what's your fav pokemon?

I have a nebulous cloud of rapidly shifting favorites which can mostly be summed up by I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THE FIRST THREE GENS OK

Ninetales Tentacruel Nidoking Gengar Arcanine Hypno Dragonite Granbull Scizor Forretress Tyranitar Espeon Heracross (2nd gen bugs are best bugs) Typhlosion Feraligatr Sceptile Exploud Banette Zangoose Kecleon (3rd gen normals are best normals) Absol Slaking Altaria...

I mean I love all gens equally and they have all made meaningful contributions to the game but

the first three gens

were just so good for the actual Pokémon themselves

Although I really couldn't appreciate many of them if it weren't for the later gens, which fleshed out their move pools, gave them new abilities, and generally made them more fun to use. Good example: Dragonite. In 1st gen games it's fun for the novelty, but you'll get tired of it quick. All it can do is learn really powerful moves that other Pokémon can use better. In fact Lance might be the free-est of the Elite Four, considering half his team is weak to ice, and you get Blizzard a couple areas back. All he can do is throw elements at you, and even then if you're faster he doesn't even get the chance. gg come back when dragons are a thing that is good.

No kiddin'. How is it these days? I haven't been in ages.

Hey, if it's a good design, it's a good design. Suicune's cool.

 

I just think that legendaries should be excluded from "favourite X pokemon" kinds of questions.

 

I DOOOO

I never got why people have a problem with this. They're valid pokemon, and honestly none of the three I picked are really even THAT great competitively except maybe Darkrai. I like them, though, from their concepts lore wise to their designs, I genuinely enjoy those pokemon.

Meh, tolerable? Full of pointless arguing between gen 3 and gen 5 lovers? Depends on what you're willing to put up with, really.

 

...Is...there a reason for this, or...?

 

I'm trying to think of how to word it but it's mainly because they're so special.

 

I mean yeah but

being extraordinarily powerful and having a bulkier mythos aren't exactly quantifiably superior traits

I think it's still a matter of taste, as the more organic and biological backgrounds, cutesy figures, and down-to-earth abilities of standard Pokémon can easily be more appealing to certain personality types

It's testament to this that most people's favorites are starters, mascots, and the like

That and legendaries can be really interesting combat-wise if you give them the chance, the Uber tier is really cool to me with the radically different focus on attack and defense types and such

 

Guilmon.
Wait.

 

Spoiler

 

This guy knows what's up.

 

I prefer Renamon.

Spoiler

 

I don't know **** about Digimon, but I remember seeing advertisements for it on FoxKids back in the day and this one was my favorite. i think. maybe. i don't know.

 

Flamedramon

The Fires of Courage Bl

 

Aw man I loved Summer Wars

 

No matter what anyone says, I love that movie.

 

Veemon was best mon. So many awesome evolutions. Ex-Veemon, Flamedramon, Raindramon, Paildramon, Imperialdramon dragon mode and fighter mode.

 

I only played Gen 1 and a bit of Gen 2 so...

Non-Legendary: Pidgeot
Legendary: Moltres

Digimon: Myotismon

 

Just whipped this up.



And obvious this is the best Digimon