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Do you Plan out your Team

Most of the time I do, when I first start out the game I plan on the first 3 pokemon to have in my party.
 
I normally plan out my team unless it is a new generation game that I'm not familiar with yet or was just released. If it was a remake that was just released, though, I do plan the team because I was familiar with the previous version.
 
Yes, I usually plan out my Pokemon team, just to make it to the Elite Four much easier, and when I'm done defeating the Elite Four, I plan out many Pokemon teams so I can compete with them online.
 
Never, unless I'm making a team specifically for Wifi.
When it comes to just playing through the games I just catch Pokemon I like and use them. :3
After all, you don't need to plan if you're not gonna use the team outside of the in-game battles.
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I'm playing Sapphire again and this is the first time I'm planning out my team, also the first time it will contain more than two or three fighters (or so I've planned). Lawd knows I'm lazy and impatient, though, so I doubt I'll even go through with it.
 
PIKACHU DOES KUNGFU! said:
I usually plan out. Except for the first time around, I don't.
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This. Like, when I hit Diamond Version, I just went by what I thought at that moment, but when I got Pearl a few months later, I planned out an even team.

I don't usually plan, though. Like for Platinum, I just made sure I had an even team. I only had a few Pokemon planned out, like Torterra, Crobat, and Vaporeon.
 
I know everything about every pokemon I want to catch, right down to what level I use use stones on them and how long I will spend training them. It's an art (;
 
I don't really plan my team out. I mean, I never intended to raise that level 3 Rattata and now it's a level 72 Raticate and the best surprise element on my team.

I plan out my team in advance, but I generally break my own rules and change the team anyway.
 
Nah, unless if I am stuck on a gym.
 
Yes. I usually reference a game guide, plan out a team of six varied Pokemon that I like, and 95% of the time, I'll stick to the plan. I like knowing what I have to focus on capturing before I enter the fray.
 
With the new genereations I usually go in blind. It's a lot more exciting that way. Whenever there's a reamake I usually just catch any pokemon that I haven't used before. I've never used Victreebell so when SS comes out I already know I'm going to use him.
 
Every time I play a pokemon game for the first time, I just throw together whatever seems good at the time I catch it. Then if it ends up learning good moves when it levels up, I keep it on my team.

When I start a new file, I do pretty much the same, except I try to get different pokemon together than the ones I used previous times.

Also in the 4th Gen ones I did the same thing, until I realized after I got my butt handed back to me in pieces after a Wi-Fi match that I needed a better team, so I researched pokemon's Max stats and movesets.

Another thing I don't plan ahead is pokemons nicknames, which I always come up with on the spot when I catch them. I usually try to make them make sense or be funny, for example: An Electabuzz named "Ampere", or a Teddiursa named "Pedobear"
 
In my first games (sapphire and and FR ) I went blind...
But in Pearl and Pltinum I planned my team before !
I'll try not t do this in HGSS , but I just can't help myself to stop planning !
 
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