Do you have a theme or speciality?

My team would usually consist of a water/fire/flying/electric/grass/normal. I will pretty much use the same line-up all the time because I like to use variety. I don't think I'll be using a normal type anymore in my team. I have this new found dragon obsession lately so my team will definitely be water/fire/electric/grass/flying/dragon! Kick ass team :)

Ever since 2nd gen I have to have a dark pokemon in my team. xD I am working on training up a full dark team right now. :3
My first dark was Umbreon. It is still my favorite dark pokemon.

I think I have Red-Syndrome as well, I always make the same teams with the same few types =__=
Usually I go through the game with one over-leveled Pokemon and only training/catching more after the Elite Four.
Otherwise I stick to Normal, Ice or Water types, but I've thought about making a Steel/Sandstorm team and Poison team.

As I've become obsessed with the Ultimate Monotype Challenge, all my teams are now monotype teams. On Emerald, I have a mono-Grass team with Sceptile, Ludicolo, Tropius, Vileplume, Shiftry and Breloom, and on my Platinum I have Torterra, Leafeon, Abomasnow, Tangrowth, Roserade and Wormadam in its plant cloak.

I've already planned several mono-type teams for Electric, Normal, Poison, Ghost etc., but mainly in Emerald and Platinum, cos' I want to use my team at their Battle Frontiers. (Or whatever the Sinnoh thing is called - I don't remember. Haven't really played Platinum that much...)

Power > favorites for me.

I'd rather not spend ages trying to beat some stupid gym leader/elite four. I don't really care that much for my favorites anyway ^_^

It's always a mixmatched team; I find it boring if I stick to one theme for a very long time.

I once tried to make an all Fire-type party. That didn't work out too well. :<

I generally like to have:

A starter
Something to kill counters to my starter
A dark type (preferably Absol)
Random Pokemon that fills in any missing gaps
HM Slave
HM Slave

Edit: I completely forgot, I like to try to have a Fighting type, but it's really a secondary goal.

If there was a Fighting/Dark type, that would probably become my favorite Pokemon instantly.

ice pokemaaans ! <3

glaceon + frosslass + delibird + mamoswine + dewgong + one i cant remember D:

Lol. I have favourites, i.e. i often use Gyarados due to it being the most-available dragon-like pokemon.

I also like Ice-types.

I tend not to use a starter unless i really like it, i.e. Kanto,Piplup,Torchic,Mudkip

For me, I like to go with whatever, really.

For new generation games, such as Diamond, Pearl, Platinum etc. I like to take whatever at the beginning. I'll raise them since they're new and I don't know what moves they'll get. When I've either found something I like more that covers that type in some way, I'll take that or if I just decide I hate the pokemon, I get rid of it. In the end, it ends up being personal preferance.

In replays of games, I'll usually go with favorites of min from that series, or try to recreate a team from whatever roleplay I'm in at the time. Either way, second time around ends up being either stuff I wanna send over to DPPt or personal favorites.

Just kind of a theme with me :)

Hall of Fame with Full Rotom Team (White 2). In platinum, I entered hall of fame too with only one Porygon-Z and only one Rotom.
In B2W2, it's quite fun to try it, because it gives medals from beating elite four with one-type team or one pokemon.