Whats up guys R1996 here just trying to make the best out of today.
Ok so anyways soon it is gonna be my birthday, and due to how Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are coming out on the exact same day, I thought I would go ahead and do a piece on Pokemon.
The Pokemon in which I am talking about is everyone's beloved orange water type, the Pokemon whom since Gen 1 has been everyone's punching bag. That's right it is the mystical, the wonderful, the powerful, almighty magical Magikarp.
Truth be told I still find it odd that Magikarp is constantly bashed, I mean seriously this Pokemon was meant to be shown as weak to show the prowess of Gyarados.
Yes we all now know that it evolves into the Pokemon Gyarados at level 20 but no when when the games first came out did.
No one even knew what a Gyarados was.
My friend Charlie is now 20 years old meaning he was around when the Pokemon games first started coming out in america.
He went through it all from the start.
He has said before and I quote: "Pokemon back the was not about the ways of battle nor the graphics, but more about the story and the never ending adventure, exploration, and over all happiness of when you met and saw a new Pokemon.
Personally I value any Magikarp more than a fully and well trained Gyarados any day of the week, even if it were to be level 100.
The reason is due to the familiarity.
Magikarp was the first Pokemon I ever acquired without having it be given to me by Professor Oak.
All the other Pokemon I saw on my journey before I saw Magikarp all looked and seemed to be to easy to train to me, Magikarp a Pokemon who who could only use the move splash until it reached level 15 was and still is one of the greatest challenges to any trainer if you raise it the old fashioned way, no EXP shares rare candies or anything just raising it by switching it with a more powerful Pokemon until it gained tackle and after that I journeyed all the way back to route 1 and began to use it to fight Pidgey and Rattata until it evolved.
But it went even beyond this, the first Pokemon that I ever got to level 100 was a Magikarp."
Now Charlie certainly had a lot to say, and I do to but mine applies a bit more to today's style of game play along with some additional information regarding previous generations.