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8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

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2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Culise]

Indeed.  If I recall it correctly, most/all early adopters of Bank had started their games before they received the service, because the Bank service wasn't released until months after X and Y were released.  I don't recall having any difficulty at all accessing my existing game with Bank. 

[Akura]

I'm not sure what you mean by "new game entirely"

I mean wipe the save.

But that doesn't seem to be the case if I'm understanding Culise correctly.

[Aklyon]

I'm pretty sure Culise is right about the 'you need a save first' definition. Since if you don't have a save, where it it connecting to in your game?

[Cthulhu]

I decided to get pokemon Y.

Keep in mind I haven't played a pokemon game since Gold, back when it first came out 15 years ago.

Jesus, there's so much shit in this game.  I just got to the professor and theres' 33 pokemon in my pokedex, and I'm sure I haven't even seen half hte possible pokemon in some of the routes I've gone through.

Wonder trading is also cool but I can see it harming the experience if I use it too much this early on.  I traded a fletchling and got a level 1 gastly which I'm really happy about cause Gengar is one of my favorite pokemen and it'll probably be hard to find a ghost type in the wild this early.  I also threw my Panpour in and got a level 24 Adamant Moxie Scraggy, which is when I realized this had the potential to ruin the fun if I abuse it.  I probably won't use the scraggy until the rest of my pokemon are around that level too.

[Emma]

Wonder trading is also cool but I can see it harming the experience if I use it too much this early on.

I'm pretty sure it harmed my experience. I decided to use it to trade a Haunter I didn't want and got a level 90 Garchomp by about the 2nd Gym. It was not a difficult play-through.

[Tawa]

Relevant

The Kalos Pokédex has over half of all the Pokémon in the entire series in it; you've already seen 33, but you still have 424 to go. It's going to take a lot longer to catch 'em all this time.

[DeKaFu]

Kinda bummed about the Go Plus delay... was looking forward to that for accessibility reasons.

Oh well. My phone that I bought for responsible grown-up phone reasons has arrived, and I'm finally joining the world of 3 weeks ago.

A couple Pokémon Go questions for anyone who knows:
Is there any reason besides attacks and CP that you might want to keep one Pokémon over another of the same species? Like... is there variation in potential max stats or anything? I realize anything I'm catching now is probably trash (only level 3) but for the long term I'd like to make sure I'm not tossing anyone potentially important into the candy grinder.
Second, is pretty much any fully-evolved Pokémon "competitive"? I have a dream to eventually raise a Zubat until it is in the top percentage of all Zubat (okay, Golbat, I'll evolve it). Would it be able to take on/defend gyms with the best of them, or is it doomed to forever be an early-game-weakling?

[beorn080]

Basically all pokemon are competitive, excepting type advantages. But yes, you can make that combat into a serious powerhouse

As for differences. There is strong indication that some pokemon can hit higher co then others of the same type. It has to do with comparing their current cp to the amount the bar around their cp has travelled. I know little beyond this, but it is a thing. I'm not sure if it will really make a difference long term. It depends on if refinements to the battle system are forthcoming or not.

[Cthulhu]

CP potential does vary.  A 90% pidgey at level 5 will be weaker than a 50% pidgey caught at level 15.

Anything can work on a gym but there are some stats additional to CP that make some pokemon better than others.  Water types and big normals are usually the best because they hav emore health.  Snorlax, Vaporeon, Lapras, etc. 

[Greiger]

Relevant

....I am a monster.  I feel so terrible.... so many....what do I start with....how do I make it up to them....I can only bring 6.....   should I release them?  But what happens....will they be lonely forever?

[itisnotlogical]

Eevee is by far my most-caught mon in PokeGo. I have enough Eevee Candy to evolve two Eevees and still be halfway to a third. There's at least one Eeveelution in every gym when I go on my jogging/PokeGo route, along which I'll usually trip over five or six more Eevees. I am displeased by this.

[LoSboccacc]

Basically all pokemon are competitive, excepting type advantages

^ yeah don't expect to have golbat amount to anything, they're weak to almost every type

[Reudh]

Basically all pokemon are competitive, excepting type advantages

^ yeah don't expect to have golbat amount to anything, they're weak to almost every type

Poison/Flying? Ice, electric, rock, psychic. Four out of seventeen types.

The weakest type combo would be Grass/Psychic, held by Exeggutor and Celebi, weak to Flying, Fire, Bug (4x), Ice, Dark, Ghost, Poison.

[Sirus]

Relevant

It's funny, because Crobat is actually pretty cool. Very fast and strong, and if you can get one in the early midgame it can easily replace the generic bird you picked up earlier.

[xaritscin]

my main issue with crobat is that once you have a golbat with enough happiness, it becomes a nuissance until getting the national dex....but i guess equiping an everstone would do the job..

i've downloaded the third gen games for playing on emulator. already finished Leaf Green. well, havent beaten the elite 4 on second run yet. my team is:

-venusaur   (synthesis, leech seed, sleep powder, razor leaf)
-gyarados   (surf,waterfall,flamethrower,ice beam)
-farfetch'd   (fly,sword dance,slash, false swipe)
-raticate     (rock smash,strength,cut,thief)
-butterfree  (silver wind,sleep powder,psychobeam,gust)
-raichu       (thunderbolt,double team,slam,quick attack)

i beated elite 4 on lvl 60 for all the party members. even the HM slave did his part during combat. it was very solid.

im also playing Ruby. but i havent advanced much apart of the petalburg gym. my team right now there is:

-Grovyle (compared to bulbasaur, treecko was harder to train)
-Mightyena (sometimes good sometimes bad)
-Pelipper (he actually does more than the starter pokemon...and can learn surf)
-Linoone (HM slave, but im planning to left him learn covet, he also gets goodies)
-Beautifly (butterfree 2.0, almost)
-Aron (needed to beat Wattson with something else, and he actually packs a punch. going to get him to evolve into Aggron)