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Chriz wrote:
> Once upon a time Joseph William Dixon decided to write:
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>>On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Chriz wrote:
>>
>>>> The Pokemon you refer to is Spheal (which evolves into Sealeo and
>>>>then into the best non-legendary Water [and Ice] Pokemon there is:
>>>>Walrein)
>>>
>>>Which attribute makes Walrein so good? I have noticed that it seems
>>>to resist it weaknesses somewhat with either HP or defences. One
>>>problem is that it's slow, so it can get knocked out before it moves
>>>in two on two battles. Isn't Lapras better though?
>>
>>NAME HP ATK DEF SPD SATK SDEF
>>==== == === === === ==== ====
>>Lapras 130 85 80 60 85 95
>>Walrein 110 80 90 65 95 90
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>> Hmmm. Forgot about Lapras.
Not used to having them yet - haven't
>>played much FR/LG, just R/S.
Of course, it's also in Ruby that the
>>question was about, which helped make me forget.
>>
>> Okay, Lapras has better HP, Attack and Special Defense, though, as
>>you can see, not by much in the latter two cases. Walrein's better
>>stats are also not too much higher - but there should be a noticible
>>difference on the STAB offense in Walrein's advantage. Their
>>movesets're about the same as well.
>>
>> As for Speed, that might be a factor in 2-player, but in story mode,
>>I've taken a level 50 Walrein, using just Surf and Ice Beam, and used
>>him to wipe the dragon trainer and Steven, with the only time more
>>than one move's been needed being on the latter's Metagross.
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> Have you played Colosseum? I'm having trouble at the final level 50 battle
> and the first level 100 battle in Colosseum mode. I use my Ruby level 100
> team and only recently tried to use my level 50 Ruby team as well after
> using a mediocre level 50 team from Colosseum. Anyway, what's the final
> "???" section in Colosseum?
It's a level 100 Orre Coliseum. Or so i've heard.