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I forgot about Togepi until this morning and I am disappointed in myself for not taking her. In response to Venusaur, that was just a fortunate coincidence. I was not thinking that when I posted, but I like it now that you have pointed it out.

Manix is very mean spirited by taking my next two choices. I will try Skorupi.

Giratina.

Silver FINALLY evolved Eevee into Espeon. Started to invade the Radio Tower and got rid of the imposter. Rival: Ampharos took out Golbat and Sneasel with Thunderpunch. Sigurd Surfs Magnemite, double Ice Punches Meganium (while Freezing him), Espeon Bites Haunter. Espeon leveled to 36 and learned Psybeam, thus giving it reason to exist. Cleared out the rest of the basement with Espeon then headed back to the Radio Tower. Didn't have much time today. Going to bed. Silver - 108

Yellow Caught Venonat, now that I have a little bit more respect for it. Got the Super Rod. Caught Seadra, Horsea, and Snorlax. Went south from Fuschia and caught two Staryu. Evolved one with a Water Stone. Koga Take Two: Lots of Sleeping, Fluting, and Aurora Beaming to down the first three Venonats. THe second actually poisoned Vaporeon, so she did not get put back to sleep. Golem came out to Rock Throw the Venomoth, to get Leech LIfe'd in return. Psychic critical hits and down goes Golem. Mew comes out to Mega Punch to find Leech Life Super Effective, doing twenty damage. Two Mega Punches and two Pounds later, the match is done. Badge get. I didn't have to grind that much actually. I just switched up my strategy and that did the trick. Time to pay a little visit to the Power Plant. Caught Magneton. Mew and Golem took Zapdos to low health before the Ultra Balls came out. Zapdos get. Flew to Pallet Town and Surf'd south. Turned the Helix Fossil and Old Amber into Omanyte and Aerodactyl. Entered the Pokemon Mansion. Caught Grimer. Made my way to the basement and picked up the Secret Key. Gym: Vaporeon used Surf. Alot. Blaine: Golem's Dig and Rock Throw combo took out Ninetales. An extra Tackle to that same combo took out Rapidash. Golem retreated as Arcanine came out (stupid Fire Spin took me to low health) Vaporeon handled the rest. Badge get. Oops. I did them out of order. Oh well. No one cares. Blue: 71 Red: 76 Yellow: 94 Silver: 107 Gold: 98 Crystal: 112 47.7%

Yellow Arrived at the Pokemon Tower to take on... Gary - Ivysaur led out and quickly retreated when he saw Fearow. Golem came out and made short work of the bird. Ivysaur popped back out against Shellder and annihilated it with Vine Whip. Level up and Razor Leaf! Vaporeon is out to deal with Vulpix. Three Quick Attacks (can't wait til Surf). Four Qick Attacks to Sandshrew. And Vaporeon deals with Eevee in the same fashion. Climed the Pokemon Tower. Caugth Haunter and Cubone. Team Rocket! Double Razor Leaf the Meowth. Golem Dig against Arbok and Weezing. Followed Mr. Fuji and got the Poke Flute. Got my Bicycle and went down Cycling Road, after beating Snorlax. Ivysaur evolved. Caught Fearow. Entered the Safari Zone and got HM03 and HM04 (through the Gold Teeth). Caught Scyther and Kangaskhan. Found out you could get Cubone in the Safari Zone in Yellow. No need for Celadon Rocket Base. D'oh! Caught Parasect, Nidorina, and Tauros. Went east from Fuschia and caught a level 32 Pidgeotto (to make grinding fro Pidgeot easier) a Weepingbell, and a Gloom. Evolved the latter two with a couple of Leaf Stones. Gym: This gym is much easier with a Psychic Type! Especially when they are named Mew! Mew and vaporeon's new Surf move clear out the gym. Koga: Vapoereon did little damage to Venonat with Bite and got put to sleep as a result. Poke Flute was used, only to be put asleep again. Poke FLute. Asleep. Poke Flute. Miss. Surf does considerably more damage, and asleep again. Poke Flute. Sleep. Flue. Miss. Surf. Switch to Mew for the next Venonat. Mega Punch misses and I get Toxic'd. Mega Punch three times while Venonat misses or hits with Psychic. Venonat keeps putting Golem to sleep until Koga uses an X Attack. Dig does half. Keeps doing Sleep Powder. Switch to Vaporeon to Quick Attack after being awoken. Level 48? That's why this Venonat's a pain. Doublke-edge recoil finishes him off. Good riddance. Venomoth meets a Rock Throw, curtesy of Golem. Rock Throw misses and I get Psychic'd. Venusaur comes out to Poke Flute for Vaporeon and get a few Razor Leafs in before Psychic. Vaporeon Surfs to not finish and tries to Quick Attack. Smack. Psychic. Restart. Dang. He's alot harder now. Grinding. Be back later. Yellow - 83 46.5%

NOOOOOO! Darn you. Fine, I'll go with Sentret.

