Reminisce about your old Pokemon teams

Purple Yoshi

Purple Yoshi

King Bowser
Talk about your old in-game Pokemon teams. Who was good, who was bad, who was a mistake and who was better than you expected. I'm going to go first to last game. Platinum doesn't count because I pretty much soloed it with Empoleon and sometimes Staraptor.

Soulsilver: I only used 4 Pokemon in this game, and boy was it a pain to train them up! HGSS can be such a tedious and difficult game to have fun in sometimes!

Farora the Meganium: Yeah, her offensive power was underwhelming, but she was still a good grass-type. I think I soft-resetted to get a female one.
Orali the Ampharos: How original. But, to be fair, she was necessary for a lot of the game, being the only one with reliable offensive power throughout the whole game.
Wavemaid the Vaporeon: Crap until I got Surf, really good after that. Necessary for Lance. Although, he only had Aurora Beam until Ice Beam in Kanto, because HGSS hated me.
Mozilla the Ninetales: I don't know what I'm going to nickname Fennekin now. Anyway, she had an Adamant nature. And THANK GOD she learned Flamethrower through Level-up, because you can only get the TM in Kanto as well.

And I think I had a Pidgey for Fly and an HM Slave.

Overall, it actually wasn't such a good team, due to Mozilla and Farora's lack of offensive power. Not to mention I had to get TWO evolution stones, which I had to grind at the Pokeathlon for, I think. Or maybe I traded them from Platinum because all that time I spent underground gave me, like, 10 of each.
 
All I remember is playing LeafGreen as a kid and trying to beat the Elite Four with only a Blastoise and an Articuno. Heck, I didn't even know the type chart.

I traded them (temporarily) to my brother so he could combo them with his Charizard and Zapdos to try and beat the Elite Four. I think he got as far as Lance before losing.

Then I got my Blastoise back and he had lost all friendship with me so his Return move was useless. I was mad about that for a long time. Oh, and he still had Water Gun because some genius at Game Freak decided that would be the only Water move he learns until level sixty-eight.

Good times, good times.
 
Black:
Royal the Serperior: I was definitely team Snivy. He was pretty good. I think Growth and his defences saved me from Elesa (oh, god, Elesa)

Seamonkey the Simipour: Fast and frail. Looking back, it would have been better to get a different water-type, but it still worked. And it could use both Surf and Waterfall well. I guess the Gen I starters in XY are going to act like the monkeys in BW.

Hitmon the Sawk: My first real blind Pokemon choice. I was just like "Oh, I need a fighting type for Lenora", and found it outside Pinwheel Forest. Then I found it doesn't evolve and it's base attack is already 125. Needless to say, he was a beast, even if his speed was average.

Heartchest the Unfezant: Just a normal flying-type. Unfezant wasn't anything amazing like Staraptor. Having a whole bunch of special flying-moves didn't help it, either.

Emo the Gothitelle: I knew it was a version exclusive, so I thought "Sure, might as well get it". It ended up being pretty good, better than I expected.

Arashock the Galvantula: Got it in Chargestone Cave and do not regret it. It was fast and powerful, and pretty much single-handedly swept Skyla's gym.

Also, did you know my entire team was male in this playthrough?
 
Skye, my buddy. I'll never forget you. You went and sacrificed your life for that sandshrew, that sandshrew will go on and defeat the elite four, and it will be because of your effort.

Yea I played a Nuzlocke game and I had this badass pidgey named Skye. He died while I was training a sandshrew. :(
 
white:
ham the emboar: god damn this thing was a beast. almost single handedly beat everything till elesa.
benji the stoutland: i admit, that wasn't the best choice, but still. he was incredible till the very end
rainman the seismitoad: this thing is the most ridiculous yet awesome thing ever. this thing..... lets just say he beat almost everything he faced.
slash the bisharp: good lord this thing took long to evolve. but it was damn. well. worth it.
pierce the unfezant: this thing was really not that good. but he was decent 'nuff till gym number 6.
rocky the archeops: basically unfezant's replacement.... he was incredible. he was epic
BEEAARS the beartic: i mean, this one was not that good, but he was good 'nuff. he destroyed gym 8, so i cant be dissapointed.
 
