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3rd Gen How long did it take for a full team?

Darkrai666

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This Question..Well Since Im Really Choosy and Do not easily Like All pokemon So At the start I get My starter To Evolve quickly Then Most probably catch A pidgey and Mankey and A pikachu The pikachu goes after lets say the 2nd gym And I Release Mankey Which Is Now Primape after a while Pidgeot Stays And I really like Badass Pokemon So I usually havve a Team of 5 or 4 And I never really Keep 6

That is hard to understand..*Punctuation Marks*
 

CrowSvenson

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I generally have a full team by the third gym, at the very most. But I change it from there.
That being said, I can have a full team before I get Brock.
 
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It took me quite a long time to get a full Pokémon team. I had to wait until I was finally able to beat the Pokémon league. When I defeated the league and was done with the main story, I shifted my focus to building a proper team for myself. My team consisted of Blastoise, Raichu, Ninetales, Dragonite, Breloom, and Metagross. I was able to beat many of my friends with this team, because it had a variety of types and the Pokémon were able to work with each other very nicely. ^^
 

Altair1

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I gained my 4th and last team member in Fuchsia City, a Poliwag. I chose Charmander as the starter, caught Pikachu in Viridian Forest and Diglett in Diglett's Cave.
I never use a full team of six, the highest I've gone is five (Platinum). So yeah, after obtaining my 6th gym badge, I caught my final member.
 

Emburn

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I normally have a full team by the 5th gym leader and will maybe swap stuff around if I catch anything good in the Safari Zone.
 
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I don't think I would ever have one... I usually used

Starter
Mr. Mime
Jynx
Arcanine
Marowak
and now I can't think of the rest
 
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In LG, I never made a true team. I just caught and trained every Pokémon, and rotated them in and out so that almost every Pokémon I owned was at the same level.

In most games where I do make a team, I don't finalize my team until after I beat the Elite Four. I find it easier to stick with 3-5 Pokémon so that I have enough room for HM slaves, Pokémon I want to train to complete my Pokedex, etc. When I do make a team to use in-game, though, I generally do it with Pokémon caught by the second badge or so, and then often add a late-game Pokémon when I get to that point.
 
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I'm actually notorious for changing my team around at the last minute. Depending on the region and what's available in that region, I try to have the team I want to take to the Elite four completed no later than the 7th-8th Gym. When I played through Black, though, I decided to pick up a Timid Deino to use that was roughly 30 levels behind the rest of my team, which gave me a reason to grind and train some more.
 

Synerjee

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Doesn't take that long for me. I usually have my team planned out ahead of time, and even if I haven't already, I have this list of Pokemon in mind sorted into typings that get considered into my team if I come across them. Once I make my team, it is more or less final. The only exception is when I find another Pokemon that has better battle potential than one of the ones I already have in my team, for example Ampharos -> Eelektross in B/W2. If a Pokemon I'm searching for is not available earlier on in the game, I will save a spot for it until I finally encounter it.
 
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I usually get a full team by the time I get 6th badge, though I might save that last slot for Zapdos after I get access to Surf.
 
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It varies. On my runthrough using PokéSpe Red's team, until Cinnabar Island. On my last runthrough (paused due to Uni), I had 6 pokémon before challenging Misty.
 
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I have my full team around the 6th gym. Really depends on the team, because I tend to box a lot of them and then change them when I'm almost near the league. Sometimes I know what team I'll be going to use from the start, but stat wise, I end up switching between the ones I have until I form a better team, with overall types and attacks.
 

Ari Niko

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First time I played all the games I basically solo'd with my starter because I was too lazy to raise a full team.

I'd say when I began actually structuring full teams, around the 4th gym I had my team that I'd use until the E4.
 
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I would always raise a full team before the second gym. Then when I found some Pokemon I like I would swap almost everyone from my team out except for my starter! ;D Right now I'm at the Elite Four and I just now switched out one of my Pokemon from my team.
 
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Well my first team took me 6 badges to make because i had to mess around with my team...

And my second run took me 4 badges to make because i was trying somthing new.
 
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