My Top 6 Favorite Flying Pokèmon

Flying is one of the more unique types in the game, its one of the few types that only has one pure type…that is right only one pure flying pokèmon. This type has mixed with just about every type out there. So there is another rule with this one besides no legendary here. It must be a bird of some kind.

6:https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/PidgeyTrio.png  Pidgy family: this one almost didn’t make the list, but for a lot of players including myself this is one of your first wild catches. Honestly as much slack as this family gets, its not a terrible first family.  Considering over the years i have seen a lot worse starting  flyers. *Cough Cough pidove*. Excuse me. Pokèmon x has given me a chance to once again look at this first family of bird pokèmon on the skills it now learns are impressive. While still not my first pick for a flyer there is still no denying that that family is still a contender in the flying arena.

5:https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/7e/661Fletchling.png/250px-661Fletchling.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/c/ce/662Fletchinder.png/96px-662Fletchinder.pnghttps://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/ae/663Talonflame.png/250px-663Talonflame.png   Talonflame family:  This one the first Pokèmon on my lists from X-Y, and its deserving of the spot. You pick this guy up around the same time as you pick up pidgy. Fletchling is a adorable and its one of those pokèmon that to me doesn’t have a bad looking evolution, the middle one looks like a blue jay to me. My little Fe (what i named it) was a great team member and probably would have stayed with me to the end if i didn’t re-fall in love with Crobat. If you pick up this game pick yourself up a fletchling you won’t be disappointed by this little fire bird.

4:    https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6b/175Togepi.png/160px-175Togepi.png     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/11/176Togetic.png/110px-176Togetic.png     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/87/468Togekiss.png/250px-468Togekiss.pngTogekiss family: this Family first introduced to players before Gold and silver had even hit our shores, it was a normal type with one one evolution. In gen IV (Pearl and Diamond, heart gold Soul Silver) this Family gained a third more powerful evolution making it a real contender in competitive battle. Now with this current gen this family is once again undergoing a change, this time its type. That’s right this family is now a fairy type, while i current don’t have at a Togepi in the current game, i look forward to seeing what this little guy can do now.

3:https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Pok%C3%A9mon_Aerodactyl_art.png   Aerodactyl: Let me start by saying, i hate his mega form, it just doesn’t do it for me. that being said i have always really liked Aerodactyl. For a flyer with a rock typing with it, this guy has always been really fast. Its a powerful ancient flyer that if raised right could put a serious cramp in everyone style. its one Ancient fossil that deserves its resurrection.

2:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/8b/021Spearow.png/250px-021Spearow.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a0/022Fearow.png/250px-022Fearow.pngFearow Family: I really didn’t pay much attention to this bird in the first gen. However the second gen i managed to pick up this guy pretty early in the game. Spearow stayed at my side all the way until the end of the game. i never realized how tough and powerful this guy was until that gen. With a powerful learned move drill peck, which at the time i only though zapdos knew. While not as pretty as some of the other birds on my list, it should not be ignored.

1:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/af/396Starly.png/150px-396Starly.png     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f8/397Staravia.png/200px-397Staravia.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/5/5e/398Staraptor.png/200px-398Staraptor.png    Staraptor family: Hands Down the best of the starting bird pokèmon you get, Gen Four has some great pokèmon in it, from previous entry Luxray to Staraptor a lot of truly greats were added too our dexs. Not only does this one has the standard moves most normal birds learn, what it learns naturally like close combat and Brave bird this is one tough bird and a dare say one of the greats. I have become a huge fan of this guy and its family and its hands down the top bird of flying types.

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My Top 6 Favorite Electric Pokèmon

Electric types, honestly this for many is the earliest type we are introduced to, in the form of Pikachu. However like Fire pokèmon there are not that many elecrtic types. only 1-3 added each game series. It makes this category as small as Fire. Still when you find them in each game they often become important to the team, for their help capturing new pokèmon, or there natural move sets that can make these guys a serious threat to water and flying pokèmon in the game. Sadly there are also quite a few toss away electrics out there as well. So in my opinion who are the best of the best in the field of electric that is not a legendary (Sorry Zappy)

 

6:    https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f8/595Joltik.png/250px-595Joltik.png    https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/7a/596Galvantula.png/250px-596Galvantula.png     Joltik: I fell instantly in love with this little guy when i first saw him…yes i know there is a far better electric in that game, do i care no. Look how adorable Joltik is. Its evolved form Galvantula is nice looking too but not as charmingly cute as its unevolved form. did i eventually have to swap it out for a more powerful pokèmon, yes, did i enjoy having it on my team while it was their absolutly. Would i take the time now with the way things are currently laid out in x to get to know it better, Absolutely. Just can’t help but love that face.

5:          https://i0.wp.com/images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100615033404/pokemon/images/c/ca/Shimama.png        https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a1/523Zebstrika.png/250px-523Zebstrika.pngZebstrika: after 6 generations of pokèmon there are still only three families of horse Pokèmon, Ponyta, Keldeo (this is a special event guy who i have never caught myself) and blitzle. This makes Horse’s one of the rarer animal types in the game. One thing you can always depend on with the horses is that they are fast, which is usually a standby thing for electric anyways.  You Pick up this family pretty early in gen five and they do a decent job. I love the looks of this guy and would haven’t kept it all game long but sadly as the case with ponyta, their are just better faster stronger guys out there. Sorry buddy.

4: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/b/bb/135Jolteon.png/250px-135Jolteon.png Jolteon: This one should not be a surprise to anyone at this point concidering how big of an eevee fan I am. Jolteon is one of the three original Evolutions. Before Bite became darkm Jolteon was the only eevee to learn any moves that could challenge mewtwo. It learn the fairly weak now pin missile a bug move. It also naturally learns Double kick, giving this Eevee a leg up on ground types that are looking to wreck its world.  I would say honestly jolteon maybe my 3rd favorite eevee member behind umbreon and Espeon, This classic is still hard to ignore in the field of combat.

