Your oldest Pokémon

Started by Sheep June 22nd, 2020 5:21 PM
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Sheep

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the nice thing about pokémon is that you can transfer your favorites up to more recent games or storage systems (such as Pokémon Bank or Home). do you have any pokémon from older generations? what are your oldest? iirc I have some from when rse were still newish in 2003!

Brendino

The Ruins of Alph
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Posted April 6th, 2023
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13.4 Years
My starter Sceptile from Sapphire is still around from 15+ years ago, hanging out on my HeartGold cartridge if memory serves me. I rarely delete my game files though, so I've got a bunch of Pokemon on my third and fourth gen games that are close to, or even more than 10 years old.

Just wish that the battery on my original Gold cartridge hadn't dried up- would be cool to still have some Pokemon around for almost 20 years, even if I couldn't transfer them to newer games.

DragonKing48

The King Of All Dragons.

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The Kingdom Of Dragons.
Seen March 28th, 2023
Posted January 17th, 2023
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3.1 Years
I've had Arceus, Keldeo, and Meloetta from 20th Anniversary for several years now. Also still have all the Dragons from the original X they came from so they're all probably close to 5 years, maybe 6.

Uecil

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Seen March 20th, 2023
Posted May 7th, 2021
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13.5 Years
The only one I recall is my beloved Sparky (Raichu) from a Platinum save file I had. I think it was Platinum, but it's about anything between 7 and 10 years old. It was one of my favourites for speed and I couldn't bare to be without it.

I probably do have other Pokemon, but they just didn't seem as important as that particular Pokemon.



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The Netherlands
Seen January 28th, 2022
Posted June 23rd, 2020
131 posts
16.8 Years
I recently found a USB stick with some of my old saves, and it had my original Pokémon Diamond save on it from 2007!

Unfortunately, I did a lot of cheating back then so almost all Pokémon were modified (PID mismatches all over the place), but the one Pokémon that was still legit was my Dialga, currently trying to get physical games, and handhelds to trade him up all the way to Ultra Sun.
Age 33
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I'm not sure if it's my oldest, but I was trading some Pokémon over to my main games before restarting Colosseum a couple years ago and found a Swampert that a friend traded me back in middle school (2003). Also found a Sceptile of mine, but I'm not sure if it was my original Gen. III starter or another one that I gave the same nickname (ZOKUL, because I thought Treecko looked so cool).


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Fairy

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Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
Lord no I am not organized enough to keep all of that straight. All of my competitive Pokémon will be stuck in White 2 forever. Though, I say that having carried over a couple of shiny fairies from XY, which is fairly recent in the Pokémon games timeline but still years ago for us.

So.. I guess my oldest Pokémon is a shiny Sylveon from Y?
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5.2 Years
Of all the oldest mons I can actually remember, the one I can distinctly remember is a Wobbuffet the most. Was breeding for a Wynaut with any nature that benefited either defense, preferably HP/Defense/Sp. Defense and got a bold one as a result. Transfered from Johto all the way to Galar, making him the oldest in my bred and trained collection.

Palamon

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14.3 Years
My oldest Pokemon is my Torterra on my (dead) Diamond save file. It's from May 22, 2008. I wish the game card could be read/loaded, though. =/ What a shame.

Rengoku

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Age 31
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13.7 Years
Giratina, Latias, Milotic, Swampert, Charizard, Venusaur, Jolteon etc. are some I can remember from RSE and FRLG!
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My oldest pokemon would be those from HGSS since I sold all my previous Pokemon games prior to Gen 2 Remakes because my love for Pokemon was starting to fade.

That being said, I picked up HGSS when I saw a few of my friends in High School playing the games. So I began to get into pokemon again.

My oldest pokemon that I know for sure came from HGSS are some of the Event Legends like the Shiny Crowned Beasts and Mew event in HGSS. I also have a Shiny Charizard, Tyranitar and Donphan that I got in trades on this site. I have a few other pokemon I got from trades on here, but I don't know when they came out. It was called Birthday Charmander and a Shiny Milotic from a Tournament Event I think.

I also have a Shiny Rapidash that I caught as a Ponyta in Mount Silver when i was training to take on Red. It was my first Shiny I had ever gotten.
Seen June 28th, 2021
Posted June 28th, 2021
209 posts
5.5 Years
Must be my Blue version Alakazam who survived my accidental "new game" back in the early '00. That makes my level 100 Alakazam about 20 years old. Woah, that's neat.

