What Team did you Pick?

[Strohmian]

My girlfriend and I just started playing today, and when we reached lvl 5, we asked each other which team the other wanted to join. I wanted Instinct, seeing as Yellow is my favorite version. She wanted to go with Mystic. After seeing that Moltres was in Valor's insignia, we decided that Red was the way to go :P

Plus, how else could we jointly own a gym! We've got our work cut out for us with all the Mystic and Instinct gyms around!

 

[Imperator161]

The servers keep crashing for me, so I still haven't picked a team yet. About 1.5k exp to go to level 5. I'm torn, though. I wanted to go with the blue team, as blue is my favorite color (though Red was my first game), but a lot of people I know are going with the red team instead. How important is it to be on the same team as people you know, or the team that's dominant in your area? If it makes a difference, I'm currently living in a city.

 

[Strohmian]

The servers keep crashing for me, so I still haven't picked a team yet. About 1.5k exp to go to level 5. I'm torn, though. I wanted to go with the blue team, as blue is my favorite color (though Red was my first game), but a lot of people I know are going with the red team instead. How important is it to be on the same team as people you know, or the team that's dominant in your area? If it makes a difference, I'm currently living in a city.

I haven't started battling at gyms, so I don't have first-hand experience, but it sounds like having a team of people to take and defend gyms makes it easier than going solo. I'd also imagine that being with the more dominant team in the area would help as well, because there would be less competition to take the gyms from your team. Anyone with more experience in gyms and battling, correct me if I'm wrong!

That being said, I'd say don't settle for a team, if you would much rather join another one :) Going with friends can be fun, especially when you tag-team gyms, but so can battling to take those gyms from your friends ;) Also, I'd be surprised if the dominant teams didn't change in your area, especially seeing as you're in a city. With so many people joining Pokemon Go, I'd bet there'll be a lot of changing of top teams.

 

[Judge Mandolore Shepard]

Even though I still have not reached level 5, I have made my decision on which team I will pick. I plan to pick Team Blue (a.k.a Mystic).

 

[Steven]

Here comes the storm..

Instinct was my choice simply because if your team decides what legendary bird you get at some point Zapdos would probably be the strongest out of the three because of its superior speed (attacks faster) and its moves would be super effective against both other birds instead of just one like Aricuno and Moltres.

Would have picked blue if I knew they controlled 90% of my city.

 

[Del]

Because I love Yellow, It's my favorite color after orange!

 

[ChanHoNham]

Team Valor

 

[Mawa]

It's nt released here but when it does I'll be team Instinct!

 

[Maserati777]

Well I ended up picking Zapdos because it forced me to pick a team when I made level 5. I mostly picked it because I closed my eyes and pointed. I like all the birds evenly, Moltres has the best typing, Zapdos has the best design and Articuno has the best color.


But since I don't really have any interest in gyms in the game at least not until I have Pokémon I actually want to use *cough*Vileplume*cough* I won't be bothering with any gyms. To be honest the fact you have to go to the gym location itself with other people is kind of a turnoff for that.

 

[dannygreen]

Go green! Always green

 

[LyokoGirl5000]

I dressed in blue colors, so I joined Team Red. I didn't want my clothes to give away what team I was.

 

[Goomy Gumi]

#TeamMystic all the way! I mainly chose it because it was blue, but their intro section also happened to be the one I liked the most.

 

[Chuck Palahniuk]

The number of team Mystic supporters in this thread isn't really surprising! This article actually has some proof that there's a reason there are more team Mystic players than the other two teams. Just something interesting I thought I might share!

 

[Talon Flare]

Team Instinct, because yellow is my favorite color.

Also that's the same hair color of the best girl.

 

[_sny_]

I've read an article that over 50% are in the blue team. Curious how Niantic will handle it if this is getting outta hand ...

 

[Hiidoran]

I feel like eventually you'll be able to switch teams. Otherwise, people will start making different accounts just to try and balance things out.

 

[Squirrel]

As long as there's nothing to gain from switching teams then I believe they will eventually let you swap but I think there could be an issue with this in a lot of places. My village for example has relatively few players and the gym is 90% of the time ran by red team as there are a lot more of them than any of us - with this being the case it'd be very tempting to just swap to red team myself and start freeloading off of their success when I squeeze myself into the gyms.

 

[EvaLiz666]

I'm not hugely into the competitive aspect of the game so Team Valor was at the bottom of my list (sorry to all the red proponents), Team Mystic sounded really cool but in my heart of hearts I'm a bit of a non-conformist so Team Instinct it was, lucky we have such a cool totem. The only problem is that there aren't as many friendly gyms around but that's ok.

 

[Bounsweet]

Team Mystic, because I like Articuno and Blanche looks like she'll be awesome when we finally see more than her silhouette. Plus, I like blue.

I have been lowkey wishing I went with Team Instinct lately though. Coincidentally, Instinct has been completely dominating my area lately as well.

 

[CoalCraft]

I picked Team Valour for the sole reason that red is my favourite colour. Wish I'd picked blue now as the only one of my close friends who can actually run the game on their phone is adamant they want to be team blue, and I want to be on the same team so we can do gyms together :(