I chose Pokemon Red. Mainly because I wanted Raichu. which you can't have on Yellow, and the fact that my first game was Pokemon Blue so I wanted to choose something else.
My current team:
Chaos, the Charmeleon
Undertaker, the Dugtrio
Venom, the Vileplume
Devil, the Raichu.
Psycho, the Kadabra.
The team is pretty amazing and I find it very strong against everything. I still need a Pokemon that can use Surf. I don't have a Pokemon to use Fly but I think that I can handle without it. I need to check what Pokemon can learn Surf and are not Water types.
1/3 of our team is the same! If you really don't want a Water-type surfer, the Nidos are your best options. If you're put off by having two Ground-types, though, you could go for Tauros. It's a super huge pain to catch, but it has 70 Special (compared to the Nidos' 75) along with that Spe and Atk. It'd probably be a good fit.
My team is:
Vileplume (lv32) – Sleep Powder, Swords Dance, Acid, Mega Drain
Jigglypuff (lv 33) – Disable, Counter, Body Slam, Strength
Pidgeotto (lv 33) – Sand-Attack, Toxic, Fly, Double-Edge
Raichu (lv 36) – Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Flash, Quick Attack
Blastoise (lv 36) – Surf, Ice Beam, Dig, Water Gun
(placeholder until Hydro Pump comes!)
Butterfree (lv 38) – Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Psychic, Psybeam
Since I for some reason decided to do a run with a full team, I knew I'd have to have some serious hax going on to get through the E4 without having to grind forever, hence the insane number of status-inducing and accuracy-lowering moves.
I'm keeping Jigglypuff as it is instead of evolving it because it's my favorite Pokemon--I'm treating it like I'm Ash and it's Pikachu, essentially. I've been shoving every HP Up I find down its throat, so the Counter comes in handy and can usually take out annoying Hyper Fang Raticate and other fast mons that have no business hitting as hard as they do.
Vileplume is pretty useless at this point. I keep picturing the rest of the game, and I don't really see a place where Vileplume will be too useful. I just don't want to give up on it yet since it was one of the main reasons I got Red. Maybe I'll use it to take out the Onix in the E4 or something to make it feel needed haha.
Currently I'm trying to catch a Chansey so that I can teach it Tri Attack and annoy everyone in SM with a Serene Grace Tri Attack Blissey. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to hit it with a ball in the Safari Zone after about a billion attempts.
I'm also pretty excited about getting a Bubblebeam Lola (just to say I have one). Jynx is another one of my favs, but I don't really want to use a nicknamed Pokemon in the game, otherwise I'd probably replace Vileplume with it.
