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Why does everyone want the rare pokemon on there team???

Pikasaur

Lazy Summer
i only use them so i can try to beat the Elite 4 which after normal blue version, i never have
 

Rane

Really?
yeah and the only reason why i catch legendarys is to fill my pokedex.and i actully think that u have a bigger way to win if u dont use rare pokemon.and i also like to play it the hard way like i battle my fire pokemon with water pokemon u learn more from it

Dude, seriously, there isn't too much to learn in-game. And pitting a lvl 35 Growlithe agains't a stronger type-wise pokémon that more often than not is between 2 and 10 levels weaker AND is either wild or trained by the AI well as I said, there isn't much too learn from that.

The story mode is WAAAAAAY too easy.

Now to the topic, why we want rare pokés. Well, when I was younger, I did exactly what you say "everyw00n duz" but nowadays, I tend to catch a new pokémon everytime I restart my game. Actually, it's mostly the younger kids, like yourself, who uses these pokés. I suppose it's all about which pokémon that gets enough screentime on the animé and/or shows a tendency of being really strong. You kids are too easy to manipulate, you know that :D
 

[Kaecyus]

[Old-School TCGer.]
The only reason that I have a Mew in my character's team is because there is a storyline behind it.

Goes something along the lines of Team Rocket tried again to create a tool of destruction, similar to Mewtwo but with obedience. A child was chosen, and hence a powerful child-like Pokemon was required. We all know Mew is innocent likewoah, so they duplicated it directly, and fed some of the genes into the child.

Which grew up to be Drake.

The Mew duplicated is Genesis, the Mew at his side.

Although, in the games, I see no problem with using legendaries, so long as the team isn't full of them.
 

Pikasaur

Lazy Summer
[Kaecyus];4748877 said:
The only reason that I have a Mew in my character's team is because there is a storyline behind it.

Goes something along the lines of Team Rocket tried again to create a tool of destruction, similar to Mewtwo but with obedience. A child was chosen, and hence a powerful child-like Pokemon was required. We all know Mew is innocent likewoah, so they duplicated it directly, and fed some of the genes into the child.

Which grew up to be Drake.

The Mew duplicated is Genesis, the Mew at his side.

Although, in the games, I see no problem with using legendaries, so long as the team isn't full of them.

*rubs head* explain that again in english please

Edit: never mind i didn't see your TC
 

The carter

Marsh Trainer
Dude, i agree, i like to be a pokebreeder in any of my games, so i end up changing my teams alot and i always want a challenge (that means no "easy way out" pokemon e.g legendary). In diamond i am going to have a legendary though (just 1!) cause its sooooo cool!
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yeah and the only reason why i catch legendarys is to fill my pokedex.and i actully think that u have a bigger way to win if u dont use rare pokemon.and i also like to play it the hard way like i battle my fire pokemon with water pokemon u learn more from it

So then will you trade over all your legendary pokemon to me , then I will give you just plain normal ones back when D/P comes out here in europe

i only have legendarys because i want to complete my pokedex

the same goes for you

I agree. (with the first post)


I personally catch ubers, but i dont use them. Basically for the pokedex. But it just doesnt seem realistic to me that theres only one legendary and youre the person that has it, when in reality, like every single person has it too. So thats why I just use normal pokemon. theres nothing wrong with them.

And I want yours too

Well I catch them but after they just sit there in my pc. I dont use them at all.

Then trade them mover to me


ONLY thats half the team, i only get legendaries to complete the pokedex, there are better pokes out there other than legendaries


I want your legendaries too



Some use them to have power. Others use them because they geniunely like them. And I'm guessing that some use them simply because they're sick of people who go "peple who use legends suck they're bad trainers it's how u train the Pokemon that counts and if yur frends with it!"

I fall in the second catagory. I like certain legendaries, and there's nothing wrong with that. If I want to have all the legends I like on one team, there's nothing wrong with that either. It's not like this hypothetical team of Groudon, Entei, Ho-oh, Zapdos, Rayquaza, and Latias would be something YOU'D have to deal with, so what's wrong with it? Aside from the fact that four of them are weak to ice and four are weak to Rock. :p

It's not weak unless you're just using legends for the heck of it and have no clue what you're doing. Legends aren't bad just because they have high stats, and I honestly don't get where the general negativity towards using them comes from. Just because YOU'D rather not use them doesn't mean that someone who DOES use them is horrible. I'd never use a mono-type team, but if you want to I'm not going to insult you for it. If you have a problem with legends, then don't use them and shut up about them. You may want the challenge of not using them, but I want the freedom to use whatever I want. The games are easy as pie if you bother to level up enough anyway, so it's not like using Legendaries in-game is going to shatter the difficulty level completely. Competitively, they're in tiers appropriate for each one so the "they're so much stronger than most other Pokemon it's not fair!" argument doesn't hold up unless you decide to ignore tiers.

Or should I start on a rant about why I hate one of YOUR favorite Pokemon and deem you weak for using it? I very well could, you know, especially since EVERY POKEMON has a weak point to it, no matter how strong it may be. There are no invincible Pokemon, especially when considered individually. Even if you only use strong Pokemon, you still need skills to do well with them, just as you would with weak Pokemon. There's no getting around that no matter what you use.

so true I couldn't have said it better

QFT (quoted for thruth ) ;) xD



I use legendaries but only 1 on each team. For example, my Emerald team has Mightyena, Sceptile, Blaziken, Metagross, Tyranitar and Rayquaza.


lol look how cheap your team is with tyranitar AND metagross just add Salamence ,dragonite, and that landshark thing from D/P and that team is more uuber than any old legendary team ,but these lil *****ing and crying "Zomggg I HaTe TEH LegenDARIEss!!!!!!!" Kids refuse to see that.

