5th Gen Opinion on Water pokemon this gen

Started by Skapocalypse March 11th, 2011 8:37 PM
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Im normally not a big fan of Water pokemon, but this generation has shown some pretty cool Water Types.

Im a big Fan of Basculin, because they remind me of menacing man-eating beta fish.

Im also a Fan of Jellicent and Alomomoma

They're both so cute c:

Im not really a fan of Seismitoad, or Tortouga. The toad makes me think of my old english teacher, and Tortouga is just too slow for my taste.

Simipour is pretty cool also. I like the Dreadlocks that it has going on.

Also, What do you guys think of the event pokemon Keldeo? A very interesting typing.

Kinda disappointed that there aren't as many, but quality over quantity I guess!
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Swanna is awesome. I recommend raising one in-game at least.

Basculin should have Adaptability and Soak to reduce opposing STAB moves. Crunch, Waterfall, Surf, Scald, return. Good guy, even the one from trade.

Water monkey. Awesome. With Acrobatics, Work Up, Grass Knot.

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Personally use little else of the other waters.

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I like Basculin, Swanna is really good, I like Jellicent, especially because of its stats. There were some pretty cool water types this Gen, actually. Especially Oshawott. :D
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You know, when I really look at it, I have to say Unova's water types are much more unique in my opinion. At the same time however, I feel underwhlemed with the total amount.Then again, I think it's because there's not a lot of water routes/areas, and past regions provided much higher groups of water types to use because of these areas - I don't know, just another opinion.

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I honestly dont like any of them except for Jellicent... but I've not found one yet! ~_~

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I think Jellicent is the ugliest thing ever -.-

Simpour is pretty cute, but that's about it :| Basculin is hideous, too.

How many Water Pokemon were introduced this season? Usually they're the dominant type lol
:O

I love Jellicent. It's got an awesome typing (water/ghost :)), and the male has a moustache. :D The female is a bit meh, but the male one is cool. :D

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I don't feel there was much choice in gen 5 for water, with my jap black i started with oshawott so i had no trouble, but for eng white i had snivy and other than getting panpour, i noticed there wasn't a lot of choice as i went through. I've just ended up with my Crimgan knowing Surf
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I sort of like all of them. Especially Frillish/Jellycent, however it has taken me FOREVER to hatch a decent one.. every single one I hatch either has a -spa/sdef nature or cursed body, which annoys me greatly haha.

EDIT: E.g, Frillish - #592 (Jolly): 31 / 0 - 5 / 27 / 30 / 30 / 21 -25 hnnng dear arceus why
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I always thought there were too many water-types but now I can see why. There aren't many choices this time and I'm not too keen on any of them. I think Dewott and Simipour are okay but I don't want to use either of them. I might choose Swanna since I don't really like any flying-types either but I'm starting to get sick of looking at it.

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I sort of like all of them. Especially Frillish/Jellycent, however it has taken me FOREVER to hatch a decent one.. every single one I hatch either has a -spa/sdef nature or cursed body, which annoys me greatly haha.

EDIT: E.g, Frillish - #592 (Jolly): 31 / 0 - 5 / 27 / 30 / 30 / 21 -25 hnnng dear arceus why
I know, right? Mine has Cursed Body, and I much prefer Water Absorb. But it has a decent nature, so it's not too bad. ^^'

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I've found Seismitoad to my liking. I don't like its design, but it fits my team and battle style fine. I'm not a fan of any of the new Water Pokemon designs, though. I almost didn't have a water Pokemon on my team at all because of how little I like their designs, but decided on Seismitoad last minute. They're not the best Pokemon in this generation, in my opinion. Jellicent is kind of cool looking, but I would never use one because of its typing. Ghost Pokemon and me... we just don't mix.

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I really like the Water type Pokemon in this generation. I even thought about doing a Water Monotype on Black but choosing Oshawott again would be a little repetitive d.d
Samurott - best starter in this generation. Possibly in the whole series.
Simipour - coolest monkey, imo
Seismitoad - pretty cool, but not as cool as the other Water/Ground Pokemon, but still a cool one
Basculin - they're okay, but probably wouldn't be put on a team of mine
Carracosta - coolest fossil Pokemon ever imo
Swanna - sorta like Seismitoad, but I like its design better
Jellicent - cool typing and look
Alomomola - interesting, but I like Luvdic better :P
Keldeo - kinda off-looking, idk what is wrong with it, but its ok..
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They aren't bad--but they could be better. They aren't ugly at all...Jellicent isn't ugly..but it isn't Pokemon-ish.
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They aren't bad--but they could be better. They aren't ugly at all...Jellicent isn't ugly..but it isn't Pokemon-ish.
How isn't it Pokemon-ish? It's a big fluffy Jellyfish!

I would use it but I'm gonna use Chandelure, so I'm gonna go with Carracosta :)
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I have no problem with any of the Water-types this gen (Simipour still seems a little awkward to me though), but I am surprised at how few of them there seem to be. The type variation seems more balanced to me, at least in comparison to other generations.

Samurott and Carracosta are far and above my favorites, though. Samurott looked odd to me when its art was initially leaked, but it's grown on me, especially since we got that official art of it with Emboar and Serperior while brandishing its sword. I'm hoping we get to see some official art of it standing in a bipedal stance sometime.

As for Carracosta, I always like fossil Pokemon, and a big tank-like turtle is just my cup of tea. It gets the awesome Shell Smash, not to mention Aqua Jet and Smack Down, and it eats steel. That's one hardcore turtle.
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