There Can Be Only One...
This is, of course, an entirely hypothetical question, but if you could pick only one Mon out of your entire collection as your all-time favorite, the one you would keep if you had to get rid of everything else, which one would it be and why?
Perhaps your highest CP mon, that elusive 100% IV rare, the one you had to walk 5000 miles before you got enough candies to evolve it, one with sentimental value behind it, or one with an interesting story about how you caught it. So many options to consider, but in the end, there can be only one! Which Mon do you pick? 😊
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I do, too. If I remember correctly, they altered Bubble to combat bubble strat, but that's not a thing anymore. I wish they'd revert it. Unlike Volt Switch, you could even get off a Bubble on offense while still being able to dodge. Back then, Submission was a 35-power three-bar move; Bubble was almost more powerful than the charge move! That was fun.
It would likely be my Lugia. It was my first ever legendary and first maxed out Pokemon, has more gym wins than any of my team, and it's stuck with me through just about everything.
I was at first bummed that it got DT/SA as its moveset, but found that by trading some EPS it makes Lugia a great neutral threat and Dragon counter. It really doesn't have any bad matchups, only really being threatened somewhat by Aggron and Steel-moveset Metagross, and it can even take on a maxed perfect ZH/DG Blissey without fainting out OR timing out, a feat unrivaled in my team. It may take a little time, but if we were down to one Pokemon it is the epitome of a jack-of-all-trades with it's very high TDO.
Suppose Legendaries weren't permitted, I would go with my 2964 Gardevoir. It's a decent generalist, Blissey counter, and Psychic/Fairy specialist. Even better, it works great in gyms with one of the best defending movesets in the game (even better than ZH/DG), and has a very good typing given the current meta. It's CP is somewhat lower than the Psuedo-Legendaries of the game, meaning it would have some more staying power. It would be both a shield and sword for this game so would be a great choice, and it's always been one of my favorites from the console games.
This one's easy. It would be my first Arcanine (pic below) as Arcy is my all time favorite Pokemon. In the fall of 2016 I hatched a Growlithe that took me over 50 candy, picked the best Growlithe I had and evolved it. I've never been so nervous about which moveset I get, especially since TMs weren't in the game at that time. Luckily I got FF/FB.
This might illustrate how much I like him. After I reached level 30 I stopped worrying about my trainer level because wild encounters don't get higher level after that anymore. However, I recently powered the Arcanine in question to my level's maximum (36) but I want to go higher. Thus I care about my XP once more and that's completely because of this lovely dog!
