Ask PokéJungle: #J2XY — Generation I
The recent reveal of the Kanto Starter Mega Evolutions could not have come at a better time, they kicked off our Generation I theme week perfectly. It seems Game Freak are really giving Generation I a throwback, Pokémon: The Origin will be a hit with fans of all ages and Professor Sycamore giving players a Kanto Starter in X & Y, continues the trend of Generation I getting a bit of well deserved love.
Leading up to October 12 each week we will publish articles featuring on a Pokémon Generation, beginning with the first and ending with then fifth. After the fifth week our extensive Pokémon X & Y coverage will begin, including unique features and articles. To kick of the Journey to X & Y we’re starting with a Generation I Ask PokéJungle
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What is your favorite Kanto Pokemon?
I like squirtle and charmander
Hmmm, I don’t really have a definitive favourite. Wartortle, Charizard and Gengar are the three I think of off the top of my head as favourites.
Seel!
Cloyster!
That’s what she said.
Starmie!
I love Starmie so much! I hope it gets a Mega-lution but I would probably be to OP 🙁 lol 🙂
Kingler
Magikarp
Starmie 😀
I can’t pick one. Kingler, Kabutops, Parasect…. sooooo… amazing
Nidoking and arcanine
Charizard
My team in the first generation was: Raichu, Nidoqueen, Clefable, Vileplume, Alakazam and Cloyster. It was the first time I ever played pokemon, so it was all so new… I think that’s why I have always had some kind of bondage with that pokemon.
Bulbasuar, Ninetales, Dragonair, Nidoqueen, Oddish, and Tangela
Weepinbell 😀
Blastoise
Ditto!
Since you posted a very VERY old school picture of Red and Green, I have to ask- which art style over the generations did you prefer? R/G/G/S, R/S/E, D/P/PT or B/W? I personally still love the R/G character art style, and wish to this day they would go back to it- its not so kiddish looking, and the sharper edges make it look much more dark(in theme).
I really like the Gen I. style for it’s rough looking style, something I don’t usually like in artwork. But then I really love the latest art style too. I don’t really prefer one over the other, I like them both for differing reasons!
Red and Blue reaaaaally appeals to me on a nostalgia level, but I actually like the modern style 🙂
What was your first game that featured Kanto?
Red. With it since the start 😉
Crystal 🙂 You’d think a pokemon webmaster like me would’ve owned Red/Blue but NOPE!
Blue
Believe it or not, HeartGold
What is your favourite Gym Leader from Kanto?
Sabrina. Not sure why she had that whip, though.
Mine is Lt.Surge for obvious reasons :9
Obvious reasons? It’s actually the Gym Leader I dislike the most 😛
He’s literally the virtual version of my real life love. Feelings…
What. You could not be more wrong.
Do you know him….
Because you obviously know who everyone must take as their lover, do you?
It’s rather obvious who they’re talking about 😉
Guuuuuysss, pleeeease you jst don’t have 2 fight over meeee
^.^
Hehe…
Brock or Koga. Because why not?
*Wynaut
Audino wynaut
ERIKA!! Noooo competition
Blaine
“You better have burn heal!” xD
For me, it was Erika. Grass pokemon have always been my favourite. Moreover, for me was one of the hardest gym because she was always poisoning/paralizing/sleeping my pokemons… but I loved her.
Can’t beat Misty- the original bad-ass water type leader. Oh the starmie <3
Giovanni
Blaine
Koga
What do you think has happened in the 10 years since we visited Kanto? Would you like to see Kanto sequels?
Aren’t those called Gold and Silver?
I don’t think we really need another batch. But it could be cool.
I’m not sure what I think could have happened in Kanto since RBY/GSC, but I think a sequel of sorts could be cool. Heck, I’d even take RBY remakes over RSE ones!
Nooooo lol, we need RSE remakes first.
Eh, no thank you. I’d even take DPPt over RSE 😉
B-B-But DPPt is more recent than RSE, heck even Kanto is more recent than RSE 😛 We need Hoenn remakes 😀
Hopefully the guy with the machop in Vermilion has made his building by now lol
HAHA Ikr….
Well, here’s what happened: http://utack101.deviantart.com/art/Utack-Swampy-Comic-30-155883166 (bottom panels)
Hahaha!
Funny facts about Gen 1: Butterfree and Venomoth are swapped. Venomoth should have been Metapod evolution and Butterfree should have been Venonat evolution.
Also, Sabrina gives the Swap Badge and Koga the Soul Badge. Again, these badges should be in fact sweeped.
Don’t forgot Gyarados and Dragonite, too.
I don’t believe it.
