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therealeagal · 1 year

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Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow; best of type.

So I was thinking to myself, I really like putting together best of type lists and I thought that I should do more. Obviously I’ve got all time favorites, but they are generally from across the whole series.

So just for a lark, I thought I’d go back and just make type lists specific to each Gen. I’ve done these before for Gens 8 and 9, but not for 1-7, so why not start now?

As I have done before, these are just which Pokemon I like the best. It’s not necessarily based on things like battle viability, although obviously that does play a factor in some cases.

Psychic

Let’s just get this out of the way first, because I think we all saw this coming a mile away. The king of this particular hill has always been and will always be Mewtwo. It also happens to be my pick for best of gen.

Normal

Best OG normal type is Eevee. Because it’s Eevee. If you don’t like Eevee, you’re wrong, because fuck you, you do love Eevee.

Fire

Best OG fire type - extremely grudgingly - goes to Charizard. Overrated, but indisputably a cool and strong pokemon. There’s a reason it continues to hog the limelight 9 generations in. If it wasn’t Mewtwo, Charizard wrote the book on being a badass

Water

No question. Best OG water type has to be Gyarados. What it lacks in chill, it more than makes up for with style.

Electric

I’ll tell you one thing, it sure as hell ain’t Pikachu. It’s actually a toss up, but sadly, Eeveelutions often get the short end of the stick. Best OG electric type goes to Zapdos.

Grass

OG grass types weren’t ever terribly interesting. Gotta give it to Venausaur.

Ice

OG ice types are a limited bunch, and the less said about one of them *coughjynxcoughcough* the better. Best OG ice type is Articuno.

Fighting

Machamp loses the top spot here because although I dig the four arm drip, trade evolutions have always been and will always be bullshit. Primeape gets best original fighting type.

Poison

Out of all the OG poison types, I gotta give it up for my man Nidoking and his lady love Nidoqueen. Strong, useful for murdering freaking Brock because freaking Pikachu is freaking worthless. Plus, they’re royalty. What’s not to love?

Ground

Best original ground type has to go to Dugtrio. Because it’s just so convenient to catch one and use it to murderstomp Lieutenant Surge, the Lightning American. Lightning Unovan?

Flying

Lots of flying type contenders in Gen 1. Lots of trash, but lots of contenders. Best original flying type (that isn’t elsewhere on the list) goes to Aerodactyl.

Bug

I dearly wanted to give this one to Beedrill because I always liked it, regardless of how weak it is outside of its mega evolution (which regardless, it wouldn’t get until Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire). But I would be remiss if I didn’t give it to Scyther. Scyther’s got style to spare.

Rock

Best rock type of Gen 1 was a tough one. I’d have given it to Aerodactyl, but I bumped him over to Flying so that the best Rock could go to Onix. Because Onix.

Ghost

Only three ghost types in Gen 1. Gastly, Haunter and Gengar. Although Gengar to this day remains one of my favorite all time pokemon, so who gives a toss?

Dragon

OG dragon types, like ghost, are limited to only one line. Even so, I always did like Dragonite. He looks weird, but he’s cool.

Dark

Alas, Dark type hadn’t been invented in ye olden dayes of Gen 1.

Steel

No steel types either. Come back next gen.

Fairy

Forsooth! No fairy types until...was it Gen 6 or 7? 6 I think. We’ll see when we get there.

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butterscotch-brigade · 4 years

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WHAT'S YOUR TOP 10 FAVORITE POKEMON????

AHHHH FINALLY A CHANCE TO MAKE A TOP 10 LIST

OSHAWOTT/DEWOTT!!!! samurott is cool too but oshawott and dewott are big favs for me!!!! oshawott was my first starter bc my first game was pokemon white so ofc he has a soft spot in my heart!!!!

jolteon!!! my fav eeveelution!!!! i love all eeveelutions but jolteon is the best imo bc i had a figurine of him before i even knew what pokemon was (i still have him!!!)

blastoise!!!! hes my fav kanto starter and also pokemon fire red is one of my fav games of all time!!!! so ofc i love the boy i picked the first time i played!!! (i actually got a female last time i played!!! how lucky!!!)

zeraora!!!! ngl hes so high up bc im furry trash and i just think hes hot. also i love the movie hes in a lot!!!! it made me cry (but a lot of pokemon movies make me cry aksksksj)

rockruff!!! he reminds me of my dog rocky, not just in name but also in appearance!!! my fav evolution of his is dusk form but i think my dog would be a midnight form skskskks

mew!!! ive always preferred him over mewtwo, hes so cute and tiny!!!!!

sylveon!!!! my second fav eeveelution!!! i just think shes really beautiful and cute and Trans Rights and i love fairy types!!!

absol!!!! love the lore behind this guy, hes also in my fav pokepasta (its literally called absol if you wanna check it out *wink wink nudge nudge*)

lucario!!!! love lucario and the mystery of mew, love mega lucario, love his dummy thicc thighs

mimikyu!!!! ik hes overrated but i love him and i love his gimmick and i love team rockets mimikyu who i ship with meowth!!!

#vanilla answers #pkmn

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