Current Events > man, pokemon gen 1 is a glitchy mess

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I just had a squirtle gain like 3 levels in a fight, and just cause he skipped over the level where he gets bubble....he didn't get it. wtf. I never knew this before but apparently you can miss moves if you gain more than one level at a time. you have to stop on the level the move is to get it. that is so stupid

My favorite was the infinite rare candies
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Cloning in Gen 2 is the best
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Cloning in Gen 2 is the best

You could do that in Gen 1 with a trade cable
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Back in gen 1, the Ghost elemental attack Lick is supposed to be super effective vs Psychics. But due to a programming error, it inflicts zero damage (does nothing).
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Chrisjh0223 posted...

Back in gen 1, the Ghost elemental attack Lick is supposed to be super effective vs Psychics. But due to a programming error, it inflicts zero damage (does nothing).

Also that one move that's supposed to increase your chances of a critical hit actually decreases it to practically 0.
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Chrisjh0223 posted...

Back in gen 1, the Ghost elemental attack Lick is supposed to be super effective vs Psychics. But due to a programming error, it inflicts zero damage (does nothing).

And it's the only Ghost-type attack that doesn't do a set amount of damage. Plus the only Ghost-type pokemon in Gen 1 were half-Poison, so they were weak to Psychic-types.

Ghost pokemon were supposed to be the "Psychic-killers" but ended up being the exact opposite.

ChainedRedone posted...

Chrisjh0223 posted...

Back in gen 1, the Ghost elemental attack Lick is supposed to be super effective vs Psychics. But due to a programming error, it inflicts zero damage (does nothing).

Also that one move that's supposed to increase your chances of a critical hit actually decreases it to practically 0.

Well, more like reduces it to 1/4 instead of multiplying it by 4.
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Mikablu posted...

Plus the only Ghost-type pokemon in Gen 1 were half-Poison, so they were weak to Psychic-types.

Because of this i had the wrong notion that ghosts were weak to physic and could never make heads from tails when checking weakness charts that said Ghost > Psychic, that caused me lots of problems when playing gold/silver...
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Seems like every time I replay it, there's a new glitch I didn't know about before.

The newest one for me was realizing you can skip getting the Slyph Scope but just using a Poke Doll on the ghost Marowak. Lets you get to Fuschia City a lot sooner.

Another random glitch of note:

X Accuracies ensure 100% accuracy for all moves. Including OHKO moves.
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