#to be fair it pressed I will swap to the other adequately leveled pokemon in my team but as soon as I'm able I'm switching back to starter

[offonaherosjourney]

I just realized that the reason why I've never been tempted to play a Pokemon game doing any sort of challenge is because I still play exactly the same as an adult as I did when I got my first game as an 8-year-old: I fill my team with pokemon I like, and while I do try to have a variety of types in my team, that's always secundary to aesthetics. In the end, however, none of that matters, because the starter pokemon I chose at the beginning is ALWAYS going to be the one fighting.

And that, you'll agree... Is quite the challenge on its own way, but what am I supposed to do, ABANDON MY FIRST POKEMON BUDDY? Fuck off.

I don't think ANY of my starters have ever seen the inside of a PC?? Temporary benching my starter for another teammate in a battle already feels sacrilegious enough, you don't wanna know how sending them to the PC would make me feel. Not that I usually swap my starter for another pokemon that often? (YOU WANT ME TO SWITCH MY FIRE TYPE FRIEND TO A PLANT TYPE JUST BECAUSE I'M BATTLING SIX WATER TYPES? NO THANK YOUUU) I just overlevel them so that if I battle someone that my starter has a type disadvantage to, I can just bruteforce my way into victory 99% of the time.

I know no other way to play.

I refuse to learn any other way to play.

My vibes based choice of a starter and I are in this together from opening credits until end credits