Let’s all play the Crystal Randofuser ROM I just made! I’ve randomized a ROM of Pokemon Crystal (using the Balanced settings in the randofuser) that will randomly fuse pokemon. They get attributes of the original and their counterpats, including types, moves, etc. It also randomizes their locations int he world, and also what the trainers have.
We’ll all have the same ROM so we’ll have the same fusions, and we can compare notes? If we want to?
I got all excited from the recent Gold/Silver demo ROM with all the weird pokemon, and I’ve been kicking this idea around for a week or so anyway. So I said fuck it, let’s do it!
You can download that and play it in any GB emulator. I’m gonna play it on my phone for maximum portability. Share screenshots of whatever weird crap you find! Give us tips on how to get past the weird trainers! Or whatever!! The screenshots above are from the github page so whatever we find will be different. I’ll post some weird stuff here later today, probably.
i’ve been wanting to fuck with this since i posted the big list of randomizers since pokemon gen 2 is one of the few games i could probably play randomized competently. i’ll probably mess around with this this weekend.
I beat Falkner but uh, I can’t remember his team? oops.
I started with Chikabra, a combo of Chikorita and Abra. Grass type seems pretty powerful, at least at first, because there are a lot of water types early on. So that’s good. I just got my first Psychic power after it evolved into Bayldabra, but I literally have not used it yet.
I’m also using a Pidgilava (a combo of Pidgeot and Quilava) for the fire type. I also found this little baby:
And I love him so much even though I haven’t really levelled him up at all.
So far, things have been pretty easy but it’s been really wonderful having no idea what kind of pokemon I’m going to encounter in any given area. Makes me have to improvise RE: type matchups.
The other funny thing is that, since most of the combos have two types, and most of them aren’t Normal types, type matchups become extremely important.
Here are a few of my favorites (I’ve taken screenshots of every pokemon so far but I won’t spoil too much)
This feels a lot like playing a Pokemon game for the first time, except I’m having to dredge the bottom of the lake that is my memories to figure out what the combos mean and what type they are. I’m surprised how many I remember! I’m having a great time.
Headed for, uh, the 2nd gym. We’ll see how that goes.
i didn’t have time to play with this this weekend but i’m gonna give it a go now. i thought about starting with chikabra but then realized chikorita doesn’t learn growth, my plans of absurdly broken psychic sweeps are thwarted. i’ll pick one of the other two. i wonder how breeding works in this? will it allow for weird egg moves? what’s the deal with ditto?
i think this crazy randomness is good because it scraps predictableness as caused by game design logic and pokemon tropes that are too ingrained in my brain already and makes pokemon mysterious and wonderful again aaaa
That will continue until at least the first gym, it’s weirdly water-type heavy in at least the beginning. It’s making it hard to train my Togeponyx, that’s for sure.
I love how many baby pokemon I’ve encountered as well. Since they have 3 evolutions, they just get added to the mix as wild pokemon, so that’s very pleasing.
I decided Ghost/Water was a cooler type combination than Psychic/Fire, so I restarted. I regret not maybe lowering the grass and bug levels down a bit more because both Nidorans are /Grass, and the Weedle line was fused with the Cyndaquil line and the Hoppip line was fused with the Totodile line.
I liked his stat distributions. Also, he looks way cooler purple. Still waiting on that water move, though. I was hoping it’d be a female, but I made do, I guess.
Rock dander has to be the worst.
I think my rival got a Mankey/Slugma fusion, which I think means he has Fighting/Fire vs my Ghost/Water.
Yellow NidoranF is rad.
Yo, Sentonyta! But I accidentally killed it! Tony! No!
HOOTYDUCK!
I’ve just been spamming Lick and Hypnosis, it’s rad. Sometimes I have to Scratch fuckers. The Pichodudes are obnoxious.
i woke up with a big muscle pain in my back so i can barely do anything except play weird pokemons today
magikbull is kinda useful and if my predictions are correct will evolve into basically gyarados but with normal type stab which is good
also i’ve spent like 20 pokeballs already trying to catch squirachop to no avail just because i hope it evolves into something called “blastchamp”
edit: it seems some pokemon have really weird catch rates for the area they’re in (i suspect because of being partly late game pokemon or pokemon that you never find in the wild (squirtle), so i might have to come back when i get great balls, interesting
I think you’re right - it should be a Water/Normal, even though Gyarados gains the Flying type.
According to the github page and the settings I chose, “the catch rate value of the base Pokemon weighs 80% of the total.”
so yeah, if the base Pokemon was very difficult to catch, and it gets fused with one that was easy to catch, it’s still pretty hard to catch. This interested me so I did some research. Squirtle has a catch rate of 45 and Machop is 180, so Squirachop should be
(45 * .8) + (180 * .2) = 72
The catch rate can range from 1 to 255, where 255 is the easiest to catch. So 72 is pretty low. In practical terms, this is close to trying to catch a Golduck, Ninetales, or any of the other Pokemon whose second evolution is their final (their capture rate is 75) with a regular Pokeball.
I used this calculator to figure out a rough estimation based on Ninetales, and catching a Squirachop with a Pokeball, even at exactly 1 HP, only has a ~28% chance of success. At half health it’s only ~19%
cute green baby 
