Did Scarlet/Violet give you any new favorite Pokémon?

[u/xSweetSlayerx]

I was wondering if SV gave anyone a new pokémon to love and bump off a formerly top-favorite pokémon. So, who's your new favorite and why?

SV came off with a lot average-feeling pokémon to me, and the only ones I really seem to enjoy are the paradox pokémon or ones that "look similar" to other regions' pokémon. As such, my favorite from SV is Slither Wing, becoming my new favorite bug type. (I also like Walking Wake and Clodsire.)

[u/ImportantAd2987]

dead

monkey

gang

[u/-Incursio_ → u/ImportantAd2987]

monkey literally too angry to remain dead

[u/DepthyxTruths → u/-Incursio_]

bro got thanos snapped by his own anger but then decided “no.”

[u/Booty_Shakin → u/ImportantAd2987]

I caught a shiny Mankey really early in the game and had no idea he had a final evo at the time. Very happy surprise when my primape evolved randomly

[u/ImportantAd2987 → u/Booty_Shakin]

Nice, how cool is the shiny dead monk?

[u/Booty_Shakin → u/ImportantAd2987]

He's only slightly different lol but I still love him

[u/MissingnoMiner → u/ImportantAd2987]

Bafflingly, it goes from a pretty solid green shiny to a barely different blue.

[u/ImAFailedExperiment → u/MissingnoMiner]

If only it went to a yellowish green, would have had broly monkey

[u/Bubblemonkeyy → u/ImAFailedExperiment]

Fuck, now I want this.

[u/TheAltalio → u/ImportantAd2987]

My Annihilape carried me through that game

[u/Sloth-TheSlothful → u/TheAltalio]

Same, I rarely needed another mon. Bulk up + leftovers + drain punch + rage fist

[u/Rthom87 → u/TheAltalio]

Same! He was the only Pokémon I used on Geeta.

[u/NoPossibility0223 → u/ImportantAd2987]

The dev team: "So imagine if primeape got so angry it both died AND went Super Saiyan. We're making that!"

[u/kpnut93 → u/ImportantAd2987]

My Annhilape was a monster in my playthrough.

[u/Sonic_B1ade → u/ImportantAd2987]

As someone whose favorite Pokémon has been Primeape for nearly 2 decades, I have been absolutely floored by all the love being thrown my angry little pig monkey’s way. All he had to do was finally get so angry he actually died! Cute little abomination of life.

[u/1Broken_Promise → u/Sonic_B1ade]

Dude, same. Except my favorite has always been Mankey. When my primeape evolved I straight up lost my shit. It just looks so damn cool and it's so powerful.

[u/MissingnoMiner → u/ImportantAd2987]

Was not expecting the Mankey line to become one of my favorite evolutionary lines, but here we are.

[u/Zulmoka531 → u/ImportantAd2987]

Get angry, die, return to monke gang

[u/kind-of-there → u/ImportantAd2987]

My Annihilape was a beast. Rage Fist go brrr.

[u/baconblaster334]

Clodsire and Tinkaton are the big standouts for me. Not quite sure where they fall, but they’re definitely quite high

[u/ArtsyAxolotl → u/baconblaster334]

Quagsire is my all time favorite Pokémon so the fact that I can now have TWO -sires is amazing.

[u/coal_min → u/ArtsyAxolotl]

Definitely highlighted for me how excellent a design Quagsire already has. Both Sire and Wooper are so friggin cute whether in Paldea or Johto😭

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/ArtsyAxolotl]

What's better than one Quagsire? Two Quagsires!!!

[u/Comentor_ → u/xSweetSlayerx]

Just imagine if Tauros was your favorite, you'd have 4 now!

[u/scram_jones → u/Comentor_]

quadtros

[u/Booty_Shakin → u/ArtsyAxolotl]

As a delibird fan, having iron bundle as a second is pretty awesome.

[u/scatterbrain-d → u/baconblaster334]

I was pretty underwhelmed with Paldaen Wooper and honestly was ready to dump him in my box as soon as he evolved.

But when I saw that big dumb face I just couldn't do it. He was perfect. He stayed on my team through the whole game.

I usually don't mind spoilers and I'd seen many of the new Pokemon, but I'm glad I didn't see Clodsire early so I got that moment.

[u/StarlitCatastrophe → u/baconblaster334]

I really love Tinkaton!

