{"id":1370,"date":"2020-03-19T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:26:44","slug":"pokemon-red-dont-buy-capture-adopt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/1370\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon red – don’t buy\/capture, adopt!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Conjectures are statements of which we cannot say whether they are true or false. Once its falsity has been demonstrated, we say that the conjecture has been refuted, on the other hand, if its validity is proved, we say that it is a theorem (or other similar names, but with lesser degrees of importance, such as corollaries, slogans, propositions …) .<\/p>

In this text I present a proposal of Pok\u00e9mon red version in which the player does not capture or treat them as goods (buying them in stores or in casinos). Also, do not hurt pok\u00e9mons in their natural environment. In this proposal of the world, it is only possible to acquire pok\u00e9mons from the adoption and train them from confrontations with other trainers. To achieve this, we use a gameshark code that prevents battles with wild pok\u00e9mons, leaving only the player who chooses to escape the battles against mandatory wild pok\u00e9mons1<\/sup><\/a> (like the Snorlax that block two of the routes). So, faced with this world proposal, the following conjecture arises, it is possible without using more tricks to beat Elite4 and defeat our rival.<\/p>

The beginning in this world is the most difficult period due to its restriction. Because just by adopting pok\u00e9mons, before going through the Rock Tunnel, we will have only the Squirtle (initial pok\u00e9mon of the water type, a biped turtle), the Bulbasaur (initial pok\u00e9mon of the type plant and poisonous, a quadruped dinosaur with a bud in the back) or the Charmander (initial fire-type pok\u00e9mon, a bipedal lizard), or their respective evolutions. In this interval we need to defeat pok\u00e9mon gyms, which, although difficult depending on the type, is not as much of an obstacle as the incompatibility of pok\u00e9mons with special techniques called HM.<\/p>

HM are special techniques necessary for the continuation of the adventure, such as opening trails in the forest (HM01 – cut) or swimming (HM03 – surf). Altogether there are three mandatory HM to complete the game, in addition to the previous two we have the HM04 – strenght2<\/sup><\/a>. However, HM is not compatible with any Pok\u00e9mon, there are well-defined types that can learn each HM (this can be easily consulted on specialized Pok\u00e9mon websites, such as Pok\u00e9monDataBase).<\/p>

Thus, considering these HM as conditions to advance the game and adopt other pok\u00e9mons, we can arrange all the pok\u00e9mons that can be adopted from three periods of play in relation to the HM criterion: before HM01, between HM01 and HM03, after HM03. To facilitate understanding, on the next page I present a flowchart with all the Pok\u00e9mon that can be adopted in each period, in which the arrows indicate the evolution of a Pok\u00e9mon (Charmander evolves to Charmeleon that evolves to Charizard)3<\/sup><\/a>, the dotted rectangles indicate that the choice of one Pok\u00e9mon in this group is exclusive with the others (we can adopt a Hitmonchan or Hitmonlee, but not both). The dotted horizontal lines indicate the need for one of the player’s Pok\u00e9mon to know the respective HM to advance to the next interval (considering the top-down direction). So in the initial context no Pok\u00e9mon knows any HM. To advance to the middle range, at least one Pok\u00e9mon needs to know HM01, to advance to the bottom range, at least one Pok\u00e9mon needs to know HM03.<\/p>

1<\/a>With the exception of the fight against the ghost of a Marowak in the city of Lavender, in which it is only possible to continue the game by defeating him.<\/p><\/div>

2<\/a>The HM02 (fly) and HM05 (flash) help the game a lot at times, but are not mandatory to proceed.<\/p><\/div>

3<\/a>Eevee is a normal type Pok\u00e9mon that, depending on the player’s wishes, can evolve into a type Pok\u00e9mon: fire, water or electric.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Altogether, we can have a maximum of 6 Pok\u00e9mon in the adoption system, which coincides with the limit of how many we can carry in our team. Also in the count of how many pok\u00e9mons we already have \/ we have it is possible to reach 10 pok\u00e9mons, a necessary condition for acquiring the HM05 – flash (since pre-evolutions count as pok\u00e9mons we have already had).<\/p>

Despite this initial analysis, it is not yet clear whether our conjecture is true or false, that is, whether under these conditions and with these possibilities raised, we can in fact defeat Elite4 and our rival.<\/p>

A sad news for several players who like Squirtle (initial water type Pok\u00e9mon, a biped turtle), is that the game with this Pok\u00e9mon becomes impossible. To state this with such certainty we need to observe the requirement of HM01, which prevents us from proceeding to the middle interval. Of all 9 possible Pok\u00e9mon to have with adoption (counting their evolutions), only 6 are compatible with HM01, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard1<\/sup><\/a>. Exclusionary options in case we choose Squirtle as initial pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>

With the impossibility of choosing Squirtle, we need to stick to the requirement of HM03, because of the 13 pok\u00e9mons possible to obtain with the adoption (we already disregard Squirtle and its evolutions), two of them are compatible with HM03, Lapras and Vaporeon. Thus, as we need at least one that is compatible, this condition is satisfied by Lapras regardless of how the player decides to evolve his Eevee.<\/p>

Thus, it is apparently possible to win starting with both Bulbasaur and Charmander. Only theories and criteria were enough to show that it is impossible to start with Squirtle and win, but in mathematics to prove that something exists, we need to find at least one case in which this occurs. So, I recorded myself playing in both situations (starting with Bulbasaur \/ Charmander) until I finished the objective. The videos can be found on YouTube as shown below and were played at 5x increased speed (together they add up to almost 7 \u00bd hours of play).<\/p>

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Have you ever thought of playing Pok\u00e9mon Red without capturing or buying pets, just making them up? Would it be cool, is it feasible to win like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-v-3-ed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.unicamp.br\/zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}