Just 1 gym battle....then it's the box for you!

Amore

Amore

    • 5,288
    Posts
    15
    Years
    • Seen Mar 3, 2025
    Well, you may be able to guess what this is about by the title, but......

    Do you ever raise a pokémon specifically for a gym battle, never to use it again as part of your team?

    I've done this once or twice, although never on purpose.....the pokémon usually fails to live up to my expectations so I drop it...i.e. my Lombre, which was useless against Flannery in Emerald....

    However, this time, in Platinum, I'm seriously considering raising a Budew solely for the Oreburgh Gym as I'm not going to evolve my Chimchar until a later level. So, have any of you ever done this? Do you like doing it? Dislike it? Have particularly strong feelings about the ethics of it? ( I've heard some people say they release pokémon they're not going to use, even shines....)
     
    The Budew instance you gave above is the only thing I've ever done close to this.
     
    Well i used to only train the cool pokes and my starter but now i learned thats even a pokemon that only has 1 arm can even be good so i train every pokemon in my party but i still don't train all my pokemons.
     
    No I don't think I have ever done that. I have however caught a Makuhita for the sole purpose of beating Wattson in Sapphire, but it stayed on my team due to the fact it was a pretty good pokemon and I couldn't stand having all the experience he earned go to waste.
     
    I raised a Butterfree in Yellow because the reason I never beat Brock when I was 7 was because I didn't care to read that Thundershock didn't affect his Pokemon. I didn't want to repeat that humiliation as an older kid...so yeah. But then again, I don't know a lot of people that just use Pikachu only against Brock in Yellow...
     
    I don't use a Pokemon for the sole purpose for beating a Gym Leader. If I include a Pokemon in my team, then it has to contribute in some way other than that purpose.
     
    I've probably never done that. If I have, it was in my childhood days. I'd rather train my party as a whole, so that they can cooperate and defeat my opponent, rather than just training something random for one battle. Seems like a big waste of time, if you ask me. Why not train pokemon that you are going to use anyway?
     
    Once in a bug monotype run I got myself an adamant (don't remember whether that was planned or just luck though) Masquerain with Mud Shot (good thing I always pick Mudkip as my starter if I don't want to use starters as teammembers because it learns tons and tons of HMs) just to be able to beat Wattson.
    Apart from that I rarely tend to do that though, I'd rather overgrind my team instead in such a situation.
     
    Last edited:
    I don't remember doing this.

    Although sometimes I get really attached to Pokemon and it's quite hard to drop them. I remember having to drop my Roserade in Platinum becaus it wasn't really good. It won me the Oreburgh and Pastoria Gym Battles, but in Snowpoint it just didn't cut it. So I got an Abomasnow.

    That was the only time I ever dropped a Pokemon.
     
    I think ages ago I traded and got a Machop just to beat Whitney in Silver.

    These days I'll just train my pokemon to ridiculously high levels, then challenge the gym leader.
     
    I pretty much train all of my Pokemon, I love using pretty much everyone and in different combos, I am always trying new things to perfect my craft in battles and I have alot of fun training them too.
     
    I believe I have a couple of times, mostly cause my current team had troubles dealing with the gym.
    From the top of my head, all I can think of is catching a Sharpedo to deal with the twins.
     
    all the time!!!
    in diamond i got as many as i could
    currently i have NO ROOM in any boxes
    i use caterpies and stuff at the beginning, then sumin stronger, then so on uintil i have ho-ohs and raikous
    seems no 1 i the same????
     
    In the olden days, whenever I played R/B/Y with Charmander (or Pikachu) as my starter, I would get a Manky or Nidoran just to make Brock less of a pain, then box it soon after.

    The newer generations are much better at balancing out available early-game Pokémon and Gym rosters, so I haven't done it since.
     
    I dont think I ever have done this before, but I was considering of doing that before. I feel that its a waste of time to do that because I should be worrying about the six Pokemon that will be with me through out the Pokemon league. The only time I would use a Pokemon is when i dont feel like making any of my Pokemon an HM slave so I would take a useless Pokemon, turn him to an HM slave, use him and throw him right back inside the box


    :t354:TG
     
    I always catch my Pokemon with the intent of using them throughout the entire game. The only Pokemon I've ever dumped mid game was my Weepingbell in HG and I traded it out for Umbreon, a good trade in my opinion.
     
    I sorta did that,

    I sacked my Arbok of my SS team cause he wasn't worthy,

    His stats compared to every other tea member were SOOOOO 1st grade.

    He hadn't a best stat (at lvl 80 my team all had one over 200).
     
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top