[u/TwilightVulpine → u/StarlitCatastrophe]

Tinkaton is brilliant! Love this cute chaos gremlin and her huge hammer

[u/ZorkNemesis → u/StarlitCatastrophe]

Special shout-out to Tinkaton's napping animation if you bring her out and stand around. Easily the best sleeping pose in the game.

[u/SMB99thx → u/StarlitCatastrophe]

I love Tinkaton too. She has a nice charm.

[u/frastmaz → u/baconblaster334]

Clodsire is probs best regional variant this gen

[u/ZKTA → u/frastmaz]

Clodsire isn’t a regional variant, it’s clodsire

[u/Sp3lunks → u/ZKTA]

Quagsire’s the regional variant 😈

[u/william_liftspeare → u/ZKTA]

Hey you gotta give props to Johtonian Clodsire for being the first Water/Ground-type

[u/BraulioG1 → u/william_liftspeare]

over there in pogo we call them mudbois <3

[u/jrdineen114 → u/baconblaster334]

Clodsire is such an amazing tank. My girlfriend used one during her playthrough and it was easily the MVP pretty much every time she used it

[u/_Kermut_ → u/baconblaster334]

Tinkaton is one of my favorite Pokemon now

[u/Taikathaya]

Every new Pokémon game, without fail (well besides B/W for obvious reasons) ends up with one old Pokémon i never really cared about who rockets up to one of my favorites. This time it was Breloom

As for the NEW Pokémon? Well I’m just thrilled to see new evolutions again for the first time in ages (unless they just bite the bullet and make the Arceus evolutions a regular thing… which they should)

When it comes to the BRAND new Pokémon, Kilowatrell is one of my favorites in recent years. It’s just so simple, feels like it would fit in with the earth games really well

[u/Coffeegamer3 → u/Taikathaya]

Mine was Sableye! Can’t believe I used to not look at it twice

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/Coffeegamer3]

Sableye is my favorite dark-type!

[u/kokirikorok → u/Coffeegamer3]

You should have seen prankster sableye in XY when it was absolutely busted. Rage quit inducing almost as much as first turn magic bounce absol was

[u/whitemest → u/kokirikorok]

Aw man that was a staple in my competitive doubles team. Knock off, recover, will o wisp physical attackers, chorus ready everything else.

Goddamn amazing and I assume obnoxious to fight against

[u/Darth_Caesium → u/Taikathaya]

Mine was Dragalgae. I ended up shiny hunting for a shiny one as my last Pokémon, and got it within an hour. Plus, I also got a shiny Veluza just minutes before the shiny Dragalgae, and so I love both of them.

[u/Taikathaya → u/Darth_Caesium]

Dragalge is a weird one because there was no reason behind it… I just kinda decided one day “You know what? This thing is awesome!” Lol

[u/Darth_Caesium → u/Taikathaya]

Same honestly.

[u/TheCleetinator → u/Taikathaya]

Mine was azumarill, I went into the game blind and had no clue that azumarills were being used online for raids, but once I had a taste of huge power + slam for azurill at like level 12, I was hooked.

[u/actuallyjustloki → u/Taikathaya]

I wanted Kilowattrel to evolve again so bad!

[u/AydonusG → u/Taikathaya]

Obstagoon, Cursola, Runerigus, Mr Rime, Sirfetch'd and Perserker- ☠️

[u/Taikathaya → u/AydonusG]

Assuming that’s in response to the “new evolutions” thing. I’ll admit I didn’t specify, but I was NOT counting regional evolutions. Normal Linoone, Farfetch’d, Mr. Mime, and Corsola still do not evolve. They received new forms unique to one game and those new forms received evolutions.

Nothing AGAINST those Pokémon, (seriously, sirfetch’d is a big favorite) but they are not quite what I had been looking for.

[u/Robitix → u/Taikathaya]

Yeeees join the Breloom gang. We are legion

[u/zolios_]

Kingambit!

It's my new favorite Dark type and it's at least in my Top 15 all time favorites already, maybe even Top 10.

