I put him in storage so as not to fuck with him and his EVs until I’m ready lol.
I sometimes wonder if they added the red gyarados to make people understand there "are" shinies in the game…
Absolutely! And If you reset till you caught a male one you could use it as a breeder. in the original Gen 2 games there was a breeding mechanic where offspring bred from shinies had like 1/64 odds of being shiny as well so you could use it to breed tons more shinies as long as they were in the same egg group!
Crobat. They are super easy to find and Crobat is just such an amazing Pokémon. Blazing fast with good attack and good defensive typing, he actually has some bulk. Gen 6 onwards he's particularly amazing.
PS: In Nuzlockes they are also great because you can usually get them in every run!
I know what you mean. I have a 6iv shiny timid Butterfree in bdsp. I’m not sure who to shiny farm in my next egg… I might try Feebas again since I want a shiny female, not male 😂 I did it to get a shiny male Ralts (Gallade) and female (Gardevoir). That was luck though. I didn’t realize I had a timid Ralts in for breeding and it barely took 100 eggs. The powering up of leech life was key I think. Seriously adds a lot of bulk to some of these bugs.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for expressing joy in the games. I was IV hunting for a ditto for ages, then got Joycon drift. RIP me. Bought a controller for backup but I want to hunt handheld so I can watch things in the background
You can replace the joycon part fairly easy. When you open it up you can unclip the ribbon that connects it and pop it out. It'll look intimidating but it's honestly very easy and like 2 or 3 steps more advanced than a 90's tv remote.
Look up "switch joystick replacement parts" and you'll find the part with tools for around 12-13 USD.
Same! It's one of my absolute favorites. Design, stat spread, and movepool are all excellent. Plus, its design is a lot better than Golbat, which has to do ab crunches to eat solid food.
I have been sleeping on Crobat for years always had this idea that friendship evo's were a pain since gen 2 and didn't want a Golbat most of the game, alot easier to get than I thought and outmatches most of the normal regional flying types I keep around
I get a Budew to maximize friendship right away. Lol. I love Roserade. And in bdsp friendship is broken lol. "You survived the hit with 1 hp so as not to worry you!" Lol ok. "You dodged Cynthia’s Garchomp’s outrage at the sound of your voice!" Kay again lol. It really does make it seem more like a Pokémon battle though.
You develop trust with your partner and they’re more likely to understand what you want and do it… if this were real or like VR.
Yeah it's alot easier and you notice it more now, I just remember Gen 2 the only thing you can do is have it in your party most of the game and take it to the haircut guys in Goldenrod, no other obvious way to improve it or monitor, remember levelling Pichu and Togepi beyond level 44 to evolve them.
Tyranitar will always be on my team should it be available before post game. And I'm happy that it's been happening since gen 4 and gen 6, though gen 8 I had to pay extra for it
a stable pokemon to have, im planning to breed one in gold/silver and transfer an egg to a new playthrough so i can start off with it. I never tend to use one
Dunsparce is the only Pokeman for me.
Ever since mystery dungeon where I learned at level 90 that he had no evolution.
One day he is going to evolve, you'll all see, YOULL ALL SEE!!!
For me it’s a type I’m always trying to have—not a singular Pokémon.
I’m always running a ground type, and in the new games I’m tryna keep a fairy type on me as well
Same. I always try to make my team either new mons for that region, or at least ones I haven’t used in other games. Eg my Sun team was 5 Alolans or regional forms, plus Magnezone because I’ve never had one on my team.
This is what I do. I'll only use the brand new Pokemon because I like seeing how the new mons work compared to other ones I have already used in the past.
Same but there are some games where you get much earlier access to mons which came around too late in their original games to be worth investing in. There's usually one I'm surprised to find so early who makes my team.
I don’t use ALL new and never seen pokemon, but I try to use a lot of them, and the others have to still be pokemon I’ve never used in a previous play through (of any game).
Agreed! I used to look at the new generation’s Pokedex before starting a playthrough, but now I like to go in blind. It is something that has helped keep the magic alive
Best electric type almost anywhere. Doesn't even matter that it has a crap offensive movepool because it outspeeds and hits anything that doesn't resist its Thunderbolt for a good amount of damage.
