3rd Gen OK that's just stupid

Started by Amp May 25th, 2008 1:51 PM
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OK, I'm playing through Leaf Green. One of the members of my team is my Dugtrio. great! it's ability is Sand Veil! Fantastic!

So I'm going through Victory road and I find the Sanstorm TM. Woot! My Dugtrio will be stealthy!

DUGTRIO CAN'T LEARN SANDSTORM.

....and Snorlax can.

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OK, I'm playing through Leaf Green. One of the members of my team is my Dugtrio. great! it's ability is Sand Veil! Fantastic!

So I'm going through Victory road and I find the Sanstorm TM. Woot! My Dugtrio will be stealthy!

DUGTRIO CAN'T LEARN SANDSTORM.

....and Snorlax can.

._.

Woooooooooow.

Wow.

That's great. That is just fantastic.

What the heck. Makes no sense at all. I wanna rofl at this.
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That's wrong. That's like not letting Pikachu the ability to use Quick Attack.
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Lol, I can't believe Dugtrio can't learn Sandstorm in 3rd gen, instead, it can learn... Sunny Day?! What's the point of that! Is it trying to be Solarbeam bait? T_T

I guess you are right.

After all, grass is super effective against ground, and that is exactly what SolarBeam is.....So why, its a three headed bait

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you know, you COULD just have another Pokemon use Sandstorm then switch to Dugtrio o_O

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kitsune still its not the same. Nintendo had te 3rd gen as a phail gen. It had no connection to any other gen and it still has no connections. Its a phail gen thats why. But sandstorm and sand vail is a pretty good combo. There are some other moves that dont make sence.
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Dudes... This is by far the most funniest thang i've ever heard... lol cant even show how im laughing my heads off here...
Dugtrio, a ground pokemon... cant learn Sandstorm, a ground type move...
How is that possible? Are ya sure... holy crap, this is stupid!!
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Only in 3rd gen fade so calm down. Well save those for when pokemon gone down the drain with leaf shaped pokemon. And ontopic nintendo acually created fire red leaf green on a whim so they really didnt care who learned it.
Owh... really?? Seriously, thanks for the info cookie... coz i 'was' sharpening my pitchfork... dang... i'll save it for later then...
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you know, you COULD just have another Pokemon use Sandstorm then switch to Dugtrio o_O
That's a bit risky...but, I could see where you're coming from on this.

kitsune still its not the same. Nintendo had te 3rd gen as a phail gen. It had no connection to any other gen and it still has no connections. Its a phail gen thats why. But sandstorm and sand vail is a pretty good combo. There are some other moves that dont make sence.
If you're going to say it's a 'fail' generation, spell the word 'fail' correctly.

Only in 3rd gen fade so calm down. Well save those for when pokemon gone down the drain with leaf shaped pokemon. And ontopic nintendo acually created fire red leaf green on a whim so they really didnt care who learned it.
If it was on a whim, why take the time to give new items(VS Seeker, Fame Checker, etc.), update graphics from RGB, update music from RGB, and etc.? I think they did care, but they just made an error. Don't expect them to be perfect.

On-topic...poor Dugtrio. Left to die in the sunlight.
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Such a fact would be considered quite silly. Dugtrio has no connections with the sun or light energy at all, yet it can learn Sunny Day. Dugtrio has connections with the sand as it lives in burrows underground and could easily twist the earth for a sandstorm. I must state that Dugtrio receives no great bonus even with access to Sandstorm. It won't last long enough to abuse the hax that Sandstorm provides (one hit brings it down), and thus more commonly used as a full out offensive sweeper. In competetive battling, manually handling Sandstorm as a moveslot is rare, as most Sandstorm teams use Tyranitar to whip up a Sandstorm.