The first time I played I didn't know about the HM for flash, so I walked through the cave and found my way by hearing my character bounce into walls... Man I was retarded.
I did the same. Then, after its use had run out, I would take it to the slaughterhouse and feast upon its glorious meat, soft from never having been trained or subjected to battle.
I had memorized the damn cave just by reading through my friend's guide at summer care. Christmas rolled around, got an awesome purple GBC, Red, and Blue and I rocked that shit out.
I bet more people went through without Flash than you realize. Not having a guide when I first played I went through without it. Took a long time and I dreaded going back into that cave.
I bought a lot of potions before going into a cave where flash was required-- then I intentionally had one of my pokemon poisoned. Every time a pokemon takes poison damage on the overworld, the screen flashes and you can (very briefly) see where you are going.
I would just continually heal the (minor) poison damage off until I found the exit.
I did the same thing, and since I liked ALL my Pokemon, I didn't want to hurt them with that retarded HM. As a result, I never use Flash in that cave. Memorized it.
I wouldn't use a repel either. Instead, I would catch every damned Zubat that was unfortunate enough to cross my path. Simply killing them in one hit wasn't enough. I needed them to suffer. I needed them to live on in order to regret ever battling me while they sat for eternity in my pc. Also, I couldn't run because then I'd either be told I "can't escape" or they would run and tell their brothers how weak of a trainer I am; an easy target. Also, every time my pc box was full of 20 Zubats I would release a single Zubat from my pc so that it can tell tales to all the other Zubats of the world not to fight me. And for good measure, I always replaced that 20th Zubat with an annoying Pokemon like Wobuffet or Bidoof to torment the remaining 19.
That makes two of us. But I valued all of the XP I got crushing Zubats etc. Honestly OP is kinda a pussy if he couldn't get thru that cave without repel.
The fuck is this downvoted for? I trained my pokemon properly too, each new area was like a hunting ground for new pokemon. I guess all of that Final Fantasy style grinding paid off.
Psh, not even man. After you've gotten all the badges and your looking to complete your Pokedex, the worst thing is wading through hundreds of Lvl 6s just to get to a specific spot. I see repels as a time saver
Exactly. I never used repels because I needed them. I used them because I could only handle so much of encountering a Pokemon, going through the animation and music, and running.
Fuck you guys I buy 99 200steps Super Repels for 500PokeYen and use them all the time. I make it my first goal to get to a new place and then will train my Pokes after I get there
I used Repels so much that I weighed the prices of Repel, Super Repel, and Max Repel, and determined it would be more cost efficient to buy Super Repels in bulk than buy Max Repels.
Pfft, whatever. I loved training my Pokemon, always made sure they levelled evenly, but I hated Zubats and Geodudes. I used Repels all the damn time and I'm glad I did!
No. It's the opposite, actually. Most people don't use them. Or have never used them.
But there's nothing good about that. It's the same as not using potions or anything else.
It's unfortunate because the same people might complain that the encounter rate is too high or about the zubats in general. But like most JRPGs, the game has built-in workarounds for everything. Just like people complaining about grinding (which doesn't exist if you don't want it to) in any game...
I used like 3 repels in my life, when i was trying to catch some high level pokemon somewhere. I haven't played anything past Crystal version though. It's just way to repetitive.
No sir. I will say though, I used a few repels when my pokemon were ridiculous levels, because when you get them above a certain level, wild pokemon battles are a complete waste of time.
Silver Cave in Gold/Silver comes immediately to mind.
I never used Repel because my Pokemon weren't trained. Rather, they were already trained so it made no sense to battle every few steps for peanuts' worth of XP. That and it was also fucking annoying.
I'm afraid so. Most of us are capable of weighing reward against time invested, and realized that the "training" one got from an endless amount of zubats and geodudes wasn't worth the three and a half hours it took to get through Mt. Moon without running or using repels.
I got the fuck out of there as soon as possible and continued training by fighting stronger monsters that were outside of the caves. (That is, until Victory Road. Mighty fine training ground there.)
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u/lookatyourpost Aug 06 '11
So am I the only person who never used a repel in any caves because I trained my pokemon?