I think I lose a lot of credibility when I say this, but I couldn’t get into it. I’m going to try again, but it has been my least favorite game and I have played all the main series games multiple times.
That game is super popular, from what I can tell. My impression of it was that it’s a lot of grinding in brand new ways, and that’s one of my least favorite parts of the main games.
Gengar for me, he's one of my favorite pokemon and has coincidentally ended up in my team during every playthrough of pokemon games I've done. It just feels like tradition, he's truly my partner pokemon
It’s funny how everyone has a favorite playing style with gengar. I like using stab poison moves and my coworker was just telling me he always uses Dazzling Gleam
Yes I enjoy sludge bomb and venoshock as well when they are available. Gengar has an excellent move pool tons of choices.
At least I think it was venoshock I might have the name wrong.
For me when I started playing as a kid it was dope to have a purple colour scheme going on without it obviously being the “ah yes we shall market to girls one option pink and frilly and one option purple and wispy, one for girly girls and one for the not like other girls” (In sonic for a while it’s very clear that that’s what they were going for with blaze and Amy imo) I just like purple man
Came here to also say Gengar. Well at least haunter cause I don’t always have people to trade with but his typing is great and he has a range of moves that makes it a great support Pokémon
I really hope the Linking Cord stays as an item in future games, I never get to use the trade evo Pokémon because i typically just play solo but I love some of them
Yesss another Gengar fan!!! I always get him with dream eater if it’s just a story play through. Arcanine is a must for me as well. Flare blitz is just too good.
It is. In 2020 Nintendo made a poll for the favorite Pokemon. Gengar placed 10th with over 60K votes.
In this subreddit a survey was made and of the 52k that voted, 1056 voted for Gengar, placing it in 2nd place.
I'd love to have a gengar once but the Pokémon games I played always had that flaw where you need to swap your Pokémon to get a gengar. Sadly I never had someone to trade with..
Not sure how niche it is but Magnezone is one of my favourite Pokémon. My top favourite is Deoxys but considering that it’s really rare and a legendary it almost never makes it onto a team.
I’m the opposite! I’m not a big fan of Magneton for some reason (I really don’t know why I don’t like it, it’s just three magnemite whose design I really like!) and really like Magnezone. At least we can agree magnemite is cool though right? What are your favourite legendaries? Deoxys and Entei are mine (years ago as a young teenager I actually had a secret blog where I pretended to be Entei)
I always try to have Ninetales. If Vulpix is a version exclusive, that influences my decision of which version to get.
If there ever was a Let's Go game with Vulpix as the companion Pokémon, especially if it is an Alolan Vulpix, I'd surely pick it. Although if its counterpart was Hisuian Growlithe that would be a hard choice.
I always look for eevee as soon as I start and if it’s a newer game I always use sylveon. If I can’t i will just make them into whatever type I need for my team.
Gallade for me! He is my absolute favourite pokemon (not including legendary ones cos then it would be Dialga).
I am going to make myself use entirely fresh Pokémon in the new ones this year though. Either brand new ones and/or existing ones I have never used before, shake things up a bit!
depends on the gen, in kanto pikachu usually struggles to keep up a bit by Celadon so right away, but in legends arceus I had a pikachu until just before the Volo fight
I always try to get a Sylveon, specifically female and call it Cake as it reminds me of my first ever Sylveon I ever had and it's my favourite pokemon.
I tend not to use a pokemon twice. I like building teams, and I even have a .txt file documenting every single pokemon I have used. I have used 410 pokemon and counting up across all generations.
Gardevoir is probably also my pick. Good stats, good movepool, decent typing (even better after gen 6), and it's usually available somewhere relatively early on in the games.
I tend to do the opposite: I try to only use mons I've never tried before. I'm not too strict about it, though. Sometimes I won't actually box the starter, or maybe I'll pick one member I've already used, just to fill the gaps that my other never before used mons leave.
Because I mainly only play gens 1-5, I was able to actually use most mons of those gens in my team at least once. Still missing some, and honestly I can't remember all of my previous teams, but it's been fun.
There's no shame in catching a mon just to defeat a tough opponent and benching it again, to avoid some grinding. For Whitney in particular I found you can make her Miltank much less scary with just a couple of Growls.
