Trainer Frankie
Nostalgia.
Basically, in my case, I never was a huge eevee and -lutions fan. I've used them, but there were others who went gaga for them and I'm not one to like something just because it's popular, sometimes I just stay away from it if it is (likewise, sometimes I like it too much to care). But after getting someone's leftover eevees in gen 4 last year, now I really like eevee and the -lutions.
These eevee had wish, and somehow, ideas started flying for a vaporeon I wanted to train up. I don't remember why, but I do know I looked at Smogon. I just thought wish would be really neat with vaporeon because of it's naturally great hp among the eeveelutions. I also liked the idea of baton passing and giving the switched in 'mon the life point recovery. At some point, acid armor became part of the mix. And then I was tossing around heal bell or aqua ring into the equation as the fourth move, finally settling for aqua ring as it's like giving the next pokemon a leftovers.
So while that got the ball rolling with my interest in eevee and the -lutions, prior to that I had found umbreon's curse and payback set interesting, I just was being stubborn and not gonna do it for various reasons such as dark not being my fav type and all. But I eventually decided to train up an Ughbreon (as I call it). Setup of curse, payback, swagger, and baton pass.
I started to like having baton pass as a gimmick with all of them, meanwhile only some eeveelutions interested me.
So I've gone from most gens not caring about eevee and the -lutions to really liking them and wanting to make an eevee team. I even was lucky enough to trade for a shiny eevee. I'm actually using a new eeveelution around the time it's actually new, and a shiny at that. ^^
While I feel eevee and the -lutions is at the top of my list for pokemon I didn't care about but suddenly found interesting, there are others that come to mind.
The porygon line is one. Back in gen 1, I remember working so hard beating the Elite just to get money to convert to coins to get a porygon. Eventually, I got one (the more expensive one from Blue version I believe), but after seeing it in Stadium, I was totally disinterested in it as it was just like a robot. It felt like it had no personality at all, and I had a hard time bonding with it (plus, moves and stuff just didn't interest me). It wasn't until porygon z that I found the line interesting. I've yet to raise one, but I like z as I feel like the 'mon finally has some personality gained, imo, from ai from the dubious disc.
I remember seeing a lot of sigs with the elemental monkeys around the start of gen 5. That alone pushed me away from trying them, but I did try the fire line in my playthrough of Black, and it became a helpful fire type protecting my my water starter from grass and my psychic sidekick from bugs and steel. Eventually I came up with movesets I liked for each, and now of two of each elemental monkey with differing movesets and stats that are both monkey inspired and type countering.
There's also mawile. I never thought mawile was anything special. It's a neat design, but just battle wise it didn't interest me. But after becoming fairy and gaining a mega in gen 6, I wanted to try one. I decided I'd use one in gen 3 and slowly bring it through the gens, eventually getting it to gen 6 to get to use it as a steel/fairy and mega.
Oh, and when I saw flabebe and it hadn't been mentioned it evolved or anything at the time, I was just like "Seriously? Even though it's a fairy type, that little thing'll be a dragon counter?".
When I found the flower patch in X, I figured as a novelty I'd catch a yellow one as it's my fav color. I stumbled on an orange one after not catching the first yellow and passing on a red one. I originally thought that there were more flower colors than there actually are, not to mention the ability to find rarer mixed colors (ie yellow and red make orange). When I found it, I did as I normally do; I throw one pokeball, and if it stays I keep it, if not, I run. Though not knowing if this thing was rare or not, I just kept chucking pokeballs until it finally decided to join me.
I used it, not finding flabebe too great. Eventually (not sure if only after it evolved into floette), I realized it's tank potential. In the end, my Rouge Jaune (red and yellow in french, as orange is the same) is a bulky eviolite floette that actually had I believe 31 in sp atk (I kept as floette because her ability hinders her naturally good sp def if I recall correctly, so this helps her out). She does really well and I'm so proud of her.
What about you? What are some pokemon you didn't like before, but grew to enjoy using.
These eevee had wish, and somehow, ideas started flying for a vaporeon I wanted to train up. I don't remember why, but I do know I looked at Smogon. I just thought wish would be really neat with vaporeon because of it's naturally great hp among the eeveelutions. I also liked the idea of baton passing and giving the switched in 'mon the life point recovery. At some point, acid armor became part of the mix. And then I was tossing around heal bell or aqua ring into the equation as the fourth move, finally settling for aqua ring as it's like giving the next pokemon a leftovers.
So while that got the ball rolling with my interest in eevee and the -lutions, prior to that I had found umbreon's curse and payback set interesting, I just was being stubborn and not gonna do it for various reasons such as dark not being my fav type and all. But I eventually decided to train up an Ughbreon (as I call it). Setup of curse, payback, swagger, and baton pass.
I started to like having baton pass as a gimmick with all of them, meanwhile only some eeveelutions interested me.
So I've gone from most gens not caring about eevee and the -lutions to really liking them and wanting to make an eevee team. I even was lucky enough to trade for a shiny eevee. I'm actually using a new eeveelution around the time it's actually new, and a shiny at that. ^^
While I feel eevee and the -lutions is at the top of my list for pokemon I didn't care about but suddenly found interesting, there are others that come to mind.
The porygon line is one. Back in gen 1, I remember working so hard beating the Elite just to get money to convert to coins to get a porygon. Eventually, I got one (the more expensive one from Blue version I believe), but after seeing it in Stadium, I was totally disinterested in it as it was just like a robot. It felt like it had no personality at all, and I had a hard time bonding with it (plus, moves and stuff just didn't interest me). It wasn't until porygon z that I found the line interesting. I've yet to raise one, but I like z as I feel like the 'mon finally has some personality gained, imo, from ai from the dubious disc.
I remember seeing a lot of sigs with the elemental monkeys around the start of gen 5. That alone pushed me away from trying them, but I did try the fire line in my playthrough of Black, and it became a helpful fire type protecting my my water starter from grass and my psychic sidekick from bugs and steel. Eventually I came up with movesets I liked for each, and now of two of each elemental monkey with differing movesets and stats that are both monkey inspired and type countering.
There's also mawile. I never thought mawile was anything special. It's a neat design, but just battle wise it didn't interest me. But after becoming fairy and gaining a mega in gen 6, I wanted to try one. I decided I'd use one in gen 3 and slowly bring it through the gens, eventually getting it to gen 6 to get to use it as a steel/fairy and mega.
Oh, and when I saw flabebe and it hadn't been mentioned it evolved or anything at the time, I was just like "Seriously? Even though it's a fairy type, that little thing'll be a dragon counter?".
When I found the flower patch in X, I figured as a novelty I'd catch a yellow one as it's my fav color. I stumbled on an orange one after not catching the first yellow and passing on a red one. I originally thought that there were more flower colors than there actually are, not to mention the ability to find rarer mixed colors (ie yellow and red make orange). When I found it, I did as I normally do; I throw one pokeball, and if it stays I keep it, if not, I run. Though not knowing if this thing was rare or not, I just kept chucking pokeballs until it finally decided to join me.
I used it, not finding flabebe too great. Eventually (not sure if only after it evolved into floette), I realized it's tank potential. In the end, my Rouge Jaune (red and yellow in french, as orange is the same) is a bulky eviolite floette that actually had I believe 31 in sp atk (I kept as floette because her ability hinders her naturally good sp def if I recall correctly, so this helps her out). She does really well and I'm so proud of her.
What about you? What are some pokemon you didn't like before, but grew to enjoy using.
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I guess Vaporeon made it far for both of us. Awesome that your Feraligatr and my Vaporeon share the same name! ^.^
