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local idiot SHOCKED to learn that choosing a pokemon team entirely based on being cute may result in a non ideal type spread, more news at 11

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SO uh I wanted to make a “things that I liked about Gen 6″ list since while there might be things I wasn’t too big a fan of (Team Flare and the Kalos rivals), I still wanted to point out the good stuff!

the rpg class system for the kalos starters (chestnaught the paladin, delphox the mage, greninja the rogue)

i was in my 3rd year of french when x & y came out so i thought it was really cool to learn french alongside learning about what inspired x & y

professor sycamore is still very pretty and i liked how he had a garchomp in the anime

oh yeah the anime had some really exciting moments, like when ash’s noivern fought zapdos

the fashion. it may be expensive as heck but it was worth it imo

character customization in general is frickin’ sweet

wally’s battle theme

zinnia’s battle theme

making deoxys finally accessible outside of an event

seeing steven stone in glorious 3D

the team aqua redesigns. gamefreak didn’t have to bless us with them but i am thankful that they did

az’s backstory

the fairy type gym being a cute dollhouse

the PSS 

on that note the secret bases you could go to with QR codes including the ones with chanseys that gave you a lot of exp

mirage islands aren’t as ridiculous as they were back in gen 3

making it easier to find non-event legendary pokemon

making it easier to find shiny pokemon thanks to the internet being more accessible for international players

dendemille town theme

the pokemon (my personal highlights: noibat line, froakie line, spritzee, honedge line, xerneas, amaura line)

I’ll add more if I think of more stuff!

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Top 10 Least Favorite Pokemon

Coming up with my 10 favorite Pokemon is a ridiculously difficult task. I love so many Pokemon and it’s very hard to feel satisfied with any of my ranking choices past top 3 (and even then that’s a difficult decision). Coming up with my 10 least favorite is also challenging, but for the opposite reason: There aren’t that many Pokemon that I dislike, let alone hate. But I figured that this would be the easier of the two to try, so I’m tackling this one first.

Right off the bat, dishonorable mention goes out to Darkrai. I hate sets that do nothing but Dark Void everything, but otherwise he’s actually kinda cool.

10. Beautifly

I don’t like Beautifly because of Dustox. Really, that’s it. I don’t hate Beautifly (in fact, I have very little opinion of it), but Beautifly makes the list because I think Dustox outclasses it in every way: more diverse movepool, better design, better typing IMO. I have fond memories of Dustox being the star of my team in my first Platinum run. Beautifly is just lame to me.

9. Mega Salamence and Mega Rayquaza

Yes, yes, this is a tie. I don’t like having ties on these sorts of lists unless the 2+ entries are related, but here, I feel it’s justified because both of these Pokemon make the list for the same reason: My horrible experiences dealing with them on Battle Spot (M-Ray primarily for ORAS, M-Sal primarily for SM). Unless I had a speedy Pokemon with a damn powerful Ice-type move on my hands, my chances of winning against these two were pretty much naught.

What saves Mega Rayquaza from landing higher on the list is because of a funny moment in a battle I had with my cousin. He had his Mega Rayquaza out and I had my Machamp. He used Fly (instead of Dragon Ascent, for some reason) and during the charge-up turn, Machamp used Ice Punch (keep in mind, he had No Guard), hit the Mega Rayquaza mid-flight and froze it right then and there. I had constructed that particular team specifically to combat Mega Rayquaza, so that felt really good to me.

Mega Salamence is saved because recently I’ve started bringing a Mega Metagross with Ice Punch to deal with it. It may be kind of below me to join them considering I couldn’t beat them, but I’ve begun to see quite a bit of Primal Groudons and Mega Mewtwo Ys, so I’ll need to figure out a way to deal with them.

tl;dr: Both seemed like uncompetitive messes when first introduced, but I’ve since learned to tame the beats. Doesn’t rid me of the sour tastes they’ve left behind, though.

8. Noivern

What can I really say about Noivern? He’s just...really forgettable to me. Seriously, I don’t think I even remember this thing existing until 2015. It’s an anomaly to me. I have two competitive Noiverns, one Choice Specs and one Assault Vest, and I have no clue how I got either of them. I think Noibat is a cute Pokemon, but I have no opinion on Noivern because most of the time I forget it even exists.

7. Palossand

Okay, now this shit list is going somewhere. All of the entries before hand are Pokemon that either I dislike or simply do not like. Palossand is the first entry that I truly hate.

Disclaimer: I do NOT hate it because it’s an inanimate object Pokemon. I happen to like most of the inanimate object Pokemon, and in Palossand’s case in particular, it’s justified because it’s a Ghost-type. What makes me despise this thing is because of this thing’s reception. From the moment it was revealed until now, I couldn’t wrap my mind around a fanbase that would bash Vanilluxe and Klingklang for being ice cream and cogs, respectively, would turn around and defend Palossand. I understand defending things like Exeggcute and Voltorb, because nostalgia gets in the way. Palossand seems to defy the “people hate change” mentality that literally everyone displays at one point or another.

Make a long story short, I hate Palossand because of the overwhelming support it got upon reveal despite other object Pokemon being subject to bashing to this day.

Also, it’s not called Sandghastle. What the fuck, English translation team?

