TheLeetCasualGamer
Hi, I'm strange :3
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A topic I've always wanted to talk about among the fans to kind of get this viewpoint. Now there are many comments I read through community driven websites such as Deviantart and Youtube with works related to Pokemon that kind of do bother me a little bit to be honest and that's where this subject comes up, the creativity of the Pokemon vs it's actual statistics.
The question at hand is really do you like or have favorite Pokemon because of the design, concept, role in the Anime/Manga, as opposed to only liking the fact that it's a "stronger Pokemon" from others but yet you are ashamed to admit it only because there is a side to the fanbase that will act like jerks for what you use or like?
It's just kind of one of those thoughts that kind of go through my mind that kind of drove me to how I enjoy the Pokemon franchise. One of the reasons I bought Pokemon Black is because I liked the feministic look of Reshiram more then Zekrom's design. A lot seem to prefer using dragon types but I seem to always go in the back and enjoy using grass types mainly because of my love for Reptiles. I would pick Venasuar over Charizard any day. I'm using an emoga in my current Pokemon Black playthrough only because I loved Iris's emoga in the anime. I know that Chikorita is the worst pick for a starter in gen 2 but I always pick it anyway just because I want a dinosaur that relies on support and team strategies instead of having an alligator spam ice fang and surf for me making it too easy.
Call it strange, though Pokemon games only show quick animations during battle, I always love just visualizing these epic battles of Pokemon clashing with each other and thinking of ideas of what these Pokemon actually look like while they're using their moves. While the music is playing, I see these visuals within my head of a great battle. Just recently, I visualized my Liepard growling away at Clay's Excadrill while leech seed was slowly rotting it away. When I use Pokemon just for the sake of strength alone, I don't seem to get that same experience.
Don't know, maybe I'm just an odd-ball who thinks that strong Pokemon are too mainstream. But a lot of people and even in different fandoms seem so quick to judge a fictional creature or character only judging it only if it's superior to another instead of taking everything else into consideration which is a shame to me because then it just kind of feels that people will only like one thing at that point keeping the fanbase from being diverse. I just want to know if anyone has a kind of odd opinion on certain Pokemon because of the way they interpret them and makes that Pokemon feel special to them or they feel certain Pokemon get over-shadowed because people only judge them for whether or not they are reliable in battle.
The question at hand is really do you like or have favorite Pokemon because of the design, concept, role in the Anime/Manga, as opposed to only liking the fact that it's a "stronger Pokemon" from others but yet you are ashamed to admit it only because there is a side to the fanbase that will act like jerks for what you use or like?
It's just kind of one of those thoughts that kind of go through my mind that kind of drove me to how I enjoy the Pokemon franchise. One of the reasons I bought Pokemon Black is because I liked the feministic look of Reshiram more then Zekrom's design. A lot seem to prefer using dragon types but I seem to always go in the back and enjoy using grass types mainly because of my love for Reptiles. I would pick Venasuar over Charizard any day. I'm using an emoga in my current Pokemon Black playthrough only because I loved Iris's emoga in the anime. I know that Chikorita is the worst pick for a starter in gen 2 but I always pick it anyway just because I want a dinosaur that relies on support and team strategies instead of having an alligator spam ice fang and surf for me making it too easy.
Call it strange, though Pokemon games only show quick animations during battle, I always love just visualizing these epic battles of Pokemon clashing with each other and thinking of ideas of what these Pokemon actually look like while they're using their moves. While the music is playing, I see these visuals within my head of a great battle. Just recently, I visualized my Liepard growling away at Clay's Excadrill while leech seed was slowly rotting it away. When I use Pokemon just for the sake of strength alone, I don't seem to get that same experience.
Don't know, maybe I'm just an odd-ball who thinks that strong Pokemon are too mainstream. But a lot of people and even in different fandoms seem so quick to judge a fictional creature or character only judging it only if it's superior to another instead of taking everything else into consideration which is a shame to me because then it just kind of feels that people will only like one thing at that point keeping the fanbase from being diverse. I just want to know if anyone has a kind of odd opinion on certain Pokemon because of the way they interpret them and makes that Pokemon feel special to them or they feel certain Pokemon get over-shadowed because people only judge them for whether or not they are reliable in battle.