 

3: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6b/179Mareep.png/140px-179Mareep.pnghttps://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6f/180Flaaffy.png/135px-180Flaaffy.pnghttps://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/47/181Ampharos.png/250px-181Ampharos.pngAmpharos Family: To explain this one i have to take you back to Gen II.  Just starting out on my second game Journey all i had in my team was Chikorita, Sentret geodude and spearow, with a whole lot of game ahead of me. If i wanted to beat this game…heck even the first gym i needed an electric pokèmon and i needed one quick. Then a met mareep, this electric cotton ball sheep. between it and Geodude most of gym leaders fell to out combo. Type for handling this pokèmon, never stop it from evolving to ampharos, it learns thunder punch right off the bat.  I have never forgotten the help this guy gave me that game, and was quite pleased to get a chance to raise a new one in black 2. This is a one of the good electrics and is well deserving of its mega evolution…even if it looks goofy.

 

2:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/32/403Shinx.png/200px-403Shinx.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/49/404Luxio.png/200px-404Luxio.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a7/405Luxray.png/200px-405Luxray.pngLuxray: Gen Four was full of great pokèmon, especially early game Pokèmon. This family is no exception, especially if you spend some time with this guy at the breeders. You can have a great Shinx that knows right from the egg, Ice, Fire and thunder fang as well as crunch, now you have a little electric bad ass on your team that will not take nothing from anyone. On top of that if you get one with intimidate you drop your opponent defense as well. This guy is a dream for any electric lovers out their, easy to raise tough as nails, get it early, cute as a button and its pretty much a lion! So why isn’t this guy my number one?

 

1: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/0d/025Pikachu.png/205px-025Pikachu.pngPikachu: Because with out pikachu there would be no other lists, i would have never played the game. i probably never known what Pokèmon was. This little electric mouse has changed my world and for the better part of 16 years for me. As most of you know Pokèmon Yellow was my very first game, making Pikachu my very first pokèmon. though the years have gone by i was surprised when making this list on how quick it was for me to put him on it. On top of that how much i missed him. To confess though I did not really realize how much i missed him until i started playing x and when i entered the not viridian “but it sure looks and feels like it” forest. The Npc hinted at a Pikachu so i hunted for one, i must have spent a half hour in there just looking for one, and then i found him. Now i only name Pokèmon in the game i intend to use, so i named him Bolt and i had him with me for quite a while. I am impressed now about his new moves and the new ones he can now learn.  I guess you never forget your first one, and for me Its pikachu.

 

My top 6 Favorite Dragon Pokèmon.

Creating a top 6 now with new pokèmon out their is hard, since there are already some in the new generation that stand out to me, but what i have  come to enjoy about this game is there is such a good balance of old with new i get to explore old favorites for the first time again, or for the first time ever get to know an old pokèmon i have never used in the past.  Better yet it gives me a chance to consciously make a choice to try something new. From Poison on those lists will be influenced by the current game, as i am typing this alterations to my list have occurred and once i have the basics done, i might be going back and changing guys out.

Like Always legendary will not be allowed in this category, and i know there are a lot of dragon types out their. I also want to state where i currently in x-y i have not run into or playing with any new gen dragons so they will not be on the list yet.

 

6:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/b/bb/TrapinchVibravaFlygon.png/200px-TrapinchVibravaFlygon.png    Flygon Family:  I was pretty happy to see this almost forgotten dragon back in X-Y, gen three was just loaded with dragon pokèmon, and i have three of them on this list, so i am a fan of them. This one had an interesting design and honestly looks more bug like then dragon, i think its a serious play of the term dragonfly. This little guy starts off as a rock ground mouth then grows up into a ground dragon that learns fly. Woot, this protects it from electric types that the dragon species can be vulnerable to with flying type with it. its move set is nice but limited compaired to some of the others. I am still a big fan of this guy and would happily put it on my team any day.

5:          https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/c/cc/147Dratini.png/170px-147Dratini.png        https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/93/148Dragonair.png/210px-148Dragonair.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/8b/149Dragonite.png/190px-149Dragonite.pngDragonite Family: Before their was a Garchomp, or salamence, before Rayquaza was even a thought there was Dragoinite, This is the first family of dragon’s in pokèmon, yes i know charizard and Gyarados look like dragons, but they have never been true dragon types (And mega does not count because is a temp boost in power!) If i remember correctly Dratini was in the safari zone, you either had to fish or surf for it and it had like a 5% show up rate. IT was a tough guy to find but paid off in the end. This one also marks the first of the high level leveling finishing up at 55, seems like nothing now with Hydreigon finishing up at 65! I have to acknowledge this family, and while it looks a little goofy it is still the first family of dragons.

4: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/68/443Gible.png/200px-443Gible.png          https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/9d/444Gabite.png/200px-444Gabite.png      https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/fa/445Garchomp.png/250px-445Garchomp.png Garchomp: This is a recent addition to my list knocking kingdra off,  This is a critter then in the past i have never used, or by the time i found it i already had my pick for a dragon type. This gen I ran into its baby form pretty early game standard wise, right before the 5th gym. Its typing with ground was and still is a needed type in my current party. What I love more is it evolves soooo much faster then some other members of the family. (I am looking at you Hydreigon!) So you can have a tough useable dragon by the time your in your 50’s. I will be interested in seeing how this guy continues to fair, we still have to go though the elite four together and one more gym but so far i am impressed.

 

3:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/333Swablu.png/170px-333Swablu.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/da/334Altaria.pngAltaria: Design wise this one is my favorite of all the dragons, she is just so pretty and the little clouds wrapped around her are wings i just see he i thing of serenity. To bad for me like most dragons she can also be a vicious power house! It learns dragon and flying best moves naturally, and has a nice set of moves it can learn naturally making her unpredictable and powerful. While i am not over the moon about her per-evolution it certainly gives off the cute innocent look well enough to not know you maybe in a world of trouble very soon.  Beautiful and deadly…a nice combo if i don’t say so myself

 

2:            https://i0.wp.com/images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110430160609/pokemon/images/d/d2/371Bagon.png           https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a5/372Shelgon.png/160px-372Shelgon.png https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/41/373Salamence.png/240px-373Salamence.pngSalamence: For the longest time this was my top favorite dragon, and still my favorite of the gen three gang, and it was its dex entry as bagon that initally  caught my attention, that it dreams of being able to fly. Wow big drams for such a little guy, even more impressive when it evolves at 50 it naturally learns fly. It is very impressive to me when any Pokèmon naturally learn an HM move. Not only that it does again have a good natural move selection, and a teachable move selection, and he is tough as well. I named the first one i ever caught Sky Dreamer and its still with me after all these years. This is a good dragon that one should not mess with.