I don't really plan on buying any new console (currently still own 2DS) but I'd like one day to transfer whatever Pokémon I possibly can.

Amore

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13.7 Years
Well despite endlessly resetting Emerald when it was my only game, I think when Platinum was first released I still had one from early 2007. Before I finally got a second DS system I struck up a deal on here to trade all my pokémon to a member, restart my save, catch a bunch of Starly and trade them back...I never got them back. So unless my Japanese Arceus is from 2010 or earlier my oldest pokémon is an Empoleon from a 2011 Platinum save.

Lunar

Age 24
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England
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Posted September 15th, 2020
I wouldn't say I have one specific oldest Pokemon, but I do have quite a few from old Emerald, FireRed and Platinum that go way back! I actually have an original Manaphy from Pokemon Ranger transferred to Platinum (which was the only way to get it back then), so I'd say that's definitely a standout for oldest and rarest, must be like 10 years maybe?!
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12.1 Years
My psyducking 20-year-old Yellow cartridge still psyducking works, holy muk (I just checked) (Oh the simplicity, I totally forgot that Special was one stat in Gen 1)!
Although it no longer has my first playthrough on it as I've restarted a few times since completing it, the playthrough currently on it should still be my oldest. It's hard to say as I've restarted all my games except Silver at least a couple of times.

I haven't done a trade up since the mass trade up I did from my first Yellow playthrough to my one and only Silver playthrough.
Ironic how if I hadn't, my very first save file would still be around. My Silver battery died in 2007 taking my most beloved Pokemon with it including the only 3 level 100's I've ever had to date (not counting Snakewood), my Pigeot (one of the up-trades from Yellow), Dragonite and Furret. :'(


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5.5 Years
Ironic how if I hadn't, my very first save file would still be around. My Silver battery died in 2007 taking my most beloved Pokemon with it including the only 3 level 100's I've ever had to date (not counting Snakewood), my Pigeot (one of the up-trades from Yellow), Dragonite and Furret. :'(
Congrats on the 20 year-old Psyduck! Same here with the cartridges. Batteries of both Silver and Gold died while Red and Blue work perfectly fine.

Fairy

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Seen January 27th, 2023
Posted January 6th, 2023
Correction to my last post. I actually just transferred a shiny Pichu that I got from a Gamestop event 10 year ago! :)
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Age 26
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4.4 Years
I think I still have my original Blaziken from my first save in Ruby (a cartridge I don't even have anymore), dating back to Christmas 2003 IIRC, it should be in my Diamond cartridge together with many other mons transferred from Gen 3 and therefore dating back to 2003-06 - and that Diamond save is still the one I created on day one when it released in Europe.
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Congrats on the 20 year-old Psyduck! Same here with the cartridges. Batteries of both Silver and Gold died while Red and Blue work perfectly fine.
I don't have a 20-year old Psyduck?
My Red and Blue both died as well, my Crystal was the last of the first two gens to go in 2014 and right after I caught a shiny Gastly. Just my luck. :P


Zed01

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Virbank City
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3.8 Years
Back in the days before Pokemon Bank I used to restart my games a lot to replay them and I couldn't transfer any of my old Pokemon because I didn't know how. Even if I did know how to transfer them, most of my oldest Pokemon would still be gone because I used to restart my games before new generation even came out so I couldn't really transfer them up and I also couldn't trade them to another game from the same gen because I only had one game per generation back then.

Because of this my oldest two Pokemon that I still have are my Serperior and Lucario from my first Black 2 playthrough that I started back in early January of 2013 so they are over 7 years old by now. I have other Pokemon from that save as well like all of the Legendaries from that game and also my first ever shiny (a shiny Audino) but all of them were caught at least a few days after Serperior and Lucario since I obtained these two on the first day of starting this playthrough so they are technicaly the oldest Pokemon I have.

CF1994

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Seen March 9th, 2023
Posted December 27th, 2022
3,774 posts
6.8 Years
A Mild-natured Swampert I transferred from Emerald, but left in a PC in Gen 4 for years until I eventually transferred it to Ultra Moon.

It is now Lv. 100 and a special attacker. If it does get included in the Crown Tundra, it’ll be a heartwarming long journey through time.