Does OT matter to you?

Started by Alfieri February 11th, 2015 3:45 PM
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Alfieri

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When catching or breeding a Pokemon, does its Original Trainer matter to you? Do you prefer to have it be your name, or do you not mind if the Pokemon belonged to someone else with a different name?

For me, I kinda like having a team that belongs to my trainer because it has my name on it. However there are some Pokemon that were bred and have different Original Trainers and it doesn't bother me too much because it saves me time to breed another. It's more a preference really. I guess I'm possessive over my Pokemon lol.

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Not really, but sometimes if I like how it looks then that helps me. I have quite a few Pokémon on Omega Ruby that were breeding leftovers from X, and have my ID from that.
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It really doesn't bother me too much, it's not something I'd really pay attention to. The only reason this would be an issue is if obviously I'd want to nickname the Pokemon.
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Id rather they were mine but im not too bothered. To be honest its mainly the few legendarys/event pokemon ive traded or received thaty dont have my OT so that doesnt bother me.

If I didnt breed/catch one of my team though that would bother me.

Ive just re-bred my whole team from Gen 5 in OR so they are all gen 6 pokemon (plus added Greninja and Tyrantrum from Gen 6) so now im fully up to date and all my current OT. I always use the same trainer name in all games regardless.
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Kinda....well yes.

I don't like having a Pokémon with another trainers OT on any of my main teams. It just doesn't look right.

It's why I bred a Skrelp in X rather than just use the one I got from the GTS.
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For the most part, yes. But it normally doesn't concern me as I breed my teams from scratch. I also like to change the names of my Pokémon on occasion so it helps to keep the OT under my name. It can also tell sometimes whether or not a Pokémon is legitimate coming from the GTS.

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It only bothers me for my main team for my first run through of a new game. Other then that no not really. I have a different id for my male Pyroar for one of my secondary teams on X. I got it from wonder trade and named Mufasa.
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It depends on the game. In games where each badge lets you control another ten levels of traded Pokemon, I don't care as much. In older games where it traded off between upping a stat and upping the level of traded Pokemon you can handle, that's when I was a bit more meticulous in planning when I would add traded Pokemon, in any, to my team.

Generally though, I don't really care, unless it's not named. Then I'm bummed that I can't give it a name.
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Just imagine you get high level pokemon and with insufficient badge to go with, the traded pokemon will not listen to your command until the you'll get enough badge to make it listen to you and plus side; a little EXP boost is good, but may be bad if in level 10+ boundaries
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I typically prefer to be the original trainer because it means I can nickname/re-nickname the Pokemon whenever I want. Nicknames are very important to me and I won't use a Pokemon without a nickname with a different OT because I cannot change it. If OT didn't matter in regards to that though, I likely wouldn't care. Traded Pokemon are extremely handy to level up more quickly, after all. And I believe they breed faster.

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It kind of does matter to me, yeah.

When using Pokémon that does not have my name on them, it kind of feels as if... well, they're not actually mine, even though I am using them. If it's the opposite, however, things don't seem that way at all, which is good.

Whenever I wind up getting a hold of Pokémon with others' OT, at least in most cases, I wind up storing them in my PC box without much question, and trade them with friends when I get the opportunity to do so.

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I don't mind at all! OT is something I hardly even look at so other people's names there isn't an issue at all. I just like owning Pokemon I'm after regardless of whether I got it myself or from someone else.

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Nah I don't care about the OT. I'd still use the Pokemon even if it wasn't generated by me.
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I nickname every single one of my Pokemon outside of legendaries, so not being the OT is a huge deal to me, unless the person I got it from gave it a decent nickname. If we could rename any traded Pokemon, then I could care less who caught/bred the Pokemon, but it's a big deal breaker for me if I've got 5 nicknamed Pokemon, and then have the 6th without one.