 

1:   https://i0.wp.com/images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120324063006/pokemon/images/e/e0/Monozu.png          https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a6/634Zweilous.png/250px-634Zweilous.png      https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3e/635Hydreigon.png/250px-635Hydreigon.png Hydreigon: You cannot spend 64 levels with any Pokèmon without getting a little attached. I first met Deino in Pokèmon black, near the end of the game. I knew before the game ended i had Black 2 waiting in the wings, i decided to to breed Deino with a ditto and teach it a fire move to help out and ship it over to black 2 at the start of my game journey there. The little guy grew and started to learn some interesting moves, that coupled with its typing made this guy a valuable member of my team. This guy is a Dark Dragon, still makes it an open target for the fairies and ice types of the world. If i had any gripes about this guy it would be it takes forever to hit its final level. It doesn’t even hit its first evolution until 50, so your stuck with the weaker deino for quite a while, but stick with it because yes this guy pays off in the end, and train him right he might even put up a serious fight against your ice types and faeries.

 

So their you have it my top 6 favorite dragons, and yes this is one of my favorite types in the game.

let me know what you think in the comments down below.

walk though and gym 3 and 4 reaction

Well after the long hall to get to the 2nd gym, gyms 2, 3 and 4 are rather close to each other, which is nice. i now have a small group of pokèmon i seem to be rotating though which is a first for me. i usually pick 6 and stick with them for a while, but i have grown attach again to my zubat, and honedge. Gym three was a fighting gym, and its in this town do we get the secrets of mega evolution. they will talk at length about the stone and how there is only one ring to be given out, leaving you with a rival battle. Since my warturtle is now a blastoise this isn’t much of an issue for me, between blastoise and zubat we make quick work of the team.

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Oh before i get to far ahead of myself there is a cave you have to get though, this one is a reflection cave, you will fine lots of psychics here including a personal favorite if unuseable little guy woobat (What can i say i like bats) Unfortanlty there is mr mime in here to….for the love of. i got swarmed twice by mime jrs. i think i cried a little inside. this is all good though because the next gym is a fighting gym and if you are not using a psychic or bird yet you might want to pick one up. For me i have Doplar, Fe and Merlin with me. (Golbat, Karlia and fletchinder) these three make quick work of this gym. in fact dopler almost soloed the whole gym leader battle. Blastoise (Power) Chesnaught (Chip) and Combuskin just sort of hung out and got xp, sadly combuskin did not make it to blazikin quite yet.

After the gym battle you are allowed to finally pick up the ring of power, to mega evolve and you are also given lucario. Now this is sort of a big deal for me, i have had lucarios in the past but because i have always had little use for fighting i generally place it into a box. but X-Y is a new chance to get to know old pokèmon all over again (This part of the reason snorlax has been sidelined a bit) I actually choose to box combuskin and keep lucario in the team, i want to see what all the buzz is about with this guy.

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Now onto the the sea, you are given surf which i promply teach blastoise and oooo my god the surfing icon actually now changes to the pokèmon your surfing on!! a hem, i realize quickly this is not a good place for fe to be retreat and retrieve bolt my pikachu. We turn into torros miltank and slobro. (Crap miltank is still one tough cow.) after miltank levels two members of my team i manage to get her into a ball.  there is also a field you can ride skiddo around, much faster and a little bit more fun the ryhon. this actually reminds me of running around moria in lord of the rings online.

On to the next town, not sure but without the walkthough i need to know what gym i am up against, and now that i have a set of pokèmon i am rotating though i really not all that anxious to add more to my list. Still i should note i had a bunch of evolutions at once Karlia (Merlin) finished evolving into gardevior, and fe finished evolving into Talonflame. I am beginning to remember though why gardevior never sticks around with me, but i am willing to give it a few more levels before ditching it completely.

https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/d7/448Lucario.png/160px-448Lucario.png

I picked up the new walkthough this afternoon, it is a nice hard cover but i am disappointed to not see a dex in it. that is what i was truly looking for. i am someone who will hover over her dex and study each pokèmon until i find the right fits for me. My favorite walk thoughs were though vs’s who interjected a little humor into each entry, sadly they are no longer around.  I will say this the walk though does clue me in on how some of the mini games work which is what i really needed help with.

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Anyways the next gym is grass, i quickly box Power and Chip seeing how they will not help me at all in this gym. i withdraw Fe and and Combuskin. Dopler already has learned fly so as always is a menace to this gym. since electric and grass are sort of meh together Bolt stays on and Lucario named Kain gets to show off its stuff once more. I must say though going though the gym battling trainers i am a little frighten about how much and how many of these guys i remember, some i remember because of some past trauma they have inflicted on my teams.  Others because they have been difficult to defeats, others because i have used them. Still it comes in handy but i have to think at what cost does my pokèmon knowledge come, what have i forgotten as a result…wait do i know you people?  During the trainer clear out Doplar hit her final evolution of crobat. comments about the gym, while rope climbing seems like a fun idea, the whole idea of sliding down the rope just seems painful to me. i have had rope burn on my hands before, it sucks and seeing my avatar sliding down the rope in the grass gym made me cringe. hmm lets see the gym leader uses jumpluff, gogoat, whats the final finishing pokèmon for the gym leader. weepinbell. Really? look i like that family too but i can give you a mini list of better grass types. oh well combuskin have fun.  with the gym conquered funny hair contacts me and starts rambling about filth, yup that’s what i thought bad guys always have weird hair in this game. anyways that’s it for now. i have some studying to do now that i have my walk though, and some decisions to start making my elite four team, what will end up on the final team will though who come threw for me in tough battles and i am sure those are to come, with team flare around i am sure life is about to get harder.

My Top 6 favorite Poison types

I have to be honest, poison is one of the few types along with steel, ghost and fighting i use the least, as a result i tend to not have very many of each type i truly like.  however there are a few i can say have weaseled their way into my heart and you might be surprised by them as well.

Like always legendary will not be included, (i don’t think poison has ever gotten a legendary.) I am less then a week into Pokèmon x-y and have yet to find or use a new poison so you will be unlikely to see on in this list for now.

