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Age 36
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Texas
Seen May 30th, 2022
Posted January 28th, 2016
7,415 posts
19.7 Years
I actually plan out my in-game team using the same basic process one would use to build a competitive team...just without caring about EVs and natures too much...even a Sassy Crobat can be used on an ingame team with no troubles. I just make sure all my ingame pokemon are male so they can more easily pass their attacks down to their children that do eventually get EV trained and become a long-term member of my wifi team. XD

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Shimoda City
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Posted January 25th, 2022
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15.5 Years
I'll typically create my official team by breeding after I'm done playing through it, so I can use the breeding process to get egg moves and better IV's for my main team.

But I'll put a lot of thought even into my in-game team that I'll use to beat the game.

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Age 29
Stark Mountain, Sinnoh
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted September 22nd, 2018
2,659 posts
15.8 Years
Neither, I create my teams before I start playing. Honestly, I've beaten Pokemon so much that I find it more fun to come up with the teams and then try to get them.
This, to be honest. I try to come up with balanced teams and even movesets before I even start the game. :O

Sometimes I make it up as I go. But I never make my team after the E4 (unless it's a new addition or for EV training).
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Age 30
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Georgia
Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
I very rarely make my official team after beating the game. I've only done that one time, and it was only because my official team was only 4 Pokemon as opposed to the normal 6. But my official team is always my "beat the E4" team. That's the game for me, haha. I don't care too much for stuff after the E4.
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Age 32
Male
Knoxville, TN
Seen April 15th, 2023
Posted May 9th, 2016
1,824 posts
13.3 Years
This, to be honest. I try to come up with balanced teams and even movesets before I even start the game. :O

Sometimes I make it up as I go. But I never make my team after the E4 (unless it's a new addition or for EV training).
To be honest, nowadays, I only play Pokemon when I'm doing a Challenge. So it sort of takes moveset planning to work well. Pokemon just isn't much of a challenge for me anymore.
Age 28
Male
Iceland
Seen April 13th, 2015
Posted June 5th, 2011
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13.8 Years
When i start to think about it, yes i think i actually do that. I win the pokemon league
then i start looking for the pokemon i want with movesets and stats etc.


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Powerflare

Age 26
Male
Seen 3 Weeks Ago
Posted May 9th, 2022
115 posts
15 Years
Simple for me. My regular teams differ from my competitive teams. For instance, I would never use the strategies I use in competitive battles in regular play, and if I use those strategies for regular play on Wi-Fi, I'd get owned. I build my regular (offline, non-competitive) teams as I go through the game, and after its over, I build my competitive teams.
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Indiana
Seen February 6th, 2012
Posted December 26th, 2010
18 posts
13.3 Years
I plan the team out in terms of deciding who I will use competitively and what-not, but I don't actually begin to build the team until after I've beaten the Elite Four. It just opens up any EV locations I might not have had earlier on in the game.
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Age 30
Male
Melbourne, Australia
Seen January 8th, 2013
Posted April 30th, 2012
1,031 posts
14.1 Years
I usually just make a balanced team out of the Pokémon that I can catch in-game until I beat the Elite Four. When I have the full range of Pokémon available to me (ie. the National Dex) I'll start up a proper team with the right EVs and IVs and all that jazz (not that it makes much of a difference, I'm hopeless when it comes to strategy anyway).

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Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
I actually planned to have a certain team in HG and I forgot to use ~most~ besides Ampharos and Typhlosion which were like obvious. In B/W, I'll probably want a team of Koromori, the Swan, Chiramii, Shimama, Caterpie Clone and Wooguru, but then again, I most likely will use whatever I see is strongest. :(

In other words... no, I just have a team of Pokemon built up throughout gameplay and then grind their levels so they're stronger than they really should be, idk.
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Seen September 18th, 2010
Posted August 6th, 2010
30 posts
12.8 Years
I think about the team during the course of the main storyline and catch the Pokemon I want, but I don't actually get my final party until I beat the game. Everything for me needs to be EV trained to be used in my official team, and EV training from the start is a bad choice, so I wait until I beat my game. Hell, I went through all of SoulSilver, plus Kanto's Gyms, with a Butterfree! xD
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Seen November 28th, 2012
Posted August 1st, 2011
76 posts
13.7 Years
I usually build a team before I start, to sort of get a general idea. Then I'll look up some movesets and sort of make my own.

Then I actually start my game and work with my team along the way. I do often make changes along the way to fit the needs of the rest of my team, but I still concentrate on making a team before the E4 because that's the main goal of my adventure.
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Seen August 12th, 2010
Posted August 7th, 2010
10 posts
12.8 Years
I usually grab a certain six female pokemon to work with through the game, then use them as a basis to start breeding my post-E4 team for IVs and any egg moves I may want. No point in training your official team from the beginning, you can't exactly EV train while going through the plot.

So, sort of. I have a team in mind from the start, but I don't get the final, official pokemon until after the game's finished.
Age 27
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Best City OCE
Seen October 18th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2013
5,978 posts
15.2 Years
If I know the Pokemon that'll be in the game, I'll plan my in-game team before the game, like I did for HG. I planned all the moves and even recaught a few things to get decent natures.

For Black/White, though, I'll just catch the coolest thing I see and have fun with it. ;3
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