2nd Gen When you first batteld Red in G/S/C

[MarioManH]

Wasn't it a pain? I thought he would have stupid junk like Golbat or something, then a Lvl 81 Pikachu comes up and pwns you, I finally took it out with 3 guys down, and it got pwned by my Golem, then comes Blastoise, and ofcourse, trucks him. Then I sent out my Lugia(Hell yeah), took out most of his guys before Espeon came out, then I killed it with like 10 HP left?

I was stupid not to bring anything but Pokeballs.

 

[teejermiester]

His Pikachu was slaughtered by my Tyranitar (Thank God) and his others were downed by an assortment of my amazingtastical team. It took like, 15 minutes though! I actually thought that the battle was inside mount Silver the first time I played cause it was all dark, and then I played HeartGold, and I was like WTF??

 

[-Cygnus-]

I really wish other gens would do the lvl 80+ thing final battle. I vaugely remember that 0_0 WTF!!! feeling when Red's level 81 is first at bat... But I was such an uber- spammer back then :P Lugia is still probably my favorite legendary.

Now his Snorlax... Anyone remember that ungodly strong tank? Lol

 

[Limey-chan]

ow his Snorlax... Anyone remember that ungodly strong tank? Lol

It can go die. Seriously. I hate that thing.

In response to the OP, it took me a lifetime to level up my team enough before it was anywhere near ready to battle Red. The first time I tried to battle him I failed majorly, I got destroyed due to my team being about 20 levels below his.

I wish the E4/Champion on GSC had been 10 levels higher, would make levelling up so much easier and offer more of a challenge.

 

[Sydian]

When I first fought Red on Silver, I wondered why my team of low level 50 Pokemon was able to cut him up like butter.

 

[Shukumei]

I just played my type advantages and mopped up. It was actually kinda disappointing.

 

[Mute608]

I had a high leveled Snorlax and a very high leveled Feraligator (like level 95?) It was actually pretty easy to take him down with just these two.

 

[DarkNecroWolf]

Lol, I beat him with my Feraligatr (Lvl 100) And my Lugia (Level 97

 

[YellowFTW]

I remember just decimating him with my Lugia and Meganium. XD

 

[pokefan41]

I had a real hard time beating Red. Took me three tries with Pokemon at around level 60s-70s to beat him. The tank of a Snorlax was my defeat twice, and I didn't even figure out that fighting would be the best bet with it. Finally beat him after struggling forever with him.

 

[MarioManH]

I found it funny that the only move Charizard ever used was Flamethrower, they could have gave him a better moveset and make it so hes more smart with type advantages, stat raising, etc. Like really I fought Venasaur, It used SolarBeam without using SunnyDay first.

 

[Purple Materia]

I've never beaten him, sadly. I should probably give it another go with my Crystal party, but I might get slaughtered again. x_x I don't know how people can say he's easy. Maybe it's because I'm not a very good trainer. :/ I use my type-advantages all the time, I use items, and I tend to fight strategically, but I still end up losing. Maybe this'll be the day I actually beat him. It has been seven years since my last battle with him...

 

[Meganium]

When I first faced Red in Pokemon Silver, my level 50-and-under team got creamed easily by his level 81 Pikachu (even Lugia didn't cut it!). So, after a few days of training my party, I was able to beat his team, (his Pikachu, Espeon, Charizard, etc), with my L70 Lanturn being the last one standing. Man, what a battle.

 

[mikey]

My first battle with Red in my Silver was epic. My Pokemon were under leveled, but we pulled through :'D

 

[Chris_king]

When i first played him i did not know he was even in the game and i had played the game for over 80hours and had strong team and beat him fairly easy was pretty gutted that i could not play him again to train pokemon D:

 

[Lord Varion]

Red: ... ... ...
Me thinks: (So ur not gonna do an-- oh gawd its a battle)
:L Was so funny
was a bit hard coz of pikachu
But apart from that he was dead as a possum on a freeway :P

 

[-Cygnus-]

My first battle with Red in my Silver was epic. My Pokemon were under leveled, but we pulled through :'D

Underlevelling makes for the best battles imo. If you have a super-strong team, almost all the battles (in any game) become too easy. One of my current playthroughs I have them underlevelled so bad, but it actually makes fighting the E4... Fun. Go figure lol

This thread makes me wish that the Silver that I first fought Red on didn't die :(

 

[MarioManH]

A little off topic but - I think the sprites looked better on reds team in Crystal then HG/SS, and i got pissed how they replaced eevee, they just added another tank to piss you off. When I find my GB:SP Charger im going to play Crystal for the heck of it.

 

[blue]

I think I've actually only battled Red once, in Pokémon Crystal, I attempted but failed, I focused on the more in-game plot and storyline based things, I do plan to get a good team togerher and battle him on SS however.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Well, I saw him send out Pikachu first, I wondered, "Oh, great, is he gonna follow up with a Lv76 Metapod or a Lv83 Magikarp or something retarded like that?"

Snorlax was a bit of a pain to take down, but other than that with Pokemon in the 65-70 range he was cake.

Sadly with Snorlax gone in HG/SS, so was his one somewhat challenging Pokemon.