6:     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/48/023Ekans_RG.png     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/c/cd/024Arbok.png/190px-024Arbok.png     https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/d6/336Seviper.png/180px-336Seviper.png  Arbok and Serviper: These two tie in my book, because i actually like snakes. These are both well executed designs and arbok and ekens hold a little nostalgia for me too, being part of the first generation. I do love that ekens goes from a rattler to a cobra. Serviper is cool too it seems like it has a little untapped potential too. For being pure poisons the move sets aren’t bad, but them being pure poison is what normally keeps them out of my team, still both have grown over the years and arbok if trained right i think could be a threat…if not used by team rocket.

5: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/7c/089Muk.png/260px-089Muk.png  Muk: ok this one is another nostalgic one for me, i have never really used him or grimer because of their pure poison natures, but it was just so damn funny in the anime. All it really wanted to be is love and acknowledged and no one wanted to give it to him because he was a pile of sludge. Poor little unlove Muk, don’t worry I like you.

4: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/bc/435Skuntank.png Skuntank: This is the last one on this Poison types i haven’t used on this list the next three i have. This one is an intriguing type mix to me Poison/dark. dark removes the psychic issue that Poisons have. but now fighting is in issue…there is just no winning some days. Still its rather cute for a skunk.

3:           https://i0.wp.com/www.pokemonelite2000.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Height-Nido-family.png       The nidoran family: This family is kind of a bad ass and history maker. the first family in this game to have a male and female forms, first pokèmon to have a gender Period. Trust me if you have never been in a battle with a member of the family consider yourself lucky because they are tough especially Nidoking. If trained right these guys can be a powerful threat to any pokèmon on the field even a psychic. What has kept them off my personal team as you have probably figured out by now it is still the poison typing, and now just to many choices out their.

2:  https://i0.wp.com/www.pokemonelite2000.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Height-Victreebels-Family.png   Bellsprout: For a long while i avoided this family, but to be honest it almost made my grass type list, only beaten out by oddish because of the forth evolution. In gen I i completely ignored this pokèmon. In gen II i want to say with Crystal there was no easily access electric, i think i had picked Cyndaquil for my second go around on the gen II game so i despertly needed help with water, ground and quagsire, and bellsprout was my answer.  I picked it up just after the first gym and bellsprout ran with me for quite a while earning it a spot on my list. while i don’t remember if it made it to my elite four run, i will always remember its help when i needed it.

1: https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/ZubatLine.pngZubat Family: That is right i am one of those strange players that actually likes and enjoys having zubat on her team. My love for Zubat comes with Gen II again, with the introduction of crobat and leveling via friendliness. this can be actually a very long process, and it takes time and in that time you get to learn about your little mon. Zubat is actually a cool little bat, who has grown over the years, actually at this very moment in my current game X I have another zubat that just evolved into golbat, i named her Dopler. Doplar has already assisted in two gyms and is about to head into her third if it keeps it up it might make a spot in my elite four team at this pace. Its hard not be impressed a little by Zubat, for a family people dismiss really quickly because lets face it you couldn’t go 5 feet in a cave in previous generations without running into one, its not a bad little pokèmon. Plus look how adorable zubat is, it still the cutest of the three bat pokèmon. By the way zubat was on the list i wrote up before x-y came out, x just reinforced my love for zubat. that’s why she will always be my favorite poison type.

My Top 6 Favorite Grass Pokèmon

Sorry About the delay but my brother got married this weekend, so i have been distracted. So what is a wedding with out Flowers and flowers with out plants leading to this blogs topic…my top 6 Favorite grass Pokèmon.

Back in gen 1 there was only one pure grass Pokèmon, the annoying Tanglea, with the rest having poison in them.  Now with X and Y looming Grass is now a pretty decent sized category, with more then a few pure Grass, and with some other neat mixes such as Flying, Ground and Rock.

As always this is my personal opinion, but if you have a different one i would love to hear it. Also again legendary will not be included in this list, they already have a top ten they don’t get to sneak in here!  So before vines grow around this post, here is my top 6.

6:   https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Pok%C3%A9mon_Oddish_Gloom_Vileplume_art.png    https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/c/cd/182Bellossom.png/155px-182Bellossom.png  Oddish Family: Look how Cute Oddish is, (Squee) I just can’t help it i love Oddish. <3. I guess you need a little more then that huh, Oddish and its family members (Glooms, Vileplume, and Bellosum) are sort of a odd bunch. While oddish is just flat our adoriable, Gloom, looks very drunk which could explain why he can evolve into two different forms, depending on rock it happens to be near. Vileplume if it fines gen I’s leaf stone, or Bellosum if it fines gen II’s Sun Stone. while i tend to favor Bellossum a little more then Vileplume i think they are both decent end forms. To prove my love for little oddish, two years ago at a anime convention near by, there was this young lady just finishing sowing a little stuffed oddish, instantly fell in love with it, and as soon as its little eyes were sown on, my money was on the table and it was in my hands.  I just love this little family and love my little stuffed oddish. (oddish)

5https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f5/470Leafeon.png/230px-470Leafeon.png Leafeon: I hope you guys are getting buy now Eevees will be on this list and they do rule. I think the only one that hasn’t made the cut so far is poor Flareon. O well, on to Leafeon. This Eevelution, has earned its stripes learning a good mix of both grass as poison as well as the stand by Eevee move bite makes it quite the effective grass type. And if it was for the next four on the list it probably be a steady member of my teams. I also quite fond of this design, its is a nice look of the classic Eevee design with just hints of leaves and vines on it. I think it was a nice addition to the Eevee clan filling a missing gap within the line up. Now if your composing an team Eevee, you have Vaperon for water and ice, Leafeon for grass, Jolteon for electric and bug, Flareon for fire, Espeon for psychic and Umbreon for dark. Not that i don’t think even a decent team Eevee will struggle but at least now you can build a well rounded one. By The way, why its likely I am wrong about this but i suspect there will be two Eevelutions in x-y. in Gold and silver and pearl and diamond there have always been two Eevee’s released. i would not be surprised to find a second secret one released with Sylveon.

