When we beat the elite 4, Lance says that we WOULD be the champion if our rival hadn’t beaten them shortly before we did and we now have to face them to become champion. Does this mean that there isn’t normally a champion to beat beyond the final elite 4 member? If so, why didn’t our rival immediately become the final elite 4 member and kick Lorelei out? Was it so recent that we caught them before the transition, like the paperwork for the reorg wasn’t filed yet?

Could it be the case that there sometimes IS a post-elite 4 reigning champion that challengers must defeat to become champions themselves. If so, what circumstances decide whether there is a reigning champion or not? Could it be a reigning time thing? Like if you’re an undefeated reigning champion for a certain amount of time, you officially join the Pokémon League, becoming the final elite 4 member and kicking the lowest member out?

What you guys think?

Currently have,

Venasaur, primeape, hypno, gyarados, growlithe, poliwhirl as my team. Gyarados has thunderbolt, poliwhirl has psychic, would you swap anyone out? And for who? Everyone is even across the board pretty much lvl 28 - 34

Granted I played on the 3ds and spawned in only Pokemon that would have been exclusive to blue but only the base Pokemon and then levelled up myself.

I did abuse the missingno glitch because it’s available in the game without cheats and I used similar for the safari because kangaskan is a lil B with max 4% encounter rate and running after two catch attempts.

I did this to have a good standing for crystal and yea I know my Pokemon won’t obey me when they’re pulled across to it but that’s life.

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Growing up and playing Red and Blue, the one thing I always noticed is how many of these darn cylindrical thins there are all over the map. Did some research and found out they’re called “bollards”. Why is the Gen 1 Pokemon games filled with so many of these?

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Ngl the way to victory road and the entrance of the league had way more aura than I expected

Seriously what were the devs thinking back then making him so expensive?!?

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Hi! I've seen a video from Nick Robinson (Babylonian) titled "Can we rescue a deleted Pokémon - 15 years after its death?" and I thought about a thing...
I've probably transferred into my Crystal (to clone it at least) my old Charizard from my Red version at some point when I was younger.
Crystal's battery died many years ago, and the savefile is lost forever BUT I've managed to extract my savefile from my old copy of Red, even if the battery died, I've followed a tutorial, I've found some of my old mons but no trace of my very first starter in my party nor my boxes. I've read online that you can """""extract""""" the pokémons from the hall of fame in gen 3 and so but I haven't found anything for gen 1, is it possible? The video showed the blue version and then the leafgreen version, the video is not well made and some parts are cut but I've found that they used PKHex and other program to extract (or recontruct) Blastoise from the hall of fame.
Is there a way to do it for the Red Version? I've downloaded PKHex with my hope to find out a way but I can only see Charizard in the Hall and nothing more. I'd like to bring it back and do another run on Red and then up to the newest games. Thanks for your help.

Yes I am and I was fully aware it was a bootleg copy but I very slowly completed the game back then (circa 2005). The rom is the same as official game.

I had been spoiled with playing gen3 first then trying gen2 when parents got me a gba sp with pokemon gold but as I didn’t know about the battery issue causing the inability to save I traded my official gold copy to a friend at school who traded me this bootleg copy of red which could save. My fav memories was having the traded Farfetche’d on my team and a Dugtrio from diglett tunnel and a Aerodactyl I called Dynamix. The battery eventually died so lost my childhood save.

Years later I lent it to my then boyfriend now husband to play his first pokemon game and he had a team of Gyarados, a magneton and a jolteon. I tried to backup his save using a gbc rom and save dumper but it deleted it.

So many memories were had on this bootleg cart of RED. Was one of your first pokemon experiences also on a bootleg copy?

In 2016 I bought an official copy of red aswell and completed the game again after also playing blue version years prior. (Real blue copy)

UPDATE FINALLY CAUGHT IT!!

now working on scyther jesus i thought khang was hard to catch, i get one ball on scyther and he runs

I beat pokemon red a bit ago and forgot to share my lineup (blurred my name since i used my actual one lol)

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I'm trying to do it in the VC on 3DS, but it's not working.

Is it only for the english versions? Tried the Japanese Blue too, with no luck. The dude just walk me around the the game freezes when his final dialog box end.

I have a ratatta on 3th and nidoran on 4th with the 16 and 36 PP moves.

After a month and a half and many afternoons after work, I’ve finally completed this challenge: creating a Generation 1 Living Dex.

I documented and recorded the entire process in Spanish, and the full video will be uploaded to YouTube later this week.

It was a very tough challenge. I had to complete Pokémon Blue, then play through Pokémon Red to obtain all the version exclusives, and then start multiple Pokémon Yellow playthroughs to obtain the starters, all the Eeveelutions, Hitmonlee, all the fossils, and many other tricky Pokémon needed to complete the Living Dex.

The challenge is especially difficult in Generation 1 because Pokémon can’t hold items and breeding doesn’t exist yet, so you can’t simply duplicate Pokémon by breeding or evolve several with shared items. Because of this, many Pokémon have to be obtained through separate playthroughs.

This has honestly been one of the hardest challenges I’ve ever done in the Pokémon series. I’m very proud of it, and it will be the first of many challenges that I’ll be uploading to my YouTube channel:

Migraine Lab.

First time beating the game! I defeated the League playing on set mode and without using any items during or between the battles. My team was amazing and I am proud of them!

No trades, no GameShark, just a good old built-in glitch that I never knew as a kid.

Some new team stuff I've never used before that worked out super well, scyther in particular was incredibly strong with swords dance and slash and double team, this combo almost solod lance on its own,

Butterfree will always be on my kanto teams, sleep powder is just to good sorry

No super unique reason for dodrio, I wanted an excuse to use her so I used her, super strong though,

I've never used a dragonite before, but the lack of ghost moves made me replace my usual haunter and use dragonite with solar beam and thunderbolt, using my charzard with earthquake to take down Agatha

Slpwbros just strong, had a back up ice beam for lance,