Scizor! It’s annoying have a trade mon as your favorite. A lot of the games don’t give you a metal coat until late game too. What can you do
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Dragonite -- I love his derpy little wings.
Dragonite is indeed very cute
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Snorlax is my spirit animal
My favorite starter is Totodile. My favorite Eeveelution is Vaporeon (Espeon is a close second).
But overall, my favorite is Snorlax.
Gyarados normal, Suicune legendary, Bulbysaur starter
You went straight from Blue to Crystal, didn't you?
Always been an Arbok fan. Sure, Gen 1 he dies to Psychic really easy, but especially as we get into Gen 3/4 and you get stuff like Fire/Ice/Thunder Fang TMs as well as decent Dark moves to teach it, it becomes a nasty piece of work with some support. Plus, it gets Intimidate and I love Intimidate as an ability.
Psyduck and Gengar
Good picks! After Sandshrew, Psyduck is definitely one of my favourites Kanto mons. Gengar is also high up there!
Poliwhirl
Anyone who didn't say Totodile is deserving of a chomp on the ass from a Totodile.
Butterfree, because I once beat a friend's Mewtwo with it on Soul Silver.
Pikachu, because it's so cute.
Bug types being super effective on Psychic types is always so funny to me.
I have big brain and move big things with mind, but a bug bite, it scares me.
Yeah, but the important detail in this case, was Butterfree's base stats vs. Mewtwo's and the fact that I hit it with a successful sleep powder and it was fast asleep for so long, that I managed to kill it with dream eater. 👻
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Gardevoir It was my first shiney and carried me through Pearl. Plus I like the idea of powerful psychics and loyalty to your friends.
Metagross. He's hits like a genius freight train.
also one of my faves, but wish I could sit on him:
Arcanine. I like dogs and the design is really cool looking. Too bad its only an ok pokemon stats wise haha.
Vaporeon
Listen, friend, I was an adult before Pokémon was even a thing. Your Pokeymans are irrelevant to me, child. Irrelevant.
So why do I recognise most of gen 1 and a handful of others besides?!
TL;DR: Psyduck
In Red/Blue I liked Abra>Kadabra>Alakazam and Gengar.
As for cuteness, I can't say no to Jigglypuff.
Swampert! For a non-starter, probably Tropius or Stonjourner.
Meowth. A cat that shits money out his face? Hell yes.
Basculin is my favourite by far
Trubbish.
He's just a derpy lil bag of trash.
I do not like his evolution, though.
Cofagrigus is my son
Piplup for its cuteness. I also like its evolutions.
I also really love Bulbasaur and its evolution line. That was my starter back on Blue on the Gameboy. Venusaur with Leech Seed then whipped everything into submission pretty much. Tanked like a mofo!
Dragonite
My favorites are Torchic and Blaziken. Pokemon Saphire was one of the first video games I ever purchased, and he stuck with me through a lot.
I hate how TPC has repeatedly done the evo line dirty by overriding them with multiple fire/fighting type starters with higher stats
I hate those questions because I don't know the english name >:(
And I want to know which pokemon we are talking about!
Anyway :p
HGSS was my first pokemon game and Typhlosion was my first starter of which I also cleared the pkmn league.
Other favorites (all how they look)
- Lugia
- Dialga
- Empoleon
- Giratina
- Gastly and all evolutions
- Ditto
- Mew
(My lock screen is a variant of mew called Thunder-Mew)
Mega Lucario would be my pick, followed by Xerneas.
Snorlax, dude wakes up just to kick your ass then goes back to sleep.
Design-wise? Banette. The creepy doll is just such a gorgeous image.
In my heart? The goofy gang boss Honchcrow.
I do agree Gastrodon is cool.
I like this supermodel insect from another dimension too.
I absolutely vibe with mareep.
Nidoqueen but only because the in-game trade in the original games is named TERRY.
When I battled a friend a few years ago after using her we laughed for awhile about the name. It became a meme between friends, and for that reason she's my favorite.
hard to pick just one. Flareon just barely eekes it out to the top but it has the unfair advantage of being my first starter, from Gale of Darkness on GCN. my fantasy team would be
Flareon Swampert Decidyueye Gallade Drampa or Altaria Alolan Dugtrio or Clodesire
Also, comment on my tier lists of Pokemon from generations up to Galar (excluding Gen 7 / Alola, but know that Meltan is one of my favourites from there)
Kanto
I made this a while back, and just realised I placed Poliwhirl way below Poliwag and Poliwrath! The three should be together in the "awesome" tier!
I might have also been slightly harsh on Charmeleon...
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Pokemon within each tier is in no particular order (at least, regarding which I like better or worse). Being at the beginning just means that they were categorised the earliest (so there is a sort of order, the ones at the end were usually the ones that I struggled to decide on, but that's not always the case. Also, I went through them through their Pokedex numbers, so you will see that too)
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Haunter is my original favorite but of all the Pokemon I've seen it's gotta be a toss up between Lampent, Sinistea, and gimmighoul.
If you can't tell, ghost type is my thing.
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A level 100 Bidoof (not evolved). It looks cutesy, but is a one-hit-kill machine. Beware the Bidoofinator.
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Jolteon.
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