6. Bronzor

Remember back in the day when Steel actually resisted Ghost and Dark? Boy am I glad that’s changed. Back in Platinum, this and its evolution Bronzong were abundant in trainer fight (I’m pretty sure Team Galactic had most of them). First of all, they are bulky as hell, so you need either a Fire-type or a Ground-type to hit them. Except, maybe not; these guys can have either Heatproof or Levitate as an ability, so they can either lessen the impact of one weakness or completely negate the other! Most of them will have had Levitate if I’m not mistaken, so your best bet was to use a Fire-type, but there weren’t that many Fire-types in DP (only Infernape and Rapidash. Infernape wasn’t a great option because it’s Fighting-type and Fighting’s weak to Psychic) and the roster didn’t get improved very much with Platinum (only Flareon, Magmortar and Houndoom--whom we’ll get to later--are added to the table). Bronzor is more of a pain in the ass than it ever deserves to be. The only reason Bronzong is saved from the shame is because I wasn’t forced to face as many.

5. Krookodile

You know, I can’t help but find it fitting that Dark is a very polarizing type. Either I love them or I hate them, there is no in-between. In this case, all but one of the following Pokemon on this list are Dark-type.

Krookodile is one of those Pokemon I like to refer to as “bitch Pokemon,” ones that poor spectacularly when they’re up against me, but at the same time completely fail when their on my side of the field. I tried to train a Sandile up in one of my fifth generation playthroughs and it just kept fainting and fainting over and over again. I did manage to get a couple of levels out of it, but never enough to get it to evolve. With that, I quickly boxed it, leaving it to live the rest of its days in the PC (until it was eventually nuked when I started a new file).

During that run and in quite a number of battles since, Krookodile has consistently given a hard time and left a sour taste in my mouth. One particularly salty moment was during that 5v6 Ubers battle I did. My Electivire landed an Ice Punch, brought it down to ~1/3 health, and got the freeze only for Krookodile to thaw out immediately after and OHKOed Electivire, rendering the freeze pointless. I did win that battle in the end, but I just never felt good about Krookodile.

It doesn’t help when I ran into AuSLove.TV on Wonder Trade and got a Shiny one from him.

4. Alolan Persian

I had high hopes for this thing. During my first run of Sun version (and my second run of SM overall), I trained up an Alolan Persian on my team. I expected it to be a speedy, physical attacker and so I tried training it up as such. Could you blame me? Regular Persian is a physical attacker and most of Alolan Persian’s level-up moveset is physical. Near the end of my run, my Persian was underperforming, so I did a quick check on Bulbapedia just so I could figure out what I’m working with. What I found disappointed me greatly.

First of all, Alolan Persian’s greatest stat aside from speed is Special Attack. Not helping that fact is that it only learns three special moves naturally, the only STAB move of which comes at LEVEL 69. Sure, it learns plenty of special moves by TM, but so does Bisharp, so that’s not a good argument.

Basically, I don’t like Alolan Persian because I was deceived by it. Fitting for a Dark-type to do, but its underperformance led it to be mid-40s while everyone else was climbing past early-50s. Once I caught Solgaleo, I quickly boxed Persian and haven’t used it since. I can forgive Alolan Persian for its silly design, but I can’t forgive it for how lackluster it really is.

3. Houndoom

Remember why I hated Krookodile? Most of that same reasoning applies here, except this guy was even closer to evolving. See, I found my first Houndour at either Lv. 23 or 24 in Platinum version. I thought it would be cool to train up, plus I could use a Fire-type for my team. When I went to train it, it fainted to literally everything. I’m not joking. Even when I moved out from the route where Geodudes and Gravelers were commonplace, Houndour still fainted to everything it didn’t resist. Wondering if were even worth it to keep trying with this guy, I ultimately boxed him. One Bulbapedia search later revealed that had I continued, Houndour would have evolved should I’ve leveled him up one time. Needless to say, I was pissed.

Eventually, I started playing HeartGold version. To make a very long story short, Houndoom is another “bitch Pokemon” and is the sole reason I’ve hated Elite Four Karen for a little while.

I haven’t seen this guy much in competitive at all (as in, no one I’ve faced since XY has used one), so all I can say about his Mega is that the design is a missed opportunity. They could have gone with the hellhound Ceberus, but no. They just gave him some armor. Like Beautifly before, that’s just really lame.

2. Mandibuzz

Back when I was big into collecting the cards, my cousin traded me his Mandibuzz card. A couple of days later, his dad (my uncle) calls my mom and she tells me that this cousin wants his Mandibuzz card back. I tried to tell her that we negotiated and I got this card fair and square, but she was having none of it and forced me to give the card back to my cousin for nothing in return. I was pretty pissed about this display of immaturity and have never been able to forget it. I’m not an avid collector anymore (and I never played the TCG to begin with), but Mandibuzz still occupies a bitter place in my heart.

Also this thing is a nightmare to face in competitive battling. I haven’t had much luck with it myself, but I haven’t performed so badly with it that I’d call it a “bitch Pokemon.”

1. Swellow

My hatred for this thing all stems from my first run of AlphaSapphire version. It was the fight against Winona. She led off with her Swellow, I’m pretty sure I led with my Bisharp (long story). The first few turns, she kept spamming Double Team over and over again so I could never hit it. I remember sitting there helpless because I had no way of raising my accuracy. All I could do is waste PP while this thing widdles away my HP with Aerial Ace of all things.

Let me say that again: Swellow got to +6 Evasion and began rubbing it in my face by now spamming a move that could never miss.

This ugly bastard wiped out my entire team at least once through sheer dumb luck and I had to over prepare just for this thing. I was able to beat it eventually, but that was just maniacal how difficult that was. On the bright side, I have not had a significant encounter with Swellow since that fateful day with Winona, but that one day left quite the nasty mark.