4: https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/ChikoritaTrio.pngChikorita Family: As Most of you have probably guess at this point i am a big fan of Gen II, This was the first generation i actually got to pick my starter on, with the gen before i picked yellow so all three were given to me. looking back now gen II’s starters now are about average, pure bloods of each type. I am not sure why I picked Chikorita, i think part of it was i was still heavily watching the pokèmon show at the time. I must admit it was a struggle with poor Chickorita espeically with the first couple of gyms, but as she grew i think i did too. Learning to relay one her when it came to catching other. Chikorita later game proved to be quite the effective tank, helping me out when i needed to heal up other team members. Although i did end up boxing her before the elite four I will always remember her fondly as being a great tank in a time of need.

3https://i0.wp.com/www.pokemonelite2000.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Height-Serperiors-family.pngSerperior’s Family: I went into Black and White with no walk though and no previous knowledge of what this game was going to be like. So when it came time to choose my starter I went the path I normally take, being fairly unpressed by the fire or water starters. I was a little surprised when it hit its final stage and became a snake, making this Pokèmons third entry that is modeled after the snake. Being a Snake i think gave Serperior speed, making it one of the faster grass types. It does learn the basic grass move set but also picks up some of Posions move sets. I must say this is one of the grass starters i was presently surprised by, even though its a pure bred grass type it still pulled me though until the end. and yessss she did pull me though the end, unlike some other grass starters i have used in the passed, this one was never boxed. I was really impressssed by this one. So it wasss and Eassy pick for number three.

2: https://i0.wp.com/images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120516133814/powerlisting/images/0/07/Turtwig-grotle-torterra.pngTorterra family: I beginning to notice a love for turtles in my lists. I was in college when Pearl and Diamond were released. I remember waking up in my dorm room, getting dressed and carefully sneaking out of my dorm room so not to wake up my roommate to pick up my copy of Pearl. I did pick up my walk though and studied the starters briefly, after coming off of gen III and my fire pick, i could go anywhere. It was cute little Turtwig that grounded me back to grass. (Get it, Heh) The fact it grew a tree on its back on its final form and gained ground as a typing intrigued me. This family never let me down, constantly getting me out of trouble, taking hits for me when the rest of the team needed to be healed Torterra proved its worth to me, so much so it is now officially in my top ten. The only grass type to make it to that precious list, and its because of the duel typing does it land there. The ability to learn ground/ rock/ grass and posion moves can make Torterra a deadly combo fighter and my beloved grass type on the other.

So who beats out Torterra for me, the original the one and only.

1: https://i0.wp.com/i572.photobucket.com/albums/ss162/mobey3/Bulbasaur_by_elfaceitoso.png      https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/002Ivysaur.png       https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/ae/003Venusaur.png/256px-003Venusaur.png https://i0.wp.com/media-cerulean.cursecdn.com/attachments/5/860/mega_venusaur.pngBulbsaur: They say you never forget your first love, i think that phrase apple’s to almost everything in life you love first. Your first pet, your first kiss, or in this case your first starter. As i have stated repeatedly over the last few posts, Yellow was my first game, so my first starter was Pikachu (he is coming.) But bulbasaur was the first of the three starters i truly used. He is handy to have in the first three gyms, (rock, water, electric) and is a tank when needed as well. I really don’t care much about its evolutions and I am a little miffed by his mega evolution (charizard is a dragon, and blastoise gets a freaking cannons and what does Venasaur get and extra flower! COME ON!!) ahem. I must admit there was a point in time they i forgot how much i like bulbasaur until the recent X-Y announcements. I knew going into this week i would probably end up picking Chespin, with Torchic being downloaded as well, putting me at a grass and a fire to start the game. Then they announced you could pick one of the original Kanto (gen I) starters. The logical side of my brain said cool lets get squirtle and we will be rounded out…then something odd happened i didn’t quite expect, something i will probably be battling with until the Saturday I pick up and start the game.  I started to think about bulbsaur and how much i missed playing with him, and now with my new appreciation of Poison i wonder how much better he is. My heart is telling me to pick Bulbsaur and little Chespin, or Fennekin. I think my team will be unbalanced either way, but it was that surprising thump of excitment of seeing my bulbsaur back. They say you never forget your first love, and for me Pokèmon number 1, is my number 1 favorite Grass type.

Wow i guess i put all the grass starters on the list except for Treeko or well. We are just days away from Pokèmon X-Y, are you as excited as i am?

As always leave comments down below.

My Top 6 Favorite Fire Pokèmon

This mon is on fire, on Firrreeerrrrreee

Sorry had to, OK i will be the the first to admit Fire is generally not a type i select very often, for me i rarely use it, and to be honest not since gen 1 has there been that many good Fire Pokèmon i have really be interested in. To Begin with fire then other then the starter, tends to be a rare type. With Gen one being the first game also had the most non legendary fires entered into the Pokèmon world.

Like always this is my personal opinion, and legendaries will not be allowed in typing blogs. (Sorry Moltres and Ho-oh) With out further Adu

 

6: https://i0.wp.com/pokemonplus.net/forums/uploads/ibEconomy_images/shop_item_img-449.png  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4a/005Charmeleon.png/260px-005Charmeleon.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/7e/006Charizard.png/256px-006Charizard.png Charizard Family: For a lot of people myself included, this family was one of our first introductions to the world of Pokèmon. To this day this still tends to be a popular family, to me i think they are a little over hyped. I tend to shy away from things everyone uses, and is def one a lot of people love. For me i like little Charmander more then Charizard. Still i have always love the design of a dragon, and was a little delighted and the newly released Mega evolution with dragon is kind of kick ass…except for the mustash, yeah i said it…what are you gonna do about it?

5:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/60/037Vulpix.png/236px-037Vulpix.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/05/038Ninetales.png/226px-038Ninetales.png Ninetails: This is such a nice looking Fire Pokèmon, and i have to tell you i really didn’t appropriate it all that much until recently. When they announced Fennekin, i must admit i was hoping it would evolve into something like ninetails, with my recent return to loving Naruto i would have loved a Ninetails to name Kurama. Sadly that doesn’t look like Fennekin’s fate. My only complaint about ninetails, is the same complain i will have with the next one, is the stone evolution. I firmly believe a pokèmon should be at a certain level before it allows a stone to be used on it. Otherwise you can just evolve it throw it in a box, its only by leveling in my opinion do you really grown to appropriate each Pokèmon and thee individual traits. Still i must love the simple elegance there is to this fire Pokèmon.

