Ask PokéJungle: #J2XY — Generation II
Generation II is where a lot of Pokémon fans started their Pokémon Journeys, it released at a time when fans would have been at a good age to pick up the games and understand them. But also at a time when fans who played the First Generation games were still caught up in the global Pokémon craze.
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 continue the Journey to X & Y we’re publishing an Ask Jungle, this time focusing on Generation II.
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Did it upset anyone that the Gen IV evolutionary stones weren’t obtainable pre-game in HG/SS? I know they’re Gen IV games, but they’re remakes of the Gen II games.
What johto pokemon do you wanna see mega evolve?
You mean what we do NOT want to see – Mega Miltank for one reason only: Whitney. Otherwise, I’m fine with a Mega Miltank, just don’t let her have access to that kind of power.
Would love feralagtr and Umbreon .
Any of these please.
Smeargle, Kingdra, Miltank, Houndoom, Noctowl, Stantler, Lanturn
Houndoom!!!
Is anybody else bothered by the thumbnail picture with the shiny charizard how is gonna catch that.
What is, (in your opinion) the most forgotten pokemon of generation II? I would say mine is qwilfish. And what gen II pokemon most needs an evolution?
Dunsparce IMO
Idk I feel like everyone talks about dunsparce so much that he’s not that forgotten. I would definitely say he’s underappreciated and his design and concept are undeveloped. Hopefully he gets an awesome evolution this gen. I don’t think a megaevolution would suit him until he’s evolved
SMEARGLE!!!
I love him. He’s like Ditto, except much more interesting with them mad Sketching skills. I would love for him to have a little boost with a megalution.
i actually had a smeargle in emerald with attack moves like, metronome, transform, protect, and shadow ball. it was super easy to make him leaner any moves with sketch. ( i would actually use double battles to make my smeargle learn the moves i wanted it to learn)
Girafarig or qwilfish for sure.
I’m actually curious to know as to what is/was your favorite starter in gen II and why?
Chikorita!
Although that changed in 4th gen to be Cyndaquil.
But that’s for another topic
Totodile – Ice moves for Lance and because i like houndoom or arcanine better than typhlosion. Also surf, nice to surf on him rather than needing to go to the pc to get some slave pokemon to surf on every time.
Cyndaquil of course
Feralagtr because it saved me in situations I tought I wouldn’t get out.
Chikorita! Simple yet cute. I also like the higher difficulty in the flying and bug gyms early on.
tell me about it, i had trouble with scyther in the second gym always with his furry cutter, and with each hit the attack got stronger and stronger.( by this time in the game i only had chikorita and i didn’t wanted to evolve her yet, back in silver version) >:/
Cynaquil, because unlike Charizard, Typhlosion could learn Thunder Punch to deal with water types and it was a special move back in the day, not a physical move.
Which Gym Leader was your favorite, and which Gym Leader did you like the least?
(If anyone cares my favorite was Morty, and the one I liked the least was Bugsy (I still really like Bugsy, but I don’t like bugs (>.<)))
Favorite: Clair because she was the only one to give me a real challenge
Least fav: Whitney. Most annoying Miltank ever
Favorite: Definitely Clair, with Jasmine kinda being second
Least Fav: Whitney. She gave me more trouble than it was worth >.<
I loved morty because the old woman’s scared me.
I hated witney because here miltank keep on killing my Pokemon and then I parlyze,frozed and did other random stuff but she would have a berry and destroy my Pokemon.
Favorite: Jasmine (She’s cute)
Least Favorite: Bugsy
Favorite: Whitney.
I love the challenge. Plus the cleffairy style gym, beastly Miltank, and ditsy personality made her memorable. Every gym should have a sense of memorability and intrigue.
Least: Falkner and Bugsy.
So boring. Not much more to say.
All of the other trainers not mentioned I love because of their gym design, pokemon, and personality.
Favorite: Morty/Pryce/Chuck. I don’t know, Morty’s so cool with his Portland vibe and connection to the story. Pryce has that wise old man thing going on. Chuck, well, his wife was funny.
Least: Falkner. That guy had potential, but he was disappointing. A pidgey and an underleveled pidgeotto? Why didn’t he have a hoothoot or noctowl, or a natu or something. Even a spearow would have been cool. Just some diversity. Plus he gives you the tm for mud slap. The flying leader gives you mud slap. For real.
