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1st Gen Grinding is back baby

LeedsUnitedForLife

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    Haha none of this speeding up bullcrap. Back to the good old grinding haha.

    in my 4th hour of blue and I still haent left viridian forest lol
     
    i agree. grinding is hard work in these games. Any idea if the item duplication glitch still works?
     
    Yes, it does.
     
    LeedsUnitedForLife said:
    Haha none of this speeding up bullcrap. Back to the good old grinding haha.

    in my 4th hour of blue and I still haent left viridian forest lol
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    Surely it's better to progress in the game and fight higher level Pokémon? You'll level up quicker this way.
     
    It's hard to grind some Pokemon, but it's part of the fun for me :3 That's might be the reason why I really enjoy these games, because I have to take my time to appreciate it.
     
    I'm too impatient for grinding... Now I'm stuck in Fushia City with level high 20's Pokemon in Yellow.. This games getting ridiculously hard for me. Anyone know the best spots to grind? I was thinking for Charizard below Pallet Town and Pikachu and Vaporeon on Cycling Road.
     
    It's so weird... I used to hate grinding, but with how easy Gen VI made it, I've grown to appreciate it. This feels kind of satisfying to work and take time, then see those levels rise. Not only that, but unlike in the past, I now have things to do whilst grinding. So I feel like I'm being productive in all my multitasking. Although at the same time, it is still slow and kind of bleh too.
     
    I feel like RBY have very poor grinding locations overall. It gets a bit better when you get to the Elite Four (and Unknown Dungeon/Cerulean Cave, if you want to grind there), but for a lot of the game, the wild Pokemon give very few experience points. Without being able to rematch trainers, it's slow-going, especially if you want a full team (and even more so if you add a low-leveled team member late in the game). I feel like these games really reward smaller teams (3-4 members for balanced exp gain), unlike the newer ones that encourage you to use as many Pokemon as you want.

    I'm only up to Mt. Moon so far on Red (doing a challenge on it, so I only have two Pokemon so far), and it hasn't been too bad. Haven't started the others yet, though, and I figure that my anticipated approach of training everything on Yellow will be way too slow.
     
    Pokemon yellow there's a decent patch on the cycle route where you can fight ponytas etc. You get over 1000 ex points for each one you take down. By then you should have used decent TM's and take them down in a hit or two.
    I think the reason some people struggle is because they're trying to level up naturally weak pokemon like Pikachu and fearow/pidgeotto. Ditch the birds and rodents...
     
    For me on 1st gen games I always did a lot of grinding in digletts cave. I'm currently playing blue atm, and am grinding many pokemon up to level 30 there before I pass on to rock tunnel. The diglett have good speed but are really low in defence, even a STAB quick attack/peck can take them out in one hit past level 25 for most pokemon. Once I got my team to level 30 I never really needed to do much grinding further down the line. And at 200 exp each and 600 exp for each dugtrio, the levels come in fast up until lv30.

    The elite four was the only other location that I did serious grinding.
     
    Yeah i agree with you guys its tough going but yeah sorta rewarding in some odd way. whats with ratata needing like 450 exp for level 12? seems excessibe
     
    I don't even feel like I need to grind in these games what so ever. I just catch any new Pokemon I see, KO any Pokemon I encounter (That I've already caught that is), and battle any trainer I see. My team of 5 (currently) are generally 5-8 levels above any trainer I encounter.

    PS: To easily beat Brock in case you don't have Bulbasaur/Squirtle: get a Pidgey and spam Sand Attack on Geodude and Onix, then just chip their health away with whatever moves your Pokemon have while rarely taking hits.
     
    Golemrevenge said:
    I think the reason some people struggle is because they're trying to level up naturally weak pokemon like Pikachu and fearow/pidgeotto. Ditch the birds and rodents...
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    Aw, but that's where the challenge is! Taking weak Pokemon and taking them farther in the game than people expect them to go.

    I don't mind the grind being back. At times it can be annoying to realize that my Pokemon are having difficulties against the trainers and I have to go back and grind before I can continue on in the game. But I just put on a video and watch that while grinding. It does feel rewarding to see my Pokemon getting stronger.

    Like my naturally weak Pidgeotto and Butterfree.
     
    I'm doing a nuzlocke run in Yellow and I'm not allowed to raise my pokemon past the next gym leader's highest-level pokemon. It actually makes grinding kind of interesting because I have to manage experience more carefully to keep from overshooting.
     
    The grinding's crazy early on in RBY-- the newer games seem kinda easy to me. I'm playing through Blue and there's such a huge leap in levels between gyms. I feel like later in the game, though, there are more trainers, so it's easier to level up and stay on track (I just went through the Game Corner, Silph Co. and all of that :)) Leveling up is tough up until the S.S. Anne, I think.
     
    I honestly don't really find myself grinding that much. I mean, I'm in Fuchsia in Yellow and I'm at like Lv30 (and Koga and Sabrina both have Lv50 Pokemon), but I know once I take care of all the trainers on Cycling Road, Silph, and the routes between Lavender and Fuchsia, I should be at least high 30s if not 40. That's more than high enough to be able to take on Koga, especially with Gen 1's iffy mechanics and enemy movesets. I at least want to get a Charizard before taking on his Venonat/moth team.

    Of course, I also like my Pokemon to be slightly underleveled throughout all the games, just to try to have a bit more of a challenge. The only time it's really bitten me in the ass was in my FRLG nuzlocke, where I actually took on the E4 with Level 40s and struggled big-time. I only lost three Pokemon in the League though, and two of those were against Blue's Gyarados.
     
    This game tosses you so many trainers on the main story that grinding isn't really an issue. I don't mind grinding in these games anyway, honestly. I don't know why, it's just never really irked me.
     
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