is is true?
>>56096061Wasn't Herocross a headbutt exclusive pokemon? Not sure how many people grinned that for hero instead of just using the free tyrogue given.Also feel like Gen 6 needs a mention as you do not need to catch any pokemon to get a whole team as you have:Gen 6 StarterGen 6 FossilGen 1 StarterLaprasLucario
>>56096087>Not sure how many people grinned that for hero instead of just using the free tyrogue givenI don't like using human mons, makes me feel like a slave master
>>56096087Tyrogue is a huge pain in the ass to get, you need Waterfall so you can't use him until you're basically done with Johto anyway. and you get him at level 10 so you have to grind, which we all know sucks in Johto. it's not worth it.
>>56096061>dude you’re an NPC for not using a team of route 1 shitmons
>>56096087>Gen 6 Starter>Gen 6 Fossil>Gen 1 Starter>Lapras>Lucario+ Talonflame, and you have the quintessential Kalos team
>>56096148>using cool, strong, easily available Pokemon is...le bad!autists delude themselves that every Pokemon is equal but it's just not true. the reality is some Pokemon are just better than others and that's that.
>>56096149Do you need Talonflmae since you can go for Charizard for double dip in addition for extra mega choice
>>56096087It's much harder to get the free Tyrogue than getting a Heracross. Some players probably wouldn't ever return to Mt. Mortar if they didn't read in a guide or anywhere else how to pick it up. And they would also need to read another guide about how to evolve it to the form they want. The free Pokémon that people are likely to use is the Eevee that Bill gives you.
>>56096061Probably replace Togetic with an Eeveelution and Heracross with some useless Surf user since you need Surf to get to the Gyarados in the first plavr.
>>56096061I can confirm that Sinnoh is true. We all had that team at one time. I had that same team lol
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>>56096061Nailed it with gen 8
>>56096061Inteleon looks hideous for everyone with a pair of eyes
>>56096148the cool thing about sinnoh is that half of those are route 1 'shitmons'
Luxray falls off. I'm not using fucking Spark the whole game.
>>56096061Pretty sure the water spy starter is Emboar levels of unpopular.
>>56096586>>56096948>
>>56096061Me, who only used Inteleon of that Gen 8 lineup in my Gen 8 game:
>>56096061>Implying cinderace wasn't the NPC starter in gen 8 Terribile bait sagefag
>>56096061>GSCDoesn't sound right. Heracross is pretty difficult to get and getting Dragonite to the final stage is bullshit in gen2.>DPPtNot so sure on Garchomp but yeah the rest is common. Can't really blame anyone because these are all cool mons.>SwShThat's the oddest one. Inteleon is common? I think you only really nailed Corviknight, also pretty cool so I can't blame anyone for using it.
>>56096061Top kek
>>56096973Based
>>56096061Only a big fan of Roserade desu
>>56096967>Not so sure on Garchompgarchomp is accurate for platinum, not as much for diamond/pearl
>>56096948>Inteleon, the ladies favorite starter>Unpopular Rillaboom is the one that is Emboar tier.
>>56097002What’s the rest of your team?
>>56096973>Not amped form like the originalRuined! Nah, still funny.
>>56097004Dunno, it's still a mon you only get to use against the E4 if you grind and post game.
>>56097050>Available just after the 2nd gym and evolves in its 40sBlud there's a reason why Garchomp is used in-game while other pseudos aren't.
>>5609708948 for the final form is still something, even if definitely an improvement over the average pseudo.Still, I remember wanting one yet still deciding against it specifically because I would only get to use it at the E4.
>>56097050not really? you get gible pretty early in Platinum and he evolves all the way by the 7th or 8th gym.
>>56097098>48 at the 7th gymNah I don't like ignoring the rest of my team too much.
>>56097097gabite is still pretty good and garchomp.is a great mon to have for the 8th gym and elite 4. he's really common in Platinum teams. don't believe me, just go look up Platinum Hall of fames, he's in like every other one.
