I played through Alpha Sapphire with an entirely Ghost-type party, the core of which was a shiny Gastly! Dark Pokémon had never held more menace, and eliminating enemies with brute force when in a pinch resulted in an incredibly rewarding victory. Next time, rather than make fun, why not join in the fun? Take the Gym Leader Challenge and play through an entire Pokémon game with only one Pokémon type! It’s incredibly fun prepping teams who can cover shared weaknesses, and there’s so much more risk involved when almost all of your Pokémon are susceptible to the same types of attacks. We’ve all made fun of Youngster NPCs for their unshakable faith in their bug Pokémon, or scoffed at a gym leader as we defeated them with a singular, super effective Pokémon. Who doesn’t love the Eeveelutions? And statistically speaking, they are a formidable force all together! Beleevee me, this is one play style you’ve got to try! Gym Leader Challenge The resulting play-through was one of the most fun I’ve ever had. Within no time, I had an amazing team of Pokémon that all derived from one source. Two of them I immediately took to making exceedingly happy the rest I equipped with stones. Once they all hatched, I selected the best personality type for each element, ensuring my Eevees stats played well to the strengths of its eventual evolution. So, I bred eight Eevee eggs in my Pearl game and traded them to my Platinum file almost immediately after starting. Almost immediately I resolved to play the game through with a team of Eevee evolutions, especially since the fourth generation came equipped with two new Eeveelutions, Leafeon and Glaceon, bringing my total party options up to seven different Pokémon (or eight if you want to keep one an Eevee). When the next main series titles arrive, and especially Generation IX, try to avoid spoilers and discover the game entirely for yourself! Eeveelution PartyĪs much as I loved playing Pearl and despite the fact that I like Giratina more than Palkia in terms of cover Pokémon, when Platinum came out, I had the itch to play a Pokémon game, but wasn’t sure I wanted a standard journey through Sinnoh. When it came do deciding my party, each and every Pokémon I had to evaluate for myself to see its strengths, general stats, and weaknesses, and I was forced to explore everything thoroughly to ensure I’d discovered it all. Countless Pokémon were epic surprises, from Aegislash, to Goodra, all of the Mega Evolutions, and of course Zygarde. To discover a lot of Pokémon, I spent time training them, especially once I deduced that they had evolutions (based on Pokédex position). Whenever I caught a new Pokémon, I had no idea whether it evolved or not, or what it’d evolve into. I did this with X and Y and it was incredibly rewarding. This is particularly enjoyable when playing through a new generation title. I mean going through the game without a guide or the internet. When I say blind, I don’t mean blindfolded, though that might be interesting. Here are a couple of my favorite approaches to Pokemon play-throughs and ways to keep Pokémon from getting old! Blind So how do you keep your Pokémon play-throughs from getting old or redundant? I’m here to tell you that for every Pokémon out there, there’s a different way to play the game! Okay, maybe there aren’t 898 ways to keep yourself fighting fit and help each new game feel completely fresh, but there are a lot of fun ways to approach the game to give it a new challenge. You’ve become the very best, and you’ve caught them all. If you are anything like me, you have become the Pokémon Champion of eight different Pokémon regions multiple times over.
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