This looks like fun!
Gen 1 starter: Bulbasaur
Gen 2 starter: Cyndaquil
Gen 3 starter: Mudkip
Gen 4 starter: Chimchar
Gen 5 starter: Snivy
Gen 6 starter: Chespin
-I started playing pokemon in gen 1, and stopped after gen 2 because I didn’t have enough money to afford a Gameboy Advanced. I got back into pokemon in gen 4 when my older brother showed me emulators, and I’ve started supporting the franchise again by buying actual copies of the games with gen 6. Mainly because I already had a 3DS for Fire Emblem Awakening.
-Because I never played gen 3 as a kid, gen 3 is perhaps my least favourite generation of pokemon. There’s still a lot from gen 3 that I haven’t used, and I only recently played one of the games for the first time in order to see what all of the fuss was about.
-Despite Heracross being my favourite pokemon since gen 2 I never used one until gen 4. The reason for this is I could never figure out how to get one. With my re-introduction to pokemon in gen 4 I discovered something called the internet, and quickly realized that a google search held the key to finding this most anticipated of pokemon.
-Tyranitar is my favourite pseudo-legendary pokemon. What can I say? I like dinosaurs.
-I don’t like having two of the same type of pokemon on my team. The only exception to this is normal/flying dual types, then I can have another normal type without feeling guilty.
-Contrary to Vinny, Heracross doesn’t always have a spot on my team. This is in part because I like to have balanced teams, and also in part because I put a lot of emphasis on trying new pokemon with each run I do. (Except the starters, they generally stay the same)
-With every pokemon game sans reborn to date I’ve adopted a very Fire Emblem esque mindset with my teams. I’ll only give experience to the 6 that I’m planning on using, and I don’t change that team all game. This means that the starter I pick at the beginning of the game stays.
-Speaking in general, bug type pokemon are a fairly large staple part of my team. I usually have one on each in game team I use, and they always do work. This wasn’t always the case though, I only realized my fascination with the whole type (and not just a particular member of that type) around 5th gen.
-I will unashamedly HM slave a pokemon or two in order to keep my main team as battle ready as possible. Times that I’m forced into fighting an important boss battle with only 5 of my 6 intended pokemon present really annoy me though, because it feels like the prep work I did in choosing my team doesn’t really matter.
-I tend not to use items in game. Not just healing items and status restoring items (I never use items like that) but also held items. This is because the AI doesn’t use held items and it feels like I’m getting an unfair advantage.
-I always play any pokemon game on set mode. Screw free switches, that makes the game way too easy.
-I don’t use shiny pokemon. This is mainly because I’m used to their normal colouration and anything else looks weird, but also partly because I don’t like my pokemon to be too different from anyone else’s (aesthetically).
-I always nickname the pokemon I use for in game. I also won’t feel comfortable with a nickname unless it’s one that I would feel comfortable giving to a pet as a name. This means a lot of my pokemon are called stuff like “Terry”.
-I avoid in game trade NPCs and instead prefer to catch and train my own pokemon without exception.
-I also don’t like catching pokemon that are past their first stage of evolution, because I like the feeling that I’m raising this team from scratch. I’m looking at you XY Staravia.
-In reborn when I replace a pokemon I’d been using on my team with a new one, I always grind the new pokemon up to the level of my old one, because I don’t like wasting story given experience.
-I always fight every available trainer I can find. That’s the point of this game right? Why would you want to skip it?
-I don’t like using legendary pokemon for in game, and that tendency carries across quite heavily into my competitive teams. For this reason (and because Talonflame) I don’t play OU at all anymore, and only very infrequently even play UU. At the moment I’m playing a lot of PU in what free time I can find, and my team is doing great.
-That being said my favourite legendary is Giratina.
-I don't participate much in post game stuff. It just doesn't seem as fun as the main story.
-I will intentionally try to go the wrong way when entering a new area in order to explore the entire map.
Enough? I think so.