TRY to name all your favirorate pokemon from gen 1 and no legendarys!
See below: “Hmmm, I don’t really have a definitive favourite. Wartortle, Charizard and Gengar are the three I think of off the top of my head as favourites.”
Well, Gen I only has five legendaries.
But my top three are: Starmie, Eevee and Cloyster.
Dae, I’m sorry this is off topic (you can delete this if if needed), but this is really bugging me. In the last article, someone said something interesting popped up on Serebii forums and he was asking to email you. What was he talking about? I’ve been thinking about it all night, and its killing me! Again, I’m sorry that this is off topic.
I’ve just checked the contact form submissions, and as far as I can tell there’s nothing important. The only thing relating to Serebii Forums I could find was the (presumably fake) list of X & Y Pokémon on Pastebin.
Oh, ok. I just wanted to be sure it wasn’t some really interesting rumor, real or not. Thank you! 🙂
Wes what is your fave gen one poke and type
Last contact emails I’ve gotten have been about lack of 3D in the overworld and letting me know CoroCoro releases on the 14th this month 🙂
What do youthink of pokemons change in f
I didn’t see it. Can you tell me who it was?
Who’s your favorite starter, favorite starter megalution, and what other gen 1 pokemon do you want to see get a megalution?
Squirtle, Charizard and Gengar, respectively. 🙂
Bulbasaur, Mega Venusaur, and… KINGLER!
Charmander, Charizard and Cloyster.
Bulbasaur, Blastoise and Lapras 😛
Totodile, charizard and a volcanic typhlosion
Bulbasaur, Venusaur, and Lapras
chimchar, blastoise and rapidash
Rapidash should become a Pegasus
EDIT: I mean it could fly in the theme for the Kanto anime….
Or Alicorn.
Bulbasaur, Mega Venusaur and STARMIE!
Bulbasaur, Venusaur, Arbok or Butterfree
Blastoise,blastoise,lapras
Squirtle, Charizard and uh..Mr. Mime, maybe
Which Pokemon would you have in a full team made up on only Gen 1 pokemon?
Blastoise dodrio charmeleon rhyhorn kanghaskhan and ditto
This is obviously not a COMPETITIVE team, but if I were playing with favorites: Parasect, Kingler, Gengar, Nidoking, Kabutops, Mr. Mime
Nice Team. Parasect and Kingler don’t often get enough love these days. My team from Gen 1 is:
Starmie, Cloyster, Kingler, Vaporeon, Gyarados and Omastar.
Nice
Venusaur, Dodrio, Lapras, Magmar, Nidoking, and Jolteon! They’re Just my favourites! 😀
If I were playing favorites (no way I could do competitive one)
Ninetales
Dragonair
Oddish
Nidoquenn
Tangela
Bulbasaur
Tell me about it…when it comes to picking from 1 gen alone its really difficult to make a competitive team.
Charizard
Nidoking
Primeape
Arcanine
Seadra
Tauros
Really cool team, i love seadra too but tend to include it in my gen 2 team as kingdra.
Did you think it was strange how angry seadra became the cool kingdra
I like to think of it as Seadra getting pissed off cause Dragonite was all lordy in Gen 1 when seadra secretly wanted to burst out its true potential and kick some ass with its 1 weakness. Kindgra is just like “who’s da dragon now punk”.
i thought kingdra was the coolest pokemon ever when gen 2 came out…i couldnt believe they gave seadra an evolution.
Venusaur
Rapidash
Lapras
Raichu
Persian
Nidoqueen
Charizard
Vaporeon
Nidoking
Exeggutor
Raichu
Snorlax
My team was
Blastoise
Pidgeot
Nidoking
Raichu
Alakazam
Arcanine
I miss that team so much :*) good times good times
Most memorable moments from first playing gen1? I remember not knowing how to get HM Flash and spending hours in the dark trying to get out of Rock Tunnel. 😛
Try playing without knowing any English. There was so much stuff I did wrong because I couldn’t understand what I was supposed to do, it’s too much to tell it all 😛
I thought I saw someone say English was your second language. What’s your first?
Sarcasm. Uh,… I mean Dutch…
Oh that’s really cool! My grandma came over on a boat from the Netherlands! (Therefore I’m half Dutch!)
Well, I speak Dutch, but I’m not actually Dutch as in, from the Netherlands.
Oh. So where are you from? Or do you just speak Dutch?
I know how you feel. My first ever pokemon game was a Red version in French, and you guessed it…I don’t speak French. When the SS Anne departed I got upset and restarted my game – in all the language confusion I thought I’d done something wrong by stepping off the exact moment it left port. This happened TWICE before I realised it was supposed to leave without me.
