Of the first gen starters and their second evolutions, I always like Wartortle best.
I like its little wing ears.

My favorites are Typhlosion and Rhydon.

No one else loves Rhydon.

>>11
I love Rhydon. I used him in a Nuzlocke of Blue once, and he was one of three surviving guys by the end of the Champ battle.

Fun fact: Sugimori stated that he's the first Pokemon design to be completed, which is supported by the fact that he's #001 in the index of R/B/Y.

And I really wish they tweaked the breeding system in B/W. It still takes FOREVER to get the shit you need.

In terms of true blue favorites, Typhlosion is my ultimate favorite.
I also love Murkrow/Honchkrow and Sneasel.

The badass list:
***METAGROSS
Aerodactyl
Nidoking
Muk
Hihidaruma
Cloyster
Tyrannitar
Gliscor
Gyarados
Golbat
Regirock
Registeel
Regice
Denchura
Ninjask
Skarmory
Aggron
Scizor
Hitmonlee
PINSIR
Breloom
***GROUDON
Vigoroth
Lickylicky
Staraptor
Beedrill
Fearow
Yanmega
Archeos
Ditto
Weezing
Toxicroak
Victreebel
Tentacruel
Swampert
Steelix
Abagoura
Dusknoir
Feraligatr
Sharpedo
Defense Deoxys
Nuzleaf (because of his prodigious teabag)
Glalie
Kangaskan (not Kanga-skan. It's Kenghis- Khan. That's BAMF.)

But in the end, the winner's definitely Shiny Metagross, so beast. And Groudon too.

Rhydon is king of everything. Rhyperior is just a fat ugly dump-truck.
My R/B/Y team is usually:
Nidoking
Onix
Kangaskhan
Gyarados
Arbok
Blastoise

>>11
I love that bad ass mofo too, bro. Tru fact is, no one loves Fearow..

>>22
I like Fearow...I always pick spearow over pidgey in blue...
funfact:I always name them "Warbeak" off of a character from Redwall...

>>22
>>23
I'm a fan of Spearow/Fearow too. Mine's named Agnew because I'm dumb and the name Spearow Agnew cracks me up every time.

>>22
Fearow is awesome, I use it very often.

My Yellow Team that I took to the Elite Four was:
Pikachu
Charizard
Blastoise
Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres

In hindsight it probably wasn't wise to bring the legendary birds, Moltres was the only one that could hold its ground, but Blastoise is my favorite in the group primarily because it managed to win me the game with only 12HP

As for favorite pokemon overall it might be dragonair, I'm not absolutely sure.

It's getting harder and harder to stick by my decision to not spoil 5th gen for myself.

LOOK AT THIS LITTLE FUCKER IT'S SO FUCKING CUTE GOD DAMN HE'S GOING TO FUCKING EAT YOUR SOUL IF YOU LET YOUR GUARD DOWN.

>>41
:3

>>41
>>42
You guys are killing me. Please god either stop or... Don't stop. Yeah. Don't stop. MORE!

>>54
I think this is an adorable take on it, but do you think Bachuru is a jumping spider? I do.

>>57
Bachuru is a jumping spider while Denchura is (duh) a tarantula.

>>57
>>61
Ahhh! Good to know. I don't usually go looking up things I'm petrified of haha. Ironic seeing as I love bug pokémon - specially the spider types.

>>61

Spiders are not allowed to be so cute, goddammit.

(inb4 entire thread is bachuru)

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

Anybody know where I can find the original artist of these bits of beauty?

is it just me or is darumakka a fucking beast? look at this derpy-ass motherfucker. a thing that looks that stupid has no business punching flaming holes in shit at the rate this guy does

i'm nearing the flying gym. this fan translation is starting to peter out a bit; more and more stuff is in japanese :X

sage, forgot picture

>>75
Thats gotta be the cutest fucking pokemon in the world!

>>12
That's probably why all those generic in-world sprites of Pokémon looked like Rhydons too.

forgot pic

just look at how fucked james is

>>98
Bitches don't know bout my Kurumiru.

