How Did You Use to Play Pokemon when You First Started.

[PokemonGanon]

I did what every noob did, take their first pokemon and only train that...not training anything else...hence the reason of a Lvl 79 Charizard by the E4.

 

[Chameleon]

one squirtle, 4 rattatas and 2 pidgeys. that was my first team.

 

[Reaca]

I ran through Sapphire using only Blaziken for battles, caught Kyogre, and then used both of them for the rest of the game.

 

[Clananik]

Id just pick what pokemon look the coolest. And i'd always skip gyms and aimlessly wander around. As you can imagine this made for a horrible experience and put me of the series for ages. Until my cousin told me how to play propably and i fell in love with the series again ^_^

 

[Majoras_Wrath]

Like most here, I just mainly used my starter and anything else that looked kool. I had Charizard in my red and Blastoise in blue and I would just train them the most while casually using other pokemon. Amazingly Blastoise was able to beat the Elite four and Blue all by himself lol. I guess I did something right back then

 

[Ganondork]

My old style of Pokemon was oddly terrible. It works very well when playing the game itself, but venturing into the vast world of online play, it would get me annihilated. During a battle with Kybyrian in Pokemon Online, I tried using my old tactics, and basically got destroyed for it. It's surprising how much more there is to Pokemon than meets the eye.

The first thing I did - like many people have already stated - is to rely on my starter. I wasn't entirely guilty of this - I was obsessed with all of my Pokemon being of similar levels - but it was noticeable that I favored my starter. One good example is that I always changed my team's order whenever a trainer came into view; I didn't want to take any chances. Having played Black a few months ago, I've broken that habit, and my Serperior is my fifth strongest Pokemon.

Prior to breaking the habit, however, I relied on Blaziken in my Sapphire file. It got to a point where my Blaziken was level 100, and all of my other Pokemon were hovering around level 40. This greatly hurt me in the Elite Four, and most certainly against May. However, I always adored Blaziken. I was the only person I knew that had a female one. I really loved that Blaziken, and I think losing it in my Emerald file corruption incident - I had traded my Blaziken over to Emerald to use against the Elite Four - I began to have less dependence on my starters.

Another bad thing I did was duplicating too many of the same Pokemon. I really loved Doduos - and wanted Dodrios - so I decided to breed them constantly. What resulted was about one hundred Doduos in my PC that I never used. Once I had trouble keeping all of them due to inbox space, I had to release all of them, except for my Dodrio that I used against the Elite Four.

Tying into my Doduo fiasco - unintentional rhyme - I was prone to train Pokemon that appealed to me on an appearance level. The best example is Exploud. When I studied Exploud's stats on Pokemon Online, I was bitterly disappointed to see that a Pokemon that I had come to love wasn't ever going to be effective against anyone except for a simple AI. I had a similar situation with Ghost-type Pokemon, and am bitterly disappointed to see just how inadequate Gengar is next to so many other Pokemon.

I like to think that I've improved with this. I - like I did when I first played Pokemon - catch all of the Pokemon for my Pokedex, but I'm more careful about what Pokemon I fight with. Appearance of the Pokemon has taken a backseat for me now that I'm more analytic about a Pokemon's stats and move sets. I'm still terrible about natures, but I think that's because I haven't really taken the time to research that sort of thing.

Attack-based moves were - and still are - the only things that I taught my Pokemon. Stat-changing moves may be useful in some cases, but I think that if you use Sheer Cold, it won't matter that your enemy used Growl five times on you. This is a very bad way of thinking, but I can never get myself to go ahead and teach my Pokemon stat-changing moves. For this reason, I'm prone to using tanks like Aggron.

Honestly, Special Attack and Attack were entire concepts that went over my head when it came to differentiating between the two. As far as I can tell now - and this is due to a lack of research on the subject - Special, or regular Attack, depends on the move's type. This - alongside damage multipliers - only contribute to the many factors that still stump me to this day. I bet I could get a clear understanding of these things if I ever bothered to research it, but I highly doubt I ever will.

The use of nicknames is entirely lost on me, as well. People always have stories of how they named their Pokemon curse words, or something humorous, but I've always just used the Pokemon's normal name. Someone uses a clever reference to name their Pokemon? I use "Kabutops." I recently nicknamed a few of my Pokemon, but they weren't much. They were just names of people I know that were placed on ugly-looking Pokemon. It's not quite as humorous as the curse words that people used when they were younger.

I like to think that I've become a smarter Pokemon player, but upon looking at all of this, I can't help but notice that some bad habits have stayed with me. I know that my tactics are entirely capable of keeping my Pokemon in good shape against an AI, but I doubt I'd do too well against real people.

 

[OcarinaofLink]

I would catch every pokémon to complete my pokédex and learn only damaging moves to my team. I was also obsessed with keeping my team at the same level.
Now i'm just building up my team for future online battles, and catching what might be used for online battles or breeding.

 

[TheLastAvenger]

I used to raise only my starter and caught whoever looked the coolest. It would get to the point where my starter would be around Lvl 83 and the rest of my team would be around 35.

 

[SkywardSword596]

My Formula for playing Pokemon (former): 1. get starter
2. overlevel it
3. capture version mascot
4. thats pretty much it for now

 

[Sydney]

I did okay for my first time playing the series. I began with Pokémon Red. Let's just say, my first experience with it was a miserable failure. Moving along, I fully began my journey as a Pokémon trainer in Pokémon Yellow. I wandered around Pallet Town for a while until I got my lovely partner, Pikachu. I set off for the next towns and cities, but I kept running into wild Pokémon. Naturally, I fight them instead of running away. Up until I got Pokéballs, I always ended up fainting. To keep it short, it was a fun experience, but it was also a long one.... (twss)

 

[Castle]

How Did You Use to Play Pokemon when You First Started.

Poorly :xd:

 

[GirlWithAFairy]

I played Pokemom Red like a boss. Way back in the day...

 

[Minno]

I chose Bulbasaur and I focused mostly on leveling him up. I would fill up my party with the strongest wild Pokemon I could find, and then use them just for poke-bodyshields while I heal and revive my main guy.