>May uses Torkoal once and then never again?
>>59389950this was back before Torkoal was promoted to shillmon with Drought
>>59389950It died like Blue's Raticate.
>>59389950mmm sopa de torkoal huehahehe
she had it in the anime I think
>>59389950It devolved back into Slugma
>>59389950Have you never replaced a Pokemon on your team before Also it makes it challenging because it's fully evolved
>>59389950It's weird how she uses it so early in the game when it's supposed to be the 4th gym leader's ace.
>>59390100>>59390044just a coding errortorkoal and slugma are next to each other in the hoenn pokedexbrendan uses slugma in the same battle
>>59390016Ash had Torkoal. May had Combusken, Beautifly, Skitty and Bulbasaur in Hoenn. >>59390133They didn't fix it in Emerald. In ORAS you just don't battle her in Rustboro but if they had kept the battle she probably still would have used Torkoal
>>59390133I'm pretty sure they would have caught it if it was an error. Also errors can turn into features. They did a lot of QA testing and debugging on early Pokemon games. I think they just decided they liked the idea of the game being slightly harder for boys playing because they were generally better at the game. You can't really call something like this an "error" when it's worked in by so many people
>>59390161The games are famous for coding oversights in the earlier Gens lad. Can't really call it intended, especially when we know they were shitting out FRLG while also making Emerald so their focus was split further than usual.
>>59390215There's literally zero proof it was an oversight and even if we knew for certain it was there's zero proof they didn't like it more and keep it that way.
Maybe Torkoal didn’t want to fight anymore? As Pokemon fans you should stop and ask what the Pokemon themselves are thinking
>>59390295Except for all the other times they fucked up their indexes in the early years, sure.
>>59390588Can you please show the exact incidents ideally within Gen 3 or beyond with proof that's what happened
>>59390596The fact bulbapedia has quite a few pages on Gen 3 glitches and the fact they hired a whole new set of people to work on remakes and rehashes to give the main team decompression time after making a new Gen game ought to have told you already.Yes kid, your childhood WASN'T a paragon of competence before they hired turner and fucked it all up for you by you growing up. If anything, it was MORE fucking cowboy than you accuse them of being today.
>>59390142>They didn't fix it in EmeraldThis battle was added in Emerald in the first place, RS didn't have it, which is why ORAS didn't have itMoreover, in RS, May/Brendan used Numel as their Fire type if they didn't have Torchic as their starter, never Torkoal>>59390161>They did a lot of QA testing and debugging on early Pokemon gameslol. lmao.>>59390596They literally make another of the same mistake in the same game with one of May's later teams, on Route 119Only May incorrectly uses Lombre as her Water type instead of Pelipper when the player chooses MudkipLombre actually fills the Grass type spot for other starter choices, and Wingull/Pelipper correctly appears in all other battles/configurations
>>59390654>>59390612Maybe they liked her having those Pokemon
>>59390662Liked it so much that literally every single other battle with her in that game uses different Pokėmon in those same "slots", while the rest of the roster remains consistent throughout, am I right fellas?
In Pokémon Legends Z-A, Emma uses her Crobat from Pokémon X and Y once during Side Mission 155 and then never again.
>>59390666Yes. She doesn't know who she wants on her team.
>>59390654Case in point, you can see here how in RS both rivals form a Grass/Fire/Water core with their starter plus two of Shroomish, Numel, or Wailmer. These remain consistent from Route 110, to Route 119, to Lilycove City (which also adds a Swellow)The same pattern applies in Emerald with the Lotad, Slugma, or Wingull lines. However, in the new encounter at Rustboro City, and the Route 119 encounter, she inexplicably diverges one single mon from Brendan and her own teams elsewhere in the gameIf this applied to both rivals (i.e. Brendan also swapped something), or was a recurring factor (i.e. something was different every encounter), I might believe this was intentional, but as it stands I find that implausible