>>56097104I believe it, like I said you will have Garchomp against the E4 if you commit to it.In fact the OP picture is probably the most likely team comp where Garchomp is also present since you got your HMs covered and the party should be fully usable in fights, if you deviate from those 6 like I did then maybe it makes more sense to skip on meme shark dragon.
>>56096061>>56096202How much do you want to bet the people using this Sinnoh team praise Platinum for “all the new team options” while shitting on/ignoring DP.
>>56097104>>56097115I’ve used both Gible and Gligar in Plat and honestly the latter is much more usable for the majority of the game. You’re able to slap EQ on both from the moment you get them which is great, but Gligar has better starting stats, and you pick up its evo item at around Veilstone so it’s able to evolve quickly. Until you reach Spear Pillar/Volkner with Gabite meanwhile, it’s stuck with those Bibarel-tier stats. Don’t get me wrong the payout at lv 48 is strong, but you are stuck babying a shitmon for most of the game.
>>56097116I like Platinum and it only got Staraptor and Roserade right among all my playthroughs, and I guess one with Infernape because I was going to pick chimchar eventually. With Staraptor it's straight up my favorite regional bird, and Roserade was actually on a rerun meaning I skipped it the first time.Gotta say though, if you want to play for teambuilding then BW2 will be way better than Plat. Realistically there aren't many good picks in terms of typing/movesets/bst but you don't really care since PvE is ez.
>>56097129I think my favorite mon to use in Plat is probably Porygon. You can get the upgrade before you even obtain it, so you can have Porygon2 immediately as well as hyper beam from the store. Download is a crazy fun ability, and then by the time you get Porygon-Z (if you choose to evolve it anyway) you already have access to ice beam. People understandably sleep on it because >trade evo, but it’s very strong. >>56097130A friend got the double pack of BDSP and gifted me the latter. I swore up and down I wouldn’t be basic and use Budew or anything, but I found a shiny very early on, so I felt obligated in that scenario.
>>56096202that's what it be
>>56097129That's one of the cases where I feel like EXP Share(item) is fully justified.Slap that shit on Gible for the entire playthrough and never look back. If you want other mons to get EXP then just use the classic switch in and out method. Whenever you actually use Gabite now it will have a higher level than most things so aren't really penalized by worst stats, and it will evolve before endgame at the cost of having a slightly weaker team.>>56097152>BDSPI hate it so much because on one hand Gen 4 is pretty cool and I don't think it's possible to make it genuinely unenjoyable to play through, but on the other hand Plat will still give you the better Sinnoh experience.
>>56097157>RapidashMy nigga. Now we are actually playing Gen4.Togekiss is the cooler egg tho.
>>56097152>I swore up and down I wouldn’t be basic and use Budew or anythingAlso this mindset is dumb. Forget what other people are doing, there is only pokemon you want to use, others you might want to keep for another playthrough, and shit you just don't like. Back in Gen 2 I was surprised to learn people actually cared about Ampharos, but mine was better anyway because favoritism and grinding it all the way to 100, then later on I caught more mareeps in other games and gave them better sets, making Ampharos pretty much my signature mon. I have 4 of them in total.
>>56096061the gen 4 team is the most forced on the player by far and is what created this meme in the first place, but it's really Lucario instead of Garchomp
>>56096149>No Aegislash
>>56097283True. Between HMs, or simply dealing with the problem of distrib and keeping up levels if you don't want to carry useless baggage it certainly feels like your options are actively being restricted
>>56097283ok let’s see your wacky gen2 teams
>>56096061Nobody used Togetic in GSC because Togepi had no moves when it hatched and friendship evolutions were a pain in the ass
>>56097292Keeping up levels in Gen 4 isn’t hard. Encounters are appropriately leveled, you have a VS Seeker, and getting a lucky egg is easy
>>56097310>Typhlosion, Feraligatr, Ampharos, Quagsire, Graveller, Kadabra, Machoke (traded), Fearow (stolen), Day Care Egg, Scyther, Suduwoodo, Espeon, UmbreonAs much as Gen 2 gets slammed for having no mons it has a fairly decent selection of mons before Ecruteak.
