![]() |
Pokémon you used to like, but no longer do
Simple question: Which Pokémon did you use to like, but no longer do? And why - was it personal history, experience using them in-game, etc.?
I was thinking of it this morning and I realized that most Sinnoh Pokémon (outside of the Piplup line, Rotom, Weavile, Gallade and Riolu/Lucario) got ruined for me because I used to hang out with people who were... rather zealous Sinnoh stans, whom I obviously left behind. The Minccino, Zorua, Treecko and Impidimp lines got ruined for me as well, for reasons I'd rather not go into (but strong enough for me to enter a funk when the Hisuian Zorua line was revealed). Dewpider and especially Araquanid I never really liked, but when I started encountering them in Sw/Sh, I started outright despising them. And in a stranger case, Chandelure used to be my favourite Pokémon at one point, but nowadays I much prefer its pre-evolutions Litwick and Lampent, and wish Chandelure looked more like them. |
Not sure if it counts since I still like it outside the games, but I've disliked using Vaporeon ever since XY. Its model is so awkward!
|
I used to like Lucario and Gallade when I was 13. Basically at that age anything cool was liked by me. However, I guess I had a moment when I was 18 and just did not like Lucario anymore and nowadays my reasons are more justified as my least favourite Pokémon.
As for Gallade, it's an awkward and predictable design and I just have no love for it. They could have made it like Ralts with covering the eyes and I felt it would have worked better. Not hate but there are definitely Pokémon I used to love but now I find them okay or I'm like okay I just like them. Houndoom used to be my favourite but I sadly grew out of it. While I still like it, I prefer Skarmory as my favourite Johto Pokémon tho. Mightyena was another favourite (second favourite even) but nowadays, probably not in my top 50 favourites. And then there's Blastoise, which went from favourite Kanto starter to eh it's okay. Venusaur is better imo. There's probably more and I could def think of Pokémon I used to hate but now I love. |
Charizard. Used to love it as a child.
now I can't stand the sight of it anymore as it's pretty much everywhere. |
charmander and eevee
I don't "hate" charmander, but its honestly just a pokemon that seems generic and over used to me now, and its sad because it was a very good pokemon , but overexposure killed it eevee is around the same reason, over exposure, but not from nintendo, no no no, more of a personal reason for me, I just couldn't escape it, and someone just kept shoving it in my face, lets leave it at that. |
Charmander and Charizard. Kid me thought they were cool, but I no longer care much for that line at all. :x Charmander is okay but definitely nowhere near as cute as I used to think it was lol.
|
My favorite pokemon was Wobbuffet until I realized what a Wobbuffet does in battle.
|
Don't really think I've ever went from liking a Pokemon to disliking it, but Marill used to be one of my favorite Pokemon. These days, it's not even in my top 100.
|
I had pretty good first impressions on a lot of gen 8 mons, but competitive battling ruined some of them for me. I got annoyed battling Hatterene and Eiscue especially, even though I remember liking them initially.
|
I think I liked Shuckle at one point, but grew to dislike it when I saw its stat spread and realized I didn't actually know how to use it in battle lol.
|
not that I don't like it at all anymore, but I came to prefer both pre-evos over charizard itself. it still gets a plus for being a bridge to two really cool megas though!
|
aggron
i remember back in... gen 3? i used to think aggron was SUPER cool. in hindsight, it was probably the design, but i never found myself using one as part of my team and i think over time i've just... stopped caring for it. every time i've considered using one, i think "damn, it sure has a lot of weaknesses, how am i going to make this work?", think too hard, and move on to other options. such a shame too, my childhood self would like to experience using aggron at least one as part of a team one day. |
I used to like the Popplio line. I didn't like it as much as Litten, but I liked it.
Nowadays, I consider the designs to be pretty awkward and I really couldn't care less about them anymore. I don't hate them, but I consider their designs to be pretty weak in hindsight. |
Newest fallen from grace, and very quickly so: Eiscue.
Another Mon that I stanned just because one of my now-former friends did. Now, whenever I see it, I think of any of these things, in no particular order: A) How the aforementioned former friend turned out to be in hindsight, which in itself is bad enough; B) How Mimikyu's ability was nerfed in Sw/Sh only to have this Pokémon have the same ability, but with an additional advantage, C) How one of my lowest-quality drawings of this Mon got around 500 likes on Twitter when I had much better drawings with no notes - which in turn was one of the reasons I quit posting my art online, D) How infuriating my last battle against Melony, whom I already hate, was because of this Mon, E) How much I would like to punt this Mon back to Poké-Antartica if I had the chance because of all the previous things. |
I guess the only Pokémon that fits this description for now is Darkrai. I used to love Darkrai back in the day because of Dark Void and Bad Dreams, but ever since they nerfed Dark Void to 50% accuracy, it ruins the whole point of Darkrai now. Darkrai's whole gimmick is pretty much unusable, which makes it uninteresting now. It's sad because Darkrai was a truly terrifying Pokémon, in terms of battle and its lore. Now he's just a joke, a shell of his former self!
|
Furret. My HeartGold Furret solo run was...not fun. It's miserably weak and pathetic even at higher levels, excessively so. It's the only early route Normal type thus far (I haven't used Yungoos or Skwovet yet) that I can say was a genuine displeasure to use and its really soured me on it as a Pokemon.