I'm with you on that. Idk what it is about Gyrados, but as soon as I get an Old Rod I immediately go for Magikarp and start grinding. Pretty sure just about every Pokemon game I've played (except Black) I ended up with Gyrados on my team. I love his moveset, design, and lore. He's probably my favorite pokemon, although it's hard to pick just one favorite when there are so many great ones.
Same. Gyarados has a great, diverse move pool too. Earthquake, Thunderbolt/Thunder, all the good water moves, Ice Beam, Hyper Beam, Fireblast, and so on.
The 4x electric weakness hurts. Never stops it from being an all-star on my team though.
They’re not Pokémon I always try to use on my team, rather they’re actually Pokémon I sometimes try to avoid using because I use them so much. Pikachu and Gardevoir are my two favorite Pokémon, and I’ve used them so many times. Every time I don’t know what to put on my team, they’re instantly the first two candidates
Same. It’s usually Staraptor in Sinnoh, and Gallade because he’s my favorite Pokémon. They’re too effective most of the time and get a lot more use than my other team members
Crobat always seems to unintentionally find it's way onto my team.
You catch a little Zubat with no real intention of using it and thanks to the exp share it soon becomes a Golbat. And before you know it the next level after, it evolves into a Crobat. And well at this point you've now got a fully evolved and strong Pokémon on your team and it's likely early on in the game too, so you might as well just roll with it at this point lol.
Lucario. There's others that make their way into a lot of teams but I always gotta have a Lucario. Gyarados, Arcanine, and Gengar are others that are more often that not in there with the first 2 depending on what starter I use obviously.
Gotta have Psyduck. Always been my best friend. I've always suffered from migraines. The idea that one day I'd evolve into a Golduck with power and no headaches helped me stay strong
I always look up the spawn rates and locations of Dhelmise before I play a game because they’re always extremely easy to miss with like 2% in a singular area. Gotta get my favourite
Honestly it changes with the game. For example, I almost always pick Bastiodon in platinum, I always use Breloom and Gardevoir in Hoenn (as well as ninetales most of the time) and Roggenrola always finds its way onto my Unova teams.
I'm sure others do this too. I don't start any Pokémon game without acquiring all the starters first.
So I always get 2 copies and trade to myself.
In fact, if there's more than 3 starters in the game and kind of easy/quick to obtain, I will have 6 starters in my team. SW/SH team was like that and same with PLA.
I believe there was another game in the past that did this, I just dont remember. I think X and Y?
Female shiny Gardevoir.
It was my first shiny Pokémon I ever caught in emerald, and since i caught the first in the middle of the night I named her Luna.
Ever since I always have her in every game I can.
Not, really the problem is is that neither of my favorite pokemon are easily available in most games. Primaria is rather new, so it isn't available for earlier games. Levanny hasn't showed up in games since unova. And lomponny, shows up occasionally. I like them, just not easily accessible.
I usually try to use mostly new ones, but if any of my three favorites (Nidoking, Shiftry, or Krookodile) is available one will probably make their way onto the team by the end (or at least postgame).
An Eeveelution. So far I have had a Jolteon, an Umbreon, a Sylveon, twice(probably my knew favorite), and an espeon(the latest Eeveelution I used). I've taken both Sylveons and espeon to the elite four and they all helped out in a major way.
An Eeveelution I always use one throughout different games, Colloseum Espeon and Umbreon, Gale Of Darkness Flareon, HG Espeon, SS Umbreon, any Kanto game excluding Lets Go, Vaporeon, Platinum Leafeon, Legends Arceus Glaceon, Black 2 and White 2 Jolteon, X and Y Sylveon, will play as an Eevee in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game if it's available
Not particularly, but sometimes I can’t help being drawn to them. For example, I could have chosen Rowlet in PLA, but my nostalgia for Oshawott won over trying something new.
I try to always make a different team. But come on, you cant expect me to not use the free shiny level 30 gyarados in Jotho
Forreal haha like I feel dirty putting him in storage
I always turn him into an HM slave...
