What type of player are you?

Started by Arcaneum August 1st, 2016 2:29 PM
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Socratic

Howdy

Male
Hoenn
Seen September 15th, 2022
Posted August 19th, 2016
462 posts
6.8 Years
Mix of Competitive, Casual, and Collector. I have a collectors soul, but I don't often enough act on it. I sometimes dabble in thinking up troll teams for competitive, but mostly I'm Casual.
Shame Shiny hunter isn't listing, I'm a fan of that, too.
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Male
Massachusetts
Seen August 23rd, 2021
Posted August 1st, 2016
5 posts
6.8 Years
An unapologetic casual, first and foremost.

I enjoy battling as well but I can't be bothered to go through all the steps in-game to make a battle ready team. It's been made easier over the years with EV training (and soon, IV training, right?), but there's still the breeding aspect as well. That's too much time for me.
Male
Seen August 7th, 2016
Posted August 6th, 2016
18 posts
6.8 Years
Im a dirty capt casual FireRed player.. skip to the next post if you don't wanna red the story of my life.

I had over 500 hours on the game as a kid and i never really had the chance to try anything after that because of the lack of money. After having my gba stolen i discovered emulators and roms and i tried emerald and ruby but it was not the same so i keep on replaying firered once in a while. And since a few weeks ago i have started to play any rom hack based on fire red.

Thank you for your time

Sheep

She/Her
Australia
Seen 6 Hours Ago
Posted 7 Hours Ago
39,253 posts
16.6 Years
Both a collector and breeder. Completing the national dex is a huge part of the post game enjoyment for me, and of course breeding also takes up many many hours once I finish the main story. If I stopped after finishing the post game I'd be finished with the game way too quickly. Nothing is more satisfying than breeding my favorite Pokémon with 5-6IVs, or completing my Pokédex so that every wild Pokémon has the little 'caught' icon near it. Feels soo great.

I don't ever battle competitively though, breeding competitive babies is for my own personal enjoyment only. I don't like competitive play really.
Male
the town on no map
Seen September 16th, 2022
Posted July 12th, 2022
3,340 posts
14.2 Years
At this point, I'm pretty much just a casual player who enjoys the games for what they are. Haven't played competitively since the D/P era so I try and savor the games and not just rush through them as I use. Every time I decide to start over and use a new team, it really does feel like a new adventure. The replay value is great. {:3}

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
I love just playing the games casually and taking in the region and story, that being said I did spend some time as a breeder whilst trying to get my perfect shiny Zorua, but I haven't spent much time breeding after that. I just try to enjoy the Pokemon experience as much as possible.

BubbleBeams

Defeating Champions Since 1999

Age 33
Female
Iowa
Seen October 26th, 2021
Posted September 23rd, 2016
221 posts
9.8 Years
I'm generally a completionist with any video game so for Pokémon I'd say I'm a healthy blend of casual and collector. I've never had the ability to fully complete a dex (thanks, event-only pokémon) but I try to fill it as much as possible as I go along. I enjoy the story and generally just waltz my way through the game until I am done.

Since I'm not a competitive player, post-game doesn't offer too much for me but I still might try and get my Pokémon up to Lv. 100 and beat the E4 over and over just for the fun of it... lol
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AleXShi1

Keep it real

Age 23
Male
Lisboa, Portugal
Seen February 24th, 2019
Posted August 20th, 2017
136 posts
7.1 Years
When i get a new game i start off by going through it and exploring everything, but i usualy dont shiny hunt or catch alot of pokemons, normaly i get like 3 good pokemon (including my starter) then the rest is for HMs.
After i complete the game i start capturing every pokemon i can find starting by the ones i like until i get the 100% pokedex
After that i just hunt for shinies that i like

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Sheep

She/Her
Australia
Seen 6 Hours Ago
Posted 7 Hours Ago
39,253 posts
16.6 Years
Out of interest, why are you not one for competitive?
I just don't have interest in putting a team together, not very good at figuring out what Pokémon will work best with what. I like to use things purely for looks and that doesn't get you far in competitive unless you're playing against more casual opponents. That and it's more of a switch battle with the same batch of Pokémon in most tiers than anything else. x'D
Age 33
Male
Seen 3 Weeks Ago
Posted 3 Weeks Ago
1,567 posts
9.8 Years
I mostly am just a casual player during the main game. Meaning I don't catch 3 of every Pokémon with a living dex in mind. However since Y is my only game to really compare.

