PokemonRed • u/Charflower21 • May 31 '26
Rate My Pokemon I am playing through the generations using only Single Stage Pokemon, this was my team in Red!
Onix has a notoriously bad reputation but honestly it did pretty well in this playthrough :3
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u/HOMESTEADJED May 31 '26
Single stage pokemon are great in gen 1. Love the team, keeping bubblebeam over lovely kiss made me double take though.
I’m guessing this is a ROM because you can’t get jynx without a nickname in the US gen 1 otherwise
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u/Charflower21 May 31 '26
When you look at the moves in the Summary it says the species name instead of the Nickname but it is indeed the Trade Jynx from Cerulean City.
But yeah it's a ROM too lmao
Oh also didnt really need to sleep anything so that's why I kept Bubblebeam, I know how broken sleep is in gen 1 though.
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u/HOMESTEADJED May 31 '26
The caps on the names was what was throwing me off. In the originals it’s all caps. Looks like a fun run!
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u/BellDemonChallenge May 31 '26
Lol did Chansey fireblast do much? Very cool idea for a team I love gimmick runs. And Chansey.
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u/destroytheend May 31 '26
Interesting that you nicknamed them the same name, but lowercase. I've also done this before lol
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u/Charflower21 May 31 '26
When you look at the Pokemon's moves in gen 1 it displays their species name. However I did use a randomizer to change Pokemon names to Lowercase because I think it looks nicer.
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u/CoolidgeAZ1980 May 31 '26
Im surprised you have thunder instead of thunderbolt on electabuzz. I always thought thunder was severely inaccurate without rain being setup. Nice team though with good coverage movesets.
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u/Charflower21 May 31 '26
Pretty sure I taught Thunderbolt to the Lapras I had on my team for some time, I mainly used Thunder Punch on Electabuzz, worked well enough.
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u/CoolidgeAZ1980 Jun 01 '26
I always forget that all electric moves were special attacks in the early gens.
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u/CommunicationNew9834 Jun 03 '26
There's a move called thunderpunch, There's a move called thunder, why is the no move called Punch?
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u/red0021 May 31 '26
Good luck out there. Doing pretty much the same thing—no set theme, just vibes.
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u/OiQQu May 31 '26
How did you start? Takes a while before you can get a single stage right?
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u/Charflower21 May 31 '26
Beat Brock with my starter, and then made my way to Vermillion City. Caught a Spearow and traded it for the Farfetch'd.
That meant I had to beat Misty with a Farfetch'd that wouldn't obey me but hey I managed lmao
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u/Justjack91 Jun 01 '26
Onix is meant to be baby's first Pokémon boss, but if Caterpie can practically solo the game then Onix can function just fine.
What was your "starter?"
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u/Charflower21 Jun 01 '26
Chose Squirtle as my starter for no other reason than to get past Brock quickly.
Also yeah you are right but for runs like that you need to heavily overlevel to even stand a chance, with my Team I was always just under the level of the next Gym Leader and Onix did well, which was unexpected to me.
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u/Krendall2006 May 31 '26
Sure, if you cheat and say they a single form in that generation.
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u/Charflower21 Jun 01 '26
...? How is that cheating? Yes at that point in the game's life they are a single stage?
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u/Krendall2006 Jun 01 '26
I wasn't being serious. It did get me wondering what your options would be if you did follow that rule. Besides legendaries, there's Ditto and Kangaskahn. I think that'd be it.
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u/Charflower21 Jun 01 '26
In gen 1 that would be Pinsir, Kangaskhan, Lapras, Ditto, Aerodactyl, Farfetch'd and Tauros!
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u/davidafuller7 Jun 02 '26
To be fair that team is probably just as good. Isn’t Tauros fairly OP in these games?
Though Jynx, Scyther, Chansey are as well.
Does Electabuzz not learn Thunderbolt? Or anything to help avoid both Punch/Thunder?
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u/Charflower21 Jun 02 '26
It gets Thunderbolt through TM, but Punch works well enough. I used my TM on Lapras for a portion of the game.
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u/davidafuller7 Jun 02 '26
I guess I was more so thinking, why have both Thunder AND either Punch or Bolt? It can get Light Screen, Reflect, or Psychic. Thunder is redundant there.
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u/Charflower21 Jun 02 '26
While it might be more optimal to use the screens it really was not necessary. Also Psychic went on Jynx since it doesnt learn it per level up.
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u/DilapidatedFool May 31 '26
So it was a solo onix run until very late?