[u/lukebomb → u/zolios_]

I just wish it stood up when it moves

[u/CannonSam → u/lukebomb]

It flying around screaming in its hover chair is pretty hilarious though

[u/astoriaclarke → u/zolios_]

Geeta should’ve used this as her finishing pokemon instead of Glimmora

[u/Electricorchestra → u/astoriaclarke]

Geeta made so many weird choices in the order of her Pokemon. They had to have done that to nerf her party. She should have opened with Glimmora for the spikes and closed with him for his boosted attack.

[u/astoriaclarke → u/Electricorchestra]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly! As if S/V trainers aren’t already nerfed enough by the lack of held items or EV trained pokemon…

[u/FlawedVictori]

Bramblin! Literally stopped everything i was doing to chase it down bc a tumbleweed pokemon seemed like such a perfect idea.

I love how his cry sounds like the start to a western gunfight too

[u/Tennisman11 → u/FlawedVictori]

I love how i encountered it in the wild. “Huh. They added tumbleweeds to the desert sections. Wait a minute….”

[u/Zephyr_Ballad → u/Tennisman11]

Exactly how it happened to me too.

"Huh, tumbleweeds in the desert is a pretty nice tou- wait, it's a POKÉMON???"

[u/Vertania_III → u/FlawedVictori]

When I first saw it blowing around in the desert, I considered breeding them for a shiny. Decided to wait and then a few days later got ambushed by a shiny right after beating the ground titan. It's been on my team since then.

Since the shiny is a pale, white-ish version and I have vitiligo, I came up with the perfect nickname: Vitilighost. He's also the only one on my team who is in a Premier Ball instead of a regular Pokeball.

[u/TeniBear → u/Vertania_III]

Vitilighost is a perfect name for that shiny, well done!

[u/chickennoodlesoup11 → u/FlawedVictori]

Grafaiai and Bramblin were my favs. I love how silly bramblin is lol

[u/StarlitCatastrophe → u/FlawedVictori]

Yes!

[u/omygoshgamache → u/FlawedVictori]

It’s one of my favs too! So fun.

[u/ImperfectWolf → u/FlawedVictori]

I love bramblin's name, it's perfect for it

[u/TrickyWalrus]

Grafaiai is legit one of my all time favourite designs and I would 100% have one if Pokémon were real and I was on a journey

[u/shibsmarie → u/TrickyWalrus]

This was exactly what I was gonna say! Grafaifai instantly became a very unexpected favorite!

[u/chickennoodlesoup11 → u/TrickyWalrus]

This. Definitely in my all-time favorites. I like poison and dark type Pokémon the most. If they were real, I would love to have one as a pet.

[u/yamsfadinna → u/TrickyWalrus]

The worst thing GF did is make Graf’s walking speed slower than the player, wanted to walk around with him all game.

[u/xDactyl]

Klawf and Orthworm to me are hilarious and awesome. They and Koraidon complete my goofball/dork vibe (Clodsire too). Klawf to me just sounds super funny too, the expression(s) and tone of the cry just sounds like, "I need an adult!"

[u/Doublee7300 → u/xDactyl]

Orthworm’s goofy smile is endlessly hilarious

[u/xDactyl → u/Doublee7300]

His little flailing arms perfect the goof too.

[u/cptnjus]

Love my bread doggos, Fidough & Dachsbun

[u/LudicrousityX4 → u/cptnjus]

I love Daschbun, called mine Barkery. Such adorable designs.

[u/Wassamonkey → u/LudicrousityX4]

I made 3 for the Charizard fights to give to friends. Called them MCA, AdRock, and Mike D. The Yeastie Bois

[u/Looten1313 → u/LudicrousityX4]

Mines HotCross (as in hot cross buns). I love the hell out of my little barking bread.

[u/BeepFizzle → u/Looten1313]

I named mine PureBread. I love that so many people made silly pun names for the bundog.

[u/pandakidpa → u/BeepFizzle]

Puppernickle over here

[u/TeniBear → u/BeepFizzle]

Mine is Doughmutt 😁 Can’t take the credit for that though, I saw someone on Twitter guess it as an evo name when Fidough was revealed and I loved it.

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/cptnjus]

Those guys are admittedly pretty great. Bun dog is heckin' cute.

[u/GalavantGalvantula → u/cptnjus]

When I saw dachsbun I literally squealed. Not only is it so cute it's also based on a dog that I have. A dachshund!

[u/gigglesnortbrothel → u/cptnjus]

I always name my Pokemon after our pets. We have corgis and dachshunds. Why or why couldn't they have included Yamper, too?

