you sVery early on in the game, I got a DW Ponyta. I vastly preferred it to the Fire Starter, so I evolved it and have had a pretty epic Rapidash on my team for a while.
I had a Rapidash and a Zebraika as a pretty cool double act, they just matched so well. White horse with fire, black zebra with electricity. All they need now is an Ice Goat and we're set. Chillygoat? I crack me up.
Meanwhile the poor starter is left in the PC, level 40 and unloved.
I also caught a kickass Farfetch'd so for the first half of the game it was my main Flying type.
When I make teams I like to have a mix of Pokémon. I didn't want a whole team of Unova Pokémon, and I generally leaned towards a team of two from each region this time around.