Everybody has a favorite Pokémon/Evolutionary line. Who’s yours, and why?

Mine has to be Totodile! I love the whole evolutionary line, but Totodile is hands-down my favorite Pokémon. My first ever Pokémon games was a copy of Pokémon Gold with a broken internal battery; it couldn’t store save data. On long road trips, my sister and I would pack the GameBoy Colour and Pokémon Gold. We would pass the GameBoy back and forth between stops, getting as far as we could before we had to turn off the GameBoy. Whenever we inevitably had to restart and pick our starter again, Totodile was always my choice. I’ve got lots of great memories from that game, even if we could never save our progress.

Who’s your favorite Pokémon, and what’s the story behind it? First starter, clutch battler, best design?

  •  honeyontoast   ( @honeyontoast@beehaw.org ) 
    2•1 year ago

    I think it’s the Poliwag line for me, it’s a cute design and its evolutions are solid Pokémon too. If I had to pick just one Pokémon to use in any Pokémon game it’d be Poliwhirl for sure.

    Not Politoed. Politoed can get in the bin.

    •  aRatherDapperFox   ( @aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.ml ) OP
      2•1 year ago

      Okay, Poliwag/Poliwhirl are fantastic Pokemon. I have to know, what makes you say Politoed can get in the bin? Not that I disagree.

      My sister-in-law told me my baby looked like Politoed (referring to her hair, she had a little curly-q on top of her head when she was born) and I told her that if she ever wanted to see her niece, she needed to take that back that instant. Lol!

      •  honeyontoast   ( @honeyontoast@beehaw.org ) 
        3•1 year ago

        I think it’s because it was added later and looks completely different to the rest. It’s not a bad design at all, and if it were a standalone Pokemon I’d probably even like it. Unfortunately for Politoed it isn’t.

        •  aRatherDapperFox   ( @aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.ml ) OP
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t think Politoed makes sense as a standalone Pokemon, personally. Besides, we have too many single-stage Pokemon that get forgotten and overlooked at the time, anyway… I think Politoed would make a great regional variant! With a couple minor design tweaks, I could see it as Alolan Poliwhirl or something… Though I guess “forked evolution introduced in later generations” was kind of regional variants before regional variants were a thing.