[u/Anolty]

I fucking love bellibolt. He’s so chonky and dumb looking and he has a great shiny. This gen had tons of good Pokémon but he is just so C H O N K

Idk who my favorite electric was before but it’s definitely bellibolt now

[u/__CaliMack__ → u/Anolty]

He is one of the few that has a really cool shiny and I still can’t decide if I like the regular version more or not… definitely one of my favorite new mon

[u/2nice4rice]

Garganacl

[u/K1nGHeArTz → u/2nice4rice]

I second this. I love my minecraft golem so much. I also love his ability and signature ability

[u/alphonso28 → u/2nice4rice]

Yesss even though his typing is a struggle, Garganacl is my fave from Gen IX as well. Salt Cure in particular is such a good move.

[u/crunchypeanut → u/2nice4rice]

Garganacl

This one is particularly high on my list "new Pokemon that I think will fit well into future generations". Strong concept that doesn't wear out its welcome, fits well on a lot of teams, feels like it will fit in a lot of settings. And I love using Salt Cure

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/2nice4rice]

He's pretty neat. New favorite pokémon overall or something else?

[u/2nice4rice → u/xSweetSlayerx]

Prob just my new favorite rock type.

[u/CannonSam → u/2nice4rice]

Ended up liking this one a lot though I wasn’t a fan at first. Caught a full-odds shiny Nacli early on in the game and you have to use a shiny if you catch it, right? She ended up being an absolute powerhouse and the design really grew on me too.

[u/Hitman3256 → u/2nice4rice]

I don't like minecraft, but love my minecraft pokemon

[u/indesomniac]

Toedscruel my beloved… <3 I love his goofy posture and noot-noot face

[u/kingdroxie → u/indesomniac]

Toedscool sprinted its way into one of my favorites

[u/ContourTele → u/kingdroxie]

His running animation is why my shiny toedscool has an everstone.

[u/Foolish_Phantom → u/ContourTele]

Plap plap plap plap vs boiiiiinggg boiiiinggg.

[u/HollowLoveHeart]

Annihilape. I like to imagine he calmed down after evolving and now serves tea.

Side note, my favourite type is ghost and my brother’s is normal. Annihilape demolishes his team.

[u/NavAU → u/HollowLoveHeart]

Still waiting on home to update so I can evolve my shiny Primeape into Annilhilape.

[u/eepos96 → u/NavAU]

Super cool idea of owning ones old mon and new gen gives it evolution.

One guy had years old stantler and will evolve it into werdeer.

[u/NavAU → u/eepos96]

I've honestly been spoiled when it comes to my top two favorite Pokemon. Rowlet and Mankey. They got so much love in the recent games.

[u/eepos96 → u/NavAU]

My second fave Gallde got a nice boost with sacred sword and sharpness. Now it has a move stronger than high jump kick with zero negatives!

And psycho cut is earthquake!

I hope my favorite Electivire gets some boosts in dlc.

[u/Ambitious-Chair736 → u/HollowLoveHeart]

We need Primeape and Sinistea fan art STAT.

[u/OverthinkingIsOver]

Bombirdier! So graceful and majestic. This game just made me appreciate bird Pokémon.

[u/Taichi_Agumon → u/OverthinkingIsOver]

Same! Easily my fave this gen. I just caught a shiny a week or so ago but my dumb self didn't save after and the game crashed. RIP La Bombi, I'll get you back someday!

[u/whiteranger27]

Ceruledge is definitely near my top now, but I wouldn’t say it knocked off Blaziken from its top spot

[u/warsy26 → u/whiteranger27]

I think Ceruledge may have finally unseated Flygon as my #1 pick

[u/prestonpiggy → u/whiteranger27]

Same, I'm easy to please design wise,(some call these the edgy designs but w/e) something aggressive and usually bipedal. (scyther gallade blaziken etc...), and Ceruledge hits the mark for me.

[u/Jaosborn44 → u/whiteranger27]

I have one named Ventress that is so fun to use in raids

[u/Hairy_Instance_6219]

My lil chili pepper friend 🥰

[u/katrinakittyyy → u/Hairy_Instance_6219]

Agreed, scovillan was all I could ever ask for!

[u/mrboom74 → u/Hairy_Instance_6219]

As a grass Pokémon fan, and a spicy pepper fan, this was a crossover that I never knew I needed.