Gardevoir is another one. I didn't mind it in Gen III...then I got exposed to the internet. I don't think I really need to elaborate here. Fandom ruined it. |
Quote:
Furret's Frolic mini-game in Pokémon Stadium 2? I don't even to think about what the Gardevoir part is implying, so I'll leave that topic alone. |
Quote:
idk, I like cute things, but I think they should at least be useable. It kinda takes the fun out of it when your Level 50 Furret barely puts a dent in a Steelix 20 levels lower than it with Dig and dies to two Iron Tails. |
I guess Graveler? I remember using one on my in game team in Diamond (because I was a dumb kid), but I haven't cared for it since.
|
Aggron. I used Aggron in gen 3 and haven't thought much about it since. It looked super cool, but it's plagued by common weaknesses, low HP/special defense, and useless speed.
Xatu, Swellow, and Zangoose. Cool when introduced, but their derpy 3D models make me like them less. |
I still love Zangoose! It definitely looked a lot cooler in sprite form though.
Swellow for me used to be really cool, especially in RSE. Great cry and very sleek, tough-looking sprite. Then it got flight in the 3D models and I'm...a bit meh on it. Not as much a fan anymore. |
I have a hate/love relationship with shuckles. Massive defensive stats and I would like to make it work but his moveset is kinda meh
|
I can't think of a pokémon I used to like but don't anymore. I am more like sticking to those I like (Charizard and Gardevoir being my 1st and 2nd top favourites), no matter what Internet, the games, series, Nintendo, ... make of them!
|
I really wanted Electivire to be good. Design wise he's top tier, but I just wish he was part fighting. STAB bonus on cross-chop would have been rather cool in my opinion, and he learns other fighting type moves. Sadly by the time a good physical electric type move was added in Gen 5 (wild charge), Electivire fell out of favor against other pokemon I liked.
|
Now it’s time for something you have all been waiting for: an explanation on why I have such intense resentment towards the Grass/Dark typing.
I was doing a randomized run of a game I can’t remember anything other than there was Physical/Special split, and ended up with Shiftry that I immediately added to the squad. Beforehand, I assumed it would be awesome since, well, it looked cool, and had a cool premise, and I was excited. Now, let’s take a break to discuss something: balanced stat mons. Can something that is evenly good at more or less everything but nothing being particularly high work? Absolutely! Feraligatr and Nidoking are like that and I have always had fun using those. Shiftry is also somewhat like that where everything is pretty even but evenly good, so it has to be as good as thouse guys, right? Right? Being weak to virtually every coverage move is good, right? Dying to a surprise Fighting attack is good… right? Or a surprise Bug attack? Grass/Dark is weak to way too many things, and many of those are common coverage! And that is not good for Shiftry due to it not excelling at anything. And I’m pretty sure it was only the specific Shiftry I had was bad, but mine didn’t just suck, mine was just abysmal. Mine didn’t have any particular niche, I constantly added team members and adjusting my team JUST for it, and it did nothing but hold us back. If I recall, it was the reason I quit that playthrough altogether. And of course every reliable leaker I have seen claims the gen9 Grass starter is going to be Grass/Dark, and it’s doing nothing but remind me of the awful Shiftry I had. I do NOT want to deal with that again. I plan to pick the Grass starter for my first run through the game and had always had hoped that it would end up being the strongest of the 3 new starters because I thought it would be interesting for the Grass starter to be the most useful for in game playthrough again since gen1. That Shiftry was undeniably the WORST thing I had ever used in a long time. I have used early game bugs, 2 stage normal mons, gallons of mons I have seen other people deem underwhelming, and I had significantly more fun using ALL of those over Shiftry. Just those weaknesses… I just can’t. I really don’t want to say I hate Shiftry now, since I still kinda think it has a somewhat cool idea, but this ordeal genuinely made me lose respect for it, which is an acheivement. |
use to love eevee because you got to choose what it would turn into :D
|
Igglybuff was my first favorite Pokemon way back in 2010. Nowhere near my favorites list 12 years later
|
I used to love the Fire/Fighting types because it would wreck gyms in every game I played. I don't like this type combo anymore because it got boring and I need a bit more variety.
|
Quote:
|
I used to specifically really like Gliscor, Palpitoad, Floette, and Phantump. I grew out of that phase years later for reasons I can't explain. I guess my tastes just developed.
|
I used to actually give grass types a chance but then I realized that they just dont vibe with me at all. 4 weaknesses and nothing i cant find elsewhere as far as utility and stats
|
I used to love Squirtle, but it's been ruined for me by association with my sociopathic ex-girlfriend. It was her favourite Pokémon, and I grew to love it too. I'd always liked it, but her absolute love for it was infectious and rubbed off on me. Then I saw her true colours and now I just can't stand to ever use or even look at Squirtle again. Sorry, Squirtle, it's not your fault.
|
| All times are GMT -8. The time now is 9:19 PM. |
![]()
© 2002 - 2018 The PokéCommunity™, pokecommunity.com.
Pokémon characters and images belong to The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo. This website is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures, GAMEFREAK, The Pokémon Company or The Pokémon Company International. We just love Pokémon.
All forum styles, their images (unless noted otherwise) and site designs are © 2002 - 2016 The PokéCommunity / PokéCommunity.com.
PokéCommunity™ is a trademark of The PokéCommunity. All rights reserved. Sponsor advertisements do not imply our endorsement of that product or service. User generated content remains the property of its creator.
Acknowledgements
Use of PokéCommunity Assets
vB Optimise by DragonByte Technologies Ltd © 2023.