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Pokémon Stadium (1999)

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As this is the second week of Pokémon Stadium Free Battle videos, I will explain about what it is about in case this is your first time seeing any of them. What I do is I randomize a number between 1 to 149, and I use them to make teams of six for both myself and the CPU, and I have to try and see if I can win against the CPU with a randomized team. Here are the teams of Pokémon that are picked for this video.
P1 Team: Cubone, Tentacruel, Arcanine, Pikachu, Dewgong, Metapod
CPU Team: Kabuto, Chansey, Koffing, Hitmonchan, Grimer, Beedrill

Then, I will list the moves for each Pokémon in battle, starting with my team.
Cubone: Earthquake, Strength, Submission, Blizzard
Tentacruel: Acid, Cut, Supersonic, Hydro Pump
Arcanine: Fire Blast, Substitute, Take Down, Dragon Rage
Pikachu: Thunderbolt, Seismic Toss, Slam, Thunder Wave
Dewgong: Aurora Beam, Surf, Rest, Headbutt
Metapod: String Shot, Tackle

The CPU's team of Pokémon and moves.
Kabuto: Hydro Pump, Double Team, Blizzard, Slash
Chansey: Thunder, Rest, Fire Blast, Minimize
Koffing: Sludge, Explosion, Toxic, Thunderbolt
Hitmonchan: Submission, Strength, ThunderPunch, Ice Punch
Grimer: Sludge, Explosion, Body Slam, Screech
Beedrill: Twineedle, Focus Energy, Hyper Beam, Toxic

With the Pokémon selected, I have two Water-type Pokémon, and the CPU has three Poison-type Pokémon, and as battles are decided on the first Pokémon selected for the battle, I use a random list generator to decide my lead Pokémon for the battle, but it's not easy to know which Pokémon will start the battle off.
Whenever I get Metapod or any of the weak early Bug-type Pokémon, I usually like to try and use String Shot to weaken the opponent's Speed, or if a Pokémon that I don't have a good match-up comes out, and I cannot switch in the Pokémon that would be good against the Pokémon out, I can switch in Metapod to have it be taken out, at least this isn't Pokémon Stadium 2 where Metapod as a Rental Pokémon only has Harden for its move.
Chansey is one of the trickier Rental Pokémon to deal with if it is on the CPU side, it knows Minimize, which increases its evasion, and I had to check to see if moves like Stomp dealt double damage to a Pokémon that uses Minimize, and it is starting from Generation 2 where it happens, and it is Generation 5 where Minimize boosts evasion by two stages, and Generation 6 where moves like Stomp will never miss if a Pokémon uses Minimize. Chansey even knows Rest, if it sets up enough evasion boosts, this can make it one of the most difficult Pokémon to take down, as Chansey has the highest HP stat out of every Pokémon in Generation 1, it has low Defense, making Physical Attacks the best way to deal some respectable damage, the only good examples are Cubone, which has a bunch of Physical moves, and Dewgong's Headbutt.
Poison was not a good attacking type, the best Poison-type move there was is Sludge, which is a 65 Power move, and Sludge Bomb did not exist back then. Poison was super effective against Bug-type Pokémon in this generation, starting from Gen 2, Poison was neutral against Bug. Fighting was also a type that was kind of underpowered, not sure if that is the right term, the best Fighting-type move we had was Submission, and this was before we had moves like Cross Chop, Brick Break, and Close Combat, Submission had 80 power and 80% accuracy, and while it was good against types like Normal and Rock, the reason Fighting-type Pokémon weren't that good back then was because Psychic-type Pokémon was overpowered, the only type was super effective against Psychic was Bug, and Bug was the weakest type in terms of power, and there was an error where Ghost was meant to be good against Psychic, but instead Psychic-type Pokémon are immune to Ghost, and the only Ghost-type move that had that effect was the very weak Lick, and the only Ghost-type Pokémon back then were part Poison-type, which meant they were not good against the Psychic-type Pokémon.

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