Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen - October 19th, 2008

2008-10-25 09:59:55 pm

Back in the game!

Quote from mikwuyma:

Another said this: he had a lot of movement errors, and he played way too carefully in points, and all those vitamins better have been worth it (I doubt it). and yeah, he bought a crapload of items at the end he didn't use.

To this verifier:

I can't say anything to defend my movement errors. They sucked. I am not 100% sure what you're talking about with playing too carefully in points. The main issue I would like to address is the vitamins. There were several battles from that point until the end of the game that while testing, if I did not get vitamins, I was not able to one or 2HKO the opponent, and instead triggered a potion or full restore. I thought that it would be more time efficient to not have to use as many/any x items in battle, as I not only would have to take an extra turn, but in some situations I would risk being KOed. I haven't actually timed it, but for any battle where I do not have to go into my bag, select and use x-special, be attacked by the enemy pokemon, and only <b>then</b> be able to OHKO the enemy or enemies, and instead just be able to go into battle and OHKO them would have more than compensated for the vitamin collection and consumption. An actual example is the loreli battle: one less x attack was used because of vitamins. There are several others, but I'd have to go re-watch the run to tell you which ones.

For the extra items issue, I had to take into consideration possibilities. Being KOed, and needing to redo any x-powerups I used before. Persim berry, against Misty so that the 30% chance of confusion from water pulse would cost me less time than switching out and another pokemon fainting and then calling wartortle back into battle. Leppa berry for in battle blizzard restoration (ended up not needing it this time). Last second decision on postponing surge (this one was my fault) is the reason I collected the sitrus berry. What I was doing before is equipping it to wartortle, and then I had to rely on 2 mega punches connecting in a row against raichu, and hope that I either didn't get paralyzed by his static or his shock wave (30% chance from either physically hitting him, or from his electric attacks) or if I did that I was still able to attack. The sitrus berry restored enough health to allow me to get hit by shock wave, punch him, restore health, get hit again without dying (in lieu of no critical hit) and punch him to death. I got tired of failing runs at this point though, so i decided last minute to change it. Lum berry was a hit or miss deal. In case I ran out of awakening or paralyz heal or antidote or whatever. The berries that healed those stats were reserved for key battles, but that didn't necessarily mean that they would get used, if sleep powder or whatever missed. The full restores and everything else, it was simply easier/faster to tap the button once and buy as many as I could afford.

I hope that helped explain my actions a little bit.

[quote="mikwuyma"]

To this verifier:

I can't say anything to defend my movement errors.  They sucked.  I am not 100% sure what you're talking about with playing too carefully in points.  The main issue I would like to address is the vitamins.  There were several battles from that point until the end of the game that while testing, if I did not get vitamins, I was not able to one or 2HKO the opponent, and instead triggered a potion or full restore.  I thought that it would be more time efficient to not have to use as many/any x items in battle, as I not only would have to take an extra turn, but in some situations I would risk being KOed.  I haven't actually timed it, but for any battle where I do not have to go into my bag, select and use x-special, be attacked by the enemy pokemon, and only <b>then</b> be able to OHKO the enemy or enemies, and instead just be able to go into battle and OHKO them would have more than compensated for the vitamin collection and consumption.  An actual example is the loreli battle:  one less x attack was used because of vitamins.  There are several others, but I'd have to go re-watch the run to tell you which ones.

For the extra items issue, I had to take into consideration possibilities.  Being KOed, and needing to redo any x-powerups I used before.  Persim berry, against Misty so that the 30% chance of confusion from water pulse would cost me less time than switching out and another pokemon fainting and then calling wartortle back into battle.  Leppa berry for in battle blizzard restoration (ended up not needing it this time).  Last second decision on postponing surge (this one was my fault) is the reason I collected the sitrus berry.  What I was doing before is equipping it to wartortle, and then I had to rely on 2 mega punches connecting in a row against raichu, and hope that I either didn't get paralyzed by his static or his shock wave (30% chance from either physically hitting him, or from his electric attacks) or if I did that I was still able to attack.  The sitrus berry restored enough health to allow me to get hit by shock wave, punch him, restore health, get hit again without dying (in lieu of no critical hit) and punch him to death.  I got tired of failing runs at this point though, so i decided last minute to change it.  Lum berry was a hit or miss deal.  In case I ran out of awakening or paralyz heal or antidote or whatever.  The berries that healed those stats were reserved for key battles, but that didn't necessarily mean that they would get used, if sleep powder or whatever missed.  The full restores and everything else, it was simply easier/faster to tap the button once and buy as many as I could afford.

I hope that helped explain my actions a little bit.