Every time I play through a Pokemon game for the first time, I pick the Water type. Also, there was this one time, I solo'd Crystal with Feraligatr. Except for a few Revive's in the Elite Four and then I never did beat Red. I should probably try that again sometime. One last thing, do you want to be RNG'd a Pokemon for fun, or maybe just be given absolutely awful Poke's, just to say you beat a draft with those Pokemon drafted. No one needs to know that you didn't use them. If so, I nominate that you draft Ditto, just for laughs. You can't have Corsola. She's mine.

Well, anyone could steamroll through the game before finishing drafting if they use Feraligatr. Real Pokemon trainers use Meganium. Anyway, good job frat. I look forward to your expounding. Now, if you are not picking, Rhyhorn.

I am in the same boat as this unfortunately. I guess I will take Heracross. Hopegully I get lucky.

Sorry, I did not realize that it was my turn. Ponyta I guess. I still need to do more research.

I agree with your point about Alicia and at least partly with Colton. I would have liked him to stay longer only (and Only) to see his expression when he finally got voted out. That is, if all the other castaways grew something and found the courage to do it.

That's fortunate. I probably should use spoiler tags in the future. Sorry about that. Hope you see it soon. It would be nice to chat about it.

I don't think I would ever wish someone's appendix would need to be taken out, but if there were such a person, it would probably have been Colton. Also, merge thoughts?

I can not begin to explain why, but I do wonder what your impressions of myself are.

Crystal Caught Arbok on Route 42. Headed toward Lake of Rage and took on the Red Gyarados. It killed itself out of confusion and gave me the Red Scale. Talked with Lance and traded with Mr. Pokemon for the Exp Share. Invaded the Team Rocket Base. Caught a Voltorb in the base. Magnemite evolved. Caught Electrode. Gym: Not having a fire or rock type hurt here. Bayleef, Quagsire, Gengar, and Magneton all saw action here. The Jynx and Dewgong gave me the most trouble. Pryce - Bayleef hit Seel with a Razor Leaf, receiving a Icy Wind in return. Another Razor Leaf and Dewgong came out. Aurora Beam hits, and Critical Razor Leaf is exchanged. Bayleef downs after another Aurora Beam. Magneton finishes Dewgong with Thundershock. Quagsire was sent to deal with Piloswine. Surf was met with Fury Attack, and received another Surf. Badge get. Elm calls. I ignore him and head east. Caught Lickitung and Tangela. Entered Ice Cave. Caught Swinub, Sneasel, and Jynx. Made it through to Blackthorn City. Bought a bunch of Ultra Balls. Went south to Route 45. Caught Gligar and Dratini. Traded with Silver Dratini for Lapras and evolved Silver's Poliwhirl who was caught with a King's Rock. Flew to Goldenrod and entered the Radio Tower. Cleared the place and headed to the underground. Rival - Lapras used two Icy Winds to take out Golbat. Two Surfs ended Magnemite. Two Bites from Golbat stopped Haunter. Three Magneton Thundershocks caused Sneasel to faint. Lastly, Quilava was OHKO'd by a Lapras Surf. I will do more later. Edit Update: Red Went east from Celadon City and gave the Fresh Water to the guard in exchange for access to Saffron. Caught a Growlithe and evolved using a Fire Stone I had bought. Continued to Lavender Town and the annoying Pokemon Tower. Ran into (and over) Gary Gary - Gyarados led off against Pidgeotto, and used Bite. Sand-attack hit, but Bite landed again. Switched to Nidoking for Growlithe. Two Water Guns, and it was time for Exeggcute. Charmeleon used Ember before being put to sleep with Hypnosis. Barrage was used, hitting 2, 4, and two times before Charmeleon awoke and Gary used a Potion. One more Ember ended the duel. Three Jolteon Tackles stopped Kadabra while Gyarados came back in to deal with Wartortle. Three Bites (one being a flinch) later, the battle was over. Proceeded up the tower, distracted the ghost with a Poke Doll and dispatched Team Rocket. Received the Poke Flute. Went south. Woke and defeated the Snorlax. Got the Super Rod. Caught Venonat and Ditto. Went to the Safari Zone and caught Slowpoke, Dratini, and Nidorina. Caught Seaking in the waters of Fuschia. Caught Shellder and evolved him using a Water Stone. Caught Staryu and evolved it using the same method. Gym - This is the first time since Brock I think that my foes have significantly been over my level. That Hypno was a pain to deal with. Charmeleon and Gyarados both fainted and Nidoking was left with few HP. Psychics were brutal first gen. As if we did not know that already. Gyarados was able to take out most of the rest of teh gym, with Charmeleon's help. Koga - Koffing poisoned Gyarados before G could finish him off. Nikoking came out against Muk and used Thrash for a four turn onslaught. However, Muk managed to use Minimize in those turns and Nido hit himself a couple of times before Surf hit to finish Muk. Charmeleon hit Koffing with Ember and Burn'd him, Two more Ember's (with Burn and a critical) sent Koffing on its way and brought out Weezing. Charmeleon stalled a couple of turns with Slash until Weezing stupidly Self-destructed, ended the match. Badge get. Blue - 71 Red - 76 Yellow - 72 Silver - 107 Gold - 98 Crystal - 112 45.3%

Sorry about the delay. Hmm. Not really an expert on 4th gen. Shellos. I'll need a water.

