You and your Pokemon

[UStrainer40137]

Just read my sig, all Kyogres are my friends. I've always used one, always will.

 

[Oshawattson]

My pokemon are just creatures made of pixels on a screen, but sometimes I wish they WERE real. That'd be awesome.

 

[ChrisKoala]

I care about my Pokemon. I took time to breed them right, raise them right, and give them the right moves. I spent time getting Battle Points to give them the best moves and to give them great items. I spend lots of time at the Battle Frontier, Battle Subway, and doing Random WiFi Matches. If I lost my game, I'd be upset more at the fact that I have to raise them again rather than the fact that I lost thirty bucks.

So, yeah. I guess I care about my Pokemon because I put a lot of effort into them. Their something to be proud of. Hard work pays off and all that.

I don't care about them to a crazy extent. I know they're not real, and I've released tons of newly borns for having the wrong nature. But I do care about the ones I actually spent time on.

 

[Blackjack the Titan]

I don't consider them as real animals, but since I own two dogs (a Jolteon and Flareon) I know that animals need care, existing or not. I do exert discipline on my Pokémon, though. When my Lv. 38 Mienfoo lost to a Lv. 29 Audino, I put her in my box and gave her a time-out.

 

[finalname09]

Not emotionally, but my first Pokemon in each game file is always in my team the longest (not consecutively but you know).

I don't mind natures being not great, just really bad ones depending on the Pokemon.

 

[Kiya]

They are just pixels but I love my pack. I have a selected few that I will always use but I don't think they have feelings unless I'm rping with them on story line stuff. But game play, I love my houndoom and electrabuzz because the power they hold and the rest are just fun to learn

 

[Celebii21]

I don't care about natures. Zip. Zero. None. Even though some don't fit the Pokemon I'm raising (Naughty rayquaza? Bashful Latios?), I still care for them nonetheless. I only use the ones I like, so obviously I'm going bond with them.

0_o That wasn't weird. I can bond with pixels?

 

[wulpix]

I won't say that I'm attached, but I'm not going to use pokemon that I dislike. I dislike Conkeldurr, I think it's an absolute abomination and I will never use it on my team no matter how good it is. Do I like some pokemon more than others? Certainly. But at the same time, you won't find a vulpix on my team even though it's my absolute favorite pokemon. And at the same time I don't really care about natures. I don't battle against others, so unless my team feels like it isn't up to snap against the elite or something, I can't be bothered with EV training or breeding for good natures or IVs. If I do, it's mostly because I'm bored.

 

[Kiya]

I won't say that I'm attached, but I'm not going to use pokemon that I dislike. I dislike Conkeldurr, I think it's an absolute abomination and I will never use it on my team no matter how good it is. Do I like some pokemon more than others? Certainly. But at the same time, you won't find a vulpix on my team even though it's my absolute favorite pokemon. And at the same time I don't really care about natures. I don't battle against others, so unless my team feels like it isn't up to snap against the elite or something, I can't be bothered with EV training or breeding for good natures or IVs. If I do, it's mostly because I'm bored.

LOLOLOLOL Conkledurr is good but freaking ugly XD like a skined muscley old man with a clown nose XDDDD i used to use him as a timburr (when he was cute) until he evolved and I was like NOPE!

 

[Lucas.G]

I am not attached to all of them, but my starters and my fighting teams they will allways be present.
My first pokemon was my mudkip who was my first Lv.100 pokemon. I dont use Swampert any more but he will allways be in my boxes, form GEN3 to 4 to 5 and it will be at GEN 5.

 

[Paraico]

I am attached to the very first oI catch or the ones that are really help me. Other than hat no, not even legendaries.

 

[Gigastrike]

Allow me to quote myself as recent attempt to use thunder failed:

No...GALVANTULAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[uprockingdude]

I don't like finishing the game without the starter but I wouldn't lose any sleep over any of them

 

[Pucca_ness]

I get attached, but not as much as I did when I was a youngling. Thesedays if they are a bad nature I don't give them a second glance and I dislike putting my teams in the PC box. I've got my entire Platinum team in the PC box because I have my shiny Salamence and Absol out. They are favoured due to being shiny and a good nature, they can take on anything... well Salamence can, Absol needs more training.

