SadisticMystic | Pokémon Stadium - Prime Cup Poké Ball (with Poké Cup team) @sadisticmystic | Uploaded May 2007 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Prime Cup Poké Ball is pretty easy. Especially in round 1.
How easy is it?
Well, I've picked out a fairly solid set of 6, which can romp through the cup without a care in the world...and then taken away half their levels (okay, two of them proceed to get 5 levels back), because this is a team I normally use in Poké Cup.
The way the damage formula is constructed, head-to-head power actually scales quadratically with level. So with all other things equal, a level 100 is about 4 times as powerful as a level 50 of the same species.
So we have bad, high-level Pokémon against good, much lower-level Pokémon...which one rules the day?
(Some of the uninitiated among you may notice one move--Gengar's Ice Punch--appears in pink on the move select, and so does the player name in any battle where I picked Gengar. This is because Stadium looks for moves that it doesn't think should be there, but of course it was unable to look into the future and see that Gengar could use TM33 from GSC. Fortunately it doesn't make the moves inaccessible, probably for precisely that reason; it just colors them pink as a warning.)
Prime Cup Poké Ball is pretty easy. Especially in round 1.
How easy is it?
Well, I've picked out a fairly solid set of 6, which can romp through the cup without a care in the world...and then taken away half their levels (okay, two of them proceed to get 5 levels back), because this is a team I normally use in Poké Cup.
The way the damage formula is constructed, head-to-head power actually scales quadratically with level. So with all other things equal, a level 100 is about 4 times as powerful as a level 50 of the same species.
So we have bad, high-level Pokémon against good, much lower-level Pokémon...which one rules the day?
(Some of the uninitiated among you may notice one move--Gengar's Ice Punch--appears in pink on the move select, and so does the player name in any battle where I picked Gengar. This is because Stadium looks for moves that it doesn't think should be there, but of course it was unable to look into the future and see that Gengar could use TM33 from GSC. Fortunately it doesn't make the moves inaccessible, probably for precisely that reason; it just colors them pink as a warning.)
