Do you plan a team in advance?

[EC]

I usually do, yes. Or at least I plan my team as I get to each route. Do I want any of the Pokemon on Route 2? Yes? Okay. No? Moving on then.

 

[poop face]

No. I mean, there's always a certain Pokemon if I'm replaying I would always get,
other than that, I don't.

I always try to have every Pokemon on my team at some point, doing this makes me fall with Pokemon I wouldn't have originally thought of liking in the first place, like with Hypno and Golduck.

I replayed Crystal and decided I wanted a Psychic pokemon earlier on so I caught Hypno, and it just stuck with for the entire game, now it's one of my favorite Pokemon

 

[Cay]

Not really, tbh. One of the things I've always enjoyed about the games is the spontaneity of it all. The most I do in the games is look up the Pokemon which appear in each route, but that's all. Most of the time, it rarely even crosses my mind.

 

[Itcheeee]

I always plan in advance, to make sure I figure the best moves for my team and I can fit my favorites of that region in my team :P

 

[FireSnow]

I wouldn't say I plan an entire team as I really just prefer to go with the flow. I find when I plan on catching certain Pokemon to form a team, I always end up trashing the idea and going a different direction once the game starts. The only exceptions to this are Buizel and Taillow. Can't do Hoenn and Sinnoh runs without them.

 

[Jessie]

I generally a copy of each game. So, for instance, X was my main run through...so for that one, I used my starter and Pokemon I captured along my journey and I don't go out of my way to get a Pokemon on my team that I'd have to trade for.

Then my Y play through I used a more planned team. So using my X I was able to breed babies that I wouldn't have access to early in the game to transfer over to Y and I had my whole team pretty much from the start.