:'(

I just remembered my first ever team.


Brakizen. Starter, pity his defense is waaaay down.
Giratina One of the strongest. over 400hp, and has good attacks.
Laplas My water Pokemon! Use Absolute Zero!
Crobat The weakest, but by far my favorite. I use him to fly about.
Heatran I could do without him, but oh well.
6th one depends. Usually plant-type. Like the cactus guy.

(platina)
 
Wait, did you transfer your Blaziken from Gen 3 to use in Platinum? My cousin transferred his Pokemon from Platinum to Heartgold.

Black 2:
Honour the Samurott: Pretty average water-type, to be honest. Not amazing, but he got the job done.
Grassnana the Leavanny: That grass and bug coverage made him the perfect coverage to my rival's starter. Good grass-type counter, even if his defences weren't so good.
Polarity the Magnezone: This guy just killed everything. It made Roxie a complete joke, and it was REALLY powerful. And to those who care, I used the nickname Polarity before Marriland did it in his Platinum Nuzlocke.
Machwood the Conkeldurr: I knew he was good competitively, so I tried him out on my team. He was ok, but I think I'd have preferred a faster Fighting-type. He was defensive, though.
Jaws the Haxorus: I'd never used a dragon-type before in my team, so I decided to try it. Geez, they really were broken. When I caught Axew, it had Dragon Claw. That is literally all it needed.
Manor the Chandelure: It had a Jolly nature. Actually, I first got one with Adamant, then I tried again and got one with Jolly, and just said "Screw it, they clearly want me to have a -Sp.Atk nature. It took a while to evolve, which was annoying. It still was really powerful when it evolved, though. About as powerful as Polarity.

So I got through the whole game without a Pokemon who knew Fly in my team. Protip: don't do that. It's annoying.
 
Purple Yoshi said:
Wait, did you transfer your Blaziken from Gen 3 to use in Platinum? My cousin transferred his Pokemon from Platinum to Heartgold.

Black 2:
Honour the Samurott: Pretty average water-type, to be honest. Not amazing, but he got the job done.
Grassnana the Leavanny: That grass and bug coverage made him the perfect coverage to my rival's starter. Good grass-type counter, even if his defences weren't so good.
Polarity the Magnezone: This guy just killed everything. It made Roxie a complete joke, and it was REALLY powerful. And to those who care, I used the nickname Polarity before Marriland did it in his Platinum Nuzlocke.
Machwood the Conkeldurr: I knew he was good competitively, so I tried him out on my team. He was ok, but I think I'd have preferred a faster Fighting-type. He was defensive, though.
Jaws the Haxorus: I'd never used a dragon-type before in my team, so I decided to try it. Geez, they really were broken. When I caught Axew, it had Dragon Claw. That is literally all it needed.
Manor the Chandelure: It had a Jolly nature. Actually, I first got one with Adamant, then I tried again and got one with Jolly, and just said "Screw it, they clearly want me to have a -Sp.Atk nature. It took a while to evolve, which was annoying. It still was really powerful when it evolved, though. About as powerful as Polarity.

So I got through the whole game without a Pokemon who knew Fly in my team.
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Aw hell, I confused. I never played it in Japanese, but it's the Gen IV fire starter I meant.
 
Ah, Infernape. That makes sense, then. My cousin beat Platinum with an Infernape and a Lucario, and then he transferred them to his SoulSilver game to join his team with his Feraligatr. He also used his Lv 100 Arceus (it was an event at my EB games store, and he just happened to come to Sydney when it was on, so we got it together) to beat the Elite Four.

Although, to be fair, he was around 8 years old at the time.
 
I don't remember my old teams much. The only Pokémon which stands out is a level 86 or so Feraligatr I had in Silver.