So yeah I favour pokemon more than get emotionally attached. If my entire Platinum or SS file erased itself I would be beyond gutted but that is mainly due to the fact both have their fair amount of shinies and events. My pokewalker for SS has all the routes unlocked.

A small amount have emotional attachment.
Some shinies due to them being either completally random and having a good nature or they took ages to obtain.

My normal Sneasel named Matilda is adored by myself because oneday I was against a Chansey and I decided to use Theif, Matilda stole a Lucky Egg of this Chansey! I wasn't expecting one.

So yeah shinies and playthrough teams are the most important and I do on occasion talk to them but usually it's a rage from myself due to them not hitting the target when they really should or if they pull off a win when it looked like they were goners. It's great when that happens!

The pokemon I had the most emotianal attachment with are long gone. They died with the battery in my Silver cartridge. I've re-built that team but it's not the same.

 

[Unicorn]

Alright, I'll admit it. There are certain Pokemon that I own that I am emotionally attached to. Namely, the ones I have trained to level 100 that have nicknames. I'm not an EV trainer, nor am I a truly competitive battler. I like my Pokemon and I like to think that they are pets or something. I realize that they are pixels but I can't help but feel a small bond with them. My absolute favorite that I own is my shiny Flygon, whom I found as Trapinch in my Sapphire game. I named her Ayaz and I've had her for a very long time. I would be very upset if I ever lost her.

I also tend to look at my Pokemon's natures and mannerisms and view that as their actual personality. I imagine them as real creatures and I think about them as characters. I tend to doodle pictures of them while I'm in school and I daydream about them becoming real. I wish they were real.

So yeah, I do kind of view my Pokemon as having a bit of life, though I am aware that they aren't real. It's just fun to imagine.

 

[yellowproman]

bouffalant

my favorite pokemon i bouffalant. It is a pokemon made after myself. i mean the fro matches mine to perfection.

 

[river-wolf]

I also tend to look at my Pokemon's natures and mannerisms and view that as their actual personality. I imagine them as real creatures and I think about them as characters. I tend to doodle pictures of them while I'm in school and I daydream about them becoming real. I wish they were real.

Same. I like thinking of each of them as having different personalities and quirks, just like pets and people. I don't care about natures or EV training -- I catch what I catch. If a pokemon has a bad nature, so what? It makes in unique and adds an extra bit of challenge to the game.

I don't get attatched to every single pokemon I catch -- mainly just the ones that stay on my team all the time and that I've beaten the Elite Four with. People on here are griping that it's impossible and/or stupid to get attatched to pokemon since they are not real. I beg to differ, because at least with me, the same thing happens with all sorts of fictional characters -- whether they are in books, video games, TV shows, movies, etc. I hold to the opinion that any time you've stayed with something a long time, and watched it grow, you will get attatched to it in some way or another.

 

[WhiteRaine]

Of course their pixels and always will be but my pokemon have a special place in my heart. I love my Servine most of all because it was my first Unova pokemon. I love my pokemon and haha, yes, I do sometimes like to think their real so I will sometimes talk to them. When their battling I'll say "Ohhh that looks like it hurt..." or "Come on Makkai! Tear his head off!" XD I dunno, maybe it's just cuz I'm weird. <3 But I like weird. <3

 

[WhiteRaine]

Same. I like thinking of each of them as having different personalities and quirks, just like pets and people. I don't care about natures or EV training -- I catch what I catch. If a pokemon has a bad nature, so what? It makes in unique and adds an extra bit of challenge to the game.

I don't get attatched to every single pokemon I catch -- mainly just the ones that stay on my team all the time and that I've beaten the Elite Four with. People on here are griping that it's impossible and/or stupid to get attatched to pokemon since they are not real. I beg to differ, because at least with me, the same thing happens with all sorts of fictional characters -- whether they are in books, video games, TV shows, movies, etc. I hold to the opinion that any time you've stayed with something a long time, and watched it grow, you will get attatched to it in some way or another.

Omigosh, I totally agree with both of you 100%! I've never EV trained, I don't "pick out" pokemon natures, I mean, you catch what you catch and you don't throw a nest. XD

 

[BBboy]

I get sort-of attached to the ones I name..... So thats everyone but Blastoise...