Well i dont know why but ever since the original game i always over train my starter before the first battle with your rival. I almost always have them evolve before heading back to the lab.
Right now my totodile<3 is lv10 and i may have it evolve before moving on once again like in the original.
So does anyone else ever do this? i like the satisfaction of completley crushing my rival that first time haha
I do that too! My starter (Totodile in this case) is usually lv.10-15 before i face my rival the first time. XD
you already got your copy? I'm getting mine (Soul Silver) later today.
On my ROM (since HGSS is not out in Romania yet ...) I had my fight with my rival with Totodile at Lv. 12 . Seriously , I just like beating the crap out of him for the 1st time ... >:-)
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I overlevel for the next meetings (particularly on Emerald, where I always get raped by Treecko/Grovyle if I'm not 10 levels above, as my first pokemon able to learn a flying move is always Flygon)