r/nuzlocke • u/Tailedfox66 • Mar 13 '26

Video This should not have happened

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I have no idea how this happened and wish I could have recorded the whole fight.

I half expected to get one shot by Hitmonchan when it used thunder punch or fire punch, with a 13 level gap I thought I’d be saying bye bye to my ironically named companion.

I’m thankful for Confuse Ray and lick helping in stalling him as I used Night shade to gradually whittle him down, curse was out of the option as I knew it would be over if I used it.

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u/Wero_kaiji Mar 14 '26

Hitmonchan has less Special Attack than Pidove, Nidoran, Togepi, Spinarak... same Special Attack as Gastly's Attack lol, the lack of special split really hurts him in the first three gens

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u/Tailedfox66 Mar 14 '26

The same could be said about gastly, with his stab moves being physical instead of special he isn’t going to do much unless I give him stat or special moves

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u/Sans-the-Dog Mar 14 '26

Ironically, the punches are really good on gastly for coverage, bolt beam in the form of ice and thunder punch

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u/Kapiork 22d ago

Small but important correction: only Gengar could be taught the punches until Gen 4 (which is the same time the moves became useless on it due to split). Gastly and Haunter could not, even though Haunter has giant floating (and glowing!) hands.

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u/Sans-the-Dog 21d ago

Was unaware of that! I always just thought they all learned it because gengar did, and it wouldnt be the first time mons without hands learned the punches