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4th Gen Did you use the Red Gyarados?

tnfsf11

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When I first saw the red Gyarados I never actually thought about capturing it, I thought it was some kind of challenge for me to kill it, so I did :P and way after that I realized it was worth catching...
 
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If I didn't have a water type I'd use it, if I already had one it went into the PC.
I usually catch it when my pokemon are around level 30, so it's a timely addition.
 
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Well on my first run through when I had little to no knowledge of Pokemon, all I knew was that my friend like Gyarados and he only liked strong Pokemon. And it was red so I thought I was special having it.

Now I usually just defeat it instead, since on my second play-through, when i have a lot more knowledge on the games, I already have a water type.
 
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I dumped mine in the PC, as I already had plenty of water types by that point in the game. In HG, I started with Totodile, and I like Feraligatr better than Gyarados. In SS, I think I had a Quagsire on my team that I wanted to use instead (as I had one of those on my team back in Gold).

In general, I tend to have enough electric weaknesses as it is in-game, between a water-type starter (except in SS) and a flyer, so I tend to shy away from Pokemon later in the game that share that electric weakness. Also, I suppose I tend to feel that shiny Pokemon should be properly EV trained before use, and I wasn't in the mood to EV train the Red Gyarados when I got it, so I dumped it in my PC and figured I'd deal with it later. As it turns out, I still haven't gotten around to training it yet.
 

Ace.

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Nah, didn't use it. I already had a water type and that Gyarados would be useless so... Besides, Gyarados' electric type weakness is 4x so thats not really good.
 

Caelus

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I ended up keeping the red gyarados as part of my main team but I rarely used it. It takes awhile to level up and it's always weird using a shiny Pokemon, especially when you prefer the normal version's color scheme. I probably trained it about 10 levels before giving up on it; my other Pokemon were a lot more useful to me anyway.
 

Pillowing

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I loved my red gyarados! But I think I would have loved it a lot more if I caught it as a shiny magikarp tbh...

I do however try to use it in game or at least train it so it feels some loving before letting it chill in the PC.
 
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I'm an oldschool pokemon player- I played Pokemon Silver a few days before it officially was released(never did find out why they did that), and yes, in that game, I did use my Red Gyarados.

In Soul Silver, however, I didn't care in the least. Let him die.

That been said, in all the years i played pokemon, i only found two shinys- and the first?

Magikarp.

I was so conflicted....the magikarp was rare, but useless, and the gyarados was powerful, but was the easiest and most common shiny to get.....i think i eventually evolved it.....i still regret that choice
 

Letham

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Back in original Gold I already had Feraligatr by that point so I used him as an HM slave but I have always wanted to see if he would be any good.
 
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i kept in the pc in crystal, in SS transferred it to my pokemon black and ev trained it and then i traded it off
 
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Mr Cat Dog

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"A wild GYARADOS appeared!"
"Go, Ampharos!"
"Ampharos used Thunderpunch!"
"It's super effective!"
"Wild GYARADOS fainted."
"Ampharos received 3472 Exp."
 

ChocolateCrunch

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I think when I first played the game I used it once or twice but then I started using quagsires and I started fishing for my Pokemon. The only reason for me using it is - hey, it is shiny, I suppose.
 

Birthday Thunder

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Nah, I never used it in Soul Silver. I did however, use it back in the old days when i played the original gold version. Funny story btw, I was on serebii looking at the newly announced HG/SS games, and I was playing my platinum version at the same time, fishing for lanturns to trade to my diamond version. Take a wild guess what randomly pops up after I reeled in my catch? A shiny freaking gyarados. I was so excited at first, but then I realized that with the newly announced gold/silver remakes, I had just caught the most common shiny in 4th gen. Suffice to say, I cursed my game for playing me like a fool.
 
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i too had a feraligatr that had surf lol. i almost never require a water hm slave cuz surf itself is such a good water move. and as for whirlpool and waterfall well i happened to have a dratini that for some reason i taught those to xD i was hoping to make it a dragonair before the elite 4 but alas nope
 
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