Look I wil lstop using legendaries if other peopel will also stop using the non-legendary ubers, as simpel as that!!! then lets just al use sentrets and ratatta's. But NO dusclopses, NO milotics ,or any other cheap non legendary uber or semi uber. Once you all have done that then ,come back wining to me about legends


I use legendaries in game and I wil luse them over Wi-Fi when D/P comes out here. I first beat the elite 4 with normal pokemon until I have enough money to buy al the carbon zinc etc for all my legendary's ( I have to cause I dont Ev train ,now THAT'S really cheap, cause every n00b could do that with that lil nice calculator serebii put up al all the info on Ev's Iv's and such ,that doesn't take skill at all, just enoug time, but I HAVE A LIFE contrary to all these Ev training kids).
The legendaries are always among my first pokes to reach Lv. 100 along with my starter or my SP(special pokemon , like in Fire there are almost no electric pokemon so my special there was jolteon) and some other pokemon I picked up for the ride along(usually the bird or a water pokemon like goldduck ,but in D/p I think I will take bouysel there). In D/p it will be a fire pokemon cause there aren't much of them around ,but not the monkey cause I dont like that Goku :p. I will go for the turtle cause it's final stage looks awesome.
 

Pikasaur

Lazy Summer
So then will you trade over all your legendary pokemon to me , then I will give you just plain normal ones back when D/P comes out here in europe



the same goes for you



And I want yours too



Then trade them mover to me





I want your legendaries too





so true I couldn't have said it better

QFT (quoted for thruth ) ;) xD






lol look how cheap your team is with tyranitar AND metagross just add Salamence ,dragonite, and that landshark thing from D/P and that team is more uuber than any old legendary team ,but these lil *****ing and crying "Zomggg I HaTe TEH LegenDARIEss!!!!!!!" Kids refuse to see that.

Look I wil lstop using legendaries if other peopel will also stop using the non-legendary ubers, as simpel as that!!! then lets just al use sentrets and ratatta's. But NO dusclopses, NO milotics ,or any other cheap non legendary uber or semi uber. Once you all have done that then ,come back wining to me about legends


I use legendaries in game and I wil luse them over Wi-Fi when D/P comes out here. I first beat the elite 4 with normal pokemon until I have enough money to buy al the carbon zinc etc for all my legendary's ( I have to cause I dont Ev train ,now THAT'S really cheap, cause every n00b could do that with that lil nice calculator serebii put up al all the info on Ev's Iv's and such ,that doesn't take skill at all, just enoug time, but I HAVE A LIFE contrary to all these Ev training kids).
The legendaries are always among my first pokes to reach Lv. 100 along with my starter or my SP(special pokemon , like in Fire there are almost no electric pokemon so my special there was jolteon) and some other pokemon I picked up for the ride along(usually the bird or a water pokemon like goldduck ,but in D/p I think I will take bouysel there). In D/p it will be a fire pokemon cause there aren't much of them around ,but not the monkey cause I dont like that Goku :p. I will go for the turtle cause it's final stage looks awesome.


longest post ive ever read, my eyes hurt
 

goldfly2005

Well-Known Member
the only legendary i use on a regular basis is articuno,which is borderline.i also have level 100 zapdos,kyogre and ho-oh in my boxes, and i think you should use whatever you like best.
 

Goldliop

Powerplay Champion
hmm
im fine with using legendaries like the number birds...
i just have a thing against the uber legendaries...
 

Validus

Well-Known Member
Alot of ppl don't accually, these threads really need to stop being made... sure there are ppl that use them, So What? they can be beaten just like any other, Why should no-body use them? is that fair? i think not
 

Jupetta

Well-Known Member
Though I don't use Uber Pokémon for battling (with the exception of my Rayquaza), most people want to win... so they use the strongest out there to win. :p

~;354;
 

Rane

Really?
^ He's right. I saw this movie awhile ago, I think it was from PAA or whatever it's called. Anyway, two dudes faced eachother and they more or less had the exact same team pitted agains't one another. Mewtwo, Kyogre and the rest of these 00ber d00bers.
 

Aviano

I dropped my balls
Alot of ppl don't accually, these threads really need to stop being made... sure there are ppl that use them, So What? they can be beaten just like any other, Why should no-body use them? is that fair? i think not

word

Or, yanno, We can all just repeat again and again that we use legendaries for fun or for power or you don't. oh, don't forget to say that it doesn't matter if other people want to use them 8D

this is so lame :/
 

Meowth! That's right!

Cat Pokemon Trainer
In my opinion it makes it unrealistic for everybody to have a team full of legendaries..

I mean if Pokemon was real-life nobody would be able to catch a legendary, let alone a whole team full of them!

And if you did catch one then you'd be all over the news! And people would try to buy it off you, evil organisations would try to steal it off you...

But in the games you get a legendary and battle the NPCs with it and they don't even notice their Zigzagoon just got pwned by a Latios. :p
 

the legend master

Well-Known Member
you are bashing all lovers of them.
i treat all my pokemon as individuals, even them. i have every single one.
:(:(:(:(:(
 

Francesc

Natsu no Maboroshi
I have two teams: one with legendaries and other with plain pokes. And Ash/May team aren't normal, they're BAD teams.
 
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