>Lance, Candice, Volkner, and Flint>constantly get shit on for having type themed teams rather than type teams>Karen>never receives the same
>>59069463>no repeats>Majority to her team is her speciality type >Less dark types existed at the time so it’s easier to justify adding off types >Dark isn’t an “elemental type like ice/electric/fire so it’s less jarring when off types are added Pretty much that
>>59069463Karen should've had a Tyrannitar.>but her whole thing is about using favorites instead of strong 'monsyeah, that would've made it funny.Plus, Lance in Gen 1 got to have a pseudo as the last E4, and I don't think any other trainer uses it.
>>59069463We all know Johto is shit
Ghost and Poison resist Fighting, so they're smart counters. Flint using Sunny Day Steelix is just comedy.
>>59069481Ttar is too uber for a non champion, people are making excuses retroactively because there weren't enough pokemon in the type. Game freak knew soul was more important than color within the lines autism. The latter started creeping up when they did shit like making Giovannis rhydon a rhyhorn
>>59069463This is still more preferable than dogshit like Glacia
>>59069481Look at that Gengar, her schtick was never about using favorites, it was about lowering the opponent's guard.She embodies the dark type in that she plays dirty, TTar defeats the point of that, she doesn't need a TTar, she needs an expanded dex to use Mega Sableye, Shedinja, Spritomb..
>>59069463>vileplume instead of SneaselGod I hate the johto league so much
>>59069463>VolknerVolkner doesn't get shit for it and has the same exact reason as Karen, there actually is a clear plan for the team composition. Flint gets shit because his team was moronically slapped together>No Cherrim which has interaction with Sunny Day, you have to go out of your way to see Flower Gift activate because no trainers represent it on a Sun Team>No Skunktank when its signature move is Flamethrower>No Bronzong when its ability IS FUCKING HEATPROOF>instead here are a bunch of Pokemon that make absolutely no sense and need TMs to use weak Fire-type attacks
>>59069463Lance doesn't have a type team, he has a theme team. Just like Iris in B2W2
>>59069555That’s what happens when devs are too busy self sabotaging and gooning to loli rape porn
>I don't give a FUCK what type it is, I'm rocking vileplume and gengar and you can't stop meKaren is based.
>>59069463>A malicious spirit perfectly fitting to Dark-type's reputation.>A carnivorous plant spreading poisonous spores that also work well as representation of underhanded tactics. Flowers are also femine so it fits to Karen being a pretty woman.>Both can also be explained with Karen's philosophy of prioritizing Pokemon that you like.
Karen's thing was being a witch>black cat>mandrake (plant with a face)>a crow >a ghost>a hellhound It fits.
>>59069555>you SHALL use new Pokemon and ONLY new PokemonThat's how gen 3 happens.
>>59069786>that’s how the most beloved and successful roster of Pokémon outside of KANTOOO happens Yes
>>59069787if Kanto's dex is so great there should be no issue with using it
>>59069533in gen 2 tar would have been plenty manageable, and if they wanted to nerf it they could have just given it dark-type moves... which are all special... coming off of its weaker 95 special attack. Don't forget that tyranitar has a lot of weaknesses, including to both water and grass, and anyone who didn't pick feraligatr or meganium will probably still have the red gyarados. And they could have simply made it the lowest level mon on her team if they wanted. It would have been perfectly fine.
>>59069463>interesting, thematic teams that don't all share the same weaknesses:(>trainer using regional [type] pokemon #1, regional [type] pokemon #2, regional [type] pokemon #3, and regional [type] pokemon #4,:O
>>59069784Nice headcanon
>Johto trainer >Doesn't use Johto pokemon
>>590699453/5 of her Pokemon are from gen 2.
>>59069935Karen's team is neither thematic or interesting.
>>59069956Yes it is. So are Flint's and to a lesser extent Volkner's.
>>59069533She should've been the Champion.Instead of lazily repeating Lance.Why do Johto and Kanto share the Elite Four to begin with?Also, Drake has a Salamence. And nobody cares about that.
>>59069820>if
>>59069987Salamence is a LOT weaker than dragonite.
>>59069966Because furfags think male Lopunny is "hot"?
>>59070004>cry is a wolf whistle It was intentional furrybait. So unironically yes.Also, Steelix lives close to the earth's core, and Drifblim is a hot air balloon. The theme is heat.
>>59069463Sneasel and Tyranitar are hidden behind postgame
>>59069463She gets pestered by her "weak pokemon" quote
>>59069786>He doesn't remember
>>59070125In Gen 2, Sneasel was a weak Pokémon.
>>59069463Because it's in character. She's using her favorites.
>>59069935>seeing something new is more interestingStop the presses
>>59069996>implying
>>59069966Flint should only have had the Lopunny as off-type for the joke.
>>59069480There were exactly five Dark types in Gen 2, she could've had Sneasel and Tyranitar.
>>59069950he said johto, not gen 2
>>59070588she couldn't have a tyranitar because the johto league is the weakest and they have pokemon in ther mid 40s lmao
>>59070608If Lance can have 3 under-levelled Dragonderps, Karen can have 1 under-levelled Ttar.
>>59070454>newGen 5 is over 10 years old. There's no novelty to that team anymore if there ever was. There's nothing interesting about it, guy just walked into grass and caught 4 fighting types.
>>59069820If game freak had utilized gen 2 Pokémon properly instead of being lazy pedophiles, Gen 2 dex wouldn’t have flopped
>>59070013Its Flint... and STEELIX!
>>59070598And she appears in a location that is in Kanto by the map's standards with two of her fellow members from Kanto at least.
>>59069463Her off-types are a ghost and a grass pokemon that is active at night. These are good choices.
>>59069463Karen's a top five Pokégirl and her team is soulful.
>>59071141>pedofreak schizoopinion discarded
>>59069481Tyranitar was added at the very end of development. An issue with a lot of the postgame exclusive mons is that gamefreak really didn’t decide to actually have them in the game until around 4 months before the game dropped, so very few trainers use them. The only real exception is Sneasel, who was always intended to be the rival’s Pokemon.
>>59069935>mma fighter uses karate pokemon, judo pokemon, concrete block pokemon, and kung fu pokemonthis is a really bad example anon
>>59071654>fighting types are themed around fightingno way...
>>59071659Then what's your problem, bitch?Outside of "unova bad because i have no taste"?
>hurr Karen should’ve had a Tyranitar!!Women aren’t able to handle such a powerful and prideful mon. Sneasel was egregious though
>>59071659>doesn't use scrafty, the one non-starter fighting type he could use in black and white that can't be related back to martial arts even though it has a higher bst than sawk and throh and lacks the psychic weakness the rest of his team has>his base team doesn't change with the expanded dex in b2w2 even though shauntal gets a drifblimWhy not use Shauntal as your example? Her BW team is literally just the four fully evolved ghost types in the dex and it's her fault that elite four teams went down from 5 to 4 for two generations.
>>59069840Yes but I meant uber in the sense of its presence not stats. If johto axed kanto and made its own region bigger where there e4 felt like true final bosses like in kanto it would have made more sense. Johto's E4 sans champion was pretty non threatening all things considered and I think that was done on purpose given that it wasn't the end of the journey
>>59070868>Gen 5 is over 10 years old. There's no novelty to that team anymoreIf that was even remotely relevant to the conversation at hand in the slightest you might have a reason to post this.It isn't, just fyi.