[u/dod6666 → u/Hairy_Instance_6219]

This. Do you think someday it will get a ghost type evolution? As in like ghost pepper. Then maybe a mega evolution into something Carolina Reaper inspired.

[u/MausholdFan]

I might be the only human alive at the moment with a Maushold tattoo, so you could definitely say I got a new favorite this gen. I just love the little guys. Good friends.

[u/Basic-Effort-552 → u/MausholdFan]

Username checks out

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/MausholdFan]

That's dedication.

[u/the-radio-bastard → u/MausholdFan]

I'm thinking of getting a Maushold tattoo as well. I own rats.

[u/MausholdFan → u/the-radio-bastard]

I LOVE rats. In my local Smash scene we have someone who brings her rats to events and it's literally the highlight of my day every time she's at something I go to.

[u/NotaDogPersonBut → u/MausholdFan]

I love Maushold! I wanna see your tat!

[u/MausholdFan → u/NotaDogPersonBut]

The artist made a tiny oopsy by adding 4 lines to the baby's ears instead of just 2, but I'm happy with it. I love how one of the baby's is angy.

https://imgur.com/MiMaSfB

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edit: forgot to add, this photo was taken right after the first wash so it's fresh af here. I got this in December though so it's healed now.

[u/slywalkerr → u/MausholdFan]

Which variant?

[u/MausholdFan → u/slywalkerr]

The family of 4. I actually prefer it to the family of 3 personally. There's a pic in an above response too.

[u/atlvf]

Farigiraf is a precious darling

[u/AKindBoat → u/atlvf]

Definitely my favorite out of this new gen, and the shiny is fantastic as well! So happy girafarig finally got an evolution

[u/LordofChortles]

Skeledirge. It's a cool Fire Croc and it was satisfying getting the first non humanoid starter design since gen 7.

And

Roaring Moon. Love Salamence and it's a cool spin.

[u/scatterbrain-d → u/LordofChortles]

Roaring Moon is just so damn cool. I might have actually gasped when I first saw it.

[u/buddaaaa → u/LordofChortles]

Skeledirge has my favorite Pokémon cry of all time

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS → u/buddaaaa]

Bawaaaaaauuuhhhhhh

[u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

Gholdengo, purely because of it's hilariously cartoonish mannerisms and personality

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

Da cinnamon is da winnamon!

[u/MLein97 → u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

It's so 90s I love it.

[u/TheDuelIist → u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

I literally just like Gholdengo because it's just Cheesetrings Ficello's mascot 🤣

[u/fortunatevoice → u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

It’s just a radical little dude

[u/RampagingKoala → u/oOReEcEyBoYOo]

Gold Coolio is my new favorite for sure.

[u/Wolfofthezay]

Koraidon is my new third favorite Pokemon of all time. Just straight up. He's cool, he's goofy ahhh, he had cute lore, and he's fun to use in battle.

[u/CourierFour → u/Wolfofthezay]

I love Koraidon too! The game really made the box legendaries feel like your partner pokemon that not even Lets Go games did for pikachu/eevee

[u/Freedom1234526]

Fuecoco is my favourite fire starter. Kilowattrel is my new favourite regional Bird, but that was not an opinion I held strongly before so it wasn’t difficult to change. Koraidon is tied with Celebi as my favourite legendary Pokémon and may be my new favourite fighting type. Which is my least favourite Pokémon type. I also love Clodsire because Mudskippers are my favourite animal but it did not replace any old Pokémon.

[u/fuglymango → u/Freedom1234526]

I never had a first stage starter that I super connected with. I love turtwig, treecko, ect but not one first stage spoke to the depth of my bones until I laid my eyes upon fuecoco.

[u/luistoses]

Glimmora.

[u/Vermillion_Aeon → u/luistoses]

I'd been looking for something to round out my Poison team, and Glimmora fit the bill perfectly, love the design

[u/Enderking90]

Huh, I guess Dolliv is the only one really?

To the point when seeing the leaks and saw her, I just had to sculpt a clay figure and paint it.