>>129

It's going to fucking suffocate in there.

You monster.

bumping cause we got localized starter names and they are Hecka Bad imo

http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Tsutarja,_Pokabu,_Mijumaru_localized

>Snivy, Tepig, Oshwott, region name is Unova

the german names are better, i think. Serpifü, Floink, Ottaro.

>>222
>Snivy
My first thought

>>222
lol oh those starter names.

Though I am surprised they're actually changing the region name, since they've never done that before. Did they think Isshu would be too hard to pronounce or something?

>>222
Wow. Just... wow. It will always be Smugleaf, Firepig and Wotter to me then.

I like all the names exact Oshawott. That one is just bad. I like Tepig, but not a lot of people get the pun on tepid, so it falls short for most people.

Just gimme my english name for pantslizard and I'll be a happy man.

>>227
I get the pun on tepid and I think that the pun is at best lukewarm

:rimshot:

Snide + Ivy's just as good as Smugleaf imo

>>228
Pignite > Emboar > Blazerback will forever be my mental names of choice for the firepig damm

If Wargle doesn't get an awesome name I'm gonna slap their shit.

>>222
........I feel slow, I don't understand why it's called Oshwott.

>>228
Boarbeque.

>>232
After several hours' deliberation I came up with the possibility of it being Ocean Water Otter

>>226
Zis. I hate the new names and I don't understand why they're changing the name of the region. Surely 'Johto' is harder to pronounce than 'Isshu'.

>>223
I thought of the same thing and the name "Oshawott" makes me think of Canada.

And now I can't find my copies of Pearl and Platinum, just my HeartGold game in my DS Lite...

I see Solid Snivy, Tepig Boss and Revolver Oshawott haven't made it over here yet.

>>239

Me neither.

Did they not want anything to be good about the new pokes? Really?

>>my favorite pokemon

I don't know why this little guy hasn't been posted yet.

Snorlax fukkin owns guise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na0mYSFPoCU

Meowth is my favorite pokemon. I also like Mudkip.

Actually, most of my favorite pokemon are ones that are cute over being useful in battle. Except maybe Arcanine. Because he's badass.

THIS GUY IS MY FAVOURITE POKERMANS FOR LONG TIME.

I'm so glad it's possible to make him good now.

My favourite has always been Flareon. I also like Articuno.

Am I the only one who thought of "Theme of Love" from Mother 3 after hearing N's Farewell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzKRuwKyJmY

Lance.

Lance.

You're supposed to be the toughest and best trainer in Johto. Why the dick do you have three of the same pokémon in your fucking team? Why is literally half of your team comprised of a pokémon with a crippling weakness? Why was I able to 1HKO everything but your poxy fucking Gyarados?

I don't even feel like I earned this victory. It'd be like being proud of myself for winning the Special Olympics.

>>420

Aside:

Thank fuck I don't have to deal with you anymore, Professor Elm. If I could have slapped you before I left your lab for the last time, you can bet I would have done. Fuck you. Worst professor ever.

Oh, Professor Oak. You can take a look at my PokéDex anytime.

I can't decide between Croagunk, Dunsparce and Gyarados what my favorite Pokemon in general is.

But this motherfucker is always going to be my favorite legendary. <3

>>420
I can't one-hit KO his Gyarados with my Raichu anymore?

>>507

You could, I guarantee it.

I didn't have any Electric on me, unfortunately.

>>511
Tanner, why does earthquake kill everything in the new pokemon games? That damn move is what stopped me from stomping that bitch Cynthia in Platinum on the first try. :/

>>512

Because that's what they did instead of actually improving the AI like they said they did. I've also noticed that it cheats more than it used to, but I suppose The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard has been a staple for Pokémon since the beginning of time.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard

I have no idea how to navigate Pixiv but I found this.

Hey guys, this Month at Gamestop there's going to be a Pokemon event for all three shiny Legendary beasts, starting with Raikou tomorrow. Next month we finally get Celebi!

>>524

When does this event happen in the UK?

Inb4 never.