Yellow Yellow was chosen at random to be the poor sucker who ventures through the Team Rocket Hideout in Celadon's Game Corner. But first, he did some trading with the gen 2 games to send Ivysaur before it evolved. Silver- Yellow sent Ivysaur, Golem, Vaporeon, Rhyhorn, and Doduo. Silver sent Poliwhirl, Golbat, and Lapras. Silver kept the Rhyhorn while Yellow held unto the Golbat. Gold- Yellow sent Ivysaur, Golem, Vaporeon and Doduo. Gold sent Shellder, which Yellow evolved with a Water Stone and sent back. Crystal-Yellow sent Ivysaur, Golem, Vaporeon, and Doduo. Crystal sent Jigglypuff who was evolved by Yellow's Moon Stone and sent back. Invaded the base and started taking names. Ivysaur got me in by beating the dude with the Raticate at the poster. Vaporeon took out the Zubat. Mankey evolved on the first floor (basement?) Golem and Vaporeon got me through most the rest of the dungeon. I had to leave a few times to heal. No big deal. Just noticed that Ivysaur is the lowest member of the team. Hey! Jessie and James! Golem says hi. Giovanni - Ivysaur leads out against Onix and gets hit with Bind. Ivysaur is taken to 1 HP and manages to hit with Vine Whip, ending Onix obviously. I gamble and keep him in against Rhyhorn, he goes first and hits Vine Whip again, ending Rhyhorn. Primeape switches in to deal with Persian, and deal with Persian he did. One Low Kick and a Karate Chop and the feline goes down. Picked up the Silph Scope and left. Blue - 71 Red - 67 Yellow - 72 Silver - 105 Gold - 98 Crystal - 99 43.2%

I will join if you need. But I am not an expert on Sinnoh at all and I question how fast my computer will allow me to play. I refuse to delete any of my cartridge files when playing.

Blue Took Doduo out and taught it Fly with the HM 02 that I picked up. Stormed Erika's Gym. Gym - Fly OHKO's everything the first two trainers throw at me. Continues to do that until Ivysaur, which a Peck takes him out after he hits me for half Doduo's HP. A Gloom puts me to sleep after Fly does not take him out. Four turns and a wake up later, Peck finishes it. The Exeggcute is dealt with even easier. Everything else is OHKO'd. Two HP remain on lv23 Doduo, so I run back to heal before Erika. Erika - Poison Powder hits before Fly activates. Fly hits for over half and Vicreebel misses its next attack so I get another Fly off scott free. Doduo is faster than Tangela and hits for over half again. Constict hits but does not slow me down. Fly again for the kill. Except it misses. Now it kills. Half on Vileplume. Mega Drain takes the bird to 2 HP. Peck takes the Plume to 1/5 then Doduo faints, leaving it to Nidoqueen to finish with Mega Punch. Badge get. Flew to Lavender after buying a Poke Doll. Went to the Pokemon Tower to find Gary waiting for me. Something that was pointed out at some point to me, his Rattata disappears at this battle, in the Pokemon Tower, where dead Pokemon are. Did I go too far in my battles with him? Or did I not go far enough? A critical Peck and a Fly take Pidgeotto out of the fight. Gyarados' Hydro Pump takes out Doduo, but I counter with Blastoise and the battle is over before it gets started. Two Bites. Water Gun the Growlithe. Bite the Kadabra. And Nidoqueen double Body Slams the Ivysaur. Had Blastoise lead out in the Tower. Ran from every fight. Put Doduo in front when I reached the healing point. Fly against trainers is VERY effective in 1st gen. When I got to the Marowak unidentifyable ghost, Poke Doll let me go on my way. Blastoise naturally destroyed Team Rocket. Got the Poke Flute. Flew to Celadon and headed west. Snorlax - Fly and a Peck, and a faint. Out comes Weepingbell. Sleep Powder. Wrap three times until it was low on health. Sleep Powder again. First Great Ball. Apparantly I bribed the RNG Goddess somewhere. Down cycling road to Fuschia, pink city of ninja's. And Safari Zone. Dang it! I need my bike. Fly to Vermillon, Blah blah Bike Voucher. Fly to Cerulean, Bike. Fly back to Celadon. Now... Cycling Road to Fuschia, pink city of ninja's. And Safari Zone. Yeah, mostly the Safari Zone. Entered. Got HM03 and the Gold Teeth. Taught Surf to Blastoise, because he has not been owning things enough yet. Caught Parasect and Rhyhorn. Traded the Gold Teeth for HM04. Gym - Hmm. No Psychic types. But I do have Nidoqueen! Amd Blastoise. Hypno took out both Doduo and Blastoise. Nidoqueen finished it, but man, I forgot how annoying this gym can be. Healed up and back in. Surf'ed a couple of trainers. Healed. Took out more. Healed and went back to face Koga. Koga. Used Surf while X Attack was used. One Bite finished the Koffing. Muk next. Critica; Surf leaves a sliver. Sludge takes me to 107 HP. Koffing again. This time he poisons me with his one attack. Weezing consists of X Attack on my Surf then Smog to 71 HP on the second Surf, then sending him to the Pokemon Tower. Badge get. Before I switch off, Blue trades with Yellow to get his grubby hands on Ivysaur and Vaporeon. In return, he sends Blastoise, Weepingbell, Ninetales, Rhyhorn and Flareon. Received and kept Metapod. Quick note: I never realized just how usable Doduo is right out of the box. No joke, did not level him at all and he solo'd most of Erika's gym and many of the trainers in the Pokemon Tower. Granted, he's not useful much past that, but it is something. Blue - 71 Red - 67 Yellow - 66 Silver - 100 Gold - 93 Crystal - 94 41.6%

