When you say the physical special split, that means the split between which TYPES were physical and special?
In which case there would be none of that in Gen II right?
I've always been confused about it.
In gen II, a move's dependence on whether it came out of [Sp.] Attack and went into [Sp.] Defense was completely based off of its type.
Bug, Fighting, Flying, Ghost, Steel, Rock, Poison, Normal, and Ground were all physical attacks and would work off the attack and defense stats.
Dark, Dragon, Fire, Grass, Water, Psychic, and Ice were all special attacks and would work off the sp. attack and sp. defense stats.
So only NetBattle supports this? Well I think I shall DL it and try 2nd gen out again.
Yep. The only download link is on smogon, because the usual website is down.
If this does turn into a How to Play, I suggest posting some links for tier lists, and posting threats, common pokemon, common strategies. Just give a quick run down on common pokemon for each role. Like listing the top5 walls, their sets, top5 supporters and their sets, top5 attackers and etc.
But its just a suggestion.
smogon.com/gs/tiers/uber
smogon.com/gs/tiers/ou
smogon.com/gs/tiers/bl
smogon.com/gs/tiers/uu
Only a total of five pokemon are banned, and apparently not enough pokemon were in the game to constitute a playable NU tier.
Rather than giving a top five of everything, I would probably be better off just making a list of usable pokemon and how they work starting with the most common. So basically Snorlax lol.
Your "question" was much to broad for me to directly answer.
Hey arti, you mention that 2nd Gen is based more on 'player skill' as a positive. However I feel like teambuilding is as important as battling and should be. Why should battling be emphasized over teambuilding?
OK so I might have spoken a bit prematurely. To make things more concise and to the point, there are essentially two types of teams:
1) Offensive
2) Defensive
Offensive teams work trying to execute their own strategy, while defensive teams play with a simple mindset. "Don't lose."
If you want to be more biased towards player skill in-match, then go with offensive teams where everything is completely momentum based. You have to get free turns though double-switching, and you have to abuse all of your pokemon with good synergy to break down at the opponent.
However, for more team-building oriented players there are defensive teams, more commonly known as "stall." Ideally for a stall team, you have six pokemon that can separately wall all six of your opponent's pokemon. This is important especially against teams that try to abuse Explosion, because if they end up doing a trade-off it won't terribly bother you.
Team building is important for both teams. For offensive teams, they need to be able to take enough hits from other offensive teams so that they can break through faster. Stall teams need to have their bases spread out as far as possible so they can split all six of their pokemon separately. But then you end up with stall vs stall, and you see how the metagame got its reputation, because neither is truly able to break through the other. Both are too busy "not losing" to actually win.
On the other hand, playing-skill is emphasized because to be able to play stall, you have to play against them. Get your pokemon in sooner and more often, keep cracking at the one weak spot on their wall. IE, Marowak is known as a good stall breaker. It can beat faster counters like cloyster by constantly spamming EQ and waiting for it to rest eventually by forcing it out with something like Raikou. Two turns of leftovers won't beat a single EQ from it, and considering crits it probably won't last long. Against pokemon like Skarmory, you have like a 12% chance of beating it if you SD on the switch and try to Rock Slide through it.... or you could run Fire Blast. In which case, nothing is safe LOL
It's hard to say in words why playing is more emphasized this gen than others, but I just feel it is.
