I thought, as a special treat, I'd share with you some of my favourite Pokemon (I was going for top 10 but it was too hard to pick, and also this can then be used for a Pokemon football or cricket team), sort of like how I did the end of Generation One list, but this time it's purely on personal preference, not whether they are any good, which is why we start with:
11: Hoppip
Yeah, this Pokemon is utterly useless, and that's why it finds its way here. I remember as a child playing through Crystal and seeing these pop up all the time and them using splash, which does legitimately nothing (yet could still possibly defeat Yamcha). I remember my Typhlosion roasting them, leaving them utterly obliterated, and I actually felt rather guilty. I kinda like the silly design here, and I like them much more than the later evolutions, so that's why it's Hoppip, and not the other ones like most of these entries will be.
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| FLY-TIME! SPLASH! |
10: Crobat
Zubat and Golbat are really annoying, but I don't really care, since you can very easily grind for some experience since there's like a 90% chance one of those two will pop up in a cave, meaning you just need one attack to clear everywhere, and also you can get some EV training done on them. The thing is, if you bother to raise them, they become really pretty good: Crobat is pretty kickass in design, type, moves and stats, and infiltrator is a fine ability.
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| Who needs feet? |
Ok, this one is boosted a little in my estimation by my replay of Platinum where my team was overwhelmingly lopsided heading towards the league, where I had something like a level 70 Infernape and then nothing else. I tracked back and power leveled to around 50 for a Garchomp that just destroyed everything. Added to this I rather like the typing (yes, Flygon has it, too, but I just don't like that as much as some people, say Lizzie's little brother Matthew), and I like the sort of sharky design. I think it has some nice moves, good stats, and a slightly disappointing Mega Evolution...
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| Start humming the Jaws theme NOW! |
Ok, this is one of the premier starting Pokemon in terms of capability, but its here because I think it's cool. It's basically a burning embodiment of Sun-Wukong, or Goku from Dragon Ball if you prefer. It's a powerful, speedy mixed attacker and it has twice carried me through generation four. In addition to this, I love the way you could get it to follow you around in the park. This is pretty cool to have an oriental legend follow you around and slaughter your foes.
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| Really needs a pole... |
Ok, another fourth generation Pokemon, but this is the last. Giratina is pretty much the embodiment of evil and chaos, which as an angsty teenager, this kinda held me. It's a pain to catch in the game, but the distortion world was fantastic as something different, and this being the reason and the prize at the end makes it really stand out to me.
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| The withered wing-things make it like a ghostly pirate bird ship thing... That created its own evil dimension... |
I don't know why, but when I played Sapphire, two Pokemon really leapt out at me, and they were Tropius and Absol due to their appearances. Tropius was pretty cool on first sight, but looked a bit odd after. Absol, however, remained cool and elegant, though the design for the mega looked a bit weird. The disaster stuff also makes it pretty awesome in a way.
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| It's like a really sinister house cat... So a house cat... |
I lied, didn't I? Well, it's my birthday and I'll lie if I want to! Lucario is another mixed attacker, and eventually I dragged this up on my second playthrough of Platinum (it got there rather early in the first but I neglected everything a little in the second play). Lucario and Riolu look just like Anubis, which is cool, the same as Nassus in League of Legends, who I played for a while because of this design and got quite good with for a short while. Lucario's mega also looks cool, and is one of the few characters I find interesting in Smash Bros.
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| He's here for your soul! |
First up, I'm going to go with the stats, which make this a rather amazing tank in that I've had mine hit by a super-effective move and only take 6 damage from a foe at the same level (not like it was hit by something weak, this was a flare-blitz on a Talonflame, and yes, I had nerfed its attack). The thing is, you can be one-shotted by something pathetic with a move like Night Shade as your max HP may well be sub-100. Now back to the real reasons why I like it: the design is adorable, the shiny is pretty cool (like home and away kits, it's just a small change), it's a bug-type that actually is pretty awesome and it's so adorable again!
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| It's just so sweet! |
Ok, here's where it gets REALLY close between the top three, and really they could be in any order. Mewtwo gets stuck here because it was the last of them I got and the hardest to get (arguably, depending on how many Pokemon-playing friends you have). Mewtwo has the attitude, mystique and cool design to make it appealing. It has words of wisdom that people often inaccurately attribute to famous twentieth century legends like Ghandi and MLK, but no, quite often that quote was Pokemon #151!
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| I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines what you are. - Mewtwo, not MLK or Ghandi or any philosopher... |
Again going in the reverse order of when I got them we have Gengar. This has been favoured more in recent years, partly because of my nephew calling my dad Gengar rather than granddad and the gimmick team that I was running on Pokemon Y multiplayer. It's sinister, cool, purple, looks like it wants a hug and all that jazz.
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| Hi friends! |
My first Pokemon was Cyndaquil (unless you count something I found in a pack of crisps, in which case it was my 12th favourite Pokemon, Sandshrew, which misses the top 10 because I liked it because of that freeby and an episode of the anime). Typhlosion has a cool design, is a fire-type (which is always a nice plus), was my first ever Pokemon, utterly destroys things, has a cool cry and the following around in HGSS was nice.
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| See? It looks calm, measured and loving! |
Shuckle is such an awesome pokemon, I've always really liked them. Suicine is a great pokemon too, I liked all the legedary ones in gold and silver. And Dragonite was my favorite when I was younger? It ws just so much bigger than the rest. Gyrados too is pretty cool, especially evolving from Magikarp! x
ReplyDeleteHi Alan! Lizzie wrote about you in her blog so I thought I'd come and say Hi! Such an interesting blog post as I really know nothing about Pokemon. Shuckle is particularly adorable! Nice to 'meet' you after hearing so much about you!
ReplyDeleteShuckle is such a wall.
ReplyDeleteLizzie Dripping