#theplotfairy

Favorites:

1: Gengar (Grim)         – ok so this is probably a like, stereotypical answer cuz “bleh genwunners every other pokemon is bad bleh” but Gengar was a big accomplishment for me when I first got one. I did play the first games when they came out (I had blue), and did catch a Gastly which evolved into Haunter. But because my only friend who had the game  at the time was kinda an asshat, and my brothers didn’t play Pokémon games at the time, I never got the chance to evolve Grim. He stayed a Haunter all the way to like, level 89, and then my game deleted itself after like 10 years so :/ I didn’t get a chance to play the gen 2 or 3 games when they came out, so when I got to Diamond and you could catch a Gastly in the old Chateau I caught one, named it Grim in honor of my old Haunter, and then played with that one. By that point, my younger brother had been old enough to be able to properly read and play Pokémon, and with wireless trading being a thing, I was finally able to evolve Grim and get a Gengar after so. damn. long. I loved that lil smirky asshole and I was glad I kept the name Grim because everytime I looked at Gengar’s sprite I couldn’t help but think of that song “Grim Grinning Ghosts” and just, it made me so happy i’m a dork     – also gengar was fucking robbed in sun/moon with the sudden ability change and loss of ground immunity and i just??? my son?!?! gamefreak!!!!  let him float!!!!

2: The Litwick Line (Manson)    – this is probably a dumb reason but I ran into a shiny litwick once in Black 2 and it was so pretty??? (i accidentlly killed it and nearly just rage quit Black 2 entirely but thats besides the point shhh)  it and Lampent’s shinys look like they’d be super iridescent and they matched with non-shiny Chandlure and I loved it. I feel like they should have switched Chandelure’s forms because its shiny matches with non-shiny Litwick and Lampent, and vice-versa. But regardless, The entire line is just adorable to look at (too bad they kill people according to the pokédex entries, rip)

3: Froslass (Merag)   – Ok so after Zexal ended I felt realy sad inside because I fucking loved that series (and if it wasn’t for the nostalgia glasses i wear everytime i see something DM related, I would be able to say i like Zexal more than DM but thats story for another time) and I decided to make a Zexal based team in my Alpha Sapphire game. So I had Nasch (Garchomp), Mach(Shiny Rapidash), Yuma(Victini), Ryoga (Shiny Sharpedo), Durbe(Meowstic) and I needed one more Pokémon to round out a full team. A friend of mine said Blaziken for Alit, but I ended up trying to raise a Snorunt to evolve into Froslass for Merag (cuz ice for her deck theme and ghost cuz heyheyhey barians are dead rip) and Merag was just so much fun to use in battle??? I’d never used a Froslass before because Glalie kinda scared me and just sorta pushed me away from touching Snorunts but Merag was a definite surprise. All the other Pokemon I’d used before so I knew what I was getting into, and finding a new Pokémon that I hadn’t expected to really like took me by surprise.

Least Favorites:

1: Spiritomb (Raider)    -- Ok so, I played gen 4 before I played gen 3, so I encountered Spiritomb before I ever encountered Sableye and jesus christ with the team I had in my Diamond game was not prepared for this weakness-less tank of a pokémon. And when Cynthia had one at the end of the Elite Four it wiped my team. ;A; I’d taken so long to get past Lucian and his Bronzong, only for Cynthia to crush my confidence all over again. I get this sense of anger everytime I see a Spiritomb because of it. And then the one you can get at Sea Mauville in ORAS scared the shit out of me when it randomly appeared behind you after reading a thing so >> Spiritomb and I got beef.

2: Dhelmise    -- listen this was a confusing ass pokémon and i’m pretty sure it only exists to make me question everything. i first saw one while fishing at the last island in Moon, and thought it was Water/Steel, because i fished it from the water, and it looked like an anchor. But then it knew grass moves??? so I thought it was water/grass cuz ehhh it does kinda look like mossy seaweed??? and then it used steel moves???? so maybe it was grass/steel, a mossy seaweed covered sucken anchor??? but then fire wasn’t effective against it?!?!? so maybe it was water/steel??? and then i made it faint before i could catch it to find out what types it was, and then forgot it existed until the E4, and then Acerola had one in her party which meANT IT WAS GHOST TYPE and HOW the FUCK was that a possibility???? And then come to find out that its special ability basically means it gets STAB on steel type moves so it might as well be a steel/ghost/grass Pokémon on you know what fuck dhelmise jsut fuck it

3: Dusknoir (Whimsly)   -- this one is a childish reason, but i played Pokémon Dungeon Explorers of Darkness and Dusknoir is a villain character of this game and as a kid he made me irrationally angry. He came off as a good guy, only to betray you and backstab you, your partner, and the Grovyle that you’d thought was a bad guy but had been your friend all along. And then right when you think you’ve beaten him, he surprise attacks you and that Grovyle basically sacrifices itself to stop Dusknoir from hurting you, and they both basically die and i was so angry for the longest time as a kid. I ended up getting Explorers of the Sky some time afterwards, and if i remember correctly in that game they don’t die and eventuallly Dusknoir gets redeemed, but i still had to relive through the  backstabbing betrayal and the loss of a friend so yeah that messed with me as a kid.