Favorite: Janine. Hey, she was new to Gen II even though she was in Kanto!
Least favorite: Probably Chuck, just because I missed him (and all of Cianwood City) the first time I played Silver and had to go back after I had already defeated Jasmine and Pryce so that I could actually continue in the game… -_-
Favorite: Winona. Not sure why, tbh. I just really love her design and Fortree City and remember always flying there in RSE whenever I needed to heal my Pokemon.
Least Fav: Bugsy. Just so forgetful and easy.
Winona’s Gen III, though.
Awk. I forgot that we’re just strictly talking about Gen. 11 😡
*edits*
That’s OK.
Wait, does that say… Gen 11? You mean Gen II, right?
Well, that’s fine.
Favorite: Pryce
Least favourite: Whitney
I’ve got a good question that I’m sure others have as well
If anyone still has an old Gold/Silver game guide, take note that Celebi’s type was clearly listed as Grass/Psychic
What I’d like to know, is exactly when and why this has since flipped, as games since Gen IV have had it this way
I don’t think it matters what type comes ‘first’. The guide probably just had an error.
did you get silver? gold? or both?
Both and Crystal as well. 😡
Which new pokemon introduced in generation II, that are related to pokemon introduced in generation I, do you think best added to the pokemon lines introduced in red and blue?
Evolution: Kingdra, Steelix, Bellossom, Blissey, Crobat, Hitmontop, Scizor, Porygon2, Politoed, Slowking, Umbreon, or Espeon
Pre-Evolution: Elekid, Igglybuff, cleffa, Tyrogue, Pichu, Smoochum,
Evos: Politoad, Bellossom and kingdra.
Pre-Evos: tyrouge, pichu, and cleffa
Evolution: Crobat
Pre-Evolution: Elekid
Evolution: Espeon 😀
….
And Kingdra.
Pre-Evolution: Elekid…and wasn’t Magby introduced too?
Yep, I knew I forgot one.
Evolution: Steelix (If you look at Onix’s stats, you will know why)
Pre-Evolution: Tyrogue (Hitmonlee with Mach Punch and Hitmonchan with High Jump Kick as egg moves)
Evo(s): Kingdra and Crobat. Maybe Porygon2 and Steelix too.
Prevo(s): Elekid and Magby. Tyrouge because it connected the 3 Hitmons.
What team did you use to defeat red on Mt. SIlver?
My top-percentage Ratatta.
Who restarted for a specific shiny from the Odd Egg (Pokemon Crystal), and what was it. I went for Elekid twice and Cleffa once.
Am I the only one who noticed that the even numbered gens have a less amount of original pokemon and focus more on old pokemon evolutions? Like kanto(1), hoenn(3), and Unova(5) had like no (with the exception of Hoenn having like one pokemon pre-ev) Old pokemon evolutions. While johto and sinnoh had a low amount of original new pokemon, and a lot of old pokemon evolutions and old pokemon pre-evolutions. I hope Kalos has a good balance of both.
Hoenn had two baby Pokémon: Wynaut and Azurill
two, then. Still it isn’t very much
IDK if this is too out of context but in Gen II the tradition of having an ambiguous helpful non-rival character came about and I was wondering who was your favourite … Eusine vs. Wally vs. Looker vs. N … (I know obviously some have more screen time than others but in essence which character do you think is coolest.)
When I was little I got SO excited when I saw in Chrystal that the pokemon would move when you sent them into battle, and here we are now, 13 years later, where the battle graphics are WAY better than before. So my question is, what was your reaction to pokemon moving when you sent them into battle, and what battle graphics would you like to see today? (besides blastoise actually shooting water from its cannons)
P.s. This is the last day I will be on pokejungle, because I want No further spoilers on x and y. So see you all again October 12th!
Name one defining thing that made Generation 2 so great and one that really let it down.
Gold was my first game, is my favorite game, and did anybody catch any shiny Pokemon in Gen 2 (excluding Red Gyarados)? I found Onix on Gold.
So, those “leaks” and the person who claimed they got X/Y early are fake… correct? I was reading the forums earlier and people said it was confirmed fake, but I never got a chance to “barge in” and join the conversation. Anyways, with all of that aside, tomorrow will be A NEW EVOLUTION OF A POKEMON REVEALED!!! YAY!