D'oh! Oh well, I have a back up plan or three.

Silver Caught Natu and Lapras. Red Realized that Red had not beaten the SS Anne and Lt. Surge. Oops. So much for keeping the same pace. Got the bike in Cerulean, then went to have a party, then have Nidoking roflstomp those stupid Electric types. Evolved Oddish after about six trainers on the boat. Beat the rest of teh trainers then challenged Gary. What? You've only caught 40 Pokemon? And you're PROUD of it? I have over 55 sucker! Gyarados had Pidgeotto for breakfast with two Bites. He had Raticate with two more. Kadabra in one, and Wartortle in three. I always knew that if there one Pokemon I could count on ingame, it was Gyarados. Gym- Nidoking. That is all. Lt. Surge- See above. Badge get. Traded with Yellow to get Ivysaur, Golem, and Vaporeon for the Pokedex. Sent Gloom. Shoved Gloom in the Box in favor of the Exeggcute that Gold left him. Hey, I never said I wouldn't do that. Went east and waded through some trainers. Note to self: Exeggcute sucks in 1st Gen ingame. At least in 2nd gen, he gets Confusion at level 19. Ditched him after a bit. Caught Voltorb. Entered Rock Tunnel. Caught Machop, but he was already in the POkedex. Oh well, evolve him later I suppose. No Pokemon other than that in the tunnel. Went west from Lavender an immediately went to Celadon, fighting one trainer on the way. Got Eevee and evolved it into Jolteon. Evolved Gloom into Vileplume. Evolved Exeggcute into Exeggcutor. Evolved Pikachu into Raichu. Bought a Fresh Water and a Poke doll while I was here. Caught Doduo. Gym - Well, it has been mostly Nidoking and Gyarados this whole time, but now it is Charmeleon's turn to shine. I have to leave a few times due to poison and Ember sucking, but I clear out the trainers. Only question is: They can clearly see that I am trainer. So why do they assume that I am a peeping tom instead of thinking that "Hey! Maybe he just wants a stinkin' badge!" Sexists. Erika. Charmeleon destroyed her. Nidoking might have helped a little. And Gyarados. Heck, even Jolteon came in for a bit against Vileplume. Badge get. Blue - 65 Red - 67 Yellow - 62 Silver - 100 Gold - 93 Crystal - 94 40.5 %

Ah, I can see that perspective then. I guess since they are so similar, it makes sense to lump them to diversify teams as much as possible. Thank you for clarifying.

Blue Evolved Bellsprout into Weepingbell. Caught Dugtrio. Headed east from Cerulean toward Rock Tunnel. Fought the trainers and caught a Voltorb. Evolved Wartortle halfway through Rock Tunnel. Caught a Vulpix on Route 7. Received Eevee and evolved it into a Flareon. Evolved Vulpix into Ninetales. Caught Doduo. Taught Horn Drill to Nidoqueen from the TM picked up in the Rocket Hideout. Wondering whether to finish the place or just buy a Poke Doll. Blue - 65 39.1% of the way there total.

The Eeveelutions are seperate aren't they? Why should Tyrogue be different? Besides, from what I can see, he hasn't been picked yet anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem for Shota to draft him.