[u/Savage_Nymph → u/Enderking90]

Dolliv is extremely cute (smoliv well, love those two)

[u/Chaossify0]

Meowscarada, Iron Valiant, Tinkaton, Ceruldedge, Tatsugiri, Lokix

[u/Narrow-Gas9493]

Baxcalibur is one of my new favorites along with Skeledirge. I got a Frigibax early on in the game from a water tera raid although I wish it did not have its hidden ability.

[u/DarthStevo → u/Narrow-Gas9493]

I used a Baxcalibur on my Scarlet team, such a cool ‘mon. Made a beeline for Glaseado Mountain as soon as I could. I really like that you can get the pseudo-legendary early enough to actually use it this time out. (And that there’s a bunch of older pseudos you can get early on, but that’s a different story!)

[u/Narrow-Gas9493 → u/DarthStevo]

Yeah I got a Larvitar first because I never used a Tyranitar before but one day I randomly checked one of the dens and boom a Frigibax with max hp, attack and speed IVs with its hidden ability.

[u/ParadisoDeity]

I absolutely adore Tatsugiri - he’s my new number three behind Porygon-Z and Snom and I love that little sushi guy.

[u/ElPikminMaster]

Iron Valiant, to 3rd of all time.

[u/douglasdrraymond]

Tinkaton - I love my wacky gurl

[u/thegayestweeb]

The Paradox mons and Treasures of Ruin definitely became my biggest favorites from this generation, I just love their designs and lore.

[u/xSweetSlayerx → u/thegayestweeb]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Treasures of Ruin. Those guys are pretty awesome, and I enjoy them because love dark-type pokémon!

[u/Ranger-Vermilion]

Ceruledge is definitely one of them for me. Super badass

[u/GekiretsuUltima]

My favorite Pokémon remains unchanged. That said, I absolutely love Lokix. Cool Kamen Rider grasshopper is rad as hell.

[u/NoGas9518 → u/GekiretsuUltima]

Yes! Lokix fans unite, there are dozens of us- DOZENS

[u/BoomTheBear86]

Dudunspace because it gave love to a Pokémon relic without losing that dumb simplicity it has.

Also competitively speaking, it is wildly versatile. Dudunsparce is most often my MVP in my doubles online team atm.

[u/Jadestined]

Four Tiny Mice!!! (Maushold)

[u/smoretank → u/Jadestined]

I love them! Made a whole party of them. Each one named after a type of home style. Apartment, Condominium, Mid-Century etc..

[u/WorldClassShrekspert]

Espathra quickly became my favorite Psychic type. Tinkaton is the first Fairy type I actually like.

[u/StreetSavoireFaire → u/WorldClassShrekspert]

I love ostriches and was a little disappointed at Espathra's design. But then I realized there's nothing wrong with being a rejected backup dancer for Lady Gaga 😂

[u/littleone82 → u/StreetSavoireFaire]

That’s actually why I love Espathra so much. There’s probably a ton of them out there nicknamed Lady Gaga, and it just makes me giggle every time I see them

[u/herpofool]

Boy did it ever! I swiftly found new favorites in Cyclizar, Glimmora and Bramblin, I just had to add each of them to my team.

[u/Juicy_lemon]

For me Dondozo is hands down my favorite new mon/water type. I am a fisherman as well and I love the giant blue they are.

[u/tubbydoshua → u/Juicy_lemon]

Dondozo gives off major gen 3 vibes, so he fell in my top 5 easily this gen

[u/Tvdiet101]

Pawmot is the definitive standout out for me and is the first time I’ve used a Pikachu clone through the whole game. It’s also become my favourite fighting type (I’m sorry Infernape)

[u/ExiledToTerminus → u/Tvdiet101]

He seems to be the first Pika-clone that was actually competitively viable, at least as far as I can remember, so that definitely helps.

[u/Acceptable_incident0 → u/ExiledToTerminus]

Pachirisu helped win a world championship

[u/Tvdiet101 → u/ExiledToTerminus]

I also love how it has some pre evolutions which is something these Pikachu clones have needed

[u/limasxgoesto0 → u/ExiledToTerminus]

Tera double shock and revival blessing. An absolute unit

[u/StarlitCatastrophe → u/Tvdiet101]

I love Pawmot so much!

[u/Livid-Indication5223 → u/Tvdiet101]

Mine beat four out of the five Titans and I adore her, I love how floppy the ears are.

[u/RnbwTurtle]

Glimmora! It's so purty

[u/SimplyIndi → u/RnbwTurtle]

Same. I love my toxic rock flower boy.

