I have decided that leaving completely is lame. I will still be absent from the discord until the semester is over, but I still want to talk to y'all I guess. Semester starts on the 13th.

So... without further ado (and to my surprise, this forum post has never once appeared on the site) I will lead my new once-a-month-this-semester chat with:

BotB, what is your favorite Pokémon? (this may be obvious for some of you, of course, looking at you, dami)

Mine's Mudkip.

eevee.
loved him since i was a kid

wooper

aside from the ones I pick solely for their sex appeal, my favorite is dragonite cause he’s a big and friendly bestest boy. I got a big plushie of him looking at me right now

feel like i gotta do a top 5 list here lol

breloom, tropius, alolan vulpix, alcremie, mareanie. in no particular order

honorable mention to mareanie, ampharos, shiinotic, dragonair... and most of the eevees!? electabuzz and magmar are pretty swag

edit: wow i put mareanie in both lists. love that little guy tho

I'm super basic. I like Charizard.

tangela, I even got the same haircut

this may also be an elaborate scheme to give Pokémon nicknames in a Platinum Oak's Challenge I'm doing in my spare time, which until the semester starts, I sure have a lot of cleaning to do while I play...


also luigi64, I have several questions, and I want none of them answered...

top 5 for me as well because there's a LOT of good designs

vileplume, weavile, dragonite, hisuian samurott, breloom

Shedinja. Looks cool, has cool typing, is mechanically unique in a couple of ways that tell a cool story.

heracross

hello

ok which of the people who said wooper likes quagsire more (you will now fight to the death to determine this

Gengar

undecided but i have some categories

fav cries: jynx, drifblim, vaporeon, zubat, kricketune, charjabug
fav middle forms: wartortle, grottle, raboot, monferno
absolute cutest: snorunt, snom, mudkip, chingling, spheal
fav eeveelutions: umbreon, jolteon, espeon, flareon
best designs imo: scizor, grovyle, runerigus, croagunk, lycanroc midnight
fav in battle: druddigon, archeops, blastoise, noctowl, infernape
personal reasons: hoopa, latios
fav legendaries mythicals: zekrom, darkrai, suicune, zeraora
fav shinies: drifblim, smeargle, gigalith, teddiursa, giratina origin

bisharp for me. i dont like kingambit though, i much prefer it when he was the final evolution

nurse joy

Oooooh boy do I have opinions.
I've used this website before to try to chose my favorite pokémon for each type and generation: https://cajunavenger.github.io/
It's hard to decide because there's a lot of pokémon I love and it changes often, for example I've grown fond of makuhita and qwilfish recently because I love their plushies.
Since I don't know how to integrate images on here I'll just list them quickly

Per generation:
Blastoise, Tyranitar, Metagross, Misdreavus, Chandelure, Noivern, Togedemaru, Dragapult, Tinkaton

Per type (sometimes I chose my second favorite to avoid repeats):
Normal: Galarian Zigzagoon, Fire: Chandelure, Water: Blastoise, Grass: Breloom, Electric: Togedemaru, Ice: Spheal, Fighting: Hariyama, Ground: Garchomp, Flying: Noivern, Psychic: Gardevoir, Bug: Golisopod, Rock: Tyrnitar, Ghost: Chandelure, Dragon: Dragapult, Dark: Grimmsnarl, Steel: Metagross, Fairy: Tinkaton
Honorable mentions that didn't make the lists but I still like a lot: Iron Valiant, Iron Hands, Blacephalon, Hisuian Zorua, Mimikyu, Ceruledge, Mareanie, Absol, Alolan Exeggutor, and of course Pikachu

Overall I like:
Purble pokémon, Ghost pokémon, Round pokémon, Badass pokémon

If I had to choose my top 5 it would probably be: Chandelure, Blastoise, Metagross, Dragapult and Gengar.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Talking Meowth

Kakuna goes so hard it is the only move it knows

The Magmar line has always been my ride or die, I remember the first Pokémon design I ever saw that really stuck with me (besides pikachu obviously) was magby as part of the online trading card game tutorial of the time, and the art really spoke to me. Ever since then I just adore everything about magmar, he’s the perfect combination of derpy and cool that gives Pokémon such appeal to me.

Besides that I also love the Porygon line and Ditto. There are definitely more that I’m forgetting right now but these are definitely my highest

clefairy
cleffa
sentret
gloom
hopip
poliwhirl
klefki

Miltank! But I'm quite fond of Dragonite and Sylveon as well.

Mudkip
Meltan
Flygon
Sandshrew
Bossgodora
Maractus
Reuniclus
Stonjourner

Btw, this is what I imagine it would be like to build a team of Pokémon with a BotBr/Chiptuner:

Gastly
Breloom
Voltorb (Shiny)
Lugia
Aipom
Jirachi

botbr pokemon team would be such a cute idea...!

clefairy!!!

porygon z

Zoroark, no contest

haunterrrrrrrr 👻

Sprigatito (type grass)

Blaziken or Flygon !
Also, I have not played gen 7 at all but i fucking LOVE Stakataka

what is this. I don't know what this is.

Used to be Garbador, as of recently it became Eevee (mainly because I encountered a shiny in my Black 2 Cartridge)

i sure wonder what mine is, mudkip obviously :D

SENTRET!!!!
ODDISH!!!
VOLCARONA!!!!!!
SCYTHER!!!!!
SKARMORY!!!!!!

flygon and butterfree since always

Inclined to say Farfetch'd for its inventive weaponisation of vegetables.

i am the #1 sableye believer

I forgot I also really like buizel

Slaking! I like him so much that I embroidered a patch and sewed it on a cap.

https://i.redd.it/b6ly9gaddu371.jpg

Ok, but actually I've literally never had an opportunity to play any Pokémon games, so I don't know anything about the game. I don't even have a favorite Pokémon without just saying the defaults.

Playing at least one game is on my bucket list, I can tell I'm missing out on so much.

i like torterra, shiftry, carnivine, decidueye, relicanth, gligar, and others. i don't know if i could pick just one lol.

my pokemon showdown account name was 'Shiftreez' that i made when i was a teenager. at the time i didn't really like the pokemon that much but i wanted a cool pokemon related name like others did haha. i've grown to love shiftry, though

LOUDRED