What do you look for in your Pokemon team?

[GameMasterGuy]

I try to make my types get super effective STAB moves, dealing 3x damage overall. This can be accomplished with ground, flying, ghost, ice, grass, and fighting types working together. Sure, there's a few dual types that screw them over, but for the most part it works well. I've had friends that go for high stats, spammable status effects (dark void much?), or just whatever Pokemon is hardest to get.

[Darksardine]

My teams always consist of a range of different types, as to exploit weaknesses. Also, I level them all up pretty much equally.

[GameMasterGuy]

So basically my method.

[Darksardine]

Only in as much as you exploit weaknesses. I don't bother with the 'stab' thing.

[GameMasterGuy]

STAB = Same Type Attack Bonus. If your attack type matches your Pokemon type, it does 1.5x damage. 1.5x STAB bonus along with 2x SE bonus (sometimes 4x DSE bonus) means 3x and 6x attacks. When you get crits while using those moves... whoa nelly.

[Darksardine]

I know what they are, I just don't bother with them. It's a pretty minor thing to be worrying about imo.

[Angry Ancestor]

Variety in Pokémon types, as well as attack types (to cover all weaknesses).

Also, I pick the cool ones. I don't give a hoot about stats.

[Sean]

Yea, I typically choose the cool ones, but obviously you still want to WIN don't you?

I'd love to train up a Farfetch'd team for absolutely no reason though, because why the hell not?

[KillerLizard]

I usually go for legendaries and a starter pokemon, but in Black/White I only used one pokemon.

[ElSiberianHusky]

I always choose the grass type as my starter, then I find whatever pokemon has strong attacks. I don't care if they're cute or ugly, I only care if they are strong.

If my pokemon fail me more than 3 times in a battle I abandon them and find a stronger one who won't disappoint me. But I do train them as much as I can.

[MexiConk]

When I pick a starter, I choose one with a type that would be hard to capture in the wild. Say, for example, I'm playing Emerald. I usually go with Treecko because grass types that don't suck are hard to come by in the wild. I believe only Oddish, Lotad and Seedot are around in the beginning, and they suck imo. Tropius is cool, but it doesn't appear until later in the game. The only gen 3 grass type I like is Roselia, which isn't available in the wild in Emerald.

But anyway, when I'm done picking my starter, I try to find a non-water type that can learn Surf, because I don't want to cram both Surf and Waterfall into one Pokemon's move list (or in gen 2's case, Surf, Waterfall, and Whirlpool; in gen 3, Surf, Waterfall, and Dive).

When I'm done with catching Pokemon that have covered the Grass/Fire/Water range, I look for a Pokemon that can fly and another that can use dig. If I'm lucky, someone in the Grass/Fire/Water range can learn dig, but I don't like to teach my starters too many HM/Field moves.

Anyway, after that I look for Pokemon with type variety that I don't yet have in my party.


I couldn't care less about stats and nature.

[Pokekid]

Most of the time, I pick a water type starter Pokemon and after that, I just find Pokemon that will know the move fly, find a good HM Slave or two and just fill the rest of the slots with very good Pokemon or ones that I'll hardly use at all.

I don't really care about stats, nature, types etc.

[Angry Ancestor]

I have a rotation for starters: Water --> Fire --> Grass

Gen I: Squirtle (Water)
Gen II: Cyndaquil (Fire)
Gen III: Treecko (Grass)
Gen IV: Piplup (Water)
Gen V: Tepig (Fire)

Next Gen I will pick the grass starter.

[MexiConk]

Once when I was playing FireRed I had a whole team of flying Pokemon. I chose Charmander as my starter of course. For most of the beginning of the game I just had Pokemon that I would later just keep in my PC. "Filler" Pokemon, if you will. I did keep my Fearow, however. Later in the game I gathered some of my favorite flyers, like Aerodactyl for Rock Smash and Gyarados for Waterfall. Dragonair (which isn't technically a flying type) was my Surf Pokemon. Charizard had Cut and Fearow had Fly. I think I had a Bug type for Flash, but I can't remember what it was...