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Aljam July 30th, 2009 12:17 AM

Wrap, The Cheapest Move Ever...
 
Does anyone remember wrap from Pokemon R/B? Please share your wrap stories...

I remember in Pokemon Stadium wrap pissed me off a lot when fighting lance.

The battle:

Mewtwo used psychic
Dragonair used thunderwave
Mewtwo is paralyzed
Dragonair used wrap
Mewto is unable to move
Dragonair used wrap
Mewtwo is unable to move
Dragonair used wrap
*repeats
Mewtwo fainted

mew² July 30th, 2009 12:20 AM

Can't say I was a big fan of it in R/B and Stadium. The same story happened with me when fight Lance -.-

Jirachification July 30th, 2009 1:29 AM

Same here! It was so frustrating! It should be banned. It's cruel haha

Wings Don't Cry July 30th, 2009 1:31 AM

That's not that bad, Clamp was way worse. Warp had a power of 15 and Clamp had a power 35 plus it was water.

Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos is unable to move
Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos is unable to move
Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos fainted

Aljam July 30th, 2009 1:35 AM

Wow! I never gotten clamped before. I'm just glad they changed those moves. Though they're kind of pointless now. Bind was another one of those moves.

xxxLatiasxxx July 30th, 2009 3:29 AM

True Wrap was annoying when facing an opponent.

A lil Fagadorable July 30th, 2009 8:05 AM

Oh gosh, I actually loved it.
xD
It was like a game of slots, ya never knew when it'd let you go a winner, or a loser.

Giraffles <3 July 30th, 2009 8:09 AM

I was never beaten by "Wrap" just thoroughly annoyed by it :3.

Timbjerr July 30th, 2009 8:54 AM

I recently did a Poison monotype run through of Red, and my Tenatacruel and Arbok owned everything with Wrap, especially when I toxic'd the opponent at the start of the battle. :P

Sydian July 30th, 2009 10:31 AM

I'm keeping Wrap on my Victreebel in Blue. It's amazing and makes me lol. I've only been annoyed by it in older games-- never lost to it.

Nyjil da Kid July 30th, 2009 10:43 AM

Dragonite knew Wrap??? I guess I got lucky!
I only remember wrap from Onix in...Yellow
I didnt think I'd ever get past him...

Casey333 July 30th, 2009 10:52 AM

I never had to many problems with Wrap. Except when I was facing Brock in Yellow. Stupid Pikachu. >.>

mattman324 July 30th, 2009 8:19 PM

In the first generation, wrap was something that you never appriciated until it was abused against you. For example, in Pokemon Stadium 1, back in the old days, I was forced to use rentels, and to make matters worse, I had NO clue which ones to pick.

Needless to say, I ended up taking a Kabutops and a group of other wimps (Raichu, Dugtrio, Diglett, Lapris, and Victrybell) into the match against Erica, and used Kabutops, Digglet, and Raichu... and she led with Tangela:

Digglet! Go!
Tangela! Go!

Tangela used Constrict!
Digglet's speed down.
Digglet used Earthquake!
It's not very effective...

Tangela used Wrap!
blah, blah, blah...
Digglet fainted!

Raichu! Go!

Me: Let's switch in Kabutops! Wrap won't do much to him!

Tangela used Mega Drain!
Kabutops fainted!

EVERYONE lost to a Tangela.

Mattysaurus July 30th, 2009 10:16 PM

That move was annoying...

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ July 31st, 2009 3:48 PM

I found both Clamp and Wrap extremely annoying x_____X


:t354:TG

Leo7507 July 31st, 2009 11:32 PM

I didn't really know what wrap did, cause I don't have G/S/C But I don't see how Wrap is a killer move? I thought it only did 15 damage O.o But clamp sure is a pain X_x

Pocchama01 July 31st, 2009 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo7507 (Post 4930293)
I didn't really know what wrap did, cause I don't have G/S/C But I don't see how Wrap is a killer move? I thought it only did 15 damage O.o But clamp sure is a pain X_x

In red, blue, and yellow, if someone used wrap on you, you couldnt attack until you were freed from wrap. Basicly if the enemy was faster and knew wrap, it could kill you without taking a hit. Same goes for bind and clamp.

FreakyLocz14 August 1st, 2009 12:17 AM

It was annoying I wouldn't be suprised if Smogon banned it for 1st Generation play and it was super broken.

