4th Gen Did you use the Red Gyarados?

Nah just added him to the collection. Never saw the outside of that pc again..

By the time I got to the Red Gyarados, either I already had my Water type with me or I knew what it was going to be; usually it wasn't going to be Gyarados. So after I caught it, I'd either use it as my temporary Surf / Waterfall HM slave or put it in my PC Box. After that, well, you know...

Waterfall Slave, then kept it imprisoned in a Box. :v

Yep, mostly as an HM slave, and for my Dream shiny Team, I will use it.

I left it in my Pokewalker. So I sort of use it?

I'm not a fan of Gyarados, even if it IS shiny. I'm pretty sure I boxed it and forgot about it completely. It loses all of its value as a shiny since everyone can get it.

I think red Gyarados is cool, but when I played I never used it a lot.

In my first run, I caught it and temporarily used it as an HM slave. I later boxed it since I had no intention of using him on my team. I already had a water type, anyways. In my next run, I was doing a challenge, so I fainted the Red Gyarados. I used it way more in the original games, though. I was far more attracted to shiny rare things as a kid. :P

I never used it, because my pokemon at that point were ridiculously overleveled at like 45-49 and that gyrados was only 30 so not worth the training. :L

i usually use the red gyarados for battling but only until i beat the main storyline. then i just box it and take better pokemon

I usually pick totodile, which means i already have a water type, so i usually box it too

Who doesn't want a shiny beast on his team?
One who already planned his team ^^

Anyways, Charizard ftw :)

In the old games, I think I used one, but not in the remakes. Gyarados may be a really good pokemon and a shiny one may be cool to have in a team, but I like to have an individual team and so I use shinys only if I have the luck to catch a random one. Unfortunatle in SS it never happened ^^"

I always used him in the old games, simply because it´s a powerfull pokemon.
However in soul silver i didn´t.

Noo. When I encountered it my pokemon inflicted a critical hit ad it fainted and fled. I threw my DS at the wall and never touched it for about 2 weeks. lolwut

No I didn't, I prefer to catch the first form of a pokemon and then train it up.

Also I didn't like using the gyarados because it felt like the game was giving me a boost and I didn't need a boost. (besides I think at that stage of the game my team was locked down, so no room for the gyarados anyway....I think in Soul Silver I was already using a Starmie.)

and as somebody else stated, it's nicer using shinys in your team when it's one you actually came across rather than something scripted that everyone will get.

Oshy said:

Noo. When I encountered it my pokemon inflicted a critical hit ad it fainted and fled. I threw my DS at the wall and never touched it for about 2 weeks. lolwut

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That's why you should save before any important battles! At least, that's what I do. :p

I actually did use that Gyarados,
it wasn't very good at first. But later it became useful.
Though it's not a part of my team now. I never used it since beating the game.
But I might use it, if it's necessary that is.