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StealThisSheen posted...

This reminds me that one thing I love is how consistently good the Gen 1 trade Pokemon have been, atleast for in-game. Later trade mons haven't necessarily lived up to their precedent, but all of Golem/Alakazam/Gengar/Machamp basically mow down any game you can get them in.

I'll never forget when Machamp got No Guard, so that things like Dynamic Punch couldn't miss, which just made him utterly broken for the regular game.

In my last run of Crystal (a few years ago), I used a Graveler and Kadabra all the way until Red. Even without being able to trade, the mid evolutions still put in a lot of work. Next time I play Pokemon though I'll probably get a mod or something that allows for getting trade evolutions...without trading. Trade evolving just feels like a terrible mechanic overall. The popular Pokemon Randomizer already let's you do this.
https://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/changedevos.php