Pokemon! Gotta (not) catch 'em all!

[Ja'aran]

Yo! I wanna see everyone's favourite Pokemon, favourite region, any of that. Show me your teams. I'm a kid of the 90's, so I've been there since the original Red/Blue first came out. I have a bunch, but one of my favourites is Altaria. I love my cloud bird.

I think the best is Heartgold/Soulsilver, but X/Y is a great place to start if you're a beginner.

Here's the team I used in Scarlet:

• Palafin
• Gengar
• (Paldean) Tauros
• Armarouge
• Jolteon
• Meowscarada

[ElTipejoLoco]

I was a goofy kid who just essentially brute-forced Game Boy-era Red with just my starter Charmander, over-leveled into a Charizard that could solo everything- which unfortunately meant there were no real good sources of experience for the one-of-every-other-evolutionary-line I collected in the game afterwards.

Since then I haven't actually finished any other Pokémon game, just sort of gotten as far as I could whilst trying to level things evenly and stopping due to some imaginary fatigue of some kind.

Ironically I've been playing UNITE and the Trading Card Game Pocket (and also recently started replaying the Game Boy Color-era version of the TCG game) recently. I'm not actually sure I have a favorite beyond Charizard due to nostalgia, but I really enjoy playing as Gyarados in UNITE.

[Lolo De Puzlo]

Mostly played Red/Blue, but have also played Black and X. Probably should get more into these at some point. Maybe a stream project.

[Bridget Endeavor]

-Black/White 1&2 are my favorite games. It’s the first generation to really meaningfully roll out quality of life changes, has a story I vibe with, and forced me to find new favorites by locking all previous gen Pokémon to post-game content.

-Shuckle is my precious child and I will love them the most forever. Scraggy is my second favorite. I love my funny headbutt lizard who wears pants that don’t fit.

[Necrotext]

Delphox is still hands down my favorite 'mon by a shot so long its not even close. But! I do love a lot of the 'mons, they're all very cute.

Ironically enough I feel like I find gen 5 to be the strongest era of Pokémon. Taking a lot of braver choices in the design and new 'mons. But aside from not being super hot on gen 4, I kinda just like all of them at least a little. Basically just taking a new team each gen I play.

Notably though, if you like gen 1 a lot, Cramorant Edition is a really awesome hack that spruces up (what was) yellow version a lot. Final team when I beat it ending up: Cramorant, Sandslash, Nidoqueen, Flareon, Venosaur, and Wigglytuff. Surprisingly they all pulled weight too.

[mircatz]

oh gosh choosing a favorite is really hard xD if i reaaaally had to choose right now i'd say...

terapagos!


i've been an avid pokemon fan since rse so that gen has a special place in my heart <3 i spent a lot of time on serebii looking up stuff for all the games, really into the mystery dungeon spin offs as well <3 recently i've become a big shiny hunter and i have a collection of most my faves! a few years ago i went back and soft reset for a shiny lugia in ss (only took like 300!! her name is aphrodite )

for region i'd have to go with johto! the music is just so amazing and it feels so magical and ancient, the ruins of alph is one of my all time favorite spots (up there with sealed chamber and spear pillar)

[Ribbon]

We grew up with the GameBoy Pokemon games, we played Blue and Yellow but have so many more memories of Crystal and in spite of how flawed it is, still in love with that game and the gen II designs are still some of our favorites. (Mareep my beloved)

Despite having a GBA, we were unfortunately in that phase of life where "Eugh, Pokemon is for babies" was all around us. We *knew* about FR/LG but had no idea about R/S/E. We later rectified this after watching Twitch Plays Pokemon got us back into the series, we dove into Gen III as a good restarting point and I'm really glad we did, they are still very much comfort games that we can dive into for a random (sometimes literal) playthrough. Lots of great Pokemon from this gen with a lot of out there ideas that we love. (Tropius, Shedinja to name a couple)

We hopped back onto Pokemon briefly when we had a DS with Platinum. Had an alright time with it but felt underwhelmed, we totally missed out on HG/SS and B/W/B2/W2 and still need to rectify that. (For some reason, we keep starting playthroughs of HG and Black but fall off around the point we get half the badges.)

Also around the time of TPP, after diving into the GBA games, we decided to get a 2DS to try out Y and Omega Ruby. Y was really enjoyable even if it relied heavily on Gen I, what new Pokemon it had were interesting. (Hawlucha my beloved.) Omega Ruby was... there. We stuck around for Gen VII and don't really remember much about Moon, might have to replay it one of these days.

Onto the Switch games, we very much enjoyed our time with both Sword and Shield, to the point where it is the only games in the series that we completed a living pokedex... until the DLCs which we bought but never really played much of. Again a lot of fun designs in this gen, Wooloo my beloved. We have mixed feelings on Violet, on one hand it has a ton of fun new Pokemon (Tinkaton my beloved) but I feel like this game really botched the open world concept when you compare it to Legends: Arceus and feels like it took a step back from SW/SH. Have yet to play the DLCs for this but not entirely sure if I'm interested honestly.

We'll definitely dive into Legends: ZA the next time we're itching to play a Pokemon game and as much as I'd like to say we'll never get a Switch 2, we'll probably cave around the time that Gen X news comes around. We've never been big on competitive battling so I can see us being able to hold out a little bit. - Phoebe (it/its)

[EdenCoven]

We love Pocket Monsters here, but dunno how much we want to play new ones? LOVED Scarvi a lot but they're all going to be a million dollars to buy now and we've found the old games don't appeal at all anymore so we're in a weird spot. Never did get around to playing Arceus though that'd be fun.

Trubbish is number 1 in our heart

[Ivy-IV]

For me Gold/Silver was the ideal, big fan of Johto and Gen 2 on GBC is just right for me in terms of aesthetic. As for favourite pokemon, I found this BEAST of a site a while back https://cajunavenger.github.io/

[erisvarjo]

i played yellow as a kid, never got very far though! my love for pokemon started as an adult, at the end of the last decade, when i decided on a whim to pick up an emulator and play emerald. and believe me, it stuck!

i'd have a hard time choosing a favorite gen, although gens 3 and 5 are in the running for sure.

i'm even more of a fan of the mystery dungeon games!