Top 10 favourite
Pokémon
This is a list that all people who write blogs like mine
must do. I’m writing this and it feels like the next step towards greatness.
It’s my top 10 favourite Pokémon.
It should be noted there are now over 700 Pokémon so picking
10 proved to be quite difficult. I went through the pokédex and had it narrowed
down to 46 for 10 places. So it still wasn’t going well so I thought I’d give
some honourable mentions. These are Venasaur for being my favourite of the
original starters, Victreebell for being incredibly violent and also a plant
(Plus it evolves from Bellsprout), Espeon for being my favourite evolution of
Eevee, Floatzel for being my favourite shiny Pokémon I found, Hippowdon because
I have one called Big Mama and Excadrill because it amuses me to call it the
epic mole in a silly voice. Onto the list:
10. Heatran
Legendary Pokémon are epic monsters of destruction. I like
many of them but my personal favourite is the rather obscure Heatran. I like
that you travel through a dangerous volcano to reach Heatran. Compared to other
legendry’s it seems rather underwhelming but look a little closer and you’ll
see this thing can easily hold its own.
Most of my affection from Heatran comes from my super cool
times of competitive Pokémon battling. It was perhaps the most reliable Pokémon
I used. It could handle a multitude of situations and take on multiple roles in
a team. It never let me down and more importantly it helped me win even though
I wasn’t very good. In fact it was so dependable I nicknamed my Heatran after
my cat Izzy.
9. Scrafty
A gangster Pokémon. With a Mohawk. How cool is that? A lot
of people dislike generation five but for me Scrafty carries it all on its own.
It had also had a unique fighting/dark type combination and was a staple for me
in the games in generation five.
Another benefit of Scrafty is when it evolves it finally
learns how to wear its trousers. A real moment of pride. Scrafty reminded me of
why I even play Pokémon games. I found a strange little creature, trained it
and travelled with it and watched it grow, in this case into a full on
gangster. It doesn’t get much better than that. Naturally after all this I
named mine BITCH!!!!!! to mirror what I imagined it said to the opponents it
defeated. Unfortunately this name was censored by the Pokémon games so now it’s
just called Scrafty.
8. Greninja
Frogs are cool. Ninjas are cool. So what happens when you
combine the two? You get Greninja. I wasn’t keen at first on X and Y’s starters
but that changed when I saw this awesome thing. This was the only time I ever
took the water starter but it was well worth the wait.
We’d had Pokémon sort of like ninjas bust nothing this
authentic. Added to my love for the video game Frogger, this Pokémon was a
perfect fit. Then we got to play it in smash brothers and a throw water
shrunken at Mario’s head and everything I could want from a Pokémon was
complete. Mine was called FreakinNinja because what else would it be?
7. Munchlax
This guy is here not because of standard Pokémon games but
rather the mystery dungeon series. It was a tough game, Mystery dungeon
explorers of darkness full of powerful enemies but they were no match for the
mighty Munchlax.
I already liked Snorlax but when you’re playing as Munchlax
and you punch Darkrai ((Practically a vessel of pure evil) in the face then it
has to be on the list. In fact I couldn’t even bring myself to evolve Munchlax.
We all like an underdog story and this was the best I had in a Pokémon game.
6. Sceptile
We all remember our first starter Pokémon. Being a massive
childhood noob I didn’t get a Pokémon game until Ruby where I was immediately
drawn to Treecko. Then it evolved into this strange lizard thing called Sceptile
and my young mind was amazed.
Nostaligia plays a role in these lists and this one is
perhaps the biggest example of that. Sceptile was with me for my first Pokemon
league triump, my first capture of a legendary pokemon and it was my first
level 100. My young child mind was forever linked with Sceptile and the
nostalgia lives on. Now it can mega evolve and without it there’s no way I
could win against my friend in the latest games. So thank you Sceptile for
showing me that Pokémon are just as important as friends. I gave my Sceptile a
name I only bestow on true greats … Geoff.
5. Pelliper
What else does nostalgia remind you of? The first Pokémon
you caught. For me that was Wingull and before long it was Pelliper. For some
reason I was the only person I knew to use Pelliper so I travelled on my epic
journey with my pelican Pokémon by my side.
My real reason for having Pelliper is for how when I first
played Ruby it killed Groudon in one hit before blitzing the elite four and
champion. I never expected Pelliper to be such a powerhouse but it proved me
and the whole world wrong. Sceptile was my first level 100 but Pelliper was the
Pokémon I had that as a young child I used all the time and neglected most my
team for it. Sceptile caught up but Pelliper was first. In Omega Ruby therefore
I named my Pelliper Arceus after the God of Pokémon.
4. Mawile
I always wanted Mawile to be good. It looked amazing with
its second Jaw but unfortunately it was terrible. It was too weak for my in
game team so it sat in my PC hoping it would one day be powerful enough it
fight.
Favourites often involve a fond memory and the first time I
trashed my friend’s team with Mega Mawille was is a very fond memory indeed. He
saw Mawile and laughed but he wasn’t laughing after it mega evolved and used
the swords dance plus sucker punch combo. Mega Mawile is the highest attack
Pokémon currently in the whole of Pokémon and I if nothing else find that very
appealing. Mawile is like a great coming of age story. I liked it when it was
bad, so now it’s firmly placed on this list. My Mawile was also named Geoff.
3. Jigglypuff
This is not here from the main series of games, rather super
smash bros. This is my character, I played Jigglypuff when it was good in Melee
and I played it in Brawl when I probably shouldn’t have. The Puff is a super
fun character with his ability to float and the amazing rest attack, which
still confuses me to this day.
I think of all the battles I’ve had with Jigglypuff and I
could not possibly keep it off this list. So many memories of death,
destruction, KO’s and all of them involving a small pink blob thing. If I use
Jigglypuff in a game I think I’ll name it after the Godzilla monster;
Destroyah.
2. Garchomp
Some of these picks I think were quite original. This one
isn’t but who can blame me. We all play Pokémon to unleash our inner child and
what does that better than a land shark that’s also a dragon. What makes
Garchomp so high up on this list is because you can combine most of what I’ve
written above and that sums up Garchomp.
The nostalgia factor is there, it was very reliable and fun
to use in game, I trained it from a tiny Gible, it was so reliable and
dependable in competitive battling and my friends to this day complain about my
overpowered Garchomps that I always use. I’ve used this guy in every game he’s
available and traded a Gible onto games he’s not. Garchomp is just a boss. A
legend in my eyes it all started when my team needed upgrading to battle my
friends and their scary Dragonites and Salamences. Enter Garchomp and victory
was mine. I still don’t have a good nickname for it though, I normally again
just go for Geoff. Geoff is a name that signifies power and Garchomp has it in
abundance.
1. Shuckle
That’s all that needs to be said.
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