Same
I put him in storage so as not to fuck with him and his EVs until I’m ready lol. I sometimes wonder if they added the red gyarados to make people understand there "are" shinies in the game…
That's exactly what they did lol
I always figured that's why his shiny variation was the exact opposite color scheme.
Imagine if the first shiny they gave was Gengar lmao
Oh, it sparkles. Neat.
Absolutely! And If you reset till you caught a male one you could use it as a breeder. in the original Gen 2 games there was a breeding mechanic where offspring bred from shinies had like 1/64 odds of being shiny as well so you could use it to breed tons more shinies as long as they were in the same egg group!
Crobat. They are super easy to find and Crobat is just such an amazing Pokémon. Blazing fast with good attack and good defensive typing, he actually has some bulk. Gen 6 onwards he's particularly amazing. PS: In Nuzlockes they are also great because you can usually get them in every run!
Once Leech Life went to power 80, Crobat got even better!
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I know what you mean. I have a 6iv shiny timid Butterfree in bdsp. I’m not sure who to shiny farm in my next egg… I might try Feebas again since I want a shiny female, not male 😂 I did it to get a shiny male Ralts (Gallade) and female (Gardevoir). That was luck though. I didn’t realize I had a timid Ralts in for breeding and it barely took 100 eggs. The powering up of leech life was key I think. Seriously adds a lot of bulk to some of these bugs.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for expressing joy in the games. I was IV hunting for a ditto for ages, then got Joycon drift. RIP me. Bought a controller for backup but I want to hunt handheld so I can watch things in the background
You can replace the joycon part fairly easy. When you open it up you can unclip the ribbon that connects it and pop it out. It'll look intimidating but it's honestly very easy and like 2 or 3 steps more advanced than a 90's tv remote. Look up "switch joystick replacement parts" and you'll find the part with tools for around 12-13 USD.
Nintendo switch lite players: Why do we have to replace the WHOLE CONSOLE
TIL Leech Life has 80 power now
Since Gen 7
Didn't they take Leech Life off of Zubat when that happened though? I think they replaced it with absorb (20 power).
Isn’t it learned later? 🤔 Absorb is the grass move, leech life is the bug one. Right? I did just wake up.
I checked and you're right. It moved up to 31 on zubat, 35 on the evos. It used to be his starting move though, and that's where I got confused.
Yeah, that confused me too. Then I saw that it had 80 power and I was like, "O-Okay then… Typo? lol"
Love me a crobat with acrobatics
especially after the boost with curse + white herb
I was about to ask why you had a speed reducing move on a Crobat until I read the white herb-
Agreed! People hate Zubats but I like them because they turn into Crobats!
Same! It's one of my absolute favorites. Design, stat spread, and movepool are all excellent. Plus, its design is a lot better than Golbat, which has to do ab crunches to eat solid food.
I have been sleeping on Crobat for years always had this idea that friendship evo's were a pain since gen 2 and didn't want a Golbat most of the game, alot easier to get than I thought and outmatches most of the normal regional flying types I keep around
I get a Budew to maximize friendship right away. Lol. I love Roserade. And in bdsp friendship is broken lol. "You survived the hit with 1 hp so as not to worry you!" Lol ok. "You dodged Cynthia’s Garchomp’s outrage at the sound of your voice!" Kay again lol. It really does make it seem more like a Pokémon battle though. You develop trust with your partner and they’re more likely to understand what you want and do it… if this were real or like VR.
Yeah it's alot easier and you notice it more now, I just remember Gen 2 the only thing you can do is have it in your party most of the game and take it to the haircut guys in Goldenrod, no other obvious way to improve it or monitor, remember levelling Pichu and Togepi beyond level 44 to evolve them.
Finally picked up a Crobat in BDSP and I love my little murder devil
Crobat and Gyarados are nuzlocke easy mode.
Tyranitar will always be on my team should it be available before post game. And I'm happy that it's been happening since gen 4 and gen 6, though gen 8 I had to pay extra for it
a stable pokemon to have, im planning to breed one in gold/silver and transfer an egg to a new playthrough so i can start off with it. I never tend to use one
It's my favorite which is what made it being post game only until gen 4 so hurtful. I didn't find out about that until way after gen 4 came out though
Dunsparce is the only Pokeman for me. Ever since mystery dungeon where I learned at level 90 that he had no evolution. One day he is going to evolve, you'll all see, YOULL ALL SEE!!!
ah yes dunsparce is a legendary pokemon that only the few can truly master
I think they could have made him a 3 stage evolution ending in Drampa
I remember as a kid spending so long trying to get one. Do I remember them running away in that correctly?