>>56096061I commend Sinnoh for having early-game "shitmons" that actually end up being pretty good
>>56097443Staraptor is such a bro.A female bro in my case
>>56096061no
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>>56096061I most often pick Cyndaquil in Johto because it's the only starter that can get through Sprout Tower without making me want to kill myself. Besides that I would never use 3 flying types, Dratini isn't even remotely usable in Johto, and the shiny Gyarados is unlikely because you would already want to have a Water type far earlier than thatFloatzel is too gay and Luxray is too shitI would never willingly play anything after USUM
>>56097283>implying the level 1 egg is forced you have to grind up versus gible you can get after the second gymfuck off faggot>>56097292>implying bidoof doesn’t eat all the hms fuck off faggot
>>56096061>trying to force a Gen 2 NPC team Never going to be a thing no matter how much you force it - there are way too many options for teams in Gen 2. The only NPC team that is real is the Sinnoh one.
>>56096752It's also slow as shit and doesn't even get Thunder Wave. It's one of the worst Electric types ever made.
>>56098253lol
>>56097310Gen 2 gives you like 25 different evolution lines before the 1st badge you retard lmao
>>56098253Ok sweaty, im sure you had fun with uh…..jumpluff
>>56097322>no Meganium
No one actually uses more than 4 in johto anyway. The exp drought is too much
>>56098271Wooper, a number of Gen 1 Pokemon that are actually reasonably distributed, maybe an actual trade only Pokemon since Gen 2 released during the tail end of Pokemania, and that's just off the top of my head from before Goldenrod.
>>56098276The fuck are you on about? That's not a problem that exists in the game. If it did then maybe the level curve would actually be fine instead of you being overleveled for an underleveled mandatory section for some godforsaken reason.
>>56098267>>56098271L M A O Gen 2 mogs everything yet again. And this is only the Johto mons, there's also all the Kanto mons we have to choose from. We just cannot stop winning. Gen 4 has the meme NPC team that everyone uses (Infernape, Starpator, Luxray, Garchomp Lucario) and this will also never change. Seethe harder.
>>56098299>sneasel>readily availabl
>>56098299how do i get sneasel before the postgame in heartgold?
>>56098299>Babymons are all locked to Kanto outside of the 1 (one) you get from the Mystery Egg.>Aipom, pineco, heracross locked to gimmick.>Bellosom and sunflora locked to stone evo where you need to win the bug contest which on a specific day.>Yanma, dunsparce, snubbull are 1%>Qwilfish requires super rod>Teddiursa, sneasel, swinub, delibird, skarmory, phanpy and tyrogue are near the end.>Hitmontop has retarded evo.
>>56098299Ampharos, Eevee, and Gyarados are on like every Gen 2 team I see lmao. It definitely does have a memeteam
>>56098313It's on Ice Path in Crystal, seems like it's a combination of GSC rather than HGSS since if it was Slugma would be on the list of readily available Pokemon.>>56098323GTS, you see one really easy from the rival battle. Sorry if you don't have an older less secure WiFi type, Nintendo really did not plan ahead with the original DS.>Aipom, pineco, heracross locked to gimmick.It's trivial to do at least>Yanma, dunsparce, snubbull are 1%>Qwilfish requires super rodSwarms exist and can happen, not to mention they are in fact available all the time. Chasey is less readily available, and I'd call it readily available because you can get it any time you want.>Teddiursa, sneasel, swinub, delibird, skarmory, phanpy and tyrogue are near the end.Phanphy is available early in Crystal, also they're all generally available so I dunno what your complaint is.The rest are fairly accurate at least, there are a couple pain in the ass Pokemon.
>>56098362if you trade a team of six charizards to beat black does that make charizard readily available before the postgame in black and white?
>>56098327>>56098385
>>56098463This is so retarded I 100% believe this is a bort pretending.