 

4https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/b/b8/059Arcanine.png/230px-059Arcanine.png   Arcinine: Like Ninetails before it i love his design, and sometimes i think when they dreamed up Entei they used him as a roll model.  When i selected yellow, Growlithe was the fire i could catch in that version, and raise him i did. i ended up growing quite attached to him but alas, that stupid stone i think in the end kept me from really bonding with this one. I have used him as a fighter but have also been on the defending end of this guy and he still holds up, Arcinine is one tough fire dog, and should continue to be respected.

 

3: https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Rapidash.png Rapidash: There are surprisingly very few Pokèmon out their that are designed like a horse, (and like a bazillion, dog and cat ones).  On top of that i also think that Rapidash is one of the more unappreciated Fire Pokèmon in the game. It is to bad too because this one is pretty darn fast, and my wish with Pokèmon X-Y with that ability to ride pokèmon you will see this speedy fire horse used a lot more. (i mean come on why does the goat get ridden first!!!) I think this one as much as i like Arcinine is my favorite gen 1 Fire, while its only two evolutions, you do have to spend time with it to get it to evolve. Its fast, and it learns Bounce now which is pretty annoying if your on the receiving end, but effective. My Hope is that Repidash gets a little more attention in the upcoming game and maybe even a third evolution or even a mega evolution, who knows that the future hold for this guy, but I can always see Rapidash as one of my favorites.

 

2: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/5/51/229Houndoom.png/200px-229Houndoom.pngHoundoom: When Dark Type was first introduced in Gen Two, there were Two Dark types i really took to right away, Umbreon was one, and Houndoom was the second. Houndoom is a great strike fighter, good speed and nice attacks to utilize those moves. This guy was everything you would think of when it came to a hell hound (Except minus a head or two) I named my Cerberus and we got along very well. I will however say this is probably one fire that hasn’t aged well, from what i can see. It’s move set is pretty darn consistent with what it had when it started out in silver, given some minor tweaks here and there. It continues to have good speed and attack but it like most fires is not a defensive Pokèmon. Still I do love its design and its another one i would be quite happy to see another evolution too. I think that maybe a big issue with a lot of my fires on this list, they are all good, but the just need that one more step, another evolution to make them outstanding Fires.

1:https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/91/255Torchic.png/150px-255Torchic.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/2/29/256Combusken.png/180px-256Combusken.png  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/90/257Blaziken.png/200px-257Blaziken.png  : Blaziken Family: The Rule Breakers. Up until the third gen, and honestly even after third gen I always picked grass as my starting Pokèmon. For one reason or another Treecko just was not doing it for me, but then i met little Torchic and i fell instantly in love with it. For me there has been no other fire starter since then, i mean just look in to Torchic’s eyes. It also didn’t hurt that gen three was notoriously thin on fire pokèmon, and Blaziken was the best you could get. Blaziken also changed how i battled, up until it i never used Fighting Pokèmon in a team. It was Because of Blaziken my eyes opened to fighting as well, and yes i know there are now two other fire/ fighting out there. but i dislike monkey pokèmon (Sorry) and i am not that impressed my the pig either.  Blaziken was the first and in my opinion the best of this typing and will always be my favorite Fire Pokèmon.

My Top 6 Favorite Psychic Pokèmon

This Category was a little easier on me then the last two were, picking out Psychics i know and love was easy. I had five really quickly and with some debate number six was added along to the list.

Like the previous two lists there will be no legendaries allowed (so don’t look for Mewtwo here, he is not welcome)

And as Always this is my personal opinion so don’t get all mad. Anyways here it is my Top 6 favorite Psychics

6:  https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/11/203Girafarig.png/140px-203Girafarig.pngGiragarig: This odd little Pokèmon introduced in the second generation is part normal part Psychic and learns dark’s best move naturally, its Normal typing also gives this little guy access to a wide verity of moves like most of the normals have. Its a nice design and its ability to learn dark moves could make it a strong member of the team. I think what works Against this little guy its the fact its stats are about average, and it really doesn’t evolve. Which i think is too bad, if the game gave it an evolution maybe fully to Psychic/dark and capitalize more on its duel personality, I mean look it has two faces, the light and the dark, It is almost there, it just  needs one evolution to fully capitalize on what could be potentially one of the great ones.

 

5:https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/AbraKadabraAlakazam.png Abra Family: As much of pain in the butt it is to catch Abra, it and its family make pretty good Pokèmon, and a great start as an intro into the type. Those of you who had one traded to you or won one, never knew the pain of trying to catch one of these suckers. When you first meet this family in the first gen Abra only really knows Teleport, and that is what it does. It see’s you and runs, so you only hope is to be fast enough to put it to sleep, and throw a pokèball at it, or just though the ball at it and hope for the best.  However once you catch him make room for him in your team, because its a good a fast Psychic. Two things work against it now a days for me. One its kind of annoying to evolve, you need it to be kadabra and you need to trade it to a friend, (although modern technology such as wi-fi makes this far less of a hassle) Two it is sort of out classed now by some of the newer Psychic’s out there.  Still it has to be acknowledged as being one of the first.

4:   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e1/280Ralts.png/130px-280Ralts.png      https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/00/281Kirlia.png/130px-281Kirlia.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/5/58/475Gallade.png/200px-475Gallade.png        https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/282Gardevoir.png/216px-282Gardevoir.png       Ralt’s Family: This is a very nice looking family, but its also a very strong entry into the Psychic world. When Gen three first game out it was just Ralts, Kirlia and Gardevoir, with the forth gen they added a male version Gallade, who is psychic fighting. (Way to turn a fighting weakness into a strength game) In Terms of Stats and what not its about on par with Abra’s family, good solid Psychic pokèmon, they could be better for what the game provides you in that gen its a nice start. Still i would have been happier to have Gallade in the third gen as well, because now i have a male Gardevoir still running around. (i have taken great care to insure that all pokèmon that have been in one of my teams continue to stay with me. i know its just a game but i feel like i owe it to them to keep them around.) Still this is a good family to have on your side, and i enjoyed having them in my team, and look forward to the day that ruby and sapphire are re-released (Like it deserves!)  To play with this family again.