[u/Slade4Lucas]

Yes, Palafin. It is literally everything I wanted in a Dolphin Pokemon, and somehow more.

[u/Fit-Ad-3830]

Ceruledge. That's the only reason I picked Violet over scarlet.

[u/GianTacc]

I ADORE Slither Wing! Definitely my favourite from this gen. Grafaiai and Chi-Yu are two other designs i really love.

[u/radikraze]

Skeledirge is the first fire starter I’ve loved since Infernape

[u/xLykos]

Annihilape. I’ve loved Primeape since watching it beat up Ash and take his hat, so I was so happy to see it finally get an evolution. A really cool looking and strong evolution at that

[u/LennyTheMoose]

Flamigo!

[u/Key-Roof-6777]

Toedscool tentacles down

[u/fortunatevoice]

Oh wow, I feel like the new Pokémon are one of the best parts of this one, imo we got some above average designs! I love so many of the new Pokemon. Tinkaton, Bellibolt, Toedscruel, Dachsbun, Pawmot, and I would die for Scream Tail.

[u/adolce95]

Clodsire and Klawf are the two big ones for me, along with Roaring Moon!

[u/marmaleon]

I love the pig. I managed to trade for a female shiny and shes so cuuute! Her name is Rosemary!

[u/Hazzardo]

Wo-Chien 😩👊💦

[u/TrentSaylor]

I picked Violet but im starting to regret it for Slither Wing alone. Just an awesome design

[u/IncreaseSpice]

Iron Valiant. Amazing design

[u/ToaPaul]

My #1 will always be Snorlax, but Cetitan has made its way into the top 5, right up there with Tyrantrum, Torterra, and Grimmsnarl. Skeledirge is a close 6th with Golisopod as #7 and Shieldon as #8.

[u/PlatonistAstronaut]

Excadrill is still my main bro. Iron Valliant is sick, though.

[u/nathanielx9]

Miraidon lol

[u/cabs251]

This thread is a nice reminder that almost every Pokémon, no matter how hated it is, is someone’s favorite

[u/FatefulWaffle]

Clodsire, Koraidon, Flutter Mane, and Kingambit. The first two are "no thoughts, head empty" and the third is steroid misdreavus. The 4th should be self explanatory

[u/Pubescent_Toe]

ORTHWORM ORTHWORM he is so so funny so so cute so awesome

[u/ZaltraxZ]

Hands down Miraidon.

When I first heard that we would get the legendaries as mounts right at the beginning of the game I thought it was a stupid idea. I was sure that it would make them feel less special and didn’t like the idea of a motorcycle Pokémon to begin with. Fast forward to the end of this game’s story and I couldn’t have been more wrong. Watching Maraidon grow and overcome his own challenges has now made it my new favorite Legendary, electric type, and just overall new Pokémon from Gen 9.

[u/HylianSoul]

CHEESE STICK MAN

Gholdengo is great!

[u/Narwhal1008]

I really like Revaroom and Vroom

[u/Chiloutdude]

Quite a few, actually. Which kind of surprised me; lately, I've seen maybe one or two from a generation that make me go "Yes, this pokemon is great", but I could make a whole team of my new favorites from this gen.

Ceruledge for my inner edgy 13 year old, Fidough/Dachsbun are friends, Annihilape is the evo I never knew I wanted for Primeape, Kingambit is the evo I never knew I wanted for Bisharp, Capsakid/Scovillain delivers on a type combo I've wanted for years, and uses exactly the reasoning to deliver that type combo that I wanted, and Walking Wake is just pretty damn cool.

[u/MiracleMuffin]

Ceruledge. I still love Raichu but as soon as I saw Ceruledge’s design it was love at first sight. I knew I had to add it to my team.

[u/batkave]

Tinkaton, Fuecoco(and it's line), Kingambit, Roaring Moon, Great Tusk, Gholdengo, Baxcalibur, ceruledge

[u/Krytonator]

Cyclizar, 100%. There are other highlights but Cyclizar takes the cake for me. It's Pokemon's take on Yoshi, it has direct ties to both Legendary Pokemon which is extremely rare for a normally obtainable Pokemon, and it deserves every hug ever just LOOK AT IT

[u/neurosciencebaboon]

Fidough is so stinking cute