What was your favorite Pokémon growing up?

[goatintothewild]

What was your favorite Pokemon growing up? Mine is Jigglypuff :D

 

[Sheep]

Hi! I moved this over to the Pokémon General forum since it's the best place to ask general questions like these!

When I was growing up, mine was for sure Pikachu. I just thought it was so cool, especially Ash's, and really loved it. Then as a pre-teen I started loving Banette a lot and used it often in the games. <3 I still like both but they're not my favorites anymore like they used to be aha.

 

[ReKoil]

hmm... might've been Dratini/Dragonair/Dragonite tbh.
Also Charizard and Blastoise initially until I got fed up with seeing them everywhere 😅

 

[XNaut]

Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Vulpix, Ditto, Raichu, Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Cubone, Chansey.

 

[Sheep]

The people above have some of the best childhood favorites, I relate so well. =')

Just thought of some more: Butterfree, Lapras, Bulbasaur. All of a sudden I'm getting vivid flashbacks to being a kid and pretending to be a Bulbasaur while 'Pokémon battling' my cat at the time lol. poor cat I'm so sorry

 

[Roni]

Turtwig, for carrying my first Diamond playthrough all by himself. What a lad.

 

[icycatelf]

Ho-Oh had been my favorite for YEARS! I'd always looked up to my cousin for his video game skills, so I was thrilled when I beat his Blue Version team on Pokémon Stadium 2, wiping out most of it with my Ho-Oh from Silver (which I had named LOVE, under the impression that naming Pokémon after positive emotions made them stronger). I'd had trouble beating Red on Mt. Silver too, but my cousin told me that I could probably beat him now with my Ho-Oh, so I tried again and it worked! Its appearance in the first episode of the anime was also really neat and mysterious.

My favorite has changed a few times since.

 

[Palamon]

Always been Treecko. Except the dark ages known as 2007 where Psyduck was my favorite for maybe a few months. Never changed since, I love my little gecko.

 

[Lavaeolus]

Oh, it's a toughie. I'll cop to Charmander getting overexposed, but I still wouldn't have gone anywhere without my starter, and Charmander was my favourite of the bunch back in the day. I'm less inclined to pick the Fire-type starter than when I was younger, but you know, every child's got a little arsonist in them ready to break out.

Although there's some stiff non-starter competition. I always felt Caterpie looked cute, I loved that weird-looking Abra and was pretty glad to finally catch one of those (curse your Teleport!), and Ralts immediately grabbed my eye back when I randomly found one back when first playing Ruby.

Tell you the truth, I was never good at commiting to 'a fave' even as a kid. There's a long, storied history of me being asked my favourite film and then freezing up.

 

[Shiny]

Since I first laid eyes on Beautifly, it has been Beautifly hahaha.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

Always has been, and always will be, Piplup. Piplup (and Empoleon) have a special place in my heart. Piplup was the first Pokemon I ever saw and I thought it was the cutest of the 3 Sinnoh starters, and Empoleon was my first fully evolved starter.

 

[Fairy]

First gen, always liked Cubone and Haunter. Would rush to Lavender Tower (and do the whole boring quest) just to catch a Haunter that I'd never evolve.

 

[faf]

My history with Pokemon is weird since I loved it in grade 1 and dropped it until grade 7 so it's hard to say what my childhood favourite was as a childhood. However, when I was getting back into the series, I LOVED Houndoom and Mightyena because they are both Dark-type dogs and they looked awesome and I've used them both a lot in my XD run and I refused to separate them. Unfortunately to the fault of my own, I've lost both of them and I was sad and even though I have competitive versions of them now they will never replace the OGs.

I miss you Lupine and Poochy. </3

 

[Adam Levine]

Sneasel (which I ironically never got to use as a kid). I still love it, but not as much as my new favorites.

 

[Hyzenthlay]

Back when I only knew Gen 1 as a small child from playing Pokémon Stadium, I was really attached to Persian, Aerodactyl and Eevee! Out of those, Eevee remains one of my all-time favourites. But these days I prefer Pokémon like Nidorina, Ponyta, Lapras, Scyther and Eevee's evolutions as my Kanto favourites.

 

[Knight Of Legendaries]

My favorite when I was growing up was Rapidash. I thought it looked so cool with its fiery mane and tail and horn.

 

[colours]

bulbasaur. its #1 spot got claimed by shaymin, but i still love the little guy so he's #2

 

[RedDragonThunderzord]

I think growing up it was Charmander, but now Charmander has been replaced with Litten.

 

[DarkWitch]

I grew up with Gen 1 and I pretty much loved all the Gen 1 Pokemon, these are just some of my favorite Pokemon when I was growing up.

Gengar, Jigglypuff, Kingler, Weezing, Pidgeot, and Pikachu.

 

[Orion☆]

Didn't have a strict favourite in childhood (outside of the obvious Pikachu); I only started picking favourites in adolescence. First it was the Sneasel line, then the Litwick line for quite a few years, then the Gastly line, and finally Mimikyu. I do expect Mimikyu to stick around for longer than the rest did though, simply because the little baby has no equal for me.