The Pokémon you though would never be in your team...

[Jesspke]

Have you ever had that pokemon, that you though,
I never guessed I'd use that Pokémon!
Well, lol, I have. On my current Soulsilver run, I'm using a Ledian, and it's better than it looks.
It's used alot more than I guessed it would be used.
Normaly I don't spare a though to a lowly bug-type, but, on this run, I'm focusing on using Pokémon I don't normaly use.
Have you ever thought the same?

 

[champagnepapi]

Geodude is one of those Pokemon I've always disregarded, even when I had means of evolving it all the way into Golem. Every time I catch it in a Nuzlocke run of HeartGold or Soulsilver, it tanks every trainer, no matter what Pokemon they have, Geodude is a total bro.

 

[PickupTeam]

At first I was all opposed to pink fluffy and round pokemon. But my Blissey is an awesome healer. Max HP EVs, moves are Softboiled/Healing Wish/Stealth Rock/Hyper Beam. I mostly use it while training to save potions. (Yeah, like I really need to save my hundreds of potions...)

 

[GoryGorey]

Butterfree! Worked suprisingly well for me for the bottom end of i forget which version..

 

[Darkgoalie]

Wormadam in Platinum, Didn't think that a Bug/Steel type would be so useful for taking(until i could get Scizor).

 

[Roughsponge]

I used to not even consider using Mareep, always thought it looked a bit iffy :p But now almost every SS playthrough I've done I've got to have a Mareep on my team :)

 

[p3ndu1um]

Geodude it is so helpful against so many of the gym leaders I got mine at level 2 and now its its a Gravelar at level 45

 

[PlatinumDude]

Normally, I don't use Geodude, but I did use one in my Violet gym challenge and it dominated. However, I swapped it out for a Larvitar traded from Platinum when I reached Azalea.

 

[Seeds Horizon]

Theres a LOT of Pokemon I never used and when I found TTGA challenge (The Ones That Got Away) it opened my eyes to a lot of strong Pokemon I never knew about before, and ones that sucked that I didnt think would ;.;. Like Lapras, such a great Pokemon! I thought it was useless, but Ice Beam just ownes XD. Sneasel, on the other hand.. Sucks in my opinion ;.;. Good Speed, but doesnt learn any strong Ice moves.. And I hated Geodude, but loved Gengar and Gallade.. Lol XD.

 

[cbd98]

i never used nido's of any kind, but i used them in a nuzlocke bc i figured as king/queen it could prolly tank. but they pwnd once they evolved

 

[jcsimpson]

Makuhita. I always catch one once I get to Dewford but usually put in the PC but this time I kept it on my team and it helped a lot.

 

[Alex]

Well on SoulSilver especially, I caught a level 4 kangaskhan with the PokeWalker and I ended up using him for the rest of my playthrough. He was pretty great. I only never thought I'd use one because you normally get Kangas so late in the games, and they're so rare in the Safari Zone anyway.

 

[Hikamaru]

Well on SoulSilver especially, I caught a level 4 kangaskhan with the PokeWalker and I ended up using him for the rest of my playthrough. He was pretty great. I only never thought I'd use one because you normally get Kangas so late in the games, and they're so rare in the Safari Zone anyway.

There's a bit of a typo in your message.

Kangaskhan should be referred to as a "her" as they are female only.

 

[Weewer]

During my current Nuzlocke of HG I caught a Pidgey and Hoppip, two pokemon I never use. Alas, they have been great assets.

Moment of silence for Hoppip, who recently died right before the Cianwood Gym.

 

[ltsang]

hmmm.... The Nidoran male and female. I'm planning on training the female type some day though.

 

[bobandbill]

Pretty sure one can try out pokes that they never planned on using outside of HGSS, so hence I'll move this to PGC.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I never thought I'd use the Zubat family and then I did, and there's no going back. They are so much more powerful than they seem.

 

[mikey]

I've had this happen a lot. Example would be Zubat family, they are actually pretty good to have. (Like SR said above)

 

[o3o]

I never thought I'd use the Pidgey family on my team, but Pidgeot is actually quite good.

 

[Gulpin]

There aren't really any Pokemon that I have used on my team that I didn't expect to use because I always pre-plan my team no matter how hard I try. I think I want to do a playthrough where I catch every Pokemon on a route and knock them out as I go based on usability.