Skeetendo

No, the title is not redundant, though it may seem so at first. What I'm basically saying is, I'm having a hard time finding a perfect difficulty balance for the first rival battle. First, during one test of a Beta 2 compile, I used my one Potion and still got my butt kicked by Blue's Charmander simply because Bulbasaur's Tackle kept missing, so before I did my next compile I changed the stats for Tackle. Originally, the power was 35, and the accuracy 95, so I bumped both up, respectively, to 50 and 100 just like in later generations, just so no one playing this game who got beaten in that first battle would lose simply because their luck was that rotten. However, this presented a brand new problem when I chose Charmander as my starter, because now it's Blue's Squirtle who's causing the problems. Basically, Blue has shifted his strategy to, to paraphrase The Star Wars Holiday Special's infamous cooking sketch (and yes, I was brave enough to sit through the whole thing), "tackle, whip, tackle, whip, whip, whip, tackle", making Squirtle ridiculously overpowered against Charmander. And this time, I'm not sure I see an obvious solution to that problem.