5th Gen Did you find your Monkey useful?

Started by Sirfetch’d September 24th, 2012 12:59 PM
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Was your monkey useful

Medlis

Female
Toronto - Canada
Seen January 10th, 2015
Posted October 10th, 2012
24 posts
13.1 Years
I enjoyed Panpour for a little while, Then she ended up being an HM slave for Surf, Dive, Waterfall and Cut...

I honestly thought she was very useful at first but things quickly began to over power the water monkey and when I ran into Darmunka... She was replaced immediately.
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Seen October 3rd, 2016
Posted September 3rd, 2016
3,326 posts
10.9 Years
They gave my PC a reason to exist. So yes, they were useful.

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gucci

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United Kingdom
Seen September 26th, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2019
21,056 posts
15.4 Years
It actually helped out in the first Gym but after that, I just boxed it really.

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Brandon, MB. Canada
Seen September 17th, 2015
Posted November 23rd, 2014
584 posts
11.6 Years
I use them for trading for better Pokémon in my other games. In past games I caught a bunch of pidgies, and traded those, but in these ones I just use monkeys and other first route Pokémon

I will never use them on my team those. I just dont like em

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
I only used my Pansear for the first Gym. Afterwards, I boxed him.
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Male
Seen December 28th, 2012
Posted November 7th, 2012
12 posts
10.7 Years
I used it for the first gym cuz it's near impossible to beat it without the monkey, then i kept it in my party until the 5 first gyms, then i boxed it.......

The whole time, i realized it was way inferior to my starter, my pidgeot copycat that i forgot the name of, and my throh. I got the water monkey, and it always got killed in 2 hits and barely did somewhere to 10-20 damage to everything. And there wasn't very many fire types the whole time i was playing white. And any time there was a fire type, my servine could even take down it's weak and often VERY weak defence.

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Age 41
Male
Western Massachusetts
Seen April 17th, 2017
Posted March 15th, 2017
3,299 posts
18.4 Years
Not really. I got Pansage and I did use him for a while, but he got shoved into the PC when I caught Sewaddle and it became my main Grass/Bug Pokemon.

The same can be said for Panpour. I caught him in Pinwheel Forest and it was useful for a long time because I didn't have a good Water Pokemon and the Tympole I had before just sucked. But as soon as I transferred my Shiny Suicune from Pearl into the game, he was sent packing as well.
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Seen October 31st, 2022
Posted October 23rd, 2022
812 posts
10.8 Years
I used Panpour until I managed to replace him with a (great) Tympole. Nowadays, after beating the champion, he's my HM slave for Surf, Dive, Waterfall and Cut. So yes, he's very useful :D

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
Only until I beat the first gym, but that did save me time that I would have had to use grinding so in that sense, yeah, it was useful. After that? Nope. Never used it again. I never really liked the monkeys. There was always something else I'd want to use more.
Age 29
Male
Ireland
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Posted April 6th, 2023
1,655 posts
14.1 Years
In my first White playthrough, Pansage was quite useful, I suppose. I needed a grass type and he did all right. He was definitely useful in the earlier sections of the game, though I really didn't use him that much towards the end (if I recall, I boxed Simisage before the League, and he probably wouldn't have been all that useful anyway). He was... fine, but I guess the monkeys in general can't hack it when compared to some other Pokemon, so yeah.

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Squirrel

Age 28
Male
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Posted July 10th, 2021
9,551 posts
11.7 Years
I find them very useful in getting past the first gym as it's incredibly hard without them, but otherwise I just keep it in my PC haha. I don't like their design and I tried using one on my team once just out of curiosity (Simisear), and it was awful :p So they're useful right when you first get them, but otherwise I don't use them whatsoever.

PlatinumDude

Nyeh?

Age 29
Male
Canada
Seen July 31st, 2020
Posted May 30th, 2020
12,958 posts
12.7 Years
I'm on the borderline here. In Black, I sent Pansear to the PC shortly before the Nacrene gym battle; Incinerate was just too weak for me to use. In White, Pansage turned out to be a tad useful, but I sent it to the PC when I got to Mistralton to avoid being burdened by a type disadvantage.

Satoshi Ookami

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Age 30
Male
Abyss of Time, Great Seal
Seen August 5th, 2018
Posted July 3rd, 2018
14,253 posts
14.8 Years
Boxed them right after obtaining.
Since I had my team planned and they weren't part of it so they were useless =)
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gimmepie

Age 27
Male
Australia
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11.1 Years
I levelled my pansear/simisear to level 100 so you could probably call it useful. On the other hand it is outclassed by most of my other high-level pokemon. It was good enough to be on my team anyway but I won't use a monkey when I get B/W2.
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Seen June 30th, 2013
Posted June 20th, 2013
139 posts
10.9 Years
I actually find them rather useful. They can learn a good variety of moves, and they look quite nice in those musical clothes. :)
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Age 23
Male
Penn's Woods.
Seen January 20th, 2014
Posted January 2nd, 2013
61 posts
10.7 Years
I didn't really find it useful. 'Cause... Well.. It'd be helpful to HAVE IT right? XD I didn't get it until I was halfway through the game. I don't normally talk to people in the Pokemon games, unless I get lost or something. I, personally, didn't see the point in giving them out if it's the first gym and the Pokemon just have basic moves such as tackle and such. *Shrug* Guess that's just me, though.
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Brendino

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13.5 Years
I actually did find Pansear useful for a while, but eventually I got a Houndoom from the Dream World, and that all but replaced it on my team (it is on my post-game team, though, but it's definitely my weakest).