>>525
You guessed it!

Why does nobody but Dawn care that I completed my Pokedex? Professor Rowan seriously couldn't give two shits and Oak won't stop talking about the three legendary birds.

http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/en-us/pokemon/new-pokemon/
Holy shit the new names are fucking terrible. Darmanitan? Braviary? Cofagrigus?

>>640
Some of them are terrible, but naming the three-stage dragon Haxorus? That's so brilliant.

>>640
IT WILL BE WARGLE FOREVER IN MY HEART

Mostly I want to know who thought it was a good idea to name it Cofagrigus in the Age of the Internet.

>>645
I don't even understand how Cofagrigus, even in a completely innocent context, describes a mummy ghost at all. At least Deathkhan had anything to do with the Pokemon it was naming.

>>646
Simple.
Coffin, sarcophagus, and egregious.

Man, those new pokes are getting more like digimon with every fucking update. This is dumb.

Also I just made this. He's the first really good one out of a really good batch of eggs. I have chosen to keep him after a brief toss-up between he and his brother.

>>658

This is his brother. Since I obviously won't be needing him, I'll trade him to anyone for a Power Band. Not fussed about what poke you trade me for him, as long as it's holding that Power Band item.

I will never not love Cyndaquil. NEVER.

My favorite Pokemon is definitely Slowpoke.

So damn cute. ;-;

For those in the U.S., there's another Pokemon event at Toys 'R' Us: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_event_Pok%C3%A9mon_in_2011#Ash.27s_Pikachu

Did anyone miss the Raikou event? I have an extra if anyone needs a lv 30 Raikou and a micle berry~

http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/en-us/news/pokemon-mall-tour/

Damn, I want to go to this but I've been busy last weekend and next weekend with my graduation ceremony. I also doubt that my parents will let me go, even if it is only an hour away from my house.

I can probably wait on Celebi until the following week.

after flipping my shit over yu-gi-oh for a while with my friends they've gotten back into pokemon. Trouble is I don't own any pokemon cards. Here's where the troule starts.
Since it is my opinion that Eevee is the best pokemon in the world I'm going to make a deck of nothing but Eevee and Eeveeloutions. Which cards would be best for this sort of thing?

Looks like I'm headed to the London event for Celebi on Sunday since I had literally no fucking idea this was happening and it's the last weekend the event is running.

Shit.

>>861
Not a very practical deck. It'll be very difficult for you to work anything with that many energies. It'll be funny but don't count on winning... ever.

Best decks are single or dual energy decks, my deck right now is a water/psychic. Psychic has good effects, water tanks. Just start out with a starter deck of some elements you like that you can get in the store, and buy a few booster packs. Experiment with some builds, make sure you have a good mix of cards. I almost always end up with too many pokes in my deck, but I knew a guy who had too few in his lightning/psychic, where he used a quick switch strategy.

Pokemon turns 15 today! Happy anniversary to one of my favorite video game series!

I heard Pokemon Burakku Howaito will be released today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P6RhEeuFZQ

>>Patrat
>>The Scout Pokemon
>>Catch Male with Sassy nature

I am amused.

(Captha: vajomg. Yeah, I'd be surprised if Scout got a girl in canon, too.)

Shiney Tympole. My day is complete.

My list of Nicknames so far:
Snivy:Aloette(Female!Aloe is a plant,and Aloette sounds french)
Pidove:Lakeview(a neighborhood in Chicago I lived in for a couple months)
Munna:Rini(from Sailor Moon.It's PINK!)
Blitzle:Thorhorse
Herdier: Cupcake
Panpour:Aquafresh
My code is 2322 5500 4012 btw. White.

Renamed my Snivy Smugleaf.
For some reason, the fanon names sound way better then the canon ones.

I really hope one of the new pokeymans can learn something similar to payday, I miss my moneycat already. :c

Karrablast is totally one of my new favorites.
It's so cute, I don't even.

I just recently got Heartgold and it's fun so far. I like how close it is to the original, I was definitely surprised there.

Gonna kick some bug dude asses!

