In our quest to add games to our new Nintendo 64 collection, $20 (great deal!) later my girlfriend and I now have Pokemon Stadium.
It's cool.
However, we get frustrated by the fact that half of our games are spent with us just switching Pokemon to bettwr match our opponents. The revolving door doesn't seem to stop until someone caves and says, "-blam!- this shit". Is there better way to play so neither player feels the need to degrade competition quality?
Also, how much better is Stadium 2? Lord is it expensive.
Mmm yeah I hated that I had to choose only three of my Pokemon at times. Now I do what the person below said. Random buttons! If you're playing say the gym leaders or in the stadium though, the Pokemon have different move sets than the ones your Pokemon have (unless you just so happen to have a gb Pokemon game to connect). Also the mini games are fun! I love ekans hoop hurl
I think in 2, there is a random button. Otherwise, I'd just close my eyes and spam directions mashing [b]A[/b] until I'm full, then have my buddy do the same.
I still own my Pokemon Stadium 2 and it's amazing.
The way me and my friends play pokemon to avoid the constant switching is to play out your first choice pokemon and once one of you faints you get the opportunity of sending out the better pokemon. It makes for interesting battles as sometimes the type advantage doesn't always win (ash taught us this) plus nowadays pokemon can have many moves to cover weakneses.
You can always try to predict switches which makes the game feel like a chess match to see who fails predictions. So many torkoal yawn sweeps haha. Just have fun man!