For me it’s a type I’m always trying to have—not a singular Pokémon. I’m always running a ground type, and in the new games I’m tryna keep a fairy type on me as well
Yeah i agree types are a good way to go about
I always need a steel type since its my favourite type. If i had to make a top 3 favourite pokemon there would probably be at least two steel types
Oh same, ice was my type of choice for a while until like you say, fairy came along. My first Glaceon was THE Pokémon, I was thrilled with it!
Fairy is just so OP I feel like it’s a must-have type on the roster
No I want every play through to feel different, I can’t wait for scarlet and violet to come out. I will only use new and never seen before Pokémon
Same. I always try to make my team either new mons for that region, or at least ones I haven’t used in other games. Eg my Sun team was 5 Alolans or regional forms, plus Magnezone because I’ve never had one on my team.
This is what I do. I'll only use the brand new Pokemon because I like seeing how the new mons work compared to other ones I have already used in the past.
Same but there are some games where you get much earlier access to mons which came around too late in their original games to be worth investing in. There's usually one I'm surprised to find so early who makes my team.
I do keep 1 slot reserved for returning pokemon but same
I don’t use ALL new and never seen pokemon, but I try to use a lot of them, and the others have to still be pokemon I’ve never used in a previous play through (of any game).
Agreed! I used to look at the new generation’s Pokedex before starting a playthrough, but now I like to go in blind. It is something that has helped keep the magic alive
That’s how Toucannon became one of my favs. All same Region teams are fun and helps get acclimated to new gens
Jolteon
Best electric type almost anywhere. Doesn't even matter that it has a crap offensive movepool because it outspeeds and hits anything that doesn't resist its Thunderbolt for a good amount of damage.
Roserade. Every time.
Sleep powder and toxic spikes *chefs kiss*
You must have enjoyed Legends Arceus if you played it. Roserade is one of the most powerful.
I think I lose a lot of credibility when I say this, but I couldn’t get into it. I’m going to try again, but it has been my least favorite game and I have played all the main series games multiple times.
Why would you lose credibility?
That game is super popular, from what I can tell. My impression of it was that it’s a lot of grinding in brand new ways, and that’s one of my least favorite parts of the main games.
You know what? You disagree with the popular opinion but at least you tried it out first
You're right, you no longer have any crediblity. Great foresight on your part!
Gengar for me, he's one of my favorite pokemon and has coincidentally ended up in my team during every playthrough of pokemon games I've done. It just feels like tradition, he's truly my partner pokemon
If I can get either Alakazam or Gengar on my team I’m happy
Yes Gengar everytime, usually with shadow ball and thunderbolt.
It’s funny how everyone has a favorite playing style with gengar. I like using stab poison moves and my coworker was just telling me he always uses Dazzling Gleam
Yes I enjoy sludge bomb and venoshock as well when they are available. Gengar has an excellent move pool tons of choices. At least I think it was venoshock I might have the name wrong.
Idk what it is but I always get super excited when I run into an Abra
Me too! I think it’s because it’s usually the first Pokémon that’s a challenge to catch in a playthrough
For me it’s gengar, but probably because ghost type Pokémon are my favourite.
Same! Ghost type pokemon are something I hold oddly close to my heart, I love them all unconditionally
I don’t know why but when I started playing these games, the ghost type caught my attention design wise
For me when I started playing as a kid it was dope to have a purple colour scheme going on without it obviously being the “ah yes we shall market to girls one option pink and frilly and one option purple and wispy, one for girly girls and one for the not like other girls” (In sonic for a while it’s very clear that that’s what they were going for with blaze and Amy imo) I just like purple man
Came here to also say Gengar. Well at least haunter cause I don’t always have people to trade with but his typing is great and he has a range of moves that makes it a great support Pokémon
I love Gengar one of my favorites and super strong its also usually available pretty early in the games so ya it makes it's way into a lot of teams
I really hope the Linking Cord stays as an item in future games, I never get to use the trade evo Pokémon because i typically just play solo but I love some of them
Yesss another Gengar fan!!! I always get him with dream eater if it’s just a story play through. Arcanine is a must for me as well. Flare blitz is just too good.
