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Old February 16th, 2010 (6:10 PM).
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Why did they replace his Espeon with Lapras? Yeah it makes since but I liked it better with Espeon.
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I agree Espeon was better, but they probably replaced it because Red's team reflects Ash's team from the anime and because all of Red's Pokemon were gift pokemon. Ash never got an Eevee so they changed to Lapras which he had in Season 2. Personally I think it's stupid since Red in PokeSpecial has an Espeon in honor of GSC Red, but it's ultimately the designer's choice. It could also be that Mt. Silver has hail and they didn't want all of Red's party to potentially be knocked out by the weather.
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Old February 16th, 2010 (6:22 PM).
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I agree Espeon was better, but they probably replaced it because Red's team reflects Ash's team from the anime and because all of Red's Pokemon were gift pokemon. Ash never got an Eevee so they changed to Lapras which he had in Season 2. Personally I think it's stupid since Red in PokeSpecial has an Espeon in honor of GSC Red, but it's ultimately the designer's choice. It could also be that Mt. Silver has hail and they didn't want all of Red's party to potentially be knocked out by the weather.
Yeah, but Espeon used to be sorta hard, which made it fun. :P
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Old February 16th, 2010 (6:37 PM).
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Espeon wasn't that hard. Not with your own Espeon with Shadow Ball.

Though I dislike the fact that they switched out Espeon with Lapras as well, the reasoning is probably all that Sir said. Because Ash (who Red was 'supposed' to portray, or something silly like that) got Lapras in the second season, Red now has a Lapras in HGSS. It could also be because (again: like Sir said), all the Pokemon Red have are gift Pokemon in which Eevee can still be a factor, but eh. Whatev the creators wanna do. :|;

Does give Red a slight advantage over the Hail, I guess.
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Old February 16th, 2010 (6:54 PM).
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Does give Red a slight advantage over the Hail, I guess.


I guess that is why Nintendo and Game Freak put dang ol' Lappy thar.
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Old February 16th, 2010 (8:51 PM).
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I like Lapras better and am very happy it reflects Ash's team more. I fell in love with Lapras while watching the cartoons. I guess I like Lapras because of the nostalgia.
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Basically answered - does come down to 'because the developers/programmers wanted to; in the end with the other stuff above applied to explain the change (more help for Red with the Hail, etc).

Used to have a topic on this bfore (now out of date) which had the discussion end up going very much in circles... so going to close this one then as I don't see it being any different and the question has been answered anyhows.
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