@jackjack-p Oh wow, that’s a lot! I can do that though!
1. What is your favorite pokemon?
Espeon! It was thanks to pokemon Colosseum and XD that I got attached to it, and now I love it a whole lot.
I always struggle with this question. I like psychic types a lot but I don’t know if I can call them my favorites. I also really like ice and ground types.
Hoenn! Sapphire was my first pokemon game so I’m biased but I love hoenn’s variety in towns and cities, love the tropical setting, and I still wish we’d get a game with more focus on water routes again (was really hoping Alola would fulfill that wish, was a little disappointed when it didn’t)
By region:
Either Erika or Janine
Pryce
Either Winona or Wallace
Gardenia
God I love all of the unova gym leaders I don’t even know
Wulfric
And as a bonus favorite trial captain has got to be either Ilima or Mina
5. Favorite villain team?
6. Offensive or status moves?
Offensive, usually (I’m experimenting more with status moves recently though)
8. Cute Pokemon or strong Pokemon?
Both! I’ll use anything that I like pretty much.
10. Monotype or multitype teams?
I go out of my way to avoid type overlap as much as I can most of the time, but I can appreciate a good monotype run (and I have one that’s technically been ongoing for years that I’ve never gotten back to finishing with normal types in Omega Ruby)
11. Legendaries or non-legendaries?
For the most part non legendaries, but occasionally I’ll incorporate a legendary on my team just to mix it up, and I have a few favorite legendaries.
13. Mach bike or Acro bike?
Mach bike, acro bike is more of a utility thing. I appreciate them giving you both in the remakes though
14. Shiny pokemon or regular pokemon?
Depends on the Pokemon. Some shiny forms look amazing, and some… don’t.
16. Best contest category? (Cute, smart, beautiful, tough, cool)
They’re all good, but I have fond memories of winning the cuteness contest master rank in emerald with my quagsire and getting it painted in the museum.
17. Best starter set? (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, etc.)
Probably either Johto or Hoenn. There’s not one region where I don’t like one starter less than the other two, but my least favorites in those two regions are by the least compared to the others.
Aesthetically Kalos wins easily, I love all of their designs, but I think the Sun and Moon Elite 4 are the best as characters. Unova deserves honorable mention as another favorite,
Either Birch or Sycamore. I like Birch as a professor who goes out and does field work, and I love Sycamore just for how obviously smitten with Lysandre he is.
Black and White, no contest. Gen 5 is the ultimate pokemon story. Sun and Moon made a strong attempt and are another favorite, but missed some of the magic gen 5 had, and then USUM butchered a lot of what good they did have going.
Silver, an antagonistic rival with a well written story and a logical background explaining why he’s the way he is, and character growth over the course of the game.
22. Do you nickname your Pokemon?
All the ones that I’m using, definitely! Oddly, the one exception is PMD, I guess since they just call each other by species name anyways it feels weird for me to name any pokemon except the player character there.
24. How long have you been playing Pokemon?
Pretty sure pokemon were some of, if not the first, videogames that I ever played, so uh, a long time.
25. Do you collect cards or other Pokemon merch besides the games?
Not really tbh, not to say that I wouldn’t ever be interested in merch of my favorite pokemon, but I’ve never really seeked it out.
26. Do you tend to win battles?
In single player yeah, 50/50 in casual multiplayer, I’ve never tried playing competitively.
27. Do you watch the anime?
I used to as a kid. I tried to check out the darkrai movie at one point a little while back because the one before was the last one I saw before I pretty much stopped watching the anime and movies, but I didn’t end up watching the whole thing and I haven’t watched any since then.
Switch, the mainline games aren’t out yet for me to compare, but I like the switch a lot as a system and I’m just a little too old to have much DS nostalgia. GBA nostalgia on the other hand...
29. Are you an avid Daycare user?
Yep! I’ve seen some posts on here ragging on people who spend all their time breeding for IVs or whatever as not enjoying the game the right way before, and it kind of hurt a little because that’s one of my favorite post game activities. It’s relaxing zoning out and hatching eggs going for whatever your goal is, and super satisfying when you finally get what you’re looking for. And then you can wondertrade the rest and give other people pokemon they may appreciate and get cool new stuff yourself!
30. What are your expectations for the next main series game?
I don’t even know, a return to a more normal gym system I guess, but maybe tweaked compared to the old gyms->elite four formula, some new possibly gimmicky game mechanic in the vein of mega evolution and Z moves, 50/50 chance HMs return because gamefreak loves turning back the clock on innovation, hopefully a larger region to account for the Switch’s extra power. A region that’s absolutely dripping character and personality, as the last few consistently have, maybe some connection to Kalos? You can’t have Britain and France regions and just not do anything with that after all.