3:       https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/db/PCP374.png    https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/62/375Metang.png   https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/05/376Metagross.png  Metagross family: I think this family took its cues from Abra’s, It fools you at first thinking its not going to be much of a Pokèmon, then it evolves, then it Evolves again until it is Metagross. Now he has been featured as one of my Top Pokèmon before, but he deserves a place on this list as well.  Its Steel nature helps him take some hits, but sadly his world can be ruined by a good ground move. That is why giving him Magnate rise is so vitally important. This is also another good Gen Three Pokèmon and the reason my Gardevoir finally got boxed in the game. The only sad thing is you cannot pick him up until after you defeat the elite four the first time, which is too bad because he is a high level evolver you want on your team!

 

2: https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3a/Bronzor-bronzong.png/200px-Bronzor-bronzong.pngBronzor and Bronzong: When i first met this pokèmon in the forth gen my first thoughts was huh, a floating tambourine (Which is why mine is name Tamber), and once i discovered it was Steel/psychic like my beloved Metagross i though great now they are just ripping him off. Well I was wrong, it took the concept of Steel/Psychic and approved upon it in my opinion. If you can get one that knows levitate then your already a step ahead of poor Metagross. your taking a move that Metagross has to learn in order to protect it, and making it an ability with Bronzor. Plus you get this guy a lot sooner in Gen 4 so you have some time to develop a real relationship with this type. Bronzong game right with me though the elite four and even several end game events. That makes it a little closer to the heart then Metagross. It is really hard not to compare the two, just because they are similar but both unique.  I guess if i have to pick them in a one one one duel like i just have, Bronzong comes out victorious (Sorry Metagross, i still love you.)

 

1 https://i0.wp.com/cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a7/196Espeon.png/180px-196Espeon.png  Espeon: It should be pretty Obvious by now, that i love Eevee’s Family, So it should come as no suprise that another member of said family is here on this list. However this one is probably my favorite member of the family (wIth umbreon at a close number two).  In gen two there was no Mewtwo, Abra and Hypno made appearances but it was espeon that was top dog (Cat?) in the Psychic world. Unlike the others it learned as Eevee bite, making it quite the threat to the other psychic Pokèmon. Espeon to me over the years has continued to hold up, while it doesn’t have the defense of Metagross or Bronzong it has the speed, and the move set to still make it a pretty decent choice. This one also learns morning sun, a pretty decent healing move that can keep her healthy in a tough battle. This one will probably always be pretty close to my heart, which is why Espeon will always be my top choice in the world of Psychic’s.

Journey In To handhelds

As some of you have gathered from my previous posts and even my journey into Gaming, i prefer to be portable in my gaming life, as i get older as I always seem to be going somewhere i find life easier to have something portable to play with. Each one of my systems has a story to tell and a journey to note and I am finally going to tell our story.

Special note: All handhelds pictured are my very own systems, all are well cared for and still playable today.

Special note: All dates when i got these systems could be off as i get older i tend to forget little details.

Game Boy Color  The Game Boy Color [1999-2002] : This were I started my handheld journey, one Christmas or birthday (i really cannot remember, what do you want this was over 11 years ago!) I got my Game Boy Color with Pokèmon yellow. I do remember wanting yellow over red or blue because i didn’t want to have to choose a starter and it closely followed the cartoon i had come to enjoy. I quickly grew to enjoy having this system with me, my family who traveled a lot to visit relatives over 3-4 hours away have a Game boy color became a nice way to pass the time. Eventually my brother would get his own GBC a teal one along with Pokèmon blue and we would battle each other along our journey. Coupled with the n64 (our first official Nintendo system in the house.) Pokèmon would go on to solidify its place in my heart, i fell in love for the first time with my long time friend over this system. This system also saw my first heart break, the death of my grandfather and the most impactful moment in both mine and America’s life.  As my journey with Pokèmon continued with silver and then eventually crystal this system gave me comfort in those troubled times. I however never journeyed beyond the Pokèmon games with this system, i think it was more of the people i knew at the time did not really play the system so i only played what I knew.

GBA Game Boy Advance [2003 3 months]: As news of a new Pokèmon game started to grow it quickly became apparent i would soon need to upgrade from my Game boy Color to a Game boy advance. I hesitated at first, just freshly off a two hand surgeries for carpel tunnel i had given the systems a break. Instead choosing to play console games with my brother (Namingly Twisted Metal, but that’s another story for another day). I was actually probably one of the few that sort of liked the new bulkier design for the GBA, but i yet had a real need to upgrade to it. My brothers new girlfriend (soon to be sister in law) at the time, surprised me one day with an old floor model GBA from the store she worked at. She had apparently won it and her sibling already had one. This poor little thing was already quite beaten up, it didn’t have a battery backing to it, so i used duck tape to hold the double A’s into the system. That vacation i picked up the spider-man skin for it, along with a spider-man light. ( i am not sure were the light is, i know it is in my room, i am just not sure were in my room). As pokèmon Sapphire launched it became apparent this poor little guy just wouldn’t suit the needs i had, but there was another a better option.

GBA SP  Game Boy Advance SP[2003-2006]. This one in my humble opinion was a huge jump forward for both Nintendo and myself. the first system to offer a rechargeable battery, back lighting and most importantly for me a closeable screen. As i started to travel more with my system bringing it to and from college with me having a gba whose batteries constantly popped out wasn’t a feasible option.  At the time the friends I had recently made at an anime club at my college already had a few sp’s among them, so i wanted my new little GBA sp to look different then theirs. I wanted one one with the old Nintendo background on it, (which is weird for me because i have no real history with Nintendo up until my game boy color, I was a Sega girl.) The store didn’t have that one in stock but this tribal one was. To be honest now looking back on it I am glad I got this one. Maybe its because its been with me for over ten years but if i had to do it over again and my original choice was there, I think I might pick the tribal one all over again, there is just something about the design I really like. This one also launched me on a different journey for me. With these new friends they started to recommend other titles to me, and making a trip to GameStop with them was not completely unheard of. I started to play other titles such as Advance Wars, Wario Wear and Golden Sun, I still played my Pokèmon games but i enjoyed the different titles as well. This little one came every where with me, its small size rechargablity and the foldable feature made it perfect for me.