>>56098415No because you can't see it therefore can't search for it. The other version exclusives sure, in fact Gen 5 GTS is actually more available if you have a DSi or 3DS since they actually fucking work with modern WiFi.
>>56098463im not using most of these shitmons even if i did the autistic shit to find them
>>56098491but i can trade for it if i know someone with six charizards, and trading counts as being readily available apparently
>>56098497
>'definitive' edition of the game>no mareep
>>56098510>you MUST use Mareep so that I can say you're using an NPC team!!!!
>>56098504That guy you know isn't readily available to most players. If it's in the game and you can go find it basically any time, it's readily available. Something like the Bug Catching contest is both time based and inconsistent, I wouldn't exactly call it readily available. Same shit with honey trees in DPPt, which are even fucking worse. For another example from both games, Lapras and Drifloon are readily available because you can get them on a certain day for sure, while rare encounters are readily available because you can just get out there and look for them. Even headbutt trees are readily available, as despite being random in a lot of ways there's enough of them that it doesn't really matter as you can just go looking again, same shit as RSE Feebas but way easier. DPPt Feebas is even less easily available, to the point where I'd say most people couldn't find it.
>>56098538if sneasel is readily available in hgss because you can get it on the gts, then charizard is readily available in gen 5 because you can ask your friend to give you six charmander eggs
>>56096061https://discord.gg/Qw249h48
>>56098597I don't believe you have friends, so I don't believe you can do that in the first place. Again, there's a difference bewtween relying on every single person playing the game and relying on one person. It's why Jirachi isn't readily available in RS because of the GameCube disc, or Manaphy from Ranger, and why Stadium 2 was in a different category in the original image.
>>56098614so if i use the gts to get reshiram in black 2 (you can register it during the second plasma frigate sequence) that means it's readily available and not a version exclusive?
>KantoVenusaur, Nidoqueen, Persian, Slowbro, Magneton, Exeggutor>JohtoTyphlosion, Lanturn, Xatu, Forretress, Steelix, Ursaring>HoennBlaziken, Ludicolo, Exploud, Swalot, Flygon, Armaldo>SinnohInfernape, Pachirisu, Gastrodon, Bronzong, Toxicroak, Abomasnow (this gen's dex is trash, worst gen)>UnovaEmboar, Watchog, Musharna, Swoobat, Conkeldurr, Palpitoad>KalosChesnaught, Diggersby, Malamar, Barbaracle, Hawlucha, Trevenant>AlolaIncineroar, A. Golem, A. Exeggutor, Gumshoos, Mudsdale, Crabominable>GalarInteleon, Coalossal, Flapple, Yellow Toxtricity, Obstagoon, Runerigus>HisuiTyphlosion, Electrode, Arcanine, Zoroark, Kleavor, Sneasler (dex as bad as modern sinnoh)>PaldeaSkeledirge, Garganacl, Toedscruel, Espathra, Tinkaton, Palafin complain about starters, repeat types, normal types, shitmons, or trade evos = autistic and no friends
>>56098710>this gen's dex is trash, worst gen>Watchog>Crabominable>Coalossalkill yourself faggot
>>56098299If you're doing a Pokewalker playthrough you can get Murkrow below level 10.
>>56096061>dragonite because you couldn't use tyranitarlol
>>56098253Every team I'm seeing loks like this or has mons traded in that aren't in the dex, kek.
>Typhlosion>Nidoking>Scyther>Lanturn>Mamoswine>the super speshul extreme speed dragonite that everyone ownsI think that was my crew
>>56098313>>56098323That list if for GSC. There are other lists for other gens include third versions which is why Gen2’s does as well.
>>56097322>NFEsew
>56098253>56098299>56098463oh hey it's this asshole again
>>56098227How is this bad exactly? Isn't using new mons a good thing?
>>56098720Was this schizophrenic string of greentext supposed to win me over to Team Sinnoh?
>>56096061what fangame are the fakemon on the bottom row from?
>>56099021is listing garbage like toadscruel supposed to make sinnoh look bad? your garbage picks read more like a false-flag, you shit eating faggot