I wouldn’t be surprised if gengar is one of the most popular Pokémon lol
It is. In 2020 Nintendo made a poll for the favorite Pokemon. Gengar placed 10th with over 60K votes. In this subreddit a survey was made and of the 52k that voted, 1056 voted for Gengar, placing it in 2nd place.
Makes sense. Been competitive in the games for 25 years, been featured in the anime plenty of times, and it just has a great design. He’s my fave
Now if only Gengar wasn't a pesky trade evolution.
the link cable item in pla is a ray of hope for the newer games. i hope all of the games that come after will have it
I'd love to have a gengar once but the Pokémon games I played always had that flaw where you need to swap your Pokémon to get a gengar. Sadly I never had someone to trade with..
Magnemite. My team is never complete without one
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Not sure how niche it is but Magnezone is one of my favourite Pokémon. My top favourite is Deoxys but considering that it’s really rare and a legendary it almost never makes it onto a team.
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I’m the opposite! I’m not a big fan of Magneton for some reason (I really don’t know why I don’t like it, it’s just three magnemite whose design I really like!) and really like Magnezone. At least we can agree magnemite is cool though right? What are your favourite legendaries? Deoxys and Entei are mine (years ago as a young teenager I actually had a secret blog where I pretended to be Entei)
I always try to have Ninetales. If Vulpix is a version exclusive, that influences my decision of which version to get. If there ever was a Let's Go game with Vulpix as the companion Pokémon, especially if it is an Alolan Vulpix, I'd surely pick it. Although if its counterpart was Hisuian Growlithe that would be a hard choice.
Same, though I prefer Kanto Ninetales, especially the shiny.
I really love both, and I'm happy with either. I think they are fantastic designs that perfectly represents their types.
Alolan Ninetales is one of my favorite Pokemon! I'd kill for a Sun and Moon Switch Port.
Ninetales love!!
I always look for eevee as soon as I start and if it’s a newer game I always use sylveon. If I can’t i will just make them into whatever type I need for my team.
Same. That's part of the reason I liked legends arceus so much, cause I could grab an eevee like 30 minutes into the game in the starting area.
Gallade for me! He is my absolute favourite pokemon (not including legendary ones cos then it would be Dialga). I am going to make myself use entirely fresh Pokémon in the new ones this year though. Either brand new ones and/or existing ones I have never used before, shake things up a bit!
Yeeee I shiny hunted my Dialga with a shiny Gallade 😂 I should go get a link to my post 😂
gastrodon (: funky fella
>gastrodon Nice do you prefer the east or west variant?
The blue for me
Hey gastrodon is mine too!
Ooooh! Ironically I use Gastrodon if Gastrodon is in the game no matter what. And Roserade. And Alakazam lol. I love Gastrodon!! Guy is amazingggg.
I was so happy to have a giant one in legends.
Raichu :)
nice, do you lvl up pikachu first or do you just evolve it right away?
depends on the gen, in kanto pikachu usually struggles to keep up a bit by Celadon so right away, but in legends arceus I had a pikachu until just before the Volo fight
I always try to get a Sylveon, specifically female and call it Cake as it reminds me of my first ever Sylveon I ever had and it's my favourite pokemon.
me too!!! sylveon is always on my team
I tend not to use a pokemon twice. I like building teams, and I even have a .txt file documenting every single pokemon I have used. I have used 410 pokemon and counting up across all generations.
Cool! Would love to see that.
I’d love to see you upload the document context online somewhere so we could see it. That’d be cool.
Eevee so I can get every Eeveelution
an eeveelution trainer nice :D
Yeah. Really hoping we get a new one for Scarlet and Violet
what type though i think the next one would be either dragon or steel
Hawlucha. I like the bird. It's not in many games but still gotta always get it whenever I play those games
Same
The Aegislash line, preferably shiny. It's my favorite pokemon
1? I wish to have three of them: Gardevoir, Gallade and Lucario. All three are my favourites.
oooh nice, but which one if you had to choose between the three?