DS Lite 2 DS LITE (2005-2008) : This little one is actually my second ds lite. I never bought the original ds, I would wait until the ds lite and when i was officially at my four year school before I bought this one. It appealed to me because of its wireless capabilities allowing me to connect and play with the friends I left behind when i moved from a community college onto to a 4 year university. Even though its not pictured here, this would be the first system that i would purchase a grip for.  Just before my first gba doctors discovered I had carpal tunnel in my hand, due to my muscles growing in a different directions, i had always had trouble gripping so after two surgeries to “correct” the issues, my hands would remain in pain. Carpal tunnel and gaming are not friends. (just FYI and the Surgery does not work, i am still in pain years later and have bad days were my whole hand just is ache)
Anyways I ramble, as i mentioned earlier this one wasn’t my original lite, my first one another white one (i refused to get a pink one!) I was talking to my roommate one evening when my original one jumped from its perch and to the solid floor below, its little hinge went flying off into another direction why the console went in another. To the damn things credit it, it still played and acted as if nothing was wrong. (Nintendo really builds these things to be beaten up.) After realizing i could not repair it, i traded it in for a new one. this one would remain my system for a good 4 years. It was this system i would truly explore other games with. I quickly became a fan of game series like Puzzle Quest, Professor Layton, and Ace Attorney. I would also pick up ds versions of Final fantasy 4 (which i loved), the newest sets of Pokèmon games including ones that would appear for the first time on the ds. I really enjoyed ranger a lot (although my hands beg to differ on that one) This little system open up so much for me and i think even today it was a ground breaker for me.

DSI DSI: (2009-2013) I actually had no intention on buying the DSI , my lite gave me everything i could have asked for, but one Christmas shortly after I had completed college my brother asked me what i wanted for Christmas. I told him either a psp (to fill my need for portable twisted metal and final fantasy) or dsi (because my intrest was peaked with the new Nintendo handheld), to my surprise he actually got me the DSI. He picked it because I already had a good library in which to use it. At first i didn’t use it sticking with my well known and well loved DS Lite. Eventually however little by little i started to warm up to this new system. I gave it new little wings (the grips you see pictured with it and i started to download a few titles.  without even realizing it this quickly became my go to system forcing my beloved lite into retirement. I continue to accumulate more titles including pearl, soul silver. i even downloaded a few titles as well, including a longer version of the paper airplane game which i had come to love from my old Wario wear title for the gba. It is funny it is also because of this system did i even return to the handhelds after the disaster.

Not pictured Original 3ds or

useless piece of crap.  

When the 3ds was announced I grew excited,  given my enjoyment of the previous ds models i thought i would enjoy this system as well. So over the course of the months leading up to its launch I traded in the PSP that i had bought (brother was right i just enjoyed my DS more) and a few dozen titles towards the purchase of the new 3ds. I put a little money aside every couple of weeks so the day of launch i would have it all paid off, treating the pre-order system at game stop as a layaway system.  Paid off it was day of launch…but that 3ds started a 2 and a half year long break from Nintendo. I put a lot of hard earn money and time into getting the system only to on launch day have no titles i was truly into and 6 months later they would drop the price by nearly a 100 dollars. The games they gave me to compensate me was much of a compensation in my opinion because they were titles i had no prior interest in playing. it was a slap in the face for me i had given up a lot to get that system, including my PSP and beloved ds titles which i am still trying to track down again including my digimon game. This system itself was a disappointment as well, its battery didn’t last nearly as long as my dsi’s battery, I was hurt badly by Nintendo and even the newly release pokèmon black could not ease the betrayal i was feeling by Nintendo and i walked away from them for two years.

https://i0.wp.com/tlt.psu.edu/files/2011/08/Screen-Shot-2012-10-19-at-9.57.37-AM.pngI filled my time in those two years with games on the android, from Mystery of the Crystal to angry birds, to most recently Simpsons Tapped out. AAA Homer i hope you never stop entertaining me. My android cell phone became a companion to me but it alone could not fill the void.

https://i0.wp.com/www.gamefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lotro-logo-517.jpg (2011-present) I also explored the world of MMRPG’s, being too cheap to afford something like World of Warcraft I look for Free to Play options, it was suggested to me to try Lord of the Rings Online even though i had never read the books or seen the movies. i was told i would be fine..and you know what i was. I went into the the journey online looking for new friends and a new world to explore and i got both. I have been playing happily now for almost 3 years now on the riddermark server. At the beginning of this month the kin i helped found celebrated its second year of being together. I do love the people i play with and admittedly i now pay for the game, i still found myself missing something. After three years of exploring middle earth i found myself dreaming of my ds again.

3ds2 3ds XL (2013-current) On a Whim recently i broke out my old Dsi (the 3sd still very much in time out) growing bored of the often short cell phone games I started to play pokèmon black,  a game which i had bought just weeks after buying the 3ds, but by then my heart was already broken. With my sudden resurgence to play my friends encouraged me to upgrade once again, this time however I was reluctant. after all i had burned before, but they persisted promising me the XL had better fixed the errors of the original. They both had a 3ds xl’s and after a while i gave in.  Knowing I would never get over the hurt the original one caused i traded it in for a fresh start (and got a great deal for it, GameStop sent me an e-mail promising me more then what they were going to offer, i showed the e-mail and got that promised amount back on it, (Go older and wiser(ish)!)  I got my new blue 3ds for half of the amount, with in days i found a new grip for it and i was off an running. They were right this ones battery is much better then the original and it feels different. It feels like a new start of me and nintendo, for the first time with access to the new store i found myself remembering how happy i was with my ds and DSI , i was both surprised and a little pleased to learn the two systems could talk to each other and i could import almost all the games i had bought for the dsi onto the 3ds. I think for the first time i felt like i had come to terms with the pain Nintendo has cause and was now ready to move on with them.  Now with a pokèmon at my side (and a new one almost here) middle earth in my lap and homer…well doing what homer does. I feel like my adventure is bright with my handhelds, we might have hit a rough patch but portable is always the system..the home where i belong.

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Well that’s my long winded and probably boring story.

next time, my top 10 favorite non-pokèmon titles…thank you for reading