After putting the hounds to sleep, switch in your Swiper and put them as low as possible to increase the odds of getting yourself a new pet dog. They are fast and they all learn sleep-inducing moves which helps when catching PokГ©mon.ДЇalse-Swiper: Unfortunately, False Swipe is not a TM yet, making Scyther/Scizor the best users of the move. The foremost users of Mean Look are Gengar, Crobat and Jynx. Mean Looker: Prevents the hounds from fleeing while the user stays in combat. In order to catch these, having specific PokГ©mon's moves makes it easier.Д®DIT: Mean Look does not trap the three legendary hounds, since they can just Roar and the battle will end, HOWEVER, in gen 2 some wild PokГ©mon can flee from encounters, but are prevented from doing so by Mean Look. Silver and Gold feature roaming legendary hounds with a tendency to flee, as well as more common stationary legendaries such as Lugia.

I usually spread these out through out my team, but Pokemon such as Furret, Dragonite and Parasect learns several of them and can be used as pure HM-Slaves. The remaining ones are Flash, Strength and Cut. Mons worth mentioning are Crobat, Murkrow, Pidgeot, Dragonite and Skarmory. PokГ©mon that learn the move Fly are what I call flyers, and serve as a mean to quickly travel between places. Noticeable examples are Gyarados, Golduck, Kingdra and Lanturn.ДЇlyer: This is the pre-historic age of generation 2, where features such as the Eon Flute and Charizard Glide are not even theoretical. Waterslave: This refers to PokГ©mon that can learn all 3 Water-type HM's: Whirlpool, Waterfall and Surf. It's rather slow for a sweeper, and worst of all, it isn't even a complete Water HM-slave since it doesnt learn Waterfall. Water moves in gen 2 were all special, meaning Feraligatr had to use STAB moves coming from base 79 Special Attack. A solid choice overall.ДЇeraligatr is the worst of the three in my opinion. It gets Strength and Cut as HM's, which is good. Typhlosion only really gets STAB Flamethrower/Fire Blast, but it's fast and hits relatively hard. First 2 gyms are very difficult without a second PokГ©mon to help with Flying- and Bug-types. It learns Cut, Strength and Flash as HMs, which is good. Meganium is a pivot/staller/screener with 80/100/100 defences that uses dual screens, Giga Drain and Toxic to beat oponnents. This is mostly based on preference, but I'll give some pointers to all three.

Red is one of the strongest in-game characters to be found in a PokГ©mon game, which means that having the right typings and high-enough levels is key to beating him. Leveling is much slower and methods to do so are more limited than in newer generations, making planning your team more important. 7 HM moves are needed to access all areas of Johto and Kanto, making HM-slaves a must, or spreading the HMs out through your team. I've spent countless of hours with these games, so I felt like sharing some insight and good-to-knows that I've gathered.Д«uilding a solid campaign team to beat the gen 2 games is harder and less liberal than in later generations due to a couple of reasons. Generation 2 is where I, PerchPond, started my PokГ©mon adventure. WARNING, CONTAINS SPOILERS (the games have been out for roughly 18 years though, just saying)

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