Enjoying B/W a great deal so far. Has a sense of wonder to it which gives it quite a fresh feel. As fresh as a game copy-pasted 67 times over two decades, I mean.

It's incredibly easy though. Love how the game basically gives you a pogeyman which levels each gym right before they occur. There's even an NPC in every area who'll heal your team for free now.

The picture is my eight foot poison spined solution to everything.

>>918
lucky, my venipede appears to kind of suck. Everyone says that this poke' is a "destroyer of worlds" but when I went to go destroy worlds it backfired. Now I'm running around outside pinwheel forest leveling it because that seems to be the only place it stands a chance.

Anybody have any advice?

>>919

That's because it's still a Venipede, not a Scolipede. Like all bugs it sucks before it evolves, it's just this time when it does reach it's final form (level 30) it becomes very threatening indeed.

Once it reaches level 20 I think it learns Poison Tail and then at 22 it evolves into baleful tire of sulkiness, after which it can handle itself reasonably well. Make sure it knows Poison Point rather than Swarm, otherwise you won't get anything out of the awesome move Venoshock.

>>88

Man don't even get me started on that little bastard. Hustle is SUCH a frustrating ability. 4 Fire Punches missed in a row? If it had a neck I would have strangled it a long time ago.

>>920
Good point. It's a whirlipede now and does indeed know poison point, so I guess that's a plus. Thanks for the advice.

My friend convinced me to buy White. Man, after so many years it's gonna be weird to play again.

My boyfriend asked why I hated this pokemon. My only reason is that it looks like an asshole.

Also read the pokedex entry on joltik, 4 inches tall. I awwwed for 5 minutes.

Also shiny tympole finally turned into tittytoad. And dispite it's looks is pretty OP.

>My only reason is that it looks like an asshole.
I thought I was the only one that thought that.

>>923
It's a very simple geode with a hexagonal crystal.

Found this just now. Puts my feelings about this recent gen's designs pretty quaintly.

>>925
Man, can't people just agree to disagree?
I like some of the new Pokemon designs. I dislike most of them. I simply do not like them. Why does anyone even give a fuck?

Pokemon - It's serious business.

>>925
Same here.
I quite enjoy this generation of pokes.
Granted there are some I find outright stupid, but hey, I can say that about every generation.

>>926
As much as I agree, the people who hate and complain about the new designs all over are what makes it frustrating.

I might disagree with you on the designs. My trashbag is an op son of a bitch and that's good enough for me.

>>925
I know, but I also own cats who don't seem to understand I don't want them standing on my desk and facing away from me and it's poisoned my mind.

Sorry about the double post.

>>926
It's not about liking or disliking; it's about the fact that most people that DO dislike blindly think GEN 1 IS THE BEST GEN AND HAD THE BEST DESIGNS EVER THE NEW STUFF IS SHIT BY DEFAULT

Hence the "nostalgiafags" in the title :V

Every gen has a good number of shit and awesome in about the same proportions; it just takes a while for a new gen to sink in. Also, once you start actually playing the game, a lot of the designs you once dislike start growing on you. That happened to me with a number of them, especially Scraggy/Scrafty.

>>928
>>930

That I understand. I'm not going around bitching and moaning about how Pokemon is RUINED FOREVERZ. I have my opinion about the designs and a majority of the new ones just don't appeal to me at all, but at the same time I love the shit out of some. I fully admit that. I personally DO think that the first two gens had the best overall design. I don't go around rubbing that into the face of everyone who plays gen 5 though.

Now excuse me while I heart Wargle because it's among my very favorites now why can't you be in every Pokemon game ever lhasdlsjalsk

I'm probably going to get ragged on for saying this but there IS a distinctly higher proportion of just flat-out bad designs in Gen 5 than in previous gens. There were lots of bad ones in Gen 4 as well, I said that in the first place. A lot of them toed the line. But the ones in Gen 5 pretty much take a running fucking leap over the line and land six miles beyond it.

It's like the proportion of shit new designs in comparison to good new designs rises every fucking time.

In my opinion.