2nd Gen Whatever happened to your rivals Raticate?

I was wondering. After the battle with your rival on the S.S. Anne, he doesn't have his Raticate anymore. When you encounter him in Lavender Town he says: "You know what it's like to have one of your Pokémon die?"

So in retrospective, you killed his Raticate, crushed his dreams and he even gets scolded by his own grandfather! Man .. talkin' about being a dickhead.

That's not what he says at all, though. He says

"What brings you here? Your Pokémon don't look dead! I can at least make them faint!"

He just boxed the Raticate because it wasn't strong enough.

Yeah, the second guy is right. He was telling you that he'd kill your Pokemon. Like any trainer with any intelligence, he boxed the Raticate for being too weak, and I believe that's when he picked up a Growlithe instead.

Puddle said:

Yeah, the second guy is right. He was telling you that he'd kill your Pokemon. Like any trainer with any intelligence, he boxed the Raticate for being too weak, and I believe that's when he picked up a Growlithe instead.

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Killing a Raticate sounds more fun than boxing it though.

He should have kept his Raticate, if you ask me. It wasn't really so weak back in generation one; had enough strength to take out just about any other Pokémon. d: If he did, then he might have even become a bit more difficult to go up against. Who knows? Haha.

Gary didn't say anything about Pokemon dying. He just says he can at least make yours faint. :p

I think he got rid of his Raticate via releasing or putting it in the PC, as it was probably weaker around the time he battled you in the tower. I think he got either Gyarados or Growlithe/Arcanine after switching out Raticate from his team, both a fair bit stronger than the rat.

Honestly, I dont think any of you is right. We certainly didnt kill his Raticate. Cos we would have also killed all the other Pokemon he had. I wouldn't be surprised if his Raticate did indeed die, for unknown reasons, and he was there to mourn.
Idk, would make sense to me.

Elswood said:

When you encounter him in Lavender Town he says: "You know what it's like to have one of your Pokémon die?"

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That's as true as Mewtwo being a starter Pokémon.

No, Red didn't kill his Raticate.

I think his Raticate died from a side event and that's why he was in the Pokemon Tower. Doesn't make too big of an issue though seeing as Arcanine>Raticate.

It was said (forgive me for not providing a source) that Gary's/Blue's Raticate had died in the last battle that we've had with him. Although it may be a Creepypasta as the Pokemon Series has many of them. Everytime that I read a theory or watched a video on youtube about his Raticate, it always made me feel sad and sorry for him. As it's always tragic when someone or something dies and then passes away.

^My 2cents.

It seems like it fits together as a story, but I don't think Game Freak intended for people to ever think that his Raticate died. A more logical explanation is that he boxed it, like any other trainer has the ability to do.

He noted that it was not too good and would save. Then you will put the blame on you.

I always wanted to know what happened to the Raticate, too. It's just one of those theories that it died and that's why your rival was there (visiting its grave). Very rarely will a Pokemon dying actually be brought up, so they leave it up to you to decide.

LavenderTownGhost said:

so they leave it up to you to decide.

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No, there's nothing left to decide. There is not a single hint that any of his Pokémon died, let alone you killing one of them when all the game allows you to do is making them faint.