(I was I was kidding -_-)
I know what you mean! My first language is Spanish, and plus I was very young to understand the game very well, I made it through all the yellow version succesfully. The final result is that I learnt English because of Pokémon.
For some bizarre reason Caterpie in Viridian forest 🙂
The sacred Viridian forest! That place was magical for me. I think I would say my most memorable moment for me was when I was desperately trying to climb over the ledge to the west of Viridian City to go to the Pokemon League to catch some mega rare Pokemon … right after I left Pallet Town. I caught a Mankey though!
I was never able to make the Snorlax move to the west of Celadon City ether :'( but don’t worry I had my revenge in HeartGold! ^^
I think I was the only kid with no problems with Rock tunnel since I talked to everybody & literally tried to ”catch em all” only problem I really had was Lt. Surge’s gym puzzle ^^;
Ha well you’re lucky! and yeah, those switches still drive me nuts 😛
If you listen to the music, favorite tune from Gen 1? Mine is the Gym Leader battle theme.
Lavender Town music. That stuff is made out of distilled nightmares.
Was the lavender town music with GB sounds in hg/ss the same as the original?
No, it is slightly different from the one in Red and Blue. Gold and Silver had a slight remix to make it less creepy. Here is the original one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJJ-QkZ8cM
It GAVE me nightmares
Lavender Town music. That stuff is made out of distilled nightmares.
The theme music with Gengar and nidorino!
Or Jigglypuff.
Yea in FR- I prefer that one to the original
Ahhh I remember my very first copies of Red and Blue and also Firered if it counts.
My all powerful team consisted of Charizard, Nidoking, Parasect, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, And my Powerhouse Rhydon!
All where beloved and helped me achieve victory. My pride and joy Rhydon from Kanto stayed with me all the way to Unova as a powerful Rhyperior!
My Rhyperior is a lifelong companion whom has won me countless battles!
And soon you’ll be able to bring Rhyperior to Kalos 😀
And soon you’ll be able to bring Rhyperior to Kalos 😀
And maybe even become mega rhyperior
I just realized that Rhyperior is rather likely to get a mega evolution because they’re harkening back to Gen 1, and Rhydon was the first pokemon created for that Generation.
What a beast he’ll become…
I fell that brother! The same with me and my charizard n Nidoking
How many of you guys used the missingo glitch for unlimited rare candies?
Never 😀
Never 😀
Nope, I’ve done something for unlimited Rare Candies though, I forgot what it was. Possibly cloning…
How many of you guys used the missingo glitch for unlimited rare candies?
I also think this is the perfect time for me to say this. Due to red being my first game, I love gen 1 slightly more then others, but this makes me a ‘genwunner’. According to the internet ‘genwunners’ hate new pokemon and are not fans of mega evolutions of older pokemon. As you can see from my avater, thanks to Jordin, you may see that I am a fan of mega evolutions, and i also like every gen in their own unique way- even the if one is infamously known for floating ice cream! So can this be a polite message to other fans that people should be allowed to like whatever gen they like and not be forced to think what the internet and some fans do. Thank you
eh, I would think that’s a case of misinformation. Liking the first gen more than the others does NOT make you a genwunner. A Genwunner is someone who accepts nothing BUT Gen 1. Everything else is not Pokemon, or it’s terrible, and shouldn’t exist. So that means you ARENT a narrow-minded ‘fan’ who believes the games should have ended at Red and Blue. I don’t know if there is a term really for that, but, definitely not a Genwunner. I’d say that your just a Pokemon Fan, with a preference for Generation 1. Not part of a very small subgroup who seem to do nothing but antagonize other fans, and pretty much wish Pokemon was dead so they could just hold the original games up as this nostalgic high standard, and how classic they were. And we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation as a result. At least, that’s my view of it.
Oh cool, and are there actually people like that or is it just meme jokes
Well.. there are at least TROLLS who are like that. I haven’t met any personally though.