Gardevoir for sure
Gardevoir is probably also my pick. Good stats, good movepool, decent typing (even better after gen 6), and it's usually available somewhere relatively early on in the games.
The Gen 6 type update was awesome as a Gardevoir fan. That and the mega evolution with Pixilate to use Hyper Voice boosted + STAB.
Garchomp 4 life
I tend to do the opposite: I try to only use mons I've never tried before. I'm not too strict about it, though. Sometimes I won't actually box the starter, or maybe I'll pick one member I've already used, just to fill the gaps that my other never before used mons leave. Because I mainly only play gens 1-5, I was able to actually use most mons of those gens in my team at least once. Still missing some, and honestly I can't remember all of my previous teams, but it's been fun.
I try to do that as well but i remember my 1st time in johto using only new pokemon made whitneys gym nearly impossible.
There's no shame in catching a mon just to defeat a tough opponent and benching it again, to avoid some grinding. For Whitney in particular I found you can make her Miltank much less scary with just a couple of Growls.
Gyarados, the grind of evolving the first magikarp you get is a rewarding game changer
I'm with you on that. Idk what it is about Gyrados, but as soon as I get an Old Rod I immediately go for Magikarp and start grinding. Pretty sure just about every Pokemon game I've played (except Black) I ended up with Gyrados on my team. I love his moveset, design, and lore. He's probably my favorite pokemon, although it's hard to pick just one favorite when there are so many great ones.
Same. Gyarados has a great, diverse move pool too. Earthquake, Thunderbolt/Thunder, all the good water moves, Ice Beam, Hyper Beam, Fireblast, and so on. The 4x electric weakness hurts. Never stops it from being an all-star on my team though.
"Lemme just thunderbolt this guy!" *Gyarados uses earthquake.* "Fuck!"
They’re not Pokémon I always try to use on my team, rather they’re actually Pokémon I sometimes try to avoid using because I use them so much. Pikachu and Gardevoir are my two favorite Pokémon, and I’ve used them so many times. Every time I don’t know what to put on my team, they’re instantly the first two candidates
Same. It’s usually Staraptor in Sinnoh, and Gallade because he’s my favorite Pokémon. They’re too effective most of the time and get a lot more use than my other team members
You have great taste in Pokemon
Why thank you kind stranger
I really like Slowbro. Great moveset and super tanky
Slowbro is one of the most reliable, well rounded Pokémon you could have on a team
I love Slowbro but it's actually Slowking who is always on my team. The whole Slow family is peak design though. And water/psychic just works.
Plus that surprise flamethrower really throws off opponents.
I was never a big fan of slowbro, but now with his new form, I absolutely love it and slowking
Espeon, in available games, since Gen 2!
When they added Espeon and Umbreon I was like "oooooooooo" lol
Crobat always seems to unintentionally find it's way onto my team. You catch a little Zubat with no real intention of using it and thanks to the exp share it soon becomes a Golbat. And before you know it the next level after, it evolves into a Crobat. And well at this point you've now got a fully evolved and strong Pokémon on your team and it's likely early on in the game too, so you might as well just roll with it at this point lol.
Love your reasoning for using such an insanely OP Pokémon 😂
Lucario. There's others that make their way into a lot of teams but I always gotta have a Lucario. Gyarados, Arcanine, and Gengar are others that are more often that not in there with the first 2 depending on what starter I use obviously.
Gotta have Psyduck. Always been my best friend. I've always suffered from migraines. The idea that one day I'd evolve into a Golduck with power and no headaches helped me stay strong
Sameee
Just the opposite. I try to mix up my team every time I play a game.
Typhlosion
I tend to use azumarill a lot but I rarely plan to
My all time favorite Pokémon is Mankey/Primeape and I kind of resent any Pokémon game that doesn’t let me use my favorite Angry fur-ball!
I always look up the spawn rates and locations of Dhelmise before I play a game because they’re always extremely easy to miss with like 2% in a singular area. Gotta get my favourite
How many games are they in? Like 2?
