Early pokemon in black/white.

[Bing]

Is it just me or are the first pokemon you can catch annoying. (personally I don't like normal pokemon, with the exception of snorlax.  I find the fact that I need to train one of these to beat the first gym a waste of time, because they will never be in my team and they are not good hm slaves...

What's your thought?

[Wailord]

I agree. I personally call them Rattata's.

Theyre differant pokemon but practiacally the same. All have terrible moves, and evolvs too early screwing you over in future.

[Jerry]

That's why besides flying pokemon (Pidgey, Hoot-Hoot), I never catch normal pokemon early game for my team

[Bing]

Wow, I just trained this stupid dog pokemon so I could beat the first gym...  A Npc just game me a pansage...

[Jerry]

Pansage? You chose Tepig then

And Haderia reminds me of Hades >.<

[Wailord]

I never catch my whole team at the beggining of the game. I just catch my team as I go along if I really like the look of them, without checking if they evolve. I makes the game funner to not know whats coming, in my opinioun

[Bing]

I never catch my whole team at the beggining of the game. I just catch my team as I go along if I really like the look of them, without checking if they evolve. I makes the game funner to not know whats coming, in my opinioun

I don't either it's just I had no idea you could get one of the monkeys so, I trained this dog thing so I could beat the type advantage of the first gym.

[Desbear]

i got pansear

[Wailord]

I wish I had paced myself a bit. I finished the game way to early.

[Noah_Road]

I don't think the early pokemon are that bad, Ratatatta being the only exception. I never catch them though. I plan my team out before even buying the game. It makes it a bit more orginized and fun.

[Jerry]

I was planning to have Archen as my bird pokemon... but I accidentally took the fossil for Putooroga... so I fell back on Woobat.

But then, I too catch pokemon along when I travel, I don't really plan on anything really, but if a pokemon I like appears, I try to catch and start its training.

Wailord, you already went through all the areas?

[Viper]

I was planning to have Archen as my bird pokemon... but I accidentally took the fossil for Putooroga... so I fell back on Woobat.

But then, I too catch pokemon along when I travel, I don't really plan on anything really, but if a pokemon I like appears, I try to catch and start its training.

Wailord, you already went through all the areas?

Ya so was i Jerry, until i saw Archen's ability. Have you seen it yet? Its debatably the worst one in the entire game.

[Jerry]

Actually I think I had a look, but I don't remember now. And going through the jap version, I didn't know half the abilities of my pokemon XD

But anyway, I already have a water pokemon in my team and the fact that I had 2 ground teams too... I needed a pokemon with other types. The only flying ones that I considered were Woobat and Archen. Now realising that there is also the Psy/Fly one in Noah's sig.

I'm going to check that ability now...

Hm... I see. There is now the need to bypass this ability... >.<

[Noah_Road]

I was planning to have Archen as my bird pokemon... but I accidentally took the fossil for Putooroga... so I fell back on Woobat.

But then, I too catch pokemon along when I travel, I don't really plan on anything really, but if a pokemon I like appears, I try to catch and start its training.

Wailord, you already went through all the areas?

Ya so was i Jerry, until i saw Archen's ability. Have you seen it yet? Its debatably the worst one in the entire game.

Truant takes the cake of worst abilities.

Archen isn't actually that bad of a pokemon. When its ability was first leaked, everyone assumed that it was going to be a horrible pokemon. But Archeops is actually one of the best pokemon in gen 5. Its ability may be bad but its still firing off physical attacks from a base stat of 140! Plus it has a great movepool to back it up in Rock Slide, Earthquake, U-turn, and Crunch. Plus it has a base 110 speed which outspeeds many pokemon in todays metagame. The only thing that it really needs to worry about is priority users such as Conkledurr and Scizor.

[Bing]

Idk it's ability kinda turns me off.  I actually don't like any of the flying pokemon so far.  I caught a tranquill just so I could use fly.

I don't think I'm gonna have any bird/flying pokemon on my team at all, which now is 5 strong with:

Litwick
Emboar
Simisage
Zebstrika
Seismitoad