I’m sad to say a friend of mine is a legit genwunner…
just a note but the genwunners/nostalghores tend to hate everything from gen 3 and afterwards because thats when pokemon really began to change and become dynamic. But i do agree with everything you guys say Pokémon should change always so that kids today can enjoy it as much as everyone
Here’s an exert from Tvtropes:
Fan Dumb: Dear God, Genwunners. While most of the teen/young adult Pokémon fandomnote grew up with Gen I and have a certain fondness and familiarity for it, these “fans” believe that Gen I and its region, Pokémon, characters, etc. are superior to all other generations in every way (except maybe Gen II, primarily out of appreciation for being so tied to Gen I), regardless of any effort, innovation, uniqueness and lack of glitchiness that may pop up in the later gens. Try to find a Pokémon video on YouTube without any comments that defend Gen I big time and oppose all the others. On the other hand,this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5jJ7ICYtc) explains the whole phenomenon perfectly, as does this VG Cats comic. http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=261
Unfortunately, this phenomenon has also produced a similar Fan Dumb with the opposite agenda; these fans are quick to label anyone who prefers or emphasizes Gen I and/or II as a rabid Genwunner, even if they do enjoy other generations.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/PokemonRedAndBlue
(end)
To be fair, you can be the opposite of a genwunner too, as in, only prefer a very specific generation that isn’t just gen1 and hate every other one for illogical reasons. Enjoying the first gen doesn’t deserve you negativity. The pokemon fanbase can be horrid, especially with slings of insults and negativity towards Gamefreak and each other. They aren’t alone though.
Look out Trainers and Gym Leaders of Kalos, The little Rhyhorn all the way from Kanto is going to shake you to the core!
:The EarthenWarriors
Did he swim to get here?
Oui Oui
Do you guys think that we would be able to ride of Venusaurs back?
Might get lost in the jungle on its back. A whole new adventure!
That would be epic! XD
As charizard didn’t get a fire dragon mega evo, do you still hold hope in a potential water dragon gyarados?
I don’t really know. Only if it gets Levitate I guess.
Maybe an evolution but a mega would make it op
Who keeps downvoting me
Here’s an upvote 😀
Thanks
How would a Mega Evolution be OP, and a normal evolution wouldn’t?
Gyarados has a base stat of 540, just like Milotic and Kingdra. In fact, all three are tied for having the highest base stat totoal of all non-legandary Wat-type Pokemon. It will get a Megaultion, if any evolution.
A regular would be OP, and it’s not a pseudo-legendary, so no base stat of 600, and it can’t go over that, that’s reserved for legendaries only..
That was kind of my point, but thanks.
But then, no sky battle with Mega Gyarados unless it has Levitate.
That’s gonna be awesome!
Mega Gyarados with Volt Absorb is awesome.
MegaGyarados would dominate if it had that. Too bad that’ll never happen
True
For all the people who wanted Charizard to get the Fire/Dragon… Do you really wanna see Charizard get whooped by a Jigglypuff ? ?
Fire resists Fairy. It’d be neutral damage.
Damn that’s true…. Lol… O well we will live with it regardless
That same logic can currently be applied to Marill vs Charizard 😛
Besides, Fire resists Fairy 😛
and feebas vs arcanine lol
Personally I wanted my partner poke to get the dragon type he deserves, but at least he still won’t get hit by earthquake
YES! I’d love to see anything get whooped by a Jigglypuff! I loved that Jigglypuff in the Kanto anime….
From the Kanto region what is everyones favourite piece of music?
Main theme
Cinibar Island
I like the main theme a lot but the bike theme was annoyingly catchy! 😀
Route 1…such nostalgia 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0G12EBW4KY
When I first started playing, that always made me think of cowboys for some reason :p
To me it just sounds like full on adventure music- it always gets me psyched to go
What’s your favorite Gen 1 shiny Pokemon?
I really like the shiny Rapidash! 😀
Charizard
Technically if your going Gen 1 then there arent any lol but i must say charizard has such an awesomely cool shiny design.
Hahaha, you’re right 😛
Haha shiny missingno plzzzz
Shinies? What’s that?
Pokemon that are so clean that they sparkle.
Shinies weren’t introduced until gen 2, but I know what you mean.
Pink Butterfree.
I want to know what is your favorite pokemon that you would have if you are going to start a story in pokemon 1g?
My original team:
Venasaur
Raichu
Vaporeon
Rapidash
Rhydon
Dragonite
Most of the time, I had:
Venusaur or Blastoise
Ninetales
Dragonair
Raichu
Porygon
Dodrio or Nidoqueen
Most of the time I had:
Charzaird
Raichu
Nidoking
Lapras
Hitmonchan
Pidgetto
My favorite Gen 1 Pokémon has always been Elcectorde and will forever more be Electrode. I admire it for its high speed.
I remember my first time playing Pokemon was Pokemon Staduim at an after school program in elementary school. I’d always get Vaporeon, Lapras, and Aricuno because they were pretty to me, so I really had no idea what I was doing. Good times.
I bet you hated Electric-types.
Favorite Gym Leader and Elite Four Member?
Misty and Lance
Mine’s Lt. Surge and Lorelei
Sabrina and Lorelei 🙂