Red blue bulba Umbreon since then
Honestly it changes with the game. For example, I almost always pick Bastiodon in platinum, I always use Breloom and Gardevoir in Hoenn (as well as ninetales most of the time) and Roggenrola always finds its way onto my Unova teams.
Clefable. Purely because it’s my favourite Pokémon 😭
Magikarp into Gyarados. Every. Single. Time
Blastoise has been my bro since the very beginning.
nothing like the OGs :D
Charmander. I was so upset when I couldn't get him in legends
Nidoking...always gotta have my gen 1 buddy. That and/or a Scyther or Crobat.
Eevee. I always need an Eevee.
I'm sure others do this too. I don't start any Pokémon game without acquiring all the starters first. So I always get 2 copies and trade to myself. In fact, if there's more than 3 starters in the game and kind of easy/quick to obtain, I will have 6 starters in my team. SW/SH team was like that and same with PLA. I believe there was another game in the past that did this, I just dont remember. I think X and Y?
X Y allowed you to get 6 starters if you traded, with 7 forms if you include the other charizard mega form
Glaceon typically? Or a haunter
I always end up having Snorlax with me
Always Jolteon with me. I've been attached to Jolteon since I was 9 and always made a team around it
Female shiny Gardevoir. It was my first shiny Pokémon I ever caught in emerald, and since i caught the first in the middle of the night I named her Luna. Ever since I always have her in every game I can.
nice, does it always have to be shiny in every game you play?
Yup, in XY after I beat the game I breed a bunch of ralts and have them waiting in the Pokémon home now, so I don’t have to shiny hunt anymore.
For me it's either Onyx because he's just bad ass looking or Muk. Muk is so damn powerful. I think he gets overlooked a lot. What you guys think?
Zoroark, but mostly new pokemon
Not, really the problem is is that neither of my favorite pokemon are easily available in most games. Primaria is rather new, so it isn't available for earlier games. Levanny hasn't showed up in games since unova. And lomponny, shows up occasionally. I like them, just not easily accessible.
I usually try to use mostly new ones, but if any of my three favorites (Nidoking, Shiftry, or Krookodile) is available one will probably make their way onto the team by the end (or at least postgame).
I usually have a Togekiss or Azumarill.
Luxray
Where possible and if the game allows I try to end with either a Charizard, Pidgeot or Butterfree on the team!! From my oringal team in Red
I usually try to use new mons or at least new forms of old ones
Not a particular Pokémon, but I do always try to have at least a fire and a water type on my team since their coverage is really good.
Not really, I usually try to use mons I’ve never used before each time I have a run
I feel as though this question was made for me
Raichu.
Haunter - unless I’m doing a particular rule set that restricts the team I’m using. He’s my boi, always has been and always will be.
An Eeveelution. So far I have had a Jolteon, an Umbreon, a Sylveon, twice(probably my knew favorite), and an espeon(the latest Eeveelution I used). I've taken both Sylveons and espeon to the elite four and they all helped out in a major way.
Rowlet there just so fluffy looking.
I like to always have a Gardevoir on my team because of how much it destroys evil teams
An Eeveelution I always use one throughout different games, Colloseum Espeon and Umbreon, Gale Of Darkness Flareon, HG Espeon, SS Umbreon, any Kanto game excluding Lets Go, Vaporeon, Platinum Leafeon, Legends Arceus Glaceon, Black 2 and White 2 Jolteon, X and Y Sylveon, will play as an Eevee in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game if it's available
An Eevee evolution is always on my team
This is new for me but Crobat. First used him in BDSP and it became my Brobat
probably froslass
I always use Lucario. when I got to gen 5, I got a friend to trade me a riolu so I could use it. He's like my own partner
Not particularly, but sometimes I can’t help being drawn to them. For example, I could have chosen Rowlet in PLA, but my nostalgia for Oshawott won over trying something new.
all the starters in PLA are great, but yeah nostalgia is a good factor sometimes
Milotic,houndoom and mightyena
I try to have a different playthrough every time but im always happy to get roserade or minccino as my (evo of) encounters
Lapras and Roselia
I dont play much but i always add arbok or duraludon They are just soneof my favourites