>>58999187
Must be 18 or older to post here

>>58999197
Fpbp

>>58999187
>how even people played competitive back in the day?
We didn't.

>>58999187
You cloned them in Emerald.

>>58999187
You begged your parents for a Game Shark

nobody gave a shit about competitive back then

>>58999187
>how even people played competitive back in the day?
We didn't have the "muh competitive" autism back in the day.
Pokemon games are for kids, adults forcing this competitive mindset onto a kid's toy just to make it seem serious is idiotic as fuck.

>>58999187
>how even people played competitive back in the day?
On NetBattle.

>>58999187
I had the colloseum bonus disk.
You can have a jirachi, just give me some garbage mon with tms. Earthquake preferred, but let's make a deal.

>>58999187
>need to catch 50 pokemon and talk to an oak aide to get a heavily downgraded exp share compared to what they're used to
>the safari zone in general
>using a full team of 6 will keep you underleveled by the elite four, unless you go out of your way to grind with the vs seeker
>legendaries and snorlaxes gone forever if you accidentally kill them and don't save before
>raikou and entei gone forever if they use roar
>can't get the national dex until post game (and catching 60 pokemon)
>golbat and chansey can't evolve until post game
>can't get espeon or umbreon, period
>no physical special split
These games are genuinely zoomer filters

>>58999187
Back in Gen 3, they didnt. No online either and who the fuck is going to some big tournament event to play the games seriously? Nobody, and if they are that serious, they'll just make a new save file.
By Gen 4 this was still a thing of course, but most TMs you needed could be purchased with money or with battle points, so you could always get more, and gen 4 had online battles so thats where competitive actually took off.

>>59000311
>>using a full team of 6 will keep you underleveled by the elite four, unless you go out of your way to grind with the vs seeker
I never understood why this is an issue. You have a full team of 6 with diverse typings and basically unlimited access to items. How the fuck are you struggling?

>>59000311
>no physical special split
My favorite zoomer filter
Love how mad it makes them
Love how they can't play without qol romhacks

Cheat codes to multiply TMs and Rare Candy.

>>59000311
>underleveled
meme word

>>59000000
>>59999999

>>58999187
>TM's are only one single use
>that's fucking retarded, how even people played competitive back in the day?

Male Pokemon can pass down TM's through breeding, as long as the resulting offspring can learn said TM.

>>59000311
>need to catch pokemon in a pokemon game
Oh shit nigger.
I had 50 pokemon shortly after reaching fuscia and getting to the safari zone because I was catching stuff throughout the land. I've beaten Giovanni and now Im just wandering around catching shit before the elite 4 and I'm up to 80. The physical/special split doesn't even matter in a lot of cases because their stats are generally balanced around having both. Anyone filtered by this shit should be lobotomized

>>58999187
>how did people play competitive
Shoddy Battle, Net Battle or Pokemon Online.
>>59000317
I played competitive extensively back in gen 3, it was done through simulators though. Gen 4 adding online trading/battling really allowed the competitive scene to grow but smogon existed back then.

>>59000359
This, I never needed to go and catch mons to get the national dex just playing casually. How do you get to the endgame and don't have at least 60 caught mons? Your generic party throughout the game + gift pokemon are like 20-30 dex entries already.

>>58999187
desu it kinda sucks with Return I was surprised that can't be bought

>>59000380
You can get buy secret power, that's good enough.

>>58999197
/thread

>>59000311
>raikou and entei gone forever if they use roar
not anymore

>>59000359
>>59000379
Zoomers don't catch em all. That's the whole point

>>59000311
>heavily downgraded exp share
kill yourself.

>>58999187
They didn't

>>59000466
Compared to what zoomers are used to? It's objectively true. They were given the EXP Share for free and it gave everyone 50% experience in Gen 6 and 7. Then it was just permanently on in Gen 8 onwards from the beginning of the game

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