Favorite Fossil Pokemon

[Mawa]

(I never know if this kind of thread goes in Pokemon General or in Pokemon Gaming Central...


Imagine a game where you can choose only one fossil, and all of them are available to choose.

Which Fossil do you want? Do you usually use them in your game?

 

[AliceBlaze]

My favourite is Aerodactyl because it's based on my favourite type of dinosaur.

I don't think I've ever used a fossil Pokemon in any of my teams before.

 

[Radiating]

Aurorus, long neck dinosaurs are my favorite types of dinosaurs.

 

[Lunar]

I honestly can't remember the last time I used a fossil Pokemon during a playthrough, but I like to get however many I can post-game. My favourite is probably Aerodactyl, it's super cool :3

 

[Amore]

Either Aerodactyl or the turtle from Unova because turtle's are great. I find all of their designs interesting, but for example Cradily is boring to use in-game, Omanyte / Kabuto always get overlooked because there are so many other good water-types in their games and Archeops' ability just doesn't sit well with my high-risk battle style.

 

[blue]

aurorus is the one fossil pokémon that i've properly used and really enjoyed using. i love the design and despite the many weaknesses, it's a great pokémon to use!

 

[Sirfetch’d]

Cradily! It's just so cute to me and really uniquely designed. It was not all that fun to use in RSE, but over the generations I began to appreciate it so much more.

 

[Cool_Porygon]

Kabuto/ Kabutops, Aerodactyl, Tirtouga.

 

[Mab]

lord helix is pretty cool.

that said, I've barely ever used any of them in the games. I remember I always tried to use either Kabutops or Omastar during my FRLG playthroughs, but they're obtainable so late in the game and I will definitely already have a Water-type by that stage. The only one I ever used for any significant amount of time, ironically, was Aurorus in X, which I ended up ditching about halfway through the game because of its terrible type combination (at least for a defensive Pokémon).

 

[Oblox]

Tyrantrum - Love the design and animations, just a shame the typing is easy to kill. Still the HA version was awesome fun to try and headbutt them to death with.

 

[Sylphiel]

Archen/Archeops, just because they're based off one of my favorite kinds of dinosaurs.
Shame about the ability, though.

Amaura and Aurorus would be a close second choice though.

And no, I don't usually use them in my games. Don't usually have a spot I want to give up for them. I think I might have tried using a Shieldon in Platinum as the last time I tried, but I don't recall that lasting for too long.

 

[Degurchaff]

I would go with the Dome fossil since the evolution of Kabuto is cool looking I haven't used him that much in-game If i remember correctly i have only used him about two times.

 

[Mawa]

I love Kabutops and Armaldo equally and I just don't know what to pick between the two. ;___;

I'm leaning ever so slightly more towards Armaldo though because I have a bias for Gen III 'mons, so there's that. u_u

You have the same two favorite than me, and it's actually the first time ever I see someone else liking Armaldo <3

 

[Mab]

I find the Hoenn Fossils super forgettable idk why lol.

 

[Aslan]

My favourite fossil Pokemon is Aerodactyl! I really like its high speed and attack. I'm also a big fan of dinosaurs so Aerodactyl has always been one of my favourite Pokemon designs. I love all fossil Pokemon though. Some of my other favourites are Kabutops, Rampardos, Omantyne and Armaldo!

 

[MurkMire]

Rampardos. I love the design, and the idea. I especially love the shiny form.

It had such potential for greatness, and Game Freak gave the poor thing a low speed stat. </3

Not only that, but for some reason, he got pure Rock-type. :T

Still, I love Rampardos for what he is.

 

[Maserati777]

My favorite fossil Pokemon is Omastar, I like it based on design.

 

[Dragon]

I really like Aerodactyl, the gargoyle! Well, I think it's more based off of the Petrodactyl, but I think it's like a gargoyle too. It's so fast and pretty strong with it's rock moves like Stone Edge and Rock Slide, woo.

Tyrantrum is another personal favourite, being based off of a T-Rex, one of my favourite dinosaurs too. <33

 

[smocks]

This is really hard, but at the end of the day I'm going to have to choose Omanyte/Omastar.

It's a classic fossil Pokémon that I ADORE, the design is just wayyyyy too cool to pass up on + w/ it being a Water/Rock type makes it very useful (even though having a ton of type-weaknesses). The move pool is really solid and there's nothing really to top it for me.

s/o to Lileep/Cradily! Love them sm but their move set is something that I'm not used to using and don't have enough patience for either aha.

 

[Hikamaru]

My absolute fave is probably Amaura, but Tyrunt comes close for having a cool design and unique typing. In fact, I felt the Kalos fossils were definitely the most unique of the bunch.