Good thing it was fixed as soon as 2nd Gen came about.

dragon0fangz August 11th, 2009 10:59 AM

I love wrap. I could easily pwn the E4 with a lv 10 ekans, if it was fast enough. Point is i used arbok lv 50 and pwnt the entire story.

Divine~Deoxys August 11th, 2009 11:10 AM

Wow...wrap sounds horrid....mebbe a gud job emerald was my 1st game then.hah!!suckers!!

LightSlei August 11th, 2009 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine~Deoxys (Post 4971948)
Wow...wrap sounds horrid....mebbe a gud job emerald was my 1st game then.hah!!suckers!!

There was a few extremely similar moves already mentioned, wrap, bind, clamp..

I don't see how were suckers if we started earlier and eventually figured out how to defeat that product of the devil, those moves. It was extremely frustrating.

シルバー August 11th, 2009 11:16 AM

Never had wrap kill me xD
I believe clamp has killed me once or twice, though.

Dunsparce August 11th, 2009 1:23 PM

I made a list of the users of these types of moves in RGBY, as alot of you people are mixing up Wrap with the nearly-identical move Bind:


Wrap:
Ekans
Arbok
Bellsprout
Weepinbell
Victreebel
Tentacool
Tentacruel
Lickitung
Dratini
Dragonair
Dragonite

Bind:
Onix
Tangela
Pinsir(Yellow only)

Clamp:
Shellder
Cloyster

Fire Spin:
Charmander
Charmeleon
Charizard
Vulpix
Ninetales
Growlithe(GSC Egg Move Tradeback)
Arcanine(GSC Egg Move Tradeback)
Ponyta
Rapidash
Flareon
Moltres

apples2 August 12th, 2009 9:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archon
The battle:

Mewtwo used psychic
Dragonair used thunderwave
Mewtwo is paralyzed
Dragonair used wrap
Mewto is unable to move
Dragonair used wrap
Mewtwo is unable to move
Dragonair used wrap
*repeats
Mewtwo fainted

You're a noob for not using an Ice move or SWITCHING. Why would you let it just sit there and die? That's your own fault. And if this was on Pokemon Stadium, Lance has a Dragonair on ROUND ONE. You're terrible.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickySlaughter
Can't say I was a big fan of it in R/B and Stadium.

Why? Wrapping moves are nerfed on Stadium. Switching makes them lose a turn, while on RBY or Netbattle, the Pokemon being Wrapped loses a turn.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jirachification
It should be banned.

It often is.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rikudaman
That's not that bad, Clamp was way worse. Warp had a power of 15 and Clamp had a power 35 plus it was water.

Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos is unable to move
Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos is unable to move
Cloyster used Clamp
Zapdos fainted

Now this is brilliant. First off, Clamp has an accuracy of 75% while Wrap has an accuracy of 85%. Although that's only a 10% difference, it's huge after using it turn after turn. STAB Clamp isn't that great either since Cloyster's Special was only subpar, but still strong. Also, lol, what kind of noob Zapdos is slower than a Cloyster?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timbjerr
Tenatacruel and Arbok owned everything with Wrap

In-game doesn't count for much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyjil
I only remember wrap from Onix in...Yellow

Actually Bind, but basically the same thing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casey333
I never had to many problems with Wrap. Except when I was facing Brock in Yellow. Stupid Pikachu. >.>

Again, with Bind. And why are you using Pikachu against Brock. Are you sure Pikachu is stupid. ARE YOU SURE???

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattman324
Me: Let's switch in Kabutops! Wrap won't do much to him!

Because Pokemon only have one move right? Why would you switch something out against Tangela that has a 6x weakness (counting STAB)? Not to mention, what would Kabutops do back?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pocchama01
In red, blue, and yellow, if someone used wrap on you, you couldnt attack until you were freed from wrap. Basicly if the enemy was faster and knew wrap, it could kill you without taking a hit. Same goes for bind and clamp.

^ This. 'Grats on being one of the only bright ones, and ironically, one of the youngest ones.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dunsparce
(Stuff)

^ This.

This community makes my eyes bleed and makes my brain shut down.

mugenhavok August 12th, 2009 9:44 PM

NO CRAP! Wrap is the most half-assed anoying move eva


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