When I started Yellow, Crystal and Sapphire, I mainly got to the end using my starter only but was without a good enough team to battle the final 4/champion. So I set the games aside, then many years later I went back to these games and put a team together using what I had in my pc or trading Pokémon to the game, ie in Yellow I traded a Kadabra and Seel from Crystal and used those as my starters. In Crystal I found a cloned Croconaw and a Jynx in my pc and leveled them up in Victory Road in order to help out my only good Pokémon Typhlosion.



I think when I was a kid I wasn't really playing to complete the game, but rather just to play.

Now for a team I like using underdog Pokémon, in Y I used Klefki and Emolga, in Omega Ruby, I'm using Linoone and Mightyena.
Of course I didn't think about shiny hunting before Y, mainly because I don't think I knew they existed.


Now in Y my only goals are shiny hunting and completing a living dex.
Age 20
Male
A big happy Aviary in the clouds!
Seen September 3rd, 2016
Posted August 28th, 2016
219 posts
6.8 Years
I would choose none of them. Im a challenger, i take the "bad" pokemon and manage to do great things with them. such as a pikachu defeating a primal groudon, a mirror move vs. darkrai, and so on. i take challenges and crumple them up into things of the past. thats how i play.
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Altairis

take me ☆ take you

Female
database database
Seen December 29th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2018
5,170 posts
10.9 Years
Now I'm a breeder. I'm trying to get a shiny of every Pokemon in a matching Pokeball, with 4 egg moves if possible. It's not THAT hard with TSVs and ESVs, but I'm kinda lazy. I used to be just a casual player, though. I would make Pokemon teams that worked ingame all day, haha.

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Arsenic

Flying High

Age 26
Male
In the skies
Seen April 13th, 2022
Posted August 28th, 2020
3,201 posts
11.9 Years
I prefer LGen. Casual. I only play when I feel like it and might go one town! Why I might love pokemon I find myself playing non-handheld games more often. Wouldn't have put all this cheddar into a beast PC otherwise.

I also tend to play on long trips where I don't have to drive or flights (unless I play something on my shield tablet like Borderlands or HL2)

AceTheHanyou

ShakeTheHanyou

Male
Kanto
Seen February 6th, 2023
Posted July 17th, 2019
51 posts
10.1 Years
Competitive with a bit of collectiveness. I've played games and Hack where my sole mission was to get a Pokemon team that consisted of lvl 90 pokemon and have coverage with every type. But also capture every pokemon the game had to offer.
For example:
Pokemon Dark Rising Hack
Team:
Salamence Lvl 100
Kingdra lvl 91
Gliscor lvl 91
Alazakam lvl 92
Arcanine lvl 92
Roserade lvl 91
Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward
Female
Budapest n Delhi
Seen January 10th, 2017
Posted January 9th, 2017
12 posts
6.8 Years
Casual..........I think. I don't have much time enough to be a Collector, I have another job so I can't be a Breeder, I'm not aggressive enough to be a Competitor.
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sCam

Killing is a pleasure

Male
ny
Seen December 17th, 2016
Posted September 23rd, 2016
356 posts
15.8 Years
I'm everything but Casual. Pokemon is love. Pokemon is life. Although I can get distracted for months with other things, and not pick up a pokemon game in a long while. I was never late on buying a pokemon game on release though.



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Male
Texas
Seen September 26th, 2016
Posted August 19th, 2016
13 posts
6.8 Years
I've never had the opportunity to battle competitively, sadly. I only got a monstrous team for gen 4 (lvl 100 for all) this July after picking my old Platinum back up. I'd be thrilled to see how well my team would fare, although I have a team of 6 "sweepers" imo. (I'm not very tactful, and am very noob in the advanced stats/mechanics department. So I have a very diverse team, but no speciality pokemon (tanks/sweepers/jack of all trades/entry hazard layer/blocker)
I collect pokemon, but don't do it on my own, per se. I go to the heart scale guy, or ask someone what what I should get next, then I level than until final evolution. Head off to the next catch. Legendary hunting is a hobby of mine. Yet I do not try to get shiny pokemon. (Too low of a chance, and takes a lot of time. If it was a sure thing sort of deal, I'd be happy to, but I know that's not how it works.)
I've never bred a pokemon, ever. I just simply don't know how to get certain things to happen with other things to get my perfect purebred...
So I don't really know what to call myself.... I know I'm not a casual, or I wouldn't have 600+ hours on my Pokemon games...