I called it– Helioptile evolution (though many before me may have already called it XD)
I believe that the first report of rumors by pokebeach are still unconfirmed either way, while the second set of rumors were done by an impostor, and are confirmed fake.
Correct me if I am wrong.
No, no. You are correct, sire. But what about the twitter user who posted the pics (same guy?)
To everyone & anyone, did you ever win the Bug contest with something really surprising? Like a high level Caterpie?
I haven’t played Gold/Silver, but I have played the remake (Heart Gold). Anyway, I won once with a Pinsir. Ahhh, the Bug Catching contests have such a wonderful place in my heart! I tried it out because I was curious about it and ran into a Syther! I had no idea it could be caught there! When I saw it, I immediately thought “Oh my Gosh, you WILL be mine!” because I’m a big fan of Scizor and had wanted to use it on my team for a while, also, I had heard so many great things about it. I caught him and was so happy! I named him Gallantmon because he was one of my favorite digimon, both he and Scizor are Steel types, are red colored, and fight like royal knights (at least that’s how I saw Scizor in the anime). I learned that in order to get the Metal Coat, I had to get it from the captain in the S.S. Anne. That would have been after the game! There was NO WAY I was going to wait that long! So I taught Thief to an Arbok my brother gave me named Venom and had him use it against wild Magnemite. It took forever, but I finally got it! I was in such a good mood that I even decided to use that Magnemite on my team, which I named Stark after Tony Stark! With the Metal Coat in hand, I gave it to my Syther and traded him to my brother who traded it back to me. He wishes he didn’t do that because he was and has been such a valuable team member in Heart Gold and is my most powerful team member. Not only that, but I was lucky enough to catch him with Technician as his ability. I didn’t even care what ability he had at the time, but so happy to have had it once I found out how AMAZING it was!
Oh man, this has been the longest time I’ve ever spent commenting in a chat! But oh man was it great! Thank you!
the 13 royal knights!!!!! (my favorite was crusadermon)
New pokemon? These are screenshots of the new US XY commercial.
http://pokebeach.com/news/0913/new-gray-pokemon.jpg
http://pokebeach.com/news/0913/new-gray-pokemon-cu.jpg
I looked at them and actually thought they were black Audinos…this is like the Petili of this gen (but this will lead to derailment of the topic)
My bet is that they are Espurr.
Grey teddies? Baby pokemon? Now I need to know what they are!
Lol shit you beat me to it
They kinda look like Teddiura tho from a distance. but I hope its a Koala!!!
Hard as Steel or Dark as Transgression?
Which type do you think has the best design and concept?
Steel should have been metal to account for more variety including gold, copper, ect. Steel just seems too narrow in scope, but I like the idea that the typing has many resistances.
Dark, on the other hand seems hit the nail on the head. It was also a great way to balance out them psychics! There is not much if anything they should change with the name and feel of the dark type. So, I give dark a slight edge.
I agree with you on the name of Steel but I think it is just representive thing just like Grass. In the matter of concept, I thought Steel should be effected by Electricity because of condutivity just like how Water is effected by it.
Concept-wise I can’t say I fully get Dark. It seems like dark represents evil traits but is it related to darkness at the same time? I never understand Bug weakness if it’s about evil things?
Dark type IMO represents playing dirty (ie Fling, Thief etc) and also the night…That being said, most bugs are nocturnal ergo, Bug beats Dark
Dear Pokéjungle,
What do you think of the Uknown?
*unown
And yeah, they were interesting and stuff, but then I found out they were virtually useless.
OMG a new pokemon in the trailer. Could this be espurr? Its really small and light grey. It looks like a teddiursa almost. There are two of them behind the gate.
Look at the far right.
In Gen II, did you like going to 2 regions in one game? Also, did you think that the Pokémon in the Johto region were too low leveled.
My first Johto game was HeartGold, which is technically a Gen IV game. I liked going to Kanto, but they should have made the Pokémon in Kanto higher leveled. It was really hard to train in that game. The strongest Pokémon you can encounter in Johto were Lv 30 (Rt.27) excluding Mt.Silver, of course.
No, that was terrible! Why would anyone want more than one region to explore?! Such a terrible idea, too many areas ruins a game. Just look at the last few GTA games.
Your Bottom 10 things of Gen 2/HGSS