When you surfed, did you encounter about 60 Tentacools before getting back on land?

[Cablez]

God, Tentacools should be removed from this game. Remember the golden days (R/B/Y) when virtually no water Pokémon appeared when surfing? Yeah. That was the life.

When I surf, even if I turn around staying in the same spot I encounter a Pokémon

 

[Rezzo]

^ Yeah I know! Sometimes when I was doing the Missingno. Glitch it would take me literally five mins to actually encounter something. Then RSE I'm getting hit by friggin Tentacools left right and centre. I got excited when a Pelipper came though

 

[SoopahScizor]

God, Tentacools should be removed from this game. Remember the golden days (R/B/Y) when virtually no water Pokémon appeared when surfing? Yeah. That was the life.

When I surf, even if I turn around staying in the same spot I encounter a Pokémon

I love the good ol' days

 

[Hydrohs]

Getting to Sootopolis is fun... right guys...?

 

[RifleAvenger]

Tentacool on the water, zubat scream in caves, and also that stupid tunnel with nothing but Whismur in it. Still, even the newer games seem to have high random encounter rates in places.

I'm just glad pokemon elected to confine the random encounters to certain areas anyways, instead of taking 2+ decades to do it, like Dragon Quest...

 

[Hydrohs]

Tentacool on the water, zubat scream in caves, and also that stupid tunnel with nothing but Whismur in it. Still, even the newer games seem to have high random encounter rates in places.

I'm just glad pokemon elected to confine the random encounters to certain areas anyways, instead of taking 2+ decades to do it, like Dragon Quest...

Oh yeah... that Whismur cave...

The encounter rates were raised starting in HG/SS. Which has proven to be extremely annoying, for me.

 

[Tyranitarquake]

olivine city to cianwood was a pain coz of tentacool...

 

[crystalzapdos]

Imagine combining R/S's Tentacools every two steps and D/P's surfing speed. That would be hell.

 

[Hydrohs]

Imagine combining R/S's Tentacools every two steps and D/P's surfing speed. That would be hell.

I don't even want to think about that.

 

[AwesomeSauce117]

*has Vietnam flashback of Tentacool enounters on Emerald*

 

[SoopahScizor]

Imagine combining R/S's Tentacools every two steps and D/P's surfing speed. That would be hell.

Do I have too?

 

[NomadSPG]

I did. Every two "steps", TENTACOOL!!!

i think, that was good for eventual random shiny and that was boring and interesting in trip also;p

 

[Endoplasmic Reticulum]

No, because I used repels!

 

[Hydrohs]

It's funny but.. I really didn't start actively using repels until Fourth Gen... Mostly HG/SS.

 

[Aquarelle]

I usually use Repels when surfing, but when I want to surf a really small distance (so small that it's not worth wasting a Repel), I always seem to run into something every other step.

I found it annoying at the time, but now I find it nowhere near annoying as in BW, where I seem to find a Pokemon every. freaking. step.

 

[Lorde]

I think the Zubat/Golbat in caves were a lot worse than the Tentacool in the sea. I found myself exploring a lot more caves than sea routes, though, so that might explain why I dislike them more than I dislike the Tentacool. Repels really did come in handy and I wonder why most people didn't think of using them. They weren't too expensive, so I would stock up on tons of them before I had to head out to sea.

 

[Shuckle]

The first hundred Tentacools were the worst. And the second hundred, they were the worst, too. The third hundred Tentacools I didn't enjoy at all.

After that, it just went into a bit of a decline.

 

[Hydrohs]

I think the Zubat/Golbat in caves were a lot worse than the Tentacool in the sea. I found myself exploring a lot more caves than sea routes, though, so that might explain why I dislike them more than I dislike the Tentacool. Repels really did come in handy and I wonder why most people didn't think of using them. They weren't too expensive, so I would stock up on tons of them before I had to head out to sea.

I just never used to spend my money on anything other than Full Restores and Poke Balls.

 

[SoopahScizor]

I just never used to spend my money on anything other than Full Restores and Poke Balls.

Same here. Ive only used about 2 or 3 repels in the past 6 months. Only when I find them though.

 

[castlewars]

I normally get a lot of Tentacool, but I just bring a load of Max Repels and use them.