Uneven Teams

[Edward Prior]

why do some people have wildly unevenly leveled teams? You see some people post their teams and they have one on lv100, one on lv30...?
What? Why? Doesn't it make more sense to have them all on equal levels? I'm not talking about pokemon you've just caught and haven't trained up, but really outlandish gaps in level. It seems really quite stupid. If anyone has a reason for doing this, please tell me why...

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

Because they like one pokemon more and train in more. Or it's a pokemon from the start of the game, and spent most of the game alone whereas the others are newer and untrained. Or because someone wants to play the game instead of worrying about keeping their levels all perfectly inline.

 

[BluekiKatana]

The fastest way to beat the game is to focus on one Sweeper or perhaps your starter. I don't recommend anyone to beat the game this way for their first time playing through it. However, often either new players or someone who doesn't want to take their time through it will do it this way.

 

[.Bambi.]

Either because you favor one Pokemon, or because you really don't feel like training a Pokemon you captured up to your current Team Level.

My brother does both >.> He'll be at the Hoenn League with his level 60 Blaziken, and have a Breloom at level 28 with Strength and Flash He's only 9, but STILL.

When I capture a Pokemon I want on my team, I train it up no matter how long it takes, to meet my Team Level [all my Pokemon are always on the same level, I just rotate them once one gains a level].

 

[Edward Prior]

When I capture a Pokemon I want on my team, I train it up no matter how long it takes, to meet my Team Level [all my Pokemon are always on the same level, I just rotate them once one gains a level].

This is exactly what i do, but sadly enough not just on pokemon. Any RPG with a team. When my friend plays ff7 with his stupidly high level (in comparison) Cloud, it kind of irritates me.

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

When I capture a Pokemon I want on my team, I train it up no matter how long it takes, to meet my Team Level [all my Pokemon are always on the same level, I just rotate them once one gains a level].

I do that too. I will still use my Vigoroth even if I am about to beat Brawly. I only stop doing that method when I get to the E4.

 

[Watergod]

I train them five levels at a time. So, I get a POkemon, train it for five levels, then switch, except for one slightly higher level Zigzagoon I alway keep on my team for backup (I'm just before Mauville). If I can't beat a Gym leader or May, I just train them all to the same level, then pick the best five plus Zigzagoon for the fight.

 

[Cipher]

I always keep mine at the same level. I put one at the top of my team, wait until they grow a level, then switch them with the one at the bottom. Rinse and repeat. If I catch a new Pokemon for my team, I'll use only that one until it catches up level wise.

 

[Kabuto]

I usually raise one or two but the rest catch up eventually.

 

[ZeRoBlaSt]

People do this because not everybody takes pokemon so seriously. They use one or two pokemon because that's usually what it takes to beat the game.

 

[Grass Guardian]

I always raise my team evenly. It's a habit of mine. Back in the R/B/Y days my team's levels were all uneven and when I think back to that I always ask myself, "How the hell did I do that?" I can't raise my pokemon unevenly even if I tried, and the sad part is that I have. The only catch is I always like to keep my starter one level higher then the rest. That is until they reach level 100. Just a thing I have, is all.

 

[Metal Force]

well I make the defferes from my pokemon Lv's only 2 or three not more

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

I think it is stupid raising your pokemon unevenly. Noone is going to beat the BF like that.

 

[sdp]

it is hard to keep them 100% even, some pokemon are just stronger, and level up easier, and raising the other weaker can be a hassle since it always dies or doesn't get enough experience by pulling him out of battle. Also depending on where in the game you are, sometimes you are in a cave so your electric pokemon is not very helpfull so your water gets all the experience, then you get outside the cave only to find out the Gym is a fire gym and your low lever lightning just doesn't last so you have to use your water pokemon even though he already had alot of leveling up in the cave.

those are just examples, unevedn teams are common because it is hard to be 100% even, i just restarted ruby and there is already about 6 level difference, between some, yet i'm trying to keep them as even as possible.

 

[Evanji Axu]

Since my Hariyama was always shuffled with any eggs, etc., he was underleveled when I got to the league.

Now my Sceptile is 80-something (from his two loooong stays in the Daycare), and my main teams is about 60.

 

[Sarukarisha]

Sometimes it just is hard to get them all even because if you train a water pokemon to a collasaly high level in a cave or something it gets harder to train the rest of your pokemon since from then on the trainers and everything get harder. I used the exp share though and have a lv 70 charizard and the rest are lv 55's. But on my emerald my party is lv.82 exept for my Rayquaza which is 86. I had to give it a lot of rare candies so I could beat my friend.