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[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

try surviving razor leaves or a hydro pump irl

[–] corus_kt@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better odds of surviving until hospitalisation than eating a Flamethrower or Fire Blast

[–] Niello@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Razor leaf is like having hundreds of knives thrown at you simultaneously. Hydro pump you basically die almost instantly. There’s a reason water jet can be used to cut metals.

[–] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

The water jets they use to cut metal only work because the stream is so narrow. Hydro pump is more like getting hit with multiple full-blast fire hoses at once

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found this article about this Turtles with cannons: an analysis of the dynamics of a Blastoise’s Hydro Pump

I don't know if it's right but interesting nonetheless

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

A firehose for comparison is usually minimum 200psi. Close up would hurt really badly but the chances of dying aren't great. At 20ft away you'll just get really wet. Their numbers aren't wrong but the analysis of what the numbers mean is probably pessimistic for the Charizard.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 years ago

True, water has never killed anyone

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pick Charmander, it eventually becomes Charizard which is

big lizardy looking thing has large wings breathes fire

and also

is not Dragon type cannot learn Fly

Gen 1 was great but it often didn’t make a lot of sense.

[–] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 25 points 2 years ago

He could learn Fly in the Yellow edition then you could transfer it to red/blue.

But yeah, Gen 1 had all kinds of issues.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Played only once, was Blastoise, no regerts

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I played several times.

My favourite move set was bulbasaur.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago
[–] vomitself@lemmy.film 10 points 2 years ago

Anon doesn't know about Gen 1 Leech Seed abuse.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The OG Pokemon was so unbalanced and had such a huge bias in favor of Grass types that I legitimately don't understand why anybody would pick the other two unless they were doing a challenge run.

And fire types SUCK SO BAD. They can't kill anything. They don't even do that much damage to the grass types who just Leech Seed them all to death.

[–] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think this is completely intentional design. Picking charmander was literally intended to be the OG challenge run