January 29, 2004

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Pokémon

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Pokémon

Platforms

Game Boy Advance

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Game Freak Nintendo

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Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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A recurring oddity in the Pokémon games is that the Gym Leader and later Elite Four member Koga, the Kanto Region's Poison-type expert, threatens to defeat his opponents with both Poison and Sleep tactics. In Red and Blue, he states:

"You shall feel the despair of poison and sleep techniques!"

In Gold, Silver, Crystal, and their remakes HeartGold and SoulSilver, he states:

"Confusion, sleep, poison... Prepare to be the victim of my sinister technique!"

In FireRed and LeafGreen, he states:

"Poison brings steady doom. Sleep renders foes helpless."

Despite this, the only game in the series where Koga's main team uses any Sleep-inducing moves is Yellow, where two of his Venonats have Sleep Powder. In contrast, all of Koga's teams have incorporated Poisoning moves, with some of his teams being entirely composed of Pokémon using such moves. Although possibly a mistake, this might also tie into the theme of misdirection, which would be fitting for the ninja-themed Fuchsia Gym.

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