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Pokemon Green on Miyoo Mini Plus

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Everyone knows that Charmander was the starter of the bullies.

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Look, if you don’t wanna get flamethrowered, stop being so flammable.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Charmander was the flammable one!

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

But was he inflammable

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

I'll never forget the look on my brother's face after he was talking all kinds of shit about his level 100 venusor that he maxed out with duped rare candies when I one shotted it with my level 50ish Charizard

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Charmander: bully

Squirtle: likeable funny guy

Bulbasaur: bookish/nerdy type


And yes, bulbasaur is the best

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bulbasaur is also the most interesting aesthetically (the whole evolution line)

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

And also the most likely to allow you to effortlessly curb stomp everyone in the first two gyms, and be resistant to the hat worn by everyone in the third. By then you're likely to have diversified your team significantly.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a bullied kid that back then just wanted a cool dragon, I protest that insinuation!

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] dom@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He said "cool" dragon. Which is gyarados

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oof. No wings or limbs, evolved from magikarp. I think you need to reassess cool dragons.

They are a cool fish monster tho.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SpoilerI am aware and mostly shitposting but I want to thank you for your effort to educate me. People like you are good for the internet. Now back to shit posting.

So Gyro taste like sushi?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The heavens will punish you in time, blasphemer 😤

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

For double smite ima eat gyrodos sushi off of a Pokémon trainer’s naked body in an underground club.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Evolving from Magikarp makes him objectively the coolest dragon. Started from the bottom now we're here.

The lack of actual Dragon typing does sting, though.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

They'd have been so good as water/dragon Q_Q

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

Gyrados is the Drake of dragons.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, in my head he's a chinese dragon.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact: When choosing my starter for the first time, all I knew about Pokémon was: "It's a game I saw someone play at school once and it kind of looked like an RPG and I love those!" I genuinely just went with what looked cool to me and had no idea there were "actual" dragon Pokémon.

Also +1 on dom@lemmy.ca noting, that Gyarados is the cool dragon in Gen1

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha. My story is similar I wasn’t super early to Pokémon but I had a deep love of early final fantasy games so I jumped right to it on gameboy. I was the perfect age.

I don’t remember who my original starter was. It could have very likely been Charmander, I know bulbs is the one that I’ve used on every subsequent play through of gen 1

Pretty much the exact same story here, only my obsession was more with PC-DOS RPGs like Ultima, Wizardry, Goldbox games, thanks to my father and older siblings influencing me there.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Gyarados has never been a dragon type

[–] Nima@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago

show me on the doll where the dragon rage hurt you.